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(A/N: This takes place after the day Lily sides with Snape that day James is picking on him. This is in Lily and James' time. So no Harry.)
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Tutoring the Enemy (by iigreenteaii)
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Refrain:
"Touché, Evans." He smirked at her, leaving the red head to scowl darkly at him.
Chapter 2
Lily headed down to the big hall where all her friends were eating as soon as their lesson was over.
"Where were you Evans?" Arabella asked as she took a drink of 2% pumpkin juice. Cherry, Arabella and Cecilia looked at their friend who was muttering angrily under her breath.
"Evans, are you okay?" Cherry waved a hand in front of Lily, "nope; she's gone you guys." And the three girls just ignored their friend and continued to eat.
"I have to tutor Potter;" Lily started jabbing at her salad with a fork, "in Charms. Flitwick asked me to."
"You get to tutor JAMES POTTER?!" Cherry squealed grinning like crazy.
"Did you not hear me Oakland?" Lily scowled at the black haired girl.
"Oh fine you prick." Cherry said rolling her eyes. The girls were silent for a while.
"Have you realized that we call each other by our last names?" Cecilia asked randomly. Arabella laughed, "now that you mention it. We HAVE been calling each other by last names for the last ... 5 years." The four girls shrugged and went back to eating their lunch. Lily jumped when she felt someone hug her from behind.
"Hello, my sweet Lily flower." Someone said in a cool, mature, deep voice. Cherry looked up at Lily jealously. The red head turned her head back and her face grew darker when she saw the owner of the arms circling her waist.
"Get off me, Potter." She tugged at the nicely tanned arms and pulled them free of her waist.
"Aw, you know you like it Evans." He grinned at her with one of his charming smiles.
"Like hell." She spat and the three boys behind James chuckled.
"You know girls would love for me to be their boyfriend." James said arrogantly.
"Who in their right mind would like YOU?"
"What me to list everyone?" He asked raising an eyebrow. Lily paused for a moment and then realized that that might take up the remainder of lunch.
"Like I said, they're not in their right mind." James just chuckled and took Lily's hand.
"Farewell, milady, till next our next lesson." He bent down swiftly and placed a small kiss on the back of her creamy white hand. Lily pulled her hand back, scowling, and wiped it on the back of her robes. James and his friends laughed and walked away. Lily sighed, he might have been an annoying, conceited prick, but he DID know how to flatter someone.
"Lily, I think there'll be quite a few anti-Evans groups at Hogwarts." Cecilia said, looking nervously around her.
"What do you me-" Lily stopped when she noticed at least a few dozen eyes glaring at her. Quickly she went back to her lunch.
"All girls who like James Potter are out of their minds are they?" Cherry said angrily slamming down the pumpkin juice she was drinking.
"Well ye-" Lily started and abruptly stopped, "wait. You like HIM??"
Cherry looked away blushing a little, "maybe a little bit."
"Great Gillyweed! I didn't know Cherry!"
"Just be nicer to him, I can't stand you being so cruel to him!"
"But-"
"Be nice.."
"But-"
"BE NICE EVANS!! DID YOU NOT HEAR ME?!"
Lily looked down at her lunch in defeat, "I'll try."
"Good, now come on, lunch is over. Transfiguration is next." While this was happening, Arabella and Cecilia just looked at the two, fully entertained.
Lily sat patiently at her seat as she waited for Professor McGonagall to enter the room. She ignored her friends gossiping and was reading a few quotes she had jot down from various books. A few minutes later, she felt something hovering over her and looking down at her scratch piece of parchment.
"What is this? Before you criticize someone. You should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, AND you have their shoes. What kind of rubbish is this?"
"It's muggle rubbish." Lily said a little protectively as James sat down next to her. Despite her protests, McGonagall had seated James next to her in a previous lesson for goofing off.
"Now class, get out your parchment, and be ready to review for finals. Yes, I know you've all finished your O.W.L's and I'm sorry to say this isn't the end tests." She gave a tight smile. Lily turned to look at Cherry, who was doodling on her parchment and then to her other side where James was looking bored. Lily shut McGonagall's sharp voice out and felt herself getting drowsy.
"......pop quiz...."
Lily's eyes snapped open and raised her hand quickly, "did you say pop quiz Professor?"
"Yes, I did Miss Evans, and I'd like a prefect not to doze during my lesson." She gave another tight smile as she pointed her wand to the board where 10 questions appeared.
"Begin. Anyone who results in talking will be given an automatic 0."
Lily numbly stared at the board, transfiguration was easily her worst subject.
"Explain how important wrist movement is in transfiguring furniture into animals." Lily mumbled to herself, "..how do I know that?" She picked up her quill writing number the parchment. Her eyes drifted to question 2.
"What will flicking your wrist left, down, right, left, up result in?" She groaned and started tugging at her dark red hair.
James jot down the answers quickly in less that 5 minutes. Transfiguration always came naturally to him and he noticed himself exceeding at the top of his class without studying a second. Too bad Lily didn't have his talent for transfiguration as he soon learned. Angry growls and the sound of scratching out answers on parchment brought himself to look at Lily. He felt himself trying to keep from laughing which caused him to snort quite loudly.
"Do you mind telling me what's so funny, Potter?" Came McGonagall's sharp voice.
"No, I don't mind Professor, what I found so funny was Miss Evans next to me." Lily's head snapped up his answer.
"And what about Miss Evans is so funny?" She asked, amusement hiding behind her sharp tone.
"What's so funny is her growling at her parchment." He answered not bothering to think about Lily would say to him after class.
