A Twist of Fate
Chapter 3
Lily and James peered into Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore was chatting with Professor McGonagall.
"Yes, Minerva, about that..."
"The ball. We'll see. The students shall have a partner from a different house, and if someone asks them, they can not refuse," Minerva McGonagall nodded quaintly. "I must be off now, I believe I have two students waiting for me."
Lily's mouth dropped wide open. "Is that what Remus meant when-"
"Yeah," James grinned. It was too obvious. Snape would try to ask Lily, and Snape was one who could not be avoided. When you least expected him, he was there, and when you didn't want a fight, he'd give you one.
"Oh, Lily, James," Professor McGonagall said on her way out. "Professor Dumbledore is waiting for you."
Lily nodded glumly and walked in, James following behind her.
"Take a seat," Dumbledore said. Magically two red and gold chairs appeared, so the Lily and James sat down. "What I've been meaning to talk to you about...Professor McGonagall and I have been talking, and we thought it would be nice if Hogwarts had a ball. Since you two are Head Boy and Girl, you're going to plan it."
The two nodded.
"Manage the money, buy the food, drinks, bands, and any other needs," he finished. "You two may go now. Oh, and Lily?"
"Yes Professor?"
"Is there anything you'd like to tell me, anything at all?" he asked.
"No sir."
"Alright, then off you go."
Lily hurried out of the office. "Oh my God, this is going to be horrible!" Lily said to no one in particular.
"Well, I think we'd all love to see you dancing with Snape, I'm sure Sirius will bring his camera," James chuckled.
"Shut up."
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed-"
"And it sure wasn't me," Lily finished for him. "I'm going to Professor McGonagall's office."
"What about the ball thing?" James asked.
"I could actually care less, I really don't want to work with you, have a ball at all, OR see Snape's grimy face ever again," Lily raged as she stormed of to Professor McGonagall's office.
Jasmine and Clair emerged from Professor McGonagall's office.
"How'd it go?" Lily asked.
"She let us go," Clair grinned.
"I convinced her that school hadn't started yet, and you're our best friend so...I guess she let us off easy. Cuz you're head girl," Jasmine smiled. "What about you?"
"Oh, yeah," Lily said sulkily, remembering Dumbledore and McGonagall's little chat, replaying it over and over again. "James and I have to work on a ball together and-"
"That's great!" Clair exclaimed.
Lily looked at her sharply. "You can only get asked by someone from a different house, and if they ask you you can't refuse..."
Jasmine snorted. "Lily and Snape, sittin' in a tree-"
"Shut up!" Lily exclaimed. "I'd rather marry Sirius than ever TOUCH Snape!"
Who should walk past the three girls at the same moment than Sirius himself. For once he was pretty quiet.
'He must think I actuall like him,' Lily thought in disgust. 'Hopefully he doesn't like me, or else-'
"Liiiiily!" Clair shouted.
"You don't have to scream!" Lily yelled back.
"Well you were in Lily Lala Land or something, we called you like ten times," Clair laughed.
"Oh. Sorry."
"Bibliophile," Lily said as they reached the portriat hole. (A/N: Bibliophile or whatever is from the HP CoS GameCube game, I couldn't think of anything else...)
"Lily!" Remus Lupin called. "McGonagall said she wanted to talk to you, she seemed pretty serious."
"That's me!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Um...whatever. Thanks Remus, I'll go see if she's in her office," Lily said as she turned around and back out the portriat hole she went.
'Another hallway adventure for me,' Lily thought sarcastically.
"Did you hear about that ball?"
Lily froze. She suddenly regained her sences and ran to hide behind one of the knights against the hall. It was Snape.
"Who're you asking?" Lucius Malfoy, who was beside Snape, asked. The two were best friends and were...well, disgusting and trouble.
"Lily," Snape said dreamily.
Lily made a disgusting face.
"You actually like that mudblood girl!?" he exclaimed. "Plus, she's a Gryffindor. Double hate bonus."
