AN: Second to last chapter dance! Also sorry it is late. If you are wondering why it is late then read the "AN" at the very end of the chapter

Chapter 7

Day 36 of imprisonment

I am really starting to hate trees. They suck when you have to make a whole crap load of them, and I don't know if you have noticed, but there is literally THOUSANDS of them in middle earth. I can't wait to get to Mordor. You know what we are doing for Mordor? Pouring rocks everywhere, yep. Bow to the sophistication of our model building skills.

Well I guess we are gluing the rocks but still we are more or less just making a rock pile. Not like these stupid trees. I despise them. No really I have more injuries on my fingers caused by gluing these dumb things together then I thought was possible. You would be surprised at how often you glue the tooth pick to your hand and then have to tear it off. You'd think that after doing this over ten thousand times I would get the hand of it, but no. No I have to cause myself injury in the name of lack of boredom.

I'll admit a few times I nearly gave up, but then I realized something. I have absolutely nothing else to do.

"Are you quiet finished over there?" asked Severus in an annoyed voice.

"What?" asked James in slight confusion at being pulled from his thoughts.

Severus just rolled his eyes as he continued to focus on his task. "You have been sitting up, sighing, rolling around, groaning, and being a general weirdo for the last fifteen minutes."

"I have not!"

"Yes, yes you have," muttered Severus. "You complain about me not being able to sit still, but at least I am quiet. You sound like a dying goat." The Slytherin only had a moment of amusement before he let out a shriek and hit a flying book away from his face and away from the model so that his hours of work wouldn't be crushed.

"And you shriek like a banshee," said James in a superior tone as he slid off of his bed and got back to work on his part of the model. Severus simple made a little huff sound and turned away from the other boy and continued his work on the model.

Day 37 of imprisonment

Fucking forget everything I said about trees. I love trees they are awesome. I didn't realize that we were going to be gluing EVERY SINGLE ROCK into its proper place, and of course I just had to get Mount Doom. I have gotten bigger rocks to make it easier but I am still essentially just gluing a shit ton of rocks together to make a mountain.

Snape says he will help me once he is finished with Saron's tower but he is taking his sweet time with it. He said he wants to make sure that it is perfect, but I can see through that. He just knows that Mount Doom sucks and he doesn't want to help me with it. Jerk.

"Are you done with the tower yet?" whined James as he put his journal away and slid off of his bed.

"No," said Severus in an annoyed voice. He wouldn't be so ticked if James hadn't asked that same question at least twelve times already that morning. "It is more detailed then you think, and you're the one that wanted to do the mountain."

"Yeah but I thought it would be easy, and you have gotten all of the big towers and things," James continued to complain as he got back to work on the mountain.

"Not true," muttered Severus. "You did Helms Deep, and you helped me with Gondor."

"Yeah but you got to do all of Minas Morgul."

"Only because you complained about not wanted to do it, and I swear if you don't shut up and finish what you are working on I will glue your mouth shut."

"Well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning," muttered James. Severus was seriously wondering if you could kill someone just by throwing them onto a lot of toothpicks, but then reconsidered since he had spent days on the forested areas of Middle Earth.

Day 38 of imprisonment

Oh my god are we really done? I am honestly not sure. It looks like we are done. We finished last night and spent the morning doing all of the finishing touches, but it still doesn't feel like we are done. Like I am just dreaming that we are finished and I will soon wake up and we will only be halfway done with the model.

. . . Oh crap now what are we going to do?

When James set his journal down a looked over at his cellmate he could tell that the Slytherin was having a similar thought process as well. Turning back to the model on the floor he sighed. It was done and now there wasn't much for the two of them to look forward to.

"You know what I really want to do," said Severus suddenly.

"What?" asked James.

"I really want to light this on fire," explained Severus in a trance like state.

At first James was horrified. How could he even think that after spending so many hours on it, only to destroy it! However the longer he looked at the model the more he considered it. After spending so many hours on it he wanted something to happen. Preferable something fiery and explosive

Day 39 of imprisonment

We have yet to figure out what we are going to DO with the model now that it is done. We probably should of thought of that BEFORE we started making it. Occasional one of will fiddle with something on the map and try to make it more perfect or add a few trees or something. However sometimes I catch Severus staring back and forth between the bookshelf and the model as if he is considering pushing the shelves onto the model and destroying part of it.

