Ok, so we are told that Snape comes to visit Lily at least once. So this is my take on him visiting at about 4 in the morning. James and Sirius are coming back from the full moon with Remus, and Peter isn't really in this because I hate him. Please enjoy!

"Lily?" Mary said irritably, "He's outside again, it's 4 in the morning, get rid of him!"

Lily sighed, Severus had been dropping by the common room quite frequently recently, she knew why of course, he was just trying to get her attention, he wanted to know if the rumors were true; that Lily Evans had finally agreed to go out with James Potter.

Lily blushed when she thought about this, not because it was true, but… well wasn't true either… it was complicated. No, it wasn't, they were not going out.

Sure Lily wanted to go out with James, now anyway, but he was being a git, not really talking to her, ever since the incident with Severus and… well Lily didn't really know.

See if he asked, Lily knew she would say yes in a second, but that was the problem. He wouldn't ask. So, sure it was true that she had fallen for him, but no they were not going out.

Severus claimed that they played a trick on him and almost got him killed, what he failed to leave out was that James saved his life.

"Alright, I guess I'll go talk to him" Lily said, standing and walking over to the portrait hole, then stepping out before-

"Lily!" Severus hurried over from his shadows and Lily sighed, cringing as he tried to hug her.

"Don't Severus" she said, pushing him back, "Mary said you were trying to sleep out here. I thought we've been through this, go back to your dungeons, I don't want you around"

"But Lily, how can you be around him? After what they did to me too!" he said sounding appalled.

"I heard what he did, how he saved your life" she said angrily, crossing her arms and glaring up at him.

"That's a lie!" Severus claimed loudly, his hands balling into fists.

"Are you calling Dumbledore a liar then?" Lily yelled.

"Wh-why are you defending him? Its true then, your dating that arrogant little-" he was sneering

"No" she said cutting him off firmly, "I'm not" but I wish I were. She added silently to herself.

He sighed relieved, "Ok… Lily please, I miss you, we were such good friends, why can't you forgive me?" he begged looking distraught.

"It's too late" she said, sounding as final about the topic that she could manage, "You've made your choice and so have I, we're different Severus"

Then they heard chuckling and footsteps, then, "-Prongs, he never means to, obviously, but it hurts all the same, and Madam Pomfrey is suspicious enough. Besides look at what happened last month-"

"That's right Padfoot, last month you nearly killed someone" James said hotly, still quite a distance away, "And before you say anything, it doesn't matter who it was, it was still a bloody person that you lot put in danger. Haven't you learnt anything?"

"James, mate, I'm sorry alright? Snape is fine, it was a mistake, and its bad enough that Remus is still a bit angry, don't ice me out again. Just-" Sirius was begging.

They rounded the corner and saw Lily somewhat cornered by Snape, who was glaring at them with venom dripping from his eyes.

Lily wondered what they were doing out at four in the morning but didn't bother asking because she knew she would never get a straight answer, and she was too bloody tired to care.

Sirius looked mildly concerned at Lily, who was staring at James, "Alright there Evans?" he bit back any remark that would have previously been about Snape.

Lily was somewhat impressed, but more impressed with James' bravery and well… not bullying.

Snape turned to face them, his wand raised, and Sirius got his out as well, wincing a lot as he lifted his wounded looking shoulder.

James shoved his arm down gently but snapped, "Quit it Sirius, you refuse to go to the hospital wing so stop acting so bloody idiotic, I'll try and heal it when we get into the dormitories, just-"

Lily couldn't help herself, "What happened to your shoulder?" she was always curious and they had said something about Remus and last month…

Sirius glanced at her, "Just messing around with the boys" he said easily. But Lily knew it was lie from Snape's menacing snort next to her.

"Want me to heal it for you?" she offered quickly pulling her own wand out.

Sirius looked at her a pursed his lips, "Sure… you know how to do it properly?" he asked, somewhat skeptical.

"Of course" she said, striding forward with her wand raised, "Episky!" she said, pointing at his shoulder, which made a horrible cracking noise then looked somewhat normal again.

Sirius groaned then moved his shoulder a bit, "Gee thanks Evans, feels loads better" he gave her a lopsided grin and turned to James, ignoring Snape, "Come on mate, lets head down and grab a bite to eat, I'm famished. No sense in sleeping now anyway."

