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"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
-Iris Murdoch
Voices full of joy and laughter echoed around the raucous Great hall that was filled to the brim of students for a long awaited dinner, however the most noise came from the middle of the Gryffindor table.
"What the hell Sirius, you're more restless than usual!" Beverley exclaimed before taking a sip of her pumpkin juice, her eyebrow raised suspiciously.
"And its not just you, even Peter and heck Remus even you're restless!" Lily laughed whilst picking peas off her plate and placing them on James, with a disgusted grimace on her face.
"Can you stop putting peas on my plate woman?"
"But dear you must eat your greens." She said in a mock motherly voice, placing her hand on her chest whilst she puffed out pompously and placed the other hand on his shoulder. James rolled his eyes.
"I have enough of my greens by looking into your eyes." James replied widening his hazel eyes and smiling at her in a charming manner, Lily used the hand she'd placed on his shoulder to swat the back of his head in a teasing manner whilst by their side Sirius was gagging himself with his spoon whilst Elizabeth and Beverley laughed along.
"Merlin, just when I think nobody can get sappier than Moony!" Sirius groaned whilst wiping a fake tear away with his thumb, then Remus nudged Sirius and gave him a look before once again excited smiles donned all the Marauders face, except James, who turned away from Lily and looked at them with a confused expression.
"Just watch and laugh prongs, just watch and laugh." Peter giggled in a distinctly unnmasculine way causing snickers to erupt over the table from whoever managed to hear it over the noise in the hall. It was then that Silence descended over the Slytherin table, everyone else continued on, who cared what was happening around those slimy snakes anyway.
It was when the infamous Severus "snivellus" Snape stood up started descending towards the Head table that the houses slowly started to hush, their eyes moving from Snape and the Marauders who were all grinning like crazed men, even james whom had no idea what was happening. Lily sent a glare at them causing Peter to shuffle back in fright, nearly falling off his chair, Mary snickered at his grip onto the back of the chair.
"Minnie, oh beautiful Minnie. My love, my only love." He shouted as he stood infront of her, grabbing her hand causing her to drop her fork in shock. Her lips thinned in annoyance and her eyes became angry as she flickered her eyes to the marauders. The hall was in silence, all to afraid to endure the deputy Headmistress's rath if they let out a noise. Some had placed silencing charms on themselves and others were gagging themselves with garlic bread.
"I have never seen such a mesmerising woman, such intelligence and beauty, that of Minerva the Goddess of Wisdom." He conjured up a crown made of cardboard that seemed painting and levitated it onto her head,
"Count on Snivelly to make a crown look like something a third year painted." Peter laughed openly laughing.
"A crown deserving of a queen, my queen, THE ONLY QUEEN!" he exclaimed, before waving his wand and levitating her towards him causing her face to redden. Snape gathered her up in his arms and started waltzing around the head table. Most of the teachers were gaping well, except two. Dumbledore and Bradley. The latter of whom was gripping his stomach as his face went pink from laughter, dumbldores eyes just twinkled and a serene smile was on his face as he suckled on a lemon drop.
"MR SNAPE! STRAIGHTEN YOURSELF UP!" McGonagall snapped mid way through a twirly dip thing that looked so atrocious that it would never again be attempted by students of took the meaning differently and stood straight forgetting about his professor in his arms and dropping her onto her back, he stood straighter than the soldiers guarding Buckingham palace.
"Anything for you milady." At this point Lily's face was flushed, either in anger of laughter nobody knew, Mary was openly laughing clutching her stomach in mirth, Beverly was sniggering into her cup of water causing it to fog up. The marauders were in differentiating situations, Sirius rolling on the ground in mirth, his laughter probably the loudest and echoing around the room, Peter had fallen off his chair and was laughing so much that his cheeks were flushed pink and tears of laughter were rolling down his cheeks at rapid pace, Remus was sitting at the table chuckling with a braod smile and James was gaping at the display whilst laughing.
Elizabeth banged her head on the table continuously as she laughed. Snape looked ridiculous! She looked up to see McGonagall gathering her wits and she laughed hysterically, she shouldn't be and she felt bad to do so, she respected the woman greatly but this was bloody hilarious!
Snape then conjured what was obviously meant to be flowers, but instead what came out were a bunch of weeds, dry and gangly, hanging down limply like the greasy hair that framed his face. He handed them over the McGonagall with a flourish and bow, his hair hanging down like a curtain covering his face.
"Please take the gift I bestow upon you and treasure it with your heart, as a reminder of my love for you."
