Disclaimers: Own nothing

Author's Note: I'm really sorry to those who objected about the last chapter. Some people didn't like the naked women thing. Sorry! They will never be mentioned in my fics ever again!

Christmas with the Marauders
Chapter 12
The accident

All of the were pretty bored. Sirius was lying flat on his back staring at the ceiling. Lily was lying on the bed. James was spacing out. Remus was reading a book, which is turning out to be boring. Casey was looking out the window, her chin resting on her right hand.

Suddenly, Sirius stood up. He looked sleepy, but every one does when they're bored. No one took notice that he sat up. What happened? he thought. He looked around. This is horrible. He wanted to do something to cheer them all up but he couldn't be bothered to do anything. So he remained sitting, mumbling "Teddy Bears" once in a while.

Lily was thinking. To apologize or not to apologize, she thought, that is the question. A smile played across her lips. I should let him apologize, he's the man. But an irritating voice kept nagging her to do so. And she was refusing.

James finally stopped spacing out and looked a the depressing scene. What the heck is going on here? he thought. Then, his thoughts started drifting. I should apologize to Lily. I am the guest after all. I'll do it later.

Remus was gritting his teeth to make sure that he suddenly doesn't throw the book he was reading. It was getting pretty boring by the minute. The letters were microscopic and it was seven hundred pages long. What's so fun about a guy that rides his motorcycle around the United States anyway? I should write my own book, he thought. But he kept on reading, just so he has something to do.

Casey sighed. I'm bored, she thought. Oh, that's the understatement of the century, Casey. We never knew that. Her thoughts drifted to something else. I wonder of my mum's happy up there? Damn you, Voldemort,, for being my father. They never saw each other after she was ten and she has been living in the Hogwarts Grounds, a cottage near Hagrid's. Damn you Voldemort, for just being alive. You ruined my life. She closed her eyes and she heard a slow, soft, evil laugh that was cold i made her shiver. She opened her eyes a once, breathing hard. Lucky no one noticed. he thought.

Except Sirius, that is.

Remus couldn't take it anymore. He got frustrated when the book just said that the man will be riding across country for about the hundredth time and that was when Remus lost it. He threw the book hoping that it will fall out the window. He was aiming for the window. He didn't realize that Casey was there. And since Casey is not a ghost, it hit her at the back of her head.

It was a hardback copy. It was seven hundred pages long. And Remus is a pretty strong thrower.

He knocked Casey unconscious.

Everyone was so bored that it took minutes before they registered what just happened. Then, full chaos ensued.

"What happened?"

"She's knocked out!"

"How?"

"I don't know!"

"Why?"

"How do we wake her up?"

"I'm sorry!"

"Who did it?"

"What's going on?"

"SHUT UP!" Sirius shouted. Everyone did so. "That's better."

He carried Casey and placed her on the bed. "Now, what happened?"

"She got knocked out." James said intelligently.

"No, duh, Sherlock." said Lily. James glared. She glared back.

"Ok, stop it before you get into one of your fights again." Sirius snapped. "We know that she got knocked out, James, but how was she knocked out?"

Remus stepped forward. He was never the one to lie, that's why he was every mother's dream of a perfect son. "I knocked her out with a copy of The Man and his Motorcycle." (A/N: Don't know if that book exists.) he said. "I mean to throw it out the window, but I didn't realize that she was there. Honest." he added hastily.

Sirius stared. "Have you gone temporarily blind??? She was practically covering half of the window! How can you miss her?"

"I'm sorry." Remus said quietly.

Lily sighed. "Guys, there's no point arguing. Sirius, why are you getting so worked up in this?"

Sirius glared at her. "Never mind that." he snapped. "She's already out cold. We might as well just wake her up." he said as he was shaking Casey to wake up.

Remus, James and Lily exchanged curious looks and smiled.

"Dammit, Casey, wake up!" said Sirius.

She didn't.

"Casey, we're late for Potions! Wake up!" Lily half shouted.

Nope. She didn't wake up.

"Casey, we have quidditch practice, wake up!" James provided.

Casey was chaser and she loves quidditch as much as James and Sirius. That means it's an obsession. But even that didn't wake her up.

"Casey, we have a Charms test in five minutes. Flitwick'll fail you if you don't show up. Wake up!" said Remus.

If the last three attempts didn't wake her up, this one certainly wouldn't.