James rolled his eyes and nodded, they both turned and Lily watched them walk away sadly, Snape watched her reaction and felt like a knife was plunged into his chest, "You- you fancy him" he said slowly.

Lily turned to him, "Yes, I do" she said firmly, "But clearly he's moved on" she held back her tears.

Lily didn't know how Snape felt for her and she almost let the tears fall, but Snape couldn't be the shoulder she cried on for James Potter, it would kill him. So he strode off, leaving the girl he loved near tears outside her common room over the boy who made his life a living hell.

As he walked down the corridors, feeling almost completely empty he heard them again, talking seriously (for once) as they went back to the common room.

Severus couldn't take it anymore, he hid behind a statue of a dancing girl, he was shaking and finding it hard to draw in new breaths, he could quite literally feel his heart breaking as he remembered that the girl he loved, loved this arrogant piece of dragon shit.

Without really thinking about it he jumped out from behind the statue and screamed, "Sectumsempra!" it hit perfectly, ripping James Potter's perfect flesh and restoring him to a bloody puddle on the ground. Good.

Sirius reacted quickly, "James!" then he shot a spell at Severus who was already running full speed to the dungeons.

Several of the portraits were screaming and talking loudly.

Sirius tried to stop James's bleeding but it wasn't enough, "GO GET THE HEAD MASTER" he screamed at the portraits and conjured a stretcher lifting the now unconscious James onto it and levitating him to the hospital wing.

Lily was sitting by the fire reading, it was her favorite place to read- well no it wasn't. She was waiting for James and Sirius to get back from their early breakfast and reading helped to pass the time as well as to conceal her eagerness to speak with them- well him.

Then a man came into the portrait just behind her and started to gossip loudly, "-The greasy haired boy nearly killed him!"

Lily whirled around, greasy haired boy, which had to be Severus, "What?" she demanded of the painting.

The man was wearing green robes and looked eagerly at her, "Shot some spell at him and he just fell covered in blood. Hiding behind the dancing girl on the 1st floor and he just attacks. They should expel him for that, not to mention he left him there. Oh yes, what disgraceful tactics"

"Left who there? Who did he hurt?" Lily demanded, what had Severus down now? She felt her heart clench when she figured that she already knew the answer to the questions he had just posed.

"James Potter! - Sectu something, new spell, very dark though, must have been made up or something but ones got to be fairly dark to create that spell-" he rambled on excitedly.

Lily had stopped listening after she heard it was James that had been attacked by Severus and she left her book, lying on the floor on a random page as she tore out of the common room and down to the hospital wing.

There was a long trail of blood and Lily felt cold as she shoved the great wooden doors open to reveal Sirius drenched in blood talking solemnly to Dumbledore.

After a few more moments where both of them ignored her, frozen in the middle, staring wildly around her, Dumbledore took off out of the room. Presumably to find Severus and punish him. Sirius jerked his head over to her and strode over, his chest covered in James's blood, making Lily feel weak.

"Evans. What do you want?" Sirius nearly spat out at her after Dumbledore was done with him.

"I- I- came to- is he ok?" she asked breathlessly.

"No." Sirius snapped and ran bloody hands through his dark hair, Lily recoiled, "Sorry Evans, its not really your fault, Snape was just angry that James saved him and made him look like a stupid git in front of the whole school… its not like you're the reason Snape cursed James… what is it?" he asked, shocked at her sobbing.

She threw herself into Sirius's still bloody arms and sobbed harder, "It is my fault! Oh Merlin, oh Merlin!" she yelled

"What Evans? What did you do?"

"I told him…" she hiccupped, "I told Severus that I- that I fan-fancied James and he just l-left" she started to sob again as Sirius went rigid and pulled her away to look into her eyes.

"You honestly fancy him? Bit cruel you know, fancying him as soon as he starts to respect your 'wishes' and gives up" He said conversationally, but she could detect the hint of real anger in his voice as he glanced down at her, still attached to his arms.

Lily sobbed harder.

"No, no Evans… uh stop crying, please. Do you want to see him?" he asked as a last resort, patting her on the back really awkwardly.

Lily stopped crying as hard and nodded, Sirius led her back to the end of all the beds, there lay James wrapped up in all his bandages, still looking far too pale.

