Chapter 10: Something's wrong.

Ok please don't kill me! I officially can't keep a promise! I've got eight exams coming up these last few months so I probably won't be able to update for another month. I know I'm sad too! Although I really need to do my best at these last few months at school, because I don't think college will get easier somehow! But then again… no more maths then! Woop! Anyway thanks to everyone who reviewed, favourited, followed and read this story!

Seeing someone and really seeing one is a big difference. So Lily's change in character wouldn't be very obvious to Sirius who couldn't even notice something right in front of him. Except his hair… he liked to have a good appearance to keep his reputation of being a real ladies man. Although Lily had soon realised that Sirius wasn't just smooth moves. He could of course be protective and get angry easily; he had as much fire in his belly as the rest of the Gryffindor's. He could be kind, and extremely funny. He'd make jokes at the Slytherin's, the other Gryffindor's, his friends but he'd also make jokes at himself. Not afraid to be the butt of his own jokes, to be laughed at. All he cared about was getting other people laughing, and making everyone smile. He'd take everything he got hit back with without getting upset, or annoyed. He had always found people like that hypocritical. James would notice any difference in Lily at all though, he had always done so. Although he didn't always understand why she acted a certain way, he always noticed. Like Lily's time at a muggle school when she was bullied, he noticed she seemed sad – but didn't understand why. The recent change in Lily after Snape's meddling would be hard to for him to figure out – but he would.

They'd also been in a change in Peter Pettigrew. He seemed jumpy, flinching every time someone appeared beside him without warning. Sirius had noticed this only found it absolutely hilarious. While the guys were waiting in the common room for Lily just before breakfast, and just before the incident, Peter had been acting very oddly. Every time Lily was mentioned, this was a lot with James around (who always spoke very proudly of his best friend) Peter would look alarmed and shifty. His friends mistook this look, and Sirius had soon come up with a reason why he acted this way…

"Peter, do you have a thing for Lily? You seem to have this look in your eyes every time we mention her name… and you're very jumpy. Are you worried James is going beat you up if you tell him? I know he's a protective fool, but if you admit it now, it will cool down after a while. While he's really angry, me, you and Remus could fight him off. After all, I am muscle man!" Sirius rambled on, while James got redder, redder and redder.

"No Peter! You've not known her long enough. Besides no offence or anything, but you couldn't protect her. You wouldn't hurt a fly…"

"JAMES! I don't like Lily-"Peter had started, just as Lily appeared by the stairs.

"Gee, thanks Peter." Lily replied dryly, as she walked up to James and unclenched his fists.

"Lily, you've got it wrong. He meant as a friend. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry…" Peter had said with much definition. He meant as more of in a wayof what he had later done.

*Lily still felt overwhelmed by the choice of breakfast, and started on her pumpkin juice… only it tasted strange… and then she spotted some eyes looking straight at her and then felt love muddle her brain. All she could think of the pair of black eyes that had been staring into hers. The eyes of Severus Snape.*

One minute James had been laughing at the look in Lily's eyes when she had spotted the tasty range of food on the table, and then the look in her eyes had quickly changed into confusion, then lust and then love. This made James look in the same direction – the same direction as Severus Snape. He already felt hate for Snape, the guy had greasy hair and had always gave him the creeps. He always upset his Lily, and always had been a bully. So why was Lily looking at him like that, looking at him with love filled eyes?

"Lily, why are you looking at Snape like that?" James asked Lily hesitantly, as he shared a look with an observant Remus – who always seemed to notice everything.

"With what? Love? I love him James." Lily drooled, sharing a wink with Sirius – who winked back!

Sirius spit out his pumpkin juice, spraying it all over a quiet Peter. He quickly announced he needed to get changed, ignoring Remus's shouts of "Magic Peter, you could use magic!" Peter just wanted to get away…

"Love?" James asked in a state of utter confusion, his eyes bugging out as he shook Lily a little.

"Yes love James. Love is a beautiful and powerful emotion. When you're in love, you always want to be with the other person, and when you're not, you're always thinking about them. Without them you feel like something is missing. That's my little Sev."

"Little Sev?" James spluttered.

"Lily did you just do that? Are you alright?" Remus asked, with a look of concern in his eyes. He knew that something was wrong; Remus always noticed things like this.

"I'm fine. In fact I'm more than fine. I'M IN LOVE!" Lily shrieked, causing everyone to look at her after the outburst.

"I mean you were all like. Oh, I'm in Lily. I'm sooo in lovveee. My little grease ball, gorgeously slimy sleaze ball lover is the sexy Snivelous! I mean come on Lily; he's a right sleaze bag!" Sirius retold his own 'version' of events, in order to either wind everyone up, or to get a kick out of it. Although in his own eyes he was very concerned, concerned for Lily's sanity and his own. The three boys watched in wonder as Lily walked towards the 'love of her life.'

James, Remus and Sirius had managed to sneak into the Slytherin's common room quickly heading in after Snape. They managed this using James's invisibility cloak. They needed to know what Snape had done to Lily, who had spent the entire day following him around like a lost puppy. Although Remus wasn't happy with the 'lack of space' and being stuck in a confined space with his 'mad friends'. They had overheard a conversation between Snape, Malfoy and Bellatrix Black. They had been hissing at each other, while Snape kept talking about some powerful 'control' he had over a 'stupid little Gryffindor puppet.' Soon he kept talking about angry red hair, and tasks he would get her to complete. How to test out this control, they would get her to steal some important files off Dumbledore. Files all about the different students in the school, so they could mark out all of the muggle borns. Remus had gasped quietly and whispered to his oblivious friends, "This is what Snape has done to Lily. He's gave something to her, we just need to listen on to find out what he's given her. He is using his control to do evil bidding… I'm sure of it. The Dark Lord is nothing at the moment, but he will gain control, we just need to limit the damage." Soon they heard it. The thing that made James's blood boil.

"To think a little filthy mudblood is in love with you Severus. Someone as talented and as good looking as you. She's nothing compared to you. Nothing." Bellatrix had delivered a blow to James, who felt like coming from beneath the cloak and knocking them all out. Remus had to reprimand both James and Sirius, the only rational one in the group.

"Don't be stupid. It's alright; we can't get caught in here. All we need to do is go to Dumbledore, he'll have some antidote to the potion, and then we can give it to Lily and stop all this. Alright guys?" Remus muttered, and Sirius and James quickly nodded.

After managing to escape from the Snake's common room, they boys quickly went to find Lily, who was lying flat on the Gryffindor's sofa, writing out a love letter to 'Sev'. The boys, minus Peter who seemed to have scarpered hours ago, lifted Lily off the sofa and dragged her towards Dumbledore's office. After guessing the password to the office which was 'lemon drops', they dragged Lily into the office to Dumbledore who gave Lily the antidote to the potion without a word. Afterwards he gave Lily a funny look, and told her to "look out for herself."

This had truly creped Lily out, and after discovering what Severus had about to have used for, she shook violently with rage. Although the boys had calmed her down and told her how they would always before there for her. She knew they told nothing but the truth, and this made her slightly more optimistic for the future that once seemed covered beneath the gloom.

I'm a little bit worried about this chapter. What do you guys think? Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me with the story, and thanks for waiting out for me after such a long period of time without an update! Sorry, and I hope you can stick with me until my exams are over at the end of June. I will try and update whenever I can though, because I am determined to carry on with this story.