Title: Gone Mad
Rating: G
Version: 1.0
Chapter: 2(7)
Author: Elizabeth Catherine Snyder
Disclaimer: James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Severus Snape all belong to J.K. Rowling, her publishers, editors, and Warner Brothers. Locations mentioned herein also belong to J.K. Rowling and her associates. I have taken artistic liberties to create a piece of fanfiction and do not claim to own any of the aforementioned. The storyline is mine however and I do not claim this is how the history of her characters has fallen.
Potions. My worst subject. I think it was everyone's actually…only a few even made passing grades through the course. That is where I was the day before I was supposed to go out with James. Ugh. Going out with James Potter, never thought that day would come.
Potions. That is where I was when James did the stupidest thing I had ever seen him do. We had all stood to pick partners and I had taken my time getting up when Severus walked over and stared at me coldly, lip twitching in a sneer. 'You work with me, Mudblood.' He commanded with a smirk. I stared at him intensely, brow furrowed. Excuse me; no one was going to tell me where I was working. Never mind the tone or word choice. James did not ignore it though, git, never could.
'Lily's working with me Snivellus.' James said smugly and I rolled my eyes skyward and fixed on the ceiling with an angry little huff of breath. Severus scowled deeply, his upper lip twitching in anger. I crossed my arms as I brought my eyes back level with James' face.
'By her expression it doesn't seem she's exceedingly enthusiastic on the idea, Potter.' Severus commented dryly, his smirk increasing ten-fold. I made a little indignant noise and glanced about the room to the pairs.
'Maybe you two can work with each other, it seems to me everyone has paired off. I'm working with Remus.' I responded flippantly and glanced between the two with a Slytherin-worthy smirk.
'You are not!' Black and his arrogant, determined tone. 'Remus is my partner! He agreed to it! Tell her Remy!' He shouted desperately as he rounded on Remus with a long sigh. Remus looked simply apologetic.
'Sirius…' He began and Sirius looked simply betrayed.
'No! Who the bloody hell am I supposed to work with?! You promised me!' Black shouted angrily, his hands clenching at his sides and I pondered if he'd actually hit the boy on the spot. 'Last night…' He mumbled after his outburst and kept his eyes locked with Remus'. I glanced between them and thought maybe it was just best I find Peter.
Remus bit his lip and his eyes glazed over a brief moment before he sighed and smiled a bit. 'Sirius, you're making a scene. Everyone's watching…' He reminded gently and Black glanced around before blushing slightly and fixing his gaze back on Remus.
I blinked rapidly and glanced around at the gathering crowd, teacher nowhere in sight. 'I'll just work with Peter…' I mumbled and scrambled off to find the boy before setting to work with him. I would have had to do most of the work, I really wish Remus would have worked with me, but there was nothing I could have done to change it by that point. Peter was always slow in potions and it was not that I did not like working with him, he was very personable, it was just I had not been in the mood to do the majority of the work.
I had found Peter already set up with his cauldron in the back of the dungeon classroom, he was ready to work b y himself. I suppose that was because he normally worked with James and just like everyone assumed that after the previous night I would have worked with James that day. Arrogant sod. Just because I had accepted his offer to Hogsmeade did not mean we were some couple then. Moreover, where did he get off telling the whole of Hogwarts I'd be going with him anyway? Wanker. Nonetheless, I sat down across from him with a large, delighted smile and my head cocked to the left so slightly. 'Hello Peter.' I started cheerfully and he blushed, fixing up the ingredients we would need for the work that day.
'Hey Lily.' He returned, not looking from his cauldron and busying his hands by fumbling with a vial of nidrania wings. 'Are you and James dating now? He didn't tell us much about what happened.' I blinked as he looked up with glassy eyes and I quickly turned to a large board in the front of the room and had started copying the notes.
'I guess.' I replied curtly as I kept my eyes upon the board in front and glanced every once and a while to my own notes. 'Add a pinch…just a pinch of Merfolk oil, okay?' I instructed and saw him nod out of the corner of my eye as I copied and let out a sigh. 'I fancy him…' I admitted and frowned, sighing loudly once again though speaking softly. 'He is arrogant, you know? Really a git.' I informed him with a smile, continuing to copy. 'Put one laurel leaf in and I'll cast the warming charm. We need to heat it until it forms a paste.' I coached softly and turned to watch him do as I'd said.
Peter added the leaf cautiously, extending his hand and pulling his body out of the way in fright. I smiled and shook my head at his display of dread. I muttered a simple heating charm, first year spell and set my eyes on Peter, biting my lip nervously. 'He isn't arrogant. He's confident.' He huffed grumpily and stared fixatedly upon the potion that has been simmering in our cauldron. I blinked rapidly. 'He fancies you. A lot. He goes on about you all the time…Lily did this, Lily did that…she's so adorable.' He babbled on and I blushed deeply, I bowed my head before I lifted it again to glance at James with a timid smile only to quickly avert my look once he grinned puckishly back at me. Guess he did not want to work with Severus, he'd found another Gryffindor boy to work with.