"NO I will not Mr Snape! WHAT IN MERLINS NAME HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU?"
"You my dear." He leant down and gave her a large smooch on the cheek.
James bent over as laughter racked his body,
"I always knew Snivelly didn't have a working pair of them!" varying people around him who heard its laughter increased, echoing off the high ceilings tauntingly.
"Poor McGonagall will have to scrub her face for a week to get the grease off!" Mary exclaimed with a clap. At that moment it seemed McGonagall had enough and stunned snape causing him to fall backwards down two steps, his robes tearing as he rolled down the marble steps. She stood up, anger blazing in her eyes and she looked every part of a lion that represented her house.
"If I find the person or persons." She stopped and looked at the Marauders with suspicion causing them to give her sweet smiles in reply, "responsible for this degrading…prank, they will be punished severely." Her nodded towards Slughorn who stood up and helped McGonagall levitate snape out and presumably to the hospital wing. The moment they were out a gaggle of applause broke out from most of the students in Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor whom were sure that it was the marauders who executed the prank.
"Well done boys, well done." James laughed leaning on Remus's shoulder, the rest of the group were still occasionally letting out a snigger or bout of laughter causing everyone to start again. The only person who seemed a little standoffish was Lily who seemed to be picking at her food.
James sighed.
Darn it.
Just when he got her to go out with him, He had to go and muck it up.
Lily walked back to the common room in silence, scuffing her shoes against the floor as she walked, she let out a sigh of frustration. This last week her feelings had been so conflicted, so much had happened, and so much was yet to happen. Coming to terms with her conflicted feelings about James, agreeing to go out with him, Beverley's Proclamation, Elizabeth's grief, NEWTS. And now Snape. It had been a long time since she contemplated her relationship with her ex best friend. She found the prank humorous, in fact she found most of the Marauders pranks hilarious, even if she didn't show it. But this one left her...unsure. Was it wrong of her to laugh over the embarrassment of someone whom she had once loved dearly, or was she to stay quiet and pretend that it didn't happen. Now that she was quite possibly dating James, did that mean that every time they pranked Severus she'd have to laugh, never feel sympathy or annoyed at them?
Could she deal with that sort of pressure?
She didn't like it when one person was humiliated or singled out, she detested it. Sure she laughed and found it funny, but her insides tore whenever someone was abused like that, she hated it, the feeling made her feel like she was being tainted and dirty. As if she was being told what she was doing was wrong, even when she knew it.
She didn't know anymore, she was sick of thinking with her brain, it had got her nowhere, she felt that now was the time where her brain and heart needed to compromise and lean to work together.
She didn't want to be that girl that changed for a relationship, she didn't want her principals and moral values to change, she didn't want to act dumb or act different.
No.
Just because she was "dating" James Potter didn't mean she had to change. Afterall he'd fallen for her because of who she was, so why should she change.
It was the next morning where students had gathered for breakfast with bleary eyes and were falling asleep on the spot.
Mondays. Eurgh.
However all would change the moment Dumbledore stood up to apparently announce something. Sirius ran into the hall adjusting his askew tie and brushing down creases in his shirt. He slid down across the bench and stopped next to Elizabeth who was treating herself to Bacon and Eggs. He took a rasher of bacon off her plate and ate it in one bite.
"Can you not?"
"Actually I think I will." He winked before reaching out for another rasher of bacon, Elizabeth got to him before and swatted his hand away then leaning over her plate.
"My bacon, my rules." Sirius then slid away to further down the table, grabbed the large plate that was full of Bacon and brung it back to his seat causing yells and grumbles of annoyance further up the table. He then rather rudely started eating the bacon in the plate with his mouth open, crumbs and the lot flying all over the place. He saw Elizabeth gaze at the plate lovingly with her mouth gaping and eyes wide almost tearing at the sight of so much bacon.
Sirius looked at her with a smirk and gave her a fleeting wink before flicking his hair at her.
"My bacon, My rules."
"Shut up you git!"
"Enough both of you! And Sirius you cant possibly only have bacon for breakfast." Mary exclaimed with a grimace,
"Oh yeah, watch me." He stated whilst raising his right eyebrow and turned back to his bacon, ignoring all the etiquette he'd even been taught. Elizabeth continued to gaze at the plate of bacon with longing causing Mary to groan and roll her eyes.
"You two are disgusting."
Everyones eyes turned to the head table as Dumbledore stood up and went over to the podium to speak. Dread filled many students, what had happened? Had someone died? Dumbledore seeing everyones apprehension let out a chuckle.
