Auf Achse

A/N: My name is not JK Rowling, therefore, I cannot, do not and will probably never own Harry Potter. This is a songfic for Franz Ferdinand's Auf Achse(which I also do not own), one of my favorite songs ever. However, it is super long, so I cut out some of the repetitiveness and the most of the end, simply because it is so long. I also manipulated it a little to have it make more sense in the setting. The italics are the lyrics, one ' means thoughts and two " means dialogue. Sorry for any mistakes, I've been busy with all the end of term papers my profs are making me write and I wrote this as a stress relief, so it's not exactly a grammatical or punctuation masterpiece.

James POV

He's sees her, but he can't touch her, she would never let him, he's been a jerk to everyone, including her for far too long for her to ever let him near her, let alone touch her. If only he could go back in time, and tell his younger self that; she was it. She was all he would ever want.

He hears her voice, she's talking with Alice and Marlene again. She is crying, he knows that it is about that slimy greasy little bat, Snape. He can't hold her, but he wants to. He wants to stroke her hair and kiss away her tears and let her know that he would always be there for her, but he can't.

He's wants her, it gets so bad at times that his hands shake and his friends stare at him in alarm, concerned. But he can't have her. He is too good for him, she's brilliant, beautiful, and above all, kind. He always felt jealous toward Snape; he got to spend so much time with her but, seeing Lily being nice to even that scumbag just made him realize that her kindness ran even deeper than he ever realized before. And as glad as he was that Snape was out of the picture, he regretted his part in her fight with her best friend.

"She's not so special Prongs. There's plenty of other fish in the sea, buck up mate, any girl in the school would be with you," Sirius consoled him one night. James looked at Sirius, thinking, 'look what you've done boy. Lily hates you, you ruined her friendship, and now you've got your friends worrying about you.'

"She's not so special," James agreed, forcing a smile, "there's plenty of girls who don't hate me, I'll go ask one of them." He walked off and Sirius, satisfied returned to his work.

"Look at Prongs, what've you done boy?" Remus asked his old friend, watching James start to act more like himself than he had been for a while.

"I think I got him to take his mind off of Evans, Moony."

'This can't be good,' thought Lupin.

Lily's POV

She hated Potter! Hated him! Now she wished he'd never come back here again! His stupid hair and snitch and ability to drive her insane. That was when Potter started ignoring her and she started to feel a small rip in her heart, growing in size every time she saw him chatting up some other girl. "Never come back here again…"

Now the roles were reversed, she sees him, she often found her gaze wandering towards him at the Great Hall and during class, but she can't touch him. She saw other girls touching his arm while giggling at his jokes, she would never admit it, but he was pretty funny. And for the first time ever, she wandered what it would be like if she were the one doing that.

She hears him all of the time, his voice always carried well over the Common Room, him and his little gang, except when they were plotting something. She looked over, Sirius had his arm around some girl who was slobbering all over him and James was sitting next to a fifth year she didn't know the name of. She watched as she leaned over and hugged James, he hugged her back. 'You can't hold him.'

She was beginning to realize, more and more each day that she wants him. But she can't have him, those days were long gone. Now that she finally wants to, she was sure that he won't let her.

"You used to think, he's not so special, well look what you've done girl," Lily muttered to herself one day as she watched him making another girl laugh. It had been so long since he had asked her out, and so long since she had realized that she wanted him to.

"Hey Lils," her friend Alice greeted.

"Alice," Lily smiled, her friend was beaming at her, "you obviously want to tell me something so…"

"Frank asked me out!" Alice squealed.

"That's great!" Lily agreed, those two had been dancing around each other for ages. Alice had realized her feelings long ago, and Lily wondered briefly if she hadn't thought 'he's not so special', if she would be this happy with Pott- no James, now.

She hugged her squealing friend and noticed that the self-titled Marauders, including James had looked over to see what the commotion was. 'Look what you've done girl.'

James' POV

He had his arm around his girlfriend, a fifth year named Catherine, when he heard a squeal from the other end of the Common Room. He looked over, as did almost everyone else who had heard it, and found Lily being squashed by her friend Alice, who was clearly happy about something.

"That seventh year, Frank, just asked her out. 'Bout time too," Catherin explained helpfully, she was a bit of a gossip and always knew everybody's news, but she was nice enough.

James didn't hear what Catherine was saying, he was to busy staring at Lily and, if he wasn't mistaken, she was staring right back.

You still see her
Oh, you hear her
You want her
Oh, you want to
You see her
You hear her
You want her
You still want to

He realized then, he would never get over Lily, even if he went out with all of the Catherines in the world, no matter what, he'd still want her.

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-Diana