A/N: First off, I am so so so so so so x infinity and three sorry. This chapter had taken longer than any of my other ones to put up. And I'm so sorry for that. I hope you've all stuck with me. And I wouldn't blame you if you decided to smite me and not review, maybe not even read. But just so everyone knows...I will never give up on this story. Origionally, this was going to be the last chapter, yet one of my reviewers pointed out that Sirius really hasn't changed, so I added a bit more about him in this one. So maybe this is an extra treat, me saying there will be one more. Unless you want this to be over with...then, sorry.
REVIEWERS I LOVE AND AM SO SORRY. I HOPE YOU FORGIVE ME!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Lily smoothed down her black jacket, "How do I look?" She asked nervously.
"Like me."
She wrinkled up her nose, "It can't be that bad."
"Har-har-har." Sirius said dryly. "But remember that you are me. So even if you do tell him the truth, don't expect to do any snogging until we switch back."
Lily rolled her eyes, "I highly doubt he'll want to snog you. Even if it really is me, I'm still in your body." She paused, "What if he doesn't listen to me? And no snogging ensues…ever?"
He shrugged, "Make him listen."
She turned around to leave, before spinning back around and grabbing his arm. "Remind me again why I'm doing this alone?"
"Because," He said simply, "You two have a lot to talk about. Plus, you and I both agreed this is something you have to do."
She nodded uncertainly. Nervous beyond belief as to what James would say. What she would say. She began wandering down the corridors nervously, practicing different approaches.
"Hey, James. It's really me, Lily. Sirius and I switched places." She bit her lip, "No…that won't do." She cleared her throat. "James, it's me, Lily. I was the one who kissed you and you really kissed Sirius. Because Sirius is Lily and right now I'm…well, I'm Sirius…."
She kicked the wall angrily, causing extreme pain to shoot through her foot. She gritted her teeth and began limping the rest of the way to the common room. She paused outside of the door, and paced back and forth uneasily.
"Password?" The Fat Lady said tiredly.
"Oh…oh yes." Lily said, "Can I ask you something?"
The large woman sitting in the frame widened her tiny eyes, "I suppose."
"What if you fall for a boy? A-and…he was your sworn enemy from day one. But the whole time he liked you but you hated him, but now you're starting to have feelings for him, but then you switched places with his best mate and then his best mate makes a great big oaf of himself, yet at this time you still hate your enemy. But then the enemy says really sweet things to you when he really thinks he's talking to his best mate, and you start to see a different side to him, but you can't do anything because you're in a boy's body and he in fact, is a boy. And you tried kissing him was but he was disgusted, so he tried regaining some manliness by kissing who he thought was you but who was really his best mate. So then the best mate and the girl want to change back so they hug but then the boy catches them canoodling and then the boy gets mad and then the girl has to tell him the truth but she just doesn't know how to."
The Fat Lady looked thoughtful, "I think you should talk to James, Lily."
"Holy Merlin." Lily gasped, "I-I…how did you…do you really?"
"I hear things when people think I'm not listening." She said mysteriously. "And James liked you from day one and you hated him, and Sirius is his best mate so now everything is falling into place."
"You're good." Lily said seriously, "I'm impressed."
The Fat Lady smiled, "Anyways, if you're looking for James he hasn't been by here in quite a while."
"Really?" Lily asked in bewilderment. "I wonder where he could have gone…"
"Hey Lily."
She spun around in alarm. "Remus, you're back!" She said, before her emerald eyes rounded, "What did you just call me?"
"Lily." He said, adjusting his dark book bag, "That is your name."
Lily clutched her chest, which was still Sirius', "Bugger." She said angrily. "Anyways…I'm Sirius. I think you took one too many hits to the head if you know what I'm saying…"
He grabbed her elbow and pulled her aside, "Lily I know it's you."
"But it's not." She protested, attempting to wriggle out of his grip.
He pulled her elbow harder, leading her into an empty corridor. "I was gone for a few days, yes. But do you really find me that daft? For Merlin's sake, you two were showering together - fully clothed!"
"Shush!" She whispered, "You don't know what you're talking about!"
