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A/N: Ooooooh, thanx for the reviews, feedback makes me giddy.  Am particularly impressed Hannah managed to work out how to post a review *grin*.  I had two exams yesterday, so am reading masses of fanfic today to recover (while I remember: good luck Ali and Hannah, also in the middle of exam stress).  Please R/R!!!

Summary: Lily finally gets her hands on James' underwear, the UST in all the L/J fics must be finally getting to her *author laughs hysterically, then checking around fervently for the men in white coats, runs away*, don't you hate in when the characters have a mind of their own?

CHAPTER 3

Prof. Roulash glared at the scene, which certainly looked very incriminating.  Sirius Black was still wearing the net curtain, Fiona Jones was hiding under a blanket and Lily Evans, draped in her dress robes, appeared to be sharing a bottle of wine with James Potter!

"Miss Jones please, come out from under there. Arabella Figg please remove your self from the floor. And Lily Evans hand that bottle to me this instant!  Will you please explain what is going on?!" she demanded, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Professor, please, it's really not what it looks like", Lily said trying to explain. "The wine is transfigured from my lamp, Pot-…James was just wondering if I could transfigure it".

"A likely story, Miss Evans", Prof. Roulash replied, her eyes narrowing disbelievingly.  "All of you follow me," she demanded.  "This instant Mr Black", she added to Sirius as he tried to disentangle himself from the curtain.

~*~*~*~*~

All six of them stood in a line in front of Prof. Dumbledore's desk. Sirius still wore his net curtain.  Dumbledore stood up his eyes twinkling as he surveyed them, "Well?" he asked Prof. Roulash. 

"Albus, I found them all drinking!  And in the girls' sixth year dormitory!" she exclaimed. 

"Very well Enna," Dumbledore said to Prof. Roulash, "I will take it from here."

After the Professor had left the room, Dumbledore staring at Sirius asked, "Mr Black, would you care to explain exactly why you are wearing a curtain?"

~*~*~*~*~

"Could have been worse," Lily said later, when they were lying on their beds. 

"Yeah," Fee added, "it could have been Glibert that caught us."

"We weren't actually doing anything wrong though," Arabella added. 

"I think Dumbledore knew that, that's why we didn't get anything on our permanent records about the drinking," Fee guessed. 

"We've all got to do detentions though, with Roulash, for the next three nights," Lily said sighing. 

"Sirius was actually pleased with that!" Bella said sounding exasperated. 

"Yeah," Fee giggled, "now he only has 20 more to go to break the record."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Boys!" she muttered, exasperated.

~*~*~*~*~

"Only twenty more to go," Sirius sang, leaping round their dormitory. 

"Padfoot cut it out," James yelled throwing his book at Sirius. 

"I can't believe we've got three nights worth of detention," Remus said sighing. "I have enough trouble catching up without losing another three nights." He ran his hands through his hair. 

"Cheer up old man," Sirius grinned, "there are six of us doing detention, what are they going to find for us all to do?" he asked. 

James' head shot up, "You don't think they're going to make us do detention with the trio, do you?" he asked, sounding horrified. 

"Probably," Remus said, much to James' disgust.

~*~*~*~*~

The next morning was a Saturday, Lily ripped back the curtains on Fee and Bella's beds, waking them both up with a jolt.

"Whfpt?" Fee mumbled pulling the covers over head to stop the light from blinding her. 

"Are you mad?" Arabella whispered, careful not to wake up the other two inhabitants of their dorm, "it's seven o'clock in the morning, on a Saturday!"

"It's planning time," Lily said, jumping about gleefully.

"Really?!" Fee squealed jerking the cover off her head, causing all her hair to stand on end.

"Come on," Lily grinned, gesturing to the common room.

~*~*~*~*~

"The one Saturday morning there is no Quidditch practice, because of the storm, and you drag us down here to discuss some half-mad scheme you probably dreamt up last night!" Arabella complained sighing exasperatedly.

"What are you even complaining for," Fee replied, "you're not even on the Quidditch team!"

"Well you always wake me up with all the stomping while you're getting ready," Bella retorted.

"Hello?!" Lily asked infuriated. "Trying to plan here!"  Lily went back to staring at her blank piece of paper. 

