Chapter 5: Lily's Pensieve
Disclaimer: Only own the plot (had to use parts word for word from the OotP, just the one part though)
Lily got up and Harry followed her. She went into a room that when Harry saw it, his jaw dropped. It had thousands and thousands of books that would fulfill Hermione's wildest dreams. There were books on History of Magic, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Time Travel, pretty much any topic in the wizarding world you could think of. Harry glanced at the titles, and a complete set of books caught his attention. One was entitled, 'Magical Me' by Gilderoy Lockhart, another was 'Voyages with Vampires' by Gilderoy Lockhart, and another entitled 'Travels with Trolls' by Gilderoy Lockhart. Lily came back with a small, silver bowl in her hands, a pensieve, almost identical to Dumbledore's, only smaller. Harry pointed to the Lockhart books and said,
"Don't tell me you fancy him too?" Lily looked at what he was pointing at, laughed and said,
"Goodness no. I've never even read any of them. They're all full of rubbish. One of my friends gave them to me, and they've just sat there collecting dust." Harry remembered his set that he had to buy in his second year, was stuffed somewhere in his uncle's house, also collecting dust. He said,
"You do know that he hasn't done a thing that he's said in thouse books, he's just taking credit for other wizards' accomplishments."
"It wouldn't surprise me."
"He was my Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in my second year, and thanks to your truely, he has no memory of anything at all." Lily's jaw dropped and she said in surprise,
"You put a memory charm on him?"
"No, he meant to put one on me, but the wand backfired and hit him instead."
"Well, today he still comes out with about a book a year, full of crap saying he did all this stuff. But anyways, here is my pensieve. I have every memory, good and bad, about James and me, and our years at Hogwarts. Dumbledore gave me one of my own after James died, so it would help me get over the grief. I look at it every once in a while, it's kind of like a scrapbook that moves and talks. Shall we take a look?" Harry nodded, and he and his mother stuck their hands in. Harry felt the familiar feeling of being pulled into the bowl, and the first memory he saw was a red-haired girl sitting in a train compartment by herself, reading a book. Someone knocked on the door, and she said,
"Come in." A girl with brown hair came in and said,
"Do you mind if I sit in here? There aren't anymore places to sit."
"No, that's fine, go ahead."
"Thanks, I'm Samantha Davis by the way."
"I'm Lily Evans. Nice to meet you, Samantha."
"Nice to meet you too, but please call me Sam of Sami, I never go by Samantha."
"Ok, sorry, Sami."
"Are you in your first year too?"
"Yeah, I was so shocked when I got my letter."
"Muggle born?"
"Yeah."
"I'm half and half. My dad's a wizard, my mom's a muggle." Before Lily could answer, the compartment door opened again. Four boys came inside and stood looking at the girls. One had black hair that stuck up in all directions, expecially in the back, and hazel eyes, and was quite handsome for an eleven year old, the second also had black hair, but his fell over his face with a sort of elegance that made him look very handsome, and he had blue eyes, the third had brownish blonde hair, and fell about the same as the second boy's, and he had brown eyes. The three boys were about the same height, same build, but the fourth looked like he didn't belong in the group, physically. He was short, and had short brown hair and brown eyes, and had a nervous, unsure of himself look to him. The boy with the jet- black messy hair said,
"Well, hello there. Went looking for an empty compartment, and find two beautiful looking girls instead." Both Lily and Sami blushed, and the boy said,
"I'm James Potter, this is Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew." Lily said,
"Nice to mee you, I'm Lily Evans, and this is Sami Davis." Everyone shook hands. Remus said,
"Do you mind if we sit here?" Both Lily and Sami shook their heads no, and the six of them talked as the memory started to change. Harry said,
"By the way, where is Professor Lupin anyways?"
"Professor Lupin?"
"Yeah, he was my DADA teacher my third year."
"Is that job still cursed?"
"I'm beginning to think it is."
"Nobody lasted longer than a year when I was in school."
"Same here. So, where is he at?" Lily's expression darkened, and she said,
"To tell you the truth, I'm not a hundred percent certain, but last I heard he was having a hard time keeping a job, for a lot of people know he's a werewolf, and I haven't really heard much from him. I wish I did though, he's the only one of James' friends I still trust to talk to." The new memory was at the Great Hall for the sorting of the first years. Professor McGonagall said,
"When I call your name, you will come forward and place the hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses. Abbott, Thomas!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Andrews, Michael!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Beadle, Elena!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Black, Sirius." Sirius went up with a jaunty spring in his step, confident of what house he would be in.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Sirius grinned, as did his best friend, James.
