For All Who Saw Me Sneaking Out The Door

Lily and James sat on the couch, looking around the room. It was a pigsty. An absolute pigsty. The Gryffindors knew how to party, but they did not know how to clean up after themselves.

"I suppose, as Head Girl and Boy, we really should get this cleaned up," Lily told James. She was too tired to get up, but maybe saying it would give her motivation.

"Yeah, we should," James agreed, but he didn't move either.

"Do we have to get up?" Lily complained.

"We could just use magic," James reminded her. He didn't even feel like reaching to get his wand, which was just on the coffee table in front of him. Parties were exhausting.

"That's true," Lily said. She didn't stretch out an arm to grab her wand either, which was lying next to James's. "Why don't we do it later?"

"We have time, we could wait," James nodded. "I'm so tired."

"Me too," Lily agreed. "I had to take off points from my own house."

"Why'd you do that?" James asked.

"They were shooting off fireworks right by my ear," Lily said. "It rather annoyed me.

"That's a good reason," James agreed. "I bet it was Sirius."

"Actually, I think it might have been. I don't really remember," Lily shrugged.

"What's that?" James asked. He looked up at the boys' dormitory stairs. "That's either a girl or a guy with really long hair coming down those stairs," he whispered to Lily.

"Girls aren't allowed up there, so it must just be a guy with really long hair," Lily replied.

"Ashleigh!" they heard Remus's voice coming from the stairs behind the longhaired figure. "You left your wand." James and Lily exchanged glances, suddenly wide-awake.

"Oh thanks," Ashleigh's voice floated down to them. "Remus! You know I'm not that tall, just hand it to me."

"You need to be quiet, Ashleigh, all the boys are sleeping," Remus said in a flirty voice.

"You can't use that against me," Ashleigh said. The figure that Lily and James now knew was Ashleigh reached up to grab something out of Remus's hand, but the wand was flicked higher out of her reach. "Remus, please!"

"Not without a goodnight kiss," Remus told her.

"Remus!" Ashleigh was getting impatient. "I need to get back to Ravenclaw before anyone notices. Please give me my wand."

"You're already late, and if you'd just give me the goodnight kiss, I'd let you go," Remus reminded her.

"That's my boy," James whispered. Lily shoved him a bit.

Ashleigh reached for the wand again, but Remus still held it high above her head. She sighed and leaned up to kiss him, and Remus dropped his arms to hold her close. The second he did, Ashleigh stepped back and snatched her wand.

"And that's my girl," Lily whispered back. James shoved her back.

"'Night Remus," Ashleigh told him.

"Good night Ashleigh," Remus replied, and Ashleigh left the common room while Remus headed up the stairs.

When the couple was gone, Lily turned to James and asked, "So wait, why didn't we bust them?"

James grinned evilly. "Because it'll be a lot more fun to bust them tomorrow when everyone is around."

"That's mean!" Lily protested. "But they deserve it. Make sure that I'm there."

James smiled wider. "I knew there was a bad girl inside you, Evans," he said pleasantly. "And quite frankly, I like it. Do you think the bad girl Evans would want to go out with me?" he asked.

"No Potter," Lily told him. She stood up and grabbed her wand. "Help me clean up this mess."

James stood up and moved close to her. "I will if you give me a goodnight kiss," he told her.

"Fine, I'll do it myself," Lily snapped, waving her wand and making the mess disappear. "'Night James," she said as she walked up her dormitory stairs.

"Goodnight Lily," James called after her, with a crooked smile on his face. He watched her disappear up the stairs before turning to go to his own bed. He opened the door and looked at each of the beds. Remus was already asleep, smiling from a dream. Sirius and Peter were nowhere to be seen. "What, did everyone get laid but me?" James asked the air. Remus snorted in his sleep and rolled over. "Thanks Moony, thanks."