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Author's Note: Hey there this is another attempt to do a MWPP story. This one is different then all of my other ones though. Not supposed to be as humorous, lets see if this style gets more reviews shall we??
James turned and watched Lily go. He had tried yelling after her, but it had been to no avail. He wished she wouldn't leave him so soon. But soon his fury had got back up with him. The fact that Lily had tried to help Severus, he had called her a mudblood, and she had left. It was his fault she had left, Severus' fault. He turned his attention back to what he was doing, waved his wand and immediately Severus was back upside down in the air.
"Who wants to see me take Snivellus's pants off?" he heard himself say, although he didn't really mean it. He knew he wouldn't take Snape's pants off. He could only imagine what she would say to him. Her last words to him were still ringing inside his head. "What did he ever do to you?" He decided that maybe he should give her words a thought. He let his wand drop, which set Snape on the ground again.
"I'm hungry Padfoot, let's go eat something." He said to Sirius who was standing next to him. He wasn't really hungry, but this did seem to make up for why he put Snape down. Sirius didn't ask any questions, just laughed and congratulated him on a wonderful performance.
"To bad Lily is against violence and breaking rules. But you sure got every other girls attention." Sirius said to him as they walked back up towards the castle. Remus and Peter upon seeing they were leaving had hastened in their direction catching up to them panting. James looked at Remus but immediately wished he hadn't. Remus was giving him a disapproving look, which made James feel very ashamed at what he had just done. Remus didn't say anything though, but for all James thought this made it worse. Did he disapprove so badly that he couldn't even bring himself to say anything?
"Are we going to the kitchens?" Remus said at last. Making James's thoughts that he was to angry to speak go away.
"Er, yeah we are, I'm hungry." Said James shortly. Remus looked quizzically at James as though trying to see through him. James knew why in an instant, he was never the hungry one that was always Sirius, so he said to Remus, "OWLs take a lot out of you." Remus still stared at him in an odd way before looking away, which was good because if he hadn't of looked away he would have ran head first into a statue.
They made their way through the entrance hall and to a corridor filled with pictures of fruit. They cautiously made their way to a picture of a bowl of fruit, tickled the pear and walked in through the doorway that had appeared. As they did so all sorts of little house elves came to their service offering them different kinds of food from tripe to peppermint humbugs. They put the food in James bag, and left the kitchen each munching happily on different foods as they walked back upstairs to the common room. In the common room the four of them found seats nearest to the fire and sat down in the squishy armchairs. Waiting for something to do. Remus went back to studying for their next exam while Sirius and James played wizards chess while Peter watched, James messing up his hair every so often.
They decided to skip dinner as they had more than enough food to suffice. They stayed in the common room waiting for everyone to come back upstairs. When the rest of the house stepped through the portrait James was chagrinned to see that Lily was not among them. Where could she have gone? He thought to himself. Lily was not one to break rules and be out at all times of the night. James checked his watch it was 8:30. Everyone had to be back in his or her house common rooms by 9:00. After another game of chess, which he lost spectacularly to Sirius, James checked his watch again 9:12. He had not seen Lily come through the portrait hole. He told Sirius he was going to go for a walk, got up and went to his dormitory and got his invisibility cloak and the marauders map.
He pointed his wand on the map and said, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He watched as the blank piece of paper started to crawl with lines and dots, as if ants started to pour out of it. He scanned the map and spotted Lily sitting next to a large willow tree across the grounds. He made his way back to the common room and out the portrait hole where he proceeded to put on the invisibility cloak, and headed for the front doors.
Deep in thought as to why Lily was still outside, he looked around and realized he had subconsciously made his way outside. His ears caught a distant muffled sound but he couldn't begin to decipher what it was. As he drew closer to the tree he realized it was growing louder. Then his brain made the connection and he knew what it was, it was a person crying. He quietly called out "Lily." But not to his surprised he got no reply.
He walked closer to the girl who was sitting with her head on her knees rocking back and forth. He sat down next to her, and put his arm around her. "Are you okay?" James asked in a concerned whisper. She looked up at him and hissed, "Potter, what are you doing here."
"I was worried that you hadn't come back to the common room yet. Is it against the law to show emotion for someone?" James replied almost wishing now that he hadn't even come out here looking for her in the first place.
"No," Lily whispered back. "It's not against the law. I was just wondering why you were here since everyone else is back up at the common room. Sorry." James looked at her and saw that she meant it. But that still didn't explain to him why she was crying.
"So why were you, eh." James began but Lily cut him off.
"Oh just exam pressure you know." Lily said, in a non-convincing tone of voice. There was something else troubling her. There had to be, thought James. Lily cared about her schoolwork, but she was just as good at it as him and Sirius. She never got worked up about exams.
