"Lily?"
"Hmm?"
"Best friends right?"
"Of course Sev!"
"Forever?"
"and ever and ever!"
It was the middle of January; snow had fallen on the grounds of Hogwarts as Lily and Severus joked and laughed as they made their way to Herbology. Lily hadn't been paying much attention to the weather and now to think of it she had been very stupid. Alice had warned her earlier as they were heading out of the Gryffindor common room that ballet pumps were "not acceptable in this weather" but she had just shrugged off the warning thinking it was just typical Alice babbling on about nothing. Oh how she wished she had listened to her.
Just as Lily and Severus were walking into the greenhouse she slipped on a patch of ice and fell right on her bum.
"Bloody shoes..." she muttered as she quickly looked around, sighing in relief when realising that nobody had witnessed her embarrassing accident. Or that's what she thought.
"Alright, Evans?"
Lily whipped her head around to see James potter and the rest of his gang; "The Marauders" (as they so cleverly called themselves) looking down at her with a smirk on his face as he offered her his hand.
"Go away Potter, I'm fine." Lily said coldly as she pushed his hand away roughly.
"You don't look fine to me" he continued.
"Neither do you, oh wait, that's your normal face - my mistake" she said, her voice heavy with sarcasm.
Severus who had been silently standing next to Lily sniggered at the look on James' face. Seeing this, James rounded on him.
"You think that's funny, do you Snivellus?" he said with a hint of amusement in his tone.
"Yes Potter. It might not have occurred to your extremely small brain that it is called having a sense of humou-"
"Well, well, -Sirius interrupted- isn't that rich coming from you seeing as the only joke you'll ever be able to make is 'Why did the wizard not wash his hair'" James , Peter, and some students who overheard this while making their way towards the classroom laughed at Severus.
Lily didn't like how everyone was ganging up on her friend.
"Leave him alone you arrogant bully" she said as she got up from the ground dusting away the remaining ice from her skirt.
"As you wish darling Lily" James said grinning as he started to walk away. Then, as if he had suddenly forgotten something he spun around taking his wand out of his pocket and pointed it at Lily.
"Exaresco" he muttered.
Lily felt a rush of heat spread throughout her body and realized that he had cast a drying charm on her. Her skirt was no longer wet from the ice and snow.
"You're welcome!" he said loudly so that everyone could hear.
Lily ignored him and grabbed Severus's arm dragging him with her to their seats.
"Bloody Potter that arrogant little-"
"Hey look its Severus's mudblood!" a voice came from behind them.
The whole class fell silent as Lily and Severus turned around to see Mulciber and Avery with an evil grin painted on their faces.
"Mulciber, Avery" Severus said in a clipped tone hastily directing Lily back to her seat before the situation got any worse.
"What's the problem mudblood? Too scared to talk to your superiors?" Avery sneered.
"Your not superior to anyone Avery" Lily replied calmly. "In fact if anything, I'd say your below me."
"Stupid Mudblood I'll show you where your place is!" Avery spat as he directed his wand to her face.
"Rictus-"
"FURNUNCULUS"
While everyone had been staring at the scene open mouthed, James had pushed his way through the students to jump in front of Lily.
"Filthy blood traitor" Avery panted drawing out his own wand.
"Sectum-"
"NO!" Lily shouted. She recognized that spell. Though she had not told Sev she saw him scribbling it down in his potions book when they had been studying in the library last week. Assuming it was just something harmless he made when he was bored she had tried it on a spider only to see its body being ripped apart slowly but surely. If the damage was that severe on a spider, she couldn't even bare to think of how it would turn out on a person. "Protego!" she shouted, stepping in front of James as a silvery blue light erupted from her wand. Her shield charm was so powerful that the curse deflected on her wand and hit the surroundings causing many pots to smash, shattering pieces of glass in all directions. There were several screams and shouts from people trying to run out of the classroom causing absolute chaos.
"Impedimenta!"
The spell hit Lily on the legs as she fell backwards bashing her head on the glass wall.
"You'll pay for that Mulciber" James shouted as he directed his wand at him.
"LEVICORPUS"
Avery ducked just in time so that the spell missed him.
"Is that the best you can do Potter?" he sneered.
"Shut up you evil bastard!" Lily shouted as the jinx wore off and she scrambled up onto her feet again.
"Expelliarmus." Her tone was final as the spell hit the Slytherins' square in the chest as their wands to flew into the air and landed right in James' outstretched hands.
"Nice one Evans" he grinned at her.
She couldn't help smiling at the neatness of their team work. "I could say the same to you Potter"
"Why thank you Miss" he said as he gave a dramatic bow towards her. Lily didn't know what it was. Maybe it was the fact that he looked so radiant and happy as he smiled towards her, a genuine smile she'd never seen on his face or the way he chewed on his bottom lip that made him look like a 5 year-old boy. But for whatever reason it was in the height of the moment she wanted to hug James Potter. Lily wanted to hug the arrogant bullying toerag that had done nothing but annoy her for the past 5 years. James grinned the adorable smile again and as if reading her mind he took a step closing the little distance between them as his arms started to lift from his side-
"WHAT. IN THE NAME OF MERLIN IS GOING ON HERE" a shrill voice screamed making all the students who were left in the room to cover their ears.
"Professor Sprout, I can explain-" Lily started
"Miss Evans? How very disappointing, now you four -she pointed at the two Gryffindors and two Slytherins- headmasters office. NOW."
"It wasn't Lily's fault! Mulciber called her a-" James interjected angrily
"I do not care whose fault it is or is not. This is fifth year herbology, NOT a duelling session. I will have 100 points taken off from each of your houses, NOW GO!" she screamed.
James was the first to make a move; he roughly shoved past the Slytherins as he stomped his way out of the classroom.
"Another fifty points for that Mr. Potter"
"Like I give a fuck" he muttered.
Professor Sprout either didn't hear him or decided to ignore him. "You three, well off you go!" she said shooing them out of her class.
Lily quickly ran up the stairs trying to get away from the Slytherins before they started taunting her again.
She caught up with James just as he was going into the headmasters office.
"Potter look, back there, I-" she started
"Evans can we do the screaming match later? I'm not in the mood" he said.
It was strange to see him look so angry when he always seemed to be smirking or cracking jokes whatever the situation.
"I was going to say thank you actually" she snapped.
"Oh... well...don't worry about it" he said running a hand through his messy black hair. Was that...could it be that overconfident arrogant James Potter was actually feeling uncomfortable for once?
Her question was left unanswered in her head as at that moment the door swung open revealing Dumbledore sitting at his desk looking up at them through his crescent shaped glasses.
"Mr. Potter, Miss Evans, and ahh Mr. Mulciber, Mr. Avery -he said just as they were about to knock on the door- what a lovely surprise this is" he said.
"Actually Professor, we're not here for the best of reasons" Lily said looking down at the ground ashamedly.
"Miss Evans, I am well aware of the situation you are in. However I do not plan to give any of you punishments".
The four of them exchanged looks of disbelief, their mouths hanging open in awe.
"However, we will stop this offensive name calling –he said nodding at the Slytherins- and we will not turn to our wands to retaliate will we?" he asked raising his eyebrows to all four of them.
"No sir" they all mumbled.
"Very well then, off you go to supper, I heard there will be Banoffee pies for pudding" he added, chuckling at the students expressions.
I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter! This is my first fanfiction so my writing might have its ups and downs! Any constructive criticism or suggestions for future chapters will be much appreciated, and of course please review:)
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