Salt Lick
Disclaimer: 'Ere I go. I don't own anything created by J. K. Rowling.
Lily threw off her cloak and stashed it beneath a tree. She broke into a jog toward the Dark Forest and in mid-run transformed. The beautiful doe shook her head and she pranced to a stop.
Lily danced along the forest only meeting up with a unicorn who bent his head as a greeting and trotted off. The doe came along a stream and bent to drink. She drew her head up sharply. Was that what she thought she smelled? Because if it was, it was exactly what she needed at the moment.
Lily shouted "Yes!" inwardly. A salt lick. Every since she had secretly become animagus on her fifteenth birthday she had found that along with a sharp 6th sense, hearing, and sight; she had also acquired an overwhelming fondness for salt. Her parents had been greatly puzzled when they had found many of the missing salt shakers hidden beneath her bed. Lily had read much on the subject of animagi, and the one and only side-effect was attaining attributes of the animal you transformed into.
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The rest of the Marauders went to bed but James didn't. "I need salt." He said briefly before covering himself with the cloak again. The rest of the marauders nodded. They knew of James's strange craving for salt. He nearly lived on the stuff. It was an attribute of deer. They love salt. In fact, Sirius's laugh sounded more and more like a bark everyday, and Remus swore he saw Peter's nose twitch once.
Once out of the castle, James threw his cloak aside and transformed into a stag. He trotted through the well know path in the forest. So Elle was the one who he had heard. Made sense, really. She had just left her family and friends, that's all. But he knew there was something more. The way she had cried seemed to rake the insides of his heart. James shook it off and broke into a canter.
He came to the lick and snorted in annoyance. A doe. He had come across other deer several times here before. He stamped his hooves to scare her away. She doe lifter her head, daintily licking her lips and shot James a glare that clearly said: Back off, buddy.
Now that turns me off! Thought James moodily. Just when he needed to be alone. He shook his antlers threateningly.
Lily snorted. Oh please. She resumed licking greedily.
What was wrong with this chick? She could not take a hint. Then, the doe lifted her head, flicked her tail angrily, shot him a look that said: "Jerk." and walked haughtily off, like nothing he had done had made her leave.
James growled and began to lick. The stuff just got better and better. Then it dawned in his head. If Elle really did live in that room, why wasn't she there?
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*A week later, Griffindor boy's domitory*
Remus finally put his book down after looking up in annoyance several times. "James stop that! What are you trying to do, crack your skull apart?"
James had been scratching his head like crazy for the past few days, and Sirius had even caught him rubbing it against the bed post.
"It's those bloody antlers. It's autumn, they're supposed to come off. They itch like crazy! Tonight I'm going out to the forest to get them off.
Remus was about to reply, but was interrupted by Sirius storming in with-
"Sirius why on earth do you have pie on your face?-!"
"Guess!"
"Elle," said James shortly, rubbing his head where antlers would be.
"The broad pied me in front of everyone!"
"What did you do?"
"Nothing! Okay maybe I was a bit fresh, but it was uncalled for!"
Remus quickly hid behind his book so Sirius wouldn't see the smirk on his face. For the past week Elle had been humiliating Sirius is his deperate attempts to make her go out with him.
"Well her loss! I quit! And wipe that smirk off your face, Remus!"
Remus dropped the book, the corners off his mouth twitching. "Sorry Sirius." He waved his wand and the pie on Sirius's face disappeared.
"His antlers are shedding." he said in answer to Sirius half confused, half alarmed look at James who, at the moment was beating his head against his pillow, that was luckily muffling his violent exclamations.
Sirius merely nodded. "Ahhh."
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Lily laughed as she took a bite of her potatoes. Maria was recalling a mishap in Defense Against the Dark Arts of how the grindylow had gotten the better of Amos Diggory and how he was forced to be saved by the teacher.
It was her first week of Ravenclaw, and though the girls were friendly, they were nothing like Maria and Bella, who took endless pains to help her with her English and classes.
