[ a/n: I feel bad -_-; I was supposed to update my fic a LONG time ago..
but yea, got too lazy cuz of summer :P well.. now that I know for sure I
can't finish by the 21st (since it's just this Saturday) this fic will
become slightly AU if anything conflicts with JKR's plot.
thanks for the reviews! ]
[ Disclaimer: not mines (see previous disclaimers) ]
Chapter 6
In a quiet, secluded corner of the library, Remus and Lily were hard at work at their Charms project. Lily was busily checking though various books, mostly on of course, charms.
"So, what charms do you want to write about for our project?" Lily was scanning through some advanced charm books. "I would like to do an Unforgivable curse, that way we can receive extra points in case our other charm we choose isn't as good as Professor Flitwick wanted."
Remus just shrugged like it didn't make a difference. "It's up to you Lily, do whatever you want to do. You probably noticed I'm not that good in Charms. DADA is one of my, err. better subjects."
"Hmm. how about we do the Imeperius Curse and the Fidelius Charm."
"Ok, fine with me."
After hours of tedious work in the library, no one took noticed to their surroundings. For one, it was getting nearer to the closing of the library; and neither detected a shadowy figure in the rows of books.
"I'm tired, you wanna call it quits, Lily?"
Lily, equally as stressed, agreed although reluctantly.
"So. do you just want to talk?"
Puzzled, Lily said, "Sure. About what?"
"How about our friends? Like who do you always confide in more, Jennifer or Ariana?"
Contemplating, Lily tried to think of all the situations that she needed her friends. "Well, don't tell anyone, but I think I ask advice from Ariana more than Jennifer, but usually Jennifer is the most sensible out of the three of us. What about you?"
"Of course you know I have James, Sirius, and Peter. Sirius is always the wisecrack fool he is, and all love. There's Peter, who's unusually quiet now, but we think it's just a phase. And of course, last but not least, James. I'd say he's the smartest out of all of us."
Lily snorted. "I thought I'd never hear 'smart' and 'Potter' in the same sentence."
"Aww, come on Lils, you're in denial. We all know James is pretty smart. But now that I think about it, there were times he was thinking below average."
"Ha! Even you admit it" Lily gave him a smug look.
The next hour was spent, just talking as two friends. Strangely enough, Lily didn't take notice to the fact that Remus was asking a lot of questions based on Ariana or Jennifer.
"Oh shit, look at the time. The library closes in a minute!" Remus clumsily packed all his parchments, quill and inkbottle, and some spell books into his book bag and prompted to leave.
"Bye Lils! See you tomorrow." And with that, Remus leaned in and kissed her on the cheek and half jogged out of the library, leaving Lily to stand there as her hand involuntarily touched her cheek.
~*~
The next morning, Lily awoke in a happy mood. She couldn't help keep on thinking what that kiss meant. "Jen, Ari?" Great. Her so-called friends didn't even wait for her. She got up and did her morning routine as she hurriedly left for the Great Hall.
Once again, her thoughts drifted to the past events of the night before. Well, she didn't know what to think of it. Did it mean that Remus liked her? Thought of her more than a friend? Or maybe it was just a friendly kiss goodnight. 'Well explain why he likes to talk to you every night' Her conscience argued back, as an internal battle raged on. Sighing, as she was about to sit down with Jennifer and Ariana, she concluded it to be a friendly kiss-on-the-cheek-good-night, and nothing more.
The first unusual thing she noticed was that Ariana and Jennifer weren't, in fact, sitting with her. She looked around, confused at the end of the Gryffidnor table, that they weren't present as it was their usual breakfast seats.
"Hey Lily!"
She searched for the voice, and found Remus was calling her. He motioned with his hands for her to join them. Once again, she got up and made her way to the middle of the Gryffindor table, where she found Jennifer and Ariana. sitting next to the Marauders. It was quite crowded since the infamous Marauders were quite popular, much to Lily's chagrin. So she was forced to sit next to James Potter himself.
That way, Lily was in front of Remus. 'At least I don't have to look up at Potter's ugly face.' Lily just smiled sweetly at Remus and greeted her friends, and said a quick hello to Sirius and Peter, but completely ignored James.
The seating order was as followed: On one side of the table was Remus, and next to him was Jennifer and then Peter. On the other side of the table was Lily next to James, who was next to Sirius and then Ariana, facing an empty seat that was preoccupied by Lana, but left as she found out that in order to sit near the Marauders, she had to sit by Peter.
While Lily was eating her cereal, she kept on glancing up at Remus. She shifted her focus to Jennifer, who was trying vainly to grab Remus' attention. At the moment Remus seemed to be talking to neither of the girls, much to their disappointment.
Five minutes were left before their first class of the day, Advanced Transfiguration. The seven of them got up, everyone but Peter was in Advanced Transfiguration.
~*~
"Miss Evans!"
Snapping out of her reverie by a shrill voice, she looked up to see a very angry Professor McGonagall.
"Yes Professor?" Her voice was laced with false sugary sweetness.
Sighing, Professor McGonagall just decided to let her off and continue the lesson.
"Please pay attention. Class, in groups of two, transfigure your inkbottle into an octopus and then turn the octopus into a squid."
The Gryffindors quickly divided amongst themselves. Throughout the lesson, Sirius was flirting with Ariana, so naturally they chose themselves as partners. Unfortunately, Jennifer was faster than Lily and asked Remus to be hers.
Lily felt angry for a moment. 'What am I thinking. I can't like Remus, I mean Jennifer really likes him. And I guess she's got dibs on him first.'
She noticed that everyone was taken, or that's what she thought.
"Umm, Professor? It looks like I don't have a partner."
"Nonsense. There's an even amount of students here so everyone should have a partner. Who doesn't have a partner?"
From the table next to Sirius and Ariana's, James spoke up. "Professor, I don't have a partner."
"Well there you go Miss Evans. You can be Mr. Potter's partner. I was going to suggest it anyways."
Scowling, she made her way to the seat next to James. She noticed how close her chair was near him, and instinctively scooted away from him.
While Professor McGonagall was giving directions, from the corner of her eye, Lily could see James chuckling silently.
He leaned over to her and whispered, "You know, I don't have cooties, unless you still believe in that stuff."
"As a matter of fact, I do, I think you're the dirtiest person I know."
James raised an eyebrow, "During the day or in bed at night?"
"Arghh, you are disgusting Potter. And I wouldn't want to know the answer to that question. Pay attention!"
He snorted, "I don't need to listen."
Sirius leaned towards their table and whispered, "Hey you two lovebirds, I think McGonagall's looking your way!"
And they left their conversation at that.
When they finally proceeded to transfiguring their inkbottle, James accomplished it on his first. He then transfigured it into various other creatures besides the squid.
"Asshole."
"Excuse me, did you say something?"
Lily looked up innocently and said, "No, it was nothing."
After a few minutes of no luck, Lily sat just at her seat and glared at her inkbottle like it was Voldemort himself.
"You know, staring it to death isn't gonna help."
"Shut up Potter. I already have a headache and I don't need you to worsen it."
"Miss Evans! Let me see you perform you transfiguration of your inkbottle!"
"Umm, well ok. Inkus Octinum!"
Of course, nothing happened.
"Miss Evans, already so early in the year and you can't even get a simple transfiguration assignment done! I suggest you get a tutor if you don't want to fall behind. See me after class."
A tutor?! Lily Evans, in need of a tutor? She could just hear it now, students laughing at her, at how she, Head Girl, needed a tutor. For God's sake it was only the second week of school! She tried to push all her negative thoughts into the back of her head.I don't need a tutor, Professor McGonagall was joking. well now that I think of it, she must be, I mean I'm Head Girl, I DO NOT need to be tutored.
"Evans! Hellooo. Lily? Anyone home?"
Annoyed, Lily slowly turned her head to face him. "What is it this time, Potter?"
"I, being the gentleman, asked you if you needed help in transfiguring your inkbottle."
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Have I offended you or anything? You seemed highly annoyed of me ever since I met you. Is there a reason for this crap you're giving me?"
"Being the git you are, I don't think you'd remember. Now can you please leave me alone? I'm trying to think."
