Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ What was that? ( Chapter 2 )
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By: makoto_mai 
Non Anime: Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.05.2007 | Updated On: 01.06.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 241 | Status: Work In Progress
Non Anime: Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.05.2007 | Updated On: 01.06.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 241 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: The title ‘Harry Potter’ belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers. The theme ‘Breathless’ belongs to R.J. Lange and Andrea Corr from The Corrs. I do not own anything in this life…well perhaps some characters on this story and some neurons left, so don’t sue me!! I don’t have money!
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Breathless
Chapter II – What was that?
They hadn’t seen each other for quite a while, Lily busying herself with the Head Girl duties and studying; and James marauding and with Quidditch practices. After that kiss they’d been so awkward, always glancing at each other with flushed faces…how beautiful love is, but really they should hurry up! Finally October came, and as it came it went, and with it Halloween; the castle was finely decorated, with pumpkins, bats flying everywhere, spider webs on the corners and the Ghosts were looking their best.
Lily was sitting at the Gryffindor table at the Great Hall, waiting for the feast to start and looking quizzically at the empty space next Peter, Remus was nowhere to be found, maybe his mother was sick again, but there were a suspicious air in the marauders, they were whispering things to each other, like planning something, when she prepared her eyes to read their lips, Dumbledore made a speech and soon the feast began.
After bloating themselves with pumpkin juice, pie and other food and sweets, the students went straight to their respected dorms for a much needed sleep, but after so many turns in her bed, Lily stood and went to the bathroom to wash her face, then went to the window and what she saw left her puzzled.
In the morning when Lily came down to the common room, she found James walking out the portrait, and then he vanished, because she couldn’t find him all morning, she didn’t even saw him in class but then, after lunch, she found him coming form the Quidditch field, but he didn’t have his broom.
“Hey…” she said a bit awkwardly, he seemed lost in thought.
“Hey!”
“Uhm…I was looking for you…”
“Really?” his face lighted up with the news.
“Yes, because we…tonight…uhm, the rounds, so…” how could that be possible?, in the far past of her life she used to be confident, snappy at times, even stubborn and now looking at him, with his dishevelled hair, his handsome face and his glinting eyes she was at a loss of words.
“Oh, is that…can we do it another night?” he said yawning a little.
“No, we can’t!” she said a bit too harshly, and then sighed “we were supposed to do it last night, but I don’t know where you were.”
“Oh! I s-see” he stuttered a little while loosening his tie and undoing the first button of his shirt.
“Yes, well…” they started walking down the corridor, to their next class “Last night I saw the weirdest thing…”
“What did you saw?” he loved these kinds of conversations.
“A stag and a dog walking together; then they stopped at the Womping Willow…and then they disappeared, isn’t it weird?” she waited for his answer while walking, never looking at him, which was a good thing, because at that moment James was white like a paper and sweat drops were forming on his forehead.
“R-Really weird…it is…” he stuttered gaining a look from Lily.
“What happened to you?!” she yelled looking at the bruise in his neck while putting herself on tiptoes to have a better look of the bruise. In other situation he would have take an advantage.
“It’s nothing, just a bruise from…Quidditch just now!”
“You were practicing Quidditch? How can you do that without your broom?” she asked with an arched eyebrow and he paled even more. Then she started making counts, he went out last night and inflicted that bruise on himself, but how? She approached him inspecting his neck “It looks like a s…cratch…You little…” she said after a gasp, and her eyes filled up with tears and she ran away.
James was left standing there, looking at the retreating form of one Lily Evans, completely puzzled. What had happened to her? Had he done something wrong? He would have stood there all day musing about Lily’s actions if Remus, all patched up, hadn’t showed up, along with Sirius and Peter, to go to DADA class. He was being dragged to class while Sirius asked him what happened, but James was too deep in thought to hear anything. Later that day, James finally coming out of his stupor, told the guys what had happened and Sirius bark-like laugh echoed through the room.
“Shut-up! What did I do wrong?” James asked Remus, expecting some good advice while ignoring Sirius entirely.
“You didn’t, is just that…counting the facts, maybe she thought you were fooling around.” Remus explained looking amusedly at the laughing Sirius and the puzzled idiot-face James.
“Fooling around?” he really didn’t get it.
“Prongs, my mate, she thought you were ‘fooling around’” Sirius said, chuckling still, emphasizing the last part, and that’s when James got it.
“Oh…OH!...oh crap…” his face passed from sheepish a grin, to a surprised one, falling on a gloomed one. (like this ^_~…O_O…-_-).
“Now he gets it” said the rat (I’m sorry, I hate him) laughing still.
“What am I going to do? She must hate me…And I can’t tell her the truth” said James, head in hands, praying for some good soul to put him out of his misery.