"Crabbe, Vincent!"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Clauson, Melinda!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Davis, Samantha!" Samantha went up and sat on the stool, her expressoin hard to read. She let out a sigh of relief when the Sorting Hat said,
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Dawes, Eric!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Evans, Lily!" Lily nervously went up to the stool. The Hat was placed on her head and she heard a small voice say,
"Ah, Miss Evans, there's plenty of book smarts potential in your head, you'd be great in Ravenclaw, but there's also bravery and stubbornness here. It'd better be...GRYFFINDOR!" Lily went and sat beside Sami, and watched as the sorting went on. Lily and Sami both made sure to clap as Remus was made the next Gryffindor, and a girl named Kora Mitchell was made a Gryffindor, along with Peter. When James went up to be sorted, the Sorting Hat didn't make it's decision right away. Harry said to the Lily sitting beside him,
"I wonder what the Hat's saying to him."
"James told me once, I think it said that he would be great in Slytherin, for the potential greatness and causing of mischief. But he wanted to be in Gryffindor, so that's where he was placed."
"The Hat almost sorted me into Slytherin too, but I asked not to be placed there."
"Must be that Potter blood in you."
"Well, you were a Gryffindor too."
"True, but I was almost put into Ravenclaw, not Slytherin." Finally the Sorting Hat yelled,
"GRYFFINDOR!" And James stepped off the podium, grinning from ear to ear and joined Sirius, Remus and Peter. Dumbledore said his beginning of the year speech, the feast began, and the memory changed. It was the day before the start of second term, and Lily sat by the window, watching the snow fall, reflecting off the moonlight. James came down the stairs of the boy's dormitory and came up behind Lily and covered her eyes, saying,
"Guess who!" Lily jumped, and knowing it was James said,
"Let me go."
"Not till you guess." Lily said, temper rising,
"Let me go James." James put his hands down and sat next to Lily. Lily, looking irritated that she had such unwelcome company, said,
"What do you want?"
"Nothing, just saw you sitting here by yourself and decided to come join you."
"How do you know I wanted company."
"Everybody loves company. 'Specially so fine company such as myself." Lily laughed mockingly and said,
"Potter, you would be one of the last people on my list of fine company."
"Look, Evans, I'm sorry for the prank."
"No you're not."
"No, really, I am. I have to admit, it was pretty damn funny, but I'm still sorry." Lily didn't reply. James said,
"Oh come on, Evans, you know you love me."
"No, Potter, I don't, believe me, I'll hate you till the day I die." The memory changed, to the autumn of Lily's sixth year. Her best friend, Sami, came through the portrait hole, looking angry enough to kill. She came and sat by Lily, who put her book down and said,
"What happened?"
"I hate Sirius."
"What did he do this time?"
"Honestly, what is the record for a relationship for him? A week? Two days?"
"Told you it wouldn't last. Sirius has never kept a girlfriend longer than a week. I told you not to go out with him."
"I know. But he's hot." Sami whined. She smacked a pillow and said,
"Gosh, why do all the hot guys have to be such jerks?" Lily shrugged, and Sami said,
"Of course then I have to go for the biggest player in school."
"Want me to smack him for ya?"
"Ooh, I'd like to see that. Public humiliation."
"It won't do much good to humiliate him, he and Potter will just turn it into a joke."
"Smack them both then. See, if you smack James, it'll probably embarass him a tiny bit because it'll be from the one he wants and can't have."
"And never will have, I might add."
"You should go out with him, you two would be great together." Lily laughed and said,
"You're crazy. The only guy that even measures to Black in short relationships is Potter. I'm not that stupid."
"So, you're calling me stupid, now?" Sami said teasing.
"Well, not stupid, foolish, for not listening to me when I told you not to go out with Black, that it'd only end up in heartbreak."
"Ok, I admit you were right. But I still think that maybe James'll be different with you."
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, you're different than all the girls he's gone out with. You're just as stubborn as he is, and you can tell he hates it."
"And all we'd do all the time is fight, that's what we do now, why tag a relationship onto it?"
"You know, speaking hypothetically, if you...IF you two ever got together, and it all works out and everything, think about your children. With his temper and yours, I'd hate to be around that kid when he/she is pissed."
"Well, it'll never happen, so you don't have to worry about it." The memory changed, to in the common room later that day, when Sirius, James, Remus and Peter, were sitting at a table, heads together, planning the next Maurader's prank. Lily worked up her courage, and went across the room over to them. James saw her coming, and said,
"Oy, Evans, finally come to your senses about going out with me?"
