Two of a Kind

Disclaimer: I own nothing found from the Harry Potter books. Though I wish I did. Damn good stories, now I'll never come up with anything better. shakes fist at screen

Chapter 9: Of Knickers and Prefect Meetings

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Lily and Holly walked into the common room after their last day of classes for that week. There weren't many people there because of such a nice day they were having. (AN: I have no idea if that sounds right…oh well) Lily instantly took a seat at one of the far tables and relaxed.

"Sixth year is going to be harder than I thought. Especially Transfiguration. I thought McGonagall was going to kill me for still not being able to do half that work. What was it again? Oh well." Lily told Holly as she put her feet underneath her legs for warmth.

"Don't worry Lils," Holly said using her new nic-name the Marauder's had given her. "It's the beginning of the year, we'll find someone to tutor you. James is really good at transfig. Maybe he can tutor you?"

"Give it up Holly. We were cold and wet, it meant absolutely nothing. Understand?" Lily stated strongly.

"Ok, ok I get it, keep your knickers on." Holly replied.

"What's this about Lily's knickers?" Sirius asked popping out of nowhere.

"Nothing ok? My knickers have nothing to do with the conversation and I don't know why Holly brought it up. Anyways…how did you get here?" Lily answered

"What do you mean, how did we get here? The same way you did I s'pose. We came on a train to Hogwarts then up here to the common room." Remus replied sitting down across from Lily.

"But we didn't hear you come in. We might be sitting near the back of the common room but we're not deaf. The door is just over there." Holly said pointing her finger at the portrait hole.

"Yes, you might not be deaf but you probably don't have 100 per cent hearing and we're talking about Lily's knickers." James stated sitting next to Remus.

"My knickers are now banned from conversations. Do you all understand?" Lily said angrily

"No Lils…you see the only time I think we are permitted to speak about your underwear is when you are around. I'm sure we will agree to not speak of them outside our circle of friends. Agreed guys and Holly?" Sirius asked

"Agreed." They replied.

"Fine." Lily said

"Good. Now what colour are these knickers we are talking about so much?" Sirius asked.

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"Weekends. Gotta Love them." James said once everyone had come down to the common room the next morning.

"You only love what you do in them." Remus pointed out to him

"And what might that be?" Holly asked curiously.

"Snoging, pranking and…," Sirius thought. "Probably snoging."

"Sounds like fun." Lily said sarcastically. (AN: sorry I'm obsessed with that word, well more like line. I say it to everything.)

"Do you wanna try it someday?" James asked equally sarcastic.

"Yeah, sure." Lily replied.

"Really?" James asked believing her

"No! Let's go down to breakfast, we'll decide what we're doing there, and it doesn't include snoging." Lily answered.

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"So, what are we going to do today?" Sirius asked as everyone walked outside into the courtyard.

"Well I have a prefects meeting after lunch." Lily told everyone.

"That means I do too." Replied James

"Yeah I still can't believe you got sixth year prefect James." Remus said sounding truly amazed.

"Yeah I'm still getting over the shock too." James laughed back

"Funny, but its not like the prefects are that bad." Holly remarked. "Are they?"

"They're the worst. Plotting and sneaking around at night. They're out to get us and you know it. Why they might kill you in your sleep. You better watch out for that one." James said strangely while pointing at Lily.

"Knock it off Prefect." Lily said while pointing at his badge.

"Yeah, well I've arrived to change everything. We're going to have a lot more balls this year." He covered.

"What, so you can have an excuse for snoging? I don't think so." Lily sung back at him.

"And to think that just last week they were hugging each other." Sirius whispered to Remus and Holly who just smiled to the thought.

"Anyways this chat about prefects doesn't help us to decide what we're going to do now." Remus pointed out.

"True…let's just go sit under a tree and talk or something." Holly suggested

"What do you think we've been doing here?" James asked

"Arguing." Sirius replied. "Come on let's go find us a tree."

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After lunch Lily and James walked in silence to the prefect's meeting which was to be held in the transfiguration classroom. It was a little stuffy, but so were most of the classrooms that hadn't been used for a few months. The Head Boy and Girl were sitting, talking to a new Hufflepuff Prefect about opening some windows and some other prefects were sitting at some tables talking about mindless things. Lily walked straight over there and started talking to those prefects.

James took a look around. Not everyone was at the meeting yet. He looked at the classroom clock: 12:24. They still had 6 minutes to turn up.

'Lily fits in so well here, she able to express herself. Look at her she's laughing' James thought to himself.

Lily indeed was laughing about something one of the guys had said to her.

'She probably likes him. What's so good about him anyway? He doesn't have my good looks, my bravery, he's not even in Gryffindor. Let's see how she likes me hanging around Her here.' James thought as he walked over to where Lily was seated.

"Is it Just me or is Transfiguration becoming a lot harder than it used to be?" Lily asked the group she was sitting with.

"Its just you." A voice replied from behind. Lily knew that voice too well and groaned.

"I thought we were friends now?" James asked as he took a seat next to her.

"We are, well slightly. This isn't the mucho club where you'll be listened too because you look nice, you actually have to do some work here. I know it sounds hard for you but it might do you some good to be around smart people." She smiled sweetly at him and turned back to the guy she was talking to.

"Um…Lily? Aren't you going to introduce us?" James asked just as sweetly.

Lily groaned again. "Since when does mister 'I'm so confident that I can do everything' need someone to introduce people to them?"

"Oh Lily be nice to him he's trying at least, just like you asked him to." They guy next to her said.

