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Good morning, Padfoot!
Sirius slumped onto the sofa in the common room beside Jen. "Thank god that's over."
Jen only grunted in reply. She leaned back, with her eyes closed, trying not to move a muscle. Sirius dropped a hand on her knee and leaned back closing his eyes as well. The two had come to a mutual truce until they'd gotten through their NEWT's. Wanting to be a healer, Jen knew she had to earn O's in Potions, transfiguration, and charms. Sirius, wanting to be an Auror, needed several O's as well. DADA, Transfiguration, and Potions at least. Needless to say they both had to work very hard in the weeks leading up to the exams. Jen didn't mind the truce. It gave her time to come up with something really good for her revenge.
They were both about to fall off to sleep when James dropped beside Sirius. "You're not going to believe this."
The two looked at James. "Believe what?" Sirius queried.
"Molly Weasley just had twins."
Sirius sat up straight. "I don't believe it." He gaped at James. "Twins? How many does that make for them now?"
"Five." Lily said from behind the couch, startling them. "All boys. Poor Molly. Pretty soon she's going to end up in St Mungo's!"
"Who's Molly Weasely?" Jen asked.
"She was a seventh year when we were first years." Sirius explained. "She and Arthur were married almost before they left Hogwarts! And a year after that they had Bill. And it's been a steady progression since."
"Are they doing that on purpose?"
"Probably." Lily rounded the couch and dropped on James lap. "I think they'll keep going until they get a girl." She laid her head on his shoulder." I'm so tired."
"How did you do?" James asked to them all.
"Pretty well, I think." Jen leaned to see his face. "I may have even outdone Snape."
"In potions? Doubtful."
"Really. He was getting frustrated. You couldn't see him from where you were sitting. You should have seen how contorted his face was."
"His face is always contorted, Jenny." Sirius squeezed her knee and smiled. "Where are Peter and Remus?"
James shrugged. "Remus wanted to talk to Magonnagal. I guess Peter just waited for him. Are we going to Hogsmead this weekend? Or are we going to fall into a collective coma?"
"I vote coma." Sirius had closed his eyes again.
"Good." Jen said. "Because Lily and I want this to be a girly weekend." She quickly looked at Lily, who looked confused for a moment, then raised an eyebrow and smiled.
"What kind of girl stuff?" Sirius asked behind closed eyes.
"Just Girl stuff." Lily laid her head back on James shoulder. "Hair, nails, pretty pink things."
Both Sirius and James grunted.
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"Jen, this could be defined as illegal!" Lily gaped at her friend, "I mean if you get caught, you'll be expelled!"
Jen snatched the parchment from her friend with a disappointed look. "It is not illegal."
The two had just retuned from Hogsmead. It was Sunday evening and most students were heading to the great hall for supper. The two decided to take the long way from the tower to get a few more minutes to discuss Sirius's up-coming humiliation.
"It is using it like that!"
"Lily come on!" Jen looked over at her friend, "can you imagine the look on his face? And besides, it's only illegal if we get caught!"
"I don't know Jenny. This is pretty tricky." She took the parchment and reread it. "All that maneuvering through the tower will make it almost impossible."
Jen stepped in front of Lily, "No, I think we should do it on our brooms."
Lily's mouth dropped, "You've got to be kidding me!"
Jen smiled and shook her head.
"My god. Sirius's insanity had finally rubbed off on you."
"Well, At least one Griffindor recognizes mental illness." The low, slick voice surprised them both. They jumped around to see the voice belonged to Lucius Malfoy. He was casually leaning against the wall behind them smiling wickedly. "I told you last year, no Griffindor would ever do after having a Slytherin."
"Sod off, Malfoy." Lily spoke, as Jennifer had physically tensed when she realized who was behind them.
"No, no I don't think I will." He stood and started to walk to Jen. "You still have an unpaid debt." He spoke very closely to Jens ear.
Lily could see the building fear in her friend and for a moment was confused, what could she be afraid of? "Leave us alone, Malfoy."
"Like I'd pay attention to a mudblood like you." He sneered.
