Siriusprotégé
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A fine line between love and hate
Disclaimer: Every thing you read here belongs to the wonderful J K Rowling and not me! Everything you don't recognize as J K Rowlings' is mine! Thanks to the over-active imagination of a 15 year old girl.
Summary: Unlike many girls in her year Lily Evans did not fall for the good looks or charm of James Potter. However James did fall for the fiery red head. What's a guy to do?
"In great times it is enough to have striven."
Chapter one:
Lily ran as fast as she could to her dorm. When she finally reached it, she grabbed the first thing she could and threw it as hard as she could at the wall, screaming with rage. She caught sight of her face in the mirror and threw a book at it.
Lily Evans was easily one of the most stunning girls at Hogwarts. However at the moment, her face red from anger, and her eyes puffy from tears she somewhat resembled a mad banshee. Screaming loudly she finally collapsed on her bed exhausted by her tantrum, and buried her face in her pillows.
The door slowly squeaked open to reveal a petite girl with long black hair. Her large Egyptian eyes slowly took in Lily's bedraggled appearance. Lily looked over and saw her best-friends small figure lounging in the doorway. Her small face slightly marred as her usual mocking mouth was set in a thin line of…could it be annoyance?
Cat casually drawled "You done yet?"
"You look annoyed" Lily sniffed
"That could be because I am." Cat replied in a way which suggested she was having trouble controlling her emotions.
"But... you never get angry. You're always the one that keeps her head" Lily exclaimed, confused.
"Potter" she spat out his name in disgust, "and the rest of his despicable gang were completely out of order!" this was quickly followed by a short, sharp growl coming from the back of Cat's throat. She saw the look of concern on Lily's face and smiled at her "don't worry I've got it under control"
"OH MY GOD "a voice screamed from the common room and someone could be heard rushing up the stairs. An amused look passed over Cat's face and her usual mocking mouth was back. Lily just buried her face and screamed silently into a pillow. Cat stepped out of the doorway and jumped easily on to her bed. Suddenly a girl with short curly blonde hair and big, blue eyes rushed into the room, her tall, athletic figure shaking with annoyance "What did Potter think he was doing?" she demanded of the two other girls furiously.
Cat rolled her eyes, did she really believe Potter thought? Jo ignored her and focused on Lily,
"Are you ok? I just heard! I had no idea that was why you weren't in class! Don't worry about them Lils, Cat and I will make them pay for it, won't we?" her quizzical face relaxed when she heard a curt, positive grunt from Cat's direction. Lily and Jo looked at her with identical expressions of worry.
"What?" Cat asked in a short, posh voice, "I've got it under control!" apparently Jo found this satisfactory and Lily took it as her cue to suddenly jump up, yet again full of redhead fury, her petite figure shaking with rage.
"Damn Potter! Why of all the people in the school does he have to choose me? Why, of all the pleasant lives he could mess up, did he decide to pick mine? WHY?" she demanded furiously, but continued before either of the other two could interrupt "It's unethical, stupid, and I hope the git rots in a fiery hell!" she exploded.
"Potter, would be kicked out of Hell," Quipped Jo, trying to cover up the awkward silence. Lily didn't usually speak or shout like that. Cat was looking oddly envious at her. Cat finally lost the jealous expression and began to chuckle softly.
"Looks like we won't have to make them pay after all Jo" and then added as an after thought "pity I was looking forward to doing something awful to them!" Lily snorted and smiled at her friends.
"It's just" she let out a small breath before continuing, "It's always me he has to drive up the wall and no one else. He's nice to both of you, and the twins." Lily referred to their two absent dorm mates, Lucy and Suzie. "But when it comes to me he just has to pick and pick and pick!" she finished, sitting back down on her bed. She looked at her two friends, sighing she spoke again "I'm going to go to supper. I'll have to face them sooner or later. You guys coming?"
"Yeah we'll be down in a sec Lils you go ahead." Jo replied. Lily nodded and left the room. Cat looked at Jo expectantly one of her shaped eyebrows raised.
"What did he do to her?"
Cat shot her a quizzical glance "I thought you said you found out?" Cat jumped up from her bed and frowned at Jo.
