[Warning: I would like to make it clear that this is FAN FICTION; Peter is OOC, all Marauder's are with OC's. If you don't like that, then leave. I know who belongs together in the actual Harry Potter series, so I don't need you reminding me. If you spot any typo's or improper grammar, please let me know so I can correct it. (Copyrights/Disclaimer is located at the bottom.) Note: The OC's Kat, Gabby, Liz, and Alex are all based off of real people. Don't insult them, or we'll have issues.]
There was a loud thud as a girl with dark brown hair came crashing into the compartment where James Potter, Sirius Black, and a cute girl with dirty blonde hair were all sitting. The girl that had been sitting in the compartment, across from James, stood up suddenly when seeing the other girl fall as she entered the compartment. "Liz, are you okay?" she asked, giggling slightly.
"Bloody hell," James said with a frown. "That was just charming of you," he was looking at the girl who had landed in his lap. "If you don't mind, my lap is reserved for Gabby," he pointed to the giggling girl. "Only if she wants it!" he exclaimed quickly when seeing the look on his girlfriend's face. Unfortunately his words had come out a mere second too late. Gabby had lightly thumped him on the head with her fist, causing him to reach up and rub his head. "Ow! Sorry, sorry, sorry!" he mumbled as he shoved Liz off of his lap, sending her to the floor. Sirius was snickering quietly to himself as he watched the events unfold before him.
"You can fall in my lap any time you want, love," Sirius remarked, offering his hand to Liz. "In fact, you're open to fall on any part of me, since you've already fallen for me." His obnoxious snickering was halted as Gabby went ahead and thumped him on the head before Liz had the chance to get up and do it herself. "Well, I'm not going to apologize like Prongs, because then I'd be lying about being sorry." He quickly dodged Gabby's attempt at a second blow, and narrowly missed her third, only to get hit by Liz instead. "What was that for?" he questioned with a frown, looking at Liz, who had finally pushed herself up off of the floor. "It's true, isn't it?" he asked her, replacing his frown with a smirk as he winked at her and leaned forward to grab her around the waist so he could pull her onto his lap. As soon as he had, he leaned forward to peck her on the lips, only to be stopped by her hand covering his mouth.
"Who's the last person you kissed?" Liz asked sharply, not explaining why she was asking her own boyfriend such a strange question.
"You of course, why?" he stared at her, slightly dumbfounded by the question.
"Not according to Jessica Sanders," said a female voice from outside of the compartment. The door slid open to reveal four people. Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and two girls. The girl that spoke came in and sat down across from Liz and Sirius. The girl had medium brown hair with hints of red in it. "When I was waiting for the train to arrive, I overheard Jessica running around claiming that she'd been snogging you over the summer. With your record and the fact that you two live a block away from each other, it's not hard for her to convince people that she's telling the truth. Apparently Liz heard her too, or I don't think she would be glaring at you right now."
"That's nonsense. She looks like a pig, why would I go anywhere near her?" Sirius remarked, elbowing his best friend in the ribs to stop him from laughing. James wasn't the only person amused by Sirius' statement though. Remus, Peter, and Kat, the girl who had informed them of Jessica's tall tales, were all smirking, and Gabby and Alex, the other girl that had arrived, were giggling. Liz appeared to be the only unhappy person at the moment, besides Sirius of course.
"Well if Miss Piggy is going to be tell people such nonsense, then someone had better go shove a foot up her-" Liz was cut off by the compartment door flying open again. "This compartment is full, go away," she snapped at a couple of younger students.
"Liz, you don't have to be so mean," Alex and Kat said in unison. Alex went on, "You know, Jessica is only a few compartments down, we could hear her boasting about her summer while we were searching for you guys." It was almost as if she was trying to insinuate something, but no one seemed to pick up on it. "Are you two listening?" she asked, raising her voice slightly to try and get Liz's and Sirius' attention. The two of them had been quietly arguing with each other for a few seconds now and didn't even look up when Alex spoke.
"Liz! Sirius!" Gabby snapped loudly. "Stop bickering like a married couple." Her statement sent everyone but the two she had snapped at, into an uproar of laughter.
"She won't stop accusing me of snogging Jessica!" Sirius whined, unconsciously putting on a bit of a puppy dog look.
"Well you really did bring that upon yourself. You know what they say; old habits die hard. So maybe you were snogging her." James spoke in a know-it-all tone with an extremely cocky look on his face. His expression faded into a scared one when Gabby looked at him and stared. "Well, I mean, just because old habits die hard, doesn't mean they don't die. It's not like I've been out and about snogging anyone besides Gabby." He leaned over and kissed her sweetly on the lips. "See? I know how to behave, unlike Padfoot."
