"YOU DID WHAT?" Amos's voice echoed around the greenhouse and Lily was fairly sure that even the wizards on Mars would have heard it. (Yes, there are wizards who live on Mars.)
"Honey, calm down," she said, motioning to her class mates to continue working "Nothing happened, you know the way I feel about James,"
Amos's expression softened, "Yeah, and I also know how he feels about you, you can't blame me for feeling uneasy."
Lily smiled at him, "I don't blame you one bit, I'd be suspicious too, but I swear nothing happened, and besides," she added, "you know I'd have much rather spend the evening with you, I unfortunately didn't have any choice though." She looked up at him, "How about we make up for it tonight, you're not doing anything are you?" She could see he was relenting,
"No, I'm not." He said, "Ok, then, I'll pick you up from outside the gryffindor common room, seven thirty ok with you?"
"Of course," She said and kissed him on the cheek.
"Miss Evans really," said Professor Sprout, "I'm afraid I'll have to take five points from Gryffindor for this, and you being head girl. You should be setting an example, honestly." She muttered as she scurriered past Amos and a giggling Lily.
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Lily and Claire sat alone in the common room, it was seven fifteen and Lily was waiting for Amos. However for the remaining fifteen minutes she had left, she was not going to let Claire go until she told her everything.
"Lily," she whined, "I've already told you everything there is,"
Lily snorted, "Yeah but I already knew the main part of it, I just want to know how it happened and when and why-"
"Ok, ok," Claire resigned, "But it's really not that interesting." Lily snorted, " Ok, well we were just in the astronomy tower, and we were just kissing and all that stuff like you do," Lily nodded encouragingly, "And we got up to go 'cause it was like two in the morning and we couldn't afford to get caught, and we came back here, and we were about to go our seperate ways when he hooked his hand into my back pocket and he pulled me back to him, and he was just so passionate, and so sexy," she paused and looked at Lily, who was looking slightly amused and slightly appraising, "And then," Claire continued, "We sort of sank down on one of the sofas and he was pushing for it, I could tell-"
"Hold on," Lily said, "let me stop you there for just a minute, umm, just which sofa was it by the way?"
"Ahh," Claire said, "It was - umm - It was," She looked around, "I think it was this one."
"WHAT? Eww," Lily shrieked jumping up and rubbing her hands on her skirt, "You could have told me, why couldn't we have sat somewhere else?"
Claire shrugged, looking slightly guilty, "Forgot I guess," she said.
"Well where is is safe to sit?" Lily asked her hands on her hips.
Claire scanned the room, "umm, maybe that patch of carpet in the corner." She looked at Lily slightly scared.
"Oh my God," Lily gaped at her, "Claire! That's like a total sex fest you little slut!"
Claire managed to supress laughs as Lily lectured her on how the whole place was probably completely contaminated and how inconsiderate it was to let other people catch diseases, and also on how it was completely irresponsible to sleep with Sirius after only a week of dating him.
"I mean honestly, Claire, you could at least hang a sign over all the furniture saying 'Do not sit here and if you do wash your hands afterwards'." Lily finished.
"Lily," Claire said, "Are you going to let me finish?"
Lily snorted, "I don't think I need to hear the rest, it's pretty damn obvious."
"Well at least sit down then, there's still five minutes until Amos'll be here."
"And just where do I sit?" Lily asked icily
"Well, there's that piece of carpet,-"
"Over in the corner." Lily finished her sentence for her, "Thank you Claire," She said sitting down in the secluded corner, "now I'm never going to feel safe in the common room."
"Oh come on Lily, I'm eighteen, I'm responsible for myself now." Claire pleaded, but Lily was still looking slightly disgusted. "look I can tell you disapprove, but me and Sirius, it feels like we have a real connection. I really like him Lily and he really likes me." She paused, "Lily, I think I'm falling for him."
