I'm fastforwarding a bit, here... it's Sev and Lily's sixth year, and she's head girl... James is head boy... Severus and Lily are still together.

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Severus and Lily were still an item, and no one could believe it.

They had gone back to their classes, partnered together whenever they had double classes, sending notes to each other in the great hall, going into Hogsmeade together. Severus didn't know whether or not she'd gotten the poem he'd sent to her. Lily had her Head Girl duties, so she wasn't as available at night as he would like, for dating, but he wasn't complaining.

He also had to endure endless torment from the Marauders. He could tell James was nothing short of furious, because he was bullying him worse than ever. Severus knew it was because James also fancied Lily.

One such day, during break, he and Lily were studying under a tree near the lake, leaning against each other's backs, both faces buried in textbooks.

Snape took out his wand, said a nonverbal spell in his head, and sent his doe Patronus to her. He heard Lily catch her breath and his Patronus say, "I want to be with you forever, Lily."

Lily took out her own wand, and cast her own doe Patronus, and it bowed its head, nibbling invisible grass at his feet, looked up at him with iridecent eyes and said, "I love you, Sev, and I hope we will stay together forever."

"Aww, look, it's the school couple... alright, Snivelly?" said a sneering voice Seveus had no trouble recognizing.

"Look, they're sending love messages with Patronus's, how pathetic. What's the matter, Snivelly, can't tell her to her face? You deserve more gutsy than that, Evans," said Jame's sidekick, Sirius Black.

"Leave us alone, Potter!" Severus spat, gripping his wand tightly, barely refraining from hexing the lot of them so bad they thought they were millipedes. He could do it, too. The thought of what Lily would do, perhaps disowning him, or breaking up with him, stopped him. Don't embarass her, he thought. He couldn't bear it if she dumped him for a dumb mistake like thatand went for, perhaps, James Potter. The thought made him want to be sick.

"You're nothing but an arrogant toerag, Potter! Go torture a first year, like you always do!" shouted Lily, and Sev couldn't help but smile.

"You shouldn't smile, it might freeze that way, Snivellus." said Potter's spitefull voice, and he bowled Snape over with a hex so strong he almost fell into the lake.

"NO, Potter!" screamed Lily, and she flung her books aside and pointed her wand in the arrogant Seeker's face. Immediately, Sirius did too, and Severus stood beside Lily, pulling out his wand as well.

"Go pick on someone else for a change, Potter. I wouldn't go out with you if you were the last man on earth," Lily said coldly.

"Better me, than old Snivelly," he retorted, and Lily slashed her wand through the air. James Potter staggered, his legs tied in knots, his arms tangled up. She'd hit him with a rather impressive Limb Tangle Hex.

"I mean it, Potter!"

"I have a name, Potter!" said Severus coldly, and he hated the way he sounded just like his father, rage shaking in every syllable.

"It's Severus!! Stop calling him Snivellus!" yelled Lily.

"Break it up, Potter, Black, Evans, Snape! Ten points from Gryffindor, Miss Evans! Shame on our Head Girl!" said an angry McGonagall, suddenly striding towards them and shoving a Protego spell between the four angry teenagers. Severus lowered his wand and stowed it back inside his robes.

"As for you, Potter, Black, ten more points from Gryffindor, for an umprovoked attack on your fellow students!" she growled, and Potter and Black both glared daggers at Lily and Sev, and stalked away to join Remus Lupin, who hadn't joined in.

"As for your Mr.Snape! I thought being with Lily would give you better judgement! Ten points from Slytherin! I shall be informing Professor Slughorn about this! Now where are you supposed to be?" she demanded of the both of them.

Severus pointed to their fallen and forgotten books and papers.

"We were on break, Professor," said Lily, her face still blazing with angry red patches.

"As you where, then! I expect you both to behave from now on!" she said, and with that, she walked away back to the castle.

"Sorry. I got carried away," Lily apologized.

"It's alright, I know how it is," he replied bitterly, glaring over at Potter and his gang. Potter gave him the finger from afar, and Severus turned his back, gathering up all the fallen papers and handing them to Lily.

"Thanks," she said, and they sat back down in the grass, both turned away from Potter, and tried to refocus on their studying. Their exams were coming, and Sev still hadn't mastered his Occlumency for his Defense Against The Dark Arts classes.

