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Summery: The Marauders and the girls' sixth year is going to be a blast! Romance, Pranks, Muggle Songs, Animagi, fights a weird DADA but also Death Eaters, Voldemort and Deaths!!! L/J L/SS SB/OC RL/OC. Oh, and a mystery with a magical sword .
There Is No Such Thing As Fate
Chapter Six: DADA Project and Girls Night In
After class, ("Don't you just love endings?"), everybody made plans with each other about the project.
"Let's all schedule for today after last class in the library, alright?" Jane suggested.
"Sure." They all nodded.
"I'll tell Severus." Lily said and made her way to where Severus was sitting.
James wanted to say something but Sirius grabbed his arm. "James." He said slowly. James took a deep breath.
"Hey." Lily greeted Severus.
"H-hey." He stuttered nervously.
"So, is after last class in the library today okay?"
"S-Sure."
"Okay, I'll see you there."
"B-bye."
"Bye." He watched her walking away.They all met at the library that day.
Kate sat down waiting for her Slytherin partner - Rosiar to show up. After ten minutes of waiting she got annoyed and her sarcasm was dripping in.
Kate's POV: For Merlin's sake, where is he? Probably in some Death Eater meeting. Stop thinking like this Starr!
Although he is a Slytherin! Not being prejudice or anything but they give such a creepy feeling. Snape too, I don't know why Lils thinks he isn't like the rest, I don't hate him like the boys but... I don't know. He doesn't seem very, er, nice.
Where is he???
Is he just expecting me to do all the work? Well, if he is than he's in for a surprise. I'm not some sort of bloody slave! If he isn't going to show up I'll just tell the professor.
Though I'm not sure if it's such a good idea. I look up at the clock. 15 minutes late! Unbelievable!!!
Finally! He's here. He looks... nervous. Weird! "You're late." I say trying as much as I can to sound polite to the git.
"I'm sorry." He says.
Have I heard correctly? A Slytherin apologizes to a Gryfinddor?!
"I... I... Brought you this." He hand me a flower.
What the heck?!
"Why?" I ask maybe a bit too harsh.
"I... Cause... Just..." He's backing away stuttering.
Great! When are we supposed to work? I have to do something quick so we'll return to work.
"Thanks." I fake a smile. Hey! White lie right?
He looks happy and sits next to me.
"So let's start work."
He doesn't look excited. What would you expect? I start searching information about Norwegian Ridgebacks in 'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them by Newt Scamander.'
After 5 minutes I realize he isn't working and only looking at me strangely.
"What are your hobbies?" He asks out of the blue.
"Excuse me?" What is he on?
"Y... Y... Your hobbies."
Oh Merlin! First professor Wilkinson and now this. Maybe if I'll answer he'll drop it and we'll have some work done. Worth a try.
"I like doing crosswords and puzzles."
"Y-You want to know what mine are?"
Of Course! It's not like we have work to do around here!
"What?" I ask irritated.
"I-I like melting things." Oh my dear god!!!
"Especially small things like dead caterpillars or beetles."
Help! I need somebody, help! Just anybody, HELP!!! One of Lils's songs seems perfect for my sad condition.
"The smell is good but the way they feel afterwards is the best."
I notice a crazy glint in his eyes.
I have to get out of here! NOW!!!
"I... I... have to go. I've got a really important thing to do now. We'll meet some other time, ok?"
"But... the... work..." Oh good, now he remembers!
"Tomorrow!" I say and almost run out of the library.
Maybe...
Lily found Severus and sat next to him. An awkward silence came.
She took a chocolate frog and offered him one too. He nodded and took it.
"So how are you?" She asked.
"Fine, and you?"
"Fine."
The silence came again.*Stop being such an idiot Snape! Ask her something. You've been waiting for this opportunity for 3 years!!!* He thought.
"So what's your favorite class?" *Really smooth Snape.*
"Charms, yours?"
"DADA, but now with this teacher..."
"Yeah I know she's..."
"Extremely weird!"
"Exactly!"
"The way she loves everything..."
"How lovely! Wonderful!"
"Yeah."
"Your least favorite one?"
"History of Magic."
"Same here and Divination."
"Trelawney's horrible."
"It's all nonsense in my opinion."
"Do you think somebody listens to it?"
"Well, there are those two Hufflepuffs who worship her but even they don't listen in Binns's class."
"He can make even the most interesting thing sound so long and boring!"
"The only time when someone listens is when he tells if there is going to be any homework." (A/N It looks like JK based Binns on my teacher! Really! I just want to sleep in her classes.)
They both laughed. James, who was sitting close, watched them.
"...The Hungarian Horntail feeds on goats, sheep and, whenever possible, human." Jane was reading form the textbook but James wasn't listening. He was looking at Lily and Snape.
"...Supposedly the most dangerous of all dragon breeds... Do you think we should include this in the essay, James? James?
James looked at them laughing. *How could she laugh with that slime ball?* He thought.
"James are you listening to me?"
"Yeah- I- What?"
"Do you think we should include this in the essay?"
"I think we should move to another table."
"What?" She asked puzzled.
"Yeah, er, this table isn't comfortable."
Jane gave him a weird look. "Okay," She said. "Where?"
"There." He pointed at Lily and Snape's table.
"But Lils and Severus are sitting there."
"So? You think they'll mind?"
"I-"
"Come." He cut her and went to the table.
"Hey Lily!" He greeted her and sat in front of her ignoring Snape.
"Hey." She answered wandering why he sat there.
"So you're working on the Vipertooth?" He took a glimpse at her text book.
"Yeah, vicious thing." She replied while Snape was looking at him hard.
"Wouldn't want to deal with it." He grinned at her.
"Who would?" Snape asked sarcastically.
