Chapter 5
Author's Note: First of all, I would like
to thank all reviewers. Secondly, thanks to my co-author, Savvy (yeah, we know
our minds work alike; like rusty old steel traps that is! J). Uh, the next part will be coming out soon,
I guess.
Disclaimer: You know what characters are mine. All the rest belong to J.K. Rowling J.
The
next day, James and Sirius wouldn't confess to the previous night's
events.
"Good morning, Red Rosie," Sirius
said cheerfully as he sat down next to Lily at breakfast. She glared at him and
turned back to her toast and sausage.
"Hey Red Rosie," James smirked when
he sat down across from Lily, "who dun it?" Lily poked her tongue out at James
and left the room.
"What's eating her?" Peter Pettigrew
asked as he slid into Lily's vacant chair. Peter had been gone the night before
so he had missed the disarray.
"Nothing's eating her,"
Sirius giggled, "but was covering her!" Peter looked blankly at James and
Sirius who were on the brink of hyperventilating from laughing so hard. He
shook his head and took a piece of toast off the platter.
Lily stormed down the corridors to
the portrait.
"Password?" the Fat Lady asked.
"Blabberwort," Lily said grumpily.
She climbed into the Gryffindor Commonroom. Few Gryffidors, including Maria and
Remus, were still there. Lily crankily joined Maria and Remus by the fire.
"What's wrong, Lily?" Remus who was
looking a bit off color asked.
"James and Sirius," Lily said
irritably.
"What'd they do this time?"
Maria asked exasperatedly.
"You sleep through everything don't
you?" Lily asked crossly as James and Sirius entered through the portrait hole.
"Oi! Red Rosie! We're gonna be late
for Transfiguration," James said as Peter came in through the portrait hole
after much difficultly.
"Huh? Red Rosie?" he asked James.
"If you're going to listen in on conversations,
listen to the hole thing as my mum use to tell me," Sirius said with a sigh.
Lily continued to ignore the difficult duo. However, she took heed of their
warning and went up to her dorm to grab her bag, along with extra ink incase
some happened to fall on James' papers. Lily exited the Commonroom with
Maria while James, Sirius, Remus, and, after lots of difficultly, Peter were
behind them.
"Sometimes," Lily whispered to
Maria, "I just want to hex their mouths off!" Sirius came up to Lily and put
his arm across her shoulders.
"You know, Red Rosie, you and Jamsie
would make such a cute couple!" he said to her softly so that only she
heard. With her bag in hand, Lily swung at Sirius and hit him in the stomach.
He doubled over in pain, while Lily and Maria walked on to class, trying to not
laugh too hard.
When they reached the
classroom, Professor McGonagall had a smug look on her face. Lily glanced at
Maria as they sat down and pulled out their books and parchment. As soon and the
late stranglers hurried in, McGonagall made an announcement.
"We shall be having a pop quiz
today," she exclaimed, glaring at those who dared to groan. When there was
silence, and all the desks were cleared, she passed out the quizzes and the
cheating-proof quills. James, who was sitting behind Lily, leaned forward.
"Are you going to use red ink,
Rosie?" James teased. Lily didn't answer him, because at that moment, Professor
McGonagall came by with the quizzes.
"No talking, Mr. Potter, Miss Evans,
or I will be forced to take up your sheet and take points from Gryffindor," she
said strictly to them.
"Yes, ma'am," Lily mumbled, while
James didn't say anything. She pulled out her extra bottle of ink and placed it
on the edge of her desk, then got to work on her quiz. An hour later, Lily
heard James sigh happily.
"Done," he muttered under his
breath. A wicked grin crept up on Lily's face. Carefully, so as not to spill
any, she unscrewed the lid off her extra bottle of orange ink. Quickly, when
McGonagall wasn't looking, she tipped the whole thing over James' paper.
"Lily!" he said loudly, standing up
as the ink started to pour off the desk and into his lap. She grinned and went
back to working on her quiz.
Ten minutes later, Lily and James
sat arguing in Professor McGonagall's office.
"Why did you do that?" James asked
angrily.
"Because of the red paint and
roses!" Lily shot back.
"I didn't do that!" James argued.
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!" At that moment, Professor
McGonagall walked in.
"Thirty points from Gryffindor. Now,
explain yourselves," she said sitting down behind her desk.
"She poured ink-" James began.
"He covered me in paint-"
"After I had just finished my quiz-"
"And thorny roses while I was in
bed!"
"Stop! Mr. Potter, please go first,"
McGonagall said massaging her temples.
"Well, last night, someoneĀ-" James
began, but Lily interrupted him.
"It was you and Sirius!"
"Miss Evans, please wait until your
turn!" McGonagall said, "go on, James."
"As I was saying," he glared at
Lily, "last night someone, not Sirius and defiantly NOT me, snuck into Lily's
dorm and dumped a bucket of red paint and roses on her. She came out screaming
for Sirius and I. We came out and started laughing when we saw that she was
covered in red paint with roses on her.
"She blamed it on us in front of the
whole Gryffindor house. Of course, we said we didn't do it because neither of
us did do it."
"You are a liar, James Potter! I
know you did it!" Lily interrupted. They continued to argue back and forth for
several minutes, until Professor McGonagall was forced to place the full body
bind on both of them.
"I am going to get Professor
Dumbledore. I want to hear that you two resolved this, or Gryffindor will lose
even more points!" she said, sounding like she was on her last nerve as she
stomped out the door. While McGonagall was gone, James and Lily were throwing
daggers at each other from their eyes. Finally, Professor McGonagall and
Professor Dumbledore walked in.
"They're all yours, Professor,"
McGonagall said, and hurried off to her next lesson. Dumbledore took the spell
off them.
"Explain, Miss Evans," Dumbledore
said as he sat down in McGonagall's chair.
"Well," Lily said, fidgeting
nervously, "last night someone whose initials I think are J.P and S.B., snuck
into my dorm last night and poured red paint on me along with roses with huge
thorns.
"Naturally, I came down to the
Commonroom screaming their names. After all, they had just woken me up at a wee
hour in the morning. They came down and started to laugh at me and wouldn't
admit to what they'd done.
"Then, I decided to give them the
cold shoulder this morning and ignore them. One of them came up with the
'ingenious' idea to call me Red Rosie. Well, I continued to ignore them. Then,
on our way to Transfiguration Sirius continued to taunt me by, uh, saying, erm,
stuff. In Transfiguration, before Professor McGonagall was in the room, James
teased me by asking me if I was going to use red ink on my test. Then when he
was done, I, erm, accidentally-"
"Accidentally? Yeah right! More like
on purpose!" James howled, "and we didn't do it!"
"Hush, Potter!" Lily said harshly to
James, then turned back to Professor Dumbledore, "where was I? Oh yeah, my
bottle of ink found its way onto his quiz and well, we're here."
"Now, Mr. Potter, its your turn," Dumbledore
said, turning his penetrating blue stare onto James.
"I agree with everything, except,
it was no accident that she poured her ink on my paper and Sirius and I didn't
sneak into her dorm last night, or anything!" James said, glaring at Lily who
was glaring right back.
"I see," Dumbledore said
thoughtfully, "you will both receive detentions tomorrow morning. You may go." Lily and James got up to leave, and an evil
smirk crept onto James' face. He hurried of to who knows where as Lily headed
on to the Commonroom.
