AN: Wotcher everyone, I said I'd be updating this pretty quickly, so here's the next chapter. Don't say I don't spoil you! Thanks for the continued support, I've been watching with pride as the views of my Fanfictions are increasing, so I didn't want to postpone this update any longer than necessary.

DISCLAIMER; All characters other than Simona belong to J.K. Rowling

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (RE-WRITE) ; SLYTHERIN VS GRYFFINDOR

"Look, there's Snivellus," Sirius said with a smirk, pointing to Severus.

"Leave him alone, he's studying," Simona said in annoyance. Sirius didn't respond to this and got out some parchment and begun his essay.

"I wonder what he's studying," Sirius muttered, loud enough for the group to hear.

"I don't think that's really important," Remus said, his eyes never leaving his book.

"I bet it's how to stop his hair from being so greasy," James replied, his mood obviously brightening if it involved insulting his arch nemesis.

"Good one James," Sirius said snorting with laughter. Simona's grip around her want tightened, she tried to focus on her Transfiguration work.

"Or it could be how to stop being such a git," Peter said eagerly. James and Sirius laughed weakly, Peter looked ready to implode with pride.

"It could just be research for our Defence Against The Dark Arts homework that's due in on Monday," Simona said firmly, her eyes snapping to look at Sirius and James.

"Crap," Sirius said. "I forgot all about that," He said smacking his head with his hand.

"Now there's a surprise," Remus said sarcastically from his book. Simona laughed at this, and successfully transfigured her quill.

"You know what, I'm gonna go over to him," James said standing up.

"Good idea James, I don't like the sight of him," Sirius said through gritted teeth. Simona sighed in exasperation, she never understood the depth of their hatred for Severus. They only had to look at him to be riled up into a frenzy.

"Tell me, what has he done to you today?" Simona asked stepping in front of the two Gryffindors.

"He's breathing," James snarled.

"Just leave him alone, he's not doing anything to you. Sit back down and do your homework," Simona scolded. Unfortunately, their scene had gained the attention of Severus, whose eyes lifted from his book and immediately narrowed at the Gryffindors.

"Look at him, narrowing his eyes at us. Who does he think he is?" Sirius said angrily.

"Stop it, you're behaving like school children," Simona said desperately. She didn't want another fight between her friends.

"We are school children," James said sternly. Severus had closed his book and he stood up. 'Oh Merlin,' Simona thought to herself. She could barely handle James and Sirius when they were angry, but she couldn't pacify Severus when he got angry.

"Oh here he comes, greasy hair blowing in the breeze," Sirius said, rolling the sleeves of his robes up as Severus approached the Gryffindors.

"Remus, come on," Simona said, throwing a look at Remus who wasn't doing anything.

"Fancy joining the party Snivellus, or are we enjoying the view far away where nobody can see you," James said with a smirk. Sirius barked with laughter and Severus' eyes narrowed even more.

"I was wondering what you were staring at," Severus said with his low, dangerous tone. Simona panicked, she was in the middle of three angry people squaring off to each other and she was dwarfed by all of them.

"I have no idea, but it's staring back at me," Sirius snarled.

"Come on guys, enough. You're being stupid," Simona said, throwing her arms in the air.

"Stay out of it Simona, it has nothing to do with you," Severus said, his impossibly black eyes boring into Simona.

"Sev, please. Sirius, James, leave him alone," Simona pleaded, her eyes travelling to Severus, James and Sirius in turn. All three of their gazes were firmly fixed on each other.

"So I hear you're still writing letters to Lily," James said with venom. Simona raised an eyebrow of confusion at Severus. He never told her about that.

"What's it to you, Potter?" Severus snapped back, ignoring Simona's pleas.

"I don't want to warn you again, Snape. Leave her alone,"

"Or what?" Snape questioned, his eyes still narrowed.

"Or else I hex you into the middle of next week that's what," Sirius snarled, stepping forward and pointing his wand at Severus.

"Feeling brave, now you've got your guard dog, beside you?" Snape replied, putting emphasis on the word dog as he looked at James. Sirius' face reddened and James' scowl deepened.

"I'd be careful what you say, Snivellus. We don't want another embarrassing incident again do we?" James said through gritted teeth.

"What does he mean by that Sev? And why did you say dog?" Simona asked in bewilderment.

"That's not important," Severus bit out irritably.

"Poor Severus, doesn't want to tell all about the time he got denied by Lily for last year's Yule Ball?" Sirius said mockingly.