"Hey, it's not every day I deny something like this, but I really didn't do it!" Sirius was practically pleading for Liz to believe him. "You have to believe me, Liz! I swear, I'm not lying. You know, I don't go around snogging every girl I come across, and I never have… just some of them." He failed to realize that he should've stopped after claiming that he wasn't lying. That last sentence just seemed to infuriate Liz even more than she already was.
"You moron," Remus muttered, heaving a sigh as everyone watched Liz hop up and shuffle towards the door, tripping over Alex's foot as she went. After recomposing herself, and brushing off her clothes, she slid the compartment door open.
"I have something Sirius to take care of," she said with a bright smile and an evil glint in her eye. Sirius tried not to chuckle at the 'Sirius' remark, but couldn't help himself as a few chuckled escaped while Liz was stepping out of the compartment and into the corridor. She raised an eyebrow at him before closing the compartment door and walking off, never once stating where exactly she was going.
"That can't possibly be good," Gabby stated as soon as Liz had closed the door. "If we hear crashing and screaming, for once, Liz is the last person I'll be worried about. Jessica's in for it now. You swear you haven't been snogging her?" She gave Sirius the look that said, 'Lie to me and I'll kick your sorry arse the rest of the way to Hogwarts.'
"Like I already said; snogging isn't something I generally deny, but for once in my life, I will fully deny the torture of having snogged Jessica Sanders. I've hardly ever even looked at her before. I don't spend much time checking out girls like her."
"Padfot, you should treat women better than that," Peter piped up for the first time since entering the compartment. "You shouldn't be looking at other girls while you're dating Liz. You do realize that she isn't going to keep putting up with your antics much longer, right? Everyone knows she gives you a lot of privacy and doesn't ask very many questions when she doesn't know where you've been or what you've been doing. If you aren't careful, you're going to end up seriously hurting her, and if that happens, you know these girls will hex you 'til you drop." Peter stopped and looked around to find everyone staring at him in shock. It wasn't every day that Peter of all people, said something meaningful. None the less, Remus started nodding in agreement while a smirk suddenly appeared on James' face.
"What's so funny?" Sirius asked, staring at his friend.
"I won't lie, I'd love to see them hex you 'til you drop!" James chuckled and looked at Gabby who rolled her eyes. He went on to add more but was stopped by a loud scream a few compartments down. "Well, I'm assuming that was Jessica. Raise your hand if you think we should go make sure she doesn't die?" It took a few seconds for anyone to move. They obviously didn't care what happened to her. "If she dies, Liz will get expelled," he finally said. Immediately everyone jumped out of their seats and rushed out of the compartment towards the sound of screaming and laughter.
"Why don't you say that again, you bitch!" Liz's voice came from within the compartment that was surrounded by students cheering and laughing. Two girls came shoving through the crowd and grabbed Sirius' robes.
"Stop her! She's gone mad! She's going to kill us!" The girls were apparently more worried about their own lives, rather than their friends, because they failed to mention the fact that Jessica's life was also in danger until a few seconds after they finished speaking the first time. "She'll probably kill Jessica and then come for us, she knows we were all spreading the rumors. Tell her they aren't true!" One of the girls shoved the other one away.
"She obviously knows they aren't true! She said she didn't appreciate Jessica making things up for her own satisfaction. Sirius Black, get your ass in there and stop her now!" The girl was pushing him towards the compartment door, through the crowd. Kat and Remus shooed away some of the students as the rest of the group went over to the compartment.
"And that's what she did," Alex said, as they stared at the sight before their eyes. Peter and Alex were grinning ear to ear as Kat and Remus' jaws dropped in shock. James had doubled over and was laughing hysterically while Gabby and Sirius stood still, staring. They both seemed to be in the middle of a mental debate on whether or not they should intervene with the show they were getting. Liz had a hold of Jessica's hair, and had shoved her against the window, pinning her there as she fiercely whispered incoherent things into her ear.
"I said, maybe if you weren't such a terrible girlfriend, you wouldn't be so insecure," Jessica said, daring to do as Liz had said when her friends had first arrived outside of the compartment. Everyone close enough to hear what she said let out a loud gasp, except for Liz, who threw Jessica to the floor and pointed her wand at the girl.
"How dare you accuse me of being a terrible girlfriend! At least I don't have to make up rumors about snogging someone, just because I can't actually get a boyfriend. Look at you, Sirius wouldn't give you the time of day!" Liz exclaimed, waving her arms and wand around in an exasperated manner. "I can't believe I'm wasting my time on someone so pathetic," she said with a sigh. "You should really consider finding someone to give you a nice shag. Maybe then, you won't be such a-" she was cut off as Jessica pointed her wand at her.
