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A/n: Year seven! OK REVIEW!!!!!
Lily boarded the Hogwarts express her Head girl badge gleaming in the sunlight.
"HI Lily!." Said Eve as Lily reached the compartment. "You look great!"
"Lily you get prettier and prettier every time I see you...will you got out with me?" asked Sirius teasingly.
"Shut your mouth!" Lily snapped.
"Since when have you become so proper Evans?" asked James coming in. He looked her up and down and then fixed his gaze on her face.
"I have always been proper." Said Lily smoothing her jeans.
"Sure you have."
"Shut-up." Snapped Lily angrily. James sat down and leaned back. Lily looked at him shaking her head.
Lily sat down between Eve and Trishia.
The rest of the train ride was peaceful enough and then they reached Hogwarts quietly and then-
"Ouch Potter that was my foot!" Lily yelled.
"Good." Said James.
"Oh you-you-billy wig!" Lily yelled. (Billywigs. Read fantastic beasts and where to fin them. To explain briefly they are long thin small white sticks with fur on their head and they float in the air. If stung by one you can levitate a few feet of the ground. Billywigs are used in fizzing whizbees.)
James looked at her quizzically.
"Where'd billywig come from?" he asked.
"Oh I don't know but you are one! Pesky little things they are!" Lily snapped.
"Oh yea well then you're a-a-a-kniffler!"
Lily shook her head in disgust.
"Shut up!" she snapped and sat down at the table.
"I'm hungry." Sirius whined. Lily rolled her eyes as the sorting began.
After the sorting Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome everyone. Welcome back to Hogwarts. May I remind you that the Forbidden forest is well forbidden." He glanced at the marauders like he usually did. "I'd like to announce our head boy and head girl. Congratulations James Potter and Lily Evans. I'd like to see you both in my office after dinner." There was much clapping and then Dumbledore announced the prefects. They then sang the school song and then food appeared.
After Lily was done eating she got up and dragged James with her to the headmasters office.
"Uh-oh. What's the password?" asked Lily was they reached the stone gargoyle.
"The password is peanut cluster." Said a voice behind them. It was Dumbledore.
Lily and James followed the professor into his office and both sat down as far away from each other as possible.
"The reason I called you two here is because Voldemort is gaining power and you two have to learn to work together. Both of you are now seventeen and will soon graduate and go into the world of adults. The world where no one can be trusted. Therefore I want you two to set aside your differences and learn to work together. There are so few people that can be trusted and I want to increase that number."
Lily and James stared at Dumbledore as if he'd gone bonkers.
"I'm not forcing you two to do anything. I just wanted to make you aware of our predicament. You two are also head boy and head girl. Atleast learn to work together."
Lily didn't say anything and neither did James.
"You two are dismissed and I hope to find no complaints on my desk tomorrow saying that ms. Evans turned Mr. Potter into a billywig."
Lily cracked a smile.
'That's not a bad idea.' She thought to herself.
'Don't even think about.' Came James voice mentally.
Lily made a face at him while Dumbledore shuffled through his papers.
"You may go now." He said and both got up to leave.
"Billywig." Said Lily out loud as they reached the hall where the fat lady was. "Not a bad idea at all..." she trailed of.
James groaned. "God help me." He muttered.
Someone then came crashing HARD into Lily head first throwing her back into James who instinctively caught her. Lily heard a faint crack and wondered what it was.
"Ow." Lily moaned clutching her stomach while being supported by James. "Who the hell..."
"Sorry! Really I am but I gotta run." Said Danny Jetherson a tall muscley ravenclaw seventh year. He then ran of. Professor Dresdan came running after Danny.
Lily in the meantime felt deathly sick.
"Evans?" asked James concerned.
"The git slammed into my stomach." She said weakly and stood up. "Ow." She moaned and bent over clutching it. James catiously put a hand on her back hoping she wouldn't punch HIM in the stomach.
"Do-do you need to go to Madame pomfreys?" he asked concerned.
"No. I-I'm fine." Said Lily standing up and wincing. "What a prick." She muttered. "Didn't even look where he was going." She winced as she tried to breathe.
"I'm taking you to Madam Pomfrey." Said James.
"Shove it Potter I'm fine." Said Lily snappily. "Why should you care?" she asked and winced from pain. Come to think of it the pain was coming more from above her stomach.
"I care a lot more than you think." Said James quietly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Lily touching her ribs gingerly and wincing.
"It means that if something happened to you I'd care." He said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"That's really comforting." Said Lily sarcastically blinking back a tear due to the pain.
James grabbed Lilys arm forcefully.
"You're coming with me to madam Pomfreys." He said sternly and for once Lily didn't argue.
Madam Pomfrey was enraged at Danny Jetherson.