Madam Pomfrey shoved past them, "A good thing Mr. Black got him to me in time or there would have been nothing I could do, such little blood left in him as it is" she muttered.

Lily nearly stopped breathing again, this was all her fault. She could have killed him, he could have died and it would have been all her fault.

"Hey Evans, don't go around blaming yourself, and don't tell James that either, it'll bug him. You know it will, 'sides if you really are into him it'll all be worth it for ol' Prongsie" Sirius said, trying to keep the girl from breaking into more gut wrenching sobs.

Then the doors burst open and Professor McGonagall walked in, gasping at the sight she looked a little devastated, "Mr. Black we need you in the head masters office. Mr. Potter will be fine for the moment." When she saw Sirius's hesitation to leave his best mate all alone she sighed, "Mrs. Evans will stay with him, wont you Mrs. Evans?"

Lily nodded vigorously and shoved Sirius a bit, who glared at her for a second then followed McGonagall out of the hospital wing.

Lily sat on the edge of the bed and stroked James's cheek, she was resolved to tell him exactly how she felt as soon as he opened his gorgeous eyes. Life was too short, especially right now, and she waited to spend as much time as she could with James. That is if he even felt the same way anymore.

She sighed and pushed his hair back slightly, and then she felt him stir under her fingers. She gasped and leaned forward just as he winced and groaned in pain. His eyes fluttered open and Lily was suddenly conscious that her leaning over him was a strange thing to open your eyes to, but fight as she did she was much too concerned to lean back.

He moaned and blinked, shock on his face to see Lily so close, and so obviously distraught about him, tears staining her cheeks, she looked a wreck.

"James!" She said, relief coloring her voice, "How do you feel? Oh Merlin, I'm so sorry, I mean- yeah, do you want me to get Madam Pomfrey, or-"

"Evans!" He groaned cutting her off, unable to move any part of his body.

She blushed scarlet and shrank back, "Sorry" she mumbled.

"What the bloody hell happened?" James asked, glancing down at his mincemeat chest.

"Uhm Snape… he cursed you when you weren't looking and- and you almost died" she burst into tears into her hands, embarrassed that she was falling to pieces in front of him.

"Hey now, its alright, I'm alright. Really Lily" he said sweetly, giving her half a smile half a grimace.

Lily abruptly stopped crying and she stood up but stayed close to his bed, he looked confused at her and she took a really deep breath, "This whole thing kind of made me realize that life is really short and being a coward is a bore and it made me really, really want to summon up some courage and just come out and tell you this- but it's a lot harder then I thought it would be- well no, I knew it would be hard, hence why I've never told you- anyway its hard- I cant!" she said, babbling off to herself waving her hands about frantically.

"Prongs!" Sirius cried as he strode into the room, still soaked in the now dry blood that was once James's, "Thank Merlin mate, fucking Snivelus, he'll get what's coming" he spat with venom

"Leave it Sirius, we more then owe him" James said weakly.

"Are you kidding me? That was an innocent prank, he tried to do you some serious damage-" Sirius was outraged

Lily whispered then, "He would have killed you if Sirius wasn't so brilliant"

Sirius looked surprised, "Hmm thanks Evans, you alright?"

"No" she said instantly and tried to turn away, Sirius caught her arm and gave her a look.

"Out with it Evans" he said… seriously.

James was confused, "Out with what? Pads what's going on?" he tried to demand weakly looking between them.

Lily turned to him, her eyes set, "I fancy you. A lot, like a lot a lot" then she clamped down on her lip as James's mouth dropped open and Sirius watched curiously.

Lily swore under her breath though both boys hears, "Oh Fuck it," she said as she leaned in a pressed her lips to his, kissing him gently but unrelenting.

James didn't respond and she pulled away, flushing and not looking at him, "Oh I'm s-sorry" she stuttered weakly, her stomach dropping.

"Lily, Oi, come here" he said and pulled her down into another kiss, one he was ready for and had been waiting for nearly seven years. It was perfect.

Then Sirius ruined it with his catcalls.

Of course.

It is very possible (in fact, probable) that I made grammar mistakes, or even bigger, mistakes with timeline or such. Tell me if you find a mistake like that, such as dates not lining up or... I don't know... just let me know if you find any. Thanks!