Marauder Mayhem
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
A/N: OKAY, I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF CONFUSION WITH THAT LAST CHAPTER. JAMES IS STILL THEIR BEST FRIEND, PEOPLE, HE'S JUST A LITTLE PISSED OFF! WOULDN'T YOU BE IF YOU SPENT ALL THAT TIME TRYING TO GET YOUR OTHER TWO BEST FRIENDS TOGETHER AND THEY SCAMMED YOU, AND THEN AFTER YOU FINALLY GET USED TO THE FACT THAT THEY'RE JUST GONNA BE FRIENDS, THEY BECOME MORE THAN FRIENDS AND HIDE IT FROM YOU??? THAT'S ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING. WHEN PEOPLE GET MAD, THEY SAY THINGS THEY DON'T MEAN. THEY ARE ALL STILL BEST FRIENDS, OKAY? THEY JUST HAD A ROW. IT WILL BE RESOLVED IN THIS CHAPTER, DON'T WORRY. YOU GUYS CRACK ME UP! EVERYBODY'S EMAILING ME SAYING "OMG, ARE THEY NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE?????" AND ANOTHER THING...THEY'RE ALL BEST FRIENDS, OKAY? DON'T YOU GUYS HAVE MORE THAN ONE BEST FRIEND? THEY'RE ALL EQUALLY BEST FRIENDS, FOR NOW. ENJOY THE CHAPTER AND KEEP THE REVIEWS COMING, THANX!
Random Thought #1: "A good friend will bail you out of jail. A best friend will be sitting right next to you saying, 'That was fucking great!'"
Random Thought #2: "Suck it up, Buttercup!"
Chapter 24 - October 25th
Raven suddenly sat up and looked at the clock. "You missed breakfast. You'd better get to class."
"Don't you mean, *we* better get to class?" Sirius asked her.
"Dumbledore gave me the day off."
"Oh, not fair! You fall twenty feet and go into a coma and you get the day off?" he teased her.
"Hey, I don't argue with the man," Raven justified.
"Damn the man!" joked Sirius, getting up and ruffling his hair. "So what are we gonna do about James?"
Raven shrugged. "Maybe we could just...give him the impression that I'm really pissed at you because of what he said."
Sirius gave her a killer smile. "But what if he really doesn't care and that's what he was trying to do?"
"Padfoot, you know James just as well as I do if not better. He just says things when he's mad. He doesn't really mean it. If he sees that we're both miserable, then he'll tell the truth."
"Okay."
"But I need to know something first," Raven suddenly grabbed Sirius' robes and pulled him down so his face was only a few inches from hers. "are you sure you're telling me the truth?"
Sirius was surprised and disoriented. "N-no...no, I--" he sputtered.
"No, you aren't telling me the truth?" she said, keeping her eyes locked on his.
"No--y-yes! Yes, I'm telling the truth," he wasn't sure what she meant.
"So you never used that line to get a girl in bed? Ever?"
"N-no!" He stuttered as she backed him into the foot of her bed.
"Cuz if James is really telling the truth, then there's no sense in making him feel bad about it!"
Sirius snapped out of it and replied adamantly, "Raven, I never said it!"
She let go of him and sat back down on her bed. "Okay, that's all I wanted to know."
"Alright, I gotta go." Sirius stumbled on the edge of the bed as he tried to walk. "Wow, you're hot when you're scary!"
Raven giggled. "Hey, come back up here for lunch if you can get away. I'll go sneak some food from the kitchens."
"Wild nundu couldn't stop me," he teased as he kissed her quickly goodbye.
"Is there such thing as a domesticated nundu?" she questioned as the portrait closed.
(A/N: QUESTIONS ON NUNDU, SEE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, OR ASK ME IN YOUR REVIEW AND I'LL EMAIL YOU TO EXPLAIN. THEY'RE REALLY COOL!)
