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Love in the Third Degree
Chapter 2
".....euh, let me think...no!" With that James turned around and left in a hurry for Quidditch practice.
Lily sighed and fell back into an overstuffed chair by the fire. She hadn't expected to be turned down so quickly. She started to think of another approach when Megan came skipping down over to Lily, giggling.
"So, it isn't easy as you thought, is it?" Lily mumbled to herself somewhere along the lines of 'stupid Potter.'
"Well, he was just in a hurry, if we had more time I'm sure he'd say yes." Lily said, as if reassuring herself. "Besides, there's always tomorrow!" she smiled at Megan, who rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say Lily..."
"Oh, just forget about Potter, let's get started on our History of Magic report, it's due tomorrow, and I haven't even started!" Lily was trying to get off the subject of her failure.
"Can't, I've already finished it, plus I've got to go write an owl to my parents, they get worried if I don't send one about, oh, every day! They are way too over protective of me!"
Megan walked up to the girls dormitories, leaving Lily to get started on her homework. Professor Binns had assigned a two foot (A/N: I know it's supposed to be feet, but for some reason this sounded better!) long report on the history of giants. So far Lily's parchment looked like this:
The history of giants began with
She had a lot to do, so she got down to work. After nearly three hours of writing she looked finished, leaned back into the comfy chair and fell fast asleep...
*****
In front of Lily stood a giant, grinning maliciously at her. She was scared, very scared. The giant stomped towards her laughing evilly. Lily tried to run, but her feet wouldn't take her anywhere. She was near tears when out of nowhere James Potter appeared, sword in hand. He tried to protect her, but the giant just laughed and ate James. (A/N: this part is really stupid and pointless, but I just had to put in SOME kinda dream. So if you don't like this just skip over the dream!!) Then the giant turned to her and called out her name. "Lily?Lily?"...
"Lily?Lily?" Megan was standing in front of the chair that held Lily, gently shaking her awake. "Wake up!"
"What? Giants? James?" Lily said groggily, slowly attempting to rise up from the chair. "OK, you have been working on this for WAY to long." Megan said this, yawned, and yanked Lily's arm to get her up. She pulled her all the way up to the girls dorms where Lily instantly fell into her bed, dreaming of more giants, and of course James Potter.
*****
Lily awoke up early the next morning, her head swarming with last night's dream. 'Why the heck was a dreaming of James Potter? O well, he ended up getting eaten,' she smiled to herself.
She decided to get the day started early, heading down to breakfast alone, but half way down the stairs she stopped. Her report! She was staring at the table in front of the chair where she had fallen asleep the previous night. On the table Lily's books, quill, and scribbled on parchments were scattered all over, but missing was her two foot long parchment that she had worked on so very hard last night.
Lily was frantic, she began searching through the mess, while thinking how she could have done this. 'I can't believe I left it here! I must have been too tired last night and forgotten, how could I have been so stupid! Potter must have gotten a hold of it some how.' Finally giving up, Lily packed up her stuff and headed for the Library to hurriedly rewrite her report. 'I'm definitely going to get him back for this!'
*****
An hour and a half later Lily scurried to her seat in History of Magic, her first class of the day. Looking down at the sloppy looking parchment in front of her, she had decided that this was not her best work.
Megan was in the seat next to Lily also viewing the report. "Why weren't you at breakfast, I waited for you. And what happened to your report? Er...I mean, usually your papers look a little...neater..." Megan was trying her best to not sound like she was insulting her paper.
"Yah, well usually my papers aren't stolen by a certain, annoying, black haired boy," Lily snapped back at the wide eyed Megan. "Sorry, it's just that I've spent the last hour rewriting this stupid assignment and it's not nearly as good as the original. I'm also wondering what Potter did with my real report, I mean it's not his style to just steal my assignment, there has to be more to it." Lily thought hard, but was interrupted by the dull Professor Binns.
"Well class, I see that most of you have your reports done." Peter Pettigrew face grew red as the Professor looked at him sternly when emphasizing 'most.' Lily felt a little sorry for the short boy, a friend of James Potter and his gang. Lily was just thinking of how different he was from the rest of the bunch, when James, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin ran into the room and found seats in the back corner of the room. Lily rolled her eyes, it was just like them to come to class late.
