DISCLAIMER: Why do I do these? Maybe so it looks like I'm a professional, I
don't know…Oh wells…I don't own the marauders, Lily, McGonagall,
Dumbledore, flitwick, Snape, and others…so yeah…
A/N I'm so proud fifteen chapters…wow….I'm….in….shock….it's a miracle!!...cool…too bad I can't get more reviews…oh well…it's only a first try, maybe I'll do better next time. This chapter I have no clue what's going to happen, just a few things…it might end up being long…or short…I don't know…know one tells me what they think!! BUT 20 reviews!!! I mean…that's really great…I'M SO HAPPY!!!! I know I'm pathetic…but I wonder what would happen if I got fifty! I'd probably drop into a dead faint…But I wouldn't mind…*hint hint* I hope I get more soon… Uh thank you my wonderful reviewers…even if there are only 21…I've never had more then 3 people read one of my stories to my face…this is a record…Ahh I'll shut up now…
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CHAPTER 15
Lily was very shocked to find she couldn't stop herself from walking to the dormitory, not until James told her to stop.
"Lily, I pity you." Remus said shaking his head at her predicament.
"I pity myself too."
The four boys started walking away and Lily couldn't follow, even when she tried, she was following orders, since James had told her to stop.
James sighed when he figured out the problem. "Come on Lily get moving!" Lily then took off into a fast walk, and the Marauders were huffing and puffing trying to keep up the whole way to the common room.
Lily was getting the feeling that this was what it was like to be under the Imperious Curse, and it creeped her out a tiny bit. At least it was only for the evening and then it would go away, and the money had gone to a good cause.
Lily got to the common room, and felt herself go back in to control of her body once more. So she took a seat on a comfy chair.
The Marauders looked very pleased with their 'purchase' when the came into the common room and took their seats.
"So what'd we do now?" Lily asked, fearing the worst.
"Not sure, what do you think Padfoot?" James asked Sirius.
"Padfoot?" Lily asked, and they explained the nicknames each of them had gotten. Lily laughed at them, "Prongs and WORMTAIL? You guys seriously need to be more-." Lily stopped when she noticed the death glares they were giving her.
"Lily apologize to us!" James said laughing as she glared at him.
"I'm so terribly sorry; I don't know what I was thinking! I hope you can forgive me for that awful mistake! I fell just awful. I can't believe I acted like such a stupid git! Please forgive me please, please, please? I apologize for that awful deed!" Lily continued to apologize, and couldn't stop and the Marauders began laughing at her.
"Lily stop saying sorry!" Sirius laughed, but Lily continued, but she was looking at James waiting for him to tell her to stop.
"Lily, you can stop now." James said after ten minutes of pleading forgiveness, Lily was finally able to stop.
"Thanks, that was getting annoying!" Lily said getting up from her begging position on the floor, and taking her seat.
"I think we should get Lily to do something…useful for us." Sirius said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. Lily gulped in fear.
"I can't do anything illegal remember?" Lily tried to hide the worry in her voice.
"Oh don't worry Lils what I have in my mind isn't 'illegal' per say. It will only help with our rule breaking." Sirius explained.
"Padfoot? Are you talking about the Marauder's Map idea? Do you actually think she can do it?" Remus asked, looking amused.
"Yeah, but since I know she won't help us if we ask her tomorrow we're going to have to do it tonight." Sirius said.
"What are you guys talking about?!" Lily demanded, she knew it probably wasn't a good thing, what ever that Marauder's Map was.
"Lily dear, we have something we want you to do for us." James said grinning at her. "Wormtail get the instructions in our dorm, okay?" Peter scampered off to get the 'instructions'. (A/N see Peter did something! I'm so proud…well I got plans for him…Muhahaha! Actually I think I am about to become the first person to make his friendship with the Marauders…worth while…)
Lily soon learned what the Marauders wanted help with. It was a complicated map of Hogwarts, that they were going to write, but they needed help with the Charms. Lily finished scanning the instructions.
"Why don't you just make James do it?" Lily asked. "There is transfiguration in it that I don't have a clue about."
"Lily you're the best at Charms though so, you're going to help." James said, and Lily felt herself starting to work on the Marauder's Map with out choice. And they got done by 11:00 that night, faster then they had planned.
"Well, Lily step out of the room for a moment while we put the password on it."
Lily obeyed; of course she had no choice. Soon they called her back into the room.
"Lily you were a great help, that brain of yours is actually good for something!" Sirius said tapping her on the head, which earned him a scowl.
(A/N Yay! I just thought of something to happen in the chapter! I'm so proud of myself! Okay just wanted to share that with you.)
"Lily would you like to accompany us to try out the map?" Sirius asked politely, Lily rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, might as well." Lily replied.
Soon they found themselves very much squished under James' invisibility cloak, on their way down to the kitchens for some food.
"Ouch Lily stop stepping on my feet!"
"Sorry Pete!" Lily apologized to Peter.
"Okay who was it that just pinched my arse?!" Sirius whispered with a bit of pain in his voice.
"Sorry Padfoot." James mumbled embarrassed.
"Oh Prongs! I didn't know you felt that way for me!" Sirius said while hugging awkwardly with James who pushed him away.
"I don't." James muttered.
"Well, then don't pinch me in the arse!"
"I won't!"
"You guys are going to have a lot of explaining to do later." Remus said Lily couldn't see him, but she just knew he was shaking his head at his two friends.
"Yeah…a lot of explaining." Peter whispered.
"HEY! Who just pinched MY arse!?!" Lily whispered loudly.
No response.
"Ahem, please would the guilty come forward?" Lily asked angrily.
No response.
"Oh well, as long as it doesn't happen again…" Several sighs were let out from the boys; from relief.
"Lily, I'm surprised you didn't enjoy that." James whispered from behind her, giving her chills.
"James?! Was it you!?"
"NO, no I'd never do THAT." James said sarcastically.
"Stupid git." Lily muttered under her breath.
"Hey I heard that!" James whined.
"So? What are you going to do about it?" Lily demanded.
"Kiss my feet or something!" James said laughing, he looked at her expectantly, but she didn't make a move to do anything.
"It's past midnight, the spells off." Remus supplied the answer to the quiet question.
"So how much farther to the kitchen?" Lily asked leaning over to Sirius who was holding the map.
"Not too long, but- Oh shit! Filch!" Sirius said in a panicked voice.
"Everyone quiet." James ordered. Everyone was quiet, but unfortunately at that moment Peter backed up into a knight's armor, and 'CRASH!'
"Shit! Let's get out of her right now!" Sirius said, and the five of them raced into an empty classroom, and hid in there.