All of the Gryffindors down at breakfast, Sirius was glad to find the common room empty. He ran up to his dorm quickly to get his books and went to class. He was the last one to arrive and snuck in quickly while Professor Sprout's back was turned. Lily, Remus, Peter, and James all looked at him as he stood next to them.
"Where's Raven?" mouthed Lily.
Sirius shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. James noticed and instantly turned red. They split up into partners to work on their assignment and Sirius worked with Peter.
"So, you and Raven, huh?" Peter asked Sirius uncertainly.
"Uh...yeah Pete. You got a problem with that?" he answered gruffly.
"No!" said Peter quickly. "No, but I think maybe James does."
"Ya think?" asked Sirius, sarcastically, glancing over at James, who was working with Lily.
James was muttering under his breath to Lily. "So you think she dumped him?"
"What on earth did you say to her, Jay?" Lily replied, suspiciously.
James looked downtrodden. "I may have told her that Sirius just wanted to do her and then lose her."
"What?" Lily practically screeched. "How could you? What would you do if Sirius had told me that about you?"
"I'd kick his ass," replied James gloomily.
"Sirius is being the bigger man by not beating you up right now. Raven must have given it to him pretty bad."
"You know her. I'm sure she did."
"And what are you gonna do about it?" asked Lily, giving James a defying look.
He nodded. "I'll go talk to her during lunch."
While no one was looking, Sirius quietly made his way out of the classroom and up to Gryffindor Tower. He was careful to see that no one was in the common room when he tapped the wall three times with his wand. Lucy's portrait appeared.
"Hey Luce. How's my favorite portrait?" asked Sirius, winking sexily at Lucy.
Lucy blushed noticably. "Hanging in there. And how is the hottest seventh year to ever walk the Hogwarts castle?"
"Lucy, stop hitting on my boyfriend!" came Raven's voice from inside the room.
Sirius rose his eyebrows twice at Lucy as her portrait lifted to let him into the room.
"You're early," said Raven, coming up to Sirius and throwing her arms around his neck.
"I skipped," he answered nonchalantly.
"What? Alright Black! Detention, my bedroom, ten o'clock sharp!" she joked.
"It's a date!" Sirius dipped her into a kiss. He pulled away as he got a whif of the food. "Mmm, I see you found your way to the kitchen!"
"Yes I did."
"And of course," he picked up a bowl, "Ramen noodles!"
"My favorite."
"Did you want to eat now or..." he trailed off, giving her his sexiest smile.
Raven looked at the ceiling and pretended she was thinking really hard. She put a finger to her lip and tapped it. "...Or!" she said as she pulled his robes and brought his mouth down to hers.
Sirius put a hand on the back of her neck, deepening the kiss, and the other on her cheek, and then down through her hair. Raven had one hand on Sirius' shoulder and the other around his back.
Lucy cleared her throat behind them. They broke apart reluctantly and each gave her a dirty look. "Um...James is outside," she told them. "I thought I'd better ask before I let him in."
"Oh shit! Sirius, get in the bathroom!" Raven pushed Sirius into the bathroom and slammed the door. Then she ran over to her bed and sat down.
The portrait slid open and James walked in. He gave Raven a sympathetic look and hesitantly sat down next to her. "Raven, I need to talk to you."
"Obviously," she said. "Hungry?"
"Uh..." he saw the food, "no, not really, thanks. It's about Sirius. Well, what I said...it..."
"Wasn't true," Raven finished for him.
James froze. "How did you know?"
"I could tell by the way Sirius acted when I confronted him. James, why did you say it?"
"I don't know. I was all mad. I wasn't thinking who it would hurt," he said, looking at her sadly.
"Why did you get so mad?"
"Because, I don't know. Maybe it was just fear of losing my best friends."
"You don't think we felt that when you and Lily got together? We did. We just didn't say anything cuz we knew how much you liked her."
"Oh..." said James dejectedly. "I didn't realize."
"I know. We shouldn't have hidden it. We should have just told everyone right away."
