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This chapter is just kind of an introduction to what their life is like; it was necessary. I really hope you enjoy it! And please, please, please review!
Chapter 1
Lily Evans burst through Platform 9 3/4, just as eager to see her friends as she had been to get away from her sister Petunia. Since their parents, Edward and Daisy Evans, had died during Lily's 6th year, she had had to spend her summer under Petunia's guardianship. It was like being stuck in a snake pit for the both of them, although Petunia had taken relief by making Lily lock away her owl and books, and making her refuse several invitations to stay over. But Lily pushed these thoughts out of her head as she did the same to her cart. She was free from her sister now.
Since she was so early, Lily stored her trunk carefully away in a back compartment and waited outside for her friends.
"Lily!" her friend Jenna screamed, running over to her. Jenna was the happy, go-getter of the group, and absolutely hated being sad or angry. She knew how to pull people out of dreary spirits, and knew how to be a good friend. "How was your summer?" she shrieked. "I'm sorry about your sister, but you know what they say: there's always one rotten apple in the bunch! Ooh, I'll be back in a bit, I have to go talk to Robbie, o.k?" She left before Lily could get a word in edgewise.
Louise was the next one to show up. "Hey, Lil! How are you?"
"Fine- just glad to be going back."
"Yeah, me too. Sorry you couldn't come; it must have been torture at your house."
"You have no idea." Lily shifted her sweater over a little.
"Lily! I didn't know you made Head Girl!" They started moving onto the train.
"Yeah, I did. Wonder who made Head Boy," Lily added mildly.
Louise looked uncomfortable. "Well, I-"
"Hey, sis!" James came by Louise and put his arm around her. "Telling Lily about my accomplishment, I suppose?" He gave a great smile, and pointed to a badge on his chest which clearly read: Head Boy.
"You're the Head Boy?" asked Lily incredulously.
"That so surprising to you?"
"Yes, actually. I would have thought they'd chosen someone more- ah, mature."
James covered his heart. "Oh, that hurt, Lils. By the way, I was wondering if you'd seen the Head Girl anywhere," he said with a superior grin. "I wanted to discuss with her-" He stopped abruptly as he caught sight of her pin.
"You're- you're Head Girl?"
"Brilliant, James," Lily said sarcastically. "Now what did you want to discuss with me?"
He looked at her, confused, and Lily just rolled her eyes. "Honestly, James. It's a wonder you even pass classes. If you ever remember what you wanted to discuss, you know where to find me. If you don't lose your way first," she added, under her breath, and followed Louise into their compartment. Really, James could be so dense sometimes.
Just as the train started moving, Allison and Jenna came rushing into their compartment looking
breathless. "Where were you guys?" Lily asked.
"Oh," Allison blushed. "We were talking to- well, Robbie and Jacob."
Louise snorted, and Lily shook her head. The two boys were co-captains of the Ravenclaw team, and girls fawned over them.
"Hey, guess what?" Louise said mischievously. "Guess who the Head People are?"
"Lily, obviously," Allison stated. "And-" her eyes widened. "No way- James?"
Jenna laughed. "Two enemies working together! How lovely."
"He's not my enemy," said Lily irritably. "We just- don't see eye to eye on things."
Louise looked at her skeptically. "Honey, my brother and I are the ones who don't see eye to eye. You and him more like-"
"Oh, shut up!" Lily snapped, and the others just laughed. Needless to say, Lily was not in a very good mood for the rest of the ride.
When the Hogwarts Express halted, they all piled into a horseless carriage. Lily was silent, contemplating the duties and responsibilities she would have this year. She liked being busy and having to come up with fun ideas, but most of all she loved the trust and respect that was put in her.
The carriage stopped and Lily stepped out, only to come across a hurried looking Professor
McGonagall. "Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, over here please. Follow me inside- I would like to speak with you." With that, she turned and started walking away. Lily and James looked at each other, shrugged, and followed her into the Teacher's Lounge.
