Title:Predictably Unexpected
Author:KJ COLLECTIONS
Dedication:To all the HP fans I know, there are to many to list
Based on:Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
Disclaimer:I own nothing that you recognize.
Published:18 December 2007
Updated:26 December 2007
Rating:T
Genre:Supernatural/ Romance
Summary:
The James/ Lily story hopefully with a few good twists.They are from two different worlds, so when he is thrown into hers can he accept it? Or dose she come with more baggage than he realized?
Author's Note:
Thank you, once again, to shetlandlace for your encouraging review – I have plans for Lily's hair that I think you will be happy with :)!!
Enjoy and R&R. all constructive criticisms and suggestions welcome. I don't think there will be any spoilers for the books (particularly the 7th book) but I make no guarantees. Also I wasn't a fan of what was revealed about Snape's high school years (to be discreet) in the 7th book so that will not be included in this story ). Italics symbolize flash backs and singing.
KJ xoxo
Predictably Unexpected
Four
"I'm really not liking the 'A' in this octave…" Lily said as she, Devin and Sage sat in the scarlet engine the sun slowly fading outside the window as their journey to Hogwarts slowly began to come to an end.
"Okay but it's out of place in any other octave because of where the verse as a whole is played…" Sage continued completely immersed in music notes.
"Okay…well…what if we followed it with a montage right after?"
"…sure…but we'll have to change it in the second verse then"
"Hey guys" Devin interrupted "not that this isn't thrilling and all, but are either of you getting hungry?"
"We'll be at Hogwarts soon Dev…" Lily replied never looking up from the paper "You know, I just can't tell without a guitar…"
"I know but what I meant was I'm gonna find the cart and do you guys want anything?"
"Okay, Devin, this is your band too ya know? You could be a little more interested…" Sage said mimicking Lily by never letting her eyes leave the page.
"Yeah but I can't play an instrument, my expertises and contributions to the group require tap shoes and a wood floor…"
"Yeah, okay, good point" Sage agreed "a coke please".
Sage continued to look down at paper and continued to argue over whether the 'A' was in the right octave as Devin left the compartment gently sliding the door close behind her.
She walked slowly along the dimly lit corridor, the sun completely gone from view outside the windows, leaving the slowly burning candles as the only source of light. She wondered down the corridor listening to sounds of laughter spilling from the full compartments, she had been walking for a while, with no intention of finding the cart – merely enjoying the time alone, before she felt an arm around her waist and guide her quickly into a spare room completely lacking in light before she was able to protest. They closed the door and pushed her up against the wall, standing ever so close when they finally let a candle which finally revealed the stranger as Mitchell Adams. Mitchell was a 7th year Hufflepuff, he had slightly long sandy blonde hair tied into a thin pony tail in the nap of his neck. He was slightly taller than Devin who was average height and he was not muscular but visibly toned, he played keeper from the Hufflepuff Quidditch side.
"Hey" Devin said seductively all too aware for their closeness, the gleam in her eye unrecognisable.
"Hey" he replied in the same quiet seductive tone "How was you summer?"
"Did you really drag me in here to talk about my summer?" Devin asked sceptically and was answered by his lips crashing against hers. She wrapped her arms around his neck and thread her fingers through his hair, his hands instinctively moving to her sides.
"Hey guys, have you seen Devin" Sirius asked sliding the door of the girls compartment open "I was hoping we could talk"
"Sorry honey," Sage began, looking up from her position on the couch where she attempted to re-write the notes of her song without a guitar "she went to find the cart about fifteen minutes ago – I guess she can't find it"
"We can tell her you stopped by" Lily added looking up from Devin's magazine which she had now begun to read.
"That'd be grate, actually. Thanks Goldie Locks" Sirius coaxed while quickly closing the door of the compartments which was hit by the magazine only seconds later. He chuckled and made his way down the corridor.
"Sirius mate!"
Sirius turned around and saw Mark bounding towards him enthusiastically; He was another Gryffindor, lean and taller than Sirius with no visible muscle to speak of and black hair that was cut into a crew cut.
"Hey Mark" He said as they shock hands and started to walk along together.
"So listen…" Sirius didn't, he was too preoccupied by Devin.
