Salt of the Earth
Chapter 4: Chapter 4(I really need to think of more interesting names)
Disclaimer: Go read the ones before, I won't put anything here unless I think of anything witty so don't expect it to be filled too soon. Hehe..just take it that nothing belongs to be except what does Cheers.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Katie piped up, as she searched for her socks which she had taken off before playing Exploding Snap.
"You are kidding right? You're not going to go at Potter's beck and call are you?" Teri asked, a tone of pleading in her voice, looking from Katie to Lily.
"Well I said I'm going, but I'm not going to give them a good time am I?" Lily hinted, but realizing about how vulgar that actually sounded decided to change it. "I mean I'm going to give them a hard time."
"Yes, yes. That's much better. Anyway, shall we go?" asked Katie, impatient to go to Diagon Alley to do some shopping. She loved shopping, anywhere and probably everywhere.
"Lily." Teri pleaded again, she had a reason why she did not want to go. She had said that she would owl Severus if she ever left Lily's house, so that they could meet but how could she arrange the meeting with Lily standing there?
"Well I want to know why they want me there!" Lily relented, "Don't you?"
"James probably wants to see you that's all! See? And you're not going to give him the pleasure of him ordering you about will you?" Teri concluded, clapping her hands together and remained on the bed, shooting her friends a defiant look.
"You think?" Lily asked, uncertain. That definitely sounded a lot like Potter and his gang. She twirled a strand of loose hair around her finger, wondering what to do next.
"Come on! Maybe he really needs you help!" Katie persisted, almost dragging Lily to the door.
"No! Lily you can't give in!" Teri panicked, she was not sure why she cared so much about Severus, it wasn't as though he was her best friend, was he?
"I'll go ask my mum." Lily announced diplomatically, as she slid past Katie, "No promises."
"Why the hell do you want to go?" Teri almost shrieked at Katie, while Katie stood near the door, tapping her foot impatiently.
"I want to shop." Was her blatant reply, "Why don't you want to go? You never said no to a good chance to shop? Who are you and what have you done to Teri.."
"Severus!" Was Teri's very understandable reply.
"It's Snape!" Katie snapped back.
"Now is NOT the time!" Teri said through gritted teeth.
"Well since your answer explains so much, I totally know now why you don't want to go to diagon alley! It would have irked me so much if you had just answered with one word!" Katie replied sarcastically.
"I said I'd owl him if I went anywhere so we can meet!" Teri said in an undertone, but she knew Katie heard it.
"What?! You're like a slave to that slimeball!" Katie hissed back, sounding a bit like Teri.
"He's my BOYFRIEND!" Explained Teri, still in that undertone, for some unexplainable reason.
"You're following an order from a boy?! That's EXACTLY what you're telling Lils not to do!" Katie accused, "Why don't you just owl him now and then go meet him in Diagon!"
Teri decided to ignore the first part of the comeback. "Why do you want to go so much? It's not like there is a sale on!"
"I've never turned down an opportunity to shop!" Katie rebutted, and at this point Lily returned.
"Well my mum says no problem, so I think we'll go and Katie you needn't look so cheerful." Lily decided, feeling rather amused as Katie did a victory dance.
"I'm not sure whether I'm happier that we can go SHOPPING or that I beat TERI!" Katie squealed happily.
"You know if you weren't so smart, you'd be a bimbo." Grunted Teri, as she walked over to Lily's table.
"Lils, I need to owl my parents since we're leaving your house." Teri lied as she picked up a quill.
"Er..okay then..but you ARE 15 in a few months time, I think you should be allowed to go out. You never owl your parents when you go anywhere do you normally?" Lily inquired, feeling rather puzzled. (A/N: Haha sarah you're always puzzled.)
"There is Voldermort now Lils." Teri remarked convincingly, (A/N: Teri born liar..) while Katie merely raised an eyebrow.
"So Teri is the first of us to fall huh?" Lily asked, the girls never had boyfriends before, and the last time they had checked, none were planning to, but for different reasons.
