"Li, I dare you," Lucius said.
"When pigs fly and hell freezes over," Li replied.
"I double dare you," Severus retorted.
"I double dog dare you," Lucius said.
"Fine I'll do it, but on several conditions. First and foremost, no pictures may be taken of me. If I see any pictures being taken of me I will hex you into next week. Second, you guys have to dance with me cause I don't want to dance with those slobs down there," Li informed them.
"We agree to your conditions. Now get up there, Narcissa has agreed to help you. Get going," Lucius commanded. Li walked up to the girl's dorm like she was going to her doom. Severus and Lucius also got ready, but they were much faster so were forced to wait. Narcissa came down the stairs to the commonroom first.
"What took so long?" Severus asked impatiently.
"Never rush a lady," she replied. "May I present Lily."
"I'm not coming down! I look like a ho!" a voice cried from upstairs.
"You have to, it's part of the deal. You also have to come to the club," Lucius yelled back.
"Is anyone else in the common room?" Li yelled.
"No, just us," Severus replied. She peeked her head down to check and proceeded downstairs. Lucius' and Severus' jaws hit the floor. You could not tell that this redhead before them was one of their best friends. Her hair had even been lengthened.
"Now no one can tell about this! This is so degrading," Li, no Lily, complained. "What are you guys staring at? You've seen Narcissa before."
Lucius picked up his jaw first. "Of course we've seen her before. Seeing two lovely ladies next to each though, is a real treat."
"Sod off, unless you want to go flying," Lily snapped.
"Come on, let's go," Severus said. The three friends sneaked out of Hogwarts and made their way for Hogsmeade.
"Let's hit the club!" Lily cried as the entered the small town. They quickly found Triple U, the club they usually haunted, and got in. They knew the back way so they didn't have to present the fake ids they carried.
"Want to dance?" Lucius asked her.
"Sure." Lily and Lucius danced while Severus looked on. He wasn't jealous, he didn't think he was. He just wanted to dance with Lily and wanted to rip off Lucius' head because he was dancing with her and not Severus. That was jealously, right? The song ended and Lily came back to where Severus was standing while Lucius went to find a girl to dance with.
"Do you expect me to dance?" Severus asked.
"Nope," she answered. "I'm just going to hang out here. If you stay here than it looks like you're my boyfriend or something so people won't bother me."
"Thanks," Severus replied sarcastically.
"If you want to go find someone to dance with go ahead," Lily retorted.
"I don't really. If you really want to dance later, we can," Severus assured her.
"Not for a while. Don't worry, I'll save the last dance for you if you save it for me." Severus smiled at the last comment. They two sat there for a while in silence.
"Want a drink? Severus asked.
"Sure, get me a shot of firewhiskey." Severus made his way to the bar leaving Lily alone to people watch.
James, Sirius, and Remus entered Triple U. It was one of their first times coming to this club or any at all. The three quickly scanned the room for girls to dance with.
"Look at that beauty!" Sirius exclaimed as he saw a pretty girl.
"Where?" Remus asked.
"Right there, sitting next to, I think that's Snape. The poor girl, she probably wants to get away from him." James looked to the girl that his friend was talking about. His jaw had a mind of it's own. Sirius had said an understatement when he had said she was a beauty. She was skinny and well endowed. (Come on, he's a sixteen year old guy.) Her legs seemed to go on forever. She was wearing a little black dress that was barely decent. It was obviously meant to show more skin than cover. Skin was very fair, as was the color of most redheads. Speaking of red hair, hers flowed down to the middle of her back in waves. She had a delicate face that radiated beauty.
"I think I'm going to ask her to dance," Sirius said.
"She is too good for you man," Remus told him honestly. "You're going to have trouble getting a girl like that."
"Let him try, he's gotten a lot of girls," James argued. Sirius hadn't heard a word they said as he was up asking the girl. After a few minutes, Sirius came back with a sore cheek. "What she say?"
"That she could to be with Snape and I should sod off," Sirius replied. "I like her."
"The girl refuses you and you like her?" Remus asked.
"I like a challenge," Sirius retorted.
"That's a death wish. See? Snape is coming back to her table and he's shooting death glares at you," Remus reasoned.
