Story Title: Love of Two Generations: The First
Chapter Title: Uncontrollable
Disclaimer: All people and recognizable places belong to and were taken out of J.K. Rowling's amazing mind. Plot and some characters belong to me.
Author: Chewy
Summary: In a world of Witches, Wizards, Trolls, and magnificent Beasts, the tale of four different people unravels to engulf the world in luminosity. Can true love blossom from true hate? Can two opposites come together to form a bond so powerful it could save the world? Only TIME can tell…
Re-publishing Date: September 10, 2005
Author's Note: So it's been over a month since I added the next revised chapter. I should be doing my Chemistry and Calculus homework, but I have this afternoon. Enjoy, and smile.
Christmas: n. annual festival on Dec. 25 commemorating the birth of Christ.
A month had passed since the Evans twins had been and gone from the halls of the greatest wizarding school on earth. The day before students would be off to see family and friends they were not in their dormitories packing up. Younger students felt a greater pull to the new snow on the grounds, while older students felt ButterBeer was the best way to quell their holiday jitters.
Sensing this, Headmaster Dumbledore had set a final Hogsmeade trip before the holidays. The grateful students went in and out of shops looking for the perfect gift for their loved ones. Lily Evans and Marie Finnigan were being pulled down the long street of Hogsmeade toward the small pub, The Three Broomsticks. They resisted until they found themselves nicely nestled in the far corner of the pub with four other boys.
Sirius Black set down his mug and looked at the group inquisitively, "So who's going home for Christmas tomorrow?"
Three hands shot up accompanied by gloomy expressions.
"Why so sad?" questioned James looking at the three.
Remus had lowered his hand slowly before replying, "I have to go home to look after my little sister. My parents are going to Canada to visit my Uncle this Christmas and we didn't really want to go; our Uncle Stephen isn't the liveliest since World War Two. He's more like our great Uncle. Stacey's pretty sick too so I volunteered to go and look after her."
Remus scrunched up his nose and Lily laughed at him quietly.
"It can't be that bad can it?"
"She's two years old," Remus explained.
Lily nodded, "Never mind then."
Peter shrugged then looked down at his drink, "Parent's are making me."
The group nodded then looked to Marie, she sighed.
"This year's Christmas we're having a family reunion," she explained swirling her ButterBeer around in her mug.
Everyone laughed as she glared at the mug like it had just killed her favourite pet.
Lily laughed and patted her friend's back sympathetically, "Oh c'mon Marie, that's better than having to make sure your sick two-year-old sister doesn't kill herself by jumping off of a sofa… no offence Remus."
Remus smiled at Lil, shaking his head.
James lifted a mischievous eyebrow, "If worst comes to worst, like your long lost Aunt Margaret decides your cheeks are her next target, you could always say Remus needs help babysitting. I say it's an excellent excuse."
"Yes and then of course while Remus is off looking after Stacey you can sneak in and give her a quick shag," Lily commented under her breath tracing the rim of her ButterBeer mug with one finger. She jumped and looked up quickly at James Potter's outraged expression and then peered over at Marie open mouthed, "Marie I didn't mean… oh, I'm so sorry!"
Marie stood before turning quickly and hurrying out of the crowded pub. Her arm whipped out and hit her Butterbeer at Lily before she was gone. Lily stood up quickly at the shock of warmth in her lap.
"Oh my god, I can't believe I just said that," Lily scolded herself.
She grabbed her small bag and ran out after Marie and into the cold snow, disregarding the stain that would surely appear. She looked around and stood on her toes trying to locate her friend. James came storming out behind her and knocked hard against her as he burst from the door of the pub.
"What are you playing at?" James yelled grabbing her arm and turning her towards him. "You want to explain your little 'slip' in there?" James looked at her angrily, gripping her arm tighter.
"Let go of me! I have more important things to do than explain anything to you!" She pulled her arm away from him roughly and continued to search for her upset friend. She spotted fast movement to her right and began running towards it. She pushed through the crowds and quickly caught up to her friend grabbing her arm and turning Marie in her direction.