Lily wanted to concentrate on her studies, and not let any boy get in her way while Katie liked having variety, but she never really dated anyone. It was rather queer, she was friendly with all of the boys in Hogwarts, with the exception of the Slytherin, but never really flirted with them. She said that if she committed herself to one boy, others would keep a distance, and she won't have as many friends who were guys. It was weird, but as Katie pointed out, she was weird, and Teri and Lily could not argue with that.
"Shut up." Teri whined, but you could tell that she was actually quite excited at the prospect of having a boyfriend.
"First of us to fall, falls to a Slytherin, and Snape. How disgraceful, how will we face the world?" Cried out Katie, slumping to the floor quite comically, and Teri merely sent her a disdainful look.
"He really isn't that bad you know." Teri started, but decided to keep quiet when she caught the looks her friends sent her.
Teri quickly sent the letter to her "parents" before they grabbed their money and wands and left the premises.
"We have left the building, I repeat, we have left the building." Teri announced comically.
"You don't say.." Lily laughed, as the three of them made their way to the nearest subway. Since Lily lived in London itself, they soon came to one, and took the train to Liverpool. (A/N: I'm not sure whether they specified exactly where Diagon Alley was so..er I'm putting it there.)
MEANWHILE.
"Well, that done, let's go!" James declared, as he stood up, and looked for his wallet.
"Er aren't you forgetting something?" Sirius asked and James made his lips into an "o".
"Well we can't invite Remus, he's chilling with his family and we can't invite Pete, he's with his parents somewhere in Canada."
"No, I mean shouldn't' we wait for a reply? What if she can't go?" Sirius explained, amazed that the boy who scored straight As in his classes could be so dumb.
"Of course she will go, I asked her to didn't I?" James replied in a tone which could be used to say that grass was indeed green.
"What if she has friends over or something? Won't they want to do their own girly thing?"
"Trust me their isnt' anything girl-ier than going to Diagon Alley." Said James confidently, though he was not to sure of this himself.
"I know that she has friends over, so she won't mind going to Diagon Alley actually. I mean if she was by herself, she might have a job convincing her parents to let her floo by herself there."
"She's muggle-born, she will have to take the train."
"The Hogwarts Express collects people to go to Diagon Alley?" Asked James, impressed.
"No.I mean the muggle trains."
"You must mean the Knight Bus. Anyway, how do you know so much about muggles?"
"Muggle studies.I pay attention because the teacher is hot." Sirius explained, grinning devilishly at the last part.
James shared the grin with Sirius. They had had a very young Muggle Studies professor and she was definitely interesting to look at, even if she was a lousy teacher.
"True."
"How do you know Lily's having friends over?" Sirius asked, curious at his friend's knowledge of this girls' living habits.
"Oh so that's Evans's first name? Wasn't too sure what it was. Oh I overheard her talking to her friend, Richmond or something? Or maybe it was the other one, the one with black hair." James said vaguely, referring to Teri as the black haired girl.
"Katie? And isn't the black haired girl Holier (pronounced oly-air) Teri Holier?" Sirius frowned as he tried to place the names of the girls.
"Wow you know their names? I know their last names and feel accomplished already."
"I've known every girl's name including the Slytherins in our year. Since first year. Honestly James, you've been in the same school as them for 4 years and you don't even know? I thought you snogged half of them already?"
"Well you don't need to know their name to get a good kiss do you?" James challenged, and Sirius couldn't really argue with that.
"Oh so you mean Richmond and Holier are at Evans's house and will be going to Diagon Alley with her if she goes?"
"That seems to make the most sense."
"Okay, let's wait for a response first." Sirius suggested again, but after 10 minutes of waiting, no response came, and James was beginning to get impatient.
"Silence means consent. Let's go." James declared, and they both walked down to James's living room, ready to go.
"Just grab some Floo, toss is into the fire.." James explained, Sirius rarely flooed as his house had many security measures to make sure its location could not be plotted, and not being connected to the floo network was one of the disadvantages.
"I know how it goes, you taught me the other time."
"The other time you ended up in Knockturn and almost got your eyeballs ripped out."
"Shut up. You go first then." Sirius humphed, and watched as James vanished into the flames.
Sirius quickly whipped out a muggle beeper and keyed something in, before putting it back into his pocket, grabbing a handful of floo powder and shouting, "Diagon Allely" vanished into the flames as well.
