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"Sirius Black I swear to Merlin if you aren't out of your fucking bed in ten seconds I will hex you!" Remus shouted, annoyed that even on the first morning Sirius could not be bothered to be out of bed, while the others were all ready for breakfast.

A groggy groan was heard from inside the curtains and a still-half-asleep Sirius emerged from his bed with his hair covering his face and his eyes, still half closed and covered in sleep.

"Its too early in the morning to swear Moony…" Sirius muttered as he trudged towards the bathroom and completely oblivious to his surroundings, walked into the bathroom door.

"Fucking hell!" Shouted Sirius.

"Fucking hypocrite…" Murmured Remus.

Peter watched the scene unfold amused, but James simply sat on the edge of his bed, completely oblivious to all besides the turmoil currently going on inside his head. He'd already been completely distracted on his first morning run of the year, unable to think about anything else.

I mean, what was he thinking? This girl was obviously someone who he should want to be friends with yeah, but he had only seen her, what, on three separate occasions and on the third he had fucking kissed her! I mean yes, she was beautiful, god she really was so very beautiful but that shouldn't matter. James already knew that it was a dangerous move, that emotions like that couldn't just be curiosity. Something about Lily Evans had stumped the all mighty player that was James Potter, and he did not like it one bit.

Wait… Curiosity killed the cat? Are you a fucking idiot?! She must think I've got some strange social disability or something, she must think I'm a downright idiot. James cringed.

"James, why do you look constipated?" Sirius smiled cheerily as he pranced out of the bathroom, fully dressed, minus his hair obviously, that would take much, much, longer.

"Oh sod off Black."

Remus and Peter, after huffing at the usual morning banter turned and headed for the door.

Remus turned back to Sirius and James, "Padfoot, Prongs, we will meet you in the great hall for breakfast, I have to go help McGonagall with the Gryffindor timetables."

"And I'm going with!" Peter squeaked from behind Remus, who had turned around and was halfway through shutting the dormitory door.

"Oh Moonyyyy," Sirius sang with a massive smirk as Remus turned around, obviously annoyed. "Next time you have a dream about me, maybe keep it to yourself, don't need the other boys knowing about our little-"

Sirius did not finish his jab as a bright light jumped from Remus' now outstretched wand and Sirius lay on the floor, flat on his back, arms and legs splayed, and his hair turning a fiery orange from the roots to the tips.

James couldn't help but smile at Remus who nodded, tucked his wand back into his robes and briskly shut the door.

"I am going to kill him." A monotone voice came up from the floor.

"Serves you right Padfoot. Besides, red is a great colour on you anyway." James, while still amused, couldn't help but be slightly creeped out by the fact that Sirius' hair colour looked so damn similar to Lily's.

"Red? What are you talking about?"

James, realising that Sirius was unaware of his rapidly changing hair colour, began to laugh.

"What's so funny? Oi, James, WHAT?"

Now unable to control himself, James clutched his stomach and pointed to the mirror on the bathroom door. Sirius, after racing towards the mirror and fisting his now red locks let out a high pitch scream and James was gone.

"MY HAIR! I'M GOING TO KILL LUPIN! I WILL BEAT THE WEREWOLF OUT OF HIM! I WILL HIT HIM SO HARD HE WILL END UP WHERE LILY CAME FROM! THE BOY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE AGAIN WHEN I SHOVE HIS HEAD SO FAR UP HIS-"

"Now now Sirius let's just go down to breakfast and ask Moony for the counter curse!" James said, collecting himself after rolling on the floor.

"Are you INSANE! I can't go to breakfast like this!" Sirius shrieked, again fisting his hair and looking at James with so much exasperation that James, once again doubled over laughing.

"Just, just, wear your beanie or something?!" James suggested rather unhelpfully, suppressing his last sniggers.

Sirus simply shook his head and began pacing around the room, "I CAN'T BE SEEN LIKE THIS JAMES!"

Sighing, James went into his trunk and began rummaging around until he found his maroon and gold beanie.

He got up and walked into Sirius' path, and was not noticed until Sirius collided with his best friend.

"Sirius, you are basically a grown man. Act like it. It's not like he chopped it off, you know, and honestly I half thought he would. You are going to put this-" James shoved his beanie against Sirius' chest, "Over your precious hair, and we are going to go have breakfast, because I am hungry, and Remus, because he is not nearly as big of a twat as you, will change it back."

There was an air of excitement that blanketed the hall, with smells wafting from the elves in the kitchen. Everyone was bustling, the first years again all too eager and the N.E.W.T students all the opposite, as they received their timetables.

There was a lack of chatter at the section of the Gryffindor table which seated the sixth year boys and girls. Remus and Peter were currently shoving their faces with muffins and strips of bacon, Mary and Marlene were chatting to themselves while politely nibbling on their toast, glancing over their timetables, Sirius after having wolfed down his breakfast oddly quickly sat in-between Remus and James, but kept squirming, and looked extremely uncomfortable with a beanie that covered not only his hair, but half of his face and when he thought no one was looking, would pull it down even further. Lily, who at first had looked around for Lea but was informed that she only ever sat at the Ravenclaw table with her cousin, was sitting next to Marlene, but was staring unabashedly at James. And James, well, he kept trying to eat but after dropping the first three muffins after feeling that Lily was watching him, he gave up.

What if she likes me? A voice urged James. He shook his head

What if you like her?

Just as he thought this a sharp jolt of electricity coursed through James' shin and reverberated into his skin. He shook off the strange electric tingling he could feel and looked up from his plate to see everyone chatting, well excluding Sirius who still looked most uncomfortable and Lily who sat across from James, looking deep into his eyes with her sparkling green ones and James was sunk, yet again.