I hope he doesn't; mostly because if we are going to destroy it I want a part in helping demolish it. I think it would be funnier to have the army men invade middle earth, and then they could call in an aerial strike of giant bookshelves.

Just then a pop sound pulled James away from his journal and Severus away from his plans of destroying middle earth. When both he boys looked up they saw that it was the Headmaster. James put his journal away as Dumbledore walked around the model stopping occasionally to look at it more closely.

Once he was done looking around the model he looked over at the two boys and asked, "Well now that you are done with it what are you going to do with it?"

The two of them shrugged before James said, "We are both trying our hardest to not destroy it actually."

The Headmaster seemed a little horrified at first but then sighed before he made his proposition, "how about I take it out of here so that you have more room. I would hate to see so much work gone to waist just for a few moments of amusement, and I rather like the model."

The two boys shared a look before they shrugged and Severus said, "I guess you can take it we didn't really know what to do now that we finished it anyway."

If the old man could of hopped with joy he would of. With a wave of his wand he made the model disappear. Once it was gone the Headmaster turned back towards the boys and said, "Since the two of you have done such a good job of working together and as thanks for letting me have this model I will set up a treat for the two of you for your lunch tomorrow."

That said the Professor disappeared as well and left the two alone with the huge empty space in the middle of the room. James got up and walked out into the huge space and asked, "should we move the furniture back?"

"Why?" asked Severus. "Its not like we can't sit on our beds if we want to sit down, and with all this extra space we could make another model, or maybe just play a game that we couldn't normally play."

"True," said James. "But I am going to move the coffee table out at least so we have a place other then our beds to eat at." Severus just nodded in agreement as he moved over to his bed and took out a book to read.

After James had moved the coffee table he sighed and looked around trying to figure out what he should do next, but nothing really came to mind. In the end he just followed his cellmate's example and picked up Return on the Kind and started to read.

Day 40 of imprisonment

It is almost lunch and that means that we are going to be getting our reward soon! I can't wait. I hope it isn't more yarn or something dumb. I mean we have pretty much asked for everything small and pointless that I can think of so I am really hoping that is actually something that would cure our boredom for awhile.

No idea what it could possibly be, but I hope it is something awesome, or at least something that we haven't gotten already. Kinda hope it is candy honestly. We really haven't gotten much, (any) junk food from what I brought with me in here, and our meals are leaning towards health food. Probably because exercise wise we really aren't doing much of it, but it is just one more little thing that we are being denied that is really starting to drive me up the wall. So here's to hoping that is something form of delicious candy item.

It wasn't long after James put his journal away did they hear a several popping sounds as the Headmaster and several house elves appeared in the room. Two of the elves each had several boxes of pizza, two others had several things of soda, one had a stack of cups, and the last one was carrying several magazines. The items that the Headmaster was holding were a radio, and two white paper bags.

"Praise the gods we get sound!" said James excitedly as he hugged the radio that the Professor had just handed to him.

Dumbledore laughed and said, "Well you two have earned something special and I hope you enjoy your treat." The Professor left soon after he said this when he noticed that the two boys had already more or less forgotten he was there as James found a radio station and Severus was exploring the white candy filled bags.

"Why did he give us four pizzas?" asked Severus as he opened one of the boxes.

"Because I can eat two pizzas by myself," said James in a matter of fact tone as he pulled two of the boxes over to what he had deemed his personal space that also contained one of the bags of candy and a soda.

Severus just rolled his eyes and took the remaining pizza boxes and soda, "then why did we get soda instead of butter beer. I guess we can't really complain to much, but I would of liked it more then the soda."

"Probably because you can't get butter beer in huge quantities," shrugged James as he opened one of the pizza boxes and looked at the pizza as if considering were he should begin on his pizza. "I just realized something," said James in an excited tone.

Snape just made a little 'hmm?' sound instead of actually saying anything since he had already started to eat one of his pizzas. "This entire thing is mine!" Severus just gave him a 'um duh,' look before he attempted to ignore the other boy. "No you don't get it!" said James excitedly. "I can finally do that one thing I have always wanted to do!"

