Chapter 3.

Students and news

The following morning to Severus and Lily's freezing bathroom experience was the worse Severus had been through. Rumors had started all over the castle that he had tried to do something he would never. He walked with his head down through nearly crowded halls. Getting tripped or elbowed on the way to one of his favorite classes. Before he turned the corner down to the dungeons he heard his nickname be called "HEY SNIVILLOUS!" James Potter had called. Smirking he walked down the hall followed by Sirius Black, he was strangely quiet today both Severus and James took notice to this. James tilted his head to the side and said something to Sirius. "I have to go.." He aoided eye contact with James and tried to look away from Severus but for a split second he made direct eye contact with him. James went to reach for him but he had moved away quickly. "alrighty then i'll do it myself" he yelled after Sirius. Severus had turned back to his objective of getting to class when James had finally turned his attention to him. "HEY snivillous where do you think you are going?"

Sev rolled his dark eyes and let out a soft annoied sigh. "to class, somewhere you rarely go, since you are so busy in bed with the whole school" He kept his back to James and walked quickly through the nearly empty hallway now. James ran after him. Their heights were not that different Sev was 4 or 5 inches taller then James but he was fast. "i know what you were trying to do to Lily, the whole school knows how scummy you are, slinking as low as that" Sev froze in his tracks. James's smirk on his face told his thoughts "you will pay for what you tried to do" He raised his wand as Severus turned "and what is it you and the rest of this bloody stupid school think I have done to her" His voice slightly sarcastic as he glared at the wand that was pointed to him. "you tried to rape Lily and you know it" Severus's breath was caught in his throat and his eyes flashed wide for a moment. "that is not true...she was in there because of you!...she was crying BECAUSE OF YOU!" his anger building up. He had gotten his wand and hidden it under his sleeve. Not having his cloak was bothersome but he would put up with it until Lily returned it to him. James was shocked by Severus's words. "she was in there because you wouldn't leave her alone" he shot back with as much hatred he could add to those words.

"not true i am her b-" James had fired a stunning spell at him knocking Severus backwards. Luckily He had managed to block most of it. "STUPIFY!" Sev yelled sending a blue green flash of light at James. He was much slower then Sev and was hit full force. "Now Potter..." Sev walked over to James and glared down at him, a strange darkness clouding his eyes, a darkness James would never confess that scared him. James's wand lay only a few inches from his frozen hand on the ground. Severus looked at him then with a short and quick stomp broke his wand in half. He looked over his shoulder in the direction of his class. Lily was in there so he decided he would make this the last thing he would do. "obliviate" he whispered pointing his wand at James. He wiped his mind clean of everything Lily and everything him. He turned and quickly ran to his classroom. Knowing he would have a detention with professor Salvatore.

When he had snuck into the classroom successfully he sat next to Lily. "hey sorry i'm late" he whispered while taking out his notebooks. He looked up to where Professor Salvatore would be standing and saw he was gone. "where's the professor?" He asked in a low whisper Lily looked at him and leaned in close to his ear. "he will be back soon, he had to go get the new student" Severus nodded in understanding. "then why are we whispering?" he asked a small smile on his face. She smiled at him "i dont know you started it" she giggled. Right when he went to say something else a familiar voice cut them off. "Students quiet down now, I'm back and with a new student" A tall man in his late 20's walked in, wearing nearly all black. He wore a black jacket that went to his knees, black jeans and black leather cowboy boots. His shirt was surprisingly not black it was blue, a light blue v-neck shirt. His hair an odd shade of blue-black pulled back in a ponytail, His eyes were a marvelous brown gold color scars below his left eye had made him look more scary then he was. Lily had a secret crush on him but would never tell anyone, she was an a plus student in any class he taught. "this everyone is my daughter and our new student Noel" Severus had not bothered to look at them, he was watching Lily's expression shift. She had been looking at Professor Salvatore with a fangirl expression. "Noel go have a seat infront of Severus" When he heard his name he looked up. If he had payed attention to them he would've noticed she was looking at him almost like Lily was looking at the teacher. Only she had a weird sort of cloud in her eyes. She looked happy until you really looked into her eyes. She quickly and gracefully walked to her seat infront of Severus. Everyone's eyes on her as she sat down and tensed up.

"what is she doing here, isn't she a 4th year?" Someone asked from the back of the room. Professor Salvatore looked back and eyed the boy who had said that "yes Sirius she is, but she had been exceeding the expectaions of a 4th year in her old potions class, and no before you ask miss evans i did not pass her through to this class. That was decided by Professor Dumbledore" He looked from Sirius in the back of the room to Lily who was a few rows infront of him. "Now, on to today's lesson" He turned and began going off into his lesson. Lily and most of the girls in the class were not exactly paying attention to the lesson, more like watching the teacher's every move. Severus had rolled his eyes a few times from the sounds of the girls sighing quietly to themselves then was shocked to hear lily do the same. He looked at her and she gave him a side ways glance. A bright smile on her face while she tore a peice of paper out of her notebook and began writing something. Severus looked curiously at the paper. When she carefully slid it to him he could finally read what she had written. 'That girl likes you Sev' He looked at the note then up at her giving her a confused expression. She smiled and waitied till Salvatore's back was turned to lean in close and whisper "you didn't see her look at you, it was like Cupid had smacked her" He sat up straight in his chair and quickly glanced over to Noel. Then he looked at Lily and shook his head. "no thats hard to believe" he whispered back. They waited until Salvatore turned his back on the class again. "no it's not sev, you are a very..." she was looking at him "very cute and sweet boy, who wouldn't like you" she gave him a smile and turned her attention back to the teacher. He looked down at the quills on his desk and whispered low enough for her to not hear. "you don't..." She had heared a sound come from him and whispered while looking down at her notes. "what was that Sev?" He shook his head and muttered "nothing". Noel had heard every word they said and looked down at her blank notebook. "alright class just one more thing, you all are probably tired of hearing about the tri-wizard tornament by now, but this is new, they are holding a ball in a week so break out your danceing shoes and gowns, oh and you didnt hear it from me" he gave the whole class a sly grin and a wink as they all got up and exited the room. "Oh sev, a ball i cant wait!" Lily said nearly bolting out of the room full of excitment. He quietly dredded this ball idea as he listened to lily go on and on about how much she would like to dance with him. "Lily" he finally stopped her from her rant "i cant dance" he admitted finally"