Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and the rest of the characters that
appears in the book. Only J K Rowling does. I only own the other characters
that DON'T and WILL NOT appear in it. The plot belongs to me too. Oh,
before I forget, the group Unicorns idea was taken from the book Sweet
Valley by Francine Pascal.
Rating: This is a PG-13 story. Those who think they can't stand swearing and cursing please back away and don't read this. Thank you for your cooperation.
Basic Overview: This would be a James and Lily story in their 6th year in Hogwarts. James Potter, leader of the Marauders and Lily Evans, leader of the Unicorns. Lily detests James since 1st year. But will love blossom between these two? We'll find out.
Extras: Nothing much.
Pranksters
Chapter 3: The sneak and catch!
"How did you get in here?" stuttered a surprised Lily.
"Well, it's obvious that I followed you here," James said, still grinning from ear to ear.
"That I know. But what I'm trying to say is how on earth did you get here without me noticing you, unless you're invisible," snapped Lily.
"Of course I'm invisible, see this?" said James, showing his invisibility cloak to Lily, "I can guess that you already know what it is, so there's no point in me explaining it to you."
The redhead stared at the invisibility cloak in disbelief. She pointed her finger at it and said, "How did you get it?"
"I got it from my father. Potters are rich enough to buy things that are rare and exquisite," James replied, sitting down on the sofa.
"Yea yea. Potters.ugh!" Lily muttered in disgust. She looked over at where James was and shrieked, "Get your butt out of my sofa you idiot! I didn't tell you to sit here." Lily shoved James off her sofa, causing him to fall down onto the hard stone ground.
"Ouch! Hey, watch where you're shoving," James cried, while rubbing his bottom. "It hurts!"
"Good. That will leave you with a bruised bottom. Then you can't go 'out of this world' with other girls. Hehe, come to think of it, even if you do have sex, once the girls see your beautiful bottom, they'll leave you. Hah!" Lily laughed.
"Oh really?" said James with a sly smile on his face. "What about you?"
"Huh? What's what about me?" Lily said, biting down softly on her lips in confusion.
"I mean, would you do it?"
"Do what?" said Lily in really total confusion.
James rolled his eyes. "I can't believe you're this dense. Talk about a girl whom people say has brains that matches me."
"Whatever! What did you want to say to me? Get on with it before I throw you out of this house."
"Okay! I was asking, what if that girl was you? When we have sex and you see a bruised bottom on me, would you still continue?"
Lily's jaw dropped. She said in disbelief, "Excuse me? I will never ever even have sex with you, much less even see your backside. Reasons? Number one, I have been detesting you since first year and I will up till the end of our lives. Number two; I cannot visualize the both of us together. Number three, I will only do it with my lover and it will certainly not be you!"
James felt a pang of something. Disappointment? Jealousy? He didn't know. He quickly dismissed the feeling aside and responded, "Anything. I was just joking. You don't have to get all fuzzed up because of what I said. I guess you were right. As if we would have any relationship at all." James bit his own lips.
Lily wanted to say something, but when she opened her mouth, no words came out, so she closed it back.
There was silence. James felt a little uneasy at that point of time, so he looked around the room, trying to avoid Lily's gaze. That's when his eyes fell upon the little clock hanging on the wall. Its hour hand was pointing in between the 10 and 11, while its minute hand was pointing at the number 11.
"Oh look at the time! It's 10:55pm. I didn't know we stayed here for so long. We better get back unless you want Filch to catch us for his 'wondrous' detentions," James said. Standing up, he pulled his invisibility cloak over his shoulders when he turned to the girl, asking, "Do you want to share? I don't mind it and I wouldn't like to see a person getting detentions when I could be some of a help."
"Are you sure you wouldn't mind? It doesn't seem like you though," Lily said, her foot still planted on the ground.
"I really wouldn't mind. But if you're still going to stand there, not budging, I will pass off this opportunity and go off by myself, leaving you to get detentions from Filch as you were roaming the grounds past curfew."
Lily shuddered at the thought of having detentions with Filch, the Hogwarts caretaker. "Okay, I'll come." Lily walked towards James where he draped the cloak over the two of them, making them invisible. Both walked out of the house and made their way back to their common room.
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After walking through 3 corridors and 2 staircases, the 2 of them finally arrived at the Gryffindor common room corridor. But before they even reached the Fat Lady Portrait, they heard footsteps.
