Disclaimer: I don't own any characters that you don't recognize from the Harry Potter Series.
A/N: Hello peoples! School starts tomorrow, its so sad, I haven't finished my summer work yet D: Oh, and the first part of this chapter was made, because I thought it was getting a bit too serious, just added a Lady Sovereign element to this fic. You probably don't get it, but you can just look up stickering on youtube and you'll see :D...
Slavery is Illegal
Chapter 14:
Stickering
No one will ever understand anything,
That this love is artificial honey,
Artificial honey, artificial ice,
Artificial paradise, quickly turn it on.
-Robot by t.A.T.u
Lena hasn't been talking about the fainting business at all. I've been thinking of the reasons as to why she fainted. I even asked Remus about fainting, he said it could be from lack of sleep, low blood pressure, or emotional distress.
How he knew this, God if I know, but I couldn't really pinpoint the reason. As far as I know it could be either lack of sleep or emotional distress.
It could be the former, because we were wandering about at 5 am in the morning, and maybe she was really tired? Though I think that its more likely that its the latter, we were talking about Regulus... Maybe...
"Sirius," James asked, "Why have you been so serious lately? Its getting annoying, and do you realize that we haven't done anything fun this term, have you?"
"Actually, I think we've done a lot of things," Remus muttered.
"Oh yea, like what?" I asked deciding to forget about the fainting business.
"Like when you cut off all of the Slytherin girls' hair and attached it to the boys," Remus pointed out, "Or when you played knock down ginger at 3 in the morning, McGonagall knows it was you two by the way, she just doesn't have proof..."
"That was small fun, we have to do something big!" James said enthusiastically.
"Like what? You've already caused enough trouble. The only safe haven available is the library, because you two have a phobia of it."
"The library!" I said wondering why we had never done anything there just yet.
"Yea, what should we do?" James asked thoughtfully as Remus groaned.
"Let's... Burn it down," I suggested, "it'd be good riddance, wouldn't it?"
"Nah, I was thinking more of the lines of a water fight in there..."
"How about we rearrange all the books so no one can find what they are looking for?" Peter asked.
How lame is that?
"Or we could enchant the screaming books to follow any student that enters the library!" James said completely disregarding Peter's suggestion.
"No, I think we should go stickering," I said.
"Stickering? Ah, I see what you mean... But why limit ourselves to the library...?" James asked smiling, "I think we ought to do the whole school, don't you?"
--
"Sirius, whats that in your bag?" Lena asked as she looked at my bag suspiciously, when I entered Filch's office.
"Its... Nothing," I smirked.
"It doesn't look like nothing-"
"Just some stickers we made,"
"Why would you make stickers?" she asked sounding interested, "What does it say?"
"Property of the Marauders, The Marauders Wuz Hurr, stuff like that," I decided to tell her, "We're going to go stickering,"
"What's stickering?" she asked her eyebrows furrowing.
"You'll see." I decided to go for the mysteriousity technique.
"Oh, alright," she shrugged and went back to her work.
--
She isn't supposed to do that.
She's supposed to beg to know
Bugger, she will see what stickering is... If I could just get this onto her back... There! Perfect... Hah, she's the Property of the Marauders now!
"Why are you laughing so hard?"
"...nothing,"
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"POTTER! BLACK!" I heard a shriek the following day.
"What is it, Snivellus? " James asked lightheartedly, as we watched the git fume covered in pink stickers that read 'I Lurve the Marauders'.
"You-" he began speaking, but was cut off when Lily suddenly marched up and pushed him away.
"Potter, Black! Why on earth would you cover my textbooks with your ridiculous stickers-"
"Who said that we did it?" I asked nonchalantly, "Besides, you can still read-"
"No, I can't, some prat decided to scribble I love you, Lily- J.P., over every page,"
That idiot.
"Er... It could be some other person with the initials J.P. Who also happens to be obsessed with you..."
She looked at me incredulously, "What kind of prat do you take me for?"
"Evans!" James cried, "Do you want to go-"
"No, Potter I don't want to go anywhere with you," Lily snapped and stalked off.
"James," Remus said looking at his pathetic friend, "I actually think your plan would work a bit-"
"What plan?" I asked looking at the two half interestedly, "Are you sure it could work, this is Prongs we're talking about-"
"I," said James, "Am a genius, its two birds. One stone."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Remus looked at him, "you didn't mention anything else-"
"Its a secret,"
I rolled my eyes, in about... say, an hour, James will definitely have started moaning about his plan to me and how it should have worked, and blah blah blah.
--
Quidditch practice was alright, though some of our team mates were put off because their brooms were covered in stickers.
Pity.
Lena's actually good at Quidditch, I was a bit surprised, but there you go.
She's so adorable when she's working hard. Her hair goes nuts when she's playing though, but she puts them into these plaited pigtails that make her look like a-
"OW! Bugger, what was that for?" I snapped at James who had thrown a Quaffle that knocked me in the face.
"You were supposed to catch that," he rolled his eyes, "and you should really concentrate rather than stare at Lena."
"I am not staring-"
"Whatever you say Padfoot," James shrugged.
