A/N Hey people this is the longest chapter I have EVER written!! 20 pages on Word. I apologize for the long wait. I don't really know when my next update will be since I start school on the 4th. It might take me a while to get another one in so I would say maybe two or three weeks…I AM SOOO SORRY! It makes me sad when I can't update.
Anywho, ON WITH THE SHOW!
Disclaimer- I own none of this except for a few of the BEST CHARACTERS EVER WRITTEN!!!
The rest of the week went by with strict watching over James and Priscilla's actions. There was even a few times where you would probably here Sarah teaching Sirius about how to be James Bond. They were all getting ready for the big weekend, it would be the first Hogsmead trip of the year and when their plan would be put into action. Not only that but it would be the first time Ian and Alyson go on a date.
It was the night before Hogsmead and Ian, Sirius, Peter, and Remus were all going over a few last minute details. "Okay so do we all know what we're gonna do?" Remus asked the half asleep boys. Sirius nodded while packing the bag full of 'necessary' things he thought would help the cause. Ian just laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling with a smile on his face.
The other three realized his silence and stared at him waiting for an answer. When none came Sirius took it upon himself to get his attention. "Earth to Ian! Earth to Ian!!" he screamed in the unsuspecting boy's ear. In one second Ian was on his feet and half way off the bed when he slipped and landed with a rather loud 'OUFF!'
When they had all gotten back to their regular breathing patterns from laughing, Remus got a concerned look on his face. "Ian are you alright? You've been acting all giddy lately and you act like this is something normal and I can tell you right now that it's not.
He looked at them and wondered how they would take the fact that he was going out with a Slytherin. He doesn't remember Sirius even going out with one. Maybe he should just lie again. Then again he shouldn't lie to them; they're his friends. "Alright I'll tell you but you have to promise me that you won't get mad at me. I would support any of you if it were you that made the decision." They were all listening intently now, putting down all of the plans.
He took a deep breath and then admitted, "I'm taking Alyson Silver to Hogsmead on Saturday."
It was extremely silent with all three of them having hanging mouths. "Very funny you almost got me there. That's really hilarious, you taking out a Slytherin. Yeah jokes on us." Sirius nervously laughed.
"I'm not so sure he's kidding Sirius." Remus said still keeping eye contact with Ian.
"What do you mean he's not kidding? Of course he is. He wouldn't sink that low."
"Hey. She is nothing like the others. She actually has a heart and is beautiful, funny, kind, sweet, smart, and actually cares about others feelings!" He was now standing up and getting just a tad upset.
Sirius stood up and stared him straight in the eye. Whatever he was looking for he must have not found because he sighed and started to rub the back of his neck. "If you really trust her and if she really makes you happy then I guess we can't really stop you from doing what you want." He looked back into his eyes and said, "I'll trust her if you do."
Ian smiled his huge crooked grin and gave him a huge 'manly' hug. He then looked down to Remus and saw him smirking slightly while saying, "Same here but if she makes us hang around with Bellatrix and that crowd I'm gonna have to pass." They all started laughing until there was a weird screeching noise from the window.
They all grabbed there wands, Peter was just hiding under his covers, and spread out across the room. There was soon another noise except this seemed more like a human squeak saying 'LET ME DOWN!!!'. They all looked at each other curiously and said, "Lily?"
Remus pocketed his wand and ran to the window. When he got there his eyes widened slightly at the sight. Lily was hanging onto the back of Sarah on her broom as if her life depended on it. Nicole was directly behind them trying to move out of the way of the now spinning out of control broom.
By now Sirius and Ian were behind Remus as he pulled open the window and asked, "What in the bloody hell is wrong with you guys?"
Nicole heard his voice and quickly flew the few feet between them and whisper yelled, "Something's wrong with Sarah. We were flying over here cause James and Priscilla were in the heads common room and we didn't want to seem suspicious. We got about halfway here when Sarah lost control of her broom. Lily isn't helping the situation since she hates flying in the first place."
"Well can't you do something?!" Sirius screamed. Nicole rolled her eyes and said, "Wow never would have thought of trying that. Of course I've tried but it's so crazy I can't get at it."
Lily was still panicking, only slightly (cough yeah right cough) and was trying to get Sarah to stop. "What's wrong with her?! SOMEONE GET ME OFF OF HERE!!!" Lily screamed. A few seconds, that seemed like a few hours to Lily, after her last scream Sarah seemed to get a hold of her self and started screaming herself, "WHAT THE HECK?! LILY DID YOU JINX MY BROOM!?"
"ME?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S FLYING THE DAMN THING!!"
"Oh yeah." Then the broom suddenly came to an abrupt halt. Both Lily and Sarah's hair was up and very high. They reminded Nicole of a certain rock star, and to add to her theory when Lily came into the room the first thing she said was "Thank you, thank you very much."
When Sarah was halfway through the window she grabbed her head, moaned and then sunk into Sirius's arms. He carried her to the bed closest to the window that happened to be James's old one and stared into her eyes and after a minute said, "She doesn't have a concussion so I don't think she got hit with anything."
"Sarah can you here me? If you can say something." Nicole commanded with worry clouding her features. Nothing happened. "Please." She whispered.
"I feel like I got hit by a Mac truck." Sarah groaned as she tried to sit up, and then fell back onto the pillows. "What happened?"
