Potter vs. Evans

by The Girl Who Lives

A Lily/James love/hate fic. They hate each other and have to accomplish detention together. It rains and they have to stay overnight in a cabin, and manage to hide their feelings, which is quite difficult in a situation like this. James has a girlfriend a

2. The Cabin

Potter vs. Evans

Chapter 2 – The Cabin

Mr. Potter and Miss Evans: You have to get from the Forbidden Forest: - Magic Garlic - Newt Plant - Vulture Fruit - Oyster Jelly flower seeds - Voracious Vomit savage shells - Sparkling Nettle PS.: You need a full sack of each of those ingredients

"See what you've done, Potter?" complained Lily "It's starting to rain and we've gotta find all those nasty ingredients for Kent!"

"Come on… it's just drizzling!" said James "And if you weren't so god damn stupid, we wouldn't be here!"

"What did you want me to do? See you turn me into a blast-ended screwt and do absolutely nothing? Give me a break! I had to do something before you!" said Lily.

"You're already a blast-ended screwt, Evans! Don't you have a mirror?" he said.

"Go to the hell, Potter!" shouted Lily "We've gotta do something important. Now it's just drizzling, but in just some minutes, it will rain hard, and I hope to find those potions stuff before it."

"So do I." agreed James.

"So let's give ourselves a break. Stop talking." Said Lily

"So stop talking too, Evans. I only talk when you tease me." Argued James

"I tease you? YOU tease me, Potter!" disagreed Lily

"Whatever. Just keep your mouth shut. I hate your voice." James asked

"So do I"

"A-ha!" James grinned "So you finally admitted your voice is terribly annoying. And too much sharp."

"No, moron", said Lily "I meant that I hate YOUR voice. It really remembers my aunt Margot's voice."

Now James really seemed to be indignant "Hey! I've got MALE voice!"

Lily burst into laughter.

"I forgot to say that I hate your hyena giggle." Complained James

She stopped laughing. "YOU have hyena giggle, Potter. Not me."

"Shut up, Evans! We've gotta find those plants Kent asked."  James asked seriously

"It's that what I'm trying to tell you all the time!"

"So keep your mouth shut that I'll keep mine."

"Okay"

"Shut up, Evans!"

"I only said okay! Shut up you, Potter!"

"Don't tell me what I've gotta do."

"So shut up!"

"Shut up. I'll be quiet."

And they didn't speak a single word until they found the first ingredient: magic garlic.

"Why does he need it?" James wondered

"So Mr. Wonderboy Potter doesn't know everything in the world!"

Firstly, he seemed to be annoyed, but then, something occurred to him, and he grinned "Did you thought so, Evans? That I knew everything in the world? And I thought you weren't my admirer!"

"Shut up, Potter!"

"I bet you don't know what does it do."

She seemed to be indignant. How could somebody doubt of her potions knowledge? "Of course I know, Potter. It works for annul the effect of any potion. For an example, if you prepare a sleeping potions perfectly and puts a clove of magic garlic in it, you automatically destroy the potion. Magic Garlic destroys any potion."

Firstly he just looked at her dryly, normally. Then an angry look appeared on his face. "So it was you, Evans, who destroyed my shrinking potion? I knew I had done everything perfectly, and even though the color was correct, it did not worked!"

"Bravo!" she said, grinning "I thought you'd never notice it! You're so stupid…"

"You're so mean, Evans! You disgust me." He said unhappily "I could have been reproved. Unfairly."

Lily felt the urge to apologize to him, but she couldn't. I can't do it. Apologizing is showing frailty. And I CAN'T show frailty to James Potter.

He could have had to do a year twice.

Could you please help me feeling more guilty?

You were completely wrong… You couldn't have done it. It's okay to pull prank on him, but to impair him at school…

I know! But I also knew that he wouldn't be reproved. He's too smart! And, after all, it was last year! A long time ago…

A-ha! You finally admitted it! You finally admitted he's very smart.

Even you? Come on… But, coming back to the subject… I only did it because of…

Am I totally mistaken or he had done absolutely nothing to you that day?

He did something!