"Keep dreaming Potter."
"Oh, I will."
"Actually, I need to talk to Sirius." James said,
"Oh, come on, don't tell me you're going out with him? I'll kill him if you do." Sirius grinned and said,
"What can I do for ya, Evans?"
"My friend Sami wanted me to give you something."
"Oh?"
"Yeah." She smacked him across the face, trying to keep from smiling at the surprised look on his face. James, Remus and Peter all brust out laughing, and Lily tossed her hair, and turned and left. Sami was waiting for her, with the biggest grin Lily had ever seen.
"Bloody brilliant, Lily."
"Did you see his face?"
"Classic, I'll remember it forever." Both she and Lily laughed, and later that night, Sirius came up to them and said,
"Sami, can I talk to you?"
"I've got nothing to say to you Black."
"But I do. Please? Come with me." Sami reluctantly got up, and followed Sirius to the window. Lily looked back over at them ten minutes later, to find them making out like they had never broken up. The memory changed, and present day Lily said,
"Sami always had a weak spot for the Black charm. She couldn't resist it." Harry smiled, and asked,
"Where is she now?"
"She lives in Diagon Ally, she's the one that gave me all the Lockhart books. She fancies him a lot." The memory started to come into focus and Lily said,
"By the way, these memories aren't in cronological order, in case you hadn't noticed."
"I noticed." The memory was the first that looked familiar to Harry. It was the scene that he saw in Snape's pensieve. Only this time it was from Lily's point of view. She was sitting peacefully by the lake with her friends, all of them had their shoes in hand and feet in the water. They were talking about the latest Quidditch game Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. Lily laughed at her friend Melinda's point of view of the spectactular catch of the snitch by the Gryffindor seeker, James Potter, which she made sound funnier than it looked. Lily heard a noise of someone yelling a curse, and turned her head towards the voice. She saw James and Sirius with wands out, standing over Severus Snape who was showing the signs of being under the Impediment Curse. Lily sighed, got up, left her shoes next to Sami and went over to where the fight was going on. She heard James say,
"How'd the exam go, Snivelly?" Sirius said,
"I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment, there'll be great grease marks all over it, they won't be able to read a word." Everyone laughed and Snape said,
"You-wait, you-wait..." Sirius said,
"Wait for what? What are you going to do, Snivelly, wipe your nose on us?" Snape swore and tried to curse James and Sirius, but Lily couldn't hear what he was saying. She did hear James snap,
"Wash out your mouth, Scourgify." Lily reached the scene just as Snape had pink soap bubbles coming out of his mouth. Lily stepped in and yelled,
"Leave him ALONE!" Both Sirius and James turned, James' hand going to his hair. At James' motion to his head, the present day Lily laughed and said,
"God, I always used to hate it when he did that." James said,
"All right, Evans?"
"Leave him alone, what's he ever done to you?" She was glaring at James with the purest hate, a look that would make the bravest man in the world cower in a corner. James said,
"Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean..." Everyone laughed, except for Lily. She said, still glaring,
"You think you're funny, but you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."
"I will if you'll go out with me, Evans. Go on...go out with me, and I'll never lay a hand on old Snivelly again." Lily said,
"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid." Sirius clapped his best friend on the back and said,
"Bad luck, Prongs." He turned to Snape and shouted,
"OY!" Snape had picked up his wand and sent a spell straight at James, and James' hand instantly went to his face, and feeling the blood from the gash, he whirled around and sent a spell that turned Snape upside down, revealing to all his skinny legs and graying underpants. Everyone laughed and cheered, except for Lily, though she looked about ready to crack a smile. Instead she said,
"Let him down." James said, with a little mocking bow,
"Certainly." Snape was on the ground again in a heap, and Sirius aimed another spell at him, making him straight as a board. Lily yelled,
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" She pulled out her wand and pointed it at James and Sirius. They looked at it, and took a step back. James, all charm forgotten, pointed his wand at Lily and said,
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you."
"Take the curse off of him then!" James sighed, then reluctantly lifted the curse. He said to Snape,
"There you go, you're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus." Snape snapped,
"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" Lily turned to him and said,
"Fine, I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash those pants if I were you, Snivellus." Lily said coldly, putting emphasis on the nickname the Mauraders had given him, which he hated with a passion, just as much as the people who gave it to him. James pointed his wand at Snape, eyes flashing dangerously with anger,
"Apologize to Evans!" Lily turned to him and said,
"I don't need you to make him apologize, you're just as bad as he is..."
"What? I'd NEVER call you a -- you-know-what!"
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down the corridors hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can--I'm surprised your broomstick can even get off the ground with your fat head on it. You make me SICK." She turned and walked away, not looking back.
"Evans! Hey, EVANS!" Lily came back to the lake, and all the girls were staring at her. She said,
"What?" Sami said,
"Lily, you need some anger managment."
"Well, if some people would stop being such asses, then I wouldn't get so angry." Melinda said,
"You know, I have a theory. Did you know that 50% of the time that people who fight all the time in the end will end up together. So, I'm predicting that Lily and James will end up together, hence the fact that they always fight." (A/N: I didn't just come up with that, there's this guy and girl in my class that are always fighting with each other, and my World History teacher said one day that at the school he was teaching before mine, there was this guy and girl that always fought, and that when they always said they wouldn't end up together, and he said he just received an invitation to their wedding a while ago. So we're all waiting for after we've graduated to be receiving a wedding invitation to their wedding. I'd laugh like no other if we did. Anyways, sorry, I just wanted to share that.) Lily said,
"God help me if I end up with James Potter."
"I could see Lily marrying James." Sami said, nodding knowingly.
"I'll only marry James when hell freezes over." Melinda said,
"That would be interesting to see hell freeze over." Sami said,
"Well, give it a few years and you'll see it." She saw the look Lily was giving her and said,
"Oh come on, Lily, you know we're just joking with you." The memory changed to Lily's seventh year, and everyone was talking about the first Hogsmeade weekend on Halloween. Lily was sitting on an overstuffed armchair, legs curled up next to her, reading a book. Sami and Melinda, like everyone else, were talking about the upcoming weekend. Sami was talking about going with Sirius, and Melinda interrupted her saying,
"You know, you hold the record for the only girl who's kept Sirius for over a week. Even over a month." Sami smiled, and said,
"I know, I'm a miracle worker." Melinda said,
"Now all we need is for James to settle down." They both looked at Lily, who, sensed them looking at her, looked up. She said,
"Forget it." Sami said to Melinda, just as though Lily wasn't there,
"She's so stubborn isn't she?"
"I know, she and James would be perfect for each other."
"Those Potter and Evans tempers, and just think, if they got together, how beautiful would their kids be? His looks and her eyes? Kids'll be heartbreakers."
"And talented too, they're both at the top of the class. And brave, that'd be the Potter genes there. Lily's not very gutsy." Lily rolled her eyes, ignoring them, trying to read. The present day Lily looked at Harry, and said,
"Yes, you have your father's looks, my eyes, do you have a short temper?"
"Sometimes." Harry said, laughing.
"I'm sure you're probably very talented, especially if you're in Gryffindor, and are you brave?" Harry thought about it, then nodded, and Lily said,
"You are James and my son then." They turned back to the memory to hear Sami say,
"Lily just needs to forget the past, suck it up and loosen up a bit when James asks her out, and actually accept." Lily got tired of hearing them talk about her as though she wasn't there, slammed her book shut, sighed and got up and went to sit by the window. Ten minutes later, Lily saw a finger come from behind and land on the tip of her nose. She pulled her head back and tried to focus on whose hand it was, but it moved. She turned in her chair and saw Sirius standing behind her. He said,
"I'm supposed to pass a message to you."
"From who?"
"You'll find out, but you're supposed to go to the Astronomy Tower in ten minutes." Lily sighed and said,
"What does he want this time?"
"Trust me on this, Evans. You want to go talk to him, and this time, consider what he's asking, and..." Sirius said, putting a hand up to stop the words about to come out of Lily's mouth.
"Actually listen to him. Don't just get angry and not take to heart what he's saying." Lily sighed again and said,
"What if I refuse to go?" Sirius pulled his wand out and pointed it at her, grin on his face.
"I'll make you go." Lily whipped her wand out and said,
"You hex me, I'll hex you." Sirius, still grinning, said,
"Ah, I have you outnumbered, Lily."
"How?" Sirius lifted his hand and beckoned behind him. Remus, Peter, Melinda and Sami came to join Sirius. Lily sighed, knowing that with the odds being five to one, she didn't have any choice but to go meet James.