"Expelliarmus!" Jessica screamed, sending Liz's wand flying towards Sirius and Gabby. Remus repeated the spell and disarmed Jessica so that Liz wouldn't get attacked now that she was defenseless. As soon as her wand was gone, she scurried to get up, but failed as Liz tackled her.
"You!" Liz didn't even bother calling her a name as she went to punch her. Before her fist made contact, Sirius had come over and grabbed her arm. With Gabby's help, the two of them pulled her off and began to drag her back to their own compartment as she snapped at them, telling them to let her go so she could 'teach Jessica a lesson.'
"That ended too quickly," Alex sighed, looking at Peter, who nodded in agreement. The two of them left the compartment and wandered off, their discussion having changed to far more interesting things, such as Thestrals and House-Elf rights. Meanwhile Remus and Kat were helping Jessica up off of the floor, lecturing her about having picked the wrong person to mess with. After they were done and Jessica was pissed off at them as well, they left to head back to the compartment.
"Really, even Jessica should know not to cross Liz. She turns into a beast when she's angry," Kat said as she stopped outside the compartment doors. Kat looked at Remus suddenly, having just realized what she had said. "Sorry, that's not quite what I meant… I didn't mean to… Well…" She stuttered slightly, realizing that she could've hurt Remus' feelings over the beast comment.
"Ah, it's fine." Remus said smiling gently. "I know you didn't mean anything by it. Anyway though, you have to admit, that was certainly quite a show. I really do think she would've killed those girls, had Padfoot and Gabby not stopped her. We all know Liz let's Padfoot do whatever he pleases, so long as it isn't too serious and that gives people like Jessica the perfect opportunity to pull stunts like this. I hate to admit it, but this incident is the fault of all three of them." The two of them continued to stand in front of the compartment. It seemed they were giving Sirius and Gabby a few more minutes to calm Liz down.
"Yes, that's true," Kat agreed. "I think though, that maybe next time, we should stop her before she goes and finds the person. We may not be able to stop her the next time she goes in for a kill."
"Well now, that wouldn't be any fun, would it Moony?" James had apparently calmed down and finished his laughing fit, deciding it would be best to go back to the compartment with everyone else. He now stood with his arm draped over his friends shoulder as he spoke. "I think that was all rather brilliant, don't you? Just don't tell Gabby I said that." He smirked as he opened the door and went in, leaving Kat and Remus to stand there, staring into the compartment.
"They're insane really," Remus said, turning to Kat. "We have to go now though, so does Gabby." He steped into the compartment to get Gabby's attention. "It's time for Prefect duty," he said, then backed out, closing the compartment door as he went. "Let's go on ahead, she'll catch up." He slid his arm around Kat's shoulders as the two of them headed off.
"James, Sirius, and you too, Liz, don't try anything funny while we're gone." Gabby left them with that warning as she exited the compartment to catch up with the other two.
"Really, what does she think we're going to do, start an orgy on the train?" Sirius asked James, whose face lit up. Sirius grinned, "Let's do it!" Both of them jumped up and were instantly pulled back down by Liz.
"I think not," she stated firmly. "You're not going to start some sort of shag fest on the Hogwarts Express… Even if your names would go down in history for it…" Her mind seemed to trail off for a moment, possibly considering letting the two boys go ahead with their plans. "No," she finally mumbled, shaking her head.
"You're just saying that because you'd rather start it instead, so that you can be the one to go down in history." Liz's fist came down on top of Sirius' head roughly causing James to laugh and receive the same abuse. When the two of them finished complaining about being thumped on the head, they sat silently, obviously contemplating what they should do.
"Okay, well since we can't start an orgy on the train, can se go find Snivellus and make sure he knows that we're back?" James finally suggested. Sirius and him both looked at Liz with their most adorable puppy dog looks, pleading desperately for her to permit them to go.
"Of course you can! You don't have to beg for something like that, so long as I can come with." She winked and the two boys jumped up. Before she could say anything more, or possibly change her mind, the two of them were gone, dashing down the train to search for their prey. Liz quickly followed after them, careful not to trip or run into anything. By the time she found them, they were already dragging Severus Snape out of a compartment full of Slytherin's. "Well it's a good thing I hurried, or I would've missed something." Liz watched as Sirius and James snickered to themselves while torturing Snape. They instantly had him hanging by his ankle in the air. There wasn't much space for them to do this, but they had sure as hell managed to.