"He slammed into you slightly breaking your ribs. He didn't fully break them more like a small crack and you've got a huge bruise on your stomach." She exclaimed. "It's a good thing Potter brought you here otherwise the injuries could've gotten worse."
"Yea well Potters always trying to be the hero isn't he?" Lily muttered.
"Aw come on Evans." Said James sitting beside her on the infirmary bed. "We're best friends isn't that right?" he asked putting an arm around her shoulder.
"Ow!" Lily exclaimed banging heads with him. "You big git! That hurt!"
"I can fix it." Said James taking his wand out.
"No I like my hair red thank you very much." Said Lily icily.
James rolled his eyes. "I'm not exactly the type to make fun of someone who's hurt at the moment or can't defend themselves."
"Never stopped you in fifth year." Lily snapped.
"Yea but the thing was YOU COULD defend yourself. You just didn't want to." James pointed out. "I never made fun of Dexter or Minka." He pointed out.
Minka and Dexter were more like the little kids of seventh year. They couldn't defend themselves and kept their noses in books all day.
Realization dawned on Lily.
"Do you mean to tell me." Said Lily her anger rising. "That all those times you played pranks on me were because you WANTED me to blow up at you?!" she asked enraged.
"Er...pretty much. Kind of so you would actually start sticking up for yourself when the Slytherins said anything to you." Said James nervously.
"Your mind works in strange ways." Said Lily. "REAL strange ways. And I suppose when you pulled that cheating trick on me it was because you though I'd feel better." Said Lily sarcastically.
James looked at her a bit sheepishly.
"WHAT?!" she exclaimed. "Madam Pomfrey! It's an emergency! Come here!" Lily yelled urgently.
"Yes dear? Your ribs hurting?" she asked.
"No I just found out Potters insane." Said Lily.
"Well now I'm done with my little confession mood how about turning Evans into a kniffler?" he asked standing up and getting his wand out.
"If I don't turn you into a billywig first." Lily growled getting her own wand out.
James laughed good naturedly and left while madam Pomfrey insisted on keeping Lily with her for the night.
"Insane git." Lily muttered. "I just don't get him." She laid down gingerly in bed. Her ribs were a bit bruised and madam Pomfrey couldn't do anything about them. Madam Pomfrey tisked while Lily drank the potion she'd given her.
"Isn't it obvious dear?" she asked as Lily handed the empty goblet over.
"What? That he's insane? That's pretty obvious." Said Lily turning over in bed and closing her eyes.
* * *
The next day Lily insisted on going to classes.
"I can't miss my first day." Said Lily.
"But your still injured." Madam Pomfrey insisted.
Lily felt her ribs and stomach. "I'm fine. The potion you gave me last night healed them now I'm leaving." And with that Lily left and walked into her private head girl room.
"POTTER!" she shrieked. Her room had horned toads jumping about everywhere. James came out of the adjoining room. He opened the door enough so that his head peeped out.
"What?"
Lily didn't reply she threw her shoe at him. He quickly shut the door.
"Get these things out! Now! I mean it! OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!" Lily yelled banging on his door.
James opened it grumbling and quickly shut the door behind him. "Spoiled sport." He muttered. With a wave of his wand the toads were gone.
Lily held her nose.
"What's that smell?" she asked.
"Nothing." Said James quickly. To quickly. Lily heard a rustling in his room.
"Open that door." Lily demanded.
"No." said James stubbornly.
Then to her surprise she heard it. "Baaahh."
"Did you" Lily asked seething. "bring a GOAT in into your room?"
"No. What gave you that idea?" he asked.
"Baahh."
Lily brushed past him and opened the door.
"More like goats." James said nervoiusly.
Two goats one small one big were standing in the middle of his huge head boy room.
"Hagrid was going to kill them! I couldn't let him do that! Besides who wants to eat goat?" he asked.
Lily turned around. "I was wrong about you Potter. You aren't insane." She said.
"I'm not?" asked James.
"No. You're mental! Certifiable! UTTERLY INSANE!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "You brought a goat scratch that TWO goats into your head boy room!? How certifiable is that?!"
"But pookie was going to die!" James exclaimed stubbornly.
"You named IT?!" asked Lily disbelievingly.
"Shh. Don't talk about her that way. Poor pookie." He said sitting down beside the big goat. "You might hurt her feelings. Did nasty Evans hurt your feelings?" he asked petting it. Apparently the goat also thought he was insane and looked at him oddly.
"Potter I want those goats OUT of here pronto! I'm giving you until dinner tonight or else."
"What do I do with them?" asked James.
"I don't care! I want them out of here by tonight or else tomorrow we will be eating stuffed pookie for lunch!" Lily yelled. James face portrayed utter terror at having any one eat his goat. Lily stared at him menacingly and walked out slamming the door shut.
First day back was easy for Lily. The teachers didn't assign that much homework and everything went smoothly until ancient runes.
"You goat caring freak!" Lily yelled walking into ancient runes.
