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Chapter 10: True Intentions
"Miss Evans! What on earth happened to your Dreamless Sleep Potion!" exclaimed Slughorn in disbelief peering into the depths of Lily's cauldron.
"Sorry, sir. I think I accidentally knocked some dragon blood into it" said Lily. Note to self: STOP BEING STUPID! (A/N: hehe…Maximum Ride lol). "But…um…I think this will do the trick" she added studying the potion closely and tipping in saphoar blood. (A/N: A saphoar is like a magical mole).
The potion suddenly turned as shimmery silver and began to cast a silvery glow everywhere.
"Well done Miss Evans! That was unbelievable! Ever the brewer eh?" winked Slughorn, blatantly scribbling an Outstanding by her name and moved on.
Lily let out a huge breath of air and slumped into her seat. She wiped a fine sheen of sweat off her fore-head. Lily noticed that half the class was staring at her with looks of awe on their faces.
"How the hell do you do that?" muttered Kayt, pathetically trying to correct her own now bright pink Potion.
Lily peered into Kayt's cauldron and looked back up bewildered. "How the hell did you do that!"
Kayt smiled sheepishly, avoiding Lily's eyes. "Um…I think I may have just missed the first two instructions." she replied squinting through all the smoke in the room.
"Oh! That explains why its bright pink and smells like flobberworm vomit." said Lily sarcastically, leaning back from the cauldron.
"Ok Lily! Not everyone's a Potions genius like you!" mumbled Kayt, stirring the mixture clockwise. It slowly turned into a dark purple colour and now smelt like Hippogriff droppings. "My talents lie elsewhere" proclaimed Kayt loudly with a flourish, only to accidentally knock Peter off his feet. "Oops!" she said, quickly pulling Peter back up.
"You, alright there Wormtail!" shouted a deep voice. The voice was followed by a dark form stepping out of the smoke. It was …Sirius Black.
"Behold, the mighty lord!" cried another voice, revealing someone else. Who else could it be? "James Potter," he cried once again, announcing his self.
"Get a life, guys." muttered Lily, unimpressed.
"Lily … we just heard about your Potions dilemma." joked Sirius, leaning over to look into Kayt's cauldron. "Oh boy, you must really suck at this." said Sirius sympathetically. He lobbed something into her cauldron and stirred it a couple of times. The potion started hissing dangerously and emitted green sparks. "Ok…um…maybe that didn't work…" mumbled Sirius trying to slip away unnoticed.
"No, Mr.Paddie, you're not getting away after ruining my Potion." screeched Kayt, running after Sirius, who leaped over a desk and was weaving his way through all the cauldrons.
Lily chuckled and James grinned. Suddenly the two of them heard a quiet squeak come from an abandoned cauldron.
"What was that?" said Lily, glancing around.
"Erm…I don't know, but it came from that." said James pointing to the cauldron.
The two of them, walked over to the cauldron and looked in.
"Oh! It's Peter. I think he … fell in." said Lily, sounding slightly astounded, yet amused.
"Wormtail? Yeah, he does that," said James casually, reaching in and hauling Peter out. "You ok mate?" said James mouthing 'its fine, don't worry' to Lily.
"Er, yeah. But I feel a bit dizzy James." said Peter, sporting a black eye and a worrying purple bruise on his cheek.
"Sit down Peter." said Lily pulling out a stool for him.
"Lessons over students!" shouted Slughorn merrily.
Lily walked to her bag and picked it up. "I'll see you later, James." she said waving at him.
"Sure, it's a date." he grinned devilishly.
"You know what I mean." replied Lily, tucking her hair behind her ear.
"Yeah, ignore me I'm just being myself." said James solemnly walking towards her. "Take care, tiger." he said kissing her lightly on the cheek.
Lily's heart raced at James's kiss. "Tiger?" she said questioningly, raising her eyebrows, trying not to sound as breathless as she was.
"Yes, tiger. My tiger lily." he smiled, beckoning to Sirius who seemed quite glad to be pinned to a wall be Kayt, although she was explaining how she was going to kill him.
"Your tiger lily huh?" smirked Lily. Suddenly, without any warning she pushed him up against the wall. James looked about as shocked as she felt. Lily couldn't explain what made her do that or what she did next.
Her palms were pressed against his chest. He stared at her confusedly. She leant onto him seductively; his face went from confusion to utter confusion.
"Lily, what the -" his words were cut off by a finger she placed on his lips.
"Shush, pussycat." she smiled bringing her face up to his.
At this point, her mind was screaming 'Stop now Lily! What are you doing? Stop!', but she couldn't. Some unknown force was controlling her, making her bat her eyelashes at him, making her touch him in a way she never normally would. Her face was inches away from his, all she could see were his eyes.
