"Underneath it all" by marauderyears
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything related to it, J.K Rowling does.
James' POV
"Where are all the girls?" Sirius asked as he plopped down in between James and Remus.
Remus rolled his eyes, "They're all getting ready for the Ball."
"Why? The Ball doesn't start for another 4 hours 46 minutes and 29 seconds..."
James laughed, "Padfoot my friend, you can't count. It's 4 hours 46 minutes and 33 seconds."
"What! That's not fair. It was 4 hours 46 minutes and 29 seconds when I said it was."
Peter who had been watching the two was now totally confused. Remus however, was laughing as the mock argument continued.
A few hours later (when there was only 10 minutes left until the ball began) the boys decided that it was time to get ready.
Meanwhile in the girls' dorm, all chaos had broken loose.
"Oh my God! Where's my hairbrush?!"
"I don't know, but where's my butterfly clip?!"
Even Lily was a little frantic. She put the finishing touches on her hair and took a deep breath. She walked down into the Common Room. She saw the Marauders and Frankie at the bottom of the staircase.
James heard footsteps and looked up to have his jaw drop. There was Lily! And she was...there were no words to describe her...The closest words to describing her were 'perfect' and 'beautiful. James sighed. Of course she wasn't going with him. Plus James had his own date. What was her name? Karen...Katie...Kat? Kat! That was her name. She was a Ravenclaw fifth year. She had fake blonde hair (where you can see like an inch of the dark roots) and was quite a ditz. Although she was very leggy and was part of his fan club, so James didn't mind.
Remus leaned over and muttered in James' ear, "You're catching flies, mate." This promptly shut James' jaw.
Sirius collected his date, Gwen. Frankie collected Lena and they walked with the James, Remus, and Lily down to the Great Hall. James soon picked up his date as well as Remus. Remus was going with a sixth year Hufflepuff. She was a nice, modest girl that he had tutored before.
Lily's POV
Lily saw Greg waiting in the Entrance Hall so she wanders over to him.
"Hey Greg, you look nice." Lily said smiling.
Greg grinned as he looked around the crowd, "Yeah, yeah, you too."
Lily frowned. He didn't even look at me. Or maybe he did and I just didn't see it. Oh well.
Greg led her into the greatly decorated Great Hall. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed James watching her. She chanced a look at him and noticed him scowling at Greg. Greg was looking at James, smirked and wrapped his arm around Lily. She didn't notice this little exchange.
The music started playing and couples entered the dance floor. Greg looked at her, "Umm...I don't really like to dance—"
Lily laughed, "Oh come on. Dancing is fun, here I'll show you." She dragged him off onto the dance floor.
James' POV
"Here, hold this while I pour it in..." Sirius whispered.
James, however, had not paid attention to a word Sirius had been saying for the last few minutes because he was distracted by a certain redhead.
"Did you see that twit? Flaunting Lily around like he won her. He's just showing her off because he got to her before I could. I can't believe she said yes to him. The captain of the Ravenclaw team...he's practically my rival...my enemy...other than Snape of course, but he's too pathetic to be my rival...well so is Zander (Greg Zander)..."
Sirius nodded, "Yeah, yeah that's great. Can you...never mind, it's done!" Sirius and James stood up. They...well Sirius...had successfully spiked the punch.
Sirius looked at James and noticed he was glaring at Greg Zander with Lily Evans. Sirius sighed, "He is an asshole isn't he?"
Remus walked up to them, "Hey guys. Can you move Padfoot? I need to get some punch for me and my date."
Sirius was about to tell him not to drink it when he already poured the punch into two cups.
"I'll see you two later." He walked off. Sirius still had his mouth hanging open.
James was about to say that he was catching flies when a shrill voice next to him interrupted him.
"Jamsie, come on. I wanna dance!" Kat pouted as she dragged James across the floor into the center of it. James got one last look at Sirius' smirking face before his date dragged him off too.
