The Last Nerve



AN: we might as well make a log-in name that's for both of us -_-' sister and I again ^^; (Crystal Enchanter). Enjoy Chapter one!





Sirius and James snickered as they hid behind the staircase, waiting for the caretaker's expression. Remus ran up quickly behind them as they shushed him from saying anything. Peter caught up shortly afterward. Silence. There was a yell that could be heard throughout the castle as the four fell to the ground with laughter. Lily ran up to the four and blinked as she looked around in confusion. James laughed as he waved and fled the scene. Sirius outstretched a hand to catch the main culprit but he had already darted off. Filch stormed out, his cat in tow as he walked a little bowlegged. The four had hexed the toilet seat in his office to bite whenever touched. Lily looked terrified as she backed off just the slightest. Remus sighed. "Again…James flees the scene leaving us with detention…" He groaned. Lily had a look of horror on her face. Detention? She'd never had one in her whole life at Hogwarts. Filch looked nothing short of outraged and halted in front of four, his eyes blazing. Varciel, another partner in their group, walked towards them to see what all the fuss was about. Seeing James was gone, Varciel figured it was another prank they pulled on a Professor. Filch turned to Varciel, shaking in anger. Sirius and Peter tried to hold in their laughter as Remus pointed to his hand that was rubbing his sore butt. Varciel took a step back.

"Hi...!" She said in a cautious but cheerful tone. Filch growled low in his throat.

"Who did this!" The professor demanded. Varciel looked at the four suspiciously.

"Who did what?" Varciel answered calmly. Remus, Peter, and Sirius all looked away as Lily gave them a death stare for getting her into this.

"Hexing my things! My personal furniture…I'd like to know who was in my room uninvited. There are rules against it." Filch said slowly, as to make sure no one missed anything. Varciel arched an eyebrow at Sirius, who mouthed "James." Varciel smiled. Filch glared. "This is not a funny matter." Her smile vanished, not wanting to be in trouble too.

"I-I don't' know sir…I just saw Lily and the guys jump in fright when the door burst open…they looked confused so I came over hear to ask, but they keep mouthing they don't know." Varciel said. Remus and Sirius raised an eyebrow. Lily nodded, telling him that was true. Filch stared, unsure to believer them. After a minute, he stalked off, rubbing his butt. As soon as he turned the corner the five burst into laughter. Suddenly, Remus glared through his happy look.

"I'm going to kill James…!" He threatened. Lily was turning almost as red as her hair as her hands clenched into fists as they shook in anger.

"….JAMES!" Lily called out on the top of her lungs. James gulped from around the corner as he popped his head out, smiling sheepishly.

"H-Hi…?" He nearly whispered. Varciel glared and walked straight up into his face along with the other four.

"Hi yourself." Remus spat. The four were all twitching in anger as James tried to back up, only to connect with the wall.

"How dare you leave us." Peter said angrily, holding the urge to hit him right now.

"Yeah." Sirius muttered. "When you start something, you better be able to finish it!" He yelled sarcastically, hands in fists while smiling. James shrunk down at their voices, he's never seen the girls this mad, Remus and Peter he got bickering from all the time, so basically he was used to them, but Lily especially.

"S-sorry…" He squeaked, praying for forgiveness. Varciel chuckled.

"That isn't going to cut it James! I won't cover up for any of your damn mistakes anymore, and that means you too." Varciel rounded on the other three boys. "I know James isn't smart enough to think of whatever he did by himself, so don't tell me you had nothing to do with it." Varciel shouted, she was likely to be the mother of the group. She had her fun…just not as often as the others. Lily opened her mouth to say something, but Varciel beat her to it. "I saw you show up, I know you had no clue…save the breath." Varciel added. James nodded and said sorry again.

"Now…." An evil smile appeared on her face. "What exactly did you do..?" She may be the mother of the group…but she did have an evil mind. Sirius, Peter, James, and Remus snickered.

"Would you like to do the honors?" Sirius said to the boys. Remus poked up over Peter, smiling widely.

"We made Filch's toilet seat bite his ass!" Remus said excitedly with the brightest smile planted upon his face. Peter laughed. Lily rolled her eyes and huffed.

"Don't cheer them on, Varciel! Especially him!" She snapped, pointing to James. James had a smug smile on his face. He never liked it when girls disliked him, this he wasn't used to, not only were the Marauders a prankster group, they were a couple of the best looking guys. Nevertheless James loved to make her mad. He just sucked in the little tantrums she had for his own enjoyment. Sirius laughed aloud once more at the thought of Filch's expression. Varciel laughed too.

