Authors Note- Hey! Sorry I havent gotten a chapter up in a few days, we had some computer problems. I'm leaving for a week on Sunday, so this is the last chapter untill atleat next sunday.! Sorry for the delay, but a girl has got to get away sometimes. Besides it will give me lots of time to think of yummy ideas! This chapter is ok, not my favorite. It is longer than 2 though! I'm really sorry if I have a few typos, like switching dose and does, I do that all the time! Please leave me review! A nice long one, telling me all the things I should change, and all the things to keep. And now, I give you Marauder Records, Lionfish, and Snogging.
Disclaimer-I own nothing, J.K owns the rest
Fate
Chapter Three
Marauder Records, Lionfish, and Snogging
It was breakfast time little over a week later, and all was simply splendid according to James Potter. He had been living with the woman he loved for seven days and thirteen hours, by his reckoning and it was better than even he had ever anticipated. They had only bickered three times, most likely a new record, or near to it. 'Definitely must go in the marauders book of marauder records' he thought as he happily munched his scrambled eggs that Monday morning.
Lily's opinion of things was somewhat different. She missed living with her friends, and Potter was driving her insane, not so much as usual, but insane none the less. Fact as it was, he was starting to grow on her. His jokes weren't to terribly awful, and he was half decent half of the time. ' Does that make him a quarter decent all the time?' she thought as she ate her toast not to far down the Gryffindor table from him. 'What am I thinking? He is Potter. Potter equals not Decent'
"Can I walk you to class?" someone said, drawing Lily from her thoughts. When what he said registered, she inwardly laughed. He had asked her that everyday since second year, and not once before had she said yes.
"Yes, I think you can Potter." came out with a smile. 'Perfectly harmless, we are just walking to class' Lily thought, as if she had to explain herself to herself. 'I'll just have to make the best of it. Could be fun you never know.'
At first James didn't budge, then he seemed to come to life, bound to her side and pick up her books off the table. 'play it cool prongs' he lamely thought to himself. Lily inwardly laughed once more and headed for Potions.
Looks of loathing were shot at each Lily and James as they made their way through the great hall. Looks of envy from many a girl and boy, and looks of complete shock by their friends. Kate, Sirius and Remus gaped at the head boy and girl, Peter nearly wet himself with excitement for his friend.
"I'm surprised he hasn't started to hyperventilate yet!" Remus said before going back to his breakfast.
"He must have drugged her again." Sirius said, as though it was completely normal.
"WHAT?" Kate shrieked.
"It's a long story." Sirius voiced with a small nod.
"Well, I think you had better start telling it." she said with a nod identical to his.
"Just a little love potion in third year, didn't even work." Sirius said with a shrug.
"But love potion is illegal at Hogwarts!" she said a huge smile on her face, illegal, that made it all the more interesting.
"Not when you are a marauder." he replied smoothly. "Can I walk you to class?" He questioned.
And for the second time that day, looks of the deepest envy were shot across the hall at a couple, as Sirius and Kate walked out hand in hand.
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"So what's it like to be the Minister's son?" Lily asked as she walked down the hall next the boy she was beginning not to hate so much.
"Good I guess." he replied with a shrug. "I get badgered by reporters a lot. That Rita that graduated a couple of years ago, she has cornered me in Diagon alley so many times..." he said with a small chuckle. "What's it like to be the daughter of a, er, sorry I don't know what your father does." he said, embarrassed.
"Oh that's alright." she replied, startled at how civil she was being. It had always been her first reaction to snap it him, or say something snide. But in the last week she had surprised herself, they were becoming friends. "He works for the BBC."
"BBC?" James asked
"A television network." she replied, question in her voice.
"Tele-vis-ion?"
"A box that displays pictures Potter." she said after thinking how to best explain it. "Muggles watch programs on it, sport matches and what not."
"Oh" James said, he hated sounding stupid in front of her. "Has it got quiddich?" he asked excitedly. Everything should have quiddich in his opinion.