"No, I see why you didn't. You'd already faked us out once. You wanted to make sure it was for real this time, right?"
Raven nodded. "But we still shouldn't have lied."
"You didn't lie. You just weren't very forthcoming!" defended James.
"Oh, now you're taking our side?"
"Maybe I should have in the beginning. I'm the one who was always saying how perfect you'd be together." Raven laughed. "So am I forgiven?"
Raven nodded and put her arms around her best friend. James hugged her back and kissed her forehead.
"So you should go find Sirius. He looked pretty melodramatic in class today," remembered James.
"Oh really?" asked Raven. "That's cuz we scammed you again."
"What? God dammit! What now?" asked James.
"Well..." Raven laughed, "I did believe you at first, and I yelled at him, but he said you just wanted me to get mad at him. So we thought if we...gave you the impression that what you said made us break up, you'd admit that you didn't really say it. Plus, I wasn't entirely sure that you were lying in the first place. I mean, I know it's different with me, and he's told me that, but I wouldn't put it past him to tell a girl he didn't want to sleep with her so she'd have sex with him sooner."
James looked very confused. "So...we're good now?"
"Ask Sirius," said Raven, pointing behind him.
James whipped around, saw Sirius, and then turned back to Raven. "Alright," he said, raising his hand and pointing a finger at the two of them, "you two need to stop with the scamming! You're together now, right? It's for real?"
Sirius and Raven looked at each other and then laughed. "Yeah, Jay," answered Sirius, clapping him on the back, "if it's alright with you."
"What do you mean? It was my idea!" teased James.
A/N: EVERYONE TOGETHER NOW, "AWWWW...." *ROLLS EYES* SAPPY SCENE, HAD TO DO IT. I'M GLAD IT'S OVER WITH. HMM...ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER??? THAT'S ALL THAT'S ON MY AGENDA TILL CHRISTMAS, LOL. HOW ABOUT A NICE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN GRYFFINDOR AND SLYTHERIN. THAT'S ALWAYS NICE! HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT. PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
A/N: OKAY, I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF CONFUSION WITH THAT LAST CHAPTER. JAMES IS STILL THEIR BEST FRIEND, PEOPLE, HE'S JUST A LITTLE PISSED OFF! WOULDN'T YOU BE IF YOU SPENT ALL THAT TIME TRYING TO GET YOUR OTHER TWO BEST FRIENDS TOGETHER AND THEY SCAMMED YOU, AND THEN AFTER YOU FINALLY GET USED TO THE FACT THAT THEY'RE JUST GONNA BE FRIENDS, THEY BECOME MORE THAN FRIENDS AND HIDE IT FROM YOU??? THAT'S ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING. WHEN PEOPLE GET MAD, THEY SAY THINGS THEY DON'T MEAN. THEY ARE ALL STILL BEST FRIENDS, OKAY? THEY JUST HAD A ROW. IT WILL BE RESOLVED IN THIS CHAPTER, DON'T WORRY. YOU GUYS CRACK ME UP! EVERYBODY'S EMAILING ME SAYING "OMG, ARE THEY NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE?????" AND ANOTHER THING...THEY'RE ALL BEST FRIENDS, OKAY? DON'T YOU GUYS HAVE MORE THAN ONE BEST FRIEND? THEY'RE ALL EQUALLY BEST FRIENDS, FOR NOW. ENJOY THE CHAPTER AND KEEP THE REVIEWS COMING, THANX!
Random Thought #1: "A good friend will bail you out of jail. A best friend will be sitting right next to you saying, 'That was fucking great!'"
Random Thought #2: "Suck it up, Buttercup!"
Chapter 24 - October 25th
Raven suddenly sat up and looked at the clock. "You missed breakfast. You'd better get to class."
"Don't you mean, *we* better get to class?" Sirius asked her.
"Dumbledore gave me the day off."
"Oh, not fair! You fall twenty feet and go into a coma and you get the day off?" he teased her.
