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Chapter 4
Lily was sitting in the library; she had a project that was due for potions and decided to do it during her free period. Just as she was finishing up, she heard the library door open. As Lily was the only person in the library other than the Librarian, the sound startled her out her studying.
She looked up and warm green eyes locked with cold grey ones. Lucius Malfoy. She breathed deep; she knew this meeting would come sooner or later. It had been almost a week since the incident by the lake had happened and she hadn't seen or heard from him. She wasn't normally the kind of girl, who would hide away from someone, and she wasn't hiding, their paths just didn't seem to pass each other.
But lately, she had found herself feeling, odd. It was always when she was around James Potter. She would hear things, that he had said and he would deny saying it. She knew he was just playing a trick on her, and it was getting annoying.
"Well, well. Look what we have here. A little Gryffindor to play with" Lucius drawled out while never losing eye contact with Lily.
Lily calmly put all of her ink and parchment away in her bag. Once she was done she crossed her arms and looked at Lucius expectantly. She was sick of Lucius and his arrogance. She hadn't done anything wrong. Lucius looked at her and then at his friends. "Leave us."
His friends began to protest, but with one cold look from Lucius they had dispersed. Lily looked at him and raised her perfectly shaped brow. "Yes?"
Lucius looked at her for a few seconds before smirking at her, then sitting down in front of her. "There is a ball coming up, you will go with me, I will choose your dress and you will dance and spend the evening with me until I tire of you."
Lily looked at him in complete and utter shock. How dare he. "Excuse me?"
Lucius rolled his eyes and began again "The ball that is coming up. You will…"
But Lily had cut him off "I heard that, but what I didn't hear, was an invitation."
Lucius looked affronted by this. "That is because Malfoy's don't invite, we order"
Lily stood up and grabbed her bag "Well you can go an order yourself another date, because there is no chance on earth that I'd go out with you. You are the most foul, loathsome creature I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Goodbye."
With that Lily stood up, she was sick of his attitude. He couldn't just go around ordering people to date him. Just who did he think he was? She would never, ever be caught seen with him. She would rather date Sirius Black. And that was saying something.
Lily was so angry as she was leaving the library; that she had failed to see James behind the door. He was just about to go in when he had heard the end of the argument. He smiled at Lily's fiery temper, that's what made him notice her. He couldn't believe Lucius though; he actually thought that he could order her to go out with him? The thought made him laugh.
"And just what do you think you are laughing at, Potter?" Lucius drawled out.
James looked up at him and continued to laugh. "You… Lily…Dance" he couldn't string a sentence together because he was laughing so hard. "Did you really think she would go with you, after everything that you have done to her?"
Lucius' eyes narrowed as he advanced on James, instead of shrinking back to the wall, which is what everybody who came into close contact with Lucius did. He stood up tall and looked up into his eyes.
"I will have her. She is mine. She will be on my arm at that ball. She will have no choice."
With that Lucius walked away leaving a very angry James behind. He would be damned if he would let someone like that hurt Lily. Although he hadn't actually spoken to Lily very much, he had the instinct to protect her, keep her from harm. He would just need Lupin's help to do it.
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"Lily wait up, Lily" Lily turned around to see that Remus had been calling her. She had been in her own world for the past few days. Lucius had been intent on getting her to go to the dance with him; he would constantly get her alone and try to bully her into going with him. Every time she said no, every time she left him getting angrier and angrier. She knew that one time he would not accept `no' as an answer, but she was never, ever going to say `yes'.
"Hello Remus." Remus came to a stop next to Lily, a little out of breath.
"Lily, how have you been?" They started a light conversation while walking to class. They had discussed various topics before Remus got to the topic he had been waiting to get to.
"Lily, about Lucius" Lily turned and looked at him.
"What about him?" He wasn't quite sure how to tell her this; James had told him that morning what he had heard. James couldn't tell Lily himself because, well because she wouldn't listen to him.
"Well, you know how he keeps asking you out? Well the only way you are going to get him off your back is either to go with him, tell Dumbledore or get a date."
Lily just looked at him "Ok for a start, I will never, ever go out with him, voluntarily or otherwise. I will not tell Dumbledore, he has enough on his plate as it is. As for getting a date, I can get a date on my own. I just choose not too. I do not plan on going to the ball. I would rather not watch the girls fawn all over the boys. It's useless; I will be spending my time in my room, catching up on my homework."
They had just reached the classroom. Remus nodded to Lily and walked over to his seat. He told James and Sirius what she had said, and James had a huge smile on his face. `I wonder if she would go if I asked her.'
Lily looked up and she had heard James talking. He was looking at her `Not likely Potter' She saw the shock on his face had he heard her?
`How can you talk to me, without actually talking to me?' James thought in an accusatory tone.
Lily was shocked `you can hear me? Oh god. When did this happen, how did this happen, why did this happen'
She heard James chuckle `Calm down Lils, I don't know why we can hear each other and talk to each other through our thoughts, but stop with all the questions your giving me a migraine.'
`I would love to give you more that just a migraine believe'
James and Lily never broke eye contact whilst this was going on, and The Marauders seemed to notice. `Oh. And just what would that be?'
"Miss Evans, Mr Potter pay attention" Lily looked up at her professor. "Sorry sir."
`Teachers pet!' Came James' silk voice `Shut up you!' was her reply.
Lily knew that this would be a long day; she just hoped that at the end of that days lessons that she could go to the hospital wing and find out why this was happening. They had told her that there would be no lasting effects.
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