"I found out she was in the hospital wing all day, but I didn't find out what he did and said to her, it must have been pretty bad to get you worked up. I'm assuming you were there." She added as an afterthought.
"I was" Cat replied walking casually out of the door with Jo following," she busted up some randy couple and he made a snide comment about how she didn't have a social life, she yelled something back and then they had one of their usual "marital spats." He had had enough and went on about how nobody could ever like her because she was such a stuck up goody-to-shoes." Jo gasped as Cat paused to let it sink in, "Well you know how self-conscious she is about that. He really hit a sore point. So naturally she reached for her wand, but before she could use it he transfigured her hands the wrong way round and then decided it would be hilarious to taunt her before," she paused, embarrassed for her friend, "turning her bright green. Of course everybody laughed heartily and I had to get her to the hospital wing whilst trying to stop myself from, well, you know what."
"Ummmm." Jo replied at last, "Why is she so bloody self conscious? She is easily the prettiest girl in Hogwarts."
"It's not important to her Jo. Lils is not going to muck up her future just to get a boyfriend. She doesn't want to be someone she's not, doesn't want to demean her self, and she doesn't want to compromise her morals, for the sake of some guy. Sometimes I think she's the one who makes sense." Cat sighed, then smiled mischieviously "but most of the time, I think she is completely mad!"
"You know," mused Jo "For someone whose intelligence resembles Crabbes, you may have, just this once, realised something before me!" Cat cast a side ways glance at her, narrowing her eyes, what was Jo leading up to? "So why do you think Potter treats Lily the way he does?" Jo finally looked at Cat. Her eyes wide and innocent.
Cat groaned, "how did I guess you were going to ask me something I wasn't going to like?"
"I know you've thought about it Cat! I've even heard you talking to Remus Lupin about it, you have a theory and you are going to tell me."
"Alright, alright. My theory is." She paused for effect "there's a fine line between love and hate!" Cat said grinning
"What does that mean?" Jo looked confused
Cat carried on grinning "exactly what it says! When you figure it out you'll be wise enough to tell," she smiled archly, "and until then good luck" with that Cat glided in to the great hall and slid on to the seat beside Lily. Jo carried on looking confused but she followed Cat all the same.
James spat out his drink when he saw Lily enter the great hall for supper that night and erupted into, lucky for him, silent laughter. She was bright red from embarrassment and hurried to a seat next to the twins.
Sirius kicked him from under the table "OY. Prongs watch where you spit that stuff, mate. What's so funny?" he exclaimed looking around wildly for the source of James' laughter, frowning when he couldn't find it.
Gasping for air James pointed at Lily "Look….at….Evans!" was all he managed to answer before bursting into a more audible laughter.
Sirius looked and smirked, not really finding anything funny about Lily's face being almost as red as her hair "You know if Remus wasn't ill he would have killed you for doing that to Evans."
"I know" James grinned wickedly "that why I took one of these rare opportunities to indulge myself." Tearing his eyes off of Lily he looked seriously at Sirius "uh Padfoot you don't think Remus has a crush on Evans do you? It's just, I wouldn't want to hurt his chances with her but, I, er I wouldn't want to stop hexing her either."
Sirius looked at him wickedly for a moment before answering "Nah they're just mates. You know he's had the biggest crush on Jo Thomas for years!"
"Oh Yeah!" James frowned then brightened, "That's a relief!" he replied rather absently whilst grinning charmingly at a pretty Ravenclaw that walked past, "Anyway I've got to go I'll, er, see you later!" grinning rather charmingly, a wicked gleam in his eyes he set off after the pretty Ravenclaw girl.
Sirius laughed charismatically before glancing at his watch "What are you up to now Wormtail?" Peter looked at Sirius' watch as well,
"I've got a date with Charlotte."
"Again!"
"Yeah," smiled Peter, "She's great!"
"woo… go Pete! Where are you meeting Charlotte? We can walk together, don't wan to be late do we?" and with that the two walked out of the great hall at a speed that really would have been quite remarkable if they'd thought about it.
