A/N: Otayz...sry i made u wait so long, but, I'm uploading chapters 10 *and* 11 now, cuz of the long wait...well, here's chapter 10, voila!
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Chapter Ten:
Fights and Detentions
Lily's life went slowly back to normal. Before long, she was back to fooling around, and playing pranks on the Slytherins with the Marauders (and co.). She was still upset, but over the next few weeks her mind left her own problems and over to Tawny's. At lunch she received a letter.
Tawny laughed a cold, angry laugh, as she stared at the letter. "They got what they deserved." She said, but there was a trace of sorrow in her voice. "They'll have a lifetime in Azkaban, if they're lucky." She began to shake uncontrollably, and as her eyes began to well up with tears, she ran toward Gryffindor tower.
James, Remus, and Peter stared blankly. They had no idea what Tawny was talking about.
"Oh, no," Muttered Grace, Sirius had already followed Tawny up to the Gryffindor tower, and Grace and Lily were following.
Tawny was sitting in the common room, crying on Sirius' shoulder. "They're probably going to perform the kiss. I hate my parents; I really do, but…" Tawny stopped in the middle of her words, to continue sobbing. "Oh, why did they have to? Why?" Tawny's sobbing continued.
An hour later, she composed herself and stopped moping. "They say I'm going to live with my Great Aunt Beatrice. She's dreadfully old, and has nearly a billion cats, but, she'll be better than my parents."
Over the next few days, Tawny cheered up, and didn't mind that she would never see her parents again, or if she did, she didn't seem to show it. But, on the following Saturday, during breakfast she received her copy of the Daily Prophet, only to see a large picture of her parents being taken off to Azkaban on the front cover. Her mouth hung open, as she read the article by Rita Skeeter, who had graduated Hogwarts a few years earlier.
On Thursday of this week, the Figgs, Maricus and Femina, were found to be Death Eaters. They have a daughter, Arabella, age 16, at Hogwarts, and I only hope her peers will watch out. As they say, "The apple never falls far from the tree." This apple is obviously a rotten one. They will be sentenced to the Dementor's kiss on Friday, November 28th.
The article then went on to tell more details of the story. Tawny's face was red from fright, and embarrassment. Many people were looking at her and muttering things to their friends. Tawny bit her lip.
"Why, that horrible Rita Skeeter!" Cried Sirius "If she was still here at Hogwarts, she'd be dead. That little slimeball…"
Tawny shuddered. "Let's go up to the common room." She said, trying to avoid the stares of people.
Tawny, Grace, and Lily decided to go up to the common room, and told the Marauders they'd meet them later. They all sat silently on the edge of Tawny's four poster, until Lily finally spoke up. "Ok, Tawny, 'fess up. What's really bothering you. There's something else you're not telling us.
"Nothing. Nothing's bothering me, really. Except that the entire school probably thinks I'm a death eater, and my parents are going to have their souls sucked out of their bodies." Tawny said, trying hard to keep a happy-looking face. "Can we just drop it, please?" She said, a bit too harshly.
"Well, fine! You could've just said so! You didn't have to get so prissy about it!" Lily said, who was already agitated from a prank Sirius pulled on her this morning, and Tawny not yelling at Sirius about it.
"I wasn't getting prissy. I was just saying that I'd rather not discuss this right now." Lily had been acting snobby to her since she'd laughed at a friendly (considering Sirius' record, that is) prank.
"Well, Arabella Tanya Figg, I was just saying that you were acting prissy!"
"Guys! Let's just try and calm down! Don't fight!" Grace said.
"Stay out of this, Grace." Said Tawny "Lily Evans! Why do you have to be such a snob? God…"
"Well, look who's talking! You know what, I'm too good to be arguing with you! I can't see why I was ever friends with you!"
"Fine! Then, maybe we shouldn't be friends!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Lily walked up to the girls' dormitory, and Tawny walked over to where Sirius and the Marauders were sitting. Grace just sat there looking back and forth at each of her friends. Lily looked back at her. "Go with Tawny, Grace. I know you want to. Don't waste your time pretending that you don't."
"Lily! I don't know what's gotten into you! I'm not going with either of you. Why're you acting so weird lately?"
"You think I'm weird, do you? Well, I don't need you! I don't need you or Tawny!"
"Lily!" Grace called, but Lily was already up the stairs to the dormitory. Grace sighed, and sat down to read a book.
Later at dinner, Lily wasn't talking to Grace or Tawny. Sirius shoved James in the ribs.
"What?" James asked, looking up from his dinner.
"Looks like our girlfriends are fighting."
"Lily is not my girlfriend!" James cried.
"Well, then, who is?"
"No one! I'm not going out with anyone right now."
"Exactly. If Lily wasn't your girlfriend, then you'd be going out with someone by now."
"Oh, shut up, Sirius." James said.
"Why should I?"
"Fine, then, don't shut up." James said.
"No, I think I will. I need to eat." Sirius said, as James laughed. "Anyways, we need to figure out what we're going to do."
"What? We're going to do something? About what?"
"About Lily and Tawny! They can't fight! They're best friends! We never fight."
"Oh, yes we do! Remember in kindergarten when you threw sand at me in the sandbox? And in second grade when you stole my toy broom. And in-"
"Ok, I get the point. But, we made up. And the difference between girls and boys is that girls don't make up. Boys need to help them." Sirius said, knowledgably.