Professor Binns didn't even give them a chance to explain, he just simply said, "Ten points from Gryffindor boys, this is the third time in a row that you've been late to my class." Sirius didn't seem to care much, he was quite used to it.
The class continued on, listening to the Professor drone on and on about trolls of the 16th Century. Lily looked over at Sirius, who was sleeping on the desk, his head propped up on his History of Magic book. She wondered if what Megan said was true, if Sirius really did like her. He was cute, very cute in fact. Megan noticed who Lily was staring at. "So you do like, Sirius, don't you?" she whispered making sure not to get the attention of the teacher at the front of the class still lecturing on trolls, sounding if it came straight a text book (which it most likely did).
"No, I don't like him, but I do have to admit he is *extremely* cute" Lily whispered back, holding back giggles. The girls both became silent, trying their best to follow along to what was going on in the class. For Lily it wasn't working. Now her thoughts were turning to Remus, he seemed like a quiet boy in class, but she knew better. He was always in on the pranks James, Sirius, and Peter (even though he wasn't much help, not being too good at any particular subject) were pulling, mostly on Lily. Still, overall Remus was probably the nicest of the marauding bunch. In fact, he was one of the first people she had met when coming to Hogwarts, he had helped her with the tricky platform.
Now that Lily thought about it, she couldn't really think of why she didn't like Remus, Peter, or Sirius. Probably the only thing holding them back from being friends was James. He caused all her problems!
After what seemed like hours the bell finally rang. Lily immediately ran up to the table where James and Remus were stuffing their books into their bags, Sirius lifting his head off his book realizing that class was over. When he saw Lily he instantly straightened up. "Why hello Lily, what brings you over here?" he said grinning at her. She smiled back but then turned to James. "You!"
"What about me?" James asked her attempting to look innocent.
"You know what I'm talking about! What'd you do to my report? I know you stole it!" Lily was having a hard time controlling her mounting anger.
"I know nothing of this alleged 'stolen' report."
"Oh, just the cut the act James, I know you did something with it! And now, thanks to you, I'm probably gonna fail this stupid class!" Sirius stepped back, with a hint of a smile on his face. "We better be going," he started tugging on Remus and James' robes. "We'll talk to you later Lily!"
Once safely out of the way from Lily, Sirius and Remus turned to James in the hall. "What'd you do that for?" Sirius asked sounding slightly annoyed, "You know I like her! I want to be on her good side!"
"I couldn't help it, I mean it was the perfect opportunity. Last night I came in really late from practice, and saw her sleeping at that paper just sitting there. She's doing better than me in History of Magic, so I figured it'd be to my advantage if she had a little set back. I mean, one little report won't hurt her!" James didn't look even slightly resentful for what he did. "Besides, she doesn't like you!"
"Really then, who does she like?" Sirius asked curiously. Remus just stood to their side, observing the whole thing.
James laughed, "This is hillarious, but she actually likes me!"
"What?! Ya right, you wish!"
"Hey, I don't like it better than you, but last night you should have seen the way she was acting towards me! It was really scary. She actually called me James and even offered to tutor me in Charms!"
Sirius did not look pleased, so he stalked off toward Potions, dragging Remus behind him.
Meanwhile, Lily stayed behind to explain to Professor Binns what happened. Of course she didn't tell him the whole story, she simply explained that she misplaced it and she was extremely sorry for the condition of her report. He simply nodded, leaving Lily to pray that he'd feel even just a little sorry for her and grade her higher.
Walking out of the room she thought about the mess she'd gotten herself into. 'Why did I make that stupid bet? I can't stand that Potter! This is going to be much more difficult than she originally planned..." Her thoughts drifted to the another approach she could take as she walked down the stairs to the dungeon for Potions...
A/N: I didn't like how this chapter turned out, but o well. I decided to go ahead and write even though I only have 9 reviews!! I kinda hurried this along, and that first part was completely pointless. And sorry for any errors, i wrote this in ahurry, but i did run it through spell check!!But neways, please review!! Thanks to:
Kelley Belly
kjm (is that supposed to be kim?)
:) (cool name)
Ana:)
kjsehfagjkwflqhnafwkoenjafkgynajfh (whatever, thanks!)
Snowbear
Twilight and Silence
Ariana
ginny5
thanx!!
