Um… Professor
Chapter 2: Inevitable
A/N: Sorry I didn't put a disclaimer before. This is the only one I will put through the duration of this story so here I go. I disclaim. As in all Harry Potter rights and characters do not belong to me, but all others do. Such as the OCs although they were inspired by some of my friends. Thankfully they don't read fanfiction, though otherwise I'd be shot. Also, this is where the M begins to kick in. Please note RJ's thoughts and Prongs' thoughts.
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James was sitting at his desk in the classroom reading a book, and heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," he called out, and in walked Lily. "Oh, hello Miss Evans, how may I help you," he said calmly as he stood.
"Oh... nothing much," he could see that she was nervous but not sure why. "I just... um, needed to t-talk to you,"
"Of course go ahead," he smiled at her.
"Well, oh I don't know where to start," he simply looked on encouragingly, and she continued, "I guess I'll just start from the beginning. Ever since the first time I saw on the train that day I haven't stopped thinking of you and I don't know what to do because it's totally inappropriate and I know that but I can't help it. Every time I see you I just want you so bad and-"
"Lily!" James said cutting her off, "I feel the same way." The look of relief and happiness on her face was too much for him. He stepped in front of her and began to lean down. He cupped her face with one hand, reveling in its softness, and held onto her waist with his other, guiding her even closer to him. His face was coming even closer to hers and she was bringing hers to his.
"James," she breathed, caution clear in her voice.
"Don't worry," he reassured her and pulled her body flush against his. They were both breathing shallow and gazing into the other's eyes. When their lips met, his eyes fell shut and heat rushed throughout James' body from his lips and everywhere Lily's body touched his. Her hands found their way into his hair and were combing through it pulling it.
Excited by her action, James turned them around and pushed her onto his desk with himself atop her, kissing her fiercely. She let her hands roam his hard body. The hand he had on her waist moved to her stomach, then up to fondle her breast through her school shirt. At this, she moaned a bit under his mouth. He loved that sound so much he could live off it, and he wanted more of it. He pushed his pelvis into hers, causing her to break the kiss to moan loudly. He let his other hand find her butt and pulled it into him.
"Oooh, James," she moaned as he began to kiss and suck down her neck.
"Oh Ja-ames," but in a different voice. 'Wait,' he thought to himself, 'Sirius?'
"Goddamn it man get up!" his best friend yelled at him.
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James opened his eyes to the faint sunlight peeking through his curtains. He looked to his bed side table and threw his glasses on his face. Unfortunately, it wasn't Lily's face he saw but the one of his best friend Sirius Black in one of their two-way mirrors.
"Okay man, you were the one who made me get up early to be sure you weren't late for class, and you're refusing to get up? This is not gonna fly with Moony, no siree," Sirius scolded.
"Shut up Pad I'm up," James muttered as he laid the mirror face down on the table.
"Oh hell the fuck no. Don't you put me down Potter, you listen to me..." Sirius continued to go on with his muffled chastisement.
During this time, James helped himself to get up, but noticed something. He had a full blown hard-on. 'Damn you Lily Evans. Looks like a cold shower this morning.'
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Lily was enjoying her breakfast of toast with peanut butter with her friends now joined by Emmilia Pisa, who was totally psychotic and hilarious and had shoulder length black hair.
"Lily what are you staring at?" she enquired suspiciously.
"What? Nothing," Lily said quickly. She realized that she was staring at Professor Potter.
"Someone has the hots for Mr. Potter, I believe," Emmilia said amusedly.
"No, no no no. Just observing," she knew that was probably the wrong thing to say at the moment.
"Oh. You mean observing his sexy body," she whispered fiercely
"No, just shut up, God, everyone will hear you,"
"What about him? Will he hear me? Should I go tell him how much you want his penis?" Emmilia nearly yelled across the table at her.
Lily threw herself across the table and clamped her hands over her friends mouth. Thankfully it seemed people were staring because of Lily's diving abilities instead of the outburst of "penis."
