Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot and Phoebe.
Author's Note: Hi there again! I just read through my story and realized there's still A LOT of STUFF to be written (according to the guideline I have written) So I think I will have to rush through some of the things, and not go into finer details like the chapters before. Guess you readers prefer this way anyway. But it's just too bad if I get carried away..
Now for the thanks part! ^______^
Ti - Thanks for every review you have send! I hope you will continue to read more! ^_^
Jesusfreak7777777 - Jeez, that's a lot of 7s there. No offence though. =P Anyway, thanks for your compliment!
Nicole - Well, don't worry. This is an L/J Fic! Just that my summary says..well, what it says anyway. Hang on, L/J romance coming!
Fireangel - Thanks for all your reviews and I'm glad you like my story!!!
Beatlevixen - Thanks! I will try to post as soon as I can! (In between my work and stuff)
|cE^ - Thanks!! Xie4 xie4 ni3 de3 kua1 jiang3! ^__^
Finally.Chapter Nine!!
Chapter Nine
"I wonder if I got to live with this my whole life," Remus muttered, tired and weary after his transformations at the shrieking shack. He was returning to the Gryffindor common room, with the help of Professor Mcgonagall.
Finally, both of them reached the portrait.
"Twinkle lights," Professor Mcgonagall said, as the fat lady woke up grumpily.
"If you say so," she muttered, as she swung open.
"There you are, Mr. Lupin. Have a good rest," Professor mcgonagall gave him a small smile. He returned the smile with a weak one, and crawled through the hole, and into the common room. The moment he entered, the first thing which he saw was a sleeping figure lying on the floor, with her face on a piece of parchment and a quill in her hands. He smiled. No one could mistake that fiery red hair. It must be Lily.
As he looked at her, he suddenly realized that she..she looked like an angel. A very beautiful angel, he thought, a small smile playing on his lips. The way her hair curled around her small face, the way her deep-set jade eyes sparkled when she was excited, the way she slept with a smile..all these small little details were deeply imprinted onto his mind.
He remembered all the times she had stood by his side when he was in trouble, the way she would turn her head to one side and laugh, giving him a tight hug when she was delighted, and the times she looked into his eyes when he was troubled and seem to understand all his troubles without words. The way she would defend him in front of Sirius and James, and the way she tilted her head and laugh at his jokes, no matter how lame they were.
He smiled widely and stupidly to himself as he recalled the times, when she was sweet, delighted, sad, angry, worried..he remembered every single one of them.
Slowly, he approached her. However, before he could wake her up, he saw a note for him in her neat handwriting, pinned down by a bottle of ink. He read it softly to himself.
"Stupid Remus!" The letter read, "Where are you? How could you go out and have fun without me? Geez. Anyway, I'm dead tired waiting for you. Wake me up when you've read this note. Feel guilty, cos I needed someone to help me with this Potions homework (Stupid Prof. Marsh) and you are not there. Tata! Now time to wake me up!"
He laughed. The letter was just so lily-ish; he couldn't help it. He tapped Lily on the shoulder lightly.
"Lily?" He called softly, seeing her stir. After a moment, she woke up.
"Ohremusyourbac.." She mumbled sleepily, rubbing her eyes and giving him a happy smile. Suddenly, she cupped her hands over her mouth.
"My hair! Is it messy?" She exclaimed, conjuring a mirror up and peering into it intently.
Remus gave her an odd smile. It was not like Lily to care about her looks, not in front of him and certainly not at that time too.
"It looks fine," He commented, ruffling it. She quickly stopped him.
"Don't! It will only mess it up further!"
"Since when do you care so much about your hair?"
"Since I started lik- never mind," Lily added hastily, then turned to him with a small smile.
"It's pretty late. I'm going up to bed. I think you'd better go too."
"Go where? To your bed too?" Remus replied without thinking, then blushed at what he said.
Lily laughed. "You wish! Anyway, I'm going to sleep. Just wanted to see you. Night!"
"Night Lily," Remus replied, and then gave her a hug. Though surprised, Lily hugged back, then packed her stuff and trooped upstairs.
Remus smiled to himself again. Somehow, her admitting that she stayed up just because she wanted to see him made him feel warm and fuzzy all inside. He grinned, and then went up to bed, glad that no one could see his huge grin in the dark.
