A/n Hello again everyone, and sorry again for the long waits between updates, it's just with it being summer and everything, I've just been to lazy to do anything but watch tv and sleep. Anyway here's the chapter (I like this one):

We walked out of the pub, both silent. I got the feeling that the two of us were doing this for very different reasons. I think James was simply curious, wheras I actually cared about Sev. I didn't want him to be getting into too much trouble.

When I had heard the rumours of him becoming a death eater, I hadn't believed them for a second, but as time went on I found myself getting less and less certain. I hadn't seen him around school, during anything but classes for what felt like ages, he didn't seem to spend as much time with the other Slytherins as he used to for a while after we stopped being friends.

It just wasn't like Sev though, he had told me how much he had hated prejudice towards muggle borns. Either he had changed, a lot, or he had told me lies for the past ten years. I wasn't sure which one it was.

I knew that he didn't mean it, when he called me a mudblood. I didn't at the time but I did now. I don't know why he said it, I guess he was feeling defensive, but I'll never know.

I'd of forgiven him if he wanted my forgiveness, but I didn't think that things were ever going to be the same between the two of us again.

James was scanning the horizon for any sign of Zeke. Hogsmeade was pretty busy, due to all of the students from Hogwarts, so it was pretty difficult to find Zeke in the crowd. "I say we go back to school," I started, "It's too early for anyone else to be going back yet, so it'll be easier to spot him, and that's probably what I would do if I were Zeke."

James looked at me, then nodded in agreement. "So uh... Lily, I don't mean to be nosy, but why are you doing this? I thought that you and Snape aren't what you would call, close anymore, I'm surprised you still care about him"

"Who said I did?" I answered a little too quick "But if there are death eaters at our school, I want to know"

James gave me a look, that told me that he didn't believe me, but he didn't argue.

Why did I care anyway? It's not like he cared about me anymore. Either way, I was curious to what was going on, and it would give James and I, stuff to do and talk about. Before I brought Sev up, the date was going badly. Very badly.

As we walked along the long pathway back to Hogwarts, I found my thoughts drifting to Sev. I missed him, Peggy was amazing, but, well she just wasn't Sev. She never made me laugh like he did, though most of the time, it wasn't on purpose.

"What are you smiling at?" James asked teasingly. I looked up, blushing, "I was just...remembering." I smiled again. James looked down, now he was blushing, he had obviously taken it the wrong way, but then, he would. I considered explaining, but quickly decided not to, he probably didn't want to hear anyway.

I went back to my thoughts. Sev and I were sitting by the lake, on an unusually warm and sunny day. He was lying on the grass, reading Hogwarts: a History, for the hundred and umpteenth time, and I was sitting up, talking to him.

"Peggy's got another crush" I announced. Sev was like my diary, anything I knew, he knew. Unfortunately, this didn't work the other way around, I never found out a thing about his life in the Slytherin dungeons.

He groaned, I giggled "Lily, seriously, I don't want to spend another Saturday afternoon, discussing the potential attractiveness of Noah Rigsbee" I laughed again.

"Awwwww, come on Sev, you're always spoil my fun. Plus, you'll enjoy talking about this one way more than plain old Noah Rigsbee" He sighed "Go on"

"She's decided that James Potter is her new destiny" He sat up so fast, that I swore I heard a whoosh, and said in an almost whisper "And what do you think? Of Potter, I mean"

"Oh, he's so not my type" I said, in my best Peggy voice. He smiled, it seemed more in relief, than anything else, "So, what exactly is your type?" he asked again, in yet another super quiet voice. Was he-? No, he couldn't possibly be- I glanced up, to look at the smirk on his face- he was! Severus Snape was flirting! With me! Well two could play at that game.

"I'm more into the mysterious, bad-boy type" he looked at me, and then laughed out loud.

"What?" I said, slightly offended

"Lily Evans, that is the biggest lie you have ever told, you, my friend, are a Gryffindor girl through and through."

"And?"

"And you don't get mysterious bad-boys in Gryffindor, you get loud mouthed, pompous toddlers like Potter."

"Noah Rigsbee isn't a pompous toddler," I pointed out

"He isn't a mysterious bad-boy either," Severus said cleverly, I opened my mouth to say something, but Sev beat me to it

"Can we please talk about something else? I thought I'd just told you, that I didn't want to spend this afternoon, talking about the potential attractiveness of Noah Rigsbee" I laughed.

