Disclaimer: I know I said that I was going to do one disclaimer, but I left
some stuff out! I am going to be using some characters who not my own
creations, and I will be giving full credit to their owners, and will only
use them with permission. Just to let you know! (I think they will appear
anytime on from Chap 5)
The Beginning .
I am skipping ahead to our fourth year, because I think this was where it all really began. It is a tangled tale, but I will try my best to tell it to you as it happened without making it seem too confusing.
James (Prongs) was behaving oddly towards us at the beginning of the 4th year. he was being civil, and o Lily and myself, nice ! We couldn't believe it, and we just put it down to illness or hormones or both, or as Severus put it, "Because he's a weird little freak and he's trying to pull some sort of stunt. Watch 'im!"
It then came to me! He had taken to sitting by Lily in alot of our shared classes, much to the protests of myself, Severus and the other Marauders.
Comments from both sides were much the same
"for crying out loud James/Lily, he/she is one of them!"
Lily didn't notice, but I came around to thinking that young Potter had fallen for her. i went to find Severus, and when I told him, he went mad. His reaction, as I remember:
"That little git! He's not good enough for her! How dare he!" He became almost hysterical, and turned away in anger
"Sev! Calm down! Anyone would think you fancied Lil..." I paused "You do, don't you?"
He looked up quickly. Beads of sweat were just visible on his forehead
"I do what?" he snapped, all to falsely. I just looked hard at him. That was one thing we could all do. We could easily force another Fate to come clean with one scowl. (I believe Severus now uses his perfected technique on his students!)
"Alright, I do." he slumped in a chair and began to sulk, fiddling subconciosly with a cushion. I couldn't help but smirk. How did I miss it?
"You do what?" I asked playfully. My question was answered with due speed by a flying cushion. "Well, when did this happen, and why wasn't I told?"
"ummmm.....I think at some point last year, and because I didn't want to tell you. Ok?"
"Alright, but I want you to promise that in the future, if anything like that ever pops into your head, you tell me, right?" I threw the cushion back, but not as hard as it had come flying towards me.
"Ok, but you have to do the same, and you can't tell Lily." He said the last line actually looking up at me, with slight desperation. "Oh, but you have one time when you don't have to tell me because I didn't tell you." he added as an afterthought.
"Ummm, I think I may have used it several times over already!" This time I managed to miss the cushion, and it whistled past my ear and hit the door.
"I'm joking! I will tell you from now on...and I promise I won't tell her."
You may not believe me, but Severus was not the person he is now, and just beamed at me, to say thank you. It wasn't hard to smile then.
The Beginning .
I am skipping ahead to our fourth year, because I think this was where it all really began. It is a tangled tale, but I will try my best to tell it to you as it happened without making it seem too confusing.
James (Prongs) was behaving oddly towards us at the beginning of the 4th year. he was being civil, and o Lily and myself, nice ! We couldn't believe it, and we just put it down to illness or hormones or both, or as Severus put it, "Because he's a weird little freak and he's trying to pull some sort of stunt. Watch 'im!"
It then came to me! He had taken to sitting by Lily in alot of our shared classes, much to the protests of myself, Severus and the other Marauders.
Comments from both sides were much the same
"for crying out loud James/Lily, he/she is one of them!"
Lily didn't notice, but I came around to thinking that young Potter had fallen for her. i went to find Severus, and when I told him, he went mad. His reaction, as I remember:
"That little git! He's not good enough for her! How dare he!" He became almost hysterical, and turned away in anger
"Sev! Calm down! Anyone would think you fancied Lil..." I paused "You do, don't you?"
He looked up quickly. Beads of sweat were just visible on his forehead
"I do what?" he snapped, all to falsely. I just looked hard at him. That was one thing we could all do. We could easily force another Fate to come clean with one scowl. (I believe Severus now uses his perfected technique on his students!)
"Alright, I do." he slumped in a chair and began to sulk, fiddling subconciosly with a cushion. I couldn't help but smirk. How did I miss it?
"You do what?" I asked playfully. My question was answered with due speed by a flying cushion. "Well, when did this happen, and why wasn't I told?"
"ummmm.....I think at some point last year, and because I didn't want to tell you. Ok?"
"Alright, but I want you to promise that in the future, if anything like that ever pops into your head, you tell me, right?" I threw the cushion back, but not as hard as it had come flying towards me.
"Ok, but you have to do the same, and you can't tell Lily." He said the last line actually looking up at me, with slight desperation. "Oh, but you have one time when you don't have to tell me because I didn't tell you." he added as an afterthought.
"Ummm, I think I may have used it several times over already!" This time I managed to miss the cushion, and it whistled past my ear and hit the door.
"I'm joking! I will tell you from now on...and I promise I won't tell her."
You may not believe me, but Severus was not the person he is now, and just beamed at me, to say thank you. It wasn't hard to smile then.