"Now really why were you crying?" implored James again. He looked into her deep green eyes. Wishing she had said yes to going out with him earlier that day.
"Oh, I told you, alright, I lied, it was because of Snape." James looked angry as soon as she said Snape's name. "Now don't go do anything stupid or mean about it. I was just upset that he called me a mudblood, after I had tried being nice to him. I mean, I felt bad for him. He clearly has no friends and, oh stop messing up your hair it looks stupid." Lily said to him interrupting herself in mid-sentence. James looked embarrassed when she said this but stopped messing with his hair.
"Don't worry about Snape," said James in a low voice, "he doesn't have any friends because he's mean to the people who try to be his friends just because of their family history. I mean, if my last name wasn't Potter he wouldn't be as nasty to me." He looked back at Lily who was fixating him with a piercing stare. "What?" said James stupidly.
"He's mean to you because you're mean to him. I'm sure if you were just nice to him for a." Lily started but James cut her off.
"If I remember correctly, he was the one not I on the Hogwarts express first year to try and throw a jinx first." James said remembering his first day coming to Hogwarts. He was getting angrier. His temper was rising to a boiling under his skin. Why did she have to be so mean to him for? What had he ever done to her?
"After you said you were going to hex him." Lily said with a bemused smile on her face.
"Only because he called you a you-know-what." James retorted. Lily smiled at him. For the first time James could ever recall, Lily smiled at him. It made James's temper go away and he smiled back at her.
"So you've always been trying to protect me, huh?" Lily said smile still flitting across her lips. "You're my big tangible patronus." James apparently had a confused look on his face because Lily then added, "You do know patronus means protector in Latin right?" James looked at her and nodded his yes, but made a mental note to himself to study Latin.
"Why don't we go back to the common room, it's getting late and we need our sleep for our OWL tomorrow." James said to Lily, helping her up to her feet.
"But how are we going to get back upstairs to the common room?" Lily said tentatively, "We can't be caught being out of bounds together at night, I'm a prefect, and that'll start all kinds of stories and go on my permanent record and, what are you laughing at?" Lily stared at James he was laughing at her.
"I have an invisibility cloak, and a map. Besides you worry to much." James said. "Shall we be off to the common room then?" James asked holding out his arm like a very well mannered gentleman. Lily took his arm laughing too. James felt a warmth inside of him at her touch, and after savoring it for a moment threw the invisibility cloak around them and marched off to the castle with Lily by his side.
When they got to the common room it was completely deserted. James checked his watch it was 11:00. Apparently everyone thought that getting a good nights sleep was helpful for exams like James had just finished telling Lily about 15 minutes earlier.
"Well I suppose we better go to sleep then too." Said James to Lily. Then something happened that almost sent James into shock. Lily hugged him.
"Thanks for coming and getting me. I never knew you were this nice. Maybe we could be friends then Potter?" Lily said holding him still in a tight hug.
"Sure Evans, if you want to." James said, not even quite sure about what he was agreeing to. She let go of him, said goodnight and left up to her dormitory. James went up to his feeling light headed and happier then he had been in a while. When he got to his dormitory, Sirius was still up.
"Had a nice LONG walk didn't you Prongs." Sirius asked, although it was not a question. James just looked at him and flopped onto his bed.
"Shut up Padfoot." Was all he said before his head hit his pillow and he fell happily asleep.
The next morning James awoke to Remus shaking him to get out of bed. James got up hastily when Remus said, "I'm leaving for breakfast, and even Padfoot is awake." As soon as James heard that Sirius was awake he got up quickly and dressed in his robes. Sirius never got up quickly. James must have been in a very deep sleep for Sirius to be woken up before him. He yelled for Remus to wait up and pulled his robes the rest of the way over his head. He didn't even look in the mirror to check his hair, he just messed it up with his hands as normal and ran down to the common room.
In the common room he saw Peter, Sirius and Remus all waiting for them their faces holding bemused expressions. He smiled at them and said, "I'm up."
Remus looked at him and shook his head saying, "We know that Prongs, we aren't idiots."
"Well that's news to me." James shot back. Sirius was looking at him annoyed and James knew he was hungry. "Well shall we go then?" James said. They made their way down to the great hall and sat down at their house table. Waiting for the mail to arrive. James got a letter from his owl Mysteria. He patted her on the head and looked at the envelope, it was in a writing he had seen before, but couldn't recognize. He opened the letter and read it. Then he gasped, clearly from disbelief. No, this could not be happening. Not happening to him. He threw the letter in his bag and ran out of the great hall.
