James and Sirius made their way to Potion very slowly due to James's limp.
"Prongs I'm honestly going to shove Snivellus's greasy head up your arse if you don't walk faster" yelled Sirius for the third time in five minutes.
James let out a small 'hmph' thinking about why Sirius was in such a rush to get to a lesson with creepy old Slughorn. The old coot was either in his fifties or in his eighties, there was no between. Sirius often complained during the entirety of class and purposely mixed his potions with strange ingredients to see what would happen. One time he threw gnat heads into one of Snape's potions until it turned bright yellow, let it bubble away until it blew up in his face. The only time Sirius had ever been interested in potions class was when he had a plan, and Sirius's plans were never good.
"Padfoot can you wait up for like a minute my leg is still sore" James pleaded hoping Sirius would actually listen
Sirius let out a dramatic sigh and stood still waiting for James to catch up, "fine but I need to get to class before it starts not half way through like I normally do"
James was puffing as he finally caught up to Sirius who was standing in the middle of the corridor, tapping his foot with his hands on his hips. "why are you in such a rush to get attacked by the Slug"
"if you must know I have already told Slughorn that I'm busy at quidditch training to go to one of his parties and I have a plan to enact"
"but you don't play quidditch mate?" James asked looking confused
"yeah about, that I need a favour" Sirius stated smugly
"Lily, the coast is clear! Get in here right now" yelled Alice as she pulled in a blushing Lily Evans to the potions classroom where Slughorn was waiting to greet them.
"Don't pull so hard Alice this is my last good tie! If you stretch this one, I'll kick your.... Professor, good morning, how are you?" said a bright red Lily
"Ahhh Lily, how nice to see you and I am feeling particularly well today thank you!" inching his face closer Lilly took a step back and almost collided with the cold, slimy dungeon wall, "I think we try out an old favourite of mine this lesson, what do you think?" asked Slughorn looking for an answer from his favourite student.
"ummmm yeah that sounds good as long as it doesn't have any pigmy fur in it" Lily said with a joking smile as she remembered how the hair was stuck to the professor's head for a week last time he attempted to use it.
Taking Lily's reply as the perfect answer he skipped of happily to prepare the ingredients.
Alice let out a loud sigh "thank god that's over, he takes his favourite student thing to the next level"
"you're just jealous because he never invites you to his dinner parties" lily said jokingly as she nudged Alice in her arm as they made their way to the desks in the second row.
Alice gasped loudly at her red headed friend, "as if! He hasn't invited me beca...." Alice never finished her sentence because of the loud voices that were travelling into the classroom form the corridor outside.
"IM NOT LETTING YOU PLAY!" screamed James at the mere thought of Sirius on a broom.
"PRONGS!!!" struggling to find a way to blackmail James into helping him he did the only thing left, "I'LL BITE YOU" Sirius threatened and before James could tell him to stop over reacting he had transformed into his animagus form. James attempted to roll his eyes at his pathetic friend before a set of badly looked after teeth were latched upon his arm.
"siRIUS!" James screamed as he turned his body around removing the dogs jaw and instead of then giving up he caught him in a head lock and then continued to rough house with his fellow marauder.
Hearing all of the noise in the potions room the entire class flooded out into the halls to witness James Potter strangling a dog and yelling profanities, "say you yield!" bark* "I said yield!!" bark* bark*
"twenty points from Gryffindor, Mr Potter please leave the poor creature alone and where is Mr Black?" spoke Slughorn quietly, disappointed at what had become of James.
James being suddenly aware of what the situation would have looked like to the class watching him beat up a scruffy black dog who had run away, "yes, sorry sir" ducking his head due to the death glares Lily was throwing at him.
The rest of the class broke up and made their way back to class, except Lily, too concerned with the nature of the poor pup.
"here puppy, come here" she cooed hoping to bring it back and check if its okay. She turned the corner and came face to face with Sirius black.
"ahhh Lilykins, how are you darling?" asked Sirius casually. He made an effort to look appealing by leaning against the wall and squinting at her.
"well, thank you, did you happen see a black, scruffy looking dog run past here?" she asked staring at his weird facial expression which looked like he was holding his breath.
"nope but I did see a hunking James Potter who was looking for you" he said regretting his choice of words.
Lily let out a loud sigh and turned to face Sirius who had stopped making the squishy revolting face and was looking like a sad dog, "Sirius we've been over this a hundred times, James and I aren't a good fit," Sirius was about to intervene and fight for James side but Lily kept going, "he's mean, cocky, rude, a bullying toerag and to be honest not as good looking as he thinks he is" Sirius opened his mouth but Lily just held up a finger, "He doesn't even know me, he puts me on a pedestal and thinks I'm above it all, which is nice but it isn't realistic, you know"
"well if you let me get a bloody word in maybe you won't have to think like that" Sirius said rather rudely but he hated being ignored. A blushing lily looked at the ground and realised she did go on for a bit of a rant. She tucked her flaming hair behind her ear and looked at the ground, waiting for Sirius to start lecturing her.
Sirius looked at her desperately not knowing exactly what to do, "Lily he is all of those things and more but he's worth it" as all he managed to get out and he walked away.
Instinctively she looked up at him, shocked at what had just happened. Sirius would lie, defend and talk up James until the cows came home and she ignored him every time, but 'he's worth it' rang in her ears and silenced her.
Sirius looked back at Lily and the corners of his mouth stretched up knowing he'd made an impact finally.
How, how could he be worth it!
Well he can be funny, but its always at someone's expense, he does have a nice figure, but only because he plays quidditch.
*Lily had nothing against quidditch, but James never stopped talking about it
He was pretty smart, but he has to rub it in everyone's face.
"Lily hurry up class has started!!" yelled Alice waking Lily up from her own thoughts.
