AN: It's been a week since I've updated because I was grounded for a few days (haha). Finally, an update! (PS; I have 8 alerts and 6 reviews for this. It doesn't work out! Review, please!)
mustardgirl: Nope, you're not making things up. She was mentioned in one of the books... I think Deathly Hallows? Anyways, I'm pretty sure it was in one of Snape's pencieve memories, when Lily was talking about one of his Death Eater friends. For some reason, I just had a really good image of what she would be like. I'm also gonna throw Marlene McKinnon in here, just for kicks. She was a member of the first order, and I might put her with Lupin (yeah yeah, he belongs with Tonks, but she's younger! He hasn't met her yet!)
The (Very) Fine Line Between Love and Hate
Chapter Two: Charms and the Charmer
Lily and Mary (who was mumbling under her breath - 'Black? Me? Hell no...') walked into the classroom just as the bell rang. Lily felt a tiny twinge of mingled smugness and annoyance as Sirius and James flung themselves into the room, late, followed by a slightly more composed Lupin and a dumbstruck-looking-as-per-usually Peter. Sometimes she felt bad for the guy. Perhaps Potter paid him to follow him around and kiss his feet.
He gave an exaggerated wink as he passed her and she rolled her eyes, equally as exaggeratedly. Having pulled himself together after their apparent mad dash to the classroom, Sirius was now walking in what he obviously intended to be a calm, cool manner (which, he pulled off quite well).
"Late again, boys," squeaked Flitwik.
"Sorry, professor," Remus said, and Lily shot him a quick smile. Why he ever hung out with such prat she could never figure out. Neither of the other boys said anything - their heads were pressed close together.
Lily shot Remus a 'what-the-hell-is-up-with-them' look and he shrugged back.
Flitwik gave a short beginning of class talk and set them to it - summoning and banishing cushions, something he had showed them in fifth year but insisted they review before NEWTs.
Lily rolled her eyes again. "Wish we didn't have to do this again... then again you did accidentally break my mirror last time you tried to summon your hair brush... hello... earth to Mary?" She waved her hand in front of her friend's face.
"What? Oh, yeah, I'd better practise..." she said distractedly and Lily followed her eyes to, who else, the black haired animal with his feet on his desk.
"Mary!" Lily kicked her from under the desk.
"Ow," she said, rubbing her leg.
"Work with me here!" Lily said. "We're supposed to hate them, remember?"
"I do!" Mary insisted. "I wasn't even looking at him, the pot plant behind him his really quite nice..."
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"There she goes again!" Sirius said. "Looking right at me. You know, I'd say I've got this in the bag."
"Something tells me a girl like that isn't going to give in so easy," Remus said. "And they suspect something by the way. Lily's not stupid... if they find out you're betting on them, you'll both have some love confessions to make at the end of term. Not that I'm saying you have any chance as it is..."
"She's too smart for her own good, it's not like we're doing anything different than usual."
"Exactly. She knows how to tell when you're planning something, she's been dealing with your plans for more than six years now."
"Don't feign innocence, Loopy, you're the mastermind of most of our brilliant plans," James said, flicking his wand lazily and sending his cushion in the complete wrong direction and hitting Marlene McKinnon in the head.
"I merely finetune the details," he said lightly, banishing a cushion neatly into a box across the room. "You're doing the flick wrong, its more left than downwards," trying to show James how to do it properly.
James jerked his arm away. "I don't want you to show me how to do it," he said, as a cushion flew past him and landed nicely in the box. "Sorry, Moony my man, I love you and everything, but you just don't look the same in a skirt."
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"Hey, Lily," James said, sliding into an empty spot beside her.
"Potter, what do you want?" she asked.
"Just to let you know that you look magnificent today," he said. "That skirt really does flatter you..."
"Oh, aren't you the charmer," Mary said.
He ignored her. "So I was thinking, I'm terrible at charms, and you're excellent, I mean, obviously, look at you. I was thinking, maybe..."
"No, no, and no," she said, summoning her cushion back from the box.
"How do you even know what I was going to say?"
She snorted. "Please. I'm not stupid you know..."
"So I've heard," he mumbled.
"Just give up, Potter," said Mary, who was still haiving troubled properly summoning her cushion without hitting something else along the way. "You're worse than Black," she said but faltered off and, catching Lily's eye, added, "and that's saying something."
Still looking suspiciously at her friend, who busied herself with retrieving her pillow from the floor, she said, "Go away, Potter. I'm not tutoring you, you're doing fine."
"If you call bringing injuries upon my fellow classmates fine, then I suppose..."
"Injuries? I saw you hit Marlene. You can't injure someone with a pillow."
"So you were looking at me!"
"I was looking at her."
"So you swing that way, do you? I suppose I could do threesomes..."
"Potter!"
"Lilykins!"
"LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!"
Everyone turned to stare at her as her face turned a deepening shade of red. "Sorry, professor," she said, and sat herself down in her seat. James smirked slightly and a few people laughed. Flitwik shook his head, chuckling quietly to himself. Unfortunately, the teachers along with most of the students in the school thought that, in the words of 'wise' Sirius Black, they should 'just get it on already'.
"You really ought to learn to control your temper," he said.
"You really ought to learn when to screw off," she said, careful to keep her voice down.
"Did I mention that you look incredibly sexy in that shirt..."
"Keep it in your pants, Potter," Mary said. "Come on, Lily, the bells about to ring..."
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"So, how'd it go? Booked your tutoring sessions yet?" Sirius smirked.
"There'll be more than tutoring going on once she comes around," James said resolutely as they left the classroom a few minutes later. "Besides, you haven't even tried to make a move on MacDonald..."
"That's because she might very well make a move on me first," he said, grinning. Sure enough, Mary was looking over her shoulder at them, but as Sirius beamed at her she quickly turned away.
"And he competition heats up," Remus said, back in comentator mode, "with an unexpected twist of events from the opposing side..."
"Shoes, Lupin!"
"Okay, okay..."
AN: Ah. Another short one, sorry. I always have a really hard time writing long chapters. I think I'd rather have a short one instead of having it go on and on and on. I'll leave it at one idea, and move on with the next in the next chapter. REVIEW people, REVIEW :)