Round 4 of OTP AU! Competition
Prompt: Fake Dating
Beta: Checkmate-13
Narcissa sighed as she looked up at the boy named James Potter, the one that was friends with her annoying cousin, Sirius. She had been ignoring him for the past twenty minutes, but he didn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
"What is it, Potter?" She finally snapped, her pale blue eyes glaring at him.
"Why the angry face, Black?" James asked innocently.
"Maybe the fact that you have been following me relentlessly, now tell me what you want!" She hissed.
"Go out with me."
Narcissa blinked once, "Wha-what?"
James smirked, "Have I rendered you speechless? Don't worry, it'll all be fake."
"What are you playing at?" Narcissa demanded.
"Just listen. As everybody knows, I'm completely in love with Lily...but she doesn't feel that way about me. So I thought the only way to provoke an emotion out of her would be to make her jealous, and you're the perfect candidate!"
"Why me? There's literally hundreds of other girls here." Narcissa countered.
"Ah, but only one you. 'Slytherin's Princess' with 'Gryffindor's prankster' is eye-catching, not to mention, scandalous." James pointed out, "She'll hear about it immediately. It may take a while, but she'll eventually admit that she's jealous and it'll work out for everyone!"
"No, not everyone!" Narcissa disputed, "I don't want any part of this. Go find someone else!"
"Oh come on Narcissa, just this one little favor." He pleaded, "I'll do anything if you agree."
She raised an eyebrow, "Anything?"
James nodded, and Narcissa sighed, "Fine."
The next day the fake dating started with James having his arm thrown around Narcissa's waist and her laughing at his jokes. This alone had caused people to stare at them as they walked through Hogwarts and went to their classes.
"Is it true that you're going out with Potter?" A girl asked in the library one day.
"Yes," Narcissa said with a smile. "It happened all at once. He's the perfect gentleman despite his...childish acts on other students and good-natured pranks-"
"You're out of your bloody mind to date him." Lily had interrupted.
The group of girls that surrounded Narcissa, gasped at the outburst to the Slytherin Princess. They held their breath as they waited for Narcissa's reaction.
"Why is that Lily?" Narcissa asked calmly, "You don't think that he has nice qualities?"
"He's a stuck-up prick that thinks he's better than everybody." Lily argued, "I don't see how that's attractive."
"Because that's not all there is to him." Narcissa answered, "He's extremely loyal, funny, passionate, (She had thrown that word in to watch for Lily's reaction, who just huffed) and he's grown from that immature boy that you still picture him as. Of course you're so bitter that you wouldn't even notice that would you? You can't see the good in him because of what he's done to Severus. If you knew what James has done for Severus, you'd see James in a different light. Alas, to regretfully quote a muggle, 'You don't know what you have, until it's gone'."
The girls broke into whispers as Narcissa got up and walked towards Lily, "But I suppose that just makes mean incredibly lucky girl, doesn't it?"
Then she was gone, leaving silence in her awake.
Before long, the fake dating was no longer a game, it had become something more. Times where the laughter and jokes were true, and the kisses became more intimate and passionate than they should have been. James no longer cared that Lily was finally getting jealous of their relationship, and Narcissa had long fights and arguments with Bellatrix and her parents about continuing it on. In a few months they had become something more, and had no plans of ending things any time soon.