"Well...who are you asking?" Snape asked, trying to change the subject.
"Shit, shit SHIT!" Lily muttered loudly as Snape leaned against the knight in armour she was hiding behind.
"You better get Lily fast, she's definetely going to be running away from you," Lucius smirked.
"Did you say something?" Snape asked suddenly.
"I just said that Lily is-"
"No, I heard something else," Snape said, looking around.
Lily began to tremble. Before Snape could look behin the knight, she bolted as fast as she could down the hallway.
Snape looked around in confusion as Lucius sniggered.
'That was a close one,' Lily thought and sighed. She had just reached Professor McGonagall's office so she knocked lightly.
"Come in," Professor McGonagall called.
Lily opened the door and looked around. The professor was sitting in a chair by her desk, and was she...crying?
"Um, Remus said you wanted to see me-" Lily began.
Professor McGonagall nodded and blew her nose. "I'm very, VERY sorry, Lily," she said, becoming more serious. "I'm afraid that I have some terrible news for you."
Lily gulped. This definetely wasn't going to be good.
"Last night Vol- You-Know-Who attacked a-a Muggle household," she continued. "And those Muggles were-"
"My family," Lily whispered. 'Oh no, oh no, oh no, this couldn't be happening, please tell me that-'
Professor McGonagall nodded lightly.
Lily stood there, paralyzed. HER family?
"Although your sister is still alive, I'm afraid that you're parents are-"
But Lily didn't hear any of it. She ran out the door. Faster than she had ran from Snape. Faster than she had ever ran in her entire life. She ran outside and on her way passed someone.
"Lily?" he called. She thought it was James, but she wasn't even sure.
Lily walked slowly toward one of the trees by the lake and sat down under the old willow.
*~*~*~*~*~
'Was that Lily?' James thought as he watched her run, crying, outside. He debated for a while if he should go outside and try to talk to her, and after a while he decided that he sould.
James walked outside and saw Lily crying her heat out under the big willow tree. He stood there and watched her for a while, but all the suspense was killing him. WHAT the Hell was wrong with Lily?
"Lily?" James said softly as he put his arm on her shoulder.
"Go away!" she scoffed, pulling his arm off of her.
James looked a little taken aback. "Lily, you're not going to let it out if you don't tell someone-"
Lily started cried even harder. It must've been something pretty harsh, because Lily NEVER cried, and pretty much the whole school knew that.
James sat down by her and hopefully wished that she wouldn't smack him or something.
Lily turned to him and took a deep breath. She had to let it out. Lily told him about her family; how when Lily found out she was a witch Petunia had begun to hate her, how her mum was the most wonderful person that she knew, and how her father was rarely ever home, and the last thing that she told him, or would EVER tell him, was that she hated him. And how they died. Petunia would no doubt blame her, SHE was a witch and an evil wizard came and killed their parents. She told him everything; he was one of those people that just sat down and listened to what you had to say. He put his arms around Lily and hugged her tightly, safetly. It was like nothing could harm her at the moment, everything was safe and sound, and nothing had happened at all.
Memories flashed back in her mind, and the two just sat there for a moment, not talking or moving.
*~*~*~*~*~
"Freak!" Petunia had yelled. "You have no friends, and if you did, surely you'd invite them over! But who cares anyway? You're the youngest, you get EVERYTHING from Mum and Dad! I'm fifteen and I'm not even allowed to have a boyfriend! You come home and there's Mum and Dad: Oh my God Lily you're so cool, you can do magic! A FREAK is what you are, you can't deny it. I HATE you! I wish you would rot in HELL!" Then she had stomped upstairs.
That was the very first time Lily had come back from Hogwarts, and she was so surprised that she didn't even shed a tear.
*~*~*~*~*~
Lily cried even harder.
"Lily, it's ok," James offered. He didn't know what to say, for him especially, this was such an awkward moment. Lily didn't care to notice, she was too busy crying.