She ate at the Griffindor table everyday, and the two girls had quickly become Lily's best friends. Bella was short, with blonde hair and cheerful blue eyes, outgoing, and crazy. Maria was quieter, but very supportive. Even when it came to the Sirius issue. Lily knew Maria knew Maria had a little bit of a crush on Sirius, but accepted that Lily did not, and helped her to avoid him when he started to pester her. Where was Sirius anyhow? Normally he would be sitting next to her being as pushy as anything giving her flowers or offering to help her study. Study! Ha! Right on cue, Sirius popped up.
"I'm on to you, you know."
Lily spun around to see Sirius. She rolled her eyes and groaned inwardly. "What do you want?"
Sirius sat down next to Lily pushing Bella aside, causing her to shriek in annoyance.
"You really can't resist me. Your just playing hard to get. You've wanted me since day one."
Ugh. The guy wouldn't recognize a hint if it screamed in front of him wearing nothing but a Kleenex. What else could she do to tell him to dream on?
"So, Hogmeade on Saturday is okay with you?" he said draping his arm around her.
That was enough for Lily. For the past week that boy had been stalking her around the castle following her everywhere, breathing down her neck, passing her endless notes in class, and making moves! She couldn't even talk to her friends without being pestered by this mosquito of a boy! Lily, without a second thought, grabbed a pie that was steaming innocently in the middle of the table and thrust it into Sirius arrogant face.
Laughter filled the Great Hall as all heads turned towards Sirius's face covered in pie. He stood there for a moment comprehending what had just happened and thinking of a real crusher. All he got out was "You!" before running away, a trail of pie following him.
After a few moments, everyone stopped laughing and started to eat again.
Lily sighed. She would apologize to him tomorrow. Poor boy. He had gone through enough humiliation.
The night was warm, and Lily kept her window open to the balcony. She woke up with a start. She heard a strange noise. A scraping noise. It was very quiet, even for her deer hearing. She threw the covers off and walked out to the balcony. A distance off on the outskirts of the forest was a stag rubbing his antlers against a tree. She grinned as he worked desperately to get them off. After a few minutes they loosened and he then finally managed to release the burden. The noise stopped and the stag shook his liberated head and praced back into the forest. Lily smiled and went back to bed.
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James started to desperately whack his antlers against the trunk. Come autumn, they would loosen, and you would fiddle with them until thy come undone and then pried them off. Come spring they would grow back. James found them rather useful for controling Remus when he transformed, but when it came time for them to come off, the itching was extreamly unpleasent.
After what seemed forever, the antlers finally loosened and he was able to scrape them off on the ground. He shook his new head and decided to take a run before going back to bed. Finally the agony was over. He had just leapt into the forest when something caught his eye. He turned his head and looked back at the castle and the retreating figure of a girl in a white nightgown walk back into a room from a balcony. The girl had long black hair. It was Elle. He wondered how long she had been standing there. It was a good thing he hadn't transformed in front of the tree. She hadn't seen anything. It was nothing to worry about.
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After lunch the next day, Lily watched the marauders walk out of the Hall. She bit her lip and ran after them. She went up to Sirius's reatreating back and laid a hand on his shoulder.
"Pardonnez moi."
Sirius spun around and raised his hands. "I didn't do anything! No pie!"
She smiled at him and flushed. "Yes about that. I'm sorry for putting the pie in your face, I sort of..."
"Snapped?"
"Yes." She smiled wryly. "I hope we can be friends?"
Sirius stared at her a moment, disbeleif on his face. Then he grinned. "Sure." He extended his hand, but she ignored it and gave him a hug.
"You English-men are so formal," she said with a laugh.
"Elle," said Remus. "I have a feeling this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship."
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(A/N: Ahem...A muss up in last chapter's Author's Note: the comments in ( ) s were added without my knowledge courtesy of my brother. Please review and tell me what you liked didn't like and what you'd like to see. I was going to originally have a story of Lily's magical heritage, but decided against it as it would be confusing to the story. If you all are freaked out and all thinking that Sirius and Lily will fall in love or something, I promise you it will not happen. Neither will he hook up with Maria or Bella. This is strictly a L/J fic. Thank you to all of my reviewers esp. the one who gave me dictionary.com. I checked it out and was very pleased, though when I repeated the French it gave me for English, English to French, it switched to a rather interesting version, of which I'm sure I did not write. Heh heh. Concerning James shedding his antlers, I have no clue how it occours
so I just winged it.
