MY BEAUTIFUL CHICKEN NUGGETS I AM BACK,
Yes, there isn't much (any) straight up JILY in this chappie but Lily's relationship with two pivotal characters does grow.
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Okay, I'll go now I get it,
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good…
It was a large and beautiful circular room, full of funny little nick knacks and noises. A number of curious silver instruments stood on spindle-legged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses, all of whom were snoozing gently in their frames. There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a shabby, tainted wizard's hat — the Sorting Hat.
The entire room emitted not only a deep curiosity, but also a mystical yet homely element that made it so high up on Lily's list of 'the top ten places at Hogwarts' (It was currently fourth).
"Lily darling, do you really think it wise to win over the boy's heart, would you not rather earn it?"
The soothing and captivating voice belonging to Albus Percival Wulferic Brian Dumbledore pierced through the chatter of inanimate objects as he and the red head enjoyed a pot of English breakfast tea.
"That's just it Uncle!" Lily exclaimed with a smile. She took a large sip of tea and felt its spices tantalizingly dance over her tongue before warmly sliding down her throat, "I know he likes me, I'm telling you Uncle. You know I have a knacking for these types of things. There's something about this James Potter. Reminds me of how Aberforth would describe you when you were young."
This caused the white-bearded wizard to nearly spit his tea out onto his desk and all over his niece. A fuzzy and heartwarming laugh bellowed throughout the office. "Funny that Lily… Funny that," Dumbledore, sighed and placed his china tea cup back on its saucer, "Well Lily I wish you the best of luck. If I do say so myself, I do believe that perhaps the two of you would work quite harmoniously together."
Lily too placed her tea cup on the saucer, and using her wand whisked them both away to the sink that she knew lay at the back of the office.
"It pays to have a gay uncle."
At this Dumbledore practically choked on oxygen.
"Uncle it's not that obvious, trust me," The man couldn't help but smile, "And besides, it's just me. I'm good with secrets." The confident girl slowly realized the implications of what she had just said, and her radiant smile gently slipped off her face.
Dumbledore notice it too. At this moment, Fawkes decided to fly through the window and land in front of Lily, bowing his head ever so slightly in her direction.
"Hello Fawkes," Lily whispered, gently stroking the magnificent creature's feathers.
The bird nuzzled his head close to Lily before flapping his vibrant red wings and flying back to his perch.
Lily recalled how Fawkes would, every few months, turn into fire, and in turn to ash, and rise anew from the ashes and start again.
"Sometimes I wish I could be like Fawkes," Lily whispered, more to herself than her uncle.
"How so?" Dumbledore inquired.
Sighing, Lily looked towards her fidgeting fingers, "So I could start again, get a new life, like Fawkes when he rises from his ashes."
Lily wasn't aware of the lone tear that had begun to trail its way over her freckled cheek.
"Lily… you have to let go. The pain is eating you up inside and it's not good."
Lily looked at her feet and sighed as the tear fell off her cheek and onto her lap with a minimalistic plop.
"You can tell them you know?"
This distracted lily, she looked at her uncle with a small sense of frustration.
"You know I can't. I don't need people knowing about what happened to me," Lily said this with a such a finality that any sane person would not probe any further.
As expected Dumbledore was hardly sane.
"Lily, letting them in will help you. Even Aberforth agrees. What your sister and even your father did was-
"Do not, talk about that backstabbing, neglecting asshole!" Lily quickly rose to her feet and took several steps backwards, her voice soft, but full of anger and the deep green pools of her eyes blurred behind unshed tears.
"Lily the past is the past, you must learn to move forward. Pain can only affect the victim when they keep it bottled up. Please Lily, I'm asking for your sake just-
"NO!" Lily shouted now, "He was my father and he just, he… he…. He just g-gave me away, and Petunia just l-let it happen! She wanted it to! She was m-meant to… to be my friend!" Now Lily had fallen back into her seat in front of the desk.
There was a silence lasting several beats, even despite the objects tinkering.
"Lily, Lea, Remus, Sirius, James, the girls the boys, they are your family now. You need to be honest with them. If not now then soon, no one will understand until you do."