That snapped Jen out of her trance.
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"Think about it Prongs," Remus smiled at the stupidity of his two friends. "In all the time we've know Lily has she ever painted her fingernails? And what about Jennifer? Am I the only one that recalls her laughing at the Slytherin and Hufflepuff girls at last years Yule ball? Wasting all that money on their hair?"
Sirius and James both stopped cold and looked at each other. The corridor was almost vacant, to their relief. Neither fancied the idea of a group of students hearing how they had been so dense. As it was, they were both a bit ashamed that Remus and Peter had to point out the girls out of character plans.
"Yes, but Lily would never get involved with this little war between Jenny and Sirius."
Peter snickered. "Why not? Weren't you the one that found that stuttering charm for Sirius? The one that could only be broken by Jen professing her devotion to Sirius?"
"That was pretty good." Sirius smiled at James. And cued them all to continue to the great hall. "I still don't think she's forgiven me that one."
"Well I wouldn't give to much worry to that one, Padfoot." Remus said, "If she's got Lily involved and the spent the weekend in Hogsmead, I'd sleep with my eyes open."
"Lily! Please!" They all heard Jens exasperated voice around the corner, and rushed to see what was the matter.
They rounded the corner and saw Jen leaning against the wall, cradling one hand in the other, with Lily trying to point her wand to Jens hand but was unable to focus through the bout of giggles that seem to have over taken her.
The marauders were on them in a fraction of a second. "What happened?" James asked first.
Lilly smiled and tried to take a deep breath, "Malfoy," an uncontrolled snicker shook her chest.
"What?" Sirius looked a Jen. He thought back to last time he saw Lucius with Jen and was not finding humor. Peter and Remus were both smiling and waiting. "Jen, What did he do to you?"
"Nothing." She looked at Sirius then back to Lily, "Please, Lily this is really starting to hurt!"
"What did he do?" Sirius demanded again, looking at her hand that was turning blue before his eyes, "Jennifer, What did he do to you?"
"Nothing," Lily flapped her hand in front of him, "Nothing. It was Jen! It was all Jen! I've never seen him look so stunned in all his life!"
"What?" Remus finally shouted, unable to handle the suspense.
"She broke his nose!" Lily said, and then shook her head, "And on the second hit, I think she actually knocked out one of his teeth!"
Remus took Jens hand smiling and began casting a healing charm, while Sirius, James and Peter erupted,
"You did not!"
"Twice? You hit him twice!"
"Oh, I wish I could have seen his face!"
"Yes," Jen smiled "It's almost worth a broken wrist."
"I don't think it's broken," Remus grinned, continuing to heal her wrist, as Lily began reenacting the scene for the Marauders, using James as Malfoy. She launched into a dramatic tale of the horrible Slytherin trying to scare them, his insults and Jen's final blow.
"I swear, you'd have died from the look of shock on his face!" She leaned on Sirius arm, "Then when she pulled back the second time he actually looked scared! Oh, I could die happy right now!"
Sirius was smiling brightly, "Did you really?" He wrapped his arms around her waist lifting her so their heads were even, "I knew you had it in you!"
"He had it coming." She smiled, their noses touching.
"What did he do?" Peter asked.
"He just grabbed his nose and turned to leave muttering something about," Lily stood straight and puffed out her chest, "You'll pay for this. No one ever hits a Malfoy."
"I'm so proud of you." Sirius said tilting his head.
"Here we go." James rolled his eyes. "We'll never get them apart now."
Ignoring James, Jen wrapped her arms around Sirius and grinned onto his mouth "I thought you might like that." Then kissed him.
"C'mon." Remus gestured them all. "Let's go before we loose our appetites."
As the four walked away, Sirius managed to push a classroom door open and kick it shut behind him, Kissing Jen all the while.
"This is Magonnagal's room." Jen said between kisses, "If she finds us in here we'll be in detention-"
Sirius pressed his lips against hers tighter and set her on a desk. He began to riddle his hand through her robes, "She's in the great hall with everyone else." He pushed her robes off her shoulders and took to work on her blouse, as his mouth nipped at her neck.
