Disclaimer: read part 1 :)
A/N: Eeep! Thank you for all the reviews, couldn't stop grinning for the rest of the day, definitely helped lift the exam depression!!! Hope you like this next part, please R/R (btw Fee plays Beater, Damia, and thanx for the review :D )
Summary: Sirius gets to have fun! Yay! (must. put. sugar. down.), oh and Prof. Roulash finally gives them detention.
CHAPTER 4
"What's this?" Sirius asked, the first to stir from his stupor, leaning forward to grab something out of her pocket.
"It's mine," Lily said reflexively. Sirius held it up for inspection, revealing a pair of James' underwear. James turned very red, although whether this was from anger or embarrassment it was hard to tell.
"Lily, darling," Sirius asked, "would you like to explain why you are claiming a pair of Prongs' boxers as your own?" Lily turned scarlet and mumbled something incoherently, as she glanced nervously at James, who was staring at the floor.
"Prongs?" Sirius started, unable to keep the note of amusement out of his voice. "Did you give Lily your underwear?" James glared at his friend, and grabbed the boxers from him, the tips of his ears now turning red.
"It was a bet," Lily said, finally finding her voice. "Bella and Fee… they dared me to…" she trailed off, her story seeming somewhat implausible to her now.
"Or maybe you just wanted James' underwear," Sirius added with a grin, causing Lily's jaw to drop open and her face turn as red as her hair. "No!" she cried out finally, after several minutes of what seemed like a fish impersonation, "I…I…" she spluttered, "I'm leaving," she finished, running out of the room, banging the door shut behind her.
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"Oh my God!" Lily said breathlessly as she ran into her own dormitory. "Why didn't you stall them?" she asked, horrified at what had just happened.
"They weren't at dinner," Bella explained. "We couldn't find them."
"Oh my God!" Lily repeated mortified, sinking down onto her bed.
"What, no underwear?" Fee asked. Lily glared at her.
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Remus and Peter entered their dormitory to find Sirius in hysterics on the floor, with a red faced James glaring at him. "What happened?" Remus asked, looking quizzical.
"Nothing," James replied, his face reddening.
Sirius snorted with laughter at this, "Prongs is lying!" he exclaimed. "We had a little visitor", Sirius continued gleefully. "Lily came by to claim some underwear," he said laughing.
Remus' jaw dropped. "Why did you have her underwear?" he asked incredulously.
Sirius grinned, "It wasn't her underwear she wanted, but Prongs' here," his grin widened. "You could have fried an egg on their faces; I thought Lily's head was going to set on fire."
James got up and started to pace the room, "She just wanted my boxers for a dare!" he practically yelled. "What I want to know is why she looked so guilty about it; what the hell was she actually doing up here, going through my stuff? She must have come up here for a reason," he stated.
"Maybe she likes you," Sirius suggested.
"That's got to be it," Remus agreed. "It's the only reason anyone would brave our dormitory!" he said, looking round in disgust, "Padfoot, do you ever pick your stuff up?" Remus asked.
"She can't like me!" James replied hotly. "I mean…we fight all the time and well, we hate each other," James finished as if proving his point.
"As a certain feisty Quidditch player we both know would say: it's chemistry!" Sirius declared.
"When did Fee ever tell you that?" Remus asked frowning,
"Well, she didn't technically, but I have good eavesdropping skills," Sirius replied proudly.
"Fee's completely nuts though," Remus added. "I should know, I'm her transfiguration partner. If Lily had just wanted any pair of your underwear, however, why didn't she just grab one off the floor?"
"See, that proves it then", James said,
"Proves what?" Sirius asked,
"That she didn't want my underwear because…. of the reason you said," he finished lamely unwilling to say the words 'Lily likes me'.
"James, she'd have to be pretty desperate to want your used underwear".
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"So… what did you find?" Fee asked inquisitively, after half an hour of asking Lily why she came back looking like a tomato, she had given up that line of questioning and was trying a new tack.