He finally looked at him, reminded yet again how he hated him. "Don't know but I can thing about someone I'd like to give to it." James answered his voice rising a bit.
The boys exchanged murderous looks. *Shit.* Was all Lily could think.
"Severus I think we should look in the Dragon section for more information about the Vipertooth." She started dragging him towards it before things could get worse. Snape smiled smugly at James.
James's hands were shaking slightly. He hated Snape!
Both Sirius and Remus lost hope that their ditz partners would do any work so they took a small break to talk with each other.
"Maybe we'll tell the professor that this isn't fair cause there are also gay people and she'll pair us together." Remus suggested.
"And let everyone think I'm gay? No thanks." Was Sirius's reply.
"It isn't my favorite idea too but-"
"Are you sure? You don't want to tell me anything?"
"Oh yes, I forgot about my undying love for you."
"You also forgot my sexy little beater boxers."
"How could I? The love of my life!"
"Er, Moony?" People were looking at them funnily.
"Yes Padfoot, I think we should go now."
Lily and Jane came back from the library to the dormitory finding an upset Kate sitting there.
"I think," Jane said softly. "That we should have a girl's night in on Friday." Both girls nodded heartily.
The girl's night in was something they used to do whenever they felt down. It was just the three of them telling everything.
In the two days until Friday the things didn't get better. They got worse.
Kate had another horrible meeting with Rosiar. In which he managed, before she ran away, to give her another flower - and burn it.
Lily felt uncomfortable working with Severus. He was actually really nice to her. But she kept feeling like James was watching her.
Which he was. It frustrated Jane a bit. She did most of the work.
Friday night the girls bid goodbye from the boys and went upstairs.
They immediately sat at Lily's corner with all the pillows. Automatically, Lily turned on her stereo. Kate rolled her eyes.
"What is it?" Jane asked.
"Train." Lily answered. "I would have asked 'where?' but knowing you it's the band or the song or something." Kate said.
Lily smiled. "It's the band and the song is Drops of Jupiter." (A/N I love the song. Actually I love all the songs I put in here.)
Now that she's back in the atmosphere,
With drops of Jupiter in her hair,
Hey, hey...
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change,
Hey, hey...
For a few seconds each was with her own thoughts.
"It's been quit a week." Jane said and Lily nodded.
"I hate professor Wilkinson!" Kate declared squashing one of Lily's pillows.
"I don't think she's bad but I don't like her." Lily said.
"I think she's nice." Jane said.
"I hate her, she paired me with Rosiar!"
"What's so bad about him?"
"Let's put it this way: he likes to burn things."
Both girls looked at her funnily for one moment, then they cracked up.
Since the return from her stay on the moon,
She listens like spring and she talks like June,
Hey, hey...
"It's not funny!"
"Sorry." They tried to control the laughter.
"He gave me a flower! And than he burned it! He also acted really weird, kept stuttering and stuff."
"There's one explanation - he fancies you."
"What?!"
"It totally makes sense!"
"Why else would he bother to give you a flower?"
"But he burned it afterwards!!!"
"So?"
"And stuttering? This doesn't seem like the Rosiar we know."
"But... No! I don't want him to like me." Kate whined.
"You don't always choose who will like you Katie." Jane explained.
"Unfortunately." Lily said sadly.
Tell me did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded?
And that heaven is overrated.
"Yeah..." Both girls agreed.
"So, Katie, who's your new interest?"
"Well, there is that sixth year Ravenclaw - Stanley Westwood."
"Oh, yeah. He seems really nice."
"Do you keep a list or something?"
"Hahah... No, I gave up last year."
Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star?
One without a permanent scar.
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?
"Why do we have DADA with the Slytherins?"
"I don't think that all are bad."
"You mean you don't think Snape's bad Lils."
"Do you fancy him?"
"No!" Lily said quickly.
"But you don't hate him."
"I think he's nice."
"So you're friends?"
"I wouldn't mind that but for now we're just friend-ish." (A/N Rory and Jess on Gilmore Girls are only friendish... yeah right. Friendish people kiss passionately ;) I love this show)
"Oh."
Now that she's back from her soul vacation,
tracing her way through the constellation,
Hey, hey...
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo,
Reminds me that there's time to grow,
Hey, hey...
"But you like James more than a friend right?"
"I... No... Yes... I don't know..." Lily became a very nice shade of red.
"Oh come on!!!"
"Admit it!"
"Okay, maybe I do but it doesn't matter."
"And why is that?"
"Cause he doesn't like me."
"You don't kno-"
"I do."
"Lils, you can't be sure."
"Tell him!"
"And risk our friendship? No thanks. I'd rather have him as friend than nothing."
"But-"
"You can't-"
"Listen, Katie, Jen, there's no point of arguing. Until he won't feel the same I'd have to settle on dreaming."
Now that she's back in the atmosphere,
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol' Jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land.
"So," Lily tried to change the subject. "What about you Jane?"
"Still looking for prince charming?" Kate teased.
"Yeah."
"Are you sure there is a prince charming?"
"Oh yes, I'm pretty sure."
"Well, good luck in finding him. Soon."
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?
And head back to the Milky Way...
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind?
Was it everything you wanted to find?
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?
All three girls felt relived after talking.
Again they sat silent for a couple of seconds with their thoughts. ] Lily was thinking of James. Would he ever think of her as more than a friend? Probably not. It was so depressing.
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken?
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong,
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone
conversation?
The best soy latte that you ever had... and me...
Kate was thinking about Stanley. It was such a shame he was a Ravenclaw. She hoped for a ball.
Jane hoped for a ball too. She already imagined it. It would be so romantic. He would be romantic. The one. The only thing she missed was - him.
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?
And head back toward the Milky Way...
The song ended.
Lily wanted to do something fun.