Disclaimer: 'Ere I go. I don't own anything created by J. K. Rowling.
Lily threw off her cloak and stashed it beneath a tree. She broke into a jog toward the Dark Forest and in mid-run transformed. The beautiful doe shook her head and she pranced to a stop.
Lily danced along the forest only meeting up with a unicorn who bent his head as a greeting and trotted off. The doe came along a stream and bent to drink. She drew her head up sharply. Was that what she thought she smelled? Because if it was, it was exactly what she needed at the moment.
Lily shouted "Yes!" inwardly. A salt lick. Every since she had secretly become animagus on her fifteenth birthday she had found that along with a sharp 6th sense, hearing, and sight; she had also acquired an overwhelming fondness for salt. Her parents had been greatly puzzled when they had found many of the missing salt shakers hidden beneath her bed. Lily had read much on the subject of animagi, and the one and only side-effect was attaining attributes of the animal you transformed into.
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The rest of the Marauders went to bed but James didn't. "I need salt." He said briefly before covering himself with the cloak again. The rest of the marauders nodded. They knew of James's strange craving for salt. He nearly lived on the stuff. It was an attribute of deer. They love salt. In fact, Sirius's laugh sounded more and more like a bark everyday, and Remus swore he saw Peter's nose twitch once.
Once out of the castle, James threw his cloak aside and transformed into a stag. He trotted through the well know path in the forest. So Elle was the one who he had heard. Made sense, really. She had just left her family and friends, that's all. But he knew there was something more. The way she had cried seemed to rake the insides of his heart. James shook it off and broke into a canter.
He came to the lick and snorted in annoyance. A doe. He had come across other deer several times here before. He stamped his hooves to scare her away. She doe lifter her head, daintily licking her lips and shot James a glare that clearly said: Back off, buddy.
Now that turns me off! Thought James moodily. Just when he needed to be alone. He shook his antlers threateningly.
Lily snorted. Oh please. She resumed licking greedily.
What was wrong with this chick? She could not take a hint. Then, the doe lifted her head, flicked her tail angrily, shot him a look that said: "Jerk." and walked haughtily off, like nothing he had done had made her leave.
James growled and began to lick. The stuff just got better and better. Then it dawned in his head. If Elle really did live in that room, why wasn't she there?
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*A week later, Griffindor boy's domitory*
Remus finally put his book down after looking up in annoyance several times. "James stop that! What are you trying to do, crack your skull apart?"
James had been scratching his head like crazy for the past few days, and Sirius had even caught him rubbing it against the bed post.
"It's those bloody antlers. It's autumn, they're supposed to come off. They itch like crazy! Tonight I'm going out to the forest to get them off.
Remus was about to reply, but was interrupted by Sirius storming in with-
"Sirius why on earth do you have pie on your face?-!"
"Guess!"
"Elle," said James shortly, rubbing his head where antlers would be.
"The broad pied me in front of everyone!"
"What did you do?"
"Nothing! Okay maybe I was a bit fresh, but it was uncalled for!"
Remus quickly hid behind his book so Sirius wouldn't see the smirk on his face. For the past week Elle had been humiliating Sirius is his deperate attempts to make her go out with him.
"Well her loss! I quit! And wipe that smirk off your face, Remus!"
Remus dropped the book, the corners off his mouth twitching. "Sorry Sirius." He waved his wand and the pie on Sirius's face disappeared.
"His antlers are shedding." he said in answer to Sirius half confused, half alarmed look at James who, at the moment was beating his head against his pillow, that was luckily muffling his violent exclamations.
Sirius merely nodded. "Ahhh."
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Lily laughed as she took a bite of her potatoes. Maria was recalling a mishap in Defense Against the Dark Arts of how the grindylow had gotten the better of Amos Diggory and how he was forced to be saved by the teacher.
It was her first week of Ravenclaw, and though the girls were friendly, they were nothing like Maria and Bella, who took endless pains to help her with her English and classes.