Lily looked up at her, her mouth slightly open but was saved from saying anything by the arrival of James,
"Hello ladies," he said. Lily rolled her eyes. Then he spotted her "Lily, why are you sitting over there?" He asked confused.
"Ask her." Lily said pointing at Claire, James turned to Claire, "Ask Sirius," she said. James shrugged and went to sit by Lily.
"Hey Lily,"
"Hi."
James suddenly felt rather intimidated of her, "hey," he said again, "Umm, I was wondering Lily, if you'd like to come and get a butter beer at the three broomsticks with me?"
Lily looked at him surprised, "but it's not a Hogsmeade weekend," she said.
"Doesn't matter, I have my ways, "He persisted, "will you come?" He added hopefully, "just as friends, you know for a chat or something, I won't try anything I promise."
Lily stood up and checked her watch. "I'm sorry James," she said and her voice was sincere, "But I have a date."
"Oh," James said, "Amos I suppose?"
"Yeah," she replied uneasily,
James sounded ready to laugh, "Right, I knew I shouldn't have bothered asking."
"I'm sorry, James," Lily said again, "I mean it, I am, maybe if I hadn't been doing anything I'd've gone, but i'm not going to stand Amos up."
James nodded, "Would you really have come if you hadn't been busy?" He asked hopefully.
Lily shrugged, "I don't know." She said off-handedly, "Maybe, anyway, I have to go now, Bye guys," She opened the portrait hole, "Claire, I really think you should clean this room, I mean think of the poor house elves." She shut the door just in time to hear James go "Huh? What's she on about?"
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"So am I forgiven?" Lily asked Amos as she buried her face in his chest.
"Of course," he said lifting up her chin to kiss her again. The two were taking a walk past the lake. It was nearing eleven O clock, and the dark velvety sky was knitted with stars, Lily had never felt more romantic in her life. They were walking now, Lily's head resting on his shoulder.
"You look really beautiful tonight you know." Amos said,
Lily smiled to herself, "thanks," she said, they walked on in silence for a while, "So, erm, what would you like for Christmas?" She said, grappling for conversation,
"You know I'd love anything you got me," He said, urgh, cheesy, Lily thought, but she smiled and said, "I'll remember that."
"What about you?" He asked her, pulling her round to face him. "Is there anything you want?"
"Not in particular," she said.
"I'll just have to surprise you then, won't I." Lily giggled, she pulled him down onto the ground so that he was lying next to her. Suddenly they were both very aware of each other's breathing and Lily felt a tingling thrill at their close proximity, that was one of the things she loved about Amos, the way he could excite her and make her feel special. The clouds cleared and the moon lighted up their two faces, Amos put out a hand and touched the side of her face, but before he could kiss her, she rolled on top of him and kissed him, it was passionate, erotic, burning with unshown feeling.
Amos broke it off and looked at her surprised, "You're awfully feisty these days Lil," he said smiling.
"Am I?" Lily said mischievously, propping herself up on her elbow looking at him demurely,
"Yeah," he said, "Almost . . . kinky." She grinned and leant down to kiss him again, but this time Amos didn't restrain himself, his hands roamed everywhere, covering almost all her body, he felt around for her bra strap and was about to undo it when Lily stopped him, "No, don't," she said, "Not now,"
"Oh Sorry," He said, "I didn't, I thought-"
"It's Ok," Lily said, turning her face away, "It doesn't matter. . . Come on, it's getting late,"
"Yeah," He sighed, "you're right," He got up, and offered his hand to Lily, helping her up. The couple walked back to the Gryffindor common room in silence.
"Well, goodnight, Lil," He said when they got there. She grinned back at him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She kissed him slowly but firmly on the mouth. "Good night." She said and disappeared into the common room.
She burst into the dorm feeling more happy than she had in ages. She found Claire and Emily still awake, Emily was finishing a Potions assignment and Claire was painting her toe nails, they smiled at her acknowledging her presence. She grinned back at them, "Not on a midnight romp with Sirius tonight?" She said to Claire.