"Students out of bed…Mrs. Norris where are they?" Filch's voice carried to their panicked ears. Even though the Marauders had had several detentions, they didn't exactly like them, and Lily would have killed them if she'd gotten another one so soon from the LAST incident.
They heard his foot steps leave, but according to The Marauder's Map, he was still nearby in the hall way next to theirs.
"What do we do now?" Sirius whispered to his friends.
"How am I supposed to know?" Remus answered.
"Let's stay here for a while until he leaves." Lily suggested and so they agreed to stay in the class room until Filch went a safe distance away.
"What do we do until then?" James wondered aloud, and they all stepped out from under the stuffy cloak.
Sirius grinned brightly. "I played this muggle game with my cousin once, it was very…enjoyable. I think we should play it!"
"Would you mind telling us what it is?" Remus asked, obviously amused.
"Truth or Dare."
(A/N I couldn't help myself!)
"Oh I know that game!" James said, laughing a bit at his friend's suggestion.
"So should we play?" Lily asked, she knew what the game was, and didn't care either way to play or not.
"Yes, yes! Let's play!" Sirius said happily in a child like way. Lily for a moment thought it would be a bad idea to play Truth or Dare with a bunch of boys, but how bad could it be?
"All right." Everyone agreed, and they were soon sitting in a circle out of view from the door, in a corner just in case.
"Who wants to go first?" Lily asked looking at them all.
"ME!!" Sirius said happily. Lily was just starting to think that she had the lower hand at this game, since they were best friends and knew everything about each other anyway, while Lily they knew nothing about and could embarrass her easily.
"Hey, first we should cast that truth spell! And have rules and stuff." Remus stopped Sirius.
"Yeah, that truth spell could work fine, and the rules are that if you chicken out on a dare you have to actually take on a quality of a chicken." James supplied.
"Chicken? No problem there for me!" Lily said, remembering the 'Chicken Incident' from their first or second year.
"Okay Padfoot, pick your victim!" Remus, told him. Sirius looked intently at each one; no doubt picking which one he could have the most fun with. When he looked at James a spark went off in his eyes, and James gulped, obviously knowing the look.
"All right James, truth or dare?" Sirius asked.
"Dare." James said. "I never back down either."
I dare you to snog with some one in this room!" James glared at Sirius, then smiled.
"Anyone in the room?"
"Yup, anyone."
"Even you?"
"NO!!! James that's-." Sirius finally noticed that James was laughing his head off at his best-friends reaction. Lily mean while, had been praying that James chose to chicken out. Soon everyone was laughing, except Sirius who was trying to hold it in.
"Sirius you should have seen your face!" Lily said laughing.
After everyone calmed down, a bit Sirius grinned happily again." So James, who are you going to do your dare on? Since there is only one person…suitable for this dare…" Lily at this point smacked Sirius, not hard but enough that he knew he was in trouble.
"I think I'm going to have to Chicken ou-."
"James Potter, I never thought I'd see the day you passed up a chance to snog a pretty girl!" Remus announced, and made Lily blush.
"I can't just snog her if she doesn't want to, it doesn't exactly work….that way!" James defended himself.
"Never stopped you before-." Sirius was interrupted by James.
"Well, before it was just girls-."James started to say.
"Hey I'm a girl!"
"We know that Lils." Remus answered, he seemed to want to see the end of Sirius and James' conversation.
"As I was saying those were just girls that I didn't even care about- as a friend of course, those girls were just-." Lily was getting annoyed with James.
"They were still girls with feelings James! I'm not different so you should treat me the same way as them!" Lily shouted, standing up.
James stood up too. "So you want me to treat you just like them!?" Lily knew where this was leading but she didn't care.
Lily nodded her head weakly, she was standing up for women everywhere, or she was just being a pain, she wasn't sure.
James looked at her, searching her eyes with his chocolate brown ones. "Lily, I can't treat you the same as everyone else because…your different to me." Lily didn't know what to say, and lucky for her she didn't have to, because right at that moment Filch walked into the room, looking very pleased with himself.
"Looks, like I found the students out of bed, please follow me to my office." He said, Lily watched James hide his invisibility cloak in his pocket, and Sirius stuffed the Marauder's Map down his shirt. Lily was scared to death of Filch, and hid behind Remus the whole way down to his office.
Lily was regretting raising her voice back in the class room, but she couldn't change that now. 'Leave it to Filch to ruin a moment!' Lily was scared of him though, so she wasn't going to say anything to Filch; she was scared to pieces of what was going to happen in his…office. She hadn't been there, but the Marauders had…several times.
"Don't worry Lils, its not as bad as everyone says." Remus assured her.
The way there Lily felt like she was heading to her doom. 'I can hear the funeral music now.' She thought bitterly, she noticed how very little the boys seemed to care about being caught, James looked…Happy about it but that might have been just because he wanted to get out of the awkward situation with Lily.
Filch started gaining ground ahead of them, and then he was so far away Lily was wondering if they might escape, apparently she wasn't the only one thinking that. James had pulled out his very large invisibility cloak and hidden them behind it in a blink of an eye.
"What the- Where'd they go!?" Filch bellowed, Lily was shaking in fear. Just then, as if an answered prayer, came Peeves the Poltergeist. (A/N Yeah a truly answered prayer! Ha!) "PEEVES! Come back here!" Peeves had just knocked over three sets of armor, and Filch seemed to forget about them. "I'll get him this time!" He growled and ran after Peeves leaving the out- of-bed-students far behind.
"Let's go before he gets back!" James whispered, and they took off running down the hall.
They ran up to the Gryffindor Common room as fast as they could, not wanting to risk getting caught again.
"Sirius, WHY weren't you watching the Map?!" Lily demanded as soon as they were safe in the common room.
"I was too busy watching the show you and James were putting on!" Sirius said innocently. James and Lily both turned crimson.
"At least we didn't get caught…for good." James said trying to break the tension that was building up.
"Yeah, Filch scares me to death! I almost screamed when I saw him!" (A/N in the Harry Potter Game I screamed when I first saw filch in it…scary!!!)
"He's not THAT bad Lily." Remus said sitting on the chair, leaving the last place open for Lily right next to James on the love seat… 'Of all things' she thought angrily.
Lily sat uncomfortably far away to James. "So." Sirius said since no one was talking.
"So." Peter said.
"Imagine what we can do the Marauder's Map…Imagine the Slytherins…" everyone got quiet, thinking different thoughts.
"Well, I'm tired; it's been a long day." Lily said getting up to get to bed, half way up the steps she swiveled around. "I better not find my body looking any different then it does right now when I wake up!" With that Lily stomped up to her room.
