A/N: I don't really have much to say. Just that this is another chapter.
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MarauderLove~ I was actually thinking about that. That may come later. (You all won't know what I'm talking about! :DD MWAHAHAHA!)
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Or don't enjoy this chapter… This chapter isn't really exciting anyway. I don't know why you're reading it.
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(Though, still not your mother…)
Chapter 8Remus' POV"Lily?" I asked slightly opening her door.
"Mmm?" she responded. She looked up and she smiled noticing it was I. In First Year, I had a little crush on her, but that quickly went away when I realized James was head over heels in love with her.
"Oh hey Remus! What's the matter?"
"Lily, does…does Fayre love Sirius?" I asked the question I already knew the answer to.
"Love? Oh, I don't know about that… Wait… Remus do you… Could you possibly like…?" She put her hands over her smile.
"No, I didn't say that…" I said, feeling a blush creep onto my face. Lily was silently evaluating my face. I looked away playing with a photo of… James?
"Lily, why do you have a photo of James…?" I asked. She blushed and took the picture from me.
"What picture?" she asked shrugging. I looked at her wide-eyed.
"You like JAMES?" I said as she said, "Well, you like FAYRE!"
We stared at each other.
"Oh God this is weird," she said putting her head into her hands.
"You should be ashamed. Acting like you don't like him when you secretly do… And he's my best friend…"
"Well, you secretly like Fayre! And she's MY best friend," Lily said.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me," we both sighed at the same time. Then we looked at each other and started to laugh at the silliness of it all.
But really, I couldn't believe she liked James Potter.
Lily Potter.
I suppose it has a nice ring to it.
Not like Lily Lupin, but nice enough. (KIDDING!)
I can just imagine their children. They would probably have a son who would, of course, look exactly like his father, except for his eyes; those would have to be Lily's beautiful emerald spheres.
Lily Potter.
Admittedly, I just couldn't see it.
Fayre's POV"Heeeyyyy Fayre," said Lily sitting next to me in our Potions class. I looked at her warily.
"Hi…" What do you want, was what I wanted to say.
"So what do you think about Remus?"
"That he's…nice…"
"What about Sirius?" I rolled my eyes.
"That he's an idiot."
"So, you sort of like Remus more than you like Sirius right?"
"Lily, what are you trying to get at?"
"QUIET ladies," ordered Slughorn. But because he liked Lily so much, he didn't give us detention, like Professor Mcgonagall would.
So, I never got an answer from Lily. Suddenly, though, I got a letter. It smelled like… Slytherins. Okay, well, it wasn't the smell, I just knew it was from a certain Slytherin whom Lily was ignoring and will forever ignore, probably.
Dear Lily's strange friend who dyes her hair way too much using magic (STRANGE? I'd like to think of myself as eccentric, thank you very much.),
Will you please tell Lily to talk to me? It's very important. It's so we can save our friendship and so she'll stay away from that Potter boy. Because frankly, Potter is an arrogant git and so are his friends. (Does he not realize I'm FRIENDS with them too?) If you do not relay this information to Lily Evans, something very bad will happen to you. Not because I want something bad to happen to you, but I won't discourage my rowdy friends in doing something awful to you anymore just because you're Lily's friend. I won't stop them like I usually do unless you tell Lily. (Okay, that was a tad bit frightening. Is he THREATENING me?)
Sincerely,
Severus Snape
I crushed the letter.
Excuse me? What did he say to me? OH RIGHT! Something about wanting to tell Lily to talk to him or something bad will happen. I took a piece of parchment and decided to write him back.
Dear Severus,
I'm a friend of James Potter. And I think he's a good influence on Lily. You know who I think is NOT a good friend of Lily's? I mean considering that this "friend" abandons her all the time to "prove" something to his Slytherin friends. Yeah, I'm talking about you, Snape. And don't think you will do anything to me, besides, I can take care of myself. Just because Sirius SOMETIMES calls me Flower doesn't mean I AM one. I'm a flower with thorns. So back off!
~Fayre. (WHO HAS THORNS REMEMBER THAT!)
