Such Sweethearts

By Lily Orange

Summary: How did James Potter and Lily Evans fall in love? And how did their friends fare romantically? Will Sirius "I have rampant hormones" Black ever settle down? Will Lizzie and a certain Marauder ever admit their feelings for one another? And will Rebecca "Sexy French Girl" Villade ever find true love?

Disclaimer: Sadly I'm not JK Rowling and don't own any of the characters, locations or general things you recognise from Harry Potter.

A/N: Merry Christmas :) I hope you had a great day yesterday and will continue to have a fab holiday. Thanks to vanillabean18, sarlovesoccer, Rider Arya Svit-Kona, lily-james-forevs and shroomy-eyes for reviewing and thanks to junebugbug96 for adding my story to your alert subscription! I hope you like this chapter, it's a little short, but there's a lot of Lily/James plus some of what I hope is comedy!

Please check out my new story The Complete Misadventures of the Marauders - hopefully also funny :)


Chapter Twenty-Seven

BACK TO REALITY

The next morning, I woke up, and I was staring up at the clouds. I thought it was a dream – a calm, peaceful dream in which I was floating through the air.

Unfortunately, the air was hard. I was lying on something which was stone cold, and by the feel of it, was stone. I was groggy, and couldn't work out why I was on some stone, floating through the sky.

Then I heard some mumbling coming from beside me. It sounded like sleep-talking, and it didn't really make sense. Somebody was saying my name over and over again, and other words scattered in between: "Lily...catch the snitch!...Lily...solemnly swear no good...Lily...why why Delilah...Lily...I want a gold toilet..."

At the mentioning of a gold toilet, sudden realisation hit me. I wasn't dreaming, I had fallen asleep at the top of the tower with James next to me. And he was sleep talking. I rolled over to look at his face. He was so cute when sleeping – his messy black hair was even messier, his glasses were next to his head and he was grinning. He even grinned in his sleep.

I lay back, smiling. This was perfect. When James woke up, we would go down to breakfast, receive our timetables, escort the first years to their first class and then go to our own. It was all so exciting. Just to check, I glanced at my watch.

It said twenty past eight.

Breakfast finished at half eight, lessons began at nine and James and I should have been down there already.

"James!" I said, shaking him violently. His eyes snapped open, and he looked groggy.

"Wha'?" he asked moodily.

"James, sweetie, we're late," I said soothingly.

"Stuff school," he said in a tired voice.

"It's twenty-past eight James."

"So?"

"We've got to take the first years to their lessons, James."

"So?"

"We're missing breakfast, James."

"So?"

"We won't get any food, James."

"Holy Merlin!" he yelped, and jumped up. We opened the trap door, and raced down the stairs. I didn't even stop to examine my reflection in the mirror as we left the Heads' common room and raced through the corridors in the direction of the Great Hall.

We skidded into the Great Hall, and hurried to the Gryffindor table, where we joined the Marauders and Rhiannon, Jasper, Eden, Lizzie and Rebecca, at twenty-seven minutes past, just in time to grab some toast and cereal.

"Merlin, Prongs, you look dishevelled! As does fine Lily here!" Sirius commented, smirking, as I pushed my hair out of my face and began to munch on the toast I had plonked onto my plate.

James just grunted in reply.

"Where were you two?"

"Lily and I fell asleep and we didn't wake up till about five minutes ago," James said.

Sirius' eyes widened in pure shock. "OH MY MERLIN PRONGS! DID YOU DO LILY LAST NIGHT?" he bellowed, and the whole hall went quiet. I blushed and kept my head down whilst three-hundred pairs of eyes stared at James and I.

"NO!" James yelled back.

"Phew, mate, had me worried there," he winked. He sickened me.

"Sirius, you are actually disgusting. Look that word up in the dictionary, and you'll find 'Sirius Black' written as the definition," Lizzie commented, smirking.

"I second that," I agreed, sipping my pumpkin juice.