A/N: Ok I have to stop this chapter here, it's starting to get long. I'll try to update ASAP. While you're waiting, you could click that little button on the bottom of the screen and review. ; )
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Disclaimer: Only own the plot (had to use parts word for word from the OotP, just the one part though)
Lily got up and Harry followed her. She went into a room that when Harry saw it, his jaw dropped. It had thousands and thousands of books that would fulfill Hermione's wildest dreams. There were books on History of Magic, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Time Travel, pretty much any topic in the wizarding world you could think of. Harry glanced at the titles, and a complete set of books caught his attention. One was entitled, 'Magical Me' by Gilderoy Lockhart, another was 'Voyages with Vampires' by Gilderoy Lockhart, and another entitled 'Travels with Trolls' by Gilderoy Lockhart. Lily came back with a small, silver bowl in her hands, a pensieve, almost identical to Dumbledore's, only smaller. Harry pointed to the Lockhart books and said,
"Don't tell me you fancy him too?" Lily looked at what he was pointing at, laughed and said,
"Goodness no. I've never even read any of them. They're all full of rubbish. One of my friends gave them to me, and they've just sat there collecting dust." Harry remembered his set that he had to buy in his second year, was stuffed somewhere in his uncle's house, also collecting dust. He said,
"You do know that he hasn't done a thing that he's said in thouse books, he's just taking credit for other wizards' accomplishments."
"It wouldn't surprise me."
"He was my Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in my second year, and thanks to your truely, he has no memory of anything at all." Lily's jaw dropped and she said in surprise,
"You put a memory charm on him?"
"No, he meant to put one on me, but the wand backfired and hit him instead."
"Well, today he still comes out with about a book a year, full of crap saying he did all this stuff. But anyways, here is my pensieve. I have every memory, good and bad, about James and me, and our years at Hogwarts. Dumbledore gave me one of my own after James died, so it would help me get over the grief. I look at it every once in a while, it's kind of like a scrapbook that moves and talks. Shall we take a look?" Harry nodded, and he and his mother stuck their hands in. Harry felt the familiar feeling of being pulled into the bowl, and the first memory he saw was a red-haired girl sitting in a train compartment by herself, reading a book. Someone knocked on the door, and she said,
"Come in." A girl with brown hair came in and said,
"Do you mind if I sit in here? There aren't anymore places to sit."
"No, that's fine, go ahead."
"Thanks, I'm Samantha Davis by the way."
"I'm Lily Evans. Nice to meet you, Samantha."
"Nice to meet you too, but please call me Sam of Sami, I never go by Samantha."
"Ok, sorry, Sami."
"Are you in your first year too?"
"Yeah, I was so shocked when I got my letter."
"Muggle born?"
"Yeah."
"I'm half and half. My dad's a wizard, my mom's a muggle." Before Lily could answer, the compartment door opened again. Four boys came inside and stood looking at the girls. One had black hair that stuck up in all directions, expecially in the back, and hazel eyes, and was quite handsome for an eleven year old, the second also had black hair, but his fell over his face with a sort of elegance that made him look very handsome, and he had blue eyes, the third had brownish blonde hair, and fell about the same as the second boy's, and he had brown eyes. The three boys were about the same height, same build, but the fourth looked like he didn't belong in the group, physically. He was short, and had short brown hair and brown eyes, and had a nervous, unsure of himself look to him. The boy with the jet- black messy hair said,
"Well, hello there. Went looking for an empty compartment, and find two beautiful looking girls instead." Both Lily and Sami blushed, and the boy said,
"I'm James Potter, this is Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew." Lily said,
"Nice to mee you, I'm Lily Evans, and this is Sami Davis." Everyone shook hands. Remus said,
"Do you mind if we sit here?" Both Lily and Sami shook their heads no, and the six of them talked as the memory started to change. Harry said,
"By the way, where is Professor Lupin anyways?"
"Professor Lupin?"
"Yeah, he was my DADA teacher my third year."
"Is that job still cursed?"
"I'm beginning to think it is."
"Nobody lasted longer than a year when I was in school."
"Same here. So, where is he at?" Lily's expression darkened, and she said,
"To tell you the truth, I'm not a hundred percent certain, but last I heard he was having a hard time keeping a job, for a lot of people know he's a werewolf, and I haven't really heard much from him. I wish I did though, he's the only one of James' friends I still trust to talk to." The new memory was at the Great Hall for the sorting of the first years. Professor McGonagall said,
"When I call your name, you will come forward and place the hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses. Abbott, Thomas!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Andrews, Michael!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Beadle, Elena!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Black, Sirius." Sirius went up with a jaunty spring in his step, confident of what house he would be in.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Sirius grinned, as did his best friend, James.