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Lily woke up with once again…something amiss. Today her hair was white as a ghost, and her legs were all jiggly. The Marauders hadn't listened to her. Lily undid the curse and headed over to the boys' dorms to have a 'talk' with them.
When she arrived in their dorm, she was shocked to see they were still sleeping. Lily decided to wake them up…the fun way. She did a water spout charm, and soaked them awake, with cold water.
"LILY, what was that for?!" Remus said getting out of bed and shaking the water off. James was the only one still sleeping, Sirius was already in the bathroom, and Peter was just sitting there not knowing what else to do.
"How am I going to wake him up?" Lily asked thoughtfully.
"I have a pretty good idea, but you won't like it." Remus said hiding a smile.
"I'm sure I won't." Lily said and walked over to James' bed and tried to wake him up with the water spell once more…Nothing. "Damn he's a deep sleeper!"
"So are you." Sirius said coming out of the bath room.
"Yeah, you'd know that wouldn't you." Lily said rolling her eyes. Lily climbed on James' bed trying not to get herself wet. And started bouncing on it, but either he ignored her, or he was a very deep sleeper.
Lily stopped, and tried to think of a good way to wake him up. She looked at him and couldn't help notice how sweet and innocent he looked sleeping with his hair soaked. Lily decided to try a new approach to wake him up that should work on any fifteen year old boy. Lily said a quick spell, and his bed was completely dry. Then Lily got under his covers, and snuggled up close to him, and put her arms around him. Then she said in a sexy voice. "James wake up."
Of course he did, and was very shocked to find Lily next to him. "LILY!?" He said sitting up, "What the hell are you doing?!"
"Waking you up, and I did a pretty good job of it." She said slipping out of his bed, she couldn't help but notice how right it felt to be there with him.
"Well, you could have tried another way."
"I did, but you didn't budge!"
"Oh." At this the two of them noticed that the rest of the boys were staring at them listening intently.
"Bugger off, guys. Now the reason I came here-." Lily continued to chew them out for messing with her in her sleep again. She finished off saying "You guys have no idea how creepy it is to have boys come in your room at night and…MESS with you!" Lily huffed, and left them to go get dressed.
Lily found out that she had missed breakfast, but truly didn't care; sleeping was a need she liked a lot.
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And since it was Christmas break, and they had no school, Lily and The Marauders did the things all teenagers do. (A/N well most, some just can't do it!). Living the high life. Using vacation to its highest potential. Being lazy (A/N that's what my mom calls it!)
Kicking back. Relaxing. Enjoying nothingness. Or as most normal people call it, sleeping in late, after staying up late. Who doesn't love to do that?
Lily woke up close to noon and found herself in her usual state of…strangeness. Today she was sporting a tie dyed look. With the colors of the rainbow, and her hair was now currently a nice shade of orange. Lily was happy that she knew how to get off most of the curses they'd put on her, but sometimes they would put her on timed ones, so she would wait for them to wear off. But she always went to wake up the Marauders once she woke up, she had an excuse to too. She had to chew them out every morning or it didn't feel like Christmas break anymore.
It became a usual thing for Lily and the Marauders…a routine if you want to call it that. Lily and James would never admit they looked forward to seeing each other. But the rest of the Marauders noticed it. Especially on New Year's Eve.
As I said, Lily woke up around noon, and was soon off to chew out the boys. Lily woke them up as usual, this time screaming about New Year's Eve.
"Wake up! It's New Year's Eve, and you promised to take me to-." Sirius stopped her from shouting out their illegal trip to the Three Broomsticks. James was still sleeping; well that's what Lily thought. She always woke him up special. Remus had found out the truth the day before, when he saw James open his eyes and close them again, when Lily walked in the room.
"He's still sleeping Lils, go wake him up." Remus said going off to brush his teeth before he was chewed out for turning Lily into a tie dyed manifestation. (A/N I hope I used that word correctly, I think it's a kewl word.)
"James." Lily whispered in his ear. Lily couldn't help but feel jittery around him. Especially when they were this close, but she tried not to think about it. She noticed that today he had a shirt on. Lily decided to wake him up good that day. Today for the first time he was laying on his back, so Lily started gently tickling him, and then when that didn't work she sat right on his stomach.
"Lily! You always wake me up the…weird way!" James said pushing her off him.
"At least you're up! Remember we're going to the Three Broomsticks today, to celebrate New Year's Day!" Lily squealed. "Now for the reason I'm here." Lily continued to chew them out half heartedly. "Okay, that's over with, let's go to lunch!" She said, and ran out the door to wait for them to get dressed.
The Marauders were soon ready, and they went off to lunch, while Lily was humming like an idiot.
"Lily, may I ask why you are in such a good mood today?" Sirius asked in an overly formal way.
"Well, I woke up feeling very…exuberantly happy and I just ended up like this!" She said and continued to bounce down the stairs, and into the Great Hall, once again she ignored the looks of the jealous girls who wanted to be her. Lily barely noticed them at all; she was in too good a mood.
After lunch they went up to the common room, where Lily TRIED to get them to study.
"You should study! We have OWLS coming up very soon! I think it would be a good idea to start studying for exams so we get ahead of everybody else, that way we have less to study and cram for before exams!" Lily lectured to them, James seemed to be the only one listening.
Sirius was staring out into space, with a happy-dreamy look on his face.
Remus was staring out the window, thinking about who knows what.
And Peter was drooling, apparently sleeping with his eyes open. (A/N creepy I've done it once almost…except that whole drooling thing…)
"Okay Lils to shut you up, I'll study for transfiguration." James said exasperatedly.
"That's not fair, that's your favorite class!"
"But at least I'm studying, that's what counts right?" James said innocently, he could probably not pay attention the whole year, and still pass with flying colors on the Transfiguration exam. Lily rolled her eyes and picked up a Potions book, and started looking over things memorizing as she went.
Soon the afternoon was over, dinner zoomed by and they waited out the next few hours until late, and snuck out to The Three Broomsticks. Through the passage way Lily was telling them how amazing it was that they hadn't gotten into trouble for how many times they'd used it.
"Lily cool it, you've broken plenty of rules yourself, so don't be yelling at us for doing the same thing!" Remus said a bit amused.
"I wasn't yelling, I was simply informing you about it." (A/N is she turning out to be like a bit of Hermione Granger or is it just me?? Not that there's anything to be ashamed about. ( oh look a smiley!)