"Sorry," he apologised, yet still smiling like a madman. "Had to be said. You never know."

"Padfoot, will you stop implying dirty things about me and my girlfriend?" James asked in a weary voice.

"Of course, dear Prongsy, I'll write a formal letter of apology too, addressed to Mr Prongs, Mrs Prongs and the possible baby Prongs..." Sirius grinned.

James threw an apple at him for this, but was smiling all the same. The apple bounced off his forehead, and knocked him backwards onto the floor. His eyes were shut, and we all gathered round him.

"Padfoot!" Remus said concernedly, and slapped his cheek. Sirius didn't move.

"Sirius!" Lizzie squealed, shaking him violently.

"Careful, Lizzie, he'll be a milkshake if you carry on," James quipped, but Lizzie gave him a death stare that silenced him quickly.

"You knocked him out!" Lizzie growled.

"Well we all know he'll go to heaven," Remus smirked, knowing full well that Sirius was not dead.

"I know, he was such a saint-like soul," James crooned.

"Saint Sirius..." Jasper remarked.

"POTTER! LUPIN! PETTIGREW! RATHBONE! EVANS! ARMSTRONG! THOMAS! PATTERSON! VILLADE!" we heard Professor McGonagall bark. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"Er, Sirius has been knocked out, Professor," James confessed.

"Pardon?" she blinked, not quite comprehending what he said.

"James knocked Sirius out when he threw an apple at his head, Professor," I explained. Then she clocked Sirius lying unconscious on the floor.

"Mr Potter!" she exclaimed, whilst James looked sheepish. "You'll need to carry him to the Hospital Wing!"

"Okay, Professor," James replied, and he, Remus and Jasper picked Sirius up.

"Not you, Mr Potter, you have to escort the first years to their first lessons," Professor McGonagall pointed out, and Peter scurried forward to help carry Sirius.

A few seconds later, Sirius' eyes opened slowly.

"Am I in heaven?" he asked in a serene, dreamy voice.

We all looked at each other, amused, and Professor McGonagall looked positively confused at Sirius' sudden awakening.

"Are you an angel?" he asked James, who shook his head.

"Are you my guardian angel?" he asked Professor McGonagall. She looked outraged. "Are you a saint? You have a saint-like look about you."

"Mr Black, kindly refrain from asking stupid questions and get along to the Hospital Wing so Madame Pomfrey can sort you out," she finally said.

"Ahh, Poppy, my real guardian angel. This one's an imposter, you know," he said to Jasper, who tried rather successfully to suppress a smile.

Jasper, Remus and Peter carried Sirius off, and Lizzie, Rhiannon, Eden and Rebecca followed him.

"Come on, we'd better go and assemble the first years," James grinned, grabbing my hand and pulling me into the Entrance Hall.

The first years were standing in a big huddle, and after some asking, we discovered that the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws had Herbology, and the Gryffindors and Slytherins had Potions.

"I'll take the Gryffindors and Slytherins, if you take the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws," James said, and I agreed.

"Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws, follow me!" I called, and they followed me out into the Hogwarts grounds in the direction of the greenhouses.

*

"Lily, may I ask you zumthing?" Rebecca said, and she slid into the seat next to me.

"Yes, of course," I replied – it was just after lunch and I had a free period, and like the exciting individual I was, I was spending it in the library completing a Transfiguration essay that McGonagall had already set.

"Does Remus like me?" she asked uncertainly. Her body language was tense and she looked anxious.

From what I could ascertain, Remus did wholeheartedly like her. But something was keeping him back, and I knew what that something was, but I didn't feel that I could divulge it to Rebecca.

Remus Lupin was a werewolf.

"I think he does, Rebecca, and I think you should tell him that you like him," I replied.


The last little bit is basically leading up to what happens in the next chapter - please review for it as it involves Lily making a discovery as to what her boyfriend and his fellow Marauders get up to every full moon and some Remus and Rebecca... hehe, thanks for reading, please review!

:) x Lily Orange x (: