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Fighting for Desired Love

CHAPTER IV: A Plan Turns Direction

JAMES

I must think of something. Maybe I should teach Severus a lesson for trying to steal her…That seems both fun and the perfect way to scare him away from my beautiful red head girlfriend…well soon to be. I could feel the wicked smile growing on my face.

Madam Pomfrey then walked into the very occupied infirmary. "Well I finally found that skelegrow. Had to go to three pharmacies. Can you believe that? Boy, they really need to restock on their supplies. So how has Ms. Evans been? Seems as though she still hasn't awoken."

"Actually," I said, "she woke up while you were out. I explained the whole story to her. She went to sleep after that."

"Well, did she look fine? Did you give her anything to eat?"

"Yes. I gave her some water. She was having a hard time lifting her head and sitting up."

"Okay, those are normal symptoms. She's probably still very lightheaded."

"Yes," I said I wanted to leave now, I already had a whole plan to harass Severus forming in my head. I had to get to the shrieking shack pronto. What time was it? Er-nearly six. I had to get to Wormtail, Padfoot, and Moony before it would be too late for my plan to succeed. "Er-Madam Pomfrey? Is it alright that I leave now? Lily already woke up and I'm gonna have to find out the work I have to complete, after missing those classes while I was here."

"Yes, James. You may go. You've done a lot for me today. Thank you."

"No problem," I said walking out the door. Actually more like running. I had to get the Shrieking Shack, they should already be there. I ran down the stairs three at a time, at full speed, it felt as though I had already changed into my stag form. There was the Womping Willow, and now I really did have to change into my stag form.

Now I was a stag. I galloped into the small hole of an entrance and switched back immediately. "Hey? Sirius? Peter? Remus? You there?" I yelled awaiting an answer.

"Sirius and Peter are," I heard Sirius' voice yell back.

"Hold on," I replied. "I'm almost up."

I ran up the stairs to meet my friends, who were upstairs awaiting my arrival. I reached the door that opened to the room we always would use in times when we would meet like this. I opened it and there they were sitting on the couch in the corner of the small room.

"Hey Prongs," Peter and Sirius said together.

"Hi…er-where's Remus?"

"He's probably getting ready for his date tonight. You won't believe who he's going out with tonight."

"Who?" I heard myself saying, curiosity loudly heard in my voice.

"Oh, it's nothing special, just my Metamorphmagus cousin," Sirius said playfully.

"Huh? You've got to be kidding me. How had you not noticed her before? I didn't even know you had a Metamorphmagus cousin."

"Well I do," Sirius replied. "Must I explain to everyone that she is a Metamorphmagus. I didn't notice her because she's changing too much for me to ever know what she looks like at the present time. The thing is she's in her third year."

I tried to hide my laugh, but was unsuccessful. I laughed and laughed even as I spoke, "Remus and Sirius' third year cousin. This will be fun to watch."

"Indeed it will," Sirius said. "How has Lily been?"

"Oh she woke up and still hates me," I said realizing why I was here in the first place. "But, I have a small plan of harassment to carry out and I was wondering if you would help me."

"Of course," Sirius said, "That's my specialty. But…who are we going to aggravate? I hope this is a good plan."

"It's for Snape."

"Oh! That will be amusing," Sirius said laughing.

"What's your plan?" Peter chimed in.

"My plan goes like this…" I told them and they agreed that it was a good plan. They knew as well as I did that Severus liked Lily very much and they felt I deserved her much more than he did.

The plan was to be put into action immediately. Lily may not be too happy with what the three of us would be doing to Severus, but it had to be done to get him away from her.

"Okay let's get started. Do any of you have a piece of parchment?"

"Here I have one," Peter said.

"Thanks Wormtail."

I took out my wand and it began to write on the piece of parchment. It matched Lily's handwriting perfectly.

Dear Severus,

I must speak to you tonight. Meet me out at the courtyard at eight. My friends and I want to tell you something.

Love,

Lily

"Good," I said looking down at the parchment.

"Ya," Sirius said, "It looks exactly the same. Perfect match."

"Okay let's get those Zonko's pellet bombs."

"You know Remus would really disagree with this. He'd probably stop this whole thing from happening," Sirius said going to the other end of the room to get the disgusting pellet bombs.

"Well he's not here is he? So are we clear on the plan?" I said confidently, but I couldn't help feeling guilty for what we were about to do to Lily's best friend.

"Delma! Delma!" I yelled for my owl. Soon enough a large darkly speckled owl came swooping into the room. She was out of breath, I had forgotten that we were in the Shrieking Shack. She must have been scared to death by the Womping Willow. It must have tried to attack her and surely she had been injured by the Womping Willow's large branches. I immediately felt very sorry for the fact that I had called her while I was in here. I should have been known better. Her wing was twitching.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Delma! I forgot! You'll have to stay here for a bit. You'll need to be taken care of till your wing get's better."