When the slipped through Honeydukes, the five of them rushed to the Three Broomsticks for the New Year's Eve party. Lily found it was totally packed, but some how they found a seat in the corner. There was going to be a live performance from a Wizard Band that was quite popular among everyone in town.
The band was already playing, and Sirius and James were sadly singing along with them, and they didn't even know the words. Peter and Remus soon joined, and were getting a bigger audience then the band…Until the bartender told them to quiet down. Madam Rosmerta or something like that was her name.
"I've never seen this place so crowded." Lily admitted while sipping a butter beer Sirius bought her.
"You should've been here last year! James, and Sirius got…carried away on the butter beer, and soon they were actually up on the stage carrying away like there was no tomorrow, Needless to say we were thrown out." Remus told her, and she noticed James blushing a bit. 'James? Embarrassed?' Lily thought happily.
The New Year came rather quickly, and there were a lot of explosions from people's wands. Lily ran for cover as someone by the name of Diggle sent out shooting stars…From inside the room.
After that a lot of people left, but then it was clear enough for people to start dancing. Lily was on her fifth butter beer and feeling very hyper, considering the time. Lily had been sitting there doing nothing, but talking to the Marauders, when a young man asked her to dance, he looked like a graduate from Hogwarts, but Lily didn't recognize him. Before Lily knew it she'd danced with about seven people she didn't know, and noticed the Marauders were starting to dance too. Lily began rotating through each of the Marauders. First Sirius, but he stepped on her toes. Then Remus and they had a lot of fun to yet another fast song. Then Peter who ended up being a better dancer then most would think.
Peter ended up throwing her straight into someone's arms: James.
"Hullo James." She said looking up at him.
"Hullo Lils. Having fun?"
"Yup, tons! This place is great!" She said as he spun her around. Lily felt blissfully happy dancing with him. Then an awkward moment came when a slow song came on.
"Want to keep dancing?" He asked blushing slightly.
"Sure." Lily said blushing herself. He pulled her closer, put his hands on her waist, and she put her arms around his neck. Lily would never have told anyone else what thoughts went through her mind while they were dancing, but they were along the lines of 'This feels really good!' James' thoughts were along the same lines.
The song ended and Lily was asked to dance by same guy that asked her in the beginning. Lily and her friends were getting ready to go when they heard some one else go up to the microphone.
"I am sorry that I have to be the one inform you about this." An elderly woman said, everyone turned to her, looking grave having idea to what she was talking about: Voldemort attacks.
"I hope it's no one I know." She heard Sirius mumble reverently.
"Earlier tonight there was an attack on a respected wizarding family." Lily heard all the boys intake their breath and hold it, and Lily noticed she did too. It could be anyone…It could be Sierra or Jimena or Mindy so many people she knew that it could be. And for one moment everyone was holding their breath praying that it wasn't a relative or close friend.
(A/N I'm still thinking who I should kill off…I hate doing this…I think I'll have it be someone I don't even know…but these were dark times…so if I'm going by the rules….Damn I hate being mean! I can't pick which character to torture! I hate this part!)
"Tonight, that wizarding family was the Lupins." The Marauders and Lily looked at Remus, who's eyes had bulged, and was in shock. Lily felt immediate pain for him, and gave him a hug, and kept listening to the elderly witch talk. "The Toby and Miranda Lupin died this evening by result of a death eater attack, they died quickly. He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named killed them for unannounced reasons." Lily stopped listening and she and the Marauders walked Remus back to the castle, comforting him, as he tried not cry.
"It's my entire fault, it's all my fault." Remus muttered.
"It's not your fault!" They all said at the same time.
"Yes it is, it's because of what I am that they did that…He wants werewolves on HIS side." Remus said darkly. Lily could feel the anger coming.
"AND that's YOUR fault!?" Lily said comfortingly. "You couldn't help it that you got bit, or that HE wants you on the dark side. You can't give him that satisfaction Remus, the moment you blame yourself, it helps him to win! He just likes to hurt people, for no reason at all! Trust me, I know about these things." As Lily continued to comfort Remus, a thought occurred to her, that hadn't ever before…
Why were James' parents still alive? Had he tried to attack them before? He went after hers for the curse; at least that's what she thought, but yet James' parents were still alive and well. It made her a bit jealous and made her parents' deaths seem even more of a waste then it already had been.
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The next week of break was spent the same as always, except Remus was a bit stressed, and Lily didn't chew them out in the mornings, but the pranks continued, and the 'rude awakenings' too. Lily talked to Remus a lot more, since she was the only one out of them to know 'how it feels' as Remus had told her. She and Remus became closer then ever, and he started to feel like a big brother, just as James had a while back…but now with James it was a bit different, to say the least. The curse hadn't done anything to them for a long time, and that was a good thing.
Remus was handling his parents' death better then expected, and his friends were always around him…maybe a bit too much at times. They couldn't wait for him to get back to his old self.
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Soon it was the last day of break. Lily awoke same as usual.
"Oh today it looks like I have bird feet! And oh look my hair is rainbow! Oh this is perfect my finger nails have grown an inch longer! Now this is cool, I have bat wings coming out of my back!" Lily talked to herself, and then began to fix herself to look normal again.
Today since it was the last day Lily would even THINK she could get away with going to the boys' dorms, Lily was giving them extra special wake up call that day.
She snuck in and didn't make a noise, today none of them had their bed hangings shut. Lily cast four very quick 'bouncing' spells, and soon the boys' mattresses were making all sorts of...Bad…noises and Lily ran out of the room, and managed to hear some very BAD sounding moans from the guys. It wasn't going to sound good to anyone passing by. Lily couldn't hold it in; she started laughing right outside the door, and was soon discovered by a very disgruntled looking Sirius.
"Erm, Hullo Sirius." Lily said trying to calm down. "I thought you guys might be busy in there so I decided to wait on the wake up call this morning!" Lily burst out laughing, and Sirius glared and pulled her in the room.
All but three of the boys were awake, James was still moaning in his sleep as his bed bounced up and down and up and down… (A/N see what I mean by…bad?!)
The three of them gathered around the still occupied bed, and looked at the occupant…Or James as most people call him. He was groaning in the most disapproving ways, and this was where the rest of the Marauders got some serious pay back on Lily.