"...thank you so much James, tha-that really helped," Lily said as she pulled away from him and stood up. "I just- I STILL can't believe it." She sniffed.
James nodded and stood up next to Lily. For how long they sat there neither of them knew, but it looked pretty dark outside, and you could just begin to notice the stars shining brightly. The moon shone with an eerie glow, but it looked quite pretty in the darkness.
Lily blushed when she noticed all that they had been through. "I-I'm sorry for yelling at you this morning, I was just-"
James wrapped his arms around Lily and pressed his lips against hers. Lily was quite surprised at first, but then put her arms around James's neck and began to feel the kiss.
Suddenly the two broke apart, panting.
James smiled. "First kiss?"
"Well-yeah," Lily replied softly.
"I thought so," he grinned.
"Hey-"
There was a rustling in some nearby bushed.
"James-what was that?" Lily asked, wiping all of the tears away from her eyes.
"It's probably just the wind," he assured her. But it wasn't the least bit windy outside. All of the trees stood as still as a doorknob.
Lily was frightened. She sensed something, danger perhaps. Serena Trelawney (Sybil's mother) predicted that Lily would be in mortal danger, but lily thought it was all rubbish. Since second year she repeatedly predicted Sirius's death, but Sirius just made a joke out of it all. And he was still well and alive.
Suddely there was a bright flash of green as a high-pitched laugh. "Aveda Kedavra."
*~*~*~*~*~
Uh-oh. Well, who do you people think Lily should end up going to the Ball with? Snape, Lucius, Amos Diggory (I'm gonna add more people in the story), Frank Longbottom, or do ya think that McG will let everyone go with whoever they want? Then maybe she'll go with James, Remus, or Sirius... I have my three top picks but I can't decide!
Oh and if you liked it please review. :P
Oh AND...HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
Later!
P.S. HOLY CRICKET! 68 LILYS! THAT'S A RECORD! Anyway I used the word counter thing, I didn't actually count them seperately...
Chapter 3
Lily and James peered into Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore was chatting with Professor McGonagall.
"Yes, Minerva, about that..."
"The ball. We'll see. The students shall have a partner from a different house, and if someone asks them, they can not refuse," Minerva McGonagall nodded quaintly. "I must be off now, I believe I have two students waiting for me."
Lily's mouth dropped wide open. "Is that what Remus meant when-"
"Yeah," James grinned. It was too obvious. Snape would try to ask Lily, and Snape was one who could not be avoided. When you least expected him, he was there, and when you didn't want a fight, he'd give you one.
"Oh, Lily, James," Professor McGonagall said on her way out. "Professor Dumbledore is waiting for you."
Lily nodded glumly and walked in, James following behind her.
"Take a seat," Dumbledore said. Magically two red and gold chairs appeared, so the Lily and James sat down. "What I've been meaning to talk to you about...Professor McGonagall and I have been talking, and we thought it would be nice if Hogwarts had a ball. Since you two are Head Boy and Girl, you're going to plan it."
The two nodded.
"Manage the money, buy the food, drinks, bands, and any other needs," he finished. "You two may go now. Oh, and Lily?"
"Yes Professor?"
"Is there anything you'd like to tell me, anything at all?" he asked.
"No sir."
"Alright, then off you go."
Lily hurried out of the office. "Oh my God, this is going to be horrible!" Lily said to no one in particular.
"Well, I think we'd all love to see you dancing with Snape, I'm sure Sirius will bring his camera," James chuckled.
"Shut up."
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed-"
"And it sure wasn't me," Lily finished for him. "I'm going to Professor McGonagall's office."
"What about the ball thing?" James asked.
"I could actually care less, I really don't want to work with you, have a ball at all, OR see Snape's grimy face ever again," Lily raged as she stormed of to Professor McGonagall's office.
Jasmine and Clair emerged from Professor McGonagall's office.
"How'd it go?" Lily asked.