She ate at the Griffindor table everyday, and the two girls had quickly become Lily's best friends. Bella was short, with blonde hair and cheerful blue eyes, outgoing, and crazy. Maria was quieter, but very supportive. Even when it came to the Sirius issue. Lily knew Maria knew Maria had a little bit of a crush on Sirius, but accepted that Lily did not, and helped her to avoid him when he started to pester her. Where was Sirius anyhow? Normally he would be sitting next to her being as pushy as anything giving her flowers or offering to help her study. Study! Ha! Right on cue, Sirius popped up.
"I'm on to you, you know."
Lily spun around to see Sirius. She rolled her eyes and groaned inwardly. "What do you want?"
Sirius sat down next to Lily pushing Bella aside, causing her to shriek in annoyance.
"You really can't resist me. Your just playing hard to get. You've wanted me since day one."
Ugh. The guy wouldn't recognize a hint if it screamed in front of him wearing nothing but a Kleenex. What else could she do to tell him to dream on?
"So, Hogmeade on Saturday is okay with you?" he said draping his arm around her.
That was enough for Lily. For the past week that boy had been stalking her around the castle following her everywhere, breathing down her neck, passing her endless notes in class, and making moves! She couldn't even talk to her friends without being pestered by this mosquito of a boy! Lily, without a second thought, grabbed a pie that was steaming innocently in the middle of the table and thrust it into Sirius arrogant face.
Laughter filled the Great Hall as all heads turned towards Sirius's face covered in pie. He stood there for a moment comprehending what had just happened and thinking of a real crusher. All he got out was "You!" before running away, a trail of pie following him.
After a few moments, everyone stopped laughing and started to eat again.
Lily sighed. She would apologize to him tomorrow. Poor boy. He had gone through enough humiliation.
The night was warm, and Lily kept her window open to the balcony. She woke up with a start. She heard a strange noise. A scraping noise. It was very quiet, even for her deer hearing. She threw the covers off and walked out to the balcony. A distance off on the outskirts of the forest was a stag rubbing his antlers against a tree. She grinned as he worked desperately to get them off. After a few minutes they loosened and he then finally managed to release the burden. The noise stopped and the stag shook his liberated head and praced back into the forest. Lily smiled and went back to bed.
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James started to desperately whack his antlers against the trunk. Come autumn, they would loosen, and you would fiddle with them until thy come undone and then pried them off. Come spring they would grow back. James found them rather useful for controling Remus when he transformed, but when it came time for them to come off, the itching was extreamly unpleasent.
After what seemed forever, the antlers finally loosened and he was able to scrape them off on the ground. He shook his new head and decided to take a run before going back to bed. Finally the agony was over. He had just leapt into the forest when something caught his eye. He turned his head and looked back at the castle and the retreating figure of a girl in a white nightgown walk back into a room from a balcony. The girl had long black hair. It was Elle. He wondered how long she had been standing there. It was a good thing he hadn't transformed in front of the tree. She hadn't seen anything. It was nothing to worry about.
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After lunch the next day, Lily watched the marauders walk out of the Hall. She bit her lip and ran after them. She went up to Sirius's reatreating back and laid a hand on his shoulder.
"Pardonnez moi."
Sirius spun around and raised his hands. "I didn't do anything! No pie!"
She smiled at him and flushed. "Yes about that. I'm sorry for putting the pie in your face, I sort of..."
"Snapped?"
"Yes." She smiled wryly. "I hope we can be friends?"
Sirius stared at her a moment, disbeleif on his face. Then he grinned. "Sure." He extended his hand, but she ignored it and gave him a hug.
"You English-men are so formal," she said with a laugh.
"Elle," said Remus. "I have a feeling this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship."
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(A/N: Ahem...A muss up in last chapter's Author's Note: the comments in ( ) s were added without my knowledge courtesy of my brother. Please review and tell me what you liked didn't like and what you'd like to see. I was going to originally have a story of Lily's magical heritage, but decided against it as it would be confusing to the story. If you all are freaked out and all thinking that Sirius and Lily will fall in love or something, I promise you it will not happen. Neither will he hook up with Maria or Bella. This is strictly a L/J fic. Thank you to all of my reviewers esp. the one who gave me dictionary.com. I checked it out and was very pleased, though when I repeated the French it gave me for English, English to French, it switched to a rather interesting version, of which I'm sure I did not write. Heh heh. Concerning James shedding his antlers, I have no clue how it occours
so I just winged it.