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A/N MUHAHAHAHA! I'm stopping there, leaving ya waiting! This is quite funny for me! I think it's quite predictable what's going to happen…try and guess if you want…I'm gonna get started right now! I'm laughing thinking about what I would do if THAT happened to me! I feel sorry for Remus, but I did ink a bink a bottle of ink to find out who's parents were dying, and twice it was him…so poor Remus! I hate being mean! It took me 10mins to decide that! Oh YEAH and (k) my last reviewer 21!! Yeah! Oh I know what you mean with those scary storms! welp laters…
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A/N I'm so proud fifteen chapters…wow….I'm….in….shock….it's a miracle!!...cool…too bad I can't get more reviews…oh well…it's only a first try, maybe I'll do better next time. This chapter I have no clue what's going to happen, just a few things…it might end up being long…or short…I don't know…know one tells me what they think!! BUT 20 reviews!!! I mean…that's really great…I'M SO HAPPY!!!! I know I'm pathetic…but I wonder what would happen if I got fifty! I'd probably drop into a dead faint…But I wouldn't mind…*hint hint* I hope I get more soon… Uh thank you my wonderful reviewers…even if there are only 21…I've never had more then 3 people read one of my stories to my face…this is a record…Ahh I'll shut up now…
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CHAPTER 15
Lily was very shocked to find she couldn't stop herself from walking to the dormitory, not until James told her to stop.
"Lily, I pity you." Remus said shaking his head at her predicament.
"I pity myself too."
The four boys started walking away and Lily couldn't follow, even when she tried, she was following orders, since James had told her to stop.
James sighed when he figured out the problem. "Come on Lily get moving!" Lily then took off into a fast walk, and the Marauders were huffing and puffing trying to keep up the whole way to the common room.
Lily was getting the feeling that this was what it was like to be under the Imperious Curse, and it creeped her out a tiny bit. At least it was only for the evening and then it would go away, and the money had gone to a good cause.
Lily got to the common room, and felt herself go back in to control of her body once more. So she took a seat on a comfy chair.
The Marauders looked very pleased with their 'purchase' when the came into the common room and took their seats.
"So what'd we do now?" Lily asked, fearing the worst.
"Not sure, what do you think Padfoot?" James asked Sirius.
"Padfoot?" Lily asked, and they explained the nicknames each of them had gotten. Lily laughed at them, "Prongs and WORMTAIL? You guys seriously need to be more-." Lily stopped when she noticed the death glares they were giving her.
"Lily apologize to us!" James said laughing as she glared at him.
"I'm so terribly sorry; I don't know what I was thinking! I hope you can forgive me for that awful mistake! I fell just awful. I can't believe I acted like such a stupid git! Please forgive me please, please, please? I apologize for that awful deed!" Lily continued to apologize, and couldn't stop and the Marauders began laughing at her.
"Lily stop saying sorry!" Sirius laughed, but Lily continued, but she was looking at James waiting for him to tell her to stop.
"Lily, you can stop now." James said after ten minutes of pleading forgiveness, Lily was finally able to stop.
"Thanks, that was getting annoying!" Lily said getting up from her begging position on the floor, and taking her seat.
"I think we should get Lily to do something…useful for us." Sirius said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. Lily gulped in fear.
"I can't do anything illegal remember?" Lily tried to hide the worry in her voice.
"Oh don't worry Lils what I have in my mind isn't 'illegal' per say. It will only help with our rule breaking." Sirius explained.
"Padfoot? Are you talking about the Marauder's Map idea? Do you actually think she can do it?" Remus asked, looking amused.
"Yeah, but since I know she won't help us if we ask her tomorrow we're going to have to do it tonight." Sirius said.
"What are you guys talking about?!" Lily demanded, she knew it probably wasn't a good thing, what ever that Marauder's Map was.
"Lily dear, we have something we want you to do for us." James said grinning at her. "Wormtail get the instructions in our dorm, okay?" Peter scampered off to get the 'instructions'. (A/N see Peter did something! I'm so proud…well I got plans for him…Muhahaha! Actually I think I am about to become the first person to make his friendship with the Marauders…worth while…)
Lily soon learned what the Marauders wanted help with. It was a complicated map of Hogwarts, that they were going to write, but they needed help with the Charms. Lily finished scanning the instructions.
"Why don't you just make James do it?" Lily asked. "There is transfiguration in it that I don't have a clue about."
"Lily you're the best at Charms though so, you're going to help." James said, and Lily felt herself starting to work on the Marauder's Map with out choice. And they got done by 11:00 that night, faster then they had planned.
"Well, Lily step out of the room for a moment while we put the password on it."
Lily obeyed; of course she had no choice. Soon they called her back into the room.
"Lily you were a great help, that brain of yours is actually good for something!" Sirius said tapping her on the head, which earned him a scowl.
(A/N Yay! I just thought of something to happen in the chapter! I'm so proud of myself! Okay just wanted to share that with you.)
"Lily would you like to accompany us to try out the map?" Sirius asked politely, Lily rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, might as well." Lily replied.
Soon they found themselves very much squished under James' invisibility cloak, on their way down to the kitchens for some food.
"Ouch Lily stop stepping on my feet!"
"Sorry Pete!" Lily apologized to Peter.
"Okay who was it that just pinched my arse?!" Sirius whispered with a bit of pain in his voice.
"Sorry Padfoot." James mumbled embarrassed.
"Oh Prongs! I didn't know you felt that way for me!" Sirius said while hugging awkwardly with James who pushed him away.
"I don't." James muttered.
"Well, then don't pinch me in the arse!"
"I won't!"
"You guys are going to have a lot of explaining to do later." Remus said Lily couldn't see him, but she just knew he was shaking his head at his two friends.
"Yeah…a lot of explaining." Peter whispered.
"HEY! Who just pinched MY arse!?!" Lily whispered loudly.
No response.
"Ahem, please would the guilty come forward?" Lily asked angrily.
No response.
"Oh well, as long as it doesn't happen again…" Several sighs were let out from the boys; from relief.
"Lily, I'm surprised you didn't enjoy that." James whispered from behind her, giving her chills.
"James?! Was it you!?"
"NO, no I'd never do THAT." James said sarcastically.
"Stupid git." Lily muttered under her breath.
"Hey I heard that!" James whined.
"So? What are you going to do about it?" Lily demanded.
"Kiss my feet or something!" James said laughing, he looked at her expectantly, but she didn't make a move to do anything.
"It's past midnight, the spells off." Remus supplied the answer to the quiet question.
"So how much farther to the kitchen?" Lily asked leaning over to Sirius who was holding the map.
"Not too long, but- Oh shit! Filch!" Sirius said in a panicked voice.
"Everyone quiet." James ordered. Everyone was quiet, but unfortunately at that moment Peter backed up into a knight's armor, and 'CRASH!'
"Shit! Let's get out of her right now!" Sirius said, and the five of them raced into an empty classroom, and hid in there.