"Have a seat," Professor McGonagall said. "Now, I know you're missing the Sorting, but as you are Head Boy and Girl, there's a few things I'd like to bring to your attention. First of all," she started to say; and her face turned more sympathetic, and her voice more soft. "I'm sure you've heard of the increasing attacks on both Muggles and Wizards by the rising Dark Lord." The Professor sent her sympathetic face to Lily, who's own was white and blinking back tears. James looked at her curiously. Professor McGonagall carried on quickly. "No matter how much I hate to say this, it must be said. He may have followers in this school. I'd like you two to keep extra close watch on the actions of the students. If you see any suspicious behavior, you must inform either Professor Dumbledore or myself of it. Is that understood?"
Both James and Lily nodded their heads.
"O.k., then. Head on back to the feast, I'll be there in a little while."
James and Lily walked the corridors in silence. The only sound was their echoing footsteps. Lily couldn't take it; she had to say something.
"So how's it going with Lynn?" Immediately after the words left her mouth she blushed and cringed. Stupid, stupid, stupid! She thought. But it had been the only thing she could come up with at the moment.
"We broke up," James answered shortly.
"I'm sorry." Lily meant it, too.
"Don't be. She was just using me." James said this almost bitterly. Lily looked at him in wonder, as, it had seemed that it had not bothered him in the past. Perhaps there's a lot more to him than meets the eye.
After a few seconds James added, "Not like you. Nobody uses you, do they Lily?"
"Sure they do!" Lily was shocked.
"Oh really? Name the last guy that dumped you." As they continued the walk to the Great Hall, Lily remained silent. James gave a short laugh. "So tell me, what happened to Josh?" Josh Rotnek had been Lily's most recent boyfriend, of about a month.
"I broke up with him," Lily said, looking down at her feet."
"Right," said James as they reached the doors and halted. "Let me guess. You broke up with him
after he kissed you for the first time."
Lily looked up sharply, her eyes focusing on James's. Looking into his eyes always gave her body a tingling sensation, but Lily was too upset to notice or care. She shook her head, never breaking eye contact. "That is not fair," she whispered. "Not fair at all."
And she pushed open the doors to the Great Hall, leaving James to slap himself for bringing the
forbidden topic up.
James followed in after Lily, never taking his eyes off her. He could tell she was trying not to cry because of the way she twisted her napkin into knots and pressed her lips together hard. He could tell she felt weak on the inside by the way her breathing changed from rapid to slow intake. James had spent his first five years at Hogwarts being friends with Lily and getting to know her better than he knew himself. He spent the next year and a half trying to forget her presence, her habits, her lies.
James hated Lily. He hated her so much it hurt. Or maybe it was love. He banged his fist on the table at that thought, causing the whole table to turn towards him and prompted Sirius to ask him what was up.
"Nothing," he replied. "Tell you later." And Sirius knew him well enough not to press the matter.
As Dumbledore stood up to make his closing speech, James turned back into his thoughts. He was drawn to Lily and he knew it- no matter how much he wanted it to be otherwise. As he lead the way to the Gryffindor Tower, his thoughts were on how he had stung her earlier. And his last thought before falling asleep was wanting to hurt her. Just as much as she had hurt him.
Lily woke up the next morning in high spirits. "Wake up, wake up wake up!" she sang. Louise groaned and rolled over. "Lily, it's only- 6 in the morning! Are you nuts?"
"Nope, just happy!" And she pranced into the bathroom to get ready, leaving the rest of her dormmates shaking their heads after her.
The girls jogged after Lily on the way to breakfast, who was skipping down the hall. "Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts!" she sang.
"Dude, what did she take?" Allison whispered to the others.
They got into the hall in record time. Lily saw the food that awaited her and rushed to sit down. "Real food!" she squealed, piling her plate high. She started cramming it in. Even Jenna, who was delighted with Lily's happy mood, as she hadn't been the same since her parents died, had to admit that Lily was going a little over the top.