Lily's POV
Lily had begged Greg to dance with her for a few dances before they got tired and sat down.
"Can I get you a drink Lily?" Lily nodded as Greg walked off. Not soon after he left, his seat was taken by James.
"Hey Lily, how are you doing?" He asked.
"Okay I guess and you?" It took a second for her to realize that he had called her by her first name.
"Okay...Kat's...nice. How's Greg?" James tried to hide the jealousy from his voice.
Lily sighed, "He's okay. He doesn't like to dance, though."
James was happy to hear some disappointment in her voice, but was also disheartened that she was sad. He loved it when she was happy and laughing. And when she was smiling...although her smiles were rarely aimed at him.
They sat together in silence for a minute. James, too nervous to say something in case it made her mad. The silence was broken when Greg showed up with two glasses of punch. He briefly glanced at James, who looked like he was ready to pounce on him. Greg held his hand out for her.
"Shall we dance?" Lily took his hand. She turned around and smiled at James.
"Bye James." Greg and Lily both walked off to the dance floor. James felt like he was floating. She had called him James...Not 'Potter', not 'prick', not 'git'. But James.
He was snapped out of his reverie by Kat's shrill voice.
Lily found herself to be dizzy and clumsy all of the sudden. She looked up at Greg (there were currently three of him, she choose to stare at the one on the left) and grinned. She suddenly noticed how very good- looking he was. Oh, how she wanted to kiss him all of the sudden.
Greg seemed to be a bit off, too. He grinned. A drunk Lily...
"Lilsie, do you wannagosomewhere else..." He found his words were slurred. Lily didn't seem to notice. She just giggled at him and kissed his cheek. As they tripped there way over to the Entrance Hall.
James' POV
James was currently dancing with Kat. He was trying to decide how he would discreetly ask Lily for a dance, pretending that it was a friendly one. He had had his eye on the pretty redhead the whole time. He saw something that made his blood boil. She had kissed him! Kissed him! Okay, so it was only on the cheek...but still.
James noticed something weird though. She and him were very clumsy and they were leaving the Great Hall. Oh damn Sirius. They had drank the spiked punch. James didn't trust Greg alone with Lily so he made up an excuse to Kat to leave. She pouted for a minute before she wandered off to find someone else.
James quickly grabbed Remus and Sirius and pulled them into the hall.
Lily's POV
As soon as they were outside of the Great Hall, Greg slammed her against the wall.
Being drunk, Lily giggled as he kissed her neck. It felt good as he ground his hips into hers'. Greg moved to her mouth and kissed her until she felt his tongue on her lips and opened her mouth.
Lily felt his hands moving up her short dress. She felt them playing with her underwear. Lily giggled more as she played with his hair. Had her sense not been clouded, she'd of screamed at him, but right now all she could concentrate on was his hands on her breast.
CRACK! James punched Greg in the jaw. Lily was sure that his jaw was broken. She saw Sirius and Remus with looks of disgust written on their faces. They had to hold James back from pummeling Greg, who was now running away.
Hmm...Sirius is quite cute...She smiled flirtatiously at him and Sirius' eyes widened. He knew to never touch Lily, she was James'.
James and Remus noticed the predatorily gleam in her eyes and so they grabbed her arm. Remus eyed Sirius warily.
"Here, sit down, we're going to take you to the hospital wing—"
Lily cocked her head to the side and squinted, "Wow...Remus you have a twin!" Her voice was unnaturally high.
Sirius snorted. James looked worried.
"Here I'm going to take you to the hospital wing." James bent down and lifted her up as she giggled and said something about flying airplanes.
"Ah-hem. That's inappropriate display of affection Mr. Potter."
James, Remus, and Sirius turned around to see Professor Brody standing there. He looked at Lily for a second.
"Put her down, Mr. Potter."
"But—"
"Now!"
He set her down and she wobbled around and leaned against the wall. Lily was watching Professor Brody. He is very good-looking.