I folded up the parchment and used magic to get it to Severus without Slughorn noticing.
I watched as Snape looked at it and then back at me as he slowly folded it up neatly again. I just twinkled my fingers at him as he glared.
Yeah, I don't think those Slytherins are going to do anything to me.
Severus' POV
Stupid insolent girl. Couldn't she see? If she would just let me talk to Lily, then I'd be able to protect her. Fletcher wants to use this friend of Lily's. I had already talked him out of Lily herself. So he wants the next best thing, Lily's muggleborn friend.
Fine. It's not as if I care about Lily's stupid friend. She's chosen her fate. And fate, is not for me to mess with.
I scrunched up my eyebrows and just tried to concentrate what Professor Slughorn was discussing. But I kept assuring myself that whatever happens to this Fayre, it will never be my fault. For she has chosen her path. I won't be able to stop them.
Sirius' POV
I saw Snape glare at Fayre. Why are they passing notes anyway? I didn't have time to wonder because James passed me a note.
I'm bored.
I laughed. Slughorn glared at me. I just smiled cheekily.
No dip. Everyone is. Can't you see?
Well, I'm REALLY bored.
So, what do you want to do?
I saw James' eyes go wide and a smile was placed on his face.
Let's make Snape's chair dance.
I grinned back at him.
Not the worst prank, but it'd be more entertaining than this…
LET'S DO IT!
"Tarantallegra" we both whispered under our breaths and pointed our wands at Snape's chair.
And the chair started dancing.
The room started to laugh.
But nobody laughed harder than James and I.
We high-fived each other as Slughorn glared at us.
"Mr. Black? Mr. Potter? Detention."
"AWWW c'mon Professor Slughorn, it wasn't that bad," Peter piped up.
"You too, Mr. Pettigrew." James and I silently saw Peter go 'YES'.
"And Miss Monroe?" asked Professor Slughorn.
"Yes?" Fayre turned her head away from the dancing chair.
"Detention for you as well." Fayre's jaw dropped.
"WHAT?" she yelled. Slughorn ignored her. And her jaw stayed dropped as she watched Professor Slughorn go back to what he was teaching, with the chair still dancing.
"I told you Slughorn hated me," muttered Fayre under her breath. I laughed.
"He doesn't hate you."
"He gave me detention for no reason. I mean, I wasn't the ONLY one laughing," said Fayre.
"NO TALKING." Said Professor Slughorn.
"Yes, Professor," we both droned and rolled our eyes at each other.
James and I had to write five hundred times that we will not make chairs dance in class ever again. Although, James and I decided we were going to add 'to poor Snivellus again'. Just so we would be able to write Snivellus on the board.
Peter just had to sit there and watch us.
Fayre had to write a thousand times that she will never laugh at a student again. But she added 'even if everyone else is laughing and you're the only one who gets detention'. Sounds like more writing to me.
"Did you see his face?" asked James
"Priceless!" I replied when Slughorn stepped out of the room.
"Good job guys! It was really good!" said Peter from behind us clapping. We both bowed and Fayre just shook her head.
"Yeah. Good job. Except you got me detention," she said. Her face was deadpanned.
"Hey! You're the one that laughed," said James.
"I couldn't help it! Did you see Snape's face?" she exclaimed. And that's when Slughorn came in.
"Miss Monroe, two more weeks of detention."
"Seriously?"
Fayre's POV
"He gave me TWO WEEKS of Detention because he caught me talking during Detention," I groaned to Lily. She just smiled. Then my dorm mate came in.
"I heard Snape had his chair start dancing in Potions today!" she exclaimed, her copper eyes glowing. Her copper curls were bouncing too.
"Yeah. And I got two weeks of Detention because of it," I deadpanned, laying down on my bed.
"Don't mind her Grace. She's just upset because Slughorn gave her two weeks of detention for laughing at Severus' expense. Which she deserves," said Lily. I shot up.
"YOU were laughing!" I accused.