“You look like a deer in the headlights!”
“And you like a beaten up dog”
That night, James made the rounds alone, feeling miserable, while Lily loathed him. He was in a bad situation, and he just didn’t understand how he was capable of screwing everything in just one second, it was a record really.
December came, the castle decorated with mistletoes everywhere, making the couples to kiss on the halls…and a James looking at them with a murdering glare. How was possible that whilst Lily hated his guts everybody else was happy?! They should be sulking in the corners of the castle like him! The truth is, Lily hasn’t forgiven him…yet, and he’d been asking, almost pathetically pleading, her for forgiveness…she just looked at him evilly and walked away. But that night he wouldn’t let her walk away, she would listen to him...unless she decided to jinx him, and she was really good in Charms, at the moment he feared for his personal security.
The night finally came and Lily found James waiting for her in the common room. She gave him a nasty look, and then walked straight to the portrait hole, but he took her arm, very gently, and stopped her; after telling her they were going to have a talk he took her to the room of requirement. When they reached a specific corridor in the seventh floor, there was no door, and James walked up and down three times, Lily thought he was going insane, but when a door appeared out of nowhere she started thinking: how many more secrets of the castle did he know? He took her hand and stepped inside the room, which were really austere, James only thinking in a place to talk calmly and quietly. There was just a table with two chairs and a fireplace, nothing more, nothing less.
“Please sit down” he said putting the chair for her to sit.
“I can listen, to whatever you have to say, standing.”
“All right, but then don’t expect for me to catch you if you fall backwards.” He said bitterly at Lily’s stubbornness.
“Just say what you have to say!”
“All right...” he paused to try and order his ideas and continued, sitting in his chair “This situation is ridiculous…I don’t even know why are you so mad at me”
“Because you cheated on me?!” she yelled without thinking.
“For that we must have a relationship, and besides I didn’t cheat on you” he said sighing while ruffling his hair “Lily, listen to me, and you have to believe me, please” he looked at her with pleading sincere eyes.
“Humph! I’ll try…” she said sitting finally, he looked truthful.
“You know that…Remus is always sick and every once in a while he’s absent?” he waited for her to agree and when she did he continued “Well, haven’t you noticed that every time Remus is out…is on full-moon nights?” he asked looking expectantly at her; when the information was processed on her brain, her ayes widened, she has always been a smart being.
“You’re telling me…?”
“Yes, Remus is a werewolf” he waited for a reaction, some nasty remark, a worried face, but what he saw he didn’t expected, a marvelled expression, but then changed at one of puzzlement.
“But…what does this have to do with you?”
“Not just me…you see, the guys and I found about this in second year. We watched with concern how Remus returned all beaten up after each transformation, so we decided to do something about it…and we began studying Animagi” he ruffled his hair in nervousness.
“So you’re telling me you are an Animagus?” her amazement was beyond belief.
“Yes, along with Sirius and Peter…I’m telling you all this to explain the scratch you saw on my neck the other day, It was a scratch but not from a girl as you thought, it was from Remus” he really was hoping for her to believe him.
“So…the animals I saw in Halloween…were you and the other two? But I just saw a stag and a dog”
“Pete is too small to be seen from such a distance” he said chuckling a little.
“I see. What animal is him, a slug…a worm?” she asked a little amused.
“A rat actually” he said laughing, relieved that she believed him and that she was taking it so lightly.
“You’re four idiots!”
“Wha…What was that?” he almost fell off his chair.
“I just don’t know how you get yourselves in so much trouble! That spell is horribly dangerous!”
“Ca-calm down! It took us three years to do it right” he said as if that would appease Lily.
“I don’t care how long it took you, you could have ended being half human, half animal” she said calming down.
“But it turned out quite fine…besides; we did it to accompany Remus in the full moon.” He murmured while Lily sighed.
“And you’re illegal; you’ll be in so much trouble if the Ministry finds out…Does Professor Dumbledore knows?”
“No, he doesn’t…and we expect for you to not say a thing to anybody, please”
“Your secret’s safe with me, James” she said looking at him in the eyes, and it was a nice look. He smiled.
“Are we okay now?”
“Yes, we are…so tell me, what animal are you? The dog?” Lily asked expectantly, like a child waiting to hear a exciting story. As an answer, James transformed and Lily stood there looking at the most beautiful stag she had ever laid eyes on.
Everything went smooth from that moment on. On Christmas break they owled and visited each other, they dated like a couple but when they had to say what were they to their parents…they didn’t knew what to say, so they stood on the ‘friends’ phase for a couple of moths. But James was planning something to change that, he was sure that for Valentine’s Day, she would say the oh-so-long-waited ‘YES’.