"Goodness no, I'm not here bearing bad news, the opposite actually." He laughed, everyone else lit up, Maybe He who must not be named had been defeated? Maybe the war was over?
"I wanted to announce that sometime this week Professor Bradley will be running a duelling club, all year levels are welcome, but will be split up into groups. If you are interested in joining stay behind after breakfast, your teachers know about this so I'm sure they wouldn't mind you being bit late, you have my permission." He said with a wink, noise and chatter erupted throughout the hall, questions being yelled out and people wondering if their friends were going.
"Now for those of you who do have classes, off you trot!" He waved off the students, many of whom muttering about skiving off the lesson.
To the teachers surprise many left, uninterested in the concept of duelling, few Slytherin's stayed and they were mostly in the years under 5th, many Hufflepuff stayed as did most of Gryffindor, The upper year Ravenclaw stayed with a select few younger years.
Professor Bradley stood up from his seat and walked to the front of the wooden step, he nodded in approval at the amount of people who stayed behind.
"Good, lots of determination and courage I see, I wonder how many of you will be back after one class." Many shuffled in indignation, some even let out sounds of outrage. "If so many people were willing to work hard and fight then we would've already won the war." He commented causing the lot of them to shut up and pay attention. His comment did not lack validity.
"Now, I'm dead serious when I say that most of you will drop out after a lesson. You will be magically, physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted, When I say duelling club, I mean more of an advanced Defence class that focuses on duelling." He let out a short clap.
"Now before taking up to much of your time we'll meet up on a Saturday just after lunch, depending on the amount of people, we may make extra days depending on free periods and the such. If you have any questions come upto me during your Classes or during the day, no biggie." He waved them off non commitedly before smiling charmingly causing some of the females to swoon at the handsome yet strong man, "Now get to class!"
"Well that was interesting." Mary muttered as they walked out towards next class, "We do have herbology next right?" she questioned looking through her bag, Lily nodded causing Liz to groan in protest.
"NO! I'm going to die! Farewell my friends!"
"Whats Liz groaning about now?" Peter asked as they caught up with the girls to hear Elizabeths complaints,
"Herbology." Unbeknownst to them Professor Sprout was walking past them at the time,
"Well I'm not all too excited about having you in my class either Miss Gilmore, I like my Devils snare in perfect condition and you Miss Gilmore have a tendency to cause damage to my plants." She scolded, but there was a hint of a smile on her dirt covered place, her eyes will laughing and kind.
"Those plants cause more damage to me then I do to them!"
"Whatever gets you to sleep at night Liz." Laughed Lily,
"Shut up!"
"James its Friday." Peter muttered as they sat at the table during dinner, causing James to turn to him with his eyebrow raised and eyes reflecting confusion.
"Yeah, so?"
"Tomorrows Saturday."
"And the grass is green." James rolled his eyes before going back to his meal which consisted of lots of rice, why might you ask, he needed to carb up for quidditch training of course? Couldn't you guess that?
"What?"
"I thought we were playing a game of stating the obvious, I know tomorrows Saturday, my parents did teach me the days of the week." A chuckle left Peter at his ignorance, Remus was sitting next to him with a defence book next to him, he had a grin plastered on his face and everytime he looked up to see james and Peters exchange a twinkle entered his eyes. Before one of them could open their mouths Sirius came sliding down the bench as per his unusual entrences.
"Hope you didn't miss me too much."
"I didn't even realise you were gone Padfoot." Remus whistled innocently whilst reading his book, a mock hurt expression came across Siriius face, he held his hands to his chest as if wounded deeply.
"I can't… Moony!" Sirius cried before wrapping his arms around remus and squashing him with his muscular arms, "How can you forget…me." He whispered causing those around him to chuckle. Sirius moved away from Remus before sitting straight and filling up the plate that appeared before him. "So what are we talking about?"
"Saturday."
"Oh yeah that's tomorrow, you excited prongs?" Sirius asked through his mouth full of food pieces of chicken spraying over Remus's book causing Remus to turn to him with twitching eyes making Sirius move away afew spots.
"WHY WONT YOU SHUT UP ABOUT SATURDAY!" James exclaimed causing the three boys to look at him surprised, you could hear Sirius muttering about memory deficiency.
"Because it's your date with Evans!" Peter exclaimed opening his arms with a smile on his face, James face paled and he dropped his fork,
"Tomorrows Saturday." he muttered.
