Disclaimer: I do not own any characters... Blah blah blah. Thank you for the reviews, especially chardigrl's (anonymous) and I took the Lily apologizing idea from her. The beginning is kinda sappy, but then it gets good. I just came up with the idea in my head, and its totally fanfic material. Next chapter will be up soon!
The old Marauders were gathered around Lily. She was telling them about Snape.
'' Look, he's going to be here forever, so why don't you just be friends with him?''
They tried to interrupt saying that they really did want to but she had not given them the chance yet.
Finally when she stopped to take a breath Lupin piped in.
''Look Lily, we're not teenagers anymore, of course we'll apologize to Severus--''
''Don't you mean Snivellus?'' Said James with a smirk on his face. The rest of them looked at him like he was mental. ''What? We can't make fun of his name anymore?'' said James.
Lily looked outraged. ''James! Of course we can't make fun of his name or of him at all! Don't you think he's suffered enough of you and your buddies at Hogwarts?'' It looked like her eyes were ready to bulge out of their sockets.
Sirius and Remus looked down, seeming rather ashamed of what she had just said, James on the other hand looked somewhat proud, remembering his ''Good Ole Days.'' He had caught himself when Lily was staring at him ''Of course, of course, I won't do anything to Snivel---erm Severus'' Lily glanced at him "And I wont say anything bad to him either.'' Lily still had her ''I don't believe you'' face on, but she said nothing more.
Lily smiled. ''Yeah okay, just apologize to him, ALL of you, I mean even I need to, I didn't stick up for him after that day. '' The memories still stung her.
He was ready. Ready to face his old enemies. It wasn't really the fact of facing Sirius and Lupin that bothered him, seeing as he had already talked to them, and made minor amends with Lupin, but James, he couldn't stand. It was the person who Lily's with for god sakes, of course you have to hate him! But this wasn't their teenagers years. Snape did think James had probably changed, matured, but these were the people that sent him flying through the air, and then took off his pants. They were the ones who humiliated him in front of the whole school, making bubbles come out of his mouth, the ones who had driven him to say that word. He twitched at the memory of it.
He had to do it though, there was no way around it, he was here, forever and there was no escaping it. Although after this he wanted not a lot to do with them, maybe go talk to Dumbledore, and other people he knew. Yet, Lily asked him to do this, she said they were sorry and that they wanted to apologize.
They have 7 years worth of apologizing to do, and they're going to squeeze it into 5 minutes of their eternal lives. Oh well... better for him. He sighed and stepped out from his room, and there they were, the old gang, with the exception or wormtail.
James was grinning, like this was all a big joke, having to apologize to old Snivellus. Sirius, a bit frightened, Lupin, like he was actually ready to apologize, and Lily, sitting their and smiling like she was telling him, "They don't bite, don't worry.''
Lily was first to stand up. Snape looked a bit surprised, what did she have to apologize for?
"Severus, first off I haven't really gotten the chance to say I'm sorry... all of us are. You have said so many times how you are, well now it's our turn, well, mine right now. I'm just so sorry for not sticking up for you, I mean even after James and I started dating, -Snape winced- I told him to stop bullying you, but i guess he never did, I'm sorry, I really am."
"You have nothing to apologize for Lily, I really do forgive you." Said Snape truthfully. "Thanks, that means a lot." Lily was now smiling.
Now Lupin stood up, and he didn't look very much like a werewolf anymore, perhaps thats because there was no full moon here, making it impossible for him to become one, his "badly behaved rabbit" must have left him down on earth. He looked more handsome, more cleaned up.
"Severus, first off I want to thank you for all the help while I was teaching at Hogwarts, and -Lupin sighed- I really am sorry for everything that went down when we were younger. Dumbledore had appointed me as prefect to try to control James and Sirius, but I did nothing to stop it, all I did was watch, and snicker an occasional moment."
Lupin reached out his hand, implying for Snape to shake it. Hesitantly Snape shook Lupin's hand. "I hope that you could just forgive me... although after what we did it's kind of hard to. But Severus, you are in the afterlife, and were going to be here a while...a long while, and I mean if you ever want to hang out us-he pointed to the gang- just join right in. You'll be a marauder."