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A.N: Well, a little short, but that will have to do. For the next chapter, I’m warning you, there would be a lot of fluffiness, pink hearts and sugar everywhere, because it would be…*chan, chan, chan!!! Drums roll* February, the month of love and happiness!! *throws up on a corner* Yeah, so you’re warned.
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Breathless
Chapter II – What was that?
They hadn’t seen each other for quite a while, Lily busying herself with the Head Girl duties and studying; and James marauding and with Quidditch practices. After that kiss they’d been so awkward, always glancing at each other with flushed faces…how beautiful love is, but really they should hurry up! Finally October came, and as it came it went, and with it Halloween; the castle was finely decorated, with pumpkins, bats flying everywhere, spider webs on the corners and the Ghosts were looking their best.
Lily was sitting at the Gryffindor table at the Great Hall, waiting for the feast to start and looking quizzically at the empty space next Peter, Remus was nowhere to be found, maybe his mother was sick again, but there were a suspicious air in the marauders, they were whispering things to each other, like planning something, when she prepared her eyes to read their lips, Dumbledore made a speech and soon the feast began.
After bloating themselves with pumpkin juice, pie and other food and sweets, the students went straight to their respected dorms for a much needed sleep, but after so many turns in her bed, Lily stood and went to the bathroom to wash her face, then went to the window and what she saw left her puzzled.
In the morning when Lily came down to the common room, she found James walking out the portrait, and then he vanished, because she couldn’t find him all morning, she didn’t even saw him in class but then, after lunch, she found him coming form the Quidditch field, but he didn’t have his broom.
“Hey…” she said a bit awkwardly, he seemed lost in thought.
“Hey!”
“Uhm…I was looking for you…”
“Really?” his face lighted up with the news.
“Yes, because we…tonight…uhm, the rounds, so…” how could that be possible?, in the far past of her life she used to be confident, snappy at times, even stubborn and now looking at him, with his dishevelled hair, his handsome face and his glinting eyes she was at a loss of words.
“Oh, is that…can we do it another night?” he said yawning a little.
“No, we can’t!” she said a bit too harshly, and then sighed “we were supposed to do it last night, but I don’t know where you were.”
“Oh! I s-see” he stuttered a little while loosening his tie and undoing the first button of his shirt.
“Yes, well…” they started walking down the corridor, to their next class “Last night I saw the weirdest thing…”
“What did you saw?” he loved these kinds of conversations.
“A stag and a dog walking together; then they stopped at the Womping Willow…and then they disappeared, isn’t it weird?” she waited for his answer while walking, never looking at him, which was a good thing, because at that moment James was white like a paper and sweat drops were forming on his forehead.
“R-Really weird…it is…” he stuttered gaining a look from Lily.
“What happened to you?!” she yelled looking at the bruise in his neck while putting herself on tiptoes to have a better look of the bruise. In other situation he would have take an advantage.
“It’s nothing, just a bruise from…Quidditch just now!”
“You were practicing Quidditch? How can you do that without your broom?” she asked with an arched eyebrow and he paled even more. Then she started making counts, he went out last night and inflicted that bruise on himself, but how? She approached him inspecting his neck “It looks like a s…cratch…You little…” she said after a gasp, and her eyes filled up with tears and she ran away.
James was left standing there, looking at the retreating form of one Lily Evans, completely puzzled. What had happened to her? Had he done something wrong? He would have stood there all day musing about Lily’s actions if Remus, all patched up, hadn’t showed up, along with Sirius and Peter, to go to DADA class. He was being dragged to class while Sirius asked him what happened, but James was too deep in thought to hear anything. Later that day, James finally coming out of his stupor, told the guys what had happened and Sirius bark-like laugh echoed through the room.
“Shut-up! What did I do wrong?” James asked Remus, expecting some good advice while ignoring Sirius entirely.
“You didn’t, is just that…counting the facts, maybe she thought you were fooling around.” Remus explained looking amusedly at the laughing Sirius and the puzzled idiot-face James.
“Fooling around?” he really didn’t get it.
“Prongs, my mate, she thought you were ‘fooling around’” Sirius said, chuckling still, emphasizing the last part, and that’s when James got it.
“Oh…OH!...oh crap…” his face passed from sheepish a grin, to a surprised one, falling on a gloomed one. (like this ^_~…O_O…-_-).
“Now he gets it” said the rat (I’m sorry, I hate him) laughing still.
“What am I going to do? She must hate me…And I can’t tell her the truth” said James, head in hands, praying for some good soul to put him out of his misery.
“You look like a deer in the headlights!”
“And you like a beaten up dog”
That night, James made the rounds alone, feeling miserable, while Lily loathed him. He was in a bad situation, and he just didn’t understand how he was capable of screwing everything in just one second, it was a record really.
