peeks out from behind bullet proof curtain

Hey, guys. It's me. Dodges a computer mouse. Hey! That's no way to treat the author of this beautiful, though slightly twisted, story. I'm like really sorry it took so long. But with writers block and bitches (not Lily) and exams and bitchy friends and man…. You don't want to know all of that. But I didn't think it would take me as long as it would take for Lily to realize she was bitchy.(don't tell her I told you that.)

Itachi: I think you spend too much time with me.

KoFt N: Oh, Itachi don't joke around like that. Besides I know you love this side of me.

Itachi: -smirk- I wasn't complaining. -Leans in for….-

Sirius: What's up kiddies?!

Twin death glares turn in his direction.

KoFt N: Run, Black.


'Siri'

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"


Chapter 9


Siri looked at the chaos that just transpired through Lily's eyes. She smirked and once again took control of Lily's body and made her go up the stair of the boy's dormitory. When she reached the room of the Marauders' she pushed open the door and saw….

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An empty boys' room. Lily stepped in all the way making little noise as possible and inspected the room. Just then her head started to hurt. As if a thousand trolls decided to dance on her head while hippos did the conga.

"Where the hell am I?"

I take it that this is your first time in a guy's room.

'Siri, why am I here?'

Well, you just came from making out with James and now you want to go all the way.

'What!!'

Do you even have a funny bone in this blasted body of yours? It was a joke.

'Look, just let me leave before someone sees me and I have t—'

"I'm such an asshole!"

There was someone talking, but they weren't in the room. It was coming from the window. Lily being the curious person that she is decided to check it out. She stuck her head outside the window and gazed at a rather magnificent sight. James was sitting on the roof with his legs tucked under him. His black hair blowing in the breeze and catching a few flecks of the rising sun. His tan skin just seemed godly and there was no way that not even the meanest of girls could not melt at the sight of him.

She crawled out the window and towards him. When she sat next to him they sat in companionable silence. They were both staring out over the lake and watched as the sun spread its beautiful rays down in the valley making a wonderful romantic scene.

"It's beautiful, isn't it, James?" Lily whispered. You would think that the comment would be welcomed, but it had a different effect on the boy.

"WHAT THE HELL?" James jumped and nearly fell off the roof if Lily didn't grab his shirt and lay down so both their weight didn't send them flying down a seven story drop. James fell over Lily, but rested his hands on either side of her to support himself from crushing her.

"Lily? What are you doing out here?" James breathing was hard as he tried to steady his racing heart. He rolled to the side of her and stared into the sky.

"I just came to see if you were alright." Lily's eyes didn't leave the sky for a moment as she said that.

"I'm fine. Might kill Sirius when I see him again, but I'm good."

"I'm not talking about just now, Potter. Why have you been avoiding me?"

To say James was shocked was like saying Snape's nose was big. A freaking understatement.

James turned to Lily with wide eyes. "I-I-I not…wasn't—"

Lily turned sharply, their eyes locked in a focus stare. "Don't lie to me. You haven't even bothered to say hi since I got out the hospital wing. And though I'm glad that you aren't hanging all over me I'm beginning to worry."

James looked at Lily and then sighed. He turned so he was resting on his arm and began to explain. "When you were in your coma, you were…scaring us." Lily raised an eyebrow at that. "You were bleeding everywhere. You were Sweating blood. Lily, you have no idea how terrified I was in that instant. I know you think I'm some kind of childish prick and I admit I can be a bit of a git sometimes but…"

The look on his face made Lily want to wrap her arms around him and comfort him, but she restrained herself. She did however turn to face James a bit more.

"I promised that I would change. That I would be a better person….if you came back to us. When you woke up I was so thrilled I couldn't speak. I wanted to hold you and kiss you and, and just shout to the bloody heavens that you were alright. But then I remembered my promise. I-I-I couldn't break it. I thought I would lose you again." A tear ran down James' cheek as he turned away and sat up. He never opened up like that to anyone. Not even to the Marauder's but here he was tearing up in front of Lily, showing her how weak he was. 'I'm pathetic.' He jumped when he felt a hand on his face. He opened his eyes and saw Lily there smiling weakly at him.

"James, I-I don't know what to say. Some of those things I told you were said out of anger; I didn't really mean that you were so bad. I've never mentioned this to anyone, but I…" This was too much for Lily, but she was going to try if only to get Siri off her back. "I sort of, envy your childlike ways."

James gasped and nearly chocked. "Nooo. The Lily Evans…envies the King of Trouble, Mr. Mischief-in-one-Shot, The Arrogant Bullying Toe Rag." He couldn't help the little smile that tugged at is lips.

Lily gave him a playful glare and pushed him. "Oh, shut up." Lily stood up to get ready to leave. "Look James, don't go changing just because of that promise. If you want to be a better person…just be yourself." With that Lily ducked back into the Marauders' room leaving James outside with a big smile on his face. The wind played with his hair as he thought.

'Maybe there's hope after all.'


(Next day and so you know it's Tuesday. Monday was a holiday.)

3rd POV

"Come on. We can't be late again." Their footsteps were thundering down the corridors that were slowly becoming devoid of students, as they made their way to class.

"But what about Prongs? Moony, he wasn't anywhere to be found." Sirius panted out as he tried to keep up with his friend. Frank was right next to him, matching stride for stride. But, Remus had broken out into a flat out run. For someone who wasn't into sports he sure could run.

'At least we know how he gets to class early.' Sirius and Frank thought as they rounded the corner to Flitwick's class. It was the third class of the day for them. Flitwick was an old softy, but Remus didn't like to get on the bad side of any of their teachers.