"Ok ok. fine I'll leave you to your 'thinking'"
Thankfully the bell rang, and Jennifer and Ariana got up to walk to their next class, History of Magic, with Lily.
"Come on Lils, let's go before we're late!" Jennifer was checking her watch. (muggleborns. can't live without them)
"Can't. You guys go ahead of me. Umm . I have to talk to Professor McGonagall."
"Ok, we'll save a seat for you." With that, Jennifer poked Ariana in the arm, since she was distracted by a dark-haired someone.
'It's ok Lily, McGonagall just wants to talk to you. No big deal right? Hey, why is James still here? Shouldn't he have left with his other friends?'
Professor McGonagall started speaking. "Miss Evans, since today, I have been aware of your skills, or lack there of, in transfiguration. I know that you are very able to be in this class and I have no doubt that you shouldn't have been placed in regular seventh years' transfiguration. But,"
'Oh no, there's a but.'
"I think you would excel better if you had a tutor."
'Did I hear right?'
"So I have taken the initiative to ask Mr. Potter,"
Lily glanced at James as his head soon jerked up with the mention of his name.
"He is unquestionably at the top of the class, and I think he should make the perfect tutor. You two will already be spending much time together because of Head duties, so it wouldn't be a problem with spending just another hour together on tutoring lessons. Do you agree Mr. Potter?"
James looked at her as if she escaped from St. Mungo's and needed to be captured back to be placed into a solitary room for the mental cases.
"Umm." That was all he could get out.
"Great! I'll make a schedule. Now if you two will excuse me, I need to go back to my lesson planning and you two need to be in your next class."
The two students stared dumbly at Professor McGonagall's retreating back and both wondered how she got them into this interesting predicament.
Finally, Lily broke the uneasy silence. With narrowed eyes, she looked at James. "I hope you know that I hate you even more for that."
And with that, Lily left the room to catch up with Jennifer and Ariana in History of Magic.
~*~
[ a/n: yay! I'm done. hehe well enjoy! I'll get the next chapter out by next week! Well maybe late next week :D I need to take some time to read my favorite piece of fiction, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. out in 4 days!!
Btw, does anyone know how to do the bold and italics?? I'm clueless..
Please do me a flavour and review! ]
~meLisSa
thanks for the reviews! ]
[ Disclaimer: not mines (see previous disclaimers) ]
Chapter 6
In a quiet, secluded corner of the library, Remus and Lily were hard at work at their Charms project. Lily was busily checking though various books, mostly on of course, charms.
"So, what charms do you want to write about for our project?" Lily was scanning through some advanced charm books. "I would like to do an Unforgivable curse, that way we can receive extra points in case our other charm we choose isn't as good as Professor Flitwick wanted."
Remus just shrugged like it didn't make a difference. "It's up to you Lily, do whatever you want to do. You probably noticed I'm not that good in Charms. DADA is one of my, err. better subjects."
"Hmm. how about we do the Imeperius Curse and the Fidelius Charm."
"Ok, fine with me."
After hours of tedious work in the library, no one took noticed to their surroundings. For one, it was getting nearer to the closing of the library; and neither detected a shadowy figure in the rows of books.
"I'm tired, you wanna call it quits, Lily?"
Lily, equally as stressed, agreed although reluctantly.
"So. do you just want to talk?"
Puzzled, Lily said, "Sure. About what?"
"How about our friends? Like who do you always confide in more, Jennifer or Ariana?"
Contemplating, Lily tried to think of all the situations that she needed her friends. "Well, don't tell anyone, but I think I ask advice from Ariana more than Jennifer, but usually Jennifer is the most sensible out of the three of us. What about you?"
"Of course you know I have James, Sirius, and Peter. Sirius is always the wisecrack fool he is, and all love. There's Peter, who's unusually quiet now, but we think it's just a phase. And of course, last but not least, James. I'd say he's the smartest out of all of us."
Lily snorted. "I thought I'd never hear 'smart' and 'Potter' in the same sentence."
"Aww, come on Lils, you're in denial. We all know James is pretty smart. But now that I think about it, there were times he was thinking below average."
"Ha! Even you admit it" Lily gave him a smug look.
