Hey Everyone! I'm really sorry that the last two chapters have been so short!
And I'm SOSORRY I didn't upload sooner! Hope this chapter makes up for it? No? oh..
DO I EVEN HAVE ANY READERS? HELLO? ANYBODY? If you're out there, please review : ). I'd love to hear what you have to say, and what you want to see in the future!
Disclaimer: Still don't own anything except Rani and the plot. Bummmerrr:(
Lily was walking down the hallway on her way to Potions, her favorite class, when she heard familiar voices coming from around the corner.
She turned the corner and witnessed James laughing and holding his wand at Severus. Severus's wand was resting on the other side of the hall, out of reach.
He couldn't defend himself! How could James do this?
Neither James nor Severus noticed Lily coming.
"ANTEOCOLATIA!" a stream of color flew out of James's wand
Without thinking Lily cast herself between the two.
The hex hit her instead.
She lay on the floor, not moving.
Severus's face drained of color, with a look of pure fear on his face, and James looked mortified.
Lily rose slowly, and noticed she had antlers growing out of her head.
She shrieked and shot a piercing glare at James that made his stomach squirm, and Severus helped her to the Hospital Wing.
James stood there alone, and slowly made his way to Potions.
"Where's Lily? She's never late for Potions." Remus questioned James.
"Um.. Uh.. She uh went.. No I uh.."
"She, uh, I, uh, what happened?" Remus mocked James's stuttering.
"I meant to hit Snivellus with a hex, and she cast herself between my wand and Sniv- I mean S-Snape."
"What was the hex?"
"She grew antlers."
"Is she okay?"
"Yeah. Yeah I think so. She's in the hospital wing. Maybe I should go check on her."
"I think you should let her cool down a bit. I'll check on her and tell you how she is, okay?"
After what seemed to be the longest Potion class ever, James made his way to his dormitory.
When he walked in, Sirius had used Wingardium Leviosa on Peter or something because he was upside down in the air, almost touching the ceiling, while Sirius repeatedly hit him with a loaf of bread.
James didn't even notice, and Peter's screams were quite loud.
So began a sleepless night for James Potter.
Lily sat up in the hospital wing and immediately felt her head.
"Good no antlers." She mumbled
She looked to her right and saw Severus watching her.
She would never say it aloud, but his black eyes staring into her soul was more than slightly frightening.
Though she was happy he helped her, and gave him a small smile.
They were interrupted by Remus opening the big doors and walking in.
"Good, you're up. Here, I brought you some homework you missed. I can help you if you are having trouble with it, but it's just review, so I think you'll be fine." Remus said, smiling at her, while Snape glared at him.
Thank god for Remus. He's the only one that understands that I want the homework.
She smiled warmly at him. "Thank you, Remus." She said, rising and hugging him as he walked away.
Lily had a lasting smile on her face and Severus looked at the exchange with a pang of jealousy.
"Oh, Sev" Lily said, noticing the expression on his face when she hugged Remus, "I forgot to thank you for bringing me here."
He had a slightly amused expression on his face.
"And I forgot to thank you. For taking the hex, when I should have been the one to be hit with it.." He paused to look at her.
"Why..why did you.. do that.. for me?" He chose his words carefully.
"I am always willing to put others before myself, and shield those that I love and care about, even if it means getting hit by whatever was fired at them." She spoke softly, looking in the distance. These words rolled off of her tongue with such honestly and bravery.
Severus wished he could be a bit more like Lily. He took these words in, thinking them through, and would never forget them.
She hugged him, and together they walked down the hallway, and he dropped her off at her common room.
Later that week. Friday- Detention Day.
Lily, Alice, Marlene, and Rani walked up to the door to the Potions room. Lily huffed and pulled open the door, peeking in.
Professor Slughorn was seated at his desk, looking through some old Potions books.
"Oh, my. Hello girls, you're slightly early!" Slughorn announced, smiling at them.
Detention with Slughorn! Yes!
"One..two..three.. That's only four. These is supposed to be a detention with eight…" Slughorn spoke, raising his eyebrows slightly.
As if on cue, the door flew back open and Sirius Black shot a winning smile to the group standing inside the Potions classroom.
"Hullo, Sluggy! Ladies." He added, with a wink.
"Oh, Hello, Mr. Black. When will we be having the honor of having the rest of your 'quartet'?"
"Oh! They are- yes, they- you're going to laugh when I tell you this. They actually, are uhh.. coming."
Alice chortled and wiped a fake tear from under her eye. "Oh, Sirius. You were right, that was indeed, rather hilarious."
The rest of the girls chuckled and Slughorn smiled, which actually looked like a weird grimace of some sort.
