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A/N: Well, thanks to the three people who reviewed the last chapter. I hope you guys like this chapter!
A/N 2: Here it is, chapter four, re-visited…
"Would you like for me to again explain why I don't nor will I ever be in love with you?" Lily asked, wincing at the cruelty of the words she had just said. She was never this mean… To anyone. In all truth, she did love James. She loved him a lot. She just couldn't be with someone so immature. Just goes to show you what hours in the same room as James Potter did to her. It made her downright spiteful.
"Do we really have to go through this again?" James asked. He was annoyed with the way she treated him. She was nice to everyone else except for him. She had hope for everyone else except for him. He wouldn't even bother with her except for the small fact that he couldn't seem to not love her. Her green eyes. Her red hair. The way the dimples on her cheeks showed when she was happy. The way--
"Earth to Potter! You've been sitting there staring at me for like five bloody minutes," Lily said, snapping James out of his reverie. She knew that all James ever did was stare at her, but did he really have to do it when the two of them were alone together.
"You know what, Lily?" James asked without giving her time to answer as he sat down on the floor and pulled a book out of his book bag. He didn't feel like putting up with her attitude anymore. "I don't know why I bother and right now I just don't feel like it. I'm doing my homework." Maybe that would make her quit being mean!
"Fine by me!" Lily snapped, pulling a library book out of her own book bag and curling up in her chair. She didn't need to talk to him! If he was doing homework, better yet! Then he couldn't stare at her all the time! Even James Potter with his glaring at two people at once skills would never manage to stare at her and do his homework at the same time.
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"Where do you think they went?" Ava asked when she, Sirius, and Remus were walking down the hall after Potions. Lily and James had never come back to class. A small part of Ava was worried that they had finished each other off on the way to McGonagall's office. Lily was definitely mad enough to kill him.
"I don't know," Remus said with a furrowed brow. He wouldn't really know—atleast not as well as James and Sirius—but from his detention memories, detentions were usually assigned in the evening.
"Do you think McGonagall killed them?" Sirius asked in a panic. He was worried enough for he and Remus. Professor McGonagall could not kill James because of him! "Because without James--"
"Yes, we know, you and James were planning on announcing your deep love for each other any day now and you would be devastated if he hit the crapper, we know." Ava said, rolling her eyes and tossing her golden hair over her shoulder as they walked up the stairs on the way to the common room. Ava—like Lily—did not worship the Marauders like the rest of Hogwarts' female population.
Sirius opened his mouth to say something. Before he said anything, he closed his mouth and stood there, looking confused.
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"You must know some charm to get out of here," James said about an hour and a half after they were locked in. He was standing there, examining the doorknob. He had tried a few spells, but to his disappointment, none had worked. He had quidditch practice!
Lily looked up from her library book in annoyance.
"Are you admitting that someone is better than perfect James at something?" Lily asked dully. That would really annoy him. He deserved it. Stupid prat and his stupid rumors!
James took at deep breath. He had never before admitted something like this.
"Maybe. Do you know anything?" James asked trying to hold his tongue. As much as he liked the fact that Lily was fiery, he really didn't like it when the fire was directed at him. He also really didn't want her to get to ticked off at him to open the door if she knew how.
"I know what charm she used. I just don't know the counter-charm," Lily said with a sigh as she looked back down at her book and began reading. Lily wished that she had had her advanced Charms book in her bag, but it was upstairs in her dorm room and Professor McGonagall had known it. Summoning it would do no good because it could not come through the door. The two of them would just have to find a way to get along sincerely.
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Sirius and Remus were walking down the hall. Remus was taking him to see the library for the first time. Sirius was a bit worried about James and Lily. What if McGonagall killed them? She seemed to be murderer type. Sirius decided to once again voice his concerns.
"Moony," Sirius began as they passed a portrait. Remus would just tell him it was an insane idea and that McGonagall would never murder someone, but it was too late to not voice his concerns now.
"Yes?" Remus asked calmly. He knew what Sirius was going to ask and it was more likely that Lily would kill James than it was that Professor McGonagall would kill either of them.
"Do you think McGonagall killed Lily and James?" Sirius asked in a concerned voice. She wouldn't kill a student, would she? If she would, it surely wouldn't be James Potter, would it?
Remus sighed.
"Sirius, why would McGonagall kill Lily and James?" Remus asked calmly. Sometime Sirius came up with the most insane ideas. It was part of what made him so good at pranking people, but in everyday life, the ideas could get a bit annoying.
"She just seems like the murder type," Sirius said looking confused. Sirius had come across McGonagall many times when he had sworn that he was lucky to get out alive.
Remus tried not to laugh at the insane idea.
"Padfoot, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you," Remus said calmly. Dumbledore would never allow her to murder a student. It was preposterous.
Sirius nodded. He and Remus walked in silence for another couple seconds. Sirius considered Remus' response.
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An hour and a half later (a total of three hours) and James and Lily still hadn't said anything else. As a matter of fact, James had spent the entire time working on more homework and Lily had spent the entire time reading more.
"That's it. We're not going to be let out of here until we're speaking and I have nothing better to do," James said, shutting his book and leaning over and putting the book in his bag. He had finished his homework—not just for the day—but quite possibly for the entire week.
Lily looked up from her book. She had been reading it for the third time in one day.
"No, James, we won't get out of here until we can get along and we won't get along until your head shrinks and you stop thinking you know everything," Lily said in a mock-soothing voice. She slammed her book shut. She knew that the door wouldn't let them out until they were sincerely getting along. They would never sincerely get along until James' head deflated.
"Lily, I like you maybe even love you. If you don't get that, then I don't think that we can ever get along." James said with a sigh. How could they ever get along if she would not quit being so difficult. In the past six years, he had done everything he could think of to convince her that he really did love her, but it had never been enough.
"James! You just don't get it do you!" Lily said in exasperation, burying her face in her hands. "You can't love me. You don't even know me. You know my name and that you like the way I look." He didn't know her favorite class, he didn't know her favorite book, he didn't know what she did over the summer, he knew nothing about her.
"I don't know you because you won't let me get to know you." James said, staring off into space, looking a bit sad. He had tried to get to know her. He had tried many times. Lily had just always pushed him away and written him off as a jerk.
"Maybe if you wouldn't be such a jerk most of the time, I would let you get to know me." Lily said, her face still in her hands. She knew that he could never get to know her until he grew up. She just wouldn't allow it.
"I'm not being a jerk now," James said, looking at her with hope in his eyes. He wasn't. Sure, in his opinion he never was, but now he knew for sure that he was not.
"Fine, pick something you want to know. Then I'll ask you something and with any luck, when we're done this damn door will open." Lily said. She hoped it would work. She could think of so many things she would rather be doing than this.
James' face lit up as he carefully considered the question. He knew what he wanted to do, but he also knew that if he pissed her off, everything was over and they would die in McGonagall's office. He decided to settle on something safe and informing.
"Tell me about your family." James said with caution. That seemed safe, right? That wasn't too intrusive, but it was still something important, right?
Lily looked at him, surprised that he hadn't taken this opportunity to be his over inflated-ego self.
"Well, I don't really know where to start." Lily began. She really didn't; she had a huge family. "Well, my dad is a surgeon and my mum stays at home. I have a brother who's twenty--four years older than me. His name is Oliver, he's my best friend, but don't tell Ava. Then there's my fraternal twin sister, Petunia, she hates me though," Lily stopped for a fleeting moment to see if James was listening or if he was staring at her. To her surprise, James was listening carefully.
He wanted to ask why they hated each other, but knew it was best to let Lily keep talking. If he interrupted her, she might just blow up at him and not talk for another three hours.
"Then I have another three sisters. One's fourteen, her name is Anna. Then one is thirteen, her name is Katherine. The other one is four, her name is Iris. Then there's Kain, he's ten. Then I have another brother named Devon. He's six." Lily finished with a sigh. She missed the
"Wow, that's a large family. Must be fun," James commented looking wistful. He was an only child and would give anything for a brother or sister. Sure, there was Sirius, but it just was not quite the same.
"It is," Lily said, smiling at the thought of her family. She missed them quite a bit. She even missed Petunia who was absolutely dreadful to her. It had been a while since she had spoken to them, maybe she would owl them when she got out of there.
"Well, I bet you miss them," James said in what he hoped sounded like a sympathetic voice.
Lily looked up and smiled at him. He was not being the usual jerk she had become accustomed to.
"Now you get to ask me." James said. Lily could ask him a lot of annoying questions right now. He hoped that for the sake of their friendship and for getting out of this place, she would ask something nice.
Lily thought for a second.
"I would ask about your family, but I already know," Lily began. It was well know—just like James—that James was an only child. A spoiled only with rich parents. "I know, tell me about you and Sirius." Lily said, leaning forward, engrossed in the conversation.
"There's really not much to tell," James insisted. "We've known each other our entire lives. We've been best friends since forever. This past summer, he got fed up with his family and moved in with us. He's really like the brother I always wanted." James said. Lily was staring at him. James ruffled his hair for good measure.
Lily briefly wondered why he always ruffled his hair. She had always assumed that it was so he looked like he had just gotten off of a broomstick. Prat.
"Why did he move out?" Lily asked, engrossed in the conversation. Why would Sirius leave his parents house?
"His family is absolutely obsessed with blood lines and money. He, as you can tell by the fact that you two are friends, doesn't really buy into all that crap and he hates that his parents expect him to. He's kind of like the black sheep of the family." James said with a shrug. That was definitely the edited version of the story. It did not tell of the constant arguing and Sirius' flying motorcycle.
"That's cool. I know how he feels," Lily said with a smile. She actually kind of did. Her own twin sister had was so obsessed with being perfectly normal that she had completely ignored Lily all summer. Except, of course, when she wanted to make a cutting remark.
A clicking noise resounded throughout the room. Lily and James looked up to see that the lock on the door had turned. Apparently, they were both sincere.
"Well, I guess we can go now," James said, half happy, half disappointed. Lily was just starting to be nice to him.
"Yeah, I suppose so." Lily said, smiling and getting out of her seat. James was just starting to act his age.
"Under four hours, I should get detentions like this more often," James said with a smile as they walked out.
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