"Oh my gosh your okay." Lily and Nicole jumped on her and gave her huge hugs. "Okay, okay. I can see something happened but what exactly?" Sarah chuckled as she stared at Ian, Remus, and Sirius since the other two seemed to be in there own little world at the moment.
"Well all we know is that you were flying over here when you lost control of your broom and went spinning out of control with poor Lily on the back." Ian chuckled as Lily threw him a glare.
"Then," Nicole interjected since she sensed the tension, "you wouldn't respond to any of us when we called your names and you just had this blank look on your face."
Sarah looked like she was concentrating hard on what she just learned. "I don't really remember what happened. I just remember all of a sudden being jerked around with Lily screaming bloody murder at someone. Then coming in the window and collapsing."
"Do you remember anything about what you were thinking or seeing." As soon as seeing came out of Remus's mouth Sarah gasped and yelled "I did see something!"
"What? Like someone on the grounds?" Sirius asked.
"No it was…you guys are gonna think I'm crazy." She looked down at her lap and started to fiddle with her hands.
"Sarah," Nicole grabbed her chin gently and made her look dead into her eyes, "there is no way we can think your any crazier than we already do." She smiled. The others laughed their agreement.
She smiled then sighed as she said, "I guess not." She stared at all of them then continued. "We were just flying when I started to feel like I was going under water, like something was dragging me ya know? Then I started to see what looked like…me. I was going into some creepy building with my wand out in front of me. I looked determined about something; when I finally got into the front room it was dark; so dark that I couldn't really make anything out. Then I heard someone screaming; a man. I turned towards the staircase and ran up them but I could tell I was trying to be quiet. When I got to the top there was a loud bang and I was on the floor. Then I was pretty sure it was Bellatrix's voice I heard cackling about Sirius, me being a mudblood (cringe from everyone in the room), and death. I spat towards the voice in the shadows and said, 'If it was all for nothing then I don't care. The secrets kept and he's okay.' Then there was an aggravated scream and a flash of red light and that's all I remember."
Everyone stared at her for a long time. "See I told you, you guys would think I was crazy." She tried to lighten the mood. "What do you think?"
"I think," Remus was the first to come out of the daze and say, "Sarah that you had a…well a vision."
Everyone looked from him to Sarah who had just turned a few shades paler. "No that, that can't be true." She shook her head in denial.
"He's probably right." She snapped her head up to stare at Lily as if she had just uttered that the Red Sox would win a World Series. (Had to use it. I'm sorry but that win was pretty far fetched in the 60's or whenever this happened) "I mean you are rarely ever wrong in divination and you always seem to guess outcomes correctly."
"So what! I get good grades and I'm a really good guesser that doesn't mean I'm some weird freak who can see the future!" she replied sounding more like she was trying to convince herself that this made no sense more than them. They all just looked at her with the same face, 'face it, you can see the future.'
"I guess it does make a little sense." She shrugged. "But, does that mean that what I saw will actually come true? And if it does what was I doing there in the first place? What secret was I keeping? Who was the guy? And why did Bellatrix want me?" She rambled on until Nicole shoved a pillow in her mouth.
"All good questions and we should see Dumbledore about them tomorrow. Ok?" Nicole asked with a cheeky tone of a parent reasoning with a child. Sarah just glared at her and grunted 'yubuh wuteva'. (It was a little muffled by the pillows)
They then pushed the matter to the side for a while as they covered their plan for the next day. When it was all done the girls were getting ready to go and Ian was extremely pleased that the subject of Alyson hadn't come up, but he had noticed a few things Remus changed so it would take a shorter amount of time and winked at him when everyone wasn't looking.
They were just getting on their brooms when Sirius randomly said in a too innocent voice, "Ian, didn't you have something you wanted to inform the girls about?"
'That little fu- I'm gonna get him! He just had to open his fat mouth didn't he?'
"What do you want to tell us then cause I personally want to go to bed?!" Sarah demanded through half closed lids.
"Umm I think maybe you guys should sit down for this." He said cautiously. They all kept their eyes on him as they all sat back down on James's bed. "Umm, please don't get mad at me. I had a very good reason for telling you and that reason was cause I was scared for my own personal safety." He said with a straight face.
"IaskedAlysonSilvertogotoHogsmeadewithmetommorowandshesaidyes."he breathed in one take.
They were all quiet till at the same time they yelled, "WHAT!?" he cringed and stepped behind Peter.
"WHY would you go out with a Slytherin?" Sarah hissed.
"WHY wouldn't you TELL us?" Nicole bellowed turning red in the face.
"HOW long has it been going on?" Lily, more calmly then the others, questioned.
"Hey! She isn't like the others. She has a heart and I really, really like her. I'm sure you guys will get along if you give her a chance. I'm pretty sure she won't object to getting to know you guys. I already told you why I didn't tell you! Cause you would get all mad…sort of like you are now." He shrugged sheepishly. "And seeing that you already brought it up Lily," he scratched "I have been sort of flirting and talking with her since school started, and shekissedmeafterIwalkedhertohercommonroomonenight!"
Their eye's widened at the mention of kissing. "Excuse me? I do believe you said kissed you." Nicole hissed, which coming from her is worse then screaming. "Umm, yeah."