"Okay…well…I should head to the library…I promised I'd help out some first years today…" She said gloomily. Lily sighed as she put her forehead in her hand. She turned to James and smacked him upside the head.

"You dolt…if I get a detention because of you, I WILL go medieval on your ass." Lily threatened as fire danced in her eyes. Peter and Remus grunted, they had to put up with them every single day. Of course they were on James side even if he really did start it. Sirius was used to it, it didn't get to him, and he always blurted out here and there that they'd make a cute couple. Everytime James heard him he socked his arm. Sirius snickered to himself.

"She's hot…" he laughed to himself. Remus raised an eyebrow.

"Lily?" Remus asked in confusion. Sirius cringed as he shot his head toward Remus.

"NO!" He said with an immediate head shake. His face went back to normal as he gave a satisfied look and looked at Lily, "Well her too, but no,"

"He means Varciel, Remus…" Peter said with annoyance. James looked over and glared.

"Don't be saying Lily's hot, SIRIUS!" James glared. Remus looked at him in confusion…'why the hell not?' Remus thought. Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Don't be jealous…." Peter joked. James hit him and walked away flushed. Damn…way too close! He thought bitterly. Remus left and followed him to go cheer him up. Peter smiled.

"James likes you…." He whispered before following the other two. Sirius stared after them, holding his laughter at the shocked Lily. Lily's eyes were wide as she glared. She turned and walked down the same corridor as the boys, fuming. She clearly knew this was a joke. Sirius turned around, trying to look serious.

"W-Why are you following us?" he said with fake confusion etched upon his face as he stroked his chin, his brows furrowed. Lily quickly passed him up, looking back.

"Unfortunately I have all classes with you if you don't remember," Lily spat as she stormed off in a huff. Remus waited till Lily was out of sight until he burst out laughing.

"You got told, Sirius!" Remus snickered out.

"You'd think you'd know that since their bickering is what keeps us late after classes," Peter said casually. James half glared down at Peter as he smacked the back of his head.

"She starts all of it! We're talking Ice Queen here!" James pointed out. Sirius poked his head out and stared at James.

"Who's the princess?" He said curiously with a blink. James laughed.

"Varciel, who else?" Remus said plain straight out. Peter's eyes widened and laughed.

"Hey! No cappin' on her! But you ARE right…" Sirius said with a smile as they entered the most dreaded class of the day: double potions with the Slytherins. Unfortunately James's partner was Lucius Malfoy, a pale, scrawny 4th year with nothing but insults. Peter sauntered off with Goyle and didn't speak another word. James winked at Sirius, thinking how true his comment was. James sat down next to Lily, before having to partner up with Lucius, with his bottom lip out and quivering while his eyes were big and watery.

"You hate me…?" He asked sadly, trying to make her happy. Teasing her was fun…but only when she would actually argue back, not stay pissed at him all day.

Remus sat down in his seat and looked at James. "Hopeless…." He turned to Sirius. "You say Varciel's hot eh? How hot…honestly you wouldn't…would you?" Remus asked, always the sick but curious one. Anyone had crushed or erotic feelings for someone…her knew of it. The door opened right before the bell rang and Varciel skidded in and sat down. The library was closed today due to an accident with Severus, so Varciel ran as fast to her least favorite class in hopes to escape detention. She only signed up to help first years to get out of this class. Varciel tried to catch her breath and push her long hair out of her face, her cheeks flushed and eyes wide. Remus took one look at her and then back at Sirius with one of those "Well?" looks, still wanting an answer to his question. Lily stopped when she heard James and blinked as she took in a deep breath, glaring at the wall.

"I don't hate anyone, I dislike you passionately." She said quickly as she got her potion book out for ingredients. Lucius walked over and pulled a chair up to James's desk with a sneer. Severus sat between James and Lily with the same look painted upon his face as he and Lucius exchanged glances then nodded. "And him too." Lily said without looking as she got several potion bottles out with colored liquids in them. Lucius quickly switched them as Lily bent over to her bag once more.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Yes already! I said it before I think I meant it! Jesus, it doesn't mean I like her, I don't even know her," Sirius explained as Narcissa strolled over and glared down at Sirius. "Sorry I can't talk when this Ice bitch wants me to pull out her own chair when her ass is PERFECTLY capable of getting it herself!" Sirius snapped as he glared right back up at Narcissa. She continued to shoot death looks. Sirius rolled his eyes as he pulled a chair up for her and sighed. She smiled triumphantly as she went to sit down. Her eyes widened as she fell straight to the ground, her butt hitting the stone cold floor: Remus had pulled the chair out from under her. Sirius burst out laughing as he high fived Remus. Peter laughed extremely loud as the three covered their mouths laughing. James looked back and turned red from holding in his laughter. James stopped laughing soon afterwards and sighed.

