Chapter 5: Confrontation
A/n: Thank you for reading court, hope this satisfies ur craving for more. :P Disclaimer: you know I don't own ne of this, it is j.k. rowlings characters.
Sesha saw this and walked over. She knew that he was going to interrupt something, she just didn't know what.
"How are you two?" Came that cold voice of Snape.
James had seen him coming, but wasn't sure what to do. He didn't want to ruin the mood, but it was too late. Lily had turned around the same moment that Sesha had arrived.
"Why hello Snape. How may we help you?" Lily asked, polite as can be.
"Fine thank you. I needed to talk to you about something." He replied, his eyes not leaving James.
"I'm in the middle of something, can it wait?" Lily said in the same tone of voice as before.
"No, I'm afraid it can't."
James made a move towards Snape, but at that moment Remus grabbed his robes and Sirius and Riley arrived.
Snape looked around nervously. He hadn't expected everyone to show up. But he wasn't going to leave and give them the satisfaction of knowing he was scared. He continued with the reasoning he had come over.
"Lily, this will only take a few moments, please." Snape tried to keep his cool, but it took all his strength.
"I'm sure you can say it in front of my friends." Lily replied.
"Lily, under any other circumstances I would. But this is private."
Remus was too late. James had Snape's robes clenched in his fist. He started dragging him off, but Lily stopped him.
"James, no. I will go with him." She said.
"No you won't. Not while I'm here." James said through clenched teeth.
"I will talk with you later Lily." Snape glanced at the people around her. "When no one can stop me." He added.
This was the last straw for Sirius. He wasn't going to wait a couple more months to put his plan into action. He would do it as soon as possible. He would just have to check the calendar. It would be easy, not to have James or Remus find out. He could do it while doing his Divination homework.
It was a good thing the Marauder's decided to do that homework tonight, or Sirius would have to wait another month. This didn't give him much time to plan. He would have to start working out all the kinks in a few minutes. He thought of a way to sneak off.
After many different ideas he finally came up with one.
"Hey you guys. I need to go see Riley. I'll meet up with you all later. O.k." Sirius told them.
The other three marauders's told Sirius they would see him later and Sirius went directly to the owlery. He started writing.
[I] James,
Would you like to walk with me around the grounds tomorrow? If so meet me in the entrance hall after dinner.
Lily [/I]
Then Sirius wrote another one
[I] Lily,
Meet me at the entrance hall after dinner tomorrow after dinner. We need to talk.
James. [/I]
Sirius sent them off with Lily and James owls to help with the illusion that each of them wrote the letter.
Knowing the other three marauder's would want to know what he and Riley talked about, Sirius went to find her. After about five minutes of wandering the halls, Sirius heard crying.
Not knowing who was crying or exactly where it was coming from, he wandered about blindly, trying to follow the sound. It led him to an empty classroom in the dungeons. In the corner he found the person crying. It was Lily.
Sirius rushed over to her. She didn't look up. Sirius couldn't believe it. Why would Lily be in such distress? He pulled the limp, crying, Lily toward him.
Lily only glanced at him, before looking down. Sirius looked at here, not sure what to say. Then he saw it. On here face and arms. Red marks. The ones on her arms had the distinct shape of fingers. He could see them turning into bruised.
What Sirius did was amazing. First he lifted Lily into his arms and took her to the Gryffindor Common Room. Not many people were still awake, but luckily the three marauders were. James walked over and took Lily from Sirius. After seeing what Sirius saw, the two made a silent agreement.
They took Lily to the hospital wing, Remus and Peter close behind. The asked Madam Promfey to look after her, and they'd explain later, and left.
They had a hunch that the suspect was not in his common room. They were right. They saw him limping towards the potions classroom.
Remus had caught up to them by now, and knew what they had figured out. He wasn't sure what they were going to do, but knew he would more than likely, need to stop them from doing half the things they had in mind.
When the three got in the dungeons, they closed the door. The other person was startled, and turned around. In doing so, his hurt leg gave out and he fell to the ground.
"Severus Snape. How are you?" James asked. He had an evil look in his eyes.
"Yes, Severus. We are very interested in how your doing." Sirius added.
"And I'm thinking that I just shouldn't do anything to stop them." Remus put it.
"Don't know what you're talking about." Snape stuttered, standing up.
"Oh, I think you do. I also think you should talk while you still can." James said, stepping forward.
