Woes of the Moon:
THIS IS THE IMPROVED VERISON OF CHAPS 10/11! (Just the first part is the same up until "Oh joy,cursed Christmas presents".Its a long chap so be warned) Please R&R!
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine. Few, glad I got that off my chest.
The Plot:
Their faces were inches apart, Lily could see every detail of his face and feel him breathing.
She closed her eyes as her mouth met Remus'. His hands wrapped themselves around her waist as hers rested on his bare shoulders. She felt his tongue touch her lips, and opened her mouth, letting it in.
They began feeling up each others' bodies.
That's why they didn't hear James Potter enter the room.
James headed up the stairs, wanting to have a word with Remus before Madam Pomfrey came and brought him back to the hospital wing to spend the day.
He had been planning on waiting until that night, but figured now was as good a time as any to talk to him.
Besides, he wanted to know what he knew about Lily that he could use to win her over...
He reached the top of the stairs and entered the room that Remus always went to for his transformations. Lily had to be in another room. They'd both be naked after their de- transformations, after all. Surely even as a wolf he wouldn't be dense enough not to realize that.
The first thing he saw upon entering the room was Remus, making out with his girl.
'MERLIN! You bastard!'
Remus quickly broke apart from Lily.
"James! It's not what it looks like!"
"MY ASS IT'S NOT!" he shouted, taking a step towards him.
"James Potter. I am not your girlfriend so, you have no right to get so upset," Lily told him.
James looked at her, hurt.
"But, Lily..." he tried to start, "Oh never mind..."
He glared at Remus once more, obviously showing him that "this isn't over", before leaving the room.
There was a long, awkward silence.
"I'm sorry Remus. Thanks to me James is mad at you..."
"It's okay Lily. He'll find some new girl to obsess over, we'll make up and he'll forget all about you and me."
Lily stared at him, unconvinced.
Just then Madam Pomfrey entered the room.
"Alright, you lot. Time to go back up to the castle."
The next two transformations were uneventful. Well as uneventful as transforming into a werewolf can be. Lily was still getting used to the whole thing and the fact that she really was a werewolf still hadn't fully sunk in.
That was the main reason for the uneventfulness of the transformations; the fact that Sirius, Peter and James hadn't showed up for any of them. It had taken James about a week to find a new girl. This time it was a pretty Ravenclaw girl named Parissa Keeley. During that whole week though, James had avoided talking to and even sitting near Remus.
School was also pretty normal and boring. By the time Christmas came later that month, Lily was dieing to leave the castle. But leaving the castle would mean returning home; which would mean having to tell her parents about her lycanthropy.
"You sure you want to go home, Lil?" asked Jane, walking with Lily to the train that was to take all the students who were going home for the holidays back to King's Cross.
"Well, I don't really have a choice now... I already wrote to my parents and told them I was coming home for Christmas..."
"Alright... But remember, don't procrastinate in telling them; the more you wait, the angrier they'll be that you didn't tell them."
"Fine, fine. Happy Christmas. And don't any of you guys try to open your presents before Christmas, by the way. I will know; I've cursed them."
"Joy. Cursed Christmas presents. I'll be sure to warn the others. Oh and your beloved werewolf boyfriend apologizes for not being here and asked me to give you this and say goodbye to you for him. He had "school stuff" to attend to," she said, handing Lily a small box wrapped with silver paper that had moving hearts on it.
Lily put the box in her pocket.
"Thank him for me," she said with a little smile.
"Fine. But now go, the train will be leaving any minute," Jane reminded her.
Lily groaned.
"Can't I stay here with you and tell them you held me back so that I couldn't go?" She asked pleadingly.
"No you cannot! Get out of here! Go! Get!"
"Arg. Fine. Ok. Bye."
"Bye!"
They hugged each other and Lily gathered her bags to head to the train.
"Lily! Lily! Wait!" came the fast approaching sound of Beth's voice from behind her.
She turned.
"What is it, Beth? Who's dieing?" Jane asked, acting exaggeratedly concerned as Beth reached the two of them.
"...Lily...James...stupid bastard... talking to Snape... Sirius and me... near forest...evil..." Beth babbled between breaths.
"What are you rambling on about?" Beth asked, confused. "Something about James Potter?"
"Beth, I've got to go catch the train. I really don't give a damn about James Potter. Whatever you have to tell me about him can wait until after the break," Lily said conclusively, turning to leave.
Beth grabbed her arm.
"No! Wait! It's important, you'll want to hear."
She paused, taking a few breaths.
"Ok. Me and Sirius were messing around near the forbidden forest when we heard voices coming from inside the forest," she began. "Being the nosy young people that we are, we went to get a look at who the voices belonged to and find out what they were talking about—"
"Gossip doesn't interest me at the moment, Beth!" Lily interrupted, impatiently.
"It's not gossip! James was in the forest with Severus Snape! He was trying to convince Snape to but you and Remus up!" she explained quickly.
Jane made a face.
"What? No way. Seriously?"
"Are you sure they were talking about me and Remus?" Lily asked; Beth was know to sometimes jump to conclusions.
"I'm positive! He used your names! He was trying to like hire Snape to do something, but we didn't hear what that—"
The whistle of the Hogwarts Express blew loudly.
"Damnit! I have to go! Send me and owl. Immediately! Bye!" Lily cried, rushing off towards the train.
Jane and Beth shouted goodbyes after her.
'I'm going to find Snape. I'm going to talk to him like a rational person. And if he doesn't tell me exactly what the bloody hell what I want to hear, I'm going to wring his greasy little neck!' Lily thought angrily, peeking into yet another compartment, looking for Snape. She wasn't having much luck in doing so.
