Delusional Minds
LD: Okay, this fic may be slightly AU, but hopefully not too AU… I also changed the summary…now it's more like a summary…lol
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midnightprowler: Annie, (since you used 'Cryst' there is no way I'm not using 'Annie'!) I so did NOT steal your title! 'Deluded' and 'delusional' are not THAT similar! Okay, fine, they're similar, but not THAT similar! =P I've already answered all your questions over MSN, so please don't ask any more, or at least think before you do, and read ^^^. Besides, you ask too much! At school you were like 'can we do something more fun?' and had this whole 15 min conversation/lecture whatever you want to call it! Haha, that was funny, but still, I don't think she was too pleased, and she's the headmaster of the Chinese school as well!
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Disclaimer: I don't own HP, never had, never will…darn.
Summary: MWPP-L+J have been friends since the first year of Hogwarts, but Lily gradually likes him more than that. When she finally plucks up the courage to tell him, he reveals the truth, making her hate him in every way possible… Set in their 5th year. Will be J/L I promise!
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Last time:
Lily opened her mouth to speak but was suddenly cut off by a shrill voice.
"What in heavens is this?!"
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Chapter Two
Lily turned her head. Stood before her was none other than head of Gryffindor house: Professor McGonagall.
"I-um… I-" Lily began.
"No, not you, Lily, I know you didn't do anything." Prof. McGonagall said to her. She then turned her piercing eyes to look at James, blatantly glaring at him in an accusing way, as if to say 'I know you did it, so 'fess up.'
Lily choked back a laugh. Of course McGonagall wouldn't believe she'd do something like this! After all, this WAS Lily, prized student and prefect of Gryffindor. How would she, the girl who had achieved nothing but the best in everything she'd ever done, and is always top of the class, cause trouble like this? How would she, the most quiet and understanding student, who always thought before she acted, ever hex a whole common room full of students? How would Lily, the one usually stopping all the havoc, reek havoc instead? James on the other hand was a different story. James was the biggest troublemaker and pranker in the whole school!
James had hair black as ebony, and bright brown eyes, always full of love for life, full of popularity, full of joy and mischief. He belonged…no, he was co-ringleader of his own infamous, and extremely popular, little group whom were called the Marauders. They did everything in their power to cause disturbances around the school, pranking anybody and everybody – even if they had no idea who they were! Even though he spent most of his life planning ways to make others look like an idiot, he still managed to be very high in all his classes; actually, he was second top, for nobody could beat Lily in their studies. Lily was rather angered at this, for he never actually studied until the night before and even though he never did his homework and ended up with uncountable numbers of detentions, he didn't seem to care. James was a quidditch champion, and the captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team. He was rather tall, at the height of 6'2, with a body girls would have killed for. He was the heart throb of the school, and even some Slytherin girls had a crush on him, which was saying something, since Gryffindors and Slytherins simply just did not mix, in fact, they hated each others guts and that was an understatement.
The Marauders consisted of four friends, who were like brothers: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and last but not least, Peter Pettigrew. Sirius Black was the other co-ringleader, for he and James were the best friends, even though they were all best friends, James and Sirius were still the closest, they were practically brothers anyway, for Sirius always spent his time at James' house seeing as he couldn't stand his own family. He, like James, also had black hair and brown eyes. If someone didn't know them well enough (which they soon would have for obvious reasons) they would have mistook them for real brothers. Sirius was what you would call a 'playboy' type. He never stuck with the same girlfriend for more than a week – two weeks tops, if they were really worth something. He didn't want a permanent girlfriend, they wanted too much commitment, and he was no way in a million years going to give them that. James was sort of different in this aspect. Sure he toyed with girls, but he never actually did anything with them, which made Sirius tease him since he could have any girl he wanted, yet he didn't want one, so Sirius made it his mission in life to find the 'perfect' girl for James. Sirius was always cheerful and always joking around, even if things were at the peak of death, he'd still be able to think of something or say something stupidly funny, and enlighten everybody's mood. He was also on the quidditch team, and at a height of 6'1, with a body like James', this made him the second most wanted guy at Hogwarts. Sirius didn't care much for his studies, yet still he still managed to always come fourth in the class, for he studied with James, whenever James could be bothered to study that is. He had a very good memory, so he could easily remember everything they learnt and use this to his advantage if he was ever asked anything to do with the previous lesson. To be honest, just to prove how good him memory was, he could probably name you all his past girlfriends – in order!
Remus had sandy hair and eyes to match, and had a huge secret that had never got into the ears of any student apart from the four. He was the quiet peace keeper and the one who had some common sense, the thing that the other three lacked, for Remus, like Lily, thought before he acted, which is the main reason the Marauders haven't got expelled by now. He always told them to stop before they got into too much trouble, and decided whether the prank was too dangerous, risky, or just plain stupid. He was smart, third top in everything in fact, after Lily and James. He studied a lot, and often had people coming (mainly Peter) asking him for help with work, for Lily wasn't exactly what you'd call social for she only hung around with her best friends and the Marauders, and James… well, that's just self explanatory. Remus loved quidditch as much as James and Sirius, but he did not want to play, instead he commentated for all the matches. He was tall enough, at the same height as Sirius, but he often got…sick, so he would have brought the team down. He didn't care to play it anyway. He did not do many sports but was very fit indeed, and like Sirius and James, Remus was also one of the guys that a majority of the school had a crush on but Remus had a major crush on a certain girl in their form, no mentioning names, so he kept himself forever single, just for her, even if she didn't know for he did not show it. Sure Sirius teased him twice as much as Remus, but he also admired him for his commitment.