~*~
"Did you see that stupid grin hanging on Remus' face ever since morning?" James laughed as Sirius winked.
"Duh!" Sirius replied, "Only a blockhead could miss it. His grin stretched for miles!"
"Yeah!" Peter added, laughing too, as the three of them went down to the common room where Remus already was, waiting for them. Lily and Phoebe were nearby, chatting with another group of girls.
"Look at Lily," James hissed at Sirius.
"Since when do you start looking at her?"
"No, I mean, really! Look at her face!"
"Oh man! Her grin is identical to Remus!"
"Do you think they are together?"
"No surprise there." "True, but if they are, we have one more thing to tease them about!" James grinned wickedly, as Remus greeted them with a wide smile, and Lily with a similar one, and they all went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
~*~
After breakfast, James and Lily walked along the corridor to their lessons, Lily with a beaming face and a today-is-the-best-day-of-my-life attitude, and James with a curious look.
"Hey Lily, Let me tell you a joke," he started, betting Lily would tell him to shut up or hex him.
"Hmm go on."
"HUH? Uh..ok. One day, there was this woman who was going to the market. Just as she was crossing the road to the market, she saw a man standing directly opposite her. This man was dressed in green pants, green shirt with a green jacket and a green cap. Suddenly, he dropped his pants in front of her. She saw, and fainted. So what's the moral of the story?" James asked, guessing she would say the joke was stupid and immature and perverted. Instead-
"Uh, guys shouldn't scare women in that way?" Lily guessed.
"No..never cross the road when the green man is flashing," James answered.
To his utmost surprise, Lily laughed. "That's funny! Haha!"
"Ok that's it!"
"That's what?"
"You are seriously not yourself today!"
"Why not?"
"You are laughing at my jokes!"
"Well they are funny!"
"You have never said my jokes were funny!"
"Well, they are!" With that, Lily laughed again, and pulled James' arm. "C'mon, we are late for Potions!"
Even in Potions, James could see that Lily was seriously abnormal. Firstly, she was humming songs while listening to Professor Marsh, something that she would never do and never let James do, since he was her partner. According to her, it will disrupt her thoughts and concentration.
When they were working on a potion that was supposed to erase anything possible, Lily was still humming. Eventually, James got irritated (which was a very seldom thing).
"LILY! Stop all that humming! It's getting on my nerves!" He hissed at her.
To further annoy him, Lily gave him a bright smile. "Really? But I feel alright!"
"ArgH! You are-" James started, but what Lily was didn't matter, for he had accidentally spilled the potion on Lily's potions assignment.
"Oh oh. Lily! I'm really sorry!" James pleaded, hoping Lily won't turn him into a frog for the rest of the day.
"What? That was my potions assignment! Marsh is going to kill me this time!" Lily exclaimed.
"I'm really sorry! Forgive me!" James backed away as he apologized.
"Sigh. I guess that was just an accident. Forget it," Lily sighed, and went back to work.
James approached her cautiously. "you mean..forget it, as in, forget it ever happened?"
"Yeah. What can we do now? This spell is irreversible. I just have to explain to Marsh then."
James looked as though Lily's head just exploded. "You are not going to do..anything to me?" he squeaked.
"Like what can I do?"
"Uh, ok never mind."
True enough, Professor Marsh deducted 20 points from Gryffindor when Lily confessed to her. Instead of complaining to James for the rest of the day, like she usually did, she just told James not to touch her stuff again.
For the rest of the day, it went on like that. No matter what James did, Lily was still in a good mood, and instead of being delighted, James became worried.
Finally, James approached her that evening.
"Uh Lily, did some alien from Mars possess you today or what?"
"What do you mean?"
"You have been acting strange all day!"
"Well, I'm just happy," Lily replied, and she left it at that.
Exasperated, James discussed the issue with Sirius, who had most lessons with Remus.
"So how's it with Remus?" James asked, shooting glances at Lily occasionally.
"Weird. He even offered to help me do my charms assignment, can you believe it?"
"Lily's been acting all weird too," James told Sirius in an undertone, relating all the events that happened that day.
"Wow," was all Sirius could say, "Never knew Lily could be so agreeable to you."
"Precisely! So that must be it!"
"What?"
"Remus and Lily!"
"In love!"
"Yeah!" James exclaimed as he and Sirius exchanged identical evil grins.
"Ok, so what do we do now?"