Lily tried to ignore the spluttering boy further up the table and sat down near her friends. Not long after she had sat down Cat and Jo arrived and sat down next to her, Jo looking a little confused. A tall dark haired boy with raven black hair and eyes identical to Cat's came up and put his hands over his sister's eyes grinning as she tried to guess. "Er…Charlie? O no he's left" she tried her second eldest brother who had just left and had been head boy," no er…..Tom?" Cat tried her twin who was in Ravenclaw and a beater for their team, "well it's defiantly not George" she muttered, "because he left when I was in second year…. Not Charlie" she reasoned "because he left last year and not Tom so you must be….. Johnny!" Johnny was Cat's third brother and the Gryffindor Quidditch captain.
"About bloody time!" he said taking his hands off his little sister's eyes, his handsome face twisted into a look of exasperation. She wrinkled her nose at him before smiling.
"Well you're all so similar how was I to know? Anyway what do you want?"
"We are not similar! Are we?" Johnny appealed to Cat's two friends. Lily and Jo had both seen all of Cat's rather large family.
Lily had gone to stay with Cat last Easter when her parents had been having a lot of trouble with Petunia, Lily's older, muggle, sister. Lily had asked to stay with her over the summer holidays as well. Jo had joined them at the Eliot's house, which was actually more like a castle, and they had, very quickly, become one of the family. However this meant that Cat's unruly brothers now considered Lily and Jo sisters, and as well as being ridiculously over-protective of them, they also insisted in dragging them in to any argument they had with their real sister.
Lily looked up at Johnny boldly, "As much as I hate to say it you are an awful lot like your brothers!"
"Traitor" he muttered, glaring playfully at her, "Anyway just wanted to let you know that there will be a Quidditch practice at six tonight. Alright?" Cat groaned and rolled her eyes,
"Don't do that." He chided her gently suddenly turning on his heel and was just about to walk away when he turned around again "O you wouldn't happen to know where Potter and Black are do you?"
"Like I'd know where those bastards are!" Cat snarled. Her sentiments mirrored by the horrified looks her friends had on their faces, imagine Johnny thinking that they would know where those imbeciles are!
"Hey you like them well enough on the pitch! And they are in you year I just thought you'd know." He frowned slightly; he couldn't fathom Cat and her friends sometimes.
"It's alright." Lucy, one of the twins spoke up, sounding very put out, "James is chatting up a Ravenclaw girl over there and Sirius is somewhere with Emily Brown from Huffelpuff. Try the Astronomy tower, I hear she's got a thing for stars."
"Thanks" he said gratefully.
Suddenly Lily's eyes lit up with a mischievous glint "Hey do you still want to help me get Potter back for turning me green?"
"Yes. Of course we do! What kind of question is that?" Cat's eyes suddenly became big, "what are you thinking?" she asked softly, her eyes catching the glint that was in Lily's eyes.
"Come here." She motioned for them to lean in so that the twins wouldn't hear.
A few seconds later Cat leaned back laughing evilly, "That is brilliant!" she exclaimed grinning from ear to ear. She looked at her watch "why don't I go and start faze one?"
Grinning wickedly she got up and hurried out of the great hall. Lily and Jo looked at each other grinning, before following her out.
The twins exchanged a look "You know, when they look like that, it always reminds me of the marauders just before a prank, and it always makes me worry." Lucy sighed.
Suzie looked up and recognised the look on her twins' face, "I refuse to get involved. As far as I'm concerned James deserves whatever she throws at him." Knowing that Lucy would never do anything without her Suzie felt safe that whatever the girls were planning wouldn't be ruined, Emily Brown may have a thing for stars, but Lucy had a thing for James Potter. However Suzie, was in fact quite looking forward to seeing what they had in mind.
A/N: This chapter's mood was set by "wherever you will go" by the Calling
Hey! Well this is my first fanfic so if it's a little bad I'm sorry. I feel I should warn you I have a very over-active and far fetched imagination. Any ways please review because I would like to hear your suggestions!
A/N 2: Okay this is a repost my BETA insisted on else she was going to slaughter herself for doing such a bad job. She still thinks that she could do better but c'est la vie! I refused! ;) hehe