"Cut it out," a voice snapped from behind Liz, causing her to jump slightly. "What part of 'don't try anything funny while we're gone' don't you three understand?" Gabby was standing there, gesturing for James to let Snape down. "If I see this again, you know I'll have to give you three detention. It's my job as a prefect, so I'm begging you not to keep this up. We haven't even reached Hogwarts yet." She sounded relatively exasperated as she spoke. Until Snape was down, Gabby stood there, chastising the three of them. The second she was out of site though, they went back to torturing the boy.
The rest of the train ride was rather peaceful, other than the yelps coming from 'Snivellus' as James continued to hang him by his ankle. Liz, Sirius, and a whole crowd of spectators were laughing as the train rolled on, quickly inching it's way towards Hogwarts. The crowd stuck around until they arrived at the school, when they eagerly dispersed to their compartments to grab their things and scurry off to the carriages. Sirius, James, and Liz wandered around until they found Alex and Peter holding a carriage for everyone. They climbed in and took their seats, telling the two about their adventures with Snape. Before long, they were joined by their prefect friends who climbed into the carriage quickly. The Thestrals pulled the carriage along until they arrived outside of the school where Alex thanked them for the ride as everyone else went inside to take their seats in the Great Hall. The school year hadn't even started yet, but everyone knew that this year would be an interesting one.
"James Potter, will you get your arse off the table? Showing off in front of the first years is not something you should be doing right now!" Gabby was trying desperately to get her boyfriend to behave. He had kindly climbed up onto the tables and was now dancing around like a fool. "Sirius Black, don't you dare!" She watched as Sirius climbed up beside him and the two of them began to waltz together. "Stop it, both of you! Oh, no. See what you've done? Professor McGonagall is coming over here. She looks positively furious." Gabby continued to lecture the boys as their Head of House made her way over. By the time she had left, each of the boys was sitting in their seats being chastised with Gabby. They had managed to acquire a weeks worth of detentions. Liz had been sitting at the Ravenclaw table with Kat, watching the boys. There was a huge grin on her face clearly stating that she approved of their behavior. Kat on the other hand was shaking her head in disapproval. Alex was sitting next to Peter at the Gryffindor table, both of them laughing hysterically. If McGonagall hadn't gone over when she did, it was likely that those two would've joined the boys on the table. Poor Remus was shaking his head with his hand shielding his eyes. He had only watched them for a couple of seconds before doing this, almost as if he was attempting to block out their stupidity by not looking at them. It wasn't until the sorting hat began to sing that the school's attention was reverted back to the first years all impatiently waiting to be sorted into their houses. James and Sirius had both started complaining about how 'starving' they were, but the people at their table ignored them.
"Maybe if you two hadn't so unceremoniously started dancing on the tables, the sorting ceremony would be over already!" Kat hissed from her seat at the Ravenclaw table. "I don't think showing off and delaying dinner was worth a week of detention!" Gabby and Remus both nodded their heads in agreement.
"I dunno, it was actually pretty funny," Peter muttered to Alex, causing both of them to smirk. They quickly hid their smirks from the other's so that they wouldn't end up being chastised. "Oh look! It's over. We have nine new Gryffindor's. Five girls and four boys."
"That gives me the urge to stand up and throw confetti in celebration of new Gryffindors, and more importantly, food!" James went to stand up, but before he was even an inch off of his seat, his robes were grabbed by Remus and Gabby.
"I don't think so. If you go and act up now it'll just be longer before we can actually eat. Save the confetti for breakfast tomorrow. Just don't get yourself any more detention, because James Potter, if you keep it up, you won't be able to hold the Quidditch Tryouts. If that happens your Captain's Badge will be handed over to yours truly!" Gabby sat there, smiling triumphantly. She had officially won the battle, because everyone knew that James wouldn't be willing to lose his Captain's Badge over silly pranks.
"Well fine then. Gabby dearest," James began, obviously about to ask her for a favor. "Do you think you could go over and ask Liz how she feels about confetti while Padfoot and I eat our happy hearts out?" His question earned him a few raised eyebrows from the people sitting around him. "You don't have to if you don't want. I can just ask her before everyone disappears to their common rooms. It would just look less suspicious for you to go over than it would for me. Even Padfoot would look less suspicious, seeing as how it's his girlfriend. I don't imagine he's going to go anywhere until he's had this meal though."
"Here, here!" Sirius said abruptly in response after having stayed silent for a curiously long period of time. It took a few seconds for everyone to realize that it was because Dumbledore had just finished his speech and food had begun to appear on the tables. They all laughed and watched as he started throwing food onto his plate while, at the same time, eating right off of the platters. It didn't take long for James to join him and soon they were both stuffing their faces.