I grinned wickedly at Peter and he frowned deeply. 'That does not make him any less arrogant. Add two nidrainia wings then we have to let this cook overnight.' I replied then commanded and he scowled deeply but did as I'd asked. While he added the wings, I collected our ingredients and put them in a cabinet on the far wall, magically writing our name onto the door and closing it. I noticed James heading over and grinned in thought, leaning against the cabinet I had just piled our components into as he met me by the cabinets, opening one for himself. 'So…you talk about me in your dorms?' I questioned with a raised eyebrow and a smirk when he paled and froze, hand on a large vial in his cabinet.
'No…?' He replied in an asking tone meekly and I laughed heartily, placing a hand on his shoulder and running it up across his neck.
'No?' I reiterated with amusement and watched as he squirmed and tried to take a glance at my hand without looking like he was looking. I raised an eyebrow and gave him the most alluring smile I could muster and giggled aloud when he practically squeaked. I kissed him quickly and pulled away, licking my lip and then worrying it lightly before I glanced about the room. 'Next time, at least make me sound halfway intelligent when you do it.' I blushed as I retorted and he grinned as he leaned in to kiss me and I pulled back with a little eep, letting go of his neck and dashing back to where Peter had begun to stand.
I arrived to where Peter was standing and I was breathing heavily, bent over slightly in an attempt to catch my breath. Peter scowled back at me and rolled his eyes when I squeaked because James had wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled my stock-still against him, my eyes wide at the feel of his breathy laughter on my ear. 'Go away Potter! We're trying to work here, you jerk!' I shouted lightly, gaining a crowd once again as I smiled and slapped at his arm and pushed him lightly when he tightened his grip about my waist with another loud laugh.
'You look done to me, Evans. What ya say Pete, can you spare her?' He asked and I could hear the grin in his voice, even though I faced away from him. I shook my head and rolled my eyes at him before sighing exasperatedly and leaning back into James' body.
Peter scowled and glanced behind us to where I assumed his other comrades had been standing. 'I don't care, let's go guys.' He responded and pulled up his satchel, hurrying out of the classroom as the bell rang.
I felt a sudden cold on my earlobe followed by a deep warmth and my eyes widened as I realised it was James' mouth. I quickly elbowed him in the stomach and turned wildly at him, glared and stomped out of the classroom, following Peter…not once glancing back at James to witness his reaction. Sirius fell into step behind me, huffing slightly with a huge grin as the hallway filled with students exiting their classrooms. Remus came into stride with us a second later, giving Black a venomous look and Sirius shut his mouth from the comment I knew he was about to make then. 'What is James' problem?!' I asked in a shout with a scowl on my face.
'You know, if you don't like his attitude, if you think him arrogant maybe you shouldn't be dating him, Lily.' Peter commented dispassionately and I blinked with a mild blush, glancing down to where my books should have been. Sirius wandered behind me over to clap Peter on the back with a grin.
'Ah, but she does fancy our mate Pete. She fancies him a load, in denial, she is, mate.' Sirius announced loudly and Peter squirmed out of his graces with a large glower aimed at Sirius.
'Don't touch me.' He demanded and looked to Remus briefly. 'Tell him to stop being an arse.' Peter asked mater-of-factly before quickening his pace and leaving the group.
'Sirius…' Remus began warningly, eyes narrowed in a way McGonagall would have loved to see, I would have imagined. Black rolled his eyes with an exaggerated sigh when he paid Remus' look a glance. He grinned lopsidedly at him before shrugging. I shook my head and slowed my pace, prepared to turn around and get my books.
'Tell Potter to stop acting so arrogant or I won't be meeting him for Hogsmeade tomorrow.' I requested with a smile at them both before turning and heading back into the potions class for my books. When I entered James was still there, sitting on a desk with his head in his hands, a thoughtful look on his face and his mouth in a frown. I tried to slip in the back silently but he noticed nonetheless.
'Why don't you like me Lil?' He asked softly, not looking up from the spot he had his eyes fixed upon the floor and I blinked. Sighing, I forgot my books, hopped onto the desk across from him, and crossed my legs, arranging for a long conversation.
His gaze travelled down my leg to where my skirt ended and back up again to my eyes and I scowled immediately with a hot blush. 'That is why, Potter!' He frowned deeper and nodded before hopping off the desk.
'Right, thanks. You don't have any word to keep, you never really said you'd go out with me tomorrow.' He allowed and my eyes widened but I sat still. 'Just tell everyone I made it up, you know?' He finished before I rolled my eyes and glared. Stupid prat.
'I don't hate you James…'I began and cleared my throat loudly before hopping off the desk myself and he turned in the door to raise an eyebrow at me. 'You…irritate me.' I went on, choosing my words ever so carefully in a pained tone. 'You…you're arrogant. I mean, it is charming but at the moment it just sort of irks me. I fancy you!' I spat the last bit out and blushed, making a little face of disgust and nervously flipping my red hair off my shoulder, my hand lingering there. He grinned, great…I'd encouraged his ego.
'I'm sorry, for annoying you. Can't help it. You still want to go to Hogsmeade with me?' He questioned with a little inclination in his voice towards the end and I smiled, nodding lightly.
'That does not mean we're dating, Potter. If it were a date, it also wouldn't mean you can just…molest my ear whenever you like!' I scolded and he snickered when I began to blush. He nodded through his laughing and started backing out the door.
'I wasn't molesting your ear, I was sucking on it.' He responded with a small grin and I charged at him. I scowled and laughed, hitting him in the chest flippantly. He ran and I chased. The entire way to Gryffindor tower.