All of Hogwarts was aware that Laura was now plotting ways to make Lily back off, and all of them knew that she would go to extremes to get what she want. It was simply because she was a Slytherin and they get so caught up in revenge that they never quit whilst they're ahead.

Lily was sitting in the library when James sat down beside her.

"Heard the news yet Lilykins?" James asked

"Mmhmm," was Lily's reply

"Well? Are you bothered?"

"Do I look bothered? And we are talking about Laura right?"

James nodded and studied her for a moment. "I think you are bothered, but you are trying to hide it. Don't worry Lils, I'll protect you. Say hello to your new official bodyguard," he told her beaming.

"One, you would probably be the worst bodyguard I could ask for, and two I am not scared of some blonde tart, I've managed quite well dealing with one brunette tart for the last six years."

James gasped, "You have? Who is she?"

"I'll give you a clue. Her name starts with P."

"Penelope from Ravenclaw?"

Lily rolled her eyes "Starts with P and ends in otter"

James pouted. "Well I am still going to protect you," he said stubbornly.

"Potter, she has never let you stop her before, and she isn't going to now. Anyway, I believe it's good for her character to be focusing on something other than her looks for once in her life."

James laughed, "Ah, but I could if I really wanted to. She can be nasty; she finds ways of humiliating girls, breaking them. She has made almost every girl cry."

"Good for her. There is nothing she can do to upset me, so she can give it her best shot if she really has nothing better to do with her time."

"You actually want her to go after you?" James asked with an impressed look on his face.

Lily yet again, rolled her eyes, "Potter just leave."

"Oh, but Lily…"

"Bye Potter!"

James gave in and left Lily to get back on with her work.

.x.

It was at breakfast the next morning that Laura had put her plans into action. Naturally Lily had been on high alert and, by the looks of things, so had James.

Lily sat beside her friends and was halfway through a piece of toast when James walked into the great hall.

"Hey Lily!" He called from the other side of the hall. Lily jumped at the sound of her name, quickly turning to see who her caller was but also trying to quickly swallow the chunk of toast in her mouth. This resulted on her eating to fast and choking, causing Cassie to whack her on the back and Riley was shoving a glass of water in her direction.

As one might assume, it grabbed almost most of the Hall's attention.

Eventually she turned back to James who was now feet away from her, walking towards her with what appeared to be a horrorstruck look on his face.

"I know I'm good looking and everything Lils, but please, try to control yourself!" He smirked as Lily sent him a watery eyed death glare.

"What do you want?" She snapped.

"Nothing. But remember, the sky is her limit." He winked, looking up at the charmed ceiling, "Nice day isn't it?"

Grabbing a piece of Lily's toast and he headed towards his friends.

"What was that about?" Riley asked.

Lily shrugged, but nevertheless she looked up at the charmed ceiling. That's when she realized.

.x.

Lily and her friends were walking out of the great hall after just having finished breakfast and were on their way to lessons.

"What is everyone looking at?" Cassie asked looking round. Both Lily and Riley quickly scanned the room and sure enough, most of the Slytherin table was watching them, as were the marauders and a few other people trying to see what the fuss was about.

"Link," Lily muttered. Both girls sent her a confused look. "Just link arms, hurry" Lily whispered and the girls obliged.

Lily muttered something under her breath and as they stepped through the double doors, just as Lily was expecting, a charmed cauldron emptied itself of its contents right above their heads. Luckily Lily had put up an invisible charmed barrier around her and her friends so they were not harmed.

Riley and Cassie jumped with fright, Cassie letting out a quiet squeak whereas Lily just smirked, looking over her shoulder and sending Laura a wink before confidently walking on, all three girls laughing hysterically.

.x.

Although her first attempt hadn't worked, Laura wouldn't give in and quickly moved onto her other plans.

Later that day in Herbology, Lily had her things out ready to take notes. As she picked up her book she noticed that the usual doodles she had done on the front of her book weren't there, and as she looked closely she spotted a bit of yellow goo peeking out of the spine of her book.

A small frown appeared on Lily's face but was quickly replaced by a smirk when she realized what had happened.

Lily quickly got out her wand, using a simple swapping spell, swapping her own book with Laura's without her knowing. Lily then placed the replacement book under her chair before raising her hand and asking for a book as she seemed to have "forgotten" hers.

This only earned her heated glares from Laura and her friends.

As the lesson went on and they all opened their books to begin copying notes from it, a loud scream filled their ears.

Lily looked up to see Laura wiping her hands on her robes; Lily could now see that the substance that Laura had put in her book was undiluted bubotuber puss. The daft girl hadn't even checked to see if she had her own book, now her eyes were brimming with tears from the pain and she was screaming with anger.

