A/N Thank you Damia for the ideas, I will probably end up using them. But I don't want them to find out any sooner than the holidays because I want to continue to show you the relationship between Lucius, Severus and Li without having all that stuff. I'm trying to get across the social pressures on all three of them that have caused them to act as they did in the HP books. You know, why Severus and Lucius are mean to Harry, why Severus favors Draco, all that stuff. If I introduce the Marauders element other than that of an enemy and rival, than I won't be able to properly demonstrate that. I'm almost definitely going to use number five.
The Kings
Severus woke up late one morning. He had been up late trying to work on his potions. Lucius always complained that the room smelled because of them but that was beside the point. Severus was had almost missed breakfast, almost.
Severus slowly made his way out of the dorms and to the Great Hall where he proceeded to the Slytherin table. Lucius was didn't even notice seeing as he was too wrapped up in exploring the mouth of a fellow Slytherin. Severus remembered her name was Janice, as an after thought. Severus sat down next to a disgruntled Li.
"Lovely morning," Li said sarcastically.
Li never did like any of his or Lucius' romantic escapades. Finally she ha just learned to deal with it, but that didn't make her happy. In this case, Severus agreed, this was disgusting, right infront of everyone as well. Had they no decency for people attempting to eat breakfast?
"Yes, this is really the thing I need to see while I eat breakfast," Severus replied just as sarcastically. Severus and Li yawned simultaneously.
"Late night?" they both asked.
"Yea." The two snorted at how silly they sounded.
"What's your excuse?" Li inquired.
"Working on a new potion and then I remembered that McGonagol assigned a paper that's due today," Serveus told her. Li shook her finger at him. "So what's your excuse? Don't tell me you spent the whole night watching the lake again, it's so, so, so unSlytherin." Both Li and Severus heard a noise that sounded like milk being spit up from the Griffindor table. They looked over o see the Marauders all choking. The two Slytherins shrugged at each other. The strangeness of Griffindors was not something of interest.
"I spent the night reading. Ok, so I watched the lake for a while, but I was too lazy to move and was too tired to read," Li replied. A sigh of relief sounded from the Griffindor table. "What's up with them?"
"Who knows? Let's try to convince lover boy here to go to class without the thing attached to him," Severus said.
"Bad breath spell?" Li asked, a wicked gleam in her eye. This was a spell she used often on her friends when she had had enough of their girlfriends and dates. Severus nodded. Li muttered something. Lucius' eyes went wide. He pushed the girl away from him.
"Kindly brush your teeth in the morning," he told her before standing up.
"Let's go, Astrology is first," Li said nonchalantly.
"Thank you," Lucius said.
"Why?" Severus asked.
"I was getting tired of her and was trying to come up with an excuse to get away." The three chuckled and made their way out the door.
"When is the Quidditch season starting?" Severus asked.
"Tomorrow," Li said. "Captain wants to make sure we're all in top shape and is going to have people trying out, you know competition to make us fly better."
"Still keeping the chaser position?" Severus asked Lucius.
"Yea. I would try out for beater," Lucius said, "but Yeo and Adder are better than I am. You staying with seeker?" Li nodded.
"I'm too small to be either beater or keeper and I can't catch things that don't have a mind of their own," Li responded. That was one of the reasons she had quite softball as a young girl. The other reason was the girls all were more concerned with keeping their uniforms clean than actually playing, but what do you expect from dress obsessed six-year-olds?
"Why would Li switch?" Severus asked. "She's never failed to catch the snitch."
"Remember, in public it's he not she," Li reminded them.
"Whatever man, whatever floats your boat," Lucius said.
"We're going to be late to Astrology if we walk at this pace!" Li exclaimed looking at the time.
"I'm going to get you a proper wizard watch for your birthday," Lucius told her. "It's degrading to see you looking at that thing, even if you did enchant it."
"So why do we need Astrology anyway?" Severus asked. "This time could be better spent finding the mistakes in Rerich's The Mechanics of Potions."
"Or researching the great texts of Alexander," Li added.
"Or finding a nice girl to snog," Lucius said absentmindedly. Severus and Li both looked at him. "What?" Both of his friends shook their heads. The three made their way to Astrology. It was one of the few subjects that the Slytherins shared with the Ravenclaws. Out of all the houses, the Slytherins got on with the Ravenclaws best. Though the Slytherins generally didn't like studying in more than one subject, the studious Ravenclaws made friends with the Slytherins and often supplied materials and resources that they had come across in their studies.
"So who is your next girlfriend going to be? If I didn't know better, I would say you snogged almost every girl in the school senseless," Li snapped.
"Lay off it Li. I know you don't approve so get off my back already. I can't help it if the ladies love me," Lucius replied.
"Humble isn't he?" Severus asked.
"One of his finer points," Li replied.
"Never met a guy with more humility," Severus continued.
"Practically his middle name."
"Lay off it already," Lucius snapped.
"Yes, sir. Whatever you say sir," Li and Severus said together.
"That is happening too much for my comfort this morning," Severus commented.
"I concur, we sound like little muggle girls, in a moment we're going to start saying jinx," Li agreed.
"Are we going to throw the traditional Halloween party?" Severus asked, changing the subject.
"Course, but isn't it a bit early to be planning it?" Li said.
"It's September thirtieth, we have a month, that means we must send out invitations, get permission, get food and get decorations," Severus informed her, he counted down things on his fingers.
"You forgot music. Are we going to try to get live music again?" Lucius asked.
"Don't ask me, you're the one with the unlimited wallet," Li told him. "I don't like planning things."
"Not my strong point either," Lucius put in.
"I'll do all myself again," Severus huffed. An outsider would think him offended, but he was used to it because this conversation happened every year and Severus loved planning things anyway and hated people interfering even if they thought they were helping.
"So what do we do for fun until then?" Li asked.
"We go to Astrology," Lucius said like they were going on a great quest.
"But that's not fun," Li protested.
"Then we shall make it fun," Severus assured her. "Note passing and pranks have never failed to brighten even the most boring class."
"Good point my friend. Let us go to," Li paused for dramatic effect, "Astrology."
