He looked about the room, frightened, white, and anxious. He looked up, down, and all around. He signed sadly, for it was only a dream. But it had been so vivid, so...real. It was as if he was really there. James didn't know what to think. It was something terrible, it was worse than a nightmare, far worse. But was there anything worse than that? He didn't want to know. But all he knew was a brand new hatred for Severus Snape. It went something like this:
He was roaming the halls late at night. He was in his last year of school and also head boy. The all-time Quidditch Cup was being held the next day, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. It was a match of all matches. He was walking down in the dungeons when he heard a faint noise. It was coming from the boy's bathroom. He walked in and saw a young redhead, and a pair of eyes and a tongue plucked out, lying next to her on the ground. His hazel eyes grew in size as he saw the blood of his dead Lily, trailing up to the standing man....
"How dare you hurt Lily, let alone kill her, Snape!" he was shaking with anger, so mad he couldn't think straight. He just wanted to strangle him.
"Me? Hurt poor innocent Lily Evans?" He asked, his greasy black hair lapping his face every time he uttered a word. He smirked maliciously, not wanted to get rid of the shock plastered on James Potter's face, so he continued, "She is very lively in the bed you know, shame you couldn't get a hold of her before I did... oh well, to late now!" he began to laugh as evil as his smirk. James was close to tears, but he wouldn't show Snape that he had got to him. But he didn't care anymore, James ran at Snape and punch in the jaw, forgetting all about his wand. Suddenly he didn't care anymore about how he did it as long as he got Snape in as much pain as possible. Snape flew back and into a sink smacking his head in the process.
"How dare you?" Snape whispered in an evil tone. He wiped the blood off of his lip that turned into another malicious smirk. He stood up and walked over to where James was sitting, holding Lily's red head dyed even more so by the blood. Snape laughed as evilly as his smile and muttered under his breath a curse that sent shock all through James's body.
All that he could feel was immense pain. It was like his bones were on fire. But his heart was stone cold. He couldn't breath and he began gasping for air. He was holding his stomach, doubled over in pain on the ground. All he could hear was a maniacal laughter, and a maniacal voice by his ear.
"This is how I felt everyday for the past six years and every year I saw you and with Evans, it sent this kind of pain through me. It hurts... doesn't it, Potter?" Snape laughed again and walked off, leaving James in pain on the ground next to his crush of so many years.
That was when he would awake in a cold sweat. James had been having this dream since he first met Lily and when he first met Severus Snape, way back in his first year. Now he was in his sixth year. He and Lily were going out and he and Snape were the worst of enemies.
Sirius Black rolled over in his bed, snoring slightly. On his other side, Peter Pettigrew was moaning and groaning, tossing and turning when, "Food! SOOO Hungry!" busted out of his mouth. James chuckled to himself as he looked back over past Sirius and saw Remus Lupin; the only one with covers not askew and on the floor.
James got up and walked over to the window. He poured himself a glass of water and dumped it on to his head, hopefully to drown out the memory of his nightmare. Almost in sync, all of the alarms in the dorm woke up the boys. James was still standing cold and wet, just as he had when he woke up. Sirius groggily sat up and failed to stifle his yawn.
"What's wrong Prongs, why are you wet?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. James sighed and shook his head, full of black messy hair. He noticed that besides a few misplaced hairs, Sirius's hair was lying down straight. He smiled a bit and shook his head again, this time laughing to himself. He was glad to have friends this good.
Remus was already getting his robes on when James had put pants over his boxers. He sighed smiling at how slow he was taking. Though James didn't notice for his mind had gone back to the dream. Apparently the water didn't flood out his thoughts like he hoped.
"Hurry up James!" Sirius called out from the Common room. "Your girlfriend is down here!" James awoke from his thoughts and put on his robe and ran out. Sirius was snickering when he saw James running down the stairs and his scowl when he reached the bottom, realizing that Lily wasn't standing anywhere in the room.
"Something wrong Prongs?" Peter asked looking worriedly at his role model.
"Nah, nothing ever bugs him! Just Snivellus, right?" Padfoot laughed aloud. James nodded, not wanting to say anything about the dream or to worry the others. Though Remus didn't believe him at all. He looked at him without saying anything, though definitely assuming something. Fortunately out of friendship, Moony didn't mention that his eyes told all he was thinking.
They all walked down from the common room and headed to the great all. James stopped short when he saw Snape smirking at Lucius Malfoy, telling him something. Prongs glared evilly at him and continued his walk to the Gryffindor table. The Marauders, already seated, left him a seat next to his dear Lily Evans. Smiling, he sat down and looked around, listening to the already begun conversations between his girlfriend and her friends, and his own.
