Summary: When Lily and James are forced to work together, they take on so much more then they bargained for. Who knew that this situation could result in banning from Hogsmeade trips, the cave in of a tunnel and the odd random astronomy towers falling off? Few pairings, not just LJ.

Disclaimer: I do not own HP, that's all J.K. Rowling's stuff. :'( sniff

When in bad company

Chapter 1: Flying pigs

Lily Evans glared across the table. 'Are you going to tell me?' she demanded impatiently, banging her hand on the table and Alexandra had to cover her mouth not to laugh. The auburn haired girl glared at her and waited for a reply.

'Oooh!' Alex faked a look of surprise, 'There's flying pigs out of the wind-ow!' she rubbed her head. 'No need to get violent.' She scowled.

Lily Evans rolled her eyes. 'Alex, if you don't tell me exactly who I'm working with her, I'll withdraw my position as head girl and never, I repeat, never let you use the prefect bathroom, AND give you detention for the rest of the month. The only people that would have more detentions then you would be The Marauders. You don't want that sort of reputation now, do you!'

Alex just snorted whilst ruthlessly biting the head of a chocolate frog. 'Funny you should mention them, you know. Beside,' she gave her a wicked grin, 'James is hot.'

Lily's eyes shot out of her head. Well, nearly. 'You did not just say that.' She breathed slowly.

'Did so. You know, I would just love to be with him for a whole year, sharing a private room with him, whilst letting him waltz with meto open the ball and be able to work with him as the position of the heads of the year.' She said to Lily, before leaning back letting the words sink in.

Lily could feel her jaw drop and her eyes widen before they drooped down into her hands. 'Alex,' she told her best friend, 'you should remind me never to stop you from talking about flying pigs.'

She just laughed, 'Come on Lily, it won't be that bad. How he got the position, I don't know but you only have to sleep across the corridor from him, we practically did that before! But, be sure to practice safe sex. My mum always said you don't wanna loose your virginity to the wrong ma- OW' she cried, her eyes watering. 'What was that for!'

Lily wasn't looking at her though; she was looking at the boy laughing his head of outside the compartment door. 'Uh-oh…' Alex breathed, 'Hehe, well I'll leave you guys to it!' and she walked away swiftly, 'Whatever it means though.' She smirked as an after thought, ducking as a hard backed book was thrown her way, and stumbled clumsily to the door banging into the table corner on the way. 'Hey James,' she murmured and left them behind her.

Lily swallowed. She didn't want James to get the wrong impression from what Alex had said; she didn't even know this guy! Just a few words in the classroom and the occasional bump in at the lake. Especially that time in year 5… when he had asked her too… argh, she thought and pushed all thoughts out of her mind. Alex was meddling with her mind.

James sat opposite her and opened a magazine with pictures of Quidditch players flying around, lifting his legs onto the seat. Lily rolled her eyes in disgust, while observing the dark haired guy in front of her. 'Are you actually planning to sit there all the way?' She asked rhetorically. He raised an eyebrow at her, obviously not getting the meaning or just too oblivious to everything apart himself.

'No, I'll eat too.' He said casually leaning over to the Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans on the table. 'Are you just going to stare at me?' Lily had to everything in her power not to smack this guy on the head, and she doesn't smack people like that often. Well, apart from Cassie and Alex of course.

'No, I mean you're head boy. Are you going to do anything that you are supposed to do?'

'Have you ever seen me doing anything that I'm supposed to do?' he retorted, observing the auburn haired girl with light interest.

'No.' she admitted bitterfully. 'Can't we arrange some time to talk?' she asked.

'Sorry, but you'll have to wait if you're after sex.'

Lily's eyes hung out once again. 'What! You think that—Alex she wasOh my God-AAAALLLEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXX!' she yelled and stormed out of the compartment.

Inside James grinned and laid back.

On the train in a compartment not far away, Cassandra Rain and Alexandra Fylonrei sat discussing dates for the winter ball.

Cassie looked thoughtful. 'Let's see… Amos.'

'Ew, he SO needs to get a brain. Did you see him with Andy? Fighting over a pair of robes! How immature.'

'Alright,' Cassandra grinned. 'How about Sirius?'

'Hm… Black. Clever, good looking, nice ass, and one hell of a pain in the butt. No way!'

Before Alex could say anymore bad things about Sirius, Lily came storming in, her emerald eyes burning spitfire. 'That James,' She growled, 'is the most despicable creature I have ever had the misfortune to meet.'

Cassie and Alex exchanged glances. 'Er Lily-'

'I mean its one thing to snog every single girl with two feet and skinny ass but to say that to me!'

'Lily, I mean-'

'And I hardly even know him! To be saying that to someone that you've only just met is so immature. Wait, he is the most immature prick I have ever met. Even worse then the guy down my road who sells chocolate wrapping paper. And if I have to take this case about him to Professor McGonagall I will!'

'Lily you're going to-'

'And Professor Dumbledore shall know about this to-OW!'

'-sit on a pin.' Cassie finished, sighing.

'You could of warned me.' Lily frowned, rubbing her rear end. 'This day just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it.'

Alex slouched down. 'What did Potter say that got you so fired up?'

'It was all your fault really.' Lily snapped, 'you and your sick, sick brain.'