Author's Note: Hey there this is another attempt to do a MWPP story. This one is different then all of my other ones though. Not supposed to be as humorous, lets see if this style gets more reviews shall we??
James turned and watched Lily go. He had tried yelling after her, but it had been to no avail. He wished she wouldn't leave him so soon. But soon his fury had got back up with him. The fact that Lily had tried to help Severus, he had called her a mudblood, and she had left. It was his fault she had left, Severus' fault. He turned his attention back to what he was doing, waved his wand and immediately Severus was back upside down in the air.
"Who wants to see me take Snivellus's pants off?" he heard himself say, although he didn't really mean it. He knew he wouldn't take Snape's pants off. He could only imagine what she would say to him. Her last words to him were still ringing inside his head. "What did he ever do to you?" He decided that maybe he should give her words a thought. He let his wand drop, which set Snape on the ground again.
"I'm hungry Padfoot, let's go eat something." He said to Sirius who was standing next to him. He wasn't really hungry, but this did seem to make up for why he put Snape down. Sirius didn't ask any questions, just laughed and congratulated him on a wonderful performance.
"To bad Lily is against violence and breaking rules. But you sure got every other girls attention." Sirius said to him as they walked back up towards the castle. Remus and Peter upon seeing they were leaving had hastened in their direction catching up to them panting. James looked at Remus but immediately wished he hadn't. Remus was giving him a disapproving look, which made James feel very ashamed at what he had just done. Remus didn't say anything though, but for all James thought this made it worse. Did he disapprove so badly that he couldn't even bring himself to say anything?
"Are we going to the kitchens?" Remus said at last. Making James's thoughts that he was to angry to speak go away.
"Er, yeah we are, I'm hungry." Said James shortly. Remus looked quizzically at James as though trying to see through him. James knew why in an instant, he was never the hungry one that was always Sirius, so he said to Remus, "OWLs take a lot out of you." Remus still stared at him in an odd way before looking away, which was good because if he hadn't of looked away he would have ran head first into a statue.
They made their way through the entrance hall and to a corridor filled with pictures of fruit. They cautiously made their way to a picture of a bowl of fruit, tickled the pear and walked in through the doorway that had appeared. As they did so all sorts of little house elves came to their service offering them different kinds of food from tripe to peppermint humbugs. They put the food in James bag, and left the kitchen each munching happily on different foods as they walked back upstairs to the common room. In the common room the four of them found seats nearest to the fire and sat down in the squishy armchairs. Waiting for something to do. Remus went back to studying for their next exam while Sirius and James played wizards chess while Peter watched, James messing up his hair every so often.
They decided to skip dinner as they had more than enough food to suffice. They stayed in the common room waiting for everyone to come back upstairs. When the rest of the house stepped through the portrait James was chagrinned to see that Lily was not among them. Where could she have gone? He thought to himself. Lily was not one to break rules and be out at all times of the night. James checked his watch it was 8:30. Everyone had to be back in his or her house common rooms by 9:00. After another game of chess, which he lost spectacularly to Sirius, James checked his watch again 9:12. He had not seen Lily come through the portrait hole. He told Sirius he was going to go for a walk, got up and went to his dormitory and got his invisibility cloak and the marauders map.
He pointed his wand on the map and said, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He watched as the blank piece of paper started to crawl with lines and dots, as if ants started to pour out of it. He scanned the map and spotted Lily sitting next to a large willow tree across the grounds. He made his way back to the common room and out the portrait hole where he proceeded to put on the invisibility cloak, and headed for the front doors.
Deep in thought as to why Lily was still outside, he looked around and realized he had subconsciously made his way outside. His ears caught a distant muffled sound but he couldn't begin to decipher what it was. As he drew closer to the tree he realized it was growing louder. Then his brain made the connection and he knew what it was, it was a person crying. He quietly called out "Lily." But not to his surprised he got no reply.
He walked closer to the girl who was sitting with her head on her knees rocking back and forth. He sat down next to her, and put his arm around her. "Are you okay?" James asked in a concerned whisper. She looked up at him and hissed, "Potter, what are you doing here."
"I was worried that you hadn't come back to the common room yet. Is it against the law to show emotion for someone?" James replied almost wishing now that he hadn't even come out here looking for her in the first place.
"No," Lily whispered back. "It's not against the law. I was just wondering why you were here since everyone else is back up at the common room. Sorry." James looked at her and saw that she meant it. But that still didn't explain to him why she was crying.
"So why were you, eh." James began but Lily cut him off.
"Oh just exam pressure you know." Lily said, in a non-convincing tone of voice. There was something else troubling her. There had to be, thought James. Lily cared about her schoolwork, but she was just as good at it as him and Sirius. She never got worked up about exams.