"James, you can't be captain obvious I am." Peter blinked in confusion as he spoke.
"TOMORROWS SATURDAY!" James exclaimed standing up and running his hands through his hair stressfully, "I HAVENT DONE ANYTHING!" Sirius let his head fall to the table with a groan, Remus hit his forehead with his hand in annoyance and peter's mouth fell open. What did he just say? After a momentarily silence Sirius stood up, grabbed a spluttering and rather panicky James forearm and dragged him out of the Great hall. Remus sighed and grabbed one of the muffins before trailing behind them with peter by his side.
So much for a peaceful Friday night.
Really Remus, you should have learnt by now.
There's no such thing as a quiet Friday night when you're a marauder.
Lily groaned as she felt sunlight streaming through the blinds and on her face, she shut her eyes immeadiantly after opening them as the sunlight blared into them. She ran her hand over her face before turning onto her side. She heard hushed whispers coming from the side of the room and she felt dread pool at the bottom of her stomach, today was Saturday.
Today was her date with Potter. She prayed to the muggle gods, merlin and the force to help her
"she'll be asleep for hours."
"Nah she's probably eavesdropping on us now."
"Maybes she's dreaming about James."
A sigh escaped Lily before she snuggled deeper into her mattress and lifted the sheets over her head.
She was going on a date.
With James bloody Potter.
What is wrong with her?
James Potter woke up from his rather pleasant dream about a certain pretty red head with a strangled gasp as he felt cold, no Antarctic cold water poured over him.
"WHAT THE FU-"
"Quidditch James, we have training." Sirius smiled innocently but his eyes portrayed mischief, he shifted his wait from his heels to his toes continuously. "And you were mumbling some things in your sleep and decided to wake you up before you ended up with a embarrassing problem and made us even later because you needed a cold shower."
"I'll have you know Pads, unlike you I have good self-control." James commented whilst throwing clothing around the room trying to find his quidditch gear.
"James, two words, third year." Sirius smirked and let out a bark of laughter at the memory of that fateful morning. A dark blush seemed to stain James's face, he was blushing from the roots of his hair to his neck.
"THAT WAS NEARLY FOUR YEARS AGO! WHERE IS MY QUIDDITCH STUFF?" Sirius then procured James Quidditch gear from behind his back and held it on his finger for James to take.
"We're going to be late Casanova."
"Whose that?"
"I'm not too sure, I heard Remus and Elizabeth arguing about whether I was a Casanova once and asked McGonagall if I was a Casanova the next day, couldn't look me in the eye for days."
James grimaced at his womanising friends words, and was McGonagall not being able to meet your eyes for a few days even a good thing?
Why did he even put up with this bullshit?
"I have nothing to wear." Lily groaned as she looked through her wardrobe, flicking through various options and lifting them up against herself, before sighing in dissatisfaction. The girls sat on her bed watching.
"Lils James isn't going to care what you're wearing." Beverley sighed falling back onto her bed spread eagle,
"I care!" Lily exclaimed ringing her hands in frusturation.
"The boys already head over heels for you, you could turn up I pyjamas and he'd find it the most adorable thing in the world." She sighed before looking at Elizabeth, "Looks like we're the ringleaders of the club of lonely souls, single for all of eternity!"
"All the guys love you Bev, I'm the one whose going to be a batty old cat lady."
"You don't even like Cats." Mary scoffed.
"You're right, I'm much more of a dog person." Elizabeth smiled thinking of the puppy she had at home when she was eight years old. He had been a dark black and was extremely shaggy.
"Enough about cats and dogs and old batty people, can you help me decide what to wear?" Lily's eyes started welling up in frusturation, "I just want to look good and feel great but I feel like c-crap and I have c-cramps and j-ju-just want to e-eat ice c-cream and cry b bu-ut then I'll get f-fat." She blubbered before being embraced in a hug by the girls.
"Twinky." Beverley called and a house elf popped into the room,
"Yes Mistress Beverley."
"can you get us four large spoons and a very very large tub of ice-cream."
When twinky came back it was very noticeable because she took Beverleys hyperbole very seriously, in the middle of the room was a large tub of icecream, full to the brim. A smile went across beverley's face.
"Thank you Twinky." The indigo haired teen said, the house elf apparated away with tears welling in its eyes. Lily grabbed a spoon and stabbed it into the tub with venegence, whilst Beverley just moaned at the taste, Elizabeth was erm… eating in a very unladylike way that would almost definitely give her a brain freeze within moments. Mary looked at the tub biting her lip, she really wanted some icecream, but she really didn't want it. Lily looked up at her with pleading eyes before a sigh escaped her, with smile she grabbed a spoon and for the first time in ages she had lots of icecream…
Guilt free.
