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Chapter 2
A girl slipped past the crowds unseen, her eyes sharp on the lookout of anyone who might be suspicious of her. She slowly let herself out of the Main doors of the castle. The grand wooden doors towering over her slim figure. She sighed deeply and inhaled the cool night air. It was the 1st of the month. She walked down to her destination, head full of grim thoughts..
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Peter tapped the little wooden box in front of him. It should have been turning into a beaver. But it wasn't. Because Peter being Peter wasn't James or Sirius. Getting caught up in the Marauders pranks was an appealing idea, only if your work wasn't going to suffer and you didn't have to be stuck in the Gryffindor common room on a Saturday evening while your friends went muggle pooling or snookie, whatever it was called.
Meanwhile a little while away from Hogsmeade in a muggle town, The three Marauders had the craziest time playing Pool at a local alley. Sirius could never understand how exactly to position and hold his sticks and James just kept laughing at the sheer idiocy of the game. Remus, the only one with any proper knowledge of muggle things, showed them the proper stance and explained the rules and ways of playing snooker. After spending around almost 6 hours away from Hogwarts, Sirius and James finally agreed to leave after Remus promised to bring them around and teach them bowling the next weekend. They apparated into Hogsmeade and took the secret passage in the cellar from Honeydukes to the corridor on the 3rd floor of Hogwarts.
Quickly putting on the invisibility cloak on the 3 of them, they quietly made their way over to the portrait of the Fat Lady, who guarded the Gryffindor Common Room. After a few close encounters with Peeves, that resulted in Sirius burying his head in Remus' shoulder with attempts to stop himself from bursting out in laughter, they reached the entrance of the common room.
Whispering the password, "Snufflepods" and creeping in, they found Peter asleep in front of the fire, on the floor, with his head on his books which were balanced on the seat of a couch.
"Should we wake him up?" asked James.
"Nah, He'd be a load to take up those stairs, besides at least no one will be grunting or snoring in the dorm tonight." Sirius responded.
"Siri, One- We are wizards, if we had to take him up, we'd levitate him, not carry him. Two- Apart from him, You probably snore the loudest." Said Remus, chuckling.
The three crept up to the 7th year dormitory, after Sirius gave Peter a kick in the shins and ran up the stairs, laughing with his fist in his mouth.
Sirius almost immediately fell asleep after pulling Remus in for an enthusiastic goodnight kiss. James stared out at the moon for a bit, admiring its beauty and thinking of the tortures and pains that his best friend had to endure because of that single piece of beauty.
Remus wished James goodnight before walking over to his bed, after changing into his nightclothes, and watched the thoughtful expression on his friend's face. Perhaps he'd leave him to his thoughts now and they might dwell over them at a more leisurely pace in the future..
For now the three friends lay peacefully asleep in bed, each one with the ghost of a smile on their faces..
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Alice Longbottom sat next to Lily during breakfast the next morning, as Lily cuddled up to a sleepy and semi-conscious James. Taking her hot coffee mug close to his hands, she let the cup come in contact with hands and linger for a moment.
"I AM UP!" yelled James, as the coffee burned his soft as-a-baby's-bottom skin.
"Good Morning, Potter." Said Lily as she reached up to kiss his cheek.
McGonagall gave them a slightly disapproving look before turning away to hide her smirk.
Sirius and Remus both cradled their heads in their hands too. Last night had gotten slightly out of hand as they had spent 3/4th of their time, playing with a bottle of firewhiskey in each ones' hands. This morning Sirius regretfully and quite crankily informed them that the Hangover potion(as they called it) that they seemed to have in endless stock had reached its limit and they were to suffer through their headaches all through the day.
"James, Don't you have Quidditch practice scheduled for today?", Frank questioned.
James swore loudly causing Lily to "tsk, tsk" at him.
"What am I gonna do?", whined James, thinking about how he possibly could not go to the Quidditch pitch, hungover.
"Jamie, Please..dont..raise..your voice.", whispered Sirius, as he leaned his head on Remus' shoulder who was trying to bring himself to drink some of the pumpkin juice but felt too tired and was content in propping his head up by his hands under his chin.
"Wow, You guys look like you had some night", Frank whistled.
"You had to be there to see it." Remus said quietly as James and Sirius both cracked a smile.
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Lily left the Heads' Dormitory with 3 vials full of the Hangover Potion on her pockets and turned a corner. Walking down the corridor, she heard a few muffled voices, like someone in a couples' argument.
