Disclaimer: I own NOTHING, this is all J.K.'s magnificent creation, except the characters that you have never heard of, that would be me!
Warnings: Just the harsh words exchanged by James Potter and Lily Evans
Author's Note: I'd like to take the time to acknowledge all those who have sent in their reviews for this story, it is most appreciated:
Hermione101888~I'll make sure James becomes really, really annoying! Then he'll realize that he needs to deflate his "big head" a bit...hehe! I'm glad you like the story so far, and I'll update as quickly as I can!
~*Jess*~~I'm glad you love it! Hope you enjoy the next chapters to come!
Luthien Ancalime~Yes, I'm positive I'm not related to J.K., that would be cool though! I'd probably be able to meet Dan Radcliffe that way...*drools* Thank you for the compliments though! Enjoy the rest of the story!
Bluetiger94~Hehe...I luv the luv stories about Lily and James too! I'll update as quickly as possible! Keep enjoying them!
Sammi~Here's the next chapter! Sorry to keep you waiting...
This is also to everyone who enjoys to read Lily and James' bickering, romances. And of course, to the memories of James and Lily Potter! Alright, let the bickering begin...
Chapter Two
James held the compartment door opened for Lily to enter, as a nice gesture (at least he thought so), but to his astonishment he was wrong because Lily stopped dead in her tracks and said coldly to him,
"Potter, I don't need you to hold the door open for me, I am capable of entering by myself, thank you very much."
"Geese, Evans, can't you ever allow me to do anything nice for you?" James replied bitterly.
"Nothing you do, is nice, Potter," Lily replied coolly as she swept into the Head's compartment. She looked around, it was very luxurious. There were at three couches placed around the compartment, with a coffee table in front of each one. There was a bookshelf and a pile of Magical games against one wall. Against another wall was a refrigerator that was filled with food and drinks. Lily just stared around, her mouth opened, until she was brought back to reality as she felt James brush beside her and fall carelessly onto one of the couches and say smirking,
"Come on, Evans, join me will you?"
She shot him a nasty stare and walked over to the bookshelf and pulled down a book called, "Charming Challenges" and sat on the couch that was farthest away from James.
"Fine, then, stick you nose into a book and read, that's what your good at," James said bitterly. He saw that Lily flinched and started to regret what he just said because he knew what was coming,
"Potter!" Lily spat, "How exactly would you know what I am good at? Just because I get good grades and actually read something that has importance, doesn't mean that's all I'm good at, unlike you!"
"I'm good at quite a lot of things, Evans, thank you very much," James said continuing as a mumble, "More things than you'll ever be good at."
"Potter, don't act like you know me! You know nothing about me and never will because all you care about is yourself! You have the ego the size of a giant elephant and your head is like a balloon - filled with only air!"
"Oh, Evans, you're wrong, I do know you," James said coolly, "Why you think you are Miss Perfect, getting top marks in every class, reading every book your dirty ("Ughh!" Lily puffed) fingers can touch, spending your time in the library, and never having a true social life. God only knows why your friends stick by you, you are nothing special."
"If I am nothing special, Potter," Lily glared furiously at him, "then why are you so interested in everything I do, when it doesn't even concern you!"
"Just go back to reading your book, Evans, and leave me alone, will you?" James shot at her.
"My pleasure," Lily said with a note of happiness in her voice.
***
'Why does he have to be so annoying! Always pestering me, err! Why must he pay attention to me when he has millions of other girls drooling over him!' Lily couldn't help thinking. She had lost her concentration and couldn't read her book because of what Potter said kept ringing in her mind, 'And never having a true social life. God only knows why your friends stick by you, you are nothing special.' Lily couldn't help thinking this was true, she did spend most of her time in the library, and when she was with her friends she was always worrying about her studies. 'Ughh, don't let him get to you! You know Potter is just brainless.' Lily reassured herself.
The truth is, she has despised James Potter ever since they first met. He never seemed to care about anyone besides himself, besides of course his friends who were practically just as bad. They called themselves 'The Marauders,' it involved James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black, each one causing as much mayhem as the next. James had to be the worst of all of them, in her opinion, James thought so highly of himself it made Lily sick to her stomach. It would be the day when James actually really honestly cared about someone other than himself...
