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Chapter Two

Lily bounded from the compartment, a smile adoring her face as she wrapped her arms around a tall and lanky boy with greasy black hair that hung below his shoulders. The cubicle door closed behind her and she exclaimed, "Sev!"

Severus Snape smiled for the first time in months. Whenever he was around Lily Evan he could do nothing but smile and it was the only time he really could. His friends, Avery and Mulciber, laughed but only when they were hexing and using Dark Magic. It was a nice change to smile and it felt even more wonderful to smile in the presence of Lily Evans.

"Hey Lil, I didn't see you when we were boarding and I thought I'd come and find you." He smiled once more. He loved the way that he couldn't stop smiling around her. "It's tradition."

"Oh yeah! So sorry about that I met up with Emmeline Vance and I supposed you were going to be with Mulciber and Avery." Severus did not fail to notice the degusted expression that played upon her beautiful face at the mention of his friends. "I don't know why you're friends with them Sev. I don't like them. They're horrid to poor Mary Macdonald and she never did anything to them and-"

"It's all just good fun, and enough about them. Come on," he grabbed her arm gently and pulled her forward towards an open compartment a little ahead of them. "It's tradition."

"Wait Sev," Lily said, digging her heels into the floor of the train. "Wait Sev, I should go tell my friends that I'm coming with you." Severus released her arm reluctantly and watched as she flounced back into the compartment she just recently vacated.

"Oh my God, Lilly guess- Lily what are you doing?" Marlene asked quickly as Lily reached up and grabbed a small change purse and bag of muggle candy from her trunk and turned once more to leave.

"Oh!" Lily turned around to face her wonderful Gryffindor friends and smiled. "I'm going to sit with Severus for a while. Okay. I'll see you guys later!"

"Oi!" bellowed Sirius just as the red head reached for the handle to the compartment to once again leave her friends. Lily whirled around and looked at the angered and confused faces of her friends. James, Sirius, Emmeline and Marlene looked furious whilst Remus and Dorcas were looking rather confused as to why Lily would want to set with 'that Slytherin' Severus Snape. Peter looked indifferent as his rather chubby hands toyed with his wand.

"What?" Lily asked glancing from face to face.

"You're not seriously going to sit with Snivellus, are you?" James spat. Lily knew that the feud between her best friend and the annoyance of her childhood was larger than anyone could imagine but she did not know that what James was really angry about what that she was abandoning him for Snape.

"Why should you care where I sit and where I don't, Potter." Lily fought back. "It's none of your business who I'm friends with."

"He's a bloody prat!" James and Sirius roared in unison both standing.

"Lily," Emmeline budded in for the first time, "why do you even waste your time with him? He's so rude to everyone and-"

Suddenly everyone had their insults to say and they were all being thrown at once in Lily's direction before she screamed, "Quiet! All of you!" He hands were shaking in anger and her emerald eyes were blazing with fury. No one insulted her friends and Severus was no different.

"Severus is my friend and I am going to sit with him for a while. I said I would be back later, alright?" With that she threw open the compartment door and slammed it shut behind her, her hands still trembling.

Snape was not deaf. He had heard everything they had said in the compartment. Lily had stood up for him for years and still to this day it didn't cease to amaze him how she really did look out for him. As if reading her thoughts, Lily looked up and the fury which had been on her face moments before melted away at the sight of her dear friend. She smiled before saying, "Let's go."


Lily bit down upon a gummy worm and tore a piece off with her teeth and she asked, "How is everything at your house? Are they getting along better?"

Snape shook his head solemnly and he tore into a bar of chocolate. "No everything is getting worse actually. They never stop fighting and I think they're getting a divorce."

"Oh Sev! I'm so sorry!" Lily exclaimed, moved closer to him and hugged him gently. He closed his eyes and not because he cared about his parents separation. God only knew how much he wanted them to divorce so that they could stop fighting. No, he closed his eyes and took in the scent of Lily's shimmering red hair; apples and cinnamon.

He shrugged as Lily sat back in her comfortable seat once more, sitting on her legs. "At least they'll stop bickering." The corners of Snape's lips curved up a centimeter.

"I suppose so but aren't-"

The compartment door suddenly flew open to reveal Avery and Mulciber. Disgust crossed Lily's face and it seemed to mirror in the aspiring Death Eater's faces before her. Mulciber opened his mouth to utter 'Hello mudblood' but thought better of it considering the last time he and Avery insulted Snape's precious Lily Evans they had both been hexed without mercy for hours and hours on end. "Evans."

"Mulciber." Lily spat back.

"Come on Severus, we've things to do." Avery's deep voice sounded for the first time and the pair turned to leave.

"I'm staying with-" Snape began but was quickly cut off.

"No Sev, its fine. I have to get back anyway." Lily handed him the package of candy which had been sitting on her lap and pushed angrily passed Mulciber and Avery not noticing the hurt look upon Severus' face as she did so.

Lily could not fathom how Severus was friends with those two. They were evil and maniacal and every other horrid thing in the book. How could her sweet best friend Severus get caught up with those evil twits?

There was no more time to contemplate over her friend's companions, for she once again reached the Gryffindor compartment and opened the door gently. All conversation stopped once she entered the rather large cubicle and she was instantly met with an icy silence. Lily rolled her eyes, "Why do you all hate it so much?"

"Let me take out my handy dandy notebook of infinite amounts of reasons, Lily." Sirius said chewing on a chocolate frog.

"Let's face it Lil," Emmeline said, a sting in her voice. "Everyone knows why he hangs around with Mulciber and Avery except you because you don't want to face the facts. Severus Snape is an aspiring Death Eater. I mean seriously Lily; have you seen what kind of magic the kid does? He creates his own spells for God's sake! I saw him writing in his potions book the other day messing with the ingredients and stuff…"

"Yeah," Dorcas quipped in. "It's really scary what he does to people when he gets angry Lily. I heard from Josephine DuBois in Ravenclaw that she once saw him curse the crap out of Goyle because he insulted him…"

"So basically he's a bloody good for nothing, worthless arrogant nutcase, scum of the earth, greasy haired git who should go jump off a bridge." Hissed James Potter who had found himself sitting next to her. "I despise him and I don't want you around him anymore."

"Oh! Youdon't want me around him? Is that it, Potter? Well in case you didn't know, youare not my guardian nor can you tell me what to do!"

"Hey look, Evans!" James temper was flaring. He found the sudden urge to protect her rather than insult her. "I'm just trying to help you!"

"You can help me by not budding in." Lily spat, sheer loathing in her emerald eyes. "Since when do you ever want to help me anyway unless it's for a bet?" James went to open his mouth to protest but he was instantly cut off, "As for the rest of you. Severus is not, I believe an aspiring Death Eater and I think I would know considering I have been friends with him since I was a child! I don't want to hear you guys speak about him like that either, he's really nice and I would appreciate it if you did not insult him to my face!" Lily suddenly realized she was gritting her teeth together and she quickly unclenched her jaw as the lady with the trolley came around and offered up sweets to the group.

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