"That's what makes her fun. If we all keep asking her, she's going to say yes to get us to stop," Sirius said.
"Fine, but a you know, I was against this," Remus said.
"Course," James replied. Through out the next hour, James and Sirius took turns asking her to dance. After having no luck, James, Sirius and Remus all went over together.
"Can you all leave me alone?" she asked them.
"Nope," Sirius answered. "Come on pretty girl, you know you want to dance."
"If I dance with one of you, will you all leave me alone?" she asked. Severus continued to glare daggers at the three Marauders.
"Yes malady, dance with any one of us and we'll all leave you alone," Sirius assured her smoothly.
"In that case I chose to dance with him," she said pointing to Remus. She got up and put her hands on his neck. Her awkwardly put his hands on her hips. He looked nervously at James and Sirius who had joined Severus at glaring daggers. It was a slow song which gave them a chance to talk.
"What's your name?" Remus asked.
"Elaina," Lily said, taking the first name off the top of her head.
"Pretty name," Remus smiled.
"What's yours?"
"Remus," he replied.
"Unusual name. So why are all of you losers bugging me? Dancing with strangers isn't exactly my cup of tea," Lily asked.
"That's just Sirius and James for you. They think you're hot," Remus told her.
"Curious, that's the first time anyone has told me," Lily said nonchalantly.
"Really?"
"Yes. Do you go to school near here?"
"I go to Hogwarts, what about you?"
"I'm just visiting my cousin," Lily lied.
"Who is that? Maybe I know him."
"Li Evans."
"Is he here?"
"No, Severus and Lucius decided to meet me and Li would stay at school."
"Why?" Remus asked.
"To cover their arses in case there are any questions about where they were." Lily hoped he was buying this. She made a mental note to tell Severus and Lucius later.
"Good idea," Remus told her. "Well the song is over. It was nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you as well. Tell your friends to sod off."
Remus smiled. "Will do. Thank you for the dance." He walked back to his friends and Lily walked back to Severus.
"Was that appolutly necessary?" he asked as she sat down.
"Yes, now they will leave us alone. I told them my name is Elaina and if anyone asks, I, as in me as Li, never came down to the club."
"Ok, but don't count on them leaving us alone," he replied.
"I have an idea, follow my lead," Lily told him. She got up and sat down in his lap. She leaned in to nibble on his ear.
"What are you doing?" Severus whispered.
"Play acting. They won't mess with us if they think we're a couple. Come on, you're acting too stiff, pretend I'm that girl I caught you making out with last week," Lily whispered back. Severus moved her face so he could look in it. He leaned forward to take her mouth. At the same time her put one hand on her leg and the other began to caress her back. His mouth left hers and began to leave a trail of kisses all alone her jaw. "Good play acting," she said. Severus admitted to himself that he had enjoyed that very much and hadn't been just acting. "How about we dance? Break out the naughty moves. Let's see their faces." Lily stood up and pulled Severus to a standing position.
They started to dance very closely. Lily turned around so they were touching. She proceeded to go slowly dance to the floor before coming up quickly. This continued for a few songs before a slow on came on. Lily put her hands around Severus' neck and cocked her head to the side.
"Can you see them?" she asked quietly.
"No," he told her in a calm collected voice. In truth he was far from calm. Severus leaned down to kiss her neck so she could see over his shoulder.
"Ha, green faces all of them. Good work partner," Lily smiled. The song ended and Lucius came up to them.
"Sorry," he apologized. "There was a girl who wouldn't leave me alone." He smiled wickedly. "I did see your act, very convincing you two. So what's the story?"
"I am Elaina, Li's cousin. He stayed at school so he could cover for you two. Those prats wouldn't leave us alone. A performance would be the only thing to get them to sod off," Lily grinned. "I better get back. Narcissa will kill me if I ruin her dress." The three quickly returned to the castle. Li said good night to the two and went up to her room.
"Don't even think about it," Lucius told Severus.
"Think about what?"
"Think about falling for her," Lucius told him. Severus stared at the ceiling, wondering how he had just screwed up his life.
A/N I don't know why I wrote in the whole Lily/Severus thing. It won't be developed much unless people want it to be. Remember that they lived in the seventies, right after the women's movement and the sexual revolution.