"Very smart James," Sirius said chuckling.

"Shut up. I had forgotten that we were in here. Well…how are we going to carry out the plan when I should be taking care of him."

"I'll do it James. I rather love your old owl here. I'll take care of her, you two can go on without me. I don't mind."

"Are you sure, Peter?" I said and he nodded back at me. "Well…thanks loads. I appreciate it." I turned to Sirius, "We should probably leave and use your owl. It's getting close to seven, we don't have too much time."

"Alright let's go," Sirius said to me and then turned back to Peter, "See you later Peter," he finished as I picked up the pellet bombs from Zonko's joke shop.

"Ya. See you," Peter answered.

Sirius and I ran down to the very bottom of the stairs with the fake letter from Lily and the pellet bombs. Sirius and I, as Animagus', switched into our animal forms. I into a stag and Sirius into that very large black dog. We ran swiftly away from the Womping Willow and turned back to human form before anybody was able to see.

"Come on James," Sirius called over his shoulder to me. "We have to go to the tower where all the owls are."

"I know, I know. Unfortunately I'm not as fast as you Prongs. Every now and then a normal person would need to take a little break," I said back and he stopped and smiled his taunting smile.

I panted a bit and Sirius just watched me. He was my best friend, but still this was a tad embarrassing. Sirius usually got more exercise than I did, this just convinced me that I should be getting as much exercise as he did to save myself from embarrassment. "Okay," I said still a little breathless. "I think I can climb up the tower now."

"Good. Let's get going then."

We climbed the steps together, Sirius always a little ahead of me. The steps seemed longer than they usually were and it almost seemed unbearable to walk up the steps at Sirius' pace. We eventually reached the top and Sirius continued to smile tauntingly and I groaned.

"Velmie! Velmie! There you are. Here you go, deliver this to Severus Snape immediately. Thank you, Velmie," Sirius said and then turned around to face me. "Come on let's go. We should wait in the courtyard for Snape to come. I'm glad you've thought of this, this will be the best joke we've ever played on him yet," and he smiled approvingly of my plan now.

I couldn't help feeling guilty. This would be the cruelest of all the tricks we have ever done to Severus, but I felt it needed to be done. Severus wouldn't leave Lily alone, yet neither did I. I had this strong urge to call off the plan at this very instant, but refrained from doing so, for Sirius would think me cowardly.

We did not run to the courtyard as we had to the tower where they owls lived for we still had some time before Severus should be here. When we reached the courtyard it was completely empty as we had expected. Sirius and I hid behind a large tree just off the courtyard. I looked down at my watch and saw that it was a minute after eight, I thought that surely Snape would have been here early to see Lily, but apparently not because he was not present.

Another minute passed and another and another. Where was he? Just then I saw a shadow of somebody coming toward the middle of the courtyard.

"Lily?" he called. "Lily? Where are you?"

Sirius looked at me and my urge not to do this was so overpowering I had to say something. "Sirius, I'm having second thoughts. I don't think we should do this. I think I made a mistake in thinking up such a cruel thing to a person. We can't do it, we just can't!"

"Rubbish! It's a brilliant plan, James. We have to go on with it, he'll leave soon if we don't. Give me one of those pellets so I can pelt it at him."

"No don't Sirius. Let's just go," I said and he wrenched one out of my hand and got ready to throw it at Severus. I jumped up and got in front of Severus before Sirius could notice and the pellet hit me. "Leave Snape. Go before he hits you with one," I whispered to him, and he stared at me for a moment. Sirius hit another one at me and still had noticed that he was pelting his best friend instead of Severus. This pellet hit me right in the gut. Severus looked at Sirius in the darkness and back at me and ran away back to the Slytherin common room in the dungeons, I expected. "Sirius you're not hitting Snape. You're hitting me," I yelled to Sirius. He looked up and would see that it was my tall outlining of a body and not that of Snape's.

"You ruined your own freakin' plan, James," he said and you could hear the anger in his voice. And in his anger he threw another pellet from Zonko's at me. "You stupid. Why didn't you do it? We hate Snape, and he hates us. I thought we had all established that."

"I just couldn't. It's not worth it. Those things hurt and they really do smell. He's Lily's best friend and I thought now that it wouldn't be good if I really do want her to be mine. Sirius, whether I hate him or not I'm never going to bother him again. You go ahead, but I will not."

Sirius only looked at me.

"Okay," he said and nodded a bit glumly. I think he rather enjoyed tormenting Snape, however I would not and could not. I knew deep down that it had been wrong all along. I had a lot to make up for.

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