"Fine Lily…have it your way." He said, tired of her stubbornness. James went to his potion, after prying the right potion from Lucius and threw it onto Lily 's desk without looking at her.

"You know-" Lucius started, but James cut him off.

"Shut the HELL up!" Lucius stared dumbfounded before going back to his own potion with a glare, he'd get him back.

"What's all the yelling for?" Varciel asked, turning her chair around to face Sirius and Remus, after noting to herself that James is royally pissed off. Remus coughed and smiled.

"Ask Sirius…he was the one yelling." He said happily. Narcissa stood up and raised her hand to hit Remus, but Varciel caught it first.

"Sit down, Barbie." Varciel growled. Remus burst into laughter, leaving Sirius confused. Varciel caught his glance and laughed too. James was hearing the conversation and turned around.

"Barbie is a muggle doll that happens to be a conceited bitch." He said simply before turning back around. Sirius laughed hard. Narcissa huffed and turned around.

"I like it!" Remus laughed. Varciel smiled, though she didn't see what the big deal was. She turned back to Sirius.

"So what was the shouting for?" She didn't forget…Remus choked on his own air as he laughed harder, knowing she still wanted to know…and also knowing Sirius couldn't lie without being noticed. James turned to see Remus laughing hard, his face as red as blood, before turning around deciding he didn't even want to know…

"That thing…Barbie I think you call it," he started sarcastically. "Was bitchen at me and well…Me and Remus got her to stop." Sirius laughed once more at the thought as he and Remus gave each other props. Lily blinked and looked up at the fake potion.

"This is wolvesbane, Lucius…" She said seriously as she turned to him, demanding an exclamation. Lucius looked up at her and smiled viciously. This made Lily nervous as she scooted away just a bit in her chair.

"Yes I know that, but you obviously didn't, your boyfriend had to switch it back for you." He breathed as he started to add some odd smelling liquids. Lily looked up at James once then back down at the cauldron, saying a quick thank you, not expecting any answer. James grunted, not really caring.

"No problem." He said in a hush, not wanting to talk to anyone after she shut him out like that, but he smiled to her before turning back to his potion, she still had to have her moments so he wasn't going to just stay peeved at her. Varciel laughed.

"No…I mean the…" She put her voice deep like Sirius's. " Yes…okay I do Jesus I already said it!" She said with a curious look. Remus turned his head back to his work and coughed, though it sounded a lot like "Busted." Sirius blinked, looking cool as he shrugged.

"I said I thought you were hot." He said easily. Varciel smiled just the slightest until he totally ruined the moment. "But the fact that you're a total bitch and ice queen, does not make me attracted to you." He shot coldly as he and Narcissa went back to their potion. Lily froze and gasped as she dropped one of the bottles onto the floor: Lucius was directly behind her and whispering seducingly into her ear. She bit her lip and clenched her eyes shut as she tried to ignore him.

"Join me…it'll be a whole new change in your life…you'll be powerful…then you can be with me…" he breathed into her ear as he nipped it slightly. Lily jumped and gripped the desk as she totally tried to concentrate on her work. "C'mon you know you want to…" he snickered once more. James felt his hands ball into fist as he abruptly stood up and grabbed Lucius by the neck and lifted him off the ground.

"Leave her the damn fuck alone! " He shouted, throwing Lucius back into his chair. "You sick fuck." He turned to her. "You alright?" He asked nervously, rubbing her ear with his two fingers and sitting down. He didn't know what just happened, but he was outraged at the fact he was so close and trying to make her do things against her will.

"Oh." Varciel said, acting as though that didn't hurt and turned her back to the two, her head down to avoid anyone's eye, and working on her notes. Varciel saw James and Lily and ignored the fact that Lily had someone to stand up for her. Lily's left ear was officially dead. She held it defensively as she surprisingly moved her chair closer to Severus.

"Y-Yah…" She whispered. Everyone immediately started to pack their bags as five seconds later, the bell rang. Lucius stormed out with Severus on his tail, along with the exchange student, Kevin Quirrell. Fire flamed and gave Lucius the look of death as he stomped down the hall.

"No one turns me down without paying for it…" he said with a glare, but it immediately turned into a snicker as Severus and Kevin raised eyebrows and followed him curiously.



Lily immediately ran to the Gryffindor common room, threw herself into a chair and curled up into a ball hugging her knees to her chest. She was scared. She remembered those icy words that sent chills down her neck to her spine, shaking up her whole body. What was he going to do to her?



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