Lily smiled sweetly at Snape, and offered him the pumpkin. I'm going to have to do this without being cruel to Snape at the same time…she thought, furrowing her eyebrows. Snape, however, gave the platter she held out a disdainful look, and spat his words as he told her off.

"I don't want them now that you've got your filthy germs all over them, you stupid little mudblood." He sneered, and turned away from her. Lily's eyes narrowed, and all kind thoughts for the greasy little boy went flying form her head at a hundred miles an hour. On second thought, it might be a little like killing two birds with one stone…

Remus saw her looking at Snape, intently, and his heart began to thud loudly in his chest. He couldn't let them talk. James was going to kill him, and he knew it. If Prongs had walked in then and seen the seating arrangements then he probably would have cursed everything in sight, just out of anguish. Lupin sighed. It was going to be a very long night.

"Severus." Lily addressed Snape kindly, putting on her most pleasant face and smiling at him. Snape looked taken aback, and she smiled even wider. "Can you please pass me the pumpkin juice?" she said, sugar coating her words so that her voice sounded smooth and sultry. She giggled as she took the jug from him, with a small giggle. Remus groaned, and Snape looked very taken aback. Inside, Lily's roared with triumph, though she tried not to let it show on her face.

Snape was scared. It had to be a trick. Set up by James Potter and Sirius Black. It was every boy at Hogwarts' dream to be flirting with Lily Evans, despite the fact that she was muggleborn. Snape looked around the room for some sign of the two troublemakers, but couldn't see the merest of traces. He went back to staring at his food. The point on his hand tingled where Lily's had grazed his, and he tried to suppress a grin at the thought.

Lily smiled. So far, the plan was working, she thought, as Remus grew more and more flustered, and knocked something off the table. Inspired, Lily waited for him to rise, and casually brushed her fork off the tabletop. Snape jumped at the noise, and crawled down to pick it up. Lily followed him.

"Thanks Severus, I didn't mean, to, so clumsy." She said in a fake smitten voice, playing with her hair as she had seen Dani do many times, when talking to Sirius and Matt. Snape couldn't hide a smile this time, and didn't try to. There were no pureblood wizards down here to judge him.

Lupin jumped when he realised that both the chairs on his right were empty, and he panicked when he saw the hem of Lily's skirt laying somewhere at his feet. They were under the table. Looking for something that would startle them, he noticed that Snapes spoon was hanging precariously at the edge of the table, and, in the spur of the moment, nudged it over the edge of the tabletop.

Coincidently, he had chosen the very moment that Snape had been rising to his seat, and a loud thud told them that it had made contact with Snapes head.

Dizzy, Snape fell to the floor, stars dancing in front of his eyes.

Lily poked her head up, and fighting the mad desire to laugh, helped Snape up as well.

"Remus! What the hell did you do that for!" she yelled. "Professor Slughorn! Severus is hurt, may I take him to the hospital wing sir?"

Slughorn, politely bewildered, nodded, and continued to feast on his turkey. Remus, however, jumped to his feet and began to follow them out of the door.

"Severus?" said Ella, confused at her friends sudden liking for the greasy little Slytherin.

"Professor, I need to go with them!" Lupin said, on his way out of the door.

"Oh no Remus, don't worry." Said lily, smiling. "I think I can't manage. And besides, I wouldn't want to deprive you from your feast." She wanted to add something about him so wanting to be there but felt that it might blow her cover dramatically, and held her tongue.

"Yes yes Lupin, sit down, and try some of the fig, it's delicious!" boomed Slughorn, smiling paternally at Lily, and gesturing for Remus to retain his seat.

Torn, Remus sat back down beside Ella, and raised her eyebrows.

'What was all of that about?" she asked him. Remus groaned.

"James wanted me to look out for Lily, because Snape likes her, and I had to keep them from talking to each other, but then I hit him in the head with a spoon and they'll be all buddy buddy in the hospital wing." He said, somewhat hysterically.

"But lily would never like Snape, would she?" Ella asked, the hint of a laugh in her voice. Lupin shrugged.