"Are you gonna say more?" Emmilia shook her head, "Are you lying to me?" Emmilia nodded, "Try again?" Emmilia shoulders dropped, but she shook her head, "Good, good girl," Lily said while petting her head, "Now let's to class."
"Well now, what have we here," she said pondering and looking at Lily's schedule, "First Period, Defense Against the Dark Arts. It's fate bringing you and your illegal lover together, Lily," Emmelia said trying to be profound.
"Or more like inevitable," Lily reasoned and snatched it out of her hands, "Let's go. I gotta go back to the tower to pick up a book I forgot."
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James had just finished his breakfast and saw Lily leave the Great Hall (not that he was watching her again or anything). He was tapping his leg nervously and running his fingers threw his hair.
No girl has ever made him feel this way. His heart skipped a bit every time he thought of her and when he was close to her he always felt the urge to reach out and touch her. He decided he needed to stop dwelling on his thoughts and get off to class.
"Break a leg, James," he heard Dumbledore call to him from the table.
"Thank you, sir."
Once in the classroom, James looked at his schedule. First period was 7th year Gryffindor and Ravenclaws. He quickly found his roster for the class, and of course saw Lily's name 6th on the list.
'Ok, I won't let this ruin my first class. I just need to brace myself,' James knew the moment he saw her he would totally lose his shit. He then pulled out the lesson plan for his first week that Remus had "helped" him with. It read,
"Take this time to asses their knowledge of advanced spell work, how comfortable they are with using non-verbal spells, and dueling. Suggestions for this:
1) quiz them (don't worry I wrote you one) "Oh thank God"
2) quiz verbally by going around the room (using written one as a guide)
3) line them up and have them perform a small variety of spells (either at target or you)
4) pair them up to duel
Homework: Read ch. 1-7 of Advanced Defenses for Severe Combat and a summary with emphasis on their favorite strategy illustrated."
James silently thanked Remus for how thorough he was. He didn't expect the students to show up for another 10 minutes, so he pulled out a crossword. They always helped him focus, and he needed to brace himself. In about 10 minutes, students began to file in. The slutty girls went to sit up front near Potter to bat their eyes at him, but he was completely invested in his crossword. That was until Lily came in flanked by her three friends. He immediately caught site of her in the corner of his eye and was surprised (but not entirely shocked) that he hadn't noticed anyone come in and shook himself out of his stupor.
When Lily entered her first class, she was talking to her friends about the latest gossip. Apparently Thomas Orpheus, the most gorgeous Gryffindor, had broken up with his girlfriend of 4 months and everyone thought they were going to last. She looked over at the professor and had to hold back a huge grin that was threatening to spill over her face. Her and her friends took the last few seats in the second row and a couple of the third. The desks were set up 3 desks, an aisle, 3 desks, for 4 rows.
"Hey Evans," Thomas Orpheus said smiling as he walked up to her and sat on the edge of her desk. Lily was a bit surprised. She didn't have too many conversations with him. Up close like this, Lily felt bad for his ex. He was super hot. Like any popular guy, he was a star Quidditch player, and he had honey blonde hair and warm brown eyes.
"Hey, what's up? Good summer?" Lily said trying to pull out her charm. She wouldn't mind having him on her arm.
"Yeah. The family and me went to Italy over the summer," he replied smoothly. Lily had always wanted to go there.
"Wow really..." they continued talking about their summers, while James watched from afar.
'What does he think he's doing? She's so not interested in that creep. He's trying way too hard,'
James kept thinking up insults and reasons why this guy was totally wrong for her. 'Blond. He's probably an idiot,' until he noticed the seats were almost full.
James coughed and started, "Class if you'll all be seated. That means you!" James yelled at lover boy even though he had started to walk to his seat. "Now before we begin, I see you've all gotten comfortable where you are, but don't. Sorry I know you all want to sit next to your friends and chat, believe me I know, but this is just until I get to know your names. I've never been good with them. It's alphabetical order so here we go." He called the names out and pointed to the desk. From his desk, it went from left to right in a snake shape through the rows. He got to the last name in the first row which was, "Evans, Lily." He looked up quickly after noticing what he said and smiled as she picked up her bag and walk quietly over to him. She smiled at him before sitting down.
