Salt of the Earth
A/N: Sorry about the Sarah mistake, thanks to kberg1989 and Chocolate Taco for pointing it out. Sarah is actually Lily, my three best friends are called Teri, Katie and Sarah, so I do get those mixed up, sorry again.
Chapter 3: Chapter 3 (for lack of a better name)
"YOU WHAT?" Katie choked out, and Lily just gaped in response, her eyes simply bulging out, rather unsightly actually.
"I'm going out with Snape." Teri responded, tapping her foot impatiently, as though she had just commented about the weather and her two friends were making too big a deal over a thunderstorm or something.
"THE ENEMY?" Lily screeched, gesturing wildly with her hands, before grabbing Teri by her shoulders and shaking her.
"He's not THAT bad, he's quite nice actually." Teri responded, carefully extricating herself from Lily's grasp. Lily was a beater in the Gryffindor team, and she did tend to have a vice grip, and she was quite strong.
"NICE? THAT'S LIKE SAYING VOLDERMORT DISHES OUT SWEETS TO STRANGERS!" Lily continued to screech, but began to wring her hands instead, much to Teri's relief.
"I thought you like him?" Teri asked, "You always stand up for him!"
"That doesn't mean I like HIM! I just hate the Potty gang!" But she did flush a little, and her volume was considerably lowered.
"Severus and Teri.." Katie pondered, she did not seem to surprised, much to Lily's chagrin.
"Oh come on Lils, it's not like Teri went out with James right? And if Voldermort gives out sweets I want a marshmallow. Maybe I'll leave a post it.." Katie continued, and she wore a grin which she knew would drive Lily wild.
"Better than James I suppose." Lily shrugged and continued helping Teri move some of her stuff into her room.
"Oh that's good, I invited him to come.." This time Teri sounded nervous and she added this comment sotto voce, and it sounded more like a whisper than anything.
Katie heard this and immediately whipped around to look at Teri but Lily just continued walking, not really noticing anything.
"Well I said it, she can't say I didn't when he shows up." Teri grinned mischievously and Katie just half glared half chuckled before they followed Lily into the room.
"You will be sleeping here, Katie over there and I suppose I can squeeze right over there." She looked at her two friends who were sharing secretive glances and began to smell a rat.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, not quite wanting to know the answer.
"Nothing, nothing." Teri decided, wanting the Evans Residence to still be standing at the end of the day.
Lily was never a very nosey person so she just shrugged it off and they helped Teri unpack, and put her and Katie's clothes into the dressers. They could have had guest rooms but they always spent most of their time in Lily's room anyway so they decided to just save the Evans the trouble and just bunk in together.
"I need to pee." Lily remarked.
"Thank you for sharing that with us." Katie commented darkly, and after Lily left with a "just thought you would want to know," rounded on Teri.
"COMING? HERE?" She hissed, and Teri nodded, "Just for a visit, he's not staying or anything!"
"Maybe you could just sneak out to meet him instead? I mean look how Lily reacted! You would think that you had said that the world had been taken over by a giant lolly or something." Katie suggested, gesturing wildly, as she usually did.
"It's no biggie! We are gonna meet in Diagon Alley, then he's gonna follow us back here and maybe come to Atlantis with us. No worry he's not staying over, he's just gonna leave at night and come back in the morning!"
"Is too a biggie! Wait, did I just say that? Okay nevermind, don't you REALISE what Snape calls LILY?"
"I know, I know. But we met at this." Teri started, but was cut short when she heard the flush of the toilet. Immediately they both shut up and sat down stupidly on the bed, desperately racking their brains for some false conversation.
"GOBSTONES SO RULES!" Katie suddenly sputtered out, and Lily, who had just vacated the restroom looked at her oddly while Teri gave Katie a "could you have thought of something better" look.
"Quiddich is better!" Teri said with absolutely false cheeriness, but fortunately Lily was too busy straightening out her shirt to notice.
"Oh yes, it is. Convince Katie here that it is, she's been bugging me about it." She said, as she finally dusted off her shirt before settling down on the bed.
"So spill about Snape." Lily instructed, hugging her knees to her chest and Katie nodded her head eagerly as she bounced onto a spot nearer Lily while Teri groaned and turned to face them.
"Well you know my mum's in the ministry, so we were at this hideously boring party, and I was forced to wear a DRESS! Anyway," She hurried on, catching her friends' "cut the crap" look, "Anyway," she repeated, "I was just walking around and I was going to get a drink when that annoying Potter came up to me and began asking me about you," She paused at this point to shoot Lily a devious little look.
"And you said that I still hated him like hell right?" Lily pressed, "continue on with the story."
"Well, yeah Severus came and struck up a convo with me, which did not involve your name every alternate word, and he's actually quite nice!"
