Fire to Ice
A/N: PLEASE READ!
This may not be the most perfectly composed and written story, but please at least give this story a chance. I've been writing this for a while now and I've already got 12 chapters. I think this story will have about, I dunno, 40 chapters, in conclusion? I don't know, but it'll be pretty long. And this is NOT a typical love-hate story. It is a love-hate story, but it has some MAJOR PLOT TWISTS, so sick around for that! Alright, start the story!
Chapter 1
"James effing Potter!" Lily Evans yelled at the top of her lungs.
James (effing) Potter was grinning wildly. "Please, Evans, give me a chance!" he said with a sarcastic hopeful look.
James Potter and his mates – the Marauders – had jinxed Severus Snape's Prefect badge to say Lily Evans' Most Precious Boy Toy instead of Prefect.
Lily, of course, hated this. Severus Snape was her best friend. He was a Slytherin and she was a Gryffindor. Lily didn't necessarily hate the Marauders. She hated two of them, James Potter and Sirius Black. They were the leaders of the group. Then there was Remus Lupin, who Lily was very fond of, because she and Remus did Prefect duties together. And then the tiniest and shyest in the group, Peter Pettigrew. He wasn't all that bad, but he always did snigger with Potter and Black. Remus, however, never laughed to what they thought was funny – unless it was absolutely make-sense stuff, that is.
Severus had not realized his badge was jinxed until lunch when Avery told him. He was absolutely fuming. Lily, who hadn't seen him all day, was shocked when Severus told her his tale. Lily just wanted to whip James Potter right there and then. She hated him so much.
She was standing in the courtyard, yelling at the top of her lungs while James, Sirius, and Peter were laughing away. Remus, however, had a look of pity and neutrality on his face.
"HOW COULD YOU EVEN–" Lily's sentence was cut off shortly by the sound of the blazing wind.
"I swear, this could be a tornado!" Sirius laughed gleefully at Lily's angry red face.
"Evans, we truly are sorry," James joked.
"I've had it with you!" Lily yelled. "Die, Potter, die!" She whipped out her wand. "Petrificus Totalus!" she yelled.
James' arms glued to his sides and he fell on the wet grass – because it had rained – his eyes wide open and stuck like that.
"James!" Sirius cried. He turned to Lily. "You'll pay, Evans, you will!"
Lily laughed. "Of course I will. Name your price – Galleons, Sickles, Knuts, I'll give you all my money," she grinned. She turned to Severus who was right behind her.
"Let's go, Sev," Lily said. She and Severus started their way back to the castle.
"They make a great couple though," Peter said. He wasn't even teasing this time.
"For your very kind information, Peter Pettigrew, we are NOT dating," Lily said sharply before walking away.
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"Lils, what's wrong?" Alice Lyons asked.
They were at lunch.
"Nothing."
"No, you're fuming!" Arabella Figg pointed out.
"Oh, just stop it!"
"Lily, tell us! Is it the badge thing?" asked Emmeline Vance.
"No it's not, Emmeline!"
"Did James go crazy again or something?" Mary MacDonald asked.
"No."
"Lily, come on!" said Dorcas Meadowes.
"It's nothing, please stop!"
"Lils, you have to tell us!" complained Marlene McKinnon.
"Marlene!"
"Lily, please!" Alice tried again.
"No! The six of you, please shut up!" Lily yelled. The Great Hall went quiet. Lily flushed. Moments later, the chatter started up again.
"Whachou yelling at, Evans?"
The seven girls twisted their heads to James Potter.
Arabella, Dorcas, Emmeline, and Marlene blushed deeply. Mary and Alice stayed neutral, but Lily – oh she was fuming.
"How dare you!" she narrowed her eyes. "Potter, I swear, I'll kill you! I'll – kill – you!"
"Now, now, Evans, it was a harmless–"
"A harmless what? A harmless sack of frog spawn? Wonderful, Potter, wonderful!"
"Evans, come on it–"
"Okay, the badge thing was slightly harmless, but that – Potter – that is the most insufferable, intolerant, stupid, ridiculous – I can't even tell you how–"
"Okay, I'm sorry, Evans."
"Shut up, Potter! You don't mean any of it!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for you to end up in the Hospital Wing!"
"Potter, I knew you were selfish and insufferable, but that – that was just terrible!" Lily had tears in her eyes now.
Her friends stared in disbelief. Actually, the whole Hall stared in disbelief. None of them knew what was happening, what had happened, or what this argument was about.
"Evans, I'm sorry! I really am!" James said, feeling guilty and blamed.
"It doesn't matter anymore, does it, Potter?" The tears were rushing out of Lily's eyes like crazy. She ran off towards the common room, closely followed by her six clueless friends.
James stood there in awe.
Did you like it? I know, I left it at a cliff-hanger. Don't worry, it'll all be explained in Chapter 2! Rate and review. Hate is warmly welcomed. I just finished writing Chapter 13, so now there's 13 more chapters to this amazing – well, I think it's amazing, you may not – Jily story, because who doesn't love Jily?
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