"I want to keep them!" said James stubbornly.
"I will not have those goats in my room!"
"You won't. They're in my room remember?"
"yes but they can easily walk into mine! Plus they're eating the plants in the head boy/girl common room!"
"Who cares about those stupid plants?" he retorted.
"I do!" Lily exclaimed.
"But they're stupid plants!" James said stubbornly.
Lily opened her mouth but Professor White cut her of.
"I have no idea what's going on in your crazy mixed up I hate you lives but keep it out of my class." He said.
Lily nodded and sat down next to Eve.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Potter decided to keep GOATS in our head boy/girl quarters." Said Lily flatly.
"Goats?!" exclaimed Trishia suppressing a giggle.
"Always knew he was a bit screw loose but now I'm willing to bet St. Mungos will take him no questions asked." Said Lily taking out a quill and parchment.
She felt someone's eyes on her and turned to see James staring at her.
'What.' She thought mentally only to find out that she didn't get a reply.
'Can you hear me?' he mouthed pointing to his head.
Lily shook her head knowing he meant hear me mentally.
He threw a ball of parchment at her. Lily caught it quickly.
Opening it it read.
I think the psychic accident thing finally wore of. I'm trying to talk to you mentally. If you can hear me reply. If you can't cough.
Lily waited a few minutes before coughing.
'I'm free.' Thought Lily. 'No more stupid James Potter singing annoying songs in my head.'
"What is so interesting about the wall opposite to me?" asked professor White to Lily.
Lily who had been thinking about ways to make James throw the goats out suddenly said.
"You can't keep the goats." Very bluntly.
"Yes I can!" James called.
"No you can't!' Lily replied.
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can you two be quiet?" asked Professor White. "NO goats are aloud in dorms." He said flatly.
"There aren't any rules against it." Said James.
"Yea well no one ever thought we'd have a nutter like you as a student." Said Professor White. "Although I remember Godric Gryffindor tried to keep a goat and Salazar Slytherin cut his arm of."
"I'll get rid of the goats." Said James quickly.
* * *
"I want a fall ball." Said James stubbornly the next day.
"Christmas." Replied Lily. It was the first prefect meeting and the two were already bickering.
"Fall."
"Christmas."
"Fall."
"Christmas!"
"Fall!"
"We'll vote." Said Lily. "All those who want a Fall ball?"
All the girls raised their hands except for Slytherin girls.
"All who want a Christmas ball."
All the boys raised their hand and all the Slytherins.
"It's settled." Said Lily. "I know we don't have balls unless it's an important occasion but I think if we all worked together we might be able to pull it of as long as we don't plan something TO exhilarating for Halloween and we could have a Fall feast." Said Lily. "Potter and me will take over the Christmas ball as long as the rest of you promise to help us with Halloween and the Fall feast."
Every one nodded. "O.K. any other matters?" asked Lily.
A sixth year Hufflepuff prefect raised her hand.
"Yea Mandy?" asked Lily.
"Well you know how er you-know-who feels about muggles and muggle borns." She said her voice squeaky with fright. "Well he's killing their parents of one by one. Only yesterday my best friend got a letter informing her of her muggle parents death and I was thinking maybe we should have some sort of counseling thing set up for those whose parents or relatives have been killed by him."
Lily nodded. "I think you're right. I've seen so many people these past days and even last year who've been so depressed that they've tried killing themselves or worse." Said Lily and shuddered. "I think we should have people who've actually experienced their parents death help out."
"I'll help." Said James.
"You're to busy Mr. King of hogwarts." Lily retorted. "You'll be helping me with the Christmas ball and you'll have to do your head boy duties AND Quidditch. Not to mention your captain. NO I want people who are NOT prefects or anything like that. It'll be better that way because then no one will say 'right their a prefect how can they NOT get over their parents death.' You know how highly everyone thinks of prefects and us heads." Said Lily.
Everyone nodded.
"I'm leaving it to you Mandy and the other Hufflepuff prefects to set this up. Then run me through everything and I'll check through it and talk with McGonagoll."
Mandy the hUfflepuff sixth year nodded.
"Meeting adjourned." Said Lily gathering her papers. "Potter come here a minute."
"Hmm?" he asked.
"You said you'd help with the counseling thing. Does that mean your parents are-are-" Lily faltered.
"No just my dad." Said James grimly. "Voldemort killed him."
"So you weren't lying?" asked Lily faintly talking about their fifth year.
James shook his head. "I wasn't lying Voldemort IS after my family." He said and walked away. Lily bit her lip and gathered her things.
'So the most feared dark Lord since Grindlewald is after my arch enemy.'Lily thought to herself. 'How much do I owe him?'
Lily chuckled to herself at her little joke but half of her was reprimanding Lily not to joke about things like that.