"She let us go," Clair grinned.
"I convinced her that school hadn't started yet, and you're our best friend so...I guess she let us off easy. Cuz you're head girl," Jasmine smiled. "What about you?"
"Oh, yeah," Lily said sulkily, remembering Dumbledore and McGonagall's little chat, replaying it over and over again. "James and I have to work on a ball together and-"
"That's great!" Clair exclaimed.
Lily looked at her sharply. "You can only get asked by someone from a different house, and if they ask you you can't refuse..."
Jasmine snorted. "Lily and Snape, sittin' in a tree-"
"Shut up!" Lily exclaimed. "I'd rather marry Sirius than ever TOUCH Snape!"
Who should walk past the three girls at the same moment than Sirius himself. For once he was pretty quiet.
'He must think I actuall like him,' Lily thought in disgust. 'Hopefully he doesn't like me, or else-'
"Liiiiily!" Clair shouted.
"You don't have to scream!" Lily yelled back.
"Well you were in Lily Lala Land or something, we called you like ten times," Clair laughed.
"Oh. Sorry."
"Bibliophile," Lily said as they reached the portriat hole. (A/N: Bibliophile or whatever is from the HP CoS GameCube game, I couldn't think of anything else...)
"Lily!" Remus Lupin called. "McGonagall said she wanted to talk to you, she seemed pretty serious."
"That's me!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Um...whatever. Thanks Remus, I'll go see if she's in her office," Lily said as she turned around and back out the portriat hole she went.
'Another hallway adventure for me,' Lily thought sarcastically.
"Did you hear about that ball?"
Lily froze. She suddenly regained her sences and ran to hide behind one of the knights against the hall. It was Snape.
"Who're you asking?" Lucius Malfoy, who was beside Snape, asked. The two were best friends and were...well, disgusting and trouble.
"Lily," Snape said dreamily.
Lily made a disgusting face.
"You actually like that mudblood girl!?" he exclaimed. "Plus, she's a Gryffindor. Double hate bonus."
"Well...who are you asking?" Snape asked, trying to change the subject.
"Shit, shit SHIT!" Lily muttered loudly as Snape leaned against the knight in armour she was hiding behind.
"You better get Lily fast, she's definetely going to be running away from you," Lucius smirked.
"Did you say something?" Snape asked suddenly.
"I just said that Lily is-"
"No, I heard something else," Snape said, looking around.
Lily began to tremble. Before Snape could look behin the knight, she bolted as fast as she could down the hallway.
Snape looked around in confusion as Lucius sniggered.
'That was a close one,' Lily thought and sighed. She had just reached Professor McGonagall's office so she knocked lightly.
"Come in," Professor McGonagall called.
Lily opened the door and looked around. The professor was sitting in a chair by her desk, and was she...crying?
"Um, Remus said you wanted to see me-" Lily began.
Professor McGonagall nodded and blew her nose. "I'm very, VERY sorry, Lily," she said, becoming more serious. "I'm afraid that I have some terrible news for you."
Lily gulped. This definetely wasn't going to be good.
"Last night Vol- You-Know-Who attacked a-a Muggle household," she continued. "And those Muggles were-"
"My family," Lily whispered. 'Oh no, oh no, oh no, this couldn't be happening, please tell me that-'
Professor McGonagall nodded lightly.
Lily stood there, paralyzed. HER family?
"Although your sister is still alive, I'm afraid that you're parents are-"
But Lily didn't hear any of it. She ran out the door. Faster than she had ran from Snape. Faster than she had ever ran in her entire life. She ran outside and on her way passed someone.
"Lily?" he called. She thought it was James, but she wasn't even sure.
Lily walked slowly toward one of the trees by the lake and sat down under the old willow.
*~*~*~*~*~
'Was that Lily?' James thought as he watched her run, crying, outside. He debated for a while if he should go outside and try to talk to her, and after a while he decided that he sould.
