Toujours Pur ~James Potter x O/C

Let me tell you a story

It's safe to say that neither Sirius or Remus got much sleep.

They were both in fantastic moods however, walking to breakfast, hand-in-hand, content to call each other boy-friend. Luna, who was talking to Marleen, had to actively pick her jaw up off the floor at the sight of them. More specifically at the sight of Sirius' neck, which was covered in marks, ranging from dark purple, to light green.

James called out "Merlin Moony, you sure know how to mark your territory" causing all their friends to burst out laughing, and Remus' face to flush bright red as he slid down next to Luna.

"Everything ok?" she whispered to him, locking her fingers with his

This just made Remus grow even redder, if that was even possible, whispering back "...amazing..."

"Did it not hurt?" Peter asked Sirius, staring at a particularly dark spot on the boys neck

Smirking, and pushing his hair further behind his ear, Sirius explained "Nah, it felt amazing, especially when Moony went do-"

"Nope!" Luna cried out "Nope! Nope! Wait till I leave, I don't want to hear about it!"

That caused everyone around them to burst out into another round of laughter, and Remus to turn an even darker shade of red, whilst Sirius just smirked.

That laughter was short lived, because it came to an abrupt stop when "Fags!" was hollered across the room.

The whole hall went silent

Whipping round, Luna was pissed, no, pissed wasn't an adequate word to describe how she felt. She was beyond pissed. She was livid. Locating the source of the voice, the Slytherin table, of course it was, Luna was on her feet before anyone could stop her, weaving through students until she found her target.

Severus Snape

Of course it was Snape, that slimy git. It was probably good for Luna that it was him though, because he was not expecting her to beat the living shit out of him, he was expecting her to be the same scared little girl he was able to rape in the summer. She wasn't though. Yes, she was still scared all the time, of him...of everything, but something about being with James had changed her. Had taught her that she couldn't let that fear control her. That she deserved more than that. That she was worthy of a life that wasn't controlled by the fear of what others could do.

So as Luna was punching Snape, trying to get her hands on every little bit of skin she could, she wasn't just defending her brother, she was defending herself. She was fighting back the way she should have in the summer.

"YOU PIECE OF SHIT! DO YOU ENJOY HURTING OTHERS? Suppose that's why you're a DEATH EATER, huh?" She yelled at him, punching as hard as she could, until she heard a 'crunch'

That felt good.

She couldn't stop the next words coming out of her mouth, they were words she'd been wanting to yell at him since that day in the summer. "DO YOU ENJOY HURTING PEOPLE AS MUCH AS YOU ENJOY RAPING LITTLE GIRLS, WHEN THEIR BEGGING YOU TO 'please stop hurting' THEM?"

Arms were around her waist far to quickly, pulling her off Severus, preventing her from any inflicting any permanent damage. Her words were enough though. They had done irreparable damage to Severus Snape, to his reputation.

"LET ME GO!" Luna screamed, trying to pull away, trying to get back to Snape, who was wiping blood from his very obviously broken nose, but the arms around her wouldn't let her go. They were too strong

"Stop, please, he's not worth it" A voice whispered into Luna's ear, trying to calm her down.

"HE DESERVES IT! THEY NEED TO KNOW WHAT HE'S DONE!" Still not relenting in her attempts to pry the arms holding her away, Luna wasn't letting James calm her down. She couldn't let this opportunity get away from her.