Author's Note: Okay, here is the next chapter; it will make you all hate me, but yeah. Oh, and I have an announcement; School starts on September 2nd and so I will be concentrating on that and will try to update when I can.

Disclaimer: This chapter contains an excerpt from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, though altered it is not my writing, it is J.K. Rowling's, so please do not sue me! You guys are going to hate me, I know it. But I hope at least the writing that is mine, is enjoyable. So here are the thank yous:

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Chapter Thirty-One: Harsh Memories

James, Remus and Lily sat at the table in a slightly uncomfortable silence. James was jealous of Remus for simply just getting close to Lily and for the fact that she had remembered something about Remus but not him. Remus recognized the fact that James wasn't too happy with him as the moment and he imagined, quite correctly, that it was something to do with Lily. But Lily on the other hand only sensed the tension between the two friends and wondered what had happened in the night to cause the tension.

"Is something wrong James?" Lily asked quietly and reached out to touch his hand but he pulled it out of her reach quickly.

"Nothing is wrong Lily. I have to go into the office, I think Leslie will be here soon," James said and stood up quickly, taking his robes from the back of the chair and putting them on so as to keep Lily from reaching out to him again.

"Don't lie to me James, we've been through this already," Lily said standing up and eyeing James angrily.

"I should go," Remus said quietly and stood trying to leave them to the row they were about to have.

"No, you stay. I'm leaving and then you can do whatever the hell you would like to," James said and started for the door.

"Don't you dare set foot out of this kitchen until we've gotten this straightened out James Harold Potter!" Lily said grabbing his wrist tightly.

James didn't even register the use of his full name but said, "I have to go to work. We can discuss this at a later time Lily," his voice was hard and cold as were his eyes which didn't look so much like chocolate anymore but two rocks, depthless and angry.

"Not later, now Potter. I don't know what you've got stuck up your ass but you need to remove it because you're acting like a stupid git," Lily said angrily, her eyes glinting in the light.

"Why does it matter how I act, you obviously would rather spend time with the werewolf," James said and pried Lily's hand from his wrist and flung it away so that Lily stumbled and Remus caught her looking absolutely shocked at what James had said. "See," James said and on that note apparated from the house.

When James had disappeared and Lily was back on her feet, Remus led her to a chair where she sat with a plop. "Why would James say something that horrible?" she asked looking up at Remus with tear-filled green eyes that nearly broke Remus' heart to look into.

"I don't really know what caused it but I'd say the reason behind it is jealousy," Remus muttered and sat down across the table from Lily.

"Jealousy? What would James have to be jealous of?" Lily asked incredulously and stared at Remus with uncertainty.

"Me, or rather the fact that I was there for your nightmare and that you remembered some thing about me before you remembered something about him," Remus said quietly and ran a hand through his hair tiredly.

"But you and I are just friends!" Lily protested. "I mean you're a wonderful person Remus and you're adorable, but." she trailed off looking helplessly at Remus.

"But you like James," Remus said with a smile. "I noticed it the moment I saw you interact with him," he said and Lily blushed instantly.

"Really?" Lily asked still blushing as she meekly pulled some of her hair behind her ear.

"Yes and there was something in the air that I noticed which told me so," Remus said and for one reason or another blushed as well.

"What?" Lily asked curiously wondering what could make Remus blush.

"Well, it was just after the full moon when I met you and my sense of smell is always very strong," Remus said sheepishly, "and the pheromones you were giving off were rather strong, which is why I flirted with you before James claimed his territory," he said rather bluntly even though he was blushing furiously and looking down at his hands.

"James has no claim to me Remus, even if I do like him, he's done nothing about it because of my age; I'm not even sure I'd want to be involved with him if he's going to act like a jerk," Lily said and felt her eyes close and pictures form as if the back of her eyelids were a picture screen.

Lily was sitting out by the lake with her friends from her year by the names of Catherine and Reni, and they were watching the giant squid swim languidly at the surface of the lake. Catherine's voice rang in Lily's ears saying, "There's that idiot Potter again, showing off as usual with that stupid snitch."

Lily's attention was drawn to the group of boy's under the beech tree, one of whom was catching and releasing a Golden Snitch and ruffling his hair to make it look as if he'd just stepped off a broomstick. Most of the conversation was fuzzy and inaudible except for Catherine saying, "I do wish they would leave Severus alone before I have to walk over and punch Sirius in the face. See how he likes it for a change."

"Potter makes me sick," Lily's own voice rang in her ears and she tried to get back to the conversation that they were having before Catherine had brought up James Potter but a noise from behind them caught her attention. James had just disarmed Snape who was now trying to get his wand and Sirius was shouting the Impediment Curse at Snape. "I can't take this, I'm going to stop them," Lily said and ran up to where James and Sirius were attracting a crowd of amused watchers. James had just used a Scouring Charm on Snape and he was spitting and coughing up pink soap bubbles. "Leave him ALONE!" Lily's own voice ran in her ears and James reached up to muss his hair again, the sight brought something resembling disgust to Lily.

