All By Myself chapter 4




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Lily sat alone in the hospital wing, waiting for the morning to come when she would have to face the school. At least now she had Helen for a friend! She smiled to herself. She wondered what James was up to. She needed to speak to him to tell him to be nice to Helen, seeing they were friends now.


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Helen was wandering a long the corridor, just having seen Lily. When she bumped in to the Marauders. She smiled at them, she wanted to apologise to them for hurting lily. She also wanted to try and make up with them. "what are you doing" Sirius asked suspiciously.

"well actually I was looking for you. I want to speak to you about Lily."

"why? what have you done to her" James asked hoping his worst fears weren't about to be confirmed.

"Well, I've made friends with her"

"what?" James spluttered, this was the opposite of what he had been expecting.

"that's right" she said proudly, "when the realisation hit me that I could have nearly killed her, I had to at least apologise to her, didn't I? Well anyway, we decided that we should stick together"

"what about Alex?" James asked sharply, cutting her off.

"her? Oh we're finished, she's a nasty piece of work, I've only just realised she was influencing me. Now that me and Lils are friends, I can hopefully show my true personality!!!"

The marauders took all this in.

"It must have taken you a lot of courage to do that" Remus said thoughtfully.

"well Gryffindors are meant to be brave aren't they?"

"true, wish I could say the same for Alex" Remus said

"well anyway, I was wondering" Helen began, "I know that you're friends with Lily so now that I'm friends with her, I wondered if you would be friends with me?"

(A/N did that make sense?)

The marauders looked at Helen, she looked shyly back. The marauders looked at each other and shrugged.

"if you're a friend of Lilys then you're a friend of ours I guess" said Sirius.

Helen smiled gratefully

"thankyou so much, I can prove to you that I'm a good person" and she ran off.

The marauders looked at each other again.

"alrighty then" Sirius said. He paused then "she would be pretty cute if she lost some weight"


Everyone gave him the look.


Soon the time came for the prank.

"have we got everything" Remus said.

"rope?"

"check"

"wands"

"check"

"map"

"check"

"invisibility cloak?"

"check"

"yeah I think we have everything!"

"k, where's Mrs Norris then" James said.

Sirius pulled out the marauders map "she's heading towards the library."

So they all went to the library.

"oh shit" James suddenly said.

"what?" asked Remus

"I forgot my glasses"

"doesn't matter, even you can't mistake a cat for a statue." Sirius said.

"ouch"

"who said that?"

"not me" said Sirius

"not me" said Remus

"well it wasn't me," said James.

Sirius risked pulling the cloak off, because it was getting in the way.

And as everyone else appeared, so did,

"PETER?"

"um hello"

"Peter, go away" Said Sirius slowly. The tears welled up in Peter's eyes.

Everyone groaned.

"How did you get here" James demanded.

"I hid under the cloak with you and then someone trod on my foot and I said ouch" Peter said obviously very proud of himself, and totally oblivious to the frowns he was receiving.

"look Peter, there's just no nice way to put this. GET OUT" James exploded. "we don't like you anymore"

All the other marauders silently agreed. Peter started crying again and ran off,

"I'll get you some day Potter" he yelled over his shoulder "just you wait"

"man, he's annoying" Sirius said.

"he's probably woken the entire school with that yelling" Remus said annoyed

"quick get under the invisibility cloak again!" they all stayed still for a few minutes when nothing happened they set off towards the library again.

"we'll have missed Mrs Norris by now" said James feeling pissed.

"hold on, I see a cat tail" sirius declared

"ok, you two stay here" James said. "I'll go and sort her out."

James walked over to where the cat sat, some way off, he kept bumping into walls and stuff without his glasses which was annoying but eventually he made it to the cat. he muttered the curse and laughed when Mrs Norris jumped so high with the surprise of being pink and green that she hit the ceiling. James sniggered nastily and wandered back to Sirius and Remus bumping into more walls on the way back.

"you should have remembered your glasses" Sirius said darkly.

James grinned the lopsided grin he seemed to have picked up from some where .

"I can't wait to see Filches face when he finds his darling Mrs Norris different colours and then she turns him different colours too" they all sniggered evilly, and waited for the next morning when they could see the effects take place.

"the only bad thing is we'll have to do the counter curse for him" Remus said gloomily.