James walked outside and saw Lily crying her heat out under the big willow tree. He stood there and watched her for a while, but all the suspense was killing him. WHAT the Hell was wrong with Lily?
"Lily?" James said softly as he put his arm on her shoulder.
"Go away!" she scoffed, pulling his arm off of her.
James looked a little taken aback. "Lily, you're not going to let it out if you don't tell someone-"
Lily started cried even harder. It must've been something pretty harsh, because Lily NEVER cried, and pretty much the whole school knew that.
James sat down by her and hopefully wished that she wouldn't smack him or something.
Lily turned to him and took a deep breath. She had to let it out. Lily told him about her family; how when Lily found out she was a witch Petunia had begun to hate her, how her mum was the most wonderful person that she knew, and how her father was rarely ever home, and the last thing that she told him, or would EVER tell him, was that she hated him. And how they died. Petunia would no doubt blame her, SHE was a witch and an evil wizard came and killed their parents. She told him everything; he was one of those people that just sat down and listened to what you had to say. He put his arms around Lily and hugged her tightly, safetly. It was like nothing could harm her at the moment, everything was safe and sound, and nothing had happened at all.
Memories flashed back in her mind, and the two just sat there for a moment, not talking or moving.
*~*~*~*~*~
"Freak!" Petunia had yelled. "You have no friends, and if you did, surely you'd invite them over! But who cares anyway? You're the youngest, you get EVERYTHING from Mum and Dad! I'm fifteen and I'm not even allowed to have a boyfriend! You come home and there's Mum and Dad: Oh my God Lily you're so cool, you can do magic! A FREAK is what you are, you can't deny it. I HATE you! I wish you would rot in HELL!" Then she had stomped upstairs.
That was the very first time Lily had come back from Hogwarts, and she was so surprised that she didn't even shed a tear.
*~*~*~*~*~
Lily cried even harder.
"Lily, it's ok," James offered. He didn't know what to say, for him especially, this was such an awkward moment. Lily didn't care to notice, she was too busy crying.
"...thank you so much James, tha-that really helped," Lily said as she pulled away from him and stood up. "I just- I STILL can't believe it." She sniffed.
James nodded and stood up next to Lily. For how long they sat there neither of them knew, but it looked pretty dark outside, and you could just begin to notice the stars shining brightly. The moon shone with an eerie glow, but it looked quite pretty in the darkness.
Lily blushed when she noticed all that they had been through. "I-I'm sorry for yelling at you this morning, I was just-"
James wrapped his arms around Lily and pressed his lips against hers. Lily was quite surprised at first, but then put her arms around James's neck and began to feel the kiss.
Suddenly the two broke apart, panting.
James smiled. "First kiss?"
"Well-yeah," Lily replied softly.
"I thought so," he grinned.
"Hey-"
There was a rustling in some nearby bushed.
"James-what was that?" Lily asked, wiping all of the tears away from her eyes.
"It's probably just the wind," he assured her. But it wasn't the least bit windy outside. All of the trees stood as still as a doorknob.
Lily was frightened. She sensed something, danger perhaps. Serena Trelawney (Sybil's mother) predicted that Lily would be in mortal danger, but lily thought it was all rubbish. Since second year she repeatedly predicted Sirius's death, but Sirius just made a joke out of it all. And he was still well and alive.
Suddely there was a bright flash of green as a high-pitched laugh. "Aveda Kedavra."
*~*~*~*~*~
Uh-oh. Well, who do you people think Lily should end up going to the Ball with? Snape, Lucius, Amos Diggory (I'm gonna add more people in the story), Frank Longbottom, or do ya think that McG will let everyone go with whoever they want? Then maybe she'll go with James, Remus, or Sirius... I have my three top picks but I can't decide!
Oh and if you liked it please review. :P
Oh AND...HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
Later!
P.S. HOLY CRICKET! 68 LILYS! THAT'S A RECORD! Anyway I used the word counter thing, I didn't actually count them seperately...