Lily/James fanfic. Set in their 5th year at Hogwarts. Quite a few quotes from, American Pie, Buffy, Cruel Intentions, Austin Powers etc. Everything belongs to J.K Rowling except Tiffany and Amber.
Chapter One - The Journey to Hogwarts
"Bye mum, bye dad." Lily hugged her parents tightly, her emerald eyes oddly bright with the knowledge that she wouldn't see them for about a year. "I guess this is it." She turned to face her older sister. "Bye then," she smiled at Petunia, who turned away coldly, a look of utter revulsion on her face as she surveyed the few hurrying teenagers carrying owls and large trunks. Lily shot a distressed look towards her parents; they gave her a sympathetic smile, shaking their heads at Petunia's back.
"Not to worry dear, I'm sure she'll get used to it in time," said her mum. "Now hurry or you'll miss the train." She kissed Lily on the forehead, then before she could blink; Lily had disappeared through the barrier.
"Lily!" Shouted a familiar voice. Two seconds later, Lily found herself being hugged tightly by a slender girl with waist length blonde hair, who was wearing a very short black dress. "God I've missed you."
"Hey Tiffy," she smiled at her friend. "You've grown," Lily observed. The Tiffany she remembered had been petite, to the point where Sirius Black made jokes about her being a dwarf in disguise.
"I sure have, so how've you been? You never wrote back," Tiffany's eyebrows narrowed suspiciously.
"Sorry but I was so busy, plus, Petunia keeps padlocking Minnie's cage. Says she makes to much noise." Lily glanced down at the snowy owl, who had her head tucked under her wing. At the mention of Petunia, Tiffany's nose crinkled in disdain.
"So how is Tuna? - Petunia?" she said quickly, her amethyst eyes glinting mischievously. Lily sighed.
"Worse than ever. I really don't know what her problem is; she's taken to calling me a freak now if you'd like to know."
"As I have said many times before, hex her. And if that doesn't work, you could always get Sirius to play a joke on her." Lily regarded Tiffany with crafty emerald eyes, at her wicked suggestion.
"You've so got it bad for him," she winked.
"I don't know what you're suggesting Lillian." Tiffany said a little too innocently.
"Who's suggesting what?" Came a deep male voice. They turned round simultaneously. Lily's eyes rested on a mop of untidy black hair; she smiled at James Potter who grinned back. Lily had gotten closer to James over the past year. He was so funny and smart, and if she were honest with herself she would admit that she'd fallen for him ages ago, but living in constant denial, Lily didn't realise that. Ouch, Lily's thoughts were interrupted by another tight hug, this time by Sirius Black. "Ow, Sirius HANDS!" She exclaimed as he pinched her backside, cheekily.
Sirius winked at Lily, kissing her on the cheek. Tiffany and James both looked slightly jealous.
"So come on, tell me. What were you suggesting Lil?" Asked Sirius curiously. "I think I heard my name mentioned."
"I think she was suggesting that you should get bent and die. No, wait a minute, that was me," Tiffany smiled ever so sweetly, looking almost angelic. Sirius grinned at her, oh how they loved to torment each other.
"And how's my favourite little dwarf?" He asked, looking down on her. Tiffany glanced up at Sirius, damn; she still only just came up to his shoulder.
"Actually not so little, thank you very much." She said with great dignity.
"You could have fooled me." He said. Tiffany looked at him haughtily.
"Humph, well you Mr. Black, are easily fooled if I dare say so myself," Tiffany turned quickly and stalked off towards the Hogwarts Express; her platinum hair swinging from side to side, the curves of her hips swaying sexily.
"Come on then," Lily picked up Minnie's cage and her trunk, she followed Tiffany. As soon as Lily was out of earshot, James turned to Sirius.
"You didn't have to go and kiss her," he frowned, looking annoyed.
"It was only a joke, you know I don't like Lily in that way. That's your department." Sirius grinned, his dark eyes twinkling merrily.
"As if she'd ever like me," said James gloomily.
"James, she already does."
"I think not."
"Think what you like, but it's all in their eyes. You can't miss it." Sirius caught Tiffany's eye as she was climbing onto the Hogwarts Express. She scowled jokingly, taking a huge step up onto the train with her short yet slender legs.