"Marie please! I didn't mean that to offend you. I was just opening my stupid big mouth because of him. I can't control what I say around him, I'm so sorry!" Lily let go of Marie's hand, biting her lip as she set her gaze to the white snow covered ground.
Marie looked at Lily; hurt in her eyes and licked her lips.
When she spoke her voice shook and tears threatened to fall, "I can't believe you would even think that. I'm your friend and to think you would assume that that would ever happen and that I would do something as… absurd as that!"
Marie looked down at the ground to find what interested Lily so much. Not seeing anything she let a large groan escape her lips and threw her hands up in defeat, "what are you looking at child?"
Lily looked up quickly and smiled slowly at the smirk that now marked Marie's face. She pushed her hair from her face and quickly engulfed Marie in a backbreaking hug.
"Oh Marie, I didn't mean anything! I don't know why that even crossed my mind!"
She pulled away and began blabbering on, "When he made the little excuse up it just came… I couldn't stop myself and… I'm such a blubbering idiot!" She looked down again but was shocked when Marie hugged her forcefully.
Lily laughed into Marie's shoulder before pulling away and giving her mate a small smile. She looked into Marie's eyes and noticed that they were focused on a point behind her. She dropped her arms from around Marie and turned to see what Marie was looking at.
"You have got a lot of explaining to do…"
absurd: adj. incongruous or ridiculous.
"This will not do, it must happen now! Next year is not an option!" Screamed Lord Voldemort to his young followers. His deep red, piercing eyes slid across the room angrily, "Don't ever try to make decisions without my permission, understood?"
"Please my Lord, it was just a suggestion. An idea if you will," begged a female on her knees in front of him. Four others kneeled beside her on the floor with their heads peering down, not risking a glance.
"You will capture her and bring her to me, understood?" Yelled the tall strangely proportioned man on the stone platform. He looked down at the five at his feet and sneered at their cringing forms.
"Go on now. Do not come back without her and if she is not here within the week, you five will suffer the consequences."
All five stood rapidly and ran from the dark room, giving the man a slight nod of departure. The Dark Lord rolled his eyes and looked at the other men standing around him. He shook his head,
"Pathetic."
pathetic: adj. Causing feelings of pity or sadness; distressingly inadequate.
A small group of people had stopped in the street to watch what was about to unfurl, their faces low and silence encompassed them. It had begun to snow softly as two figures in the middle of a crowd began to speak louder and louder.
"Well maybe if you weren't so damn arrogant and… boorish, I wouldn't think like that and voice my thoughts!" Lily exclaimed waving her arms almost hitting Marie as she stood beside her.
She had no reason to explain herself and James was worsening the situation and making Lily even more cross.
"Well if you weren't so damn neurotic, maybe you'd see that I'm not as bad as you think!" James argued right back.
Lily gasped and looked at James with disbelief before taking a few deep breaths and steps toward him. She blinked before lifting her arm and slapping him hard across the face. Her hand flew up in front of her mouth and her eyes widened. There was a large gasp from around them as she took another step towards him.
"James…I…" she began.
He put his left hand up towards her and turned the rest of his body away clutching his right cheek with his right hand. He made the signal for her to stop where she was.
Lily took a step away, biting her lip as he turned back towards her. Half of his face was red and he had a pained expression lining his features. Lily looked down at the ground, feeling the eyes of the on watchers staring at her still form.
"James, I'm sorry. I… took it a bit far," Lily tried.
James shook his head and looked at her. She cringed under his eyes, he looked so lost at that moment and she couldn't take it. She quickly turned and ran off back to the Three Broomsticks. Marie looked at James sympathetically before turning away and going after Lily.
James rolled his eyes at the two girls that had run off and then turned to the crowd that had surrounded the three.
"What are you looking at? Shows over, go get back to your shopping and leave me alone!"
He pushed through the group of wizards in front of him and went into the Three Broomsticks after the other two girls.
He strode over to the table that the three other boys still occupied and sank down into his seat and took a large gulp of Remus' ButterBeer before placing it roughly back onto the table. Remus gave him a questioning look before pushing the mug towards James with a small,
"Have the rest."