"Oh bloody shit! I can hear Filch on his rounds already," James cried in exasperation, while looking at his wizard-watch. "It's 11:10pm. How can I forget that he start off his rounds around the castle near the Gryffindor tower?"
"Yeah, I think he start off his rounds here is all because of your Marauders pranks," snorted Lily. "And please, don't you forget that we are actually invisible? You know, invisible.that means that people can't see us."
"Oh right! I forgot. As if you and your Unicorns never played one before. And before you cut me off with one off your witty remarks, can I say that you are actually being quite loud? Filch will catch us because of your 'famous' voice and if he do, I'll blame it all on you!"
"Blame it all on me? You yourself would also have a part to play here if we really did get caught. Who asked you to secretly follow me? If you didn't, you do not need to serve detention with me," hissed Lily.
"Right, whatever," James rolled his eyes. When they cornered the edge of the corridor, James heard the caretaker's footsteps bouncing off the walls coming towards them. "Oh shit! He's coming."
"Who's coming?" asked Lily in a whisper.
"Filch! I think he heard us or something. Come on, let's hurry."
Before Lily can do anything, James pulled her into a closet.
"What are you doing?" cried Lily in anger of being pulled away hastily.
James quickly raised a finger to Lily's mouth and motioned her to silent. "Keeping us away from Filch you idiot. Didn't you notice that wherever we turn, his footsteps still could be heard? Like he's following us, like he can see us."
Lily's furious face suddenly turned pale. "You mean that he can see us? Oh no! If I really get caught running around the halls after curfew, my plans to be Head-Girl would be ruined!" whispered a frantic Lily.
"Hush now. You wouldn't want him to find us right? I don't see why there's anything for you to be nervous of? It's not like you haven't gotten a detention before for all your pranks. You're still a prefect now right? You're still Hogwarts most cleverest witch right? There's nothing to be scared of."
"But-but-but." stuttered Lily.
"Don't you but me Lily. Now keep quiet." At this, Lily shut up her mouth, but still a little uncomfortable with James' arms around her.
Soon, the footsteps stopped. Then everything was silent except for the two hidden figures breathing.
"Do you think we can go now?" whispered Lily.
"Well, since there is no more footsteps around, I suppose we could," replied James.
"Good."
James let go of Lily and the two of them came out from their hiding place when they suddenly bumped into somebody.
"Oh my goodness! It's Filch!" said the redhead, who was looking at the person who bumped into them.
"Shit! We're caught!"
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When the two fallen figures tried to stand up, they felt the cloak being pulled away from them revealing their bodies.
"Ah ha! I've finally caught you again James Potter! Oh, and you too Lily Evans, though I thought you wouldn't be with James Potter," shouted a very happy looking Argus Filch.
"Get away from us Filch and let us go back to sleep in peace. Or I'll kick your beautiful carved butt!" said James.
"What language, Mr. Potter. Other teachers thought that you would rid of your colourful language when you become a prefect, but it seems not the case. I was right about you all along. You're just a snobby little good-for- nothing guy. I'm going to have to put you in detention for well, let's see. Roaming around the halls pass curfew, using language deemed not appropriate to staff members of Hogwarts. Miss Evans, you may be excused for this once."
When Filch said that James was a 'snobby little good-for-nothing guy', the anger in the little redhead soon grew. Trying to contain it soon grew higher when Lily knew that she wasn't punished for roaming the halls together with James, but being the perfect girl that her parents brought up, she couldn't stand injustice. So when Filch finished with his little speech, she blew up.
"James is not a snobby little good for nothing guy. If you think he is, you are much more worse. You don't even know how to perform magic; you only know how to piss students off. No wonder the students' here think you're just a pile of extra rubbish contained here at Hogwarts. You didn't even earn your standing here. I presume Professor Dumbledore actually kept you here because he pitied you and not because of what you can do. Don't criticize others if you yourself is not up to the standard," yelled Lily.
Both James and Filch stood there gaping like goldfishes at her.
James was the 1st one to be able to break the silence surrounding them. "Erm.do I say thank you Lily, or what?"
"You don't have to say anything James. It's what Filch here needs to say."
"Err."