"You sure you don't need a step ladder Tiff?" Sirius called. Tiffany looked mutinous as she stormed off down the train.
"Now you've done it!" Lily tried to hide a giggle.
"She'll get over it." Sirius grinned. "She's got a great pair of legs for a dwarf, eh?" He said in an undertone to James.
Lily followed Tiffany as she stomped off towards the end of the train; they always sat in the last carriage. It was sort of a tradition, reaching back to the first day they had met. All the other compartments had been full up so Lily, Sirius, James, Remus and Peter, although they didn't know each other then, had ended up in the last carriage with Tiffany and Amber. Sirius and Tiffany had hit it off right away: "The only thing smaller than you is a fairy off a Christmas tree! No, wait, that is you." She recalled hearing Sirius say.
"Peter!" Lily heard Tiff shout. A chubby boy with sandy coloured hair turned round, he waved at Tiff who leapt into his arms and kissed him on the cheek. Peter blushed furiously. Lily had always suspected that he had a crush on Tiffany.
"Hey Tiff," he said, still blushing. "Have you grown?"
"Aww, thanks. At least someone noticed." She glared at Sirius who was standing directly behind her bearing a puzzled expression.
"She hasn't grown. In fact, I think she's shrunk." Said Sirius with an alarmingly straight face.
Tiffany turned round and smiled at him pleasantly. "As opposed to some people who stay small their whole lives." She smiled sweetly, her voice laced heavily with double meanings.
"Ouch, that was bad Tiff," said James, trying not to smile.
"Just what are you trying to say?" Sirius sounded offended.
"What I'm trying to say is; Maybe your bark's worse than your bite." Tiffany stared into his eyes, smiling mischievously. She turned round and opened the sliding doors to the compartment.
"Oh!" She felt her eyes grow wide at the sight before her eyes.
"What is i... Oh, get in there Moony."Sirius looked over Tiff's shoulder and grinned.
Remus was lying on top of a girl with hair the colour of old gold, known to the others as Amber Carrington. He looked up at them guiltily; red lipstick smeared around his mouth, his shirt half-undone.
"Hi guys," said Amber cheerily as though nothing was wrong. "What's up?"
"Erm, nothing much, we just wondered if we could sit down?" Lily asked, an amused smile came over her face, which she tried her best to hide.
"Sure," said Amber, who was busy doing up the top two buttons of her v-neck shirt which was dangerously low. There was a quick scrabble to get to the seats on the other side of the carriage, opposite to Remus and Amber's, who had straightened themselves out and were now holding hands.
"Awwww," said Tiffany to Lily. "Don't they make a cute couple?"
"I know," Lily wriggled uncomfortably. There were five of them squashed up on a seat meant for three. James was next to the wall, then there was Lily, Tiffany, Sirius and Peter.
"Erm, ow." Said Tiff, rubbing her side, where Sirius had just elbowed her.
"Sorry," he grunted, obviously still brooding about the
"small" comment Tiffany had made earlier.
"Oh for god's sake! I'm sick of this. Get over yourself you miserable sod." Exclaimed Tiffany, she couldn't stand it when Sirius went all quiet. He looked at her, his eyes full of supposed hurt.
"Stop it." Said Tiffany softly. She couldn't stand that wounded puppy look, it made her want to hug him.
"Awww, come on." Tiff was seriously getting weaker, she couldn't resist that vulnerable look much longer. "Sirius..." He continued to stare into her eyes, which were full of guilt.
"Right that's it I'm going for a walk." Tiffany got up and left quickly before she did or said something she might regret.
"Well done Sirius, that's the third time you've upset her today." Said James.
"I know she wants me. I don't know why she tries to resist." Sirius joked.
"You don't know how close you are..." muttered Lily under her breath. James turned to her and gave her a meaningful look. Lily nodded, then mouthed, 'Don't tell Sirius.' James gave her a slight smile, then winked. She looked across at Remus who was being mauled by Amber.
"Can't you two get a room?" Said Lily. "It's like watching pay-per-view." At this Sirius grinned.
