The incident |Jeverus/Snames

Guilty conscience

Shit, I haven't updated in so fucking long and I apologise for that. Anyways, I finally got some ideas soooo, enjoy!

James was mad, and confused. Peter's words were like riddles, if he wasn't jealous of Snivellus, then was it vice versa and he was jealous of Lily? No, that just sounded awfully surreal. He wasn't in denial, he knew down to the core that he loved Lily.

James pondered those thoughts while swishing around the mashed potatoes with his fork. "You shouldn't play with your food," a redheaded girl commented, her gaze stern as she looked at his weathered state. "It'll get everywhere you know, if you keep doing that." She remarked again as he subconsciously continued to continue the swishing, "Oh... uh." Was all James could muster. He stopped, yet Lily still held her stare.

"You know you're naturally an asshole right?" She said after a while, "Well, you are what you eat." James declared, "No, because then, Potter, you're a dick." She airily responded, then walked off into the crowd that was clogging the Great Hall doors, James was amused. "Evans! What the hell?!" He yelled, rising from his seat and going off to find the ginger. But she was nowhere to be found, and it was Saturday. So, James strutted around the castle in search of victims to hex and pathways to add to the Map.

Still in his cluster of thoughts, James didn't notice he'd bumped into someone, a girl, yes, he recognised her. An obnoxious Ravenclaw Prefect. Sember. Of course he had to bump into her. "Strutting around the halls again Potter?" She mocked, "No, you're the only one 'strutting' here, hoping to hunt for troublemakers to get some little reward?" He snarled back, she didn't back down. "You know your friend won't help you, right? And anyways, whatever you said to Snape in that little civil conversation of yours was quite in the wrong, you shouldn't've done that," She snapped, blue eyes boring into him. James searched for something to remark back, but Sember continued,

"Oh, and by the way, I know about your friend, Black, having parents that don't really... well, like him I'd say. But there's also this thing about Snape, he also had abusive parents, well up until they passed away. Now, you and your friend have everything despite the punishment you got, but he has nothing, he's almost a cripple you know, his shoulder doesn't really work anymore so he can't really use that arm." She seemed to be mocking James, what she just said heavily strengthened his guilty conscience and now pity along with it.

"Whatever." He mumbled walking past her (not without bumping her shoulder as hard as he can for good measure) and was now tortured again by those thoughts. "Potter!" A grating voice called. Fucking amazing! He thought, turning around. It was Filch. Oh yeah, he'd forgotten about his detention, he came over, "You remember that you'll do this tomorrow also?" Filch hissed with a sneer, the question was obviously rhetorical but James nodded anyways.

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Scrubbing trophies helped put his mind off things. After about two hours, he left, three figures were chatting in the distance. He stalked over, hoping to catch any sort of gossip, turned out that it was Lily, another Slytherin girl, and of course it had to be, Snivellus. So, James decides to be petty and openly walk over.

"Hello," James said with a smile. All three turned their attention from their hushed conversation to him.
"What do you want?" The Slytherin girl asked, what was her name? Annabeth? Elizabeth? Annabelle? He'd forgotten. "Oh you know, you don't have to talk to me with such toxicity, I didn't do anything to you,"
"Yet." Snivellus remarked, dark gaze fixed upon him. He honestly looked like a snake, tense, eyes carefully fixed upon its prey, and ready to pounce. James smiled at that.
"Yes, I haven't done anything, yet." James remarked.
"You're very much serpentine today Potter." Lily announced, "Serpentine? I'm offended, dear Lily. Oh, and you still owe me emotional compensation for that insult this morning." James said, smirking. Lily frowned, "Emotional compensation?" She hissed, "Oh because you just cannot seem to cope with a simple and short insult? Is being accused of being a homosexual too much for you?" Snivellus now spoke, it was evident that Lily had told him about the joke she'd played.

"You know Potter, when you come running and begging me for forgiveness I'll answer in a simple, no. You truly don't realise it yet, do you Potter? Even I'm not as dense when it comes to accepting denial and ignorance." Snivellus snarled, gaze fiercely still trained on James, great, he was being aggravated, but when will he pounce? James thought "We should just go." The Slytherin girl instructed Lily and Snivellus, who looked like they were the practically itching for an argument. But like the loyal dogs those two were, they followed her, murmuring some curses directed towards James.

Running and begging for forgiveness, how stupid is that? James thought, jaw clenched from anger and frustration. But then he realised something. If he wanted to really fight Snivellus, then he had an advantage, the snake didn't have a properly working arm and a leg, he was even more pathetic than before. James mischievously thought about the most gruesome and ghastly ways to punch that git where it would intensely hurt. What level of audacity did the bat have to talk to James like that?

He was circling the same island of space over and over, "Aye Potter! You know you'll make a rut if you keep doing that? It won't look pretty." Someone called, the same Ravenclaw prefect.
"You know, you've lost popularity and power here. Your friends haven't but you totally have." She said, smirking as if vengeance for something had been paid back.
"You don't have to rub salt onto the wound Sember, I'm quite alright with me losing any meaning honestly, means that I won't lose any reputation if I keep bullying Snivellus." He shot back, smirking.
She came closer. "Oh, so that's the only target you have in life don't you? Damn, I sympathise Potter. Honestly all the talk of you hypothetically being a homosexual might be true. Chasing after Snape like it's your own tether to life. You'll be running after him like a needy bitch one day." Sember sneered.

Those same words again. Running for forgiveness. Seriously, James didn't like men, he knew he liked girls only, but did he? He shook his head to clear out his thoughts about that and cleared his throat, "What I don't get if why you're endeavouring yourself to go after me." He imparted, "Ah, well because you're an interesting person, and your errs are humorous." Sember avowed. He raised his eyebrows at that, "Excuse me?" He allegedly said. She shrugged, they began to make conversation while keeping a slow walking pace.

"The thing Evans joked about today was hilarious, 'you are what you eat, no because then you'd be a dick.' That's the most impressive way to accuse someone of being gay." She said while chuckling, he flushed red.
"The thing everyone suspects is that you and Snape are a thing now, and to be frank, I don't disagree, you seem to have some kind of subconscious jealousy towards Evans after that little incident where Snape came running out of the Gryffindor dormitory." She murmured, "You know about that?!" He commented, raising his eyebrows. "Believe me, I'm the main person who spreads the gossip like a plague, I know everything." She said, smiling.

Okay! This took some time to write (a day lmao) but I hope you liked this new chapter, Sev gets that James is lovesick btw if you haven't noticed.