Disclaimer: i don't own harry potter and i'm quite happy about it because i believe Miss Rowling is doing a great job all by herself (discluding that INCIDENT in book 5)
A/N: 160 POINTS TO CRAZY4PADFOOT! CRAZY4PADFOOT COLLECTS 160 POINTS FOR (insert house here) AND WINS THE GAME!
Chapter Three - Dunnn, dun, dun, dun-
Severus looked up, heart pounding. He WOULD run into someone on a night like this. And it just WOULD be Evans. He sometimes wondered if it was ONLY the whole world that was working against him.
Evans stared back at him, her eyes wide with - 'Well, well, well,' Severus thought. 'Is this fear, I see?'
"Are you okay?" she suddenly asked. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been running."
Severus just stared at her. Evans WOULD apologize. Even though he wasn't supposed to be out of bed. And she knew it. 'Stupid Mudbloods,' he thought. 'Better yet, the whole Gryffindor lot.'
She looked down at him, and extended a hand, smiling. "Then again," she said, "you really should be in the bed."
He sneered at her outstretched hand, and stood up. "Don't you think I've been knocked on the ground enough that I know how to get up by now?" he said, snidely.
Evans blinked, but she quickly recovered. "I wouldn't know. I'm not a Slytherin myself, but I heard they were a SLOW lot." Her hands were on her hips, and her eyes were shooting fiery sparks at him.
Severus glared at her, and then a slow grin spread across his face. Evans saw this and actually stepped back in shock. "What?" she asked, looking around. "What?"
He smirked. "You're more like your BOYFRIEND then I thought," he said. "Only your boyfriend isn't as sneaky."
"My what?" she snapped, her eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Your 'ickle honeybunch,'" Severus said, trying to stop the urge to roll his eyes. It was such a "Gryffindor" thing to do.
"Don't you dare say it!" Evans shouted. "That, that! That rotten pea brain is NOT my boyfriend!"
Severus just looked at her. "So what are you doing out of bed, then? If not meeting with Potter?"
"I'm Headgirl!" she said, clearly frustrated. "What are YOU doing out of bed?"
Severus avoided the question by trying to change the subject. "Sometimes you're too nosy for your own good, Evans. That could get you into trouble," he said in a quiet voice, so that he was almost whispering.
Evans glared at him. Just then, he couldn't help thinking that she was really beautiful, even if she was a mudblood, and a Gryffindor. A few strands of her long, vibrant, red hair was strewn across her forehead and falling into her eyes. Her face was flushed in anger, and her lips were lusciously red, like blood -
Severus suddenly turned on his heel angrily. "GO TO BED, EVANS!" he yelled.
The force of his voice surprised even him. A surprised expression flickered across her face. "I'M HEADGIRL!" she retorted.
"BEING HEADGIRL WON'T SAVE YOU FROM A WEREWOLF!" Severus yelled back before he could stop himself. 'Damn it to hell,' he cursed himself.
"What?" she whispered.
"I'm a Slytherin, Evans. You shouldn't be associating with me. How would it look for you?" Severus started away.
"No, tell me what you mean!" she said, hurrying after him.
"I said, go to bed, Evans," Severus repeated. He walked faster.
Evans suddenly grabbed his arm. He froze, and she dropped it. "Sorry," she whispered. "But, I have to know what you mean. You can't just NOT tell me. I'll - I'll deduct points from your house!"
Severus felt like laughing, something he hadn't done in forever. "Do you REALLY think I care about something like that, Evans? It's pathetic."
"Severus," she muttered.
He turned around. She KNEW his NAME? His actual name? He couldn't remember the last time someone had said his name. The professors called him Snape, the other students didn't even talk to him, and Potter and his gang called him Snivellus. He bristled at the thought - SNIVELLUS!
"Please?" she asked, her beautiful green eyes pleading at him.
He forced himself to look away from her. She could hypnotize him with those eyes. "No," he said shortly.