"I'm not staring,"
"Yes you are,"
"OK, fine, maybe I am, but look at her!" I said indicating to Lena who looked around in alarm to see who I was referring to.
"Mm... If you fancy her so much, why haven't you asked her out yet,?" James asked.
"Because..." I muttered.
In all honesty, I don't want to tell James the reason was because she fancies him. That'll be like admitting that she doesn't fancy me.
"Come on Pad-"
"Are we going to practice or not?" asked Laura, impatiently.
--
"Padfoot, if you don't hurry, someone else is going to take her," James said in an annoyingly warning voice, "she does... er... have nice-"
"I get it Prongs, but I am not asking her out," I snapped, hearing James talking about Lena like that is not helpful.
"So, what was your plan James?" Peter asked.
"Yes, do tell, I'm surprised you could hold it in for so long, a whole five hours!"
"And I'm going to keep 'holding it in' for much longer," James declared.
"Oh fine, but when you fail miserably, be sure to tell me so that I can laugh in your face," I said rolling my eyes.
"What is that?" James asked Remus suddenly, pointing at a rectangular metal looking thing in his hand.
"Not a clue, I found it in the common room," he muttered throwing the gadget aside.
"When are we going to do Infiltrate the Lesbian's Dormitory Three?" asked James with a smirk.
"Are you obsessed with the lesbianism thing?" I asked looking at him incredulously, "And why do we need to break into the girl's dorm for? Don't you remember what happened last time?"
"It wasn't not my fault that you overreacted Pads, besides, we didn't really find much, this Ivan person is supposed to be her brother right?"
"Yea, but-"
"If you're not going to come with me then fine," James said with a fake sigh of disappointment, "I'll just die, never knowing which knicker drawer was Lily's,"
"Pity," Remus muttered.
"ANYWAYS," James said clearly insulted by Remus' reply, "I'm going to go to the common room for a while, I'll see you guys later,"
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There's a rumor floating around, and as a typical rumor in Hogwarts, it was spreading like wildfire. Admittedly, the only thing I caught was-
"Did you hear?"
"Yes, I heard!"
"I can't believe it!"
"Me neither!"
Which really doesn't help.
"What are they talking about Moony?"
"I don't really care actually, this means they moved on for our supposed secret gay love," Remus shuddered.
A girl behind him squealed, "I knew that you two were together!"
"Bugger..." Remus muttered.
"Hey, what's this rumor everyone's talking about?" I asked the girl.
"What? You haven't heard?" she asked batting her eyelashes at me.
Pity, she's much too orange for my taste.
"Obviously, I've heard something, but no one is clarifying what it actually is,"
"But, you're his best mate!" She said with a dramatic gasp, clearly enjoying the attention I was giving her.
"Get on with it," I snapped. I was getting annoyed.
"Potter gave up on that Evans!" she said with an annoying squeal, "He's asked out her best mate, can you believe it?"
"What?" I asked staring at her completely dumbfounded.
"You know, that weird Katina girl with the Russian accent,"
"She doesn't have that much of an accent-"
"Yes, she does, you know when she came here in first year, she didn't speak a word of English," the girl said flicking her hair with a look of distaste, "I heard that she was a total lesbo too, but looks like she's moved on from Evans to Potter!"
"James wouldn't go out with Lena, he's too obsessed with Lily-"
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," the girl said nodding solemnly, "I know you saw them snog, and he did say that she was a good snogger. I bet she's a whore in disguise!"
I glowered at her, and snapped, "She is not-"
"I'm Lea by the way," she cut me abruptly and gave me a sugary smile, "I heard that you-"
"Whatever, I'll see you later," I muttered and dragged Remus, who was still bugging out about the gay rumor still floating around, into the Great Hall and walked straight up to James.
"What are you doing?" I asked him, "Are you spreading rumors again?"
"Hey Padfoot, no I'm just eating some eggs-" James said pointing to his plate innocently.
"Don't be thick, you prat, I'm talking about the rumors that you and Lena are-"
"Going out?" James finished with a shrug, "you weren't planning on asking her out, so I asked her out instead,"
"What? I can not believe it, I-" I paused, "Wait, this is your plan? You're using Lena to get with Lily aren't you?"
"Don't be ridiculous Padfoot, maybe I really did decide to give up on Evans, its been a whole year-" James said apathetically, "And Lena is a good snogger-"
"You-" I narrowed my eyes at my so called mate. He is so going to die for this-
"OI! LENA!" James shouted when Lena entered the Great Hall for breakfast. She looked at Lily uncertainly, but walked over to us and sat down across from me and next to James. Lily's face was impassive, but she too came over to us and sat down beside Remus.
"Er... Good morning," Lena muttered.
"Morning, what do you want to eat?" James asked Lena, but he constantly kept glancing at Lily.
"I'm not that hungry actually, maybe a bit of toast-"
"Here," James said shoving loads of bacon and eggs onto her plate. I could hardly restrain my laughter, he's acting like a doting mother. This is definitely one of his idiotic plans-
Lily shot me a look and I struggled to keep my face straight as Lena picked at her food uncertainly wondering why she was given bacon when she had clearly asked for toast.