Peter, however, was none of those. Instead of being top of the class, he was bottom. Instead of being tall, he was a midget in comparison (5'7 in fact). Instead of being buff, he was a skinny rat. Instead of loving quidditch, he half hated it for he was scared of heights, actually, if James and Sirius were not on the team, and Remus did not commentate, he would never have gone to a quidditch match, ever. Instead of being a major heartthrob, he was one that girls usually scrunched up their noses in disgust at, for not only was he short like a rat, skinny like a rat, he also looked ratty. It was a wonder how Peter got into a group as popular as the Marauders, some think they felt sorry for him, others think that he may have bribed them or blackmailed them, but most are just in utter disbelief, but as long as he's in the Marauders, and has James, Sirius and Remus standing up for him, no one would dare pick on him… apart from the Slytherins, but then they usually end up in the hospital wing.
The Marauders got on well with Lily, they didn't argue, they didn't bite each other to death every time they met, in fact, they were friends, or the closest thing they could get to friends, after all, this WAS the Marauders we were talking about, and they rarely befriend anyone out of their little gang, but Lily was an exception, even though they sometimes didn't agree with Lily's friends, they were still friends, actually, James was her best friend out of the Marauders, but even then, they still played harmless pranks on her. Usually she's okay with them, but when it also ends up in her total humiliation in front of other students, she doesn't let them off very easily, especially being the brightest girl in school and top of each class, there was no way that she didn't know every single hex and had every spell ever invented, memorised. However, she never caused much trouble…or any big trouble anyway. She'd never had a detention in her life and had probably never done anything very naughty in her life either… until now, but seeing as she wasn't getting the blame for this, she was doing her best to stifle her amusement, but you could easily see the playfulness in her eyes.
James gaped. He couldn't believe it! McGonagall was blaming him for disorder that he didn't cause for once! He turned his gaze to Lily with a pleading look in his eyes, hoping Lily would somehow get him out of this, but knowing that if she did get him out of trouble, she'd have to admit to doing it herself, and knowing Lily and how she kind of wanted some payback, there was obviously no way she would tell the professor that it was really her. Usually, James would have been happy to receive a detention, in fact, usually he'd be overjoyed to receive one, and whenever he did, Sirius would also ask to do the detention with him; they took great pride in their detentions, but this time, it was different, he was bound to get a detention but he didn't do anything wrong! Okay, maybe the prank wasn't a good idea, but at least he didn't make the mess on the floor.
"Well?" McGonagall questioned, still glaring at James, who knew there was no point in accusing Lily, because there was no way, unless Lily confessed herself, that McGonagall would actually believe him. Lily had now removed her hands from her mouth, knowing she'd done a good job of keeping her laughter under control, and was now wearing a self-satisfied smirk. James rolled his eyes.
"Sorry, Professor." He said.
"I should think so! All these poor students would be in the hospital wing because of you. 3 weeks deten-"
"But prof-fes-fes-s-sor!" a voice suddenly piped up. They all turned to stare at the person it belonged to.
"What is it, Miss Laine?" McGonagall asked.
"James d-di-didn't do anything!" She said, trying to get up, but her jelly legs were making this quite impossible. "It was L-Lily." She continued, and seeing Lily's shocked face to see one of her best friends-wait, make that ex-best friend, betray her like that, Melissa couldn't help but smirk evilly from her position on the common room floor.
James' mouth dropped open in awe too. Was he imagining things? Did she, Lily's best friend, just help him? Wait… that can't be it. She must be up to something he thought. She wouldn't help me without wanting something in return… he closed his mouth after realising it was hanging open, and looked at her with puzzlement. She was now grinning in a 'not-so-nice-that-you-would-want-to-be-in-their-position' way from ear to ear, averting her gaze from Lily to James, then back to Lily. Yep, James thought, she's definitely up to something.
"Miss Laine! I think those jelly legs James gave you has gone to your head! Lily wouldn't do such a thing!"
"N-no, professor, L-Lily gave m-me the j-j-jelly leeeeeeeegs." Melissa repeated.
The professor turned to look at Lily, eyes wide with disbelief. Surely her prized student wouldn't even hurt a fly! Sure there was that incident in the third year when she accidentally did a spell that caused a whole corridor of students to come up in boils, but that was an accident! "Miss. Evans, please explain yourself."
Lily shook her head to bring her back to earth. "I- well… umm…"
"So it was you?" she questioned.
Lily looked down in shame. Professor McGonagall blinked, not knowing what to say, but Melissa did…
"And J-James diiiiiiid it tooooooooo."
James glared at her in confusion and shock. He thought she was supposed to be on his side! What is she doing?!
"Well then, Mr. Potter, Miss. Evans, 30 points from Gryffindor, and you both receive a week's detention. Report down to Filches office first thing tomorrow evening after dinner, but for now, help me get these students to the hospital wing. Wingardium Leviosa!" she said, and with a flick of her wand, she took care of half the common room and levitated them out of the entrance. Lily levitated Arabella and Melissa, even though she was a bit reluctant to help Melissa after what she did to her, and she was sure Melissa was trying to be annoying on purpose, she still helped her. James levitated the Marauders who were in a condition that was too gross to be described, and followed the professor out of the entrance.
I am SO going to get Liss back for getting me detention… with James… well… I guess James isn't bad…
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LD: Muahahahaha! Go Liss (Melissa)! Detention with James! How does that sound to ya'll? -Evil smirk- Hehe. R+R please! The more reviews, the faster I update! =D
~3 Always,
~Cryst
AKA LivingDreams
