Prongs {Book One}

Chapter Three - Toe-Rag

-SEV-

"Lily-"

"Don't creep up on me like that!"

"I'm sorry, I only meant-"

"This is the girls' section of the prefects' bathroom, you creep."

"I just wanted to tell you-"

"I don't want to hear it. Clear off before I hex you." Lily stood, hands on hips, in her bathing costume, eyes looking almost as red and dangerous as her chestnut hair.

"Please listen," I begged, my hand straying to my wand pocket. I needed to have a protego charm ready if Lily decided to hex me. Her wand was far away, but I didn't think I could even cast a tongue twister charm on her.

"You have thirty seconds."

"Thirty-"

"Twenty-nine, twenty-eight..."

"Okay! Give me a chance!" I took in a deep breath. "I wanted to say that I-I've made my decision."

"Twenty, nineteen..."

"I'm not going to hang out with Mulciber, Avery, Crabbe, Goyle, any of them!"

"Fourteen, thirteen, twelve..."

"I'm going to hang out with you I want you as a friend. I've chosen you."

"Six, five..."

"I've chosen you."

Maybe my heart took control of my body then, but I was leaning forwards to kiss Lily.

I wanted it to be perfect. And it almost was. I could almost convince myself that this was everything, that everything was this, and I could almost pretend that Lily wasn't kissing me back.

Instead she pulled away and slapped me hard across the face.

Clutching my cheek where she'd struck me, I screwed up my face in pain.

"I deserved that."

"Yes you did, Severus Snape, you complete twat."

She slapped me again.

"The first one was for kissing me. That one was for saying you wanted to be my friend before you kissed me."

"Friend is a very loose term," I tried.

"Don't even go there, Severus."

"You only call me Severus when you're severely pissed at me."

"Like now, you git."

"Sorry."

Lily scrutinised me closely. Then she sighed, and hugged me.

I closed my eyes and drunk in her rosey perfume.

"That's for making the right decision," Lily whispered into my ear.

Then she leaned back and slapped me again.

"Ow!" I protested.

"That? That was for taking so bloody long to do it, Sev, you-" Lily stopped.

I turned to where she was looking.

Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew were all standing frozen in the doorway.

"Um," said Potter, clueless.

He looked so thick when confronted with Lily.

"Hate to interrupt this little get together," Black said, stepping hard on Potter's toe.

"Yes," Potter got a grip on himself and did the next worst thing to looking like a clueless deer - ruffled up his hair. "You see, we noticed Evans hadn't returned from the bathrooms. And it's after ten o' clock. We really had to check if she was alright."

"And look what we found," Black sneered.

"A boy in the girls' bathroom," Lupin t'sked.

"We had to do something," Pettigrew piped up.

"And now there are five boys in the girls' bathroom," Lily said. I smirked.

"Oh, don't look so pleased with yourself, Snivellus. We saw how she pushed away your little kiss and then hugged you. I've never seen more friend zone in my life," Potter said.

I felt like something might explode inside me, but instead of cursing Potter, I said smoothly, "And a hug's more than you've ever got from anyone except your mother, Potter, let alone Lily Evans."

Silence.

"Levicorpus."

And I was in the air again.

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-JAMES-

"I really fucked up, didn't I?"

"You did," Sirius checked his hair in the mirror, adding as an afterthought, "Your conditioner really works wonders for my hair, mate."

"Can you be a bit more helpful?"

"Listen," Sirius combed his hair lovingly, "I told you to stop hexing Snivellus."

"I swear you care about your hair more than me."

"Well, my hair makes me look fabulous. What have you ever done?"

"I couldn't help hexing him," I said, ignoring Sirius's last comment, "he was being such a jerk."

"Says you," said a voice behind us.

Turning, I saw Mary MacDonald standing behind me.

"What do you want?" I said, perhaps a little too harshly.

"Just need to give you this. From Slughorn. And to you, Black." She handed them each a scroll. "And you can give these-" she shoved two more into my hands- "to Lupin and Pettigrew."

"Thanks, Mary," Sirius said. As she turned to leave, I stopped her.

"Mary," I said.

"What?"

"Does Evans hate me?"

Mary raised an eyebrow, almost apologetically. "In her words, Potter, you're a selfish, arrogant toe-rag."

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-SEV-

"I wasn't expecting it!"

Lily stared at me, still hanging upside down in the bathroom.

She has refused to 'save my sorry ass', but had also refused to leave me here in shame.

"You could have used 'Protego'. You have good reflexes."

"I didn't think he'd hex me again. Not when-" I paused - "Not when you were there."

"Well he did."

"I know. Haven't I suffered enough? My head feels like I'm about to pass out and throw up simultaneously."

Lily sighed. "Liberacorpus," she huffed, but stormed out before I had recovered from crashing unceremoniously onto the floor.

"Lily-" but she was already gone.

Not that she would have replied, anyway.

I really fucked up, didn't I?

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