I'm Sorry, Did You Say Wasabi?
Making Amends
HilariouslyInsane
Skipping through the halls, Scarlet hummed the latest song that caught her eye on the wireless that was in the Gryffindor Common Room. It had been a month since she and James had a fight about a little first year, Danny Marshalls. She knew she was over-reacting but she had a spirit of a mother bear in her, ever since she was little. Though, back then, it was ladybugs and small birds that she helped.
Passing the Great Hall and out into the courtyard, she Accio-ed her clean sweep 7 and ditched her robe and book bag behind a bush. Climbing onto the broom, she felt all her thoughts leave her. All her worries about Aqua and Xena, (Who was still stubbornly ignoring her) James and his band of Merry Men, and the looks that a couple of Slytherin guys had given her, all her thoughts about failing Transfiguration, and most probably charms, and how she could get Lily Evans off her back, were gone. She was free.
"Oi! Spirit!" Scarlet turned her head to the shout that came her way, and grinned in greeting. There, waving wobbly on a broom, was the Nazi herself, Lily Evans.
"Hey Evans" she smiled, and took pity on the girl, flying to meet her halfway, so she didn't have to fly any further. "What are you doing up here? I thought you hated brooms"
"I do" Lily sighed, and took off at a steady pace towards the lake. "I've been meaning to talk to you, but you being seeming to be avoiding me". Scarlet looked guiltily away. She had been avoiding Lily ever since she heard that she was trying to talk to her. She assumed that Lily wanted to apologise for James. She didn't want Lily to apologise for him. She wanted to see him face to face and question him, and not talk to him through Lily.
"Sorry" Scarlet muttered, and followed willingly, the slow pace allowing her to dangle her legs over the broom, and not hook them up on the foot rests. "I've been busy-"
"Doing what?" Lily interrupted. You don't speak to anyone anymore, not even Aqua- and she did nothing! Your sulking Spirit, and you know it."
Scarlet opened her mouth to reply, but nothing came out. She sighed and tapped a long painted finger on the broom handle.
"Listen" Lily said gently "I didn't come up here to lecture you, but to let you know that I am sorry for what I did in all my years here at Hogwarts. I've never been nice to you. I never cut you a break-not even when your sister died. James told me how it is with your dad"
Scarlet scowled at that. How dare James tell her-Lily Evans, Nazi Supreme- about her past? He deepest secret to ever be told, that she told in confidence, to someone she called a best friend, a brother at best.
"I know I have no right to say anything" Lily began "especially since I have no idea the pain of being abused day in and day out, but I do know the pain of losing a sister." Lily took a deep breath "Petunia may still be alive and waiting at home, but I've lost her. You see, Petunia hates magic. Deep down, I think that she's afraid of it. Who wouldn't be? I'm afraid, and I'm the witch. Me and Petunia were close- even for sisters. We did everything together. We were inseparable, but then I met Severus."
"Snape?" asked Scarlet astonished "as in greasy Snivillous?"
"Don't" Lily choked out "Please, don't call him that". Scarlet nodded and motioned for Lily to continue. They had made a slow lazy lap of the lake already and were going for their next lap.
"Severus was amazing. He showed me how to control my magic, how to manipulate it and make it do what I want. One day, I was dying for a drink, and my drink bottle was empty, within seconds of wishing for water, my water bottle filled up. It still does that to this day. To me, Severus was my saviour. I knew I was different, everyone did. And he was the one to show me that world, where I was completely normal. My parents thought I was joking-playing around. But when Professor McGonagall showed up and showed I wasn't lying all those times, they were overjoyed for me, everyone was."
"Except Petunia" Scarlet finished bitterly
Lily nodded and wiped her eyes, a few stray tears had escaped when she was telling the story. "I thought that after I came home, that everything was fine, but it wasn't. She called me a freak and bullied me behind my parents' back, saying that I was abnormal, and didn't deserve our parents. I still hoped every summer that it'd be different. It finally hit me 3rd year that she wasn't coming back. The Petunia that I knew all those years, the one I loved and shared crayons with, was gone."
With that, Lily broke down in tears, sobbing for her lost friendship with Petunia and Severus, the two people she had loved all her childhood. "I am so sorry for everything Spirit. I was jealous"
"Of me?" Scarlet scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I'm so far from perfect it's not funny"
Lily sniffed and grimly smiled "To everyone you were. You were the infallible Scarlet Spirit who could do no wrong in the Marauders' eyes and to the teachers you were entertaining. Everyone loved you and you get good grades. All the boys fancy you"
Scarlet rolled her eyes. "Firstly, I do fall. Frequently. Physically, Emotionally, Physiologically- you name it, I've fallen. The Marauders get angry with me frequently. They just don't do it out in public so no one gets cranky. Like right now, we have fought so many times over the last week. Hexes, Verbally and physically. The teachers get pissed of with me all the time. I get many detentions for no homework, for my attitude, for my uniform, for my language. As for my grades- I'm failing. I'm failing Transfiguration and Charms by heaps because I never get theory and my practical turns nasty and possibly dangerous. I don't like being fancied by the boys. I get looked upon as a slut and I hate it. I want to meet someone who will cherish me, not try and get into my pants because they heard I was easy".
Lily smiled and sniffled once more. "We really are messed up, aren't we?"
Scarlet grinned and pushed her lightly "Speak for yourself". Giggling slightly with each other, they guided the brooms down and stood awkwardly.
"We never really got on well from the start did we?" Scarlet asked after a moment of silence. "I think it was because I judged you. You hated James, and James was one of my first mates."
"I hated you because you were Potter's mate" Lily wrinkled her nose and winked at Scarlet. "But now both of us don't like him. So in that case. Hello, My name is Lily Evans. I am a muggleborn with divorced parents, and a sister who hates me. I am hopelessly addicted to brownies and the smell of rain. I am a self-admitted Potter-hater and I hate my hair."
"Hello Lily Evans. My name is Scarlet Spirit. I am a pureblood witch with a abusive father, dead mother and sister. I have chronic mood swings and sometimes I want to live in my bed forever. When I was younger I wanted to be someone who makes butter. I am an honorary Marauder and I love rain on hot days. I also love mud"
The two girls shook hands.
"So, Spirit-" Lily began but Scarlet cut her off.
"My name's Scarlet. I hope you use it"
"And I'm Lily".
A/N; Several Months Later…..
Sorry 'bout that guys. My writing style has changed and I plan on re-writing a bit of this story, but for now, please be happy with this :)