"Crabbe, Vincent!"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Clauson, Melinda!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Davis, Samantha!" Samantha went up and sat on the stool, her expressoin hard to read. She let out a sigh of relief when the Sorting Hat said,
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Dawes, Eric!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Evans, Lily!" Lily nervously went up to the stool. The Hat was placed on her head and she heard a small voice say,
"Ah, Miss Evans, there's plenty of book smarts potential in your head, you'd be great in Ravenclaw, but there's also bravery and stubbornness here. It'd better be...GRYFFINDOR!" Lily went and sat beside Sami, and watched as the sorting went on. Lily and Sami both made sure to clap as Remus was made the next Gryffindor, and a girl named Kora Mitchell was made a Gryffindor, along with Peter. When James went up to be sorted, the Sorting Hat didn't make it's decision right away. Harry said to the Lily sitting beside him,
"I wonder what the Hat's saying to him."
"James told me once, I think it said that he would be great in Slytherin, for the potential greatness and causing of mischief. But he wanted to be in Gryffindor, so that's where he was placed."
"The Hat almost sorted me into Slytherin too, but I asked not to be placed there."
"Must be that Potter blood in you."
"Well, you were a Gryffindor too."
"True, but I was almost put into Ravenclaw, not Slytherin." Finally the Sorting Hat yelled,
"GRYFFINDOR!" And James stepped off the podium, grinning from ear to ear and joined Sirius, Remus and Peter. Dumbledore said his beginning of the year speech, the feast began, and the memory changed. It was the day before the start of second term, and Lily sat by the window, watching the snow fall, reflecting off the moonlight. James came down the stairs of the boy's dormitory and came up behind Lily and covered her eyes, saying,
"Guess who!" Lily jumped, and knowing it was James said,
"Let me go."
"Not till you guess." Lily said, temper rising,
"Let me go James." James put his hands down and sat next to Lily. Lily, looking irritated that she had such unwelcome company, said,
"What do you want?"
"Nothing, just saw you sitting here by yourself and decided to come join you."
"How do you know I wanted company."
"Everybody loves company. 'Specially so fine company such as myself." Lily laughed mockingly and said,
"Potter, you would be one of the last people on my list of fine company."
"Look, Evans, I'm sorry for the prank."
"No you're not."
"No, really, I am. I have to admit, it was pretty damn funny, but I'm still sorry." Lily didn't reply. James said,
"Oh come on, Evans, you know you love me."
"No, Potter, I don't, believe me, I'll hate you till the day I die." The memory changed, to the autumn of Lily's sixth year. Her best friend, Sami, came through the portrait hole, looking angry enough to kill. She came and sat by Lily, who put her book down and said,
"What happened?"
"I hate Sirius."
"What did he do this time?"
"Honestly, what is the record for a relationship for him? A week? Two days?"
"Told you it wouldn't last. Sirius has never kept a girlfriend longer than a week. I told you not to go out with him."
"I know. But he's hot." Sami whined. She smacked a pillow and said,
"Gosh, why do all the hot guys have to be such jerks?" Lily shrugged, and Sami said,
"Of course then I have to go for the biggest player in school."
"Want me to smack him for ya?"
"Ooh, I'd like to see that. Public humiliation."
"It won't do much good to humiliate him, he and Potter will just turn it into a joke."
"Smack them both then. See, if you smack James, it'll probably embarass him a tiny bit because it'll be from the one he wants and can't have."
"And never will have, I might add."
"You should go out with him, you two would be great together." Lily laughed and said,
"You're crazy. The only guy that even measures to Black in short relationships is Potter. I'm not that stupid."
"So, you're calling me stupid, now?" Sami said teasing.
"Well, not stupid, foolish, for not listening to me when I told you not to go out with Black, that it'd only end up in heartbreak."
"Ok, I admit you were right. But I still think that maybe James'll be different with you."
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, you're different than all the girls he's gone out with. You're just as stubborn as he is, and you can tell he hates it."
"And all we'd do all the time is fight, that's what we do now, why tag a relationship onto it?"
"You know, speaking hypothetically, if you...IF you two ever got together, and it all works out and everything, think about your children. With his temper and yours, I'd hate to be around that kid when he/she is pissed."
"Well, it'll never happen, so you don't have to worry about it." The memory changed, to in the common room later that day, when Sirius, James, Remus and Peter, were sitting at a table, heads together, planning the next Maurader's prank. Lily worked up her courage, and went across the room over to them. James saw her coming, and said,
"Oy, Evans, finally come to your senses about going out with me?"