"Well, I couldn't help it! Did you see his FACE?" she exclaimed. Then we burst out laughing. Grace looked at us like we were lunatics.
"KAY then. But, the Marauders did it. Tell me again, Fayre, what is Sirius' favorite color?" she asked. I smiled to myself thinking about that conversation we had when we were eleven.
"I don't know why you're so obsessed with him, Grace. He has a girlfriend you know," I pointed out.
"Oh he always has a girlfriend. They come and go. It's not as if he actually cares about them," she said waving it off, "AND I'M NOT OBSESSED! It's called dedication." She sat down on her bed. Lily rolled her eyes.
"If he doesn't care about his girlfriends, who says he's going to care about you?" she asked.
"Because he'll realize that I'm different," Grace replied all starry eyed.
"RIIIGHTT," Lily and I said.
"Hey, it could happen," said Grace defensively.
"Then why don't you go and talk to him. He's just right down there in the Common Room," I said. Grace's copper eyes widened.
"Is he with his girlfriend?"
"He's in the Common Room, Grace. No, Carley is a Hufflepuff. Of course she wouldn't be in our Common Room. We're Gryffindors…" I replied. She just kept staring into space. I sighed.
"C'mon," I said grabbing her wrist and dragging her out of our dorm and down into the Common Room.
"Hey Sirius," I said holding tight to Grace so she wouldn't run away.
"Hey Fayre. Hey…Grace isn't it?"
I swear, she was dying inside.
But all she did was open her mouth and close it. Sirius just nodded his head awkwardly.
"Grace here heard about what happened in Potions and thought it was funny. So she came to thank you for your funniness," I stated.
"Really?" asked Sirius looking over at the timid Grace. She seemed to be able to move her head at least, which she nodded.
"Well, thanks mate!" he said cheerfully.
"Now, I have to get going to dinner, 'cause it's dinner and you know me, Fayre, always eating. Nice meeting you, Grace…right?" he said. Then not getting an answer he just shrugged his shoulder and left through the portrait hole.
Then Grace screamed.
"OHMYGOD HE CALLED ME MATE!"
"He does that…"
"OHMYGOD HE KNOWS MY NAME!"
"You have been in our class for seven years…"
"OHMYGOD HE TALKED TO ME!"
"He DOES talk to people…"
This went on longer than it needed to go on.
I finally left Grace by herself to freak out about how if she would've put her hand out to shake his hand then their hands would be touching. She almost about swooned when I told her he might just put his arm around her shoulders.
I know. I'm a terrible person for feeding her frenzy.
I finally got to dinner, where Lily saved me a spot.
"Where's Remus?" I asked.
"Sick," said Lily just when the Marauders said, "At his mother's house."
They looked at each other.
"At his mother's," said Lily when the Marauders said, "Sick."
Then they looked at each other again.
"He's sick," they all said at the same time.
"O…kay…" I said slowly. Gosh, they get so strange whenever I ask where Remus was.
Then James and Sirius looked at each other.
"So, we're gonna go now. Have lots of important things to do," said James.
"Don't be out past curfew," called Lily as Sirius tried to get Peter to get up and leave the yummy food.
"Hah! 'Course Lily. Won't be out past midnight," said James.
"That's not curfew…" But, the three Marauders were already gone.
"That was odd," I said.
"What was odd?" asked Lily playing innocent.
"THAT was odd."
"What?"
"The Remus thing."
"Oh, he's just sick."
"Or he's at his mother's house."
"Well, he's sick but his mother is sick too, so he's at his mother's house."
"Okay…"
That was confusing. Just a bit.
And then Grace found me again. I groaned inwardly as she spent the rest of dinner talking about how cute Sirius was and if Lime Yellow was really his favorite color.
I don't think I had ever wanted to kill myself until that moment.
A/N: So TADA! Chapter 8. Longer. But pointless. FantasyEye should be happy. :P
(Not about the pointless part. Just about the longer part.)
But there were important things here that will lead up to the plotline later. Just letting you all know. And no. I'm not going to tell you what that important thing was. I'm pretty sure you can tell.
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