Is Love Worth It?
By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own the marauders or Lily.
Author's Note- I saw another Grease based fic posted but I decided to continue with this one anyway. This one will have no one singing songs (sorry if that ruins it for you) and the characters will be a mix of different personalities. For instance Sirius is like Kenickie by being James best friend but Remus is the one who worked over the summer to get the broom. The reason for this we know Sirius has money (the Firebolt) so he wouldn't have to work for it (obviously) but Remus wasn't very rich if you recall (tattered robes and such). Makes sense, I think so, well with that said I will continue with the story.
Sorry for not updating, my story was saved on my notebook and I had to order a piece to get it up and running again the cord broke and the battery died on me.
Chapter One
Sirius, Remus and Peter were sitting in Floreans waiting for James who had owled Sirius about his two week suspension. The three marauders decided to wait to get their school supplies until the day before they would be leaving on the Hogwarts Express. All three of them were dressed in baggy dark denim jeans, white tee-shirts and black leather jackets.
"Hey! Give that back" Peter said angrily jumping out of his chair. Sirius had just taken his 'Quidditch Weekly' magazine away from him and started looking threw it.
"Whacha need it for Wormtail" Sirius replied as he shifted threw the magazine stopping occasionally to look at a page or two.
"Yeah it isn't like you are on the Gryffindor quidditch team or anything" Remus added looking over Sirius's shoulder at the magazine.
"Neither are you, Moony" Sirius replied causing Remus to smack him upside the head.
"No, I am not on the team but the magazine is mine, so give it back" Peter retorted grabbing the magazine away from Sirius "besides mum got it for me."
Sirius didn't respond about Peter bringing his mum into it instead he chose to ignore Peter and turned to Remus "where were you all summer?"
"What are you his mum" Peter replied sarcastically still angry about Sirius taking his magazine away from him.
"Lay off Wormtail I wasn't speaking to you" Sirius retorted. He turned back to Remus "so where were you all summer?"
"I was working" Remus replied casually.
"Working?" Sirius and Peter asked confusedly at the same time. Sirius had never worked a day in his life. His family had all the money he could possibly want. Peter on the other hand was too lazy to get a job over the summer.
"Yeah, you know as in getting paid for the performance of a labor" Remus said as if he were talking to two five year olds instead of two seventeen year olds.
"No really, we know what it means dunderhead," Sirius scowled "what we were wondering is what did the job entail, comprende mi amigo?"
"Moving boxes around at a muggle warehouse" Remus replied. He had gotten a job at a muggle factory in his local town working to save up money for a broomstick.
"How exciting" Peter said sarcastically "the joy of it, next time invite me."
"Eat dung Wormtail, I worked so that I could by a broom this year" Remus replied. He had to buy a second hand broom but at least he had finally bought a broom unlike Sirius his family didn't have money and he wasn't lazy like Peter "what did you do, Padfoot?"
"The same old same old, spent most of it with Foxy who is now another notch on my pole of conquests" Sirius replied. He and Riana aka Foxy had been dating off and on for the past two years and he had finally made it with her over the summer.
"And think it only took two years to earn that notch you will be bragging about that one to your children and your children's children" Remus said sarcastically.
"I know every time I got closer to sleeping with her we would get into a fight and I would have to start all over again" Sirius replied.
"It's a wonder what being alone with no interruptions for two months can do for your relationship with her, Padfoot" Remus added.
"Want to hear what I did this summer?" Peter asked hopefully feeling a bit left out.
"No" Remus and Sirius replied bluntly. They looked around the ice cream parlor as they ignored Peter's sulking gaze, he really was quite pitiful sometimes but he was a marauder none-the-less (for reasons unknown).
After several minutes of odd silence and looking around Sirius spotted James "hey, there is Prongs" he had just walked into the parlor a few minutes ago and already there was a crowd of goggling girls around him.
"PRONGS" Remus shouted in James direction.
He hadn't heard Remus "OI! PRONGS!" Sirius shouted. Sirius had the loudest voice out of all the marauders and this time James had heard and began walking over to the rest of the marauders.
"Hey Prongs" the three of them said as James sat at their table looking relieved to be away from the crowd of obsessed fans whom seemed to know where he was twenty four seven.
"How are you doing?" Remus asked.