Oh, yeah! It was the day when he started dating Konstanze!

WHAT?! I didn't even remember that!

Did you forget that I'm you and that I KNOW everything you feel and remember?

How could I? You keep remembering me! But if I would be upset because of every girlfriend Potter had or has, I would have committed suicide.

That was different. Konstanze was his first OFICIAL girlfriend. The others were just kiss-kiss bye-bye.

Shut up! I just think that it's unfair what he does with those stupid girls. Like you said… it's just kiss-kiss bye-bye. And the worst thing is that they've got hope to be the OFICIAL.

And just Konstanze managed to be it…

Because she's stupid. Everybody knows that James Potter goes out with another girls even after he started this supposed-to-be-serious relationship with her.

And how many stupid girls who want to be his official girlfriends are here at Hogwarts… you included!

Hey! I wouldn't want to be with someone, being frequently cheated on!

So you admit that if he wouldn't cheat on you, you'd love to be his girlfriend! Wouldn't you?

Well, I…

At this moment, James nudged her right shoulder. "Wake up, Evans! You can't leave to me all the hard work!"

"Er… what?"

"You were absently minded."

"Sorry."

"It's okay… now that you're awake, please, let's go back to work" he said dryly

They stood quiet for almost an hour and a half, finding the ingredients. It was still raining, though not too much.

They just needed one more ingredient to find: sparkling nettle.

And half an hour passed and they still didn't find the nettle.

"How come we have walked all this forest and didn't find absolutely nothing?" asked Lily

"I don't know. Maybe it's because you're incredibly lazy!"

"I am lazy? I think you must have changed the names. YOU are lazy!"

"Am I? You are always absently-minded! I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO SEARCH THE INGREDIENTS AND YOU KEEP BEING THINKING ABOUT SIRIUS! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP TO THINK ABOUT THAT RIDICULOUS GIT AND START DOING THE REAL JOB WE'VE GOT TO DO?" yelled James

"Hey, low your voice. It gets much more irritable when it's loud! And I wasn't thinking about Si…" she started, and was about to say Sirius… I was thinking about you. But, then, something occurred to her "What's the matter? What do you have to do with my thinkings? And I thought that Sirius was your friend." She said "It's not a friendly thing to call your best friend a ridiculous git."

James blushed, but then, said out loud "What do I have to do with this? I'll answer you: we've got to accomplish detention, and I am doing all the hard job alone!"

"Alone? You know I'm doing what I've gotta do. And after all, we're here just because of your MAGNIFICENT sense of opportunity, forget it?" shouted Lily, ironically "Did you forget that we're here just because of your bloody need to tease me, James Potter?"

"Come on, Evans! We're here because you had to yell that way" replied him, and imitated her yell

"Shut up, Potter! You know exactly why we're here. But now, it doesn't matter. All we've gotta do is finding this bloody damn nettle and give it to the bloody damn Kent. Got it?"

"That's what I'm trying to say, Evans. But you keep talking, and your damn sharp voice get me on the nerves."

"Okay, Potter, whatever. Just shut up, will you?'

"I will, but not because you want, you know. I'll be quiet because I WANT TO. Because I'm sick of being in the middle of this damn forest with the most ugly and annoying girl in the world."

"Whatever, Potter."

The rain got harder in a few seconds.

"Goddamit!" shouted James and Lily at the same time

They glanced at each other and blushed.

"Damn!" yelles James "We can't find anything when it's raining like that!"

"I know, but what can we do?"

"I don't know! But I'm getting all wet!"

"Me too."

"Where's Fang?"

James and Lily looked around. The dog was running. James remembered that once Hagrid told him that Fang hated water.

"Damn! Now I'm completely alone with you!" complained Lily

"And I bet you're all happy! What will your friends say when you tell them you were alone with James Potter?" grinned James

Lily slapped him.

"They'll probably be disgusted. It's really a downgrade for someone who's dating Sirius Black, the cutest boy in the whole school" Lily grinned as James made a face "to be alone with the infamous and four-eyed James Potter."

"Ha-ha!" laughed James ironically "As if Sirius was better looking than I am…"

"I can say he is!"

"He isn't! I am better looking than he is!"

"You aren't!"

"I am."

"You're not!"

"I am!"

"Shut up, Potter! You can think you're better looking than Sirius, but it's not my opinion, and you can't change it! And I don't know why you are so interested in it."

"I'm not interested in your opinion. I just don't admit somebody saying that Sirius is better looking than me. 'Cause it isn't true at all!"

"It is."

"It's not. But you can say what you want, Evans. It doesn't matter to me."

Lily seemed to be hurt, but she though that it was a better idea to change the subject. "Potter, it is raining hard. Let's go to some place out of here. Hagrid said you know the Forbidden Forest."

"Well… I know… but it always changes and it's raining and… well…"

"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO COME BACK TO THE CASTLE?"

"Basically… yes."

"Oh, no! James Potter, why do you have to be so stupid? Damn it!"

"Oh, shut up, Evans! I have an idea of how to go back to the castle. But I can't guarantee it's right. I usually look to the stars to go there, but the sky is all cloudy because of this damn rain. I could also conduct me by looking to the trees, but as I already said, they always change their places. I'll try to follow the trees I know… and be happy if they didn't change. Will you come with me?"

"Do I have another choice?"

"Yes, you have. You can stay here and be eaten by a gigantic spider." He grinned

"Okay, I'll go with you. But… can't we throw red sparks to Hagrid come to rescue us?"

"No, the sky is very cloudy, moron. He won't see them."

"Don't call me a moron!"

"So don't be a moron."

"You are a moron, not me!"

"Not again, Evans! I'm tired. Tease me tomorrow."

She opened her mouth to reply, but suddenly occurred to her that it was better to stay quiet, so she closed it.

The rain was even harder now. James and Lily were running.

"We've been here three times now, Potter! We're walking in circles."

"So try to get back by yourself!"

"I can't, I admit it. But you can't, either."

"I'm trying."

"Damn it!" said Lily, still running "I'm soaked!"

Suddenly, James grabbed her arm. "Evans, look! There's a cabin there. It looks like Hagrid's!"

"We're saved! Thank God!"

"Thank ME, not God!"

"Whatever Potter" she said, and ran towards the cabin

"And… Evans… I said it looks like Hagrid cabin, but it's not. Just the layout looks the same, but they're in different places. So it can't be Hagrid's."

"I know." Said Lily, even don't knowing it "But I need a warm place."

They were in front of the door. James knocked it.

Nobody answered, but the door opened.

Inside it, there was a very small circular room. There was a narrow double bed, a fireplace, a cauldron, a mirror and a cupboard. Nothing more, nothing less.

"I'm hungry! Let's see if there's food here." Said Lily the very moment she saw the cupboard

The first thing James did was remove his cloak. He was soaked. Even the clothes he was wearing underneath the cloak, were soaked. So he removed his sweater, then his T-shirt and his pants. Now he was wearing only his boxers.

At the same moment, Lily was opening the cupboard, so she wasn't looking at James, and saw what was inside it. There was two pumpkin juice bottles, a chocolate frogs box, two sacks of Bertie Boots's Every Flavor Beans, a pumpkin and a tray.

She put everything on the tray, picked it up, and turned on her heels. Then she saw James half-naked.

She forgot about the tray she was carrying and dropped it. It clattered on the floor. The bottles broke, and there was pumpkin juice on all the floor. The pumpkin was smashed, and it dirtied the floor even more.

"Bravo, Evans!" clapped James "I knew I was attractive, but I didn't know you would be so glad in seeing me wearing only my boxers."

"Shut up, you shameless git! You're naked. It isn't a gentleman-like thing to be naked in front of a girl."

"Come on, I'm not naked. I'm wearing my boxers."

"Great Difference."

"We're not in the middle ages, Evans. Imagine that they're shorts, not boxers. You shouldn't be so horrified. I'm sure you saw other boys not only half-naked, but completely naked."

She walked towards him and slapped his face.

"Ouch, Evans!"

She just glared at him.

"It hurts!" he complained

"I know. That's why I slapped you."

"Don't pretend to be the saint, Evans. Are you going to tell me you're still a virgin?"

"I AM a virgin." She told him

James burst into laughter.

"What? Is there any problem with it?" she asked angrily

"Evans, no teenager is virgin in the 70s."

"I AM."

"Only because no boy in the world would sleep with a hag like you."

"For your information, Mister Potter, I'm still a virgin because I want to."

"Yeah, sure."

"And you, Potter, aren't you a virgin? Because Konstanze never told me and the girls about having any kind of sexual relationship with you."

"I am not a virgin." Replied James firmly "And Konstanze must had thought you would be horrified. After all, she isn't the only girl in Hogwarts."

Lily seemed to be disappointed, but she just said "It's your business what you want to do. So it's my business what I wanna do. And I definitely don't want it. I think I'm too young."

"Okay, then." Said James "But, anyway, I took these clothes off because they're all soaked, and I could get a pneumonia if I kept them on me. You should do the same. You're all soaked, Evans."

"You're a pervert, Potter." Said Lily "I won't be half-naked in front of you."

"You talk as if I wanted to see you naked." Replied James

Lily blushed, but said "And you don't?"

Now, James blushed. But he couldn't show frailty towards Evans "I don't. You're a hag, Evans. After all, seeing naked women is totally normal for me."

"Oh." Whispered Lily.

"Come on, Evans… you won't die of pneumonia just because you don't want me to see you wearing underwear, will you?" asked James.

"Of course not." Replied Lily lowly. He was right. Her clothes were soaked. She removed her cloak.

James was glancing her, and there was a ghost of a smile on his face.

"What, Potter? Can't you just turn around? I thought you didn't want to see me." asked Lily.

James blushed, and turned on his heels.

Normally, a girl would ask a boy to turn around just when she was putting on her clothes. But Lily felt embarrassed to took her clothes off even knowing that James would see her wearing underwear in some minutes. Lily took her sweater off, then her blouse.

"Can I turn again?" asked James, who were staring to the opposite wall.

"No" replied Lily.

After that, she removed her skirt, and then her shoes. The last thing she took off were her socks.

Lily couldn't pretend she wasn't embarrassed. How could she not be embarrassed if James Potter, her worst enemy, and in the same time the sexiest boy in Hogwarts. was alone with her in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, wearing only boxers. And she herself was wearing only panties and bra.

"Can I turn around now, Evans?"

She hesitated for some time. Then she said "Yes."

James turned around.

He didn't expect Lily to be so beautiful in underwear. His jaw dropped, and he didn't even noticed it.

"Potter, Potter!" said Lily, holding her own embarrassment "Haven't you ever seen a girl in underwear? So pretend it's just a bikini!"

James blushed, and then, said "I didn't know you were so fat, Evans. I'm sure Sirius will break up with you the very minute he see your enormous belly."

"Fat? Me?" asked Lily indignantly.

"You're really fat, Evans."

"I'm not. And if you want to know, Konstanze's belly is much bigger than mine. My belly isn't even prominent." Argued Lily

"Why do you love to compare yourself to Konstanze?" asked James.

Lily blushed. "Why do you have to be so obnoxious, James?"

Something cold ran across James's spine. His expression showed amazement. "Why are you calling me James instead of Potter?"

"Er… James is your name, isn't it?" said Lily, embarrassed.

"Yeah, it is. But you aren't used to call me that way. I'm Potter, remember?" said James.

"Sorry."

"Okay, but remember not calling me James again. It's really strange from you." Said James. Call me James forever, it's so sweet…, he thought to himself, and then, slapped himself mentally.

"Sorry." Said Lily again.

The embarrassment between the couple was visibly visible.

"Er… do you think the rain will linger to stop?" said Lily

"I don't have the faintest idea." Replied James dryly.

They remained quiet for almost half an hour, James looking to a wall, Lily looking to another. Any of them could see the other.

Then, something occurred to Lily. She lit the fireplace and put her clothes near it to dry. Then, she walked towards the cupboard and glanced at it. Pity she got all the food that were there. Now, they would be hungry until Hagrid come there and conduct them to the castle… if he ever find them. A tear rolled across her cheek. Not because she could die, but because she was alone with James Potter, and he didn't even look at her. Because they could die and James didn't even forget his goddamit proud. And neither she… but she could die, but couldn't admit it.

Another tear rolled across her other cheek, and others came. Lily couldn't hold her sobs anymore.

James turned around. "What…?" and stopped. He glanced at her. "Why are you crying?"

"Turn to your wall, James. I want to be alone!" cried Lily

"No, I won't, Lily." Whispered James. And the same cold James felt before ran across Lily's spine. "Leave me alone." Begged Lily.

"I said I won't." he whispered again "What's the matter?"

"Goddamit! You are the matter. I am the matter. This cabin is the matter. The world is the matter! We don't have any food, and God knows when we're going to leave this damn cabin!" Lily shouted

"Calm down." Whispered James "I'll bring you some food. "You got that stuff" he said pointing to the tray and the food that were on the floor "from that cupboard, didn't you?"

"Yeah, but…" said Lily

Before she could tell him that she put all the food of the cupboard on the tray that remained on the floor, James, who had very long legs, walked towards the cupboard.

He opened its doors, and got six butterbeer bottles, three boxes of Chocolate Frogs, and a bunch of bananas. He put all those things on another silver tray.

"It's incredibly! You left in the cupboard exactly what I wanted!" commented James.

Lily found it very strange. She was sure she got everything from the cupboard, which happened to be exactly what she wanted. Maybe she was mistaken… But no.  She was a very good observer. Something occurred to her, but she chose to remain quiet.

James walked towards Lily carrying the silver tray.

"I should have bring a photo camera with me." Complained Lily "Rita Skeeter and Bertha Jorkins would love a James Potter as a Maid picture to their newspaper, Hogwarts Witch Weekly."

"Very funny, Evans." Said James dryly, putting his tray on the floor. "Take what you want." He said pointing at the food.

Lily took a butterbeer bottle and a Chocolate Frogs box. James ate very quickly everything else. Lily took the same time to eat only some Chocolate Frogs and to drink a butterbeer bottle.

"Oh! I can't eat nothing else! I'm stuffed." said Lily.

"I don't know how you can eat like a fly. I'm not hungry, but I can easily have much more than I already had." Said James.

"You're a boy. Boys eat like pigs." Teased Lily.

"No offense, please. 'm not in the mood." Said James bored.

"I know… you must be drunk after all those butterbeers. I'm a little drunk too… I don't know if I told you, but I can't stand alcohol… it makes me say and do everything I don't want to."

"Vino invera." Lily went on "It means that wine, or alcohol makes you just spit all the truth. That's what alcohol makes. Usually, people prefer to keep their secrets. Cheers to alcohol!!!"

Lily seemed to be much altered by drinking only a butterbeer than James, who had five.

He just glanced at her. "Evans, I'll sleep a little."

As James said it, he walked to the bed and laid on it. As he did it, Lily walked to the bed and laid opposite him. Next where his head rested, there was her feet, and next where her head rested, there was his feet.

Under the effect of alcohol, Lily wasn't even a bit embarrassed, but James… he was embarrassed like he hasn't ever been in his whole life. The vision of a half-naked Lily was too disturbing.

So, he sat down, and was about to leave the bed when a hand grabbed his wrist.

"I have already eaten. I can't sleep alone. I'll have nightmares." Whispered Lily in her altered by alcohol voice.

"It's your business, Evans." Said James firmly "You have a rank smell of feet and I can't sleep."

"Liar." Said Lily in a sing-song small voice "You just don't want to fall to temptation."

James opened his mouth to reply, but Lily was faster "you surely didn't have to bother with it. I'm Lily Daisy Evans, a virgin, and even drunk, I myself couldn't fall to temptation. Even when the temptation is your dead sexy self. It's every girls dream to enter in a church wearing white… and you would never marry me."

A slight smile showed up on James's face.

"Don't be so happy, James Harold Potter." She said "Did you think I didn't know your middle name? I know everything about you, Potter. Anyway, I would never admit I love you…"

James's jaw dropped. He wanted to hear more, but he couldn't.

"Come on, Evans, you're drunk. It doesn't make any sense. You really need some sleep." Said James dryly.

He didn't need to ask it to her twice. She was already sleeping. Sleeping like an angel.

James decided to give her a hangover potion. The problem was…

1- Where would he find the ingredients?

2- He was terrible dealing with potions.

3- He didn't remember very well how to make the potion.

4- He was terrible dealing with potions.

5- Lily was sleeping and it wasn't really a good thing waking up drunk people.

6- Did I mention that James was terrible dealing with potions?

Even though all those things, James decided to make the hangover potion to Lily, after all, it was quite disturbing to have a half-naked drunk Lily alone with him in a cabin aside of the world.

The potion was kind of simple… since what he remembered, he needed just newt plant, voracious vomit savage shells and unicorn milk.

Bingo! He had with him newt plant and voracious vomit savage shells, but… what about the unicorn milk?

Something occurred to him, and he walked towards the cupboard, and opened it. Coincidently, for his lucky, there was there a goblet full of unicorn milk.

He picked up the goblet and walked towards the caldron.

"How much voracious vomit shells do this potion need?" he thought out loud "The way Evans is drunk, I'd tell the potion will need all the sack."

So he put the whole goblet of unicorn milk, and half sack of newt plant in the cauldron and let those things there for a quarter of hour.

From the cauldron came a cocoa smell, which wasn't terrible as James expected, and the color of the liquid that remained there was kinda sea blue. It looked like, James thought, Aunt Rosella's blueberry jelly (which was, according to him and his cousins, quite terrible).

He used the unicorn milk goblet (there was nothing more there) to put the jelly blue liquid.

"Wake up, you're sleeping like a log!" shouted James.

"Mmm…?" moaned Lily lazily.

"Wake up, you sloth!" said James "I've got something to your drunkenness… it's a hangover potion… you won't be perfectly well, it will be normal to feel nausea or something like that, since I'm not a perfect potion maker, but, except for that, you'll feel much better and will not act this way… it's really too strange."

"Leave me alone, Potter! I want to sleep!" said Lily

"Come on, Evans!" called James "I know you're faily annoying, but I have to admit that's better to tease and to be teased by you than to be in this cottage while it's raining and nobody come here to rescue us than to be totally quiet doing nothing. Come on, wake up!"

"Okay… okay… what's that in this goblet?" asked Lily

"I already told you it's a hangover potion." Said James annoyed

"You're lucky I'm thirsty. Because if I weren't , I would never drink this thing." Said Lily

"Thing? It's a hangover potion." Shouted James

"Whatever." Said Lily, picking up the goblet and swallowing the blue liquid that was inside it. "Yuck! What did you put in this milk shake, Potter?"

"It's not a milk shake, Evans! It's a HANGOVER potion!" yelled James.

Suddenly, Lily's face became green, then blue, then purple, then red, then pink and then white again.

"JAMES POTTER! Are you trying to poison me?" she yelled just after she came back to her normal self "Because if you are… you are really bad at it! As you're seeing, I'm totally alive!"

"Very funny, Evans." Said James blankly "Anyway, I just bring you back to your normal and annoying self."

"What?" asked Lily confused

A ghost of a smile adorned James's face. "You can't believe the rubbish you said, Evans."

"What?" asked Lily astonished

"You told me you were madly in love with me and that…"

"I did what?" shouted Lily

"Just kidding." Said James.

Lily felt a immense relief.

"But you said you would never admit you love me." Said James seriously.

Lily blushed. Goddamit! Why did I have to drink that damn butterbeer? "Of course I would never admit it." She said firmly.

James became pale. "W-what?"

Lily looked pleased with James's reaction. "… as I was saying before you interrupted me… I would never admit I loved you because I don't love you. In fact, I hate you Isn't it obvious?"

"Yeah." Said James a bit disappointed.

"So, you woke me up and gave me this nasty potion for what?" asked Lily.

"Mmm… let's do something. I mean… you're really annoying, but I'd like to do something as a pastime. A game , for an example." Said James.

"What do you mean?" asked Lily suspiciously "No sex games."