"YOU KISSED A SLYTHERIN?!" Sarah screamed. 'What the HELL was he thinking? She's probably just some skank that wants to add another hottie to her 'I've tapped that' list!!'
"YES I DID! Listen Sarah; it's not that big of a deal. You're blowing this way out of proportion; you all are." He was starting to lose his cool. 'Why can't they just accept this?' (sigh) "I thought you guys cared about me enough to support me on something that makes me happy."
'Ha! Just keep looking pathetic and they'll fall right into my hands.' As soon as he finished all of their gazes softened immensely. Lily and Nicole looked at each other and silently agreed that they were overdoing it just a little bit. Sarah on the other hand had softened up a bit but quickly got her glare back and was about to tell him where he could stick that friendship when Nicole covered her mouth and glared at her so intensely that she had to re-think her response.
Her eyes fell to the floor as Nicole removed her hand carefully away from her mouth. "We're happy for you Ian. You deserve to have a girl you really like for once." Lily said as she gently gave him a pat on the back.
"Yeah bud. I don't think we can stand to see our little boy growing up but we'll live. Of course she's still going to have to get the ok from me before she can get any kind of approval." Nicole teased as she gave him a big hug. "I wouldn't have it any other way." He laughed and soon everyone joined in; that is everyone except Sarah.
When everyone's gaze was on her she lifted her eyes that were still on the floor and stared directly at Ian. She took in a deep breath then quietly and in a monotone voice dejectedly said, "Well if this is someone that really makes you happy then I guess no matter what we say you'll hang around her so what's the point in tryin to stop ya?" she started to smile and gave him a giant hug that he greatly returned. "But," she took a step back and glared right into his eyes, "if she hurts you in anyway or is just a flat out bitch that that put you under a spell like James then I will have to kill her." He laughed it off and hugged her again even though he knew part of that was most likely true.
Soon the small embrace turned huge after Sirius felt the need to yell, "GROUP HUG!" Later all the girls flew back to their room, without incident, and everyone went to sleep ready for the big day ahead. 'Things are starting to make sense around here.' Was the last thing Ian thought before dreaming about Alyson and how he would make tomorrow her best date ever.
Lily was still in a horrible nightmare in which James laughs at her while running off in the direction of Priscilla's horrible voice. She fell to her knees crying and begging herself to wake up. "Well, well, well; if it isn't the stupid little mudblood that couldn't hold onto a man if she tried." Lily's tearstained face turned up to glare at the evil smirk that was causing her all this anguish.
"What do you want?" she spat.
"Oh nothing just needed to tell you to WAKE UP!" she suddenly had Sarah's voice and was smiling like someone who had just won the lottery.
'Wah?' She was suddenly being flown in the air. Up and down, up and down, over and over again, she was constantly moving. She could scarcely make out Sarah's face as she was singing the 'Good Morning' song from Singing in the Rain. When she finally woke up enough to make Sarah go tumbling onto the floor she saw Nicole lying on her stomach and covering her face with her pillow, most likely sending some nasty thoughts Sarah's way.
'Why would Sarah be in such a good mood? She never wakes up early unless it's a Quidditch match or something really exciting. Wait that was it there was something exciting…oh yeah the plan was today.' She was suddenly in a newfound state of hyperness. She was ready.
"Oh Jamie Poo your so sweet. I can't get enough of you." Priscilla practically yelled while she ran her fake nail down his nose.
Remus and Ian put a hand on each of Sirius's shoulders to hold him down incase he got a little too impulsive. "Listen, she's probably not that bad deep, deep, deep down. We can always hope fore that." Nicole tried to reason.
Priscilla then made a loud cackle like sound and practically screeched, "I can't believe you would hang out with freaks like Cunanan, Halman, and especially Evans." Nicole's eyes darkened. "Then again maybe she's just pure evil."
"Bitch is goin down!" Sarah exclaimed as she stormed out of the Great Hall, Lily and Nicole quickly going after her. Lily kept her head down so as no one could see her almost tears.
"How long do you think it's going to take them to realize we don't leave for another 45 minutes?" Remus asked the other three. Ian smirked and counted, "5,4,3,2…and 1" Then Sarah stormed back into the room and sat back down. She turned to look up at them and growled, "You saw nothing."
"Suuuure. What ever you say." Sirius joked. She tried to hide the smirk that threatened to appear across her face. 'God! How does he do that to me? It's driving me insane. I want to just reach across this table and kiss him- WAIT freeze missy. Don't even think about thinking that!'
They not so calmly waited till it was about twenty minutes till everyone was about to leave. "Hey we should start heading down there." Sirius, Remus and Peter were heading out of the Great Hall when a confused Sarah, Nicole, Lily and Ian caught up to them.
"What do you mean we should be heading down there? No one's gonna leave for at least twenty minutes. How do you expect us to get down there?" Nicole tried to get them to say something but they just kept smirking and walking threw, what looked like to her, random hallways that apparently would get them into Hogsmeade.
They finally reached a statue of a witch with a rather large hump for a back. Remus pointed dramatically behind them and yelled, "WATCH OUT!!" All of them pulled out their wands and turned to protect themselves from whatever was coming. But all they heard was the sound of scraping stone and Sirius's bark like laugh.
They turned around to see a passageway in the back of the statue that seemed to lead down into a dark creepy tunnel. "Hey!" Sarah pouted about being tricked and quickly followed the still laughing Sirius into the tunnel. "You better come back here mister cause I still need to yell at you!" she bellowed in her best pathetic little kid voice.