"Hey, it's good to see you guys" James replied.
"Any new girls in that horde?" Sirius asked looking back at the girls that were now walking away sulking as usual. The girls hadn't spotted Remus or Sirius until Sirius shouted but James had sent them off to go bug someone else for a change and miraculously they listened for once.
"Nope just the same old fans" James replied "it never changes does it?"
"Not really" Remus replied "I mean I have been with Iris for over a year now and some girls still think they have a chance with me as if I would cheat on her or something."
Sirius had enough of the idle chit chat "okay here is a summery of the summer's events: Moony had a job, Wormtail was-well being Wormtail, I finally got with Foxy and what did you do over the summer?"
"I was up at the cabin by the lake" James started.
"Having women hang all over him as usual" Peter mumbled an interruption.
"Something that you would know nothing about, the only thing that hangs around you are fellow rats" Sirius said jokingly but Peter had taken him seriously.
"How was the 'action' at the beach?" Remus asked ignoring Peter and Sirius who were glaring at each other for no apparent reason. Everyone knew Sirius was a joker but Peter always took him seriously.
"It was a blast" James replied as he thought about all the time he spent with Lily "I did meet this one really cool girl."
"So you found someone that puts out" Sirius said turning away from Peter who was holding his nose where Sirius had just punched him. James and Remus weren't sure why Sirius had punched him it occasionally happened. (A/N I know the T Birds never hit each other but I don't like Peter although I am going to give him a girlfriend am I generous or what?)
"Is that all you ever think about Padfoot?" James asked annoyed.
"You aren't serious are you, what else is a seventeen year old supposed to think about" Sirius replied in shock at James statement. James knew from the look his friends were giving him he was going to have to lie about his summer.
"Uh Prongs, you going to tell us what happened over the summer or not" Peter asked still holding his nose dabbing at it with a napkin to soak up the blood.
"It was nothing" James replied clearing his throat thinking things over in his head. Yep he was definitely going to have to lie about his summer they were already looking at him worriedly wondering if he hadn't suffered brain damage over the summer.
"Nothing, right" Sirius said sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"You got with her though, am I right?" Remus asked as the three marauders waited in anticipation to hear what had happened over the summer to James.
"Tell us about the girl" Peter chimed in.
"There is nothing to tell except that she was absolutely crazy about me" James began but Peter interrupted him.
"How far did you get with her?"
"Of course he got all the way with her, he said she was cool" Sirius replied "she had to be all over him." James wouldn't call a girl cool if she didn't put out "what I want to know is how long it took to get her into bed?"
"With Prongs using his Potter Charm, I am sure it wasn't long at all. She probably melted like Crisco in Snape's hair, not even putting up a fight" Remus added.
James watched in amusement as his three friends talked amongst themselves about what he had done over the summer. He didn't even have to lie but he was beginning to feel guilty about letting them think that his summer was spent with some whore who would give it up in the first week. To him it was the best summer of his life.
"Prongs are you with us." Remus asked. The three marauders just now realized that James was in a complete daze he hadn't even been listening to the conversation.
"Man that girl must really have a hold on you" Sirius said as James came out of his little fantasy world back to the here and now.
"No, I was just thinking about all the times I spent alone with her during those hot summer nights" James retorted, he would never let a girl have a hold on him as Sirius so kindly put it "a summer fling sort of thing, you know what I mean."
James was mentally kicking himself why did he do that, does he always have to protect his image, what about hers. Damn peer pressure always biting people in their asses forcing them to do things they don't want really want to do.
"You don't have to brag about it" Peter said stiffly. He was wondering if he was the only one out of the group that hasn't made it with a girl yet. James had Mackenzie last year and the girl over the summer probably numerous others. Sirius had Riana and numerous other girls while Remus has been dating Selena for the past year now. Sure there was Ashlyn but he had never asked her out.
"Someone is obviously jealous of the rest of us and bitter from the lack of a good lay in their life" Sirius taunted Peter. The four marauders went to get their school supplies then went their separate ways most of them were going to meet up again in the morning at Kings Cross.
~*~
Lily Evans walked into the Leaky Cauldron she was supposed to meet someone named Selena Patil who was going to show her around Diagon Alley. They would be staying at the Leaky Cauldron for the night so that Selena could show her how to get onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters in the morning.