As quick as a flash she took two pillows and hit the other two on the head.
"Hey!" Kate took a pillow and threw in on Lily. Than she smashed one on Jane.
"PILLOW FIGHT!!!" Jane yelled and soon the air was full with feathers. (A/N I've experienced many pillow fights and the feathers never came out!)
Lily was on the floor, her hands covering her face, trying to protect herself from the pillows.
"Stop it Katie!"
"Stop what?" She heard Kate form the other side of the room.
"Jen! You hit well!" Kate remarked at the pillow that hit her.
She was on her stomach with her face to the floor.
"I'm not touching you." She heard Jane saying under a huge pile of pillows.
"What the heck?" Kate turned around and found the cheery face of Remus Lupin in front of her.
"Remus?!"
"Surprise!!!" He yelled and smacked another pillow on her.
"What are you doing here?"
"Taking part in your little pillow fight."
"Come here!!!" She started chasing him around the room with a huge pillow.
Jane started laughing as the someone who was hitting her tickled her. Suddenly she saw under the pillows Sirius's face. "Sirius." She laughed. He kept tickling.
"Stop it!" She kept laughing.
"Hey!" Peter came too.
"What are you two doing here?"
"Tickling you to death."
She couldn't answer anymore. She was laughing too hard.
Lily stood up quickly and felt someone hit her from the back. She turned around but didn't see anyone. Some one hit her, again, from the back.
But now, instead of looking, she quickly turned and jumped on the place where the hitter was. She felt someone but couldn't see him. Accidentally she tripped and hit the invisible hitter.
While this happened she stepped on something weird - like fluid. Next second they were on the floor. She was on top of the invisible someone. But that someone was not a 'someone'.
"James Potter." She smiled at the messy haired boy underneath her.
"Lily Evans." He smiled back.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk Mr. Potter! Using the invisibility cloak."
Suddenly he felt how close their lips were. He gulped.
Remus, who was trying to run from Kate, didn't see them and tripped on them. Kate was too carried away in the run to mange to stop. They were now a big pile of bodies.
Jane and Peter tried to hide behind the pile form Sirius. No Luck. Sirius took Kate's huge, anger management, pillow and hit the whole pile with it.
"SIRIUS!!!" They all yelled. Than they all started laughing hysterically.
After they all relaxed and got out of the pile Kate suddenly remembered something.
"Why are you here?" She asked the boys.
"Gee, aren't you nice." Peter remarked.
"Why are you here?" Kate repeated.
"Why? are we, like, uninvited?" James said in a high pitched voice.
"That's not, like, really, like, nice." Sirius said with a high pitched voice of his own.
"Now we're, like, not, like, talking with you anymore!"
All four boys lifted up their nose.
"You're, like, going to be social outcast for, like, ever!"
"Yeah! Cause you're, like, such a bunch of, like, meanies!!!" (A/N My computer doesn't except this word so as a correction it gave me beanies! Isn't beanies such a funny word?)
At James's last, high pitched, words the three cracked.
"M- Mean- ies?" Spluttered Lily through laughs.
"So can we join?" Remus asked.
"Thanks." Sirius said without waiting for an answer.
Kate shrugged. "I guess you won't take no for an answer."
Lily, meanwhile, was quiet distracted. *What did just happened with James before?* She tried to find an answer.
*He was trying to kiss me. Don't be stupid Evans!!! You fell on him, he teased you for *fun* and that's all. Stop dreaming!!!*
"Is anybody home? L-i-l-y!!!" Sirius was waving a hand in front of his face.
"Huh? What?"
"You were spacing out Lils." Kate said.
"You were thinking of someone." Sirius exclaimed. "No, not a someone - a boy." Lily blushed.
James felt uneasy. *Who was she thinking about? Was she thinking about a boy like Sirius said? Maybe she thought about... No! Why would someone even *like* the greasy slime ball?*
Kate quickly thought of a diversion. "Who wants sweets?" She showed the boys the sweets they brought earlier for pigging.
"Me! Me!" All boys said and ran to the sweets.
"Don't finish of the chocolate!!!" Lily got rid of the blush and hurried to check how much chocolate was left.
Jane rolled her eyes. "Leave me some stuff too." She and Kate quickly yelled and joined the others.
Lily sat in the corner with ten chocolate frogs and started munching on them.
"Merlin Lily, you eat as much as we do." Sirius said astonished. The boys got quiet a reputation with their pigging on food.
"Hell no! Only when it comes to chocolate." She said.
"You're chocolate obsessed!" Kate said.
"Can't help it." She smiled.
"Jelly slugs." Jane said happily.
"Yuck, they look really disgusting." James said.
"Your loss." She put one in her mouth. After they filled their 'empty' stomachs they all rearranged the pillows in Lily's corner and talked.
"I'm bored."
"No shit Sherlock."
"Let's do something."
"Like what?"
"Exploding Snap?"
"Been there, done that."
"Wizard Chess?"
"Why? So Remus will win for the, ummm, thousand time?"
"Hey! I once defeated him!"
"Sure you did Lils, cause you cheated!"
"I didn't cheat!"
"I want to play something!!!"
"I know - Magical Twister."
"Yeah!" They all agreed.
Jane took out her game and spread it on the floor. Magical Twister was like the muggle twister with one deference - it would always give the most awkward, funny position to stand in.
The game started and got funnier by the moment. It was Kate's turn.
"Left foot green." This brought Kate to a very uncomfortable position. She was *very* close to Remus.
"Hello Mister Lupin." She gave him a mock-seductive look. Remus looked into her eyes.
*Brown, almost black, like the sky at night...* He thought. *What's wrong with me? This is Kate! Kate Johnson!!! *My* friend!!! He shook his head.
