Disclaimer: I am most certainly NOT JKR. I only own Gabrielle and Liela, the rest are, sadly, not mine.
Gabrielle scoffed at her boyfriend. "You said we were going to study together!" she said indignantly, crossing her arms stubbornly. "But I guess your mischief is more important then me?" she stood up, gathering her stuff. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and study alone."
"But-!" Sirius' complaint went unnoticed. He frowned. "Really!" he said, throwing up his hands. "I have no idea how I handled this in the first place!" the sixth year student said. He ran after her.
Liela grinned at Lily. "Ah, young love." She joked, wiping a fake tear out of her eye. They were in the great hall, eating breakfast, and Liela was enjoying a breakfast with Remus.
Lily traipsed through the snow on the Hogwarts grounds. Gabrielle and Liela were chatting softly behind her, but Lily couldn't concentrate, as the snow was burying itself deep into her red hair, making it feel as though she had just submerged her head into a bucket of ice-cold water. She frowned, eyeing the pieces of snow on her gloves. She hastily tried to pick it out, ruining the fabric on her gloves at the same time. "What are yeh doin'?" A deep voice said from behind her. "Yeh're going to ruin yer gloves, doing that, yeh will." Hagrid's gigantic shape of a body suddenly made its way into Lily's view.
"Hagrid!" She squealed, running over to hug him enthusiastically. "We were just coming to see you!!" and she added, on a darker tone, "I'm so sorry I haven't been to visit. It's just Potter and Black and they've been bothering me…" she trailed off.
Hagrid frowned. "Yeh can't mean James an' Sirius?" He looked thoughtful for a moment, before he sighed. "That's right…" he muttered suddenly, his eyebrows furrowed. "That means," he grunted, and glanced at Lily. "C'mon. We're going to my hut. Got to talk to yeh." He walked in the direction of his hut, his footsteps leaving deep troughs in the snow. He kept on muttering to himself, even as he opened the wooden door into his house. "But I thought…yeah, an'…"
Lily raised her eyebrows at the two confused-looking girls behind her. They both shrugged, pulling up a chair. Hagrid put on a teakettle on his stove. "Now." He said, his voice dropping almost to a whisper. "Yeh can't tell anyone I told yeh this. See, James…" he dropped his voice a little more. "Fancies yeh, Lily." He nodded his head knowingly. "Has so since third year. Told me himself."
Liela smiled gently. "Yeah, Hagrid. We know. It's kinda hard not to miss it." But even as she said that, she cast a wary glance out of Hagrid's window, as though afraid someone might overhear the conversation.
Hagrid looked shocked for a moment, but then he said, "Been too obvious, eh?" he clicked his tongue. "I told him…" he picked up the teakettle and put it on the table. He gathered up three cups and one large mug, and put it next to the kettle. Pouring the tea, he shook his head. "Never does anything anyone ever tells him…"
Lily's hand shook so hard, that she almost spilled the scalding tea onto her lap. She put it down shakily and frowned at Hagrid. "Exactly!" she half-yelled, wiping the tea of her chin. "He never leaves me alone, even though I tell him to go away! He's just so arrogant and-argh!" she breathed deeply. "He gets on my nerves so much!! He-is-argh!" Once again, she could not find a word strong enough to describe what she thought of James.
Hagrid raised his eyebrows. "Ah, C'mon, Lily. If yeh jus' got to know him, you'll see he's not so bad!" But at Lily's disbelieving looks, he added, lowering his voice guiltily. "Well, he's nice enough…"
Gabrielle stifled a giggle.
Hagrid sighed at Gabrielle's antics. "Yeh know as well as I do, Gabrielle, he's changed since sixth year. He's even stopped hexing people!" he sighed again, and said, "Everyone except that Severus Snape…"
Lily glared at her two friends, who were covering their mouths, desperately trying to muffle their laughs. "See? He hasn't stopped hexing him!! He's just an innocent bystander! He hasn't done anything to them, yet they're still picking on him!" But she knew what Hagrid was saying was true; ever since last year, the Marauders had, indeed, settled down a bit, preferring to study than to fool around. She shook her head. That's not the point!! She argued with herself.
Hagrid smiled a little. "But he's stopped at the most. An' yeh know why?" he asked, glancing toward the windows. Lily shook her head. "Because of yeh, Lily." Hagrid said softly, enveloping Lily in a tremendous hug. "He's finally caught on that those things don't impress yeh, an' well, I guess he's willing ter give up his life of crime…fer yeh."
Lily walked toward Hogsmeade fifteen minutes later, her head buzzing slightly with thoughts about the conversation with Hagrid.
"I guess he's willin' ter give up his life of crime…fer yeh." Hagrid's words kept on coming back to her, no matter how hard she tried to stop it. She couldn't stop herself from feeling slightly guilty; James had given up his whole life for…her, little Lily Evans…
Oh, god...*sniffles* I would like to say thank you to my first ever reviewer, pope. I know you're out there somewhere, pope, and you will be remembered for all eternity. ONE THOUSAND points to you!! I went totally ballistic when i logged on and saw i had a review. I could hardly contain my screams and shrieks of delight. My first fan...EVER!! And thank you, again, for all those wonderful comments. It's those kinds of things that just keep me going...
And of course, five hundred points to...Moony 63. You guys are my first two reviewers. I only put this up because I'm getting to a slow start, pretty much. I know i said ten reviews, but i was pretty stupid to ask that much on my first fan fic here. So. I'm putting up the third chappie later, when i feel this fic is going good. So. Review, and, for goodness sake, enjoy!
