Hi again, thanks for those of you who did review my last fic, anyway, disclaimer; I own nothing that you recognize. If I did, I wouldn't be writing fanfics would I?
******Waterlily's Part 7******
'So where did Jasmine go again?' Sirius asked Lily for the tenth time in the last five minutes.
Lily sighed. 'I have told you a million times already, she said she had to go and talk to someone.'
'Well why didn't you go with her?' James asked Lily angrily.
'Because she rushed off before I could do or say anything, Dickhead.' Lily told him hotly. 'What's it to you anyway? I thought Sirius was the one desperately in love with her!'
'Hey! I am not "desperately in love with her!"' Sirius told them indignantly.
'…Whatever.' James muttered, causing Sirius to whack him over the head.
'What's going on? I thought you two had agreed to disagree with each other forever more.' Sirius said in a confused voice.
'I –technically- didn't agree with James, he agreed with me.' Lily told them.
James scowled at both of them.
'Ah-ha! Checkmate!' Remus' voice interrupted them. 'I beat you, you little rat!' He got up and did a little victory dance around the common room, Peter was left sulking at the chessboard, listening to the insults the chess players were throwing at him.
Remus danced over to where they were they were sitting and sat down. 'What're we talking about?' He asked, his usual shy and quiet attitude dissolved by his win over Peter.
'Jasmine.' They answered.
'Ah yes, where is the love of Sirius' life anyway?' Remus asked.
Sirius' scowl deepened, and he chucked a pillow at Remus.
'Hey! Was it something I said?' Remus asked annoyed.
Lily rolled her eyes as Remus threw a cushion back at him.
'Poor Princess Lily, too sophisticated and posh to understand the humorous side of watching two friends fight.' James mocked.
'Screw-you Potter.' She said venomously.
'Really? I'm not so sure Snape would approve of you doing that.' He said with amusement.
'Grow up!'
'Make me!'
'I've got better things to do with my time!'
'What? Snogging Snape?'
'Is that what you do when you can't think of a decent come back? Make stupid remarks about Snape?'
'No, normal I punch them in the nose, but then you'd probably burst into tears!'
'In the nose you say? Like this?' She drew back her arm and punched him.
'Ow!' James cried out. 'What'd you do that for?' He asked angrily, his nose dripping blood.
'Gee, you really must be dumber than you look, quite an achievement, I applaud you.' She said sarcastically.
Sirius who had stopped beating Remus with his pillow, and tried with all his might to contain his laughter, finally cracked, letting out a huge "HA!" 'A girl beat up you James! Not just any girl…Lily!' He fell backwoods onto the couch and burst into hysterical gales of laughter.
James had his nose in the air, and was lightly feeling the damage. 'Damn it Lily, I think you broke my nose!' He told her angrily. He poked Sirius. 'When you're done…' He prompted annoyed.
Sirius looked up, still laughing. 'Yikes, who would've known she had such a punch in her.' He commented. 'Come on James, you'd better see Madame Helga.'
He led James threw the crowd of Gryffindors who quickly pretended that they hadn't been watching.
After they exited the common room, nearly everyone broke into amused gales of chatter.
'Lily, why exactly did you punch James?' Remus asked curiously.
'He was getting on my nerves.' Lily said grinning, although inside she felt a small pang of guilt.
* * *
Jasmine awoke with a splitting headache. She opened her eyes, but could see only blurred white.
'Ugh.' She groaned, rubbing her eyes.
She heard fast, delicate footsteps approach her, and suddenly the white curtain was pulled to the side and she saw the plump school-nurse standing before her.
'Ah, so your awake at last.' She said.
Jasmine looked around her and saw that she was in the infirmary, in the bed next to her the boy from the Quiditch match, she couldn't remember his name. 'What happened?' She asked groggily.
'…You mean you don't remember?' Madame Helga asked uncertainly.
Jasmine shook her head, and then regretted it for it caused a sharp pain in her temple.
Madame Helga sighed. 'A young Slytherin boy found you at the foot of the stairs coming from the Ravenclaw territory. He says he was looking for Professor Flitwick at the time…'
Jasmine looked confused. 'Who was the boy?' She asked.
Madame Helga thought for a moment. 'I think the lads name was Snake…no Snape, or something like that.'
Jasmine's eyes widened with surprise, but she quickly calmed herself when Madame Helga gave her a look.
Jasmine quickly changed the subject. 'When'll I be getting out of here?' She asked.
'Tomorrow morning.' Madame Helga promised. 'That is if you get enough rest…' She added meaningfully.
* * *
James and Sirius walked towards the hospital wing.
'I guess I can count on you to tell Madame Helga that Lily broke my nose, Sirius?' He asked glumly.
'What're friends for?' He answered brightly.
'Great.' James said with dismay.
Sirius grinned and pushed the door open for them.
Madame Helga, who was making up the spare beds, took one look at James, and rushed over in an instant.
'Oh my, James, what happened?' She asked concerned.