He was quit relived when his turn came and he needed to move to another place. "Great butt Prongs." Sirius remarked getting to his new position, one which gave him a perfect view of James's behind.
"Shut up Padfoot!" James kicked him with his leg.
"Is there something you want to tell us Padfoot?" Remus asked playfully.
"No, just making up a little comment."
"Making up? Isn't my butt really great?!"
"Don't worry James, I'm sure someone thinks your butt is great." Kate secretly winked at Lily, who blushed and tried to hide it.
The game went on and on until, at once, they all fell, exhausted. They all returned to Lily's corner.
For a while they were quiet and than- "Do you believe in God?" Sirius asked out of the blue.
"What?" James was half asleep already.
"Do you believe that God really exists?"
"I don't." Lily said very firmly. "Why?"
"Well, I guess I want to believe I'm the one deciding my fate."
"So you don't believe in fate either?" "No."
"I agree." Remus said. "Is there any point in life if we can't really change anything?"
"Yeah, cause than we could do nothing and it will be the same if we did *something* because our fate is already made." James said.
"I think we all believe in God when it's comfortable for us." Kate said.
"What do you mean Katie?"
"I mean that when something bad happens to us we want to blame someone else, so we blame god and when we really want something we ask god for it but we don't want to feel like his controlling us."
"I actually think there is a God." Jane said after thinking a while.
"Why?"
"Simply because I think it sounds nice. Someone who protects us and takes care after us."
"I totally agree." Peter said quickly.
Jane smiled at him. He loved it when she smiled. He loved it even more when she smiled at him.
Sirius looked at them exchanging looks. *Does Peter have something with Jane? No! I'm being ridicules.* Without knowing why it bothered him.
"But if he protects us why doesn't he stop Voldemort?" Lily asked. Peter winced at the name.
"I don't know, but I'm sure Voldermort will get what he deserves." Came Jane's reply.
Again each was with his own thoughts. Slowly each was drifting to sleep.
Now only Jane and Lily were awake.
"If McGonagal catches them here we're doomed." Lily sighed while Jane fell asleep.
She didn't feel sleepy at all. She tossed and turned but with no success. Frustrated she got up and went to find her book. She took 'Romeo and Juliet' out of her trunk and made her way to a corner. With a swish of her wand she turned all the lights out except from the one near her. Than she began reading.
James was chasing a clocked man that his face he couldn't say in the middle of a huge land, covered with tomb stones and skeletons.
The man was also chasing someone. And that someone began crying. James tried to catch up with the man. But he couldn't. And the crying got louder. And suddenly the man stopped running.
James wanted to come closer but suddenly he noticed he was in a middle of a swamp. And he couldn't get out. Slowly the man started turning around. The crying got louder and louder.
And, suddenly, James didn't want to see the man's face.
And, he realized, he was sinking. Quickly. Now only his head wasn't inside. Now only his eyes and above were out of the swamp. And than - at the last moment he could see - the man was facing him. And the crying became a scream. And James knew no more.
James awoke with a start.
Than, realizing he was in the girl's dormitory, he let out a sigh of relive. He put his cheek against the cold floor.
This was all just a dream... Just a dream... The man's face... And the crying... The crying... It was so real.
He could almost hear it now. Wait! He did hear it now!
James looked around. Somebody was crying. But who? He saw Sirius next to him. Jane, Kate, Peter, Remus and... Where was Lily?
The crying got a bit louder. He tried to see form where it was coming. In the corner of the room he saw a figure - Lily. Why was she crying?
He made his way towards her. She didn't notice him. "Lily?" He whispered. Lily jumped.
"James?"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." She waved her hand carelessly and tried to weep her tears away.
"Lily." He said a bit more hard.
"It's just that book..." She started crying again.
"What's with the book."
"That just isn't fair."
"What?"
"It's about two lovers and their families are enemies so they are not aloud to see each other. The girl's family sets her up with somebody else. She doesn't want him so she pretends dead. Her lover doesn't know she's dead and he is so sad he kills himself. When she wakes up and sees him dead she kills herself too."
James bit his lip.
"Do all love stories end this way?"
"No." He said quietly.
"You must think I'm so stupid, crying over a book." She tried to weep her tears again.
"Not at all." And than without warning he gave her a hug.
Lily was surprised but gladly returned it. He wiped her tears slowly. Her crying slowly died out.
James noticed she fell asleep. James sighed and tightened his hug. Will she ever feel the same?
A/N Oh god! I'm sad. I don't even know why. Maybe it's because they'll die in the end... Like Romeo and Juliet, well sort of. I don't know what about you but I really liked this ending. I'm sad, I don't know if it really counts as fluff but... I just loved it!!!
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Thanks to the ones who reviewed last time: (The first reviewer didn't have a name so I can't include him in the thanks.)
Morrigan - Actually you don't scare me at all. I want a boyfriend like James in my fanfiction too!!! There are only three problems: If he's be alive now he'll be something like 45 which is my father's age!!! He is dead!!! He isn't real!!! Life aren't fair!!! And about Lily/Snape/James I have a few twists planned about it. *Laughed evilly*
Blue-starwberry52 - Yeah, it *is* lucky she married James. If she didn't Harry wouldn't be born. And hell, there wouldn't be the books!!!
Well people PLEASE REVIEW!!! I worked on this a lot and it is something like 23 pages on my word!!! I'm not kidding! Make me happy! Please!!!
Songs used: Drops Of Jupiter - Train and that Help song which I have no idea who sings.
Lyrics source: http://www.lyricsplanet.com
Disclaimer: Everything you recognize belongs to the amazing JK, characters, parts of the plot etc. Anything that doesn't belong to her or to anybody else belongs to little ol' me.