After James and Lily had left the group not much more was said, Sirius was merely imprinted with the vision of Devin walking away leaving him completely stunned as to why. Devin was without doubt the most temperamental of all his conquests. Most girls he dated wanted a more committed relationship but were happy with whatever he offered them allowing him to call the shots. He decided everything from what they did on the date, to how far the date would go at the end of the night, Devin was also the first person he had dated that didn't just date him as a result. The last thing Sirius could be referred to as was a bad a guy he was just enjoying his adolescence and he was always respectful to all the girls he was associated with. He knew the old values of how to treat a woman doing simple things like kissing their hand when he greeted them, bringing flowers and meeting them at the base of the Gryffindor stairs or outside the porthole leading to their house common room. He always opened the door and ordered for them if they went to dinner. He also made sure that his conquests had as little contact with each other as possible out of respect for the individual connection he had with each of them, to do this he carefully chose girls that struck his interest that were involved in a variety of different social cliques. But not with Devin, with Devin he was able to maintain simple things like opening a door but mostly she would decide on some level what they would do and the end of the date never went any further than kissing. She also moved around many cliques where he had other conquests residing. He was also unable to predict her ideas; once he'd suggested that when he married he would never expect his wife to work because the male was the 'bread-winner' of the marriage which resulted in a fight leading to a two month separation. So while they shared the same ideology in the importance of 'casual' relationships most other things, he found, they tended to disagree upon.
"…Whatta you think?" Mark finally finished.
"Yeah, sounds great" Sirius replied absentmindedly.
"Okay, I'll set it up"
"Yeah, great" Sirius said having no idea what he had just agreed to "you haven't seen Devin have you?"
"No, but Sadie was looking for you earlier"
"Okay thanks man"
"Alri', see ya 'round"
"Bye"
CRASH
"Oh, shit" Devin said as the vase tumbled to the ground and shattered and she pushed herself off the table she had been sitting on.
"I'll get it" Mitchell laughed at their clumsiness.
"Okay but don't cut yourself" Devin said as she joined in his laughter but failing to mask the concern in her voice.
"Promise" he said quickly placing his lips on hers and bent down to pick up the glass.
"Is everything okay?" Sirius said crashing into the compartment not realising who had occupied it for the last few moments.
"Sirius!" Devin shouted, as she stood up and crossed her arms "WHAT are you doing here?" she asked spite in her voice.
"I…I uh…heard a crash" He stammered, his face fell when Mitchell stood up behind Devin carrying a pile of glass "Hi – Mitchell"
"Hey Sirius – how's it goin'?" Mitchell asked pleasantly.
"Yeah, not to bad" Sirius replied "Dev, could we talk?" he moved closer to her, rage now filled her eyes and her knuckles were white from the fists her hands had now formed. She contemplated before finally turning to face Mitchell
"Mitchell, maybe you should go." Devin suggested hesitantly, it was almost a question.
"Yeah sure" Mitchell said a he placed the glass on the table behind him and placed his hand on the small of her back before leaning down and placing a gentle kiss on her cheek "I'll see you later?"
"Yeah" Devin said a smile filling her features completely forgetting that rage that had filled her only moments ago as she watched Mitchell leave the compartment.
"What are you doing later?" Sirius demanded, interrupting her thoughts not bothering to mask the jealousy in his voice.
"None of your business Sirius" Devin said as she moved to walk out the compartment door but was stopped by Sirius arms moving to block her path by wrapping it gently around her waist.
"Can we talk?" Sirius asked his tone harsh.
"Talk about what? Your absurd need to invade my privacy?"
"Well I'm sorry for thinking I heard a crash and that someone might be hurt – seeing you get your rocks off with some guy wasn't exactly fun for me either!"
Devin didn't reply at first, but looked away and released herself from Sirius' grasp "Well, I never took you for the jealous type, I thought you understood the situation!"
"What situation?" Sirius demanded
"Casual relationships, you know lots of fun – no strings, no – jealousy! I was obviously wrong."
"I'M NOT JEALOUS!" Sirius said before closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose and tacking in a few deep breaths and continued calmly "…and I don't want to argue"
"Well I don't either" Devin in an annoyed tone as she walked and joined Sirius on the couch "It's just – you know what never mind, you don't want to fight then lets not fight" she finished more calmly.
Sirius tilted his head to glance in Devin's direction sympathy filling his tone "it's just what?"
"Not important"
"Dev, it's just what?"
"It's just…" Devin began choosing her next words carefully taking a deep breath "It's just…sometimes I feel so…pressured?" she ventured "by you, by your past, by the – others".
Sirius sighed turning his body more towards her gently taking her hands in his own "Is that what happened before…in the corridor?"
"Just when you said that thing to James I…"
"I'm sorry, I never meant to pressure you – you know that right?"
