A/N: Alrighty then. When I put up the next chapter I WILL BE CHANGING THE NAME OF THIS STORY. As you can see, I am continuing it. When I checked my email and saw that I had three reviews, all asking me to continue the story, I thought that it would probably be best to do so. (Well, really I thought, 'Yuuhhsssssss! Oh…wait! Crap-no! Now I have to think of an actual plot! Crap! Crap! Crap!' Don't worry though, I'll get over it.) So, here's chapter two!

Disclaimer: …Don't. I. Wish. --sighs--

All was silent in the halls of Hogwarts. Then it happened…

Class ended and a throng of students poured into the corridors, heading for their respective House's common room to drop off their things before going to dinner. In the midst of this hoard, four students, all male, were walking side-by-side. One looked at the other three in a saddened way while the other three looked somewhat lost.

The most distraught being a mousy boy. "A-…all that homework," he squeaked. "We have detention! How will I get it all done?!"

"Don't worry about it, Wormtail," James said, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "You can always catch up on it tomorrow, as for Sirius and I…"

"We're going to be up all night doing this crap!" Sirius finished for him. He sighed heavily then smiled. "No matter. It'll be worth it for you Prongs. As long as I keep that in mind it won't be too bad."

"What are you talking about," James asked frowning at Sirius.

"You know bloody well what I'm talking about," Sirius said smiling. "Evans will be there."

James smiled and said, "Suddenly I'm looking forward to detention."

"For tonight at least," Sirius added, referring to the fact that Lily and Peter were getting off after that day.

James groaned and replied, "Don't remind me."

2

James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter stood before the library together – although they would not remain this way for long. In a moment, Remus would be leaving them to go do his homework in the Gryffindor common room while Peter, Sirius, and James would be entering the room before them to serve their detention. As Madam Pince was waiting, this moment was approaching rather quickly.

Sirius sighed and said, "Well, this is it, gents. The moment has come to say goodbye and part ways."

However, they remained where they stood. That is, until James took a step forward and turned to face his three friends.

"C'mon! Don't act so depressed guys," James said with a smile. "It's only for a few hours, what are we? Married? We've been away for longer periods of time before. It's four hours and then we're back to being the Marauders! The sooner we get in there, the sooner it's over with – with the exception of you, Remus, since you're off the hook."

"He's right," Remus said, turning a little so he could see Sirius, James, and Peter equally well. "I'm leaving for the common room. By the time you three are done with punishment, I'll be done with homework, and all you'll want to do is copy off me."

"Too true," Sirius said nodding.

"Well," Remus said as turned around. "I'll see you three later then. Have fun!"

"Ha! With Pince," James called after him. "As if that could ever happen! C'mon you two, let's go."

So the three facing punishment entered the library and immediately spotted two very angry females standing at the reception desk. One was Lily, the other was Madame Pince, but both of them looked equally annoyed.

"Glad to see you three have decided to show," Madame Pince snapped. "Now, follow me and I shall show you what your punishment is to be."

With that, she moved away from the desk and headed toward the back of the library. She led them through a maze of shelves and tables until they were standing before four carts full of books and a table with more books pilled atop it.

"You shall be finding where these books," Madame Pince began, pausing to indicate the vast amount of books before them. "go. When you have placed each book where it belongs you are free to go. The books will not go in a place that is not their own, so this shouldn't be too difficult. If you have not finished by ten o' clock I will come and get you. Is everything clear?"

The four students nodded and Madame Pince said, "Good. Then get to it."

With that, she turned and made her way back toward the front of the library. The four Gryffindors turned to the many books apprehensively.

"Well, let's get this done with then," Lily said as she dropped off her bag and approached one cart. "I, for one, do not wish to be here all night."

She grabbed a cart and steered it away, disappearing around the corner of a shelf. James and Sirius shrugged at one another before grabbing a cart for themselves.

"Well," James offered as he headed in the same direction Lily had gone and dropped his bag next to hers. "On the bright side, this'll be interesting. Almost like a game, so maybe we won't get bored."

"Maybe," Sirius agreed doubtfully.

How very wrong the two of them were.

It was quickly obvious that this would not be as interesting a task as James had afore thought. By the time he's put away the books on the top shelf of the cart he was familiar enough with the abbreviations to find the rightful place for each book efficiently.

He was soon finished with his first, second, and third cart and was moving onto his fourth. He grabbed the fifth book from this cart and looked at the spine. Quickly identifying the section in which it belonged, he turned the cart in that direction and let his eyes wander across the name.

