*::tears:: I feel...so...so...so loved!!  You're too kind...helped me hit 100 in less than a day!  (that, in a nutshell, is my Oscar acceptance speech...except for the whole 100 review thing...::grins::)  Anyway, so I'm being a good girl and not procrastinating and writing chapter 10.  Be proud, it doesn't happen often. lol   Oh, and I know I asked you all before but maybe now there's someone new who can help...can any of you help me get a livejournal account? If you can (which would be absolutely fantastic) please email me at kathleenmavourneen01@yahoo.com. Merci beaucoup! Oh and I found the meaning of Sirius' name on babynames.com (no, I'm not obsessed...majorly): it means 'Sparkling, Scorching.' hehe, no comment.*

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Pam ~ I have an idea for that...

LiLy*eVaNs*PoTTeR2 ~ yes, I think Lily should beat the shit out of Irene too...::grins evilly::

~Disclaimer~  As usual, I ::sighs miserably:: don't own it.  Now, on to the chapter!

Chapter 10

Goop: An Unlikely Aphrodisiac

"Moony!" Sirius exclaimed later that day, upon finding Remus in the common room.  James, as usual, was nowhere to be found.  The remaining Marauders weren't worried, they figured he was with Lily.  "She told me her name!!!"

"Did she really?" asked Remus, not looking up from his book.  "How, might I ask, did you achieve that?"

Sirius grinned proudly.  "I used my manly charm and wit to sweep her off her feet and make her tell me her name."

"Oh really." Remus said, arching an eyebrow.  

"No." Sirius confessed.  "She made me dance around the room like a monkey and then dance with McGonagall."

Remus cracked a grin. "I bet McGonagall loved that."

"Oh, she did." Sirius said assuredly.  "She had to give me detention though to make it look like she was being a good disciplinarian."

Remus looked amused. "I didn't know you knew that word."

Sirius puffed up proudly. "Of course I did.  Oh, and did I mention the best part?"

"I thought you already had, but I'm going to assume no and say, no?"

Sirius looked to be practically bursting with excitement.  "She's got detention too!"

Remus practically fell off the couch. "She wha--? Sirius. What did you do?"

"Nothing!" Sirius proclaimed innocently. "We were talking and –"

"And McGonagall saw, warned you to shut up or you'd get detention, you didn't of course, and landed poor Kiara in detention for the first time in her seven years here."

Sirius was quite surprised. "How did you--? What do you mean, first detention?"

Remus smiled slightly. "She told me she'd never had detention before a while ago when we were talking.  I can see why you like her by the way...aside from having you wrapped around her finger, she's quite a lot of fun."

Sirius sputtered. "I-I-I-She's mine!"

"I know." Remus said patiently, he wasn't interested in Kiara like that, or any girl for that matter.  It was just fun to get a rise out of Sirius.

"I feel bad now, though." said Sirius, collapsing into a chair. "I got her in detention while her record was perfectly clean."

"Chill." said Remus wisely. "If she's still speaking to you then she's either not mad, doesn't care, or both."

Sirius grinned, his good spirits returned. "Good! I've got to go to detention now, though. I'll see you later, Moony!"  He bounced out of the chair and through the portrait hole, leaving Remus sitting by the fire smiling.

*

~MEANWHILE...~

"Okay, so Rebecca, did you get a sample of James' handwriting?" Irene asked at a meeting of the JPFC.

Rebecca nodded eagerly.  "Yeah, I stole it out of his History of Magic notebook."

"And, Lana, did you get a sample of Lily's handwriting?"

"Yes, I did.  I passed her a note in Divination asking her a question about Potions and, fool that she is, she wrote back!" Lana grinned proudly, holding out a piece of paper for Irene's inspection.

"Good." Irene smirked. "Now, who can imitate their handwriting the best?"

*

James crept up behind Lily in the library.  "Boo!" he whispered loudly causing her to jump.

"James!" she squealed quietly, turning around in her chair.

"Come with me." he said, grabbing her hand and tugging it.

"I can't! We've got a Muggle Studies test tomorrow! I-You-We should be studying."

"Screw studying." he said, bringing a grin to her face. "We can do that later.  For now, come with me."

Lily sighed, but it was obvious she had already given in. "Okay.  Just let me get my stuff together."

"Leave it." he told her. "You won't need it where we're going."

"Wha-? Where are you taking me? And I don't care where we're going, I can't leave my stuff here! Someone might take it."

"Fiiine." James said, throwing her stuff randomly into her bag causing Lily to sigh hopelessly.

"You'll never be good at cleaning." she teased.

"Why, thank you, miss." he threw back at her as she attempted to shut her bag. "Forget that, let me take it." he said, taking it out of her hands and throwing it over his shoulder. He then grabbed her hand and ran out of the library, dragging her behind him.

"James! Where are we going?!" she cried, earning herself a look from Madame Pince.

"It's a surprise!" he called over his shoulder.

*

After Transfiguration, Kiara and Sirius had stayed behind with Professor McGonagall to discuss their detention.  They had both been assigned to clean out the dungeons, specifically, the Potions classroom where a fight had broken out earlier that day.  When Sirius arrived down there, Kiara was already standing in the doorway in her oldest clothes with a look of the utmost disgust on her face.  "Look at this place!" she cried when he joined her in the doorway. "It's a mess!"

It was indeed a mess.  There were dragon hearts all over the floor, strange liquids mixing with each other on tables, hissing loudly where they touched, and on the walls, there were more unidentifiable liquids streaming down them, along with blobs of gunk and other nasty things. "Wow.  I'm glad I wasn't in that class." voiced Sirius.