Author's Note: Hi there again! I just read through my story and realized there's still A LOT of STUFF to be written (according to the guideline I have written) So I think I will have to rush through some of the things, and not go into finer details like the chapters before. Guess you readers prefer this way anyway. But it's just too bad if I get carried away..
Now for the thanks part! ^______^
Ti - Thanks for every review you have send! I hope you will continue to read more! ^_^
Jesusfreak7777777 - Jeez, that's a lot of 7s there. No offence though. =P Anyway, thanks for your compliment!
Nicole - Well, don't worry. This is an L/J Fic! Just that my summary says..well, what it says anyway. Hang on, L/J romance coming!
Fireangel - Thanks for all your reviews and I'm glad you like my story!!!
Beatlevixen - Thanks! I will try to post as soon as I can! (In between my work and stuff)
|cE^ - Thanks!! Xie4 xie4 ni3 de3 kua1 jiang3! ^__^
Finally.Chapter Nine!!
Chapter Nine
"I wonder if I got to live with this my whole life," Remus muttered, tired and weary after his transformations at the shrieking shack. He was returning to the Gryffindor common room, with the help of Professor Mcgonagall.
Finally, both of them reached the portrait.
"Twinkle lights," Professor Mcgonagall said, as the fat lady woke up grumpily.
"If you say so," she muttered, as she swung open.
"There you are, Mr. Lupin. Have a good rest," Professor mcgonagall gave him a small smile. He returned the smile with a weak one, and crawled through the hole, and into the common room. The moment he entered, the first thing which he saw was a sleeping figure lying on the floor, with her face on a piece of parchment and a quill in her hands. He smiled. No one could mistake that fiery red hair. It must be Lily.
As he looked at her, he suddenly realized that she..she looked like an angel. A very beautiful angel, he thought, a small smile playing on his lips. The way her hair curled around her small face, the way her deep-set jade eyes sparkled when she was excited, the way she slept with a smile..all these small little details were deeply imprinted onto his mind.
He remembered all the times she had stood by his side when he was in trouble, the way she would turn her head to one side and laugh, giving him a tight hug when she was delighted, and the times she looked into his eyes when he was troubled and seem to understand all his troubles without words. The way she would defend him in front of Sirius and James, and the way she tilted her head and laugh at his jokes, no matter how lame they were.
He smiled widely and stupidly to himself as he recalled the times, when she was sweet, delighted, sad, angry, worried..he remembered every single one of them.
Slowly, he approached her. However, before he could wake her up, he saw a note for him in her neat handwriting, pinned down by a bottle of ink. He read it softly to himself.
"Stupid Remus!" The letter read, "Where are you? How could you go out and have fun without me? Geez. Anyway, I'm dead tired waiting for you. Wake me up when you've read this note. Feel guilty, cos I needed someone to help me with this Potions homework (Stupid Prof. Marsh) and you are not there. Tata! Now time to wake me up!"
He laughed. The letter was just so lily-ish; he couldn't help it. He tapped Lily on the shoulder lightly.
"Lily?" He called softly, seeing her stir. After a moment, she woke up.
"Ohremusyourbac.." She mumbled sleepily, rubbing her eyes and giving him a happy smile. Suddenly, she cupped her hands over her mouth.
"My hair! Is it messy?" She exclaimed, conjuring a mirror up and peering into it intently.
Remus gave her an odd smile. It was not like Lily to care about her looks, not in front of him and certainly not at that time too.
"It looks fine," He commented, ruffling it. She quickly stopped him.
"Don't! It will only mess it up further!"
"Since when do you care so much about your hair?"
"Since I started lik- never mind," Lily added hastily, then turned to him with a small smile.
"It's pretty late. I'm going up to bed. I think you'd better go too."
"Go where? To your bed too?" Remus replied without thinking, then blushed at what he said.
Lily laughed. "You wish! Anyway, I'm going to sleep. Just wanted to see you. Night!"
"Night Lily," Remus replied, and then gave her a hug. Though surprised, Lily hugged back, then packed her stuff and trooped upstairs.
Remus smiled to himself again. Somehow, her admitting that she stayed up just because she wanted to see him made him feel warm and fuzzy all inside. He grinned, and then went up to bed, glad that no one could see his huge grin in the dark.