"And you know this, how?"
"I have a sister."
"And Chelsea told you that valuable piece of information?"
"Not exactly, but I know it."
James sighed. "Oh, fine. So, how're we going to do this?"
"Ok, here's how I figure it…" Sirius whispered his plan in James' ear.
James groaned and looked unconvinced. "I have a feeling this won't work."
"It will." Sirius grinned.
Monday, in Potions, Lily partnered with Remus, leaving Peter with a Slytherin. She still was not talking to Tawny, and the situation had gotten worse, to say the least, since after breakfast. "Remus, will you please be a dear and ask Tanya if she can give us her spare billiwig skin?" Lily asked Remus, even though Tawny was sitting in the desk next to her.
When Remus asked Tawny, she responded, "Remus, could you tell Lily that she can skin her own billiwig, because I'm certainly not sharing my skinned billiwig with her."
"Remus, will you please tell Tanya that I don't need her unevenly sliced skinned billiwig."
By the end of class, Remus was so sick of Lily and Tawny making each other, he make James promise to sit beside Lily during Herbology. By the end of the day, everyone had gotten quite fed up with Lily and Tawny.
"This plan of your's had better work," James muttered to Sirius, "I'm sick and tired of hearing them tell us to tell each other things."
"It'll work." Sirius reassured him.
During Transfiguration, Sirius winked at James and gave him the thumb's up. James then nudged Lily, "Lily, Sirius says that Tawny says that you're a selfish brat." James made up.
"Well, tell Sirius to tell Tawny that she's a dumb blond, moronic idiot who'll never amount to anything in life." Lily growled.
James told Sirius, who told Tawny that. Tawny's eyes swelled with anger, and she whispered something to Sirius. James then turned to Lily and said, "Tawny says that-"
Just on cue, Professor McGonagall turned toward Lily, James, Sirius and Tawny. "Evans, Potter, Black, and Figg. I'll be seeing you in detention tonight."
"Oh, I'm ever so sorry, Professor," Said James in a mock sorry voice. "Sirius and I already have a scheduled detention tonight, in fact, we're all booked for the next two weeks, but we have an opening on the 28th, if you'd like us to come then."
The professor looked at the boys unbelievably. "I don't see how you managed that, seeing as you don't even have fourteen different teachers, but in that case, Potter, Black, I'll see you both on the 28th, Evans, and Figg, you will both be meeting for a detention tonight. James and Sirius grinned and gave each other thumbs up.
Lily and Tawny glared at each other, and made disgusted faces.
Once in detention, Professor McGonagall made the girls sort out Professor McCorbey's Potions ingredients. They worked silently for nearly a half hour, not looking each other in the eye until Tawny accidently knocked over a can of green gloop, and it fell all over Lily.
"Oh, my god! Tanya Figg! That is disgusting! It's all over my clothes!" Lily threw a bucket of slime from a container all over Tawny.
Tawny shrieked. "LILY EVANS! How could you! It was just an accident! This stuff is so gross!" She tried to pull the slime out of her hair.
"It's a nice touch on you. This purple dye would be the perfect touch!" Lily poured a can of purple dye all over Tawny.
Tawny screamed, but she was trying hard to keep from laughing. "Oh, well, now you asked for it, Evans!" Tawny began throwing newt's eyes at Lily.
"Eww! Oh, my gosh! EWW!" Lily shrieked, but then broke out in laughter. Tawny began to laugh too.
Once both girls were in fits of hysteria, Tawny spoke up. "Lil, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have acted so snobby on you. I was just feeling really upset. I shouldn't have taken it out on you."
"No, I'm sorry, Tawny. It was my fault. I really don't know what got into me. Forgive me?"
"Only if you forgive me first."
"Ok, I forgive you."
"I forgive you too." Tawny grinned, "Now, we aren't finished with detention yet." She rummaged through the Potions cabinet, but when she turned around, Lily poured a bucket of frog slime all over her. Then, Professor McCorbey came in, shocked.
"Evans! Figg! Both of you! Out! Now! And, get washed! You will come back and clean this mess up later!" He cried, in complete shock. Lily and Tawny ran out of the room in fits of laughter.
Sirius and James were hiding behind a statue, when Sirius whispered, "See? It did work!"
"What, may I ask, worked?" Tawny asked, her and Lily grinned, as James and Sirius turned red.
"I suppose we have you two to thank for all this?" Lily asked, grinning, her hands on her hips.
"Actually, yes, you do." Sirius said.
"Oh, yes, we defiantly owe them." Tawny giggled, and took out a bottle of spray, "Which is why we are going to give them the honor of cleaning up the potions dungeons."
"Oh, no you don't! You made the mess!" Cried James
"Well, there wouldn't be a mess if you two hadn't interfered! That'll teach you not to mess with other people's problems." Lily said.
Sirius and James grumbled, and headed toward the Potions dungeon. Lily and Tawny laughed at the boys.
A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers!!! I owe u guyz da world!!! *cries* poor Tawnyyy...well, review, review, review, or else I miught just decide 2 stop writing it!!! Lolz...i doubt that, though, seeing as im obsessed with writing this...well, I'll tell u again, review!!!