Summary: Lily and James hate each other, but there's a fine line between love and hate. How will they finally get together?
Genre: Romance
Ships: Lily/James
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: This was written a few years a go, so bear with the immature ideas. It's cute, though g
The Fine Line Between Love and Hate
Chapter the Third: Tomate-Faced James
[ Agent Bambi ]
"EVANS! I'LL KILL YOU!" James screamed, furiously. He now looked like a tomato. He had green hair and a reddish orange face.
Soon, the whole Gryffindor house was awake.
Sirius woke up too, and after one look at James he started laughing uncontrollably.
Between laughs, he managed, "I really like that girl!"
He and Remus, in their pajamas, burst into the First Year Girls' dorm.
Lily looked at them.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Congrats, Lil! That was a cool prank you played on James!" Remus laughed.
"Thanks!" Lily said, beaming.
As they were still standing there, she looked at them curiously and said, "Um, we have to change …"
"Go ahead …" Sirius said with an innocent smile on his face.
Aurora got up and tried pushed him out of the room.
"But … let me stay! I'll do anything!" Sirius begged, hanging on to Dyna's bed.
Dyna looked at Lily.
"So, what did you do him?"
"Potter? Oh, I just transformed him into a tomato."
Everyone laughed. Christina, Samantha and Gwendolyn went down for breakfast, leaving Lily alone with her best friends.
"Hey, Lily, why didn't you tell us about the prank?" Dyna enquired.
"Oh, well, you guys said that you thought Potter was hot and that, so I assumed you wouldn't want to join in …"
"Actually," said Aurora, suddenly becoming misty eyed, "I like Sirius now …"
Lily rolled her eyes.
Suddenly, James burst into the room, looking like a furious tomato (which is what he was, sort of).
"YOU!" he spat out, pointing to Lily, "Come with me!"
"Uh … no way!"
"Uh … YES WAY! We need to talk! Just come with me!" James snarled.
"Yeah, yeah, tomato head …"
They walked out.
"So, what do you want?"
"You are an annoying little freak, so leave me alone. Don't EVER play tricks on James Potter, or you'll regret it!"
Lily rolled her pretty eyes, "Well, you started it."
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Ugh! I'm going down to breakfast!" Lily muttered.
Lily hurried to her first class of the day, Charms. It was her favorite; she was best in her year.
"Okay, kids, today for a special treat we will be learning the levitating charm. Maybe it might be a little advanced for some of you, but I think you can make it!" little Flitwick announced.
Soon most of the group of pupils was making cushions soar.
The rest of Lily's day was quite normal, just the usual classes, except for Potions ...
"Right class, today we will be making one of the lighter sleeping potions, and you will be working in pairs."
Lily automatically turned to her friends.
"But," Prof. Pepper continued, "I will be choosing groups for you."
"But why, Professor?" James asked.
"Why? Why? You and your lot, Potter, have been making too much of a racket. This goes for all the Gryffindors here! Too much noise! … Now, for the pairing up … Miss Cantrell, you will be working with Mr. Black … Mr. Snape, you may go with Miss Finks …
… Miss … ah, Hooker, you will be with Mr. Malfoy … Miss Evans, Mr. Potter is your partner … any questions? Complaints?"
"You can't put me with her!" James exclaimed at the same time Lily complained, "No, please not Potter, please!"
"Mr. Potter, Miss Evans, bad luck, the decision is final. Now, please begin," he said sourly.
"Alright, Potter, I don't like you any better than you like me, but we gotta work together, I don't want to fail!" Lily told James.
"Aye, aye, captain!"
"Hand me those rat tails … no! First slice them up, Pothead!"
"Sure thing, Redhead!"
"Shut the fuck up, Pothead!"
"Anything you say, Redhead!"
After the end of the lesson, Prof. Pepper called out, "Oh, by the way, these are permanent partners, for the whole year. Good afternoon class, you are dismissed!"
As they exited the classroom, all around her, Lily heard, "Oh my god, this is not fair! I have to work with that idiot!" and "Why did I get stuck with her?"
Lily laughed. It wasn't that she disagreed, it was just funny to her; the whole class was unhappy about their partners.
The whole way to their next class, Lily and Aurora complained about their partners.
"This is so not fair!" Lily complained.
"Hey, at least you're paired up with James … better than Malfoy …"
"No way, I'd rather Malfoy than Potter, definitely. At least he's better looking!"
James, who had been walking ahead with his friends suddenly turned around.
"What did you just say?" he fumed.
Lily smirked, "I said that Lucius Malfoy is better looking than you!"
"Oh? Is that so? Well I'd rather work with … with Moaning Myrtle!"
Lily gasped, and then said, "Yeah right … no one wants to work with Myrtle!"
"I HEARD THAT!" Myrtle cried, "Nobody likes me … nobody!"
"Lets get away from here!" Sirius stage-whispered.
"Definitely!"
With Lily and James arguing and fighting constantly, the year passed very quickly, too quickly in fact, it was already almost Christmas, and the main topic of conversation was who was staying and who was going.
Lily and Aurora were sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room, squashed up on one of the small armchairs, with James, Sirius, Remus and Peter at their feet. Dyna was absent because she was in the Hospital Wing with a tail, after one of James' hexes had rebounded off Lily onto her.
"So, Lily, are you staying or going?" Sirius asked.
"Hmm … I don't know. Depends on who else is staying."
"I have to go back home to see mum and dad," Aurora said, "What about Dyna, is she staying?"
"Yeah, Dyna might …" Lily said.
"Dynamite! Get it?" Sirius laughed, "Dynamite!"
At that precise moment, Dyna walked in.
"Speak of the devil," James smirked.
"Hey Dyna … mite!" Sirius choked out.
"Huh?" she replied unintelligibly.
"That's your new nickname … Dynamite!" Sirius answered, "Coz you're the bomb, baby!"
Everyone laughed when Lily said, "Ooh, Sirius you got a thing for Dynamite?"
"No," he replied quickly, "Of course not!"
Lily giggled, "Sure, Sirius, sure!"
Sirius, eager to change the conversation, went back to, "So, who's staying here for the holidays?"
"Not me," Dynamite and James said.
"Neither am I," Aurora added, "Lily?"
"I guess I'll go back home then …"
"So no-one's staying?" Remus asked.
"No," chorused Sirius and Peter.
"Alright, neither will I, then."
Not much later, they found themselves on the Hogwarts Express, on the long journey home. Sirius and Remus were on the floor, playing chess, and James was watching them. Lily, Dynamite and Aurora, were on the seats discussing what they would be doing during the holidays.
"Shopping, definitely!" Lily exclaimed, "I haven't been in ages!"
"Too true," Dynamite giggled.
"Are you suggesting my clothes are out of fashion?"
"Yes."
"Bitch," Lily murmured, in mock fury.
"OH MY GOD! GUESS WHAT?" Sirius suddenly bellowed.
"What?"
"They forgot to give us the little forms that say not to do any magic in the holidays!"
- TBC -