"They seemed to be getting along quite well just then, didn't they? And she's always standing up for him when Sirius and James play pranks on him. I don't really know what she thinks about him though."

Ella did. She knew that Lily though Snape was a greasy git, who was always calling her a mudblood and taunting James for the same thing. Lily was one of his favourite people to degrade, however, something wasn't right, and she wasn't going to reassure Remus on a mere whim.

"We need to go and tell the others. We can't let them be up there, alone." She whispered to him. Lupin looked frantic.

"Prongs will kill me!" he said in a frustrated murmur.

"Yeah, well how would you like it if just was me spending a night with Snape." Lupins face blanched at the thought, and he jumped form the table, grabbing her by the hand.

"Need to be going Professor!" Remus said, talking to Slughorn as they prepared to run from the room.

"Er, hospital wing." And they bounded out of Slughorn's office, leaving a very confused Slug Club in their wake.

Slughorn eyed Lupin's plate cautiously. "Steer clear of the pumpkin everyone." He announced, before the table broke into cheerful chatter once more.

Meanwhile, in the hospital wing, Madame Pomfrey was eyeing the egg on Snapes head curiously.

"And he was hit on the head by a dessert spoon?" she asked, raising her eyebrow sceptically at Lily, who nodded her head sympathetically, looking at the large lump.

"How do you get hit on the head with a spoon?" she inquired. Lily shrugged, and tried to look bashful.

"Well Miss, we were under the tables see…"

"Under the table? But I thought that you were with Potter?" she said, jumping eagerly at the gossip.

"Not that sort of under the table miss." Lily said, blatantly, smirking at Snape in triumph as his face fell, and he eyed her, eyes narrowed, over his abnormally large nose.

"Oh," the nurse replied, her face falling. "Well, I will have to keep him here over night, I think that he has mild conclusion, nothing major. You are free to go when you wish Miss Evans."

Lily didn't say another word, but left the hospital wing as fast as she could. This was when the real fun would begin. It was turning out better than she had ever fathomed.

Raising her wand, Lily tapped herself on the top of the head, and felt as though someone had cracked an egg over her head, as trickling spines of the spell dribbled down her back and over her face. The disillusionment charm had made her appear the exact colour and texture of the hard stonewall beside her, and she ran down the halls, searching for her friends.

Lily didn't meet anyone until she was near the Griffindore common room. It was late, and students should have been back in their common rooms by now, with the exception of those who had been invited by Slughorn to his party, and those doing detentions until late in the night.

Lily hear a movement from around the corner. She stopped short, and flattened herself against a wall. Filch, the caretaker, rounded the corner, a lamp in his hand, and his cat at his heels. Filch's yellow teeth were bared menacingly, and he sneered at the shadows. Mrs Norris went right up to Lily, and sniffed at her feet. He tried to hold her breath, and even stop her heart from beating, just for a moment. What would happen if the head girl were caught sneaking around after hours?

"Come on lovely." Filch soothed his cat, " There's no one here."

Filch walked on, slowly creeping his way around the school slowly.

Lily breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to walk, but it wasn't long before she heard another sound. Flattening herself against the wall again, she listened carefully, and watched the corner intently.

The cause of the footsteps, however, never appeared, and Lily was about to move again, when she heard a whisper, equal to where she was disguised.

"Stop." The deep voice murmured. At first Lily thought it was talking to her, and thought the worst.

"What? Can you see something?" hissed a second voice.

"Can't you smell that?" the first voice talked again. A third voice was there now.

"Oh shut up Wormtail, stop squeaking!" it reprimanded in a whisper. Lily stifled a laugh. She had found her target.

"Even with Wormtail as a rat, I don't see how we can still fit under this thing." Came Sirius's aggravated voice again.

"We can. Tug on the cloak a little Padfoot, you're foots peeking out." Remus replied, rushed.

And it was. Lily noticed the tip of something close to the floor disappear in a flourish, before Sirius spoke again.

"Why have we stopped?" he asked.

