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Chapter 28: James Potter Is Going to Kick Your Arse

Lily inched away slowly from Snape, glaring at him with deep contempt.

"Just leave me alone, Snape."

She had tried to walk away earlier, but he actually grabbed her wrist! At first it startled and frightened her but now she was becoming annoyed, and she tried to bring back the color to her pasty complexion.

At first, the threats were about her parents, but as time went by, Snape seemed to not be able to come up with anymore graphic visions of her parent's vicious death and had moved on to other ways to agitate or frighten her.

Unfortunately, Snape was not leaving her alone. Lily had grown accustomed to hearing all of it and now little of it all was seeping into her conscience. But as she stood there, shaking from Snape's threats, she realized how much she would give to have James here right now.

"LILY!"

The voice was loud and deep. Lily turned but whirled back to where Snape was standing. Snape took one glanced towards the particular voice through his slimy follicles and fled, sliding through the students. Lily turned back around again. James was rushing towards her with such urgency that he was grasping her shoulders before she could blink.

"Are you all right?" His expression was a mixture of anger and concern.

"I'm fine." She said this unconvincingly.

"What was he doing, Lily. What was he saying?" He demanded, his voice quavering with utmost loathing.

The tone of James's voice made Lily half afraid to say anything.

"He--well…he's been…"

James watched Lily attempt to articulate and sighed when he realized how harsh he had sounded. He loosened his hands on her shoulders.

"It's okay. You don't have to tell me." He said softly. He quickly turned to where Snape had fled.

"I'll be back." He said and sprinted after Snape with rage that could not be compared to.

"Wait! James! Don't!"

But it was too late. Sirius sped pass her an instant later.

"Sirius! Please stop him!"

"Like hell!" he echoed, close behind James.

"Don't worry, Lily," came Remus's voice behind her. "I'll try."

He ran after them too. Lily stood there, unsure if to follow or stay. Kelsey and I hurried up beside her.

"He saw the two of you." I said.

Lily sighed in such away you would have thought she had a migraine. And perhaps she did.

"What do I do?"

"Let's follow them." Kelsey said. The three of us rushed out of the courtyard, our feet pounding hard against the stone.

"SNAPE!" James roared his voice so loud it was hoarse and slammed into the stone walls with intense echoes. He had never been so angry in his entire life and this affected the speed of his run-faster than he has ever run. Students stopped in their tracks to watch James sprint down the hallway. Contributing to Snape's fate, a 6th year Ravenclaw shouted,

"He went that way!"

James had little time to acknowledge who had given him this notice and furiously zoomed down the corridor.

"Prongs!" Sirius yelled behind him but James didn't stop or hesitate.

Then there was Snape.

With all the anger in his heart, James lunged at Snape, knocking Snape to the floor. Snape rolled over on the ground and tried to maneuver out from under James but James had him by the cuff of his robe. Being much lighter than James, Snape was lifted from the ground and James slammed him into a wall.

"What the hell are you trying to pull! You bloody bastard!"

Snape said nothing but the glare on his ugly face held a thousand words. The silence aggravated James further. He gritted his teeth together and jerked Snape's head close to his.

"I saved your bloody life. You're in debt to me and this is what you do? Threaten my girlfriend?" he growled, his eyes blazing. "I know you're doing it because of me, you son of a bitch, not because of her so you'd better leave her alone. If you dare talk to her again, I swear I'll—"

"James!"

James turned his head from Snape and suddenly it hit him that practically the entire student body was surrounding him and Snape. Lily was looking at him with her eyes wider than he had ever seen them. Only, her expression puzzled him. It wasn't angry or annoyed or upset. It was scared and shocked but she seemed to be siding with him. Not sympathizing with Snape like she used to.

"James, please don't. He's not worth it." She said, her voice small.

The tone of her voice hit James right in the chest. He turned back to Snape and returned Snape's look of disgust before letting go of him. Snape crumbled to the floor in a wriggling heap. James looked around him, half embarrassed at the look on everyone's faces.