***
'How can someone turn a friendly conversation into a verbal battle ending with bloodshed?' James thought bitterly to himself, 'She thinks she knows everything, just because she gets good grade, ha! She might be beautiful - beautiful? What am I thinking? She might have looks, but her personality sucks that all out, she has a personality of a sour lemon.' She'd never understand him, she'll never get passed how he always happens to gloat around her, it was in his nature, he couldn't help it, it was like a spell she cast on him the first time he laid eyes on her beautiful deep green ones. He tried to stop himself, but the words just tumbled out of his mouth as soon as he responds to her.
James sat there, pondering, about why Lily Evans hated him so much. Sure, his three best friends told him it was because she thought he was cocky, besides, she even told him that herself. But there had to be more to it, every time James said something to her, she'd immediately attack him. Lily's harsh words kept ringing his head, even though he had heard these things on countless times before, 'all you care about is yourself! You have the ego the size of a giant elephant and your head is like a balloon - filled with only air!' How he loathed to hear these words, especially from her...
***
*Thirty Minutes Later*
James kept on glancing at Lily, wondering how someone could stay so silent for so long. Feeling that if he had to stay in the compartment for the whole train ride to Hogwarts he would at least try to get on Lily's good side,
"Err, so how's, the, umm, book?" James asked eyeing the book in her hands, that he noticed she wasn't exactly reading but more staring at it and turning the page every ten minutes.
"Why do you care, Potter?" She said acidly as she shot a look at him.
"Evans, I was just merely asking a simple question, and actually - believe it or not- trying to be nice," James said a little hurt in his voice.
Lily, feeling a bit guilty, though she didn't know why, managed to mumble, "It's okay."
"What's it about?" James said unable to read the title since it was lying in her lap.
Lily held up the book so that he could read, 'Charming Challenges.'
"Hmm...interesting. Is Charms your favorite subject or something?" James asked trying to pursue the best conversation he ever had with Lily.
Lily finally took her eyes away from her book and said, "Yes, it is, it's actually my best subject too, doing Charms comes easily for me." And she gave James a smile, the first smile she had ever directly given to him. James couldn't help but smile back and think at the same time 'God, her smile is beautiful.' Seeing that James was making an attempt to be friendly, Lily decided to carry on the conversation,
"What's your favorite subject?"
"Defense Against the Dark Arts, it is actually my best too, along with Transfiguration," James said flatly.
"Oh, I'm not that good at Defense Against the Dark Arts," Lily stated, seeing James giving her a look of disbelief continued, "Sure, I get good marks in it, but I really am not that good at casting the spells." James noticed that her cheeks turned a little pink, so he offered sincerely,
"Well, if you ever want any help, Evans, I'd be happy to help you," James must have said the wrong thing because as soon as he was in the middle of his sentence Lily glared at him,
"You are helpless, Potter! ("What now?!" James asked frustrated) Right when we were actually getting along, and I was actually reconsidering how I thought of you, I was wrong!"
"Evans, if you could explain yourself that would be a bit more helpful," James shot at her.
"You called me 'Evans,'" Lily said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. James stared at her with a quizzical expression covering his face, he blurted out without controlling himself,
"That's your name!"
"That's my last name, something a stranger or an enemy would call me! Obviously since you think of me as an enemy, since we completely know each other, this conversation is through," Lily added nastily, "Potter." With that, Lily turned her back on him, and started reading her book once more.
James just stared at her with confusion and guilt, for he knew she was right. He had heard from his mum ever since he could remember that addressing someone by just their last name was a sign of either not knowing them entirely, or not liking them. He didn't mean to not call her by her first name; it was just out of habit that he called her "Evans." For a split second, he thought that they could have at least put all the bad things that they had said to each other and actually get along, but obviously the 'Brilliant Potter' messed things up again"
***
'How could he?' Lily started angrily thinking again as she felt her hands turn into fists, 'Right when we were having a conversation without biting each other's heads off, he called me by my last name! Ughh...he's ridiculous! And I almost actually started to think of him then more of an ignorant, airhead.' Lily nodded her head with disgust and looked at Potter and noticed he was staring at her with confusion and guilt; she gave him a dirty look and stared down at her book. Then came a voice in her head, 'Maybe he didn't mean to. You two have been calling each other by your last names for six years now; maybe it was out of habit.' Lily shook her head, that reason could be true and was reasonable, but she would never admit that...