"Hello I am Selena Patil are you Lily Evans by any chance?" Lily turned and found herself facing a pretty long curly dark brown haired girl with hazel eyes. She had on a rather short skirt and a low cut skin tight top with a silver badge inscribed with a 'P' on it. Lily took a second glance at her hair and noticed that there were red and yellow streaks in it.
'Oh Merlin a whore is going to show me around' was Lily's first thought but she then scolded herself for thinking that. Lily had learned one thing over the summer not to judge others by the way they dressed. If she had she would never have gotten to know James although she doubted whether she would ever see him again anyways "yeah I am."
"Good, just call me Iris all of my friends do. So I heard you are a transfer from an academy in Ireland, is that right? Selena asked. She looked Lily up and down 'she better not be anything like Babs and Ella or I am going to have to kill myself with the killing curse.' Babs (Barbara) and Ella (Eleanor) were preppy girls at school who were annoying and a pain in the girls' asses.
"Yeah that would be me, I am really nervous about going to Hogwarts this year" Lily replied hoping she didn't sound like a complete idiot.
"Don't worry, you will love Hogwarts it's a home away from home for most" Selena replied comfortingly. Lily appeared to have a nice personality but the way she dressed, honestly it was horrific. Lily was dressed in a dress that covered up every ounce of femininity she owned. Selena and her friends philosophy was 'if you got it flaunt it' why else would you have it.
"I loved my old school, I wish I were there instead" Lily said. She thought Selena seemed nice enough good thing people aren't always what they appear to be at least she hoped.
"You will fit in, you can chill with me and mine, you will have a fly time with us" Selena replied. The two girls spent the day shopping for Lily's school supplies then headed back to the Leaky Cauldron to get some sleep before they headed out in the morning for Kings Cross.
~*~
I would like to thank all of the wonderful people who reviewed for the first part of the story. Jitterbelle, cryz4ds, mogliecat, Linda, sirius' lover, Bella Black, Cassiopia, Dragondemon, Female Marauders, s, zebragurl, and ThePopGurlz. Thank you all so much it was really appreciated.
By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own the marauders or Lily.
Author's Note- I saw another Grease based fic posted but I decided to continue with this one anyway. This one will have no one singing songs (sorry if that ruins it for you) and the characters will be a mix of different personalities. For instance Sirius is like Kenickie by being James best friend but Remus is the one who worked over the summer to get the broom. The reason for this we know Sirius has money (the Firebolt) so he wouldn't have to work for it (obviously) but Remus wasn't very rich if you recall (tattered robes and such). Makes sense, I think so, well with that said I will continue with the story.
Sorry for not updating, my story was saved on my notebook and I had to order a piece to get it up and running again the cord broke and the battery died on me.
Chapter One
Sirius, Remus and Peter were sitting in Floreans waiting for James who had owled Sirius about his two week suspension. The three marauders decided to wait to get their school supplies until the day before they would be leaving on the Hogwarts Express. All three of them were dressed in baggy dark denim jeans, white tee-shirts and black leather jackets.
"Hey! Give that back" Peter said angrily jumping out of his chair. Sirius had just taken his 'Quidditch Weekly' magazine away from him and started looking threw it.
"Whacha need it for Wormtail" Sirius replied as he shifted threw the magazine stopping occasionally to look at a page or two.
"Yeah it isn't like you are on the Gryffindor quidditch team or anything" Remus added looking over Sirius's shoulder at the magazine.
"Neither are you, Moony" Sirius replied causing Remus to smack him upside the head.
"No, I am not on the team but the magazine is mine, so give it back" Peter retorted grabbing the magazine away from Sirius "besides mum got it for me."
Sirius didn't respond about Peter bringing his mum into it instead he chose to ignore Peter and turned to Remus "where were you all summer?"
"What are you his mum" Peter replied sarcastically still angry about Sirius taking his magazine away from him.
"Lay off Wormtail I wasn't speaking to you" Sirius retorted. He turned back to Remus "so where were you all summer?"
"I was working" Remus replied casually.
"Working?" Sirius and Peter asked confusedly at the same time. Sirius had never worked a day in his life. His family had all the money he could possibly want. Peter on the other hand was too lazy to get a job over the summer.