Filch stood there not believing his ears. Did he hear a scolding directed straightly to him right in front of his face and he wasn't able to stop it? Or what? He didn't know. But as he stood there, a large number of thoughts ran through his mind. Thoughts on why he became what he was today. Thoughts on how did one girl managed to break flow the thoughts he was trying hard to push away. Suddenly, another thought considered not to be his broke the flow of thoughts he had before. "Try to make the two of them be together. Don't let them suffer the same fate you had before. You have seen countless of times how they two can't work together, and tonight it seems that Lily is willing to stand up for that boy. Don't let go off this chance to bring the 2 of them together." And with this thought in mind, he said to the two rule- breakers.
"You Miss Evans, will also be serving detention together with Mr. Potter. I gave you a chance to go, you didn't. Report to me by 8pm on the dot every night for a week starting from tomorrow and I'll see what you all have to do." With that, he walked away to continue his rounds, leaving the cloak on the floor.
James picked up the cloak and motioned to Lily to get back into the common room. Lily directly went back into her dorm and James went to his dorm.
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Lying on her bed, anger subsided, Lily thought, 'what have I done? Me shouting at Filch like that. Damn my temper, damn James and damn Filch. Damn everything! Now what do I do? I have to serve detention with James. And what was I thinking when I defended James. Bloody hell.why did I stood up for him? If I didn't, I wouldn't have to get detention for a week, much less having it with James. But come to think of it, what actually made me stood up for him?'
With those thoughts, she fell asleep with a slight frown on her face.
On a bed facing a window, laid a 16 year old boy with black hair pondering over the incident with Filch a couple of minutes ago.
'Why did she do that? Why did she defend me? I thought she hated me all through the years? I can't say that I'm perfectly upset at her serving detention together with me, but she didn't need to do that. She could just leave and not get any detention at all. Maybe she has a thing about me.I really do not know. And WHY am I thinking of her. Damn it! Go to sleep James Potter, go to sleep.'
With those thought, he fell asleep with the tiniest trance of a smile on his face.
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A/N: Finally done! Sorry for taking too long. I hope this is good enough for you. I may be taking a while more longer to write Chapter 4 as I have my mid-year exams around 2 weeks time, but I hope to finish it a.s.a.p. Chap 4 is going to be on their detention night and so on. so while waiting for it to come, please read and review this chapter!
Rating: This is a PG-13 story. Those who think they can't stand swearing and cursing please back away and don't read this. Thank you for your cooperation.
Basic Overview: This would be a James and Lily story in their 6th year in Hogwarts. James Potter, leader of the Marauders and Lily Evans, leader of the Unicorns. Lily detests James since 1st year. But will love blossom between these two? We'll find out.
Extras: Nothing much.
Pranksters
Chapter 3: The sneak and catch!
"How did you get in here?" stuttered a surprised Lily.
"Well, it's obvious that I followed you here," James said, still grinning from ear to ear.
"That I know. But what I'm trying to say is how on earth did you get here without me noticing you, unless you're invisible," snapped Lily.
"Of course I'm invisible, see this?" said James, showing his invisibility cloak to Lily, "I can guess that you already know what it is, so there's no point in me explaining it to you."
The redhead stared at the invisibility cloak in disbelief. She pointed her finger at it and said, "How did you get it?"
"I got it from my father. Potters are rich enough to buy things that are rare and exquisite," James replied, sitting down on the sofa.
"Yea yea. Potters.ugh!" Lily muttered in disgust. She looked over at where James was and shrieked, "Get your butt out of my sofa you idiot! I didn't tell you to sit here." Lily shoved James off her sofa, causing him to fall down onto the hard stone ground.
"Ouch! Hey, watch where you're shoving," James cried, while rubbing his bottom. "It hurts!"
"Good. That will leave you with a bruised bottom. Then you can't go 'out of this world' with other girls. Hehe, come to think of it, even if you do have sex, once the girls see your beautiful bottom, they'll leave you. Hah!" Lily laughed.
"Oh really?" said James with a sly smile on his face. "What about you?"
"Huh? What's what about me?" Lily said, biting down softly on her lips in confusion.
"I mean, would you do it?"
"Do what?" said Lily in really total confusion.
James rolled his eyes. "I can't believe you're this dense. Talk about a girl whom people say has brains that matches me."
