Different…and Loving It
A/N Ok, this is a L/J fic, where Lily and her best friend Kaleb (who belongs to me, by the way) are totally different from everyone else…and they love it. Just tell me what you think, and I'll check out your stories!
Chapter One
Lily Evans strolled down the stairs to the Girls Dormitory in Gryffindor Tower, clad in a pair of very low-riding straight and extremely baggy black pants, and a tube top that looked more like she had tied a red bandana around her torso. Her deep red hair hung in dozens of tiny braids around her shoulders, and her emerald eyes portrayed her smirk.
She leaned against the back of a couch with her best friend, Kaleb Brandon. Kaleb was a chestnut brunette with blue eyes, a tan, and a killer smile. They shared the same predatory air, the same sense of humor, and the same intellect, they were meant to be best friends, no doubt about it.
Also occupying the common room were the Marauders. The Marauders were composed of James Potter, seeker on the house Quidditch team, prankster, and all around most popular guy in school, Sirius Black, beater on the house team, wild prankster, and easily as popular as James, Remus Lupin, intelligent, kind, prankster, and nearly as popular as James and Sirius, oh yeah, and Peter Pettigrew, tagalong, shy, mostly a nice person, but not on the same level popularity-wise as James, Remus, and Sirius. They were in their usual spots, in front of the fire, with a horde of girls giggling around them.
"Kaleb, love, remind me again how those twits became Gryffindors?" Lily asked her best friend, referring to the Marauders and the ditzes surrounding them. It was Kaleb's and Lily's habit to call each other 'love', it simply fell out, they were closer than anything, and they loved each other like sisters.
"It's because the gods were bored and wanted to screw us over, mate." Kaleb replied, casting a lazy glance at the offending persons.
"Ah. I'd forgotten." Lily smirked.
Over in front of the fireplace laughter had erupted, due to Sirius regaling the group with the tale of a prank played on Severus Snape, a greasy boy in Slytherin. One of the most popular girls, Jennifer Harris, wrinkled her nose as she caught sight of Lily and Kaleb. "Ugh, why do they have to be down here? They always ruin everything, they're such losers. How did those freaks become Gryffindors? They shouldn't even be allowed at this school. Look how they're dressed!" The other popular girls nodded and giggled their agreement.
Kaleb and Lily noticed this, and also heard the comments directed at them. They glanced at each other as if to say, 'Should I take this one, or you?' Kaleb nodded and stepped towards the group, smirking. "And what should we dress like, you? I'm sorry that my dream isn't to be a silicone clone." she deadpanned.
Lily joined her best friend, and looked at the group condescendingly. "As for deserving to be here, where should we be? Out with Voldemort painting snakes and skulls in the sky? Oh, honey, don't try and think. We wouldn't want to trigger the Apocalypse, would we?"
The pair watched as Jennifer became flustered, clearly not understanding, or being able to spell for that matter, half of what they said…hmmm…to think that they even used tiny words for them. "Well…you're just a couple of…freaks!"
"Did you hear that, Lily love? She called us freaks!" Kaleb put a hand to her heart, in mock despair.
"Love? Just how close are you two?" Sirius asked, smirking.
In response Lily snaked her arm around Kaleb's waist, "Wouldn't you like to know…" and snapped her teeth playfully at Sirius.
Sirius arched an eyebrow.
"Now, I believe we will give you all enough time to work out what just happened, Jennifer…try looking in the big book with the word DICTIONARY on it, I'm sorry it doesn't have any pictures…but it should do!" Kaleb said, and she and Lily strolled up the stairs to the Girls Dormitory.
"Remmie, what was that about a pack of lips?" Jennifer whined.
"Don't call me Remmie. And it's 'apocalypse' it's the end of the World. She was saying that if you tried to think it would bring about the end of the world, because you have never done so before." Remus said, irritated.
Jennifer looked confused, and then burst out with, "Remmie! She called me dumb!"
Upstairs Lily and Kaleb heard this, and erupted into laughter. "Oh gods, Kaleb! That was terrific!" Lily laughed.
