I play my cards one by one so whether or not Severus becomes a death eater or not is yet to be decided, you someone mentioned Harry Potter (Lily and James having to be together to create him) but who says he will exist? My story will be completely different, no chosen ones to defeat ole mouldy-warts because really was Harry necessary as the chosen one? He only survived because of Lily's love, and please correct me if I am wrong but anybody could have destroyed mouldy-wart's horcuxes with the right tool. I need Harry because he is a horcux? In J.K Rowling's tale, yes, yes he is but since he will not be created by Lily and James he will not exist. I should name Belle and James child Harry? No, not if I want to be more original. What if Lily named Harry, Harry and liked the name instead of James, he might want another name and so might Belle. Of course I do not own any character from Harry Potter or anything to do with Harry Potter, the books, films or anything like that (no I do not have Harry Potter merchandise either), JK Rowling does (my disclaimer) but I am putting a twist on her version. Do not expect Belle to be the chosen one to defeat moldy-wart's because she is not, no one is in my story. Is he just going to be able to rule the world because there is no chosen one, no. Teamwork my dear readers is essential in every war, one man or woman does not win a war itself. Will ole what is her face who says the prophecy, say the prophecy? Why she might, but just because he says something does it make it true. If she said something different would Dumbledore have planned everything different? The outcome be different? The whole thing seems to be based around her prophecy but who says it was meant to be true? I am rambling so on with the story
Belle couldn't handle the told you so speeches coming from her roommate's and the are you okay speeches from Amber, sure the girl is probably her best friend now but she did not want those type of speeches. Actually she wants to be on her broom, soaring through the cloudless sky while the sun goes down; she wants to feel the suns warm glow on her face, her eyes to be closed while she flies aimlessly feeling the wind on her face and to have her fiery red locks dancing in the wind. Instead she is lying on the sofa in the common room with her arms wrapped around a golden cushion, it is midnight but she does not care. All she knows is that her best or ex best friend is on the other side of the Fat lady portrait waiting for her; all she knows is that Lily is beside him and all she knows is that her friendship with Severus could be over. She remembers the first time they met, he was so nervous and so desperate for her attention and friendship, he treasured her almost like she his privilege. When they arrived at Hogwarts Severus changed for the worse in her opinion.
"Hey Sev, do you want to join us for lunch?" Belle asks merrily, her wavy red locks bouncing at she basically skips over to her best friend sitting at the Slytherin table. Avery, Evan, Wilkes and Mulciber glare viciously at her with hatred and disgust reflecting in their eyes.
Severus coal eyes avert to the table before they flicker to Evan "the properties of unicorn hair are…" and as he resumes his previous conversation, completely ignoring Belle her smiles starts to fade and hurt shines in her apple green eyes.
"That should have been a sign; ever since he began hanging out with those boys he has ignored me. Not Lily though, not the perfect Lily Elizabeth Evans" Belle whispers softly, her eyebrows furrow in frustration, she could not understand why he preferred her over herself; she stood up for him against Petunia and Lily and when Lily kept her mouth shut.
"Eww… Your nose is huge! That is utterly amazing the size of that thing and your hair has so much grease and is so oily I suppose squeeze you hair to put oil on your pan. If can afford a pan, are you literally wearing your mothers blouse? Blimey, what are you going to wear next? A rubbish bag" Darius exclaims mockingly, he tosses back his head and laughs loudly at Severus.
Severus is on the ground, after Darius shoved him and he averts his coal eyes to the ground so the older boy does not see the tears forming.
Lily stands quietly beside Severus, her eyes observing a tree to her right she suddenly finds interesting and her hands nervously fumbling with the hem of her skirt.
Bam! Darius clutches his bleeding nose and howls loudly in pain "my nose! You broke it" he wails loudly, and he bursts into tears.
Belle glares angrily at the boy with tousled blonde hair and dark blue eyes while rubbing her sore knuckles "leave Sev alone you dumb twit!" she bellows angrily.
"I have always defended him, and when Evan and his stupid crew made fun of his blood status I was there for him" Belle whispers, tear drops land on the cushion and she hugs it closer to her for comfort.