"Nice my ass." Katie grumbled under her breath but Teri who was already caught up in the story did not notice.
"He then asked me out after the party and you know, since Dedulas I haven't been out much with a guy on a serious date so I decided what the hell, and you just can't resist when Sev isn't being his.."
"SEV? Stick to Snape." Katie snapped, and Lily pretended to hurl, both earning a dark look and a light smack on the head.
"His usual greasy self. But I was coming here at the date, so er," Teri stuttered, and Lily narrowed her eyes at one of her best friends.
"She told him no." Katie finished off.
"Yes, I told him no, because I mean if I asked Sev no I mean Snape to come you would have killed me, right?" Teri asked, praying that Lily would say that she was fine with it.
"Damn straight I would." Lily replied, "Good on you Ter, haven't gone soft!"
"Precisely!" Katie commented, ignoring the glares Teri was shooting her.
"So who's up for a game of Exploding Snape oh I mean Snap?" Lily snickered, and so began the official "making fun of each others' boyfriends" trend. MEANWHILE.
"JAMES! SIRIUS IS HERE!" Assyria Black called, as she showed in a haggard Sirius who looked like a thousand Hippogriffs had just trampled on him.
"SIRIUS!" James yelled, "UPSTAIRS!"
Sirius, who was carrying an overnight bag, walked upstairs slowly. He trudged to James's room, and opened it before plopping onto James's bed.
"Bad argument?" James asked, and Sirius merely nodded.
"Don't' know if I would be allowed back. In the end I just grabbed my stuff and ran." Sirius moaned, "I wish I could stay here."
"You could!" James suddenly shouted, and was just about to race down and ask his parents when Sirius motioned to his shirt.
"I've got a tracking device. Bloody mother stuck it onto me with magic." He mumbled, and James saw a tiny black disc, well it was actually a scar in the shape of a disc. He almost growled in contempt for the "branding" of Sirius.
"Can't it be removed?" James asked, already knowing the answer.
"You think it'll still be here if it could? It was put on with magic, it can only be taken out by advanced magic, and we don't know any." Sighed Sirius, running his hand through his shaggy hair and glaring down at James's carpet as though it was its fault.
"True, true. BUT, I do know someone who can do this sort of magic."
"Don't tell me, Evans."
"Of course she can!"
"Sometimes, you have too much faith in her. She is only a fifth year, well not even a fifth year yet! True she is smart, damn smart maybe, but I don't think she can undo the work of a DARK WIZARD!" Sirius almost yelled out the last part.
"My parents could?" James suggested rather nervously, he knew what Sirius could do in a rage, and the results usually were not pretty.
"Like they would..they would think it was for the best." Snarled Sirius, and James could not help but agree.
"It's like the dark mark." Sirius continued, in a monotone, and he rubbed the part of his body which had the device embedded inside.
"Evans can get rid of it. We'll just fly by her house."
"You make it sound so simple. First of all, we don't even know where she lives, and second of all, who says she'll remove it for us?"
James paused to think about that for a while, but he really wanted to go see Evans and that gave him a prime excuse. He had already grabbed his broom, but the first part of Sirius's point struck him. He wasn't sure where she lived. Oh dear, he thought, so close yet so far.
"Maybe some other day mate, like if we go to Diagon Alley or something."
"GREAT IDEA! LET"S GO NOW!" James declared, standing up abruptly. He decided to scribble a note to Evans.
Evans,
Sirius and I are going to Diagon Alley and would like you to go to do us a favour. We will meet you outside Ollivanders in about 5 minutes. Don't be late.
James
PS: Bring along your wand
Sirius read the note and raised an eyebrow.
"Not too polite are we now James?" He inquired, wondering what scathing response Evans would say.
"It IS polite, I didn't call her any name." James insisted, as he tied the note to his owl's leg.
"James, my boy, the absence of rudeness does not necessarily mean that the letter is that polite." Sirius advised, as he watched James pet his snowy owl and send it out of the window.
MEANWHILE (this feels like a batman movie)
"HA! I WIN! Who's your mama?" Cheered Katie as she gazed at her friend's singed eyebrows.
"Rubbish, we let you." Lily snapped as she shuffled the deck of cards, ready for another game.
"I know, let's play gobstones." Suggested Katie again, when a snowy owl flew in the window and waddled over to Lily.
"THE NERVE OF THAT FREAK?" Lily hollered, showing Katie and Teri the letters. Katie was actually quite amused by the guts of James but Teri had the same reaction as Lily did.
"You know what? We'll go. BUT, we'll show them NOT TO MESS WITH US EVER AGAIN!" Lily declared, silently wondering what James, no Potter, could possibly want.
Teri looked rather shocked, but decided to go along, and Katie, not wanting to be left alone with Petunia, followed.