She took a deep breath. "Fine. Fine, then, I apologize. I shouldn't have been talking about you in the library. I shouldn't have even been talking. I won't talk anymore. How's that?"
"I don't repeat myself," he said stubbornly.
"So say yes this time," she said, smiling slightly. Her lips! What was it about them that made him so - ?
He shook his head jerkily, and backed away.
"Severus, if there's a werewolf in this school, I should KNOW about it. DUMBLEDORE should know about it. It's a danger to the other students." Her eyes stared at him pleadingly.
"Leave me alone," Severus muttered. She finally gave up. He was relieved. He could tell she had given up by the way her shoulders slumped.
"Okay. Okay, I'll leave you alone. It's what you want, right? And I suppose you don't HAVE to tell me," she said, finally turning around, and admitting her defeat. "G'nite, then, Severus."
He walked away without a word. Evans was a being he had let to figure out.
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Lily took a deep breath, and followed quietly behind Severus. It wasn't as if he could do anything. After all, she WAS Headgirl, right? He couldn't very well order her off to bed like he had tried to do. And she couldn't very well get into trouble. After all, it was almost sunrise, anyway. If one of the professors saw her, she could just say that she had woken up early and decided to patrol. She'd be dead tired tomorrow for sure. But, it was the weekend, and it was Hogsmeade weekend as well. She could always stay behind while Kathryn, and Patricia went without her. Hey, they could even take that Hufflepuff girl, Esther that they were always talking about.
She rounded the same corner Severus had rounded, and was suddenly grabbed, and thrown roughly up against the wall. Her cry of pain was muffled as her attacker put one cold hand over her mouth. She opened her eyes and found that she was face-to-face with Severus.
He bared his teeth at her. "I could kill you right now, Evans," he said, calmly, as she stared into his eyes, defiantly. To be honest, his dark eyes scared her. They held no depth, no warmth. So cold.
He took his hand from over her mouth, but still held her against the wall. Her heartbeat was going a mile a minute. "Do you really want to know what Potter is up to?" he asked her.
"Yes," she whispered, instantly curious.
He backed away from her, and closed his eyes for a moment. She couldn't really tell what his face expression was as his hair seemed to cover it all. 'It was almost like a veil, really,' she thought. 'Like a mask to hide the real Severus Snape.'
"Follow me," he said, his voice sounding hollow and wooden. "It should be safe now," he muttered, almost to himself.
Lily followed wordlessly. She was dying to know what exactly was going on. Severus led her to the main doors of Hogwarts, and stopped.
"What?" she asked, breathlessly.
He glanced up at her and opened the doors. There was a crazy glint in his eyes - one that particularly frightened Lily. She shivered and stepped forward out into the very early morning air.
Suddenly, she froze as her mouth opened in a silent scream of horror.
(A/N: this would be the perfect place to have a cliffhanger, but I'm not THAT coldhearted. Well, Hilda would say differently, but you can't believe her, now can you?)
Lily screamed aloud. There was a WEREWOLF running straight at her! She was frozen. She couldn't move! The werewolf suddenly stopped and stared. Lily couldn't breathe. She was going to die! She was going to die right here at Hogwarts! And it was all Potter's fault!
She swallowed, fumbling for her wand inside her wand. Then, she realized she had forgotten her wand back in the room.
(A/N: again, this would be another perfect place to have a cliffhanger, but again, I'm not THIS mean either)
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James Potter had just finished transforming back into a human from a stag, when he heard a high-pitched scream coming from the direction Remus had dashed off toward. "Oh, shit!" he whispered, and took off running toward the building, yanking his wand out from his robes.
Nearing the front door, his eyes opened wide, and his insides froze. Lily Evans! It was LILY EVANS! And Remus was - !
"REMUS, NO!" he bellowed. Out of nowhere, a huge black dog (Sirius) suddenly slammed into the werewolf, knocking both of them to the ground. James saw Lily slump to the ground out of the corner of his eye.