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When James Remus and Peter emerged from their dorm the following morning, Jen and Lily were waiting for them. "Have you seen Sirius?"
Jen looked at James "Ya, I think he's already gone down." She looked at Lily, hoping none of them would suspect anything. When they continued through the common room Jen and Lily followed behind, using extreme self- control not to so much as grin.
They walked to the great hall listening to James prattle on about the upcoming Quidditch match against Ravenclaw, however, without Sirius he wasn't getting much in response. Lily and Jen were uncharacteristically quiet. "Are you too okay?" He finally asked.
"Yes," Lily said brightly, "We're fine."
Then an eruption of howls, whistles and hysterical laughter coming from the entrance hall stopped them all. Lily turned away and Jen clenched her jaw, not to smile.
"What was that?" Remus looked at each of them. Noticing Lily's back slightly shaking, and Jens overly innocent face, he raised his eyebrows, "what did you do?"
"What?" Jen said, loosing the battle to keep a straight face. "I've been here, with you."
They were able to hear several discernable catcalls, propositions and several marriage proposals being shouted in their direction.
The muscles in Jens face were fighting to break into a great grin, when she saw Sirius tear around the corner towards them with a blue cloak, probably a Ravenclaw, wrapped around his waist. When he saw the five of them he stopped and pointed at Jen, "YOU!"
"Its against school rules to streak, Sirius. I'd hate for you to get detention." He pointed his finger at her again, then turned and ran toward the tower.
When he was gone Lily and Jen fell against each other laughing, barely able to hold each other up. Remus, James and Peter were looking where Sirius had run, grinning.
"What did you do?" Remus looked at Jen, smiling wider.
"I did nothing." She was hunched over, grabbing Lily's arm, "Did you see his face? Oh my god! Did you see his face?"
Lilly waved her hand rapidly in front of her face, "Oh, I saw much more than his face!"
"Lily, come on!" James pulled her up, "You have to tell us."
"Okay, okay." She said, regaining her composure, not looking at Jen, as she would break into hysterics if she did.
As they walked on to the great hall Lily explained about the Levitating spell they used to levitate Sirius to the steps in front of the school, leaving him with a blanket to lie on. She described how they snuck into their room early this morning, cast a warming spell, so he wouldn't wake and how she and Jen used their brooms to levitate him from his dorm to the front steps. Once at the front steps they cast an adhesive spell on the blanket, so it would stick to the steps. Jen stepped in at this time and told them they'd invited all the Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and yes, the Slytherin girls to wait in the entrance hall, as that would be his only way in.
"And he chooses to sleep nude-" Jen concluded.
As they took their seats at their table, Remus shook his head. "I can't believe you didn't tell us!"
"You know, now your going to have to watch out for all four of us, Jen."
She looked at James, "why?"
"Because, at least we've been able to enjoy the jokes. This time all we got to see was him sprinting by. I think that deserves some kind of punishment."
"Do you really want to be on my receiving end?"
Before they could answer, Sirius walked into the hall and was greeted by a round of applause. He stopped, nodded and smiled, then walked to the Ravenclaw table to return the stolen cloak. He was handed several parchments before he sat beside James.
They were all looking at their food, waiting for Sirius to say some thing.
"Lets see," he dramatically opened the first parchment, "Meet me in the astronomy tower," he unfolded another, "Meet me on the Quidditch pitch." Another, "Meet me by the lake." Another, "What do you think this one will say? Oh look, another astronomy tower." He dropped them onto the table. "I would like to thank you very much."
"You seem a little agitated this morning." Lily said, smiling at her plate.
"Ya, Sirius" Jen looked at her food. What's the matter? "Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?"
They all lost control of the laughter they'd been containing, and Jen looked at Sirius. He shook his head and slid back on the bench. Jen stopped laughing, the two eyed each other. At the same moment they both sprang from their seats. Jen Jumped over the Hufflepuff table and dashed for the door with Sirius jumping the table right behind her.
"Do you think she'll be okay?" Peter smiled.
