Chapter 6! Enjoy! WARNING! Snape tries to do something that's not so nice to Lily in this chapter!

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James and Lily: A Match Made in Hogwarts

Chapter 6

Later, that evening, in the Gryffindor common room, The Marauders were sitting on the floor in front of the fire, toying with their latest purchases from Zonko's. James, however, was staring into the fire, leaving his Zonko's items untouched in the bag.

"Prongs!" Remus shouted at him, trying to get his attention.

 James jumped. "Huh? What is it?"

"Why are you staring at the fire? It's not good for your eyes."

"I'm just..uh…..thinking."

"About Lily?" Sirius asked.

"Well, yeah…..and what happened at Three Broomsticks today. Before school started, I had this dream about her. She was surrounded by men wearing masks and they killed her."

"You didn't actually see her die, did you?" Remus asked, alarmed.

"No, I just saw her face when they were about to. Then I woke up. Why?"

"I read in my Divination book that if you have a dream where you see someone die, they actually will in real life!" he cried.

Sirius snorted. "Honestly, Moony! That class is so stupid! You know all that stuff is a great load of tosh!"

Remus gave him a reproving look. "Padfoot, I know Professor Katora seems like a fake, but some of the stuff she says actually makes sense!"

"If you say so, Moony. But you don't think Lily is going to get killed by men wearing masks, so you?"

"I don't know."

"I don't think she's going to get killed, but Snivelly threatened her. What if he pulls his wand on her in a corridor one night?" James said.

"When would Lily be with Snivelly in a corridor at night?" Sirius asked.

"He could sneak up on her!" James shouted indignantly.

"That doesn't seem very logical, James. He doesn't have any reason to attack her, except for the fact that she's muggle-born." Remus said.

"He doesn't need a reason! Snape thinks anyone whose not a pure-blood deserves to be killed, doesn't he?"

"Well, maybe you should keep an eye on her, then. Since you're so stuck on the idea that Snape and his little friends might attack her!"

"Maybe I'll just have to do that." James said with a tiny smile. Following Lily around wouldn't be any trouble at all. He would probably enjoy it.

He stood up and stretched. "Well, I'm going back to my tower. First Quidditch match is tomorrow, you know."

Sirius grinned. "How could we forget? We'll meet you in the great hall tomorrow at breakfast, ok?"

"Ok, see you." He waved at the three of them. Peter didn't notice. The whole time they had been talking, he hadn't said one word. He was reading a black book that didn't seem to have a title. James glared at him. He wanted to give the little prat a good kick up the-

"Oh, and James, don't go to the Slytherin common room, under your invisibility cloak. You don't want to start trouble." Remus said.

"Right." He turned and left the common room, making his way back to his own.

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Lily had just gotten out of the bath. She put on her pajamas and wrapped her bathrobe around her. She sat down at her vanity table and started brushing out her hair. "It's kind of nice having this all to myself." She thought. "At home, Petunia and I had to share one. Maybe that's the reason why she hates me so much, we always have to share things."  Lily loved her sister, but she found it rather hard to like her sometimes. She was always giving Lily such mean looks and calling her names. Lily's mother, Rose, told her that Petunia was just jealous that Lily was a witch and she wasn't. But Lily didn't know, she thought Petunia just hated her guts for no particular reason. "I need to send them an owl tomorrow. I haven't sent them one since the first day of school." She thought.

She heard the portrait open. "That must be James."  She set her brush down and walked out to the common room. But it wasn't James, not by a long shot. It was Snape.

"W-What are you doing here?" she stammered. "How did you figure out the password?"

Snape gave her an evil smile. "Let's just say I have ears all over this castle." He said silkily.

Lily backed away from him until she hit the wall. "Where did I put my wand?" she thought frantically.

He took a couple steps toward her. "Looking for this?" he pulled out her wand. She must have left it on the table next to the couch. He put it back in his pocket. "You won't be needing this for awhile. Not until I'm through with you."

"What do you want?" she said, her voice barely above a whisper.

Snape sneered at her. "Well, since you're a mudblood, I thought I'd give you the greatest pleasure of your pathetic life and sleep with you. (Lily's eyes widened in fear.) But, tomorrow, I'm going to tell the entire student body that you begged me to sleep with you. I'm going to tell every Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin that the Head Girl of Hogwarts wanted nothing more than to sleep with Severus Snape." He had a maniac gleam in his eyes.

"No! You stay away from me! So help me, if you even touch me, you will be sorry!" she cried desperately.

"I don't think I'd be making threats, if I were you, Mudblood. Tomorrow, I'm going to tell you out loud in the Great Hall, that I can't ever sleep with you again, I can't allow myself to come in contact with such filth. Now, let's get down to business. ACCIO!" he cried.

Lily was dragged towards him. "Please don't do this, Snape!" she begged. "This can't be happening to me! He's going to rape me and tomorrow, everyone will know about it!" she screamed in her head.

