Lily Evans (potionswhiz) wrote in wingardiumrpg, @ 2011-01-15 10:46:00 |
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Entry tags: | elaine evans, lily evans potter, severus snape |
August 15th, 1978.
The one rule Lily Evans had about during the summer was that she never broke her plans. After all, she didn't go to Severus's house - just not a wise idea - so they'd always pick a time to meet at the park the next day, and she was insistent on keeping her word.
She was always at the park a little early, and today was no exception. She sat on one of the swings and idly swung herself back and forth, toeing at the sand when she came close enough to do so.
Severus approached the park and slowed when he saw her at the swing, reining himself in before he went to greet her. "Lily," he called once he was closer.
Lily grinned and waved him over, taking a hand off the swing's chains. "Come on, I saved you a swing," she joked.
"If you insist," he agreed, cracking a smile, and sat next to her.
She continued to grin and worked on swinging higher. "What did you do last night?" she prompted.
He swung cautiously. "Read," he confessed. "Some of my mum's old books."
"Which ones?" Lily pressed. "Go on, tell me."
"History on Salazar Slytherin," Severus dismissed.
"Your mum has the best books," she replied, clearly jealous. "I got to read Jane Austen. Again. Hey, we should go to the cinema tonight, instead of reading, what do you think?" Her speech was rapid, but why stop when ideas came to mind?
He nodded. "Is there anything new?" he asked, curious.
"We haven't seen Jaws yet," she reminded him, starting to grin again.
Severus stopped swinging. "The one with the shark?" he checked.
"Yes!" Lily, too, stopped swinging. "It looks brilliant, Sev, we'll be hiding under the seats."
"All right," he agreed, with only the slightest pause. "That could be fun."
She laughed. "Be brave," she teased him, jumping out of her swing. "Want to come home for lunch, first?"
Severus raised his eyebrows. "Is Petunia home?"
"Nope! She's gone for the day. It's us and Mum."
And his father was at home, on the couch still. It wasn't much of a decision. "Then of course," he said, and started to smile.
"Good, because I already told Mum you'd be coming."
"I really had no choice in the matter, did I?"
"Nope," she declared pleasantly. "Did you bring your pocket money?"
"No, I brought no pocket money along because I had no idea you would want to go into town today," he said, in a very mild deadpan.
She stuck her tongue out at him. "Going into town's way more fun than here."
"You're absolutely right on that," he had to agree. "Only Hogsmeade is better."
Lily beamed. "Come on, jump off the swing or something, we can go eat and catch the next show. No idea what Mum's making, through, sorry."
Severus stepped off the swing at his next chance. "Whatever she makes will be fine with me, you know that."
She immediately looped her arm through his. "Unless it's inedible," she replied cheerfully. "Want to run?"
"Really, Lily -- "
"Race you!" She dropped his arm and took off in the direction of her house.
"Lily!" he called after her, and ran after her as fast as he could.
She was a little winded by the time she reached her front door, and she stood on the step, panting, waiting for Severus to catch up. "Beat you," she told him triumphantly.
"Barely," he swore. "Just barely."
"By a long shot," she insisted.
"You are not a gracious host," he teased her.
"You aren't a guest anymore," she returned, grinning.
"I live here?"
"Don't you?"
He nodded vaguely, as though to say 'Fair enough,' and opened the front door.
"Mum!" Lily yelled from behind him. "We're home for lunch!"
Nancy Evans appeared a few moments later, wiping her hands on a dishtowel. "No need to yell," she said mildly. "And Severus, how're you? Deafened by my daughter, yet?"
"Mum."
"Nearly," Severus answered, straight-faced.
Nancy smiled at that. "Well, there's lunch on the table, then. And you got ... a letter, Lily." The owl post still unnerved Nancy to no end. "It's on the table, too. Just from school, it looks like."
Lily perked up at that. "Book list!" she cried, racing into the other room.
"Be careful when you go in, you might get a papercut from flying papers," Nancy warned Severus before retreating into the kitchen.
Severus immediately followed Lily. "Let's see it," he prompted her.
"I'm getting there," she promised him, ripping open the envelope and pulling out the pile of parchments - and then pausing when something dropped to the ground. "What fell?"
