A/N- I am on this L/J hype so please excuse this it is fast paced, just a small plot bunny I needed to get out of my head. I need to make it clear that though this may be somewhat clichéd I think I can put a spin on it. Note just for background. Due to one incident James and Lily have hated each other for 5 years. Now something changes and they start to see a different side of each other. A lot of angst things happen to James but he keeps going!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT- Okay, please don't make this a fic you check upon constantly because I am telling you right now it is just so that I can vent of plot bunnies, I might not review for weeks on end, but I will finish I around the time I finish my HP and the Venus Gemstone

Chapter 1- The Reason Behind the Madness

* * 1st year * *

Professor Moriarty, the meanest, stingiest, rudest, Gryffindor-hating potions teacher to date. Professor Moriarty hated all the Gryffindors and had a habit of punishing them with extreme prejudice. Lily Evans loved good grades and adored rules, well not completely, but she really didn't want to start acting up at a wizarding school.

Lily had long auburn hair that hung down on her and a pair of brilliantly bright green eyes. She was a muggle-born, or in other words a wizard without wizard parents. A few weeks ago she had thought magic was only in fairy tales, now she was actual proof it was a way of life.

She walked into her potions classroom with a smile on her face, professor Moriarty never yelled at her or anything. She believed if she did all her work and never made a sound she could keep her record clean. Lily reached into her bag and pulled out her four foot long piece of parchment on the effects of a Bulsic potion on an Ashwinder. She looked it over, reading it quickly and then walked up to the front of the room, not noticing that her work was slowly disappearing.

"Here professor." She said, handing him the parchment and turning to walk away,

"Ms. Evans; is this kind of joke?"

"What?" She asked quickly and turned around. Moriarty was holding up a blank piece of paper,

"Why would you hand in a blank piece of parchment ms. Evans?"

"It's, but I just, and it just- it wasn't blank a few moments ago!" She cried out, confused to her head in questions.

"Yes Ms. Evans, I purposely erased your paper to make myself mad. Now I think 25 points from Gryffindor is okay, oh and detention with potter tonight!" He said and then continued to bark for everyone to get to their seats.

*Detention*

"Lily?" James walked over to Lily; she was washing off some grime from a trophy for special services to the school.


"Yes James." She said. James Potter was one of the two most wanted in first year. All the girls wanted either him or Sirius, the infamous Marauder's. They played pranks constantly and joked, laughing and whatnot.

"Umm, I'm sorry about your paper, it was my fault. I think you used our invisible ink. See me and Sirius were planning on slipping it to Snape and we were toying around with it last night. I didn't think much about it until we got back after potions and I couldn't find it. Sorry." He said, looking down, but Lily wasn't going to fall for his pranks. They pulled pranks everybody and she wouldn't put it past him to try it on her.

"I can't believe you! You ruined my perfect record for some cheap laugh, James Potter, I hate you; I hate you, Sirius, Peter and Remus. I hate you all!" She screamed and ran off, skipping her detention.

* * 5th Year * *

Lily Evans walked into potions class. She still had that horrid Moriarty, but she wasn't the same obsessed little girl she was back in first year, she wasn't afraid of him anymore.

"Hello Snapdragon." James Potter piped up mockingly happy. He and Lily Evans had been enemies ever since first year, though neither of them could remember why it was crossing her path to get to his cauldron. Lily stopped,

"Hi Jamsie, how are you today. I heard that you had a problem with your-" She looked down at the crotch of his pants purposefully, " plumbing." She finished this last part loudly as all the girls in the proximity started laughing,

"So, enlighten us Evans, why are you so concerned with my plumbing?" James asked, raising an eyebrow and Lily's anger level.

"Alright, all of you sit down now!" Moriarty demanded. The Gryffindors filed to their seats and class began.

* * * * *

James walked into the Gryffindor common room, looking for Remus and Peter. Remus was a young boy, somewhat pale with Sandy brown hair, Peter a short stubby kid with blonde hair.

"James!" Remus called from a corner of the room. James hurried over to find the boys sprawled out on the floor with many books.

"So you guys are really about to go through with this?" James asked, already knowing the result,

"Hell yes!" Sirius replied, rolling out from under the table he was hidden under.

"Sirius, how nice of you to come out, just for little old me?" James smiled and the two grinned. A seventh year girl, Tina Johnson came down the stairs of the girl's dormitory, walking to Sirius's side and kneeling by him,

"So Sirius, when are we ever going to meet inside the Astronomy Tower?" She whispered in a sultry voice, lucky Sirius knew his girls because he answered,

"Well you can go up there and wait, but I won't come. The only girl I am out for is Bella and frankly, being her friend I feel you should be ashamed of yourself." He said and rolled back under the table, studying the book in his hands. Tina turned around and went up the stairs to the girl's dormitory.

"Why did you turn down Tina Johnson?" Remus asked in surprise, Remus wasn't a playboy like Sirius and James, but if Tina wanted him he'd bag her right away.

"Yeah, what ever happened to the player?" Peter asked, tossing his book down.

"Hey, get it right, me and James are not players. Players date many girls at one time and tell them all lies, I have never dated two girls at one time, I just go through them. There's nothing wrong with that, I never tell any of them I'm exclusive."

"It still doesn't tell us why you turned Tina Johnson down."

"Oh, simple little Peter, that was Arabella in a Polyjuice potion, didn't you see the little hints, Arabella had all those ingredients when she left potions, Tina can't make her voice sound like that, plus the real Tina is over there with Mike McCormick." Sirius pointed over toward the other side of the common room.

"So, what are you guys up to today, ruining someone else's life?" Lily Evans said from behind them,

"What do you want Evans?"

"Prefect meeting Potter, starts in ten minutes, we gotta go." She said. James looked apologetically to his friends and stood up, following Lily out of the common room.

A/N- I like it.