"Lily, why does it seem like you've just caught sight of food for the first time in days?" Louise asked.
"It- was- Petunia," Lily answered in between bites of bacon. "She said I had to cook meals for us to eat, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of having her own personal slave. Heck- I had to do all the chores if I didn't want the house to look like a pigsty. So instead, she went out to eat every night while I had to make do with the food left in the house for the whole summer."
"I can't believe her!" Louise exclaimed. "That witch! I swear, as soon as we get out of here I'm gonna hex her!"
"Ooh, I want to be there too! I've never met her, but I can tell she deserves it," Allison added.
Lily was piling seconds onto her plate when James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter entered the hall and sat next to them.
"What's with Evan's stuffing her face?" Sirius asked.
"She was starved over the summer," Jenna replied, in the saddest voice they'd heard her use in over half a year.
"What Evans, you're parents wouldn't feed you?" James taunted maliciously. Lily froze and turned to him. What did I do? James wondered. I saw her parents last year, they were perfect and would never do that sort of thing.
Lily slowly stood up and took a swig of her juice before dumping it onto his lap and calmly walking away.
"Wh- what the-" James sputtered. He then noticed six pairs of eyes glaring at him. "What?" he asked.
"Her parents are dead, you nitwit," Louise snapped, and whacked him over the head so hard he saw stars. The girls left the table, and James turned to his friends. "When did this happen?"
"In March, remember?" Remus replied. "Over Easter break. You came back and she wasn't herself."
"I think... yeah. I just figured she'd dumped another guy. How come no one told me?"
"Figured you knew," Sirius shrugged, returning to his pancakes. "It was all over school- she couldn't breathe, knocked her head on a table, and was out for a week."
James got up slowly, apparently deep in thought. He started walking away, murmuring, "See you in class."
"Uh, James?" Peter said timidly. "Are you sure you don't want to clean up first?" Peter was referring to the suggestive little puddle on the front of James's pants. But James kept walking, and the boys just shrugged at each other.
"Mr. Potter," a voice interrupted his thoughts, and he snapped out of his reverie to see Professor McGonagall looking out of her classroom door at him. "How nice of you to join us."
Although he had been the first of his friends to leave for class, he was the last to arrive. He stepped inside and was immediately greeted with whispers, giggles, and pointing.
"I'm assuming, Mr. Potter, that you had an accident?"
"What- oh." James looked down at his pants; he had totally forgotten about the juice incident. He blushed, but grinned it off. "You know, I just couldn't hold it in."
The laughter was a bit louder now, and McGonagall even gave a thin smile. "Touching Mr. Potter, but a drying spell might do well for you. Take a seat there, behind Miss Evans."
James sat down, staring intently at the red mess in front of him. Lily felt his stare and turned around. "What?"
"Nothing." Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to transfiguring her turtle to a stool.
James lifted his wand, ready to do the same, when he sank back into his thoughts. How could he get back at Lily? She deserved it, and James wanted it more than anything.
Just then, Sirius tapped him and James jumped a mile, sparks shooting out of his wand. Unfortunately, it had been raised towards the mess of hair in front of him...
Pandemonium erupted, Lily the head of the mess.
"James, do something!" Remus, who had seen the whole thing, yelled at him. James fumbled for a spell.
"Ah... ah, Apuerto!" Water shot at Lily's head, the flames dying down. James sighed with relief- only for a moment as he took a closer look at her hair. The long curls that had gone down almost to her bottom were frayed at about her shoulders. James gulped. He was dead.
The class stayed silent as Lily felt her hair. She took deep, gasping breaths as she looked up at James, angry beyond belief.
"Um... it was an accident?" James shot that idea out as he backed slowly towards the door. He was hoping an apology would help him live.
Lily's emerald eyes burned with an angry fire in them- but everyone could tell that this fire would not be put out any time soon. "Run," she whispered before chasing after him, wand waving frantically, yelling, "JAMES HARRY POTTER, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!"
This chapter is just kind of an introduction to what their life is like; it was necessary. I really hope you enjoy it! And please, please, please review!
Chapter 1
Lily Evans burst through Platform 9 3/4, just as eager to see her friends as she had been to get away from her sister Petunia. Since their parents, Edward and Daisy Evans, had died during Lily's 6th year, she had had to spend her summer under Petunia's guardianship. It was like being stuck in a snake pit for the both of them, although Petunia had taken relief by making Lily lock away her owl and books, and making her refuse several invitations to stay over. But Lily pushed these thoughts out of her head as she did the same to her cart. She was free from her sister now.
Since she was so early, Lily stored her trunk carefully away in a back compartment and waited outside for her friends.
"Lily!" her friend Jenna screamed, running over to her. Jenna was the happy, go-getter of the group, and absolutely hated being sad or angry. She knew how to pull people out of dreary spirits, and knew how to be a good friend. "How was your summer?" she shrieked. "I'm sorry about your sister, but you know what they say: there's always one rotten apple in the bunch! Ooh, I'll be back in a bit, I have to go talk to Robbie, o.k?" She left before Lily could get a word in edgewise.
Louise was the next one to show up. "Hey, Lil! How are you?"
"Fine- just glad to be going back."
"Yeah, me too. Sorry you couldn't come; it must have been torture at your house."
"You have no idea." Lily shifted her sweater over a little.
"Lily! I didn't know you made Head Girl!" They started moving onto the train.
"Yeah, I did. Wonder who made Head Boy," Lily added mildly.
Louise looked uncomfortable. "Well, I-"
"Hey, sis!" James came by Louise and put his arm around her. "Telling Lily about my accomplishment, I suppose?" He gave a great smile, and pointed to a badge on his chest which clearly read: Head Boy.
"You're the Head Boy?" asked Lily incredulously.
"That so surprising to you?"
"Yes, actually. I would have thought they'd chosen someone more- ah, mature."
James covered his heart. "Oh, that hurt, Lils. By the way, I was wondering if you'd seen the Head Girl anywhere," he said with a superior grin. "I wanted to discuss with her-" He stopped abruptly as he caught sight of her pin.
"You're- you're Head Girl?"
"Brilliant, James," Lily said sarcastically. "Now what did you want to discuss with me?"
He looked at her, confused, and Lily just rolled her eyes. "Honestly, James. It's a wonder you even pass classes. If you ever remember what you wanted to discuss, you know where to find me. If you don't lose your way first," she added, under her breath, and followed Louise into their compartment. Really, James could be so dense sometimes.
Just as the train started moving, Allison and Jenna came rushing into their compartment looking
breathless. "Where were you guys?" Lily asked.
"Oh," Allison blushed. "We were talking to- well, Robbie and Jacob."
Louise snorted, and Lily shook her head. The two boys were co-captains of the Ravenclaw team, and girls fawned over them.
"Hey, guess what?" Louise said mischievously. "Guess who the Head People are?"
"Lily, obviously," Allison stated. "And-" her eyes widened. "No way- James?"
Jenna laughed. "Two enemies working together! How lovely."
"He's not my enemy," said Lily irritably. "We just- don't see eye to eye on things."
Louise looked at her skeptically. "Honey, my brother and I are the ones who don't see eye to eye. You and him more like-"
"Oh, shut up!" Lily snapped, and the others just laughed. Needless to say, Lily was not in a very good mood for the rest of the ride.
When the Hogwarts Express halted, they all piled into a horseless carriage. Lily was silent, contemplating the duties and responsibilities she would have this year. She liked being busy and having to come up with fun ideas, but most of all she loved the trust and respect that was put in her.
The carriage stopped and Lily stepped out, only to come across a hurried looking Professor
McGonagall. "Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, over here please. Follow me inside- I would like to speak with you." With that, she turned and started walking away. Lily and James looked at each other, shrugged, and followed her into the Teacher's Lounge.