"Yeah." agreed Kiara.

"Oh, and, Kiara?"

Kiara grinned, his using her name had brought back memories of Transfiguration. "Yes?"

"I'm sorry about getting you into detention.  I know this is your first and all..." he trailed off, looking at her.

She couldn't help but think how much he resembled a hurt puppy when he looked at her like that.  It made her insides get all mushy.  How odd. "It's alright." her voice came out softer than she had intended. "It was worth it."

*

Lily had dropped her stuff off in her dormitory and was currently following an excited James, wondering where he was taking her.  They were in a part of the school she didn't remember ever going to.  "Okay, wait here." James said, positioning Lily so that she was facing...a blank wall.

"James?" she asked confusedly.  "What are you doing?"

"Just watch the wall." he said cryptically.

Lily raised an eyebrow.  She loved him dearly, well maybe love was too strong a word yet but 'liked him dearly' just didn't have the same ring to it, but she thought he was losing his mind.  "Ja-oh!" she exclaimed as a silver door with sparkling white and pale pink curlicues across it appeared in the wall.  A shiny silver doorknob soon materialized as well. She felt James come up behind her. "James, what is this?" she asked.

"Open it." he said.

She turned the knob and pushed the door open, gasping as she saw the room before her.  It was gorgeous, with gold wallpaper, and a plush white rug. It had large silver vases of white, pink, and red roses placed strategically around the room and in the center was a little white table, like what you might find in a French café, set for two.  The plates were gold-rimmed, as were the wine-glasses and there was a bouquet of red, pink, and white roses in the center of the table in a gold vase. "James, it's-it's beautiful!  How ever did you find this?!"

James grinned, stepping in front of her, taking her hand and leading her to the table where he pulled out her chair for her. "It's called the Room of Requirement." he said proudly.

"The what?"

"The Room of Requirement.  It becomes whatever you need it to be, all you have to do is walk up and down in front of the wall three times, thinking of whatever it is you need."

"Wow." was all Lily could say.

James smiled.  "What do you want to eat?"

"Oh, I-I don't know." she stammered.

"Hmm." pondered James. "We need menus."

Instantly, a menu appeared on each of their plates.  Following the theme of the room, it was ivory with a gold braid down the side and a gold tassel at the top.  Across the front in silvery-pink script, it said James and Lily Potter's Restaurant.  Lily gasped upon seeing this then blushed, peering at James through her eyelashes.  He was just as shocked as she was and color was high on his cheeks. "Well." he cleared his throat a little. "That was unexpected."

Lily nodded. "You can say that again."

"That was unexpected."

"Thank you."

Lily opened her menu with little smile on her face.  Did James really want to marry her?  She decided not to say anything about it at the moment as they hadn't been together for that long and she didn't want to rush things, or ruin the moment.

*

Splat!

Kiara stiffened as she felt something slimy go down the back of her neck and down her shirt. "Sirius!" she screeched, turning around.

Sirius looked up in mock surprise from where he was supposedly scrubbing the floor. "Yes, Kiara?" he'd taken to using her name almost everytime he talked to her.  She was starting to regret having told him it.

"You just pegged me with a slimy bit of something-I-don't-want-to-know-what-it-is!" she said in one breath.

Sirius grinned innocently. "Did I?"

She shot him a look. "Siriuuuus."

"Okay, maybe with a teensy bit of that goop from over there." he said, pointing.

"Oh?" she said. "This goop? This goop right here?" she picked up a blob from it in her gloved hands and walked over to him. "Is this the goop?  The exact goop?"

"Er, yes?" he said, wondering where exactly she was going with this.

She grinned. "Oh okay, just making sure." With that, she rubbed the goop into his hair. "Hmm," she said, surveying it critically. "It makes a nice hair gel."

"You little--!" Sirius roared, feeling his newly spiked hair.  She giggled madly, giggles turning to shrieks as he grabbed another blob of something and threw it at her.  It landed in her hair and slid down the sides of it.

"Eww!" she cried, grabbing a dragon's heart and pegging it at him. It made a nasty squelching sound as it crashed into his chest and fell off, leaving a nasty wet imprint behind.  He made a lunge for her, taking her down with him into a pile of mushy purple things.  She screamed as she felt the purple stuff seeping into and down her shirt.  She grabbed some and shoved it down his shirt, as he was still on top of her.  They both dissolved into giggles, which faded as they both realized he was still on top of her. 

Sirius had the strongest urge to kiss her, though he didn't know where it had come from.  All he knew was that she looked so pretty surrounded by all that purple goop.  It brought out her eyes nicely.

Kiara wasn't quite sure what was going on and she wasn't sure if she liked it or not.  She opened her mouth to say something, to break the silence. "I—" However, whatever she was going to say was lost as Sirius suddenly swooped down and kissed her.

*::grins:: how's that for a cliffhanger? How is Kiara gonna react to this new ::ahem:: turn of events?  What IS the JPFC going to do to poor James and Lily? Are Kiara and Sirius going to get another detention for screwing up the dungeons even more?  I'm not exactly if "aphrodisiac" was the best word to use in the title but whatever...i was having trouble thinking of the proper word.  Anyway this'll probably be the last update you get from me for a while seeing as how we're leaving Saturday and therefore I have to pack and etc tomorrow.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't review though...hehe. I tried to make this good, as it's gonna be holding you guys over til next Saturday.  If I can get enough time on a computer, I'll update while I'm there but it's not definite.  Review!!*