Woes of the Moon:
Summary: What happens when Lily goes for a midnight stroll during the full moon? We know that's probably not a good idea, what with Remus Lupin at Hogwarts... But anger sometimes stops people from thinking clearly. What happens when she gets bitten?
Disclaimer: Is this really necessary? You know I don't own Harry Potter, but I'll say it anyways so don't sue me. I own nothing you recognize; JKR does.
Innocent Begining:
The distant seeming voice of professor McGonagall echoed in Lily Evans's mind as she sat in her NEWT level Transfiguration class. She heard them, but felt she had no reason to listen. She was lost in her own thoughts.
'I can't believe that James Potter! How dare he have the audacity to embarrass me in front of the whole school like that!'
Her thoughts brought her back to lunch, earlier that day.
Lily Evans was sitting at her usual place at the Gryffindor house table with her best friends Beth, Jane and Kate, minding her own business as she poked at her chicken with a fork. Just then James Potter stood up from his place a bit farther down the table. He made his way over to where Lily was sitting and made a place for himself next to her, despite Beth's protests at being pushed away.
"What do you want, Potter?" asked Kate, annoyed.
"Nothing that has to do with you," he answered coldly, "I have come to request a private audience with the lovely Miss Evans," he continued, now looking at Lily.
"Whatever you have to say to me you can say in front of everyone else," answered Lily, still angry at him for his prank on Kate the other day.
"Fine, then. Actually, I was hoping you'd say that," he answered calmly.
He pulled out his wand and pointed at his throat.
"Sonorus!"
He hopped up onto the Gryffindor table, knocking over Lily's lunch in the process. Everyone in the Great Hall, including the teachers, looked over at him. Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew were looking at him, grinning broadly, his other friend Remus was hiding behind a book.
'Oh no. Oh, please, please, please don't let him do something stupid. Please, please, please...'
"Lily Evans, I know you love me! Would you like to go out on a date with me?" he asked her, his normal arrogance creeping back into his voice.
The entire Hall burst out in laughter. Sirius and Peter were laughing so hard they had tears in their eyes. This made Lily furious. James brought his wand to his throat again and muttered 'Quietus'.
"You jerk! How dare you embarrass me like that?" she hissed at him, over the laughter of the other students.
"What, you mean you won't go..."
"NO! I SURE AS HELL WON'T GO OUT WITH YOU! HOW DARE YOU EVEN ASK ME THAT AFTER ALL THE STUPID THINGS YOU'VE DONE TO ME AND MY FRIENDS IN THE PAST?!"
Most of the laughter stopped, and students began whispering to each other and pointing at Lily and James.
"Though luck, Prongs! Second time she's rejected you!" shouted Sirius at him, wiping the tears from his eyes.
James looked a bit hurt for a second.
"Fine, be sure to come to me when you change your mind!" he told her smirking.
"YOU JERK!!!" shouted Lily.
She raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face, without looking back to see his reaction she ran out of the Hall.
Lily was brought back to reality by the sound of the bell ringing. She tried to quickly shove her things into her backpack. A small group of girls stared at her and whispered to each other as they passed her.
"Why don't you lot take a picture?" Beth shouted after them.
"Yeah, it'd last longer!" shouted Jane, also defending Lily.
Beth, Jane and Kate had joined Lily at her desk.
"Just ignore them all Lil; that James Potter is a jerk," Kate told her comfortingly.
"Yeah, whatever..." said Lily angrily as she threw her bag over her back and left the classroom, followed closely by her friends.
"What do we have next, Lily?" asked Jane, trying to change the subject.
"It doesn't matter, whatever it is I'm not going if I'm going to be looked at the whole time like I'm some kind of a bitch," she answered.
"What!?" exclaimed the three girls at once, Lily never skipped class.
"I said: I'm not going. I'm headed back to the common room. You guys had better hurry if you're going to make it to Potions on time; tell Professor Nickson I'm ill."
Surprisingly, the girls didn't press the matter and instead left Lily to head off to the common room alone after saying their goodbyes to her.
She arrived at the portrait of the Fat Lady within a few minutes, gave her the password (Flubberworm) and headed up to her dormitories. She threw her backpack on the floor next to her bed, took off her shoes, then flopped onto her four-poster bed.
'He thinks he can have any girl he wants! The only reason he keeps trying to get me is because I'm the only one who doesn't want him! Stupid jerk...'
She sighed...
'And his friends are just like him too! Well, except maybe Remus, he's civilized at least...'
She sighed again and closed her eyes. She lay there like that until sleep enveloped her...
Lily was shaken awake by Kate much later. It was a lot darker in the room. She groaned and pulled her eyes open. She turned over and reached for her watch on the table, when she didn't find it she finally spoke.
"What time is it?" she asked croakily.
"It's eight o'clock you sloth! You've been asleep for nearly six hours!" came Beth's voice coming from the doorway.
"Nhhh..."
"You can make dinner if you hurry," Jane told her, entering the room behind Beth.
"Not hungry," Lily told her sitting up. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Oh, common! Stop sulking in here, it's not even that bad!" whined Beth, trying to console Lily, though failing miserably.
"Leamme alone.... I'm going for a walk," she told them. She pulled her shoes on, brushed her hair and got up to leave the room.
"Lily that's probably not a good idea, we're not allowed to leave the castle after hours for a reason, you know," Jane shouted after her, but it was too late, as Lily was already out of the room. Jane turned to follow her, but Kate stopped her.
"It's probably best just to leave her be... Honestly, what's the worst that could happen to her?"
Little did they know, that night was the third night of the full moon...
Ok, well that's it for now. I'm sorry about that lil cliffie up there, but I take it y'all have a pretty good idea what's going to happen next, right? Now remember, this story is rated R for a reason, as you'll see in later chapters.
Dats all folks, please R no haters! :P
