White Stag
Lily Evans had a problem. Actually, she had several problems: James Potter and Sirius Black,her Advanced Potions essay, James Potter and Sirius Black, her overwhelming prefect duties, James Potter and Sirius Black, and the fact that all those problems had given her a bad headache.
That was why she was in the Forbidden Forest. It was the quietest place on the Hogwarts grounds, especially a small clearing near the heart of the Forest. She was fairly sure nobody else knew about it.
Lily sighed and sat down at the roots of an old tree, her back against the trunk. She closed her eyes, and was almost asleep when a cracking twig at the edge of the clearing startled her. Her head jerked up reflexively, and she looked around just in time to see a white stag run past the clearing, heading deeper into the Forest. Funny. She had never seen any deer in the Forest before, much less a white one...
That night, in the Gryffindor common room...
"I didn't know there were deer in the Forest," said Sarah Donovan, Lily's best friend, when Lily told her about it.
"Yeah, neither did I," said Lily. She shrugged.
"You saw a stag in the Forest?" asked a familiar voice from behind them. Lily looked up. It was Remus Lupin, one of Sirius's and James's other two close friends. Unlike Sirius and James, however, Lily got along quite well with her fellow prefect.
"Yeah," Lily replied, "a white one. Have you seen any deer in the forest?"
Remus nodded. "A few times. How about you, James?" he called to James across the room.
"Oh, sometimes. I think I've seen that stag Lily's been talking about too. I've seen that one a lot," he yelled back.
Sirius, who was sitting beside him, muttered something that made them both laugh. "Same here," he managed to tell Lily between bursts of laughter.
Lily barely noticed. If they had all seen the stag, that meant it was real and she hadn't just imagined it.
Later, in the boys' dorm
"Prongs, was that you Lily saw in the Forest today?" Remus asked James, who nodded.
"I didn't think she would've looked up, though," he added.
"What if she finds out you're Animagi?" Remus said, half to himself.
"She won't, Moony, it's okay. You wory too much," Sirius said calmly.
"Padfoot, Lily's not stupid! If anyone figures you out, it'll be her!" Remus exclaimed.
Woohoo, new story. So now I have 3 to work on- this, Full Moon, and Road Trip of Doom. How amazingly fun. :laughs: But thankfully this is a remake of a story I wrote last year and already have 9 chapters of. Plus I have Moony's help on Full Moon and Hikari's help on Road Trip ofDoom.And of course, it's James/Lily. Yay. :squee:
Lily: And she doesn't own any of this.
Except Sarah. Sarah the amazing un-Mary-Sue OC of doom. What can I say, Lily needed a best friend. :shrug: Random bit of trivia- Sarah's last name is from I, Robot. The book, not the movie. Woohoo, go Donovan and Powell. :laughs: