Lily Hates James Hates Lily, Part VII
sorry bout my little sidetracks...i'm still trying to figure out exactly how lil and jamsie are going to get together. Going with the muse here. Anyhow, r/r
Karana was walking, or rather, running to meet with Professor Flitwick. She'd found that the couple hours between the end of school and dinner were the perfect time to slip off without anyone noticing her. She didn't want them to think she was smart, did she?
She glanced at her watch. Flitwick was going to kill her! Well, maybe that was a bi of an exaggeration. Flitwick didn't seem capable of killing anyone.
And it was while she was thinking about the numerous ways that she could die that a warm, heavy, and slightly frustrated force knocked into her.
"James?" she squinted through someone's glasses, which had fallen upside down on her nose. "Um...what are you doing?"
But before he could answer, or get up, for that matter, someone else screamed his name.
"James! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BEST FRIEND?" Karana had never seen her best friend look so furious... or dangerous.
"What's it any of your business? We aren't on the team together, remember?" James pulled himself up, but didn't bother to offer a hand to Karana.
Lily made a series of undistinguishable noises. "Just...just...go!" she managed to get out.
"What ever you say," James said mockingly. He sauntered off. Lily spun around in the other direction. Karana was left as a discarded pile in the middle of the hall.
"What'd I do?" She asked a suit of armor grumpily. The suit just shrugged.
Lily sat on her bed, blankly staring out the window. What happened? She kept asking herself. And she honestly had not a clue.
Someone knocked on the dormitory door. Lily frowned; girls didn't knock and guys weren't supposed to be there. "Yes?" She said uncertainly. The door opened, but there was nobody there.
But there was. Or at least, a dangling arm and a pair of boots. Large, black boots that she recognized. "Sirius?"
A chest appeared, then legs, and finally Sirius's head. "Darn," he said, smiling regretfully. "I was really hoping I'd scare you or something."
"Is that the only reason you came up here?" Lily's tone wasn't annoyed, just curious.
"Naw," Sirius told her, seating himself, uninvited, on the bed across from hers. "Wood was...um, slightly...not happy. Mildly put."
Lily almost smiled, conjuring up an image of what the Professor must have looked like. "I can imagine," she told him truthfully.
"Yeah." Sirius smiled too, remembering Wood's face which had looked so like a stunned bull. And then he frowned, remembering how the bull had charged. "Lily, we really need you both back on the team." He looked at her beggingly. "Do you know what will happen if I get beaten by Snape? Snape?" His voice rose on the last note.
Lily shook her head regretfully. "I would go talk to James, instead. He's more likely to go back on the team if I'm not on it."
Sirius realized that this was true, but wasn't about to give up. "Well...he's not exactly in the best mood right now." He smiled grimly. "Lily... just why do the two of you hate each other so much?"
Lily frowned. Yesterday she could have given him a long list. Now all she could think of was egotistical. Which she told Sirius, quite vehemently.
"Whoa!" Sirius exclaimed, scooting back. "Sorry I asked...but couldn't the two of you just try and get along, for the teams sake." He smiled. "You know, kiss and make up?"
Lily threw a pillow at his head.
"Or not, whichever." Sirius rubbed his bruised head. "But please, just think about it?" He gave her one last, pleading look, before slipping out. Lily looked regretfully at the spot where he had been sitting, trying to remember what she had been thinking before he had walked in.
She couldn't sleep that night. Or at least, she wasn't sure whether she slept or not,as she floated between her dream world and reality. In both, something nagged at the back of her mind.
Must be History paper, some voice in the back of her brain told her. And then she felt like she was running, running to Professor Binns to tell him she was sorry...but couldn't get to him because something was in her way.
"Lily!"
Lily opened her eyes. Where had the voice come from? For that matter, where was she? She was not in the familiar settings of her bed, but in a dark, creepy corridor.
"Lily." The voice came again. Lily looked up to find the bespeckled eyes of James Potter looking down at her. Lily looked around her again, this time slightly more aware, and realized she was in the stairway between her room in the common room.
"How'd I get here?" she wondered aloud.
"You walked." James gave her a slightly disgusted look, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Lily rubbed her head, only now becoming aware of a dull throbbing in her head. "Oof. I feel like I just ran into something."
"Yeah," James said, scowling. "Me."
Lily sat down abruptly on the step, trying to figure out exactly what had happened. "How'd I do that?"
"How should I know?" James looked thoroughly exasperated. "I was just up late studying, and you come sprinting down the stairs like all of hell's chasing after you." He stopped, realizing what he had just said.
Lily took a couple minutes to pick up on it. "I was ...wait, you were studying?" She laughed tiredly, and gave him a disdainful look. "You and Karana really should get together, you know. Honestly, the two of you..."
"I don't want to go out with Karana," James said vehemently, looking offended. "I want to...
He clamped his mouth shut stubbornly before he continued further. Lily was still trying to figure out what was going on.
"Remind me again, why do you hate me?" She asked, with childlike curiosity.
"I'm not the one who turned down someone else for a date to the randomly-placed-dance-between-Halloween-and-Christmas-that-isn't-Thanksgiving-because-we-don't-celebrate-it-here-in-England," James said in one breath.
"Oh." Lily thought for a moment, and then asked, "So why do I hate you?" Then she frowned in concentration. "Oh, I remember. Your ego."
"Gee, thanks," James muttered sarcastically.
"Well, you do," Lily told him, but only half-heartedly. Then she looked up, meeting his gaze. "I am sorry about what I said earlier. You really should go back on the team; Wood will kill me if you don't."
But James didn't listen to the second statement. "So you do like me?" he asked, slightly condescendingly.
Lily scowled. "Why do you always assume everything?"
James smiled. "Because you don't state anything."
Lily's scowl grew deeper as she realized what he said was true. "So?"
"So nothing." James sat down on the step next to her. "You never tell anybody anything; it's a simple fact."
Lily back against the wall. "Yeah, I know." She sighed.
"So," James continued reasonably, "You leave people guessing about what you're feeling, which forces them to assume."
Lily sat quietly, thinking."Maybe," she said, more to herself then to him,"maybe, I was afraid you were right."
James smiled, but not his usual arrogant smile, and wrapped his arms around Lily. "I'm always right," he told her.
Lily's only response was to snore softly.
On the landing above them, two shadows huddled in the darkness. "Sirius, you owe me five knuts," one of them whispered.
The other scowled, his features visible in the pale moonlight. "But they did makeup!" he whispered fiercely.
"But they didn't kiss," Karana taunted him softly. "C'mon, you can go get them from your room. She looked down at the two sleeping figures. "We should probably leave them alone."
Whew! I wasn't sure if they actually were going to get together or not. Anyhow, r/r, and take notice that it is no longer the thanksgiving dance but a random one between Halloween and christmas.
sorry bout my little sidetracks...i'm still trying to figure out exactly how lil and jamsie are going to get together. Going with the muse here. Anyhow, r/r
Karana was walking, or rather, running to meet with Professor Flitwick. She'd found that the couple hours between the end of school and dinner were the perfect time to slip off without anyone noticing her. She didn't want them to think she was smart, did she?
She glanced at her watch. Flitwick was going to kill her! Well, maybe that was a bi of an exaggeration. Flitwick didn't seem capable of killing anyone.
And it was while she was thinking about the numerous ways that she could die that a warm, heavy, and slightly frustrated force knocked into her.
"James?" she squinted through someone's glasses, which had fallen upside down on her nose. "Um...what are you doing?"
But before he could answer, or get up, for that matter, someone else screamed his name.
"James! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BEST FRIEND?" Karana had never seen her best friend look so furious... or dangerous.
"What's it any of your business? We aren't on the team together, remember?" James pulled himself up, but didn't bother to offer a hand to Karana.
Lily made a series of undistinguishable noises. "Just...just...go!" she managed to get out.
"What ever you say," James said mockingly. He sauntered off. Lily spun around in the other direction. Karana was left as a discarded pile in the middle of the hall.
"What'd I do?" She asked a suit of armor grumpily. The suit just shrugged.
Lily sat on her bed, blankly staring out the window. What happened? She kept asking herself. And she honestly had not a clue.
Someone knocked on the dormitory door. Lily frowned; girls didn't knock and guys weren't supposed to be there. "Yes?" She said uncertainly. The door opened, but there was nobody there.
But there was. Or at least, a dangling arm and a pair of boots. Large, black boots that she recognized. "Sirius?"
A chest appeared, then legs, and finally Sirius's head. "Darn," he said, smiling regretfully. "I was really hoping I'd scare you or something."
"Is that the only reason you came up here?" Lily's tone wasn't annoyed, just curious.
"Naw," Sirius told her, seating himself, uninvited, on the bed across from hers. "Wood was...um, slightly...not happy. Mildly put."
Lily almost smiled, conjuring up an image of what the Professor must have looked like. "I can imagine," she told him truthfully.
"Yeah." Sirius smiled too, remembering Wood's face which had looked so like a stunned bull. And then he frowned, remembering how the bull had charged. "Lily, we really need you both back on the team." He looked at her beggingly. "Do you know what will happen if I get beaten by Snape? Snape?" His voice rose on the last note.
Lily shook her head regretfully. "I would go talk to James, instead. He's more likely to go back on the team if I'm not on it."
Sirius realized that this was true, but wasn't about to give up. "Well...he's not exactly in the best mood right now." He smiled grimly. "Lily... just why do the two of you hate each other so much?"
Lily frowned. Yesterday she could have given him a long list. Now all she could think of was egotistical. Which she told Sirius, quite vehemently.
"Whoa!" Sirius exclaimed, scooting back. "Sorry I asked...but couldn't the two of you just try and get along, for the teams sake." He smiled. "You know, kiss and make up?"
Lily threw a pillow at his head.
"Or not, whichever." Sirius rubbed his bruised head. "But please, just think about it?" He gave her one last, pleading look, before slipping out. Lily looked regretfully at the spot where he had been sitting, trying to remember what she had been thinking before he had walked in.
She couldn't sleep that night. Or at least, she wasn't sure whether she slept or not,as she floated between her dream world and reality. In both, something nagged at the back of her mind.
Must be History paper, some voice in the back of her brain told her. And then she felt like she was running, running to Professor Binns to tell him she was sorry...but couldn't get to him because something was in her way.
"Lily!"
Lily opened her eyes. Where had the voice come from? For that matter, where was she? She was not in the familiar settings of her bed, but in a dark, creepy corridor.
"Lily." The voice came again. Lily looked up to find the bespeckled eyes of James Potter looking down at her. Lily looked around her again, this time slightly more aware, and realized she was in the stairway between her room in the common room.
"How'd I get here?" she wondered aloud.
"You walked." James gave her a slightly disgusted look, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Lily rubbed her head, only now becoming aware of a dull throbbing in her head. "Oof. I feel like I just ran into something."
"Yeah," James said, scowling. "Me."
Lily sat down abruptly on the step, trying to figure out exactly what had happened. "How'd I do that?"
"How should I know?" James looked thoroughly exasperated. "I was just up late studying, and you come sprinting down the stairs like all of hell's chasing after you." He stopped, realizing what he had just said.
Lily took a couple minutes to pick up on it. "I was ...wait, you were studying?" She laughed tiredly, and gave him a disdainful look. "You and Karana really should get together, you know. Honestly, the two of you..."
"I don't want to go out with Karana," James said vehemently, looking offended. "I want to...
He clamped his mouth shut stubbornly before he continued further. Lily was still trying to figure out what was going on.
"Remind me again, why do you hate me?" She asked, with childlike curiosity.
"I'm not the one who turned down someone else for a date to the randomly-placed-dance-between-Halloween-and-Christmas-that-isn't-Thanksgiving-because-we-don't-celebrate-it-here-in-England," James said in one breath.
"Oh." Lily thought for a moment, and then asked, "So why do I hate you?" Then she frowned in concentration. "Oh, I remember. Your ego."
"Gee, thanks," James muttered sarcastically.
"Well, you do," Lily told him, but only half-heartedly. Then she looked up, meeting his gaze. "I am sorry about what I said earlier. You really should go back on the team; Wood will kill me if you don't."
But James didn't listen to the second statement. "So you do like me?" he asked, slightly condescendingly.
Lily scowled. "Why do you always assume everything?"
James smiled. "Because you don't state anything."
Lily's scowl grew deeper as she realized what he said was true. "So?"
"So nothing." James sat down on the step next to her. "You never tell anybody anything; it's a simple fact."
Lily back against the wall. "Yeah, I know." She sighed.
"So," James continued reasonably, "You leave people guessing about what you're feeling, which forces them to assume."
Lily sat quietly, thinking."Maybe," she said, more to herself then to him,"maybe, I was afraid you were right."
James smiled, but not his usual arrogant smile, and wrapped his arms around Lily. "I'm always right," he told her.
Lily's only response was to snore softly.
On the landing above them, two shadows huddled in the darkness. "Sirius, you owe me five knuts," one of them whispered.
The other scowled, his features visible in the pale moonlight. "But they did makeup!" he whispered fiercely.
"But they didn't kiss," Karana taunted him softly. "C'mon, you can go get them from your room. She looked down at the two sleeping figures. "We should probably leave them alone."
Whew! I wasn't sure if they actually were going to get together or not. Anyhow, r/r, and take notice that it is no longer the thanksgiving dance but a random one between Halloween and christmas.