"So Severus Snape… Hmm… I have not heard of the surname Snape in the Wizarding World, what are you Snape?" Evan asks after their very first DADA class, Avery, Mulciber and Wilkes stand around Evan who smirks superiorly at Severus.
"I am not a mud-muggle-born if that is what you are implying" Severus replies uneasily, he fixed himself before he said 'mud-blood' because Belle stood at the classroom door waiting patiently for him.
"Are you a half-blood? Slytherin is for pure-bloods not minuscule beings like you. What IS your mummy a muggle-born? And your daddy a muggle" Wilkes proclaims mockingly with a sneer implanted on his face.
"My mother is a Prince actually, Eileen Prince" Severus remarks proudly, the Prince is an old pure-blood family which have had their family members only belonging in one House; Slytherin.
"You mean the wench who ran off with muggle, the wench who disgraced the Prince family? And who disgraced the great House Slytherin? You are just like your mother Snape, a disgrace" Evan says quietly with malice, he narrows his grey orbs at the pasty skinned boy.
"The only disgrace here is you Rosier, so insecure about yourself that you have to resort to putting down everyone else. You are absolutely pathetic and Sev is worth a billion galleons more than you, no quadruple that. Your stupidity and narrow-minded behaviour astounds me, leave Sev alone so I don't have to waste my breath on you once again. Oh and Wilkes your remark seemed almost rehearsed, did you spend all day practicing that in the mirror?" Belle angrily remarks, glaring at the group of glowering boys before dragging Severus away.
"What do I get in return? Nothing but him calling me scum. Lily will expect me to forgive him, I just know she will. Just something in the moment" Belle scoffs quietly, and wipes away her tears.
"Belle he really did not mean it! It was a spur of the moment" Lily says, and she grasp her sister's hands "he really regrets it, please forgive him. We all say the wrong things at the wrong time sometimes in our lives" Lily adds, she desperately gazes at her sister.
Belle peers into Lily's emerald orbs "it still does not make it right; when he annoyed me or hurt me beforehand did I mock him? No I forgave him, every single blimmin time he hurt me I forgave him. I am sick of this Lily, having to watch who I associate myself with like the Marauders because of how he feels! What about how I feel? What about the boys he hangs out with discussing pure-blood supremacy? The same boys who have called me mud-blood plenty of times, the same boys who used magic for bad purposes against Amber or me on the Quidditch pitch! I know I sound selfish but Lily I am sick of doing everything and anything for him and getting it thrown in my face in return. I have tried and tried, I have done all the effort to keep our friendship but it almost seems to be done in vain. I am tired of this, I am sick of this and I have had enough" Belle exclaims angrily, tears start cascading down her cheeks and she pulls her hands out of Lily's grasp.
"He is waiting outside for you, and I will be with him. Please Belle, he has done nothing wrong" Lily murmurs gently, she wipes away her sisters tears before leaving to resume her position beside Severus.
"I guess the tables have turned, she is staying loyally by his side" Belle whispers, she tucks a stray red lock behind her ear.
Bang! Belle turns swiftly to see her DADA book fall off the common room desk and she leaps to her feet hurrying towards her book when she collides with someone.
"Oof" emits from the intruders mouth when Belles lands on him and they both go crashing onto the ground. Belle feels the figures arms for the material, and she draws the cloak of the intruder to gaze into the familiar hazel eyes belonging to one James Potter.
"Were you spying on me you twit?" Belle exclaims in outrage, her green eyes gleaming with anger. She quickly gets off him, and stands with one hand on her hip glaring at him expectantly.
"No, no, no, no you have it all wrong beau-Belle I came down to check on you and you were kind of talking to yourself so I went to leave but I knocked the book down. Honestly, checking on you not spying" James explains hurriedly after he gets to his feet clutching the invisibility cloak in his hand while waving his other hand in dismissal.
Belle curiously looks at the invisibility cloak in his hand "how did you ever get your hands on that James? I thought there are only a few in existence" Belle says dismissing her earlier accusation.
James takes a seat on the couch and smiles proudly at her "family heirloom" he explains, and his smile brightens when she takes a seat next to him.
"Do all pure-blood families have an heirloom like this?" Belle asks, faintly touching the cloaks material with her fingertip, and she gazes curiously at James.