Chapter 4: Chapter 4(I really need to think of more interesting names)
Disclaimer: Go read the ones before, I won't put anything here unless I think of anything witty so don't expect it to be filled too soon. Hehe..just take it that nothing belongs to be except what does Cheers.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Katie piped up, as she searched for her socks which she had taken off before playing Exploding Snap.
"You are kidding right? You're not going to go at Potter's beck and call are you?" Teri asked, a tone of pleading in her voice, looking from Katie to Lily.
"Well I said I'm going, but I'm not going to give them a good time am I?" Lily hinted, but realizing about how vulgar that actually sounded decided to change it. "I mean I'm going to give them a hard time."
"Yes, yes. That's much better. Anyway, shall we go?" asked Katie, impatient to go to Diagon Alley to do some shopping. She loved shopping, anywhere and probably everywhere.
"Lily." Teri pleaded again, she had a reason why she did not want to go. She had said that she would owl Severus if she ever left Lily's house, so that they could meet but how could she arrange the meeting with Lily standing there?
"Well I want to know why they want me there!" Lily relented, "Don't you?"
"James probably wants to see you that's all! See? And you're not going to give him the pleasure of him ordering you about will you?" Teri concluded, clapping her hands together and remained on the bed, shooting her friends a defiant look.
"You think?" Lily asked, uncertain. That definitely sounded a lot like Potter and his gang. She twirled a strand of loose hair around her finger, wondering what to do next.
"Come on! Maybe he really needs you help!" Katie persisted, almost dragging Lily to the door.
"No! Lily you can't give in!" Teri panicked, she was not sure why she cared so much about Severus, it wasn't as though he was her best friend, was he?
"I'll go ask my mum." Lily announced diplomatically, as she slid past Katie, "No promises."
"Why the hell do you want to go?" Teri almost shrieked at Katie, while Katie stood near the door, tapping her foot impatiently.
"I want to shop." Was her blatant reply, "Why don't you want to go? You never said no to a good chance to shop? Who are you and what have you done to Teri.."
"Severus!" Was Teri's very understandable reply.
"It's Snape!" Katie snapped back.
"Now is NOT the time!" Teri said through gritted teeth.
"Well since your answer explains so much, I totally know now why you don't want to go to diagon alley! It would have irked me so much if you had just answered with one word!" Katie replied sarcastically.
"I said I'd owl him if I went anywhere so we can meet!" Teri said in an undertone, but she knew Katie heard it.
"What?! You're like a slave to that slimeball!" Katie hissed back, sounding a bit like Teri.
"He's my BOYFRIEND!" Explained Teri, still in that undertone, for some unexplainable reason.
"You're following an order from a boy?! That's EXACTLY what you're telling Lils not to do!" Katie accused, "Why don't you just owl him now and then go meet him in Diagon!"
Teri decided to ignore the first part of the comeback. "Why do you want to go so much? It's not like there is a sale on!"
"I've never turned down an opportunity to shop!" Katie rebutted, and at this point Lily returned.
"Well my mum says no problem, so I think we'll go and Katie you needn't look so cheerful." Lily decided, feeling rather amused as Katie did a victory dance.
"I'm not sure whether I'm happier that we can go SHOPPING or that I beat TERI!" Katie squealed happily.
"You know if you weren't so smart, you'd be a bimbo." Grunted Teri, as she walked over to Lily's table.
"Lils, I need to owl my parents since we're leaving your house." Teri lied as she picked up a quill.
"Er..okay then..but you ARE 15 in a few months time, I think you should be allowed to go out. You never owl your parents when you go anywhere do you normally?" Lily inquired, feeling rather puzzled. (A/N: Haha sarah you're always puzzled.)
"There is Voldermort now Lils." Teri remarked convincingly, (A/N: Teri born liar..) while Katie merely raised an eyebrow.
"So Teri is the first of us to fall huh?" Lily asked, the girls never had boyfriends before, and the last time they had checked, none were planning to, but for different reasons.