The door burst open and Peter, James, and Remus walked in with cheesy grins etched on their faces.
The girls didn't buy it one bit, but did not say anything. The sooner this detention started, the sooner it ended.
"Alright, then. That's everyone. Well, all I'm really asking you to do is to clean out and wash those cauldrons over there," He made a gesture to a pile of dirty cauldrons, "that's it really. Should be quick. And sorry to say that I must go, though I trust you completely." He looked at the boys with an expression that they could not figure out. "Oh, one more thing. It is very important that you do a good job cleaning the cauldrons out. The mixing of potions could be… disastrous." And with that, he left.
Sirius snorted. "Disastrous? Please."
"I don't know, it could be!" Peter squeaked.
Lily agreed, "Yeah, we're only first years. There is not much that we know about mixing Potions."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and Lily tried not to make eye contact with James. On the other hand, Marlene desperately tried to make eye contact with Sirius.
Everyone stood, staring at the cauldrons, waiting for someone to say something.
Rani laughed. "Well, staring at the cauldrons isn't going to make them clean. And we can't use magic. There are obviously a lot of cauldrons here, so how about we split up to get it done faster."
She surprised everyone, and they just stared at her. She sighed and continued.
"James and Lily, Marlene and Sirius, Remus and Alice, and Peter and I. Is that alright?" Again, silence.
"Did someone put a silencing charm in here?" Rani questioned.
She earned a laugh from Remus.
"Sounds good, Rani."
Rani totally has something coming. James? Really?
Lily sighed heavily. This is going to be a long night.
Marlene and Sirius were the first to gather a few cauldrons.
"Okay, Sirius. How about you wash the cauldrons, and I'll dry them?"
"Yeah, okay sure."
Remus and Alice were the next to gather their cauldrons, and did what Marlene and Sirius decided to do.
Rani did the washing, and Peter did the drying.
James and Lily avoided eye contact.
James began washing, and Lily waited for him to finish, so she could dry the cauldrons.
After about ten minutes, Sirius was having trouble with a particular cauldron.
"The Potion! It's stuck! It-won't-come-AHHHH!" Sirius accidentally launched the cauldron backwards, hitting unsuspecting Peter in the back of the head.
Peter fell forward, and Rani went with him.
A sponge went flying out of her hand and hit Alice.
Alice assumed Remus had thrown the sponge and dumped water over his head.
Remus went to throw a bar of soap at Alice, when she ducked.
The bar of soap hit Lily square in the face, and she bent the faucet upward, spraying James to no end.
Marlene burst out laughing at what was unfolding in front of her. She whirled around, only to slip in the forming puddle of water, and landed on Sirius.
Sirius groaned, but laughed and pushed her off of him.
Rani attempted to get up and turn off the running sink but tripped on Remus and spilled cauldrons all over the place.
Water continued to spread about the classroom as the group lay on the ground, laughing and splashing in the soapy water.
James was finally able to turn off the sink, but slipped on a soap bar and crashed into Lily as she tried to get up, and they both slid across the soapy floor.
This gave Sirius a good idea.
He used the counter top to stand up and put two sponges on the bottom of his shoes.
"SPONGE SKATING!" He shouted, as if he had found the cure to Splattergoit.
The rest of the group put sponges on their own shoes and began to slide around on the soapy floor.
These made cauldron cleaning much more fun.
Remus would fill a cauldron with water and pass it to Alice, who would scrub the cauldron, who would pass it to Peter who would dump out the water. Peter would slide across the classroom and hand it to Marlene who would rinse off the cauldron. Marlene would slide to Sirius who would dry off the cauldron who would pass it to James. James would toss the sparkling cauldron to Lily who would put the clean cauldrons into the storage shelf. After a cauldron made it into the shelf, they would all try to do a 360 turn and see who would be able to land on their feet. All of these was done while wearing sponges on their shoes.
After that, they would repeat.
When all of the cauldrons were clean, they wrapped themselves in towels had contests to see who could roll across the classroom the fastest. Thus, drying the floor.
The group took a satisfied look at the beautiful Potions classroom. The floors were practically shining, and the cauldrons had not a spot of potion or soap left in them.
They turned off the light and left the classroom, laughing and recalling the events that had just taken place, all the way to their common room.
All grudges on one another were forgotten.
Nobody noticed that detention had ended two hours ago.
End of year one.
What did you think guys? I kind of wished I was in that detention class while writing this.. Rate and Review please! I know I said I was only doing years 1, 5, and 7, but I want to do year two. So I'll see where that goes. Thanks for reading!
~Ri Potter
