A/N another update! Anyone willing to help me with ideas and such for the
story is more then welcome!!! ;)
Disclaimer: Most of the plot belongs to me but everything else belongs to the wonderful JK. Some of the plot is also inspired by the TV series Smallville. (Which is great! Tom Willing is... *drools*)
Sometimes Bad Leads To Good
Chapter Eleven: Buried Under the Snow
Tap.
Lily drew the covers up to her chin and turned around, trying to fall asleep again.
Tap.
Lily's eyes slowly opened. She felt absolutely no desire to get up.
Tap, tap.
Irritated, she started fumbling through her bed hangings. When she finally found the gap she poked her head out. Seeing that no one else was up she grunted and dragged herself out of bed completely, heading towards the door.
Tap, tap, tap.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" She opened the door, which revealed the face of- no one. Lily blinked confused and stared at the entrance. She poked her head outside to make sure it wasn't some first year's idea of a joke.
It wasn't.
Now feeling completely annoyed and irritated she closed the door and started muttering under her breath about ruined beauty sleep and the likes.
Tap.
Lily sprinted towards the door, determined to catch the bloody person, but yet again - there was no one at the door.
Tap.
Lily's head snapped towards the window, which rattled. She opened it and looked out. Only clear blue sky. No owl, no broom, no nothing to disturb the peace she experienced just a minute ago.
"Oy, Lily!!!" She looked down and saw non other then James Potter grinning at her. She noticed he was holding little stones in his palm. "Took quite a while to wake you up eh?" his grin broadened. Remus, Sirius and Peter, who stood beside James laughed.
Lily, who lack of sleep, as it seemed, didn't do well on her, posited her hands on her hips. "Why you-"
But she never finished that sentence because she just noticed the grounds were sparkling white. White?! Her eyes traveled along the whole grounds and she finally realized.
"It's snowing!!!" She let out a squeak, completely oblivious to the other residences of the dormitory who were still blissfully asleep.
"No shit Sherlock." Sirius exclaimed but Lily took no notice.
"Snow! Snow, snow, snow!!!" She did a little jig on the spot. Meanwhile, James was gathering an amount of snow in his palm.
"Hey Lily!" Lily looked at him just in time to receive a snowball right in the middle of her face. This time - she noticed.
For a second she just stood there, literally frozen. In one quick movement she managed to whip the snow out of her face. Slowly, she walked backwards to the shadows of her room, from which the guys wouldn't be able to see her. She grabbed her cloak and fled outside.
"Reckon she'd gone back to sleep?" Remus asked the others while they were watching the window of Lily's dormitory, which seemed quite abandon.
"After such an attack? Nah, she seemed ready to kill." Sirius sounded positively delighted.
James bit his lip but a lopsided grin still managed to escape. She was so fun to tease. But where did she go? He started stomping his foot impatiently. Where is she???
Then suddenly, as from thin air, something charged on him. He fell backwards and the attacker fell with him. Green eyes clashed with brown ones.
"It's revenge time darling." Lily smiled manically and stuffed a huge snowball in his mouth. Too surprised by her sudden move he was unable to resist until it was to late. She patted his cheek. "Tasty sweeitums?" James tried his best to glare at her but she didn't even seem to notice. Half of her on top of him she smiled yet again, very satisfied with herself. "didn't expect that did ya?"
James coughed and finally managed to swallow the snow. He knew she wasn't prepared for another attack - which made it the perfect opportunity for him.
Grabbing a hand full of snow he rolled on top of her bringing his full hand very close to her face. "didn't expect that did ya?" he asked in a mock high pitched voice. Lily's mouth opened yet again and she seemed to be torn between acting positively outrageous or giggling madly because he managed to attack her once again. He knew that if her hands weren't squawked to the ground right now she would have placed them on her hips.
His gaze fluttered over her face and suddenly focused on her mouth. Her *open* mouth. He couldn't take his eyes from her mouth. If he could just brush his lips against hers... Just for a second... She looked so... sweet and... and if he could just...