The sun was coming up. James looked over to where Remus and Sirius were. Remus was screaming as he transformed back into a human. It was painful, James knew, but he wasn't worried about Remus. He was worried about Lily. More like terrified. WHAT IF REMUS HAD BITTEN LILY? 'Well, there'd be one more marauder,' he thought subconsciously. He shook his head. He had to see if Lily was okay.
He ran up to the doors, and stopped short. "SNIVELLUS!?" he exclaimed. "What the hell!?"
Lily was on the ground, having fainted and Snape was attempting to pick her up.
Snape suddenly spun around and growled. "What did you and your STUPID friends do to her, Potter?"
"WHAT?" James was enraged. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, SNIVELLUS!"
"I would lower your voice, Potter!"
"SHUT UP!" James roared. "You know perfectly well what Lupin is and you brought her out here! For what, Snivellus!?"
"I don't have to answer your stupid questions!" Snape hissed, hoisting Lily up in his arms.
"PUT HER DOWN!" James yelled. His voice got dangerously low. "Put her down right now, or so help me, I will curse you. I swear I will."
Snape's eyes were burning with hatred. "You wouldn't, Potter. Have you forgotten that I'm holding your girlfriend?"
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" he screamed, pointing his wand straight at Snape. James rushed forward, and caught Lily right before she hit the ground. Meanwhile, Snape's arms and legs had sprung to his sides, and he collasped on the ground, stiff as a board.
"I warned you," James said darkly.
Just then, Remus and Sirius came up toward him. "What's going on?" Remus asked when he saw Lily. He spotted Snape on the ground, and looked back up at James with a worried expression on his face.
Sirius, however, let out a low whistle. "Prongs, we have a problem."
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A/N: eeeep! i guess we do have a problem, don't we? oh, wait! i don't! it's my story, isn't it? heehee, never mind then! REVIEW IF YOU WANT ANOTHER CHAPTER ANYTIME SOON! i'm on vacation, so if i feel i don't have to update, i won't.
Ariana S.
A/N: 160 POINTS TO CRAZY4PADFOOT! CRAZY4PADFOOT COLLECTS 160 POINTS FOR (insert house here) AND WINS THE GAME!
Chapter Three - Dunnn, dun, dun, dun-
Severus looked up, heart pounding. He WOULD run into someone on a night like this. And it just WOULD be Evans. He sometimes wondered if it was ONLY the whole world that was working against him.
Evans stared back at him, her eyes wide with - 'Well, well, well,' Severus thought. 'Is this fear, I see?'
"Are you okay?" she suddenly asked. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been running."
Severus just stared at her. Evans WOULD apologize. Even though he wasn't supposed to be out of bed. And she knew it. 'Stupid Mudbloods,' he thought. 'Better yet, the whole Gryffindor lot.'
She looked down at him, and extended a hand, smiling. "Then again," she said, "you really should be in the bed."
He sneered at her outstretched hand, and stood up. "Don't you think I've been knocked on the ground enough that I know how to get up by now?" he said, snidely.
Evans blinked, but she quickly recovered. "I wouldn't know. I'm not a Slytherin myself, but I heard they were a SLOW lot." Her hands were on her hips, and her eyes were shooting fiery sparks at him.
Severus glared at her, and then a slow grin spread across his face. Evans saw this and actually stepped back in shock. "What?" she asked, looking around. "What?"
He smirked. "You're more like your BOYFRIEND then I thought," he said. "Only your boyfriend isn't as sneaky."
"My what?" she snapped, her eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Your 'ickle honeybunch,'" Severus said, trying to stop the urge to roll his eyes. It was such a "Gryffindor" thing to do.
"Don't you dare say it!" Evans shouted. "That, that! That rotten pea brain is NOT my boyfriend!"
Severus just looked at her. "So what are you doing out of bed, then? If not meeting with Potter?"