At the end of Potions, which was as horrid as ever, Malfoy and Snape were working together after class. They were laughing their evil laugh that they did when they had an evil idea.
"Again, is something wrong?" Remus asked, looking worriedly at his friend. James looked over at him, his eyes were screaming for knowledge, for why he was having these awful imaginings.
"Can you keep a secret, you know, and not tell Padfoot or Wormtail?" Remus was shocked that he was the chosen one who was to keep this type of secret. He was sure that he had already told Padfoot of his problems, but apparently not.
"I've been having this dream..." he trailed off, not knowing how to begin. He looked down and began recollecting memories of the dream, and began to tell his story. Remus just stood there, analyzing his thoughts.
"Well...maybe you see Severus as an enemy... well I mean you already do but, you're worried that he'll take Lily away from you, now that you know him a little better from when you and Lily first started going out. Is everything okay between you and her?"
"Everything is fine... what else?" He asked hurriedly.
"Well... that's about it... you're worried that Lily will betray you because she might be going astray a little, and you're afraid that she'll go with you're enemy to get back. Thus you're scared that he will do something to her," Remus said, hypothesizing the dream to reality. He smiled kindly and walked off with his friend.
They began walking around the lake, talking about some of the dreams that they had had. James laughed at some of Remus's old memories as he laughed at his. James smiled at himself and thanked the gods that he had a friend like Remus.
When they returned back to the common room on a cold winter's night, a warm fire had been made. Sirius, Peter, and another fellow Gryffindor girl were playing Exploding Snap. And sure enough, on Sirius's turn, it all exploded. James, Remus and the others began to laugh until their sides hurt, even Sirius who now had no eyebrows and his face was black, began to laugh.
"You should keep that look, it suits you, Padfoot!" called out James. He had forgotten all about the dream that had occurred only that morning.
The next day was just as bad as the last. Again Snape and Lucius Malfoy had worked over time in potions, asking the teacher for a certain recipe. James was startled when he heard what they wanted to make-a love potion.
As soon as he heard the news, he ran off to go find Lily. He had to tell her she was in danger. That she would soon find herself in love with either Severus Snape or Lucius Malfoy.
He ran into the Great hall to see if she was there. No luck. He ran into any empty classroom. No luck. Frightened, he ran off to the dungeons. Still no luck. Even more anxious then before, he ran outside to look around. He found her sitting with her friends, feet in the water. She was laughing happily and joyfully when he walked up. Startled, she asked if anything was wrong. He simply asked, "Have you eaten or drank anything from Snape or Malfoy?" All Lily did was blink and stare at him.
"No...of course not, why?" her friend Sandy looked up at him with the utmost disgust on her face.
"Err... can I speak to you alone?" he asked again. Lily nodded and got up following him, he took her to the outer skirts of the forest.
"Is everything okay James?" She asked, a little irritated that he couldn't say whatever it was in front of Sandy.
"I had a dream about you... you and Snape...." He said looking down. Lily stopped dead in her tracks.
"Are you saying that you dreamt about me and Snape...together?" James nodded solemnly.
"What's worse is well..." He began his dream all over again, sighing when he had finished.
Lily's red hair fell in her face when she looked down.
"Remus said it was because I like you and I hate Snape, and that I'm just worried that he'll do something to you. I don't know if it's true or not though..." He muttered and looked around the forest to see if anyone had overheard. Lily looked at him, wondering why he would think that she would ever like someone like Snape.
Thinking along the same lines, he wondered why he even thought of Snape for her to go with... why not Wood... she's been seen talking to him...But he didn't have too long to think for Sirius ran up. Not noticing Lily standing there, "It's time! Remus is already there! We have to-" He was cut short when he heard a growl being the trees. Out came a silver snout, followed by the rest of the body, its fur spiked and ready to attack.
"Now, now, calm down Remus! No one wants to hurt you!" James called. Lily, who was now white as marble, looked over at him.
"Are you telling me that's Remus Lupin!" she screamed at them. James had forgot that she was there and was oblivious to her current panic, he transformed into a magnificent stag. Sirius, looking over at Lily and reassured her, "Don't worry, we'll have this taken care of, and everything will be okay. We do this all of the time!" Not reassured, she nodded along anyways.
"Ack... where is Peter! He's supposed to be here by now!" Shrugging, Sirius transformed into his black shaggy form of a dog and went after James's silhouette of a stag. The wolf ran into the forest, running past the lake and deeper into the forest.
Peter ran up to Lily, panting. "You," he took a deep breath, "might want to," he took another deep breath, "leave now. Don't worry, Padfoot and Prongs will take care of Moony," he smiled as he caught his breath. Then on the wind, came a blood-curdling yell of a wolf. Not looking to happy himself, he transformed into a rat and ran off. Lily, afraid that this just might get out of hand, ran off back to the Gryffindor tower. She didn't stop till she reached the Fat Lady's Portrait.
