Plotting With the Rival
Disclaimer: Yes me! I own Harry Potter! Sorry, I was still in my favorite dream...but who knows? Someday...in the far far future...I just might own Harry Potter.
Summary: Lily and James do not get along very well. But what happens when James and lily want revenge on the same person? Well put their differences aside and combine forces of course!
A/N: For the sake of making the story better, we'll pretend that Peter is one of them...not dorky and stupid, and Remus not so depressing. O and don't forget to review!
Chapter 1 – Where Conflicts Start
"James!" Sirius Black screamed happily as he gave his best friend a death like hug "It's been such a LONG time since we last saw each other. HOW ARE YOU?"
By now, half the people on the platform are staring incredulously at the child-like 16 year-old.
"I missed YOU so much too! And it has been such a LONG time! Imagine...ONE WHOLE WEEK!!" James Potter screamed back, voice soaked in sarcasm.
"I KNOW!" Sirius replied, obviously not catching on.
"My lord, Padfoot old friend, how slow can you get?!?"
"Hey why does everyone say that? –Gasp- are you saying you were LYING?!? You DIDN'T miss me...sniffle...you know what? FINE I'm going to talk to my HONEST friends." Sirius said, sounding hurt. "Oy, REMUS! It's been such a- - "
James was still staring after him shaking his head when a shrill voice made him wince.
"Hi James! How was your summer?" A blonde preppy girl stood behind him, all the while smiling with a mouth full of blinding teeth.
"Oh, uh h-hi Roxanne." James managed to stutter with fear while dodging as the girl, Roxanne, tried to hug him.
"So, the last year was so much fun! What wild things should we do this year?" Roxanne chattered on as she clutched James's arm, dragging him toward her friends.
"Roxanne, don't you remember that conversation we had three month ago?" James said while trying to get out of her astoundingly strong grip.
"What? Oh, you mean that long meaningful talk we had? That was so sweet!" Roxanne said dramatically.
'What was wrong with the girl?' James thought inside his head. How could she call our post break up yelling match sweet?
"Okay, if I wasn't clear enough before, WE'RE OVER...does that make any sense to you?" James cried.
"James aren't you in a mood, but that's okay! I'm sure you'll be over it by dinner. See ya!" Roxanne replied as she bounded off to her plastic robot friends.
"As your friend, I would like to recommend you to get rid of her...you know, as in break up with her." Sirius advised James, not at all sounding like his normal bubbly self.
"Sirius, where've you been? James dumped her like a week before 5th year ended, she's just still clinging on like glue." Remus told Sirius.
"Poor James, but I'd rather have a girl like that than what I have now...which is nothing," Peter commented lightly. But all this did not seem to improve James's mood.
"How in the world am I going to get rid of her?" James wondered out loud.
"We could always dump a truck load of bricks on her head so she'd forget everything," suggested Sirius, but of course, nobody took him seriously.
"Well I think you should act uninterested and aloof around her from now on and maybe she'll take the hint," Remus added in.
"NO WAY!" James yelled. "If I don't say anything she'll just keep talking to fill up the space and that's one thing I undeniably can't stand. Besides, she's like Sirius, so I doubt she'll take the hint, and I'd have to endure torture all this time."
"Humph! I sense the hostility around here!" Sirius said with the hurt face. "I'll just go somewhere that I'm wanted."
"Good luck finding a place like that..." Peter muttered, causing the other two to laugh.
"You know, I think he means he's off to flirt with his beater friend, what's-her-name," Remus commented lightly.
"Morgan Blakely," James immediately responded. Seeing their questioning looks, he added, "When you're as popular as I am, you would know every girl's name too. Besides, she smashed my brains in with her beater's club in 4th year when I called her an air head. I'm not likely to ever forget that...she's scarred me for life!" James wailed.
"Come on; let's get a compartment before everywhere else is full." Peter said sensibly while dragging them on the train.
"I'll meet you guys later, there's a 'brief' prefects meeting." Remus replied with doubt.
