A.N. Sorry for the wait, I was in London for my birthday. Big eye-opener for a girl who's lived her whole life in a village. Not even a big village. We have a postbox. That's basically it.

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Lily collapsed on her bed and screamed into her pillow. At least it was over and done with now, and they'd stop tormenting Severus. She jerked in realisation she was meant to meet him. She tiptoed back down the stairs, waited until the common room was silent, and sneaked out to their tree by the lake. Severus was waiting there for her, moodily skipping stones across the water and glowering as if the world had done him some great personal insult. She coughed to alert him of her presence. He looked up, alarmed, but grinned when he saw it was her and rushed over, grabbing her in a delighted hug.

'How was it, Lily?' he asked after he had let go of her. 'Horrible. Worse. He ordered for me at the restaurant, he bought me strawberry ice-cream, he wouldn't let me go swimming, and snogged me without my permission' she complained. Severus looked furious. 'Sick bastard. What does he think, you're just some pretty ornament? How the hell is he supposed to know what you wanted to eat? And how DARE he…wait, that was your first kiss, wasn't it?' he asked, horrified. Lily nodded miserably.

'Oh, Lily, I'm sorry' he said, sounding genuinely apologetic but looking fit to kill. 'It's not your fault' she sighed 'I chose to do it. You tried to stop me. I knew what I was getting myself in for'. Severus didn't look any happier. 'Come on, let me make it up to you. Name it' he persisted. Lily looked at the dark lake thoughtfully. 'Come swimming with me' she said after a few moments. Severus shrugged 'Sure. I'll summon a boat'. He did so and rowed the pair of them out to the middle of the lake, inky black in the moonlight.

Lily stripped down to her underwear for the second time that day, and dived in from the side of the boat. She took a sharp intake of breath at the cold as her head broke the surface, and got splashed by Severus joining her. 'Oh, I'm going to get you for that' she growled. Severus grinned and took a surface dive, pulling himself deeper and deeper below the black water. Lily followed, darting through the lake after him, laughing and screaming as he splashed her. After an hour or so, she called a truce and they clambered, shivering, back into the boat.

Lily was staring contemplatively at him. Severus glanced at her and blushed. The water had caused her white underwear to stop affording her the necessary covering. He coughed and looked away. 'I've been thinking, Sev' Lily announced. 'That's good' he said vaguely 'Well done'. 'I've been thinking about Potter' she clarified. A stone dropped through Severus' stomach. 'About how he was my first kiss and all' she continued. Severus waited, his shoulders tensed, for what he expected to be a very painful blow.

'I don't want to risk that sort of thing happening again' she said, smiling shyly, her long red hair dripping water onto her chest. Severus snapped his head towards her. 'What…what do you mean?' he managed. Lily rolled her eyes. 'It's perfectly simple, Sev. You know I love you, right?' he nodded. They often said that to each other, though neither had ever said in what way, exactly. 'Well, let's put it this way, there's no-one else I'd kiss Potter for. So I'm clearing up the rest of my firsts. With you' she said, calmly unhooking her bra and dropping into the water, where it sank without a trace.

He stared at her. She was lying back in the little boat, her hair just covering her nipples, squirming out of her knickers. He swallowed nervously. 'You're…you're sure? Lily, I'm not having you regret anything tomorrow, it'd kill me. Or Potter would, at least. I'd rather just wait until you're not being impulsive'. Lily laughed. 'Well, wait forever, then, Sev. But I'd rather you didn't. You're fun and smart and bloody gorgeous.' He looked at her sceptically.

Lily laughed at his expression. 'Why is it so difficult for you to believe? I. Want. You'. Severus stared at her open mouth, her uncovered breasts, her smooth white skin. He looked at his own body, paler than ever in the moonlight, slender and marred by scarring. He shook his head. 'You don't mean that. You're drunk, or something. Come on, I'm taking you back' he reached for the oars, but Lily shoved them far out to the lake. Severus realised he had left his wand back on the shore. 'I'm not drunk. Potter ordered red' she sighed. Severus looked surprised 'Not rosé? Poor thing, you must be devastated'. Lily laughed. 'Stupid git doesn't have the slightest idea what I want' she rolled her eyes. 'Nor, it seems, do you'.