James's mouth opened slightly. Lily, who was until now quite amused, silenced and focused her gaze on him as well.
*You have to control yourself James!*A voice inside him kept shouting. *You've got to get a grip! She has a boyfriend! She doesn't even want you in this way!!!*
It took every bit of self-control James ever had to look away. He quickly got up, making her roll to the ground, and threw the snowball at her. She looked at him blankly for one second and then her eyes lit up again, she jumped and started chasing him around.
"Come back here Potter!"
Lana set on her bed, staring at the wall. It was Saturday and both the Christmas holidays and the ruddy ball were getting far too near for her liking. The ball would take place in two days and the Holidays will start a day after it.
She had no date.
She had no date!
She shook her head and laughed bitterly.
Why did she put her hopes on the one guy that wasn't going to ask her? There were so many who would've agreed, and she had to pick the one who wasn't interested in her!
And then, to top it all, one of his best friends asked her! And now, even if he would ask, she's have to turn him down. She couldn't do it to his friend, who became her friend now as well...
*No.* She shook her head. *I guess some never have luck.*
But she was okay with it. Really, she was! Not only did she lack a date she also had to come home to her family in the holidays.
*'Home.'* She though sarcastically. She felt more at home when she visited Lily.
And there was no 'family' to come to anyway. There was just her mother.
Even though she tried her best not too, it seemed Lana was going to end up exactly like her mother. Her mother, too, had many lovely admirers who wanted her. But she, too, decided to choose the only one who didn't want her. And have her. And, of course, the one she chose didn't want 'that baby'. So he just left. And even though her mother tried hundreds of times to find him she never succeeded.
Lana never understood why her mother wanted her at home. Every holiday her mother forced her to come and Lana couldn't really object. But when Lana came home she was never greeted warmly and pleasantly. Her mother could be found drunk and asleep on the couch - and that was on the best occasion. When her mother was awake, but still drunk, she used to yell at her, cuss her, her and her father. And how her father cursed her like this. Made her 'magical'.
The only thing Lana thanked her father for was that he, apparently as her mother claimed, had some magical blood in him. Which, gratefully, made her magical as well. And being magical brought the letter from Hogwarts to her. The letter was her opportunity to leave it all behind. And have a normal life. Or at least try and have a normal life. And she took it without hesitating.
Lana was way past the crying part. She'd gone through it enough. Now she just sat silently and stared blankly.
Sirius slowly made his way up to the girls' dormitory. His feet seemed to be made of iron, and every step he took was harder then the one before. Finally, after what seemed like hours, he was in front of the door to the dorm. She was behind that door. He knew she was, he hadn't seen her come down at all and, according to Lily, she only awoke a while ago.
He took a long, deep breath and focused on the door. How the hell was he supposed to ask her? How the hell was he even going to get to that subject? This was all so silly. He'd just have to ask her and that's all, right?
Sirius knew that if he'll try thinking what might come out of this he'll run straight back.
No! He wasted enough time. Slightly encouraged by the fact she still didn't have a date and might be completely desperate he knocked softly on the door.
"Who is it?" He could hear her clearly.
For a second he couldn't bring himself to speak, then: "It's Sirius Lana, can I come in?"
"Sure."
He took yet another deep sigh, pressed the doorknob and entered. She was sitting there, staring blankly at the wall. Her head snap towards him and her lips shaped a small smile. "Hey." She said.
"Er... hey." He replied, feeling very stupid. "So... slept a lot?"
"Mmmm." She nodded.
"Good." He nodded and started feeling very awkward as well.
She looked at him, apparently waiting for a reason of his coming. He however, didn't really know what to say.
"So..." Sirius wished he had a better word then 'so' to say.
"So..." She replied with a hint of amusement making him even more awkward.
"About the ball..." For a second, Lana's face changed into an expression of fear mixed with hope, then her face have gone blank again. He had to finishe with it. Just do it. "Do you want to go with me?"
She looked at him, for just a second, and then turned back to the wall. "I'm sorry," She said in a toneless voice that fitted perfectly with her expression. "I can't."
