A/N- Hee hee!! This is where it really starts to get pretty funny. Hilarious! This chapter is anyway. The end of this chapter is kind of pointless to the actual plot but there's a lot of pretty pointless to the plot stuff, otherwise this would be a really short fic if I only focused on the main plot and whatever. And I don't want it to be a short fic. I don't want it to ever end!! Waaaahhhh!! I'm having so much fun writing this! I think I might change the rating, but not right now. Towards the last few chapters, there's a bit of language, you know what kind of language I mean, but I won't change it right now because it's not for another few chapters yet I think…I'm not really sure though…Anywho…enough rambling and onto the…err…other ramblings…Today is Halloween and I am posting this chapter in celebration!! Yahooo!! Right now, I'm on a serious, major sugar rush. My little sisters went Trick-or-Treating and I stayed home to pass out candy, but not many kids came, so I just sat at my computer, eating candy for like, two hours! I swear I'm gonna come into class tomorrow with a huge sugar hangover…Is there such a thing? I think there is…Geez…Whoa, starting to feel the headache…
Disclaimer- I own nothing except for the characters I had to make up. I can't even say I own the plot. I own some of it, but not all of it. I don't even own most of it…Anyway, you get the idea…
Thank you-
Fishy (You know…you're absolutely right. I was kind of leaving Marissa out a bit…I'll try to add her in a bit more in these next chapters…I hope this next chapter's as good as the first! Oh yeah, and when you said that nobody could remember her name, I think you were talking about Malfoy and he was just being a jackass. He's always like that. Everyone else could remember her name just fine. Malfoy was just being…well Malfoy…)
itish (Thanks for the title suggestions…but I still don't think those are the right ones…I think for right now, I'll make the title Plans That Lead To A Dark and Scary Place. I think that's too long…Ahh well, I'm going to go post this now, so I'll figure it out then…But thanks for the ideas! They motivated my brain to get moving.
Interested Reader (Wow, you're actually interested? Cool…Anyway…Don't worry, Sirius's plan sort of, sort of almost backfires in this chapter. It really falls apart…*Counts on fingers*…probably like three of four chapters from now…maybe more, maybe less, depending on how long I make the chapters…)
Shree (Yup, sure is a lot to ask of James. Poor Jamsie, he really gets sucked into the middle of this horrible plan that's doomed to failure…But wait until later, he really gets sucked in bad!! Ooh by the way, I read the first chapter to your story, False Perfection, because I didn't really have time to read the rest, and I really liked! I'm gonna read the next chapters as soon as I find the time. That'll be another thing to add onto my humungo dungo list of things I need to do when I have free time…)
Marzoog (Wow, you're name sounds like an alien's name or something! *Looks around secretively* Are you an alien? I won't tell, I promise. One time, my friend, she told me that she liked this guy named Jeff, and I didn't tell anyone yet! Yup…poor James…I'm really beginning to feel bad for him. Right now, I have almost all of this story written up, and I really begin to feel bad for him in, like, the next some-odd chapters…Ummm… *Screws up her face in thought*…Well, like I said, I have almost all of this story written up and he sort of, just sort of, starts developing feelings for Lily in, the next two chapters maybe? I don't really remember. But see, he doesn't exactly notice it at first, but it's obvious that Remus knows because he gives him sidelong glances at certain times and stuff…You know…Now I won't say anymore…
kristatwen (I'm glad you love it! I'm glad you love it! I'm glad you love it! Here's more!! I updated as soon as I possibly could!!! Hope you enjoy!! Oh yeah, and I love your favorites list. I've been reading a bunch of good Lily/James fics from there!)
mooncancer (Wow, you are good at writing reviews! Do you really think all that about my story? Seems like you're talking about the wrong story maybe…)
Lilyflower8602 (I'm glad you don't think my story is clichéd. (Cool accenty thingy mabob…) I don't think it is either. Cliché isn't that bad sometimes though. It all depends on the person writing it! Sometimes it's kinda nice to read a great plot over and over and over again…Just not too much. It's kind of like songs on the radio! At first you like the song, you listen to it 24/7 all of the time, but then, when everyone starts playing it everywhere, it gets a bit annoying…Cliché James/Lily fics haven't gotten annoying for me yet!)
So has anyone ever seen Roxanne? Or seen Cyrano de Bergerac? Or read the play? Or recognize the plot from a movie? I'm sure there's a more modern movie that has the same plot…Has anyone? Just wondering…
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The nest day after classes found Sirius sitting on a bench in the gardens and James hiding in the bushes behind the bench.
"Sirius, I do not like this idea! This is a bad idea," James whispered.