As they pushed the door open all eyes turned to them. Well besides the fact that the dashing Marauders were showing up to class all flushed from their run, they were two short. And that one happened to be in class taking…notes? (Peter didn't take this class. But he's still a Marauder.)

They quietly made their way over to their seats without drawing Flitwick's attention. James gave a nervous laugh and looked sheepishly at his friends.

"Hi, guys."

"James, where the hell have you been?" Sirius all but hissed at his best friend.

James turned to them and gave them a small smile. "Well I went down early to breakfast since you guys didn't seem interested in waking up. Hey, did you know that the benches are actually muggle made?" The Marauders looked at James as if he was on drugs to say the least. "What? I had time to examine them. I was bored."

--After Charms class--

"Yes! It's time to chow down baby!" Sirius launched himself at the first available seat he saw and started to pile it up with mountains of food. It was truly a disgusting sight. How do I know this?

"That's disgusting, Black." The one and only Lucius Malfoy decided to grace the Marauders with his presence, his Slytherin gang in tow. Peter was behind them, but he went on noticed by everyone else as they looked at the confrontation.

Sirius all but growled at the intruder for disrupting him from brainwashing himself with food. He turned around slowly deciding to gross out the aristocrat and opened his mouth wide to show his food that was in the processes of digestion. "To what do I owe this pleasure?" Though the food was in his mouth it was easy to hear the sarcasm rolling off of his tongue with thick venom.

"Scratch what I said before, that is disgusting. Didn't your mother ever teach you manners, Black?" Lucius asked with his nose in the air as if he was trying to avoid the smell of the Gryffindors. Sirius bristled at the mention of his mother and put on a casual smirk after he finished swallowing the horde of food that was once in his mouth.

"Merlin knows she tried to brainwash me, but I'm more of an independent thinker than a single cell mind drone like a few purebloods that I, unfortunately, know."

The other Marauders nodded their heads in agreement while trying not to laugh. The thought of Sirius' mother trying to brainwash him was rather funny.

"Don't try to get high and mighty with me, you blood-traitor. It wasn't your mother's teaching it was you. You—becack, buck buck buck."

"Moooo!"

"Aflac! Ahh-flac!!"

"Cooo-kie Crisp!"

The Marauders, the girls, and the entire Great Hall stopped breathing. Not they didn't try, but they were laughing to hard to actually do it. The teachers tried to hide it for the sake of the unfortunate Slytherins, but lets face it, it was funny. The Gryffindors didn't hold back at all. Some were on the floor laughing their asses off, while others were choking on their food. Even the Slytherins were laughing at their own.

Sydney tucked here wand away and bowed slightly when the Marauders turned to give her her props. The girls clapped her on the back and smirked. Sydney turned and gave the… re-vocalized Slytherins a evil smirk.

"I suggest you think about what you have to say before mouthing off on another houses turf. It might be the last thing you do."

The Slytherins glared at her, Lucius giving her one of his rather heated glares that would melt most people into the floor, before flouncing off to give more death glares and threats to the Slytherins that dared to laugh at them. However, only one thing was going through Sirius Black's mind.

'That was hott.'


Inside of Lily's mind (Lily doesn't know so don't tell her)

Siri was pacing. She had been for a good 3 hours. She was thinking, plotting, going to make someone's life a living hell. She stopped pacing and looked up at the portrait that was hanging in front of the fireplace. It was a picture of her, her friends, and their mates. Oh how she missed them. She wished they would just wake up so that they could be with each other once again and move on in life. But she was awoken first thanks to that Rock bastard wakening her, after putting Lily in a near death state. Now things had to be fixed before they could get back to the original plan.

Siri looked at the portrait one last time before she walked into a door and unlocked it with a wave of her hand. She walked into the room; a rather large study was filled with books from a long ways up to a long ways down, and walked straight to a book shelf that was behind a protective shield. The shelf where she usually kept her most precious and…dangerous books. She pulled out three books and set them on the desk that she usually worked at. She poured over the books like a mad woman on a mission…which is accurate when you think about it.

She marked a few pages and then walked through a mirror that was in the room. She moved aside a few items and flinched slightly at the scraps and clanging but other than that she made no move to stop. She moved the items to a table and looked at one in particular before putting it back. 'No need to have the child die before we even get to the hard stuff.'

But a though suddenly popped up, like an unwanted black head that would go away. There was no point in doing any of this if the brats didn't get along. Sharing a laugh wasn't going to cut it. No they needed to be friends…or more. Siri glared at the space in front of her silently demanding that it provided her with all her answers. 'What can I do to get those to dimwits together? Making them have sex is too much…maybe a bit of…no that won't work…maybe if I – no the boy would die and everything would be ruined. Merlin this is hard.' Then a thought came to her. Smirked an evil smirk that was so evil, evil himself wouldn't dare try to reclaim his title from her.

She frantically crossed the room and pulled out one of her more 'interesting' books. After flipping a few more pages she looked up and licked her lips in an almost seductive manner.

She found what she was looking for and smirked. The page alone was filled with more writing than one could ever imaging and if the graphic pictures were anything to go by then they didn't stand a snowflakes chance in hell.

'Oh, Lily, you are going to hate me before we are even a day into your training.'


Well that's all for now folks. Siri is definitely in the next chap. Hmmm. I wonder whose life I'll make hell next. looks at you What are you still doing here? You heard nothing right? GOOD!

ITACHI!!

Itachi: Why the hell did you wake me up?

-Points to readers.- They did it. -Disappeared-

Itachi: Review or I'll hurt you. And imagine, such a promise and I'm in a good mood.