"Oh," All he wanted to do was run away from there as fast as possible. "Okay."
She nodded.
And he turned to leave.
"You just had the perfect timing didn't you?" She suddenly yelled at him, sounding bitter to the bone.
He froze.
"I just-"
"God Sirius it was just perfect timing you know?"
"I-"
But Lana cut him again, and it seemed something that was building up inside her for a long while just came bursting outside. "Why didn't you wait for the night before the ball huh? That would have been even more convenient wouldn't it? And you knew! YOU KNEW!!!! You knew that it was too late!!! WHY DID YOU EVEN BOTHER? Wasn't it obvious what I'll answer?!"
Nothing, absolutely nothing has hurt him, like this. Never.
Anger was starting to build inside him. What did he do wrong? Ask her to the ball? There is a nice way to turn people down, didn't she heard of it??? He, as it seemed, was the polite one. So needed to act as one. He would. Right now.
"OH I'M SO VERY SORRY!!!" He yelled in a mocking voice at her. If she didn't care for him at all then it didn't matter what he'll say. He stormed out of the room not even looking where he was running.
Lana looked at the door he just banged shut. She was trying very hard to stay indifferent to it. But she couldn't. Hot tears started splashing on her cheeks. She didn't even bother to wipe them away.
*Some never have luck.*
A/N Finished!!! With a resolute that managed to really confuse me but... that's what there is... REVIEW PLEASE!!!
My livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tta
Thanks to the ones who reviewed last time:
fae - I'm getting to the ball... I suppose it'll be next chapter k?
Marina
lil lily - as you saw a kiss was very close this chappie. ;) there's hope!
KOSREDWALL - I love Peter Pen! Yeah the guy who toek over him died... gosh it was sad... :(
Animegirl-mika - Of course they'll break up sometime! (didn't you read hp? Lol) we haven't talked in such a long while! Urgh! Damn those time differences!!!
I Have No Life
Alohamora - she will get a grip! I promise you! Although it might take a while...
Pippi Hooch - yeah! *starts shooting Amos as well*
HermiAngel - like always... you flatter me!
Disclaimer: Most of the plot belongs to me but everything else belongs to the wonderful JK. Some of the plot is also inspired by the TV series Smallville. (Which is great! Tom Willing is... *drools*)
Sometimes Bad Leads To Good
Chapter Eleven: Buried Under the Snow
Tap.
Lily drew the covers up to her chin and turned around, trying to fall asleep again.
Tap.
Lily's eyes slowly opened. She felt absolutely no desire to get up.
Tap, tap.
Irritated, she started fumbling through her bed hangings. When she finally found the gap she poked her head out. Seeing that no one else was up she grunted and dragged herself out of bed completely, heading towards the door.
Tap, tap, tap.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" She opened the door, which revealed the face of- no one. Lily blinked confused and stared at the entrance. She poked her head outside to make sure it wasn't some first year's idea of a joke.
It wasn't.
Now feeling completely annoyed and irritated she closed the door and started muttering under her breath about ruined beauty sleep and the likes.
Tap.
Lily sprinted towards the door, determined to catch the bloody person, but yet again - there was no one at the door.
Tap.
Lily's head snapped towards the window, which rattled. She opened it and looked out. Only clear blue sky. No owl, no broom, no nothing to disturb the peace she experienced just a minute ago.
"Oy, Lily!!!" She looked down and saw non other then James Potter grinning at her. She noticed he was holding little stones in his palm. "Took quite a while to wake you up eh?" his grin broadened. Remus, Sirius and Peter, who stood beside James laughed.
Lily, who lack of sleep, as it seemed, didn't do well on her, posited her hands on her hips. "Why you-"
But she never finished that sentence because she just noticed the grounds were sparkling white. White?! Her eyes traveled along the whole grounds and she finally realized.
"It's snowing!!!" She let out a squeak, completely oblivious to the other residences of the dormitory who were still blissfully asleep.
"No shit Sherlock." Sirius exclaimed but Lily took no notice.