"Wait! I just have to do this one last thing..." James yelled as Peter began dragging him away. Turning his head in Sirius and Morgan's direction, he smiled to himself when he saw Sirius talking animatedly with Morgan, who wore horrified expression on her face as she continued to stare at his head. "Hey Padfoot! Did I forget to mention that you have a cockroach on your head?"
"He thinks he can get rid of me that easy, well he's wrong!" Roxanne Summers said bitterly to her friend, Chelsea, who was staring intently at her like she was Queen of the World, but then again, when you have no life, that's the kind of person you gradually turn into.
"Uh huh, you're right of course..." Chelsea agreed as Roxanne rambled on.
"Embarrassing me like that for the second time...and right in front of my friends too! Well he's so not going to get away with it this time..."
"Bye Mum and Dad!" Lily Evans, a medium height red-head hugged her parents and ran through the barrier. Due to her dad's fascination with all magic things, they were slowed down quite a bit when he insisted to examine her friend Ashleigh's talking magic trunk. Needless to say, Lily and Ashleigh barely got on the train in time.
"Sorry about that Ash." Lily said to her friend as they walked around trying to find their compartment.
"It's alright Lily. Besides, I didn't want to disappoint your dad. Sometimes he acts just like my little brother." Ashleigh replied, laughing.
"Well I've got a Prefect's meeting in...OH MY GOSH! NOW! See you in a few min. Ash!"
"Well that was sure interesting." Lily entered the compartment where her friends were sitting – Ashleigh Daniels; Elvira Anderson; and Morgan Blakely.
"So who are the Heads?" Lily's friend, Andie asked.
"Molly Prewitt and Arthur Weasley, they're so perfect together." Lily answered.
And so they chatted for a bit; catching up on each other's summers; and planned what they were going to do this year.
"Have any of you guys seen Roxanne?" Morgan asked. "I was going to look for her before Sirius Black started talking with lightning speed. Do you guys think he put a cockroach on his heads on purpose because he knew it would freak me out...?"
"Forget Roxanne. She's been acting real weird ever since she started dating Potter. I think we should just erase her forever." Ashleigh cut in. "And Black? Who knows what goes through that boy's head."
"I don't know...I mean Roxie and I used to be pretty good friends before all that Potter nonsense...maybe she'll come to her senses now that Potter's dumped her." Lily said doubtfully.
At this moment, the compartment door opened with a bang. Narcissa Black, her sister Bellatrix, and their new friend Roxanne entered.
Bellatrix, the ringleader of the three scrunched up her face with a look of disgust. "Blakely I expected to have better friends than dirty half-bloods like Daniels and Anderson. And the mudblood over there isn't even worth mentioning."
"Since when are my friends a vital matter to you, Black?" Morgan said angrily. "And you'll never be half the witch Lily is. You're just jealous."
"Right. Jealous." Narcissa said sharply before all three of them collapsed in laughter.
"Why don't you get lost now? Go jump in a dumpster; you'll feel at home there." Lily snarled even though none of them presumably even knew what a dumpster is, except for Roxanne maybe.
"You should watch yourself Evans. Not only because I'm definitely better than you, which is true, but because we know things about you and if you're not careful we might just let something slip; I'm sure the whole school would like to know things about you like a certain crush on your best enemy a few years ago." Narcissa certainly made everything clear, like usual.
"W-who told you about that," Lily said shakily, trying to control her temper.
"Why, our new friend of course. And I'm sure she wouldn't hesitate in telling us more." Now all three of them pasted on smirks, but Roxanne's wasn't first-rate, therefore making her face look very amusing.
"Now girls, we've got better places to be, so later losers." Narcissa said while the three of them returned to a laughing fit and left.
"Well that definitely cleared my mind of any doubts that a friendship with Roxanne could still exist." Lily said bitterly. In truth it did hurt a little, since she and Roxanne had been friends for almost 5 years. And she's never called her anything except for Roxie. "Girls I expect all of you to ignore her and totally not acknowledge the fact that she exists! A.k.a. never associate with her again."