When I found myself back in reality, we were already at Hogwarts, and I promised myself that I wouldn't let my thoughts and memories interrupt this date anymore, we'd spent enough time in silence. "I think we have a problem" James started "He's probably gone to the Slytherin dungeons, that's what I would do, I mean, if I was in Slytherin".

I thought about this for a second, and then shook my head "I wouldn't, he was obviously freaked out, I think he'd want to be alone, to be able to think."

"Jeez Lily, Hogwarts is a big place, there are a thousand and one different places where he could be alone in the castle, not to mention, the grounds"

"We better get searching then" I said enthusiastically.

"What if we find him?" said James, we'd only been searching for about half an hour, but he was already getting bored, Merlin, did the boy have any patience? We were currently on our way to astronomy tower, it had been his idea to search there, it was a good idea, he would be good at this, if he cared for long enough to actually find anything.

"What do you mean, what if we find him? That is the aim of us being here" I said, trying very hard not to sound annoyed.

"I mean, what are we going to do, if he's doing what you think he's doing, then he's going to be sat alone thinking, that's not going to help us much." As much as I hated to admit it, he had a point. "We could talk to him, ask him what happened at the pub"

"And, he'll just tell us? This guy's in Slytherin, not Hufflepuff Lily, he's not going to say a word"

"Then why don't you suggest something?" He looked troubled for a moment, as if he was deciding what to do, then he opened his mouth to speak. "Lily, there's something else, something I didn't mention earlier, this morning, I saw Snape in a potions classroom"

"What was he doing? Why didn't you say before?"

"Look, I wasn't sure what I saw, I'm still not, I didn't want to say anything, because I didn't know if it was something to worry about or not."

"What could he have been doing?" I wondered out loud.

"Lily, he was probably just practicing, I find it hard to believe that you-know-who, would have put a teenager, in charge of making potions"

"I don't know, Sev is pretty good at potions."

"What did you just call him?"

"Sev? What?"

"He's not your best friend anymore,Lily, he's a bloody death eater" James had stopped walking and was looking at me as if I had just sworn my allegiance to Voldermort himself.

"Sorry" I mumbled "It was just out of habit"

We started walking again. "I can't believe you were ever friends with that idiot anyway"

"James, I'm sorry, but Severus was my best friend and I loved him, I still do, in a way, and this really isn't something I want to talk about, so we can either find something else to talk about, or we forget about finding Zeke."

He looked at me, out of the corner of his eyes. "I'm sorry" he whispered.

" 'pology accepted" We continued walking in silence. We arrived at the bottom of the Astronomy tower and started climbing the staircase. Behind me, I could hear James dragging his feet and clanging them onto the metal stairs. I viciously turned around at put my finger to my lips, whilst glaring at him, to tell to shut the hell up.

I could hear the murmur of a conversation above us and I was hopeful. We stopped on the landing below the top of the tower to listen.

"Aimee, I'm not saying we have to leave, we just have to be careful about who we're seen with."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Aimee, they're recruiting people, Snape's already one of them and Drew's on the way there, they're after me and it won't be long before they start asking you"

"So? We'll just say no and leave it at that"

"Aimee, I don't think you understand, we can't just leave it at that, we have to choose what side we're on and we have to do it soon." "You're starting to sound like dad, seriously, we're only teenagers," "No, Aimee, I'm legally an adult and you will be too, in less than a year"

"Ok ok, I get it, now can I please go and enjoy my Saturday" Aimee Clarke, Zeke's younger sister, turned to walk down the stairs but thankfully, he grabbed her hand before she could leave. "Just think about it, ok Aims? I love you"

She gave a small smile "I love you too" and turned around slower this time, to come down the stairs. James grabbed my hand and hissed "Play along" into my ear. He pulled me up the stairs, grinning and pecked me on the lips half way there "Giggle" He ordered.

I started the most annoyingly girly sound, I had ever made, as we bounded up the stairs, meeting Aimee and Zeke at the top. I stopped giggling as I saw them.

"Oh, sorry" James started

"It's fine" Zeke answered, in a cold voice, recognising the Gryffindor joker "We were leaving anyway."

A/n ok guys, that chapter was a bit longer than normal, I'd like to say, it was to make up for the long wait but that would be lie, I just had a lot to write. Thanks to my beta sineady! That's all for now I'll hopefully update quite soon. -Rosie