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Ok you peoples! Here is the long awaited second half of Christmas with the marauders! Drumroll please…
"Lily? Come on Lily get up!"
"Huh-wha?"
"It's Christmas Lily…"
"Christmas? Oh! CHRISTMAS!"
"Shh! Lily shh!" Arabella whispered giggling as she tried to calm Lily down, "Let's go wake the guys up…"
"Ahhh… I see, the master plan…" Lily said as she crawled stealthily out of her bed, "Come along Agent Figg, be sure to excersice the utmost caution…" Lily slowly crept down the stairwell to the common room with her back pressed against the wall. If you listened closely you could hear her humming her own theme music.
"Of course Agent Evans." Arabella whispered, playing along as she followed her partner in crime. Stealthily, the pair crept up the stairs to the boys dormitory. They cracked open the door to make sure that everyone was asleep.
"I get to wake up Sirius and Remus," Lily whispered.
"Okay, but how about this, we wake up Sirius, Peter and James first and then do something really evil to Remus?" Arabella suggested.
"Perfect, but we'll need to do silencing charms around Remus's bed so he doesn't wake…"
"You can mange that, you know that you're the best at charms, Lil." Arabella said quietly.
"Okay, let's go troops!" Lily said as she opened the door and crept over to Remus's bed. After performing a quick silencing charm around his be she made her way to Sirius's bed. She pulled open the curtains to find Sirius lying on his back above the covers with teddy bear boxers on. She sniggered and motioned Arabella over, who had thoughtfully brought her camera with her. She quickly took a picture and then stood back to watch Lily wake Sirius up.
Lily thought for a moment before climbing onto Sirius's bed and straddling his stomach.
"Hey Siri," she whispered seductively into his ear.
"Ungh."
"Do you want to do something naughty?" Lily asked stifling a giggle as she saw Arabella Tying James to his bed with pantyhoses.
"Ungh-yeah… something with pink teddy bears…"
Slowly Lily licked Sirius's earlobe and then using a teddy bear that she found on the floor she made it seem like someone was kissing their way along Sirius's jaw line to his mouth. When she finally got to his mouth Sirius brought his hands up and moved the teddy bear away and brought Lily closer to him until her face was inches away from his. His now open eyes glittered mischievously up at Lily's green eyes.
"Quite a compromising position we're in here, now aren't we?" Sirius said as he moved his hands down until they were encircling Lily's waist. Suddenly Sirius flipped her over so that he was on top and started tickling her until tears started leaking out of her eyes.
"No… no… stop… please… stop." Lily tried to say between giggles. All of a sudden Sirius stopped as he noticed James, who was now fully cocooned onto his bed with stockings. Lily squirmed away from Sirius and stared at James and Peter.
Peter was also tied to the bed like James, except, instead of with stockings, it was with rolls and rolls of duct tape. As soon as she started to giggle, it seemed to break a spell and both Sirius and Arabella started to laugh. This, in turn woke up James and Peter who started to struggle, but Lily quickly motioned them to be quiet as she made her way over to Remus's bed. Everyone became quiet as she took the silencing spell off of the curtains around her violet eyed friend's bed. Lily went over to the window which she quietly opened. She took out her wand and whispered "Accio snow" Suddenly a great heap of snow came flying up to the window from the grounds below. Lily let it fall to the floor in the boys dorm with another wave of her wand Lily levitated the snow to over top of Remus who was still slumbering peacefully in his bed. With great care, or rather none at all, Lily let the snow drop on top of their friend. With a yelp Remus shot up and out of bed. With a glance at his bed he started laughing and soon the others gladly joined in.
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When the sixsome had finally finished laughing the girls ran to their dorm to retrieve their presents. Moments later they were back, with their arms full to brimming. They dropped them unceremoniously in two of the few free places on the boys floor and formes and small circle. As if an unknown deity had whispered on your marks, get set, go! they all ripped into their presents.
Lily tore the paper off of a package that was covered with a forest green wrapping to find a thin glass rod that looked remarkably like the stem of a flower. Lily glanced at the card tied to it and read: To Lily, the most beautiful lily of all. From James.
Lily looked up questioningly at James to find him already making his way over to her.
"You see Lily, this is the first of seven parts, of my gift to you. I'll give you one of these each year," James started to explain.
"You mean one stem, or something each year?"
"No! Not a stem, a part of the flower, each year." James said exasperatingly.
"Ah, I see," Lily said in an uncanny impression of the cooky old Divination professor. Suddenly Lily leaned forwards and hugged James who had seated himself in front of her.