"YES SIR! OF COURSE SIR!" they all chanted.
"Good. Betrayal deserves some payback I always say..." Lily mumbled on to herself.
"Oh, but hey Lily," Ashleigh said slyly. "How come you've never told any of us about your crush on...oh most likely POTTER?
"Oh...uh...about that..."
That caught almost everyone's attention and this was what fun meant to them as they teased Lily mercilessly. Just as they were about to torture her for details, Lily hastily changed the subject.
"Did you guys do that essay McCallahan assigned?"
"Oh Jesus!! I totally forgot about that!" Andie screeched.
"Me too!" Ashleigh agreed.
"Hey Lily, let us copy yours. Pleeeeeeeeeeease!" Morgan begged for them all.
"All right. On one condition. You guys stop talking about Potter alright? I DON'T like him anymore." Lily searched in her book bag. "Funny, I swore I stuck it right here next to my arithmancy book...and now it's gone!"
"Think Lily, think! We can't live without that essay!" Andie cried.
"Oh my God. You guys don't think it could've been Remus Lupin, do u? I mean, he was standing right next to me at the meeting..." Lily thought out loud. "I'm gonna go check."
"Hey Morgan!" Andie said right after Lily left the compartment. "I'll bet you 10 galleons she'll come back mad and ready to rip Potter's head off."
"Ooh I love bets! You're on!" (A/N: just in case anyone was confused; Andie is Elvira from her last name)
"Hey Remus, watcha got there?" James peered over Remus's shoulder, trying to see what his friend was crouching over.
"Remember that essay Professor McCallahan assigned us?" Remus murmured.
"Oh yeah that. I only did half of it...why do you have two?" Sirius replied. Catching the others funny look he continued. "Summer was so boring with my traumatized family I did some schoolwork."
"Wow. Sirius. Work. Sirius. Work. Somehow those two just don't belong in the same sentence together," Peter said merrily. "I finished mine already, although I don't think I'll get a very high mark"
"I completed it too...I'm just adding finishing touches to it with the help of Evan's paper. Nicked it from her at the Prefect's meeting..." Remus mumbled as he continued his work.
"I'm shocked at all of your behavior! I didn't do it at all." James announced proudly. "However, since I do not want to be kicked out of advanced DADA now's a good time to do it I guess. Gimme that!" James finished as he lunged at Remus.
"Come on! I need it more!"
So begins the tugging and pulling. And of course, one measly sheet of parchment can't handle all that pressure, so it was torn to pieces. And what's the best time for Lily to enter the compartment except now?
The compartment door was thrown open, and in it stood Lily Evans staring at her perfect paper torn up in James's hands, jaws scrapping the floor, also known as girl who's about to kill someone.
Both James and Remus opened their mouths to speak—
A/N:
I wasn't being very clear on character descriptions in the story, so I'm going to make up for that here. I'm not going to go too descriptive since everybody has their own version of these characters and I don't want to mess it up.
James Potter: black hair, brown eyes, tall, glasses, Chaser; wants to be auror
Sirius Black: black hair, blue eyes, tall, Beater; wants to play professional quidditch
Remus Lupin: light brown hair, turquoise eyes, tall Wants to be a scientist/biologist/etc.
Peter Pettigrew (did I spell his name right?): dirty blonde hair, light blue eyes, short Wants to work in the ministry
Roxanne Summers: platinum blonde with white blonde highlights, brown eyes, medium height Queen of Prep, wants to be a millionaire
Lily Evans: red hair, green eyes, medium height Wants to be an auror
Ashleigh Daniels: shoulder length straight black hair, blue eyes, tall Wants to be an actress
Elvira Anderson: strawberry blonde, dark blue eyes, short Wants to be a reporter
Morgan Blakely: thin dark brown hair (almost always tied into ponytail...), honey eyes, short Beater, wants to be in ministry If any1 has any questions about the characters just review!!