She looked into another compartment.
'Bingo.'
Sitting alone against the window with his nose inside a book was Snape. He was wearing pair of blue jeans that were too big for him and a plain, sleeveless black top that revealed his pale, skinny arms. Both the shirt and the jeans looked borrowed. He also had a black sweatband around the upper part of this right arm. There was also a winter coat that had been thrown onto the seat next to him.
'Ok. Keep your cool,' Lily reminded herself.
She placed her luggage down in front of the compartment door, which was closed. She took a deep breath and pulled the door open.
Snape immediately whipped out his wand from his pocket and pointed it at her.
Lily raised her hands in mock surrender.
"Nice reflex," she commented.
"What do you want?" he snapped at her, ignoring her comment.
"I just want to talk," she answered, "Can I sit here?" She asked, pointing at the seat across from him.
"No."
She took a seat in the chair across from him anyways. He signed and lowered his wand.
"What?" he asked impatiently.
"Was James Potter trying to get you to get me and Remus against each other?" she asked, getting directly to the point.
Snape looked taken aback for a second, but quickly wiped his face of that emotion.
"If he were, that would be between him and I," he answered. "Are you quite through waisting my time?"
"Why are you defending him? Aren't you and him supposed to be enemies? What about that incident last year near the lake?"
"Why I'm defending him is none of your business, mudblood," he said, obviously upset that she had brought up the underwear-display incidient.
"What is your problem! I've never had anything but sympathy for you and you repay me by treating me like shit!" She shouted at him.
"I didn't ask for your sympathy, nor do I want it! I don't need your pity or anyone else's for that matter!" He shouted back.
"I'm not pitying you! I'm trying to show you the same respect I show for everyone even though you clearly don't deserve it! Maybe if you weren't such a jerk all the time people would want to spend time with you! Did that ever occur to you, oh prince of darkness?" she replied, still shouting.
"People only get in the way, I don't need them anymore than I need your sympathy," he answered coldly.
"Even though you say you don't want my pity, I really do feel sorry for you if you truly believe that."
"Well then take your pity somewhere else. I don't want it," he replied, making an attempt at going back to reading his book.
"Fine," she said. "Alright. I'll leave. But first you have to answer my question."
"I don't have to do anything."
"Then I guess I'll just stay right here then."
"Need I remind you that I was here first?"
"Yes but there is no rule that says that I can't be in the same train compartment as Severus Snape," she replied, grinning. "Besides, by now everywhere else will be full."
He glared at her.
"Then I'll pretend it's just me here, and you can pretend it's just you here. No communication whatsoever."
"Fine by me."
He returned to his book.
Lily reached into her coat pocket. She pulled out a stick of gum she'd been saving. Ordinary muggle gum. She wasn't a great fan of most wizard candy.
She stuck the gum in her mouth; Snape was pretending to completely ignore her and showed no sign of interest in what she was doing.
There was almost complete silence as Snape read his book and Lily quietly chewed her gum.
Pop!
All of a sudden a loud annoying popping sound caused by Lily and her gum interrupted the silence.
Snape looked up from his book and glared at Lily.
Pop!
He glared at her for a bit longer before returning to his book again.
Pop!
He pretended not to be annoyed by the sound...
Pop!
But Lily knew better. He flinched after every pop...
Pop!
Any second now, he'd snap. This always got on Petunia's nerves too...
Pop!
Snape and 'Tunia should date...
Pop!
"Stop it!" Snape yelled.
She smiled innocently at him.
"I thought it was just me who was here?" she said.
"Well it isn't! I am here! And I can't stand that horrid noise!"
"What noise?"
Pop!
"Bloody hell! Get out!"
"I could, but I much like it here... Nice and quiet..."
Pop!
"I'm warning you, mudblood..."
"Just answer my question and I'll leave and not bother you for the remainder of this... how many hours long is this trip? Four, five fours?"
Snape groaned.
"A simple "yes" or "no" answer would suffice..."
"Yes, alright! Fuck! Now get the hell out of here!" he shouted.
She stared at him.
"You're fucking serious! He was trying to hire you to bust us up? I though you were just being an asshole! What did you say!"
"I answered your bloody question! Leave me the hell alone!"
"What did you say!"
"I said no! Now get OUT!"
She grumbled and got up. Snape escorted her out the door, which was only about a foot and a half away.
"Hey! How do I know you're not lying to me?"
He shut the door and whipped out his wand. He tapped it against the door.
' I have a wand too, genius,' she thought, taking hers out.
"Alohamora!"
A golden ray of light came out of her wand and headed towards the compartment door. It seemed to be absorbed into the door. Snape grinned broadly at her from his side of the glass on the door.
'Stupid bastard.'
She glared at him before grabbing her suitcase from in front of the door where she'd left it. She glared at him once more before continuing down the hall of the train. Surprisingly, she found an unoccupied compartment.
She settled in and stared out the compartment's window for a bit before she remembered what she'd been worrying about since after her first transformation: her parents.
Ah ouai! Hem, hem... Pardon my French. Literally. Anyways! I'd say this version is MUCH better than the original. I'm not as super ashamed of this story now. No more Simple Plan and overly friendly Snape! I think I made him out to be the perfect 17 year-old bastard. :D Ok. Well. Review and let me know what you think. And don't be a hater! Or do. Whatever. Much love. New chap soon (I know I keep saying that but I think I've overcome my writer's block ;) )