And you know that brain freeze we were expecting to hit Elizabeth,
Well it did,
It crashed upon her like a tsunami on a town.
"What should I wear?" James asked Sirius and peter whom were playing exploding snap on the dorm floor as he walked out of the steaming bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and his hair was dripping.
"clothes." Peter quipped whilst focussing intently on the cards infront of him.
"Oh damn, I was really hoping to wear that lovelt bathing suit I bought the other day." James sighed sarcastically. Peter rolled his eyes and continued.
"Although I'm sure she wouldn't mind you arriving in your birthday suit."
"More like she'd hex my balls off, I'm being serious." Sirius sighed before spinning around as the cards blew up in peters face and singed his eyesbrows off.
"Excuse me but I don't like people impersonating me." James waved him off with a roll of his eyes before he continued "You should wear black, Black is sexy."
"I hope you're not somehow referring to yourself." James laughed shaking his head,
"Do you not know me at all Jamie?" Sirius gasped before letting out a bark like laugh, "Of course I was referring to myself, Black is sexy but Red would look better on you, specifically on top."
"Don't talk about her like that." James grumbled whilst picking out a black shirt and putting it up against himself with a grimace. He remembered the nickname he'd so gracefully given Lily at 14.
"You did in third year, and you said much worse than that."
"In third year, Padfoot."
"and fourth and fifth and…"
"I get it." James snapped before picking out a navy blue shirt, "What do you say to navy blue?"
"It looks good on you, but blacks sexier."
"Maybe on you." He chuckled at the disgusted look on Sirius's face, good, he had to stop cracking jokes about certain redheads.
"White?"
"No, you don't want to come off as virgin mary." Lily rolled her eyes, she certainly felt like virgin mary
"Black?"
"You're going on a date, not a funeral."
"Red?"
"Are you trying to show that you're brave by wearing a red dress?" Beverley retorted,
"If she wore red she would be brave, Lils no offence but don't go around buying red lingerie." Elizabeth commented with a grimace, "James likes you in green."
"I'm not wearing green AGAIN!" she groaned, she was over wearing green, it looked good on her but she wasn't one of santas elves. "That's all he sees me in!"
"Since when has James seen you in green lingerie?" Mary questioned,
"Something you need to tell us Lils?"
"Maybe she's not as much of a virgin Mary as we thought." Beverley snickered causing lily to swat the back of her head.
"Shut up, what about navy?" Lily asked pulling out a long sleeved winter dress, the girls looked at it with consideration,
"Yeah that one would look good with tights and boots."
"yeah?" Lily laughed causing laughter to ring around the room from the all,
"yeah."
"Lets get your hair and makeup done sweetie." Beverley smiled sweetly before dragging Lily forcefully to the dressing table in the corner of the room.
Remus opened the door of the dorm to be hit with the strong stench of cologne and the first thing his eyes saw after his brain started functioning properly was Sirius putting gel through James's hair. His eyes widened at the sheer amount of gel he was using to slick back James's hair.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" he shouted over the loud mugglle rock music echoeing through the room. He dropped his books and walked over to james before groaning at how awful his fair looked, there was so much gel that it had left white streaks through his dark hair.
"James, promise not to scream." He asked before conjuring a mirror. James eyes widened and he let out a scream, luckily Remus didn't trust him not to scream so he'd put a silencing charm on him. Once he shut his mouth Remus took off the charm and shook his head.
"WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME LOOK LIKE A PONCE PADFOOT!" he shouted in annoyance, getting his hand stuck in the matted mass as he tried running his hand through his hair.
"You don't look like a ponce," said Sirius in an affronted tone, "You look like a sexy young man."
"SEXY?"
"Wait you were taking advice from Sirius on how to go about tonight?" Remus choked out, james nodded and Remus groaned, "You took advice from the guy whose longest relationship was two weeks!" James was looking down at the ground in embaressment.
"Whats wrong with his look? Girls dig slicked back hair and facial hair?"
"Properly grown facial hair Sirius, not whatever the hell James has going on here!" he groaned in exasperation whilst rubbing his hands over his face. James looked at him affronted.
"Excuse me? What is wrong with my facial hair?"
"Everything, now let's get you fixed up james." He said whilst dragging a petulant james to the bathroom, this date wasn't going to fail on his watch.