"Have a seat," Professor McGonagall said. "Now, I know you're missing the Sorting, but as you are Head Boy and Girl, there's a few things I'd like to bring to your attention. First of all," she started to say; and her face turned more sympathetic, and her voice more soft. "I'm sure you've heard of the increasing attacks on both Muggles and Wizards by the rising Dark Lord." The Professor sent her sympathetic face to Lily, who's own was white and blinking back tears. James looked at her curiously. Professor McGonagall carried on quickly. "No matter how much I hate to say this, it must be said. He may have followers in this school. I'd like you two to keep extra close watch on the actions of the students. If you see any suspicious behavior, you must inform either Professor Dumbledore or myself of it. Is that understood?"
Both James and Lily nodded their heads.
"O.k., then. Head on back to the feast, I'll be there in a little while."
James and Lily walked the corridors in silence. The only sound was their echoing footsteps. Lily couldn't take it; she had to say something.
"So how's it going with Lynn?" Immediately after the words left her mouth she blushed and cringed. Stupid, stupid, stupid! She thought. But it had been the only thing she could come up with at the moment.
"We broke up," James answered shortly.
"I'm sorry." Lily meant it, too.
"Don't be. She was just using me." James said this almost bitterly. Lily looked at him in wonder, as, it had seemed that it had not bothered him in the past. Perhaps there's a lot more to him than meets the eye.
After a few seconds James added, "Not like you. Nobody uses you, do they Lily?"
"Sure they do!" Lily was shocked.
"Oh really? Name the last guy that dumped you." As they continued the walk to the Great Hall, Lily remained silent. James gave a short laugh. "So tell me, what happened to Josh?" Josh Rotnek had been Lily's most recent boyfriend, of about a month.
"I broke up with him," Lily said, looking down at her feet."
"Right," said James as they reached the doors and halted. "Let me guess. You broke up with him
after he kissed you for the first time."
Lily looked up sharply, her eyes focusing on James's. Looking into his eyes always gave her body a tingling sensation, but Lily was too upset to notice or care. She shook her head, never breaking eye contact. "That is not fair," she whispered. "Not fair at all."
And she pushed open the doors to the Great Hall, leaving James to slap himself for bringing the
forbidden topic up.
James followed in after Lily, never taking his eyes off her. He could tell she was trying not to cry because of the way she twisted her napkin into knots and pressed her lips together hard. He could tell she felt weak on the inside by the way her breathing changed from rapid to slow intake. James had spent his first five years at Hogwarts being friends with Lily and getting to know her better than he knew himself. He spent the next year and a half trying to forget her presence, her habits, her lies.
James hated Lily. He hated her so much it hurt. Or maybe it was love. He banged his fist on the table at that thought, causing the whole table to turn towards him and prompted Sirius to ask him what was up.
"Nothing," he replied. "Tell you later." And Sirius knew him well enough not to press the matter.
As Dumbledore stood up to make his closing speech, James turned back into his thoughts. He was drawn to Lily and he knew it- no matter how much he wanted it to be otherwise. As he lead the way to the Gryffindor Tower, his thoughts were on how he had stung her earlier. And his last thought before falling asleep was wanting to hurt her. Just as much as she had hurt him.
Lily woke up the next morning in high spirits. "Wake up, wake up wake up!" she sang. Louise groaned and rolled over. "Lily, it's only- 6 in the morning! Are you nuts?"
"Nope, just happy!" And she pranced into the bathroom to get ready, leaving the rest of her dormmates shaking their heads after her.
The girls jogged after Lily on the way to breakfast, who was skipping down the hall. "Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts!" she sang.
"Dude, what did she take?" Allison whispered to the others.
They got into the hall in record time. Lily saw the food that awaited her and rushed to sit down. "Real food!" she squealed, piling her plate high. She started cramming it in. Even Jenna, who was delighted with Lily's happy mood, as she hadn't been the same since her parents died, had to admit that Lily was going a little over the top.
