Water Lilies

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A/N: Don't ask me why I decided to make these two different chapters (five and six). I won't have an answer. I just like cliffhangers and stuff, alright? No? Well, oh well. Sorry it's only like one page.

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Chapter seven in which they fall asleep in a willow tree.

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Fifteen minutes later they weren't back to the castle. The forest wasn't thinning either. If anything, they were getting deeper in. But they knew the edge was packed with trees also, so didn't give up. Soon Remus started to check his watch constantly and looking around. Finally Sirius said, after several minutes of this, "Cut it out."

The Forest suddenly grew denser. Trees seemed larger and underbrush grew tall and thick. In order to get places they had to start splitting up. A tree would get right in their way and if they hadn't been skinny, they wouldn't have fit. There was a particularly dense grove coming up. Suddenly, they couldn't find each other. Hear maybe, but not find or see.

James was the first one to get to a clearing. It was what the trees seemed to want to get closer on, yet a couple trees had been hacked at right before the clearing. It was very large and hilly. The only tree he was a tree very near him. It was a willow and had several dips in its trunk that looked comfy.

'Well,' thought James, 'I'll just relax in the tree and wait for my friends. It is so-o-o inviting.' But James fell right asleep in the crevice, rather than just resting. He slept so deeply, he didn't notice with the tree began to move slowly.

Sirius entered next. He looked around at the clearing. 'How pretty,' he thought. He went over to the tree. 'How cute, ickle Jamesie,' he thought when he saw James asleep. 'Looks comfortable.' There was a crevice just his size that brought his head back and feet up. With that he laid down asleep. He hadn't noticed how the tree had covered parts of his friends, and didn't notice it was doing the same thing to him.

Remus had a bad feeling when he entered the clearing with the willow tree. There just didn't seem to be something right about that willow tree. 'It's a beautiful tree,' he thought, 'but there's something wrong about it,' he decided. He found he had been quite right. When he wandered over to the willow, he saw his friends sleeping peacefully, but the tree was closing in on them!

At first Remus was in a frenzy. 'What to do, what to do?" he asked himself over and over again. Then he realized what he was doing.

Bending over, he grabbed Sirius by his shoulders and tugged. After several more hard tugs Sirius came free. This was good as the tree registered the attacks and started closing more rapidly than before. Remus looked down and saw what to do next. 'Oh god,' Remus thought and shriveled his nose in disgust. But Remus was determined to get his friend from the killer tree and stuck his hands on his friend's hips. 'Sirius owes me big time.' It looked like he was grabbing and pulling on his friend's butt, but it worked. Sirius came free.

Remus was able to get Sirius out rather fast; but James was too far stuck. The tree had nearly made a complete circle around his stomach.

They hadn't slept in some time. He pulled and yanked. However, Remus soon found that he couldn't deprive himself of sleep and pull on James. He pulled back a couple of feet from the tree and promptly fell to the ground in exhaustion. He was asleep.