A/N: Sorry about the Sarah mistake, thanks to kberg1989 and Chocolate Taco for pointing it out. Sarah is actually Lily, my three best friends are called Teri, Katie and Sarah, so I do get those mixed up, sorry again.
Chapter 3: Chapter 3 (for lack of a better name)
"YOU WHAT?" Katie choked out, and Lily just gaped in response, her eyes simply bulging out, rather unsightly actually.
"I'm going out with Snape." Teri responded, tapping her foot impatiently, as though she had just commented about the weather and her two friends were making too big a deal over a thunderstorm or something.
"THE ENEMY?" Lily screeched, gesturing wildly with her hands, before grabbing Teri by her shoulders and shaking her.
"He's not THAT bad, he's quite nice actually." Teri responded, carefully extricating herself from Lily's grasp. Lily was a beater in the Gryffindor team, and she did tend to have a vice grip, and she was quite strong.
"NICE? THAT'S LIKE SAYING VOLDERMORT DISHES OUT SWEETS TO STRANGERS!" Lily continued to screech, but began to wring her hands instead, much to Teri's relief.
"I thought you like him?" Teri asked, "You always stand up for him!"
"That doesn't mean I like HIM! I just hate the Potty gang!" But she did flush a little, and her volume was considerably lowered.
"Severus and Teri.." Katie pondered, she did not seem to surprised, much to Lily's chagrin.
"Oh come on Lils, it's not like Teri went out with James right? And if Voldermort gives out sweets I want a marshmallow. Maybe I'll leave a post it.." Katie continued, and she wore a grin which she knew would drive Lily wild.
"Better than James I suppose." Lily shrugged and continued helping Teri move some of her stuff into her room.
"Oh that's good, I invited him to come.." This time Teri sounded nervous and she added this comment sotto voce, and it sounded more like a whisper than anything.
Katie heard this and immediately whipped around to look at Teri but Lily just continued walking, not really noticing anything.
"Well I said it, she can't say I didn't when he shows up." Teri grinned mischievously and Katie just half glared half chuckled before they followed Lily into the room.
"You will be sleeping here, Katie over there and I suppose I can squeeze right over there." She looked at her two friends who were sharing secretive glances and began to smell a rat.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked, not quite wanting to know the answer.
"Nothing, nothing." Teri decided, wanting the Evans Residence to still be standing at the end of the day.
Lily was never a very nosey person so she just shrugged it off and they helped Teri unpack, and put her and Katie's clothes into the dressers. They could have had guest rooms but they always spent most of their time in Lily's room anyway so they decided to just save the Evans the trouble and just bunk in together.
"I need to pee." Lily remarked.
"Thank you for sharing that with us." Katie commented darkly, and after Lily left with a "just thought you would want to know," rounded on Teri.
"COMING? HERE?" She hissed, and Teri nodded, "Just for a visit, he's not staying or anything!"
"Maybe you could just sneak out to meet him instead? I mean look how Lily reacted! You would think that you had said that the world had been taken over by a giant lolly or something." Katie suggested, gesturing wildly, as she usually did.
"It's no biggie! We are gonna meet in Diagon Alley, then he's gonna follow us back here and maybe come to Atlantis with us. No worry he's not staying over, he's just gonna leave at night and come back in the morning!"
"Is too a biggie! Wait, did I just say that? Okay nevermind, don't you REALISE what Snape calls LILY?"
"I know, I know. But we met at this." Teri started, but was cut short when she heard the flush of the toilet. Immediately they both shut up and sat down stupidly on the bed, desperately racking their brains for some false conversation.
"GOBSTONES SO RULES!" Katie suddenly sputtered out, and Lily, who had just vacated the restroom looked at her oddly while Teri gave Katie a "could you have thought of something better" look.
"Quiddich is better!" Teri said with absolutely false cheeriness, but fortunately Lily was too busy straightening out her shirt to notice.
"Oh yes, it is. Convince Katie here that it is, she's been bugging me about it." She said, as she finally dusted off her shirt before settling down on the bed.
"So spill about Snape." Lily instructed, hugging her knees to her chest and Katie nodded her head eagerly as she bounced onto a spot nearer Lily while Teri groaned and turned to face them.
"Well you know my mum's in the ministry, so we were at this hideously boring party, and I was forced to wear a DRESS! Anyway," She hurried on, catching her friends' "cut the crap" look, "Anyway," she repeated, "I was just walking around and I was going to get a drink when that annoying Potter came up to me and began asking me about you," She paused at this point to shoot Lily a devious little look.
"And you said that I still hated him like hell right?" Lily pressed, "continue on with the story."
"Well, yeah Severus came and struck up a convo with me, which did not involve your name every alternate word, and he's actually quite nice!"