Remus was trying to hide his chuckle but failed miserably and had to hold onto the wall for support. "How come you guys never told me about the passage?" Ian mumbled as he dejectedly followed the other three into the hole.
"Aww. This was just one of those Marauder only kind of things mate. But now you know so you can use it for all your dirty deeds. Hahahaha." He then turned around and looked Nicole dead in the eye as he bowed saying Ladies first. She giggled and blushed so red you would think she just got back from a bad day at the beach.
Lily had a sly smirk on her face as she looked at Remus and questioned, "Remus, where does this lead?"
He smiled knowing exactly where she was getting with this. "The cellar of Honeydukes."
"So that's how you guys got all that food and stuff into party's so fast and with out getting caught." His only response was to smile and put a finger over his lips. They followed the rest of the group down the tunnel and when they had all finally gotten out they bolted out of the store before they could be seen, Sirius grabbing a few licorice snaps on his way, and went into the alley next to the building.
"So we all know where to go and what we're doing right?" A loud chorus of various agreements followed and after they all put their hands in the middle of a circle almost as if they were soccer players about to play the championship. After they had all left for their posts it was only Peter, Sirius, and Remus left.
"Go Pete. Remember wait till they are already about halfway here before initiating the attack." Sirius seriously (no pun intended) said. After Peter was gone Sirius and Remus looked to each other and simultaneously put on their 'spy shades' as Sarah liked to call them. They leaned against the side of Honeydukes trying to look as cool as possible with a toothpick hanging from the side of their mouths.
It took another twenty minutes before they could see Peter bobbing next to James and Priscilla trying to keep up. Sarah and Nicole wouldn't be disappointed because sure enough their targets, the two lackeys, were trailing right behind the creep as usual.
They saw Sarah and Nicole quietly sneak up behind the two Barbie clones, while wearing their own spy shades, and stun them and quickly drug them into a nearby alleyway. They were a little worried about what was going to happen to them cause Sarah and Nicole had just shook their heads with evil little smirks on their faces when anyone asked what they planned to do with the cronies.
Priscilla didn't even notice the change in numbers. That was Sirius and Remus's cue to start the small talk. "Hey Jamie my boy." Sirius bellowed like a man who hasn't seen an old friend for 10 years. He lightly put a hand on James's shoulder and Remus came up beside Priscilla and politely bowed his head as a greeting.
"What do you want Black?" James sighed.
"Now is that any way to talk to your best pal? Listen, in all seriousness (small smirk) we did over react just a little when we called you a bad friend and a fake Marauder and a slimy git-"
"You never called me a slimy git."
"Trust me we were thinking it." Sirius chuckled as Remus mouthed "O yeah" with big over exaggerated eyes.
"Anyways we were wrong and we would like to apologize by buying you a butter beer over at the Three Broomsticks."
"And of course you should bring along this...lovely little lady along with you." Remus forced a smile onto his face as he beamed at the little wench next to him.
"Umm, sure. I guess. I mean if that's okay with you Hun?" James sent a pleading look at Priscilla while the other two gagged behind their hands.
"Well I guess we could but we can't stay long cause I want you to buy me some things from that jewelry store down the road by Madam Puddifoots." Remus was waiting for her to say kidding or something but she was serious about having James by her expensive crap. 'Good Merlin can she be any more self obsessed?! She probably wants him to by her an engagement ring or something.'
"Of course dear." James smiled down at her in a horribly sweet way that made even some random little kids gag. Remus and Sirius spent the rest of the walk to the pub behind the two fake lovebirds making stabbing motions into the back of Priscilla's head.
When they finally did get there Remus made sure that they got the table closest to the door and kept eyeing it with anticipation. "Wait a minute where's Lindsay and Jessica? Weren't they right behind us?" Priscilla started to get a slightly nervous look on her face realizing that she was now outnumbered.
"Oh didn't you hear them? They said that they had wanted to go get some candy while they were at Honeydukes and that they would catch up later." Sirius gave her his 'dazzling smile' and she seemed to not care about it as much anymore. 'The last thing we need is for her to be on edge.'
"Hey guys! Fancy seeing you here." A voice called to them from a few feet away. That voice happened to belong to none other than Lily. "Ahh the piece de resistance.' Remus thought as he looked her over and shut Sirius's mouth for him. They had decided that the best way to try and snap James out of it without having to go through all the dirty mess of breaking the necklace would be to try and lure him out of it with his heart's true desire.
Lily.
Sarah and Nicole had spent almost an hour alone on her outfit trying to make her look as sexy yet sophisticated as possible. They finally decided on a plaid gray and black mini skirt with a ribbon going up the side and a silky green, skin tight top that only wrapped around her neck for support. She finished it off with small one-inch black ankle boots.
"Hi James."
'OH MY GOD!! Don't blush! Don't blush! It'll give it all away if you do.' James was staring at her with his mouth half open and his lids half closed. She giggled at his dream like appearance and made room for herself in between the two other boys.
Priscilla saw the state that James was in and rightly smacked him in the back of his head. He shook his head like a wet dog and quickly gave her a peck on the cheek that made Lily's insides suddenly feel like they were being grabbed and twisted into intricate knots.
