A/N Ooooooh....Thanks all reviewers! Thank you so much! Well, then since I have nothing better to do, on with the story...

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Living Through Memories

Chapter 6

Harry returned to his pensieve that day after his lunch, eager to find out what happened. The pensieve took him to the middle of the Gryfinndor Common Room where he found a spot in a corner and settled back to watch...

***

"What do you mean, it's none of our business?" Vanessa yelled loudly.

"Vanessa, I can only think of one meaning that can be derived by that..."Lily said warily.

"But we want to know!" Laurel chimed in.

"Its none of-"

"YOUR. BUSINESS!" James yelled. He was clearly having a very similar conversation with Sirius, Remus and Peter.

"Exactly!" Lily said triumphantly.

There was silence for a couple of seconds.

"Well, you're finishing each other's sentences so that's gotta be something.." Vanessa said crossly.

Lily glared. "Leave me alone...I will tell you when I want to..." she said huffily and she stormed down to Potions with, the others were quite eager to see, James right behind her.

***

"Not accepting it?" James asked her casually.

"No. You?"

"Same."

They walked in silence until they reached the dungeons where they were met by Severus Snape.

"Oh, it's Potty and Evans..." he sneered nastily.

"Shut up, Snivellus..." James said easily.

Snape's eyes widened. James Potter had acted as if he hadn't cared. For once, he hadn't tried to hex him. His eyes darted to the girl next to him. Lily Evans. She had to be the reason.

Grinning maniacally, he pulled out his wand.

***

James felt his mouth go dry. He had said he would stop hexing people but-

he wasn't going to let Severus Snape beat him.

Should he risk it? Surely, Lily would understand... He glanced at her and was proven wrong. There was a challenging glint in her eye and he knew she was waiting to see what he would do.

James' wand which had come out the second that Snape's had, hung loosely in his hand. One eye was on Snape. The other on Lily.

***

Snape watched with increasing satisfaction. Potter couldn't curse him. He wouldn't risk his chance with Evans. Or would he?

***

"Petrificus Totalus" Snape yelled.

The Full-Body Bind. James raised his wand arm and then dropped it and in that space of time, Lily stepped forward and calmly said, "Protego". A large dome surrounded the two of them and the curse rebounded back onto Snape.

His arms immediately were pinned to his sides and he fell over as his legs were bound together.

"Thanks..." James said to Lily gratefully.

"Well, well, well.." an incriminating voice said before Lily could respond.

The two turned to see Professor Langley (sorry I couldn't think of a better name), the Potions master, looming in front of them.

"Detention, Mr. Potter, Ms Evans. Tonight at seven-thirty. " He sneered before un-Body-Binding Snape.

"but-" Lily protested.

"But what?" he snarled.

"Nothing." James said firmly. He had been on the receiving end of Langley's wrath before.

James dragged Lily around the corner.

"What'd you do that before?" She asked angrily. "We just got detention!"

"And if you'd argued back, it would have been a week of detention. Trust me, Lily."

"Trust you? You were about to curse him yourself!" She spat out.

"But I didn't. And you'll never find out if I was going to or not." James said.

She glowered at him and he stepped back a little, unnerved.

And around the corner came Sirius, Remus, Peter, Freya, Vanessa and Laurel.

"James...where've you been?" Sirius said ecstatically.

"He was getting us detentions..." Lily said coldly.

"Oh.." Sirius, the happy expression disappearing.

"It wasn't my fault." James muttered. " You were the one who cast the spell!"

"To stop you from getting......petrified!!"

"To stop me from getting petrified or stop me from hexing him?" James said, his temper rising.

Lily was confused. "I don't see what that has to do with anything but both!"

"Well, you must be pretty desperate if you're willing to hex someone so that I can go out with you!"

The second he said that, he regretted it.

Lily felt her cheeks go red and her mouth drop open. " I was looking out for you. At least I know never to do that again!" she said quietly and pushed past him and into Potions.

***

James spent the entire lesson trying to catch Lily's eye. Lily spent it copying down notes from the board and avoiding James.

The lessons that followed were also spent like this.

***

"You're going to have to speak to him sooner or later..." Freya told her at dinner. They were sitting at one end of the Gryfinndor Table and James (and the rest of them) at the other.

"No I won't."

"You're both Heads"

"And?"

"You're going to have to communicate..."

"I'll write what I want to say"

"So you don't have to talk?"

"Yep."

"And what happens if there's another dance? And you have to open it?"

"I'll become ill. "

"Lily, talk to him. He's probably trying to think of a way to apologise to you."

They all looked over. In fact, James was shoveling food into his mouth.

"Well, whatever it is, sort it out." Freya said. "I want to sit with Remus"

"And me with Sirius," Laurel agreed.

Lily's temper rose. "Well, why don't you go and sit with them then?" she hissed and stalked out of the Dining Hall loudly.

"Do you reckon she remembers that she has detention with him tonight?" Vanessa asked as they watched her walk out.

***

Lily only remembered minutes before and she rushed down to the dungeons to find James already there.

"Ms Evans." Professor Langley said. "You're late."

"Sorry Professor, I was helping some first years who had some trouble with Peeves.." she found herself lying.

"Follow me, you two." He smirked and led them to the armor room. " I want you to polish every piece of armor in her and you will come back for as many nights as it takes you. And you will be cleaning without magic."

***

James groaned. There were hundreds of items in the armor room. Lily didn't look too pleased either but she began to work right away, after pulling her hair back into a messy pony-tail.

They worked in silence.

Freya had been right. He had been trying to think of a way to apologise (hey, you need food to think..). And his thoughts were very unsuccessful.

"Damnit.." he swore.

"What?" Lily asked, forgetting that she wasn't supposed to be speaking to him.

"Nothing. I thought you said you weren't looking out for me." He growled angrily.

She blushed again. "Sorry," she said and he could tell that he had hurt her feelings.

"Lily.." he began cautiously.

"What?" she asked shortly.

"Sorry."

She didn't respond.

"Lily?"

"What?"

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"Doyouacceptmyapology?" he said quickly, more in annoyance than fear of rejection.

"No."

"Why not?" he tried to ask patiently.

"Do you even know why you're apologizing?" she shot at him.

"Because of what I said before Potions. I didn't mean it. And for just now. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings."

Amazingly, he was dead on. And his apology had actually sounded sincere.

"OK"

"You accept my apology?" he asked, feeling a little relieved.

There was a pause then-

"Yes."

"Good"

They finished that night's detention in silence. Peaceful silence.

***

The memory ended there. So Lily and James had quite a few hurdles to get over, Harry mused. He felt odd, calling his parents by their first names but he felt weirder calling the two seventeen year old teenagers 'Mum' and 'Dad'

TBC.....

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And I'm apologizing in advance cause I won't be able to post another chapter for a couple of days-SORRY!