25/4/02 – UNBLOCK YOUR EARS KIDDIES!!… swearing problems hopefully fixed!

**DISCLAIMER** Smoky thinks she owns the poem and everything else belongs to good ol' J.K. Rowling! Yeaaaahhhh!!!

[AN: So many L/J fics! ARGH! Look @ the competition! Dammit, I'll just hope that someone's sad enuf to read my fic and… read it. Yeh. Plz r+r! Oh well yes *ahem* I think it's better left to the – should have been – fic to explain itself hehe…]

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NO-ONE BUT YOU

~ I'm just a prop in your endless world

High above

I feel no hurt

I'm only a shadow

fading with dawn

Kissing your lips

when you're long gone… ~

*Chapter 1* I just can't escape

Lily couldn't study. There was just too much on her mind. It was only a fortnight after the school year had commenced and already she felt like a deranged lunatic. Slightly derailed, like a little puppy stray.

She went out into the grounds. Over by the lake she spotted a bunch of dudes and one of them stood out like a lighthouse, tall and black-haired and handsome. Lily tried to go over but she felt a familiar groping around her nether region, and arms swiping her aside. She screamed loudly and high- pitched.

'No, no! Please not again Severus!' she said. A cold voice answered her, 'I'm not Severus.'

Lily stopped panting a little as the arms let her down. She spun around and faced the blonde boy, snapping with all the rage of a bread knife slicing through a slab of butter. 'Lucius! You scheming jerk, keep your hands off me!!'

But Malfoy only pulled his sadistic evil smirk and reached for her chest. 'Not while you look good to me, baby'

Lily screamed again and struggled. Malfoy slid his creeping hands under her shirt, smirking all the while. Lily stopped screaming and panted heavily while she felt his hands sliding around. She gritted her teeth in agony before Malfoy moved his hand to scratch his butt. She wrenched herself from his grasp and kicked him right in the groin, leaving him to lie on the ground writhing in pain and cursing her. A sly grin crossed her face. 'Suck on that!'

She approached James, the tall guy. I've always looked at him from a distance, she thought, and damn he's hot! It was true. She had been watching him for all of her first year and missed him bitterly during the break. Now that she was back, she was intent only on finding him and claiming her territory. [AN: I'll leave that interpretation to your imagination]

'Well here's a pretty lookin baby,' She slipped around him and drew herself up against his body to look into his deep dark eyes. 'What's ya name, honey?' In actual fact she knew his name well, her tongue frequently practiced its delectable tones, but she didn't want to be open to the fact that she was awkward with boys. Her embarrassment was heightened by a bit of chewing gum on his lapel that stuck to her hand. She tried discreetly to wipe it off but it was sticky.

James looked blankly at her, trying to ignore Remus and Sirius cracking up behind him. He felt his face turn red and steam pour out his ears. He hadn't exactly been ignoring Lily's charm the past year and even though he'd secured a bad-boy reputation around the school, looking into Lily's clear green eyes made him feel mushy and weird, like he was going soft. 'You—'

'James likes Lily! James likes Lily!' he heard a chant from behind him. Lily went pink and slid down off him.

'Give it break will you!' James tried a swing at Sirius and slapped him full-on in the face. Sirius squealed like a baby. 'I don't even know the bitch!'

'Bitch, am I? Bitch!?' Lily's face went the colour of a ripe tomato and she kicked James in the shins, in spite of herself. 'I'll show you bitch if you really want!'

James, slightly abashed but recovering, drew himself up. 'I dare you. Go on. Show me a bitch!'

'Oh, I will!' screamed Lily, surprised at her own daring. 'Just wait until a day when your head isn't half as thick! I can't imagine why I ever thought of *you* in the first place!'

'You…! I don't know why I liked you either!' James called after her. But as she walked almost hesitantly away, both of them knew that it wasn't the truth. Lily couldn't keep away from Malfoy and Snape who assaulted her at every opportunity, and big bad James Potter could offer her the protection she wanted; James, while he could pick up just about every girl in the school, had his eye only on her.

No matter what either of them said, there was already an unbreakable bond between them (besides the gum, presumably, which still wouldn't come off Lily's hand nor James' shirt).

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Back in the girls' dorms, Lily stretched out on her bed and stared at the ceiling. Most of the others were down at dinner in the Great Hall, but she'd voluntarily given it a skip. Her kind of hunger was different. She'd been trying to convince herself that anything she felt for "that James boy" was non-existent, but it was like trying to stop the rain from falling.

God, Jamesie, she thought. I want you bad! I know you want me baby, but…

Lily rolled over. She wasn't naturally a bad girl type of person, but if that's what she had to be to get to her territory, then she would do it or die trying. [AN: many thanks to Oliver Wood for that line]

She buried her face in her pillow, smiling secretly. And for the time being, lost in sick fantasies, she forgot all about Malfoy and Snape.

I'll be your bitch, baby, I'll be your bad girl. Just you wait, baby, I'm gonna rock your world



[AN: Well there it is… first chapter… what do you think? Plz review for me cuz if no-one likes it then why the #$@^ would I continue? Hehehe… cyaz l8r]