"Hey, check that out! I really can hear you just fine!" Sirius exclaimed.
"But Lily will hear too!" James pointed out.
Sirius muttered a spell under his breath. "Not any more she won't."
"Ahh, so we're supposed to trust one of YOUR spells. There is so much wrong with that I don't even know where to begin. And not to mention, we're trusting one of YOUR plans. There is so much wrong with that too."
"My plans are always good ones!" Sirius said indignantly.
"They are NEVER good ones! The only good plan was the plan where you said that I should make all of the plans from then on," James muttered.
"What about MY plan to sneak into the teacher's lounge to see what they had in there. Remember that plan?" Sirius asked.
"Oh yeah, I remember that BRILLIANT plan," James muttered sarcastically. "We got caught and spent a whole week after classes in detention! I really don't think that was a part of your plan was it genius?"
"Well no, but what about my plan to start that huge party in the Great Hall? Now that was an awesome plan!"
James smiled, remembering the huge party. That sure brought back good memories. But then he frowned. "But we got even more detention for starting that, and a ton of extra class work!"
"Yeah," Sirius said, smiling, "but you gotta admit, the party did rock."
James smiled again. "Yeah, it did. Ooh, do you remember dancing with Anneliese Hochespa? Now that must have been awesome."
"After the dancing was awesome too," Sirius said, smiling suggestively.
"Who could forget that? Especially when-"
"Shhh!"
"Sorry," James muttered tartly. "I didn't know that I couldn't say anything about it, especially since you were bragging about it for days afterwards. It's not like no one knows about it!"
"No, I mean here comes Lily!" Sirius whispered.
"Umm, hello? If the spell you put on me works, she SHOULD NOT be able to hear me, remember?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry, I'm just nervous," Sirius muttered as he watched Lily walk down the garden path, looking around.
"Hi Sirius," she said, coming to the bench, still looking around.
"What's she doing?" Sirius whispered.
"How should I know?"
"Umm, what are you doing Lily?" Sirius asked her, standing up.
Lily flushed, making her look even prettier. "Umm, well…I'm looking for…someone…I'm supposed to meet."
Sirius spread his hands. "You're supposed to be meeting me."
Lily jumped. She stared, confused. "What? You? W-w-ait, you wrote that letter?"
"No, I mean yes."
"Good one Einstein," James muttered.
Lily looked a bit taken aback for a moment, but then took a seat on the bench. "I didn't know you could write like that."
Sirius sat next to her, waiting for James to tell him what to say.
"Oh come on Sirius!" James whispered. "Just answer the question! It's a simple question that you should not need my help to answer!"
"I don't like to tell everyone. It's sort of…you know…a secret…hush hush sorta thing," Sirius said.
James hit himself on the head. "Maybe you do need help answering the simple questions. Really buddy, I though you could handle stuff like that."
"Shut up," Sirius snapped.
"What?" Lily asked, confused. "I didn't say anything."
"Okay, tell her that you hear a buzzing in your head. The buzzing is aliens, transmitting signals through your brain and sometimes they get so loud you have to tell them to shut up," James said, trying not to laugh.
Sirius told her.
"What?" Lily asked, even more confused and even a little startled.
James burst out laughing and apparently Sirius's spell worked for once because Lily didn't hear him laughing like crazy.
"Quit messing around, this is serious!" Sirius snapped to James.
"What?" Lily said, for what felt like the hundredth time. "Sirius, are you okay? Do you need some help maybe? Up here if you know what I mean…" Lily said, tapping her head.
"Okay okay," James said, wiping the tears from his eyes. "Tell her that you are just fine since she is here with you."
"That's lame," Sirius whispered, so only James could hear.
"Do you want me to help you or not?" James demanded.
Sirius sighed. "I am just fine now that you are here with me," Sirius told her, if somewhat reluctantly, but it worked, he realized as he saw her look to the ground, her cheeks bright red.
"Now ask her if you've made her uncomfortable. Girls like to know that guys care," James told him.
Sirius sighed. This was way too romantic for his tastes, but asked her anyway.
"No," Lily assured him. "It's just kind of weird, you know? You were never seemed to be one for poetry and romantic writing."
"Umm," James said. She was saying too many things that were hard to find romantic answers for. "Okay, tell her that when you feel strongly about someone, it brings out some different sides to a person."
"When you feel strongly about someone, it sometimes brings out different slides to a person," Sirius told her.
"Sides not slides, you twit!" James shouted.
"Sides not slides, you twit," Sirius said.
"What?" Lily asked again.
"No, don't say that! Tell her you meant sides!" James hissed.