"Students out of bed…Mrs. Norris where are they?" Filch's voice carried to their panicked ears. Even though the Marauders had had several detentions, they didn't exactly like them, and Lily would have killed them if she'd gotten another one so soon from the LAST incident.
They heard his foot steps leave, but according to The Marauder's Map, he was still nearby in the hall way next to theirs.
"What do we do now?" Sirius whispered to his friends.
"How am I supposed to know?" Remus answered.
"Let's stay here for a while until he leaves." Lily suggested and so they agreed to stay in the class room until Filch went a safe distance away.
"What do we do until then?" James wondered aloud, and they all stepped out from under the stuffy cloak.
Sirius grinned brightly. "I played this muggle game with my cousin once, it was very…enjoyable. I think we should play it!"
"Would you mind telling us what it is?" Remus asked, obviously amused.
"Truth or Dare."
(A/N I couldn't help myself!)
"Oh I know that game!" James said, laughing a bit at his friend's suggestion.
"So should we play?" Lily asked, she knew what the game was, and didn't care either way to play or not.
"Yes, yes! Let's play!" Sirius said happily in a child like way. Lily for a moment thought it would be a bad idea to play Truth or Dare with a bunch of boys, but how bad could it be?
"All right." Everyone agreed, and they were soon sitting in a circle out of view from the door, in a corner just in case.
"Who wants to go first?" Lily asked looking at them all.
"ME!!" Sirius said happily. Lily was just starting to think that she had the lower hand at this game, since they were best friends and knew everything about each other anyway, while Lily they knew nothing about and could embarrass her easily.
"Hey, first we should cast that truth spell! And have rules and stuff." Remus stopped Sirius.
"Yeah, that truth spell could work fine, and the rules are that if you chicken out on a dare you have to actually take on a quality of a chicken." James supplied.
"Chicken? No problem there for me!" Lily said, remembering the 'Chicken Incident' from their first or second year.
"Okay Padfoot, pick your victim!" Remus, told him. Sirius looked intently at each one; no doubt picking which one he could have the most fun with. When he looked at James a spark went off in his eyes, and James gulped, obviously knowing the look.
"All right James, truth or dare?" Sirius asked.
"Dare." James said. "I never back down either."
I dare you to snog with some one in this room!" James glared at Sirius, then smiled.
"Anyone in the room?"
"Yup, anyone."
"Even you?"
"NO!!! James that's-." Sirius finally noticed that James was laughing his head off at his best-friends reaction. Lily mean while, had been praying that James chose to chicken out. Soon everyone was laughing, except Sirius who was trying to hold it in.
"Sirius you should have seen your face!" Lily said laughing.
After everyone calmed down, a bit Sirius grinned happily again." So James, who are you going to do your dare on? Since there is only one person…suitable for this dare…" Lily at this point smacked Sirius, not hard but enough that he knew he was in trouble.
"I think I'm going to have to Chicken ou-."
"James Potter, I never thought I'd see the day you passed up a chance to snog a pretty girl!" Remus announced, and made Lily blush.
"I can't just snog her if she doesn't want to, it doesn't exactly work….that way!" James defended himself.
"Never stopped you before-." Sirius was interrupted by James.
"Well, before it was just girls-."James started to say.
"Hey I'm a girl!"
"We know that Lils." Remus answered, he seemed to want to see the end of Sirius and James' conversation.
"As I was saying those were just girls that I didn't even care about- as a friend of course, those girls were just-." Lily was getting annoyed with James.
"They were still girls with feelings James! I'm not different so you should treat me the same way as them!" Lily shouted, standing up.
James stood up too. "So you want me to treat you just like them!?" Lily knew where this was leading but she didn't care.
Lily nodded her head weakly, she was standing up for women everywhere, or she was just being a pain, she wasn't sure.
James looked at her, searching her eyes with his chocolate brown ones. "Lily, I can't treat you the same as everyone else because…your different to me." Lily didn't know what to say, and lucky for her she didn't have to, because right at that moment Filch walked into the room, looking very pleased with himself.
"Looks, like I found the students out of bed, please follow me to my office." He said, Lily watched James hide his invisibility cloak in his pocket, and Sirius stuffed the Marauder's Map down his shirt. Lily was scared to death of Filch, and hid behind Remus the whole way down to his office.
Lily was regretting raising her voice back in the class room, but she couldn't change that now. 'Leave it to Filch to ruin a moment!' Lily was scared of him though, so she wasn't going to say anything to Filch; she was scared to pieces of what was going to happen in his…office. She hadn't been there, but the Marauders had…several times.
"Don't worry Lils, its not as bad as everyone says." Remus assured her.
The way there Lily felt like she was heading to her doom. 'I can hear the funeral music now.' She thought bitterly, she noticed how very little the boys seemed to care about being caught, James looked…Happy about it but that might have been just because he wanted to get out of the awkward situation with Lily.
Filch started gaining ground ahead of them, and then he was so far away Lily was wondering if they might escape, apparently she wasn't the only one thinking that. James had pulled out his very large invisibility cloak and hidden them behind it in a blink of an eye.
"What the- Where'd they go!?" Filch bellowed, Lily was shaking in fear. Just then, as if an answered prayer, came Peeves the Poltergeist. (A/N Yeah a truly answered prayer! Ha!) "PEEVES! Come back here!" Peeves had just knocked over three sets of armor, and Filch seemed to forget about them. "I'll get him this time!" He growled and ran after Peeves leaving the out- of-bed-students far behind.
"Let's go before he gets back!" James whispered, and they took off running down the hall.
They ran up to the Gryffindor Common room as fast as they could, not wanting to risk getting caught again.
"Sirius, WHY weren't you watching the Map?!" Lily demanded as soon as they were safe in the common room.
"I was too busy watching the show you and James were putting on!" Sirius said innocently. James and Lily both turned crimson.
"At least we didn't get caught…for good." James said trying to break the tension that was building up.
"Yeah, Filch scares me to death! I almost screamed when I saw him!" (A/N in the Harry Potter Game I screamed when I first saw filch in it…scary!!!)
"He's not THAT bad Lily." Remus said sitting on the chair, leaving the last place open for Lily right next to James on the love seat… 'Of all things' she thought angrily.
Lily sat uncomfortably far away to James. "So." Sirius said since no one was talking.
"So." Peter said.
"Imagine what we can do the Marauder's Map…Imagine the Slytherins…" everyone got quiet, thinking different thoughts.
"Well, I'm tired; it's been a long day." Lily said getting up to get to bed, half way up the steps she swiveled around. "I better not find my body looking any different then it does right now when I wake up!" With that Lily stomped up to her room.