Remus subtly put a reassuring hand on her shoulder for a second as comfort and she gave him a grateful smile. She abruptly put her game face back on and turned her attention to Priscilla's neck. "Oh that is such a beautiful necklace. It must be an antique. Where'd you get it?" she fawned.
Her hand instinctively covered the gem and stonily replied, "Yes it is an antique. My grandma passed it down to me like her grandma did to her."
"Can I see it?"
"Of course not. Its too precious for your hands to be on it." James frowned at her and shook his head slightly then looked anywhere but at either of the two girls. Lily sheepishly put her hand down that had been halfway up to retrieve it.
'There goes Plan A. Onto Plan B.' Sirius suddenly threw a bouncy ball he had in his pocket into the air over and over again, almost touching the ceiling.
"Well looky here. If it isn't some of my favorite people in all of Hogwarts." Ian exuberantly bounced over to their table with a glass of butter beer in his hand. Sirius made a show of dropping the ball and having Ian 'accidentally slip on it.' The butter beer went flying into the air and directly all over Priscilla's blouse.
"EEEKK!" She hollered for about ten seconds before she turned on Ian and screeched, "YOU! You did this to me you big oaf. Do you have no poise?" She pushed James out of the way screaming 'move' at anyone who got in her path. Lily ran to catch up to her and followed her into the bathroom.
"How can someone be so stupid?" she was muttering to herself as she tried to dry off with a towel nest to the sink. Lily moved quietly behind her with her wand pointed directly at the back of her neck and quickly muttered a charm that should make the clasp on the chain break and fall to the ground. Instead of the clasp breaking it just made a little jiggle.
The movement caused Priscilla to look up into the mirror and saw Lily staring back at her with the thought 'Oh Shit' flying clear across her face. Priscilla turned around and tried to grab the wand out of Lily's hand while pulling her own out of her back pocket. Lily jumped back to just miss her reach but ended up hitting the wall behind her.
"Did you really think I would just let this hang around my beautiful neck unprotected? As if." She slowly inched towards Lily. 'I got to think of something. Wait. She wouldn't be that stupid would she? It's worth a shoot.'
"You know Priscilla that's very smart. I didn't think you had any ideas besides boy snatching and shoes but I guess life's just full of surprises." She started to turn so that she had more room to make her move. "But tell me, sense I'm just so horrible at fashion and everything and I guess my outfit didn't get James's attention like I'd hoped; what did I do wrong?"
That did it. Priscilla put her hands on her hips, even the one holding her wand, and burst into a list that could go on for ages about Lily's poor fashion taste. Lily took this as her moment to strike. She lunged for Priscilla's neck and ripped the rusty chain off with ease. 'I guess she is that stupid to block it from magic but not from pure human strength, hahaha.'
It didn't take long for Priscilla to fight back. She pushed Lily off of her and across the floor where she hit the bottom of the stalls. In the middle of sliding she had let go of the necklace and it slid across the floor towards the exit. 'What now?'
Meanwhile…Sirius, James, Remus, and Ian were all still sitting around the table. Ian had quickly gotten himself a new drink and didn't seem bothered by the loss of his other one at all. James kept looking at the door to the bathroom waiting for someone to come out. "Do you think she's alright?"
"Of course she is. All it was was a little spill. She'll get over it." Sirius dismissed the question with a wave of his hand. Remus was also starting to get a little worried. 'She should have gotten it by now.'
He nudged Sirius in the arm and pointed towards the bathrooms and said, "Why don't you go see if everything is alright Padfoot?"
"Fine. Gees can't anyone do stuff themselves anymore?" As he got ready to knock on the door to see if everything was okay he heard grunts and the sound of shoes scraping against tile. Automatically his mind had thoughts that he shouldn't have had at all and would most likely scar him for the rest of his life. But after he got over that little mistake he busted through the door and saw Lily and Priscilla on opposite sides of the bathroom. 'Chick fight! Hey they got a mirror? That's not fair. Oh wait Lily just said something.'
"Sirius grab the necklace! It's next to your foot."
"No it's mine!!" Priscilla made a dive for it but Sirius grabbed it first and bolted out the door. He grabbed the sleeve of Remus's shirt and doubled back for his drink when he saw Priscilla crawling out of the bathroom with Lily grabbing her foot screaming, "RUN!! RUN!!" He passed Remus as they got out the door and down the cobbled street. He felt like he was running in slow motion by the time he saw Sarah and Nicole standing by a bench where the town is a little more spaced apart.
He turned his head to the left and saw Remus next to him. To his right he saw Ian. Then for some reason the Chariots of Fire theme song that Sarah always played when they won a match popped into his head. He stretched out his hand to a 'ready to run' Sarah.
As soon as the stone was in her hand her and Nicole took off running over a small hill that was next to the bench and into the woods. He slowed down for just a second to catch his breath when he (still in slow motion) felt something fall on his back, a very heavy something.
The music in his head suddenly stopped as Priscilla put him in a chokehold then everything seemed to speed up as he kept choking out "Uncle! Uncle!" Remus and Ian stopped and helped pull her off but she just kept coming back. Finally there was a VERY loud boom and a few of the trees at the edge of the forest seemed to bend over from the impact.
