"Underneath it all" by marauderyears
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything related to it, J.K Rowling does.
"You're late." Lily turned around when she heard an amused voice coming from a very good-looking boy that she knew all to well.
Lily's POV
Lily smiled when her eyes landed on a pair of grey eyes. The boy was very good-looking with light brown hair classically falling over his eyes in a mysterious look.
"Hello Remus."
"Hello Lily."
"I'm glad to see you here. I thought McGonagall would have Potter tutor me."
"I thought you two were getting along."
Lily shrugged. "So why isn't Potter tutoring me? Isn't he top of the class as surprising is that is?"
Remus smiled, "Yes he is, but so am I. Plus she'd prefer a prefect to do the tutoring. I don't think James could get anything done around you...But if you'd prefer, I could get him to--"
"No! It's fine. I like you better anyways. You won't flirt with me."
"Now who says I won't?"
Lily's eyebrows shot up. Remus just laughed.
"I'm just kidding Lils. James would rip my spinal cord out through my ass if I did."
Lily made a face. "Ew! Where'd you come up with that?"
Remus' smile wavered a little. "He said that word for word. It was pretty funny. Sirius couldn't get over that for weeks."
Lily rolled her eyes. "Yeah well he still thinks the whole 'serious', 'Sirius' thing is funny."
Remus nodded, looking amused. "Anyway, we're getting distracted we should probably start. It's been 10 minutes already. And considering you were late to start out with..." Lily smacked his shoulder and he grabbed her hand grinning. She squealed a little, surprised by the motion.
Remus stopped talking for a split second, enough to hear the door to the classroom they were in, creak a little. They both glanced over to the door but saw nothing. Lily gave Remus a confused look but he just shrugged, not quite meeting her eye. Remus continued talking.
"Okay, so what are you having trouble with?"
Lily sighed. "Everything." Remus just smiled as she blushed.
The rest of the session went by pretty fast, Remus just helping her with the basics. By the end of the session, Lily felt a better.
"Okay, I think we'll end it there. How about we meet here tomorrow night, too? It's better to have tutoring more often."
Lily nodded. "Sounds good. I need to work on Chapter 9. I didn't understand it."
Later that night, when they both arrived at the Common Room portrait, they said their good-byes and headed separate ways. Lily went up to her room and collapsed on her bed. None of the other girls were in the room currently, so Lily got some alone time. She loved alone time. It gave her time to contemplate things. Just as Lily started to think about the tutoring session, the door to the dormitory opened. Damn. There goes her alone time.
James' POV
James yawned and looked down at his watch. It was 7:30 and he was bored. Sirius and Peter had detention for covering the Potions teacher with whipped cream and sprinkles. Remus was...where was Remus? James frowned. He got up and sauntered on over to his trunk and dug around for a minute before he found what he was looking for.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Lines, words, and dots spread across the seemingly old piece of parchment. James searched the map for a minute before he found who he was looking for. And when he did, he had to rub his glasses to make sure he was seeing things correctly.
Why is Moony with Lily alone in an empty classroom way after hours?! What are they doing?! James felt the adrenaline rush through his veins as suspicion and distrust filled his mind.
James grabbed his invisibility cloak and rushed down to the Transfiguration classroom, not worrying about the noise he was making. He had to slow his breathing down when he got closer to the room. James noticed the door was closed. He glared at the door as if it was the perpetrator.
He quietly opened the door a crack and heard a squeal. Lily's squeal. He peered in and saw Remus holding Lily's hand. It was at that second the James realized how protective he was of Lily. He felt anger surge through him. How could Lily choose Remus over him? Remus is...is...a werewolf! She could never like HIM over me!
James instantly felt a little bad for thinking that, but he was too worked up to care. James closed the door quickly, not caring that it made a loud creak. He stormed off to the Common Room and (with the invisibility cloak still on him) flopped down on an armchair and waited for them to return.
About a half hour later he heard the portrait door open and close. He saw Lily say good-bye to Remus and head up to her dorm. Remus started to head to his dorm but James cut him off.
Standing in front of Remus, he ripped off his invisibility cloak. Remus didn't even seem nonplussed that James just appeared out of think air in front of him.
"Hello Prongs. Fancy seeing you here-"
"Cut the crap Moony, where were you?" There goes the beating around the bush method.
Remus raised an eyebrow at him. "Why does it matter?"
James glared at him. "Because it does. Now where were you? Were you with Lily?"
Remus sighed tiredly. The full moon was coming up and his temper was getting harder to control.
"Yes I was with Lily."
"Why were you with her alone at night?"
"Do you not trust me James?!" Remus' voice was getting louder. The normally cool collected Remus was getting irritated.
James circled him. "What were you doing with Lily? I heard her squeal and I look and there you two are-"
"So you WERE spying on us!"
"I was not, I saw on the map that you two were snogging and I went to investigate!"
"You don't trust me do you?! And we weren't sno-"
"You know that I've liked-no, loved Lily for years! Why would you do that to me, you traitor!"
"I did not snog her for Merlin's sake! Stop being so overprotective! Plus she doesn't even like you!" There was a short silence before James' face turned stony.
"She likes me better than you! You have no chance with her! How could you even think that she'd ever like a werewolf!"
There was a ringing silence and both boys looked as though they were about to start punching each other senseless, but they both just turned around and headed in opposite directions. James headed up the staircase and Remus headed out of the Common room.
A/N: I knew you guys would assume the tutor was James. I hate to tell you guys that I've planned from the start that it's not him. LOL. Beta please?! Anyone want to be my Beta? I sound like an Auctioneer.