"Keep dreaming Potter."
"Oh, I will."
"Actually, I need to talk to Sirius." James said,
"Oh, come on, don't tell me you're going out with him? I'll kill him if you do." Sirius grinned and said,
"What can I do for ya, Evans?"
"My friend Sami wanted me to give you something."
"Oh?"
"Yeah." She smacked him across the face, trying to keep from smiling at the surprised look on his face. James, Remus and Peter all brust out laughing, and Lily tossed her hair, and turned and left. Sami was waiting for her, with the biggest grin Lily had ever seen.
"Bloody brilliant, Lily."
"Did you see his face?"
"Classic, I'll remember it forever." Both she and Lily laughed, and later that night, Sirius came up to them and said,
"Sami, can I talk to you?"
"I've got nothing to say to you Black."
"But I do. Please? Come with me." Sami reluctantly got up, and followed Sirius to the window. Lily looked back over at them ten minutes later, to find them making out like they had never broken up. The memory changed, and present day Lily said,
"Sami always had a weak spot for the Black charm. She couldn't resist it." Harry smiled, and asked,
"Where is she now?"
"She lives in Diagon Ally, she's the one that gave me all the Lockhart books. She fancies him a lot." The memory started to come into focus and Lily said,
"By the way, these memories aren't in cronological order, in case you hadn't noticed."
"I noticed." The memory was the first that looked familiar to Harry. It was the scene that he saw in Snape's pensieve. Only this time it was from Lily's point of view. She was sitting peacefully by the lake with her friends, all of them had their shoes in hand and feet in the water. They were talking about the latest Quidditch game Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. Lily laughed at her friend Melinda's point of view of the spectactular catch of the snitch by the Gryffindor seeker, James Potter, which she made sound funnier than it looked. Lily heard a noise of someone yelling a curse, and turned her head towards the voice. She saw James and Sirius with wands out, standing over Severus Snape who was showing the signs of being under the Impediment Curse. Lily sighed, got up, left her shoes next to Sami and went over to where the fight was going on. She heard James say,
"How'd the exam go, Snivelly?" Sirius said,
"I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment, there'll be great grease marks all over it, they won't be able to read a word." Everyone laughed and Snape said,
"You-wait, you-wait..." Sirius said,
"Wait for what? What are you going to do, Snivelly, wipe your nose on us?" Snape swore and tried to curse James and Sirius, but Lily couldn't hear what he was saying. She did hear James snap,
"Wash out your mouth, Scourgify." Lily reached the scene just as Snape had pink soap bubbles coming out of his mouth. Lily stepped in and yelled,
"Leave him ALONE!" Both Sirius and James turned, James' hand going to his hair. At James' motion to his head, the present day Lily laughed and said,
"God, I always used to hate it when he did that." James said,
"All right, Evans?"
"Leave him alone, what's he ever done to you?" She was glaring at James with the purest hate, a look that would make the bravest man in the world cower in a corner. James said,
"Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean..." Everyone laughed, except for Lily. She said, still glaring,
"You think you're funny, but you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."
"I will if you'll go out with me, Evans. Go on...go out with me, and I'll never lay a hand on old Snivelly again." Lily said,
"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid." Sirius clapped his best friend on the back and said,
"Bad luck, Prongs." He turned to Snape and shouted,
"OY!" Snape had picked up his wand and sent a spell straight at James, and James' hand instantly went to his face, and feeling the blood from the gash, he whirled around and sent a spell that turned Snape upside down, revealing to all his skinny legs and graying underpants. Everyone laughed and cheered, except for Lily, though she looked about ready to crack a smile. Instead she said,
"Let him down." James said, with a little mocking bow,
"Certainly." Snape was on the ground again in a heap, and Sirius aimed another spell at him, making him straight as a board. Lily yelled,
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" She pulled out her wand and pointed it at James and Sirius. They looked at it, and took a step back. James, all charm forgotten, pointed his wand at Lily and said,
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you."
"Take the curse off of him then!" James sighed, then reluctantly lifted the curse. He said to Snape,
"There you go, you're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus." Snape snapped,
"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" Lily turned to him and said,
"Fine, I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash those pants if I were you, Snivellus." Lily said coldly, putting emphasis on the nickname the Mauraders had given him, which he hated with a passion, just as much as the people who gave it to him. James pointed his wand at Snape, eyes flashing dangerously with anger,
"Apologize to Evans!" Lily turned to him and said,
"I don't need you to make him apologize, you're just as bad as he is..."