James had just now figured out what was going on and made it up to where everyone was in a big pile on the ground. He was about to yell at the guys to get off of the girl he loves when all of sudden he felt like he was being pulled off the edge of a building. His eyes flashed a brilliant white and then faded back to their normal hazel.
"Wha-? What's going on?" He looked at all of the people on the ground that were now frozen and looking up at him. All of the guys were looking up with big grins spread across their faces but Priscilla looked halfway between terrified and pissed off. "Did you do what I think you did?" he demanded.
"Umm…well that depends on what you think I did Jamie Poo." She tried to go up to him and hug him but he pushed her away and growled, "I think you manipulated me to go out with you and made me turn my back on everything I care about. You don know that we can have you expelled for use of Dark Magic. That's right you could be expelled and never could come back and call me Jamie Poo EVER again!!"
Her face went deathly pale and she then pointed her finger at the boys that were still on the ground, "I will get you back for this. No matter how cute or rich you are." She then stormed off hopefully to never bug them ever again.
"Well it's about time you got back to your old self." He turned around to see a slightly out of breath Lily behind him smiling brightly with her boots in her left hand.
"And it's about time you got here." He chuckled. "You missed all the good action."
All her reply was to wave the shoes in the air while laughing.
"Speaking of action. Wasn't that a pretty big explosion? And has anyone seen the two Barbie snatchers since?"
Everyone shared an 'Oh Boy' look except for James who just stood there looking like a lost puppy. "Who? What are you guys talking about?"
Remus, Sirius, and Lily all started to sprint towards the forest while Ian held back to get James up to date. As they got a few feet inside the formally dense area they saw the pot of still boiling potion where the girls were to have disposed of the necklace. "SARAH!! NICOLE!!! Answer us please!" Lily screamed from the center of the mess while the other two searched under fallen branches.
They heard a gruff coughing as a very ashy and burnt Nicole came stumbling out from the trees. "Holy Shit Lily! What the hell did you put in that thing?" Then she was halfway to the ground when Remus appeared at her side and caught her before safely laid her on the ground.
"Nicole? Nicole?! Come on say something!" He was practically begging. She cracked open one eye and glared at him, "I just did now do you mind if (cough) I (cough) rest!!!"
"Oh. Of course I'm sorry." He tried to hide his embarrassment by looking at a very burnt piece of wood.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude but I did sort of get blown up a few minutes ago." Nicole smiled up at him and he returned the favor ten fold. 'I can't stand to see him sad. Especially if I caused it.'
"What happened?" Lily asked as she checked her over for any kind of broken bones.
"Bring Sarah over here so she can explain what she did and cause I need to smack her."
"What did she do exactly?" Sirius asked as he waved Ian and a newly informed James over to the bombsite.
"Well we were running in here to get rid of the dooms day device," James looked at Ian and he mouthed the word 'codename' to end his confusion, "when she tripped and accidentally threw it in instead of dipped it like the instructions said to. I helped her up and for a second it just bubbled until it was practically alive. Then the next thing I know I've learned how to fly and am in a branch then the ground apparently wanted to be friends since I kissed it in the next two seconds. After that I just found you guys."
"Did you see which way she went?"
"Sorry I was a little preoccupied." sarcasm covering every word.
"She's got to be around here somewhere. Since you came out there then she must have gone over-"
"HELP!!!!" Lily stopped talking and they all, except for Remus and Nicole of course, ran towards the voice. They heard it again and it sounded like it was right next to them but they didn't see her anywhere. "SARAH?" James yelled.
"I see someone's got their sanity back." They all looked up and saw Sarah hanging on a branch in a very high branch. The only thing holding her up was the hole that went through the hood of her jacket. "I could use a little help here."
"Hang on. We'll get you down." Sirius yelled up to her. She just lazily gave him thumbs up. "She's a goner isn't she?"
Lily just rolled her eyes and levitated her, after a little bit of shaking to get her free from the limb, safely to the ground. "Could you accio my wand please. We sort of got separated in the blast. Which reminds me." She poked Lily in the head and screamed, "Who puts enough stuff to make a BOMB in a POTION?!?"
Lily just smiled and handed her, her wand back. "Well you didn't exactly follow the directions did you?" Sarah immediately stopped poking her head and quickly tried to walk away before becoming even more embarrassed. It was working pretty well till she tried to take a step.
Her leg made a crack noise and she fell over in pain. "Damn that hurts." She said through gritted teeth. Lily felt all around her leg and couldn't find any breaks but it didn't take her long to see exactly what the problem was. "Aww Jesus."
"What? What is it?" Lily just looked at her friend in sympathy.
"I think your legs dislocated. I'll need to put it back into place."
"In other words it's gonna hurt like hell." Ian added trying to be helpful. All it got him was a smack on the head from James and Remus who had just joined them along with an extremely tired Nicole.
"Thanks Ian. Thanks a lot." She rolled her eyes. "Lily, do you even know how to do that?" Sarah asked skeptically.
"Of course I do. I was the best in the class according to Madam Joyner when I took the extra nursing class last year."
'I'm not sure I want to know what they practiced on.' She thought. "Okay. What do you need me to do?"
"I just need you to relax and it would probably be best if someone held your hand." Sirius who had been right next to her the whole time immediately grabbed her left hand. She smiled up at him. "Sorry if I break your hand."
"She will. I should know." Ian pointed to her than to his hand and back again while nodding.
