Another chapter! wow, that's rather odd... again i still need a beta so please excuse minor errors. hope you enjoy and please review, it really does mean a lot to know what people think.
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James walked out of the Great Hall in a fury. After everything I've done and how much I've changed for her, how could she do that to me? I thought that maybe she cared at least a little. Why would she do that? Has all the effort I've put in been for nothing? All that time wasted? James fumed as he walked into the common room and up to his dorm. He flopped down onto his bed with a sigh.
After lying in misery for a few minutes James heard the door creak softly as it was opened
Sirius walked into the room "James?" he asked tentatively "are you okay?"
"Marvelous thanks" James replied sarcastically
"James we need to talk about this"
"I don't want to talk about it"
"Okay, do you want to do something else instead?"
"How about die?" James said miserably
"Or… I do still have that cauldron filth…" Sirius said suggestively
"You know what, a prank sounds great right about now" James said, brightening up a little
"Alright," Sirius exclaimed happily "I'll go get Mooney to help us think of something"
"No need, just tell him and Wormtail to get here as quick as they can, I already have something in mind" James said while getting out a quill and some parchment.
"Okay" Sirius said and ran out the door
Hmm Sirius thought too himself I wonder if Monica will like this prank. I have to tell James to make sure we can avoid her getting any of it. Yeah, we'll just hit the Slytherins. This is going to be great, James is helping in pranks again; he's coming back. But, this is going to hurt his relationship with Lily, oh well; it's what he wants to do.
Sirius got into the Great Hall just as most people were leaving it. He walked over to the Gryffindor table to see Remus sitting patiently while Peter finished eating, Lily and Monica were sitting as far away as they could. Good he thought Lily won't like hearing this.
"Masters Mooney and Wormtail" Sirius began in a mock pompous voice "Your presence is requested immediately in our dormitory by Master Prongs"
"Well Master Padfoot" Remus said in the same voice "We shall attend him at once"
With that the three laughed and walked quickly out of the Great Hall.
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Oh dear, I am so stupid Lily thought how could I do that to him? There was no way he deserved that, next time I see him I'll have to apologise and try to figure out a way to make to up to him. Maybe she shuddered maybe I will go to Hogsmeade with him, I may just have to. She grimaced.
"I wonder what that was all about." Monica said
"What?" Lily asked
"Sirius just walked up to Remus and Peter and called them weird names and went on about something or other in a weird voice"
"What were the names?" Lily asked, wondering if she could maybe figure out what they had meant earlier
"Well Sirius called Remus and Peter 'Masters Mooney and Wormtail' thought I'm not sure who was who, then Remus called Sirius Master Padfoot and Sirius said something about a Master Prongs. I wonder what it all means."
"Potter must be prongs" Lily sated "I wonder why they have nicknames"
"Maybe you should call Potter James instead Lily, it might make up for what you said earlier"
Yes, then I wont feel like I need to go to Hogsmeade with him. "That's a good idea Monica, maybe I will. Alright, are you done, we should go back up to the common room now"
Monica nodded and they walked up to the seventh floor. That walked up to the Fat Lady and Lily said "slore", the Fat Lady laughed and let them in.
They could hear outrageous laughter coming from the boys' staircase and then heard someone who could only have been Sirius give a poor attempt at an evil cackle.
"I wonder what they're doing" Monica said
"I don't want to know" Lily said and walked upstairs to study
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Sirius let out a rather loud evil cackle.
"Wow Sirius that was really bad" Peter said
"Bad for society when the kids get into it" Sirius responded
The others laughed uproariously again.
"Okay" James said, wiping tears of laughter form his eyes "We need to finish the prank. Do we want to do it at breakfast or in the dorms?"
"Why not both?" Sirius asked
"Do you have enough?" Remus asked
"Do you know how long I was cleaning for?" Sirius asked rhetorically "That reminds me, how was detention with Dumbledore James?"
"It was good. He helped me write definitions of 'slore' and suggested stuff to put in to make it sound better. Then we chose one and he's going to have it put in the dictionary"
"No way" Sirius said
"Yep" James said proudly "okay, we need to go set it up. Remus and Peter, you stay here and Sirius and I will go with the cloak and the map and set it up.
"Alright" Remus said "what's the cover if people ask where you are"
"James is still upset and I'm here comforting him" Sirius supplied "It's true as well, except for that we aren't up here"
James got the cloak and the map out from their hiding spots in the room and disappeared with Sirius. They walked cautiously down the stairs and over to the portrait hole where Remus went out for a moment so they had a chance to leave before he went back in. They walked down to the Great Hall checking the map routinely to make sure that they wouldn't run into anyone.
"Okay, how do you want to do this?" Sirius asked
"I want it to fan out so that it hits more people" James replied while getting his wand out
They levitated the cauldron filth mixture up above the Slytherin table and set it so that it would shower over them.
"Good" James said when they had finished "Now we need to do the same in the Slytherin dorms"
"Why don't we just put it into their water pipes?" Sirius asked
"Yeah, we can use that tunnel" James said
They walked up to the second floor and slipped into a bathroom.
"Who's that" came a voice from one of the cubicles
"It's just us Myrtle" Sirius said as they took of the cloak
"Oh, hello Sirius, James" She said
Sirius bent down and hissed at the engraved snake.