"I meant sides," Sirius said to Lily.
"Are you sure this time?" Lily asked, smiling.
"Yes, I'm sure," Sirius said.
"So…What about History of Magic today? The Goflunk Revolution?" Lily asked.
"Uhh, tell her that you, for one, were fascinated. It amazed you that one goblin could start such a significant revolution," James whispered.
"I, for one, found it fascinating. It amazed me that just one goblin started such a significant evolution," Sirius said superiorly. Lily wrinkled her forehead in confusion.
"Idiot!" James shouted from his place in the bushes.
"Idiot? What'd I do this time?" Sirius shouted.
"Revolution, not evolution!" James shouted.
"Sirius, really, do you need to see the nurse or something?" Lily asked.
"Ahh, what I meant to say was revolution," Sirius said hurriedly.
"Oh," Lily said slowly. "Listen Sirius, maybe this isn't a good time. Could we meet here tomorrow? Same time?"
"Sure, I'll be here," Sirius said.
"Until tomorrow then," Lily said, getting up and walking down the garden and into the school.
"Idiot!" James said, getting out of his hiding place in the bushes. "I thought you could hear me just fine! You said you could! 'Such a significant EVOLUTION?' and 'different slides in a person?' What was that? I said sides, not slides, and I said revolution, not evolution!"
"I was nervous!" Sirius shouted. "We can just try this again tomorrow, and tomorrow, speak up. She won't be able to hear you again."
"No way am I doing this again," James said, crossing his arms. "It was too embarrassing even to WATCH and you want me to fix everything for you when you mess up?"
"Oh come on Prongs. I can't do this myself," Sirius said.
"That's just the point. You're supposed to be doing this yourself!" James said.
"Prongs! I've always been there for you! Remember all those times when we were in trouble? I was right there with you!"
"You were in trouble too! You had to be there!"
Sirius sighed and then remembered one time, a long time ago, that they had never spoken of since they were little kids. "Do you remember when we were just five years old? The bully of the block? Remember him? One time, when me and you and Remus were out playing that one game where we pretended we were big wizards fighting dragons and evil wizards, you told us that you had that dream to defeat the most powerful evil wizard in the Wizarding World? The bully heard you and started laughing. Then you started to cry? Do you remember that?" Sirius asked.
James stared at him. He hadn't thought that Sirius remembered something like that. "Yes, I remember. You went over and gave him a bloody nose, telling him that I could do anything I wanted to do when I grew up and that if I wanted to defeat a powerful evil wizard, you'd be right there helping me. You still remember that?"
Sirius nodded. "So will you help me now? Please?"
James sighed, running his hands through his messy black hair. "Yes, I'll help you. But this time, listen more closely. Gawd that was embarrassing, and I was just watching it!" (A/N-Oh my gosh! I thought that that was the sweetest thing in the world! I actually started tearing up! I'm so serious! It was just so sweet! Just imagine little Jamesie crying because his dream gets squashed and then little Sirius goes over and stands up for him…Awww!!)
As soon as Lily entered the common room, Marissa came running up to her excitedly. "Well?" Marissa asked.
"Well what?" Lily said, taking a seat at one of the tables. She loved doing this to Rissa. Her friend was always eager for any juicy news.
"Well WHAT? You know what! Who was it?" Marissa asked, leaning forward in her chair.
"Okay, I'll tell you. Do you know…" Lily looked around secretively.
"Yes? Know who?" Marissa breathed.
"Do you know the Muffin Man?" Lily asked.
"The Muffin Man?" Marissa asked, crossing her arms angrily.
"The Muffin Man," Lily repeated.
"The Muffin Man?" Marissa asked again.
"The MUFFIN MAN!" Lily shouted, making everyone turn her way. "And besides, you were supposed to say 'Who lives on Drury Lane?'"
"Lilllllyyy!" Marissa urged. "Tell me! Who wrote you the letter? I could have spied on you or eavesdropped to find out who it was since my curiosity was killing me and driving me crazy, but I didn't! I was a good little girl and decided to give you your privacy. Now tell me before I just pass out and fall to the floor, twitching because my curiosity is killing me!"
"SiriusBlack," Lily mumbled softly, slurring the name together.
"Who?" Marissa asked, leaning forward to hear better.
"SiriusBlack," Lily mumbled again.
"I can't hear you!" Marissa complained.
"Sirius Black!" Lily hissed.
Marissa gasped. "What? No, he couldn't have written something like that! That was the guy who, just yesterday at breakfast, had a burping contest with his friends! That is the guy who stuck a pin into Bobbie Mckibbin's butt. AND that is the same guy who turned Carlise, Marly, and Alyssiane's hair neon green and spread orange junk all over their faces. Okay…Are we talking about the same Sirius Black here?" Marissa asked suspiciously.
