I borrowed the chapter title from a review haha. Hope you enjoy - Tiger xx

The boy leading the group had paper thin skin and greasy hair that clung to his face. He reached the table and sneered at all of them.

"Lily, I'm -" he began.

"Oh piss off Snivellous" James rolled his eyes.

Snape's nostrils flared. "Are you on some sort of date with Potter, Lily?" he asked curtly.

Lily blushed for a millisecond, only to be noticed by the Nettle sisters, before she wrinkled her nose.

"No Sev I am not. I haven't spoken a word to him." Which was true. Apart from when the girls first arrived, Lily had ignored both James and Sirius's presence. "I don't know why you think it's your business to ask anyway"

"I know you're mad still, but it was only a mistake, and if you'd just get over it then we could-"

"GET OVER IT?" Lily stood up abruptly and Alice reached for her wand.

"Yes. It's really not worth throwing our friendship away for a stupid word" Snape gulped but held his ground.

"It's not the word, it's the intention! How could you be so ignorant to believe that that word wouldn't affect me?" Lily was fuming at this point. The Marauders were glaring at the other Slytherins, daring them to make a move against Lily and the Nettles watched the scene unfold with contained anger.

"It was in a moment of anger. I obviously wasn't thinking straight. You should blame them not me" Snape tore his eyes away from Lily to point and the Marauders. In doing this, he noticed the other girls at the table.

"You are solely to blame for your actions Sev! And I honestly-"

"Who are they?" Snape interrupted her.

"My friends. Luna, Ginevra and Hermione Nettle" Lily raised her eyebrow as the three other boys behind Snape faces turned pale.

They bowed to the sister slightly, and Snape nodded his head slightly. "Our condolences" one of the boys muttered.

"Thank you. Now if you'd kindly continue this conversation at another time? I can see my friends are quite upset with your presence here." Luna's eyes regarded them coldly, before turning to Hermione and whispering "is that how Slytherins are supposed to act?"

Hermione smiled slightly. "Yeah Lunes"

"Excellent "

Snape's nostrils flared again. "This isn't a matter that concerns you, or anyone. It's between me and Lily and"

"Excuse me? I think it started to involve us when you accused Sirius and James, interrupted our lunch and insulted my sister. Now bugger off before you regret it" Ginny growled. There was immense satisfaction with scolding your bullying potions teacher, even more so when your in a higher position of power.

"Is that supposed to be a threat?"

"Yes" Ginny stood from her chair and stepped eye to eye with Snape.

"And what makes you think your pathetic threats scare me?" he snarled.

"You should be if they come from the House of Nettle. Now I'll only repeat myself one more time. Bugger off" Ginny had a fire in her eye that shouldn't be messed with. But of course, people like to play with fire no matter how many times they get burnt.

"Well what are you going to do? Your parents are dead it's not like you can write a formal complaint is it?"

The sound of Ginny's fist colliding with Snapes crooked nose echoed around the Alley. People stopped to look as one of Snapes comrades Episkeyed his nose and pulled the staggering boy up.

The Slytherins left the ice cream parlour cursing everything under the sun.

Ginny pulled out her wand and cleaned the blood off of her hand as she sat down gracefully.

"Bloody hell Gin!" James exclaimed in awe, breaking the silence.

"Yeah thank you Ginny. Maybe that'll give him the message, although physical violence isn't exactly the best method..." Lily trailed off.

James looked at her like she'd gone mad. "I always hate to disagree with you, Lily-flower, but I must. Snape deserved it! He was bang out of order for mentioning that."

"I know" Lily really didn't know what to think. Or how to accept that her friend was fully gone. So she sat back and watched Ginny and James engage in an enthusiastic comment about Quidditch and Alice and Hermione talk about aurors, thinking about the changes that'll happen in the next year.