"Carry on," he said. Remus stopped kissing Amber, he stared at the door expectantly. Two seconds later the door slid open, and four boys wearing green robes swept in bringing with them an air of hostility.
Sirius instantly switched off the humour.
"What do you want Malfoy?" He said coldly. "I see you brought your little hobgoblins with you," he glanced at Crabbe and Goyle. "and... But of course. It's git features." Sirius glared at Snape, showing pure hatred.
"You'd better watch that mouth of yours Black." Lucius narrowed his eyes. "Let's see, who do we have here then? Petie, Loopy, Carrot, Blackie, Potty and the mudblood." Lucius sneered. Sirius leapt towards Lucius as did James, but they were both held off by Crabbe and Goyle, who stood protectively in front of Lucius like faithful bulldogs.
"Take that back," James' eyes were flashing dangerously.
"James leave it." Lily cried.
"Watch it Potter, you might catch something off your filthy girlfriend." Lucius smiled nastily.
"Not as much as I'd catch from you, you've got so many shit flies round you that it must be hard to see where you're going. Now get out before I knock you out." James was shaking with anger. Lucius looked at him coldly, deciding that they were outnumbered 6-3.
"Lets go," Lucius turned to his followers, he stopped dead just before he was about to go through the door.
"Excuse me, but can you kind of move?" Tiffany regarded him with raised eyebrows. Lucius stared at her for a moment, taking in her long blonde hair and slender frame. He moved closer and kissed her hand. "Tiffany right?" He said smoothly.
"Yeah," Tiffany tried to tug her hand out of his grasp; she shot a pleading look at Sirius.
"You know, there's a spare seat in my carriage, I think you'll find it far more comfortable there." Lucius kept a firm hold on her hand, almost dragging her out the door with him.
"You know, how about, thanks. But no thanks," she stared at Sirius. 'Help.' She mouthed.
Sirius moved quickly, putting himself between Lucius and the door. "You heard her," He put an arm round Tiffany's waist and prised her hand out of Lucius' steel-like grip.
"Thanks but no thanks." Sirius shut the door in Lucius' face, locking it with an Alohomora charm. Tiffany flexed her fingers.
"Thanks," she smiled at Sirius. "I owe you one."
"A very big one," he joked.
"Seriously. Thank you." Tiffany touched the back of his
hand surreptitiously, her amethyst eyes a warm, hazy pinkish colour. Without warning Tiffany stood on her tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek. "There's your big one," she winked, grinning wickedly. Sirius grinned back blushing slightly. As they both sat down, he kept sneaking glances at her.
James sat close to Lily, fully aware of the fact that she was slightly leaning on his shoulder.
"You know, I got a letter from Hogwarts in the holidays telling me that I'd been chosen to be a prefect. You should have seen Petunia's face, she looked like she was going to shoot me." Said Lily.
"You're a prefect! So am I," he grinned. "I felt like a right swot, but it should be ok if you're one too." He said softly, staring into Lily's deep green eyes. She smiled.
"Thanks for sticking up for me, with Malfoy." She said.
"Malfoy's a bastard. He's one of the few minority of people who should've been drowned at birth." Said James bitterly. "Just try and ignore him, you know he talks crap." He said encouragingly. Lily smiled gratefully.
"Will do." She said, James squeezed her hand reassuringly.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww, Tiffany thought. She poked Sirius on the arm, motioning towards Lily and James. He smiled at her, then leaned closer to her, his cheek slightly touching hers.
"Fancy a go on the simulated sex seat?" Sirius grinned, jerking his head towards Remus and Amber's direction.
"Go on then, let's have some fun." Said Tiff kinkily, trailing her lips gently along Sirius' cheekbone.
"James I'm just borrowing your cloak." Sirius reached up and got James' trunk down. He took out the silvery cloak and pushed the trunk under the seat.
"Ok whatever" said James, still staring into Lily's eyes, deep in conversation with her.
"I'm going to get some food," Peter left, looking absolutely sickened by everyone pairing off.
"Moony," Sirius called Remus up and talked to him for a minute whilst Tiffany chatted to Amber.