"Fine. This is Amos Diggery," She said waving her hand towards the person who had just spoken. "And this is Charly Toren." She waved her hand across the table. James shook both hands as a greeting. "They're the Hufflepuff Prefects and Arianrhod Hyde, we call her Roddy, and Toby Lark, are the Ravenclaw prefects." She said waving to the two remaining prefects. "This is James Potter, the other 6th year prefect from Gryffindor. None of the Slytherin prefects are here yet, not like you'd want to meet them."

"Amos, you're the new Hufflepuff Quidditch captain right?" James asked him as he swapped sides to talk more about the topic of Quidditch. Roddy and Charly were quick to ask Lily questions about James and Toby joined in on the quidditch talks.

"How do you know James Potter?" Roddy asked excitedly. "And do you know the rest of the Marauders?"

"Um…my friend Holly wanted to hand with them so she did. Yes I know the rest of them, but they're not all that good. Besides you met Remus last year, he was a prefect so technically you know two Marauders' now. And they're all horrible." Lily answered raising her voice loud enough for James to hear.

"Well she didn't object to being locked in a compartment with me just last week, or when I hugged her in the rain." James said loud enough for Lily to hear as though it was part of their conversation. Lily went bright red.

"Prefects," The Head Boy said. "I think its time to start the meeting. If you would like to take a seat?"

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Holly and the rest of the Marauders sat in the common room waiting for James and Lily to return from their prefect meeting while they did their homework.

"It's our first week back. Why are we getting homework? I should go on strike, first week back no homework." Sirius said to the others.

"Did you just say the answer to the potions questions?" Holly asked Sirius looking up from her parchment.

"No, I asked why we were getting homework." Sirius said crossly. They weren't even listening to him.

"Wolfsbane." Remus said not even bothering to look up from his page.

"What was that?" Peter asked (A/N: I almost forgot Peter was even there)

"Wolfsbane is the answer to the potions question." Remus answered him.

Before Sirius could argue that he was angry no one was listening to him, two frightened 5th years wearing prefect badges came running inside the common room and up their dormitory stairs.

"Yay, James and Lily are back." Sirius screamed just as the portrait hole opened.

"Pyjama Day? What kind of an idea is that?" Lily screamed at the person behind her.

"One that everyone except you and the Syltherins liked!" James yelled back.

"Just because you are sexually gross doesn't mean you have to bring up ideas that would serve to your advantage."

"I am not sexually gross, if there's even a word. People liked the idea of not having to worry about their hair and make-up to go to classes. It's once every two months, not the end of the world."

"It was the first meeting, you could have brought it up at the next one which is next week. Did it have to be This week, on the First meeting?" Lily screamed and started to walk up to the girls' dormitory. James stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Let Go Of ME!" Lily screeched trying to pull her arm out of his hold, it was no use, quidditch had made him pretty strong.

"Not until we sort this out." He replied through gritted teeth.

"Well, we're not going to sort this out so you'd better let go." She replied forcefully.

"No!" Was His only answer.

James' grip on Lily's arm tightened, her face started screwing up.

"James let go." She said her voice starting to calm down.

"No."

"No," She said her voice starting to become panicky. "You really have to let go."

"No!"

"James you're hurting me!" Lily screamed. He instantly let the hand go, and Lily dropped to the floor. James stood over her to make sure she was ok.

Nobody in the room had moved, no one breathed a sound, they were perfectly still waiting to see what was going to happen.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that, I just lost my temper and well I had the right. Aren't prefect meetings supposed to be about bringing out ideas? Well I had a good one and everyone liked it, besides Dumbledore has to approve it before is goes ahead anyways." James explained himself to Lily.

"He'll approve it." Lily said as she rubbed her hand to get the feeling back in it. "He always approves the unusual things. I'm sorry I shouldn't have snapped at you. It's just-I think I'll go upstairs, I don't really want to stay here."

"No stay here, I want to look at your hand and make sure that it's ok." James said gently guiding Lily to a seat on a couch near their friends.

"It's fine James really I just want to go lie down." Lily said trying to argue her way out of staying downstairs.

"You can lie on me and the couch. I don't care what you say, you're staying down here."

James sat down and Lily decided it would be best if she didn't lie on him, just to be safe.

"So how was your first prefect meeting?" Peter asked. Everyone glared at him.

"Well we all had to sit around some tables, 6th years on one side facing their 5th year prefects, Gryffindor in between Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Lily knowing that I despise Slytherin's offered to sit next to them. A few mentions for a ball were brought up and my own idea, which I'm sure you all heard about. And that was about it." James answered.

"You made Lily sit next to Lucius and Narssisa?" Holly asked. "They didn't say anything Lily, did they?"

"What do you mean they didn't say anything. It's like a suggestion room, of course they said something." James replied

"She means about me." Lily told James. "Don't worry I'm use to it. And it was only the usual mudblood this, mudblood that."

"They call you a mudblood?" Sirius screamed outraged.

"Sirius sh, nobody likes being called it let alone having someone scream it out." Remus said to him.

"It's ok, please James don't make a fuss." Lily pleaded looking him in the eye.

He couldn't look away from those eyes. Locked in his, he almost read what she was thinking.

"Ok, I won't do anything. This time." He mumbled.

"Oh thank you James." Lily said happily and jumped up to give him a hug. He hugged back.

"So what's with Pyjama Day?" Sirius asked.

"Well…" Lily started.

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A/N: So there's another chappie for you guys. Review and tell me what you think of Pyjama Day. And ill try posting soon.

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