'Damn my subconscious.' Lily thought to herself as she walked into her head girl room only to see her papers half eaten and a small goat chewing on her essay.
"POTTER!" Lily yelled. "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET RID OF THESE GOATS!"
Lily angrily dragged the goat into James room to see he wasn't there. But she found something on his bed. She looked curiously at it before walking of and shaking her head. It was the picture of her last Christmas with the fairies around her.
'Probably wants to feed that picture to his goats.' Lily thought to herself. But she still couldn't help but notice how immaculate and perfect the condition it was in.
* * *
"Please?" James pleaded.
"No." Lily replied not looking up from her book.
"Come on. Please? I promise I'll keep them out of your room."
"No." said Lily.
She was sitting on her bed cross legged reading a charms book while James was on his knees begging to be able to keep his goats.
"Puh-leeze?"
"No." said Lily stifling a yawn.
"But-but they'll kill pookie!" James exclaimed.
Lily rolled her eyes looking up from her book.
"Tell Sirius to keep them in his dorm. I don't care just get them out of here." She said and went back to her book.
"Why didn't I think of that?" asked James standing up.
"Because you have no brain." Lily commented.
James ignored her and went into his room.
After about thirty minutes he came back.
"Sirius won't take them."
"I wonder why." Lily said sarcastically.
"I'll do ANYTHING just let me keep the goats." Said James.
Lily snapped. She slammed her book shut.
"Potter just get rid of those goats or I will!" she exclaimed. "You are going to get rid of them or you are going to be eating goat chops tomorrow!"
"But-but-"
"I'm not going to sit here and argue with you over a couple of goats." Said Lily angrily.
"You have no heart." James pouted like a two year old.
"And proud of it." Lily retorted opening her book.
One hour later...
"There happy?" asked James.
"Yes." Said Lily. "Thank God you got rid of them. Now leave."
* * *
Lily walked down the halls towards the library when
CRASH!
"Oh sorry-" Lily started only to see it was James. "Oh it's you." She said monotonously. She bent down to pick up her books. James bent down to.
"What?" asked Lily annoyed sweeping her hair over to one side.
He picked up some of her books and handed them over. "Sorry about that." He said and started to help her gather loose parchments.
Lily blinked. Did James Potter actually apologize to her?
"Erm...its O.K." said Lily confused and reached for a stray parchment. James reached for the same one and his hand came over hers.
"Sorry." Said Lily pulling her hand back quickly. James handed her the parchment his eyes not leaving hers. "Um bye." She said and quickly got up to leave. He looked like he was about to say something but then shut his mouth.
"Er...bye." Said Lily lamely.
'Why are you being nice to the prat?' Lily asked herself.
"Yea bye." Said James and left.
* * *
Lily sat in the head boy/girl common room with James going through the rough outlining for the Christmas ball.
"Um...we could have that band called Curses and Hexes play at the ball." James commented taking of his glasses and rubbing his eyes tiredly. Lily noticed how cute he looked when he was tired.
'Stop.' She scolded herself. Lately they'd been getting along O.K. Sure they had their little arguments here and there but they weren't as vulgar or rude anymore. The arguments had become a little more tamed and little by little they were dieing down.
"They're a really hard band to get and they'll cost a lot of money." Lily said leaning back in her chair staring at her blank parchment. So far every idea they had had been thwarted by one another.
"I can get them." Said James. "With a low price to. The lead guitarist is my dad best friends son."
Lilys jaw dropped open. "You know Anthony Aris?!"
James nodded.
"Potter you are my new best friend." She said jotting notes down on her parchment.
"Never thought I'd hear you say that." James commented. "But sometimes I wonder..."
"What?" asked Lily absently playing around with the quill in her hand.
"How." He hesitated and looked at her straight in the eye. Lily felt a warmness spread over her but ignored it. "What it would-" he stopped for a moment and took a deep breathe. "If we could be-"
"Oy! Prongs!" Sirius yelled coming in. "Glad to see Lily dear hasn't killed you yet but we're trashing the Slytherin dorm tonight remember?"
James nodded getting up.
As he walked of Lily wondered what he was going to say.
'Surely he doesn't want to be friends.' Lily thought to herself. But no matter how much she denied it on the outside she knew she wouldn't mind being friends.
And maybe just maybe a little more than friends.
Lily shook her head to clear these thoughts. She tried to summon her the anger she'd felt towards him but it had unknowingly died down.
"Well two years is a bit long to keep a grudge." Lily reasoned as she closed her books and walked upstairs.
A/N: I am so sos so so so sorry for not updating for so long but I had school! I have to much homework! I hate school! How can anyone be expected to keep a social life AND do homework AND find tie in the day for writing?! I owe claude a special apology! Sorry you like reviewed my story a lot demanding for me to continue! DON'T WORRY I WILL NEVER ABANDONE THIS FIC!!