Lily after sniffing nodded and got up, walked around the table, and hugged Dumbledore, pulling him tight.
"Thank you Uncle."
"Anytime my dear."
Lily sniffled one last time before turning and hopping down the stairs towards the gargoyle.
"Lily dear?" Dumbledore's voice filtered towards the red head and she turned around quizzical. "If Severus gives you any trouble, or even brings up his father, just let me or Minerva know."
Lily nodded and attempted to force a smile as she turned and headed down the stairs.
(J+L)(J+L)(J+L)
The plan was in action, the girls had spent several hours doing so and their plan was flawless. Operation: win over Potter was officially en route to success.
Lily, who had filled Marlene and Mary in on her plan to thaw James' heart had begun brainstorming a plan of action in charms and was excited to begin planning at the end of the day.
Mary, who was totally excited to help one of her friends on an endeavor with a man, was in, and Marlene was simply happy with having a distraction from Sirius.
After dinner, the girls practically raced into their dormitory to find the best way to win over James and after several hours, the very full moon was high in the sky, shining a natural light into the room as the wind appeared to be howling and the girls, still running on adrenaline, sat proudly in front of a giant whiteboard, which had been transfigured from an empty potion bottle.
It read as follows:
The hottest 6th year's guide to land James Potter for good
(A masterpiece by Marlene McKinnon, Mary Macdonald, Lea Brill and Lily Evans)
PLAN OF ACTION
Halloween killers
ITEMS NEEDED:
Marauder participation
Super sexy costumes
Access to room of requirement (nice thinking Lea)
IF THIS DOESN'T WORK MOVE TO B)
Christmas extravaganza
ITEMS NEEDED:
PERMISSION FROM DUMBLES
THREE MICROPHONES
A GUITAR
A BASS
A DRUM KIT
A TAMBOURINE SO IT LOOKS LIKE MARY IS HELPING
KILLER COSTUMES
MASKS
IF THIS DOESN'T WORK MOVE TO C)
BIG REVEAL
(J+L)(J+L)(J+L)
It was three days later and Lily was lying in the sun, underneath a shady tree next to the great lake. The cool breeze of an oncoming autumn was blowing her hair around her face and her Gryffindor uniform was accompanied with a pair of Australian muggle Rayban glasses.
In the last few days, Lily had barely slept, she knew why too.
It was as if the girl's brain was split in half. The more fun-loving half was the one based on James Potter. Lily found herself watching the boy, she also caught him occasionally staring at her but when she would probe him about it, he would deny it.
She watched the way he walked and the way he held himself, what with his pranking and fun with his friends, but Lily could also see the man behind the boy, and she wanted nothing more than to be his.
She couldn't say why. Lily just knew.
The other half of her brain was preoccupied with something entirely different, and something that Lily would rather no one find out.
Lily felt like she was being eaten alive by a secret. One she had held since she was eleven. One that was so close to breaking free that it terrified her, after all, she had been moved to another country to get away from it all, for her safety, but now that she was back, everything was bubbling to the surface.
More and more tension was bubbling to the surface as old, horrible memories suddenly started reappearing in her thoughts. Memories that had taken Lily years to suppress.
She had wanted to tell people. Firstly she wanted to tell Lea, who after all, was Lily's best friend. Next she wanted to tell Remus, but felt that telling him and not Sirius would also be detrimental, but telling Sirius while Marlene and he weren't on speaking terms wouldn't go down well. But more than anything she wondered if she could tell James, if he would think of her differently. But wonder was all Lily would allow herself the liberty to do. Telling was far to risky, after all, this wasn't just some petty, 'I'm not a virgin', this was dark and horrific and the consequences could turn out to be devastating.
Lily wanted so badly to fit in, it just wasn't an option.
Just then Lily heard a twig snap behind the tree and she whipped her head around only to meet the boy she had been trying her damn hardest to avoid.
Severus Snape.
His greasy hair that had once been a vehicle of Lily's fascination now disgusted her. And his eyes, black and bug like, just like his father's.