Kaleb nodded and responded, "Now, you know we have to play a prank on them, right? Now Lily, my love, any suggestions?"
"Oh, I think a bald Sirius and a purple-haired Jennifer would do the trick!"
"What about the giggle-ditzes, purple hair as well?"
"Certainly!"
This brought Kaleb and Lily both into fits of laughter, and each time their gales died down all they had to do was look at each other and they started up again.
In the morning, Kaleb and Lily rose before the other girls, and went into the bathroom with their things. They divided the work in half, and each poured a capful of potion into each girl's shampoo bottle. They had brewed the potion a month earlier, and it kept very well, it was designed so that it would turn each girl's hair bright electric purple, and it would stay that way for 48 hours, but the girl herself would not see any difference in her hair, they would simply see their usual hair color. After they completed their task, they set about getting ready for the day. Lily pointed her wand at her head, muttered the washing spell, the drying spell, and the braiding spell all in sequence. As her hair was being braided into dozens of thin braids, Lily slipped into an ankle length black skirt that was slit up both sides to mid-thigh, and an emerald green three-finger tank-top accented by a black shark's tooth necklace.
Kaleb slipped on a pair of black flares and a white tank top, and her hair hung around her shoulders. The pair exited the bathroom just as the other girls were coming in, and using the showers. Kaleb and Lily allowed their usual smirks to grace their features as they thought about what the girls were rubbing into their hair.
Kaleb and Lily headed down to breakfast, strolling coolly and confidently. They took their usual places at the Gryffindor table, at the end, and on their side was the gaggle of ditzes and the Marauders. "So, Lily, Lady of Charms, will you be performing the Sirius honors?" Kaleb asked.
"Of course, Kaleb, Lady of Potions." Lily responded snootily, and giggled.
Just then the Marauders entered the Great Hall, with a group of giggling, purple-haired girls trailing them. The Great Hall roared with laughter at the sight of the girls, each one with matching electric purple hair. Lily and Kaleb wore identical smirks, amused beyond all reason at the girls' hair.
The hall quieted down when everyone was seated, and the food appeared on the tables. Kaleb pointed her wand at the pitcher of Pumpkin Juice that sat in front of Sirius, and whispered a spell that made it fall into his lap. Lily winked at her partner in crime, "Nice distraction." She said.
Lily then pointed her own wand at Sirius' hair and muttered a rather long Charm Sentence. Sirius' hair instantly disappeared.
This, of course, spurred on a new round of laughter, headed up by the Slytherins.
Lily and Kaleb smirked, and waved at Sirius, as he looked around, trying to find the source of everyone's amusement. Remus noticed Lily's wave, and leaned over towards her. "How did you do that?" he questioned, as Sirius ran his hand where his hair should have been, and noticed no change.
"Well, Lupin, it's really quite simple. Remember those Charm Sentences we did in Flitwick's class? All I did was combine the banishing charm, the correct term for Black's hair, the location to banish it to…which I'm not sure I'll tell you, and a version of the Confundus charm that I've developed, designed to make him notice no change." Lily said proudly.
"Really? Wow, none of us could get the Sentences down…Flitwick kept going on about grammar…that's pretty cool." Remus conceded.
Lily rolled her eyes. "It's no big. Besides, you and yours are better at Transfiguration anyway. Play to your strengths. Take Snape for example, almost every prank he's ever played on you wankers…I mean, yeah I mean wankers, has been a potion, because that's what he's good at. The only person who is better than Snape in Potions is Kaleb here, so whenever we need a potion, it's her bag. My thing is Charms, as we have just established. By the way, that won't rub off until tonight, about midnight if I conjugated correctly."
"Lupin, you don't seem to be as vile as I thought…how did you get tied down with those gits?" Kaleb asked, arching one brow.
Remus flashed a grin and said, "You know Kaleb, I haven't the foggiest idea."
And that was that. Kaleb and Lily had found another friend in Remus, something no one ever expected to happen.