"Look, I think that they sneak out after Remus, at full moon, to keep him company or something… I mean they're always really secretive right before the full moon."  Bella and Fee exchanged stunned looks,

"But going after a full grown werewolf would be…"  Fee said shocked

"Madness?" Bella suggested

"Completely stupid?" Lily added

"Exactly the sort of thing they would do," the three of them said together.

~*~*~*~*~

"So," Lily said, "all we have to do is intercept them before they get to Remus and then implement the plan."

"Which we don't have," Bella interjected.

"And implement the plan," Lily added firmly, "we should intercept them in the grounds, we've seen Madam Pomfrey leading Remus out the main doors so they have to go that way too," Lily's smile diminished slightly at this point, "only one problem," she added

"We've never seen any of them follow Remus outside," Fee said wearily.

Bella's brow wrinkled in confusion, "How do they get outside without us seeing them?  I've sat there long enough, I would have seen them go through."

Lily leapt up, a look of excitement on her face, "There could be a secret passage out of the castle, I'd bet Hogwarts is filled with them," she said, "either that or they can make themselves invisible," she said with a grin, before cocking her head to one side, eyebrows raised. "Invisible," she repeated softly.

"What?" Fee asked quizzically

"They can make themselves invisible," she said quietly her voice filled with awe.

"What?" Bella asked, astonished. "You're not serious are you?"

"Deadly, that's got to be it, if only we knew for sure though," Lily thought.  Her eyes suddenly lit up. "There has to be a clue in their dormitory," she said. "One of us will have to go and look. It should be you Fee," Lily added quickly.

"What!" Fee spluttered in shock, "why?"

"If you're caught you can just pretend you had to ask them about Quidditch," Lily said, nodding encouragingly

"Absolutely not," Fee said, putting her foot down, "I'm not sifting through their dirty laundry," she said, looking disgusted. "You do it", she added.

"Me!"  Lily exclaimed, "I can't", Lily said, "I'll have no excuse for being there," she supplied, thankful for having a legitimate reason to get out of it.

"Sure you do," Bella said grinning, "you can just say we dared you steal their underwear." 

Fee grinned, "You can go at lunchtime; they'll be less likely to be there."

~*~*~*~*~

Lily stared balefully at the stairs to the boy's dormitory, Fee and Bella were lingering at lunch to try and stall the Marauders if necessary.  Looking either way she darted up the stairs.  When she got to the top of the steps she took a deep breath.  Why in God's name did I think that this would be a good idea, she thought, as she slowly pushed open the door to their dormitory.

As Lily got inside, she closed the door behind her and stared around the room in horror. Ugh!  she thought, disgusted, the beds were all unmade and dirty clothes were strewn everywhere.  Lily made her way gingerly over to James' trunk, on the assumption that if they had anything important he would probably be the one keeping it.  Besides, she thought, I really don't want to look in Sirius' trunk. God knows what he's got in there!  She shivered with disgust.

Noticing James' broom lying on one of the bed, she was pretty sure she had got the right trunk.  Lily knelt beside it and carefully lifted the lid from behind.  She grinned in triumph as what she assumed was itching powder sprayed out of the front of the trunk. I was right, that idiot did booby-trap his trunk, she thought, feeling vindicated in her extra caution. 

She stared into the trunk, it was a complete tip.  Has he even sorted this out since the beginning of term? She wondered as she looked at the clothes all crumpled up and in total disarray.  She reluctantly grabbed a pair of boxers lying near the top of the trunk, at least that would back up her story of being on a dare, and shoved them in her pocket, giggling to herself at their pattern of tiny golden snitches.

Rummaging around in the trunk, on the basis that it would be pretty hard to tell whether it had been disturbed, her hand suddenly closed on a silky material, right at the bottom of the trunk.  Frowning, Lily pulled into view.  She let out a gasp of amazement when she finally saw what it was.  An invisibility cloak, no wonder they can get around the school so easily, she thought.  Suddenly she heard several people coming up the stairs, she shoved the cloak back down to the bottom of the trunk, roughly covering it up.  Quietly closing the trunk she sprang back from it and turned towards the door. 

James and Sirius burst through the door, laughing.  When they saw Lily they stopped in shock.  Lily was frozen on the spot, staring at the two of them.