Disguised
A/N: Here's the second chapter! Yay! *cheers and dances around*
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Disguised
Chapter II
A few minutes after Sirius Black's rather unwise confession, James Potter entered the Gryffindor common room and looked around. Apparently not finding what he was looking for, he went up to the third year boys' dormitory. He found Sirius there, cowering under the bed in fear of James' revenge.
"Um…hi?" Sirius squeaked. "I'll just worship you now to keep from being turned into a pig, shall I?"
"Much as I would like that…" James grinned. "Nah. All is forgiven."
"Are you sure about that?" Sirius asked suspiciously.
"Yeah, sure I am! C'mon, when have I ever lied to you?"
"Hm…" Sirius thought about it, and started counting. "1 time…2 times…3…4…5, 6, 7…8…"
"Okay, okay, I get the point! I've lied to you! But I promise I'm not lying this time."
"Alright, I believe you. Thanks, Jamsie-boy," Sirius said finally, and left the room.
James smiled evilly.
***
The next day, everyone in the Gryffindor tower was awakened early in the morning by Sirius Black screaming, "I THOUGHT ALL WAS FORGIVEN!!!" while running up and down the stairs with long blue hair and a dress on. Several people asked him if he was parading his costume for the Halloween party.
James refused to make Sirius normal again for most of the day, but finally did when even the professors started cracking up at the sight of Sirius. Trelawney, the Divination professor, even ventured to ask the "girl" what hair dye she'd used, before cracking up like everyone else. Sirius said some very rude things at that point, earning himself a detention.
So, James was forced to take it off out of mere sympathy.
***
A week later, it was October 30th, the day before Halloween. Almost everyone had a date, which Lily and Sophia thought was stupid. Where was the air of mystery if you knew who people were?
Obviously, Lily and Sophia didn't have dates. The Marauders didn't have any either, since they couldn't care less and were only going to put spells on the food.
***
At last, the night of the party arrived. In the third years' dormitory, the Ravenclaw girls were getting ready.
Lily was trying to charm her hair blond, but still had a couple of dark red streaks that she was glaring at. This was extremely unusual, since she was the top girl of her year at Charms.
Sophia had already charmed her hair black, easily, since she was normally second in Charms, and was working on her eyes.
The other two, Isabella Stevens and Ella Frazier, were done with their costumes.
Isabella usually had short, bushy brown hair and brown eyes. Now, she had long red hair, and blue eyes flecked with gold.
Ella was in the middle of putting a gray contact in her brown eye. She cheerfully said, "I'm no good at charms, so it's a good thing that I have contacts!" But she shuddered anyway, right before she put it in.
Sophia finished with her eyes, leaving them green. Then, she turned to Lily, who was still struggling with her hair, and looked shocked.
"Lily, you haven't had trouble with that charm in ages…"
"I guess I'm just nervous…I mean, this seems like a bit of a waste of time to me…" Lily said uneasily, still struggling with her hair.
"Do you want some help?" Sophia said hesitantly, not asking why Lily thought it was a waste.
Lily nodded helplessly.
Sophia smiled and finished charming Lily's hair blond. "There you go!"
"Thanks, Sophia! I think I'll leave my eyes green. Blond hair makes me look completely different anyway."
Sophia nodded. "Right."
Then, they changed into their dress robes. Lily's were emerald green, Sophia's were midnight blue, Isabella's were black, and Ella's were purple.
They went down the stairs, out of the Ravenclaw common room, and to the Great Hall. Finally, they went into the Great Hall, ready to face the crowds.
***
James, Sirius, and Peter were standing together on the edge of the dance floor. James now had blond hair and blue eyes. Sirius had gone for the weird look, and given himself spiked green hair (blue was the only color he hated…) and purple eyes. Peter was simply wearing a red wig.
They'd already put spells on the stuff at the refreshment table. However, to avoid mass embarrassment, they had them take affect several hours after the victim ate or drank the things from the table. For example, anyone who drank the punch would turn into a badger sometime in the morning the next day.
James had taken care of the Transfiguration. He was the best of them all, the top of his year, in fact. However, he was barely passing Charms. He had done this costume with help from Sirius, who was obviously good if he could give himself spiked green hair and purple eyes, and not be worried about not being able to make himself normal again. Lily Evans usually took the opportunity and made fun of him whenever possible. He glared, just at the thought of her.
A girl in yellow dress robes approached them, and stared at Sirius with his green hair for a moment. Then, she looked at Peter.
"Hello," she said pleasantly, but still looking a bit nervous. "Would you like to dance?"