He was roaming the halls late at night. He was in his last year of school and also head boy. The all-time Quidditch Cup was being held the next day, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. It was a match of all matches. He was walking down in the dungeons when he heard a faint noise. It was coming from the boy's bathroom. He walked in and saw a young redhead, and a pair of eyes and a tongue plucked out, lying next to her on the ground. His hazel eyes grew in size as he saw the blood of his dead Lily, trailing up to the standing man....
"How dare you hurt Lily, let alone kill her, Snape!" he was shaking with anger, so mad he couldn't think straight. He just wanted to strangle him.
"Me? Hurt poor innocent Lily Evans?" He asked, his greasy black hair lapping his face every time he uttered a word. He smirked maliciously, not wanted to get rid of the shock plastered on James Potter's face, so he continued, "She is very lively in the bed you know, shame you couldn't get a hold of her before I did... oh well, to late now!" he began to laugh as evil as his smirk. James was close to tears, but he wouldn't show Snape that he had got to him. But he didn't care anymore, James ran at Snape and punch in the jaw, forgetting all about his wand. Suddenly he didn't care anymore about how he did it as long as he got Snape in as much pain as possible. Snape flew back and into a sink smacking his head in the process.
"How dare you?" Snape whispered in an evil tone. He wiped the blood off of his lip that turned into another malicious smirk. He stood up and walked over to where James was sitting, holding Lily's red head dyed even more so by the blood. Snape laughed as evilly as his smile and muttered under his breath a curse that sent shock all through James's body.
All that he could feel was immense pain. It was like his bones were on fire. But his heart was stone cold. He couldn't breath and he began gasping for air. He was holding his stomach, doubled over in pain on the ground. All he could hear was a maniacal laughter, and a maniacal voice by his ear.
"This is how I felt everyday for the past six years and every year I saw you and with Evans, it sent this kind of pain through me. It hurts... doesn't it, Potter?" Snape laughed again and walked off, leaving James in pain on the ground next to his crush of so many years.
That was when he would awake in a cold sweat. James had been having this dream since he first met Lily and when he first met Severus Snape, way back in his first year. Now he was in his sixth year. He and Lily were going out and he and Snape were the worst of enemies.
Sirius Black rolled over in his bed, snoring slightly. On his other side, Peter Pettigrew was moaning and groaning, tossing and turning when, "Food! SOOO Hungry!" busted out of his mouth. James chuckled to himself as he looked back over past Sirius and saw Remus Lupin; the only one with covers not askew and on the floor.
James got up and walked over to the window. He poured himself a glass of water and dumped it on to his head, hopefully to drown out the memory of his nightmare. Almost in sync, all of the alarms in the dorm woke up the boys. James was still standing cold and wet, just as he had when he woke up. Sirius groggily sat up and failed to stifle his yawn.
"What's wrong Prongs, why are you wet?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. James sighed and shook his head, full of black messy hair. He noticed that besides a few misplaced hairs, Sirius's hair was lying down straight. He smiled a bit and shook his head again, this time laughing to himself. He was glad to have friends this good.
Remus was already getting his robes on when James had put pants over his boxers. He sighed smiling at how slow he was taking. Though James didn't notice for his mind had gone back to the dream. Apparently the water didn't flood out his thoughts like he hoped.
"Hurry up James!" Sirius called out from the Common room. "Your girlfriend is down here!" James awoke from his thoughts and put on his robe and ran out. Sirius was snickering when he saw James running down the stairs and his scowl when he reached the bottom, realizing that Lily wasn't standing anywhere in the room.
"Something wrong Prongs?" Peter asked looking worriedly at his role model.
"Nah, nothing ever bugs him! Just Snivellus, right?" Padfoot laughed aloud. James nodded, not wanting to say anything about the dream or to worry the others. Though Remus didn't believe him at all. He looked at him without saying anything, though definitely assuming something. Fortunately out of friendship, Moony didn't mention that his eyes told all he was thinking.
They all walked down from the common room and headed to the great all. James stopped short when he saw Snape smirking at Lucius Malfoy, telling him something. Prongs glared evilly at him and continued his walk to the Gryffindor table. The Marauders, already seated, left him a seat next to his dear Lily Evans. Smiling, he sat down and looked around, listening to the already begun conversations between his girlfriend and her friends, and his own.
At the end of Potions, which was as horrid as ever, Malfoy and Snape were working together after class. They were laughing their evil laugh that they did when they had an evil idea.