"I'm Headgirl!" she said, clearly frustrated. "What are YOU doing out of bed?"
Severus avoided the question by trying to change the subject. "Sometimes you're too nosy for your own good, Evans. That could get you into trouble," he said in a quiet voice, so that he was almost whispering.
Evans glared at him. Just then, he couldn't help thinking that she was really beautiful, even if she was a mudblood, and a Gryffindor. A few strands of her long, vibrant, red hair was strewn across her forehead and falling into her eyes. Her face was flushed in anger, and her lips were lusciously red, like blood -
Severus suddenly turned on his heel angrily. "GO TO BED, EVANS!" he yelled.
The force of his voice surprised even him. A surprised expression flickered across her face. "I'M HEADGIRL!" she retorted.
"BEING HEADGIRL WON'T SAVE YOU FROM A WEREWOLF!" Severus yelled back before he could stop himself. 'Damn it to hell,' he cursed himself.
"What?" she whispered.
"I'm a Slytherin, Evans. You shouldn't be associating with me. How would it look for you?" Severus started away.
"No, tell me what you mean!" she said, hurrying after him.
"I said, go to bed, Evans," Severus repeated. He walked faster.
Evans suddenly grabbed his arm. He froze, and she dropped it. "Sorry," she whispered. "But, I have to know what you mean. You can't just NOT tell me. I'll - I'll deduct points from your house!"
Severus felt like laughing, something he hadn't done in forever. "Do you REALLY think I care about something like that, Evans? It's pathetic."
"Severus," she muttered.
He turned around. She KNEW his NAME? His actual name? He couldn't remember the last time someone had said his name. The professors called him Snape, the other students didn't even talk to him, and Potter and his gang called him Snivellus. He bristled at the thought - SNIVELLUS!
"Please?" she asked, her beautiful green eyes pleading at him.
He forced himself to look away from her. She could hypnotize him with those eyes. "No," he said shortly.
She took a deep breath. "Fine. Fine, then, I apologize. I shouldn't have been talking about you in the library. I shouldn't have even been talking. I won't talk anymore. How's that?"
"I don't repeat myself," he said stubbornly.
"So say yes this time," she said, smiling slightly. Her lips! What was it about them that made him so - ?
He shook his head jerkily, and backed away.
"Severus, if there's a werewolf in this school, I should KNOW about it. DUMBLEDORE should know about it. It's a danger to the other students." Her eyes stared at him pleadingly.
"Leave me alone," Severus muttered. She finally gave up. He was relieved. He could tell she had given up by the way her shoulders slumped.
"Okay. Okay, I'll leave you alone. It's what you want, right? And I suppose you don't HAVE to tell me," she said, finally turning around, and admitting her defeat. "G'nite, then, Severus."
He walked away without a word. Evans was a being he had let to figure out.
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Lily took a deep breath, and followed quietly behind Severus. It wasn't as if he could do anything. After all, she WAS Headgirl, right? He couldn't very well order her off to bed like he had tried to do. And she couldn't very well get into trouble. After all, it was almost sunrise, anyway. If one of the professors saw her, she could just say that she had woken up early and decided to patrol. She'd be dead tired tomorrow for sure. But, it was the weekend, and it was Hogsmeade weekend as well. She could always stay behind while Kathryn, and Patricia went without her. Hey, they could even take that Hufflepuff girl, Esther that they were always talking about.
She rounded the same corner Severus had rounded, and was suddenly grabbed, and thrown roughly up against the wall. Her cry of pain was muffled as her attacker put one cold hand over her mouth. She opened her eyes and found that she was face-to-face with Severus.
He bared his teeth at her. "I could kill you right now, Evans," he said, calmly, as she stared into his eyes, defiantly. To be honest, his dark eyes scared her. They held no depth, no warmth. So cold.
He took his hand from over her mouth, but still held her against the wall. Her heartbeat was going a mile a minute. "Do you really want to know what Potter is up to?" he asked her.