The next hour was spent, just talking as two friends. Strangely enough, Lily didn't take notice to the fact that Remus was asking a lot of questions based on Ariana or Jennifer.
"Oh shit, look at the time. The library closes in a minute!" Remus clumsily packed all his parchments, quill and inkbottle, and some spell books into his book bag and prompted to leave.
"Bye Lils! See you tomorrow." And with that, Remus leaned in and kissed her on the cheek and half jogged out of the library, leaving Lily to stand there as her hand involuntarily touched her cheek.
~*~
The next morning, Lily awoke in a happy mood. She couldn't help keep on thinking what that kiss meant. "Jen, Ari?" Great. Her so-called friends didn't even wait for her. She got up and did her morning routine as she hurriedly left for the Great Hall.
Once again, her thoughts drifted to the past events of the night before. Well, she didn't know what to think of it. Did it mean that Remus liked her? Thought of her more than a friend? Or maybe it was just a friendly kiss goodnight. 'Well explain why he likes to talk to you every night' Her conscience argued back, as an internal battle raged on. Sighing, as she was about to sit down with Jennifer and Ariana, she concluded it to be a friendly kiss-on-the-cheek-good-night, and nothing more.
The first unusual thing she noticed was that Ariana and Jennifer weren't, in fact, sitting with her. She looked around, confused at the end of the Gryffidnor table, that they weren't present as it was their usual breakfast seats.
"Hey Lily!"
She searched for the voice, and found Remus was calling her. He motioned with his hands for her to join them. Once again, she got up and made her way to the middle of the Gryffindor table, where she found Jennifer and Ariana. sitting next to the Marauders. It was quite crowded since the infamous Marauders were quite popular, much to Lily's chagrin. So she was forced to sit next to James Potter himself.
That way, Lily was in front of Remus. 'At least I don't have to look up at Potter's ugly face.' Lily just smiled sweetly at Remus and greeted her friends, and said a quick hello to Sirius and Peter, but completely ignored James.
The seating order was as followed: On one side of the table was Remus, and next to him was Jennifer and then Peter. On the other side of the table was Lily next to James, who was next to Sirius and then Ariana, facing an empty seat that was preoccupied by Lana, but left as she found out that in order to sit near the Marauders, she had to sit by Peter.
While Lily was eating her cereal, she kept on glancing up at Remus. She shifted her focus to Jennifer, who was trying vainly to grab Remus' attention. At the moment Remus seemed to be talking to neither of the girls, much to their disappointment.
Five minutes were left before their first class of the day, Advanced Transfiguration. The seven of them got up, everyone but Peter was in Advanced Transfiguration.
~*~
"Miss Evans!"
Snapping out of her reverie by a shrill voice, she looked up to see a very angry Professor McGonagall.
"Yes Professor?" Her voice was laced with false sugary sweetness.
Sighing, Professor McGonagall just decided to let her off and continue the lesson.
"Please pay attention. Class, in groups of two, transfigure your inkbottle into an octopus and then turn the octopus into a squid."
The Gryffindors quickly divided amongst themselves. Throughout the lesson, Sirius was flirting with Ariana, so naturally they chose themselves as partners. Unfortunately, Jennifer was faster than Lily and asked Remus to be hers.
Lily felt angry for a moment. 'What am I thinking. I can't like Remus, I mean Jennifer really likes him. And I guess she's got dibs on him first.'
She noticed that everyone was taken, or that's what she thought.
"Umm, Professor? It looks like I don't have a partner."
"Nonsense. There's an even amount of students here so everyone should have a partner. Who doesn't have a partner?"
From the table next to Sirius and Ariana's, James spoke up. "Professor, I don't have a partner."
"Well there you go Miss Evans. You can be Mr. Potter's partner. I was going to suggest it anyways."
Scowling, she made her way to the seat next to James. She noticed how close her chair was near him, and instinctively scooted away from him.
While Professor McGonagall was giving directions, from the corner of her eye, Lily could see James chuckling silently.
He leaned over to her and whispered, "You know, I don't have cooties, unless you still believe in that stuff."
"As a matter of fact, I do, I think you're the dirtiest person I know."
