hey hey, so I seem to be on a bit of a roll here so I'm just gonna go with it before I lose it ;)
so again, characters = not mine = belong to J.K. Rowling , got it? got it. good :)
this chapter takes place during Harry's 6th year at Hogwarts (Half-Blood Prince)
"What are you two snickering about now?" Lily asked James and Sirius as she caught up with them in the stairwell towards Dumbledore's office, ever since Sirius' death the two had become practically inseparable, it was almost like they were back in their Hogwarts years themselves. "We were just reminiscing about that time we chased Peeves half way across the castle in 6th year, you know its pretty dull without him around messing with people." Sirius answered laughing to himself. "Well i for one don't miss him all that much, he was constantly coming up behind me making me drop by books everywhere!" Lily scoffed remembering the time he had caused her to drop her books while the staircase and decided to move and it had taken her almost half an hour to find and collect all her books, quills and rolls of parchment. Lucky for her, Severus had been walking with her so he had stayed behind and helped her find everything. That memorie stung, the more the years went by the more Lily was running out of excuses for him, she was on the verge of accepting the fact that maybe she had been wrong about him joining their side, although Dumbledore still seemed to trust him, she couldn't help but wonder if Severus had in fact deceived him, and was still in the Death Eater's inner circle. "Lily? You alright?" James asked with a concerned look on his face, "You kinda spaced out there for a minute." he continued, "Sorry, yea I'm fine. What's going on with Harry?" she answered quickly shaking the memory off. "Last i checked ol' McGonagall was telling him and Ron Weasley off for standing around in the hallways gawking at the girls." Sirius replied turning to James and stifling a laugh, "Sounds like something his father would do when he was that age, eh mate?" "ah shut it Padfoot, you were worse than i was!" He said elbowing Sirius in the ribs. The three then leaned into the pensieve and watched as the picture came into focus. Harry was in potions class with Ron and the two seemed to be fighting at the cupboards over who got the "newer" textbook. "I thought Harry wasn't taking potions his year? He had mentioned to Ron that he needed an 'Outstanding' to be able to continue on with the cass?." "Lily said turning to James, "that was when ol' Snape was potions teacher, Our old potions teacher Slughorn is teaching it this year and he'll accept Harry's 'Exceeds Expectations' just fine." James said back at her, "Wasn't he the one that arranged that little, 'Slug Club' was it? That you and Snivellus were in Lily?" Sirius said with a snicker. "Why yes it was, and don't laugh! I quite enjoyed it, he was an excellent professor and I learned loads from him." She said with a huff, narrowing her eyes at Sirius and ignoring the mention of her old best friend, not wanting to start another fight about Severus and whether or not he could be trusted. Harry was now working on his potion, Professor Slughorn had assigned them the task of brewing a pot of Living Death, a potion Lily had always had a bit of trouble in. "What's that writing in Harry's book?" Questioned James looking over Harry's shoulder as his son started to follow the directions that had been scribbled into the margins of the book. Lily walked up behind him and gave a sharp intake of breath as she looked at the familiar long curvy scrawl across the pages. "What is it Lil?" He asked turning to his wife, "What? oh nothing, listen I'll catch up with you two later ok? I'm going to head down to the library for a bit." she said hurriedly, she had no intention of going to the library but she needed to get out of there before she gave herself away, the last thing she wanted was to hear James and Sirius tell her how this was proof that Severus had been into bad stuff all along. "What's eating Evans?" Sirius Asked James raising an eyebrow, "Dunno mate." He answered as they watched Lily rush out of the room and out of sight. "Harry seems to be doing just fine, want to go down and play a game or two of quidditch?" James said walking out of the office and down the stairwell.
As the year progressed James became more and more suspicious about the 'Half-Blood Prince', he had a funny sort of feeling that Lily knew more than she was leading on and he was determined to find out what exactly she knew. One afternoon he was glancing over his son's shoulder in potions when Harry came across a certain spell named "Sectumsempra" James wiped around to look at Sirius, "I know who the Half-Blood Prince is!" with a growl. "Who?" Sirius asked with a questioning look, "Snape." He said with disgusted look on his face. "Thats what Lily's been hiding, she knew full well who it was with just a glance at the writing. It's no wonder she never said anything! She just wants to protect ol' Snivelly, she still thinks he has some good in him, ha, he never did have any good in him." James scoffed and stalked out of the office to look for Lily.
The months went on, Lily, had admitted to James that she had lied about knowing who the book belonged to and James had shrugged it off, he knew her former best friend was a sore spot for her and didn't want to cause problems between them. It was almost the end of the year and Harry's school year had been more than eventful, he had just gotten back from the cave with Dumbledore and James, Lily and Sirius, stood in the astronomy tower watching the scene before them. "Go wake Severus." Dumbledore said to Harry, James turned to Sirius with a smirk "Oh yes get Snivellus to come to the rescue." he said in a mocking tone. Lily glared at him. The three of them watched as Draco Malfoy came bursting into the room, disarming Dumbledore and pointing his wand at him with a shaking hand. Harry, who had been put under a full binding charm by Dumbledore the moment Draco came in stood paralyzed in his spot. Dumbledore remained calm as he conversed with Draco as to how he had managed to sneak the Death Eaters into the castle. Draco had sneered at him thinking himself clever at having fooled Dumbledore, "He's a double-agent!" Draco shouted at Dumbledore, "He isn't working for you, you just think he is!" He finished James turned to Lily giving her a 'I-told-you-so' look. As the scene progressed Death Eaters began to come up behind Draco, urging him on, Draco continued to point his wand towards Dumbledore. "Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us- " yelled one of the Death Eaters but was cut off by someone else bursting through the doors, it was Professor Snape. "Severus." Dumbledore pleaded, "Severus please." Snape stepped forward and pointed his wand directly at Dumbledore. "Avada Kadavra." Severus said in a low tone. Lily lunged forward "Sev, No!" she screamed reaching out to grab his arm, which of course did nothing seeing as they weren't actually there. "Sev, what have you done?" She cried, falling to the floor as the scene began to fade away and the three were brought back to the afterlife, in Dumbledore's office. "Lily-" James started bending down to console his wife, even he knew it would just make things worse if he said what he wanted to say, "Don't, just leave me alone for a bit." She said wiping the tears from her cheeks, as she headed out of the office. she walked quickly towards the lake and started to slow when she started to come to their old tree. She sat down at the base of the tree and hugged her legs to her chest, "What have you done? He, he trusted you!" she said out loud mentally wishing he could hear her, something caught her eye, an inscription on the tree that she hadn't noticed before.
I'm sorry Lily
She stared at the writing, and started to cry again, hugging her legs tighter to her chest. "Sorry doesn't fix this one Severus." She muttered to herself resting her forehead on her knees as she let her tears fall. "Sorry doesn't fix it at all."
Annnd thats it... for this chapter. Let me know what you think of it so far, reviews would be lovely ;)
I'm hoping to get the next chapter up really soon k?
- Tori