"Now, stay calm. I have done nothing. I am innocent until proven gui...I mean, I didn't do anything!" Snape could tell he wasn't going to smart his way out of this one.
"Trying to smart your way out? That won't work. You have no smarts. Otherwise, you would have known not to ever go near Lily." Sirius said, also stepping forward.
"Now, see hear. She started it, and you could have prevented it, lover boy." Snape seemed to be gaining confidence, but was soon struck down.
"Her start it? How could she have started it? The last time I checked, she was on her way to take a bath in the prefect's bathroom." Sirius stated. When he looked over at James, he could see James regretting something. Then Sirius remembered. Snape had said he would talk to Lily when they weren't around. He had fulfilled his threat, and James knew what he had done.
It all happened in a flash. James had his wand out. He put ropes around Remus, so he couldn't stop him, then Snape was blasted up against the wall. Snape started bleeding from just above his eyes.
Even though Sirius was mad, he couldn't let James get expelled from Hogwarts. He untied Remus, and both of them bound and gagged James. They went back to talking with Snape.
"Alright Snape spill. Or I'll untie him. You don't want me to untie him do you?" Sirius asked.
"All right, all right, I'll tell. Just sit back and relax, it might take a while." Snape said.
"We ain't relaxin'. Now start talking." Remus said. And Snape started his story, which was relatively short.
"Well, all I wanted was to talk to her. For her to understand me. Then Hot Shot over there entered the picture. I saw them talking, and figured I had to do something. The only thing that made sense was to try to win her over. When I saw her walking the halls tonight, I saw my opportunity. But no, she had to struggle. I tried to contain her, but she kept fighting back. Luckily she didn't scream though. Finally she got too rough though. I couldn't do anything. So, I left her there. But don't expect anything out of her. I don't think she's going to tell you what happened." Snape finished.
"Thank you. Be sure to watch your back, and we will meet again. Good night."
The next morning at breakfast it was very awkward. Even though no one at the school knew what had happened to Lily, they couldn't help noticing that she didn't look like herself. The people nearer to her could even see the bruises, and finger marks. About five minutes into their eating, the owls came in. Lily and James both received their letters.
Sirius felt bad about this, he knew that the mood wasn't right anymore, but that he did need to carry on with his plan. He hoped it still worked.
The two finished reading their letters, looked at each other, and smiled. So far so good, Sirius thought.
Soon after that Professor Dumbledore came to talk to Lily. He asked her to come with him to his office. Snape watched her leave the room, and knew she would tell. He couldn't believe he had done that. He tried to remember what he had been thinking. Then he remembered:
I saw James talking to Lily, I knew he was going to ask her to go "steady". I couldn't cope with that. I knew that Lily would never love me, but that didn't mean I couldn't try. When I asked her to speak with me, James Potter got in the way. I couldn't stand it anymore. I wanted to get revenge on James; he was going to be my target. But I met Lily first. I thought for a moment, and then decided James would blame himself if she got hurt. I didn't mean to get that violent though, I only meant to get my point across, but she was making me so mad. The things she said.
Now I'm done for. I'm going to get expelled, what should I do, should I follow them, and turn myself in, before Lily says anything. Maybe Dumbledore will go easier on me.
(Back w/ Lily and Dumbledore)
They reached the office, and Professor Dumbledore asked Lily to sit down. She did so.
"Lily, I see you got hurt, do you want to tell me how this happened?" His caring eyes bore into Lily, like she could never remember happening before.
"Not really, but I suppose I should." Lily stuttered.
"I can not force you to do so, but I would think it would be in your best interest, so as we could set up a protection for you." Professor Dumbledore said.
"I know it would be safer. But I don't think he will do it again. You should have seen his eyes when he left. It was like he didn't know what had gotten into him. He looked confused." Lily said.
"I'm sure they would, but you must understand, I can not allow this to slide."
"O.k. I will tell, but please don't expel him, I know he's sorry." Lily pleaded.
"O.k. I will not expel anyone, now will you tell me."
"Severus Snape" She whispered.
"Sorry, didn't catch that, who?"
"Severus Snape" Lily said a little louder.
"Still didn't quite catch that, one more time."
"Severus Snape" Lily said it plenty loud that time.
"O.k. Thank you. Now I believe your friend James is outside my office waiting to take you to class."
"Thank you, good bye."