"How did you and Remus get together then?" Asked Tiff, delighted that Amber had found someone, as she had been quite attached to Sirius at one time.
"I don't know really. It sort of happened towards the end of last year, we met up during the holidays and... it sort of carried on from there. I'll tell you something though," Amber whispered to Tiffany. "He's a great kisser, and he's really gentle," said Amber slowly and meaningfully. Tiff froze for a moment.
"Ok, more information than I needed but... great. It's brilliant that you two get along so well." Tiffany smiled genuinely.
"So what about you and Sirius then?" Amber's eyes glinted mischievously.
"What about us?"
"So you're an 'us'?" Amber grinned.
"No, we're both individuals. And I don't even know if he likes me." Tiff added in an undertone to Amber.
"Trust me girl, he likes you. Didn't you see him blush when you kissed him?"
"No, did he? Did he really? Oh my god, I will so have him about that later." Tiffany grinned, sensing a chance to cause mischief. At that moment Amber stood up, and went over to join Remus on the other side of the carriage. Sirius sat down next to Tiff, he grinned at Remus and then covered himself and Tiffany with the cloak. Tiffany felt an irresistible urge to giggle. She couldn't see herself or Sirius. Reaching a blind hand out, Tiff came into contact with Sirius' chest. She felt his arms close around her, pulling her towards him. Using her fingertips to feel her way to his face, she leant closer, his hair felt so soft under her touch. Sirius held her tightly, stroking her silky hair with gentle hands.
"Let's have some fun with them." She whispered. Sirius shook with silent laughter, there were so many possibilities.
"Ok, start moaning or something." He said. Tiffany snorted with laughter. Everyone looked up.
"Where'd they go?" James looked puzzled.
"Where did they go?" Lily glanced around. Amber and Remus were grinning. Tiffany was sure they had guessed what they were going to do.
Tiffany started to breathe heavily, and loudly. It was taking all her self-control not to burst out laughing.
"Oh Tiff, you're so good!" Sirius groaned, they were both shaking with laughter.
James' face was a picture. "What are they doing?!?!?!" He looked mortified, as did Lily.
"Sirius, baby. Ride me like a pony!" Said Tiffany. Remus and Amber were crying with laughter.
"Stop it you two. If you get caught..." Lily warned, a bemused frown upon her face.
"Don't stop Tiff, go faster, faster!" That was too much for both of them. They fell onto the floor, the clock slipping off them, rolling with laughter. Tiffany looked up; tears streaming down her face, she saw that everyone was absolutely wetting themselves too. Sirius sat up, leaning on Tiff for support. He dropped to all fours and started to neigh.
"I'll be your pony." He winked at Tiff, crawling over to her.
"Who needs a unicorn when you've got me!" They all dissolved into hysterics again; Sirius collapsed on top of Tiffany, who put her arms around him and buried her head in his chest, shaking with laughter. Sirius looked her in the eye. Everyone else was still laughing, not really paying attention. Slowly, he leant forwards and kissed her softly. It only lasted a second, but it was sweet and somewhat electrifying. Tiffany smiled at Sirius, her heart thumping oddly.
"Well, I'll never be able to look at you in the same way again." She whispered.
"Why?" He asked, genuinely puzzled.
"One word - pony." Tiffany shook her head, snickering.
"I believe you're the pony my dear. I'm the strong and sexy unicorn!" Sirius exclaimed. They looked around to see Remus, Amber, James and Lily staring at them. Sirius realised just how strange they looked. He was kneeling on the floor with Tiff's legs between his, uh oh! Sirius stood up, helping Tiff up too.
"Well that was funny." said Amber, wiping her eyes carefully to remove any traces of smudged mascara.
"Extremely. You should have seem your face!" Tiff grinned at James.
"Well, you should have heard yourselves. Honestly I dread to think what would've happened if someone had come in." said James indignantly.
"Oh come on Jamie, we had you fooled, admit it." Sirius smirked.
"We? You and Tiff are a 'we'?" Lily, James and Amber all raised their eyebrows questioningly.
"No." said Tiffany and Sirius a little too quickly, causing more raised eyebrows.
"Hmm?" Said James, glancing at them suspiciously.