"Miss Evans, can I speak to you in for a moment in private?"
Lily grinned seductively and lowered her voice, "Why of course, Professor!"
James' eyes practically bulged out of his head as he held Lily back. He did NOT want Brody alone with his Lily. Especially when she was drunk out of her mind.
"No! I mean...can't you say whatever you need to in front of us?" James said angrily.
The Professor sighed. "No, I think we should go into my office—"
Sirius started to protest, but Remus cut him off, "Professor, please. Lily needs to go to the hospital wing. Someone's spiked the punch."
Sirius shifted uncomfortably. Brody looked sharply at Lily. James glared at him when he saw him subtly licking his lips.
Brody sighed, "There was an attack on Muggles about an hour ago. And it is my displeasure to tell you Miss Evans that your parents were killed."
Lily wasn't sure if it was the alcohol or the shock but she felt her legs give away as she fell into unconsciousness. The last thing she felt was James hands catching her as she fell. And all was black.
A/N: Thanks reviewers! I was looking back at my old chapters and man do I have spelling errors. I'm too lazy to go back and fix them and then re- download them and such.
MonkeyGurl1: That's too bad that he's short.
SiriusJamesRemus'sgirl: Thanks and I will just make the chapters come out quicker. They'll be about the same length as the previous chapters.
evil-pillow: Thank you! I feel bad for James too.
You Annoy Me: Here's the chapter.
Hello? Mary: I fixed chapter four. I have no idea why it cut off most of the chapter, but I hope it never does that again, cause it really frustrated me how many times I had to re-download the story. I threw a little temper tantrum. LOL. You spelled future right, and yes I misspell things that I usually know how to spell. Like 'of'. I'd always right 'ove'. I have no idea why. And I'd date Sirius or James or Remus, too. Not Peter.
itsRAEninmen: I'm glad to hear it. Or technically...read it.
Keep reviewing! To make everyone happy, I'm updating more often.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything related to it, J.K Rowling does.
James' POV
"Where are all the girls?" Sirius asked as he plopped down in between James and Remus.
Remus rolled his eyes, "They're all getting ready for the Ball."
"Why? The Ball doesn't start for another 4 hours 46 minutes and 29 seconds..."
James laughed, "Padfoot my friend, you can't count. It's 4 hours 46 minutes and 33 seconds."
"What! That's not fair. It was 4 hours 46 minutes and 29 seconds when I said it was."
Peter who had been watching the two was now totally confused. Remus however, was laughing as the mock argument continued.
A few hours later (when there was only 10 minutes left until the ball began) the boys decided that it was time to get ready.
Meanwhile in the girls' dorm, all chaos had broken loose.
"Oh my God! Where's my hairbrush?!"
"I don't know, but where's my butterfly clip?!"
Even Lily was a little frantic. She put the finishing touches on her hair and took a deep breath. She walked down into the Common Room. She saw the Marauders and Frankie at the bottom of the staircase.
James heard footsteps and looked up to have his jaw drop. There was Lily! And she was...there were no words to describe her...The closest words to describing her were 'perfect' and 'beautiful. James sighed. Of course she wasn't going with him. Plus James had his own date. What was her name? Karen...Katie...Kat? Kat! That was her name. She was a Ravenclaw fifth year. She had fake blonde hair (where you can see like an inch of the dark roots) and was quite a ditz. Although she was very leggy and was part of his fan club, so James didn't mind.
Remus leaned over and muttered in James' ear, "You're catching flies, mate." This promptly shut James' jaw.
Sirius collected his date, Gwen. Frankie collected Lena and they walked with the James, Remus, and Lily down to the Great Hall. James soon picked up his date as well as Remus. Remus was going with a sixth year Hufflepuff. She was a nice, modest girl that he had tutored before.
Lily's POV
Lily saw Greg waiting in the Entrance Hall so she wanders over to him.