He ducked down to get it before she had to, and paused as he picked it up, silently showing it to her.
There were a few seconds of silence. "That's not what I think it is."
He tilted the badge towards her in order to better show her the 'P' on it. "I think it is."
Lily didn't even bother to take it from Severus before squealing and throwing her arms around him in excitement.
Severus hugged her close, so elated about all of it that he didn't even think twice. "You're a prefect, Lily," he whispered to her, pleased.
"I'm a Prefect!" she repeated, gleeful, and gave him another tight squeeze before pulling back a little. "This is brilliant!"
"No one better," he reminded her, with barely restrained fondness.
Lily grinned and hugged him again, at that. "This is brilliant, I'm paying for the movies today!"
"You don't have to -- " Severus started.
"I'm excited! Too late, I said I was doing it." She couldn't stop grinning. "One of my last fun things before being a Prefect and all. We'll get the really big popcorn, too."
"Lily, are you going to stop being fun just because you have a badge?" he teased her, unable to keep from smiling.
"Never," she announced. "We'll always have fun, Sev. Or something, I don't know if you can call horror movies fun?" She pulled out a chair at the table and sat down in it. "We should go see another one next week, too. Oh! Or you can ask if you can spend the night and we can watch old reruns on the telly and stay up late."
"Yes," Severus said instantly, and quickly sat down by her. "That sounds all right."
"If you can put up with Petunia."
He sighed. "I can handle Petunia."
"I'm sorry," she said immediately. "I really am."
"It's not your fault," Severus reminded her. "You've been more than patient enough with her. It's her choice to be a cow."
Lily couldn't help but giggle, just for a second before she stifled herself. "Sev."
He cracked a smile. "I see no need to pretend she isn't a total cow, when she is."
"Only when Mum can hear us."
He put his finger to his mouth, feigning seriousness.
Lily burst out laughing again.
Severus couldn't help but laugh, and pressed a hand to his mouth once he heard Mrs Evans's footsteps.
Nancy eyed the two and shook her head. "Go on, keep laughing," she encouraged after setting the dish in her hands down on the table "Now eat up."
"Thank you, Mrs Evans," Severus said quickly.
Nancy smiled. She never understood her daughter's choice of friends, but she wasn't about to make a fuss over it. "Anytime, Severus," she told him. "You know that."
"See, told you," Lily said.
"Yes, Lily, you know everything," Severus said, deadpan.
Nancy laughed at that and left the two to their own doings.
Lily gave Severus a shove under the table. "Maybe I do."
"Slughorn certainly thinks so."
"He's over-enthusiastic. Doesn't he say the same to you?"
Severus made a non-commital sound.
"See, he does, so it's not such a big deal," she informed him. "He probably says it to anyone good at Potions."
"Not anyone. He likes you especially." He wasn't going to repeat what he'd heard in Slytherin about Slughorn's favour for her, that was for certain.
She shrugged. "It's because I listen," she reminded him. "I let him talk about whatever he wants to talk about without interrupting him, and he likes it." She tried to hide the start of a grin. "Just like you."
He feigned indignance. "I do not."
"Yes you do!"
"You do a lot more talking than I do."
"Hey!"
"So sorry, but..." He smiled at her, then looked down at the food. "Oh. Right."
Lily's plate, however, was half-finished. "Now who's talking too much?" she joked. "Come on, I don't want to miss the opening of the movie and get stuck at the very front."
He ate quickly, but his appetite was gone. Unimportant. "Absolutely right."
"You know the back of the theatre's better," she added.
"And dark." And it'd be a horror film, where they would be alone. This was going to be very good.
"Are you sure you don't want earplugs for when I scream?"
"Well then I wouldn't be able to hear you talking through the entire film."
"You're going to go deaf," Lily told him, her tone pleasant. "Do you forget the last time we saw a scary movie?"
Severus smiled. "I won't be able to hear the movie either."
"Okay, okay, all right, but don't say I didn't warn you. Are you finished?"
"I'm finished," he confirmed.
"Brilliant." Lily got to her feet, glanced at the dishes, and shrugged them off. "Mum, we're going now!" She grabbed Severus' hand and practically pulled him back out the front door, eager to be on the way.