" It's my life's ambition to become one" Snape said sarcastically. Lupin chucked.
After practically the same encounter with Sirius, he did feel a bit more relaxed. Maybe there was a bit of a chance that they could forget their pasts and start over. But then, James came up. He looked just like he did 20 years ago, popular, and handsome. He was grinning.
James said nothing, but held out his hand, as Snape reached to grab for it, he pulled it away. "Got ya Snivellus!''
Lily was open mouthed, fury raging up inside her. Sirius and Lupin where staring at him in disbelief. "What? Can't I have some fun with Snivellus?" said a laughing James. "What are you looking at me like that for Sirius?"
Sirius looked bewildered. Lupin stepped up, "James don't go there"
"Don't go where, huh? I'm just having some fun with Snivellus!'"
"JAMES!!" barked lily
"What the bloody hell is wrong with you?" piped in Sirius who had just now seemed to regain his voice. He thought James had matured, but this... this was going to far.
Snape was still looking at James like he was high, was he high or had he just wanted to have some laughs over him again? Although, he had to admit he respected Sirius and Lupin for standing up for him now, but what the hell was going on with James?
Lupin cut in front of him, "James, get a bloody grip. We're not in school anymore, what the hell? "
"Oh come on spurted out James, have some fun. " and then, he did what no one had expected him to do, even with all the name-calling. "Scrougify!" he yelled, his wand pointed at Snape.
But Snape was to quick for him, he shielded himself from the spell. It was a rather good thing too, because seeing as how mad Lily was at James now, he couldn't imagine her being even more mad, her veins were already bulging out, and the blood was rushing to her face.
Lily was now so outraged with Jame's that she pushed Lupin out of the way and clenched her nails into James's arm, pulling him away.
Snape was still standing there, alone with Sirius and Lupin
Sirius spoke up. "Look Snape, I have no idea what James is trying to pull, but I promise you, we're not behind it. He's acting like a bloody idiot. "
Snape was actually okay with it. He wasn't embarrassed like he was 20 years ago, maybe it was because the spell didn't really reach him, but he just watched as Lily pulled James away, into their room. He couldn't help but wonder what she was saying to him. Was she going to be mad as hell at him, or was she going to congratulate him for it? No, he thought Lily would never do that to me never.
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It was good that they couldn't feel pain in heaven, or James's arm would be bleeding pretty badly from the fingernails dug 3 inches into his skin.
"JAMES!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? ARE YOU HIGH, OR DO YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE SEVERUS RELIVE YOU TORTURING HIM?'
She slapped him hard across the face, and he could actually feel a bit of a tingle. She just couldn't believe what she'd heard, what she'd seen. Was he just having some "fun" again, or was he really trying to make Snape snap again, and yell at her so that she could be mad at him forever? Was he, her husband actually jealous? She realized that she had become lost in thought and automatically put her angry face back on.
"YOUR ACTING JUST LIKE YOU DID 20 YEARS AGO YOU ARROGANT TOERAG! WHY DID YOU DO THAT, WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE TO YOU BESIDES PROTECT OUR SON, RISKING HIS OWN LIFE? AND DON'T YOU EVEN TRY TO MAKE A ONE BLOODY JOKE ABOUT HOWS ITS JUST THE FACT THAT HES EXISTS, BECAUSE YOU REALLY ARE LUCKY FOR THE FACT THAT HE EXISTS, AND NOT JUST FOR PROTECTING HARRY!"
Maybe she had said to much. But she really did want to blurt it out to him, because she didn't think that he realized, that if Severus hadn't called her that awful word, she would probably end up with him, not crying into the arms of James potter, because Snape had upset her. She wanted to scream at the top of her voice to him, that even though she liked him in their final years at Hogwarts, it was only puppy love, not enough to get married. She wanted so badly to shove it in his face that she so deeply, in her 7th year just wanted to kiss Severus and tell him that she forgave him, that she wanted to dump James but she couldn't.
All because of that damned prophecy.
That damned prophecy...
Note: Its not the famous "Harry will defeat Voldemort prophecy", but the one that came before that...(one that is totally made up)