Severus Snape
Severus Snape swept down the corridor, Mulciber and Avery flanking him until he dismissed them with a casual flick of his wrist. The sense of power he gained from this small authority was enormous. After years and years of being ruled over, being the outcast - the strange kid who sat in the corner with the big nose and the greasy hair, Severus had finally met others like him, people who shared his views and that actually listened to him. Sure there was Lily, but she was there for Severus in a different way. She gave him support through thick and thin, she who was closest to his heart, was a friend, a girl, a cause worth fighting for.
Severus carried on down the corridor alone, feeling the walls closing in on him once again, until who was there to tear them down again but Lily herself. She smelt of wild flowers and the flicker of her emerald eyes made his stomach do a turn.
'Good day Sev?' She queried, but her eyes weren't on him, they followed another figure down the corridor, another boy.
'Yes. And you?'
'Good.'
Severus nudged her playfully, trying to make eye contact.
'Guess what Mulciber did in our Dark Arts lesson?'
This caught her interest. Her lips curved up like the crescent moon and her hair danced about as she looked at him with a question mark face of curiosity. Lily loved stories.
'Mulciber used the Imperious curse on Amos Diggory -that fluff-headed Hufflepuff – in the defense against the Dark Arts lesson. Professor Romulus spent half-an-hour trying to work out how to stop him from tap dancing on his desk, and when he asked Mulciber why he did it, he said 'I was testing Diggory's defense. That's what these lessons are for, aren't they?' '
Snape waited for Lily's laugh…but it did not come. Her face fell and she took a moment before uttering,
'He used the Imperious curse?'
Snape shrugged, 'Yeah.' His expression was blasé. 'How else do you think he got Diggory to jig his way across the desks?'
'That's one of the three unforgivable curses Sev, how could you let him do that?'
Severus took one look at her pinched forehead and desperately tried to back-pedal.
'It was Avery's idea; I'm just the innocent bystander. Besides, he didn't hurt Diggory.'
Lily's voice was hard and unforgiving; it sliced into the air viciously.
'Mulciber and Avery's idea of humor is just evil. Evil, Sev. I don't understand how you can be friends with them.'
'I'm not, I-I mean, what choice did I have, they-they would've given me hell if I didn't go along with it. And I-I can't exactly ditch them now, can I?'
Her emerald eyes had turned the shade of the forbidden forest at midnight, a foreboding place that one would never wish to enter alone.
'That's pathetic and you know it Sev.' She turned away with the graceful dramatics of a pissed off female, stalking towards the place where Severus had seen her looking before, towards another boy.
'Where are you going?' He called after her.
She huffed back, without turning to look at him: 'I'm going to see James Potter. Maybe I'll ask him if you can borrow his back-bone sometime.'
Truth be told, when Lily tapped James on the shoulder, he seemed to lose his back-bone too. He jumped, made a squawk like a little girl being splashed with water, and then turned bright red.
'Oh, it's you.' He tried to make the act of dragging his fingers through his unkempt hair look casual.
'Is this a bad time to talk?' Lily purred sweetly.
'Merlin's beard no, it's a perfect time. Just give me a moment.'
James turned to his three friends, smiled delightfully and said, 'Piss off, now please.'
'Charming.' Sirius laughed. 'You kiss your mother with that mouth?'
'Do not start on my mother again Sirius, I told you to leave the subject alone after that last conversation went too far. Just scram…and don't wait up for me. Enjoy lunch.'
'And why should we, as your highness so eloquently put it: piss off?' Remus intoned, raising one ginger eyebrow at him.
James smiled and said through his teeth, 'Because there is a lady present.'
'Ahh, I see.' Sirius leaned around James, waved very unsubtly at Lily whilst wearing a stupid grin, and then tugged the others away.
'Sorry about that' James said, returning to Lily. 'You wanted to talk?'
'Oh it's nothing serious; you didn't have to send your friends away, just a chat really.'
James laughed heartily. 'Serious or not, I did have to send them away, trust me…'
'I do.' Lily smiled mischievously. 'Do you trust me?'