A/n: Year seven! OK REVIEW!!!!!
Lily boarded the Hogwarts express her Head girl badge gleaming in the sunlight.
"HI Lily!." Said Eve as Lily reached the compartment. "You look great!"
"Lily you get prettier and prettier every time I see you...will you got out with me?" asked Sirius teasingly.
"Shut your mouth!" Lily snapped.
"Since when have you become so proper Evans?" asked James coming in. He looked her up and down and then fixed his gaze on her face.
"I have always been proper." Said Lily smoothing her jeans.
"Sure you have."
"Shut-up." Snapped Lily angrily. James sat down and leaned back. Lily looked at him shaking her head.
Lily sat down between Eve and Trishia.
The rest of the train ride was peaceful enough and then they reached Hogwarts quietly and then-
"Ouch Potter that was my foot!" Lily yelled.
"Good." Said James.
"Oh you-you-billy wig!" Lily yelled. (Billywigs. Read fantastic beasts and where to fin them. To explain briefly they are long thin small white sticks with fur on their head and they float in the air. If stung by one you can levitate a few feet of the ground. Billywigs are used in fizzing whizbees.)
James looked at her quizzically.
"Where'd billywig come from?" he asked.
"Oh I don't know but you are one! Pesky little things they are!" Lily snapped.
"Oh yea well then you're a-a-a-kniffler!"
Lily shook her head in disgust.
"Shut up!" she snapped and sat down at the table.
"I'm hungry." Sirius whined. Lily rolled her eyes as the sorting began.
After the sorting Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome everyone. Welcome back to Hogwarts. May I remind you that the Forbidden forest is well forbidden." He glanced at the marauders like he usually did. "I'd like to announce our head boy and head girl. Congratulations James Potter and Lily Evans. I'd like to see you both in my office after dinner." There was much clapping and then Dumbledore announced the prefects. They then sang the school song and then food appeared.
After Lily was done eating she got up and dragged James with her to the headmasters office.
"Uh-oh. What's the password?" asked Lily was they reached the stone gargoyle.
"The password is peanut cluster." Said a voice behind them. It was Dumbledore.
Lily and James followed the professor into his office and both sat down as far away from each other as possible.
"The reason I called you two here is because Voldemort is gaining power and you two have to learn to work together. Both of you are now seventeen and will soon graduate and go into the world of adults. The world where no one can be trusted. Therefore I want you two to set aside your differences and learn to work together. There are so few people that can be trusted and I want to increase that number."
Lily and James stared at Dumbledore as if he'd gone bonkers.
"I'm not forcing you two to do anything. I just wanted to make you aware of our predicament. You two are also head boy and head girl. Atleast learn to work together."
Lily didn't say anything and neither did James.
"You two are dismissed and I hope to find no complaints on my desk tomorrow saying that ms. Evans turned Mr. Potter into a billywig."
Lily cracked a smile.
'That's not a bad idea.' She thought to herself.
'Don't even think about.' Came James voice mentally.
Lily made a face at him while Dumbledore shuffled through his papers.
"You may go now." He said and both got up to leave.
"Billywig." Said Lily out loud as they reached the hall where the fat lady was. "Not a bad idea at all..." she trailed of.
James groaned. "God help me." He muttered.
Someone then came crashing HARD into Lily head first throwing her back into James who instinctively caught her. Lily heard a faint crack and wondered what it was.
"Ow." Lily moaned clutching her stomach while being supported by James. "Who the hell..."
"Sorry! Really I am but I gotta run." Said Danny Jetherson a tall muscley ravenclaw seventh year. He then ran of. Professor Dresdan came running after Danny.
Lily in the meantime felt deathly sick.
"Evans?" asked James concerned.
"The git slammed into my stomach." She said weakly and stood up. "Ow." She moaned and bent over clutching it. James catiously put a hand on her back hoping she wouldn't punch HIM in the stomach.
"Do-do you need to go to Madame pomfreys?" he asked concerned.
"No. I-I'm fine." Said Lily standing up and wincing. "What a prick." She muttered. "Didn't even look where he was going." She winced as she tried to breathe.
"I'm taking you to Madam Pomfrey." Said James.
"Shove it Potter I'm fine." Said Lily snappily. "Why should you care?" she asked and winced from pain. Come to think of it the pain was coming more from above her stomach.
"I care a lot more than you think." Said James quietly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Lily touching her ribs gingerly and wincing.
"It means that if something happened to you I'd care." He said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"That's really comforting." Said Lily sarcastically blinking back a tear due to the pain.
James grabbed Lilys arm forcefully.
"You're coming with me to madam Pomfreys." He said sternly and for once Lily didn't argue.
Madam Pomfrey was enraged at Danny Jetherson.
"He slammed into you slightly breaking your ribs. He didn't fully break them more like a small crack and you've got a huge bruise on your stomach." She exclaimed. "It's a good thing Potter brought you here otherwise the injuries could've gotten worse."