"What? I'd NEVER call you a -- you-know-what!"
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down the corridors hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can--I'm surprised your broomstick can even get off the ground with your fat head on it. You make me SICK." She turned and walked away, not looking back.
"Evans! Hey, EVANS!" Lily came back to the lake, and all the girls were staring at her. She said,
"What?" Sami said,
"Lily, you need some anger managment."
"Well, if some people would stop being such asses, then I wouldn't get so angry." Melinda said,
"You know, I have a theory. Did you know that 50% of the time that people who fight all the time in the end will end up together. So, I'm predicting that Lily and James will end up together, hence the fact that they always fight." (A/N: I didn't just come up with that, there's this guy and girl in my class that are always fighting with each other, and my World History teacher said one day that at the school he was teaching before mine, there was this guy and girl that always fought, and that when they always said they wouldn't end up together, and he said he just received an invitation to their wedding a while ago. So we're all waiting for after we've graduated to be receiving a wedding invitation to their wedding. I'd laugh like no other if we did. Anyways, sorry, I just wanted to share that.) Lily said,
"God help me if I end up with James Potter."
"I could see Lily marrying James." Sami said, nodding knowingly.
"I'll only marry James when hell freezes over." Melinda said,
"That would be interesting to see hell freeze over." Sami said,
"Well, give it a few years and you'll see it." She saw the look Lily was giving her and said,
"Oh come on, Lily, you know we're just joking with you." The memory changed to Lily's seventh year, and everyone was talking about the first Hogsmeade weekend on Halloween. Lily was sitting on an overstuffed armchair, legs curled up next to her, reading a book. Sami and Melinda, like everyone else, were talking about the upcoming weekend. Sami was talking about going with Sirius, and Melinda interrupted her saying,
"You know, you hold the record for the only girl who's kept Sirius for over a week. Even over a month." Sami smiled, and said,
"I know, I'm a miracle worker." Melinda said,
"Now all we need is for James to settle down." They both looked at Lily, who, sensed them looking at her, looked up. She said,
"Forget it." Sami said to Melinda, just as though Lily wasn't there,
"She's so stubborn isn't she?"
"I know, she and James would be perfect for each other."
"Those Potter and Evans tempers, and just think, if they got together, how beautiful would their kids be? His looks and her eyes? Kids'll be heartbreakers."
"And talented too, they're both at the top of the class. And brave, that'd be the Potter genes there. Lily's not very gutsy." Lily rolled her eyes, ignoring them, trying to read. The present day Lily looked at Harry, and said,
"Yes, you have your father's looks, my eyes, do you have a short temper?"
"Sometimes." Harry said, laughing.
"I'm sure you're probably very talented, especially if you're in Gryffindor, and are you brave?" Harry thought about it, then nodded, and Lily said,
"You are James and my son then." They turned back to the memory to hear Sami say,
"Lily just needs to forget the past, suck it up and loosen up a bit when James asks her out, and actually accept." Lily got tired of hearing them talk about her as though she wasn't there, slammed her book shut, sighed and got up and went to sit by the window. Ten minutes later, Lily saw a finger come from behind and land on the tip of her nose. She pulled her head back and tried to focus on whose hand it was, but it moved. She turned in her chair and saw Sirius standing behind her. He said,
"I'm supposed to pass a message to you."
"From who?"
"You'll find out, but you're supposed to go to the Astronomy Tower in ten minutes." Lily sighed and said,
"What does he want this time?"
"Trust me on this, Evans. You want to go talk to him, and this time, consider what he's asking, and..." Sirius said, putting a hand up to stop the words about to come out of Lily's mouth.
"Actually listen to him. Don't just get angry and not take to heart what he's saying." Lily sighed again and said,
"What if I refuse to go?" Sirius pulled his wand out and pointed it at her, grin on his face.
"I'll make you go." Lily whipped her wand out and said,
"You hex me, I'll hex you." Sirius, still grinning, said,
"Ah, I have you outnumbered, Lily."
"How?" Sirius lifted his hand and beckoned behind him. Remus, Peter, Melinda and Sami came to join Sirius. Lily sighed, knowing that with the odds being five to one, she didn't have any choice but to go meet James.
A/N: Ok I have to stop this chapter here, it's starting to get long. I'll try to update ASAP. While you're waiting, you could click that little button on the bottom of the screen and review. ; )
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