Summery: The Marauders and the girls' sixth year is going to be a blast! Romance, Pranks, Muggle Songs, Animagi, fights a weird DADA but also Death Eaters, Voldemort and Deaths!!! L/J L/SS SB/OC RL/OC. Oh, and a mystery with a magical sword .
There Is No Such Thing As Fate
Chapter Six: DADA Project and Girls Night In
After class, ("Don't you just love endings?"), everybody made plans with each other about the project.
"Let's all schedule for today after last class in the library, alright?" Jane suggested.
"Sure." They all nodded.
"I'll tell Severus." Lily said and made her way to where Severus was sitting.
James wanted to say something but Sirius grabbed his arm. "James." He said slowly. James took a deep breath.
"Hey." Lily greeted Severus.
"H-hey." He stuttered nervously.
"So, is after last class in the library today okay?"
"S-Sure."
"Okay, I'll see you there."
"B-bye."
"Bye." He watched her walking away.They all met at the library that day.
Kate sat down waiting for her Slytherin partner - Rosiar to show up. After ten minutes of waiting she got annoyed and her sarcasm was dripping in.
Kate's POV: For Merlin's sake, where is he? Probably in some Death Eater meeting. Stop thinking like this Starr!
Although he is a Slytherin! Not being prejudice or anything but they give such a creepy feeling. Snape too, I don't know why Lils thinks he isn't like the rest, I don't hate him like the boys but... I don't know. He doesn't seem very, er, nice.
Where is he???
Is he just expecting me to do all the work? Well, if he is than he's in for a surprise. I'm not some sort of bloody slave! If he isn't going to show up I'll just tell the professor.
Though I'm not sure if it's such a good idea. I look up at the clock. 15 minutes late! Unbelievable!!!
Finally! He's here. He looks... nervous. Weird! "You're late." I say trying as much as I can to sound polite to the git.
"I'm sorry." He says.
Have I heard correctly? A Slytherin apologizes to a Gryfinddor?!
"I... I... Brought you this." He hand me a flower.
What the heck?!
"Why?" I ask maybe a bit too harsh.
"I... Cause... Just..." He's backing away stuttering.
Great! When are we supposed to work? I have to do something quick so we'll return to work.
"Thanks." I fake a smile. Hey! White lie right?
He looks happy and sits next to me.
"So let's start work."
He doesn't look excited. What would you expect? I start searching information about Norwegian Ridgebacks in 'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them by Newt Scamander.'
After 5 minutes I realize he isn't working and only looking at me strangely.
"What are your hobbies?" He asks out of the blue.
"Excuse me?" What is he on?
"Y... Y... Your hobbies."
Oh Merlin! First professor Wilkinson and now this. Maybe if I'll answer he'll drop it and we'll have some work done. Worth a try.
"I like doing crosswords and puzzles."
"Y-You want to know what mine are?"
Of Course! It's not like we have work to do around here!
"What?" I ask irritated.
"I-I like melting things." Oh my dear god!!!
"Especially small things like dead caterpillars or beetles."
Help! I need somebody, help! Just anybody, HELP!!! One of Lils's songs seems perfect for my sad condition.
"The smell is good but the way they feel afterwards is the best."
I notice a crazy glint in his eyes.
I have to get out of here! NOW!!!
"I... I... have to go. I've got a really important thing to do now. We'll meet some other time, ok?"
"But... the... work..." Oh good, now he remembers!
"Tomorrow!" I say and almost run out of the library.
Maybe...
Lily found Severus and sat next to him. An awkward silence came.
She took a chocolate frog and offered him one too. He nodded and took it.
"So how are you?" She asked.
"Fine, and you?"
"Fine."
The silence came again.*Stop being such an idiot Snape! Ask her something. You've been waiting for this opportunity for 3 years!!!* He thought.
"So what's your favorite class?" *Really smooth Snape.*
"Charms, yours?"
"DADA, but now with this teacher..."
"Yeah I know she's..."
"Extremely weird!"
"Exactly!"
"The way she loves everything..."
"How lovely! Wonderful!"
"Yeah."
"Your least favorite one?"
"History of Magic."
"Same here and Divination."
"Trelawney's horrible."
"It's all nonsense in my opinion."
"Do you think somebody listens to it?"
"Well, there are those two Hufflepuffs who worship her but even they don't listen in Binns's class."
"He can make even the most interesting thing sound so long and boring!"
"The only time when someone listens is when he tells if there is going to be any homework." (A/N It looks like JK based Binns on my teacher! Really! I just want to sleep in her classes.)
They both laughed. James, who was sitting close, watched them.
"...The Hungarian Horntail feeds on goats, sheep and, whenever possible, human." Jane was reading form the textbook but James wasn't listening. He was looking at Lily and Snape.
"...Supposedly the most dangerous of all dragon breeds... Do you think we should include this in the essay, James? James?
James looked at them laughing. *How could she laugh with that slime ball?* He thought.
"James are you listening to me?"
"Yeah- I- What?"
"Do you think we should include this in the essay?"
"I think we should move to another table."
"What?" She asked puzzled.
"Yeah, er, this table isn't comfortable."
Jane gave him a weird look. "Okay," She said. "Where?"
"There." He pointed at Lily and Snape's table.
"But Lils and Severus are sitting there."
"So? You think they'll mind?"
"I-"
"Come." He cut her and went to the table.
"Hey Lily!" He greeted her and sat in front of her ignoring Snape.
"Hey." She answered wandering why he sat there.
"So you're working on the Vipertooth?" He took a glimpse at her text book.
"Yeah, vicious thing." She replied while Snape was looking at him hard.
"Wouldn't want to deal with it." He grinned at her.
"Who would?" Snape asked sarcastically.
He finally looked at him, reminded yet again how he hated him. "Don't know but I can thing about someone I'd like to give to it." James answered his voice rising a bit.