"Yeah, you know as in getting paid for the performance of a labor" Remus said as if he were talking to two five year olds instead of two seventeen year olds.
"No really, we know what it means dunderhead," Sirius scowled "what we were wondering is what did the job entail, comprende mi amigo?"
"Moving boxes around at a muggle warehouse" Remus replied. He had gotten a job at a muggle factory in his local town working to save up money for a broomstick.
"How exciting" Peter said sarcastically "the joy of it, next time invite me."
"Eat dung Wormtail, I worked so that I could by a broom this year" Remus replied. He had to buy a second hand broom but at least he had finally bought a broom unlike Sirius his family didn't have money and he wasn't lazy like Peter "what did you do, Padfoot?"
"The same old same old, spent most of it with Foxy who is now another notch on my pole of conquests" Sirius replied. He and Riana aka Foxy had been dating off and on for the past two years and he had finally made it with her over the summer.
"And think it only took two years to earn that notch you will be bragging about that one to your children and your children's children" Remus said sarcastically.
"I know every time I got closer to sleeping with her we would get into a fight and I would have to start all over again" Sirius replied.
"It's a wonder what being alone with no interruptions for two months can do for your relationship with her, Padfoot" Remus added.
"Want to hear what I did this summer?" Peter asked hopefully feeling a bit left out.
"No" Remus and Sirius replied bluntly. They looked around the ice cream parlor as they ignored Peter's sulking gaze, he really was quite pitiful sometimes but he was a marauder none-the-less (for reasons unknown).
After several minutes of odd silence and looking around Sirius spotted James "hey, there is Prongs" he had just walked into the parlor a few minutes ago and already there was a crowd of goggling girls around him.
"PRONGS" Remus shouted in James direction.
He hadn't heard Remus "OI! PRONGS!" Sirius shouted. Sirius had the loudest voice out of all the marauders and this time James had heard and began walking over to the rest of the marauders.
"Hey Prongs" the three of them said as James sat at their table looking relieved to be away from the crowd of obsessed fans whom seemed to know where he was twenty four seven.
"How are you doing?" Remus asked.
"Hey, it's good to see you guys" James replied.
"Any new girls in that horde?" Sirius asked looking back at the girls that were now walking away sulking as usual. The girls hadn't spotted Remus or Sirius until Sirius shouted but James had sent them off to go bug someone else for a change and miraculously they listened for once.
"Nope just the same old fans" James replied "it never changes does it?"
"Not really" Remus replied "I mean I have been with Iris for over a year now and some girls still think they have a chance with me as if I would cheat on her or something."
Sirius had enough of the idle chit chat "okay here is a summery of the summer's events: Moony had a job, Wormtail was-well being Wormtail, I finally got with Foxy and what did you do over the summer?"
"I was up at the cabin by the lake" James started.
"Having women hang all over him as usual" Peter mumbled an interruption.
"Something that you would know nothing about, the only thing that hangs around you are fellow rats" Sirius said jokingly but Peter had taken him seriously.
"How was the 'action' at the beach?" Remus asked ignoring Peter and Sirius who were glaring at each other for no apparent reason. Everyone knew Sirius was a joker but Peter always took him seriously.
"It was a blast" James replied as he thought about all the time he spent with Lily "I did meet this one really cool girl."
"So you found someone that puts out" Sirius said turning away from Peter who was holding his nose where Sirius had just punched him. James and Remus weren't sure why Sirius had punched him it occasionally happened. (A/N I know the T Birds never hit each other but I don't like Peter although I am going to give him a girlfriend am I generous or what?)
"Is that all you ever think about Padfoot?" James asked annoyed.
"You aren't serious are you, what else is a seventeen year old supposed to think about" Sirius replied in shock at James statement. James knew from the look his friends were giving him he was going to have to lie about his summer.
"Uh Prongs, you going to tell us what happened over the summer or not" Peter asked still holding his nose dabbing at it with a napkin to soak up the blood.
"It was nothing" James replied clearing his throat thinking things over in his head. Yep he was definitely going to have to lie about his summer they were already looking at him worriedly wondering if he hadn't suffered brain damage over the summer.
"Nothing, right" Sirius said sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"You got with her though, am I right?" Remus asked as the three marauders waited in anticipation to hear what had happened over the summer to James.