"Lily! You gotta save me from this molesting beast!" screamed Kayt running right into Lily and James. She stopped in her tracks and stared at them. She realized that something had been going on. "Ok, um, carry on. I'll…er…find 'Lyssa…or…get molested…can't be too bad…."
"Especially when it's someone as gorgeous as me!" said Sirius, steadily walking up behind Kayt and grabbing her around the waist.
Kayt ran off squealing with Sirius hot on her heels.
The two of them were alone now. Lily noticed she was standing uncomfortably close to James. She stepped back and looked up at him.
"I'm sorry about what I was doing." said Lily earnestly. "I don't know what made me do that."
"It's alright, I suppose I should've…done…something" finished James lamely, his cheeks were tinged pink with embarrassment.
Lily smiled tightly at James before, practically running up the stairs to her next lesson.
James stayed outside the dungeons on his own. He ran his hand through his hair, flustered. "Oh man, why in shit's sake is she so damn hot!" he muttered before shaking his head and walking off.
Unknown to both of them someone exited the dungeons, smiling malevolently.
The wheels are in motion. It was time for 7 years of payback.
Editor's note: WOW! That was cool!
Author's Note: Isn't she so supportive! Aw! Luv ya tonnes Rachna!
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An owl fluttered down to her during lunch. She immediately recognised the thick parchment. Lily grabbed the letter and unfolded it excitedly.
Hello, Lily.
All in good time, my flower,
You'll find out who I am at the Halloween Ball
And of course we'll get to know each other
very, very well
love Prince
xx
Lily went slightly pink as she read the letter, noting the 'love' and the 'x's. She smiled and looked up to see her two friends ogling at her.
"What?" she said lightly, folding up the letter.
"So…what does it say!" said Alyss impatiently, holding down Kayt who was trying to snatch the letter out of Lily's hand.
"Nothing much. Just-" Lily's words were brought to an end by Kayt, who dived onto Lily and tugged the letter out her hand.
Kayt and Alyss began to read the letter whilst Lily clambered back into her seat and straightened her robes.
The two of them began squealing very loudly, soon irritating Lily.
"Nothing much? Are you mad! This guy is basically asking you out!" squeaked Alyssa to Lily. Kayt nodded vigorously.
"Who's asking who out?" questioned James, sliding into a seat beside Lily.
"'Prince', well at least that's what these lot are saying," replied Lily nonchalantly, now looking at something apparently very interesting on her shoe.
"Oh" he said tensely.
In that moment, Lily made up her mind. She pulled out a sheet of parchment and a quill from her bag.
Hey,
So, it's a date.
I'll see you at the Halloween Ball,
I really can't wait to meet you!
Lily
xox
Lily read over what she'd written and was about to tie it to the owl's leg when James cleared his throat meaningfully.
"Lily? So … erm … do you know who this guy is yet?" he said, trying to sound casual.
"No, but I'm going to meet him at the Halloween Ball." replied Lily. She tied the letter to the owl's leg and watched it fly off.
"It's not very safe to meet up with someone you don't know."
"I'm gonna get to know him aren't I."
"Yeah but-"
"James, just keep out of it alright." Put in Kayt.
James threw a quick glare at Kayt before turning back to Lily. "Fine" he said, and left.
Lily looked confusedly at his retreating form before turning to her friends who were being amused by Sirius' antics. It was clear why, because Sirius's robes were on fire and he was running around the hall, setting as much else as he could on fire as well- probably on purpose.
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Now it was my turn, my turn to wreak hell on the boy who ruined my life for the past 7 years. I would savour every sweet moment of revenge. I would make him cry for mercy, I would hurt him without touching him.
Revenge. A sweeter word, my ears have not heard.
James Potter, I will cause you so much misery, you will regret the day you were born.
I'll get to him through his precious Lily Evans. That filth that he worshipped, she was clearly oblivious to him despite all his efforts. She had loved me since that very first note. It would be like the voodoo nonsense muggles do. Every needle I stuck into the mud blood would kill Potter.
I, the Half-Blood Prince, shall rule. I shall rule the world. A Prince I was born and a King I shall be. Ridding the world of dirty mud bloods, will be my first action. Then those stupid muggle-lovers. The time to purify the race had come and if the task fell upon my shoulders, then I shall accept it and carry out what must be done.
My first victim will be Lily Evans, she will die. Then it'll be Potter – the blood traitor, just as bad as a mudblood.
I have waited so long for this. Now it has come. The Half-Blood Prince has come. Death has come.
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A/N: Muahahahaha! Evil times approach…beware who you trust….short chapter I know, but the next chap's gonna be looong (great, more editing for me…)…so updating might take a while, 'specially with an extra story and school on my plate. So…did you like it? People you have GOT to review 'cos I'm DYING to know what you thought…personally I didn't like it that much (well your editor loved it) :O…so I will understand if u didn't like it as well. But the next chapters should be very very very good…
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