Sirius sighed in frustration. He went to the bathroom to run the cold water in the tap.

"What are you doing?" said Lily.

He didn't answer. He half dragged, half carried Casey in the bathroom and splashed some of the cold water in her face and head.

I didn't get her to wake up, but he did get her soaking wet.

"You know that Casey will be livid with you when she wakes up." said Lily. "She hates the cold water."

"I'll deal with that after she wakes up." Sirius said impatiently, and continued drenching her with cold water.

Casey was soaked from head to toe but she still didn't wake up.

"How the heck do you wake her up?" Sirius said, giving up.

Remus stepped forward ... and began to slap her. It still didn't wake her up.

"Those are too weak." said James. "Allow me."

"Well, excuse me for not really wanting to slap a girl I just knocked out cold." Remus retorted. Didn't I tell you that he was the perfect gentleman?

The slaps James delivered were harder than Remus', but she still didn't wake her up.

Sirius tried, and they were hard. Lily winced at the force of her slaps. He did one after the other.

It looked to Sirius as if it wasn't working, but Casey started to stir, and she was beginning to feel the force of Sirius senseless slapping at her face. And, man do they hurt. Sirius didn't notice because he was slapping so hard and so fast. Casey could hear Lily urging him to stop, but the alps kept coming. Her eyes shot open and she delivered one of the hardest slaps she'd ever delivered on anyone on Sirius.

It hit Sirius with so much force that he fell flat on his face. Casey stood up, clutching both her cheeks. She didn't feel the pain in her head yet, but it was starting to come back. Both her cheeks were now red, and it hurts.

She stood up, but fell on the floor again. She clutched on of her cheeks in one hand and he back of her head with another. It didn't help that she was soaking and shivering either. James and Remus were checking to see if Sirius was alive or conscious. Lily got some thick towels to wrap Casey in.

"Oh, my head" said Casey. Somehow, she thought. I have a massive headache and somehow I am soaking wet. "What happened?"

Lily told her that she passed and how the boys tried to wake her up. In the end, Casey was shooting Sirius some dark looks. Sirius had a red hand print across his left cheek. And he was looking like he wished he was some place else.

Which is precisely what she was thinking. Why can't you apparate when you're sixteen? he thought in frustration.

But there was a piece missing. "Why did I pass out?" said Casey.

Everyone except Casey looked pointedly at Remus. Casey followed everyone's look and her eyebrows went up when she saw that they were all looking at Remus.

Remus gulped. There was no point in lying now. He grinned nervously at Casey.

"Well," he said. "You see that book by the window? Lying on the floor?"

Casey turned to see the book open at the floor next to the window.

"Well, I hit you with it. I meant to throw it out the window but I didn't see you there so you got hit instead, and then I realized that it was a hardback copy of the book and that it was seven hundred pages and I wasn't sure if you were awake or not and then you fell on the floor and your eyes were closed and -"

He had to stop sometime.

"Well, that's it." he said meekly.

"Let me get this straight." said Casey. "You threw a hardback copy of a book across the room that was suppose to go out the window but instead it hit me and knocked me out?"

Remus nodded. Casey exploded.

"HAVE YOU GONE BLIND??? I WAS THERE AND YOU DIDN'T SEE ME? I WAS COVERING PRACTICALLY HALF THE WINDOW FOR PETE'S SAKE."

Lily's, James', and Remus' eyebrows shot up. That was more or less exactly the same words that Sirius said a while ago.

"Casey, calm down." said Sirius.

"And you!" she said, pointing at Sirius. "You drenched me from head to toe with ice cold water and what's more, slapped me a million times! Now you're telling me to calm down?!"

"I had to wake you up somehow!" Thanks to me, you're awake!"

"Thanks to you? Thanks to you I'm wet and me cheeks hurt!"

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah!"

And no words were exchanged after that. They just glared at each other.

But that wouldn't last either. Sirius had that playful spark in his eyes that will stop people from being angry at him for a long time and casey was no exception. He saw her expression soften and Sirius added an 'I'm-sorry-let's-be-friends-again' smile on his face. Casey gave up.

"Oh, fine, you're forgiven!" said Casey. Sirius grinned.

Remus cleared his throat. "What about me? I am sorry." he said.

"Yeah, you're forgiven too." said Casey. Remus grinned. "Boredom can get to us all."

"I say we watch one of the movies now!" said James.

"After dinner." said Lily. No one dared to argue.