"Nah, not tonight. She said
"Did you clean the common room?" Lily said.
At this Emily looked up from her homework. "Err, Lily, didn't you notice it when you came in?" She asked incredulously.
"She was probably too busy off in another world with Amos to notice much in this world." Claire said grinning.
"You're probably right there," Lily said, "Why what's wrong with it?"
Claire and Emily exchanged glances, Lily looked at them suspiciously, "What've you done?" She said, then not giving them time to answer she rushed out of the dorm and down the stairs. Oh my God, she thought, how is it I didn't notice this? The bottom five inches of the common room were completely flooded with water, she was suddenly very aware of how cold her feet were. She leaned over and touched the nearest chair, it was completely drenched. She looked back at the stairs behind her to see Claire and Emily looking at her apprehensively.
Lily walked up the stairs towards them, "How come I didn't notice this," she said puzzled.
Claire shrugged, "Maybe you were literally floating with happiness!" She said nervously, obviously waiting for Lily to explode with anger, but to her surprise she didn't. Instead she started laughing. Soon all three of them were rolling around on the stairs in hysterics.
"How on earth," said Lily in between giggles, "Did you manage this one? I mean I know you're accident prone and all that, but this is really. . ." and she was off again. Lily soon learned that Claire and Emily had tried a cleaning charm but it had backfired and ended up squirting water out of their wands at a ridiculous speed and power, by the time they had figured out how to stop it the place was flooded and they hadn't know how to undo it.
The noise the three were making had soon woken up the majority of Gryffindor. Sirius appeared at the top of the stair case saying, "What the fuck is going on down here?" Obviously not in a good mood haven been woken up from his beauty sleep, then he saw the water, "Hey cool, it's a party in the pool," after that they had come thick and fast, even the first years, in fact with the exception of a few killjoys the whole of Gryffindor was in there, just generally having a good time, splashing each other and ducking each other in the shallow water, "I think it'd be safe to say that you cleaned the place effectively," said Lily to Claire laughing, "But how the hell do we clear it up?"
"That's what we were relying on you for." said Claire, "you're the one who's good at charms here."
After a couple of hours most people had gone back to bed, only the marauders, Lily, Claire and Emily were left. Claire and Sirius were sitting on a soggy chair, kissing. Lily was starting to feel uneasy, "I don't suppose you know how to clear this mess up do you?" She asked James.
"No, idea." He said,
"Emily?" Lily called, Emily looked up from her chat with Remus, "Yeah?" She said.
"What charm did you use exactly to flood this place?"
"Scourgify, I think."
"Do you know the reverse charm of that?" Lily said again to James, he ran his fingers through his hair in thought then shook his head slowly,
"Not a clue I'm afraid."
"Great, just great, how on earth do we clear this up?"
Just then the portrait hole swung open and Mcgonagol appeared, her nostrils flared in anger and her face white. Sirius and Claire sprang apart.
"What, is going on in here?" She said her voice slow and icy with rage, "Would you care to explain?" The seven shot each other nervous glances, "My office now!" She barked, "I think that Dumbledore should be informed of this."
They all filed out the room in silence, each fearing the worst, as they entered Mcgonogal's office which was directly below the common room, they all noticed a large puddle of water still growing bigger to the left of her desk. Lily chewed her lip wondering what would happen, she felt ashamed of herself, it might not have been her fault but she hadn't taken responsibility and now they would all be in trouble.
"So!?" Said Mcgonogal crisply as Dumbledore looking very grave took a seat beside her, "Explain to me, just why is the Gryfindor common room flooded?"
Before Lily or James could say anything, Claire spoke up, "I'm sorry Professor, it's completely my fault,"
"And mine," Emily added, "You see-"
"We are both very supportive of the freedom of House Elves and we just thought that-"
"They had too much work to do" said Emily seeing where Claire was going with this, "So we thought it would be a nice surprise if they found the common room had already been cleaned-"
"But unfourtunately our charm back fired," Claire continued, this was the truth after all, "And we couldn't stop it,"
"And by the time we found out how to stop it the whole room was flooded, and no one knew a reverse charm,-"
"That's why James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and Lily were there too, but no one knew how to undo it."
