A/N- I don't own anything you recognize, kay?

This chapter is dedicated to kt130, for loving my story! :)

You may want to torture/murder/do something worse to Severus after reading this chapter. To all Severus lovers reading this story: sorry for making you hate him.

That was your warning. Don't complain to me if you buy a poster of Snape just so you can burn it after this. xD By the way, playing with fire is not a good idea!

That said, read and review!

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Sirius had convinced James to not give up on his ingenious gift idea, but James had only agreed to give gifts that were not so romantic and sappy. He ended up traveling to the dormitory with a tree skirt (a cloth used to hide the base of the tree and keep the presents from touching the ground) that had beautiful girls (with red hair and green eyes, although he could not duplicate Lily's beauty) dancing around it in intricate patterns. After positioning it around the tree and replacing each gift on top of it, he ogled for only a few minutes at the sleeping Lily, before heading back to his own room.

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Lily was intrigued by the tree skirt once she noticed it in the morning. The magically moving dancers as they flitted throughout the cloth fascinated her, and she couldn't help but notice the likenesses to herself, which flattered her, although she thought they were much prettier than she. When she remembered that it was most likely Severus behind the scheme though, she lost interest in watching the figures dance and set out for breakfast alone, not bothering to wake up the slumbering Robbin.

She decided to take the long way to breakfast, not eager to see James or Severus again. She was wandering aimlessly near the Divination wing, when she ran into Severus and a gang of his friends.

"There you are, Lily," said Severus. Lily glared at him.

"Stay away from me," she warned. She reached into her robes for her wand, but realized she had left it back in Gryffindor tower. This made her very nervous, in a situation like this, surrounded by dangerous death eaters.

"Ooh," remarked a boy called Theodore Nott, "She's a feisty one!"

Severus smirked, "No need to be frightened, I just had a question to ask you," he taunted, stepping forward slightly, and he tottered a bit.

A thought had occurred to Lily, "Severus! Have you been drinking?"

"Yes, why, gunna tell the teachers?" Severus taunted, Lily didn't respond. Severus smiled gentleman like and continued, "So back to my question, I've been meaning to ask you, will you go to Hogsmeade with me?"

"No, thank you," said Lily flatly.

"Why not?" asked Severus.

"Because I don't want to, Severus," said Lily, her voice rising an octave.

"I meant for it to be like a date," hinted Severus.

"But I don't like you in that way," countered Lily.

"I wish you to go to Hogsmeade with me," said Severus, too calm.

"I've already said I'm not coming."

"You will come to Hogsmeade with me," insisted Severus.

"I bloody won't go to Hogsmeade with you, Severus Snape! I don't like you! Get that into your head!"

"My but I do like them feisty," he remarked. Then he reached out and grabbed her so fast, she couldn't even back away, then he slammed her against the wall.

"It's that Potter's fault, isn't it?" he asked. Lily was too terrified to answer. She struggled against his grip, kicking out at him, but one of his friends lazily flicked their wand at her, and the next moment she was in a full body bind. And Severus was kissing her. She could do nothing about it, but wait for it to stop. He clutched her closer to her, beginning to slide off her outer robe, then made his way to unbuttoning her sweater. Oh, godric, this cannot be happening to me! Thought Lily. And she was completely helpless. His friends were laughing, Severus had the most annoying smirk on his face when he began tugging at her shirt. Lily was thankful she had dressed in layers. He didn't stop, either, when it came to her camisole, he was just lifting it off her belly button, her slender stomach exposed. He seemed to hesitate there, however, and headed for the buttons of her jeans as his friends wolf whistled. He was just unzipping the zipper, tears were sliding down Lily's cheeks. His friends were laughing and jeering. Then someone came around the corner, Lily couldn't tell who it was, until the voice of her savior rang through the hall:

"Don't you dare touch her!"

Severus whipped around. Lily still couldn't move. James' wand was pointed at Severus' friends, and he had an extremely hateful look on his face. Then he flicked his wand, and all of them but Severus dropped, who had been the only one quick enough with a shield charm.

"You just interrupted my fun, Potter, with Lily here," said Severus, "I might just have to kill you for that."

"Not if I kill you first!" yelled James, "stupefy!"

But Severus dodged it, "She's mine, Potter! Cruscio!"

Severus' aim was true, the hall was filled with the sounds of James screams. It was terrible, as a bystander, Lily was sure Severus was going to kill him. And she could do nothing about it. But something about how loud the yells were seemed to alert Severus, and he stopped. He aimed his wand at James and began, "Adva-"

But James was quicker, "STUPIFY!" he yelled, and it hit Severus in the face. He was out. James tried not to look at Lily, with only her undershirt on and her pants down to her hips, her purple briefs showing through, as he flicked his wand at her to perform the counterjinx. Once her body was no longer rigid, her knees buckled, she fell to the ground, sobbing.

"Lily," James was by her side at once, "Did he hurt you? Lily!"

She shook her head and continued to sob. James strained to keep his eyes on her face.

"You saved me, James," said Lily, still collapsed on the floor.

"Yea, um…" said James, "I'm going to take care of the rest of them…"

"Don't kill them!"

"Fine," agreed James. "I'm just going to body bind them, tie them up, and hang them all in the room of requirement."

Lily nodded.

"Um… I'll go do that, why don't you, er, put your clothes on." At this James went off to perform his task as Lily re-dressed. By the time he got back, she was beyond embarrassed, but thankful as well.

"Er, thanks," she said.

"Yea," said James. He now believed that Snape had forced her into that kiss. Hell, he had forced her into much more than that. James didn't know how she had lived through that, if he wouldn't have come… well, he didn't want to think about that. He wanted so badly to kiss her right now, she seemed to be very warm towards him now that he had saved her, but he didn't want to be pushy, like Snape had been.

"James?" Lily asked.

"Yes?" they were now to the empty common room.

"This might sound a little weird," she warned, "but will you… you know… protect me? I mean, I'm perfectly capable, but with death eaters involved…" she trailed off.

"I will never let anything hurt you," promised James solemnly. Lily gave him a small smile, then dashed up the staircase. Robbin was still asleep, and Lily didn't feel like sharing her whole, embarrassing ordeal. She hoped James could keep the secret as well. She decided to try to just lay back down in bed and knock herself out, to get the flashbacks out of her head. However, she did have dreams, but not bad dreams… she had dreams of James Potter.

A/N- a little drastic… okay, a lot drastic. Please tell me if it was so over the top that it was unbelievable. To those of you that I just made hate Severus Snape… don't eat me if you liked him before. I'm not saying he's a bad person, he's just not all that likable in this story, because I don't really like him. :) I did make him drunk when he did this, though, so you can still like him a little (I suppose. I sure won't!)

Okay, well, thanks for reading. Please review! I promise that the next chapter will be much more… normal. But don't worry, there's still plenty more action to come! xD

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~LU