A/N: I don't own ne of the Harry Potter characters. I just own the plot bwhahaha R/R





"Peter! What are you doing out here?" Lily hissed.

"What am I doing out here? I'm not the one with my tongue down a Slytherin's throat!" Peter shouted. Crap, he had seen.

"Peter, it's not what you think it is." Lily started.

"The hell it isn't! You're cheating on James!" Peter yelled.

"Shut up Pettigrew." Snape hissed.

"I'm-I'm going to tell James." Peter said.

"No! You can't!" Lily pleaded but Peter had already turned around and was making his way back to the castle.

"Shit!" Lily said, stomping her foot on the ground.

"Oh gods, I'm sorry Lily. If you want me to talk to James I will. I'll tell him I kissed you." Severus said. Lily smiled.

"Don't worry too much about it Severus. I'll try and explain it to him. Come on, we better get back to the castle." Lily said quietly. The pair started back on their way, except this time, they kept distance between them.

~~**~~

"James will you just LISTEN!?" Lily screeched.

"No! What the hell were you thinking? SNAPE?!" James hollered so loud that Lily instinctively took a step backwards. The common room had emptied about five minutes ago when the fight had started. They were the only ones there.

"James...I...it's not like that." she said meekly.

"I can't believe you would do that to me! With Snape of all people! He's as ugly as sin! He's evil Lily! Don't you get that? You have no idea what people like him are into. They torture Muggles and witches like you for fun. They're sick!"

"He isn't like that James! Gods, what do you have against him?" Lily sobbed. This was turning out a lot worse than she expected.

"What do I have against him? WHAT DO I HAVE AGAINST HIM!? Lily you were snogging him in the woods behind my back!!" James yelled.

"I told you it wasn't like that James! Why won't you believe me!?" Lily yelled back.

"This is bullshit Lily. I thought you were different than everyone else. I guess I was wrong. Hope you and the Death Eater have fun. Goodbye Lily." Lily stepped back as if he had struck her. He had said it so calmly that it would have felt better if he had screamed it.

She watched him turn around and leave and that's when the tears came. Quickly she took off running through the halls not even looking where she was going. The tears were streaming down her face and her breath was coming out in hoarse sobs. She made her way up to the Astronomy Tower and sat down in front of the window, where she broke down and cried.

"Aw, poor little Mudblood." Lily whipped her head up to see Lucius Malfoy leaning against the doorframe, that cocky expression plastered on his smug face face.

"What are you doing here?" she spat angrily, standing up.

"Following you of course. I heard about you and your little Quidditch Star boytoy broke up. How sad." he said stepping into the room.

"Get out and leave me alone." she hissed.

"Demanding little thing aren't you?" Lucius asked. Lily backed up with every step he took towards her. Lucius Malofy was dangerous, everyone knew that. She soon found herself pressed against the sidewall next to a table.

"It seems to me that you are having quite an influence over my friend Severus." Lucius said. Lily snorted.

"You're not his friend."

"And neither are you. I want you to leave him alone." he said, his voice dropping dangerously low.

"Or you'll do what? You don't scare me Lucius." she stated. He cocked an eyebrow and looked at her. With lightning fast movements, his hand shot up to her neck and pinned her to the wall. He was strong. He applied more pressure to her neck and Lily was beginning to have trouble drawing breath.

"Well maybe I should." he whispered. Lily's eyes darted franticly around looking for something she could use as a weapon. She saw the silver candlestick on the table.

She quickly picked it up and swung it at his head. She ignored the fact she was Lily Evans, 5"5 120 pounds. All she wanted to do was smash his arrogant head in. The candlestick connected to the side of his head and he immediately let go of her neck as she prepared for another swing. Unfortunately, he caught it, barehanded and yanked it out of her hand.

"Bitch!" he spat, grasping the side of his head. "I'll get you for that. Mark my words Mudblood. You will pay." and with that he turned and left her, more confused than when she first got there.

~~**~~

Severus walked through the hallway mumbling to himself. He was an idiot! A fool! A downright git. How could he do that? James wasn't going to forgive her. They were going to break up and it was going to be all his fault.

"Snape!" Severus whirled around to see none other than James Potter striding towards him.

"What do you want Potter?" he asked. James kept walking towards him until he was right up in his face. Although Severus was tall, James was till taller by about 3 inches.

"I'm going to KILL you." he hissed dangerously low. Severus almost backed up, but he held his ground. He realized he didn't have his wand. He glanced down at James' hand to see he didn't have one either.

"And why is that?" Severus asked in mock innocence. James lost it. He cracked Severus across the jaw with his right fist. Severus stumbled backwards from the impact. Putting his hand to his jaw he saw it was smeared in blood. Severus rushed James in anger, sending both boys flying, Severus landing on top of James. He grabbed James by the collar of his robes and held his fist in his face.

"This time, Potter, you've pushed too far."

James was still reeling from the fall to the floor, and he did not really pay attention to what Severus was saying. He lashed out, hitting Severus as hard as he could in the stomach.

Severus lost his breath and James gained the offensive. He took advantage and hit him again, in the face this time. Severus gave him a hard blow to the head, which sent James rolling off him.

Severus just took a moment to catch his breath, but he was far too angry and stressed to let it end there. He went after James with a vengeance. They started to roll and hit each other repeatedly, seemingly with the intent of killing the other.

This is how Sirius Black found them as he was returning from the kitchens, stealing food from the house elves. This is also how Lucius Malfoy found them on his way down from the stairs from the Astronomy Tower. The two boys looked from their friends, rolling around on the floor and back to each other, seemingly more than ready to join in the brawl.

However both decided it would probably be a good idea to break up Severus and James before a) they killed each other or b) a teacher walked by and saw them.

Lucius pulled Severus off James and held him firmly around the stomach and Sirius got a hold of James' shoulders and pulled him up.

"What the hell has gotten into you two?!" Sirius asked once James had stopped trying to squirm out of his grasp.

"He was snogging Lily near the lake today, Peter caught them." James snapped.

"Oh please, you probably didn't even give her a chance to explain. You didn't give me one either you just came flying down the stairs and punched me." Severus hissed. Lucius pointed a finger at the two Gryffindors.

"You two better watch it." he warned before pulling his smaller friend down to the Slytherin Common Room.