"Again, is something wrong?" Remus asked, looking worriedly at his friend. James looked over at him, his eyes were screaming for knowledge, for why he was having these awful imaginings.
"Can you keep a secret, you know, and not tell Padfoot or Wormtail?" Remus was shocked that he was the chosen one who was to keep this type of secret. He was sure that he had already told Padfoot of his problems, but apparently not.
"I've been having this dream..." he trailed off, not knowing how to begin. He looked down and began recollecting memories of the dream, and began to tell his story. Remus just stood there, analyzing his thoughts.
"Well...maybe you see Severus as an enemy... well I mean you already do but, you're worried that he'll take Lily away from you, now that you know him a little better from when you and Lily first started going out. Is everything okay between you and her?"
"Everything is fine... what else?" He asked hurriedly.
"Well... that's about it... you're worried that Lily will betray you because she might be going astray a little, and you're afraid that she'll go with you're enemy to get back. Thus you're scared that he will do something to her," Remus said, hypothesizing the dream to reality. He smiled kindly and walked off with his friend.
They began walking around the lake, talking about some of the dreams that they had had. James laughed at some of Remus's old memories as he laughed at his. James smiled at himself and thanked the gods that he had a friend like Remus.
When they returned back to the common room on a cold winter's night, a warm fire had been made. Sirius, Peter, and another fellow Gryffindor girl were playing Exploding Snap. And sure enough, on Sirius's turn, it all exploded. James, Remus and the others began to laugh until their sides hurt, even Sirius who now had no eyebrows and his face was black, began to laugh.
"You should keep that look, it suits you, Padfoot!" called out James. He had forgotten all about the dream that had occurred only that morning.
The next day was just as bad as the last. Again Snape and Lucius Malfoy had worked over time in potions, asking the teacher for a certain recipe. James was startled when he heard what they wanted to make-a love potion.
As soon as he heard the news, he ran off to go find Lily. He had to tell her she was in danger. That she would soon find herself in love with either Severus Snape or Lucius Malfoy.
He ran into the Great hall to see if she was there. No luck. He ran into any empty classroom. No luck. Frightened, he ran off to the dungeons. Still no luck. Even more anxious then before, he ran outside to look around. He found her sitting with her friends, feet in the water. She was laughing happily and joyfully when he walked up. Startled, she asked if anything was wrong. He simply asked, "Have you eaten or drank anything from Snape or Malfoy?" All Lily did was blink and stare at him.
"No...of course not, why?" her friend Sandy looked up at him with the utmost disgust on her face.
"Err... can I speak to you alone?" he asked again. Lily nodded and got up following him, he took her to the outer skirts of the forest.
"Is everything okay James?" She asked, a little irritated that he couldn't say whatever it was in front of Sandy.
"I had a dream about you... you and Snape...." He said looking down. Lily stopped dead in her tracks.
"Are you saying that you dreamt about me and Snape...together?" James nodded solemnly.
"What's worse is well..." He began his dream all over again, sighing when he had finished.
Lily's red hair fell in her face when she looked down.
"Remus said it was because I like you and I hate Snape, and that I'm just worried that he'll do something to you. I don't know if it's true or not though..." He muttered and looked around the forest to see if anyone had overheard. Lily looked at him, wondering why he would think that she would ever like someone like Snape.
Thinking along the same lines, he wondered why he even thought of Snape for her to go with... why not Wood... she's been seen talking to him...But he didn't have too long to think for Sirius ran up. Not noticing Lily standing there, "It's time! Remus is already there! We have to-" He was cut short when he heard a growl being the trees. Out came a silver snout, followed by the rest of the body, its fur spiked and ready to attack.
"Now, now, calm down Remus! No one wants to hurt you!" James called. Lily, who was now white as marble, looked over at him.
"Are you telling me that's Remus Lupin!" she screamed at them. James had forgot that she was there and was oblivious to her current panic, he transformed into a magnificent stag. Sirius, looking over at Lily and reassured her, "Don't worry, we'll have this taken care of, and everything will be okay. We do this all of the time!" Not reassured, she nodded along anyways.
"Ack... where is Peter! He's supposed to be here by now!" Shrugging, Sirius transformed into his black shaggy form of a dog and went after James's silhouette of a stag. The wolf ran into the forest, running past the lake and deeper into the forest.
Peter ran up to Lily, panting. "You," he took a deep breath, "might want to," he took another deep breath, "leave now. Don't worry, Padfoot and Prongs will take care of Moony," he smiled as he caught his breath. Then on the wind, came a blood-curdling yell of a wolf. Not looking to happy himself, he transformed into a rat and ran off. Lily, afraid that this just might get out of hand, ran off back to the Gryffindor tower. She didn't stop till she reached the Fat Lady's Portrait.