A couple holding hands walked down the corridor, and Remus pulled Lily further away from them. "When I got back I found Peter who filled me in on the events that had happened. I had already begun to figure it out while I was recovering, but Merlin Lily…you kissed him? That just blew away the remainder of my doubts. I'm surprised James and Peter haven't figured it out by now."
Lily raised her eyebrows.
"Alright," Remus admitted, "Maybe I'm not that surprised."
She smiled, "Well, you figured us out, Remus. I'm sorry if it seems like we lied to you, but Dumbledore made us promise and…"
He put a finger to her lips, "I'm not mad. But I did run into James…and he was. What happened?"
"He saw Sirius and I hugging. That's it, Remus, I promise. I don't know…I guess he thinks that Sirius and I have been going behind his back."
"Well, we have caught you two in quite compromising situations. He probably put two and two together but came up with the wrong conclusion."
"Did he say where he was going?" Lily asked. "I have to talk to him."
"I don't know if that's the best idea…" He began, "He seemed really upset."
"Then you have to understand why I must talk to him!" She cried, "Remus, please…"
He sighed, "Alright. He's in the Room of Requirement. I'll give you directions on how to get there, but you have got to listen carefully."
Lily nodded and leaned in eagerly.
Moments later, she was pacing outside of the Room of Requirement, concentrating only on finding James. After her third time walking past, she looked up to find a wooden door. She bit her lip and turned the cool handle, swinging it open.
The first thing she noticed was that the lights were dimmed. The second thing she noticed was that she was looking at a pair of people snogging the living daylights out of each other. The third thing she noticed that one was James, and the other was Elizabeth, Sirius' not-so-secret crush. The fourth thing she noticed was that she wanted to vomit. The last thing she noticed was that, above all…she was hurt.
Yet, despite all her pain…she was angry. She then did the only thing she could think of, and that was to let her body do the work and let her mind go blurry and ignore the common sense it was trying to say.
She stomped over to the couch that just so happened to be placed romantically in front of the fire, and smacked James upside the head.
"Bloody hell!" He cried as they broke apart.
She smacked him once more. "It's been twenty minutes, James! And already you have a rebound?"
"What?!" Elizabeth cried in alarm, scrambling to her feet.
"What are you talking about, Sirius?" James asked. "I saw you and Lily! I heard everything!"
"You sad, blind little boy!" She cried angrily, shoving Elizabeth out of the way to get to him. He tried to get to his feet, but she just pushed him back down. "Nothing happened! Okay? Can you get that through your thick oaf of a brain?"
James stood and pushed her backwards. "What did you just say to me?"
"I said nothing happened you prat!"
He pushed her again, "Do you have any idea how much I like her?"
"OBVIOUSLY NOT AT ALL IF YOU'RE WILLING TO SNOG THIS GIRL AFTER TWENTY MINUTES OF BEING 'HEART BROKEN.'"
"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BEING HEARTBROKEN, SIRIUS!"
"THE HELL I DON'T!" She shrieked, "IT'S HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE, JAMES."
"Oh yeah?" He said through gritted teeth, a vein in his temple throbbing. "Who? Who broke your heart?"
"You." She cried, "You've just broken my heart!"
He stumbled backwards as Elizabeth clutched her heart in alarm. She felt incredibly used that James was only using her as a rebound, yet she knew that right from the very beginning. He was a rebound for her, too.
"Wait…Sirius…" Elizabeth was the first to regain her voice, "Did you and James have…a thing?"
Lily was busy rubbing her temples. She had dug herself into an even deeper hole. She knew she had to tell James the truth, but she couldn't while Elizabeth was there.
"No we did not!" James shrieked, "Tell her, Sirius. Tell her nothing was going on between us!"
"Nothing was going on between us." Lily grumbled. "But Elizabeth, can you leave us alone for a second?"
Her eyes widened, "Sirius, what's going on?"
"We just need some alone time!" Lily cried. "Get out! Out, out, OUT!"
Elizabeth scurried to the door, with James following.
"JAMES, WAIT!" Lily cried.