"Whatever! What did you want to say to me? Get on with it before I throw you out of this house."
"Okay! I was asking, what if that girl was you? When we have sex and you see a bruised bottom on me, would you still continue?"
Lily's jaw dropped. She said in disbelief, "Excuse me? I will never ever even have sex with you, much less even see your backside. Reasons? Number one, I have been detesting you since first year and I will up till the end of our lives. Number two; I cannot visualize the both of us together. Number three, I will only do it with my lover and it will certainly not be you!"
James felt a pang of something. Disappointment? Jealousy? He didn't know. He quickly dismissed the feeling aside and responded, "Anything. I was just joking. You don't have to get all fuzzed up because of what I said. I guess you were right. As if we would have any relationship at all." James bit his own lips.
Lily wanted to say something, but when she opened her mouth, no words came out, so she closed it back.
There was silence. James felt a little uneasy at that point of time, so he looked around the room, trying to avoid Lily's gaze. That's when his eyes fell upon the little clock hanging on the wall. Its hour hand was pointing in between the 10 and 11, while its minute hand was pointing at the number 11.
"Oh look at the time! It's 10:55pm. I didn't know we stayed here for so long. We better get back unless you want Filch to catch us for his 'wondrous' detentions," James said. Standing up, he pulled his invisibility cloak over his shoulders when he turned to the girl, asking, "Do you want to share? I don't mind it and I wouldn't like to see a person getting detentions when I could be some of a help."
"Are you sure you wouldn't mind? It doesn't seem like you though," Lily said, her foot still planted on the ground.
"I really wouldn't mind. But if you're still going to stand there, not budging, I will pass off this opportunity and go off by myself, leaving you to get detentions from Filch as you were roaming the grounds past curfew."
Lily shuddered at the thought of having detentions with Filch, the Hogwarts caretaker. "Okay, I'll come." Lily walked towards James where he draped the cloak over the two of them, making them invisible. Both walked out of the house and made their way back to their common room.
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After walking through 3 corridors and 2 staircases, the 2 of them finally arrived at the Gryffindor common room corridor. But before they even reached the Fat Lady Portrait, they heard footsteps.
"Oh bloody shit! I can hear Filch on his rounds already," James cried in exasperation, while looking at his wizard-watch. "It's 11:10pm. How can I forget that he start off his rounds around the castle near the Gryffindor tower?"
"Yeah, I think he start off his rounds here is all because of your Marauders pranks," snorted Lily. "And please, don't you forget that we are actually invisible? You know, invisible.that means that people can't see us."
"Oh right! I forgot. As if you and your Unicorns never played one before. And before you cut me off with one off your witty remarks, can I say that you are actually being quite loud? Filch will catch us because of your 'famous' voice and if he do, I'll blame it all on you!"
"Blame it all on me? You yourself would also have a part to play here if we really did get caught. Who asked you to secretly follow me? If you didn't, you do not need to serve detention with me," hissed Lily.
"Right, whatever," James rolled his eyes. When they cornered the edge of the corridor, James heard the caretaker's footsteps bouncing off the walls coming towards them. "Oh shit! He's coming."
"Who's coming?" asked Lily in a whisper.
"Filch! I think he heard us or something. Come on, let's hurry."
Before Lily can do anything, James pulled her into a closet.
"What are you doing?" cried Lily in anger of being pulled away hastily.
James quickly raised a finger to Lily's mouth and motioned her to silent. "Keeping us away from Filch you idiot. Didn't you notice that wherever we turn, his footsteps still could be heard? Like he's following us, like he can see us."
Lily's furious face suddenly turned pale. "You mean that he can see us? Oh no! If I really get caught running around the halls after curfew, my plans to be Head-Girl would be ruined!" whispered a frantic Lily.
"Hush now. You wouldn't want him to find us right? I don't see why there's anything for you to be nervous of? It's not like you haven't gotten a detention before for all your pranks. You're still a prefect now right? You're still Hogwarts most cleverest witch right? There's nothing to be scared of."
"But-but-but." stuttered Lily.
"Don't you but me Lily. Now keep quiet." At this, Lily shut up her mouth, but still a little uncomfortable with James' arms around her.
Soon, the footsteps stopped. Then everything was silent except for the two hidden figures breathing.
"Do you think we can go now?" whispered Lily.
"Well, since there is no more footsteps around, I suppose we could," replied James.
"Good."
James let go of Lily and the two of them came out from their hiding place when they suddenly bumped into somebody.
"Oh my goodness! It's Filch!" said the redhead, who was looking at the person who bumped into them.
"Shit! We're caught!"
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When the two fallen figures tried to stand up, they felt the cloak being pulled away from them revealing their bodies.
"Ah ha! I've finally caught you again James Potter! Oh, and you too Lily Evans, though I thought you wouldn't be with James Potter," shouted a very happy looking Argus Filch.
"Get away from us Filch and let us go back to sleep in peace. Or I'll kick your beautiful carved butt!" said James.
"What language, Mr. Potter. Other teachers thought that you would rid of your colourful language when you become a prefect, but it seems not the case. I was right about you all along. You're just a snobby little good-for- nothing guy. I'm going to have to put you in detention for well, let's see. Roaming around the halls pass curfew, using language deemed not appropriate to staff members of Hogwarts. Miss Evans, you may be excused for this once."
When Filch said that James was a 'snobby little good-for-nothing guy', the anger in the little redhead soon grew. Trying to contain it soon grew higher when Lily knew that she wasn't punished for roaming the halls together with James, but being the perfect girl that her parents brought up, she couldn't stand injustice. So when Filch finished with his little speech, she blew up.
"James is not a snobby little good for nothing guy. If you think he is, you are much more worse. You don't even know how to perform magic; you only know how to piss students off. No wonder the students' here think you're just a pile of extra rubbish contained here at Hogwarts. You didn't even earn your standing here. I presume Professor Dumbledore actually kept you here because he pitied you and not because of what you can do. Don't criticize others if you yourself is not up to the standard," yelled Lily.
Both James and Filch stood there gaping like goldfishes at her.
James was the 1st one to be able to break the silence surrounding them. "Erm.do I say thank you Lily, or what?"
"You don't have to say anything James. It's what Filch here needs to say."
"Err."
Filch stood there not believing his ears. Did he hear a scolding directed straightly to him right in front of his face and he wasn't able to stop it? Or what? He didn't know. But as he stood there, a large number of thoughts ran through his mind. Thoughts on why he became what he was today. Thoughts on how did one girl managed to break flow the thoughts he was trying hard to push away. Suddenly, another thought considered not to be his broke the flow of thoughts he had before. "Try to make the two of them be together. Don't let them suffer the same fate you had before. You have seen countless of times how they two can't work together, and tonight it seems that Lily is willing to stand up for that boy. Don't let go off this chance to bring the 2 of them together." And with this thought in mind, he said to the two rule- breakers.
"You Miss Evans, will also be serving detention together with Mr. Potter. I gave you a chance to go, you didn't. Report to me by 8pm on the dot every night for a week starting from tomorrow and I'll see what you all have to do." With that, he walked away to continue his rounds, leaving the cloak on the floor.
James picked up the cloak and motioned to Lily to get back into the common room. Lily directly went back into her dorm and James went to his dorm.
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Lying on her bed, anger subsided, Lily thought, 'what have I done? Me shouting at Filch like that. Damn my temper, damn James and damn Filch. Damn everything! Now what do I do? I have to serve detention with James. And what was I thinking when I defended James. Bloody hell.why did I stood up for him? If I didn't, I wouldn't have to get detention for a week, much less having it with James. But come to think of it, what actually made me stood up for him?'
With those thoughts, she fell asleep with a slight frown on her face.
On a bed facing a window, laid a 16 year old boy with black hair pondering over the incident with Filch a couple of minutes ago.
'Why did she do that? Why did she defend me? I thought she hated me all through the years? I can't say that I'm perfectly upset at her serving detention together with me, but she didn't need to do that. She could just leave and not get any detention at all. Maybe she has a thing about me.I really do not know. And WHY am I thinking of her. Damn it! Go to sleep James Potter, go to sleep.'
With those thought, he fell asleep with the tiniest trance of a smile on his face.
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A/N: Finally done! Sorry for taking too long. I hope this is good enough for you. I may be taking a while more longer to write Chapter 4 as I have my mid-year exams around 2 weeks time, but I hope to finish it a.s.a.p. Chap 4 is going to be on their detention night and so on. so while waiting for it to come, please read and review this chapter!