"All right, Evans?" James said in a voice different from the one he used to taunt and hex his 'victims'.

"Leave him alone," Lily repeated, she was scowling and she was angry. Sick and tired of James and Sirius torturing other students. "What's he done to you?" she asked still scowling.

"Well," James said and he appeared to be thinking about the point, "it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean," and many people around laughed, Lily felt sicker to her stomach then she had before.

"You think you're funny," Lily said coldly. "But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag Potter. Leave him alone."

"I will if you go out with me, Evans," James said, "Go on, go out with me, and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again."

Lily was utterly repulsed; James Potter wanted to go out with her, disgusting. "I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid," she said and scowled some more. She just wanted Potter to leave Snape alone, was that so hard to do?

"Bad luck Prongs," Sirius said quickly and turned back to Snape who was just getting his wand in his hand. "OY!" Sirius said to get James' attention.

Snape pointed his wand at James and there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on James' face, blood spattering on to his robes. James whirled and there was another flash of light and Snape was hanging upside down revealing skinny colorless legs and a pair of graying underpants. People in the crowd cheered and James, Sirius and Peter roared with laughter.

Lily was sadly amused by the fact that Snape's underpants were clearly in need of a good wash, but she wasn't about to show it, "Let him down!" she said and tried not to laugh at the spectacle.

"Certainly," James said and dropped Snape into a crumpled heap who quickly disentangled himself, got to his feet with his wand up but Sirius shouted the Leg-Locker Curse and Snape fell over again.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lily shouted her own wand out and James and Sirius eyed her warily.

"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you," James said gravely.

"Take the curse off him then!" Lily said, if James wanted a fight, she'd give him a fight. She wasn't scared of the arrogant jerk.

James sighed and muttered the counter-curse and said, "There you go," and Snape struggled to his feet again. "You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus,"

Snape however didn't seem to think this was a good thing and said, "I don't need help from filthy little mudbloods like her!"

Lily blinked, "Fine," she said coolly, she wasn't about to let Snape get away with calling her a mudblood just because she was muggleborn. "I won't bother in future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus." She wasn't going to let the cruel words hurt her but concentrate on her anger with Potter. James' next words brought her out of her thoughts.

"Apologize to Evans!" James shouted at Snape and pointed his wand at him threateningly.

"I don't want you to make him apologize," Lily shouted and turned to James, "You're as bad as he is-,"

"What? I'd NEVER call you a - you-know-what!" James yelped and looked horrified at the thought.

"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 corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can.-I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on in. You make me SICK!" Lily said and then turned on her heel and walked away as James called after her.

Everything was black and Remus was shaking her and looking scared as Lily's eyes popped open. "Oh thank Merlin! I thought you'd relapsed again," Remus said and helped Lily get to her feet.

"No, not a relapse, a memory," Lily replied and dusted off her jeans as she had apparently fallen to the kitchen floor.

Remus looked shocked and asked, "What did you remember?"

"You're a bookworm and James was an arrogant prat always, ruffling his hair and carrying around that stupid snitch," Lily said and rolled her eyes in a disgusted manner. Remus' eyes widened as Lily went on. "He was being absolutely horrid to Snape with Sirius' help and you, you just sat there pretending to read while Peter looked on in admiration of the sick show!" she exclaimed and looked at Remus with disappointment. "You were a prefect, why didn't you stop it?" she asked indignantly.

Remus' memories on the other hand were somewhat different then what Lily 'remembered' as she hadn't been at Hogwarts, someone else had stepped in. A young Slytherin girl by the name of Catherine Mcgeogehegan had intervened and it had turned rather nasty getting James, Sirius, Snape and Catherine detentions for the rest of the week. "But you weren't there Lily, not really," Remus said meekly but it only fueled Lily's rage.

"But it still happened didn't it? It did! I know it! But who intruded on James and Sirius' fun? I don't imagine that it was Arabella, so who was it?" Lily asked furiously; and footsteps cold be heard in the distance.

"Catherine Mcgeogehegan," Remus whispered and looked downtrodden and frustrated with himself.

"Figures," Lily said with an unexplainable smirk and she headed up the back stairs to her room just as Arabella and Sirius walked into the kitchen looking confused.

"What on earth is going on here?" Arabella asked hearing Lily's door slam shut above them. Sirius raised his eyebrows at Remus questioningly.

Remus sighed and ran his hands through his hair before saying, "It's a long story."

"Well then you'd better start explaining," Arabella said and made Remus sit down with just a scowl.

A/N: Hey guys, *hides inside concrete bunker* Please don't hate me! I had to do it! I didn't just want them getting together so quickly, they have to have problems or it's not what I believe. By the way Catherine Mcgeogehegan is a person in an RPG I'm in, so is Reni, but it's not a self insertion, so please don't kill me. I hope you all liked it, I'll update soon as possible. Love you guys! ~Frankie~