Lucky Christmases And Long Gone Animosities

A/N: Hello :) 6th chapter is finally here. I'm extremely sorry for the delay. Had a lot of exams. And then I finally had a week of vacation. But I couldn't get anything done then either. And now the next semester has started and I've some boring classes :P I wrote this in one of them. Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading it as much I did writing it. A huge thanks to all those who reviewed last time and put it on alerts/favorites. And a special thanks to lightningscarpotter for being my beta :D

Chapter 6 - Tails, Wails and Suicide Attempts.

Lily was panicking. She heard a strange sound and eventually realized it was her own heart hammering. Her calf muscles pained as she was crouched on the snow behind the bushes next the tree. She tried to sit cross legged but immediately gave up as she felt a sharp pain shoot up her rear. She stood up and whirled around trying to see if there was something on her backside. Try as she might, she could see nothing.

But she did notice a nice soft patch of grass showing through the snow. And was alarmed to find that it looked extremely appetizing. She suddenly found herself extremely hungry and wanted to eat it.

Concentrate, she told herself firmly and looked away from the scrumptious grass. She reached back and slowly ran a hand through her back and shrieked as she felt something soft and hairy. She tugged at it only to feel that pain again. It seemed to be stuck to her butt. Mortified, she slowly resumed her earlier position. She had a tail. A soft tail like that of a Reindeer's. All thanks to James. She should never have depended on him to teach her the spell! She cursed and promised herself she was never going to ask him for any sort of help whatsoever. He was such a moron. A sore loser. A pampered brat. He had to get his way Every Single Time. She had refused his offer to get turned into a reindeer but here she was. Well, not a complete Reindeer but a Reindeer all the same. She had a pair of antlers, fur on her hands, a tail and hooves for feet. She cursed again and decided to get her revenge. Oh yes. She was going to make him pay. She was going to make him wish he had never messed with her. You just don't mess with Lily Evans. She laughed an evil laugh in her head and began plotting.

She was lost in her thoughts when she suddenly spotted a figure walking towards her about 40 feet away from the bushes.

"Hoy!" she exclaimed to herself as she was surprised to see someone out on the grounds on a cold day in this part of the grounds. It was usually empty here. That was why Lily had gone there in the first place. She peered through the bushes trying to figure out who it was. She recognized the long black hair and the familiar strut. Sirius Black. A confused look appeared on her face as she wondered what he was doing there. The Head Girl in her wanted to march up to him and demand an explanation. But the animal in her prevented her from doing so. She came up with random theories and her eyes went wide as a thought suddenly struck her. What if he was here because James had sent him? He had gone to the castle an hour (only ten minutes in reality) ago and wasn't back yet. Maybe he was not man enough to face Lily's wrath and had sent Sirius. Lily could not let him of all people see her like that. He would announce it to the entire castle. No, this was not happening. She shook her head violently, muttering no repeatedly. She immediately stopped as her antlers got entangled in the bushes. She scowled as she slowly freed them. Muttering curses - the cussing kind, not the magic kind - she stared at the approaching figure of Sirius. She sighed as she put her head in her furry little hands as she realized there was no other way.

Death before dishonour, she decided.

She said a silent prayer as she shut her eyes. She thanked her parents for everything they had done for her. She thanked Petunia and said she was sorry for everything. She thanked all her friends and professors at Hogwarts. She even forgave James. She then let out a deep breath . She opened her eyes and took out her wand. She stared at the tree next to her. She would cast a spell on the heaviest branch and stand right under it. It wasn't the greatest way to die but she had to do it.

Death before dishonour, she reminded herself again.

She stood up but wobbled as she hadn't mastered the art of walking on hooves yet - now she didn't have to anymore - and held on to the tree for support. As she stood, the patch of grass caught her eye once again. She tried to ignore it and looked up at the tree. She looked for a heavy branch and found one a little behind her and hobbled back to stand underneath it. As she looked at it, she could see the grass through her peripherals and imagined feeling it on her skin and inhaling their heavenly smell. Concentrate, she immediately scolded herself again and raised her wand and, with all the determination she could muster, she cast the spell.

