The Gang

The Gang, 3

by MoonyMeggers

"Attention, please!" Prof. McGonagall called for the prefect meeting. But as she looked around, she seriously doubted if the meeting would ever start. There was Snape - annoying git, but still brilliant - chattering on about how he didn't see why prefects didn't have the power to suspend anyone. He had several at his every whim... too bad, she thought. But for the other group that was any sort of a group at all (others were milling about in twos and threes) contained the gang. Lily, yelling at Potter; Sirius, tying Sari's hair into a knot; Remus and Willow trying to sort out and calm down their friends, and Sirius' fan club all trying to get a good freeze-frame of his butt. Exasperated, Minnie pulled out her wand. She had only been a teacher since the beginning of this year, and her main problem was that all the students had no respect for her because she was just their chum. They didn't take her seriously. Well... she hated to do this - actually, not really - but she waved her wand in an infinity motion while saying, "Those brats they are, those brats they be, either lost in time or frozen they see!" With a brilliant golden light encasing the room, all had taken seats and stared empty-eyed towards her. "That's better," She murmured.

Lily and James glanced around, startled. Minnie - no, Prof. McGonagall - was sitting behind the briefing desk, her head in her arms. They looked at each other, nodded, then stood. "Ahem." James cleared his throat. "We are all here to discuss Quidditch. We need to figure out the schedule of events, and all the little details." The meeting went on in an orderly fashion, topics tackled and all taken care of. However, it was all Minnie could do but to stare. Lost in Time, Lily and James would be.

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"Psst! Psst! Lily!"

Lily rolled over. "Wha...?" She rubbed her eyes. "James!"

James sat there, looking eiry in the dark. His pupils dialated, his hair always a mess, and... his head floating above her.

"Right now? But it's two in the morning... I don't want to go anywhere..." Sirius appeared on the window, and as he climbed in, Remus said, "We aren't. We'll all stay here." He ducked his head back into Willow's curtains.

"What!?"

Sirius grinned. "We just finished the Plan." he said ominusly.

"What Plan?" Lily asked groggily, not necessarily caring.

"You know. The thing... well, it's not there anymore..."

"Sirius, what are you on? You shouldn't be talking about yourself - or lack of, ahem, self - in front of the girlies." Remus said, between breathes with Willow.

"What girlies?" James retorted.

"Well, considering Remie is the only real man in this room -"

Willow was cut off by Sari throwing a pillow at her. "Will, no one wants to hear about Lupin, as much as you love to hear yourself talk. Remember before we fell asleep?" Sari scowled.

"Actually, Will, it was good." Lily put in. Talking to Remus now, "She talks about you before she goes to sleep, during her sleep, etc... but I like it."

"Why?" James asked, taken aback.

"Because, it puts them to sleep!" Sirius shouted.

Lily said nothing. *It's nice to hear that someone has a life... with another person... something that's sweet... and tragic.* She ended darkly.

They all sat there for awhile. Just sat. Even Willow had made Remus stop for awhile.

"Hey! You know what I found?" Lily blurted out before she thought it through, "a window!"

"Congrats, Lil." Sirius drawled in a dry voice.

"Shut up!" Sari called.

Lily smirked. She was pretty sure Sari was only offended because it was Sirius... silly chicken. Then Lily started laughing. Sirius does kinda look like a chicken...

They all looked quizzically at Lily. "So... the window?"

"Oh. Right. Well, all of you boys have to leave. I need to get dressed." They didn't move, of course. "Now."

Five minutes later, the whole lot of them were scurrying across the grounds. There were far too many of them to fit under the cloak, so only Sirius, James, and Lily used it. The others were less likely to get in big trouble if caught, but with these three... well, Sari didn't want to be serving detention forever.

"Where is it? -- Are we there yet? -- What are we looking for? -- I'm cold. -- Ow! Get your elbow out of my side! -- Will you two shut up! I've got to concentrate... I don't know if I can find it in the dark..."

After another ten minutes of James' and Sirius' constant babble, Lily threw off the cloak and stormed off. She stopped suddenly, though, and motioned for James and Sirius to stop spooking Willow. "Here." She announced.

The others gathered around, ending up in a circle around the window. It was just that... a four paned, decorated bordered, window. The weird thing was that it was floating above ground, horizontally, just hanging there...

That's all for now... please review.... I'll love you forever... I know there are inconsistencies between my work and JKR's, but it's all good. I don't claim to be her... or as good as her... and frankly, some things are just boring if we can't deviate from the norm. So I'll put up the next chapter, I promise, in no later than a week... but here's the deal. The sooner I put up the next chapter, the less likely the one after that will be quick... I'm to addicted to all of your fanfics to always be writing my own. Speaking of, check out my favorite author's list. I personally endorse their work. And if you haven't read Cassandra Claire's Draco Dormiens/Sinister, you have no idea how good fanfic can get.