"Hey Greg, you look nice." Lily said smiling.
Greg grinned as he looked around the crowd, "Yeah, yeah, you too."
Lily frowned. He didn't even look at me. Or maybe he did and I just didn't see it. Oh well.
Greg led her into the greatly decorated Great Hall. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed James watching her. She chanced a look at him and noticed him scowling at Greg. Greg was looking at James, smirked and wrapped his arm around Lily. She didn't notice this little exchange.
The music started playing and couples entered the dance floor. Greg looked at her, "Umm...I don't really like to dance—"
Lily laughed, "Oh come on. Dancing is fun, here I'll show you." She dragged him off onto the dance floor.
James' POV
"Here, hold this while I pour it in..." Sirius whispered.
James, however, had not paid attention to a word Sirius had been saying for the last few minutes because he was distracted by a certain redhead.
"Did you see that twit? Flaunting Lily around like he won her. He's just showing her off because he got to her before I could. I can't believe she said yes to him. The captain of the Ravenclaw team...he's practically my rival...my enemy...other than Snape of course, but he's too pathetic to be my rival...well so is Zander (Greg Zander)..."
Sirius nodded, "Yeah, yeah that's great. Can you...never mind, it's done!" Sirius and James stood up. They...well Sirius...had successfully spiked the punch.
Sirius looked at James and noticed he was glaring at Greg Zander with Lily Evans. Sirius sighed, "He is an asshole isn't he?"
Remus walked up to them, "Hey guys. Can you move Padfoot? I need to get some punch for me and my date."
Sirius was about to tell him not to drink it when he already poured the punch into two cups.
"I'll see you two later." He walked off. Sirius still had his mouth hanging open.
James was about to say that he was catching flies when a shrill voice next to him interrupted him.
"Jamsie, come on. I wanna dance!" Kat pouted as she dragged James across the floor into the center of it. James got one last look at Sirius' smirking face before his date dragged him off too.
Lily's POV
Lily had begged Greg to dance with her for a few dances before they got tired and sat down.
"Can I get you a drink Lily?" Lily nodded as Greg walked off. Not soon after he left, his seat was taken by James.
"Hey Lily, how are you doing?" He asked.
"Okay I guess and you?" It took a second for her to realize that he had called her by her first name.
"Okay...Kat's...nice. How's Greg?" James tried to hide the jealousy from his voice.
Lily sighed, "He's okay. He doesn't like to dance, though."
James was happy to hear some disappointment in her voice, but was also disheartened that she was sad. He loved it when she was happy and laughing. And when she was smiling...although her smiles were rarely aimed at him.
They sat together in silence for a minute. James, too nervous to say something in case it made her mad. The silence was broken when Greg showed up with two glasses of punch. He briefly glanced at James, who looked like he was ready to pounce on him. Greg held his hand out for her.
"Shall we dance?" Lily took his hand. She turned around and smiled at James.
"Bye James." Greg and Lily both walked off to the dance floor. James felt like he was floating. She had called him James...Not 'Potter', not 'prick', not 'git'. But James.
He was snapped out of his reverie by Kat's shrill voice.
Lily found herself to be dizzy and clumsy all of the sudden. She looked up at Greg (there were currently three of him, she choose to stare at the one on the left) and grinned. She suddenly noticed how very good- looking he was. Oh, how she wanted to kiss him all of the sudden.
Greg seemed to be a bit off, too. He grinned. A drunk Lily...
"Lilsie, do you wannagosomewhere else..." He found his words were slurred. Lily didn't seem to notice. She just giggled at him and kissed his cheek. As they tripped there way over to the Entrance Hall.
James' POV
James was currently dancing with Kat. He was trying to decide how he would discreetly ask Lily for a dance, pretending that it was a friendly one. He had had his eye on the pretty redhead the whole time. He saw something that made his blood boil. She had kissed him! Kissed him! Okay, so it was only on the cheek...but still.
James noticed something weird though. She and him were very clumsy and they were leaving the Great Hall. Oh damn Sirius. They had drank the spiked punch. James didn't trust Greg alone with Lily so he made up an excuse to Kat to leave. She pouted for a minute before she wandered off to find someone else.
James quickly grabbed Remus and Sirius and pulled them into the hall.
Lily's POV
As soon as they were outside of the Great Hall, Greg slammed her against the wall.
Being drunk, Lily giggled as he kissed her neck. It felt good as he ground his hips into hers'. Greg moved to her mouth and kissed her until she felt his tongue on her lips and opened her mouth.
Lily felt his hands moving up her short dress. She felt them playing with her underwear. Lily giggled more as she played with his hair. Had her sense not been clouded, she'd of screamed at him, but right now all she could concentrate on was his hands on her breast.
CRACK! James punched Greg in the jaw. Lily was sure that his jaw was broken. She saw Sirius and Remus with looks of disgust written on their faces. They had to hold James back from pummeling Greg, who was now running away.
Hmm...Sirius is quite cute...She smiled flirtatiously at him and Sirius' eyes widened. He knew to never touch Lily, she was James'.
James and Remus noticed the predatorily gleam in her eyes and so they grabbed her arm. Remus eyed Sirius warily.
"Here, sit down, we're going to take you to the hospital wing—"
Lily cocked her head to the side and squinted, "Wow...Remus you have a twin!" Her voice was unnaturally high.
Sirius snorted. James looked worried.
"Here I'm going to take you to the hospital wing." James bent down and lifted her up as she giggled and said something about flying airplanes.
"Ah-hem. That's inappropriate display of affection Mr. Potter."
James, Remus, and Sirius turned around to see Professor Brody standing there. He looked at Lily for a second.
"Put her down, Mr. Potter."
"But—"
"Now!"
He set her down and she wobbled around and leaned against the wall. Lily was watching Professor Brody. He is very good-looking.
"Miss Evans, can I speak to you in for a moment in private?"
Lily grinned seductively and lowered her voice, "Why of course, Professor!"
James' eyes practically bulged out of his head as he held Lily back. He did NOT want Brody alone with his Lily. Especially when she was drunk out of her mind.
"No! I mean...can't you say whatever you need to in front of us?" James said angrily.
The Professor sighed. "No, I think we should go into my office—"
Sirius started to protest, but Remus cut him off, "Professor, please. Lily needs to go to the hospital wing. Someone's spiked the punch."
Sirius shifted uncomfortably. Brody looked sharply at Lily. James glared at him when he saw him subtly licking his lips.
Brody sighed, "There was an attack on Muggles about an hour ago. And it is my displeasure to tell you Miss Evans that your parents were killed."
Lily wasn't sure if it was the alcohol or the shock but she felt her legs give away as she fell into unconsciousness. The last thing she felt was James hands catching her as she fell. And all was black.
A/N: Thanks reviewers! I was looking back at my old chapters and man do I have spelling errors. I'm too lazy to go back and fix them and then re- download them and such.
MonkeyGurl1: That's too bad that he's short.
SiriusJamesRemus'sgirl: Thanks and I will just make the chapters come out quicker. They'll be about the same length as the previous chapters.
evil-pillow: Thank you! I feel bad for James too.
You Annoy Me: Here's the chapter.
Hello? Mary: I fixed chapter four. I have no idea why it cut off most of the chapter, but I hope it never does that again, cause it really frustrated me how many times I had to re-download the story. I threw a little temper tantrum. LOL. You spelled future right, and yes I misspell things that I usually know how to spell. Like 'of'. I'd always right 'ove'. I have no idea why. And I'd date Sirius or James or Remus, too. Not Peter.
itsRAEninmen: I'm glad to hear it. Or technically...read it.
Keep reviewing! To make everyone happy, I'm updating more often.