"Yea well Potters always trying to be the hero isn't he?" Lily muttered.
"Aw come on Evans." Said James sitting beside her on the infirmary bed. "We're best friends isn't that right?" he asked putting an arm around her shoulder.
"Ow!" Lily exclaimed banging heads with him. "You big git! That hurt!"
"I can fix it." Said James taking his wand out.
"No I like my hair red thank you very much." Said Lily icily.
James rolled his eyes. "I'm not exactly the type to make fun of someone who's hurt at the moment or can't defend themselves."
"Never stopped you in fifth year." Lily snapped.
"Yea but the thing was YOU COULD defend yourself. You just didn't want to." James pointed out. "I never made fun of Dexter or Minka." He pointed out.
Minka and Dexter were more like the little kids of seventh year. They couldn't defend themselves and kept their noses in books all day.
Realization dawned on Lily.
"Do you mean to tell me." Said Lily her anger rising. "That all those times you played pranks on me were because you WANTED me to blow up at you?!" she asked enraged.
"Er...pretty much. Kind of so you would actually start sticking up for yourself when the Slytherins said anything to you." Said James nervously.
"Your mind works in strange ways." Said Lily. "REAL strange ways. And I suppose when you pulled that cheating trick on me it was because you though I'd feel better." Said Lily sarcastically.
James looked at her a bit sheepishly.
"WHAT?!" she exclaimed. "Madam Pomfrey! It's an emergency! Come here!" Lily yelled urgently.
"Yes dear? Your ribs hurting?" she asked.
"No I just found out Potters insane." Said Lily.
"Well now I'm done with my little confession mood how about turning Evans into a kniffler?" he asked standing up and getting his wand out.
"If I don't turn you into a billywig first." Lily growled getting her own wand out.
James laughed good naturedly and left while madam Pomfrey insisted on keeping Lily with her for the night.
"Insane git." Lily muttered. "I just don't get him." She laid down gingerly in bed. Her ribs were a bit bruised and madam Pomfrey couldn't do anything about them. Madam Pomfrey tisked while Lily drank the potion she'd given her.
"Isn't it obvious dear?" she asked as Lily handed the empty goblet over.
"What? That he's insane? That's pretty obvious." Said Lily turning over in bed and closing her eyes.
* * *
The next day Lily insisted on going to classes.
"I can't miss my first day." Said Lily.
"But your still injured." Madam Pomfrey insisted.
Lily felt her ribs and stomach. "I'm fine. The potion you gave me last night healed them now I'm leaving." And with that Lily left and walked into her private head girl room.
"POTTER!" she shrieked. Her room had horned toads jumping about everywhere. James came out of the adjoining room. He opened the door enough so that his head peeped out.
"What?"
Lily didn't reply she threw her shoe at him. He quickly shut the door.
"Get these things out! Now! I mean it! OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!" Lily yelled banging on his door.
James opened it grumbling and quickly shut the door behind him. "Spoiled sport." He muttered. With a wave of his wand the toads were gone.
Lily held her nose.
"What's that smell?" she asked.
"Nothing." Said James quickly. To quickly. Lily heard a rustling in his room.
"Open that door." Lily demanded.
"No." said James stubbornly.
Then to her surprise she heard it. "Baaahh."
"Did you" Lily asked seething. "bring a GOAT in into your room?"
"No. What gave you that idea?" he asked.
"Baahh."
Lily brushed past him and opened the door.
"More like goats." James said nervoiusly.
Two goats one small one big were standing in the middle of his huge head boy room.
"Hagrid was going to kill them! I couldn't let him do that! Besides who wants to eat goat?" he asked.
Lily turned around. "I was wrong about you Potter. You aren't insane." She said.
"I'm not?" asked James.
"No. You're mental! Certifiable! UTTERLY INSANE!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "You brought a goat scratch that TWO goats into your head boy room!? How certifiable is that?!"
"But pookie was going to die!" James exclaimed stubbornly.
"You named IT?!" asked Lily disbelievingly.
"Shh. Don't talk about her that way. Poor pookie." He said sitting down beside the big goat. "You might hurt her feelings. Did nasty Evans hurt your feelings?" he asked petting it. Apparently the goat also thought he was insane and looked at him oddly.
"Potter I want those goats OUT of here pronto! I'm giving you until dinner tonight or else."
"What do I do with them?" asked James.
"I don't care! I want them out of here by tonight or else tomorrow we will be eating stuffed pookie for lunch!" Lily yelled. James face portrayed utter terror at having any one eat his goat. Lily stared at him menacingly and walked out slamming the door shut.
First day back was easy for Lily. The teachers didn't assign that much homework and everything went smoothly until ancient runes.
"You goat caring freak!" Lily yelled walking into ancient runes.