"How many Sirius Black's do you know Rissa?" Lily asked her.
"Well?" Marissa asked again.
"Well what?" Lily asked, sighing.
"How was it? What happened?" Marissa said, raising her eyebrows suggestively (A/N-I know I use suggestively a lot, but how else am I supposed to put it?).
"Nothing happened. We just talked," Lily said.
Marissa gasped again. "Nothing happened? You just talked? The whole time? Now we must be talking about two different people."
"Nope," Lily said, laughing. "I'm positive it was Sirius."
"Was he drunk do you think?" Marissa asked curiously.
"No," Lily said, laughing even harder. "He wasn't drunk, I'm sure of it. I can tell when someone's drunk you know."
Marissa still looked skeptical, left it at that. "So what was it like?" she asked, leaning forward eagerly.
"It was…a little weird at first. I mean, I never expected anything like that from Sirius you know? He was so sweet and romantic and…well you read the letter. He said that 'when you feel so strongly about someone, it brings out different sides to people.'" Lily told her, remembering what he had said when she had told him that she hadn't thought that he could write such a letter.
"What?" Marissa asked incredulously. "He said all that?"
"Well," Lily said, "he actually said slides the first time, not sides, and then got all weird about it."
"Weird about it?" Marissa asked, raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"Well, I think he started calling himself a twit, but I wasn't really sure at first," Lily said, remembering him shouting "Sides, not slides you twit!"
"Hmm, maybe he was just nervous?" Marissa supplied.
"I think he must have been really nervous, because he did that a lot," Lily said. "I'm meeting him again tomorrow in the gardens."
"Ooh…" Marissa said. "Can I eavesdrop this time?"
"Absolutely…" Lily said and Marissa's countenance lit up. "Not," Lily added. Marissa's smile dropped.
"Oh why not? You won't even know I'm there!" Marissa complained.
"Yes I will!" Lily pointed out. "Now can I have a little bit of peace here? I have a history of magic report to write to you know!"
Marissa sighed and grumbled for a bit, but got back to work on her paper.
Lily looked over around the common room and saw James and Remus enter the common room and immediately, a group of giggling girls flocked around them. Lily walked over there and cleared her throat. "Ahh, James? Could I talk to you for a minute?"
"Ahhm, well sure Lily," James said, a bit confused. Why would she want to talk to him?
Lily cleared her throat again and eyed Remus and the giggling girls. "Alone maybe?"
"Oh, right," James said, taking a seat a bit away from Remus and the group of giggling girls, who all watched James leave out of the corner of their eyes. "So, shoot."
"Ahh, well. This might sound really silly, but…" Lily began awkwardly. "Could you write a letter to Sirius?"
James furrowed his brow in confusion. "I really don't need to write him a letter. I can talk to him anyti-" James began, but then realized what she was asking. "Wha? Why? Why do you want me to write a letter to Sirius for you? You're a great writer Lily."
Lily blushed. "I know, but you know a lot more about him than I do so you know. You could write it so that he'd like it. His words were so beautiful. I could never write like that!"
James ran his hand through his hair in frustration, something he found himself doing often these days. "Weelllll…"
"Oh please James? Just one? It'd mean so much to me."
James looked at her. Her green emerald eyes looked pleading and hopeful. How could he turn Lily down? He couldn't. "Alright." (A/N- Almost James/Lilyness! Sort of anyway…)
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Lily said, giving him a hug and then heading back to Marissa.
James ran his hand through his hair once more, asking himself how he had gotten himself into this mess for the millionth time that day.
"I got a letter from Lily!" Sirius said in a singsong voice to James and Remus as they walked together to the herbology greenhouse.
"Oh really?" James asked, not really surprised at all, for obvious reasons, one being that he wrote it.
"Really? Let me read it," Remus said, taking it from Sirius and skimming over it. Remus glanced over at James but said nothing.
"Yeah, it's all kinda mushy and boring. Sweet to make your teeth hurt, but it's the thought that counts right?" Sirius asked them cheerfully.
"What? It's very well written!" James said, indignant.
"You haven't even read it James," Remus said.
"Yeah. But it's from Lily and she's a great writer! I'm sure it's well written," James said awkwardly, trying to salvage himself from the wreck he had made of this situation.
Remus shrugged and handed it back to Sirius. "He's right Sirius. It's very nicely done."
"Thank you," James said but added hurriedly when Remus looked over at him again, "I mean, I'm sure Lily thanks you Moony."