"Sure," Peter said, and went off with her.
James stared. "Well, there goes Peter," he said to Sirius. "You going to go off with some girl?"
"Well--" Sirius stuttered. "I did actually have my eye set on one."
"Unbelievable," James muttered.
Suddenly, a girl with long, wavy red hair and gold-flecked blue eyes walked over and smiled at Sirius. "Dance with me?" she said.
Sirius stared stupidly. "Um--ahh---that is---okay," he stuttered, and took the girl's arm.
"I'm guessing that was the one," James muttered, as Sirius walked off.
But he could understand Sirius' weakness at that point…that girl had been pretty. Almost as pretty as Lily Evans--He shook his head--slow down here, why was he thinking that Lily Evans was pretty? Well, she was, sort of. But it wasn't as if he liked her or anything. He shook his head again. That would never happen.
He wandered over to the refreshments table, and leaned against it, watching people eat the cookies that would turn them into giant parrots sooner or later.
Suddenly, he saw a girl with emerald green dress robes coming over to the table. She had eyes to match, and long blond hair. She reached out for a cup of punch. He reached over quickly and grabbed her wrist, for some reason.
"What are you doing?" She stared at him.
"Well…um…" Why had he done that? What did he care if some girl got turned into a badger the next day? Well, no time to figure it out now, while she was staring at him. "Well…I advise you not to drink that punch. If you do, you'll probably turn into a badger sometime tomorrow."
The girl kept staring at him. "How would you know?"
"…I have my connections."
The girl smiled. "Ah. I see it now. You've done something to the food."
"Well, technically, it wasn't just me…but yeah, I thought I should save at least one person."
The smile turned into a grin. "Thank you. I like being a human, even if turning into something else is temporary. And prank-players should never have a prank played on them…"
"You prank people?"
"Oh, yes, of course I do. I have a few enemies, and I like to torture them as much as possible!" She was still grinning.
"Yes, it's fun, isn't it?" James smiled back at her. "I actually wouldn't even be at this party if we hadn't decided to mess with the food."
"Well, if you wanted to stay out of the party, you could have just gone down to the kitchens, you know."
"The kitchens?"
"You haven't found the kitchens yet?" The girl looked amazed. "I can take you to them right now if you like. The food doesn't have spells on it down there, and I'm getting hungry anyway."
"Alright." James grinned. "Lead the way…um…what's your name?"
"Hm…I don't feel like telling you that. Just call me whatever you want."
"Will Blond Beauty work?" He smiled.
The girl wrinkled her nose. "Ugh, no."
James looked her up and down. "Hm…you have green dress robes, and green eyes…How about Emerald?"
"Emerald. Yes, I like it."
"Right then, Emerald, lead the way!"
***
For the rest of the night, they stayed in the kitchens, occasionally ordering food from the house-elves.
They talked about everything: pranks, lessons…But Lily never asked James' name; she got by without saying it. James did ask Lily's name, wanting to know who she was, but she wouldn't tell him, since she loved an air of mystery so much. So he just called her emerald.
And that is how Lily Evans and James Potter, who were usually enemies, became friends for one night.
At midnight, Lily stood up, getting off the floor of the kitchen.
"Well," she said, "it was nice meeting you. I wouldn't mind doing this next year."
"Neither would I," James said, getting up as well. "So, what do you say? I'll meet you here next year from Halloween."
"Deal." They shook hands, left the kitchen, and went their separate ways.
***
In the Gryffindor boys' dorm, the Marauders were talking about the party.
Sirius was talking about the girl who had asked him to dance, with a dreamy look on his face. "Her name's Isabella. She's in Ravenclaw, our year. I'm going to Hogsmeade with her next time…"
James wasn't even listening. He was too busy thinking about Emerald…She was pretty, she was smart, she played pranks…and she was oddly familiar.
"And by the way, James, where were you?" Sirius said, frowning. "I didn't see you."
James was brought back to earth. "Oh, me? I left a few minutes after that girl led you off…guess what?" James said.
"What?"
"I found the kitchens!" James said. "They've got house-elves in there! If I'd said I was hungry, I bet they would have given me a wedding cake! They'll give you whatever you want!" For some reason, he didn't feel like telling about his new friend Emerald. And he guessed his friends would laugh at him, for not even getting her name.
"Brilliant!" Sirius said. "Take us next time, will you?"
"No problem," James said. Thank you, Emerald, he thought. As of now, I'm "brilliant!"
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A/N: Yay! I finished! *cheers and dances around again*
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