"We're sorry Professor, we won't do it again." Emily said hanging her head in mock shame.
"Is this the truth?" Dumbledore asked, the corners of his mouth fighting a smile.
The seven nodded their heads immediately, "We're sorry," Lily said, "It was very irresponsible of us to not fetch you,"
"Yes Miss Evans, I am slightly disappointed in you and Mr Potter, being the heads of the school I would expect you to keep things under control. In the future if anything of this - er - of this nature happens again I want you to come straight to me."
"We will," Lily said eagerly, "It won't happen again."
"Yes, quite, I'm not going to punnish any of you specifically but I must ask you to clear up the mess."
James opened his mouth to ask how, but before he could ask the question, Dumbledore carried on, "And seeing none of you know how to clear it up, you'll have to do it the muggle way," He smiled at them as he handed them each a mop and bucket.
James's mouth fell open, "You mean, with all this stuff?" he said looking at Dumbledore disbelievingly.
"Yes Mr Potter, with this stuff, I'm sure the flower beds outside the window won't suffer from a little hydration." Dumbledore smiled at them as if expecting one of them to say something, but they however said nothing.
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"I can't believe this," James grumbled as he tipped a bucket full of water out the window half an hour later. "It's ridiculous, just because Sirius and Claire decided to have a sex fest,"
"Hey," Sirius said, "Just 'cause you're not getting any Prongs, doesn't mean you have to take it out on us!"
James glared at him and emptied his bucket of water over Sirius's head. Lily snorted at them, "It's a Saturday tomorrow, isn't it?" She said.
"yep," said James brightening up, "And a Hogsmeade weekend."
"Oh, Excellent," Claire said smirking.
"What?" Said Lily turning to face her.
"We get to take you shopping remember," said Emily grinning evily.
"Oh buggar," Lily siad quietly
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"Honey, calm down," she said, motioning to her class mates to continue working "Nothing happened, you know the way I feel about James,"
Amos's expression softened, "Yeah, and I also know how he feels about you, you can't blame me for feeling uneasy."
Lily smiled at him, "I don't blame you one bit, I'd be suspicious too, but I swear nothing happened, and besides," she added, "you know I'd have much rather spend the evening with you, I unfortunately didn't have any choice though." She looked up at him, "How about we make up for it tonight, you're not doing anything are you?" She could see he was relenting,
"No, I'm not." He said, "Ok, then, I'll pick you up from outside the gryffindor common room, seven thirty ok with you?"
"Of course," She said and kissed him on the cheek.
"Miss Evans really," said Professor Sprout, "I'm afraid I'll have to take five points from Gryffindor for this, and you being head girl. You should be setting an example, honestly." She muttered as she scurriered past Amos and a giggling Lily.
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Lily and Claire sat alone in the common room, it was seven fifteen and Lily was waiting for Amos. However for the remaining fifteen minutes she had left, she was not going to let Claire go until she told her everything.
"Lily," she whined, "I've already told you everything there is,"
Lily snorted, "Yeah but I already knew the main part of it, I just want to know how it happened and when and why-"
"Ok, ok," Claire resigned, "But it's really not that interesting." Lily snorted, " Ok, well we were just in the astronomy tower, and we were just kissing and all that stuff like you do," Lily nodded encouragingly, "And we got up to go 'cause it was like two in the morning and we couldn't afford to get caught, and we came back here, and we were about to go our seperate ways when he hooked his hand into my back pocket and he pulled me back to him, and he was just so passionate, and so sexy," she paused and looked at Lily, who was looking slightly amused and slightly appraising, "And then," Claire continued, "We sort of sank down on one of the sofas and he was pushing for it, I could tell-"
"Hold on," Lily said, "let me stop you there for just a minute, umm, just which sofa was it by the way?"