1001 Un-useless Magic Artifacts and Their Un-useless Uses.

James found himself snorting a little at the name as he came to the shelf on which it belongs. He quickly identified the spot in which it belong in accordance of alphabetical order and put the book away. He then continued with putting away the other books on the cart and was soon finished with this one as well.

When James returned to the table he found that Sirius was piling his cart with the final books.

"Hey," James said as he let go of his cart and took a seat atop the table.

"Hey," Sirius murmured as he grabbed the last book. "You were wrong about this being interesting. At least we're almost done."

"Agreed," James said with a sigh as he leaned back on his hands. "It's too bad I didn't get to see more of Lily. I was hoping we would get a chance to talk for a change."

"She and Peter are lucky," Sirius said with a sigh. "They only had to do this tonight. We're here for the rest of the week. Can you imagine how much longer it's gonna take us when it's just us two putting all these books away?"

James groaned.

"Well," Sirius sighed as he spun his cart around. "I'm going to take care of these and meet you back here. Then we can go back to the tower together."

"Alright," James said as he reached his hand up to tussle his already messy hair. "but hurry, I don't want to have you wait for you all night."

"Right, right," Sirius said, and then he was gone.

Sighing a little, James slipped off the table and went over to the nearest shelf. He scanned the books on it quickly and pulled one off. Its cover was a vibrant green – a color that he's seen somewhere…

"Are we done, then?"

James turned around to see that Lily had returned. Their eyes met for only a brief moment before she looked away and pushed her cart over to where James' was. Watching her, James returned the book to it's spot and leaned against the shelf. Just before she turned around he reached up to tussle his hair.

"You can stop that now," Lily said as she crossed her arms and jutted her hip out. "You know, you're seventeen now. You and your silly friends aught to have grown up by now. I can't believe you…" she quickly grabbed her school bag and pressed it to her chest, "well…it's just rude!"

"I apologize," James said as he straightened. "I guess this means that I still have some maturing to do if I ever want to get you to come rou-…"

"I will never," she snapped as she swung her bag onto her shoulder and made to leave. However, as she was passing James, he lightly gripped her arm to stop her.

"Am I really so terrible?" he said.

Lily merely jerked her arm out of his grasp and stormed away, leaving James staring after her and wondering what on Earth he'd done to get her to hate him so much. Mostly, though, he was wondering what he could possibly do to rectify the situation.

"Done?"

James turned and saw Peter wheeling his cart over to Lily's and his own. Peter was smiling with relief as he added, "I thought we'd never finish!"

"Yeah," James agreed somewhat lamely. "Sirius is putting the last cart of books away and it wasn't completely filled so he should be done soon."

"Speak of the devil!"

The two turned to fine the self-spoken devil – er…I mean, Sirius – pushing his cart over to the other three that were already gathered together. He grabbed their bags from the table and threw them to their respective owners before slinging his own gracefully onto his shoulder. (Peter stumbled back a little with a groan as his slammed into him.)

"Alright," he said as he rounded on his two friends. "I say we get out of here and go do our homework – and by that I mean copy off a' Remus."

James and Peter agreed and the three friend excused themselves from the Library. Soon they were stepping through the portrait hole and into the common room where Remus sat before the fire, holding their spots.

James' eye wandered to the other side of the room where Lily sat. She looked up and almost rose from her seat, but seemed to think better of it and sat back down. However, she threw James a look that clearly meant she wanted him to stay away as she reseated herself.

"So, how far did you get," Sirius asked as he plopped himself into the chair next to Remus.

"I finished," Remus said simply as he handed them each a copy of a different piece of homework from three different classes. "You're lucky it's the classes we've got in common that we had homework in. I doubt you'll be as lucky for the rest of the week. If I were you two, I'd start my morning work at lunch and all my homework in the next class. If you work hard enough, you can get it all done in a reasonable amount of time."

"Right, will do mother," Sirius said with a grin as he set in on re-wording Remus' homework on a different sheet of paper.

Remus merely rolled his eyes and Sirius' antics and opened a book to a marked page to read. James smiled weakly at the two before his eyes were once more drawn to Lily. He chewed his lower lip and narrowed his eyes a bit before returning to his work.

He would get her to give him a chance if it was the last thing he did!

A/N: Okay…so! I have figured out a plot for this story and…ATTENTION READERS: will be changing the name of this story upon putting up the next chapter. I felt that I must warn you now. THIS STORY WILL BE TAKING A TURN FOR THE ABSOLUTELY AND RIDICULOUSLY SILLY! That is all.