Lily looked in the mirror with a grin, she looked good. With her hair placed into a nice messy bun at the top of her head with afew tendrils out to frame her face, soft makeup and her navy blue winter dress. If she was a guy she'd totally go out with her.
The girls stood behind her, Elizabeth was holding a camera in her hands and had tears welling in her eyes, Beverley looked proud and Mary just looked ecstatic.
"If I was into girls I'd totally shag you." Beverley commented with a smirk, "I don't think James deserves such a good looking girl."
"Maybe we should call up Marlene McKinnon, she might be up for it." Mary laughed at the rumors that went around about marlene whilst she was at Hogwarts, even now, one year after she'd be left people cracked jokes about her.
"I think those rumors were pure bollocks." Liz laughed before snapping more photos of Lily. Mary looked at her wrist before her eyes widened in shock at the time. "We've waited for this day for far too long girlies."
Mary opened her mouth to reply before Beverley let out a shriek.
"Lily, YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!"
Suffice to say much screaming and shouting followed this statement as they rushed to get Lily out of the common room. Now they just needed to wait for Sirius, Remus and Peter to join them.
"You scrub up pretty well Prongs." Sirius commented as he sucked on a sugar quill.
"No thanks to you Pads." Peter laughed. "You look good prongs."
"Now James, remember, no stupid pick up lines, you're going on a date already, you don't need to pick her up; avoid the topic of Snape, be polite and gentlemanly, don't talk about anything you wouldn't talk about with your mother." Remus said as he gripped onto James's shoulders and shook him, "understood."
"My mum and I have a very open relationship." James commented, you could hear hear Sirius in the background coughing whilst suspiciously saying 'mummy's boy',
"Shut up Padfoot!" James exclaimed, throwing a pillow at his best friend.
"Just…James be a gentlemen and it'll all be good."
"So don't act like Sirius and the date will go well."
"Yes, don't act like Sirius at all." Remus nodded vigorously.
'Easy enough." Or that's what he thought, acting gentlemanly was lot easier said than done. James turned around and his jaw dropped as his gaze caught an emerald beam.
"Oh wow." James muttered as he saw Lily walk over to him, he gave her a charming grin "Nice dress."
"Thanks, nice top." She said with a bright smile, James loved her smile, it was so bright and happy and perfect. "I like the colour."
"Well I very much like this colour on you more Miss Evans."
"Oh stop! You're making me blush Mr Potter!" she laughed with a mock posh accent causing him to chuckle awkwardly. Was she teasing him or being genuine?
"Well that is my one goal in life Miss Evans, Now may I escort you to the premise of our date?" he questioned, whilst putting out his arm for her to take which she graciously accepted, he ffelt so happy, so far he hadn't mucked up, he didn't say anything Sirius like, nothing rude and he felt proud, this was good. In fact he could hear Sirius in the back of his head giving him shit for
Hopefully the rest of the night would go this well.
The Gryffindor seventh years minus James and Lily, walked down the corridor towards the Room of Requirement whispering amongst themselves; when a tall blonde appeared out of one of the side corridors. You could hear Sirius groan when he saw her approaching, She walked towards them in a sultry manner, with a smirk on her pale, made up face.
Victoria Mallows…
The president of the Sirius Black fanclub.
"Hey Siri." She whispered with a wink, everyone heard, she wasn't very good at whispering but she thought it made her look sexy, some of the guys thought so but the guys that's he was standing infront of were looking at her with mixed levels of annoyance. Elizabeth glared at her, merlin she was sickening, she could see the streaks of her too dark makeup smeared across her face and the bumps underneath Add to dictionary.
"Hello Victoria."
"No need for the formalities honey, Vicky is fine for you." She bit her red stained lips as she looked up and down his body, she then looked at the people who were standing around him. "I understand you hanging with the boys but why are you hanging out with this trash?" she questioned with a scoff when she saw the girls in their less than fancy attire. Of course they were peasants compared to her pasty, purebred, makeup stained ass; Elizabeth mused.
"Because they're genuinely good people unlike some." He replied in a clipped voice before looking at his friends behind him, "We must be off, goodbye Victoria."
As they walked off you could hear her melodic laughter echo through the empty corridor and Sirius muttering about Bitches and fanclubs.
"If that cow ever became the minster of magic she's probably make a Sirius Black day." Mary laughed,
"Even she's too dumb to be minister." he shoved her lightly before they stopped at the room of Requirement.
We need to spy on James and Lily's date.