"Thanks James, it's really cool!" She exclaimed as she pulled away from the surprised boy.
"Uh, you're welcome." James said slowly as he rose and went back to his pile of presents. Lily leisurely examined the glass spun stem, of what she guessed was going to be a lily. It was a finely made treasure, engraved with little spirals and twirls. Every so often a fine leaf imprinted with miniscule designs sprung gently out of the stem, giving it the air of something as precious as, say, love. Lily was amazed that James would give something like that to her.
Gently Lily laid the stem down onto the packaging. With a sigh of delight Lily brushed her short hair out of her eyes and moved onto her next present. On the front it said: To Lily, our darling daughter. Love Mom, Dad and Petty.
Lily tore the blue wrapping paper off of a small jewelry box as she thought Like Petunia actually even knows what this is. Mom probably signed it for her. Lily opened the box and found what looked like a belly button ring. It had a small silver ball on one end and an iridescent moon glittering on the other end. But, my belly button isn't pierced! Lily spotted a note tucked into the box, and she quickly read it before squealing in delight. Dear Lily, We found this in a jewelry shop at Diagon Alley and we immediately thought of you. Apparently, all that you have to do to pierce your belly button is to say 'belois periouscious' and then it'll be pierced. Although, I suggest that you ask a teacher to do it for you, just so that you don't get a hole somewhere else. We hope that you enjoy it honey, Love Mom and Dad.
Arabella came rushing over when she heard Lily squeal and she too squealed once she had read the note. Soon the boys also came rushing over but the girls hid the note from them, wanting it to be a surprise.
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All in all, it was an excellent Christmas. Other than the flower stem and belly button ring Lily also received some books on charms from Remus, a box of chocolate frogs from Peter, a pair of stilettos from Sirius ("I saw them and immediately thought of you, Lily darling"), and a charm bracelet from Arabella, who already had one just like it. On the silver bracelet was a best friends charm, which coincidentally also was to be found on Arabella's bracelet. Everyone else got wonderful gifts too, although. One of the more memorable, was a pair of glasses with googly eyes and a nose attached to it, which Lily had given to Sirius. He of course decided that they were the latest fashion and insisted on wearing them everywhere, which resulted in a great many bruises on his part. Arabella received a beautiful Chinese silk scarf from her mother who said that it was a family heirloom. However, one other gift caught the attention of everyone. James had received a gift wrapped in shimmering gold paper. When he opened it a silvery cloak slithered out, and with a gasp from everyone, he announced that it was an invisibility cloak. At this point Sirius started to rub his hands together and murmur 'excellent' under his breath. Everyone then all ran away.
Remus had received many books, which he complained about until Arabella pointed out that he could have gotten nothing. A beautiful cloak, embroidered with the Gryffindor insignia was given to Peter, who was extremely happy with it. All in all, it was an excellent Christmas.
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Christmas dinner was a very exciting affair, especially with only the Marauders and a handful of teachers at one table. The snow which was falling from the enchanted ceiling, resulted in a great snowball fight occurring between the students and the teachers, who surprisingly participated. Of course this was all after everyone had eaten. ("Simply can't ruin the food! It would be a crime!" Sirius remarked when the idea of a snowball fight came up.)
Once everyone was finished, they all headed back up to the common room to relax for the rest of the day.
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"Okay you guys, remember, the mother of all pranks? The big o-" James started.
"Yes, yes we know, dear boy. We just have to figure out how to do it." Sirius said putting and arm around James's shoulder.
"Well then, to the Library! Lead away my dear Arabella! Seeing how as you are probably the only one who knows where it is…" Remus said as he ushered Arabella in front of the rest of the group who was standing indecisively in front of the entrance to the common room.
"Yes! Lead the way my dear friend!" Lily cried as she followed after a disgruntle Arabella.
A few moments later the Marauders were standing at the threshold to the Library. On their way there they had discussed what each persons role was in the prank and therefore, what they had to research. They all rushed in and set down to do some serious researching.
Hours later, when all was read and done, everyone trudged back up to the common room. They were all set for the prank they were going to play the next day. When all of the students came back.
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A/n: I know that I said that I would include the prank but… this is like the perfect spot to cut it off at. I promise I'll update soon, and seeing how it's summer, that ought to be fairly easy. At latest, it will be out on July 28th (I hope). Anyways… please review!!! I'll give you a cookie if you review! *waves tantalizing cookie in front of possible reviewers noses* I promise! Now go and review!
Byezzz
~Lyz~!