~*~
"Did you see that stupid grin hanging on Remus' face ever since morning?" James laughed as Sirius winked.
"Duh!" Sirius replied, "Only a blockhead could miss it. His grin stretched for miles!"
"Yeah!" Peter added, laughing too, as the three of them went down to the common room where Remus already was, waiting for them. Lily and Phoebe were nearby, chatting with another group of girls.
"Look at Lily," James hissed at Sirius.
"Since when do you start looking at her?"
"No, I mean, really! Look at her face!"
"Oh man! Her grin is identical to Remus!"
"Do you think they are together?"
"No surprise there." "True, but if they are, we have one more thing to tease them about!" James grinned wickedly, as Remus greeted them with a wide smile, and Lily with a similar one, and they all went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
~*~
After breakfast, James and Lily walked along the corridor to their lessons, Lily with a beaming face and a today-is-the-best-day-of-my-life attitude, and James with a curious look.
"Hey Lily, Let me tell you a joke," he started, betting Lily would tell him to shut up or hex him.
"Hmm go on."
"HUH? Uh..ok. One day, there was this woman who was going to the market. Just as she was crossing the road to the market, she saw a man standing directly opposite her. This man was dressed in green pants, green shirt with a green jacket and a green cap. Suddenly, he dropped his pants in front of her. She saw, and fainted. So what's the moral of the story?" James asked, guessing she would say the joke was stupid and immature and perverted. Instead-
"Uh, guys shouldn't scare women in that way?" Lily guessed.
"No..never cross the road when the green man is flashing," James answered.
To his utmost surprise, Lily laughed. "That's funny! Haha!"
"Ok that's it!"
"That's what?"
"You are seriously not yourself today!"
"Why not?"
"You are laughing at my jokes!"
"Well they are funny!"
"You have never said my jokes were funny!"
"Well, they are!" With that, Lily laughed again, and pulled James' arm. "C'mon, we are late for Potions!"
Even in Potions, James could see that Lily was seriously abnormal. Firstly, she was humming songs while listening to Professor Marsh, something that she would never do and never let James do, since he was her partner. According to her, it will disrupt her thoughts and concentration.
When they were working on a potion that was supposed to erase anything possible, Lily was still humming. Eventually, James got irritated (which was a very seldom thing).
"LILY! Stop all that humming! It's getting on my nerves!" He hissed at her.
To further annoy him, Lily gave him a bright smile. "Really? But I feel alright!"
"ArgH! You are-" James started, but what Lily was didn't matter, for he had accidentally spilled the potion on Lily's potions assignment.
"Oh oh. Lily! I'm really sorry!" James pleaded, hoping Lily won't turn him into a frog for the rest of the day.
"What? That was my potions assignment! Marsh is going to kill me this time!" Lily exclaimed.
"I'm really sorry! Forgive me!" James backed away as he apologized.
"Sigh. I guess that was just an accident. Forget it," Lily sighed, and went back to work.
James approached her cautiously. "you mean..forget it, as in, forget it ever happened?"
"Yeah. What can we do now? This spell is irreversible. I just have to explain to Marsh then."
James looked as though Lily's head just exploded. "You are not going to do..anything to me?" he squeaked.
"Like what can I do?"
"Uh, ok never mind."
True enough, Professor Marsh deducted 20 points from Gryffindor when Lily confessed to her. Instead of complaining to James for the rest of the day, like she usually did, she just told James not to touch her stuff again.
For the rest of the day, it went on like that. No matter what James did, Lily was still in a good mood, and instead of being delighted, James became worried.
Finally, James approached her that evening.
"Uh Lily, did some alien from Mars possess you today or what?"
"What do you mean?"
"You have been acting strange all day!"
"Well, I'm just happy," Lily replied, and she left it at that.
Exasperated, James discussed the issue with Sirius, who had most lessons with Remus.
"So how's it with Remus?" James asked, shooting glances at Lily occasionally.
"Weird. He even offered to help me do my charms assignment, can you believe it?"
"Lily's been acting all weird too," James told Sirius in an undertone, relating all the events that happened that day.
"Wow," was all Sirius could say, "Never knew Lily could be so agreeable to you."
"Precisely! So that must be it!"
"What?"
"Remus and Lily!"
"In love!"
"Yeah!" James exclaimed as he and Sirius exchanged identical evil grins.
"Ok, so what do we do now?"