Luckily they had reached the greenhouses so James didn't have to answer any further questions from Remus. He had already almost given everything away. They walked in a sat behind Lily and Marissa.
"Now, these Malkets (A/N-I just made up a plant.) get very grumpy when woken up or interrupted during a meal," Professor Spring, the herbology teacher said. She was a squat, cheerful teacher with wispy gray hair that stuck out everywhere.
"Reminds me of James," Sirius remarked, causing the class to chuckle softly. James caught his eye, giving him a small wink that wouldn't have even been noticed by someone who wasn't looking for it or expecting it. Sirius winked back and nodded slightly.
"And they are not the most attractive plants you'll ever see," Professor Spring added, ignoring Sirius's comment.
"If you ask me, the description's starting to fit Sirius a bit more," James said.
Lily hid her laughing with coughs.
"Yeah well, no one was asking you were they?" Sirius shot back actually sounding angry.
James stood up. "Well maybe I just decided to ask myself! Is there some sort of a problem with that?" James said, giving Sirius a shove.
By now there were murmurs of astonishment going throughout the classroom. None of the Marauders ever got into fights, well not with each other anyway. But here James was, shoving one of his best friends, who shoved him back. They both grabbed out their wands and shot a spell at each other. James ducked and the spell hit the huge pot of Malkets, causing them to explode and pieces of Malket to shower on the people sitting in range. Unfortunately, both Lily and Marissa happened to be in range, and were now covered with a disgusting, extremely unattractive and smelly green glop. James and Sirius burst out laughing and gave each other a high five. The class started laughing, some of them relieved. Who knows what a fight between the Marauders could have meant for them, but it was all a sham to pull off a prank anyway.
"Detention for the rest of the week!" Professor Spring shouted, pointing at Sirius and James. "And a five parchment essay about Malkets!"
Sirius nudged James lightly with an elbow, prodding him forward.
"Oh, right," James whispered softly. "We really are very sorry professor. We always liked to think of you as the professor with the best sense of humor. We thought that this would make you laugh. Apparently we were-"
"I do have good sense of humor don't I? Come to think of it, it was rather entertaining, and it is not as if I'll run short on Malkets any time soon. And now that I really think about it, five pages does seem a bit much. A two page essay then, and forget about the detention altogether. No harm done at all," Professor Spring said, waving her hands, dismissing the detention.
James smiled that dazzling, charming smile that made half the girls in the class melt and said, "I always knew you loved a good laugh professor."
"How do you guys do it every time?" Lily whispered as they sat back down.
James shrugged as if it was nothing. "It's not too hard. Flattery works well with the female teachers. With the potions master, nothing works, so we don't do it all of the time, just when we can."
Remus sighed, shaking his head amusedly. "Ahh, the magic of words."
James looked at Lily and Marissa. "Sorry, did we get you?"
"Just a little," Lily said, laughing softly.
"But it's nothing really," Lily and Marissa assured them, brushing it aside.
Sirius frowned. "Yeah sorry. We should've realized the Malkets would go flying after an explosion like that. Note for future reference Prongs, cause explosions farther away."
James nodded. "Good idea. Looks like we got all the front row," he said, looking around at the students in the classroom, surveying the state of the mess. "Not too bad though. Last time, we got the first three rows covered in Bubbotuber (A/N-Was that what it was called? I don't remember…Ahh, close enough…) puss. Now that was pretty bad, not to mention really very disgusting."
Lily laughed. "I remember that. Luckily Professor Bines had me stay later after class to talk about a paper so I was late coming to class. When I got here, only a seat in the back of the room was vacant."
Marissa scowled. "You were lucky. It took me forever to get that junk out of my hair."
"Class is dismissed," Professor Spring announced, and everyone hurriedly grabbed their things and left the greenhouse.
"You're still meeting me in the gardens later right?" Sirius whispered in Lily's ear as she packed up her things.
"I'll see you there," Lily said, smiling.
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A/N- Ohhh, wow, trick-or-treaters! *Peaks out of the window* AHHH!! The clowns are coming for me!! Yeah well, that end part was pretty pointless to the story, but I'm trying to fit in how Lily and Marissa and the Marauders are becoming friends and whatever. So they're all just one big happy……group of friends…Anyway, there's going to be a lot of this whole Lily-becoming-friends-with-the-Marauders stuff so then later, Sirius…Well, I don't think I'll tell you…Anyway, leave a review please! And then maybe I'll be motivated to post another chapter tomorrow…If I have time…I might…I actually think I will have time to post a new chapter…Anyway, review!