'You always have to win, don't you?' he asked, raising an eyebrow. Lily grinned. 'What makes you think this is any exception?'. She stuck her hand in his long wet hair, dragging his lips down to meet hers. It was clumsy and awkward, but it felt like a strong current had been passed through her body, resting between her legs. Her pulse raced. Potter had been skilful; Severus was sincere.

Severus collapsed and fell onto her with such force the boat rocked drunkenly. Lily crowed with glee. When the boat had stopped bouncing, she slipped her thumbs under his boxers and removed them with some difficulty. 'See' she said delightedly 'You want me too'. Severus guiltily tried to suppress his erection, but lost coherent thought when she guided one of his delicate hands to her chest. He swept her hair back, revealing a soft pair of breasts, covered in goosebumps from the icy water. He tentatively began to stroke one. The skin around the nipple was almost inhumanly soft. She shuddered, the ghost of a smile gracing her lips.

Her nipples were already erect due to the effect of the freezing water and the night, and pressed into his chest as his head was pulled down for another kiss. Lily wrapped her thighs around Severus' hips. Severus looked uncertain. 'Lily, are you sure…?' she cut him off. 'Don't act stupid, Sev, it was always going to be you. It was just a question of when and where' she chided, wriggling under his weight. She kissed him softly before allowing Severus to rise to his knees. 'God, I love you, Lily' he murmured honestly. She grinned 'I know.' His eyes never leaving hers, he moved his hips forwards and slid into her, eliciting a groan from the redhead. Severus bit his lip, trying very hard not to come then and there at the heat and pressure around his cock. He could feel her pulsing around him. Lily cried out as he broke her barrier. 'Shit, that hurt, Sev' she moaned. He stilled, horrified he had harmed her. Lily stuck a hand into his hair and clenched it in pain, but looked at him defiantly 'I didn't say stop'.

He managed to brace himself, pulling out of her unwillingly and thrusting as gently as he could, over and over again, the wave of pleasure building up until he could no longer stand it, and he released himself deep inside her. He lay on top of her, panting, her fingernails gripping his arse almost painfully. He made to raise himself off her, but she growled 'Not yet. Can't we stay like this for a bit?'. He obliged, feeling her stretched walls closing slowly around his soft dick. It was in a weird way closer than when they had been shaggi…no, he corrected himself, this was Lily. It had been making love.

Lily stared up at him, a strange smile on her lips. She lifted her head up for a kiss, stroked his face tenderly, then threw herself sideways. The boat capsized and they broke apart in the chilly water. Lily was laughing hysterically 'That takes care of the shower' she said happily swimming for the shore. Severus smiled and followed. They found where they had abandoned their clothes a few hours before, and dressed in beautiful silence. 'This is so weird, Sev' giggled Lily, zipping up her skirt 'I can still feel you inside me. I'm all warm'. Severus stared back at the sky, lit by a million tiny pinpricks of light, and thanked all the gods for letting him have Lily. He had never expected to feel love like this. He had never thought he deserved it.

Nothing could have wiped the smile off his lips that day. They lay on the earthy ground beneath the tree, Lily's head in the crook of his shoulder and his arms around her until the white light of dawn spilled over the horizon and they were forced to steal back to their respective dormitories. Lily threw her damp clothes into a pile in the corner of her room, and, grinning to herself, slipped into Severus' shirt to sleep.


A.N. Whew, my terrible attempt at smut. Now, I know some of you will be disappointed she didn't enjoy it on anything but an emotional level, but I was trying to keep it realistic. I didn't want to use the word 'member'. I didn't want to have him lasting three hours. I didn't want her to come six times. Girls don't orgasm first time. It just doesn't happen. It was awkward and painful and clumsy and inexperienced, just like a first time should be.