"It's a pleasure to see you again, Lily," James was so shocked at how calmly he was speaking to her, considering last time he was a bumbling fool.
"You as well, Professor," she replied sweetly. James finished the seating and went back to the front of the class.
"Ok, well I'm Professor Potter. Your new teacher this year, clearly. Now, this is your last year, your last hoorah. This is your most important year because once you graduate your lives begin. You go out into the world, get jobs and generally live. I know this is probably hard for you to understand cause when you're 17 it's hard to see past Friday night. All you've known of life is school and learning here. But don't worry, you'll be learning forever, whether you can tell or not.
"So now, today will be pretty laid back, we're going to start off with a little quiz, please hold your groans until I'm done, it's very simple, almost insulting to your intelligence seeing as you are my NEWT class. So, I won't be expecting less than perfection on this little quiz and also everything else from here on out will be held by much higher standards, yes I'm aware you are all ecstatic," he ended sarcastically and passed out the quizzes. When he passed Lily, she smiled at him again and his heart skipped a beat as he returned it.
He sat back at his desk and mildly watched the students and intensely watched Lily, thinking about her smile as she wore a serene expression, flying through the quiz. She was the first to hand in her quiz.
"Any trouble, Lily?" James asked as placed the quiz on his desk.
"None at all," she said quietly, "Like you said, insulting to my intelligence," She smiled crookedly to him. Her heart was beating so fast as she looked at his amused face.
"Glad to hear it." Lily walked back to her desk, and soon everyone was finished. "Ok, so now in order for you to pay me back for quizzing you on your first day. I'm going to let you all throw curses at me." James laughed to himself as he saw his students go from excited to curious to puzzled. "Let me explain. I don't know any of you and so I need to get on that. So, as your teacher I need to get acquainted with how you duel. This is how I plan to do it. Everyone on either side of the class. Go."
The kids went to either the left or right of where he was. James then pushed the desks to the side also, with a wave of his wand. "Let's keep with the alphabetical theme to day so first victim is... Bullion, Charles." James watched as the boy walked toward him. "Go stand across from me by the back of the class and throw any legal non-capacitating curse at me and I'll deflect it. Unless of course you're quick enough," James finished.
Mr. Bullion was a hesitant shot, thus easily deflected. The couple of kids after him were pretty good but still easily defeated. And then came, "Evans, Lily," James watched her walk to her mark confidently. He took a deep breath, "Whenever you're ready." Lily was nervous. He had completely owned everyone who had gone up there. Lily realized that he didn't expect her to hit him. But she wanted to be the one who was able to. She looked at him, and immediately regretted it. She took a deep breath and fired. A hot pink stream left her wand which James deflected in the nick of time. It rebounded back at, almost hitting her, and she had to jump back. On instinct, she fired back at him and a bolt of navy blue electricity hit his leg with a distinct crack. James screamed from the pain of his breaking leg.
"Professor!" Lily yelled as she ran to him, trying to support his weight as he fell to the ground. "Oh my God! Professor, I'm so sorry I really didn't mean it! It was just a reflex!"
"Good reflexes," he murmured with a smile, while clutching his leg. At this point, the students came out of their shock and ran to him with similar cries of "Professor" "Are you ok?" "Would you like some help?"
"It's alright I've had worse just give me some air," he said to them, but didn't take his eyes off of Lily who was also watching him, eyes full of remorse. She began to pull away, "Not you. You can help me. Know any healing spells?"
"Uh, yes but not well enough for this. I'm SO sorry!" James just laughed at this. "I'll help you to the hospital wing though," James sobered at this.
"Oh no. Madame Pomfrey had enough of me during school. She'd be a bit upset to see me in there my first day back," James knew that, in fact, the woman would snap his other leg.
"Nonsense. This is my fault," Lily insisted.
"Oh no just-"
"You're going to the hospital wing!" she said sternly.