The boys exchanged murderous looks. *Shit.* Was all Lily could think.
"Severus I think we should look in the Dragon section for more information about the Vipertooth." She started dragging him towards it before things could get worse. Snape smiled smugly at James.
James's hands were shaking slightly. He hated Snape!
Both Sirius and Remus lost hope that their ditz partners would do any work so they took a small break to talk with each other.
"Maybe we'll tell the professor that this isn't fair cause there are also gay people and she'll pair us together." Remus suggested.
"And let everyone think I'm gay? No thanks." Was Sirius's reply.
"It isn't my favorite idea too but-"
"Are you sure? You don't want to tell me anything?"
"Oh yes, I forgot about my undying love for you."
"You also forgot my sexy little beater boxers."
"How could I? The love of my life!"
"Er, Moony?" People were looking at them funnily.
"Yes Padfoot, I think we should go now."
Lily and Jane came back from the library to the dormitory finding an upset Kate sitting there.
"I think," Jane said softly. "That we should have a girl's night in on Friday." Both girls nodded heartily.
The girl's night in was something they used to do whenever they felt down. It was just the three of them telling everything.
In the two days until Friday the things didn't get better. They got worse.
Kate had another horrible meeting with Rosiar. In which he managed, before she ran away, to give her another flower - and burn it.
Lily felt uncomfortable working with Severus. He was actually really nice to her. But she kept feeling like James was watching her.
Which he was. It frustrated Jane a bit. She did most of the work.
Friday night the girls bid goodbye from the boys and went upstairs.
They immediately sat at Lily's corner with all the pillows. Automatically, Lily turned on her stereo. Kate rolled her eyes.
"What is it?" Jane asked.
"Train." Lily answered. "I would have asked 'where?' but knowing you it's the band or the song or something." Kate said.
Lily smiled. "It's the band and the song is Drops of Jupiter." (A/N I love the song. Actually I love all the songs I put in here.)
Now that she's back in the atmosphere,
With drops of Jupiter in her hair,
Hey, hey...
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change,
Hey, hey...
For a few seconds each was with her own thoughts.
"It's been quit a week." Jane said and Lily nodded.
"I hate professor Wilkinson!" Kate declared squashing one of Lily's pillows.
"I don't think she's bad but I don't like her." Lily said.
"I think she's nice." Jane said.
"I hate her, she paired me with Rosiar!"
"What's so bad about him?"
"Let's put it this way: he likes to burn things."
Both girls looked at her funnily for one moment, then they cracked up.
Since the return from her stay on the moon,
She listens like spring and she talks like June,
Hey, hey...
"It's not funny!"
"Sorry." They tried to control the laughter.
"He gave me a flower! And than he burned it! He also acted really weird, kept stuttering and stuff."
"There's one explanation - he fancies you."
"What?!"
"It totally makes sense!"
"Why else would he bother to give you a flower?"
"But he burned it afterwards!!!"
"So?"
"And stuttering? This doesn't seem like the Rosiar we know."
"But... No! I don't want him to like me." Kate whined.
"You don't always choose who will like you Katie." Jane explained.
"Unfortunately." Lily said sadly.
Tell me did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded?
And that heaven is overrated.
"Yeah..." Both girls agreed.
"So, Katie, who's your new interest?"
"Well, there is that sixth year Ravenclaw - Stanley Westwood."
"Oh, yeah. He seems really nice."
"Do you keep a list or something?"
"Hahah... No, I gave up last year."
Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star?
One without a permanent scar.
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?
"Why do we have DADA with the Slytherins?"
"I don't think that all are bad."
"You mean you don't think Snape's bad Lils."
"Do you fancy him?"
"No!" Lily said quickly.
"But you don't hate him."
"I think he's nice."
"So you're friends?"
"I wouldn't mind that but for now we're just friend-ish." (A/N Rory and Jess on Gilmore Girls are only friendish... yeah right. Friendish people kiss passionately ;) I love this show)
"Oh."
Now that she's back from her soul vacation,
tracing her way through the constellation,
Hey, hey...
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo,
Reminds me that there's time to grow,
Hey, hey...
"But you like James more than a friend right?"
"I... No... Yes... I don't know..." Lily became a very nice shade of red.
"Oh come on!!!"
"Admit it!"
"Okay, maybe I do but it doesn't matter."
"And why is that?"
"Cause he doesn't like me."
"You don't kno-"
"I do."
"Lils, you can't be sure."
"Tell him!"
"And risk our friendship? No thanks. I'd rather have him as friend than nothing."
"But-"
"You can't-"
"Listen, Katie, Jen, there's no point of arguing. Until he won't feel the same I'd have to settle on dreaming."
Now that she's back in the atmosphere,
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol' Jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land.
"So," Lily tried to change the subject. "What about you Jane?"
"Still looking for prince charming?" Kate teased.
"Yeah."
"Are you sure there is a prince charming?"
"Oh yes, I'm pretty sure."
"Well, good luck in finding him. Soon."
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?
And head back to the Milky Way...
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind?
Was it everything you wanted to find?
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?
All three girls felt relived after talking.
Again they sat silent for a couple of seconds with their thoughts. ] Lily was thinking of James. Would he ever think of her as more than a friend? Probably not. It was so depressing.
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken?
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong,
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone
conversation?
The best soy latte that you ever had... and me...
Kate was thinking about Stanley. It was such a shame he was a Ravenclaw. She hoped for a ball.
Jane hoped for a ball too. She already imagined it. It would be so romantic. He would be romantic. The one. The only thing she missed was - him.
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?
And head back toward the Milky Way...
The song ended.
Lily wanted to do something fun.
As quick as a flash she took two pillows and hit the other two on the head.