December came, the castle decorated with mistletoes everywhere, making the couples to kiss on the halls…and a James looking at them with a murdering glare. How was possible that whilst Lily hated his guts everybody else was happy?! They should be sulking in the corners of the castle like him! The truth is, Lily hasn’t forgiven him…yet, and he’d been asking, almost pathetically pleading, her for forgiveness…she just looked at him evilly and walked away. But that night he wouldn’t let her walk away, she would listen to him...unless she decided to jinx him, and she was really good in Charms, at the moment he feared for his personal security.
The night finally came and Lily found James waiting for her in the common room. She gave him a nasty look, and then walked straight to the portrait hole, but he took her arm, very gently, and stopped her; after telling her they were going to have a talk he took her to the room of requirement. When they reached a specific corridor in the seventh floor, there was no door, and James walked up and down three times, Lily thought he was going insane, but when a door appeared out of nowhere she started thinking: how many more secrets of the castle did he know? He took her hand and stepped inside the room, which were really austere, James only thinking in a place to talk calmly and quietly. There was just a table with two chairs and a fireplace, nothing more, nothing less.
“Please sit down” he said putting the chair for her to sit.
“I can listen, to whatever you have to say, standing.”
“All right, but then don’t expect for me to catch you if you fall backwards.” He said bitterly at Lily’s stubbornness.
“Just say what you have to say!”
“All right...” he paused to try and order his ideas and continued, sitting in his chair “This situation is ridiculous…I don’t even know why are you so mad at me”
“Because you cheated on me?!” she yelled without thinking.
“For that we must have a relationship, and besides I didn’t cheat on you” he said sighing while ruffling his hair “Lily, listen to me, and you have to believe me, please” he looked at her with pleading sincere eyes.
“Humph! I’ll try…” she said sitting finally, he looked truthful.
“You know that…Remus is always sick and every once in a while he’s absent?” he waited for her to agree and when she did he continued “Well, haven’t you noticed that every time Remus is out…is on full-moon nights?” he asked looking expectantly at her; when the information was processed on her brain, her ayes widened, she has always been a smart being.
“You’re telling me…?”
“Yes, Remus is a werewolf” he waited for a reaction, some nasty remark, a worried face, but what he saw he didn’t expected, a marvelled expression, but then changed at one of puzzlement.
“But…what does this have to do with you?”
“Not just me…you see, the guys and I found about this in second year. We watched with concern how Remus returned all beaten up after each transformation, so we decided to do something about it…and we began studying Animagi” he ruffled his hair in nervousness.
“So you’re telling me you are an Animagus?” her amazement was beyond belief.
“Yes, along with Sirius and Peter…I’m telling you all this to explain the scratch you saw on my neck the other day, It was a scratch but not from a girl as you thought, it was from Remus” he really was hoping for her to believe him.
“So…the animals I saw in Halloween…were you and the other two? But I just saw a stag and a dog”
“Pete is too small to be seen from such a distance” he said chuckling a little.
“I see. What animal is him, a slug…a worm?” she asked a little amused.
“A rat actually” he said laughing, relieved that she believed him and that she was taking it so lightly.
“You’re four idiots!”
“Wha…What was that?” he almost fell off his chair.
“I just don’t know how you get yourselves in so much trouble! That spell is horribly dangerous!”
“Ca-calm down! It took us three years to do it right” he said as if that would appease Lily.
“I don’t care how long it took you, you could have ended being half human, half animal” she said calming down.
“But it turned out quite fine…besides; we did it to accompany Remus in the full moon.” He murmured while Lily sighed.
“And you’re illegal; you’ll be in so much trouble if the Ministry finds out…Does Professor Dumbledore knows?”
“No, he doesn’t…and we expect for you to not say a thing to anybody, please”
“Your secret’s safe with me, James” she said looking at him in the eyes, and it was a nice look. He smiled.
“Are we okay now?”
“Yes, we are…so tell me, what animal are you? The dog?” Lily asked expectantly, like a child waiting to hear a exciting story. As an answer, James transformed and Lily stood there looking at the most beautiful stag she had ever laid eyes on.
Everything went smooth from that moment on. On Christmas break they owled and visited each other, they dated like a couple but when they had to say what were they to their parents…they didn’t knew what to say, so they stood on the ‘friends’ phase for a couple of moths. But James was planning something to change that, he was sure that for Valentine’s Day, she would say the oh-so-long-waited ‘YES’.
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A.N: Well, a little short, but that will have to do. For the next chapter, I’m warning you, there would be a lot of fluffiness, pink hearts and sugar everywhere, because it would be…*chan, chan, chan!!! Drums roll* February, the month of love and happiness!! *throws up on a corner* Yeah, so you’re warned.