All's fair in Love and Qudditch if you're James Potter
By
LeilaRose
Chapter One
James's master plan
I own none of the characters mentioned in this chapter except the ones you don't recognise
"Do you think Evans will go out with me if I ask her again" James Potter suddenly asked, turning thoughtful hazel eyes onto his three best friends who were occupying themselves with different activities as they sat in the Gryffindor common room.
"Not this again" Sirius Black muttered with a groan before placing a hand on his best friends arm and looking seriously at him "James I honestly believe that Evans wouldn't go out with you, even if we paid her our combined wealth, she's just not interested get it through your thick skull" James moved his arm away from Sirius and glared at him.
"Smooth Sirius" Remus Lupin announced bringing his book down and resting it on his lap "Remind me never to ask you to tell someone their family member is dead, you'd only muck it up" he ignored Sirius as he stuck a finger up at him and instead turned to James, a sympathetic look on his face.
"James" he began "I don't know if you doing that will work, she's made it clear on countless occasions that she is just not attracted to you in that way" James shrugged
"Why not?" he demanded of his blond friend "Am I not good looking enough for her? Does she think I won't look good with her?" Sirius laughed
"Doubtful, girls are always saying you're one of the best looking lads in school, course I'm better" he smirked as Remus took over
"I don't think it has anything to do with looks, Lily isn't like that, perhaps its… it's the way you act instead" James turned to Remus
"The way I act? I suggest you explain yourself Lupin" Remus looked uncomfortable under the gaze and began talking slowly
"Well James…. You see Lily…. She thinks well that you're kinda… erm"
"Spit it out Remus before you choke on it" Sirius suggested lazily stretching slightly in his seat, Remus went red and spoke quickly
"She thinks you're an arrogant berk who does nothing more than bully people and shows off and that you'll never amount to anything in your life" a silence followed Remus's words as both Sirius and James looked at him.
"Did she tell you that view?" James asked quietly but Remus shook his head.
"No, she only said it today. She sits in front of me in Runes and she was chatting with that Ravenclaw girl. Melissa Hughes."
"Did she not notice you?" Sirius asked, and then frowned "As a matter of fact who the hell do you even sit with in that lesson?" Remus frowned
"Connor Williams"
"Who?" Sirius replied with a frown of his own
"He's another Ravenclaw, quite a nice bloke actually"
"Anyway this is about me and Evans remember not about who Remus sits next to" Remus nodded
"Well, when she saw me behind her, she realised I must have heard her and she looked at me with a defiant look. Saying that though" he remarked thoughtfully "It was kinda of ruined by the fact she went bright red and couldn't hold my gaze" Sirius laughed out loud
"Sure she doesn't have a crush on you little Remmie" Remus threw a cushion at the black haired boy who caught it still laughing
"I know it's natural for you Siri but try and not act stupid, of course she doesn't like me" James laughed for the first time since the conversation had started.
"Of course not, she'd have that Hufflepuff to deal with. Sara Tomlin, she's after our Remmie" Remus went red with embarrassment and spoke
"We're talking about James's love life not mine" Sirius laughed again
"Ahhhh so you admit that you have a love life then" it was Remus's turn to swear at Sirius, who clutched his heart and pretended to swoon. Remus turned away and began ignoring him.
"What are you going to do then James if that's what she thinks of you" the three jumped as Peter Pettigrew, the fourth member of their group spoke for the first time, they had almost forgotten he was there, especially as he had been watching them through pale blue eyes the entire time. James looked thoughtful
"I don't like this" Sirius announced, "The boy is thinking and remember all the times he's thought before…" he trailed off and Remus continued with a laugh.
"Yeah many a Slytherin suffered the consequences to the action, especially a certain Severus Snape, to name one" Sirius grinned as his dark blue eyes began to glow
"Snape" he repeated "We've left him alone for quite the time haven't we Remmie" Remus looked torn, while his facial expression was on of disapproval the glint of fun in his eyes belied it.
"I believe you are right Mr Black" he replied "Snape has seemed to be getting off lightly, though right at the beginning I must protest that I am against this and that I tried desperately to stop you" Sirius nodded
"Your protest had been noted and ignored. Are you in on this little prank that is growing in my mind Mr Lupin?" Remus grinned
"I am, of course just to make sure you don't get into trouble mind you" Sirius nodded
"Of course, what about you Peter?" Peter looked slightly nervous, probably weighting up the number of times he had detention recently, with a quick glance at James he nodded his head.
"I'm in" he replied, Remus turned from Peter back to Sirius
"Tell me then Siri what plan is going on in your devious head today"
"I've got it" James suddenly shouted, eyes glowing behind his glasses, Sirius blinked
"You've thought up a prank?" James shook his head
"No, I didn't even have any idea what you were all talking about" he admitted, he carried on "I thought up the perfect plan to get Evans to like me" Remus rolled his eyes
"You're going to finally start calling her Lily instead of Evans?" he suggested, James shook his head
"No" he looked at each of them in turn "There's only one thing I can do to impress her and get her to notice me"
"She already notices you mate" Sirius said "and she doesn't like what she sees" James ignored him
"I'll give you 3 guess, 2 actually Remmie already had one" Peter shrugged
"You're going to be top of the class and show her how clever you are" James looked horrified at the suggestion
"And come across as a geek like our Remmie does not on your life" A pillow came his way hitting him in the mouth, when it did Remus looked satisfied and settled himself into his cushion less chair
"Er you're going to date one of the many girls who are desperate to get with you to make her jealous?" Sirius suggested, winking at a certain blond girl he had his eyes on the past week as she walked passed.
"No" he looked around eagerly "No to get Lily to like me there's only one thing I can do" he grinned as he spoke the next words "I James Alexander Potter am going to" he halted for a second
"Get on with it" Sirius yelled in annoyance causing James to grin
"Join the Qudditch team"
There you go the end of chapter one. This is definitely going to be a J / L fic, I'm torn between making it a R / S fic, I'd prefer to do R / OC and S / OC, and no they wouldn't be Mary Sues but let me know what you think and I'll up date soon. Thank you