"As if I wanted o play a game like that with you." Said James

"Okay, then. Do you have a suggestion?" asked Lily

"Er… what about truth or dare?" suggested James.

"With you? I can't imagine what would you dare me to do…" said Lily.

"Great idea… I could ask you to kiss a blast-ended skrewt." Said James, and Lily made a face "But… I wouldn't do this. I would feel pity for the poor animal."

"Very funny." Said Lily "But, okay, I'd love to make you swim the lake now, in the winter… and possibly, make the Giant Squib eat you… but the poor animal would have an indigestion."

"So, I'll get the bottle… there are six butterbeer bottles here." Said James.

"Wait!" said Lily "How will I know you won't lie?"

"How will I know you won't lie?" asked James

"I've got an idea." Said Lily "What about a truth potion?"

"Truth potions are forbidden by the Ministry." Said James "We can be sent to Azkaban."

"Come on, Potter…" said Lily "I'm not talking about Veritaserum, which's really painful. I'm talking about Veradita, an old truth potion that makes you spit the truth… it's much more inoffensive than Veritaserum. Veradita just make you say the truth, but as if it was voluntary. It doesn't hurt."

"So why don't the Ministry use it?" asked James

"Because You-Know-Who's followers dark mark makes them immune to Veradita… because Veradita's very light… that's why Flamel create Veritaserum. As you should know, Veritaserum can fight the Dark Mark powers."

"And how can I know you aren't immune to Veradita?" said James "You could easily be a Death Eater…"

"Go to hell, Potter." Said Lily seriously "It's more likely you to be a Death Eater than me. Anyway, I kinda think you aren't that evil."

"Okay, but how are we going to make it?" asked James.

"Good point." Said Lily. If this cupboard is what I'm thinking, I know exactly where to find it. And I won't even need to prepare it. "Er… I think I saw a bottle of Veradita in the cupboard."

"Are you sure?" asked James "I'm almost totally sure there wasn't anything more there."

"Really? I'm absolutely sure there was a Veradita bottle there." Said Lily.

"I'll check it." Said James.

"Nooooo! Wait! I'll check it." Said Lily anxiously.

"Calm down, Evans!" said James astonished "I'll let you go to the cupboard. No need to be so desperate.  I do not make a point of going to a insignificant cupboard."

"Thanks." Said Lily calmly.

She walked towards the cupboard nervously. I wish desperately a Veradita Potion. I wish a Veradita Potion.

She walked the whole way to the cupboard (which wasn't long in fact) wishing it.

Then, she took a deep breath and opened the cupboard's door. There was nothing inside it.

She didn't give up. She took another deep breath and closed the door. Then she opened it. Nothing again. She closed the door, and opened again. Nothing.

"What happened, Evans?" asked James curiously "Are you playing to open and close the door. Ow! That's cute… you remember my baby cousin Elaine.

"Shut up, Potter!" shouted Lily annoyed.

Then she opened furiously the cupboard door, and finely, miraculously, there was a bottle with a white label with this word written in green letter: Veradita.

Lily felt much relieved. She picked up the bottle and walked towards James. But something occurred to her, and she walked back. She opened the cupboard again, and there was there two goblets.

She reached out for the big sack where all Kent's ingredients were. "What are you doing, Evans?" asked James.

"Er… nothing… I'm just putting something more in the potion. It's too old, and I need something for it to work."

James, who didn't understand almost nothing about Potions, find it normal.

She put a clove of magic garlic in one of the goblets, and filled both them with Veradita.

"It's here." She told James handing him the non-magic garlic potion "Er… one thing: the rule is that when we ask true, the other person is supposed to ask only questions which the answers can be yes or no, okay?"

"Okay." He answered calmly.

"So, let's drink the potion." Said Lily

He took his goblet suspiciously and swallowed it. Lily did the same, but made a face. James find it strange, since the potion's taste was quite good.

"So, let's start." Said Lily happily "Give me the bottle."

"No, I'll turn it." Said James.

"No problem." Said Lily

James picked up the bottle, and turned it around. It whirled for some seconds, and finally, stopped pointing at Lily. "Truth or dare, Potter?"