We need to spy on james and lilys date
We need to spy on ajmes and lilys date.
They walked in to find a room attached to the area where James and Lily were sitting and laughing at a table. They could see everything, well they could hear somethings, but not much.
This was going to be fun.
Elizabeth took out her camera to take photos of the good parts. She needed to have proof of the day Lily Evans went on a date with James Potter.
"So what do you want to do after Hogwarts?" Lily asked James, mind you she knew, but she just wanted to ask him to see how he replied. She wanted to avoid as many awkward silences that they had in muggle movies, she wouldn't be able to deal with it and would rather not.
"I want to be an auror, help out with the war in any way I can, make my parents proud. You get the drift. What about you?" he asked whilst twirling his pasta onto his fork. She looked up and gave him a stunning smile, her eyes lit up with passion.
"I want to be a healer, pretty much the same reasons as you." She commented with a smile, and leant back in the chair. "We're more alike than I always thought."
"You thought we were somewhat alike?"
"God no!" she let out a melody of laughter and threw her head back. James's eyes fixated on her slender neck, she had a freckle underneath her jaw. He absent mindedly wondered where else she had freckles. James shifted uncomfortably in his seat as he felt his pants tighten and tried to rid himself of such salacious thoughts. "I'd never have compared myself to the arrogant berk you were."
"Were?" his eyes twinkled mischievously, she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms with a wry grin.
"Are, you can still be incredibly arrogant, you're just more mature now."
"So are you Evans."
"I've always been mature Mr Potter." She said lowering her voice a tad and winking at him, her green eyes gazed at him through her sparse eyelashes in a tantalising manner. James had to stifle a groan, as his pants rubbed uncomfortably against him. Merlin he needed an extremely cold shower.
"Oh, I'm sure you have been Evans." She rolled her eyes at his sarcastic statement. She bit her bottom lip in a sultry manner.
"That's Miss Evans to you Mr Potter."
"Your wish is my command Miss Evans." Her stomach coiled as he lowered his voice to a husky rumbled. She felt her heart thump and her knees tremble. He grabbed her hand and placed it to his lips before kissing it as he made eye contact with her. Lilys stomach fluttered as their eyes connected, she felt her heart pace just abit faster and her cheeks were a little warmer. The effect this boy had on her was just, ridiculous. Coming into her seventh year she never would'be thought that she'd be sitting across a table from James Potter having dinner and laughing. Next thing you know they'd be slow dancing to romantic music, she wouldn't mind that; to be in his arms, to lean her head on his chest and hear his heart beat…
It seemed that the room had heard her desires because slow music started to resonate throughout the room. Both James and Lily looked at each other in surprise. She blushed and looked down in surprise, A smile spread across James's face as he watched her reaction. He felt his heart flutter at knowing it was her that was thinking about the slow music and dancing. Just because his mother had forced him to learn ballroom dancing after he played pranks at the Longbottoms ball when he was seven; didn't mean he particularly enjoyed partaking in the activity. James cleared his throat before standing up before her and taking her hand.
"Would the lovely lady like to dance?"
"Why of course Mr Potter, how could I say no to such a charming young lad?" she replied cheekily before standing up with her hand in his larger one. He twirled her so they ended up in the middle of the floor. She let out musical laughter as she nearly stumbled over. He let out a chuckle as he gripped onto her arm to pull her up.
Bad dancing aside, she was perfection.
"I feel like we're invading their privacy." Elizabeth whispered. Her cheeks flushing as she watched the close embrace. She was so happy for her best friend but she couldn't help the tangy taste of bitterness as everyone around her was gathering their life together and she was being left behind.
"No shit Sherlock." Sirius replied, with a roll of his eyes, "In case you haven't noticed that's exactly what we're doing."
"It feels wrong." Liz mumbled looking down.
"At least two of us make sense." Remus told her with a smile causing her to roll her eyes, The rest of them were commentating the entire date.
"Here's to the sane ones!" she laughed before fist pumping him.
Lily looked into his hazel eyes and within them she found safety, she found love, she found hope and bravery. She found home. For all the years she'd been denying that she liked James Potter, she'd said it so much that somehow she'd convinced herself that he was awful, even when anyone else she'd dated seemed to be a bad photocopy of him.
In that moment she found the man she felt was the one.
He made her laugh, he made her cry, he made her feel safe and protected…
All these years she'd treated him like dirt yet here he was treating her as if she was the queen herself.
When James looked into the emeralds of her eyes he saw his future, he saw love, he saw safety, he saw home.