"I will never understand girls. What's going on in their heads while we're off trying to figure it out?" inquired James from the other three, taking another swig of ButterBeer.
He suddenly stood up when Marie and Lily came back to the table and looked at the five now sitting.
"Let's go back to the school now. I'm done all my shopping let's go make a skating rink or something." Sirius looked at James with a giant smile on his face before standing up quickly and looking at the others.
"C'mon guys, we can make a rink, and a snowman and… a fort! Oh, I want a fort!" He started pulling the others up and pulling them towards the door. James was left behind as the others walked out of the pub. He stood in silence as Lily stood beside him looking at the floor.
"It looks painful," she commented in a little voice, referring to the large red spot on his right cheek.
She bit her lip as his jaw tightened slightly and he shook his head.
"It's not that bad."
She nodded slightly and glanced up again as James spoke, "Shall we?"
She nodded and let him lead her towards their friends and out into the cold snow again. She continued to walk behind him until they met up with the other four and then she broke off and began walking with Marie. She pulled her red and gold scarf tighter around her neck and kept unnaturally quiet until they reached Hogwarts grounds.
"Are you all right Lily?" Marie questioned, nudging her a bit causing Lily to lose her footing and slip. She stood up straight quickly again, glancing over her shoulder at Sirius and James sniggering at her and glared.
She looked ahead again and nodded, "Of course. I just felt bad for slapping James so hard. He said it didn't hurt but… I don't know."
Marie nodded and smiled at her friend. Lily caught this and questioned her harshly, "What?"
Marie shook her head and laughed quietly, "You feel bad for hurting James. How nice."
Lily rolled her eyes and nudged Marie back. Unlike Lily, Marie did not slip and continued to walk straight, giggling at her lack of clumsiness.
The group of six continued to walk over the large path towards Hogwarts. The two girls strode in silence while the four boys continued to laugh amongst themselves behind them. The sun had begun to show through the clouds and it had stopped snowing, letting the rays from the sun warm the six.
Passing under a large tree on the edge of the path, Lily was suddenly hit with a cold substance running down her back. She whipped around quickly to glare at the culprit and stopped as she was met with another ball in the face. She shook her head at the boys, ridding her features of packed on snow.
James Potter stood holding his hands behind his back, whistling innocently while the other three hid their smiles behind their gloved hands and laughed. He stopped whistling to himself when he realized the three weren't following his lead and rolled his eyes, "guys!"
"You did not just do that!" warned Lily through clenched teeth.
She tried wiping the snow from her back unsuccessfully before sending her glare back to the sixteen year-old boys.
James smirked at her, "By the looks of it… I did."
James gave her a large smile before ducking an oncoming snowball. As he straightened up again to laugh at her he was hit smack in the face. He let a low growl escape his throat and quickly gathered more snow into a ball. He threw it at Lily and missed her, instead hitting Marie in the stomach. And with that, snowballs began flying everywhere, trying to hit every person in that area.
After minutes of dodging snowballs and throwing a few herself, Lily sat hiding behind a tall wall of piled snow. She slowly lifted herself into a squatting position and turned to look over the bank at the others fighting. As she turned around a hand clapped a load of snow onto the top of her head. She shrieked in surprise as she looked up to see James Potter smirking down at her. She glared at him as she stood and then let a smile escape. James opened his mouth to comment on her snow-covered hair but Lily quickly turned and ran away.
"Well that was rude!" he called after her.
She laughed loudly over her shoulder as she continued to run. James watched as she ran, as her hair flew behind her and then smiled when she stopped to catch her breath back. Without another thought he began to run quickly towards her back and tackled her to the ground just as she stood straight again. Lily let out a loud and full laugh as they fell to the ground.
The soft, fluffy snow cascaded in a curtain around the two as they hit the ground with a thud. James had fallen directly on top of Lily causing their faces to land inches apart. He lifted his weight from Lily and continued to look down at her smiling. Lily's emerald eyes looked at his right cheek and her brow furrowed. She lifted her hand hesitantly at first and then slowly traced his jaw line.
"It really does look painful James…" she commented.