"Nope." she said with a laugh. Lily almost told him that muggles didn't know about quiddich, but she didn't want to break his heart.
"Everything should have quiddich." The moment James said it, he regretted it. He hated sounding stupid in front of her.
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"So what's with you and Sirius?" Lily asked Kate nearly thirty minutes later as they worked in potions class. They had partnered up when Professor Jauntis had called for it, much to the dismay of Padfoot and Prongs.
"Nothing much. We have just been hanging out a lot." Kate replied
"Making out alot." Lily added sarcastically as she crushed her particularly hard lionfish spine.
"That too." She said with grin. "What about you and James?" she quickly asked before Lily could inquire about all the kissing.
"We are speaking, and I am being quite nice to him for a change"
"He walked you to class Lils, I heard you laugh at one of his jokes Friday, and your bloody smiling at me while I'm talking about him!" she said "Lily likes Potter!" Kate said, making fun of her best friend.
"I don't like him, like him, we are just getting along for a change." Lily said in her own defense.
"Yea, whatever."
Across the classroom Sirius and James sat working on their potion and talking about the opposite sex as well.
"So you shag Kate yet?"
"You get Lily to call you by your first name?" Sirius countered earning him a shove and a blush from James. "No."
"Well stick with whatever you are doing, it seems to be working. I mean she really seems to be warming up to you." Sirius said.
"Yea, I thought so too. She has been being really pleasant to me since we got back here."
"Well congratulations. And no I haven't shagged Kate yet." Padfoot declared.
"Shut it Black." came a cold voice from behind him "No one wants to hear about you having sex, much less with a mudblood."
Before anything else could be said Sirius had jumped over the desk between himself and Serves Snape, and tackled him to the ground, James not to far behind.
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Two hours later, the crap sufficiently pounded out of Snape, and themselves, James and Sirius sat in the hospital wing, not so silently wishing that Madam Pomfrey would go against her character, and better judgement, and let them leave.
"Poppy dear," Sirius said to her as she walked by, "Is that a new hairstyle? Because you look absolutely ravishing today!"
"This may be the only place you cannot charm your way out of Mr. Black. But I am glad you noticed." the older woman said, fluffing the back of her hair. "You to have visitors. I would only allow five minutes, but that lovely Thomas girl! They may stay for ten minutes."
"Maybe I am speaking to him, but that does not mean I need to visit him!" Lily hissed to Kate as she was drug over to the boy's beds that were placed well away from the one an unconscious Severus lay in.
"They were beat to a pulp by a gang of Slytherins for me! And you will visit him." Kate said, then rushed over to Sirius and sat on the edge of his bed.
Just as she should, Lily walked over to James' bed, feeling like a scolded child.. Not knowing what to say or do, "Chess?" she lamely offered.
"Sure!" he said. The prospect of doing anything with her was great. They played for a solid ten minutes without talking, until Lily made a sound of disgust.
"What?" James asked, never looking up from the board. He was determined to let her win, but not to let her to know he was doing it.
"My dearest friend is being easy, in the next bed over." she said with a nod in the direction of the making out Sirius and Kate.
"Easy?" James asked "Evens, you should take a page out of her book. You are making this bloody hard for me."
Before Lily could ask what she was making dificult, the bell sounded ending lunch. The two girls left, Kate very flushed and giggily. James lay back in his bed, thinking about the whole easy concept. 'Takes all the sport out of it' he thought, to borrow a phrase from Lily.
"Oh Poppy, and that dress..." Sirius started in, eager to leave once more now that his 'snog buddy' was gone.
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Out in the hall Lily told Kate what James had just said, then asked "I don't get it. What am I making hard for him?"
Kate smiled coyly at this question then replied "I know what you are making hard for him!"
"Pervert!" Lily shot at her best friend before the both burst into fits of laughter
-How was it? Personaly I thought the 'hard' thing was quite funny!Ok you know the drill, leave a review! And even if you don't want to, at least leave a blank one so I know if people are reading! And they will get together in the next chapter! Hopefully.
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