"Good Day"
A/n: Thank you for reading court, hope this satisfies ur craving for more. :P Disclaimer: you know I don't own ne of this, it is j.k. rowlings characters.
Sesha saw this and walked over. She knew that he was going to interrupt something, she just didn't know what.
"How are you two?" Came that cold voice of Snape.
James had seen him coming, but wasn't sure what to do. He didn't want to ruin the mood, but it was too late. Lily had turned around the same moment that Sesha had arrived.
"Why hello Snape. How may we help you?" Lily asked, polite as can be.
"Fine thank you. I needed to talk to you about something." He replied, his eyes not leaving James.
"I'm in the middle of something, can it wait?" Lily said in the same tone of voice as before.
"No, I'm afraid it can't."
James made a move towards Snape, but at that moment Remus grabbed his robes and Sirius and Riley arrived.
Snape looked around nervously. He hadn't expected everyone to show up. But he wasn't going to leave and give them the satisfaction of knowing he was scared. He continued with the reasoning he had come over.
"Lily, this will only take a few moments, please." Snape tried to keep his cool, but it took all his strength.
"I'm sure you can say it in front of my friends." Lily replied.
"Lily, under any other circumstances I would. But this is private."
Remus was too late. James had Snape's robes clenched in his fist. He started dragging him off, but Lily stopped him.
"James, no. I will go with him." She said.
"No you won't. Not while I'm here." James said through clenched teeth.
"I will talk with you later Lily." Snape glanced at the people around her. "When no one can stop me." He added.
This was the last straw for Sirius. He wasn't going to wait a couple more months to put his plan into action. He would do it as soon as possible. He would just have to check the calendar. It would be easy, not to have James or Remus find out. He could do it while doing his Divination homework.
It was a good thing the Marauder's decided to do that homework tonight, or Sirius would have to wait another month. This didn't give him much time to plan. He would have to start working out all the kinks in a few minutes. He thought of a way to sneak off.
After many different ideas he finally came up with one.
"Hey you guys. I need to go see Riley. I'll meet up with you all later. O.k." Sirius told them.
The other three marauders's told Sirius they would see him later and Sirius went directly to the owlery. He started writing.
[I] James,
Would you like to walk with me around the grounds tomorrow? If so meet me in the entrance hall after dinner.
Lily [/I]
Then Sirius wrote another one
[I] Lily,
Meet me at the entrance hall after dinner tomorrow after dinner. We need to talk.
James. [/I]
Sirius sent them off with Lily and James owls to help with the illusion that each of them wrote the letter.
Knowing the other three marauder's would want to know what he and Riley talked about, Sirius went to find her. After about five minutes of wandering the halls, Sirius heard crying.
Not knowing who was crying or exactly where it was coming from, he wandered about blindly, trying to follow the sound. It led him to an empty classroom in the dungeons. In the corner he found the person crying. It was Lily.
Sirius rushed over to her. She didn't look up. Sirius couldn't believe it. Why would Lily be in such distress? He pulled the limp, crying, Lily toward him.
Lily only glanced at him, before looking down. Sirius looked at here, not sure what to say. Then he saw it. On here face and arms. Red marks. The ones on her arms had the distinct shape of fingers. He could see them turning into bruised.
What Sirius did was amazing. First he lifted Lily into his arms and took her to the Gryffindor Common Room. Not many people were still awake, but luckily the three marauders were. James walked over and took Lily from Sirius. After seeing what Sirius saw, the two made a silent agreement.
They took Lily to the hospital wing, Remus and Peter close behind. The asked Madam Promfey to look after her, and they'd explain later, and left.
They had a hunch that the suspect was not in his common room. They were right. They saw him limping towards the potions classroom.
Remus had caught up to them by now, and knew what they had figured out. He wasn't sure what they were going to do, but knew he would more than likely, need to stop them from doing half the things they had in mind.
When the three got in the dungeons, they closed the door. The other person was startled, and turned around. In doing so, his hurt leg gave out and he fell to the ground.
"Severus Snape. How are you?" James asked. He had an evil look in his eyes.
"Yes, Severus. We are very interested in how your doing." Sirius added.
"And I'm thinking that I just shouldn't do anything to stop them." Remus put it.
"Don't know what you're talking about." Snape stuttered, standing up.
"Oh, I think you do. I also think you should talk while you still can." James said, stepping forward.