"Oink," Alex said, watching the two swallow some of their food without even bothering to really chew it. "I don't think you two have enough food on your plates, and you're not taking big enough bites!" She exclaimed this, only to receive the pleasure of watching the two add more food to their plates and take bigger bites. "That's better, now you've got it!"
"Yes, you two look ravishingly handsome while stuffing your faces like that," Gabby remarked as she stood up and decided to go ahead and ask Liz about the confetti. Going over, she stopped beside Liz and poked her in the head. "Hey, James wants to know how you feel about confetti." She stood there, ignoring the glares from some of the Ravenclaws at the table.
"That stuff is amazing! Have you ever played with confetti, just for the hell of it? It's probably the most brilliant creation ever, besides Quidditch, of course." Liz had looked up from her plate of food to give Gabby a curious look, wondering why exactly James wanted to know.
"Okay… I'll just tell him you like it," Gabby said, laughing slightly.
"No, no, no. Tell him I love it. No, I'll just tell him." Liz stood up and hollered over to the Gryffindor table, where James and Sirius were still very occupied by the food on their plates. "That stuff is amazing! I absolutely love it!" she yelled, causing James to look up and stare at her for a second. When he finally figured out what she was talking about, he smiled and nodded his head in approval before giving her a thumbs up and going back to his food. Sitting back down, Liz looked at Gabby again, "Oh, how much detention did those two get? We couldn't hear what McGonagall said over the other Ravenclaws that wouldn't stop hissing about how immature they were being.
"She gave them each a week," Gabby said, glancing over at her table. "I should probably go eat, before those two eat everything. I'll see you guys later." She gave both of her friends a quick hug before scampering back to her seat with the rest of the Gryffindors. "Good god, Peter! What are you doing? Don't tell me you've gone crazy as well." She sat down and saw that not only were James and Sirius eating like hogs, but Peter as well.
"Nope. They're having an eating contest. We've already finished dishing ourselves, so they've got the rest of the food here to finish. You better hurry and get some too if you want to eat tonight. Dessert will appear in a bit. We'll all have to dive for that before they do." Alex spoke with a huge grin on her face. It was clear that she had come up with the eating contest idea, and even conned Peter into joining them.
"Remus, why were we unfortunate enough to be stuck in Gryffindor with them, rather than Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff? I'm sure you would've been fine in Ravenclaw, and the hat mentioned it for me, but I thought Gryffindor would be better for me." Gabby heaved a sigh. "At least it's fun though." She finished what was on her plate just in time for the desserts to pop up and replace what was previously on the tables. Not that much was left anyway with all the food the three boys had eaten.
"Gabby, I sometimes wonder why you're going out with such an idiot. Liz I can understand, because she actually enjoys watching this kind of stuff. So does Alex, but really now. I'd suggest smacking him upside the head, but that never seems to work." Remus sat there and put chocolate pudding and a small piece of chocolate crème pie onto his plate. It wasn't a wonder that he was so sweet with all that chocolate in his system.
"Yes, but watching them is quite entertaining. You can't deny that, Remus!" Alex chimed in quickly before muttering something into Peter's ear which sent them both into fits of laughter.
"She does have a point. When bored, watching them can be quite entertaining." Gabby was serving herself a piece of the chocolate crème pie now that Remus had put down the pie scoop. "Today it's an eating contest, tomorrow it'll be 'Who wears whipped cream boxers better?' Though I don't think Peter would willingly participate in that one." Gabby laughed slightly at the thought. Remus just smiled and looked over to see Kat and Liz staring at the other boy's as they inhaled the desserts sitting around them. Liz almost looked like she was ready to come over and join them.
About half an hour later, Gabby, Remus, Kat, and the other prefects were leading first years to the dorm rooms while the rest of the students began shoving their way through the halls, eager to get to bed. Alex and Peter were both looking drowsy and decided to go to bed since classes started the next day, but James, Sirius, and Liz all glanced at each other before running off through the corridors to an empty classroom. The three of them were obviously up to no good, and their friends all had a feeling that whatever they were up to would involve confetti. It was nearly two in the morning by the time James and Sirius had climbed in through the portrait hole, and Liz had stumbled up the stairs to the Ravenclaw dormitory. The three students were asleep only moments after climbing into their beds. The others had already gone to sleep, not bothering to wait up so that they could hear about what the three had been plotting. The school would definitely be in for a surprise the next morning when they all came down for breakfast.
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