Curious and slightly apprehensive about interrupting, Lily slowly backed away and walked the opposite way, focusing instead on where her hungover boyfriend would be with his cheeky friends..
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"Ohhh….My head.." moaned Sirius as he sat next to James and Remus in the locker room half hour before the Quidditch practice started.
"How are we going to fly? We'd fall off our brooms." James said in a voice that rivaled Moaning Myrtle's depressed tone.
"Here you go, boys!" Lily said cheerfully as she walked in , her face flushed from running. She handed them each a vial of the potion, she spent the past hour ,brewing.
"But how did you get it?" asked Sirius, feeling much happier after throwing back his head and knocking down the tiny vial of liquid.
"Umm…I actually made it. I had the ingredients and the time. Plus I don't want Gryffindor to lose because of their irresponsible Captain and players being hungover at practices." Lily said, chuckling.
James curiously looked up, his face radiant at the prospect of Lily almost matching his level of adoration for her.
Remus winked at Sirius, who grinned and picked up their brooms before walking out of the locker room with Remus close behind.
"So my Lily flower, Could you possibly have any other personal reasons for brewing a potion to revive the love of your life?" Said James as he pulled Lily close and nuzzled her neck, blowing little kisses along her collarbone which was exposed from her light grey shirt.
"Well, as much as I'd love to see you lose your position as Captain, I didn't want to see Gryffindor lose." teased Lily.
"So this is all because you cant stand to see Gryffindor lose and it has nothing at all to do with the sexy nighttime entertainment provided by the Captain?" James said grinning as he noted the blush coloring Lily's cheeks.
"That..might have..*gasp* ..been a part of it.." Lily said between gasps as James was kissing some of the more sensuous parts on her neck and her body felt his touch all through with her own hands roaming over James' fit body. After skimming her jawline with the sharp of his nose, resting his hazel gaze on her emerald green eyes, James pulled her in for a kiss that send sparks from her lips to the tips of her toes and made her stomach flip.
In that instant, Lily realized that it wasn't just the fact that James was good looking or a good kisser, she had never felt this way when any of her other boyfriends had kissed her.
Someone was absolutely and hopelessly in love with the irresponsible and amazing James Potter.
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Back in the Head's Dormitory, where Lily sat with Alice and Marlene while their boyfriends were out for Quidditch practice, Lily remained quiet as her thoughts went back to the afternoon with James in the locker room before they had to break apart when the team came storming in.
"Sorry to cramp your style, Captain", one particularly cheeky 3rd year yelled out as they all ran out with their brooms leaving Lily and James to turn crimson as they both blushed furiously. Lily quickly kissed James goodbye and ran out back while James picked up his broom and headed out, and the look on his face, which was missed by Lily's turned back, spoke of his true love for the redhead.
"Earth to Lily", said Alice, slightly louder than the she had already said twice, waving her arms in front of the redhead.
"Oh yeah..Uh..I don't know how to say this right but..Um.. Alice, do you think you love Frank?", stammered Lily.
"Ooooh! You are in love with Jamesie!" squealed Alice, jumping on the red and gold couch.
"Its not that! I just asked..!" cried Lily.
"Really now Longbottom, we hadn't noticed." Said Marlene with her famous sarcastic tone, "For heavens' sake, you are dating him Lils & we are your best friends, I don't see why you have to be ashamed of it or even nervous to say that you love him. That boy is certainly a fine piece of ass."
"Marlene!" Alice and Lily said together and collapsed on the couch laughing.
"Well, I just feel it's too soon. We've only been dating for 2 months now.", continued Lily, after they regained their composure.
"Lils, on a more serious note,", Marlene started.
"You mean Sirius" cut in Alice, which resulted in them dissolving in giggles again.
"Okay not now, Longbottom, Let me finish! Lil, James has been in love with you since 2nd year. I happen to know this as a fact because on account of dating one bisexual Sirius Black and of being sworn not to tell you anything since 4th year but now that obviously doesn't matter because for one, You are dating him and Two, You love him!" Marlene cheerfully concluded.
Lily beamed at her friends. Her head had been muddled all day since her little epiphany & now since she realized her true feelings towards the spiky headed misfit, She felt on top of the world.
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There you have it,folks! If you review, please send in any story ideas or angles that you'd want me to focus on, such as Remus/Sirius fluff, fights b/w certain characters, more focus on Peter-turning-evil, Marlene-relationship or like I attempted in this chapter, Lily-James fluff. I basically started this story with the werewolf plot in mind and I still do, but I like the idea of writing fluff and little irrelevant things.
Much Love xx