James shuddered at the sound "how do you do that?" he asked
"You know where I come from James"
"Of course, the great Salazar Slytherin"
"That's funny" Sirius chuckled "a true Gryffindor and a true Slytherin, the best of friends"
"Haha, yeah, who would've thought it" James replied cautiously, aware of Sirius' hatred of his heritage
They slipped into the Chamber of Secrets and made their way to the pipes that gave water to the Slytherins and filled them with the sludge.
"Good thing no one knows that we found this place" James said
"Yeah, who knows what they'd send after us"
They made their way back past the main chamber and Sirius walked up to the statue of Salazar Slytherin and kicked it. He heard a hiss 'Yes master?' he recoiled and made his way back over to James
"You alright?" James asked "You look a bit shaken"
"Fine" Sirius said "let's get back to the common room"
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Lily tossed in bed and rolled over again. She looked at her clock: 2:30. Great she thought now I can't sleep. She felt amazingly guilty about everything that had happened with James. She knew that what she had done was wrong and she regretted it but what shocked her was that she didn't regret it so much because it was wrong but because it must have made James hate her. He really has changed since Christmas, and all of those changes were for me, I'm sure of it. He put in all that effort and I've ruined it for him. This is so wrong! I don't want him to hate me! Wait, what? I hate him, right? With that thought Lily slipped into a fitful sleep.
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Sirius awoke from a fitful dream of a huge snake chasing James around who had only a sword to protect himself. He looked out the window and saw that the sun was already up; he yawned and slowly got out of bed. He saw James picking up a towel and grabbed his own and ran into the bathroom before James could get in there.
"Hey!" James said "I was going to use that"
"Ha! I win" Sirius said while locking the door
"But by the time you're done there'll be no time left for anyone else to use the bathroom"
"True" Sirius said before turning on the shower and starting to sing
Forty-five minutes later Sirius walked out of the bathroom to find three smiling Marauders in front of him.
"What?" he asked cautiously
The other three laughed and next thing he knew, Sirius was covered in sludge and James was already into the bathroom.
"But I thought you said there wouldn't be time" Sirius said, confused
"Good thing we got up two hours early then isn't it" Remus said knowingly
Sirius let out a frustrated moan. Of course, James would have wanted to get him back for the day before. Sirius said uncomfortably on James' bed letting the sludge fall all over his nicely laid out robes until it was his turn to shower again. That will show him!
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The Marauders walked into the Great Hall just before Lily and Monica and they all went and sat down.
"James" Lily said
"What?" He asked dejectedly
"I'm sorry for yesterday; that was completely wrong of me. I know that you've been changing and I think it was for me and I completely ruined that for you."
James looked at her sheepishly and said "That's fine Lily?" he signaled Sirius to come closer
"We have to get them out of here" he whispered
"Monica" Sirius said "Would you come with me for a moment"
"Sure"
"Too late" Remus said as the Slytherins walked in to the room carrying a putrid stench.
The entire great hall erupted with laughter as the Slytherins sat down at their table. Sirius flicked his wand casually and the sludge started to spray out over the Slytherin table.
"Potter" Lily growled
"Lily, I'm so sorry, I was just so upset yesterday, Sirius wanted to cheer me up so…" he finished lamely
"I thought you had changed" Lily said with a hurt look in her eyes before running out of the Great Hall.
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James sat in Herbology two weeks later with Sirius on one side and Lily across the table due to their seating plan: everyone chose a partner and they were put into groups of four with their partner. Sirius couldn't be happier and he and Monica constantly shared secretive looks but for James it was torture. Lily still refused to talk to him which was worse than anything else she had put him through. Even when Lily was yelling at him James felt okay because he got to hear her voice but now he never heard her speak and it was driving him insane. Lily seemed to realise this and made sure not to speak when she was near him so as not to give in to him.
Valentines Day had just gone past and he hadn't even had the heart to ask anyone to spend the day with him. He turned down numerous requests as politely as he could; he even had to say no to a much more modest Melanie Fisk. He thought long and hard but could not come up with any logical reason why Lily meant so much to him. At every turn she would shoot down his hopes whereas every other girl he talked to would give him anything he wanted (it was scary when the first years tried it) but he couldn't accept anything from them, he only wanted Lily.
He had spent the last two weeks having fun under the pretence that Lily couldn't get any angrier at him anyway but he knew that if he didn't try again to change that she'd still hate him when they finished school for the summer. If she still hates me when she leaves then what's to stop her finding someone over the holidays, after all, they do go for a while. He knew that he had to change if he wanted Lily to stop hating him but he couldn't help feel upset that Lily wouldn't talk to him unless he changed but wasn't willing to change at all for him, then again he thought she's not the one who's in love.
He sighed
"Mr. Potter are you alright?" Professor Drake asked him
"No, why?" James asked
"Well you keep sighing and it's interrupting my lesson, do you need to go to sick bay?" the Professor asked
"This is a sickness that I don't think even Poppy can heal" he said, looking at Lily pointedly
"Madam Pomfrey is quite accomplished, I think you should go see her" The Professor said, making it quite clear that he didn't have a choice
"Shall I walk him up there Professor?" Sirius asked hopefully
"I'm sure he knows where it is Mr. Black, he's been up there often enough. And besides, I can't be sure whether I'd see you again this lesson if I let you leave."
Sirius grinned.
James stood up and walked out of the greenhouse but rather than going to the sickbay he went and sat under his favourite tree near the lake.
It was only early afternoon but the moon was already up. He noted that it was nearly full. At least I have something to look forward to he thought.
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