"It's no user, I can't concentrate. Want to go into the library?" asked Lily. Sev nodded, wanting an excuse to get away from the bright sunlight and Potter and his gang, and he helped her gather their things.

Once in the library, however, their schoolwork was temporarily forgotten. Lucius Malfoy was there with Mulciber. They were lurking behind the stacks and they didn't escape Severus's notice.

"Mulciber and Malfoy are here. I don't want to talk to them," he said in an undertone to Lily. She followed his gaze and narrowed her startlingly green eyes.

"What do you want?" he said grumpily to Malfoy as they came over and sat at their table. Lily shifted over closer to Sev and away from the pair, her distaste barely masked.

"We just wanted to know if you wanted to hang out with us, for a change, Snape," said Malfoy, his lip curling at the company he kept.

"I'm with Lily at the moment, Malfoy," he replied, not looking up from his book, and not caring what the hell they thought. They thought he was going to join them as a Death Eater, and they were mistaken. He'd found love, and his purpose in life. He wanted to mary the girl of his dreams and stay at Hogwarts to teach.

"I don't think 'e's intristed, Lucius," said Mulciber. (A/N: Intentional typo, please don't review about it. Mulciber just has bad grammar)

"I don't think he is," said Lily nonchalantly, her head still in her book, but Severus could tell she really didn't like his sort-of friends.

"We weren't talkin' ta you, mudblood," spat Mulciber, and Lily slammed her book down angrily. Madam Pince, thanfully, seemed to be in the Staffroom.

"Don't call her that," said Sev dangerously, and he shifted his eyes to the doors of the library. He hoped they'd get the hint and leave.

"Too bad, Severus. We'd hoped you'd join us after school... for things," said Malfoy, his blue eyes glinting coldly, and Severus hoped he never became that bastardly cold.

"Too bad yourself. I've chosen my path. You make your own decisions," said Sev, going back to his book, and he refused to aknowledge the motley two.

They left, and Lily looked him straight in the eye, her green ones glittering with what looked like tears of happiness. She smiled and took his hand on the table.

"I'm so proud of you, Sev. Does this mean you;ve taken after me, then?" she joked.

"Maybe. I just know I want nothing more to do with them. You were right. They're evil and have no mind of their own. I have you to thank for saving me from their fate," he replied, and he smiled back at her. They leaned forward and began kissing, and all thoughts of studying and homework were forgotten.

That was how Madam Pince found them.

Several inkwell-wwackings and schoolbook-beatings later, after having had their things bet them round the head, they stood outside the Gryffindor common room, breathless and laughing.

"It was worth it," said Severus, still chuckling breathlessly, a searing stitch in his chest, and without warning Lily flung herself on him again, kissing him more fiercely than she did the summer before on her doorstep.

They tood there making out for what seemed like minutes to Severus, until someone opened the portrait, knocking them both off balance. It was a red head Sev recognized to be called Mary something-or-other.

"Oi, Lily! What are you doing?" she said, shocked at finding one of her friends snogging a snarky Slytherin. (A/N: I was giggling for ten minutes lastnight saying that to myself, I just love that word, snarky it sounds so cool, hahahahaha)

"Snogging my boyfriend," she said simply, and they both laughed. Sev came to his senses and picked up his school bag, cleared his throat and said, "well, I should be going... studying, you know."

"Oh, nonsense, get in here, you can study with me, I need help with that Occlumency essay," said Lily, and to both his and Mary's surprises, she yanked him into the Gryffindor common room with her.

He had never been in here before, and the other Gryffindors in the room threw him looks of deepest loathing at seeing the green serpent on his chest.

The walls were cheerful, the fire was crackling merrily in the grate, bathing the whole room in cheery light, and the portraits on the walls were friendly, not scary. The furniture was red and comfy, and Severus thought it might be worth being in Gryffindor house just to enjoy this common rom. His own was nothing as cheery as this.

"Lily noticed him admiring it, and giggling, she pulled him into a chair and sat on his lap.

"Ooof!" he grunted at the sudden weight change. His lap wasn't used to being sat on. He guessed she was feeling a bit frisky. Maybe what they said about people with red hair was true, he thought, amused.

She pulled a book on Defense Against the Dark Arts on her own lap and began flipping through it. Sev would never admit it, he liked the feeling of her weight on him, but it was very uncomfortable to try and read a book with someone on his lap.

