Greek Mythology Challenge - Sweet as You (Lily/Alice, 150)
Title: Sweet as You
Author: gamma_x_orionis
Prompt: Greek Mythology - Artemis
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Lily/Alice
Rating: PG
Word Count: 150
Summary: "I'd rather die a virgin than ever go out with a man."
“I turned down James today,” Lily said, toying gently with Alice’s hair.
“What?” Alice twisted around. She had been lying on the grass with her head in Lily’s lap, and she stared up, perplexed. “Why? He’s been so much nicer to you recently…”
“But he’s still James.” Lily’s nose wrinkled. “If I go up to Hogsmeade with him, he’ll think it’s a date, and he’ll start getting ideas about this meaning I fancy him, and then I’d never get rid of him, and… and…” She sighed impatiently. “And I don’t want a man, all right? You know that. I only want you.”
“Really?” Alice asked, her eyes filling with tears of gratitude.
“Really,” Lily confirmed. “Only you. Ever. I’d rather die a virgin than ever go out with a man. Least of all,” she added, “Least of all James Potter.”
“You’re sweet, Lily,” Alice murmured.
“Not as sweet as you.”