*Chapter 7*

Lily walked into the Great Hall for dinner smiling, and talking to Ryan. It was about a week into the new school year, and she was having a great year already, and to top it off it was a Friday, there were no classes the next two days. They headed to sit down at the Ravenclaw table, but The Maurders were waving them over, so they walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down, Lily next to James, who was next to Remus, and Ryan on the other side of Remus. Sirius and Peter were on the other side.

"Bonjour monsieur! Qu'a-t-il fait vous voulez?" Lily asked turning to James.

"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir" James replied with a grin.

Lily punched him playfully. "I didn't know you knew French, or that song."

"I don't know French, and you cant live with my mother without listening to it sometime of another, mostly all the time. It's the only French I know, I don't even know what you asked. Hell.. I don't even know what I said!" James replied grinning sheepishly

Lily almost fell of her chair laughing. When she finally recovered enough to speak, although she was still giggling, she replied "I asked what you wanted, and you replied" at this she broke into a another fit of giggles. "do you" more giggles "want to" and still more giggles "sleep" she was leaning on him for support she was laughing so hard again "with me tonight" when she was able to breath again she took a deep breath, "or that was the gist of it anyway." James blushed. Lily just laughed more. "Anyway, what did you want?"

"Oh... right." Here Sirius interrupted.

"Lily dearest, what Jamie-boy here wanted to say, before he asked you to sleep with him" James turned red again and threw a bread roll at Sirius, who cleared his throat and turned back to Lily "Is would you and Ryan meet us in the Lair at 9 we have something we want to talk to you about."

"Yeah sure we'll be there." She then leaned forward so she could see Ryan on the other side of Remus "Ry! Lets go, if we have to meet these boneheads tonight we should Go do homework, get it over with or we're gonna waste our weekend." And she started to rise from the table.

"Aww Lil's that's just not right homework! On a Friday!" James whined

"We'll see you later Boys!" Ryan called cheerfully as she and Lily walked out of the Great Hall. As soon as they left Ryan turned to Lily and asked "what was so damn funny in there?"

Lily broke down into hysterics again, so much she had to lean on the wall for support. Ryan just stood their staring at her. "James" laughter "asked me to" pause for laughter "sleep with him" Ryan's Jaw dropped.

"I fail to see the humor in the situation."

"He asked me in French."

"I still don't get it, and why in French."

"I asked him what he wanted in French, he responded with the only French he knew even though he didn't know what it ment." Ryan joined Lily in using the wall for support. Just then Charlie was walking down the hall, she saw them and came to investigate what was so funny, and Lily repeated the story, as the three walked back to the Ravenclaw dorms. When they got back the three girls lay out in front of the common room fire with their books and talked while they did their homework.

"SHIT!" Lily looked up when she heard Ryan swear.

"what?"

"Its 9:05, we're late" Lily hopped up and began stuffing things into her bag, ryan following suit. Charlie staring at them in amusement.

"What are you late for?"

"We're meeting the guys we were supposed to be there" lily glanced at her watched " 7 minutes ago"

"Run.. and tell the guy I said hi!" Charlie yelled after them as they threw their bags down next to the girls staircase before running out the door.

The two girls sprinted from the Ravenclaw dorms to a painting of two fairies, one gold one silver. This was the entrance to 'the lair', Sirius had dubbed it that in first year when they had founded it. They had been wandering around the castle on day and came across this painting just as was talking about how she had an aunt patty who had a parrot named Polly, who was forever asking 'Polly want a cracker'. The portrait had swung open and the seven of them had looked at it amazed before entering the secret room, which they had found a perfect place to hang out alone. They later found out the password had been 'Polly want a cracker', and Sirius had decided he wanted to name it. And so, the room had become 'The Lair'.