"Come on Sirius, that's not fair," Simona said with a frown. She was interested in what happened, but it was unfair to announce it in public. Their scene had now gained the attention of everyone in the library.

"Enough with the commotion, the lot of you. Or points will be deducted," Said Madam Pince, the School's librarian as she walked over to James, Sirius, Severus and Simona.

"I'm sorry, I was just telling Severus that he should keep his voice down," Sirius turned to Madam Pince, flashing the same smile which probably got him all of those Hufflepuffs.

"Good, well. Don't raise your voices again," Madam Pince said, blushing slightly as she scuttled off to serve a student who was at the front desk.

"Let's go James, I'm sure Snivellus has a lot of explaining to do," Sirius smirked as he walked away, James marched off with him. Peter ran after them and Remus smiled apologetically to Simona and Severus as he went with the Gryffindors.

"I'm guessing you'll be wanting an explanation," Severus said reluctantly as they both sat down at the closest table.

"Yeah," Simona replied. Her mind was still swamped in Severus' argument with the Gryffindors.

"Every year at Hogwarts, a Yule Ball is hosted. I really wanted to ask Lily to come with me, I built up the courage to ask her and she said no," Severus said quickly, as if he was in pain.

"Is that it?" Simona asked with a raised brow.

"Yes. It wasn't that big of a deal anyway, Black just wanted it to look like a massive incident so we would fall out again," Severus said, his voice dripping with disdain.

"Why would he want to do that?" Simona asked in confusion.

"I'm not too sure, it's probably because those Gryffindors like hanging around with you and they feel threatened by me. They must have seen how our argument affected you." Simona gulped. It was true, she was pretty torn up by their disagreement. Simona had really gotten along with the Gryffindors, she called them her closest friends, after Severus of course.

"And why did you call Sirius a dog?" Simona asked.

"You'll find out, as much as I despise Black, it's not for me to tell you," Severus said, trying to think of a reason why he was staying quiet.

"Okay," Simona said with a sigh, thinking she would ask Sirius about that later.

"Why didn't you tell me about sending letters to Lily?" Simona asked after the pair fell into an awkward silence. Severus spluttered slightly and his face turned red.

"Irrelevant," Severus said eventually, his eyes avoiding Simona's.

"You can't do that," Simona said irritably. "You can't just go from being willing to tell me about what was said, to just completely shutting me off."

"It's-it's private," Severus stuttered.

"No, I'm not accepting that," Simona said, the heat in her voice rising. His sudden non-cooperation annoyed and confused Simona.

"You won't understand," Severus said in a quiet voice, feeling uncomfortable under Simona's darkening glare.

"I will, you're my friend. Now tell me, why are you sending those letters to Lily?"

"No, I can't say,"

"Sev, come on. Tell me!"

"Not here," Severus said after a thirty second silence.

"Fine, we'll go outside and you can tell me there," Simona replied sharply. She didn't want to be so harsh to Severus whilst he felt uncomfortable, but she knew that was the only way to get information out of him.

The two Slytherins made their way outside into the harsh winds of late November. It was becoming dark, and they shivered in unison as a particularly strong bluster of air ripped past them. They sat down under a large tree and Simona turned to face Severus who was still avoiding eye contact.

"Well?" Simona asked expectantly.

"You'll probably be upset if I told you," Severus muttered. He wasn't too sure as to the extent of Simona's feelings for Severus, so he assumed, by the way she acted around him that she felt for him the way he felt for Lily. He didn't know that his assumption was only somewhat correct.

"I promise I won't, please Sev." Simona knew that Severus liked Lily, she wasn't bothered about that. The truth was Simona did like Severus. A lot, but she didn't love him, yet. It still wounded her slightly whenever he mentioned her or looked at her with forlorn, like he usually did whenever Lily was around.

"Are you sure?" Severus asked quietly.

"Yes,"

"I wrote those letters to Lily because…" Severus felt his throat close up. He was too nervous to see how Simona would react to what he was telling her.

"Yes?" Simona repeated.

"Because I love her," Severus croaked out.

AN: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It does mean that it will be a few days before I update again because of the fact I updated this thing so quickly. Please check out my other Fanfictions that are on my profile. I really think they are all starting to come together. I hope to speak with you all on these fanfictions, I will be trying to upload two new stories in the next few days for competitions I have entered. When I've put them up please read and review them. The publicity on it may help me to win them! xox