"Snow! Snow, snow, snow!!!" She did a little jig on the spot. Meanwhile, James was gathering an amount of snow in his palm.
"Hey Lily!" Lily looked at him just in time to receive a snowball right in the middle of her face. This time - she noticed.
For a second she just stood there, literally frozen. In one quick movement she managed to whip the snow out of her face. Slowly, she walked backwards to the shadows of her room, from which the guys wouldn't be able to see her. She grabbed her cloak and fled outside.
"Reckon she'd gone back to sleep?" Remus asked the others while they were watching the window of Lily's dormitory, which seemed quite abandon.
"After such an attack? Nah, she seemed ready to kill." Sirius sounded positively delighted.
James bit his lip but a lopsided grin still managed to escape. She was so fun to tease. But where did she go? He started stomping his foot impatiently. Where is she???
Then suddenly, as from thin air, something charged on him. He fell backwards and the attacker fell with him. Green eyes clashed with brown ones.
"It's revenge time darling." Lily smiled manically and stuffed a huge snowball in his mouth. Too surprised by her sudden move he was unable to resist until it was to late. She patted his cheek. "Tasty sweeitums?" James tried his best to glare at her but she didn't even seem to notice. Half of her on top of him she smiled yet again, very satisfied with herself. "didn't expect that did ya?"
James coughed and finally managed to swallow the snow. He knew she wasn't prepared for another attack - which made it the perfect opportunity for him.
Grabbing a hand full of snow he rolled on top of her bringing his full hand very close to her face. "didn't expect that did ya?" he asked in a mock high pitched voice. Lily's mouth opened yet again and she seemed to be torn between acting positively outrageous or giggling madly because he managed to attack her once again. He knew that if her hands weren't squawked to the ground right now she would have placed them on her hips.
His gaze fluttered over her face and suddenly focused on her mouth. Her *open* mouth. He couldn't take his eyes from her mouth. If he could just brush his lips against hers... Just for a second... She looked so... sweet and... and if he could just...
James's mouth opened slightly. Lily, who was until now quite amused, silenced and focused her gaze on him as well.
*You have to control yourself James!*A voice inside him kept shouting. *You've got to get a grip! She has a boyfriend! She doesn't even want you in this way!!!*
It took every bit of self-control James ever had to look away. He quickly got up, making her roll to the ground, and threw the snowball at her. She looked at him blankly for one second and then her eyes lit up again, she jumped and started chasing him around.
"Come back here Potter!"
Lana set on her bed, staring at the wall. It was Saturday and both the Christmas holidays and the ruddy ball were getting far too near for her liking. The ball would take place in two days and the Holidays will start a day after it.
She had no date.
She had no date!
She shook her head and laughed bitterly.
Why did she put her hopes on the one guy that wasn't going to ask her? There were so many who would've agreed, and she had to pick the one who wasn't interested in her!
And then, to top it all, one of his best friends asked her! And now, even if he would ask, she's have to turn him down. She couldn't do it to his friend, who became her friend now as well...
*No.* She shook her head. *I guess some never have luck.*
But she was okay with it. Really, she was! Not only did she lack a date she also had to come home to her family in the holidays.
*'Home.'* She though sarcastically. She felt more at home when she visited Lily.
And there was no 'family' to come to anyway. There was just her mother.
Even though she tried her best not too, it seemed Lana was going to end up exactly like her mother. Her mother, too, had many lovely admirers who wanted her. But she, too, decided to choose the only one who didn't want her. And have her. And, of course, the one she chose didn't want 'that baby'. So he just left. And even though her mother tried hundreds of times to find him she never succeeded.
Lana never understood why her mother wanted her at home. Every holiday her mother forced her to come and Lana couldn't really object. But when Lana came home she was never greeted warmly and pleasantly. Her mother could be found drunk and asleep on the couch - and that was on the best occasion. When her mother was awake, but still drunk, she used to yell at her, cuss her, her and her father. And how her father cursed her like this. Made her 'magical'.