***
*Hours Later*
Lily stared out of the window and figured they were almost there by now; she couldn't wait to get out of this compartment with James and go see her three best friends that actually understood her. But she couldn't help feeling bad, it was her fault that they're 'good speaking terms' went down the pipe, so reluctantly she decided to apologize, but decided to break the silence first,
"I think we're almost there by now."
Lily changed her mind about apologizing as soon as she had said that, because instead of James saying anything back, he just sat there acting like he didn't hear a word she said. 'Fine,' Lily thought, 'if he's going to ignore me, this will make my year much better. Besides the fact, that we'll be working together! Err...why does he have to be so selfish?' Lily, feeling her temper rising, attempted once more to get James to talk, only this time her voice was filled with bitterness,
"You do realize that you will have to talk to me one way or another. We are both Heads, meaning we both will have to work together, and that will involve communication."
James, feeling his temper rising as well, because Lily had just implied hours before that she obviously didn't want to talk to him, so he decided to point this out,
"Evans, you didn't want to talk to me before, why now?"
Lily glared at him and spoke as calmly as she could, "I'm surprise that you aren't jumping up with joy that I am actually talking to you, Potter! You should be thrilled, that I am trying to carry on a conversation with someone like you!"
James said without even thinking first, "Why should I be thrilled to have a conversation with Miss-I-Am-Perfect-Evans? You are a know-it-all teacher's pet! Thanks, Evans, but I like talking to people who are actually interesting." As soon as he was done, he knew he shouldn't have said anything, because he could see all the hurt and anger build up in Lily's eyes.
"Fine!" She screamed, "I'll just go and talk to people who actually find me interesting! Good day to you, Potter!" And she stood up, and walked out of the compartment, slamming it shut. James stood up and tried calling after her, but Lily was already running towards the compartment that her friends would be in.
***
Author's Note: Thought that they were going to become friends for a second, didn't you? Gosh, they both have mood swings! Nice one moment, hateful the next!
Hope you liked this chapter! Please READ and REVIEW! I'll update again, ASAP, but until then, try reading my other fanfic, it's about Harry and Hermione...
~*Much Luv*~
***REVIEW***
Warnings: Just the harsh words exchanged by James Potter and Lily Evans
Author's Note: I'd like to take the time to acknowledge all those who have sent in their reviews for this story, it is most appreciated:
Hermione101888~I'll make sure James becomes really, really annoying! Then he'll realize that he needs to deflate his "big head" a bit...hehe! I'm glad you like the story so far, and I'll update as quickly as I can!
~*Jess*~~I'm glad you love it! Hope you enjoy the next chapters to come!
Luthien Ancalime~Yes, I'm positive I'm not related to J.K., that would be cool though! I'd probably be able to meet Dan Radcliffe that way...*drools* Thank you for the compliments though! Enjoy the rest of the story!
Bluetiger94~Hehe...I luv the luv stories about Lily and James too! I'll update as quickly as possible! Keep enjoying them!
Sammi~Here's the next chapter! Sorry to keep you waiting...
This is also to everyone who enjoys to read Lily and James' bickering, romances. And of course, to the memories of James and Lily Potter! Alright, let the bickering begin...
Chapter Two
James held the compartment door opened for Lily to enter, as a nice gesture (at least he thought so), but to his astonishment he was wrong because Lily stopped dead in her tracks and said coldly to him,
"Potter, I don't need you to hold the door open for me, I am capable of entering by myself, thank you very much."
"Geese, Evans, can't you ever allow me to do anything nice for you?" James replied bitterly.
"Nothing you do, is nice, Potter," Lily replied coolly as she swept into the Head's compartment. She looked around, it was very luxurious. There were at three couches placed around the compartment, with a coffee table in front of each one. There was a bookshelf and a pile of Magical games against one wall. Against another wall was a refrigerator that was filled with food and drinks. Lily just stared around, her mouth opened, until she was brought back to reality as she felt James brush beside her and fall carelessly onto one of the couches and say smirking,
"Come on, Evans, join me will you?"
She shot him a nasty stare and walked over to the bookshelf and pulled down a book called, "Charming Challenges" and sat on the couch that was farthest away from James.
