Oh, wow, I remember writing this chapter... I apologize in advance for the last part... You will get to see a couple other characters, though, so that's cool. That's all I really have to say, I guess. Here's chapter 6!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter
"Hi, Remus," a glum voice said above the Marauder.
Remus looked up in surprise from his books as his fellow Prefect fell into a seat beside him at the library table he was currently occupying.
"Hi, Lily. What's going on?"
"Can I talk to you?" Lily asked, scrutinizing his face.
"Sure, I guess," he said, frowning a little.
"Why are your friends so annoying?"
Remus had to stifle his laughter for fear of being kicked out, "Honestly, I don't have any better of an answer than you. You could ask them, though."
Lily sighed and laid her head down on her folded arms, "I was afraid you would say that. James is avoiding me."
Remus gave the redhead a look between amusement and exasperation, "Well, you can't exactly expect him to be totally comfortable around you after yesterday."
"I know. . . ."
"Just give him some time, he'll come around and will be fawning over you by the end of the week."
Lily was silent, looking over Remus' papers from the corners of her eyes.
"Where is Sirius, anyway?" Remus asked, frowning and looking around. "He was supposed to meet me here. 'Course, he wouldn't actually do homework, so I suppose the point of him coming here would be moot, but he still said he would come."
It was Lily's turn to stifle laughter.
"What?" was Remus' confused reply.
Lily smirked, "Marlene dragged him off to a classroom after Transfiguration, but not before he was hanging upside down in the middle of the hall upon refusing to speak to her. We'll just have to wait and see how that goes."
Remus grinned.
Now that she had Sirius alone, Marlene realised that she had no idea what she was going to say. That, of course, never made for good conversation, and she unfortunately jumped at the first thing that came to mind.
"Why have you been avoiding me all day?" Marlene asked as she folded her arms.
"I . . . I haven't been avoiding you, I just haven't noticed you've been trying to get my attention."
Marlene glared, "That's bull and you know it. Now answer the question truthfully."
Sirius ran a weary hand down his face and walked over to the nearest desk, sitting down before speaking again, "What could we possibly have to talk about? You broke off the date and seeing as how mad you were last night, I thought you were never going to speak to me again."
"Yes, well, if you hadn't avoided me for so long, you would have known earlier that I was planning on asking if the date could be . . . unbroken. I wasn't even going to complain about it being a double date."
For the first time in his life, Sirius was speechless for several long minutes. Finally, "Wait, what?" came out of his lips.
Snape had watched the Lily-Potter interaction at the end of Transfigurations with a mix of surprise and jealousy, for Lily was quite obviously not as opposed to Potter as she had once been. He was now sitting in his dorm only half concentrating on his Potions homework, his mind wandering to times long past and future plans no longer possible.
He could no longer deny that he missed Lily. Missed her more than missing Hogwarts during the summer months. They had been through so many years together, he and Lily, and it felt . . . odd . . . to not be walking through the halls with her between classes or doing his homework with her in the library. While he knew that there was no way he was going to be able to win her back at this point, his blood boiled at the thought that Potter might still be able to win her. It wasn't as if the Gryffindor had been there all of the time Petunia had made Lily cry the way Snape had been.
So basically, Potter didn't have any sort of right to Lily and certainly no where near the rights Snape had. Or used to have, anyway.
All of the anger suddenly gone from Snape's body, he let his face collapse into his hands and sighed, rubbing his tired eyes.
"What's up with you, Snape?"
Macnair's voice brought the Slytherin back to the present.
"Nothing, just this stupid homework. I mean, the only reason Slughorn assigned it is because two people in the class didn't understand what they were doing. Bloody idiots shouldn't even be in that class."
And with that, Snape cast the thoughts of Lily and Potter as far back into his mind as he possibly could in the hope of finishing his essay. Unfortunately for him, it was not nearly far enough back.
"What do you think is going on with Lily? She's acting differently," Dorcas asked Mary, looking over at where Lily and Remus were together, as the two lounged in the library.
"What do you mean?" Mary asked.
"I mentioned something about James to her earlier and she just went all funny, like she was hiding something or I had accused her of something."
The librarian shushed them and Dorcas glared at her when her back was turned.
Mary sat up and leaned back against her chair, "I noticed that, but I doubt she slept well in that chair last night."
"True. . . . What do you think was actually said in the Marauder's room?"
"Hell if I know, but let me know if you find out."
James paced up and down his dorm room in front of where Peter was sitting on one of the beds.
"And I just ran! I never run from girls!" the black-haired boy concluded.
"Well, so be fair, you don't consider Lily just any girl," Peter replied, watching James' moving figure.
James stopped and faced his roommate, "Peter, I need to be getting over her."
Peter shrugged, "Maybe you'll just never get over her."
James walked over to the bed and fell back on it, but a moment later he was up and pacing again.
"And where are Sirius and Remus? They should be here! I'm having a midlife crisis here!"
"Prongs, you are not middle-aged yet, so you can't be having a midlife crisis."
"You don't know that. With all of this uncertainty surrounding You-Know-Who, I might only live to be 34, which would make this the middle of my life."
Peter rolled his eyes, "Please, if anyone is going to survive You-Know-Who, it's going to be you."
James smirked a little, "Thanks, Wormtail."
So...hi. You know what? I'm just going to apologize for this whole chapter because it was late when I wrote it and when I write past midnight, I have no filter and will write a lot of jokes that just make you sob because JILY! Just ask Haley; I left a note on the document to apologize. I have to say, though, I did a pretty good job considering I didn't go back and edit until just now and I only had to make one or two changes.
Just to clarify, they are in the end of their 6th year, but because James's birthday has already happened by this point, he is 17, which is why he would die at 34 to make this a midlife crisis. Yeah.
Okay, again, reviews are amazing and I do reply, even if it takes me a long time, but I think I'm all caught up on replying now so I will do so now and hope I will be better about it. It can be as short or as long as you want and I love improving my writing, so send on in the constructive criticism. I would love to answer any questions you have to help clarify or add onto anything else.
And (hopefully) Haley's account will be up and running again this Thursday and she will put the 7th chapter there, along with adding the 5th. If not, I guess I'll just put it on my account again.
Until next time!
-Katherine