"Ahh," Claire said, "It was - umm - It was," She looked around, "I think it was this one."
"WHAT? Eww," Lily shrieked jumping up and rubbing her hands on her skirt, "You could have told me, why couldn't we have sat somewhere else?"
Claire shrugged, looking slightly guilty, "Forgot I guess," she said.
"Well where is is safe to sit?" Lily asked her hands on her hips.
Claire scanned the room, "umm, maybe that patch of carpet in the corner." She looked at Lily slightly scared.
"Oh my God," Lily gaped at her, "Claire! That's like a total sex fest you little slut!"
Claire managed to supress laughs as Lily lectured her on how the whole place was probably completely contaminated and how inconsiderate it was to let other people catch diseases, and also on how it was completely irresponsible to sleep with Sirius after only a week of dating him.
"I mean honestly, Claire, you could at least hang a sign over all the furniture saying 'Do not sit here and if you do wash your hands afterwards'." Lily finished.
"Lily," Claire said, "Are you going to let me finish?"
Lily snorted, "I don't think I need to hear the rest, it's pretty damn obvious."
"Well at least sit down then, there's still five minutes until Amos'll be here."
"And just where do I sit?" Lily asked icily
"Well, there's that piece of carpet,-"
"Over in the corner." Lily finished her sentence for her, "Thank you Claire," She said sitting down in the secluded corner, "now I'm never going to feel safe in the common room."
"Oh come on Lily, I'm eighteen, I'm responsible for myself now." Claire pleaded, but Lily was still looking slightly disgusted. "look I can tell you disapprove, but me and Sirius, it feels like we have a real connection. I really like him Lily and he really likes me." She paused, "Lily, I think I'm falling for him."
Lily looked up at her, her mouth slightly open but was saved from saying anything by the arrival of James,
"Hello ladies," he said. Lily rolled her eyes. Then he spotted her "Lily, why are you sitting over there?" He asked confused.
"Ask her." Lily said pointing at Claire, James turned to Claire, "Ask Sirius," she said. James shrugged and went to sit by Lily.
"Hey Lily,"
"Hi."
James suddenly felt rather intimidated of her, "hey," he said again, "Umm, I was wondering Lily, if you'd like to come and get a butter beer at the three broomsticks with me?"
Lily looked at him surprised, "but it's not a Hogsmeade weekend," she said.
"Doesn't matter, I have my ways, "He persisted, "will you come?" He added hopefully, "just as friends, you know for a chat or something, I won't try anything I promise."
Lily stood up and checked her watch. "I'm sorry James," she said and her voice was sincere, "But I have a date."
"Oh," James said, "Amos I suppose?"
"Yeah," she replied uneasily,
James sounded ready to laugh, "Right, I knew I shouldn't have bothered asking."
"I'm sorry, James," Lily said again, "I mean it, I am, maybe if I hadn't been doing anything I'd've gone, but i'm not going to stand Amos up."
James nodded, "Would you really have come if you hadn't been busy?" He asked hopefully.
Lily shrugged, "I don't know." She said off-handedly, "Maybe, anyway, I have to go now, Bye guys," She opened the portrait hole, "Claire, I really think you should clean this room, I mean think of the poor house elves." She shut the door just in time to hear James go "Huh? What's she on about?"
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"So am I forgiven?" Lily asked Amos as she buried her face in his chest.
"Of course," he said lifting up her chin to kiss her again. The two were taking a walk past the lake. It was nearing eleven O clock, and the dark velvety sky was knitted with stars, Lily had never felt more romantic in her life. They were walking now, Lily's head resting on his shoulder.
"You look really beautiful tonight you know." Amos said,
Lily smiled to herself, "thanks," she said, they walked on in silence for a while, "So, erm, what would you like for Christmas?" She said, grappling for conversation,
"You know I'd love anything you got me," He said, urgh, cheesy, Lily thought, but she smiled and said, "I'll remember that."