"I want to keep them!" said James stubbornly.
"I will not have those goats in my room!"
"You won't. They're in my room remember?"
"yes but they can easily walk into mine! Plus they're eating the plants in the head boy/girl common room!"
"Who cares about those stupid plants?" he retorted.
"I do!" Lily exclaimed.
"But they're stupid plants!" James said stubbornly.
Lily opened her mouth but Professor White cut her of.
"I have no idea what's going on in your crazy mixed up I hate you lives but keep it out of my class." He said.
Lily nodded and sat down next to Eve.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Potter decided to keep GOATS in our head boy/girl quarters." Said Lily flatly.
"Goats?!" exclaimed Trishia suppressing a giggle.
"Always knew he was a bit screw loose but now I'm willing to bet St. Mungos will take him no questions asked." Said Lily taking out a quill and parchment.
She felt someone's eyes on her and turned to see James staring at her.
'What.' She thought mentally only to find out that she didn't get a reply.
'Can you hear me?' he mouthed pointing to his head.
Lily shook her head knowing he meant hear me mentally.
He threw a ball of parchment at her. Lily caught it quickly.
Opening it it read.
I think the psychic accident thing finally wore of. I'm trying to talk to you mentally. If you can hear me reply. If you can't cough.
Lily waited a few minutes before coughing.
'I'm free.' Thought Lily. 'No more stupid James Potter singing annoying songs in my head.'
"What is so interesting about the wall opposite to me?" asked professor White to Lily.
Lily who had been thinking about ways to make James throw the goats out suddenly said.
"You can't keep the goats." Very bluntly.
"Yes I can!" James called.
"No you can't!' Lily replied.
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can."
"Can't."
"Can you two be quiet?" asked Professor White. "NO goats are aloud in dorms." He said flatly.
"There aren't any rules against it." Said James.
"Yea well no one ever thought we'd have a nutter like you as a student." Said Professor White. "Although I remember Godric Gryffindor tried to keep a goat and Salazar Slytherin cut his arm of."
"I'll get rid of the goats." Said James quickly.
* * *
"I want a fall ball." Said James stubbornly the next day.
"Christmas." Replied Lily. It was the first prefect meeting and the two were already bickering.
"Fall."
"Christmas."
"Fall."
"Christmas!"
"Fall!"
"We'll vote." Said Lily. "All those who want a Fall ball?"
All the girls raised their hands except for Slytherin girls.
"All who want a Christmas ball."
All the boys raised their hand and all the Slytherins.
"It's settled." Said Lily. "I know we don't have balls unless it's an important occasion but I think if we all worked together we might be able to pull it of as long as we don't plan something TO exhilarating for Halloween and we could have a Fall feast." Said Lily. "Potter and me will take over the Christmas ball as long as the rest of you promise to help us with Halloween and the Fall feast."
Every one nodded. "O.K. any other matters?" asked Lily.
A sixth year Hufflepuff prefect raised her hand.
"Yea Mandy?" asked Lily.
"Well you know how er you-know-who feels about muggles and muggle borns." She said her voice squeaky with fright. "Well he's killing their parents of one by one. Only yesterday my best friend got a letter informing her of her muggle parents death and I was thinking maybe we should have some sort of counseling thing set up for those whose parents or relatives have been killed by him."
Lily nodded. "I think you're right. I've seen so many people these past days and even last year who've been so depressed that they've tried killing themselves or worse." Said Lily and shuddered. "I think we should have people who've actually experienced their parents death help out."
"I'll help." Said James.
"You're to busy Mr. King of hogwarts." Lily retorted. "You'll be helping me with the Christmas ball and you'll have to do your head boy duties AND Quidditch. Not to mention your captain. NO I want people who are NOT prefects or anything like that. It'll be better that way because then no one will say 'right their a prefect how can they NOT get over their parents death.' You know how highly everyone thinks of prefects and us heads." Said Lily.
Everyone nodded.
"I'm leaving it to you Mandy and the other Hufflepuff prefects to set this up. Then run me through everything and I'll check through it and talk with McGonagoll."
Mandy the hUfflepuff sixth year nodded.
"Meeting adjourned." Said Lily gathering her papers. "Potter come here a minute."
"Hmm?" he asked.
"You said you'd help with the counseling thing. Does that mean your parents are-are-" Lily faltered.
"No just my dad." Said James grimly. "Voldemort killed him."
"So you weren't lying?" asked Lily faintly talking about their fifth year.
James shook his head. "I wasn't lying Voldemort IS after my family." He said and walked away. Lily bit her lip and gathered her things.
'So the most feared dark Lord since Grindlewald is after my arch enemy.'Lily thought to herself. 'How much do I owe him?'
Lily chuckled to herself at her little joke but half of her was reprimanding Lily not to joke about things like that.
