Chapter 3

Lily's POV

Jumping off the couch, and taking my ice-pack with me, I grabbed Alice's arm and dragged her up to the girls dormitory.

"What the hell?" she yelled

"'What the hell?'" I yelled back, "The hell is you have a boyfriend! You can't go around snogging every guy who comes onto you! Your lucky it was James and I who stumbled upon your little encounter, and not Amos!"

"I'm sorry, ok? I couldn't help it, I got lost in the moment!"

"Really?" I asked furiously, "Who else have you snogged senseless, hmmm? Who else are you having secret realtionships with behind your boyfriends back, because I'm pretty sure that's called cheating Alice!"

"Merlin, will you shut up? Your starting to sound like my mother! And don't you lecture me on secret relationships! You can't be mad at me when you and Potter 'arm wrestled' on the train!"

"What?" I asked, afraid she had seen me and James.

"Oh you know! Your a terrible liar Lily Evans, and the way Potter looks at you, it was bound to happen sometime!"

"At least I don't have a boyfriend!"

"Well it sure looks that way! Its not your place to tell me what a terrible person I am, so can you at least pretend you didn't see that?"

"Fine." I said, but I didn't mean it. I knew James was either congratulating Black or yelling his ears off, and I wanted to know what Blacks thoughts about all of this were.

"Good," she said. "So what happened exactly between you and Potter? I mean, I get the general idea, but..."

So, I told her everything. She seemed interested, and it was nice to get it off my chest, but I knew I would regret telling her. Everytime she see's me and Potter talk now, she's going to nudge me or smirk, and that would get old pretty fast.

Ali fell asleep on my bed, so I ended up taking hers. She slept with her whole closet on her bed, so it was pretty uncomfortable.

I was laying there in bed, thinking about the events of that day, when I heard a crash from downstairs in the Common Room. Why would somebody possibly be up at this time of night? I look at my watch-Its was 1:24 am. Why was I even up this late? Normally I went straight to sleep. I guess I had a lot to think about that day, seeing has I snogged a boy I've never had feelings for and my best friend cheated on her boyfriend, while my foot was also killing me.

I crawled out of bed and crept quietly downstairs.

I looked out into the Common Room and saw people who didn't belong there.

Slytherins.

And not just any Slytherins.

Severus and Mulciber.

How did they get into our Common Room? How did they get the password? How did they even know where it was?

"Merlin, Mulciber, shut up!" Severus hissed. "Your going to get us caught!"

"We won't get caught Snape!" Mulciber whispered back, picking up the pieces of the figurine that he had knocked over. That must have been the crash I'd heard before.

"Are you sure no one is awake? If somebody hears us we'd be working in the Forest for months has detention!"

"I've done this before, Severus, has long has we're careful we won't be caught."

"Real careful, you're being there! If someone hears..."

"No one will!"

"Which side is the Boys Dormitories?" Severus asked Mulciber.

"Left," Mulciber said has he walked closer to the staircases, "I can smell the girls perfume coming from the other side,"

The both of them snuck up the stairs and turned at the Marauders dormitory. Mulciber opened the door quietly and moved aside has to let Severus go in first.

"What do you think you're doing?" I finally spoke up startling them both. Mulciber jumped and, on reaction, Severus shouted, "Stupify!"

I flew backwards and hit the wall. I fell to the ground with a loud thump. Severus shouting the spell must have woken James and the rest of the Marauders, because at once they all came running out of their dorm, all in their boxers, and Remus in his robe. James took one look at me, turned to Severus, and punched him square in the face. Snape stumbled backwards and ran into Mulciber who fell over.

Sirius stunned the both of them, while Peter just stood around looking surprised.

James ran over to me and helped me up off the ground. By this time people had started running out of their dormitories to see what all the noise was about.

Severus and Mulciber began to run over to the portrait, but Remus and Sirius caught them. Severus glanced at me nervously a few times, but after that he wouldn't meet my eye.

"What the hell are you doing?" screamed Potter, "What, are you trying to ambush us? That's pretty manly for slim ball twat such as yourself! And stunning a girl-?"

"He didn't stun me on purpose! It was a reaction!" I spoke up, rubbing the swelling bump on the back of my head.

"Reaction! Your actually defending him, the greasy twat!" James yelled. He turned to Severus, "If you ever touch her, or even look at her again, I'll AK you, I swear I will!"

Alice ran down the stairs from our dorms, saw what was going on, and knelt down beside me.

"Are you ok?" she whispered,

I nodded. Meanwhile, James was still having a go at Snape and Mulciber.

"-You foul, greasy prick! Don't you ever-"

"Excuse me?" Severus broke in, "Me, a prick? That's pretty rich from somebody who cant even look at her without drooling!" He pointed at me, and I blushed.

"Speak for yourself, you prat!" James yelled back,

"I saw you two today, on the Express! You couldn't keep your hands off of her! You must be desperate to want to go out with Evans, although I'm sure it would be nice to complete your collection of dating every girl at this bloody school!"

"Hey!" Alice yelled, walking over to Snape, shoving Potter aside. "Don't you ever talk about Lily like that!" Alice said firmly, "Your pathetic, and weak! Calling James desperate? If he's so desperate to get Lily, then tell me why your going after the same girl! You pompous twat!" Alice smacked him.

Just about the whole Gryffindor House was out of their dorms by now, watching has this fight progressed. Alice turned around and walked back to my side. James looked at me, and then turned to Snape.

"Get out!" he screamed, "The next time is see you Snape, I'm going to stun you into next week!"

Mulciber and Sev turned around to run out of the Common Room, and just outside the portrait hole stood McGonagal.

"What is going on here?" she said walking in, pushing the two boys back inside.

Remus spoke up, "Those two were sneaking into our dorms to ambush us, and Lily caught them. Snape stunned her."

"Is this true?" McGonagal asked Mulciber,

"No, not a word! They're lying!"

"No, they're not!" Alice said, kneeling next to me, " If James and the others hadn't come out here, you would have done worse!"

"Gentlemen, " McGonagal said firmly, "Detention everyday for the next 2 months. Report to my office after lunch tomorrow afternoon," She grabbed the two boys by the arm and dragged them out through the portrait hole.

James looked at me and walked over. He held out his hand, and I took it, pulling myself up.

"Thanks James, th-"

"How can you still defend him? He stunned you! He said I must be desperate to go out with you!"

"I know, and I just can't help but defend him. Old habits die hard."

"Yeah. Sorry I yelled. Are you ok?" he said, putting his arm around my waist and pulling my arm around his neck to support me. "Your foot must hurt. Let me see your head."

I turned.

"It's not too bad. I'm glad you're ok, though." he said, kissing me on the cheek.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand, he did just bad ass Severus into oblivion.

On the other, he's so ignorant that if I pull away now it may deflate his head a bit, which would be like community service.

Oh well. I guess the community will have to wait.