"Truth" he said

"Are you really not a virgin?"

He blushed.

"I already told you, Evans. DO I have to answer it again?"

"Yeah,  you told me, but you weren't under the Veradita spell. I want the truth now." Said Lily

"Why?" asked him

"Because I want to embarrass you. Isn't it obvious?" said Lily

He really couldn't lie now. The spell made him spit the truth… "N-no… In fact, I'm a virgin…"

Lily laughed out loud, and a sensation of relief was felt by her. James went even redder. And he couldn't even invent anything now, like a pretext, because he couldn't lie. "So that talk about no teenager was virgin in the 70s was just idle talk…" she said pleased.

He turned the bottle again, but this time, it pointed at him.

"Now, I'll ask." Said him "Truth or dare, Evans?"

"Truth." She answered "I'm not crazy to ask dare to you."

"And you, are you really a virgin?"

She didn't need the spell to say the truth "Yeah, I am."

He faked a laugh, but he felt relief.

He turned the bottle, and it pointed at him again. "Truth or dare, Evans?"

"Truth." She said.

"Okay, then" he said "So, why do you hate me?"

"W-what, Potter?" said Lily astonished "You are supposed only to ask me yes or no questions."

"But I'm breaking the rules, we didn't make any spell against breaking this rule." He said "Come on, why do you hate me?"

"You're ridiculous, Potter." Said Lily

"Whatever, but you'll only stand up when you answer my question. I'm not too stupid in Potions like you think I am." He said.

"It's not fair." Said Lily in a small voice. I'm not under the spell… I put magic garlic in my potion, but I can't say it… it's even more unfair than asking it.

"If you hate me so much like you keep telling me you do, it shouldn't be so hard." Said James.

"I didn't want to take hours with just an answer, Potter." Said Lily "But, I'll tell you why I hate you so much. You're terribly obnoxious, terribly annoying, terribly ugly, and even though that, you have the biggest ego I've ever seen."

Those sentences hurt him, and it was visible. It made Lily say "I didn't want to hurt you, but you asked me to."

If James ever had any doubts about Lily hating him, now he didn't have any. After all, she was under a truth potion spell. And now he discovered that she didn't tell him the truth about the potion. It hurt, contradictorily what she told him, but it wasn't a physical pain. It was inside, deep inside. He took a deep breath, but couldn't say anything like I wouldn't ever be hurt by hearing this from you, because he couldn't lie now, and he wasn't even sure if he wanted to lie. And he wasn't even sure whether he liked her or not. He was just sure that he hated her. And it was strange, because he always thought he hated her, he never lied about it. But maybe, what he thought that was hate, wasn't. And it was strange. If it wasn't hate, what it was? The only thing he knew was that what he felt about her was something big, something that kept making his heart beat faster. Something that kept making him want to pull pranks on her. Something that make him happy making her nervous. If it wasn't hate, what it was? He only knew it hurt, it hurt too much.

"You can turn the bottle, Evans." He said in a small voice.

Lily was also feeling kinda guilty fordoing it, but a little voice in her head kept saying He just looks hurt because his ego can't accept somebody really doesn't like him.

The worst thing was that… she doesn't exactly doesn't like him…

She whirled the bottle, and it stopped pointing at her. "Truth or dare, Potter?"

James didn't want to answer anything now, after all, she could question something he was afraid of hearing himself say, so he said "Dare."

Suddenly, she started feeling ill, and her head went pink, then purple, then blue, green, and white again.

"I dare you to…" said Lily, in her altered by alcohol tone of voice. "I dare you to kiss me."

To be continued…

Wow! I took a whole month to write it! Sorry, people… but school is getting harder and if I don't study…

Well, this story may have lots and lots of grammar and spelling mistakes, but my beta-reader just vanished…

Anyway, I'd like to thank her for the time she always spend correcting my fanfics.

About the story, I don't know if it's good now, something keeps telling me I murdered my best fanfic. Is it too vulgar? Please, I beg you for a review, I've got 49 for the last chapter, and I won't be satisfied enough to post the next chapter without at least 20 for this chapter…

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