"Go back to your dormitories now." He said, his voice of authority as a Head Boy should be. People did not hesitate and began to scatter. He looked at his group of friends and opened his mouth to say something, completely unsure of what to say. Suddenly, Lily and Sirius' expressions changed.

"JAMES!" they shouted simultaneously. James turned around just has Snape's fist hurled into his face. James tumbled backward and landed hard on the floor. He raised his hand to his jaw and pain exploded through his skin at his touch. At this, all the students came rushing back. Snape was clenching is crooked, yellow teeth and his contempt for James was incomparable. I slammed my hand over my mouth. Lily gasped and reached out and gripped Sirius' arm.

James was in temporary shock and before he could stand, Snape lunged at him. James' reflexes then sprang to action. He rolled out of the way and shot his leg up and kicked Snape backward. Snape flew backwards into the stone ground.

James leapt to his feet.

At this point, so had Snape.

Snape was relentless. He jumped at James again but James was too quick for him. James cranked his arm back and with a roar, shot right into Snape's nose. The crowd jumped and whooped. Snape threw another punch and so did James.

At last, James whipped out his wand before Snape and sent him crashing into a statue. Snape reached into his pocket and,

"ENOUGH!"

The entire hall froze. Everyone capable of moving turned toward the screeching voice.

It was Professor McGonagall.

"You...two." she managed, pointing at James and Snape. She was shaking from head to toe.

"You two to Professor Dumbledore's office…now. "

James and Snape followed her, bruised and bloody, leaving all the others standing there unable to do anything.

"Never in all of all my years at Hogwarts…" McGonagall murmured as she led Snape and James down the hallway. Leading them to the statue and up the secret stairwell, she stopped at Dumbledore's office door. She shot James and Snape an icy glare before knocking.

"Let them in." Dumbledore said from inside. McGonagall opened the large door and stepped out of the way and James and Snape went inside.

"James, Severus. Sit down, please."

They walked forward and sat.

Dumbledore was seated in front of them. He folded his hands on the desk and bore his eyes into them, making James quite uncomfortable.

"This incident was a bad decision on both of your parts. But because James, you are Head Boy and both of you are in your final year of Hogwarts, it would be a waste to ask either of you to leave school. You will both receive lengthy detention."

James let out a breath that he had been holding in for some time. It was just detention.

" I'm not asking you why this quarral began because it doesn't need an explanation from especially the two of you. I advise the both you to put this grudge and detestation behind you and learn to get along and work together. You are both top in the class and this contempt will not be held responsible for your actions any longer."

Dumbledore was asking for a near miracle and James and Snape both knew it. Nonetheless, they both nodded.

"You're both excused." Dumbledore said, kindly. Snape and James stood and turned to leave.

"Wait, Mr. Potter, I would like to speak to you for one moment."

James remained where he was but noticed a faint smirk and snicker from Snape before he slithered through the door.

"Yes, sir?"

"Mr. Potter, you are in a position of authority in this school and many students look up to you and Miss Evans as role models. I advise you keep your detentions to a minimum this year?" Dumbledore said, slightly chuckling.

"Yes, Professor."

"And I ask you not to take whatever Mr. Snape says personally. It's always bluff."

"I know that, sir."

"Then what possibly did he say that provoked you this time?"

" I think he's been threatening Lily for some time, sir."

"I see…and you just found out about this not that long ago, which provoked you." Dumbledore predicted.

"Yes, sir.

"And what has he been saying to Miss Evans?"

James chewed at the inside of his cheek.

"Well, I…I don't know, Professor." He said. "But whatever it is, it's put her in quite a state." He added quickly.

"I would talk to her about it, James. Before you jump to violence again."

"I will, Professor."

Dumbledore smiled.

"Well, you're excused."

James said goodbye and quickly left, eager to get back to the Common Room as soon as possible.

Just as he suspected, the instant he entered the portrait, he was pelted for information:

"Were you expelled?"

"Did you lose your badge?"

"Was SNAPE expelled?"

"Was it terrible?"

"He WASN'T expelled?"

"What happened?"

"Couldn't he have been at least SUSPENDED?"

It took some effort to manage to get everyone back to their dormitories until only a select few were in the Common Room, namely, Sirius, Lily, Remus, Peter, me, Kelsey, Alice.

"What happened, mate?" Sirius asked.

"I, uh, I get detention. A lot of detention." James said, sitting down on a couch.

"What about Snape?" Lily asked, sitting down next to him.

"Same as me."

"That's IT?" I said. "But he attacked you."

"Well, it wasn't like I didn't." He said.

"Glad you did, mate." Sirius said, slapping his back. Lily shot him a look.

"Look, I think James and Lily need to talk alone…so," I said looking at Lily. "So, Sirius, get out of here. Everyone else too."

I pushed Sirius up the stairs and Alice, Kelsey, Remus and Peter followed.

James and Lily sat alone and said nothing for a few moments.

"James, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Snape…"

"I know why you didn't. I'm lucky I didn't get expelled."

"That's what I've been afraid of."

James put his arm around her.

"It's all right. I promise he won't bother you again." He said. "Speaking of which, what was he saying?"

Lily slipped out from under his arm so she could look at him.

"It started after Cecily's parents were killed. I was walking Potions, I think, and he came up to me and started saying that the same thing was going to happen to my mum and dad and he went into extremely graphic detail and I could truly mentally picture it. It scared me, James. It really did."

"I'm sure."

"Well, I thought that was it, but he kept doing iteven whenhe couldn't think of anything else to say that would frighten me like that. It gave me nightmares and terrible visions that were too real for comfort. But instead of stopping, he just kept going."

James said nothing, letting her finish.

"Caroline—well, not just Caroline, but she's been trying to get me to tell you for weeks but I'll be honest with you James…I didn't tell you because I didn't want to become so dependant on you."

"Dependent on me? As in, not to be at your beckoning call?

"Not only that, I didn't want you to stick up for me all the time. It was my problem with Snape and you didn't need to be involved."

James sighed. "Lily, I know how independent you are. Trust me. I know too well. But, you know you can come to me if you need help. That's practically why I'm here." He said, taking her hands. "It's my job…pretty much."

Lily laughed. "I know that."

She looked down at her lap and James felt his heart melt just looking at her with strands of her dark red hair falling into her eyes, which were open but because she was looking down he could only see a sparkle of green underneath her long lashes. James bent his head slightly so he could see more of her face and smiled.

"So are we okay?"

Lily looked up at him and smiled.

"Were we ever not?"

James grinned.

"I guess not.

Lily smiled.

"Don't worry about me, James. I'm fine."

"Okay."

She kissed him before frowning at him.

"Merlin, James. He really beat your face up hard." She said wincing as she raised her hands to his bruised face.

"Its fine, Lil, I'll—"

"No, stand still." She insisted. Taking out her wand, she conjured at handkerchief. She lifted his chin, and dabbed at the now dried blood and bruises. Suddenly remembering a spell from Charms, she was able to reduce the swelling with the assistance of her fingers which she brushed over the bruises just for James' own comfort.

"There. That'll do." She said, giving his face another examination before feeling completely satisfied. "Any better?"

"Yeah, much better."

"Good." She said, smiling. Letting out a slight sigh, she stood up.

"I didn't sleep well last night, so I better, you know, go to bed."

"Yeah. Yeah, me too." James said, standing up quickly. He held out his hand, giving her a lopsided grin. She took it and they walked up the dormitory stairs together.

A/N: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I haven't updated in FOR-EV-ER! I am soooo sorry. Truly! Well, good thing is, school is out and I passed algebra so I'm all good for some major writing this summer! Yay! So much time! excitement Anyways, I've decided I'm taking too long in seventh year (I'm not even at Christmas break yet! Although it's only a few days away) so expect in the next chapter to be in at least February. Haha. Slow, silly me. THANK ALL OF YOU FOR SUCH SWEET REVIEWS! Really motivates me to get these chapters out! Really appreciate it. Good bye!