"What about you?" He asked her, pulling her round to face him. "Is there anything you want?"
"Not in particular," she said.
"I'll just have to surprise you then, won't I." Lily giggled, she pulled him down onto the ground so that he was lying next to her. Suddenly they were both very aware of each other's breathing and Lily felt a tingling thrill at their close proximity, that was one of the things she loved about Amos, the way he could excite her and make her feel special. The clouds cleared and the moon lighted up their two faces, Amos put out a hand and touched the side of her face, but before he could kiss her, she rolled on top of him and kissed him, it was passionate, erotic, burning with unshown feeling.
Amos broke it off and looked at her surprised, "You're awfully feisty these days Lil," he said smiling.
"Am I?" Lily said mischievously, propping herself up on her elbow looking at him demurely,
"Yeah," he said, "Almost . . . kinky." She grinned and leant down to kiss him again, but this time Amos didn't restrain himself, his hands roamed everywhere, covering almost all her body, he felt around for her bra strap and was about to undo it when Lily stopped him, "No, don't," she said, "Not now,"
"Oh Sorry," He said, "I didn't, I thought-"
"It's Ok," Lily said, turning her face away, "It doesn't matter. . . Come on, it's getting late,"
"Yeah," He sighed, "you're right," He got up, and offered his hand to Lily, helping her up. The couple walked back to the Gryffindor common room in silence.
"Well, goodnight, Lil," He said when they got there. She grinned back at him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She kissed him slowly but firmly on the mouth. "Good night." She said and disappeared into the common room.
She burst into the dorm feeling more happy than she had in ages. She found Claire and Emily still awake, Emily was finishing a Potions assignment and Claire was painting her toe nails, they smiled at her acknowledging her presence. She grinned back at them, "Not on a midnight romp with Sirius tonight?" She said to Claire.
"Nah, not tonight. She said
"Did you clean the common room?" Lily said.
At this Emily looked up from her homework. "Err, Lily, didn't you notice it when you came in?" She asked incredulously.
"She was probably too busy off in another world with Amos to notice much in this world." Claire said grinning.
"You're probably right there," Lily said, "Why what's wrong with it?"
Claire and Emily exchanged glances, Lily looked at them suspiciously, "What've you done?" She said, then not giving them time to answer she rushed out of the dorm and down the stairs. Oh my God, she thought, how is it I didn't notice this? The bottom five inches of the common room were completely flooded with water, she was suddenly very aware of how cold her feet were. She leaned over and touched the nearest chair, it was completely drenched. She looked back at the stairs behind her to see Claire and Emily looking at her apprehensively.
Lily walked up the stairs towards them, "How come I didn't notice this," she said puzzled.
Claire shrugged, "Maybe you were literally floating with happiness!" She said nervously, obviously waiting for Lily to explode with anger, but to her surprise she didn't. Instead she started laughing. Soon all three of them were rolling around on the stairs in hysterics.
"How on earth," said Lily in between giggles, "Did you manage this one? I mean I know you're accident prone and all that, but this is really. . ." and she was off again. Lily soon learned that Claire and Emily had tried a cleaning charm but it had backfired and ended up squirting water out of their wands at a ridiculous speed and power, by the time they had figured out how to stop it the place was flooded and they hadn't know how to undo it.
The noise the three were making had soon woken up the majority of Gryffindor. Sirius appeared at the top of the stair case saying, "What the fuck is going on down here?" Obviously not in a good mood haven been woken up from his beauty sleep, then he saw the water, "Hey cool, it's a party in the pool," after that they had come thick and fast, even the first years, in fact with the exception of a few killjoys the whole of Gryffindor was in there, just generally having a good time, splashing each other and ducking each other in the shallow water, "I think it'd be safe to say that you cleaned the place effectively," said Lily to Claire laughing, "But how the hell do we clear it up?"
"That's what we were relying on you for." said Claire, "you're the one who's good at charms here."