The two girls panted the password and walked into the room, still breathing hard, only to find the room empty. "Figures. they tell us to meet them at 9, were lat so we run the whole way, just to find their not here. at nine" Ryan glanced at her watch "twenty-three." They collapsed in two chairs in front of the fire. The room was pretty big, but not huge, It had light blue walls, and a darker blue carpet. There were windows looking out on the lake, though they figured it was enchanted, because they were in the middle of the castle. There were two couches, and four chairs, all black, arranged in front of a fireplace, that usually had a merrily crackling fire in it. A table rested against the right wall, with some books randomly opened on top of it. A bookshelf next to it, where the seven had stored their books from their former years, incase they ever found a need for them. A deck of cards was tossed carelessly on one of the couches,, and their was a pool table on the left side of the room. There were two doors, other than the one from the hallway, one leading to a bathroom, The other to a small bedroom with two twin beds, the only time it had been used was last year when James and Remus were mad at Sirius, it had taken the girls almost two days to get it out of James that Sirius had let it slip to Snape about how to open the whopping willow, and James had to save him from being torn to pieces by Remus. James and Remus had used the small bedroom for almost three weeks before Lily and Ryan had gotten fed up and locked the three in an empty classroom, without their wands, until they had made up.

The door to the hall swung open again and the four boys came striding in laughing.

"Sorry we're late, we took a detour to the kitchens" Remus said handing them both hot chocolates, while James handed them bowls of marshmallows.

"Its ok."

"Anyways, we did have a reason for this meeting" James said sitting on a couch turning to the side and bring his feet up with him. Sirius had taken up he other couch and peter and Remus had taken the chairs. "we felt badly about not including you in the whole animagus thing, so we figured, if you wanted, we would help you with the process, although I warn you, its long, and dangerous."

The two girls looked at each other and said together "YES!"

James chuckled "excited are you?" Lily chucked a marshmallow at his face. He opened his mouth and caught it.

"Damn you and you quiddich reflexes" lily said trying to look put off, but threw another for him to catch anyway as her façade broke and she grinned.

"Yummy, be a good girl and throw me another" She mock glared at him got up from her seat and sat on him "oof" She took a marshmallow dipped it in hot chocolate and stuck it on his nose. Laughing at him as he went cross-eyed trying to look at it. But leaned back against the sofa, still sitting on his stomach.

"So hows this process start, and when can I find out what I am!"

"Well you can find out what you will be right now, but the other stuff will take awhile, there is a potion and a complex spell, and then you have to master the changing process."

Lily smiled at him "what am I?!?!" James laughed at her excitement. Took out his wand and muttered a spell causing the girl in his lap to change into a small red fox with one white paw, and the same brilliant green eyes. "Well Vixen, you make a cute fox" the fox climbed up his stomach and lightly bit his nose. That was when she turned back into a human, still lightly biting his nose, but now staring into James's hazel eyes, and lying on top of him. They both blinked, Sirius whistled, Remus coughed, both lily and james blushed alittle, but lily mearly pulled back and raised an eybrow

"Vixen?"

"your new nickname, you didn't expect to become an animagus without getting one did you?"

"Ah. so im a fox."

"At least you weren't anything big, I would of been squashed" James replied with a cheeky grin then turned to Ryan "Your turn" and he muttered the same spell at her, while lily turned around and rested her back against his chest. When she turned to Ryan's chair she saw not her friend but a small gray kitten, with big brown eyes and four white paws. She smiled as Ryan meowed as if asking 'where's my nickname?' "she wants a nickname guys" lily said outloud.

"how bout kitty?" Sirius said

"to boring" lily replied looking at the face Ryan tried to make as a cat, and giggling, Sirius just shrugged.

"paws?" james suggested.

Ryan the cat shook her head. They were all looking at her by this point.

"how 'bout boots?" Remus said

That was when Ryan changed back. She seemed to think about it for a minute before saying "boots it is" Remus smiled at her and she smiled back.

"Oh yeah.. we forgot before .. Charlie says hi" lily said popping a marshmallow into her mouth.

They talked for a little while longer before agreeing to meet the next day to work on the animagus thing, before going their separate ways to their dormitories.

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