"I can't believe the three of you cant smell it." He said.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I think Wormtail can, he's going crazy."

"No you dolt, not food." James said, rolling his eyes. "It's like a flower. Only prettier. You remember that time Slughorn showed us that love option? It smells like that stuff." He whispered.

Lily gasped., and sniffed. She was wearing her perfume, the one she'd been wearing for years now. It smelt like tiger lilies. Lily tried not to smile at the though of James knowing about it, so as not to betray he disguise.

"We don't have time for this James." Sirius commented, slightly amused. "While you're stopping to smell the flowers, Lily could be off somewhere being snogged by Snivellus."

"She's not. She's not, she'

s not, she's not." Remus said. There was a squeak, and a thud, as Peter tried to comment and James's hand collided with Lupin's head.

"Hey! What was that for?" Remus asked, rubbing the spot on the back of his skull where James had hit him,

"This is all your fault! If you'd just looked after her like we'd talked about- Ow!" All of a sudden you could see the feet of all the boys, as though the loud under the cloak had increased very suddenly…

"Wormtail! What did you do that for?" James asked, exasperated.

"Because," he squeaked, quietly, "I know why James can smell the flowers! Lily's around here somewhere, that's why he could smell what he thought was a love potion!"

"Sao she's here somewhere? Does that mean that Snapes here too? Well done Wormtail, that was a stroke of brilliance that I wouldn't have thought possible from you!" James said. "Wonder where they are?"

"Maybe they're under James' invisibility cloak!" suggested Wormtail, keen to be called brilliant by James again. Instead, James sniggered.

"You remember that thing that I said about you being brilliant Wormtail?" he said, Wormtail nodded proudly.

"Yeah, well, I was wrong."

"Why? It was a perfectly good answer!"

"Except Peter, that we're under the cloak…" Remus said, rolling his deep grey eyes impatiently.

"What?" asked Peter, and Lily saw him emerge quickly from under the cloak, and she had to hide a laugh at the terrified look on his face.

"You mean Snape and Lily are under there as well!" he asked madly. Sirius groaned.

"No, he means that they can't be using the cloak, now get back under here you dolt!"

Peter disappeared again, sheepishly. This time, it was James who came out form under the cloak.

"Ok, we're going to split up. I'll stay here, with the map, and you three take the cloak and see if they're still in the hospital wing." He said, and Lily noticed the frantic look that crossed over hi8s face as he ruffled up his hair, worried. She waited until the others were well and gone before she spoke to James, who was looking around the area madly.

"Stop playing with your hair Prongs, you know I hate it when you do that." She laughed, as the charm lifted and relief passed through ever inch of James Potter's body.

"Where the hell were you?" he asked, bringing her into a rib-crunching embrace, and whispering in her ear. "Where's Snape?"

"You didn't think that I would actually fall for Snape, did you?" Lily laughed, her soft voice warming up his neck. "But that's what you get for getting Remus to spy on me Potter."

James pulled away, looking startled. "How the hell…"

"Never mind, lets go back to the common room." Lily laughed, and James draped his arm around her neck.

"What about the others?" she asked, when they were practically at the fat lady's portrait.

"They'll see us on the map."

"James. You have the map."

"Oh. Right." He looked for a moment as though he were going to go back, but thought better of it.

"Hmmmm. I'll bet that Peter's a rat again…" he said, a mischievous grin spreading over his face as he thought. Lily looked apprehensive.

"So…"

"So, you shouldn't be the only one to have fun tonight." He grinned widely, and raised his wand.

"Accio Wormtail." He muttered, and it was a few moments before a rat came zooming down the halls towards them, squeaking in fright.

Ew! Well, that caused me so much pain to write about Lily flirting with Snape. Grrr. I hate Snape. I got some pleasure out of making Wormtail fly as a rat through the school though, so all in all not the worst chapter to write…. Please all read and review and the next one should be up in the next couple of days! Luv everyone who reviews, all of you! Hope your having a happy holidays!

Luv Ella Evans xXx