Severus was a little afraid of what that might be but knew he didn't have to ask since James had already started his plan. Instead of picking up a slice he rolled the pizza up into a giant burrito like thing and attempted to take a bite out of the end of it. The Slytherin watched in disturbed fascination for a moment before he said anything. "Wow you're a pig."

"Shh your ruining the moment."

"Yeah not gonna lie you are really starting to freak me out," said Severus as he leaned back a little as if trying to avoid James without leaving his spot at the coffee table.

"I just missed pizza," said James between mouthfuls.

"There is missing a food and then there is. . . what ever the hell your doing," muttered Severus.

"Your just jealous."

"Oh yeah I am totally jealous of your freaky food love going on over there."

"Don't worry someday you will know love this pure."

"Oh my god please stop talking before I throw up."

Day 41 of imprisonment

Never thought I would say this but I think I ate too much pizza yesterday. I feel kinda, (really) sick today. I don't think all the candy and soda I ate helped me much, but it was so tasty I couldn't help it.

You know what I just realized. We where given cups to pour our soda in, but we didn't use them we just drank out of the bottles, but that wasn't really the point I was getting to. I mean we were given like thirty cups. What the hell were we going to do with thirty cups? Maybe he thought we would pour soda for the stuffed animals?

I know we have been in here awhile but I am not that nuts, (okay maybe I have been but I wouldn't waist good soda on Jennifer. Sorry Jennifer but it is true you can't drink it anyway). But yeah the cups are still over there next to the coffee table just sitting there. Not sure what the Headmaster thought we were going to do with so many cups.

Severus still has one of his pizzas and he is eating it for breakfast bleh. I love pizza but at the moment just watching someone else eat one is kinda making me ill. That is it I am going to go back to bed. I will role over and stick my head under the pillow so I don't have to watch anymore. On the plus side is now we have a radio so there is something other then awkward silence filling the air.

Day 42 of imprisonment

I found a use for the cups! I can make towers with them. Yeah that is all I got but they are easier to set up then the cards; makes it easier to set them back up after I launch marbles at them. Only bad part is that I have killed a few of the cups because of the marbles. Maybe I shouldn't use the rubber bands to launch them around the room.

Not sure what else to write James put his journal away and casually threw another marble at his little cup tower and knocked it to the ground again for the 20th time in the last hour. "I'm bored," grumbled James.

"Really I couldn't tell," said Severus in a sarcastic tone. Instead of replying James just tossed a marble in the Slytherin's general direction before he went to set up the cups again.

"We could play marbles," suggested James after he had rebuilt the little cup pyramid.

"Already played three times today," sighed Severus as he just stared at the ceiling.

James was quiet for a few moments as he killed the cup tower again before one of the house elves came in brining their lunch. The two ate their lunch in bored silence before James suddenly held up his spoon and said, "I have it!"

"Hmm?" hummed Severus as he sat on the floor near the coffee table as he balanced a spoon on his nose. Instead of explaining James got up and took a couple of the cups into the bathroom. Severus could hear the sink running for a moment before James returned and set the partially filled cups around the room before sitting back in his spot at the coffee table.

Taking his little bag of marbles and his spoon he carefully set one of the marbles on one end before he launched the marble across the room and in the general direction of one of the cups. "Are you trying to hit the cup?" asked Severus in a confused tone.

"I was trying to get the marble IN the cup," explained James. "I filled it full of water so that it wouldn't fall over when I hit the cup."

"It could still fall over," observed Severus. "The only difference is that now there will be a mess when you hit the cup." James made a little huff sound before he launched another marble in the general direction of one of the cups again. "That is if you ever hit the cup."

"Oh you shut it," muttered James. "Like you would do any better."

Severus snorted and rolled his eyes but saw the challenge and sighed before he got up and got his own little bag of marbles. "Its better then staring at the ceiling at least," added the Slytherin with a shrug as he sat back down at the coffee table and took aim at the cup that James had already launched four marbles at.

AN:

Gods I am glad this is almost over. Its not that I don't enjoy writing this, but my mom just lost her job and she is the money maker in the family and now I have to do that and I make under half of what she makes so I am doing overtime, and being my mom's business partner for the business she wants to get started. There isn't enough hours in the day, I have been so busy I literally have to SCHEDULE sleep.