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Somewhere I Belong

Chapter 7 – This Time Imperfect

James, Sirius, Remus and Peter stared open-mouthed at the exchange student, their eyes wide. Harry's heartbeat quickened and he was doing some rapid thinking. What was he supposed to do now? Harry looked at James' shocked face and grimaced. How could everything be going so wrong? Why couldn't he be happy? For God's sake, he was with his dead father and godfather again! Suddenly, James snapped out of his shocked state and began to speak. What he said; Harry didn't know- he was already sprinting away at the first syllable, too scared to look back.

"This is stupid." James muttered, shaking his head. Remus, Sirius and Peter all seemed to come back alive when he spoke.

"Prongs- didn't you see Patter's...?"

"Yes, I saw it Sirius...it was a stag, so what?"

"Oh please James, you know what."

"Sirius, I saw what you saw, and the stag didn't look anything like-"

"You?" came Remus' voice, and James looked down at the floor. He was thinking deeply about what had just happened. That stag- that hadn't been him, had it? It couldn't have been...he had only known Patter for a couple of weeks and he despised him! He couldn't be his 'guardian'. No, it was stupid...but yet...

"Prongs, I have seen you transform a billion times! I should know! And I will say it again- that stag was you!" Sirius exclaimed, his temper rising at James' stupidity. Although James sort of agreed, he did not want to admit it. He felt stupid and ashamed. He knew people liked him; but to have him as their guardian?

"No Sirius! I think I should know how I look like- Patter's stupid Patronus was NOT me! You understand? It wasn't."

"James, come on..." Remus started, but James held up his hand.

"Not you too, Moony?"

"I'm sorry James, but it was you, as far as I know." James groaned and looked down at Peter for support. When Peter whimpered and backed away, James didn't need any other answer. He threw his arms up in the air angrily, and stamped off, leaving Remus, Peter and Sirius looking at each other hesitantly.

A few days later, Harry was back to being glared at. It seemed like the day with the Patronus had never happened. Sirius, Remus and Peter had decided to just pretend that they had been wrong and apologised to James. After all, the Marauders weren't really the Marauders without him. Harry knew only about this because of the talks the Marauders had when they thought he was 'sleeping'.

It was late one Saturday evening when Harry and Lily were sitting and laughing in the empty common room. They were yet again reliving their triumphant prank against James. The joke never seemed to die. The look that James had had on his face was too funny to forget. After another fit of laughter, Lily suddenly became quiet and stared at Harry.

"What's wrong?" Harry questioned, stopping his laughter immediately.

"Nothing...it's just, this feels so good. It has been only about a week or two...but like I said before, I feel like I've known you all my life." Lily whispered, smiling slightly at Harry. She moved closer and grabbed his hand.

"For six years, Harry, I haven't had any real friends here at Hogwarts, but suddenly, you come- and it feels so right. I don't know why."

"I -er - " Harry started, but he couldn't say anything. Lily's grip on his hand was making him nervous and her closeness was unbearable. He tried to move away, but he couldn't. He had reached the end of the small scarlet sofa. Damn! What was he supposed to do now?

"Harry?" Lily's voice came, and Harry looked up into her eyes.

"Yeah?" And before Harry could do anything else, Lily moved in for a kiss.

Harry tried not to yell out in shock, but let out a slight yelp in the process. He dodged away and got up quickly. Before anything could be said or done by either of them, the portrait hole opened and a laughing James and Sirius climbed in.

"Did you see the look on his face? Priceless!" James laughed, clutching his stomach.

"Yeah, wish we could have taken a picture!"

"Oh man, we should have thought about tha- Evans? Patter? What are you doing here?" James suddenly said, his voice turning cold.

Harry looked at Lily and found hurt and confusion in the eyes almost identical to his. Without another word, she got up and walked up the stairs to the girls' dorms. Great Harry thought. Now my mother hates me as well.

Harry turned back to his father as James let out an impatient, arrogant cough.

"Nothing. Couldn't sleep."

"A likely story! I know what you were really doing!"

"Oh James, please- leave this for tomorrow, I need to sleep." Sirius yawned and stretched in a very dog-like fashion, and Harry resisted from trying to smile at Sirius' actions.

"You go ahead Sirius...I just need a little chat with Patter here..." James muttered, turning to Sirius and rolling his eyes. Sirius shrugged and walked across the common room and up the boys' dormitory stairs. James turned back to Harry and the small smile on his face turned into a scowl.

"Look James...I'm really tired and-"

"Oh, this will only take a while. Well, that's if you tell me."

"Tell you what?"

"What's going on between you and Lily?"

"Lily and I? Nothing. She's just my friend."

"Oh please Patter, don't play innocent."

"Even if there was something going on- which there absolutely isn't...why would you care? And why should I tell you? It's none of your business. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to go to bed..." Harry turned and began to walk.

"Wait right there, Patter..."

"What!" Harry snapped, turning around.

"You can't just walk away from me like that!"

"Watch me." Harry smirked at James, sharply reminded of Draco Malfoy as he did so, and then spun on his heel and walked up the stairs, fingering the knife hidden in his pocket, feeling decidedly rather vicious.