Lily would have had a bit of sympathy, but seeing as that was the reaction she was hoping to get from Lily, it didn't faze her at all.

When the professor came over Laura began screaming and pointing at Lily, but Lily just smiled and carried on taking notes. Eventually the pain had become too much for her and she stormed out, making sure to make a fuss, and headed to the hospital wing.

.x.

The weeks had slowly been passing, some days Laura would try and pull something over on Lily, and other days she wouldn't.

Cam had not really been asking Lily how she was about it all, which seemed to annoy her immensely, but when she confronted him about it he merely replied, "You're strong Lily; I know if she got to you then you would get her back twice as bad."

Lily beamed… he knew her too well!

James of course couldn't wait to tell Lily anything he had found out about Laura's plans; saying on several occasions that something about it made him feel like he was an auror.

Most of the schools population kept laughing in Laura's face every time she failed to bring Lily Evans down, which added to her annoyance.

She had tried slipping something into Lily's drink, but one of the house elves had informed her. Trip-up jinxes and tickling hexes had the same amount of success; Lily was always quick to counter any charms sent her way.

Laura was getting desperate and grabbing at any lose ends she could. One day as Lily came into her common room both Cassie and Riley ran over looking flustered.

"Lily!" Cassie called.

"What happened?" Lily asked slightly confused.

"She's been meddling."

Lily immediately knew she was talking about Laura.

"What has the ice queen done now?" Lily asked in a bored tone.

"Rummaged through all of you belongings" Riley snapped obviously very annoyed by it all. "She is such a little wench that one!"

Lily was quickly moving towards her dorm worried, but still quizzing the girls about it.

"How did she get in here?"

"I don't have a clue," Cassie replied.

"Is it all of our stuff or just mine?"

"…Just yours Lils, sorry," Riley muttered.

Lily swung the door open to her dormitory to be greeted with an absolute wreck.

Pillows and sheets were ripped and scattered everywhere, her trunk lay open, tipped on its side with all of her contents falling out of it.

Panic started to rise in Lily as she quickly ran to her four poster, pulled herself up to look over the top and let out a breath of relief she didn't know she was holding, when she saw her box of treasures unharmed.

Only Riley and Cassie knew that Lily kept this box and what was in it; there was nothing Lily had ever guarded more that she treasured than the contents of her box.

"Thank Merlin," Lily whispered.

"I forgot about that," Cassie grinned. "Well, at least she didn't get it or there would have been hell to pay!"

"Would have been?" Riley asked. "There still is. Lily, we have to start getting her back, she's taking this too far!"

"No," Lily said simply. "There's nothing that witch can do or say that will upset me. I don't mean to sound big headed, but I am a far better witch than her, pure blood or not, and I can take anything she throws at me."

"Fine, but if it gets worse then Cassie and I are going to start taking action with or without your consent," Riley replied stubbornly.

.x.

No one had ever seen Laura so angry, she had a permanent scowl on her face and stormed out of every lesson for one reason or another. She had taken to hexing anyone who annoyed her or breaking things when she was angry.

Lily only laughed at her pettiness every time she would make a snide remark, or any other sort of insult.

Lily and Cam were both walking towards the great hall for dinner when they approached the entrance where none other that the Ice Queen herself stood waiting with her friends.

Lily didn't even flinch as she walked past ignoring their blatant glares.

"Does your boyfriend know your cheating on him yet then Evans? Or have you managed to convince him that you are both "friends"?" Her group of friends laughed as she smirked proudly.

Lily simply rolled her eyes "Jealousy is a horrible thing Laura." She said before squeezing her boyfriends hand, who had a slight frown on his face. "Come on," she smiled and they both walked in to dinner, completely ignoring the Slytherin.

As the couple was walking out of the Great Hall, Cam turned to Lily. "Hey, I need to write that essay for Herbology tonight. How about you bring your work along, it won't take that long and then we can spend the night together?" he asked smiling.

"Aww, sorry darling, I have head duties with James tonight. How about tomorrow night instead?"

"Oh so that's yours and James' excuse now is it, "Head Duties,"" came the shrill, annoying voice of Laura yet again.

"Haven't you got someone else to annoy?" Lily snapped. The fact that Laura was watching her and had taken to following her was starting to grate on her nerves.

"No one near enough as fun to annoy as you," she replied smirking. Lily just rolled her eyes and walked off.

"Can't you meet me after your head duties?" Cam persisted.

"Well, I wanted to get an early night, but let's do tomorrow night."

Cam seemed to be a bit put out, "Fine, tomorrow night it is then."

It's a shame neither of them noticed Laura following behind them, an evil smirk set in place.

Hey, sorry about the wait, everyone being on their breaks and everything!!

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