But the grass diverted her attention and the spell wasn't powerful enough. She cursed at the grass and figured she might as well enjoy it while she could. She was going to die anyway. She could feel her stomach do somersaults as she tottered to the grass. She went down on her knees and cleared some more of the snow and she felt a smile creep into her face as she felt the grass on her palm. She leaned forward and inhaled the smell. It was heavenly. Just like she had imagined. She licked her lips and bit into the grass and yanked it away from the ground. She closed her eyes and began chewing and all she could see on the inside of her eyelids was herself running through a field of Daisies.

Lily Evans had had an epiphany. Grass tasted Fabulous. Even better than Treacle Tarts. This revelation made Lily wonder why she'd never tried it before. She had been so stupid. As she sat chewing, and dreaming about hot grass chocolate milkshakes, she heard footsteps. She frowned, annoyed at the interruption, and opened her eyes.

"Lily?" James stood a foot away from her. He was gawking. Didn't he realize it was not good manners to stare at someone while they were having their meal? Lily scowled at him. "Is that grass?" Of course it was grass, you stupid oaf. Lily's scowl deepened. What else could taste this good? Gosh! He was so stupid. He was so stupid that his stupidity defied gravity.

"Merlin's pants, Lily!" Remus interjected as he came up behind James. Lily frowned. A friend of his. Her eyes darted behind him as she heard a shriek and a short pudgy boy came into view. Peter. Great, she thought, another one of his imbecile friends. They just didn't know when to stop, did they? Did he have to bring an entire army of people? Couldn't he have-hold on, what was he doing there? He had gone to the castle to get help. Help because she was half a Reindeer now. Realization dawned her. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets as she realized what she was doing. She shrieked and immediately spat out the grass and cleaned her mouth with her scarf. She heard a giggle escape Peter's mouth and gave him one of her death glares. The boy immediately started chewing on his nails and staggered backwards.

"Lily," Remus said in a soothing voice as he approached her carefully and put his arm around her. "It's alright. Just stay put. I'll fix it, okay?" Lily nodded as she bit her cheeks and tried to blink back tears. She was not going to cry. Crying was for weaklings and she was not one of them. She brushed off some of the grass that had fallen on her sweater and closed her eyes and let Remus do the job.

"You can open your eyes now, Lily. It's fine," she felt James slide an arm around her shoulder and whisper into her ear. She slowly opened her eyes and was relieved to see she was a normal teenage girl again. She let out a deep breath and turned to look at James, who was using up all that he had in him to not laugh. She could feel him smirking on the inside. "Oh, Lily-"

"Shut up. Don't 'Oh, Lily' me!" She decided it was time to get rid of his smirk.

Then a lot of things happened at once and happened fast. Lily reached for her wand and cast a hexing spell and James, who had anticipated this, ducked, as he had done so numerous times before to escape being hexed by that very wand. The spell hit the tree and, unfortunately for Peter, the branch that Lily had tried to use as her suicide weapon was right above him now and it broke away due to the impact and crash-landed on him.

For a moment everyone was silenced by shock and it was as if time stood still. Peter groaned and then all of them started to move at once. Lily levitated the branch off of him and Remus and James ran to his side. Peter's swollen head had turned pink and there was a nasty bruise on his forehead. Just before Lily could put the branch away she heard a high pitched grotesque noise like fingernails on a black board coming from the woods and immediately dropped her wand to cover her ears. The levitating spell no longer held the branch and it hit Peter in the stomach. James and Remus were closing their ears too. As soon as the sound stopped the three of them ran in the its direction, leaving Peter crying out in pain. They walked for about a minute in the woods in search of the source of the wailing before seeing someone standing in the clearing a few feet ahead of them. They started running towards it just as the sound started again.

And then they saw what happening. Lily and Remus bumped into James in shock. Peter cried in agony but nobody heard.

The sounded stopped again and silence descended on them.

"Merlin's beard, Padfoot!" James exclaimed in horror, breaking the spell of shock.

Sirius Black whirled around with a similar expression on his face.

A/N: I hope you liked it. I'd really appreciate it if you could a couple of minutes to review :) Thank you! The next chapter will be up soon :)
Oh and I finished the Divergent series a couple of weeks back and I absolutely loved it! I can't wait for Detergent now :D Lol.