"Lily, why does it seem like you've just caught sight of food for the first time in days?" Louise asked.
"It- was- Petunia," Lily answered in between bites of bacon. "She said I had to cook meals for us to eat, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of having her own personal slave. Heck- I had to do all the chores if I didn't want the house to look like a pigsty. So instead, she went out to eat every night while I had to make do with the food left in the house for the whole summer."
"I can't believe her!" Louise exclaimed. "That witch! I swear, as soon as we get out of here I'm gonna hex her!"
"Ooh, I want to be there too! I've never met her, but I can tell she deserves it," Allison added.
Lily was piling seconds onto her plate when James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter entered the hall and sat next to them.
"What's with Evan's stuffing her face?" Sirius asked.
"She was starved over the summer," Jenna replied, in the saddest voice they'd heard her use in over half a year.
"What Evans, you're parents wouldn't feed you?" James taunted maliciously. Lily froze and turned to him. What did I do? James wondered. I saw her parents last year, they were perfect and would never do that sort of thing.
Lily slowly stood up and took a swig of her juice before dumping it onto his lap and calmly walking away.
"Wh- what the-" James sputtered. He then noticed six pairs of eyes glaring at him. "What?" he asked.
"Her parents are dead, you nitwit," Louise snapped, and whacked him over the head so hard he saw stars. The girls left the table, and James turned to his friends. "When did this happen?"
"In March, remember?" Remus replied. "Over Easter break. You came back and she wasn't herself."
"I think... yeah. I just figured she'd dumped another guy. How come no one told me?"
"Figured you knew," Sirius shrugged, returning to his pancakes. "It was all over school- she couldn't breathe, knocked her head on a table, and was out for a week."
James got up slowly, apparently deep in thought. He started walking away, murmuring, "See you in class."
"Uh, James?" Peter said timidly. "Are you sure you don't want to clean up first?" Peter was referring to the suggestive little puddle on the front of James's pants. But James kept walking, and the boys just shrugged at each other.
"Mr. Potter," a voice interrupted his thoughts, and he snapped out of his reverie to see Professor McGonagall looking out of her classroom door at him. "How nice of you to join us."
Although he had been the first of his friends to leave for class, he was the last to arrive. He stepped inside and was immediately greeted with whispers, giggles, and pointing.
"I'm assuming, Mr. Potter, that you had an accident?"
"What- oh." James looked down at his pants; he had totally forgotten about the juice incident. He blushed, but grinned it off. "You know, I just couldn't hold it in."
The laughter was a bit louder now, and McGonagall even gave a thin smile. "Touching Mr. Potter, but a drying spell might do well for you. Take a seat there, behind Miss Evans."
James sat down, staring intently at the red mess in front of him. Lily felt his stare and turned around. "What?"
"Nothing." Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to transfiguring her turtle to a stool.
James lifted his wand, ready to do the same, when he sank back into his thoughts. How could he get back at Lily? She deserved it, and James wanted it more than anything.
Just then, Sirius tapped him and James jumped a mile, sparks shooting out of his wand. Unfortunately, it had been raised towards the mess of hair in front of him...
Pandemonium erupted, Lily the head of the mess.
"James, do something!" Remus, who had seen the whole thing, yelled at him. James fumbled for a spell.
"Ah... ah, Apuerto!" Water shot at Lily's head, the flames dying down. James sighed with relief- only for a moment as he took a closer look at her hair. The long curls that had gone down almost to her bottom were frayed at about her shoulders. James gulped. He was dead.
The class stayed silent as Lily felt her hair. She took deep, gasping breaths as she looked up at James, angry beyond belief.
"Um... it was an accident?" James shot that idea out as he backed slowly towards the door. He was hoping an apology would help him live.
Lily's emerald eyes burned with an angry fire in them- but everyone could tell that this fire would not be put out any time soon. "Run," she whispered before chasing after him, wand waving frantically, yelling, "JAMES HARRY POTTER, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!"