The daily owls swooped down, and I noticed that Lena had received another package and a thick letter, but she seemed quite confused by this and I heard her murmur, "They aren't supposed to send me anything this week.."
"Who sent it to you?" James asked in what I believe he thought was a possessive tone.
"Er.. its just Yulia- I mean Julia," she muttered opening the enveloped and saw two pieces of paper fall out. She grabbed one and I snatched the other before James could.
Dear Elena,
If you've received this letter than please, thank Yulya for being so kind as to send this to you. I remember you telling me that you went to a boarding school in England, and so I decided to write my letter to you in English.
I'm sure that you are surprised to receive a letter from me, but I have recently seen the polished clip and wanted to congratulate you again. You did very well and I was more than happy to work with such a talented lady as yourself. The reason for this letter is because I can't stop thinking about our scene, I do not know about you, but I felt that we had a connection. I'm moving to London soon, and I've heard from Ivan that you live there, if you ever want to go out together, don't hesitate to contact me.
-Nikolay
P.S. I've also sent a couple of photographs from the clip that Ivan sent to me. I've made copies for you.
Now, that was disturbing. He's moving to London for Lena? And I thought James was obsessive.
I looked at the unopened package and reached for it.
"Sirius, give me that letter," Lena said suddenly, putting down the other sheet, and I turned to grab it.
Unfortunately, this one was in Russian, and I couldn't understand a thing. I glanced at Lena who was slowly turning red as she read the letter.
"What is it?" James asked grabbing the package.
Photographs of the clip? What is a clip? Work? Blaergh??
"No! Don't open that!" Lena practically shouted into James ear when he had unwrapped the package to reveal a stack of photographs. I leaned over and glanced at it and saw that it was a muggle picture of a carousel and if I hadn't been looking I wouldn't have spotted Lena on the carousel with-
"Give that back," Lena shrieked looking like she was going to freak out, "Accio photographs!"
The photographs flew out of James' hand and neatly into Lena's who promptly tapped it with her wand and set the photographs on fire.
"What the- Aguamenti!" James cried trying to save the photographs, he wanted to see what it was as much as I did. I whispered "Accio Photographs!" and the photographs flew toward me, but not as neatly as Lena, several of the photographs scattered. Lily, James, Lena, and I all started grabbing as many half burnt photographs as they could.
"Burn them Lily!" I heard Lena cry.
"What is this outrageous behavior?" McGonagall snapped, where the bloody hell did she came from-
I wonder if she's still bitter about the sticker thing-
"Ah... Potter and Black," she said with a smile shaking her head in mock shame, "Evans, Lupin, Katina, Pettigrew- all of you, detention,"
"What? But-" Lena sputtered.
"No buts Katina, you already have detentions during the week,"' McGonagall muttered, "What has gotten into you this year?"
"I..." Lena started but said nothing and just glared at the professor when she walked off.
"I... er..." Lena mumbled and glanced at Lily, "Er... I'm not hungry anymore, I think I'll go to class now,"
She stood up and left her plate of bacon and eggs covered in half melted photographs.
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Lunch detention has been dreadfully boring lately, Lena seemed to feel like she's had enough detentions and wouldn't want anymore so she's not going to talk or break any other rules. What rubbish, who in the world works hard in detention? Not I, that's for sure.
"So..." I said as carefully as I could, "how are you and James doing?"
She looked up at me, sighed, and muttered, "I know,"
"What?" I asked wondering what the bloody hell she was talking about.
"I know about the plan," she muttered quietly flipping through a dusty folder.
"Er... what plan?"
"Don't play dumb Sirius, he already told me that the only reason-" Lena choked slightly, "-the only reason, he asked me out was because he-"
"So, does this mean that you're going to break it off with James?" I asked quickly.
"...no, I... don't think I will," she said a little slowly.
"What?" I looked at her incredulously, "He's using you!"
"I... I like him a lot Sirius," she said her voice shaking slightly, "And I know that this plan isn't going to make Lily like him, so... I was kind of hoping... that maybe, if he could kind of see what kind of girlfriend I make, he can-"
"Are you kidding?" I asked looking at her, "That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, that kind of rubbish only happens in books, not real life,"
"So what?" Lena snapped, her blue eyes were clearly at the brink of tears, "Is it so wrong to hope-"
"It's stupid is what it is,"
"Shut up Sirius," she said sharply, "I have had it with you, why have you been bothering me so much this year? What have I ever done to you? I hate you Sirius, everything you do and say is so mean, I-"
Lena stood up and seemed at a loss for words. She then stormed out of the office, and didn't come back.
I was startled at first, but her words were still burning into my mind.
So.
She hates me, huh?
A/N: Yes, I didn't put up those t.A.T.u lyrics randomly D: Oh, and I know this is random, but did you know that your eyes dilate when you see someone attractive? That is so cool, but not many people will notice it unless they knew what they were looking for...And someone told me that the story's a bit confusing, I'm not sure if you're talking about the plot, or the way I write, but if there is anything confusing just ask please :D ! I almost forgot; it isn't clear why McGonagall is mad about the stickering until next chapter. I was actually going to put next chapter first, but things change..
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