"Yes," he caved, "Well unfortunately, class dismissed for the day." Many of the girls however, stayed to see if they could help him there. "No please. Miss Evans is more than capable."
"Lily, you want us to wait?" Chloe asked.
"No, it's alright," she replied and wrapped her arm around James' waist helping him up. He put his arm around her shoulders and held close to her. Everyone was gone by now. "I am so sorry."
James laughed a bit, "Don't worry so much it wasn't entirely you're fault."
"Yes it was," she said quietly, trying to say it just to herself. James snickered a bit again. "You're good with pain," she commented seeing as he hardly flinched when he got up.
"Experience," he said simply.
"Ha! That sounds... excruciating."
"That's what I get for so much Quidditch." Lily just laughed at this and looked up at him. By now they were two corridors down from the DADA classroom. When Lily looked up at him, James noticed his face was about 8 inches away from hers. It was the closest he had ever been to her. She once again, caught him with her eyes and wouldn't let go. His easy smile faded to a determined stare.
Subconsciously, his face was leaning into hers and his arm fell around her waist. Lily saw him staring at her and wondered what he was thinking. They had stopped walking (well, hobbling) and James seemed to suddenly be a lot closer to her. 'Is he going to kiss me?' If his expression was any indication of that, he was. 'Wait this isn't right. Who would want to kiss me? Especially him.' His gaze was boring into her and she didn't want him to stop, but knew he had to. His hand tightened around her, while his face dropped more. Merely an inch from her face now. His eyes were getting heavier, and Lily couldn't help but let hers drop some. He was so close that she felt his breath on her upper lip. He was however breathing heavily because of their close proximity.
This is what triggered Lily's responsibility.
"Um... Professor?" Lily said quietly. James' eyes shot open at the unwelcome formality and reminder.
"Yes, Lily?"
"We should keep walking," she said simply.
"Yes," and they turned away from each other, but Prongs refused to move his arm from Lily's waist
no matter how much RJ ranted. They walked the rest of the way in silence.
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"Oh, for Merlin. James Potter! I thought I was done with you once you graduated," Madame Pomfrey screeched at him.
"It's lovely to see you too," James replied sweetly.
"It was all my fault!" Lily burst out.
"Don't worry Miss Evans, I'm sure he deserved it." Lily was about to retort, but Madame Pomfrey said, "You can go back to class I got it from here," and grabbed James by his arms, leading him to a nearby bed with surprising strength. Lily stayed though, as James was settled in, healed his leg with a spell and went to get something to clean it up.
"Once again I'm sorry," Lily apologized again.
"Me too," James said so only he could hear.
"What?"
"Nothing."
Lily hesitated, "Professor..."
"Yes, Lily?"
She took a quick breath and said, "Are you going to give me a detention?"
James chuckled, but then thought about it.
'No, Lily. You did nothing wrong.'
'Whoa not so fast dude. Imagine it.'
'The girl does not deserve it.'
'What about me?'
'What about you?'
'I deserve it.'
'What are you on about?'
'Come on. Me. Her. All alone in that classroom in the middle of the night, after curfew...'
'You disgust me,'
James decided on a compromise. 'I will give her one detention, but not let Prongs out of his box during it.' 'Who are you kidding?'
"I'm sorry, but yes. I know you did nothing wrong but it's my first week here and I can't let kids think they can go around beating me up," James ended with a chuckle.
"I understand completely," Lily said with the sweetest smile. That smile seemed to take away his entire vocabulary. "Well, I'll get going. With any luck you'll be in your next class," and as she walked towards the exit.
As he watched her walk away, that's when James knew. He knew what was going to happen and that it would. He could try to stop it, but it was inevitable, whether he liked it or not (although he was sure he would). And he was sure he wouldn't take in the consequences, until presented with them. The only question now, was when.
Blast!
A/N: Don't be review shy. They really encourage me. Also, if anyone picked up the Brad Paisley reference I love you forever. Also also, any suggestions again, don't be shy. I may or may not take them, but don't let that discourage you.