"Tell us about the girl" Peter chimed in.
"There is nothing to tell except that she was absolutely crazy about me" James began but Peter interrupted him.
"How far did you get with her?"
"Of course he got all the way with her, he said she was cool" Sirius replied "she had to be all over him." James wouldn't call a girl cool if she didn't put out "what I want to know is how long it took to get her into bed?"
"With Prongs using his Potter Charm, I am sure it wasn't long at all. She probably melted like Crisco in Snape's hair, not even putting up a fight" Remus added.
James watched in amusement as his three friends talked amongst themselves about what he had done over the summer. He didn't even have to lie but he was beginning to feel guilty about letting them think that his summer was spent with some whore who would give it up in the first week. To him it was the best summer of his life.
"Prongs are you with us." Remus asked. The three marauders just now realized that James was in a complete daze he hadn't even been listening to the conversation.
"Man that girl must really have a hold on you" Sirius said as James came out of his little fantasy world back to the here and now.
"No, I was just thinking about all the times I spent alone with her during those hot summer nights" James retorted, he would never let a girl have a hold on him as Sirius so kindly put it "a summer fling sort of thing, you know what I mean."
James was mentally kicking himself why did he do that, does he always have to protect his image, what about hers. Damn peer pressure always biting people in their asses forcing them to do things they don't want really want to do.
"You don't have to brag about it" Peter said stiffly. He was wondering if he was the only one out of the group that hasn't made it with a girl yet. James had Mackenzie last year and the girl over the summer probably numerous others. Sirius had Riana and numerous other girls while Remus has been dating Selena for the past year now. Sure there was Ashlyn but he had never asked her out.
"Someone is obviously jealous of the rest of us and bitter from the lack of a good lay in their life" Sirius taunted Peter. The four marauders went to get their school supplies then went their separate ways most of them were going to meet up again in the morning at Kings Cross.
~*~
Lily Evans walked into the Leaky Cauldron she was supposed to meet someone named Selena Patil who was going to show her around Diagon Alley. They would be staying at the Leaky Cauldron for the night so that Selena could show her how to get onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters in the morning.
"Hello I am Selena Patil are you Lily Evans by any chance?" Lily turned and found herself facing a pretty long curly dark brown haired girl with hazel eyes. She had on a rather short skirt and a low cut skin tight top with a silver badge inscribed with a 'P' on it. Lily took a second glance at her hair and noticed that there were red and yellow streaks in it.
'Oh Merlin a whore is going to show me around' was Lily's first thought but she then scolded herself for thinking that. Lily had learned one thing over the summer not to judge others by the way they dressed. If she had she would never have gotten to know James although she doubted whether she would ever see him again anyways "yeah I am."
"Good, just call me Iris all of my friends do. So I heard you are a transfer from an academy in Ireland, is that right? Selena asked. She looked Lily up and down 'she better not be anything like Babs and Ella or I am going to have to kill myself with the killing curse.' Babs (Barbara) and Ella (Eleanor) were preppy girls at school who were annoying and a pain in the girls' asses.
"Yeah that would be me, I am really nervous about going to Hogwarts this year" Lily replied hoping she didn't sound like a complete idiot.
"Don't worry, you will love Hogwarts it's a home away from home for most" Selena replied comfortingly. Lily appeared to have a nice personality but the way she dressed, honestly it was horrific. Lily was dressed in a dress that covered up every ounce of femininity she owned. Selena and her friends philosophy was 'if you got it flaunt it' why else would you have it.
"I loved my old school, I wish I were there instead" Lily said. She thought Selena seemed nice enough good thing people aren't always what they appear to be at least she hoped.
"You will fit in, you can chill with me and mine, you will have a fly time with us" Selena replied. The two girls spent the day shopping for Lily's school supplies then headed back to the Leaky Cauldron to get some sleep before they headed out in the morning for Kings Cross.
~*~
I would like to thank all of the wonderful people who reviewed for the first part of the story. Jitterbelle, cryz4ds, mogliecat, Linda, sirius' lover, Bella Black, Cassiopia, Dragondemon, Female Marauders, s, zebragurl, and ThePopGurlz. Thank you all so much it was really appreciated.