Title: Her Other Life
Author: Brooke Kenobi
Summary: Lily and James think about their lives and how their mistakes will affect their son. Lily also has a secret James should know about before it's too late.
Disclaimer: Oops. I forgot one the last time. All right...I don't own anything. If anyone was to sue me all they would get is about $12. I'm a poor girl, what can I say?
Sorry it's taken me so long to update (if anybody cares J), but I'm back now!
And guess what! I've seen Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!! Yay! If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It's so much better than the first one, that and Tom Riddle looks very nice in this movie. *sigh*
"Well, well, well...What do we have here?" Malfoy sneered.
Lily ripped his hands from her mouth and waist, stomped on his foot, and spun around to face him, her bright green eyes flashing angrily.
"Filthy Mudblood!" Malfoy yelped in pain. "What do you think you're doing, sneaking around here like this?" he asked, gaining his composure.
"I was trying to get to class," Lily huffed indignantly, trying to hide the fact that she had overheard most of what they had been talking about.
Malfoy stared at her intently trying to see if she was being truthful. As he kept staring and started getting other ideas (A/N: use your imagination guys, it's not that hard! I just don't like to think or write about that stuff), Snape hurried to Lily's side and defended her. "I'm sure she didn't hear anything important," he said meaningfully, nodding at Lily who started to back away.
But before Lily was almost completely out of reach, Malfoy grabbed her again and said forcefully, "If you did hear anything, you'd best forget it and not mention it to your boyfriend and your pitiful little friends or you'll regret it!"
Lily yanked her arm back and spat back at Malfoy, "Don't you dare threaten me, Malfoy! Just because your daddy has some influence over lots of other people's fathers doesn't mean that he can stop James and Sirius' fists...or mine for that matter!" With that, Lily glared one last time at Malfoy and stalked out of Malfoy and Snape's sight.
As soon as Lily was far away from Malfoy and Snape she allowed herself to slow down. She heaved a sigh of relief when she finally reached the Gryffindor common room. It was fairly empty with most of the others being in class. When Lily had finally calmed down she began to think of all that she had overheard.
The fact that Malfoy was in with the Dark Lord didn't surprise Lily in the least. He was always a mean-hearted and spiteful person. But Severus? Lily obviously knew that he had to be at least cunning to be in Slytherin, but he just didn't seem the type to go to the Dark Side. But when she thought about how uncaring and mean Severus acted while he was around the other Slytherins, she supposed it could make sense, but something still seemed to be missing from this puzzle.
And just what did Severus mean when he was talking about getting revenge on James and the rest of the Marauders? Lily couldn't help but worry about this. Severus had had this thing for her for almost two years now, and hated James because of his own infatuation with her. Still worrying, Lily fell asleep in her comfortable armchair in front of the roaring fire.
* * *
"Lily!" James called out.
Lily awoke with a start, hearing her name being yelled out.
"Hey! What happened?" James asked Lily, concerned. "Why weren't you in potions?"
"What?" Lily asked. "Potions? Oh no! I fell asleep!" she cried. "What did I miss? Was Professor Stallam upset? What's the assignment?" Lily fired each question one right after the other.
"Whoa, Lily!" Sirius said, laughing as he came up behind James. "You just missed one class. Big deal. It's not the end of the world, I promise." Sirius laughed again at Lily's indecisive face. She couldn't decide whether she wanted to yell or laugh at him.
Lily decided on a different approach and threw a book at him.
"Hey! That's not very nice!" Sirius said and threw another book at him. Right before James could join in and it could become a full-scale "knowledge" war, Peter came in the common room.
A book came flying at his head and thanks to his nonexistent reflexes he got hit. "Owww!!" Peter yelled as he fell down and dropped his bag with his books and parchment flying everywhere.
James immediately called the war off and went to go help Peter. "You okay, Peter?" James asked kindly, as he hauled Peter to his feet. For reasons unknown to Lily, James and Sirius had taken a liking to Peter. She, personally, didn't fully trust him; but since she trusted James and Sirius with her life, she went along and befriended Peter as well.
"I think so," Peter said uncertainly, still feeling around for his balance. A few minutes later, Remus came into the common room, drawing the attention away from Peter (who scowled in Remus's direction).
"Hey Remus!" Sirius shouted. "How's your mom doing?" (A/N: wink wink, nudge nudge!)
Remus looked at Sirius with a tired grin and gave him a thumbs up. As Peter and Sirius were talking to Remus and filling him in on what he had missed in school, gossip and who was dating whom, James filled Lily in on what she missed in Potions and asked her more intently what was going on.
"Lily," James pressed, "seriously, why weren't you in class? You've never missed a class," he paused a moment and said, "well, except for that one time when you were really sick and you were thro..."
"Okay! That's enough, James!" Lily interrupted. "I'm sure no one wants to hear about my amazing digestive system reflexes!" she said sarcastically.
"All right," James agreed with a slight smile. "So what happened?"
Lily sighed and said, "I just fell asleep. That's all. Nothing happened. I was tired. And I fell asleep. End of story!" Lily wasn't completely sure why she wasn't being fully honest with James, but her mind was forming a plan without her consent and it required James not knowing what she had overheard.
"That's all?" James asked, slowly pulling Lily closer in his arms.
"That's all," Lily answered with a sexy little smile and wrapped her arms around James to kiss him.
A few seconds later, many complaints of "Ew!" and "Get a room!" erupted in the Gryffindor common room. Lily and James broke apart, laughing.
Later on that night as she lay in bed, Lily decided to let her mind fill her in on what it was planning...
A/N: Wow. If you're still reading – Thank you!! Now, this always bugs me when authors write this, so I'm going to "change" it a little. I'm going to REQUEST (not demand) one review per chapter. I'll keep writing this, no matter what, just so I can finish the story. But I would like to think/know if someone's even reading or caring. Anyway, Thanks so much for reading this far!
~Brooke~