"Yeah I do but…ah" Devin didn't finish, pulling her hands free of Sirius' grasp and buried her heads in them.
"Dev…" Sirius began as he placed a hand on her back and begun to rub comforting circles.
"I'm sorry…I over reacted" Devin said her voice muffled by her hands.
"Hey, no, hey" Sirius said once again taking her hands "I'm sorry…I never meant to pressure you, I'll try not to anymore"
"You understand why, though. Don't you?"
"Well…no, but I can respect it."
"Despite everything I am and everything I do that may seem immoral, that to me is important and imagine if I slept with every guy I was with…" Devin sighed "…I couldn't do that"
Sirius had never thought of it like that "So, are you a…" Sirius asked hesitantly wondering weather he even had a right to know. Devin replied by a simple nod of her head before Sirius continued "Okay, I'll be good, no more pressure. Okay?" but Sirius didn't miss the hesitant look in Devin's eye "okay Devin?"
Devin smiled before lightly touching the sides of his masculine chin with the tips of her fingers and placed an innocent lingering kiss on his lips.
"You okay man?" Remus finally asked looking at James who had taken to reading in the corner of their compartment, something he only did when he was concerned about something he was trying to avoid "You've been mopping around ever since we found the compartment.
"I'm fine" James snapped never looking up from his book.
"Course you are" was Remus' only sarcastic reply.
"I'm sorry moony, I'm just feeling a little out of it"
"She turn you down again? Honestly, I don't know why she walked into the lions den without a chair like that."
"I didn't ask her out" Remus gave James a sceptical reply "Oh don't give me that look, I haven't asked her out in over a year."
Which was true, James had hoped for two outcomes by giving up his pursuit of Lily Evans. He'd hoped that he would get over her and be able to move on to a girl more willing to reciprocate his feelings but this plan, as Remus had so kindly pointed out, was flawed because the chase was part of the appeal of Lily. He'd also hoped that would soon learn to tolerate him, the latter was, of course, James' preference. To James' dismay, though, neither option had worked for him; admiring for a distance only seemed to intensify his feelings for her since it made her that much more unattainable and his silent admiration had also caused Lily to avoid him more apparently afraid that any kind of interaction with the devil would only cause her new found peace to be temporary – she would have been right. 'Beauty and brains' James thought 'I'm screwed!'
"So how the hell did you manage to annoy her this time – did you have ago at her about her hair?" The question had been rhetorical and sarcastic but James once again emersed himself in his book refusing to meet Remus' gaze "James tell me you didn't!" again no reply "James! Her hair looks really good, it really suits her! Why would you do that?"
"Yeah, it's fine and it does look good, but it's not…it's not Lily!"
"And you told her that?" Remus asked in pure disgust.
"Well...not exactly"
"What did you say?"
"Just…that I hated it"
"Smooth. Real smooth Romeo" Remus said shaking his head "but surely even-tempered Lily wouldn't get so mad just over that?" Remus reasoned "Of course it is you, I guess. But then again you've never actually insulted her before" he said more to himself than James.
"Well…she"
"James! What did you say now?"
"She did seem kind of mad that my parents knew who she was…"
"You're really off your game today, aren't you?" Remus asked rhetorically once more leaning against the wall legs bent and his book leaning on them "How does she even know that your parents know who she is, anyway?"
"She accidentally met them this morning – kind of a long story, that…" James began "apparently involves abduction" he finally finished.
"Abduction?" Remus asked in alarm.
"Yeah, don't ask me I only got snippets of the story." James said shaking his head at Remus his earlier confusion flooding his mind once more just as Sirius crashed once more into the compartment Peter closely behind him…
"Devin and I are good" he announced.
"Good" James said in a solemn tone facing Sirius and then turned back to face Remus "I don't wanna analyse me anymore".
"Where did you get to Peter?" Remus asked as the pair joined James and himself on the seats.
"Nicked some drinks…" Peter said and in a very uncoordinated fashion chucked the other three cokes.
James spent the rest of the trip emersed in his book completely unaware of his friends finally able to find a temporary release from Lily, but only temporarily.
A/N: In this chap I really wanted to establish the mechanics of Sirius and Devin and to show why they have a love/hate relationship. I don't want to portray either one as a 'bad' person but to show the depth of their relationship.
I know they have been on this train for 4 chaps now, but in the next chap is Hogwarts!!!
Merry Xmas everybody – even though Xmas was yesterday – I hope you all got what you wanted and had a great day with family and friends!! Keep smiling!!
xoxo
KJ