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You Never Know

Chapter 1.

Sirius was sitting down on one of the common room couches of the Gryffindor commons. He was doing what he was always doing at this time. He was eating a ham and cheese with mayonnaise sandwich that he had sneaked from the kitchens with the help of the overly friendly house-elves. He looked up, while stuffing one of the five sandwiches into his mouth, to see his best mate coming to him with something…fluffy?...in his arms.

"Hey Sirius," called James "Do you still have food on you? Like some cookies or strips of meat like ham, turkey, or otherwise." He said as he continued coming towards Sirius.

"Huh, oh, yeah, here." Said Sirius peeling pieces of ham from his sandwich.

"Thanks." James said as he proceeded to feed the slices of ham to the ball of black fluff in his arms.

Sirius hear slight whimpers and small yips of thanks coming from the fluff ball. It was then that he realized what the ball of black fuzz truly was.

"James, why and where did you get a puppy?"

"Hagrid and I were walking through the pumpkin patch. You know how he's always trying to force his rock cakes down my throat? I got him to walk with me so he wouldn't. We found this little guy hiding behind two of Hagrid's giant pumpkins. Not much of hiding place if you ask me. He contrasts with the pumpkins a lot. Though, he could have been trying to be a shadow. Hagrid took him back to his cottage to clean him im' up but Fang actually decided to get a backbone and started growling at him. So I said "I'll take him." Couldn't help it. I took one look at his big puppy eyes staring up at me. If I didn't know any better I'd say they were Lily's eyes. You know I can't resist those.

"James, dogs aren't allowed in Hogwarts. Wait, what am I saying? Give me the little guy." James laughed as he handed the small black puppy over. Once in Sirius' arms, he proceeded to try and lick Sirius. With his little body, he only managed to lick the bottom of Sirius' chin.

"You'll help me take care of him, right?" Asked James. "I mean Hagrid agreed to take care of him when I have classes. But he doesn't think, with the way Fang was acting, that he'll be very safe if he sleeps in Hagrid's hut."

"Yeah, I'll help, but how are you going to keep it from Lily. Now that your Head Boy, you two share the same room. Granted, it's bigger than most, but I doubt she'll be busy enough to miss barks, pee spots, and missing homework assignments."

"Well, er…" said James as he started to avert his eyes.

"James…What are you wanting me to do?" said Sirius warily.

"Well…er…I was hoping that you could take care of him." Said James.

"NO!!!" said Sirius firmly.

"AWW, come on, you know that I think she's finally coming around to me. Something like this could set her off again. Besides, you know I think she's probably figured out that you're a dog animagus. Plus she'd expect this from you." Said James pleading

"um,…um…oh I know…a bribe. What do you want?"

"The Spears quidditch box seats tickets. During the summer, you pay rent when we get an apartment. Throughout the rest of this year, you have to sneak to the kitchens to me food. I get to ask you to go to the kitchens for me for up to six times a day. You have to let me look off your transfiguration notes and homework. AND" said Sirius taking a deep breath, "You have to clean up the dog doo-doo."

"Done." Said James "Wait, What? I'm not cleaning the dog's doo-doo. You're the one who's a dog. You do it."

"You want Lily? You clean it up?"

"ARrrgh, fine!!" growled James as he started to walk out the door.

"Hey, where ya going mate?" called Sirius.

"I'm going to go to the edge of the Forbidden Forest." Said James

"Why?"

"I need to start training this little guy." Said James looking down, cooing, and seeming to have forgotten the tiff with Sirius.

"What make you think you can train him?"

"I trained you didn't I? It can't be that much harder."

"What are you going to name him?"

"For the time being…Lily's Fluff." Said James being totally serious. With that statement, Sirius started barking out laughter.

"See ya mate."

As James exited the common room and made his way to the Forbidden Forest, he was unaware of the pair of eyes curiously watching him.

::::::: Forbidden Forest Edge:::::

"Okay boy. I guess I have to first teach you come, sit, and stay. Alright, Sit." He commanded firmly at the same time pushing the puppy's rump down gently into a sitting position. Unfortunately, the puppy didn't want to stay down. He wanted to play. So he continued to get up each time James put him in the sitting position and said sit. About half an hour, James finally tired of the uncooperative puppy and sat down on the grass. As he laid back on the soft spring grass, he closed his eyes and felt the puppy climb onto his stomach and start circling himself, preparing itself for sleep. As the cool breeze blew, James felt himself lulled to sleep. Just on the edge of sleep, he heard a female scream and then an explosion.

That girl, he thought, it sounded a lot like…

"LILY!!!" he screamed sitting up. Sweat was dripping of his face. He looked around and saw nothing amiss. He looked to see Lily's fluff standing on all fours upset and all of his hair standing on their ends.

He picked up the puppy and started running only thinking one thing. Got to find Lily. He ran and ran. He ran for the great hall, he thrust open the great hall doors. Unaware of scene he was making. He looked up and down wildly at the Gryffindor table, fear etched in his face. There. He saw the red hair. She was the only one in Gryffindor with red hair like that. He ran as fast as he could to her. When he got to her, he saw nothing was wrong with her. Relief flooded through him. He pulled her into his arms with his free hand. His body wracked and shaking with suppressed sobs.

"James." He heard. "James" He heard it again. "Are you alright?" said the worried voice of Lily. He looked up, still shaking slightly, to see Lily with a concerned look on her face and several of the teachers around him.

"You're okay." He heard himself sob. "I though something happened. I was lying on the grass and...It was terrible."

"I'm okay James. I'm okay. I was just a nightmare"

"Just a nightmare," he said trailing off. He kept looking at her eyes, never wavering, closer he moved. Closer.

"Yip." Her face suddenly turned away from him, breaking the moment.

What's she looking at? Realization hit. Oh, Crap. I forgot about Lily's fluff.

"Is that a dog?" She said turning angry.

This a new story as you can probably tell. I learned something recently. I can write, but I can't think up situations. So if you want to help out and have to some interesting ideas, tell me and I'll write them.