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Lily woke up with once again…something amiss. Today her hair was white as a ghost, and her legs were all jiggly. The Marauders hadn't listened to her. Lily undid the curse and headed over to the boys' dorms to have a 'talk' with them.
When she arrived in their dorm, she was shocked to see they were still sleeping. Lily decided to wake them up…the fun way. She did a water spout charm, and soaked them awake, with cold water.
"LILY, what was that for?!" Remus said getting out of bed and shaking the water off. James was the only one still sleeping, Sirius was already in the bathroom, and Peter was just sitting there not knowing what else to do.
"How am I going to wake him up?" Lily asked thoughtfully.
"I have a pretty good idea, but you won't like it." Remus said hiding a smile.
"I'm sure I won't." Lily said and walked over to James' bed and tried to wake him up with the water spell once more…Nothing. "Damn he's a deep sleeper!"
"So are you." Sirius said coming out of the bath room.
"Yeah, you'd know that wouldn't you." Lily said rolling her eyes. Lily climbed on James' bed trying not to get herself wet. And started bouncing on it, but either he ignored her, or he was a very deep sleeper.
Lily stopped, and tried to think of a good way to wake him up. She looked at him and couldn't help notice how sweet and innocent he looked sleeping with his hair soaked. Lily decided to try a new approach to wake him up that should work on any fifteen year old boy. Lily said a quick spell, and his bed was completely dry. Then Lily got under his covers, and snuggled up close to him, and put her arms around him. Then she said in a sexy voice. "James wake up."
Of course he did, and was very shocked to find Lily next to him. "LILY!?" He said sitting up, "What the hell are you doing?!"
"Waking you up, and I did a pretty good job of it." She said slipping out of his bed, she couldn't help but notice how right it felt to be there with him.
"Well, you could have tried another way."
"I did, but you didn't budge!"
"Oh." At this the two of them noticed that the rest of the boys were staring at them listening intently.
"Bugger off, guys. Now the reason I came here-." Lily continued to chew them out for messing with her in her sleep again. She finished off saying "You guys have no idea how creepy it is to have boys come in your room at night and…MESS with you!" Lily huffed, and left them to go get dressed.
Lily found out that she had missed breakfast, but truly didn't care; sleeping was a need she liked a lot.
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And since it was Christmas break, and they had no school, Lily and The Marauders did the things all teenagers do. (A/N well most, some just can't do it!). Living the high life. Using vacation to its highest potential. Being lazy (A/N that's what my mom calls it!)
Kicking back. Relaxing. Enjoying nothingness. Or as most normal people call it, sleeping in late, after staying up late. Who doesn't love to do that?
Lily woke up close to noon and found herself in her usual state of…strangeness. Today she was sporting a tie dyed look. With the colors of the rainbow, and her hair was now currently a nice shade of orange. Lily was happy that she knew how to get off most of the curses they'd put on her, but sometimes they would put her on timed ones, so she would wait for them to wear off. But she always went to wake up the Marauders once she woke up, she had an excuse to too. She had to chew them out every morning or it didn't feel like Christmas break anymore.
It became a usual thing for Lily and the Marauders…a routine if you want to call it that. Lily and James would never admit they looked forward to seeing each other. But the rest of the Marauders noticed it. Especially on New Year's Eve.
As I said, Lily woke up around noon, and was soon off to chew out the boys. Lily woke them up as usual, this time screaming about New Year's Eve.
"Wake up! It's New Year's Eve, and you promised to take me to-." Sirius stopped her from shouting out their illegal trip to the Three Broomsticks. James was still sleeping; well that's what Lily thought. She always woke him up special. Remus had found out the truth the day before, when he saw James open his eyes and close them again, when Lily walked in the room.
"He's still sleeping Lils, go wake him up." Remus said going off to brush his teeth before he was chewed out for turning Lily into a tie dyed manifestation. (A/N I hope I used that word correctly, I think it's a kewl word.)
"James." Lily whispered in his ear. Lily couldn't help but feel jittery around him. Especially when they were this close, but she tried not to think about it. She noticed that today he had a shirt on. Lily decided to wake him up good that day. Today for the first time he was laying on his back, so Lily started gently tickling him, and then when that didn't work she sat right on his stomach.
"Lily! You always wake me up the…weird way!" James said pushing her off him.
"At least you're up! Remember we're going to the Three Broomsticks today, to celebrate New Year's Day!" Lily squealed. "Now for the reason I'm here." Lily continued to chew them out half heartedly. "Okay, that's over with, let's go to lunch!" She said, and ran out the door to wait for them to get dressed.
The Marauders were soon ready, and they went off to lunch, while Lily was humming like an idiot.
"Lily, may I ask why you are in such a good mood today?" Sirius asked in an overly formal way.
"Well, I woke up feeling very…exuberantly happy and I just ended up like this!" She said and continued to bounce down the stairs, and into the Great Hall, once again she ignored the looks of the jealous girls who wanted to be her. Lily barely noticed them at all; she was in too good a mood.
After lunch they went up to the common room, where Lily TRIED to get them to study.
"You should study! We have OWLS coming up very soon! I think it would be a good idea to start studying for exams so we get ahead of everybody else, that way we have less to study and cram for before exams!" Lily lectured to them, James seemed to be the only one listening.
Sirius was staring out into space, with a happy-dreamy look on his face.
Remus was staring out the window, thinking about who knows what.
And Peter was drooling, apparently sleeping with his eyes open. (A/N creepy I've done it once almost…except that whole drooling thing…)
"Okay Lils to shut you up, I'll study for transfiguration." James said exasperatedly.
"That's not fair, that's your favorite class!"
"But at least I'm studying, that's what counts right?" James said innocently, he could probably not pay attention the whole year, and still pass with flying colors on the Transfiguration exam. Lily rolled her eyes and picked up a Potions book, and started looking over things memorizing as she went.
Soon the afternoon was over, dinner zoomed by and they waited out the next few hours until late, and snuck out to The Three Broomsticks. Through the passage way Lily was telling them how amazing it was that they hadn't gotten into trouble for how many times they'd used it.
"Lily cool it, you've broken plenty of rules yourself, so don't be yelling at us for doing the same thing!" Remus said a bit amused.
"I wasn't yelling, I was simply informing you about it." (A/N is she turning out to be like a bit of Hermione Granger or is it just me?? Not that there's anything to be ashamed about. ( oh look a smiley!)
When the slipped through Honeydukes, the five of them rushed to the Three Broomsticks for the New Year's Eve party. Lily found it was totally packed, but some how they found a seat in the corner. There was going to be a live performance from a Wizard Band that was quite popular among everyone in town.