"Oh, oh!" Lily said sitting up suddenly excited. "They have an invisibility cloak!"
"Really!" Fee asked shocked. "They're, like, really rare!"
"I thought they'd be using a spell or something," Bella said. "Now how are we going to ambush them when we can't even see them," she moaned
"What I really want to know though is what the hell happened in the boys' dormitory?" Fee said raising her eyebrows at Lily, who blushed.
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Lily, Fee and Bella made their way slowly towards Prof. Roulash's classroom for their detentions. "What do you think we're going to have to do?" Fee asked. The other two just shrugged as they entered the empty classroom, to await their instructions.
As the clock ticked on the girls started to shift impatiently. "Where are they?" Bella asked, neither the guys nor Roulash had turned up yet and they were now 10 minutes late. Suddenly the door burst open and James, Sirius and Remus ran in panting.
James glanced around the room and heaved a sigh of relief when he realised that the Professor was late as well.
Seconds later the door flew open again; this time revealing a rather distracted Prof. Roulash "Sorry I'm late; one of the first years tried a rather difficult transfiguration spell that required several of the staff's immediate attention."
"Are they alright?" Lily asked, rather concerned. She glared at James when she heard him mumble something the sounded suspiciously like 'suck-up'.
"Yes, Miss Evans, or at least he will be, he tried to transfigure himself into a bat, apparently it did not go according to plan," Roulash elaborated, as all of them winced. "Your detentions were decided by the headmaster himself," she said, before glaring at each of them over the top of her spectacles as if daring them to dispute what she was about to say, Lily looked at Bella worriedly. Why did the Professor think they were going to be annoyed with their punishments?
Clearing her throat, the teacher started to read from the paper in front of her, "There are two jobs: cleaning one of the girls' bathrooms, apparently it has flooded again, and cleaning out the owlery. The headmaster has split you into two groups, four of you are to do the owlery as it is the largest job: Sirius, Arabella, Remus and Fiona, which leaves Lily and James to do the bathroom." Lily and James immediately started to object, while the other four exchanged amused looks. Professor Roulash waved away their protestations. "Hagrid will instruct you four in the owlery, and if Lily and James will follow me to the bathroom, you will find all the necessary equipment already there."
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Lily groaned aloud, when she saw which bathroom the Professor was leading them to. James turned to glare at her. "What?" he hissed, before Lily had a chance to reply, Professor Roulash ushered them into the bathroom
"I will be back in an hour to check on your progress. The mops are over there," she said, gesturing to the corner.
Lily walked over to grab a bucket, while James just stood in the centre of the room, looking uncomfortable, "I shouldn't be here… I mean it's a girl's bathroom," he said.
Lily giggled, "If it makes you feel any better, no one ever uses this bathroom." James glowered, he didn't like her laughing at him, then his brow furrowed,
"What do you mean no one uses it?" he asked. The pipes suddenly started to clank as a wailing noise started up in one of the cubicles. "What's that?"
Lily sighed, "You're about to meet Moaning Myrtle." As Myrtle came screaming out of the toilet, stopping abruptly when she spotted James.
"A boy! There's a boy's in my toilet!" she wailed loudly.
James looked completely panicked, "Shhhh," he hissed.
"Myrtle," Lily yelled to get her attention. "James is allowed in here, Prof. Roulash sent us to clean this place up."
Myrtle stopped abruptly and sniffed, "Fine," she said, before she dived back into the u-bend, "make sure you mop the floor properly."
James stared at the place where Myrtle had been, "What?" he asked the thin air completely bewildered.
Lily giggled at the look on his face. "Myrtle's the ghost that inhabits this toilet, she wails constantly and every so often floods the bathroom in a tantrum," she explained.
"Oh ok, pass me that mop then," he ordered, deciding to ignore Moaning Myrtle. Hogwarts definitely has everything: a temperamental ghost that haunts the girls' toilets, he rolled his eyes.
