Seducing Lily Evans

written by : the young lady of legends

ChapterFour: SleepTalking

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James' eyes widened as he realized what had just happened. He jumped up, knocking over his stool and cried, "Oh no you don't!" Snape was blinking at James...maybe he was...batting his eyelashes?! WHAT?! James didn't seem to have noticed Sirius standing behind him, as Sirius was, for once, being quiet.

Remus and Peter began laughing hysterically. "Jamsie and Snivellus sittin' in a tree!"

"SHUT UP!" roared James, turning a lovely shade of red.

At this point Lily rushed over to see what the commotion was, as she was the 'perfect ickle prefect' as James had pointed out on more than one occasion during their fifth year. "What is going on around here? Sirius? Can you explain this?"

Sirius was looking at his feet as thought they were the new top of the line racing broom. He sneaked a look up at James and quickly averted his eyes back to his shoes. "No...Not a clue Evans."

"OH FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!! NOT YOU TOO SIRIUS!" James cried, looking as if he might be sick.

"Someone had better tell me what is going on here!" Lily warned, her voice getting dangerous with warning.

"Oh if no one else has the guts!" Remus began. "I'll tell you! Snape and Sirius accidentally took some love potion and fell in love with...hahahaha!" he couldn't finish before he burst into a fit of hysterical, hyena-like laughter.

Peter looked up from his biscuit momentarily and offered, "...James."

Lily plopped down into a chair and closed her eyes in thought. A few moments had passed and still she sat there rubbing her temples as if she'd never been in mess so thick. "I just..." she released a rather large amount of air, "need to think." she said as she grabbed a cookie.

The rest of the table was too distracted to notice what was happening. Remus was laughing, Peter was eating (but what else is new?), James was busy being embarrassed, and Snape and Sirius were occupied with being confused. She bit into it, her eyes still closed in thought. "So who was the love potion made by and for whom?"

James bit his lip nervously, refusing to look at her. "Er...well...me." he stopped before adding, "for you."

Her eyes darted to him. "WHAT?! Of all the sneaky...dirty...rotten...disgusting!...And here I'd thought you'd changed."

It was now that James noticed the cookie in her hand. "Lily?" he asked shakily. "Tell me you haven't eaten that cookie."

"Yes! Why?" she demanded as she tore into another bite. "It's quite delicious. Think it's too good for me, huh? Unwilling to share this delicious treat?"

James scrunched his eyes in confusion, as did Remus. He was sure that James was the first person that she had looked at. So why wasn't she behaving differently?...

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As Lily turned on James to demand, "WHAT?!" her stomach flip-flopped more than usual when he looked her in the eye. Or maybe not. She never could tell when it was more intense. It all seemed pretty flip-floppy to her.

After she had decided she wouldn't get any answers from him she left in a flurry of red-haired-temper. Of all the nerve! Why hadn't she thought of a love potion to get him to fall for her?

It made perfect sense. She sighed with the knowledge that it was the only way he'd ever notice her. All these years and still she pretended that she hated him with a bloody passion. Even her closest friends thought she hated James Potter...and on some strange level, she did. She hated him for being perfectly gorgeous, she hated that hair that screamed at her to touch it, she hated how he was as graceful as quicksilver on a broom and she hated him for making her think of him all the time.

Damn that James Potter.

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"GUYS! TURN OFF THE LIGHT AND SHUT-UP!" Sirius cried from his four-poster. "It has been possibly the longest day of my life and yet you three want to make it longer!" It was remarkably late. They'd been searching for hours for the answer to why Lily had no reaction to the love potion and they were still no closer to finding the answer.

James leaped upon Sirius's bed. "AWW Padfoot! Do you need some goodnight sugar?!" James cried in a sickeningly-sweet mocking voice. They'd set him right with a long explanation to the potions master who'd then referred them to Professor Dumbledore's office for a lecture. Thankfully, Dumbledore had seen the humor in the situation.

As for Snape? They let him take care of himself as James was too disgusted to go near "the greasy-haired git." as he'd called him.

Remus, sitting beneath blankets and a mountain of books to rival Everest, finally called, "HERE! I'VE FOUND IT!"

They all bounded from their beds to surround Remus and his book. "It says here that the only time that a love potion will not work is when-"

Unfortunately, he never got to finish. His sentence was punctuated by an ear-splitting scream, followed by the cry, "I DID NOT!" in the same voice. It was a girl's voice.

All four of them rushed from their dormitory to see what the commotion was when they saw the girls were filing down the staircase from the dormitory to the Gryffindor common room, all laughing hysterically. There were five of them. Two James recognized as Lily's best friends, another was Sirius' ex-girlfriend from fourth year and another he didn't know very well. They all surrounded the fifth girl who was red from embarrassment.

Lily Evans.

James threw the other three Marauders to the ground with himself so they wouldn't be seen. The girls may have heard their heavy thud when they'd landed had it not been for the intense giggling of the group. "You did Lily! Whether you believe us or not...we all heard you!"

"You have NO idea what you're talking about! Firstly...why were the four of you listening to me talk in my sleep?! You guys are sick!" came her muffled cry. She was doing her best to hide her glowing face behind her hands.

Another girl said slyly, "You'd been moaning for nearly an HOUR about something or another! We were about to die to find out what it was!"

"Sick!" came Lily's voice again.

The first girl spoke again, "Oh right! Like if that had been any of us you wouldn't have listened!"

"I would've done the decent thing and woken you up!" Lily exclaimed.

James grumbled, "As soon as I find out who Lily was 'moaning' about in her sleep...I'll murder him." After a moment's silence he added, "God, I hope it's Amos Diggory."

Sirius shushed him, "You don't want to miss it do you? It's starting to get good!"

Remus grumbled darkly, "Gossip queen..."

A different girl's voice came this time, "Oh really? So if you'd heard 'Oh I love, love, love you!' from one of us in our sleep you wouldn't be even the least bit curious?!"

"Well...yes. BUT! That doesn't mean I'd have listened! I, unlike some people, I have a little bit of respect for others' privacy." Lily decided.

A snort of sarcasm came before the statement that would be the cause of total confusion in the following days. "Well excuse us for thinking it's just one great big turn of events when you start calling for James Potter in your sleep!"

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