'Hmm…' James smiled. 'Good question. Do I trust a beautiful witch who is ten times smarter than me?'
'I wouldn't if I were you.' Her hair looked like the sun setting across the Hogwarts Lake as she flicked it away from her eyes, James stared for a moment, flushing scarlet when Lily caught him looking. He fired another question at her to cover the moment.
'So tell me, what's your secret to being so smart? Is it Potions? Charms? Spells?'
Lily grinned. 'Well there's this thing, I'm not sure you would've heard of it, but it's called…studying.'
'Oh I've heard of it.' James pretended to shudder. 'Me and studying have a long and gruesome past. It's not pleasant.'
'I could always help you out.' Lily offered playfully. 'All you have to do is ask.'
'I'll bear that in mind.' James said, adjusting his glasses to check if she was messing with him or not. She wasn't. They made a silent agreement to start walking. 'Are we still on for Monday?' James asked.
'Of course.'
A snide voice dropped into the conversation. 'Monday?'
Severus Snape appeared around the corner, looking like he had tried to rejuvenate himself with the use of grease. His sallow face and hooked nose gave him a sharp and unmistakable appearance, one that would not look out of place amongst the Hippogriffs that guarded the Forbidden Forest's edges.
'Yes Monday. What's it to you?' Lily snapped, turning her startlingly green almond-shaped eyes on Severus. James looked on with confusion.
'Lily please, just listen to me for a minute.'
'I don't want to hear any more of your excuses Sev. Just leave me alone.' Lily turned away from him, red hair flying.
'Wait.' Severus grabbed her wrist and James stepped in, knocking him away forcefully.
'The lady asked you to leave her alone.' James said gruffly, summoning a threatening persona he seemed to always be able to find in Snivelus' presence. 'I'm not sure I blame her. All of the oil from your hair is making it impossible to breathe near you.'
'Shut your mouth Potter. This doesn't involve you.'
'If it involves Lily then yeah, it does involve me.' James seemed to sense that he had overstepped himself but he carried on regardless. 'Take your deep-fat fryer somewhere it's wanted.'
James looked down just in time to see the flash of red light before in knocked him off his feet.
'Lily is nothing to do with you.' Severus spat, clenching the handle of his wand so hard that James was surprised it didn't break.
'Boys, calm down.' Lily tried to step between them but Severus pushed her vehemently aside. She blinked at him, aghast. James pulled out his wand and shouted 'Impedimentia', knocking Snape from his feet.
'This isn't about Lily really, is it?' James snarled into the spindly boy's ear. 'You just feel a need to prove yourself after that last fight we had. Well, you proved one thing at least. That you're a lousy dueler.'
James turned and had gone half-way down the corridor when an irresistible force pushed him forwards onto the floor. James felt his nose crunch as it made contact with the ground. Pulling himself onto his feet, he wiped away the blood welling in his nostrils and fired a bright white spell at Snape. A large cut opened up across Snape's leg and he stared at it, horrified. As if from nowhere a strong feminine voice floated down to their ears. Lily Evans looked like an avenging goddess shrouded in a halo of burning hair. She looked at each of the boys with the utmost hatred.
'You are as bad as each other. Drawing blood and using curses as if they mean nothing. I'd rather not talk to either of you again. Goodbye Severus. And as for you Potter, I don't want to see you on Monday or any other day.'
Both boys looked after her as she left, Snape dragging himself after her desperately and devotedly, and James knew that an old friend like Severus would soon enough be forgiven; but his own fate was undetermined.
A: Enter the start of the love triangle
D: Yeahh, who do you ship more, SeverusXLily or JamesXLily?
A: Umm, id say JamesxLily, Snape whimped it and went to voldy. Although he kept his love, He didn't keep his goodness. James died to buy her time and he loved her a lot too
D: Yeah! good description there ;)
A: Who do you like better?
D: Neither, RemusXRomulus all the way!
A: *Facepalms*
D+A: Thanks for reading! please review kindly, and feel free to let us know who you would ship in our story ;)