"Hey, I don't argue with the man," Raven justified.
"Damn the man!" joked Sirius, getting up and ruffling his hair. "So what are we gonna do about James?"
Raven shrugged. "Maybe we could just...give him the impression that I'm really pissed at you because of what he said."
Sirius gave her a killer smile. "But what if he really doesn't care and that's what he was trying to do?"
"Padfoot, you know James just as well as I do if not better. He just says things when he's mad. He doesn't really mean it. If he sees that we're both miserable, then he'll tell the truth."
"Okay."
"But I need to know something first," Raven suddenly grabbed Sirius' robes and pulled him down so his face was only a few inches from hers. "are you sure you're telling me the truth?"
Sirius was surprised and disoriented. "N-no...no, I--" he sputtered.
"No, you aren't telling me the truth?" she said, keeping her eyes locked on his.
"No--y-yes! Yes, I'm telling the truth," he wasn't sure what she meant.
"So you never used that line to get a girl in bed? Ever?"
"N-no!" He stuttered as she backed him into the foot of her bed.
"Cuz if James is really telling the truth, then there's no sense in making him feel bad about it!"
Sirius snapped out of it and replied adamantly, "Raven, I never said it!"
She let go of him and sat back down on her bed. "Okay, that's all I wanted to know."
"Alright, I gotta go." Sirius stumbled on the edge of the bed as he tried to walk. "Wow, you're hot when you're scary!"
Raven giggled. "Hey, come back up here for lunch if you can get away. I'll go sneak some food from the kitchens."
"Wild nundu couldn't stop me," he teased as he kissed her quickly goodbye.
"Is there such thing as a domesticated nundu?" she questioned as the portrait closed.
(A/N: QUESTIONS ON NUNDU, SEE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, OR ASK ME IN YOUR REVIEW AND I'LL EMAIL YOU TO EXPLAIN. THEY'RE REALLY COOL!)
All of the Gryffindors down at breakfast, Sirius was glad to find the common room empty. He ran up to his dorm quickly to get his books and went to class. He was the last one to arrive and snuck in quickly while Professor Sprout's back was turned. Lily, Remus, Peter, and James all looked at him as he stood next to them.
"Where's Raven?" mouthed Lily.
Sirius shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. James noticed and instantly turned red. They split up into partners to work on their assignment and Sirius worked with Peter.
"So, you and Raven, huh?" Peter asked Sirius uncertainly.
"Uh...yeah Pete. You got a problem with that?" he answered gruffly.
"No!" said Peter quickly. "No, but I think maybe James does."
"Ya think?" asked Sirius, sarcastically, glancing over at James, who was working with Lily.
James was muttering under his breath to Lily. "So you think she dumped him?"
"What on earth did you say to her, Jay?" Lily replied, suspiciously.
James looked downtrodden. "I may have told her that Sirius just wanted to do her and then lose her."
"What?" Lily practically screeched. "How could you? What would you do if Sirius had told me that about you?"
"I'd kick his ass," replied James gloomily.
"Sirius is being the bigger man by not beating you up right now. Raven must have given it to him pretty bad."
"You know her. I'm sure she did."
"And what are you gonna do about it?" asked Lily, giving James a defying look.
He nodded. "I'll go talk to her during lunch."
While no one was looking, Sirius quietly made his way out of the classroom and up to Gryffindor Tower. He was careful to see that no one was in the common room when he tapped the wall three times with his wand. Lucy's portrait appeared.
"Hey Luce. How's my favorite portrait?" asked Sirius, winking sexily at Lucy.
Lucy blushed noticably. "Hanging in there. And how is the hottest seventh year to ever walk the Hogwarts castle?"
"Lucy, stop hitting on my boyfriend!" came Raven's voice from inside the room.
Sirius rose his eyebrows twice at Lucy as her portrait lifted to let him into the room.
"You're early," said Raven, coming up to Sirius and throwing her arms around his neck.
"I skipped," he answered nonchalantly.