A/N Ok, this is a L/J fic, where Lily and her best friend Kaleb (who belongs to me, by the way) are totally different from everyone else…and they love it. Just tell me what you think, and I'll check out your stories!
Chapter One
Lily Evans strolled down the stairs to the Girls Dormitory in Gryffindor Tower, clad in a pair of very low-riding straight and extremely baggy black pants, and a tube top that looked more like she had tied a red bandana around her torso. Her deep red hair hung in dozens of tiny braids around her shoulders, and her emerald eyes portrayed her smirk.
She leaned against the back of a couch with her best friend, Kaleb Brandon. Kaleb was a chestnut brunette with blue eyes, a tan, and a killer smile. They shared the same predatory air, the same sense of humor, and the same intellect, they were meant to be best friends, no doubt about it.
Also occupying the common room were the Marauders. The Marauders were composed of James Potter, seeker on the house Quidditch team, prankster, and all around most popular guy in school, Sirius Black, beater on the house team, wild prankster, and easily as popular as James, Remus Lupin, intelligent, kind, prankster, and nearly as popular as James and Sirius, oh yeah, and Peter Pettigrew, tagalong, shy, mostly a nice person, but not on the same level popularity-wise as James, Remus, and Sirius. They were in their usual spots, in front of the fire, with a horde of girls giggling around them.
"Kaleb, love, remind me again how those twits became Gryffindors?" Lily asked her best friend, referring to the Marauders and the ditzes surrounding them. It was Kaleb's and Lily's habit to call each other 'love', it simply fell out, they were closer than anything, and they loved each other like sisters.
"It's because the gods were bored and wanted to screw us over, mate." Kaleb replied, casting a lazy glance at the offending persons.
"Ah. I'd forgotten." Lily smirked.
Over in front of the fireplace laughter had erupted, due to Sirius regaling the group with the tale of a prank played on Severus Snape, a greasy boy in Slytherin. One of the most popular girls, Jennifer Harris, wrinkled her nose as she caught sight of Lily and Kaleb. "Ugh, why do they have to be down here? They always ruin everything, they're such losers. How did those freaks become Gryffindors? They shouldn't even be allowed at this school. Look how they're dressed!" The other popular girls nodded and giggled their agreement.
Kaleb and Lily noticed this, and also heard the comments directed at them. They glanced at each other as if to say, 'Should I take this one, or you?' Kaleb nodded and stepped towards the group, smirking. "And what should we dress like, you? I'm sorry that my dream isn't to be a silicone clone." she deadpanned.
Lily joined her best friend, and looked at the group condescendingly. "As for deserving to be here, where should we be? Out with Voldemort painting snakes and skulls in the sky? Oh, honey, don't try and think. We wouldn't want to trigger the Apocalypse, would we?"
The pair watched as Jennifer became flustered, clearly not understanding, or being able to spell for that matter, half of what they said…hmmm…to think that they even used tiny words for them. "Well…you're just a couple of…freaks!"
"Did you hear that, Lily love? She called us freaks!" Kaleb put a hand to her heart, in mock despair.
"Love? Just how close are you two?" Sirius asked, smirking.
In response Lily snaked her arm around Kaleb's waist, "Wouldn't you like to know…" and snapped her teeth playfully at Sirius.
Sirius arched an eyebrow.
"Now, I believe we will give you all enough time to work out what just happened, Jennifer…try looking in the big book with the word DICTIONARY on it, I'm sorry it doesn't have any pictures…but it should do!" Kaleb said, and she and Lily strolled up the stairs to the Girls Dormitory.
"Remmie, what was that about a pack of lips?" Jennifer whined.
"Don't call me Remmie. And it's 'apocalypse' it's the end of the World. She was saying that if you tried to think it would bring about the end of the world, because you have never done so before." Remus said, irritated.
Jennifer looked confused, and then burst out with, "Remmie! She called me dumb!"
Upstairs Lily and Kaleb heard this, and erupted into laughter. "Oh gods, Kaleb! That was terrific!" Lily laughed.