'Damn my subconscious.' Lily thought to herself as she walked into her head girl room only to see her papers half eaten and a small goat chewing on her essay.
"POTTER!" Lily yelled. "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET RID OF THESE GOATS!"
Lily angrily dragged the goat into James room to see he wasn't there. But she found something on his bed. She looked curiously at it before walking of and shaking her head. It was the picture of her last Christmas with the fairies around her.
'Probably wants to feed that picture to his goats.' Lily thought to herself. But she still couldn't help but notice how immaculate and perfect the condition it was in.
* * *
"Please?" James pleaded.
"No." Lily replied not looking up from her book.
"Come on. Please? I promise I'll keep them out of your room."
"No." said Lily.
She was sitting on her bed cross legged reading a charms book while James was on his knees begging to be able to keep his goats.
"Puh-leeze?"
"No." said Lily stifling a yawn.
"But-but they'll kill pookie!" James exclaimed.
Lily rolled her eyes looking up from her book.
"Tell Sirius to keep them in his dorm. I don't care just get them out of here." She said and went back to her book.
"Why didn't I think of that?" asked James standing up.
"Because you have no brain." Lily commented.
James ignored her and went into his room.
After about thirty minutes he came back.
"Sirius won't take them."
"I wonder why." Lily said sarcastically.
"I'll do ANYTHING just let me keep the goats." Said James.
Lily snapped. She slammed her book shut.
"Potter just get rid of those goats or I will!" she exclaimed. "You are going to get rid of them or you are going to be eating goat chops tomorrow!"
"But-but-"
"I'm not going to sit here and argue with you over a couple of goats." Said Lily angrily.
"You have no heart." James pouted like a two year old.
"And proud of it." Lily retorted opening her book.
One hour later...
"There happy?" asked James.
"Yes." Said Lily. "Thank God you got rid of them. Now leave."
* * *
Lily walked down the halls towards the library when
CRASH!
"Oh sorry-" Lily started only to see it was James. "Oh it's you." She said monotonously. She bent down to pick up her books. James bent down to.
"What?" asked Lily annoyed sweeping her hair over to one side.
He picked up some of her books and handed them over. "Sorry about that." He said and started to help her gather loose parchments.
Lily blinked. Did James Potter actually apologize to her?
"Erm...its O.K." said Lily confused and reached for a stray parchment. James reached for the same one and his hand came over hers.
"Sorry." Said Lily pulling her hand back quickly. James handed her the parchment his eyes not leaving hers. "Um bye." She said and quickly got up to leave. He looked like he was about to say something but then shut his mouth.
"Er...bye." Said Lily lamely.
'Why are you being nice to the prat?' Lily asked herself.
"Yea bye." Said James and left.
* * *
Lily sat in the head boy/girl common room with James going through the rough outlining for the Christmas ball.
"Um...we could have that band called Curses and Hexes play at the ball." James commented taking of his glasses and rubbing his eyes tiredly. Lily noticed how cute he looked when he was tired.
'Stop.' She scolded herself. Lately they'd been getting along O.K. Sure they had their little arguments here and there but they weren't as vulgar or rude anymore. The arguments had become a little more tamed and little by little they were dieing down.
"They're a really hard band to get and they'll cost a lot of money." Lily said leaning back in her chair staring at her blank parchment. So far every idea they had had been thwarted by one another.
"I can get them." Said James. "With a low price to. The lead guitarist is my dad best friends son."
Lilys jaw dropped open. "You know Anthony Aris?!"
James nodded.
"Potter you are my new best friend." She said jotting notes down on her parchment.
"Never thought I'd hear you say that." James commented. "But sometimes I wonder..."
"What?" asked Lily absently playing around with the quill in her hand.
"How." He hesitated and looked at her straight in the eye. Lily felt a warmness spread over her but ignored it. "What it would-" he stopped for a moment and took a deep breathe. "If we could be-"
"Oy! Prongs!" Sirius yelled coming in. "Glad to see Lily dear hasn't killed you yet but we're trashing the Slytherin dorm tonight remember?"
James nodded getting up.
As he walked of Lily wondered what he was going to say.
'Surely he doesn't want to be friends.' Lily thought to herself. But no matter how much she denied it on the outside she knew she wouldn't mind being friends.
And maybe just maybe a little more than friends.
Lily shook her head to clear these thoughts. She tried to summon her the anger she'd felt towards him but it had unknowingly died down.
"Well two years is a bit long to keep a grudge." Lily reasoned as she closed her books and walked upstairs.
A/N: I am so sos so so so sorry for not updating for so long but I had school! I have to much homework! I hate school! How can anyone be expected to keep a social life AND do homework AND find tie in the day for writing?! I owe claude a special apology! Sorry you like reviewed my story a lot demanding for me to continue! DON'T WORRY I WILL NEVER ABANDONE THIS FIC!!