"Okay I'm going to count to three than- POP!"
"AHHH!! Crap, crap, crap, crap. That really hurt ya know. What happened to counting?!"
"It hurts less if you don't know it's coming."
"I beg to differ Doc." She looked up and saw that Sirius was looking at her intently. "Are you ok?"
He shook his head to bring him back to reality. "What? Oh yeah of course. If anyone should be being asked that question it's you. How you doing?"
"As good as I can be I guess." She chuckled and then turned her gaze on Nicole who was now glaring at her since she wasn't in any life-threatening situation. "Hee hee. How ya doin buddy? Have a nice flight?"
"You couldn't just walk to the cauldron. You just had to be a klutz." She walked up to her and smacked her lightly on the head then walked away using Remus as a walking pillow. James and Sirius helped Sarah to her feet and after she got brushed off they started their way back into town.
"You see what lengths we go to, to keep you around mister?" Sarah joked as she ruffled James's hair.
"Yeah, yeah. I feel so loved I might just cry." He pretended to dry a tear from his face.
'He's really back. Maybe now we can- NO! You can't. It would never work out. Maybe all of this action would bring him back into his old ways and then all your hopes of having a relationship would go down the drain.' Lily kept eye contact with the ground for the net few minutes until she realized that someone was with them that should have been gone.
"Hey Ian? Don't you have a date to go to?"
"Oh shit you're right. I'll see you guys later." He waved back to them and to Nicole and Remus as he ran out of the forest and towards where ever he was meeting Alyson.
"What are we gonna do with that boy?" Sarah chuckled.
"I don't know. Put him up for adoption. I'm sure Mr. Crawford won't mind." Sirius joined in on the laughing. He saw Sarah wince beside him. He had kept their hands together and she either doesn't mind or hasn't noticed. 'And I'm not gonna give her the option of noticing if it's the later.' He picked her up and started to carry her towards town.
"Ah! What do you think you are doing?" He just smiled and said, "You're in no condition to walk so this is the next best thing, for both of us." He laughed when he saw her blush and look at her hands that were now in her lap since he was carrying her like a baby.
"You should probably put your arms around my neck so you won't fall off and put your leg out again."
"I'm perfectly fine where I am thank you very much." He threw her up a little bit and before she had even lifted a full inch from his arms she grabbed his neck. He laughed at her angry face when she realized she wasn't going to die. "Fine. I'll keep them there for now, but I won't like it." She said in an indignant tone.
"Fine but I will." There again was her blush that she hid by facing the ground and counting pinecones.
"Aww look at them. Both of them." Lily whispered to James as she motioned to Sarah and Sirius along with Nicole and Remus who were whispering things to each other.
"Yeah. They are so clueless when it comes to who likes them and who they like." Lily just nodded her head in agreement. "I bet Padfoot and Sarah are gonna get together first though." He had such a confidence in his tone that Lily couldn't help but laugh.
"I beg to differ. I think Nicole and Remus will. They've been at breaking point for over a year. They just need the right…motivation to finish the job."
"That may be true but I know Moony and he isn't very open when it comes to girls. Did you know he hasn't had a single girlfriend these entire 6 years? Besides, Padfoot never stops when he sees something he likes."
"True, very true. But I also know Sarah and she won't give into someone she's sworn to hate for the rest of eternity very easily. Nicole on the other hand hasn't had that many boyfriends either but she still will come clean with how she feels eventually and we both know that Remus would be lying if he told her he didn't feel the same way."
"Yeah but that doesn't mean he'll date her." They were both thinking of his lycanthrope and how closed off he was about it.
"Lets bet on it." James was shocked to being offered a bet from none other than Lily Evans.
"So Ms. Headgirl wants to wager does she?"
"Why yes she does Mr. Headboy. What do you say? You in or out?" She stopped walking and held out her hand for him to shake. He looked from her hand to her face, smirked and shook her hand. "Deal."
"What's the price?" He asked after they had continued walking.
"Well when I win you will have to be my servant for a week."
"Alright and when I win you will…you have to let me take you out for dinner in Hogsmeade." She gaped at him. 'Oh so that was his angle.'
"Don't get me wrong," he saw that she was going to get mad, "it doesn't have to be a date or anything just me and you, two friends, at dinner."
"Alright I guess that's not so bad." They just looked ahead and could see Nicole and Remus whispering different things to each other. "I wonder what the heck they're always saying to each other."
"Nicole you are one very different girl."
"Oh really?" she raised her eyebrows. "And how is that?"
"You always stay with what you say. You don't change it just to please someone. You don't care what everyone thinks about you. They don't even know half of who you really are! It just amazes me that you don't care what people say."
"Well I don't see a reason to. Let them think what they want. What good will it do me if I go up to one of those popular people and say 'Hey guess what? You were wrong. I am sane.' I just don't let them control my life and neither should you." She said the last part in a tone that was full of meaning and sympathy.
'Oh no. What if she found out? How could she find out? One of the guys didn't tell her did they? She couldn't know cause then she would be heading for the hills instead of leaning on my arm right now. She feels like a nice little Nicole shaped arm warmer. I don't think I've ever noticed how dark her eyes are.'
He realized he had just been staring at her and quickly looked away. She continued to look at his face for a few more seconds before just burying her head into the crook of his shoulder, enjoying the mint and pine scent that could only be him.