'A girl punched him.' Sirius told her promptly.
James scowled.
Madame Helga just sighed and told him to sit down, and stare at the roof.
She took out her wand and said 'Repairo.' ((I think that one is an actual spell, but I can't remember.))
All of a sudden, James nose felt much better.
'Thanks a lot.' He said. 'How's Thomas?' He asked looking around the beds. He spotted Jasmine sleeping in one in the far corner. 'Jasmine!' He called out.
'James!' Madame Helga said annoyed. 'She needs her rest.'
James nodded vaguely, and both he Sirius made their way over to her bed.
'Five minutes!' Madame Helga called to them.
Jasmine opened her eyes to see a goofy face grinning over her.
She instinctively lifted up her arm and swatted it.
'Ow!' She heard Sirius' voice cry out.
'Oh, sorry Sirius.' She said. She raised her head a little off the pillow and saw that James was sitting next to her bed examining his nose in a mirror. 'What are you two doing here?' She asked them.
Sirius' face split into an evil grin. 'Lily broke James' nose.' He told her.
She looked from James to Sirius, then back to James again and burst out laughing.
James scowled at her. ((He's doing a lot of scowling today…))
'Oh my God, why?' She asked when she had calmed down.
'I told that I wouldn't go out with her.' He lied.
'Sure…' Jasmine said sarcastically.
'Anyway, why're you here?' Sirius asked seriously.
'I don't know, I can't really remember. Madame Helga said Snape brought me here claiming that I'd fallen down the Ravenclaw steps.'
'I knew it!' James said triumphantly. 'He tried to murder you! I always had my suspicions about him…' He added mysteriously.
Jasmine laughed. 'If he tried to murder me, why'd he bring me here?' She asked. 'Oh God! Did I just defend Snape?' She cried in disgust.
Sirius put a hand up to her forehead in pretence to check if she was feverish.
'Ok, times up boys, she'll be out tomorrow, you can see her then.' Madame Helga said striding over to them.
They nodded, and waved goodnight to Jasmine, as they were ushered out of the white washed room.
* * *(A couple of weeks later)
'Miss Avery, could I please see you for a moment after class?' Professor McGonagall's strict voice rose above the ringing bell.
Jasmine looked from her friends to Professor McGonagall confused. 'Yeah, sure.' She answered.
She watched everyone else rush out eagerly to escape the stuffiness of the classroom.
The Professor shuffled the papers in front of her into a neat pile before finally looking at Jasmine.
'How are things with you, Jasmine?' She asked seriously.
Jasmine looked blankly at her for a second. 'Uh, fine I guess.' She said uncertainly.
'Uh huh, there isn't anything troubling you lately? Anything that seems slightly not right?' She pushed.
'Not right?' Jasmine repeated blankly. 'No, not that I can think of. Why?'
McGonagall sighed. 'Well, your school work isn't going all that good.' She told her. 'Like this paper you handed in on Tuesday-'
'I wasn't feeling that well when I wrote that.' She said in defensively.
'It's not just this paper Jasmine.' McGonagall told her, shaking her head slightly. 'Almost all your work recently has been barely acceptable. It's not just in Transfiguration either. Professor Strapp, Professor Flitwick, Professor Lunar... They've all said roughly the same thing.'
Jasmine looked at her teacher. 'So...what are you saying?' She asked hesitantly.
'Well in a couple of weeks the end of year exams are coming up. And as I presume you already know, you need to pass these exams to get into your second year.' She said kindly. 'I'm just suggesting that you spend your time before the exams wisely. Try to cram in as much studying as possible.'
'But I do study!' Jasmine told her outraged.
'Yes well, I'm sure you do, but a little more might be the way to go.'
* * *
'Oh Jasmine, what's the matter?' Lily asked her friend who was sitting on one of the couches in their common room, crying.
'Pro-Professor McGonagall, said I was gonna fail unless I spent all of my time studying.' She choked out.
'Oh Jasmine…' Lily said sympathetically, rushing over and putting her arm around Jasmines shoulder. 'Your not going to fail, your too bright for that. What does that old bat know anyway?'
Jasmine shook her head at Lily. 'It's not just McGonagall, the other teachers think so too.'
Lily looked sympathetic.
Just then the portrait door swung open and revealed James, Sirius and Remus laughing merrily about something.
Jasmine quickly looked away and wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her robe.
'Please don't tell them.' She muttered to Lily, who nodded blankly.
They saw Sirius spot them, poke the others, and walk over.
'Hey guys, what's up?' Remus asked them brightly.
'Jasmine, what's wrong?' Sirius asked when he saw her red eyes.
Lily looked at her anxiously.
'My rabbit died.' She lied in a sad voice.
'Oh, I'm sorry Jasmine.' James said sincerely.
'Yeah, I know how you feel.' Sirius said sympathetically. 'I used to have a rabbit, it used to turn the cat purple.' He said with a small smile on his lips. 'Then it died when I was nine.' Sirius looked at the floor, his eyes misting up.