"What? Alright Black! Detention, my bedroom, ten o'clock sharp!" she joked.
"It's a date!" Sirius dipped her into a kiss. He pulled away as he got a whif of the food. "Mmm, I see you found your way to the kitchen!"
"Yes I did."
"And of course," he picked up a bowl, "Ramen noodles!"
"My favorite."
"Did you want to eat now or..." he trailed off, giving her his sexiest smile.
Raven looked at the ceiling and pretended she was thinking really hard. She put a finger to her lip and tapped it. "...Or!" she said as she pulled his robes and brought his mouth down to hers.
Sirius put a hand on the back of her neck, deepening the kiss, and the other on her cheek, and then down through her hair. Raven had one hand on Sirius' shoulder and the other around his back.
Lucy cleared her throat behind them. They broke apart reluctantly and each gave her a dirty look. "Um...James is outside," she told them. "I thought I'd better ask before I let him in."
"Oh shit! Sirius, get in the bathroom!" Raven pushed Sirius into the bathroom and slammed the door. Then she ran over to her bed and sat down.
The portrait slid open and James walked in. He gave Raven a sympathetic look and hesitantly sat down next to her. "Raven, I need to talk to you."
"Obviously," she said. "Hungry?"
"Uh..." he saw the food, "no, not really, thanks. It's about Sirius. Well, what I said...it..."
"Wasn't true," Raven finished for him.
James froze. "How did you know?"
"I could tell by the way Sirius acted when I confronted him. James, why did you say it?"
"I don't know. I was all mad. I wasn't thinking who it would hurt," he said, looking at her sadly.
"Why did you get so mad?"
"Because, I don't know. Maybe it was just fear of losing my best friends."
"You don't think we felt that when you and Lily got together? We did. We just didn't say anything cuz we knew how much you liked her."
"Oh..." said James dejectedly. "I didn't realize."
"I know. We shouldn't have hidden it. We should have just told everyone right away."
"No, I see why you didn't. You'd already faked us out once. You wanted to make sure it was for real this time, right?"
Raven nodded. "But we still shouldn't have lied."
"You didn't lie. You just weren't very forthcoming!" defended James.
"Oh, now you're taking our side?"
"Maybe I should have in the beginning. I'm the one who was always saying how perfect you'd be together." Raven laughed. "So am I forgiven?"
Raven nodded and put her arms around her best friend. James hugged her back and kissed her forehead.
"So you should go find Sirius. He looked pretty melodramatic in class today," remembered James.
"Oh really?" asked Raven. "That's cuz we scammed you again."
"What? God dammit! What now?" asked James.
"Well..." Raven laughed, "I did believe you at first, and I yelled at him, but he said you just wanted me to get mad at him. So we thought if we...gave you the impression that what you said made us break up, you'd admit that you didn't really say it. Plus, I wasn't entirely sure that you were lying in the first place. I mean, I know it's different with me, and he's told me that, but I wouldn't put it past him to tell a girl he didn't want to sleep with her so she'd have sex with him sooner."
James looked very confused. "So...we're good now?"
"Ask Sirius," said Raven, pointing behind him.
James whipped around, saw Sirius, and then turned back to Raven. "Alright," he said, raising his hand and pointing a finger at the two of them, "you two need to stop with the scamming! You're together now, right? It's for real?"
Sirius and Raven looked at each other and then laughed. "Yeah, Jay," answered Sirius, clapping him on the back, "if it's alright with you."
"What do you mean? It was my idea!" teased James.
A/N: EVERYONE TOGETHER NOW, "AWWWW...." *ROLLS EYES* SAPPY SCENE, HAD TO DO IT. I'M GLAD IT'S OVER WITH. HMM...ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER??? THAT'S ALL THAT'S ON MY AGENDA TILL CHRISTMAS, LOL. HOW ABOUT A NICE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN GRYFFINDOR AND SLYTHERIN. THAT'S ALWAYS NICE! HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT. PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!