James shrugs casually "I don't know to be honest but some do I suppose. Pad-foot and his family have a tradition of naming their family members of stars but no heirloom and if he does he has not told me" James replies, he places the cloak in her hands and smirks at her "you can have a look".
Belle places the cloak over her hand and smiles brightly when her hand is invisible. She looks up at James and smiles knowingly "so this is how you have snuck around and set up pranks huh James, how resourceful and Slytherin of you" Belle replies teasingly; her eyes sparkle with amusement when she reads disgust from his frown and the glint in his hazel eyes.
"The great James Potter has a Slytherin trait? Never, my sweet and beautiful Belle you have gone utterly mad if you think so" James responds curtly, he crinkles his nose in disgust because of her claim.
"Oh the great James Potter does have many Slytherin traits, cunning with your pranks, resourceful in your Quidditch tactics and once again pranks, and relentless in getting what you want. My, oh my James you are very Slytherin" Belle teases, she laughs when she sees his face screw up even more in disgust.
James corner of his lips upturn when he hears her sweet laughter in his ears "oh you find this entertaining? Huh Belle, I do not have traits belonging to the House Slytherin" he says while leaning towards her until his mouth is beside her ear "either you take it back or you suffer the consequences" he whispers, his breath against her ear makes her breath catch.
Belle smiles and riskily leans forward so her mouth is beside his ear "bring it on Potter" she whispers softly, she smiles with satisfaction when feels his quiver from her breath on his flesh "I must say green would suit you" she adds teasingly.
"That is it Miss Evans, I gave you a chance but you did not take it so I must bring out the big guns" James says after regaining his ability to speak, and his voice is a little squeaky like it was before puberty because of the affect she has on him.
Belle bursts into laughter when he starts ticking her sides; she falls back and pointlessly tries to fight off his attack. Tears of happiness roll down her cheeks, and she continues to laugh as his assault continues. "St-st-stop" cries out Belle while she continues to laugh and tries to fight him off
"Take it back Belle" James exclaims with amusement and he continues to tickle her mercilessly.
"N-n-never" Belle proclaims, tears spilling out of her eyes and she continues to laugh hard. Belle uses all her weight to quickly lean forward and she starts to assault James by ticking his sides. James starts laughing too and tries to fight her off by ticking under her armpit, she counters by doing the same.
Belle collapses on James after their tickle fight and starts to recover her breath "I won" she whispers, she looks at James and giggles a little.
James smiles up at her "only because I was a gentleman and allowed you to milady" James replies in a posh voice which makes Belle laugh a little more. James cups her cheek with the palm of his hand while his other hand sneaks around her waist "and since I bestowed you the gift of winning you have to bestow a kiss my lips" he whispers softly.
Belle raises an eyebrow at him "so the 'gift' came with a price, not very giving of you milord" Belle whispers back with amusement.
James moves his hand cupping her cheek to behind her neck and slowly closes the gap between them "I guess I will have to not be a gentleman than" he places his lips against her soft ones. Her lips feel amazing against his and he starts to move his lips against hers he starts remembering their first kiss in third year.
"Belle, quick come here I have an important message from Fabien and Gideon about the Quidditch game tonight" James exclaims, motioning for Belle to go over to him. Belle reluctantly and cautiously does, to her surprise a circle shines around them and she looks up to see a mistletoe hanging above their heads.
"Potter, what is the meaning of th-"but before she can finish her sentence his lips crash against hers, she goes completely motionless and her cheeks go a dark shade of red. His cheeks did to when he pulled away after receiving two slaps from her, first for stealing her first kiss and the second for tricking her but it had been worth it for him
James smiles fondly at the memory and his smile brightens when he feels her kiss him back. His heart pounds hard and loud inside his chest he is slightly afraid it will explode; also a little embarrassed that she may hear it.
Belle's heart flutters in her chest while her stomach does flips, Petunia said if you kiss a guy and you feel utterly amazing than he is the one though he theory proved to be wrong when David broke it off with her. 'Wait Petunia shoot kissing James and Lily, Sev and gah' Belle thinks while quickly pulling away from the kiss. She removes herself off James and stands up with her back to her.
And, drum roll please; to be continued…
Okay next chappie I will do Lily and Sev POV, review please and next update may be in a few days which is why I updated now.