Lily wanted to concentrate on her studies, and not let any boy get in her way while Katie liked having variety, but she never really dated anyone. It was rather queer, she was friendly with all of the boys in Hogwarts, with the exception of the Slytherin, but never really flirted with them. She said that if she committed herself to one boy, others would keep a distance, and she won't have as many friends who were guys. It was weird, but as Katie pointed out, she was weird, and Teri and Lily could not argue with that.
"Shut up." Teri whined, but you could tell that she was actually quite excited at the prospect of having a boyfriend.
"First of us to fall, falls to a Slytherin, and Snape. How disgraceful, how will we face the world?" Cried out Katie, slumping to the floor quite comically, and Teri merely sent her a disdainful look.
"He really isn't that bad you know." Teri started, but decided to keep quiet when she caught the looks her friends sent her.
Teri quickly sent the letter to her "parents" before they grabbed their money and wands and left the premises.
"We have left the building, I repeat, we have left the building." Teri announced comically.
"You don't say.." Lily laughed, as the three of them made their way to the nearest subway. Since Lily lived in London itself, they soon came to one, and took the train to Liverpool. (A/N: I'm not sure whether they specified exactly where Diagon Alley was so..er I'm putting it there.)
MEANWHILE.
"Well, that done, let's go!" James declared, as he stood up, and looked for his wallet.
"Er aren't you forgetting something?" Sirius asked and James made his lips into an "o".
"Well we can't invite Remus, he's chilling with his family and we can't invite Pete, he's with his parents somewhere in Canada."
"No, I mean shouldn't' we wait for a reply? What if she can't go?" Sirius explained, amazed that the boy who scored straight As in his classes could be so dumb.
"Of course she will go, I asked her to didn't I?" James replied in a tone which could be used to say that grass was indeed green.
"What if she has friends over or something? Won't they want to do their own girly thing?"
"Trust me their isnt' anything girl-ier than going to Diagon Alley." Said James confidently, though he was not to sure of this himself.
"I know that she has friends over, so she won't mind going to Diagon Alley actually. I mean if she was by herself, she might have a job convincing her parents to let her floo by herself there."
"She's muggle-born, she will have to take the train."
"The Hogwarts Express collects people to go to Diagon Alley?" Asked James, impressed.
"No.I mean the muggle trains."
"You must mean the Knight Bus. Anyway, how do you know so much about muggles?"
"Muggle studies.I pay attention because the teacher is hot." Sirius explained, grinning devilishly at the last part.
James shared the grin with Sirius. They had had a very young Muggle Studies professor and she was definitely interesting to look at, even if she was a lousy teacher.
"True."
"How do you know Lily's having friends over?" Sirius asked, curious at his friend's knowledge of this girls' living habits.
"Oh so that's Evans's first name? Wasn't too sure what it was. Oh I overheard her talking to her friend, Richmond or something? Or maybe it was the other one, the one with black hair." James said vaguely, referring to Teri as the black haired girl.
"Katie? And isn't the black haired girl Holier (pronounced oly-air) Teri Holier?" Sirius frowned as he tried to place the names of the girls.
"Wow you know their names? I know their last names and feel accomplished already."
"I've known every girl's name including the Slytherins in our year. Since first year. Honestly James, you've been in the same school as them for 4 years and you don't even know? I thought you snogged half of them already?"
"Well you don't need to know their name to get a good kiss do you?" James challenged, and Sirius couldn't really argue with that.
"Oh so you mean Richmond and Holier are at Evans's house and will be going to Diagon Alley with her if she goes?"
"That seems to make the most sense."
"Okay, let's wait for a response first." Sirius suggested again, but after 10 minutes of waiting, no response came, and James was beginning to get impatient.
"Silence means consent. Let's go." James declared, and they both walked down to James's living room, ready to go.
"Just grab some Floo, toss is into the fire.." James explained, Sirius rarely flooed as his house had many security measures to make sure its location could not be plotted, and not being connected to the floo network was one of the disadvantages.
"I know how it goes, you taught me the other time."
"The other time you ended up in Knockturn and almost got your eyeballs ripped out."
"Shut up. You go first then." Sirius humphed, and watched as James vanished into the flames.
Sirius quickly whipped out a muggle beeper and keyed something in, before putting it back into his pocket, grabbing a handful of floo powder and shouting, "Diagon Allely" vanished into the flames as well.