Lily felt her throat grow dry as she pictured the man. Tall, and brooding and gloomy and proud and proper and ugly and pale and horrible and conniving and revolting and vile and disgusting and all of a sudden Lily felt like she was going to collapse or throw up or both.
"Hi Lily."
He actually attempted to smile at her, but the tears that had welled in her eyes began to shed and she stared straight into the eyes of the boy who betrayed her.
"Get away from me Severus."
Lily got to her feet and pushed passed the boy and began storming up towards the castle.
"Lily wait! We're friends! You know I couldn't do anything."
Like lightning Lily whipped out her wand and began stalking towards Snape, wand pointing at his throat, a murderous expression on her face.
"Don't you give me that bullshit Severus," Lily's tears continued but the anger in her voice mostly concealed her hurt, "We aren't friends Severus. Apparently we never were-
"Lily that's not true I… I-
"ENOUGH!" Lily's voice boomed so loud that the birds perched in the tree began cawing and flying away. Snape flinched and took several steps backwards. "Don't talk to me."
And with that Lily began sprinting up towards the castle, not turning back once. Lily darted herself through the halls until she arrived in a hidden alcove. Inside, Lily sunk to the ground with her back against the wall, put her face in her hands and cried.
After a certain amount of time, that Lily was unsure, but she was aware that she had probably missed transfiguration, Lily's tears began to slow and all but come to a halt. Roughly wiping away her tears, Lily made a decision.
She was going to devote her time to thawing James Potter, because she would not shed one more tear that year. Lily was going to be strong. And she was going to get James.
(J+L)(J+L)(J+L)
"Remus?" He whispered quietly, trying to be mindful of his exhausted friends who were recovering from the full moon the day previous.
Silence.
"Remus are you awake?"
A guttural, aching groan filtered out of the lycanthrope's curtains.
"What is it Sirius?" Remus did not bother to try keep his annoyance out of his voice. He cracked his back and rolled over.
"There's a spider on my pillow. Can you kill it for me?" Even with his feeble attempt to seem nonchalant, Remus was aware just how scared Sirius was of the spider.
Remus, still pissed at Sirius for hurting Marlene, but unable to hold a grudge as he helped him during the full moon sighed.
"Is it trying to hurt you?"
"Well no but-
-just try ignore it okay?"
There was silence once more, until James Potter's muffled voice was heard, just enough for Remus to hear, "Engorgio"
Sirius' shrieks were loud and horrified as he scrambled out of his bed and out the dormitory door, leaving James and Remus clutching their stomachs laughing while rolling around in their beds.
James shrunk the spider back down to it's original size and still lying in bed, using his wand, placed it out the window, shutting it as the spider crawled down the outside of the tower.
"Prongs?"
"Yes Moony?" James said, sitting up.
"Why are you so persistent on not giving in to Lily?"
For a brief moment, James realized he didn't have an answer.
"You guys would be great together. Not to mention that eighty percent of the male and probably female populace of Hogwarts would die to get in her pants and she is sitting cross –legged on a silver platter in front of you. Why wont you just notice how good she would be for you?'
Again, James was at a loss for words.
"Is your reputation that important to you? Wouldn't you rather be happy with how you are, and not how people think you are?"
James sighed, "It's not that simple Moony."
Now Remus sighed, "That's where you are wrong James. It's as simple as you make it."
James sat back down, sinking into his pillows, letting Remus' words tumble around in his brain.
There was a new voice, "James?"
James sat up again, and he and Remus exclaimed at the same time, "Pete?!" They both thought he was asleep.
"Yeah, well. You know how stupid it is to see Sirius continually pulling and pushing Marlene?"
Remus awkwardly coughed at the mention of his cousin.
"Yes Pete?" James prodded, wanting Pete to continue.
"His situation isn't all that different to yours."
There was a calm silence as James lay back down again and Sirius returned quietly to the dorm room, not before sending a couple curse words to James and in a few moments, the boys were quietly asleep, or pretending, but quiet all the same.
OKAY MY FRENCH FRIES I BE OUTTA HERE
REVIIEWS are like getting a not shitty Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
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Mischief managed (For now).