Night 4 Marauders in Hospital
By Admiral Albia

A/n; Well, read the title. And the summary. Basically, the Marauders are going to be in hospital for a while... and they're driving Doctor Lily wild! Any ideas for their pranks (seven nights, seven pranks), please send `em in!
Disclaimer; I do not own Harry Potter etc., they belong to J.K. Rowling. (sarcastic voice; "Oh my God!") Don't mind the portrait, he's just bored...

Night 4
"Waah! Hey, you said I'd be able to walk, not fall over!"
"James, dear, how long have you been in bed now?"
"Uh... three and a half days..."
"Exactly. You'll improve. While I have my suspicions about saying this to a Marauder, try to walk about. Exercise your legs. But DON'T LEAVE THIS ROOM! Understand?"
"Hmm... yes, I do believe I get the gist of what you're saying..."
"Good..."
"What about a large stag? Would you let a large stag wander about?"
"James, you failed human Transfiguration. I saw your results. Don't even consider it, or you'll be in bed again." And Lily left the room. James snorted.
"That's all she knows." He began to switch shapes so fast there was only just time to see that he had changed, before finally settling on human again. "As a matter of fact, I failed it on purpose because Face-Ache was getting suspicious..."
"You did all right in your N.E.W.Ts though, didn't you?"
"Exactly... I got stuck on Summoning Charms, though. Odd, that."

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"Gillyweed?"
"Check."
"Swimming trunks?"
"Check."
"Air bubble spell?"
"Check."
"Water balloons?"
"Check..."
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Getting around was harder without the Invisibility Cloak, which all of the Marauders' combined charm hadn't been able to get back from Lily. Eventually, though, it was decided that Remus just had a lot of pets; something which, unfortunately, wasn't going to work on one witch.
"So, Remus. You have Gillyweed in one pocket and you're wearing swimming trunks. You have a dog, a stag and a rat on the bed, you're supposed to be responsible yet all the others have disappeared, and this dog is actually near you, but you've said yourself they hate werewolves." The dog suddenly moved to the other end of the room and raised its' hackles. "Good Lord, and it understands human speech. There's something funny going on here..."
"How's Snape?"
"Oh... we decided to leave him as a turnip for a while... he wouldn't shut up as a human... oh, shit, another unicorn stab... why can't they let the women do those jobs?"
As soon as Lily Disapparated, the Marauders came back with huge grins. "It worked! She now thinks we've vanished! Woohoo!"
"Yeah, so let's get cracking!"
The first thing to do was to give every person in the hospital their own personal air bubble, which was not very hard to do. All hey did was to throw the pellets into the air and activate them; they'd do the rest themselves. And from there, it was water fights all the way.
"Hah! Got you that time!"
"You think so? Well, Moony, take a bath!"
"AAAARRRGH! Noooooo!"
*splash*
*splutter* "I'll get you for that, Peter Pettigrew!"
*splash*
"Missed!"
"Miss this!" Sirius chucked a water balloon into the air, enlarged it to ten times it's original size, then watched with some satisfaction as it smacked into Peter, just seconds before the one James had lobbed at him hit.
"Oh, you... you... cop this!"
"You call that an Engorgement Charm? This is an Engorgement Charm!" A tidal wave rolled over Sirius and exploded, showering everyone with water and a sudden desire to throw their water balloons at James. Pretty soon the water was up to their ankles, then their waists, then their shoulders, and finally there was no air in the room at all and their bubble charms had activated. All this time, of course, the door had been open, so the rest of the floor was the same... a huge tidal wave was rolling down the stairs and heading upwards too, for some reason.
And still the Marauders continued their water fight, until they were out of water balloons and Lily was floating in the doorway glaring at them.
"I suppose you think this is funny, do you?"
"Funny, this? No way! Fun, yes, but not funny..." James suddenly found another water balloon and hurled it at his wife. She ducked. "Oh, Lily..."
"What are you doing?" Sirius asked incredulously as she swam over to the window.
"Opening the window. Letting some of this water... out..." Even though the window was open, the water stayed in the room. "What have you done to it?"
"Oh, it's very simple, Lily," Remus said, grinning, "It's a Barrier Charm. All in one... we can switch them all off at once, but only for a price. Otherwise, you get to go around taking the same charm off every window in the building individually."
"And the price is...?"
"You know what the price is..."
"Oh, very well!" Lily fished in her sleeve and produced the Cloak. "Now will you let the water out?"
"Sure! Oniharu!" The building was suddenly full of the sound of rushing water. James took the Cloak back and Lily headed out of the room.
"It's creased! She's creased it! The very woman who's always lecturing me about creasing my clothes! I don't believe this... and it's wet!"
"Everything's wet."
"I know! I'm just trying to blame her..."
"We'd better do a Dryout Charm on these beds, we'll never get to sleep otherwise..."
"And my name's washed out of the inside, look!"
"James, you wrote your name in invisible ink on that thing. How do you know?"
"Because I can't see it!"

A/n; Well, thanks very much indeed to the person who suggested they flood the hospital, and also to all my wonderful reviewers out there *waves*. I actually have enough reviews to do Chapter Six, but it's 7 a.m. so I'll do it later...
Pleeeease say you still like it...