Love in the Third Degree
Chapter 2
".....euh, let me think...no!" With that James turned around and left in a hurry for Quidditch practice.
Lily sighed and fell back into an overstuffed chair by the fire. She hadn't expected to be turned down so quickly. She started to think of another approach when Megan came skipping down over to Lily, giggling.
"So, it isn't easy as you thought, is it?" Lily mumbled to herself somewhere along the lines of 'stupid Potter.'
"Well, he was just in a hurry, if we had more time I'm sure he'd say yes." Lily said, as if reassuring herself. "Besides, there's always tomorrow!" she smiled at Megan, who rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say Lily..."
"Oh, just forget about Potter, let's get started on our History of Magic report, it's due tomorrow, and I haven't even started!" Lily was trying to get off the subject of her failure.
"Can't, I've already finished it, plus I've got to go write an owl to my parents, they get worried if I don't send one about, oh, every day! They are way too over protective of me!"
Megan walked up to the girls dormitories, leaving Lily to get started on her homework. Professor Binns had assigned a two foot (A/N: I know it's supposed to be feet, but for some reason this sounded better!) long report on the history of giants. So far Lily's parchment looked like this:
The history of giants began with
She had a lot to do, so she got down to work. After nearly three hours of writing she looked finished, leaned back into the comfy chair and fell fast asleep...
*****
In front of Lily stood a giant, grinning maliciously at her. She was scared, very scared. The giant stomped towards her laughing evilly. Lily tried to run, but her feet wouldn't take her anywhere. She was near tears when out of nowhere James Potter appeared, sword in hand. He tried to protect her, but the giant just laughed and ate James. (A/N: this part is really stupid and pointless, but I just had to put in SOME kinda dream. So if you don't like this just skip over the dream!!) Then the giant turned to her and called out her name. "Lily?Lily?"...
"Lily?Lily?" Megan was standing in front of the chair that held Lily, gently shaking her awake. "Wake up!"
"What? Giants? James?" Lily said groggily, slowly attempting to rise up from the chair. "OK, you have been working on this for WAY to long." Megan said this, yawned, and yanked Lily's arm to get her up. She pulled her all the way up to the girls dorms where Lily instantly fell into her bed, dreaming of more giants, and of course James Potter.
*****
Lily awoke up early the next morning, her head swarming with last night's dream. 'Why the heck was a dreaming of James Potter? O well, he ended up getting eaten,' she smiled to herself.
She decided to get the day started early, heading down to breakfast alone, but half way down the stairs she stopped. Her report! She was staring at the table in front of the chair where she had fallen asleep the previous night. On the table Lily's books, quill, and scribbled on parchments were scattered all over, but missing was her two foot long parchment that she had worked on so very hard last night.
Lily was frantic, she began searching through the mess, while thinking how she could have done this. 'I can't believe I left it here! I must have been too tired last night and forgotten, how could I have been so stupid! Potter must have gotten a hold of it some how.' Finally giving up, Lily packed up her stuff and headed for the Library to hurriedly rewrite her report. 'I'm definitely going to get him back for this!'
*****
An hour and a half later Lily scurried to her seat in History of Magic, her first class of the day. Looking down at the sloppy looking parchment in front of her, she had decided that this was not her best work.
Megan was in the seat next to Lily also viewing the report. "Why weren't you at breakfast, I waited for you. And what happened to your report? Er...I mean, usually your papers look a little...neater..." Megan was trying her best to not sound like she was insulting her paper.
"Yah, well usually my papers aren't stolen by a certain, annoying, black haired boy," Lily snapped back at the wide eyed Megan. "Sorry, it's just that I've spent the last hour rewriting this stupid assignment and it's not nearly as good as the original. I'm also wondering what Potter did with my real report, I mean it's not his style to just steal my assignment, there has to be more to it." Lily thought hard, but was interrupted by the dull Professor Binns.
"Well class, I see that most of you have your reports done." Peter Pettigrew face grew red as the Professor looked at him sternly when emphasizing 'most.' Lily felt a little sorry for the short boy, a friend of James Potter and his gang. Lily was just thinking of how different he was from the rest of the bunch, when James, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin ran into the room and found seats in the back corner of the room. Lily rolled her eyes, it was just like them to come to class late.
