Severus blinked staring at the red haired girl as she flounced off. Her bag swaying behind her. He heard Potter make a "huh," noise, and than walk off. Though not before giving him a glare like it was somehow is fault that Lily had started shouting at the both of them.

"Pah," Severus muttered under his breath, as he headed off in the direction of the lake. Not wanting to go back inside even though he had a bucket load of homework he had to get through. He kept a distance from the lake, so his feet were on hard ground, not the squishing mud closer to the waters edge.

He jostled his bag on his shoulder thinking that he should have left it in the courtyard, though if he had someone probably would have stolen it and than he would have never seen it again. He sighed, thinking about Lily half talked, half shouting at the both of them, about the fact that they didn't get along. But, she couldn't really expect them to get along, They were complete opposites.

It frustrated him that Liyly wanted hem to get on at all, because it meant that she had not yet had enough of that blasted Potter. He scowled, frustrated. Lily was his, he had known her for years. Loved her for that long. Ages before Potter even looked twice at her. It wasn't fair!

He was losing her, he scowled again, because he knew that it was partly his fault. If he hadn' lost his temper in fifth year...maybe she and Potter would enver have gotten together. Maybe he and Lily would have.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

He kicked at a few small rocks, one flew up into the air and plopped down in the lake. Causing the water to ripple. He had to do something, to stop what was going on. So Lily didn't fall further into Potter's trap. But he wasn't sure what he could do.

He stopped walking, his brow furrowed. That could work...He thought frowning deeply, but it would need an awful amount of self restraint and even than it might not work. But, it was worth a shot.

He bit down on his lip as he set off walking again. Mulling things over in his mind. He was going to make it work.

"Huh," James said again as he pushed opening the door into the school. Students had filled the hall, some milling aimlessly around talking to their friends, over heading into the great hall. The majority were heading up the stairs, clogging up the stairways as they stopped in the middle talking animatedly. James huffed, the hallways were always really busy before and after classes. After especially, as people weren't in a hurry to get to their classrooms, content to just mill around. Frustrating everyone else.

He sighed, trying to make his way up the stair way. He supposed the Marauders were back in the common room. Quite a lot of people stepped back to let him pass. Mostly the younger Gryffindors. He was James Potter, he was a Marauder. The Marauders were well respected, well, by most Gryffindors at least.

He grumbled under his breath about the conversation he had just had with Lily, well, it wasn't much of a conversation as she didn't let either him or Snape say anythiny, instead just had a fit at the both of them. He hadn't done anything wrong, it was all Snivillus' fault. Stupid slithering Slytherin. He didn't understand what Lily saw in him, he was just about a Death Eater!

It made no sense.

He got to the fat lady, giving her the password. The word almost coming out as a snap. The fat lady raised her eyebrow as she swung foward allowing James to walk in. He entered the common room, eyes flitting about to see if Lily was in the room. Which she wasn't, she was probably in their library, doing homework. And than finding the Marauders. He walked over to where they were sitting and dropped down into the spot on the couch next to Sirius.

"What did Lily want?" Remus asked looking up from the thick book he was reading, he was more than half way through and James was pretty sure that he had only started the book the night before. The way Remus read was unbelievable.

James shrugged at him, he didn't really want to get into it. Not because he thought that they wouldn't be on his side, but, he didn't know. He just didn't.

"Someone heard something they didn't want to hear," Sirius said in a sing-song voice. Shuffling the cards he was holding in his hands.

"Eh shut it," James muttered grumpily. Because Sirius had hit the nail on the head, he had been hoping for Lily to be saying something along the lines of that she had decided to stop hanging around with Snape. Or..he didn't know. Just, not what she had said.

"Did she ditch you?" Sirius asked amused.

"No."

"Than..?

James ignored him and picked up a book. Upside down.

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