Patience | jily • wolfstar

Incident Number Twelve • Sirius

Twelve times.

James Potter has asked Lily Evans out in what can be considered the most extravagant ways possible twelve times today, and it's only 11:00 a.m.

And by extravagant, I mean he pranced into the girls dormitories at five in the morning whilst proclaiming his undying love for Lily Evans and proceeding to play a muggle song on my guitar. And it only got worse from there.

Though, if you ask me, learning a muggle song for a muggle born is bloody fucking impressive and the ultimate good move. No comment on the whole entering her dorm uninvited thing though. What's done is done, I can't help that what's done was caught on video, and I certainly can't help that the video is on my camera. If your best mate buys you a camera, you might as well use it.

But moving past incident number one for the day, it's the twelfth one that really got out of hand. Now, it wasn't really James's fault that it happened, but then again, he wasn't completely innocent in the whole ordeal either.

•one hour earlier•

"Look, I don't have any problem with you shooting your shot, but don't you think you've been going a little..."

"overboard?" Peter finished for Remus.

"Oh please," James started, "there's nothing wrong with a little... what did you call it Sirius?"

"Razzle dazzle." I answered, maybe a little too enthusiastically.

"Yeah, that." James nodded with a shit eating grin on his face, "nothing wrong at all with a little razzle dazzle."

Remus glared at me for encouraging James, but in all honesty? I'm having way too much fun with this to care.

"If by razzle dazzle you mean balancing on the candles in the Great Hall with a fucking flute playing the SpongeBob theme song because a bloody dog told you to, then yes there is something wrong with your razzle dazzle." Remus spoke a mile a minute, and if you looked close enough, you could see the heat radiating off of him.

"Oh, so I'm just a dog now, great."

"Mate, that was a bloody brilliant performance I did back there, you can't be serious." James fumed right back to Remus.

Did they just ignore me? Seriously? Right in front of my face?

"Brilliant? James, that was embarrassing! Did you even see Lily's face?" Remus shot back, talking right over my head at James.

"Moony, come on, he was just-"

"You think I'm embarrassing? Is that what you think of me?" James raised his voice at Remus.

Oh for fucks sake.

"I didn't say you were embarrassing, mate, I'm just saying Lily doesn't like all the attention you bring and that was bloody embarrassing for her!" Remus raised his voice back at James, still conversing over my fucking head.

"Guys!" I tried for their attention, but James had other plans.

"Oh look, there's Lily right now!" We all turned to look where James was pointing, and bloody hell this was a bad idea.

"James, calm down." I tried again, Snape was in a heated argument with Lily right now and James could only make things worse.

"I am calm, pads." James scoffed in a tone that suggested he was anything but calm.

"Let's go see if she thinks I'm embarrassing as well, shall we Remus?" James was getting hotheaded and suddenly I wasn't having so much fun with this.

"James, I swear to Merlin if you dare- and he's walking over, great!" Remus exclaimed, completely exasperated and seemingly stuck between leaving and interfering.

"Let's go stop him, Moony. Believe it or not, even I know where to draw the line." I grabbed his hand to get his attention, something that's been increasingly hard to do lately. "Come on." I urged, finally gaining his attention.

"Yeah, alright." he looked as if he wanted to say something else, but Peter didn't give him the chance. "Guys, we really need to get to James." Peter spoke with a sense of urgency, and once we looked over towards the tree where Lily and Snape were, it was clear to see why.

"Oh my God."

"Is he?"

"Broom surfing." I finished for Remus, not really catching whether he glared at me or not.

Where the bloody hell did he even get a broom?

We couldn't even make it halfway to James before Lily turned to face James, her face turning impossibly red with anger.

But before she could say anything, Snape beat her to the punch.

"Don't you have better things to do than attention seeking, Potter?" Snape spoke as if his last name were the most offensive slur he could think of.

James, surprisingly, ignored Snape and hopped off his broom, eyes focused on Lily Evans, and Lily Evans only.

"Snivellus troubling you is he, Evans?" was the first thing the insufferable prat thought to say, and Snape wasted no time in grabbing his wand.

"Potter, this really isn't the time for this." Lily insisted, a crowd was beginning to form and we barely made it through.

"You heard the mudblood, get lost Potter." and with that, everything went silent. Remus, Peter, and I immediately went for our wands, pushing ourselves to the center of the crowd, right behind James.

Lily's eyes went wide and everyone knew Snape just struck a chord in James, he fucked up.

"What the bloody hell did you just call her?" James was fuming at this point, and seemingly forgot all plans of asking Lily out. "I thought you were her friend!" James spat, as much as he hated it, he had always thought this to be true, we all did.

Snape, however, said nothing. Which did nothing but make James more furious. James narrowed his eyes at Snape then glanced at Lily.

She was crying.

"Remus." James turned to face the three of us and Remus nodded. Satisfied, James turned back to Snape and drew his wand.

"Sirius, you get everyone out of here, I'll get Lily, and Peter, you'll get a professor." Remus suddenly took control and Peter and I nodded.

Can't I just have one peaceful evening?

After that, the rest was history. I shooed off the crowd and Remus somehow got Lily to follow him to the Gryffindor common room, both of them and Peter escaping the wrath of McGonagall. I stuck around to fight with James and received the same punishment as Snape and James. The bloody woman didn't even ask why we fought before sending us to Dumbledore.

Yet, no matter how messy that day ended, I couldn't be more thankful for the changes it brought on.

1100 words.

Updating tomorrow.