"Hey!" Kate took a pillow and threw in on Lily. Than she smashed one on Jane.
"PILLOW FIGHT!!!" Jane yelled and soon the air was full with feathers. (A/N I've experienced many pillow fights and the feathers never came out!)
Lily was on the floor, her hands covering her face, trying to protect herself from the pillows.
"Stop it Katie!"
"Stop what?" She heard Kate form the other side of the room.
"Jen! You hit well!" Kate remarked at the pillow that hit her.
She was on her stomach with her face to the floor.
"I'm not touching you." She heard Jane saying under a huge pile of pillows.
"What the heck?" Kate turned around and found the cheery face of Remus Lupin in front of her.
"Remus?!"
"Surprise!!!" He yelled and smacked another pillow on her.
"What are you doing here?"
"Taking part in your little pillow fight."
"Come here!!!" She started chasing him around the room with a huge pillow.
Jane started laughing as the someone who was hitting her tickled her. Suddenly she saw under the pillows Sirius's face. "Sirius." She laughed. He kept tickling.
"Stop it!" She kept laughing.
"Hey!" Peter came too.
"What are you two doing here?"
"Tickling you to death."
She couldn't answer anymore. She was laughing too hard.
Lily stood up quickly and felt someone hit her from the back. She turned around but didn't see anyone. Some one hit her, again, from the back.
But now, instead of looking, she quickly turned and jumped on the place where the hitter was. She felt someone but couldn't see him. Accidentally she tripped and hit the invisible hitter.
While this happened she stepped on something weird - like fluid. Next second they were on the floor. She was on top of the invisible someone. But that someone was not a 'someone'.
"James Potter." She smiled at the messy haired boy underneath her.
"Lily Evans." He smiled back.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk Mr. Potter! Using the invisibility cloak."
Suddenly he felt how close their lips were. He gulped.
Remus, who was trying to run from Kate, didn't see them and tripped on them. Kate was too carried away in the run to mange to stop. They were now a big pile of bodies.
Jane and Peter tried to hide behind the pile form Sirius. No Luck. Sirius took Kate's huge, anger management, pillow and hit the whole pile with it.
"SIRIUS!!!" They all yelled. Than they all started laughing hysterically.
After they all relaxed and got out of the pile Kate suddenly remembered something.
"Why are you here?" She asked the boys.
"Gee, aren't you nice." Peter remarked.
"Why are you here?" Kate repeated.
"Why? are we, like, uninvited?" James said in a high pitched voice.
"That's not, like, really, like, nice." Sirius said with a high pitched voice of his own.
"Now we're, like, not, like, talking with you anymore!"
All four boys lifted up their nose.
"You're, like, going to be social outcast for, like, ever!"
"Yeah! Cause you're, like, such a bunch of, like, meanies!!!" (A/N My computer doesn't except this word so as a correction it gave me beanies! Isn't beanies such a funny word?)
At James's last, high pitched, words the three cracked.
"M- Mean- ies?" Spluttered Lily through laughs.
"So can we join?" Remus asked.
"Thanks." Sirius said without waiting for an answer.
Kate shrugged. "I guess you won't take no for an answer."
Lily, meanwhile, was quiet distracted. *What did just happened with James before?* She tried to find an answer.
*He was trying to kiss me. Don't be stupid Evans!!! You fell on him, he teased you for *fun* and that's all. Stop dreaming!!!*
"Is anybody home? L-i-l-y!!!" Sirius was waving a hand in front of his face.
"Huh? What?"
"You were spacing out Lils." Kate said.
"You were thinking of someone." Sirius exclaimed. "No, not a someone - a boy." Lily blushed.
James felt uneasy. *Who was she thinking about? Was she thinking about a boy like Sirius said? Maybe she thought about... No! Why would someone even *like* the greasy slime ball?*
Kate quickly thought of a diversion. "Who wants sweets?" She showed the boys the sweets they brought earlier for pigging.
"Me! Me!" All boys said and ran to the sweets.
"Don't finish of the chocolate!!!" Lily got rid of the blush and hurried to check how much chocolate was left.
Jane rolled her eyes. "Leave me some stuff too." She and Kate quickly yelled and joined the others.
Lily sat in the corner with ten chocolate frogs and started munching on them.
"Merlin Lily, you eat as much as we do." Sirius said astonished. The boys got quiet a reputation with their pigging on food.
"Hell no! Only when it comes to chocolate." She said.
"You're chocolate obsessed!" Kate said.
"Can't help it." She smiled.
"Jelly slugs." Jane said happily.
"Yuck, they look really disgusting." James said.
"Your loss." She put one in her mouth. After they filled their 'empty' stomachs they all rearranged the pillows in Lily's corner and talked.
"I'm bored."
"No shit Sherlock."
"Let's do something."
"Like what?"
"Exploding Snap?"
"Been there, done that."
"Wizard Chess?"
"Why? So Remus will win for the, ummm, thousand time?"
"Hey! I once defeated him!"
"Sure you did Lils, cause you cheated!"
"I didn't cheat!"
"I want to play something!!!"
"I know - Magical Twister."
"Yeah!" They all agreed.
Jane took out her game and spread it on the floor. Magical Twister was like the muggle twister with one deference - it would always give the most awkward, funny position to stand in.
The game started and got funnier by the moment. It was Kate's turn.
"Left foot green." This brought Kate to a very uncomfortable position. She was *very* close to Remus.
"Hello Mister Lupin." She gave him a mock-seductive look. Remus looked into her eyes.
*Brown, almost black, like the sky at night...* He thought. *What's wrong with me? This is Kate! Kate Johnson!!! *My* friend!!! He shook his head.
He was quit relived when his turn came and he needed to move to another place. "Great butt Prongs." Sirius remarked getting to his new position, one which gave him a perfect view of James's behind.