Professor Binns didn't even give them a chance to explain, he just simply said, "Ten points from Gryffindor boys, this is the third time in a row that you've been late to my class." Sirius didn't seem to care much, he was quite used to it.
The class continued on, listening to the Professor drone on and on about trolls of the 16th Century. Lily looked over at Sirius, who was sleeping on the desk, his head propped up on his History of Magic book. She wondered if what Megan said was true, if Sirius really did like her. He was cute, very cute in fact. Megan noticed who Lily was staring at. "So you do like, Sirius, don't you?" she whispered making sure not to get the attention of the teacher at the front of the class still lecturing on trolls, sounding if it came straight a text book (which it most likely did).
"No, I don't like him, but I do have to admit he is *extremely* cute" Lily whispered back, holding back giggles. The girls both became silent, trying their best to follow along to what was going on in the class. For Lily it wasn't working. Now her thoughts were turning to Remus, he seemed like a quiet boy in class, but she knew better. He was always in on the pranks James, Sirius, and Peter (even though he wasn't much help, not being too good at any particular subject) were pulling, mostly on Lily. Still, overall Remus was probably the nicest of the marauding bunch. In fact, he was one of the first people she had met when coming to Hogwarts, he had helped her with the tricky platform.
Now that Lily thought about it, she couldn't really think of why she didn't like Remus, Peter, or Sirius. Probably the only thing holding them back from being friends was James. He caused all her problems!
After what seemed like hours the bell finally rang. Lily immediately ran up to the table where James and Remus were stuffing their books into their bags, Sirius lifting his head off his book realizing that class was over. When he saw Lily he instantly straightened up. "Why hello Lily, what brings you over here?" he said grinning at her. She smiled back but then turned to James. "You!"
"What about me?" James asked her attempting to look innocent.
"You know what I'm talking about! What'd you do to my report? I know you stole it!" Lily was having a hard time controlling her mounting anger.
"I know nothing of this alleged 'stolen' report."
"Oh, just the cut the act James, I know you did something with it! And now, thanks to you, I'm probably gonna fail this stupid class!" Sirius stepped back, with a hint of a smile on his face. "We better be going," he started tugging on Remus and James' robes. "We'll talk to you later Lily!"
Once safely out of the way from Lily, Sirius and Remus turned to James in the hall. "What'd you do that for?" Sirius asked sounding slightly annoyed, "You know I like her! I want to be on her good side!"
"I couldn't help it, I mean it was the perfect opportunity. Last night I came in really late from practice, and saw her sleeping at that paper just sitting there. She's doing better than me in History of Magic, so I figured it'd be to my advantage if she had a little set back. I mean, one little report won't hurt her!" James didn't look even slightly resentful for what he did. "Besides, she doesn't like you!"
"Really then, who does she like?" Sirius asked curiously. Remus just stood to their side, observing the whole thing.
James laughed, "This is hillarious, but she actually likes me!"
"What?! Ya right, you wish!"
"Hey, I don't like it better than you, but last night you should have seen the way she was acting towards me! It was really scary. She actually called me James and even offered to tutor me in Charms!"
Sirius did not look pleased, so he stalked off toward Potions, dragging Remus behind him.
Meanwhile, Lily stayed behind to explain to Professor Binns what happened. Of course she didn't tell him the whole story, she simply explained that she misplaced it and she was extremely sorry for the condition of her report. He simply nodded, leaving Lily to pray that he'd feel even just a little sorry for her and grade her higher.
Walking out of the room she thought about the mess she'd gotten herself into. 'Why did I make that stupid bet? I can't stand that Potter! This is going to be much more difficult than she originally planned..." Her thoughts drifted to the another approach she could take as she walked down the stairs to the dungeon for Potions...
A/N: I didn't like how this chapter turned out, but o well. I decided to go ahead and write even though I only have 9 reviews!! I kinda hurried this along, and that first part was completely pointless. And sorry for any errors, i wrote this in ahurry, but i did run it through spell check!!But neways, please review!! Thanks to:
Kelley Belly
kjm (is that supposed to be kim?)
:) (cool name)
Ana:)
kjsehfagjkwflqhnafwkoenjafkgynajfh (whatever, thanks!)
Snowbear
Twilight and Silence
Ariana
ginny5
thanx!!