Hell on Wheels in a Black Dress

A/N read the one at bottom, it's important. The title is a line from Matchbox 20's song Disease.

Severus had a lot of trouble falling asleep that night. Hell on wheels in a black dress kept appearing in front of him. He shouldn't be thinking this. Li would kill him. She had just been acting, she didn't mean anything by it, she hadn't meant for him to take it seriously, had she? Of course she hadn't.

She was Li. She was his friend who acted like a boy. She would send him flying for this if she found out, even if it had been any girl. She disliked romance. She didn't like him, did she?

But the girl in the club hadn't been Li that was Lily. Was there a difference? No there wasn't, and yet, the way she acted. But Li had always been like that, trying to freak people out and trying to annoy them. She had been just acting.

Severus tried to dismiss the feel of her skin and the way her hair had shined. He tried not to think about the softness of her lips and the warmth of her breath. But it was so damn hard. Just when he had told himself he wasn't going to think about her, that she was just Li, the girl in the black dress would pop back up.

Lucius had told him not to fall for her, but it was too hard! It was too hard! What was he going to do? He couldn't ask her if she wanted to go out, the three of them had talked about it many times. Severus and Lucius had confessed a desire to one day have a family. Li had dismissed it all as being stupid.

'What was the point?' she had said. 'Why go through all the dating process when it's going to end in rejection? In the end it's just stupid.' No, she wouldn't go out with him. He should just give up. He should stop feeling this way and remember that she was his friend. Friend, what a stupid word. What did it mean anyway? Why did people always say they just wanted to be just friends? Why did he keep seeing her? Why wouldn't she leave him alone?

Up in the Griffindor Tower, a girl in a black dress was also haunting one James Potter. He kept seeing her over and over in his head. She was dancing, just like she had with Severus, except this time he was the one kissing her, he was the one with his hands on those gorgeous legs, he was the one touching her arse.

Remus had told them her name was Elaina and she was visiting her cousin Li Evans. How did a guy like Evans get a hot girl like that for a cousin? An even more stumping question was how did Snape get her to be his girlfriend?

He could see the resemblance between Evans and Elaina. They both had the same noses and hair, though Elaina's had been longer. James had never taken the time to look at Evans' eyes, so he wouldn't know if they had the same green eyes.

The second question was beyond James. The girl had been so gorgeous and Snape was so ugly. He was so greasy looking and he was stuck up. He didn't care about anything besides putting people down and his potions. Snape made the Marauder's lives miserable, so they made his miserable back.

I have to think about something else, James told himself. Think about Remus; think about Remus with blond hair. Remus got to dace with her and I didn't! Ack no! Must not think about her! Think about Sirius in a dress that would be funny. Especially if it was like the one she was wearing tonight. She looked so hot. No! Can't think about her.

James decided to think about bears, but unfortunately, that got him wondering whether she was the type of girl who liked stuffed bears. He tried to think about school, but he started wondering what school she went to. Everything he thought of ended up going back to the girl. He decided to give up and think about her.

He wondered how he was going to ask Evans about her. That would be very hard. First he would have to admit he liked Evans' cousin to him. He would probably have to do something for him, then he could get the info. He also risked being killed. Snape, Malfoy and Evans would probably not like him trying to get information about Evans' cousin and apparently Snape's girlfriend.

Yes, Snape would probably kill them anyway for even asking his girlfriend to dance. James remembered right after Remus and Elaina stopped dancing. She had said something to him before getting up and sitting in his lap. The two then had a major snog session right there in the middle of the club. Then they proceeded to do some moves on the dance floor that was what he couldn't get off his mind tonight.

James told himself he had a sick mind and wondered how long it would be until he fell asleep and wondered if he would be haunted even in his dreams. After he thought this, he fell asleep into a world with lots of alive stuffed bears dressed in Hogwarts uniforms. Halfway through his dream, when he realized how silly this was, SHE appeared next to him and started saying random facts about bears.

A/N it wasn't quite as long as I wanted or as good a chapter, but it will have to do. I apologize for this chapter, but I thought that Severus should both be up at night thinking of Lily. I will use various names for her as the character dictates.

The Marauders will always call the person they know from school Li. They will continue to call the girl they met in the bar, Elaina and they know her as Li's cousin.

Severus will probably cal her both Li and Lily since he is kinda at a confused stage where he is not sure whether he thinks of her as a crush or a friend and he's all confused.

Lucius will call her Li

The teachers will either call her Li or Evans.

Just so everyone is clear on that. I want to make sure people are following. Pretend this is like the real Harry Potter in that you make up your own pronunciation of things, I pronounce it Li as in LEE, but you can pronounce it anyway. It really doesn't matter as long as it sounds like a boy's name. Also, I try not to make sure that when she talks about herself in the third person, she never says pronouns. So that way no one can say she deceived them cause she never comes out and says she's a boy. At least I think that's how I did it and if I didn't, that's how I do it from now on.