Alyson was sitting alone on a bench in front of Madam Puddifoots waiting for Ian Crawford to pick her up for their date. 'I wonder what's taking him so long? Did I get here early? No, he said to be here at 1 and now it's 1:30. I was actually late.'
He had told her that he needed to take care of some business before he met up with her. She had told him that was fine since she needed to go birthday shopping for her brother and that they would meet up here at 1:00.
She was about to go wait inside since it was getting cold and she didn't have a jacket when she heard a clang and Ian saying sorry over and over again.
"Hey." He breathed as soon as he got in front of her. "Wow. You look pretty."
She laughed. "A man of many words I see. But thank you. You look pretty good yourself…except for the soot stain all over your nose. Where was your business in a chimney?" she asked as she wiped it off with a tissue from her pocket.
"Oh. Sorry about that but there was sort of an explosion and Nicole, and Sarah and then the tree then she went ouch...it was a mess." He heard himself rambling, he really did but it was like his mouth was a car but there were no brakes.
She just giggled at him and took his hand and started off down the street. "So did you find your brother a present?"
"Yeah I did. I'm going back home in a few weeks to give it to him. Dumbledore's really nice about all that stuff."
"Yeah I don't know a kinder or more powerful wizard anywhere. You tell your brother have a happy birthday for me." Alyson closed her eyes tightly and slowed her pace to almost a stop and breathed out a deep breath. "Are you ok?"
She opened her eyes to see him staring down at her concern written all over. "Yea I'm fine but…my family's not."
"What do you mean? Is someone sick or something?"
"No they just…how do I put this? They don't exactly approve of me dating anyone who isn't in Slytherin." She saw that he was assuming that, that meant they weren't going to go out again, so she hurriedly added, "But I don't listen to them. If they have a problem with it then they can live with that. They don't control every aspect of my life." She gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. He beamed at her and when he was just about to lean in to kiss her he heard an annoyingly squeaky voice from behind him.
Alyson's eyes widened then shut. "Please just go away. Just walk away right now." When she opened her eyes however there was in fact the little jerk that, for some reason, she dated once.
There in front of them stood Austin Marshall. A 7th year Slytherin, like Alyson, who was only about 5'6 which is extremely short compared to Ian's 6'1. He had light brown hair that looked like it has always been stuck under a helmet with hazel eyes that were stuck directly onto Ian's cross face.
"What do you think you're doing with my girl Crawford?" He spat.
"Who say's she's yours? I think she can choose whoever she wants and since I'm the one who she was about to kiss I'm guessing it's me."
"Oh yeah right like she'd ever want to kiss some blood trader trash like you."
"Excuse et moi." They both looked over to the side to see Alyson glaring at both of them, mostly Austin, with her arms crossed across her chest. "I'm standing right here you know and I can speak for myself thank you very much."
She stepped in between the two bickering boys and faced Austin still with a hard glare. "Austin, I've never liked you. You're an egomaniac who thinks that you're only a respectable wizard or witch if you've got a 'pure' family to back it up. Well I can tell you right now that you're insane and I have no idea why I ever dated you. Oh wait I remember. My parents made me! Now if you don't mind I have a date to get back to." She stepped back and grabbed a now smug Ian's hand. "Hope to never see you again."
Just as they were walking away Ian heard Austin mutter the words, "Fine, go with that piece of garbage who hangs around filthy Mudbloods." It took him only a second to turn around and punch him square in the jaw. Everyone around them stopped what they were doing to see the action.
"Don't you ever, ever say anything like that ever again do you hear me?" Austin just glared back, hatred radiating off of him in waves.
"Come on Ian lets just go."
"No! He hasn't told me if he hears me yet." Ian hadn't even turned around.
"Please." She begged. He couldn't stand to hear her sound like that so he reluctantly turned around but as soon as he faced Alyson Austin jumped on his back and tackled him to the ground. While they were wrestling on the ground Alyson was yelling at both of them to stop acting like little babies and to get off the ground. Finally Frank Longbottom stepped in and pulled Ian off the ground while one of Austin's followers Joe Huss pulled him off of him.
"That's enough! From BOTH of you!" Alyson now had a hand on each of their chests acting as a barrier.
"Get out of the way Alyson."
"Yeah you don't want your scummy boyfriend over there crying cause he got hit." Alyson abruptly took her hands off of them and slowly faced Austin. For a moment everyone thought she was going to kiss him. Instead, she slapped him across the face so hard people could hear it over the band that was playing on a corner a few blocks down.
Austin just went limp so fast that Joe almost let him drop and since Joe is not the strongest person he fell down too from the sudden weight. He was staring at her as she flipped her hair over her shoulder and drug Ian with her towards the park at the other end of Hogsmeade. Where they spent the rest of the afternoon laughing, telling stories, and kissing till they couldn't anymore.
A/N Hey ya there! How'd you like it? There was a lot in this chapter that just came to me while I was writing it like the whole Alyson's family thing for example…I had to throw in some sort of conflict there. BTW the fight with Austin is a personal war I'm in with Alyson's in real life's boyfriend so both of them are prolly gonna be mad at me tomorrow. HAHA!! I would love to see their face when they read this. HEY AUSTIN!! THAT'S FOR BOWLING!!
Yet again I'm sorry for the delay and I'll try to put one up as soon as possible.
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