James raised an eyebrow, "During the day or in bed at night?"
"Arghh, you are disgusting Potter. And I wouldn't want to know the answer to that question. Pay attention!"
He snorted, "I don't need to listen."
Sirius leaned towards their table and whispered, "Hey you two lovebirds, I think McGonagall's looking your way!"
And they left their conversation at that.
When they finally proceeded to transfiguring their inkbottle, James accomplished it on his first. He then transfigured it into various other creatures besides the squid.
"Asshole."
"Excuse me, did you say something?"
Lily looked up innocently and said, "No, it was nothing."
After a few minutes of no luck, Lily sat just at her seat and glared at her inkbottle like it was Voldemort himself.
"You know, staring it to death isn't gonna help."
"Shut up Potter. I already have a headache and I don't need you to worsen it."
"Miss Evans! Let me see you perform you transfiguration of your inkbottle!"
"Umm, well ok. Inkus Octinum!"
Of course, nothing happened.
"Miss Evans, already so early in the year and you can't even get a simple transfiguration assignment done! I suggest you get a tutor if you don't want to fall behind. See me after class."
A tutor?! Lily Evans, in need of a tutor? She could just hear it now, students laughing at her, at how she, Head Girl, needed a tutor. For God's sake it was only the second week of school! She tried to push all her negative thoughts into the back of her head.I don't need a tutor, Professor McGonagall was joking. well now that I think of it, she must be, I mean I'm Head Girl, I DO NOT need to be tutored.
"Evans! Hellooo. Lily? Anyone home?"
Annoyed, Lily slowly turned her head to face him. "What is it this time, Potter?"
"I, being the gentleman, asked you if you needed help in transfiguring your inkbottle."
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Have I offended you or anything? You seemed highly annoyed of me ever since I met you. Is there a reason for this crap you're giving me?"
"Being the git you are, I don't think you'd remember. Now can you please leave me alone? I'm trying to think."
"Ok ok. fine I'll leave you to your 'thinking'"
Thankfully the bell rang, and Jennifer and Ariana got up to walk to their next class, History of Magic, with Lily.
"Come on Lils, let's go before we're late!" Jennifer was checking her watch. (muggleborns. can't live without them)
"Can't. You guys go ahead of me. Umm . I have to talk to Professor McGonagall."
"Ok, we'll save a seat for you." With that, Jennifer poked Ariana in the arm, since she was distracted by a dark-haired someone.
'It's ok Lily, McGonagall just wants to talk to you. No big deal right? Hey, why is James still here? Shouldn't he have left with his other friends?'
Professor McGonagall started speaking. "Miss Evans, since today, I have been aware of your skills, or lack there of, in transfiguration. I know that you are very able to be in this class and I have no doubt that you shouldn't have been placed in regular seventh years' transfiguration. But,"
'Oh no, there's a but.'
"I think you would excel better if you had a tutor."
'Did I hear right?'
"So I have taken the initiative to ask Mr. Potter,"
Lily glanced at James as his head soon jerked up with the mention of his name.
"He is unquestionably at the top of the class, and I think he should make the perfect tutor. You two will already be spending much time together because of Head duties, so it wouldn't be a problem with spending just another hour together on tutoring lessons. Do you agree Mr. Potter?"
James looked at her as if she escaped from St. Mungo's and needed to be captured back to be placed into a solitary room for the mental cases.
"Umm." That was all he could get out.
"Great! I'll make a schedule. Now if you two will excuse me, I need to go back to my lesson planning and you two need to be in your next class."
The two students stared dumbly at Professor McGonagall's retreating back and both wondered how she got them into this interesting predicament.
Finally, Lily broke the uneasy silence. With narrowed eyes, she looked at James. "I hope you know that I hate you even more for that."
And with that, Lily left the room to catch up with Jennifer and Ariana in History of Magic.
~*~
[ a/n: yay! I'm done. hehe well enjoy! I'll get the next chapter out by next week! Well maybe late next week :D I need to take some time to read my favorite piece of fiction, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. out in 4 days!!
Btw, does anyone know how to do the bold and italics?? I'm clueless..
Please do me a flavour and review! ]
~meLisSa
