Hey, this chappee was realy fun to write. although the emotions seem deep for 12 years olds, it seemed appropriate at the time. PLEASE! tell me what you think!

CHAPTER 5

It had been three weeks since Sirius Black had decided he was going to watch his friend, Remus Lupin, to confirm his suspicions of Remus' being a werewolf. At the moment, Sirius, Remus and their two friends, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter were in History of Magic with Professor Hollingsworth. The professor decided she didn't really like Sirius Black, (she made this decision after Sirius would basically refuse to pay attention in class) and was constantly trying to catch him in the act of not listening.

Apparently, the Slytherin second years found this absolutely hilarious. One Slytherin, Servious Snape, made it his mission to make Sirius, and his friends, miserable. History of Magic was the best time for the short, oily haired boy to cause havoc due to the professor's dislike of Black.

Servious Snape was, at the moment, throwing bewitched spit wads to hit the professor in the face. Naturally, Professor Hollingsworth automatically thought it is Sirius Black, she assigned him detention with her that night. From that moment on, Sirius decided he hated Servious Snape. James Potter agreed.

After class, Sirius and James decided to 'catch up' with Snape. "What was that for?" Sirius yelled. Because it was lunch, he could take all the time he needed to get angry with the Slytherin student.

Snape laughed, "The opportunity just presented itself. I couldn't resist!"

"Really?" Sirius said sarcastically. "You EVER do that again you'll really wish you didn't." he tried to look threatening.

"Besides, what did he do to you?" James looked slightly disgusted.

"Being a blood traitor is all he needs to do! And being friends with the worst of all blood traitors makes it worst!" Snape scoffed at James.

"Worst of them all? Who?" James really didn't know what Servious was talking about.

"Who?" Snape imitated James, "YOU! Everyone knows the Potter's are blood traitors!"

"I didn't know." James was truly surprised. He didn't even know he was a pure blood.

"That makes you ugly, and stupid!" Servious Snape laughed (he obviously wasn't original)

James, out of fury (from Snape calling him ugly) thrust out his wand. Snape instantly flew up in the air, upside-down.

Seeing the Slytherin's surprise, Sirius had to laugh hysterically. He decided to follow his friend's example by making bubbles flow freely out of the boy's mouth.

By now a group of onlookers had crowded around the three boys, including Lilly Evans and her 'posy'. She and the other girls pushed through the small crowd and began yelling, "POTTER! BLACK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Both boys were caught off guard and lost their concentration causing Servious Snape to plummet to the ground. James saw who was coming and was intent on looking calm and collected. "Why so upset, Lilly?" he smiled.

"Don't you Lilly me, Potter! I saw what you were doing to this poor boy! It's not right! I would have expected better of you!" Lilly crossed her arms and gave an obviously practiced, mind piercing stare. This was the part James hated about his encounters with Lilly: her eyes, staring at him. His mind instantaly went back to the first time she did this and even said 'I would have expected better of you' he hated this. Her expression softened a little and she asked in a disappointed, tired voice, "Why are you doing this?"

Sirius thought it best if he answered the question and nudged his friend before he could say anything. "The opportunity just presented itself, that's all." He turned and smirked at Snape. Especially from his tone of voice, Lilly Evans became more frustrated and angry.

"YOU STUPID GITS! Can't you see you hurt him? Look! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" she pointed furiously at Servious, who was rubbing his head and a small amount of blood trickled down his face. Lilly pushed past the two boys and knelt down to talk to the Slytherin. "Are you alright?" her voice changed from fury to a calm, sweet voice. "I'm so sorry for what they did. Their just immature gits, that's all. Do you want me to help you to the hospital wing?" she smiled at him kindly.

Snape, at first, was caught off guard by her kindness. His mind thought of the answer he should give her:

'No, that's alright, thank you any ways.'

Or

'Yes, please. I think I'm bleeding.'

But he finally decided on the answer he felt obligated to say: "Why would I want help from you? How DARE touch me? You have no right, filthy Gryffindor!"

Lilly looked at him, sad and disappointed. She really wanted to show him she was trying to be kind to him. She even considered being rude and insensitive to him. Hell, she even thought of letting the other boys bully him so she could enjoy the show.

James became furious by this. He walked over to the two and kicked Servious Snape in the stomach. Lilly tried to stop him but James was so mad he didn't stop there. He grabbed Lilly's arm, taking care not to grab too hard, and pulled her from the ground, where she was just kneeling.

"James Potter! Stop it! You're hurting him! STOP!" Lilly gasped as the boy pushed Snape against the wall.

"Lilly, why are you still sticking up for him?" his foot held the Slytherin in place while he turned to talk to his fellow Gryffindor. "You tried to be kind, and gentle, and loving towards him and look at how he repays that!" James at first didn't understand why he was so angered by this, but after thinking about it for a couple of seconds, he came to the conclusion that he was raised to respect and react kindly to behavior like Lilly's, he was angered out of shock of a reaction otherwise of what he would expect.

Lilly herself was upset by Snape's reaction. Although she wanted to let James continue what he was doing, she had to stop it. "James," her voice quivered and weakened from all the emotion she was feeling, "please, stop." Her hand touched his arm. She really wanted to thank him for defending her, but she knew that wasn't reasonable.

James stopped, he could see the anger and sadness and fear in her eyes. He loostened his hold on Snape and whispered, 'alright'

Lilly smiled, she looked back at the crowd, who was shocked by the even that just took place. She knew she had to look angry with him, (she partly was) and did look angry. But part of her was happy that he acted the way he did. The crowd began to break up and when she reckoned that no one was watching any more (with the exception of Sirius) she mouthed a 'thank you' to him.

By her look, he could tell why she said this. Not only because he stopped, but also because he didn't stop right away. The situation in its entirety was complicated; but James understood most of it immediately.

Lilly grabbed her books and began waking away, fast. She tried so hard to hide her blush and smile. It would be horrible if anyone knew that she was excited by the event and even yearned for James Potter to look at her like he did just a few minuets ago. She desprately tried to give off the impression that she despised James and all he stood for. But secretly, she had an unusual attraction to him and his life style that she would have the whole time they weren't together (in a relationship, that is)

Every one but the three, original boys, and the other two Gryffindors (Remus and Peter) remained in the fifth floor corridor. Snape just arrived to his feet and began brushing himself off when James cuffed his neck with his large hands and pushed the short Slytherin against the stone wall. James' mouth was soon by his new enemy's ear and he was whispering furiously to him: "How dare you act like that towards her! If I ever catch you saying things like that again to her, I swear on Merlyn's grave I will make your life miserable from then on. You had better watch your back, if you don't, you had better believe that Sirius and I will be behind it, and you can only guess what we'll do."

The way James had said this to him, thoroughly terrified Servious Snape. From then on he really did watch his back, but that never stopped him from having a jinx or minor curse put upon him coming from the dreaded wands of Potter and Black.

"I'm a blood trator?" James asked lightly.

Sirius laughed, "I'll explain later."

They, Remus and Peter walked off to lunch.