Everyone told him that he had been stupid to pursue her for all those years, that there was better, those more worthy, that he shouldn't go for anyone who felt the need to treat him as if he was the dirt that she walked on.
But now, when he looks into the greenest eyes his ever seen, he feels like laughing in everyone whose ever doubted him face, because with Lily, everything was perfect. They were perfect. They slotted together perfectly. It was stereotypical to say they were so well suited that they were like Romeo and Juliet, or that they were like two pieces of a puzzle; But it was the truth. It seemed that until they truly fell for one another their souls yearned and craved for their other half, and they were finally whole.
Apart of him felt content. There may have been a war going on, people dying, exams coming up, but that didn't matter. It felt as though a piece of his heart was being filled and repaired, as if all these years he'd been missing something, and now he found it.
It felt wonderful.
James leant down, bringing his face closer to hers, he could feel her warm breath on his face, she had closed her eyes and her lips were slightly parted. He placed his hand on the side of her face, they were so close, he could count every freckle on her cheeks and see her eyelashes singularly. James shut his eyes and leant in. He felt his heart thud and his hand tremble as he placed on her her cheek. When their lips met, it was everything that people described it to be, a spark; this felt like so much more, as if it was a fire between them, her lips were so soft, so sweet. He felt her arms wrap around his neck and her small hands run through his messy hair. He pulled her closer, he could feel her chest against his own, their legs interlock. It was the most beautiful thing. He never wanted to stop kissing her, she was beautiful, she was perfect. Her scent was intoxicating, it was addictive.
He wanted to spend the rest of his life kissing Lily Evans.
Squeals echoed around the room, Elizabeth was taking photos of the loving couple, Beverley and Mary were jumping in joy, whilst the marauders cheered in joy.
Sirius watched as two of his closest friends snogged the living daylights out of one another and he felt a strong compulsion to look at their photographer, Elizabeth, oh Elizabeth. His grey orbs moved to gaze at her figure that was watching the couple through the lens. Her eyelashes fluttering around the viewer. A soft smile graced her face. she was beautiful. The sudden realisation left him leaning back in his seat and pondering the masterpiece that was Elizabeth Gilmore.
Every moment he spent with her was fulfilling, she gave him foreign feelings, she made him laugh, she made him smile, she made him wonder what the heck was going on. Over the last few months he'd grown to care… wait care? For the beautiful girl.
She wasn't perfect, no, she was just as flawed as the next person, she woke up with bed hair, got zits and was quite temperamental. She had freckles, bad posture and only reached his chest. For every flaw, there were two things to love about her.
Out of all multitude of perfections, lay the most striking. Her eyes.
Her eyes weren't just blue, what an unremarkable way to describe her eyes.
No her eyes weren't just blue, her eyes had many shades mixed together to make a concoction that you would get lost in. It looked like it was dyed, a ring of dark blue that slowly trickled as if being smudged with water, wisps of dark blue smoke faded into the bright blue, which then slowly faded into a chartreuse before turning indigo. Her eyes were not just apart of her body, no they were a story, a story painted by the best artist and written in the finest print.
As cliché as it sounds, her eyes, truly, were the windows to her soul.
They reflected her inner most desires. They radiated hope, love, courage, curiosity, intellect…
There was so much more to her than it seemed, to everyone else she was the invisible girl, they knew her name, but nothing else. To him, she was an enigma, everything about her told a story, and he wanted to read every page of her.
3:47am
Elizabeth rolled onto her back with a sigh, she couldn't sleep. It wasn't that she wasn't tired, no she was and extremely so, but every time she closed her eyes she saw dancing charcoal grey eyes staring back at her, she saw a mischievous smirk, she saw black wavy hair blowing in the wind, and gorgeous dimples dinting his aristocratic face.
She knew exactly what was on her mind but, she had no clue why.
Today when Victoria had approached them and was throwing herself on Sirius she felt jittery, her stomach felt fluttery and her smile suddenly felt fake. She despised the possessiveness she felt, it was nothing like her. But it felt completely right.
Something today changed.
Something within her changed.
And it had something to do Sirius Black.
Holy poop! Well that was a rollercoaster of emotions! It seems that our couples are finally getting their acts together, took them long enough. So much is coming up and I cant wait to share it with you! So much so that I hope you will like the spoiler below :)))))
"Sirius Black and Elizabeth Gilmore."
Hmmm, all I'll say is that there is some duelling next chapter, I'm sure you get the idea hehe.
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