He shook her hand away from his face before looking back down at her. James observed how her red hair lined the snow perfectly, and how compared to her eyes the bright snow was dismal. He let a low chuckle escape his lips before pushing away a few hairs that had covered her creamy skin and her rosy cheeks.
He looked at her, "I guess you couldn't resist the 'Potter' charm…"
"Potter, don't try to change the subject. Anyway, what charm?"
She gave him a quizzical look. As he opened his mouth to reply he was interrupted by a barking laugh.
"Potter? Are you trying to corrupt our dear Evans?" Sirius questioned, standing to their right. James laughed loudly and stood before helping Lily from her position.
Lily grinned at Sirius before speaking, "He was mauling me. Just couldn't refuse the 'Evans' charm." She smiled to James, kicking snow at his legs.
He raised his eyebrows disbelieving, then gave her a playful smile.
"What charm?"
Lily glared at him teasingly. By this time Remus, Marie and Peter had gathered around the other three and were shivering wildly.
"So, I'm soaking wet, freezing and hungry again. Let's go inside and warm up shall we?" Lily suggested hopeful.
The other five nodded and turned towards the school breaking into groups. Lily dusted off her robes before following close behind. She stopped when she noticed her boot was untied and knelt down to retie it. Just finishing with it she began to stand when she felt a heavy cloak fall around her shoulders. She looked up to see James smiling down at her.
"Aren't you cold?" she asked, motioning to his cloak that now sat on her shoulders. He shook his head and she fell into pace beside him.
"Nah, I didn't get as wet as you," he stated shrugging. "You landed in the snow, I landed on you."
She nodded, smiling and looked down at the ground. She stuffed her gloved hands into her pockets and began humming a quiet tune. She stopped humming quickly and looked over at James. His raven hair fell around his face like a willow tree and although the side of his face was red and he had been humiliated in front of all of Hogsmeade, he still seemed cheerful. It was strange and she felt that he deserved a real apology.
"Potter, about earlier. I couldn't control what I was doing. I never meant to hit you, and I actually can't believe you're taking it this well."
James shrugged and looked at Lily sadly, "It's fine Evans. It happens and I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and… not take things too serious. Things that don't need to be taken seriously." He added as Lily opened her mouth to argue.
"So you're staying for Christmas?" he tried to change the subject once again.
She nodded, "It's either that or spend Christmas with the big bad wolf."
"The big bad wolf?" he inquired raising an eyebrow.
She laughed loudly at his confused expression.
"My big sister Petunia; more of a horse really but who's paying attention," she mumbled before continuing. "She's planning her wedding. Naturally if I were to go home I'd spend my holiday sitting around planning and being yelled at for doing something I didn't do. My father's out of the country for a few weeks anyway, so I'm stuck here for the holidays," she explained sighing.
"Easy decision then."
"Yes," Lily nodded.
They walked and talked about strange things until they reached the Common Room. The snow that had covered Lily earlier was now liquid and she looked slightly like a drowned rabbit. James had laughed at her as she rang her hair out in the corridor, commenting mildly that the caretaker Maurice Gomery would want to have a few words with her.
Giving James his cloak back, Lily thanked him and apologized once again before travelling up to her dorm. She went directly to her own bed and as she began to change, Marie turned to face her.
"What's up with you and Potter lately? One moment you're at each other's throats, the next, your laying underneath him smiling and whispering. You even slapped him," She exclaimed, brushing out her long brown hair.
"What do you mean?"
"He's been…more civil towards you for the last few weeks," Marie explained shrugging.
"I don't know. Maybe he feels bad about what happened a few weeks ago," she answered, changing into a grey sweater and sweatpants. She shivered slightly in between clothes as the coolness from the outside touched her bare skin.
"James Potter? Feel bad about something? That's a joke," Marie commented.
Lily laughed slightly, pulling on her pants.
"Anyway, let's go down and play a game of chess or something. It's absolutely freezing in here!" Marie insisted, not quite convinced by Lily's story. She shook her head as Lily nodded and skipped down the stairway towards the Common Room.
charm: n. attractive quality; magic spell.