'That.' Alex grinned, 'don't worry, he's just playing around.'

Cassie looked at them, confused. 'I don't get it… what did you say that was so good to get Lily worked up?'

'Oh I just told her that she better have safe sex and not to loose her virginity to someone that she feels not worthy of.'

'Yeah, and Potter just so happens to be standing behind the door at that very moment.' Lily moaned, 'and he had the nerve to say, "If you want sex then you'll have to wait." What a bumhole! If he's still a virgin then I'll eat my bobble hat.'

Cassie and Alex looked at each other again. And burst out laughing.

Professor McGonagall peered at the two teens from behind her desk. 'So I trust that you have gotten to know each other.' Lily snorted. You could hardly not know James and his famous group. The cries of 'Jamsie-Wamsie!' and 'Jamsiepoo' were enough to haunt a girl to death. Maybe they should add a head on the end of that to make it 'Jamsiepoo-head'. That would make more sense to her. Though she knew who he was, she doubted that James even knew her name though.

Professor McGonagall looked at her sharply. Her and Professor Dumbledore had thought that maybe Lily have a little impact on Potter's behaviour whilst James could lighten Lily up but it seemed already that their plan wasn't working. But Albus was hardly ever wrong.

'Yes, I know who James is.' Lily said to the Professor McGonagall. 'I was just wondering if it was wise to appoint someone like him to work with me.' She muttered under her breath. But from the death glare that Potter sent her, she assumed that he had heard.

'Good…' Minerva said, still observing them carefully, 'You may go back to your common room now. The feast is over.'

The pushed their chairs back and rushed out of the room, Lily clutching her jumper close to her chest. When they got outside of the room though, she turned to James. 'Alright, I don't know what you're thinking right now but you better get a grip. They past head boys and girls have been great in Hogwarts and I don't want you to change that. Understand?'

'Excuse me,' he shot back, 'but am I to believe that you just said that to! I, if you haven't noticed, could easily make you the least popular person in school with one sentence.'

'I don't care about you and your popularity rating,' she replied angrily, 'I do care that it is you, I trust, that broke the chandelier last year.'

'Yes but I don't find that anything to do with what we are talking about.'

'No, you're wrong. We are talking about how immature you are and how much that would effect your position as head boy.'

'I didn't ask for this position, nor did I expect such an

James looked at her half in disbelief that someone was talking back to him and half in disgust that Lily was actually disrespecting him as the school prankster. 'What do you want, Lily?' he said sarcastically.

Lily peered at him. 'I want you to work as a mature and sophisticated partner. Not some retard,'

'I am not a retard!'

'Well then show me you're not.'

'Let me tell you something Lily, I never realised you were such a bossy bitch.'

'Well you're an immature prick!' She yelled and ran off to the common room, practically tearing her hair out. She had realised that she had been childish, but he deserved it, she thought.

Though later, in his own dormitory, James Potter was cooking up a devious plan the get back at Lily Evans.

'So… I take it that your meeting with James didn't go well. Again.' Cassie sighed.

Lily looked awkwardly up from her apple. 'I was too short with him…'

'Yeah, that's not impossible to believe. Why were you so short to him though?'

'He's going to ruin my reputation,' she groaned.

Cassie smiled innocently, 'Of what? A geek?' Lily glared at her. Though nobody would ever think of the pretty auburn haired girl of 'geeky' but it was true she was clever, 1st in Charms and potions. Professor Bunsey seemed to really like her.

'Where's Alex anyway?' Cassie asked curiously.

Lily shrugged. 'Didn't see her in the morning.'

Just then, the door flung open and Alex stormed in. there was something fishy about her, Lily thought, but she couldn't put her finger on what it was. It wasn't until the people around her started to laugh that she realised what it was.

Alex's normally shiny black hair had turned bright pink and green spots were producing on her skin.

Lily and Cassie watched in awe as they saw her storm up to The Marauders' table, which was, as usual, covered with flocks of giggling girls, who were now even more giggly and staring at Alex. Especially that Harmony and Melody… bitches. 'Alright!' she shouted, 'I know that one of you did it, just give me one good reason that I shouldn't rip your heads off right now!'

James stared at her before turning to Sirius. 'You got the wrong girl!'

'Um… they all look the same in bed.' Sirius replied sheepishly.

'Didn't you take a look!'

'Well… what happens if she wasn't wearing pyjamas?'

Her eyes grew even more. 'One good reason…' she whispered menacingly, her dark blue eyes ablaze, 'just one good reason,'

'Because everybody will call you a carnivore,' Peter chimed.

Alex screamed and ran out form the room, with everybody in the hall laughing at her as she passed.

Lily and Cassie looked at each other, and ran after her, ignoring the laughter around them. Knowing Alex, nobody knew what would happen next. They approached her carefully as she paced around the hallway. 'Erm, Alex?'

Before they could say anything else, her face was up in front of Cassie's and she hissed, 'They are going to die. I tell you, I declare war!'

Lily and Cassie swallowed slowly. This is going to mean bad things for them… again.

Hehe, okay if you didn't like it then don't review cos' I'm not going to write if nobody likes it:( but, PLEASE REVIEW! Otherwise I'm not writing. As I've said before. Wow, I like to repeat things