"Fine, then, stick you nose into a book and read, that's what your good at," James said bitterly. He saw that Lily flinched and started to regret what he just said because he knew what was coming,
"Potter!" Lily spat, "How exactly would you know what I am good at? Just because I get good grades and actually read something that has importance, doesn't mean that's all I'm good at, unlike you!"
"I'm good at quite a lot of things, Evans, thank you very much," James said continuing as a mumble, "More things than you'll ever be good at."
"Potter, don't act like you know me! You know nothing about me and never will because all you care about is yourself! You have the ego the size of a giant elephant and your head is like a balloon - filled with only air!"
"Oh, Evans, you're wrong, I do know you," James said coolly, "Why you think you are Miss Perfect, getting top marks in every class, reading every book your dirty ("Ughh!" Lily puffed) fingers can touch, spending your time in the library, and never having a true social life. God only knows why your friends stick by you, you are nothing special."
"If I am nothing special, Potter," Lily glared furiously at him, "then why are you so interested in everything I do, when it doesn't even concern you!"
"Just go back to reading your book, Evans, and leave me alone, will you?" James shot at her.
"My pleasure," Lily said with a note of happiness in her voice.
***
'Why does he have to be so annoying! Always pestering me, err! Why must he pay attention to me when he has millions of other girls drooling over him!' Lily couldn't help thinking. She had lost her concentration and couldn't read her book because of what Potter said kept ringing in her mind, 'And never having a true social life. God only knows why your friends stick by you, you are nothing special.' Lily couldn't help thinking this was true, she did spend most of her time in the library, and when she was with her friends she was always worrying about her studies. 'Ughh, don't let him get to you! You know Potter is just brainless.' Lily reassured herself.
The truth is, she has despised James Potter ever since they first met. He never seemed to care about anyone besides himself, besides of course his friends who were practically just as bad. They called themselves 'The Marauders,' it involved James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black, each one causing as much mayhem as the next. James had to be the worst of all of them, in her opinion, James thought so highly of himself it made Lily sick to her stomach. It would be the day when James actually really honestly cared about someone other than himself...
***
'How can someone turn a friendly conversation into a verbal battle ending with bloodshed?' James thought bitterly to himself, 'She thinks she knows everything, just because she gets good grade, ha! She might be beautiful - beautiful? What am I thinking? She might have looks, but her personality sucks that all out, she has a personality of a sour lemon.' She'd never understand him, she'll never get passed how he always happens to gloat around her, it was in his nature, he couldn't help it, it was like a spell she cast on him the first time he laid eyes on her beautiful deep green ones. He tried to stop himself, but the words just tumbled out of his mouth as soon as he responds to her.
James sat there, pondering, about why Lily Evans hated him so much. Sure, his three best friends told him it was because she thought he was cocky, besides, she even told him that herself. But there had to be more to it, every time James said something to her, she'd immediately attack him. Lily's harsh words kept ringing his head, even though he had heard these things on countless times before, 'all you care about is yourself! You have the ego the size of a giant elephant and your head is like a balloon - filled with only air!' How he loathed to hear these words, especially from her...
***
*Thirty Minutes Later*
James kept on glancing at Lily, wondering how someone could stay so silent for so long. Feeling that if he had to stay in the compartment for the whole train ride to Hogwarts he would at least try to get on Lily's good side,
"Err, so how's, the, umm, book?" James asked eyeing the book in her hands, that he noticed she wasn't exactly reading but more staring at it and turning the page every ten minutes.
"Why do you care, Potter?" She said acidly as she shot a look at him.
"Evans, I was just merely asking a simple question, and actually - believe it or not- trying to be nice," James said a little hurt in his voice.
Lily, feeling a bit guilty, though she didn't know why, managed to mumble, "It's okay."
"What's it about?" James said unable to read the title since it was lying in her lap.
Lily held up the book so that he could read, 'Charming Challenges.'
"Hmm...interesting. Is Charms your favorite subject or something?" James asked trying to pursue the best conversation he ever had with Lily.
Lily finally took her eyes away from her book and said, "Yes, it is, it's actually my best subject too, doing Charms comes easily for me." And she gave James a smile, the first smile she had ever directly given to him. James couldn't help but smile back and think at the same time 'God, her smile is beautiful.' Seeing that James was making an attempt to be friendly, Lily decided to carry on the conversation,
"What's your favorite subject?"