Lily exchanged a look with Jasmine.
'...There, there Sirius.' Said Remus, awkwardly patting him on the back.
Sirius sniffed. 'I'm fine.' He told the group.
* * *
Lily looked over at Jasmine in Transfiguration, she was intently writing down notes and trying to concentrate hard. Past her, James was grinning evilly at Lily. She rolled her eyes and looked back to her book. It said, in big black ink words 'HELLO, COW'. She gaped at her book, and turned the page. Thankfully, it wasn't written on any other pages.
She turned back to him, and he was giggling proudly. Sirius looked as if he asked why he was laughing, and James whispered something in his ear. Then Sirius chuckled too, but shot Lily a sympathetic look also.
'Bastards.' She cursed, underneath her breath. James seemed to understand what she said, and poked his tongue out at her.
She commenced reading the book, trying very hard not to look over at James pulling faces at her.
Finally she cracked.
When Professor McGonagall's back was turned, she pulled out her wand and muttered a spell at him. A small flash of light erupted from her wand, and James ended up with his skin a brilliant shade of orange.
James looked down at his hand in shock. He turned angrily towards Lily and also picked up his wand and pointed it at her.
Lily saw him say something that she didn't quite catch.
A minute later, her hair was white and stringy, like cobwebs.
'Arrgh!' She cried out. 'James I'll kill you!' She yelled at him.
'You started it, Cobweb' He called back to her immaturely.
'I did not! You did!'
'Lily! James!' Professor McGonagall's angry voice silenced them. 'What is the meaning of this?' She asked in a deadly voice. 'I turn my back on you two for one minute…50 points from Gryffindor, and you will both have detentions on Friday.' The rest of their class groaned at them in unison.
'What?' Lily asked shocked. She scowled angrily at James, and was enraged even more to find that he was grinning at her.
Professor McGonagall cleared her throat again. 'You two are to go to Madame Helga to get yourselves cleaned up.' She told them strictly.
Lily saw Jasmine look at her sympathetically, and smiled back. Then she gathered up her books and walked out of the classroom, not waiting for James.
A moment later, she heard the classroom door creak open and James emerge behind her.
They walked in silence for a little while.
'I hate you James.' Lily suddenly blurted out at him.
'Really?' He asked her.
She glared at him. 'You are, by definition, the most annoying person on this planet.' She informed him.
He grinned wickedly at her. 'You don't mean that, you know you love me.'
'Potter, did you hit your head recently? Or are you always this dumb?'
'Gee, I'm so offended, Spider.'
'What! What do you mean, Spider?' She asked him.
He grabbed her bag and pulled out her hand mirror from it.
Lily grabbed it from him, and held it up so he could see the top of her head.
Lily screamed.
Sitting delicately in the tangled mass of white that was her hair sat a big, black, hairy spider.
'Get it off, get it off, get it off!' She shrieked at him, whilst jumping up and down on the spot and shaking her head about frantically. ((Don't you dare say that's pathetic, I did that in the middle of Food Tech once, very embarrassing…))
James looked at her and started laughing.
'Potter! Get it off me now!' She yelled at him.
He sighed. 'Leviosa.' He said sadly pointing his wand at the eight-legged demon.
She took a breath of relief, then suddenly swung her book bag at him, hitting him square in the cheek.
'Ow!' He cried out. 'It was only a little spider!' He told her crossly, waggling it at her with his wand.
'Get that away from me, you self-loving, purely insane, totally unworthy of any of the stuck up privileges that comes with being the son of the worst Minister of Magic ever!' She took a deep breath and stared defiantly at him.
James said nothing for a minute. He was taken shocked. No one, had ever spoken to him like that, and really meant it.
Finally, he realized that he was letting her win the argument. 'I'm impressed, there ain't a lot of Mudbloods who know who the Minister of Magic is.' He said angrily, inwardly shocked at what he had just said.
Lily gaped at him in fury for a second. Her eyes narrowed. 'Laugh it up Potter, at least my father loves me.' She said coolly, knowing she didn't have a shred of evidence to base that on. She calmly turned on her heal and continued to walk towards the hospital wing.
James felt like the bottom of his stomach had just dropped off. He stared after her thinking about what she had said.
She just said that to make me feel bad. He thought to himself. She doesn't even know my father. Of course he loves me. 'Or does he?' A little voice in the side of his head asked.
James turned and walked back down the corridor in which they came. He got to a portrait of a sullen looking wizard thinking hard.
'Lateral quizzes.' He said flatly, and the painting swung open, allowing him to climb down into the room below, and collapse pathetically into a rather tattered looking couch.
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A/N: Aww, poor James huh? Oh well…
Sorry that took so long, but now it's up.
My friend who is very good at French and drawing wrote one part in this, and had an idea for another part. Her
name is *-Artemis-*. Go read her stories now. (she wrote that by the way.)
Yeah, Artemis helped with the start of the transfiguration lesson.
Newayz, please review now.