"Nice my ass." Katie grumbled under her breath but Teri who was already caught up in the story did not notice.
"He then asked me out after the party and you know, since Dedulas I haven't been out much with a guy on a serious date so I decided what the hell, and you just can't resist when Sev isn't being his.."
"SEV? Stick to Snape." Katie snapped, and Lily pretended to hurl, both earning a dark look and a light smack on the head.
"His usual greasy self. But I was coming here at the date, so er," Teri stuttered, and Lily narrowed her eyes at one of her best friends.
"She told him no." Katie finished off.
"Yes, I told him no, because I mean if I asked Sev no I mean Snape to come you would have killed me, right?" Teri asked, praying that Lily would say that she was fine with it.
"Damn straight I would." Lily replied, "Good on you Ter, haven't gone soft!"
"Precisely!" Katie commented, ignoring the glares Teri was shooting her.
"So who's up for a game of Exploding Snape oh I mean Snap?" Lily snickered, and so began the official "making fun of each others' boyfriends" trend. MEANWHILE.
"JAMES! SIRIUS IS HERE!" Assyria Black called, as she showed in a haggard Sirius who looked like a thousand Hippogriffs had just trampled on him.
"SIRIUS!" James yelled, "UPSTAIRS!"
Sirius, who was carrying an overnight bag, walked upstairs slowly. He trudged to James's room, and opened it before plopping onto James's bed.
"Bad argument?" James asked, and Sirius merely nodded.
"Don't' know if I would be allowed back. In the end I just grabbed my stuff and ran." Sirius moaned, "I wish I could stay here."
"You could!" James suddenly shouted, and was just about to race down and ask his parents when Sirius motioned to his shirt.
"I've got a tracking device. Bloody mother stuck it onto me with magic." He mumbled, and James saw a tiny black disc, well it was actually a scar in the shape of a disc. He almost growled in contempt for the "branding" of Sirius.
"Can't it be removed?" James asked, already knowing the answer.
"You think it'll still be here if it could? It was put on with magic, it can only be taken out by advanced magic, and we don't know any." Sighed Sirius, running his hand through his shaggy hair and glaring down at James's carpet as though it was its fault.
"True, true. BUT, I do know someone who can do this sort of magic."
"Don't tell me, Evans."
"Of course she can!"
"Sometimes, you have too much faith in her. She is only a fifth year, well not even a fifth year yet! True she is smart, damn smart maybe, but I don't think she can undo the work of a DARK WIZARD!" Sirius almost yelled out the last part.
"My parents could?" James suggested rather nervously, he knew what Sirius could do in a rage, and the results usually were not pretty.
"Like they would..they would think it was for the best." Snarled Sirius, and James could not help but agree.
"It's like the dark mark." Sirius continued, in a monotone, and he rubbed the part of his body which had the device embedded inside.
"Evans can get rid of it. We'll just fly by her house."
"You make it sound so simple. First of all, we don't even know where she lives, and second of all, who says she'll remove it for us?"
James paused to think about that for a while, but he really wanted to go see Evans and that gave him a prime excuse. He had already grabbed his broom, but the first part of Sirius's point struck him. He wasn't sure where she lived. Oh dear, he thought, so close yet so far.
"Maybe some other day mate, like if we go to Diagon Alley or something."
"GREAT IDEA! LET"S GO NOW!" James declared, standing up abruptly. He decided to scribble a note to Evans.
Evans,
Sirius and I are going to Diagon Alley and would like you to go to do us a favour. We will meet you outside Ollivanders in about 5 minutes. Don't be late.
James
PS: Bring along your wand
Sirius read the note and raised an eyebrow.
"Not too polite are we now James?" He inquired, wondering what scathing response Evans would say.
"It IS polite, I didn't call her any name." James insisted, as he tied the note to his owl's leg.
"James, my boy, the absence of rudeness does not necessarily mean that the letter is that polite." Sirius advised, as he watched James pet his snowy owl and send it out of the window.
MEANWHILE (this feels like a batman movie)
"HA! I WIN! Who's your mama?" Cheered Katie as she gazed at her friend's singed eyebrows.
"Rubbish, we let you." Lily snapped as she shuffled the deck of cards, ready for another game.
"I know, let's play gobstones." Suggested Katie again, when a snowy owl flew in the window and waddled over to Lily.
"THE NERVE OF THAT FREAK?" Lily hollered, showing Katie and Teri the letters. Katie was actually quite amused by the guts of James but Teri had the same reaction as Lily did.
"You know what? We'll go. BUT, we'll show them NOT TO MESS WITH US EVER AGAIN!" Lily declared, silently wondering what James, no Potter, could possibly want.
Teri looked rather shocked, but decided to go along, and Katie, not wanting to be left alone with Petunia, followed.