"So, can you just picture a great brick wall in your head? Will that keep them out? Because I have a hard time thinking of nothing when I'm about to be tortured," she said, and he thought she was joking.

He smiled and pointed to a paragraph inthe lower left hand corner and she took a few seconds to read.

"Lily, how could you bring a Slytherin in here? You know they're not allowed! What if he got the password?" complained the Prefect, and he glanced up; the boy had curly blonde hair and gray eyes.

"Don't be ridiculous, Severus is fine, Mary had the protrait open already. He won't be here long, keep your knickers on, Brady," said Lily, and Sev was shocked; usually, she was very kind to most people! What was going on with her?

"I just feel a bit... rebellious," she said simply when he asked, and he raised an eyebrow.

"Why?" he asked.

She leaned in close, and put her arms around his neck, clasping her hands she he couldn't shrug them off, and her hair fell in a curtain on his shoulder, the red mixing with the black. She leeaned in close, her face near to his and smiled. Severus felt like a drowned man in her eyes, and he thought he had never been so happy to feel drowned. His hormones were dancing the conga and he was afraid she could tell.

She kissed his cheek. "I love you. Haven't you heard? Love does crazy things to people," she whispered, and he smiled back.

"Maybe we should admit you to St Mungo's," he joked, and she laughed. People around them were ignoring the flirtacious couple, and more than a few went up to the dormitories to sleep. Pretty soon, Sev and Lily were alone in the common room.

"I don't feel like studying. You?" she asked, kissing his cheek again. He squirmed again; sitting on his lap wasn't as confortable as it had been ten minutes ago.

"Uh... not really," he stammered, squirming again. He wanted her to get off him, so he could straighten his trousers out, and maybe stop what was in them from waking up any more. What was he thinking?

She got up and he stood, nervously smoothing the front of his robes and hoping she wouldn't notice.

She did.

"Sev... whhat is that?" she asked, grinning and laughing. She was pointing to the noticable bulge in the front of his robes, and he quickly covered himself up.

"I should get back to my own common room," he said quietly, and Lily got a hurt look on her face.

"I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Was it something I said?" she asked, giving him a hug. His organ throbbed and it made him dizzy. All he could smell was her perfumed tresses, and WHY ONE EARTH WAS HE THINKING ABOUT HER PERFUME??

"Uh, Lily... I..." he began, but he didn't have time to say anything, because before he knew what he was doing, he was kissing her, pushing his mouth over hers, their tongues intertwined, his fingers tangled in her hair, and he moaned in longing. She felt him pressed against her and kissed him harder, and it was with difficulty that he pulled himself away.

"I can't... I'd feel bad... I need to get going before Filch catches me," he made an excuse. He grabbed his bag and made his way to the exit, but spared her one more glance back. She was smiling at him. He felt bad for leaving her, but he knew it must be done. He couldn't have sex in the Gryffindor common room, although a perverted Slytherin boy he knew might say it would be hot. Zabini, he thought his name was.

In truth, he had never had sex before in his life. He couldn't imagine why someone would want to have it with him, of all people. He was greasy, remember? He forced himself not to laugh as he exited the Gryffindor common room and made his way as fast as he could towards the dungeons, and eventually, the Slytherin common room.

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Finally, the time for exams came; Severus needn't have been nervous; he passed all his classes with flying colors, it was ridiculously easy.

Lily on the other hand, just failed her Defense Against the Dark Arts exam, by a couple points. He cheered her up slightly by hugging her, swinging her around and finally kissing her, one hand lightly holding her chin. He wanted it to last forever.

James Potter, unfortunately, was not as stupid as he was a bully, and he passed all his classes as well. Wormtail got expelled for setting one of his examiners on fire. It wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't laughed.

"We're having a party in the Gryffindor common room. Want to come?" asked Lily, pulling him from his thoughts.

Severus remembered the last time he was in another's common room, and smiled.

"Lily... I love you very much, but I think I should abstain, Remember what happened last time?" he reminded her.

She grinned mischiveously, and took his hand.

"I know," she said simply, and that was that.

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Next chapter, they go home for the summer, I get lazy and fast forward, Sev gets a summer job, Not telling you lot why, just read on and you'll find out!