He shook his head as he reached the door, "I don't want to deal with this, Sirius." And with that he slammed the door.
Lily slumped to the floor and cradled her head in her hands.
James, meanwhile, was racing down the hall with Elizabeth at his side. Finally, they came to a halt in front of the portrait hole, where Sirius was leaning against the wall.
"Lily!" Elizabeth cried, and Sirius turned in alarm.
"Yeah?"
"Can I talk to you?" He nodded uncertainly and brushed past the fuming James into the Common Room. "Let's go upstairs and talk." She said.
Together they trooped upstairs and into the girls dorm. "What's up?" Sirius asked, trying desperately to sound normal. He had never been in the girl's dorms before, and he was nervous if the real Lily were to find out.
His eyes scanned the room quickly until he spotted something lying on the floor. He squinted until he could make out the faint outline of what he thought were knickers. The corners of his lips curved into a grin.
Elizabeth followed his eyes until she spotted what he was looking at. She shook her head slowly, "I have no idea what's going on. But to be honest, it's creeping me out. You never sleep in your bed anymore, you're spending so much time with Sirius it's almost as if-" Her eyes widened, "Are you two…seeing each other?"
"No." Sirius said firmly.
Elizabeth shrugged, strands of hair from her loose pony falling about her face. "I barely see you anymore, Lil… it's almost as if you're a different person."
"Yeah, well I'm not!" Sirius said defensively.
"Alright, alright." She said cautiously, "But…do you understand what I'm saying? This whole week I've barely seen you."
"I'm sorry." Sirius said, standing up. "But Sirius and I have been doing a Potion's project together, and that's why we need to spend a lot of time with each other."
"I'm in your Potions class." Elizabeth noted, "There's not a project due."
"Yeah, well…it's top secret."
"Is it now?" She raised her eyebrows, "Listen, Lily, I can tell that something is up. Why can't you tell me?"
"Nothing is up." Sirius said in his best "honest" voice. "Pinky promise."
"Okay?" She said, giving him an odd look. She bit her lip, "Truth be told, I'm completely relieved that you aren't with Sirius."
"Why?" He asked quickly, "Do you have feelings for him?"
"Of course not!" She cried, "He's a pig. That's why I didn't want you two together. You could do so much better."
"He is not a pig." Sirius said defensively.
Elizabeth snorted, "Yeah, and I'm a man."
"Anything is possible." He said seriously, considering Elizabeth was actually talking to a male.
"Alright," She said after a while, "Yeah, I did like him for a while…but then I thought about why. I mean sure, he's really attractive. And yeah, he's funny and smells really nice. But beyond all that…beyond the exterior…lies a pig. It's disgusting what he does to girls. Uses them. I know myself, and I know I can do much better than him."
Sirius blinked, his mouth hanging open. "He's not all that bad once you get to know him…"
"Are you actually defending him?" She asked in alarm.
"Yes." He said after a while, "He's not a bad guy."
"If he's not a bad guy then he should prove it." Elizabeth paused, "Besides…I don't think I'm his type."
"I think you are." He said quickly, "I'm sure he'd really like you."
"No…you don't understand…" She paused, "I'm missing something that apparently he's attracted to."
"And what might that be?" Sirius asked, beginning to get a bit worried.
She took a deep breath. "A…a penis. I think Sirius Black is attracted to men."
He stared in disbelief, "What makes you think that?"
"I believe that he and James had something…you know."
"No they didn't." Sirius said quickly, "They most certainly did not."
"You didn't hear Sirius ranting about how James broke his heart, Lily." Elizabeth said.
"Oh Merlin." Sirius groaned. "I've had enough. Elizabeth, there's something you need to know."
A/N: I hope it wasn't TOO dissapointing. There were probably several spelling mistakes. But i'm about ready to pass out from sleepines...(it's midnight) so I was going to reread over it and check it tomorrow, then realized it most likely wouldn't get done. I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer, and i hope you sustained you're cravings...maybe even enough for you to stick with me. Now I'm almost positive next chapter will be the last. THANKS AND LOVE YOU ALL!
