Authors note: Sorry this has taken so long but I've been really busy. I hope this is worth the wait and I'll try to update more frequently from now xx

Marlene woke up with a shock and immediately felt for her jug of water she always keeps on the side table.

"The hell?" she muttered when she couldn't find it. In fact she couldn't find her side table at all. She slowly reached for the curtains surrounding the bed. Shaking in slight fear she threw them open.

Widening her eyes in the bright light she slowly came to her senses. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't in her dormitory but rather in the boys. The second thing she registered was that she had most certainly not gone to sleep here.

"Stop trying to be nice to me." She growled. This was really not helping her "just move on with your life" plan. It was all that damn dogs fault. Out of the corner of her she registered something. Just to her left was James Potters bed. Just sat there quiet and unassuming.

Marlene scowled to herself. She wanted James to suffer for all he's put her through. The last 24 hours have been the most awkward she has ever experienced in her 15 years and 9 months on this planet.

Sirius had tried the worst conversation topics in the world including such lines as:

"Do you think Hippogriffs are cute?"

"So Professor Binns is a ghost."

"Where do you stand on the colour orange?"

And her personal favourite:

"How does my hair look?"

She's been brought up with three brothers and shares a dorm with the girls who prefer books to beauty (Not that they're not pretty and all that) Marlene has no clue how to answer vain questions like that!

"Payback." Marlene murmurs to herself before raising her wand and smiling evilly and the sparks that explode from the end.

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" Hmm? Oh damn I fell asleep in the common room again didn't I?" Sirius muttered rubbing the back of his neck tiredly.

Pulling his head up off the armrest he looked around him. He hated sleeping out of the dorm room but Marlene needed to sleep somewhere and he'd be damned if he let her call him a pervert this early in the day by staying up there with her.

Breakfast was laid out in front of him. He debated waiting for Marlene to come down but she was most likely to stay asleep for a while. She was really out of it last night. Now that he thought about it she looked a bit pale too. Wait…

"Pads my friend you are a freaking genius." He grinned leaping for the fireplace in excitement.

"Potters home!" he said throwing floo powder in the fireplace and shoving his head into the flames. It's a shame he couldn't just floo out, Godric had made the fireplace far too small for any human to fit their whole body into.

The next thing Sirius saw was the inside of the Potters living room. In the armchair next to the fire was the person he was looking for. James had evidently not noticed his best friends head sticking out of the fire. Sirius waited a moment before coughing loudly finally attracting his attention.

"Padfoot! Mate! To what do I owe the pleasure?" James grinned jumping onto the floor next to the fire. Sirius started to grin back but remembered his situation and took a solemn expression.

"James… its Marlene…" He began. James' eyes suddenly widened.

"You're going out now! Thank Merlin I was starting to think I'd have to somehow seal you just in the dormitory together! Well that's a load off my mind I was seriously starting to doubt you and your ability to get girls mate-"

"She's sick." Sirius interrupted with a deadly serious look on his face. James gaped like a fish. Sirius would have laughed if he weren't trying so hard to focus. "And we're not going out" he added as an afterthought.

"She's sick?" James repeated blankly. Sirius nodded.

"I see… Well maybe I should do something…"

"I think you should." Sirius added trying to hold back his smirk. This couldn't have gone better. James looked pensive before sighing and leaning forward.

"Fine. There is a very simple way to get you both out all you have to do is-"

"HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT POTTER!" Damn it. Now she wakes up! Sirius barely brings himself to look James in the eye. He has the arrogant smirk plastered all over his face.

"Wow you're getting better at lying Pads. I am so proud of you. Maybe you should go check on poor sick Marlene" He smirked. Sirius scowled and swore loudly into the potters living room then stalking upstairs to Marlene in the boys dormitory.

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Marlene cackled evilly admiring her handiwork. She twirled her wand through her hair, which did nothing more than make it curlier than it already was. She tapped her foot muttering to herself.

"Well… it's not impaling him on his own broomstick like Lily suggested but that would be hard to do from here so I guess this'll do…"

"WHAT THE HOLY HIPPOGRIFFS?" Marlene spun to see Sirius in the doorway with a hand clamped over his mouth in shock. Slowly he edged towards her 'revenge'.

Basically Marlene's idea of minimal revenge was freezing James' bed with unmeltable ice. Literally it was a block of ice that you could see the bed and covers inside it. Even James' Gryffindor team flag tacked to the headboard. Sirius touched it with his pinky finger before leaning back and inspecting it. Marlene chewed her lip anxiously.

Then he smiled and started to applaud her.

"This is brilliant! Totally fitting for his punishment." He laughed. Marlene smiled slightly.

"Oh this won't be it. As soon as he gets back I am going to torment him with many things… I'm not going to let him have a single moment of peace! I've already planned the next thing. I'm going to need a niffler, a pocket watch, Slytherin scarf, a portrait of Remus and a barrel of honey… maybe two." She chattered listing the things off on her fingers.

Marlene continued listing things she would need for James' mental breakdown. Sirius stared at her with wide eyes. For some reason while she was planning a prank on his best mate she looked so passionate and beautiful… it was amazing. Did he have feelings for her? No. No. Absolutely not… if James was right about something then the universe may just implode on itself.

"Hey Sirus? Do you have any idea where I could get dog hair?" Marlene snapped him out of his daze.

"Yes. Yes I do my dear Marlene" He grinned. Marlene began her cackled laughter ignoring the pink blush on his cheeks as he stared at her.

Needless to say, the next 24 hours were spent planning an elaborate prank on James, which could be sent via owl post.