She came to a stop, her face just inches from his. He smiled evilly, and grabbed her shoulders. He forced his mouth onto hers and before Lily could stop him, he jammed his tongue into her mouth. Lily thought she was going to hurl. It was severl, painful, seconds before he tore his mouth from hers. He still had that maniac look, plus a triumphant gleam in his hideous black eyes. He shoved her down on the couch. "Don't move!" he barked.

Lily lay there, frozen. She didn't know what to do. Nothing you learned in Hogwarts could prepare you for this. She looked at him. Her eyes traveled downward. There was a huge bulge in Snape's robes. She closed her eyes with disgust. When she opened them again, she noticed her wand sticking out of his pocket. She made a lunge for it, but missed.

"Stupid girl." He muttered.

But at that exact moment, someone jumped through the portrait hole and landed on his feet. James looked at the situation in front of him. He felt white-hot rage bubble inside him. Forget about magic, he wanted to strangle Snape with his bare hands. He charged at Snape and grabbed him from behind and threw him backwards, away from Lily. She screamed bloody murder.

"What the hell are you doing here, Snape?" James's voice was quiet with rage. He looked ready to kill.

Snape drew his wand, but James had already jumped him and threw him on the floor. He began punching him in his greasy face. Snape drew up his legs and kicked James in the stomach, knocking him back. He threw his wand aside and tore at James. He sank his fist into James's stomach. James reared back and kicked him with all his might in the side of the head. Snape stumbled backwards and then he fell to the floor, unconscious. Blood was trickling from his mouth.

James sank to his knees on the floor, breathing hard. He looked across the room at Lily. She was sitting on the floor, with her knees drawn up to her chest. She was shaking. James crawled across the floor towards her.

"Lily…are you all right? He didn't….he didn't rape you did he?"

"N-n-n-no…..he was about to, though. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't come." She buried her face in her hands, but she didn't start to cry.

He sat down on the floor next to her and put his arms around her. Her head fell onto his shoulder and she started to cry for real. "I don't know what I would've done….." she said again, sobbing.

He stroked her still wet hair. "Sh……..it'll be all right. I'll make sure he never comes near you again. I'll kill him next time."

Lily let out a sigh and her sobs stopped. She sniffed. "Thank you, so much, James. She sniffed again. "I would've stopped him but he got my wand. All he really did to me was….kiss me." She said with horrible disgust. "I thought I was going to be sick."

James eyes widened with anger. "That must have been terrible, that greasy son-of-a-bitch actually touching you."

"Yeah, it was." Her head was still rested on his shoulder. She sighed again and wiped her eyes.

"Well, we better get him off to the hospital wing."

"Aw…do we have to? Can't we just pitch him out the window?"

She gave him a shaky smile. "Come on. Help me get him out of here." They both stood up.

Lily walked over to Snape's unconscious form and pulled her wand out of his pocket. She conjured up a stretcher and slid it under him and as it rose up, James helped her get him through the portrait hole.

Just before they got to the hospital wing, Lily put a memory charm on Snape. "So he won't remember what happened and he won't remember his idea." She explained.

They told Madam Pomfrey they had found him in a corridor. They had no idea what had happened to him. She told them she was just going to let him sleep it off til morning.

It was almost 12 o'clock. Lily yawned loudly.

"Tired?" James asked.

"Yeah, I think I'm about to collapse." As she said that, she stumbled a little. James put his arm around her shoulders, holding her up slightly.

"Here, let me help you."

She gave him a sleepy smile and mumbled, "thanks."

When they got back to the common room, James led her into her bedroom and sat her down on the bed. She got under the covers.

"Well, goodnight, Lily. If you need me, I'll just be two rooms away." He turned to leave.

"No!" she croaked. "Please stay in here with me! I don't want to be alone! What if he comes back? Here-" She grabbed her wand from her bedside table and conjured up a twin mattress, a pillow, and a blanket. "You can sleep right there. Please? I won't bother you, I just want someone in the room with me!" She gave him a pleading look, her green eyes wide.

"Well, I guess I can stay in here. Let me go change into my pajamas." He went into his room and quickly changed. When he came back, Lily's eyes were closed but she said, "Thanks, James."

"No problem." He settled down onto the mattress and laid on his back. He put his hands behind his head.

"Sweet dreams, Lily!" he said.

"Goodnight, James. Make sure you get enough rest for your Quidditch game tomorrow."

In all the excitement, James had completely forgot about Quidditch tomorrow against the Slytherins. James was going to teach those idiots a lesson. You don't mess with a Potter. Or an Evans." He added. As Dumbledore as his witness, he would never let Snape put his filthy hands on Lily again. He would rather die than let Snape hurt Lily. He would get even with Snivelly if it was the last thing he ever did. Lily's soft, even breathing calmed him. She draped her arm over the side of the bed, her hand just in James's reach. He grasped her smooth, small hands in his, and to his surprise, she grasped his back. And he fell asleep like that, their hands held. Like it was meant to be.

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*Whew* Again! Well, that's Chapter 6! But I'm not done! I didn't get around to the Quidditch match in this one. I thought I was, but I came up with this idea. I promise the Quidditch match will be in Chapter 7 though which I will get started on tomorrow! I hope you liked this one! Thanks for reading!!!