"Defense Against the Dark Arts, it is actually my best too, along with Transfiguration," James said flatly.
"Oh, I'm not that good at Defense Against the Dark Arts," Lily stated, seeing James giving her a look of disbelief continued, "Sure, I get good marks in it, but I really am not that good at casting the spells." James noticed that her cheeks turned a little pink, so he offered sincerely,
"Well, if you ever want any help, Evans, I'd be happy to help you," James must have said the wrong thing because as soon as he was in the middle of his sentence Lily glared at him,
"You are helpless, Potter! ("What now?!" James asked frustrated) Right when we were actually getting along, and I was actually reconsidering how I thought of you, I was wrong!"
"Evans, if you could explain yourself that would be a bit more helpful," James shot at her.
"You called me 'Evans,'" Lily said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. James stared at her with a quizzical expression covering his face, he blurted out without controlling himself,
"That's your name!"
"That's my last name, something a stranger or an enemy would call me! Obviously since you think of me as an enemy, since we completely know each other, this conversation is through," Lily added nastily, "Potter." With that, Lily turned her back on him, and started reading her book once more.
James just stared at her with confusion and guilt, for he knew she was right. He had heard from his mum ever since he could remember that addressing someone by just their last name was a sign of either not knowing them entirely, or not liking them. He didn't mean to not call her by her first name; it was just out of habit that he called her "Evans." For a split second, he thought that they could have at least put all the bad things that they had said to each other and actually get along, but obviously the 'Brilliant Potter' messed things up again"
***
'How could he?' Lily started angrily thinking again as she felt her hands turn into fists, 'Right when we were having a conversation without biting each other's heads off, he called me by my last name! Ughh...he's ridiculous! And I almost actually started to think of him then more of an ignorant, airhead.' Lily nodded her head with disgust and looked at Potter and noticed he was staring at her with confusion and guilt; she gave him a dirty look and stared down at her book. Then came a voice in her head, 'Maybe he didn't mean to. You two have been calling each other by your last names for six years now; maybe it was out of habit.' Lily shook her head, that reason could be true and was reasonable, but she would never admit that...
***
*Hours Later*
Lily stared out of the window and figured they were almost there by now; she couldn't wait to get out of this compartment with James and go see her three best friends that actually understood her. But she couldn't help feeling bad, it was her fault that they're 'good speaking terms' went down the pipe, so reluctantly she decided to apologize, but decided to break the silence first,
"I think we're almost there by now."
Lily changed her mind about apologizing as soon as she had said that, because instead of James saying anything back, he just sat there acting like he didn't hear a word she said. 'Fine,' Lily thought, 'if he's going to ignore me, this will make my year much better. Besides the fact, that we'll be working together! Err...why does he have to be so selfish?' Lily, feeling her temper rising, attempted once more to get James to talk, only this time her voice was filled with bitterness,
"You do realize that you will have to talk to me one way or another. We are both Heads, meaning we both will have to work together, and that will involve communication."
James, feeling his temper rising as well, because Lily had just implied hours before that she obviously didn't want to talk to him, so he decided to point this out,
"Evans, you didn't want to talk to me before, why now?"
Lily glared at him and spoke as calmly as she could, "I'm surprise that you aren't jumping up with joy that I am actually talking to you, Potter! You should be thrilled, that I am trying to carry on a conversation with someone like you!"
James said without even thinking first, "Why should I be thrilled to have a conversation with Miss-I-Am-Perfect-Evans? You are a know-it-all teacher's pet! Thanks, Evans, but I like talking to people who are actually interesting." As soon as he was done, he knew he shouldn't have said anything, because he could see all the hurt and anger build up in Lily's eyes.
"Fine!" She screamed, "I'll just go and talk to people who actually find me interesting! Good day to you, Potter!" And she stood up, and walked out of the compartment, slamming it shut. James stood up and tried calling after her, but Lily was already running towards the compartment that her friends would be in.
***
Author's Note: Thought that they were going to become friends for a second, didn't you? Gosh, they both have mood swings! Nice one moment, hateful the next!
Hope you liked this chapter! Please READ and REVIEW! I'll update again, ASAP, but until then, try reading my other fanfic, it's about Harry and Hermione...
~*Much Luv*~
***REVIEW***