"no we won't" James said

"how come?"

"cos there isn't one, it's one of those temporary 48 hour curses" James said proudly.

"hey Lily will be out tomorrow" Sirius said.

"oh yeah" James said



The next morning.


Lily sat up in the hospital bed, today she went back to school, after all, her bones were all mended now. she had better get up soon or she would miss breakfast, though. She was glad she could see James, Sirius and Remus again, and Helen.

They could tell her about the prank.

She got her stuff together and walked up to the gryffindor common room, there was no one there, they had all gone down to breakfast, thank goodness. She went up to her dorm, brushed her hair and went down the stairs to breakfast. she didn't look anyone in the eyes, but she could feel people looking at her, she sat down between Helen and James. They smiled at her. They sat chatting for a few minutes, but Lily couldn't eat much.

"c'mon" she said when they had all finished. Lily sat in a chair in the common

room with the marauders and Helen, when Flufter lilys cat walked in. Lily didn't

notice her to begin with but when she jumped onto her lap she definitely did.

Flufter was green with pink polka dots

"uh oh." James said to Sirius

Lily screamed, just as she turned green and pink herself.

"you really did it this time Jamsie, you were meant to get Mrs Norris, it seems you got Lilys cat instead!"

"oh shit, why do I have to be so blind without my glasses, it's not fair"

"erm, I don't think that's your biggest problem now. Look!!" Lily was standing over them, looking at him. Her big green eyes were wide and full of tears, and she looked shocked, almost scared.

"I like your idea of a prank" she said quietly, "it was really funny" and she turned and ran up to her room sobbing loudly.

"Lily wait" James called after her. He looked at Helen,

"nice prank" she said sarcastically and turned to go and find Lily.

The whole common room found this extremely funny, apart from James that is!!!

"Sirius, what have we just done, this is going to completely lose her trust in us, unless she believes us of course."

"well I'll hardly blame her if she doesn't" Remus cut in "I mean she's hardly going to be a trustful person, the way she's been treated before." James knew he was right. Why did things always go wrong for him.

"I'm going to go and find her" he said.

why was he doing this. Lily was just some other girl, who he knew. But deep down he knew she wasn't. she was different from any other girl he'd know in his

whole life. She was such an interesting person, she was also more intelligent than anyone else, then it hit him. He loved Lily. He was so surprised that he sat down on the stairs to catch his breath.

"James what the hell are you doing?" Sirius yelled up at him

"oh nothing, just going" He stumbled up the remaining stairs to Lilys dorm, he knocked and entered the dorm quietly.

"what are you doing here" Lily asked, the tears still running freely down her beautiful face.

"I guess I came to apologise" James said looking her in the eye.

"what, for turning me and my cat different colours?"

"it's not what you think" James said quietly. He turned to Helen "would you mind just giving us a few minutes" he said throwing her a dashing smile, she sighed and agreed.

"why did you do it. If you thought it would cheer me up then I think you were being rather insensitive considering…well, you know."

James nodded "well we did do it to cheer you up, only thing that went wrong is that we got the wrong cat. We were going to turn Mrs Norris different colours and then charm her to make her owner different colours too. Problem is we got your cat instead. I forgot my glasses you see"

Lily nodded. "James" she began, "you must understand how hard this is for me. I mean this is the second time that you come up here to apologise for a prank

which just "went wrong" wouldn't you be a bit suspicious. I need a friend that I can depend on. Do you see?"

James nodded. "look Lily, you should know me enough now to know that I would never ever try to hurt you. Please believe me when I say that the curse was meant for Mrs Norris." He looked pleadingly at her. Lily looked into his warm brown eyes searching for clues that he was lying. She found none. She wiped away the remaining tears and nodded.

"I believe you" she said "but erm, can you please do the counter curse"

"um well actually there isn't one. You'll just have to stay like that for a couple

more days"

"great"

"don't worry, I think you look cute like that." heck, she looked cute all the time. She smiled sweetly and James had a sudden urge to kiss her but he didn't. He
knew she would never like him that way.


(A/N oooh this is fun. please tell me what you think of it. I'm really annoyed cos I never seem to be able to word it how I want to, does anyone else find that or is it just me? Well either ways pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase REVIEW!!!!!!! I'm not getting enough