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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:
"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."
Chapter 3
After an half and hour of studying transfiguration, Lily had had enough and felt like just tearing up her book and going to bed.
"Hey Prongs, what are you doing mate?" Sirius asked coming back from the forest. His dark brown hair was messy and tangled.
"Tutoring Miss prefect. What were you doing out there?" James asked with an amused smile, "get down and dirty with an animal?"
Lily kept herself from gagging too loudly, and tried to pay attention to her transfiguration.
"Oh yeah, it was an animal all right. Kept me breathing hard the whole time."
Lily coughed loudly, and glanced at her watch.
"Oh, really? Where did you, you know."
"By the pond where Evan's and her friend's always sit." Sirius winked at James who just grinned and glanced at Lily who was drinking some pumpkin juice to try and block out their conversation.
"Like always." Sirius added in and Lily sprayed pumpkin juice into James's face. Sirius fell to the ground laughing and clutching at his sides while Lily tried to keep form spraying the rest of the juice into James's, without much prevail. Lily burst out into laughter and tried standing up to reach for some tissues to hand to James, but her legs got tangled with her robes and fell down to the ground in a heap.
"That's just nasty Evans." James laughed and wiped at his face with tissues, "I think any liking I have for you has just disappeared."
"You say that as if you think it'll make me feel bad." She struggled to get up from the ground and into her seat.
"I think I cracked my ribs laughing." Sirius said as he got up from the floor wincing, but bursting in laughed again when he looked at James. Lily looked at his face, she snorted and turned back to her parchment and book which was covered in juice.
"You look so funny, I mean, you've always looked funny. You just look ESPECIALLY funny." Lily giggled again and closed her book. Realizing that she wouldn't get any work done tonight.
"No apology?" James asked wiping his silver rimmed glasses, with a smile still on his face.
"Nope." Lily just got up after checking her watch and walked up to the girl's tower leaving Sirius and James to chuckle lightly.
"You know Prongs, she's not too bad. If you weren't so head over heels for her, I'd try to win her over." Sirius sat down in Lily's previous seat and raked his fingers threw his hair, trying to untangle the dark brown bush.
"Don't even dare," James thought a moment, "did you really shag a girl-"
"Ugh, are you crazy mate? I have better things to do than shag girls, like how to torture Snape and make more mastermind pranks."
The next morning was a hectic morning, like every single morning in the girls' Gryffindor tower. Cecilia was still in bed, with breakfast only 10 minutes away. Arabella was digging through all her make up to see which tint of brown looked good with her mood and hair. Cherry had forgotten all about their heated argument the day before and was in the shower. And lastly, Lily was on the floor with her sheets tangled in a heap around her. Not bothering to put her sheets back on the bed, Lily crawled towards the bathroom and stood up, taking a look at herself in mirror. Her straight red hair was tangled and her eyes tired, but other than that, she looked the same as ever. She stood up and bent herself over the sink. She threw water on her face and picked up her toothbrush and brushed lazily at her teeth. After she rinsed her mouth, she looked at her hair and sighed, tugging at her hair she grit her teeth and finally managed to brush threw it once.
The boys weren't any better. Remus was just lying in bed, pale and clammy. His sandy blondish brown hair was matted to his forehead and his grey eyes were cloudy. Sirius had woken up a little while ago and was looking at one of his best friends worriedly. He gave Remus a small half smile that Remus returned slowly. Peter was finishing some last minute 'history of magic' paper while brushing his teeth. And James was just coming out of the shower scratching his newly washed hair, that stuck up in wet clumps.
"This hair will not do ANYTHING." James looked at the mirror, "sheesh, I TRY to look good for a particular someone-"
Sirius coughed, "Lily," he coughed again, "Evans."
"But my hair still won't do anything. I'm just cursed with the Potter line of impossible hair." He sighed and scratched his head, making his hair stick up even more.
"You know mate, I'm surprised all of her putting down hasn't made you into a blob of tears." Sirius said, taking his eyes of Remus. This worry over his friend was a monthly ritual, and even though he had endured this for 4 years going of 5, he still felt a knot at his stomach. But of coarse with every hate there is love and the thought of going out at the full moon and spending the night with a werewolf was what kept the two boys thrilled and not overcome with worry.
"Hey, Moony, are you going to go to breakfast with us mate?" James asked rolling around on the ground trying to put on his socks and robe at the same time.
"Yeah." He got up from the bed and strolled over to the bathroom.
"I swear, it's going to kill him someday." Sirius muttered and raked his finger over his longish black hair. Remus stepped out a few minutes later, looking a little refreshed, but not much. He got dressed into his robes and four boys made their way down to the hall. As soon as James walked in, he tried looking for a red haired someone and smiled when he saw her (making the girls close to him give excited yelps) and walked over to the four girls. But someone got there faster.
"Look who it is." Lucius Malfoy grinned behind the eating form of Lily.
"Who is it?" Lily asked not bothering to turn around.
"Look at you're superior when you're behind spoken to."
"I don't see anyone superior around me."
"You better turn around Mudblood before I hex you." He threatened. Cecilia, Cherry and Arabella gasped, getting the attention of the people around them.
"Exactly what do you want?" Lily turned around 180° to face the tall 7th year.
"Get out of MY school." He spat. Lily stood up and looked at him in the eyes.
"If this is YOUR school, my arse can speak ten different languages. And I'll tell you something, my arse CAN'T speak 10 languages." Giggles were heard in the hall where all conversations had stopped. Malfoy glared at the red head.