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Good morning, Padfoot!
Sirius slumped onto the sofa in the common room beside Jen. "Thank god that's over."
Jen only grunted in reply. She leaned back, with her eyes closed, trying not to move a muscle. Sirius dropped a hand on her knee and leaned back closing his eyes as well. The two had come to a mutual truce until they'd gotten through their NEWT's. Wanting to be a healer, Jen knew she had to earn O's in Potions, transfiguration, and charms. Sirius, wanting to be an Auror, needed several O's as well. DADA, Transfiguration, and Potions at least. Needless to say they both had to work very hard in the weeks leading up to the exams. Jen didn't mind the truce. It gave her time to come up with something really good for her revenge.
They were both about to fall off to sleep when James dropped beside Sirius. "You're not going to believe this."
The two looked at James. "Believe what?" Sirius queried.
"Molly Weasley just had twins."
Sirius sat up straight. "I don't believe it." He gaped at James. "Twins? How many does that make for them now?"
"Five." Lily said from behind the couch, startling them. "All boys. Poor Molly. Pretty soon she's going to end up in St Mungo's!"
"Who's Molly Weasely?" Jen asked.
"She was a seventh year when we were first years." Sirius explained. "She and Arthur were married almost before they left Hogwarts! And a year after that they had Bill. And it's been a steady progression since."
"Are they doing that on purpose?"
"Probably." Lily rounded the couch and dropped on James lap. "I think they'll keep going until they get a girl." She laid her head on his shoulder." I'm so tired."
"How did you do?" James asked to them all.
"Pretty well, I think." Jen leaned to see his face. "I may have even outdone Snape."
"In potions? Doubtful."
"Really. He was getting frustrated. You couldn't see him from where you were sitting. You should have seen how contorted his face was."
"His face is always contorted, Jenny." Sirius squeezed her knee and smiled. "Where are Peter and Remus?"
James shrugged. "Remus wanted to talk to Magonnagal. I guess Peter just waited for him. Are we going to Hogsmead this weekend? Or are we going to fall into a collective coma?"
"I vote coma." Sirius had closed his eyes again.
"Good." Jen said. "Because Lily and I want this to be a girly weekend." She quickly looked at Lily, who looked confused for a moment, then raised an eyebrow and smiled.
"What kind of girl stuff?" Sirius asked behind closed eyes.
"Just Girl stuff." Lily laid her head back on James shoulder. "Hair, nails, pretty pink things."
Both Sirius and James grunted.
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"Jen, this could be defined as illegal!" Lily gaped at her friend, "I mean if you get caught, you'll be expelled!"
Jen snatched the parchment from her friend with a disappointed look. "It is not illegal."
The two had just retuned from Hogsmead. It was Sunday evening and most students were heading to the great hall for supper. The two decided to take the long way from the tower to get a few more minutes to discuss Sirius's up-coming humiliation.
"It is using it like that!"
"Lily come on!" Jen looked over at her friend, "can you imagine the look on his face? And besides, it's only illegal if we get caught!"
"I don't know Jenny. This is pretty tricky." She took the parchment and reread it. "All that maneuvering through the tower will make it almost impossible."
Jen stepped in front of Lily, "No, I think we should do it on our brooms."
Lily's mouth dropped, "You've got to be kidding me!"
Jen smiled and shook her head.
"My god. Sirius's insanity had finally rubbed off on you."
"Well, At least one Griffindor recognizes mental illness." The low, slick voice surprised them both. They jumped around to see the voice belonged to Lucius Malfoy. He was casually leaning against the wall behind them smiling wickedly. "I told you last year, no Griffindor would ever do after having a Slytherin."
"Sod off, Malfoy." Lily spoke, as Jennifer had physically tensed when she realized who was behind them.
"No, no I don't think I will." He stood and started to walk to Jen. "You still have an unpaid debt." He spoke very closely to Jens ear.
Lily could see the building fear in her friend and for a moment was confused, what could she be afraid of? "Leave us alone, Malfoy."
"Like I'd pay attention to a mudblood like you." He sneered.
That snapped Jen out of her trance.
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"Think about it Prongs," Remus smiled at the stupidity of his two friends. "In all the time we've know Lily has she ever painted her fingernails? And what about Jennifer? Am I the only one that recalls her laughing at the Slytherin and Hufflepuff girls at last years Yule ball? Wasting all that money on their hair?"
Sirius and James both stopped cold and looked at each other. The corridor was almost vacant, to their relief. Neither fancied the idea of a group of students hearing how they had been so dense. As it was, they were both a bit ashamed that Remus and Peter had to point out the girls out of character plans.
"Yes, but Lily would never get involved with this little war between Jenny and Sirius."
Peter snickered. "Why not? Weren't you the one that found that stuttering charm for Sirius? The one that could only be broken by Jen professing her devotion to Sirius?"
"That was pretty good." Sirius smiled at James. And cued them all to continue to the great hall. "I still don't think she's forgiven me that one."
"Well I wouldn't give to much worry to that one, Padfoot." Remus said, "If she's got Lily involved and the spent the weekend in Hogsmead, I'd sleep with my eyes open."
"Lily! Please!" They all heard Jens exasperated voice around the corner, and rushed to see what was the matter.
They rounded the corner and saw Jen leaning against the wall, cradling one hand in the other, with Lily trying to point her wand to Jens hand but was unable to focus through the bout of giggles that seem to have over taken her.
The marauders were on them in a fraction of a second. "What happened?" James asked first.
Lilly smiled and tried to take a deep breath, "Malfoy," an uncontrolled snicker shook her chest.
"What?" Sirius looked a Jen. He thought back to last time he saw Lucius with Jen and was not finding humor. Peter and Remus were both smiling and waiting. "Jen, What did he do to you?"
"Nothing." She looked at Sirius then back to Lily, "Please, Lily this is really starting to hurt!"
"What did he do?" Sirius demanded again, looking at her hand that was turning blue before his eyes, "Jennifer, What did he do to you?"
"Nothing," Lily flapped her hand in front of him, "Nothing. It was Jen! It was all Jen! I've never seen him look so stunned in all his life!"
"What?" Remus finally shouted, unable to handle the suspense.
"She broke his nose!" Lily said, and then shook her head, "And on the second hit, I think she actually knocked out one of his teeth!"
Remus took Jens hand smiling and began casting a healing charm, while Sirius, James and Peter erupted,
"You did not!"
"Twice? You hit him twice!"
"Oh, I wish I could have seen his face!"
"Yes," Jen smiled "It's almost worth a broken wrist."
"I don't think it's broken," Remus grinned, continuing to heal her wrist, as Lily began reenacting the scene for the Marauders, using James as Malfoy. She launched into a dramatic tale of the horrible Slytherin trying to scare them, his insults and Jen's final blow.
"I swear, you'd have died from the look of shock on his face!" She leaned on Sirius arm, "Then when she pulled back the second time he actually looked scared! Oh, I could die happy right now!"
Sirius was smiling brightly, "Did you really?" He wrapped his arms around her waist lifting her so their heads were even, "I knew you had it in you!"
"He had it coming." She smiled, their noses touching.
"What did he do?" Peter asked.
"He just grabbed his nose and turned to leave muttering something about," Lily stood straight and puffed out her chest, "You'll pay for this. No one ever hits a Malfoy."
"I'm so proud of you." Sirius said tilting his head.
"Here we go." James rolled his eyes. "We'll never get them apart now."
Ignoring James, Jen wrapped her arms around Sirius and grinned onto his mouth "I thought you might like that." Then kissed him.
"C'mon." Remus gestured them all. "Let's go before we loose our appetites."
As the four walked away, Sirius managed to push a classroom door open and kick it shut behind him, Kissing Jen all the while.
"This is Magonnagal's room." Jen said between kisses, "If she finds us in here we'll be in detention-"
Sirius pressed his lips against hers tighter and set her on a desk. He began to riddle his hand through her robes, "She's in the great hall with everyone else." He pushed her robes off her shoulders and took to work on her blouse, as his mouth nipped at her neck.
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When James Remus and Peter emerged from their dorm the following morning, Jen and Lily were waiting for them. "Have you seen Sirius?"
Jen looked at James "Ya, I think he's already gone down." She looked at Lily, hoping none of them would suspect anything. When they continued through the common room Jen and Lily followed behind, using extreme self- control not to so much as grin.
They walked to the great hall listening to James prattle on about the upcoming Quidditch match against Ravenclaw, however, without Sirius he wasn't getting much in response. Lily and Jen were uncharacteristically quiet. "Are you too okay?" He finally asked.
"Yes," Lily said brightly, "We're fine."
Then an eruption of howls, whistles and hysterical laughter coming from the entrance hall stopped them all. Lily turned away and Jen clenched her jaw, not to smile.
"What was that?" Remus looked at each of them. Noticing Lily's back slightly shaking, and Jens overly innocent face, he raised his eyebrows, "what did you do?"
"What?" Jen said, loosing the battle to keep a straight face. "I've been here, with you."
They were able to hear several discernable catcalls, propositions and several marriage proposals being shouted in their direction.
The muscles in Jens face were fighting to break into a great grin, when she saw Sirius tear around the corner towards them with a blue cloak, probably a Ravenclaw, wrapped around his waist. When he saw the five of them he stopped and pointed at Jen, "YOU!"
"Its against school rules to streak, Sirius. I'd hate for you to get detention." He pointed his finger at her again, then turned and ran toward the tower.
When he was gone Lily and Jen fell against each other laughing, barely able to hold each other up. Remus, James and Peter were looking where Sirius had run, grinning.
"What did you do?" Remus looked at Jen, smiling wider.
"I did nothing." She was hunched over, grabbing Lily's arm, "Did you see his face? Oh my god! Did you see his face?"
Lilly waved her hand rapidly in front of her face, "Oh, I saw much more than his face!"
"Lily, come on!" James pulled her up, "You have to tell us."
"Okay, okay." She said, regaining her composure, not looking at Jen, as she would break into hysterics if she did.
As they walked on to the great hall Lily explained about the Levitating spell they used to levitate Sirius to the steps in front of the school, leaving him with a blanket to lie on. She described how they snuck into their room early this morning, cast a warming spell, so he wouldn't wake and how she and Jen used their brooms to levitate him from his dorm to the front steps. Once at the front steps they cast an adhesive spell on the blanket, so it would stick to the steps. Jen stepped in at this time and told them they'd invited all the Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and yes, the Slytherin girls to wait in the entrance hall, as that would be his only way in.
"And he chooses to sleep nude-" Jen concluded.
As they took their seats at their table, Remus shook his head. "I can't believe you didn't tell us!"
"You know, now your going to have to watch out for all four of us, Jen."
She looked at James, "why?"
"Because, at least we've been able to enjoy the jokes. This time all we got to see was him sprinting by. I think that deserves some kind of punishment."
"Do you really want to be on my receiving end?"
Before they could answer, Sirius walked into the hall and was greeted by a round of applause. He stopped, nodded and smiled, then walked to the Ravenclaw table to return the stolen cloak. He was handed several parchments before he sat beside James.
They were all looking at their food, waiting for Sirius to say some thing.
"Lets see," he dramatically opened the first parchment, "Meet me in the astronomy tower," he unfolded another, "Meet me on the Quidditch pitch." Another, "Meet me by the lake." Another, "What do you think this one will say? Oh look, another astronomy tower." He dropped them onto the table. "I would like to thank you very much."
"You seem a little agitated this morning." Lily said, smiling at her plate.
"Ya, Sirius" Jen looked at her food. What's the matter? "Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?"
They all lost control of the laughter they'd been containing, and Jen looked at Sirius. He shook his head and slid back on the bench. Jen stopped laughing, the two eyed each other. At the same moment they both sprang from their seats. Jen Jumped over the Hufflepuff table and dashed for the door with Sirius jumping the table right behind her.
"Do you think she'll be okay?" Peter smiled.
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