"Shut up Padfoot!" James kicked him with his leg.
"Is there something you want to tell us Padfoot?" Remus asked playfully.
"No, just making up a little comment."
"Making up? Isn't my butt really great?!"
"Don't worry James, I'm sure someone thinks your butt is great." Kate secretly winked at Lily, who blushed and tried to hide it.
The game went on and on until, at once, they all fell, exhausted. They all returned to Lily's corner.
For a while they were quiet and than- "Do you believe in God?" Sirius asked out of the blue.
"What?" James was half asleep already.
"Do you believe that God really exists?"
"I don't." Lily said very firmly. "Why?"
"Well, I guess I want to believe I'm the one deciding my fate."
"So you don't believe in fate either?" "No."
"I agree." Remus said. "Is there any point in life if we can't really change anything?"
"Yeah, cause than we could do nothing and it will be the same if we did *something* because our fate is already made." James said.
"I think we all believe in God when it's comfortable for us." Kate said.
"What do you mean Katie?"
"I mean that when something bad happens to us we want to blame someone else, so we blame god and when we really want something we ask god for it but we don't want to feel like his controlling us."
"I actually think there is a God." Jane said after thinking a while.
"Why?"
"Simply because I think it sounds nice. Someone who protects us and takes care after us."
"I totally agree." Peter said quickly.
Jane smiled at him. He loved it when she smiled. He loved it even more when she smiled at him.
Sirius looked at them exchanging looks. *Does Peter have something with Jane? No! I'm being ridicules.* Without knowing why it bothered him.
"But if he protects us why doesn't he stop Voldemort?" Lily asked. Peter winced at the name.
"I don't know, but I'm sure Voldermort will get what he deserves." Came Jane's reply.
Again each was with his own thoughts. Slowly each was drifting to sleep.
Now only Jane and Lily were awake.
"If McGonagal catches them here we're doomed." Lily sighed while Jane fell asleep.
She didn't feel sleepy at all. She tossed and turned but with no success. Frustrated she got up and went to find her book. She took 'Romeo and Juliet' out of her trunk and made her way to a corner. With a swish of her wand she turned all the lights out except from the one near her. Than she began reading.
James was chasing a clocked man that his face he couldn't say in the middle of a huge land, covered with tomb stones and skeletons.
The man was also chasing someone. And that someone began crying. James tried to catch up with the man. But he couldn't. And the crying got louder. And suddenly the man stopped running.
James wanted to come closer but suddenly he noticed he was in a middle of a swamp. And he couldn't get out. Slowly the man started turning around. The crying got louder and louder.
And, suddenly, James didn't want to see the man's face.
And, he realized, he was sinking. Quickly. Now only his head wasn't inside. Now only his eyes and above were out of the swamp. And than - at the last moment he could see - the man was facing him. And the crying became a scream. And James knew no more.
James awoke with a start.
Than, realizing he was in the girl's dormitory, he let out a sigh of relive. He put his cheek against the cold floor.
This was all just a dream... Just a dream... The man's face... And the crying... The crying... It was so real.
He could almost hear it now. Wait! He did hear it now!
James looked around. Somebody was crying. But who? He saw Sirius next to him. Jane, Kate, Peter, Remus and... Where was Lily?
The crying got a bit louder. He tried to see form where it was coming. In the corner of the room he saw a figure - Lily. Why was she crying?
He made his way towards her. She didn't notice him. "Lily?" He whispered. Lily jumped.
"James?"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." She waved her hand carelessly and tried to weep her tears away.
"Lily." He said a bit more hard.
"It's just that book..." She started crying again.
"What's with the book."
"That just isn't fair."
"What?"
"It's about two lovers and their families are enemies so they are not aloud to see each other. The girl's family sets her up with somebody else. She doesn't want him so she pretends dead. Her lover doesn't know she's dead and he is so sad he kills himself. When she wakes up and sees him dead she kills herself too."
James bit his lip.
"Do all love stories end this way?"
"No." He said quietly.
"You must think I'm so stupid, crying over a book." She tried to weep her tears again.
"Not at all." And than without warning he gave her a hug.
Lily was surprised but gladly returned it. He wiped her tears slowly. Her crying slowly died out.
James noticed she fell asleep. James sighed and tightened his hug. Will she ever feel the same?
A/N Oh god! I'm sad. I don't even know why. Maybe it's because they'll die in the end... Like Romeo and Juliet, well sort of. I don't know what about you but I really liked this ending. I'm sad, I don't know if it really counts as fluff but... I just loved it!!!
Ok now: REVIEW!!!! I mean it. For the last chapter I got 3 reviews!!! I don't want tons but something like 7-10 is ok. If you review there's a much bigger chance I'll update sooner or at all!!!!
Also I have a journal in which you will be able to read how this story, and all the others I've written, are developing. When the new chapter is about to come and stuff. See it here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tta
Thanks to the ones who reviewed last time: (The first reviewer didn't have a name so I can't include him in the thanks.)
Morrigan - Actually you don't scare me at all. I want a boyfriend like James in my fanfiction too!!! There are only three problems: If he's be alive now he'll be something like 45 which is my father's age!!! He is dead!!! He isn't real!!! Life aren't fair!!! And about Lily/Snape/James I have a few twists planned about it. *Laughed evilly*
Blue-starwberry52 - Yeah, it *is* lucky she married James. If she didn't Harry wouldn't be born. And hell, there wouldn't be the books!!!
Well people PLEASE REVIEW!!! I worked on this a lot and it is something like 23 pages on my word!!! I'm not kidding! Make me happy! Please!!!
Songs used: Drops Of Jupiter - Train and that Help song which I have no idea who sings.
Lyrics source: http://www.lyricsplanet.com