A/N: Here's the second chapter. It has been revised so if you have read this before and it looks different don't worry. Reviews are greatly appreciated!
~Chapter 2~
The library was unnaturally quiet as Lily walked back to her table.
"Lily what's in that jar?" asked Hagrid.
"Have a look," she replied and held up the jar. Hagrid gasped.
Inside the jar was a tiny red ant. It scurried around the bottom of its container like a crazed animal bumping into the glass walls of its prison.
"That's not…James?"
"You'd better believe it. That'll teach him to watch what he says. Now who's the little porky fire ant?"
Lily laughed gleefully as she inspected the ant more closely. However her happiness was to be short lived.
"MISS EVANS! Do you see what you've done to those shelves?" asked Madame Pince the librarian.
Lily quickly hid the glass jar behind her and looked up at the shelves. Books lay scattered around the floor and dust was flying like a storm around the disorganized shelves.
"I'm very sorry Madame Pince."
"Sorry is not good enough Miss Evans. You've got detention!"
Lily's voice squeaked, "No please!! I can't go to detention I have too much homework and I…"
"You must learn to accept the consequences for your actions. You will go to detention. Now where is Mr. Potter?"
Lily slowly pulled the jar out from behind her back and held it up for Madame Pince to see.
"Your matters have just gotten worse, I'm afraid," she replied sternly. "Mr. Potter will be receiving detention as well."
Lily gagged and looked at the small critter scurrying back and fourth.
"I suggest you bring your classmate to the hospital wing immediately."
"But…" Lily started.
"No but's Miss Evans, take Mr. Potter to the hospital wing. Oh and bring his friends with you. Goodness knows I don't need any more trouble."
With that Madam Pince stomped off back to her desk.
"This is great! Just great!" said Lily sarcastically.
She grabbed her backpack quickly from the chair and tossed the jar roughly inside.
Hagrid remained silent as he watched Lily walk over to the remaining marauders. All mouths still open, each of them gaped at her as she came nearer.
"Come on, and stop gapping like idiots," Lily said sternly.
The three quickly closed their mouths, and walked towards the hospital wing. Lily slacked behind them hoping to talk to Hagrid, but he refused to even look at her. Hagrid was most times a very gentle person but other times he was like an unyielding parent.
"Oh c'mon Hagrid," said Lily quickly, but Hagrid continued to look straight ahead.
"It really wasn't all that bad. Just a bit of fun, you know? I did have reasonable cause for my actions. He was trying to steal my locket, that rat!"
"Not that bad! Is that what ye think?" asked Hagrid in anger. "Ye could have been expelled for what ye just did."
"Don't get in a huff, Hagrid. I hardly doubt I'd get expelled for turning someone into an ant. We do it all the time in transfiguration."
"Ye might do that in transfiguration, but do ya also have heavy books falling from shelves about to squish ya into a pancake?" asked Hagrid with concern.
A smile began to curl at the ends of Lily's lips.
'To be able to make James go splat might not be so bad,' she thought to herself.
Hagrid sighed and calmed down a little at seeing Lily's eyes light up with amusement.
"Lily may I ask ye something?" Hagrid asked cautiously.
"You just did," replied Lily. "But ask another one."
"What do ye have against James?" asked Hagrid.
Lily stopped short from the unexpected question.
"What do you mean?" asked Lily, her voice slightly wavering.
"What do ye think I mean?" asked Hagrid seeing that Lily was uncomfortable with the subject. "Ye two are always fighting, and ye know what? It's annoying."
Lily was taken back at his comment and glared at him through steely green eyes.
"Don' get me wrong Lily, I think yer a great person, but I have a feeling that all yer fighting is because of something else."
"I don't quite follow," said Lily confusingly.
"Well I think ye and James fight because ye like each other," replied Hagrid.
Lily's body grew numb, and her mind couldn't register what exactly was going on. A large wave of emotions rolled through her, but the strongest emotion was hatred. Hagrid looked at Lily and then took a fast step backwards. Lily's normally happy face grew a ghastly white, and it appeared to Hagrid that maybe he'd just made a tragic mistake.
"Lil…Lily," asked Hagrid softly.
Lily didn't answer, but continued to glare at him. Just when she was about to explode something gave way inside her, and the tiniest bit of admiration flooded into her. Hagrid stood cringing next to her, waiting for a huge verbal blow, but it never came. Slowly Lily's face returned to normal and she continued to walk to the hospital wing, leaving Hagrid in utter astonishment. As Lily became further and further away Hagrid sighed in relief. He had known Lily to loose her temper, but never had she seemed so furious. And then to just walk away without saying a single thing, this was not like Lily. Hagrid shrugged and hurried off to catch up with her fleeting image far ahead of him.
When Lily finally reached the hospital wing, James's friends were already waiting. Apparently from the look on Madam Pomfrey's face, they had told her the story.
"The jar, please, Miss Evans," said Madam Pomfrey.
Lily pulled out the jar from her backpack, and handed it to Madam Pomfrey. She pulled off the lid to the container and plopped the ant onto a hospital bed. Then she walked over to one of the cabinets nearby and pulled out a small bottle containing purple liquid. After a single drop of liquid the ant disappeared and a very muddled yet handsome James sat on the edge of the hospital bed.
Lily smacked herself for thinking such foolish things, and with Madam Pomfrey's approval, she said goodbye to Hagrid and hurried off back to the Gryffindor common room.
Upstairs in the girl's dormitory, Lily lay upon her bed starring at the ceiling. She pulled the curtains closed on her four-poster bed and picked up a book that was lying beside her. She tried to concentrate on the words but her mind was elsewhere.
'Detention! I still can't believe it! James Potter I will have my vengeance!'
Lily sighed and then closed her eyes trying to come up with a foolproof plan to rid herself of James forever.
