A/N: I just want to say happy Birthday 2 our Charms teacher Professor Flitwick, seeing that it is his Birthday today! ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I am most definitely not J.K Rowling! (Although in my dreams, I wish I was!)

The Unknown tale of the Marauders

By marauders13

Chapter3: Of, Trouble, sneakiness and Detentions

James breathed onto the mirror, polished it with his sleeve and tapped his want on it. At once, the surface of the mirror glared with the sort of static you'd see on a television screen and James whispered into it.

'Padfoot, Come in Padfoot!'

'Please face the front Mr Black,' wheezed professor Scatwick to Sirius's back who was too busy making rude hand gestures at the Slytherins who were slouched on the back table behind him. Sirius scowled at the Slytherins and turned around, pretending to write his lines. As he was just wondering what silent curse he could aim over his shoulder, when a warm sensation in his back pocket made him sit bolt-upright,

'Alright, Mr. Black?' wheezed the professor.

'yes- I mean no, no,' said Sirius, pulling a few phoney coughs.

'I reckon I'd better run to the toilet sir. I'm afraid that today's pudding didn't agree with me…..'

'Alright, then, alright. Hurry back, Mr Black, or it will be another Detention tomorrow night,' allowed the professor and Sirius whizzed out of the room.

He cut back down a passage that he knew opened up to a corridor that would be deserted at this time and flew down another flight of stairs to an empty classroom. Once the door was shut and Sirius was certain that he was alone in the empty classroom, he whipped out his own two-way-mirror and grinned down at the face that was grinning up at him.

'So,' said Sirius breathlessly, 'She said she'll do it?'

Behind James, he heard Lily make an angry noise. James nodded up at him.

'Yup. Now all we need now is a diversion.'

A slow grin spread over Sirius's face.

'I've got the perfect guy,' 'Peter old pal!' cried Sirius as he entered the passage leading to the Fat lady. Peter gave a squeak of fright and scurried for the door, but Sirius caught the back of his robes and yanked him back. A few second years hung back, anticipating a fight, but Remus appeared from a side corner and shooed them away.

'What's going on?' Remus asked Sirius casually as he could, but there was not mistaking the tired look in his face.

'M-moony-he's going to hurt me-pl-please-s-stop him-'spluttered Peter shrilly. Sirius face burst into indigence.

'Now, why would I want to that? We're friends, aren't we Peter?'

Peter made to scurry away again but Sirius held him tight. 'Oh, come on Moony! When's the last time we had a get-together? In fact, I was thinking we could all down towards the Quidditch pitch… maybe do some moonlighting…'

'Without James?' Remus asked. 'What's really going on? Where's James's?' and he looked over his shoulder as if expecting James to come strolling hand-in hand with Lily.

'It's about the map isn't it?'

Remus went rigid.

'We're not going to hurt the twerp!' Sirius cried in a fierce undertone as a few of the girl's paused to catch his attention.

'We just need him to create a diversion….'

Padfoot and Moony stared into each other's eyes for a long moment and it seemed like a silent understanding passed between them. Remus nodded, Sirius grinned. Then. Both of them upheld peter's hands, pointed his wand at the ceiling, and the corridor exploded into a hail of rocks. Several professors and students on the floors above drifted down through the ceiling like feathers, their eyes wide in shock and alarm.

The entire floor was caving in, but none was hurt because a floating charm had been put on everything. Suits of armour, states, desks and chairs came floating down like bubbles to the floor below. Sirius and Remus disappeared, leaving Peter standing with his wand raised.

'Pettigrew!' shrieked Professor McGonagall as she landed on the floor, 'I never – I can't – how dare you! Classes will have to be postponed to clean up this confusion,' she said as the students and teachers scrambled around for their belongings.

Several young girls drifting to the floor were wearing skirts beneath their robes and struggled with flushed faces trying to keep them down while their fellows laughed. Peter, standing in the middle of the dust, could only manage a squeak as Professor McGonagall marched towards him and grabbed his ear.

'Diversion in progress,' panted Sirius, as he and Remus jogged to a spot outside the caretaker's office where James and Lily waited.

'You should have seen McGonagall,' said Remus and shot a grin to Lily which was unnoticed by James.

'Yeah,' said Sirius, 'She had sparks flying out of her nose!'

'Wicked!' James said appreciably and turned to lily.'

'Now it's your time to shine.'

As the couple shot into the office James added 'You two are on lookout!' he whirled the invisibility cloak around himself and Lily.

'Just don't get too carried away in there and make sure you don't forget what you are looking for,' Sirius said within ear shot, but none noticed the troubled expression on Remus's face.

S they ruffled around Lily shouted aloud 'I've got it,' holding a blank piece of parchment in the air.

'Great!' said James excitedly.

'Now, hurry up we-'

A large, white wolf flashed past the door.

'That was Remus's patronus – someone's coming – quick!' cried James, and he whirled the cloak once again over themselves.

Together, they sped out of the office into the corridor, just passing the grumbling caretaker. The three of them soon rushed down the corridor and reached the Fat lady.

'Chocolate Frogs' they said breathlessly and rushed inside.

'Moony will say that he was in the library, and I was in detention which I should be getting back to now.'

James and Lily looked at each other nervously,

'Hey,' wheezed a gruff behind them, 'no running in the corridors,' and then heard the unmistakeable pounding of the caretaker's feet.

'Hey, as long as you two are together, you'll always have an alibi – your dating!' he waved 'Catcha later,' and was gone through a door pretending to be a wall.

Before James could think, Lily had pulled him into an empty classroom and thrown her arms around him. Seconds later, the door burst open and their evil caretaker stomped inside, stopping short when he saw the two locked together.

'What do you think your doing in here!?'

A/N: Ooooooooooooooh, what's going to happen now? Review to find out!