"Now really why were you crying?" implored James again. He looked into her deep green eyes. Wishing she had said yes to going out with him earlier that day.
"Oh, I told you, alright, I lied, it was because of Snape." James looked angry as soon as she said Snape's name. "Now don't go do anything stupid or mean about it. I was just upset that he called me a mudblood, after I had tried being nice to him. I mean, I felt bad for him. He clearly has no friends and, oh stop messing up your hair it looks stupid." Lily said to him interrupting herself in mid-sentence. James looked embarrassed when she said this but stopped messing with his hair.
"Don't worry about Snape," said James in a low voice, "he doesn't have any friends because he's mean to the people who try to be his friends just because of their family history. I mean, if my last name wasn't Potter he wouldn't be as nasty to me." He looked back at Lily who was fixating him with a piercing stare. "What?" said James stupidly.
"He's mean to you because you're mean to him. I'm sure if you were just nice to him for a." Lily started but James cut her off.
"If I remember correctly, he was the one not I on the Hogwarts express first year to try and throw a jinx first." James said remembering his first day coming to Hogwarts. He was getting angrier. His temper was rising to a boiling under his skin. Why did she have to be so mean to him for? What had he ever done to her?
"After you said you were going to hex him." Lily said with a bemused smile on her face.
"Only because he called you a you-know-what." James retorted. Lily smiled at him. For the first time James could ever recall, Lily smiled at him. It made James's temper go away and he smiled back at her.
"So you've always been trying to protect me, huh?" Lily said smile still flitting across her lips. "You're my big tangible patronus." James apparently had a confused look on his face because Lily then added, "You do know patronus means protector in Latin right?" James looked at her and nodded his yes, but made a mental note to himself to study Latin.
"Why don't we go back to the common room, it's getting late and we need our sleep for our OWL tomorrow." James said to Lily, helping her up to her feet.
"But how are we going to get back upstairs to the common room?" Lily said tentatively, "We can't be caught being out of bounds together at night, I'm a prefect, and that'll start all kinds of stories and go on my permanent record and, what are you laughing at?" Lily stared at James he was laughing at her.
"I have an invisibility cloak, and a map. Besides you worry to much." James said. "Shall we be off to the common room then?" James asked holding out his arm like a very well mannered gentleman. Lily took his arm laughing too. James felt a warmth inside of him at her touch, and after savoring it for a moment threw the invisibility cloak around them and marched off to the castle with Lily by his side.
When they got to the common room it was completely deserted. James checked his watch it was 11:00. Apparently everyone thought that getting a good nights sleep was helpful for exams like James had just finished telling Lily about 15 minutes earlier.
"Well I suppose we better go to sleep then too." Said James to Lily. Then something happened that almost sent James into shock. Lily hugged him.
"Thanks for coming and getting me. I never knew you were this nice. Maybe we could be friends then Potter?" Lily said holding him still in a tight hug.
"Sure Evans, if you want to." James said, not even quite sure about what he was agreeing to. She let go of him, said goodnight and left up to her dormitory. James went up to his feeling light headed and happier then he had been in a while. When he got to his dormitory, Sirius was still up.
"Had a nice LONG walk didn't you Prongs." Sirius asked, although it was not a question. James just looked at him and flopped onto his bed.
"Shut up Padfoot." Was all he said before his head hit his pillow and he fell happily asleep.
The next morning James awoke to Remus shaking him to get out of bed. James got up hastily when Remus said, "I'm leaving for breakfast, and even Padfoot is awake." As soon as James heard that Sirius was awake he got up quickly and dressed in his robes. Sirius never got up quickly. James must have been in a very deep sleep for Sirius to be woken up before him. He yelled for Remus to wait up and pulled his robes the rest of the way over his head. He didn't even look in the mirror to check his hair, he just messed it up with his hands as normal and ran down to the common room.
In the common room he saw Peter, Sirius and Remus all waiting for them their faces holding bemused expressions. He smiled at them and said, "I'm up."
Remus looked at him and shook his head saying, "We know that Prongs, we aren't idiots."
"Well that's news to me." James shot back. Sirius was looking at him annoyed and James knew he was hungry. "Well shall we go then?" James said. They made their way down to the great hall and sat down at their house table. Waiting for the mail to arrive. James got a letter from his owl Mysteria. He patted her on the head and looked at the envelope, it was in a writing he had seen before, but couldn't recognize. He opened the letter and read it. Then he gasped, clearly from disbelief. No, this could not be happening. Not happening to him. He threw the letter in his bag and ran out of the great hall.