She was clearly aware of the effect she had on him and it made James frustrated. He wasn't the guy that ever went around chasing one girl, it was more that every girl had always simply chased him. He liked it that way.

He wasn't about to let one fiery haired girl ruin his reputation.

"Oi Black, what's with the Beanie?"

At this, the conversation, and the lack of (Lily, James and Sirius) turned to Marlene who was looking at Sirius with her head cocked to the side, trying to work it out.

"Yeah, it's summer?" Mary piped in.

"This is summer?!" Lily yelled with a mock horror that made the other girls giggle.

Now all eyes turned to Sirius, with Mary, Marlene and Lily being curious, James and Peter being extremely amused and the smirk on Remus' face stretched from both ears.

"Uhhh…. Ummmm."

Marlene squinted before reaching over the table with her lightning reflexes and attempted to grab the beanie off of Sirius' head. Sirius, in utter shock tried to ward Marlene off by flapping his arms around and squealing, causing half of the great hall to turn towards the commotion.

While the boys were simply watching and laughing, Lily and Mary were quickly pulling plates filled with food out of the way as a determined Marlene crawled over the table. Marlene, without thinking, jumped onto Sirius, knocking them both off the bench and, in turn, knocking the beanie off of Sirius' head. There were a couple audible gaps as Sirius crawled back onto the bench with his fiery red hair messier than James' on show for the entire great hall. Marlene crawled up next to Sirius and just stared, mouth agape, just like the other two girls who currently had several dishes sitting in their laps.

"Lily! I'm so glad the sex change went well, you can hardly even tell!" Everyone's attention turned to Lea who was now sitting on the other side of Lily, a giant smirk plastered on her face, and she winked and smiled at Lily before turning her attention back to Sirius.

Sirius, who up until this point was sickly pale and looked like he'd rather be jumping off the astronomy tower, began to smile, Small at first but then his body shook and his bark like laughter rang through the entire hall, and everyone collapsed laughing.

All worry and shock flew out of the window as all of the sixth years began hysterically snorting and pissing themselves laughing. Marlene fell off the bench, which caused Lea and Mary to struggle to breathe, which caused Alice and Frank to run over to see what was wrong, which caused Alice to faint onto Frank after seeing Sirius' hair, which caused Peter to laugh so hard he flopped onto the table, which caused a plate of cinnamon buns to fly at Remus which caused Lily to cry from laughing so hard which caused James to try jump over the table to help her but tripped and ended up lying over the table and into her lap.

It was at this moment that Professor McGonagall decided to walk past. Her arrival went unnoticed until Frank cleared his throat and the able Gryffindor's turned to meet the shocked gaze of their head of house.

McGonagall's gaze followed Marlene on the floor, to the red faces of Lea and Mary, to the fainted head girl in the arms of the head boy, to Peter apparently knocked out, face down on the table, next to Remus covered in cinnamon and vanilla glaze, to Lily's tear streaked face, to the quidditch captain lying in her lap and finally to Sirius Black, with flaming red hair.

The currently conscious students turned wearily back to the professor after following her gaze to each of their current positions.

Twenty minutes later, and with several recently issued detentions, the sixth year Gryffindor students walked casually into their respective classes, and for everyone but Mary and Peter, this was potions.

There was a cold chill that blanketed the room and all the students inside it. The walls were lined with cabinets of potions books, vials, cauldrons and photographs. The professor at the front had a sort of bilious smile on his face as his eyes widened with glee as he noticed Lily (and not much else) as she entered the room.

"Lily dear!" His voice rang out so every student in the room turned to face the incoming students, who were about a third of the class, "I'm so exceptionally excited to have you this year, I hear from your uncle that you are a very talented young witch, especially for a muggle-born!"

The last words of his sentence left a ringing sound in Lily's ears. He had meant to compliment her-

especially for a muggle born…

And instead it made her want to be sick.

But Lily wasn't one to back down.

"Sir, I'm sorry to question you, but did you just imply, in front of my new peers that I am incapable or inferior to the others because my blood is apparently impure?" Lily practically spat the words out, as if they were poisonous.

A couple of the Slytherins in the potions room turned and glared at Lily and Slughorn's once sickening smile turned to one of denial.

"Oh Lily of course not!" He said, almost nervously as the red head stood defiantly at the other end of the classroom.

A new voice spoke up, "Sir, the mudblood has absolutely no right to talk to you like that-"

"Mulciber that will be five points-"

"Shut up Mulciber before I break your-"

"Pureblooded prick-"

"Sorry did that toad just talk?"

Everyone turned to Slughorn, James, Lea and finally Lily, all as they spoke, immediately one after the other. James and Lea were up right behind Lily, as if defending her, and Remus to her left, and Sirius and Marlene to her right, flanking her, as if challenging the other students to mess with their new friend.

"Okay, students please just, get to your seats, we will continue the lesson."

The Gryffindors reluctantly went to sit down, Lily in-between Marlene and Lea. Breathing a sigh of relief from being out of that slightly compromising situation Lily look around at her peers. She ran her eyes over the back of the pureblooded asshole who had called her out, Mulciber apparently. She ran over the boy next to him, with pale skin and bleached blonde hair and then became fixated on the Slytherin next to him. His slightly greasy black hair seemed awfully familiar to Lily.

At that moment the student turned back to look at Lily and captured her gaze, and she felt her chest seize up immediately. He was here, right in front of her, after all this time.

She instantly knew it was him, and she hadn't seen him since she was 11. Since, since.

Lily found she couldn't bring herself to think it.

WELL?! What we thinking loves?

I know it's an awful place to finish but I figured enough happened in that chapter, even if it wasn't Lily/James.

But don't stress, there will be PLENTY of that.

Reviews are like downing an entire bottle of firewhiskey.

Mischief managed (For now).