After a couple of hours most people had gone back to bed, only the marauders, Lily, Claire and Emily were left. Claire and Sirius were sitting on a soggy chair, kissing. Lily was starting to feel uneasy, "I don't suppose you know how to clear this mess up do you?" She asked James.
"No, idea." He said,
"Emily?" Lily called, Emily looked up from her chat with Remus, "Yeah?" She said.
"What charm did you use exactly to flood this place?"
"Scourgify, I think."
"Do you know the reverse charm of that?" Lily said again to James, he ran his fingers through his hair in thought then shook his head slowly,
"Not a clue I'm afraid."
"Great, just great, how on earth do we clear this up?"
Just then the portrait hole swung open and Mcgonagol appeared, her nostrils flared in anger and her face white. Sirius and Claire sprang apart.
"What, is going on in here?" She said her voice slow and icy with rage, "Would you care to explain?" The seven shot each other nervous glances, "My office now!" She barked, "I think that Dumbledore should be informed of this."
They all filed out the room in silence, each fearing the worst, as they entered Mcgonogal's office which was directly below the common room, they all noticed a large puddle of water still growing bigger to the left of her desk. Lily chewed her lip wondering what would happen, she felt ashamed of herself, it might not have been her fault but she hadn't taken responsibility and now they would all be in trouble.
"So!?" Said Mcgonogal crisply as Dumbledore looking very grave took a seat beside her, "Explain to me, just why is the Gryfindor common room flooded?"
Before Lily or James could say anything, Claire spoke up, "I'm sorry Professor, it's completely my fault,"
"And mine," Emily added, "You see-"
"We are both very supportive of the freedom of House Elves and we just thought that-"
"They had too much work to do" said Emily seeing where Claire was going with this, "So we thought it would be a nice surprise if they found the common room had already been cleaned-"
"But unfourtunately our charm back fired," Claire continued, this was the truth after all, "And we couldn't stop it,"
"And by the time we found out how to stop it the whole room was flooded, and no one knew a reverse charm,-"
"That's why James, Sirius, Remus, Peter and Lily were there too, but no one knew how to undo it."
"We're sorry Professor, we won't do it again." Emily said hanging her head in mock shame.
"Is this the truth?" Dumbledore asked, the corners of his mouth fighting a smile.
The seven nodded their heads immediately, "We're sorry," Lily said, "It was very irresponsible of us to not fetch you,"
"Yes Miss Evans, I am slightly disappointed in you and Mr Potter, being the heads of the school I would expect you to keep things under control. In the future if anything of this - er - of this nature happens again I want you to come straight to me."
"We will," Lily said eagerly, "It won't happen again."
"Yes, quite, I'm not going to punnish any of you specifically but I must ask you to clear up the mess."
James opened his mouth to ask how, but before he could ask the question, Dumbledore carried on, "And seeing none of you know how to clear it up, you'll have to do it the muggle way," He smiled at them as he handed them each a mop and bucket.
James's mouth fell open, "You mean, with all this stuff?" he said looking at Dumbledore disbelievingly.
"Yes Mr Potter, with this stuff, I'm sure the flower beds outside the window won't suffer from a little hydration." Dumbledore smiled at them as if expecting one of them to say something, but they however said nothing.
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"I can't believe this," James grumbled as he tipped a bucket full of water out the window half an hour later. "It's ridiculous, just because Sirius and Claire decided to have a sex fest,"
"Hey," Sirius said, "Just 'cause you're not getting any Prongs, doesn't mean you have to take it out on us!"
James glared at him and emptied his bucket of water over Sirius's head. Lily snorted at them, "It's a Saturday tomorrow, isn't it?" She said.
"yep," said James brightening up, "And a Hogsmeade weekend."
"Oh, Excellent," Claire said smirking.
"What?" Said Lily turning to face her.
"We get to take you shopping remember," said Emily grinning evily.
"Oh buggar," Lily siad quietly
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