The only thing Lana thanked her father for was that he, apparently as her mother claimed, had some magical blood in him. Which, gratefully, made her magical as well. And being magical brought the letter from Hogwarts to her. The letter was her opportunity to leave it all behind. And have a normal life. Or at least try and have a normal life. And she took it without hesitating.
Lana was way past the crying part. She'd gone through it enough. Now she just sat silently and stared blankly.
Sirius slowly made his way up to the girls' dormitory. His feet seemed to be made of iron, and every step he took was harder then the one before. Finally, after what seemed like hours, he was in front of the door to the dorm. She was behind that door. He knew she was, he hadn't seen her come down at all and, according to Lily, she only awoke a while ago.
He took a long, deep breath and focused on the door. How the hell was he supposed to ask her? How the hell was he even going to get to that subject? This was all so silly. He'd just have to ask her and that's all, right?
Sirius knew that if he'll try thinking what might come out of this he'll run straight back.
No! He wasted enough time. Slightly encouraged by the fact she still didn't have a date and might be completely desperate he knocked softly on the door.
"Who is it?" He could hear her clearly.
For a second he couldn't bring himself to speak, then: "It's Sirius Lana, can I come in?"
"Sure."
He took yet another deep sigh, pressed the doorknob and entered. She was sitting there, staring blankly at the wall. Her head snap towards him and her lips shaped a small smile. "Hey." She said.
"Er... hey." He replied, feeling very stupid. "So... slept a lot?"
"Mmmm." She nodded.
"Good." He nodded and started feeling very awkward as well.
She looked at him, apparently waiting for a reason of his coming. He however, didn't really know what to say.
"So..." Sirius wished he had a better word then 'so' to say.
"So..." She replied with a hint of amusement making him even more awkward.
"About the ball..." For a second, Lana's face changed into an expression of fear mixed with hope, then her face have gone blank again. He had to finishe with it. Just do it. "Do you want to go with me?"
She looked at him, for just a second, and then turned back to the wall. "I'm sorry," She said in a toneless voice that fitted perfectly with her expression. "I can't."
"Oh," All he wanted to do was run away from there as fast as possible. "Okay."
She nodded.
And he turned to leave.
"You just had the perfect timing didn't you?" She suddenly yelled at him, sounding bitter to the bone.
He froze.
"I just-"
"God Sirius it was just perfect timing you know?"
"I-"
But Lana cut him again, and it seemed something that was building up inside her for a long while just came bursting outside. "Why didn't you wait for the night before the ball huh? That would have been even more convenient wouldn't it? And you knew! YOU KNEW!!!! You knew that it was too late!!! WHY DID YOU EVEN BOTHER? Wasn't it obvious what I'll answer?!"
Nothing, absolutely nothing has hurt him, like this. Never.
Anger was starting to build inside him. What did he do wrong? Ask her to the ball? There is a nice way to turn people down, didn't she heard of it??? He, as it seemed, was the polite one. So needed to act as one. He would. Right now.
"OH I'M SO VERY SORRY!!!" He yelled in a mocking voice at her. If she didn't care for him at all then it didn't matter what he'll say. He stormed out of the room not even looking where he was running.
Lana looked at the door he just banged shut. She was trying very hard to stay indifferent to it. But she couldn't. Hot tears started splashing on her cheeks. She didn't even bother to wipe them away.
*Some never have luck.*
A/N Finished!!! With a resolute that managed to really confuse me but... that's what there is... REVIEW PLEASE!!!
My livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tta
Thanks to the ones who reviewed last time:
fae - I'm getting to the ball... I suppose it'll be next chapter k?
Marina
lil lily - as you saw a kiss was very close this chappie. ;) there's hope!
KOSREDWALL - I love Peter Pen! Yeah the guy who toek over him died... gosh it was sad... :(
Animegirl-mika - Of course they'll break up sometime! (didn't you read hp? Lol) we haven't talked in such a long while! Urgh! Damn those time differences!!!
I Have No Life
Alohamora - she will get a grip! I promise you! Although it might take a while...
Pippi Hooch - yeah! *starts shooting Amos as well*
HermiAngel - like always... you flatter me!