"Now, stay calm. I have done nothing. I am innocent until proven gui...I mean, I didn't do anything!" Snape could tell he wasn't going to smart his way out of this one.
"Trying to smart your way out? That won't work. You have no smarts. Otherwise, you would have known not to ever go near Lily." Sirius said, also stepping forward.
"Now, see hear. She started it, and you could have prevented it, lover boy." Snape seemed to be gaining confidence, but was soon struck down.
"Her start it? How could she have started it? The last time I checked, she was on her way to take a bath in the prefect's bathroom." Sirius stated. When he looked over at James, he could see James regretting something. Then Sirius remembered. Snape had said he would talk to Lily when they weren't around. He had fulfilled his threat, and James knew what he had done.
It all happened in a flash. James had his wand out. He put ropes around Remus, so he couldn't stop him, then Snape was blasted up against the wall. Snape started bleeding from just above his eyes.
Even though Sirius was mad, he couldn't let James get expelled from Hogwarts. He untied Remus, and both of them bound and gagged James. They went back to talking with Snape.
"Alright Snape spill. Or I'll untie him. You don't want me to untie him do you?" Sirius asked.
"All right, all right, I'll tell. Just sit back and relax, it might take a while." Snape said.
"We ain't relaxin'. Now start talking." Remus said. And Snape started his story, which was relatively short.
"Well, all I wanted was to talk to her. For her to understand me. Then Hot Shot over there entered the picture. I saw them talking, and figured I had to do something. The only thing that made sense was to try to win her over. When I saw her walking the halls tonight, I saw my opportunity. But no, she had to struggle. I tried to contain her, but she kept fighting back. Luckily she didn't scream though. Finally she got too rough though. I couldn't do anything. So, I left her there. But don't expect anything out of her. I don't think she's going to tell you what happened." Snape finished.
"Thank you. Be sure to watch your back, and we will meet again. Good night."
The next morning at breakfast it was very awkward. Even though no one at the school knew what had happened to Lily, they couldn't help noticing that she didn't look like herself. The people nearer to her could even see the bruises, and finger marks. About five minutes into their eating, the owls came in. Lily and James both received their letters.
Sirius felt bad about this, he knew that the mood wasn't right anymore, but that he did need to carry on with his plan. He hoped it still worked.
The two finished reading their letters, looked at each other, and smiled. So far so good, Sirius thought.
Soon after that Professor Dumbledore came to talk to Lily. He asked her to come with him to his office. Snape watched her leave the room, and knew she would tell. He couldn't believe he had done that. He tried to remember what he had been thinking. Then he remembered:
I saw James talking to Lily, I knew he was going to ask her to go "steady". I couldn't cope with that. I knew that Lily would never love me, but that didn't mean I couldn't try. When I asked her to speak with me, James Potter got in the way. I couldn't stand it anymore. I wanted to get revenge on James; he was going to be my target. But I met Lily first. I thought for a moment, and then decided James would blame himself if she got hurt. I didn't mean to get that violent though, I only meant to get my point across, but she was making me so mad. The things she said.
Now I'm done for. I'm going to get expelled, what should I do, should I follow them, and turn myself in, before Lily says anything. Maybe Dumbledore will go easier on me.
(Back w/ Lily and Dumbledore)
They reached the office, and Professor Dumbledore asked Lily to sit down. She did so.
"Lily, I see you got hurt, do you want to tell me how this happened?" His caring eyes bore into Lily, like she could never remember happening before.
"Not really, but I suppose I should." Lily stuttered.
"I can not force you to do so, but I would think it would be in your best interest, so as we could set up a protection for you." Professor Dumbledore said.
"I know it would be safer. But I don't think he will do it again. You should have seen his eyes when he left. It was like he didn't know what had gotten into him. He looked confused." Lily said.
"I'm sure they would, but you must understand, I can not allow this to slide."
"O.k. I will tell, but please don't expel him, I know he's sorry." Lily pleaded.
"O.k. I will not expel anyone, now will you tell me."
"Severus Snape" She whispered.
"Sorry, didn't catch that, who?"
"Severus Snape" Lily said a little louder.
"Still didn't quite catch that, one more time."
"Severus Snape" Lily said it plenty loud that time.
"O.k. Thank you. Now I believe your friend James is outside my office waiting to take you to class."
"Thank you, good bye."
"Good Day"