"You know, they say red heads have a huge temper, and right now, my temper and patience gauges are filling up pretty quickly." Malfoy had turned a strange tint of pink and he raised his hand to strike Lily.
"Is Evans standing up to Malfoy, Prongs? Or is it just me." Remus asked blinking his eyes a couple of times.
"She sure is." Sirius grinned.
"If this is YOUR school, my arse can speak 10 languages. And I'll tell you something, my arse CAN'T speak 10 languages." Lily's voice was heard throughout the whole school and Sirius was furious.
"What's crawled up your arse and died?" Peter asked looking at Sirius's red face.
"I can't believe I didn't think of that! I'm so disappointed in myself."
The Marauders were near the pair now and James felt like being a part of their argument, but was waiting for the right moment. And he saw his moment when Malfoy raised his arm to strike Lily's pretty face.
"Why hello ladies." He said smiling at Malfoy and Lily.
"Get away from here Potter, before I knock off your head along with this Mudblood's."
"Why you-"
"Potter, Malfoy and Miss Evans! I'm very disappointed in you three. Especially Miss Evans. Come with me to the office." Professor McGonagall's stern voice spoke up and echoed in the Great Hall.
"Yes, ma'am." Lily glared at Malfoy's smirking face and followed after the tall transfiguration professor.
"What is the meaning of all of this mumbo jumbo?"
"Malfoy here called Li- I mean Evans a Mudblood! I was just standing up for her." James crossed his arms, occasionally pointing at Malfoy and sighing in annoyance.
"Lucius, is this true?" Professor McGonagall raised a thin eyebrow and crossed her long fingers.
"Yes, it is."
"Why ever would you call her what you called her?"
"You want me to lie? It's true isn't it? She is one isn't it?"
McGonagall's eyes held a kind of cold fury as she spoke to Lucius, "detention for two weeks Malfoy. And I want you to apologize to Lily right now."
"I won't apologize to that Mudblood."
"A month of detention, Lucius." McGonagall stood up and walked out of the room. And Lily and James stood up after her. Lily glared at James through the corner of her eyes.
"Don't I get a kiss Evans?" He puckered his lips and leaned forward.
"Are you saying that because you want a laugh or because you want to die? I never asked for your help, Potter." Lily crossed her arms, "but thanks anyways." James laughed and put an arm around her shoulders.
"You know you love me, soon, you'll be all over me and then I'll ask you to marry me."
Lily shrugged his arm off her shoulders and turned around, "seriously, what do those girls see in you? You're arrogant and conceited." Lily paused a moment, "and I don't like you."
James faked a sob, not at al disappointed with what she had told him, "aw, Evans, you make me want to cry."
"Well, cry and drown in your tears. And you'll make the whole school happy." Lily tucked a long strand of dark red hair behind her ears.
"That's why I like you Evans, you don't throw yourself all over me." He jogged up to her and smiled, "but you know you like me, or you'll grow to like me. Everybody does except 0.01 of the school."
"So that would be about 10 people. And guess what Potter, I'm one of those people."
"You'll grow used to me." He flashed her a smile and put his arm around her.
"Me? Grow to like you?" She snorted and shrugged his arm off.
"Oh and Sirius thought your arse comeback was a masterpiece. I wouldn't be surprised if he never talks to you ever again."
"Why?"
"Because he didn't think of it himself."
Lily laughed at his response, receiving stares from passing girls with a fake smile on their face.
"Hey, did I just make Lily Evans laugh?" James grinned at her with a proud smile on his face.
"Oh, you make me laugh plenty with your stupidity." Lily shrugged off the arm that had found itself on her shoulder again and pulled her robes closer to her. Lily continued walking until she realized James was a few feet back, looking at her.
"Those robes sure cover a lot of curves." He said smiling, and Lily let go of her robes and just crossed her arms, still continuing to walk.
"It's lucky these robes are loose, because I don't want to see any more of you than I already have to." Lily walked hesitantly into her History of Magic class with James following after her.
"Why are you two late?" Professor Binns (who had to be the most boring person ever alive.. and dead) asked.
"We had to see Professor McGonagall about something." James said closing the door behind him and took a seat by his friends (who were unfortunately sitting across the room from Lily's friends and near some bimbos, much to James's disappointment.)
"Ah yes, about the confrontation in the Great Hall this morning." He turned to Lily and let loose an amused smile, "I hear your 'arse' comment is getting more popular by the moment." Embarrassedly, Lily blushed, but acted as if it were nothing big.
"Now back to our lessons on the Giant Wars and their downfall.."
Lily yawned and leaned towards Arabella, "this is what I hear right now," she yawned again, "blah, blah, blah, blah, giants, blah..."
Arabella giggled loudly, but Professor Binns just continued the lesson.
"This has got to be the most boring day in the history of Hogwarts." James muttered that day after eating a quick dinner in the Great Hall.
"But it's about to get a lot more exciting isn't it?" Sirius laughed and the 4 boys crept towards the Willow under James's invisibility cloak and Peter transformed quickly, pushing the small knob that froze the tree. Remus was shivering, but still managed to walk down. Looking around cautiously, James and Sirius transformed and followed Peter and Remus down for a night of excitement and thrills.
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How is this story so far? I'm not too proud with this chapter, but what will happen next chapter and what'll happen on the trip back home? Home means hell for Lily, but will there be any sudden changes in her plans?
Thanks to all my readers... ^_^