Disclaimer: Yes, so this is SO not mine. If it was like…. Whoa that'd be AMAZING. But it's not… so… *pouts adorably*.

AN: Thanks so much to Laurena1234 for adding to your alerts list! And 722 reads? AMAZING! *heart thing that doesn't show up on here...* Plus Chapter 10? I think this is the furthest I've ever actually gotten with a story! Lol, that's kind of sad, but WHATEVER! Oh, and I was just going to make this the detention, but it kind of ran away with me!

Chapter Ten- Detention and the Room of Hidden Things

For the 'fluff' incident as it came to be called, I got three detentions, as it WAS my first offence and I needed time to 'cope' with my special situation. Sirius, Lily and Marlene, however, had all gotten two weeks of detention every night, because they were all 'instrumental' in McGonagall's 'embarrassment'. PLEASE. I could embarrass her more in ten minutes than that one measly pillow fight did, but I wasn't about to tell HER that.

My first detention was spent cleaning Moaning Myrtle's bathroom with Marlene. Apparently Lily and I, or Sirius and I, or even Lily and Marls were combinations that would result in tragedy, or something along those lines. I thought it was hilarious, to be perfectly honest.

But as we were cleaning, Myrtle floated over us sticking out her tongue, laughing her head off. I had never even heard about Myrtle being happy before, but whatever. As she laughed, while I was cleaning the floors, Marley snuck up behind where Myrtle was and screamed bloody murder. It was actually quite amusing watching Myrtle start screaming as well. Well, it was, until McGonagall heard from someone that this was happening, Peeves probably, and stormed into the bathroom to see me and Marls laughing our butts off, and Myrtle screaming that everyone hated her.

Needless to say for my second night of detention I was paired with Lily, and NOT Marlene. I also had a McGonagall lecture, complete with the pursed lips and all.

"So, Lils, liking anyone at the moment?" I asked casually, while sorting books in the library. I didn't expect the response I was about to get.

"N-no!" Lils answered, stuttering over her words, and saying them WAY to fast.

"Who is it? A Mr. James Potter maybe?" I asked like a reporter.

Lils blushed a deep red, which clashed with her hair, and started to shake her head, but gave up.

"Fine," She sighed. "Yeah, I like James. But you can't tell! I will NOT go out with that… that… that utter FOOL until he stops making fun of me with the whole asking out thing!"

Could she honestly not see that he actually loved her? Well, it wasn't my place to meddle, though I so dearly wanted to. James and Lily ended up together in Seventh Year anyways, not Fifth.

"What about you? I see you blush around a certain Mr. Black!" Lils exclaimed after a moment of silence. My cheeks heated up, proving her point, but I already had an answer ready for THAT question.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't even TALKED to Regulus Black, let alone have time to develop feelings for him!" I answered, hoping against everything that Lily wouldn't take the question further.

"No, no, no! You KNOW that I mean Sirius! So, you like him right?" She asked eagerly. I cursed hope, as it didn't seem to work for me.

"I don't like him!" I said firmly. It sounded like a lie to my ears too though, so I knew Lily wasn't convinced. I didn't like him; I COULDN'T like him, right?

She just shook her head though, and shoved a book rather violently into its place. Well, I always knew Lily was a violent person.

As I was walking back alone from the detention that night, because Lily apparently had 'Prefect' duties, and NOTHING could get in the way of 'the most important thing since wheels', she wasn't with me. I had snorted quietly to myself at that one, but Lils was stubborn about the whole thing, so I just let it go, not wanting to get in more trouble with Minnie McGonagall. But anyways, as I was walking back alone, I found myself across from the tapestry of that Barnaby dude on the seventh floor.

The Room of Requirement! I could get in and find that other Horcrux! I paced back and forth, back and forth in front of the wall, trying to get to the room where everything was hidden. Finally the door appeared after several failed tries and several different ways of wording my wish. I gaped. I didn't expect that to actually work.

I heaved open the surprisingly heavy doors, and took a hesitant step inside, the gentle sound echoing across the ginormous room. The rows of abandoned things from ages gone by stretched in every direction, the room of hidden things holding everything I could possibly imagine.

I took a couple of tentative steps down the first row, trying to remember where Rowena's diagram was supposed to be. The seventh book was never exactly very clear on the subject though. It just said it was down an aisle and on top of some cupboard thing with an old man's bust and a wig. And I wasn't even sure if my memory on that front was right; I had probably forgotten SOMETHING, I had to have.

I had gotten half way down the row, which was an accomplishment in itself, when the door to the room creaked open again. I dashed behind the nearest thing large enough to hide me, which happened to be a curtain hanging down from a precariously perched broomstick. What was that even doing… never mind…?

I controlled my breathing and held it when I heard pounding footsteps coming in the direction where I was hidden.

"PRONGS! What are we doing in here anyways?" I heard…was that Sirius?... well SOMEONE from the Marauders panting as they drew ever nearer to where I was hidden.

"Because Paddy. I just stole Snapey-kins' wand and I need somewhere to hide it. DUH!" James' voice echoed.

I drew in a sharp breath. They stole his wand? That was going TOO far.

"I don't know Prongs. Isn't that a bit TOO far?" THANK YOU SIRIUS! I CCULD KISS YOU!

"He was staring at Evans like she was a piece of candy during Potions today, again! I couldn't just let him!" I heard James whine.

I stepped out from behind my curtain. I was going to stop this madness. They couldn't steal someone's wand! That was like cutting the lifeline that attached a shark cage to a boat. With someone in the shark cage. And a rabid shark just WAITING to get at them.

"Hayley… what are you doing in here?" James asked nervously the moment he saw me. I rolled my eyes.

"Jamey boy, let's get down to business, shall we? You give me Snape's wand, and I'll let you go free without ever telling precious Lily-kins that this EVER happened," I smiled angelically as James narrowed his eyes at me.

"Prongs, mate, I think you should listen to Hales," Sirius whispered, as if unsure of himself.

"Yes, that's right Potty, listen to Sirius over there. He seems smart," I complimented, only a little bit sarcastically. Sirius face lifted.

"FINE!" James shouted, though his eyes were twinkling. I gulped. I think James just found a new target for a prank. "But, you have to let me prank Snivelly tomorrow!"

"Whatever you do to Snapey boy is fine with me. I don't like the annoying little…urg… either, but just don't take wands. That's TOO far," I said, enunciating each word carefully.

Sirius smiled at me. It seemed that he really didn't want to do this either. I couldn't help but smile back. James handed Snape's wand over, and with that I took off running away from Sirius and James. I was NOT taking chances that they would hex me.