The band was already playing, and Sirius and James were sadly singing along with them, and they didn't even know the words. Peter and Remus soon joined, and were getting a bigger audience then the band…Until the bartender told them to quiet down. Madam Rosmerta or something like that was her name.
"I've never seen this place so crowded." Lily admitted while sipping a butter beer Sirius bought her.
"You should've been here last year! James, and Sirius got…carried away on the butter beer, and soon they were actually up on the stage carrying away like there was no tomorrow, Needless to say we were thrown out." Remus told her, and she noticed James blushing a bit. 'James? Embarrassed?' Lily thought happily.
The New Year came rather quickly, and there were a lot of explosions from people's wands. Lily ran for cover as someone by the name of Diggle sent out shooting stars…From inside the room.
After that a lot of people left, but then it was clear enough for people to start dancing. Lily was on her fifth butter beer and feeling very hyper, considering the time. Lily had been sitting there doing nothing, but talking to the Marauders, when a young man asked her to dance, he looked like a graduate from Hogwarts, but Lily didn't recognize him. Before Lily knew it she'd danced with about seven people she didn't know, and noticed the Marauders were starting to dance too. Lily began rotating through each of the Marauders. First Sirius, but he stepped on her toes. Then Remus and they had a lot of fun to yet another fast song. Then Peter who ended up being a better dancer then most would think.
Peter ended up throwing her straight into someone's arms: James.
"Hullo James." She said looking up at him.
"Hullo Lils. Having fun?"
"Yup, tons! This place is great!" She said as he spun her around. Lily felt blissfully happy dancing with him. Then an awkward moment came when a slow song came on.
"Want to keep dancing?" He asked blushing slightly.
"Sure." Lily said blushing herself. He pulled her closer, put his hands on her waist, and she put her arms around his neck. Lily would never have told anyone else what thoughts went through her mind while they were dancing, but they were along the lines of 'This feels really good!' James' thoughts were along the same lines.
The song ended and Lily was asked to dance by same guy that asked her in the beginning. Lily and her friends were getting ready to go when they heard some one else go up to the microphone.
"I am sorry that I have to be the one inform you about this." An elderly woman said, everyone turned to her, looking grave having idea to what she was talking about: Voldemort attacks.
"I hope it's no one I know." She heard Sirius mumble reverently.
"Earlier tonight there was an attack on a respected wizarding family." Lily heard all the boys intake their breath and hold it, and Lily noticed she did too. It could be anyone…It could be Sierra or Jimena or Mindy so many people she knew that it could be. And for one moment everyone was holding their breath praying that it wasn't a relative or close friend.
(A/N I'm still thinking who I should kill off…I hate doing this…I think I'll have it be someone I don't even know…but these were dark times…so if I'm going by the rules….Damn I hate being mean! I can't pick which character to torture! I hate this part!)
"Tonight, that wizarding family was the Lupins." The Marauders and Lily looked at Remus, who's eyes had bulged, and was in shock. Lily felt immediate pain for him, and gave him a hug, and kept listening to the elderly witch talk. "The Toby and Miranda Lupin died this evening by result of a death eater attack, they died quickly. He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named killed them for unannounced reasons." Lily stopped listening and she and the Marauders walked Remus back to the castle, comforting him, as he tried not cry.
"It's my entire fault, it's all my fault." Remus muttered.
"It's not your fault!" They all said at the same time.
"Yes it is, it's because of what I am that they did that…He wants werewolves on HIS side." Remus said darkly. Lily could feel the anger coming.
"AND that's YOUR fault!?" Lily said comfortingly. "You couldn't help it that you got bit, or that HE wants you on the dark side. You can't give him that satisfaction Remus, the moment you blame yourself, it helps him to win! He just likes to hurt people, for no reason at all! Trust me, I know about these things." As Lily continued to comfort Remus, a thought occurred to her, that hadn't ever before…
Why were James' parents still alive? Had he tried to attack them before? He went after hers for the curse; at least that's what she thought, but yet James' parents were still alive and well. It made her a bit jealous and made her parents' deaths seem even more of a waste then it already had been.
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The next week of break was spent the same as always, except Remus was a bit stressed, and Lily didn't chew them out in the mornings, but the pranks continued, and the 'rude awakenings' too. Lily talked to Remus a lot more, since she was the only one out of them to know 'how it feels' as Remus had told her. She and Remus became closer then ever, and he started to feel like a big brother, just as James had a while back…but now with James it was a bit different, to say the least. The curse hadn't done anything to them for a long time, and that was a good thing.
Remus was handling his parents' death better then expected, and his friends were always around him…maybe a bit too much at times. They couldn't wait for him to get back to his old self.
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Soon it was the last day of break. Lily awoke same as usual.
"Oh today it looks like I have bird feet! And oh look my hair is rainbow! Oh this is perfect my finger nails have grown an inch longer! Now this is cool, I have bat wings coming out of my back!" Lily talked to herself, and then began to fix herself to look normal again.
Today since it was the last day Lily would even THINK she could get away with going to the boys' dorms, Lily was giving them extra special wake up call that day.
She snuck in and didn't make a noise, today none of them had their bed hangings shut. Lily cast four very quick 'bouncing' spells, and soon the boys' mattresses were making all sorts of...Bad…noises and Lily ran out of the room, and managed to hear some very BAD sounding moans from the guys. It wasn't going to sound good to anyone passing by. Lily couldn't hold it in; she started laughing right outside the door, and was soon discovered by a very disgruntled looking Sirius.
"Erm, Hullo Sirius." Lily said trying to calm down. "I thought you guys might be busy in there so I decided to wait on the wake up call this morning!" Lily burst out laughing, and Sirius glared and pulled her in the room.
All but three of the boys were awake, James was still moaning in his sleep as his bed bounced up and down and up and down… (A/N see what I mean by…bad?!)
The three of them gathered around the still occupied bed, and looked at the occupant…Or James as most people call him. He was groaning in the most disapproving ways, and this was where the rest of the Marauders got some serious pay back on Lily.
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A/N MUHAHAHAHA! I'm stopping there, leaving ya waiting! This is quite funny for me! I think it's quite predictable what's going to happen…try and guess if you want…I'm gonna get started right now! I'm laughing thinking about what I would do if THAT happened to me! I feel sorry for Remus, but I did ink a bink a bottle of ink to find out who's parents were dying, and twice it was him…so poor Remus! I hate being mean! It took me 10mins to decide that! Oh YEAH and (k) my last reviewer 21!! Yeah! Oh I know what you mean with those scary storms! welp laters…
*~Sierra~*