"Honestly. The relationship between Sirius and I is purely platonic. I'm appalled that you could even suggest such a thing." Tiffany shook her head in mock disgust, her silvery hair falling in a sheer curtain around her face.
"Was that before or after you had simulated sex on the seat? I'm never sitting there again." Said Remus.
"Well what about you and Amber? At least Sirius and I were joking, if we hadn't arrived when we did, who knows what would've happened." Said Tiffany, with raised eyebrows.
"Again, the 'we' phrase in reference to you two." Said James coyly.
"Bu..." Tiffany started to protest. At that moment, Peter returned, bringing the food cart with him.
"God, I'm starving," Lily exclaimed. There was a mad rush to buy snacks, which resulted in Tiffany fighting Sirius for the last bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.
"Want one Sirius?" Tiffany offered the bag to him, fluttering her outrageously long eyelashes.
"Thanks Tiff, want a chocolate frog?" He said with equally flirtatious smile.
The rest of the journey passed quite quickly; Tiffany flirted lots with Peter; Lily and James continued to talk quietly amongst themselves, and Sirius had Remus and Amber in hysterics over several dirty jokes which involved many teachers and Severus Snape.
By the time they got to the castle it was drizzling slightly; Lily, Amber and Tiff shared an umbrella whilst the boys got wet.
"Aww, ergh. Sirius you smell like a wet dog! And you look like one James!" Amber giggled her high, tinkering laugh.
"Awww, poor James. You don't look like a wet dog, you look like a soggy puppy. But a very cute one," said Tiffany with a wink and a nudge to Lily. "What do you think Lil?" Her eyebrows raised, eyes glimmering with perverse humour.
"What?" Said Lily. "Oh, erm... very, very cute puppy definitely." Lily had a very serious look on her face. James laughed.
"Well, when you've all decided whether I'm a dog or a puppy, I think we should go into the Great Hall because the Sorting's about to start." Suggested James.
"Good idea," said Remus, linking Amber's arm.
"Peter dear!" Tiffany fluttered her eyelashes and latched herself onto Pettigrew's arm. "Shall we?" She shot a sideways look at Sirius who was performing a dryness spell on himself.
"May I have your attention please? Just for one moment then we can start the feast." Professor Dumbledore stood up; his long, silver beard tucked into his belt, which was wrapped round robes of midnight blue. "Four years ago a large aggressive tree, The Whomping Willow, as I've heard it called, was planted here at Hogwarts. There have been a number of incidents, which have had fairly serious consequences, for example, Mr. Davis' eye. So I must ask you to remember that the Whomping Willow is out of bounds, as is the Forbidden Forest. Right, that's all, have a good year and try to stay out of trouble." Dumbledore's twinkling eyes lingered on James and Sirius who were both grinning manically.
After they had eaten, Lily, Tiffany and Amber went straight to their rooms whilst Sirius, Peter, James and Remus played Exploding Snap in the Gryffindor common room.
"You should see the bathroom, it's huge. And there's a bath the size of a swimming pool with hundreds of taps round it. It's brilliant." Lily was telling the others about her privileges as a prefect. "And I can give out detentions too."
"Brilliant," muttered Tiffany, she was lying on her bed, half-asleep.
"It is, that's really good Lil, you should be proud of yourself." Said Amber, whilst filing her nails. "Plus, you'll get to see loads more of James," she said with a sly grin.
"Amber, I do not fancy James, how many times do I have to tell you?" Said Lily, going slightly red in her cheeks.
"Don't deny it, it's so obvious that you both like each other," Amber grinned.
"I do not! He's my friend ok, friend, just normal male type friend," said Lily hotly.
"No, no, no, Lily, boy friend, boy friend!" Amber chanted. She shot Tiff a sideways glance. "How come she's so quiet?" Lily crept over to Tiffany's bed, taking care not to make a sound.
"She's asleep," whispered Lily. "Aww, she looks like an angel." She smiled down at the still form of Tiffany; platinum hair spilling over her shoulders, a half smile transfixed on her innocent face.
"Come on, leave her in peace," Amber and Lily left the room, to join James, Sirius, Peter and Remus in a particularly violent game of Exploding Snap.