"Yes," she whispered, instantly curious.
He backed away from her, and closed his eyes for a moment. She couldn't really tell what his face expression was as his hair seemed to cover it all. 'It was almost like a veil, really,' she thought. 'Like a mask to hide the real Severus Snape.'
"Follow me," he said, his voice sounding hollow and wooden. "It should be safe now," he muttered, almost to himself.
Lily followed wordlessly. She was dying to know what exactly was going on. Severus led her to the main doors of Hogwarts, and stopped.
"What?" she asked, breathlessly.
He glanced up at her and opened the doors. There was a crazy glint in his eyes - one that particularly frightened Lily. She shivered and stepped forward out into the very early morning air.
Suddenly, she froze as her mouth opened in a silent scream of horror.
(A/N: this would be the perfect place to have a cliffhanger, but I'm not THAT coldhearted. Well, Hilda would say differently, but you can't believe her, now can you?)
Lily screamed aloud. There was a WEREWOLF running straight at her! She was frozen. She couldn't move! The werewolf suddenly stopped and stared. Lily couldn't breathe. She was going to die! She was going to die right here at Hogwarts! And it was all Potter's fault!
She swallowed, fumbling for her wand inside her wand. Then, she realized she had forgotten her wand back in the room.
(A/N: again, this would be another perfect place to have a cliffhanger, but again, I'm not THIS mean either)
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James Potter had just finished transforming back into a human from a stag, when he heard a high-pitched scream coming from the direction Remus had dashed off toward. "Oh, shit!" he whispered, and took off running toward the building, yanking his wand out from his robes.
Nearing the front door, his eyes opened wide, and his insides froze. Lily Evans! It was LILY EVANS! And Remus was - !
"REMUS, NO!" he bellowed. Out of nowhere, a huge black dog (Sirius) suddenly slammed into the werewolf, knocking both of them to the ground. James saw Lily slump to the ground out of the corner of his eye.
The sun was coming up. James looked over to where Remus and Sirius were. Remus was screaming as he transformed back into a human. It was painful, James knew, but he wasn't worried about Remus. He was worried about Lily. More like terrified. WHAT IF REMUS HAD BITTEN LILY? 'Well, there'd be one more marauder,' he thought subconsciously. He shook his head. He had to see if Lily was okay.
He ran up to the doors, and stopped short. "SNIVELLUS!?" he exclaimed. "What the hell!?"
Lily was on the ground, having fainted and Snape was attempting to pick her up.
Snape suddenly spun around and growled. "What did you and your STUPID friends do to her, Potter?"
"WHAT?" James was enraged. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, SNIVELLUS!"
"I would lower your voice, Potter!"
"SHUT UP!" James roared. "You know perfectly well what Lupin is and you brought her out here! For what, Snivellus!?"
"I don't have to answer your stupid questions!" Snape hissed, hoisting Lily up in his arms.
"PUT HER DOWN!" James yelled. His voice got dangerously low. "Put her down right now, or so help me, I will curse you. I swear I will."
Snape's eyes were burning with hatred. "You wouldn't, Potter. Have you forgotten that I'm holding your girlfriend?"
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" he screamed, pointing his wand straight at Snape. James rushed forward, and caught Lily right before she hit the ground. Meanwhile, Snape's arms and legs had sprung to his sides, and he collasped on the ground, stiff as a board.
"I warned you," James said darkly.
Just then, Remus and Sirius came up toward him. "What's going on?" Remus asked when he saw Lily. He spotted Snape on the ground, and looked back up at James with a worried expression on his face.
Sirius, however, let out a low whistle. "Prongs, we have a problem."
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A/N: eeeep! i guess we do have a problem, don't we? oh, wait! i don't! it's my story, isn't it? heehee, never mind then! REVIEW IF YOU WANT ANOTHER CHAPTER ANYTIME SOON! i'm on vacation, so if i feel i don't have to update, i won't.
Ariana S.