"Well, just be quiet Potter." McGonagall smiled that tight smile of hers at him and went back down to correcting the tests from the previous class.
Lily glared at James for a while, her face still bright red from embarrassment. Still glaring, she turned to her blank parchment and sighed. She wrote down some random answers and turned towards James when she felt some tapping on her shoulder. Puzzled, and still a little angry, she glared at James. He pushed something over to her and she noticed that it was a piece of paper with answers on it. She just stared at it a while and then looked at James again who winked and turned back to his own paper.
'Should I?' Lily thought still staring at the small cheat sheet, 'but taking this means I'm giving into him. But not taking this would mean failing this quiz. She looked at James again who just kept watching her every move and when they made eye contact he gave her another wink. Swallowing her pride, she took a few small peeps at the paper.
"Tomorrow's the day, or night, Moony, you ready mate?" Sirius slapped one of his best friends on the back. Lupin who was looking pale and sickly just nodded weakly. Sirius just patted him again on the back and grinned brightly when he saw James running towards them .
"Look who it is, I saw you and Evans getting along at transfiguration."
"Damn straight." James grinned, "where's Wormtail?"
Sirius shrugged and the three friends made their way up to the Gryffindor common room.
"Moony, maybe you should get some rest before you pass out? Don't worry, we'll save that master prank until you're better." James put an arm around Lupin as they entered their room and pushed him onto the bed.
"Better get some rest." Sirius ruffled up his friend's hair and the two friends headed down to the common room.
"So..."
"What?" James asked bored, while pulling his wand out of his robes. He swished it around and pointed it at a pillow next to him. He smiled with mild amusement when the pillow turned into a soft kitten. He leaned forward and stared at it.
"What happened with Evans earlier? Do I have to tell you everything?" Sirius plopped himself down next to James picking up the kitten and playing with it. It yowled angrily when he threw it up in the air and caught it and repeated the process. James muttered the counter-spell and the kitten changed back into a pillow in no less than a second.
"Hey Potter, are you going to tell me voluntarily or do I have to beat it out of you?" Sirius massaged his fist jokingly.
"Ah, I just told her an answer on the quiz."
"That's all? I was expecting more. I think I'll skip dinner for now and go hang out in the forest. You in?"
"Blah, I'm to hungry. I'll find you a little later." Sirius nodded and walked out of the common room.
Lily and her friends all went down to the Great Hall for their dinner.
"So, Oakland! When did you start having feeling for a certain black haired-"
"loser?" Lily finished, "okay! I'm sorry, I forgot about acting civil towards him."
"Don't forget, or I might just have to slap you." Cherry said jokingly, but Lily thought she heard a little threatening tone in her voice.
"Come on you guys, let's just sit down." Arabella threw an arm around Lily and pulled her down onto the seat. Soon enough, amazing dishes of food appeared in front of everyone in the great hall and everybody started to eat.
"Where's James and the gang?" Cecilia asked and Lily shrugged taking another bite of her salad.
"Probably breaking some more rules, they are serious not even humans. They're about as civilized as a group o-" Lily immediately shut up as she remembered Cherry's warning.
"So.." Arabella said breaking an awkward silence that had come over the group. Lily cleared her throat, "okay, I think I'll go studying some transfiguration in the common room."
"Yeah, you better go before you DO receive a slap in the face." Cherry looked up at her from her dinner and Lily frowned.
"If you like him so much, why don't you just go throw yourself all over him?" Lily said angrily, her green eyes flashing.
"I don't want to make it obvious, like someone else around here."
"Are you saying I LIKE James Potter?" Lily hissed.
"Ooh! I wouldn't want to ANGER someone, I might just be turned into a frog."
"I'll ask Potter to do me a favor, and maybe everyone else at school."
Lily turned around and walked upstairs, leaving Cherry obviously angry.
"Gillyweed." Lily stepped into the large red and gold room and took out her transfiguration book.
"Oh, look who it is." Lily ignored the voice and opened up to page 642.
"I was expecting something like a 'thank you' from you." James took the seat in front of Lily and she looked up.
"Thank you, Potter." And Lily went back to her homework.
"You're welcome." He said sarcastically. Lily looked up with her nose still pointed at her parchment.
"What do you want, Potter?"
"You." He leaned closer to her and she leaned back evening out the gap.
"Too bad, that's something you can't have."
James just smiled, "we'll see Evans, who knows? Maybe in a couple years, we'll be married with a little boy who looks just like me."
Lily looked up and cracked an amused smile, "you're full of it Potter."
"Maybe I am, but I'm waiting eagerly for that day." He grinned at her, and even she had to admit he was good-looking.
"Go away Potter," Lily sighed and scribbled down some notes from the book she found that'd be important, "I'm working on my homework."
"Just to tell you, that's not much important in transfiguring people into animals. The most important is the wand movement."
"How do you know?"
"Hey, I'm the one who helped you with the quiz."
Lily crossed out what she had written and replaced it with the answer James had provided her with.
"I think I'll need to tutor you in transfiguration from now on."
Lily sighed and nodded, "fine, so we'll be civil to each other from now on."
He chuckled and pulled out his hand waiting for it to be shaken.
"I don't think so, Potter. One of my friends FANCY you, just think about what she'll say if she sees. I'll save the risk."
"Okay then, it's nice to know that I have another girl to add to my list."
Lily raised an eyebrow and went back to her work, "what wrist movements would turn an animal into an object?"
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A little boring for now, but I'm sure it'll be better in the next chapter!! And they'll be more Lupin, Sirius and .... Peter.