Kaleb nodded and responded, "Now, you know we have to play a prank on them, right? Now Lily, my love, any suggestions?"
"Oh, I think a bald Sirius and a purple-haired Jennifer would do the trick!"
"What about the giggle-ditzes, purple hair as well?"
"Certainly!"
This brought Kaleb and Lily both into fits of laughter, and each time their gales died down all they had to do was look at each other and they started up again.
In the morning, Kaleb and Lily rose before the other girls, and went into the bathroom with their things. They divided the work in half, and each poured a capful of potion into each girl's shampoo bottle. They had brewed the potion a month earlier, and it kept very well, it was designed so that it would turn each girl's hair bright electric purple, and it would stay that way for 48 hours, but the girl herself would not see any difference in her hair, they would simply see their usual hair color. After they completed their task, they set about getting ready for the day. Lily pointed her wand at her head, muttered the washing spell, the drying spell, and the braiding spell all in sequence. As her hair was being braided into dozens of thin braids, Lily slipped into an ankle length black skirt that was slit up both sides to mid-thigh, and an emerald green three-finger tank-top accented by a black shark's tooth necklace.
Kaleb slipped on a pair of black flares and a white tank top, and her hair hung around her shoulders. The pair exited the bathroom just as the other girls were coming in, and using the showers. Kaleb and Lily allowed their usual smirks to grace their features as they thought about what the girls were rubbing into their hair.
Kaleb and Lily headed down to breakfast, strolling coolly and confidently. They took their usual places at the Gryffindor table, at the end, and on their side was the gaggle of ditzes and the Marauders. "So, Lily, Lady of Charms, will you be performing the Sirius honors?" Kaleb asked.
"Of course, Kaleb, Lady of Potions." Lily responded snootily, and giggled.
Just then the Marauders entered the Great Hall, with a group of giggling, purple-haired girls trailing them. The Great Hall roared with laughter at the sight of the girls, each one with matching electric purple hair. Lily and Kaleb wore identical smirks, amused beyond all reason at the girls' hair.
The hall quieted down when everyone was seated, and the food appeared on the tables. Kaleb pointed her wand at the pitcher of Pumpkin Juice that sat in front of Sirius, and whispered a spell that made it fall into his lap. Lily winked at her partner in crime, "Nice distraction." She said.
Lily then pointed her own wand at Sirius' hair and muttered a rather long Charm Sentence. Sirius' hair instantly disappeared.
This, of course, spurred on a new round of laughter, headed up by the Slytherins.
Lily and Kaleb smirked, and waved at Sirius, as he looked around, trying to find the source of everyone's amusement. Remus noticed Lily's wave, and leaned over towards her. "How did you do that?" he questioned, as Sirius ran his hand where his hair should have been, and noticed no change.
"Well, Lupin, it's really quite simple. Remember those Charm Sentences we did in Flitwick's class? All I did was combine the banishing charm, the correct term for Black's hair, the location to banish it to…which I'm not sure I'll tell you, and a version of the Confundus charm that I've developed, designed to make him notice no change." Lily said proudly.
"Really? Wow, none of us could get the Sentences down…Flitwick kept going on about grammar…that's pretty cool." Remus conceded.
Lily rolled her eyes. "It's no big. Besides, you and yours are better at Transfiguration anyway. Play to your strengths. Take Snape for example, almost every prank he's ever played on you wankers…I mean, yeah I mean wankers, has been a potion, because that's what he's good at. The only person who is better than Snape in Potions is Kaleb here, so whenever we need a potion, it's her bag. My thing is Charms, as we have just established. By the way, that won't rub off until tonight, about midnight if I conjugated correctly."
"Lupin, you don't seem to be as vile as I thought…how did you get tied down with those gits?" Kaleb asked, arching one brow.
Remus flashed a grin and said, "You know Kaleb, I haven't the foggiest idea."
And that was that. Kaleb and Lily had found another friend in Remus, something no one ever expected to happen.