Valentine's Hijinks


by: Lady*Wildfire*Star (beware of ever changing pen-names, I do that sometimes!)

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED THIS, I APPRECIATE IT!

Rated: Pg-13, could change.

Disclaimer: Same as last chapter. Please refer to the last chapter if you need to read it.


Author's Notes: This story obviously will not be finished by Valentine's Day. I am , however, going to try to finish it by the beginning of March. That may or may not be accomplished by then. I'm aiming for March because I don't want people to be reading a Valentine's Day story in the middle of summer. And if this story goes well, then maybe some sort of sequel or continuation will be written later on down the line.

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Chapter Two: Candy Catastrophes!


February 2nd, Wednesday

"Dammit Padfoot, stop stepping on my toes," exclaimed James.

"It's not my fault, Moony keeps running into me," whined Sirius.


The three boys had woke up early, which was almost impossible for James, and snuck out of their dormitory. They were afraid that Peter would tattle on them for sneaking out because he wasn't invited. So they put him in the closet and accidently pushed a dresser in front of it. The boys were sneaking out of the castle, using one of the passages they had learned about, and were on their way to Honeydukes. Remus, who stood under the far left of the invisibility cloak, had the marauder's map in his hands and was watching it intently, while James and Sirius kept arguing over who ran into who.

"Shut it , you guys," said Remus , who was getting irritated with their inane arguing.

Sirius looked over to the map in Remus's hands. "Good were almost there," he said.


A few minutes later after the boys had walked through a trap door and up a long staircase, they found themselves in Honeydukes. The owner had just opened and was wondering what three teenage boys were doing in his store so early in the morning. The trio wandered over to the Valentine's candy and began to meticulously sort through it. Remus was admiring singing candy hearts, James had picked up chocolate wands that when you swish and flick them a Valentine's Day message is spelled in the air.

"Moony did you ask Hestia what Emmeline likes?" asked Sirius.

Remus grinned sheepishly , "I knew I forgot something."

"Moony!" yelled Sirius.

"Sorry Padfoot. There's so many things here, why not get a few and give them all to her. Come on what girl wouldn't like this?" said Remus as he held up a raspberry chocolate frog that was the color pink for Valentine's Day.

James snatched it out of his hands, "Hey I don't have this card. I had better get this one for me instead."

Sirius picked up some chocolates that were shaped like flowers and really smelled like them too. 'Who comes up with this stuff,' he wondered.

James had found some dancing candy hearts and was making them dance while he made the other ones sing. "I think you should get these," he said with a laugh.

"Or maybe these ones," said Remus who was observing some sugar quills that spell out Valentine's messages, like the wands.

"Bernie Botts made special Valentine's Day every flavored beans this year," stated Sirius who absolutely loves Bernie Botts every flavored beans. "Gross they make one called spoiled chocolate."

"I didn't know chocolate could spoil," James told them.

"I think I'll get a few of these and give them to her. I just don't want to over do it. It would look really stupid if I bought her a lot of candy and she said no to me," Sirius said.

"You can't think like that. They are going to go with us," said James relentlessly.

Sirius grabbed the singing candy hearts and a chocolate magic wand. "Think this is enough?" he asked.

"Get this also," said Remus handing him a large solid chocolate bear that came with a small edible card.

"I wonder if they sell edible bras here?" joked Sirius.

"Don't push your luck, Padfoot," snorted James.

The boys walked over to the counter and paid. Then they went outside and put back on the invisibility cloak and began the long walk back to Hogwarts, which took a little longer than expected because James' chocolate frog got away and he insisted on chasing it.

Later on during potions....

The boys sat not far from Lily, Emmeline , Hestia, and Alice who was also in this class. The class was working on a silencing potion, that was very flammable. James had set Lily's robes on fire during the last class, which was strange for him , because perfect Potter did not mess up. Sirius was mixing in frog legs when an question hit him. He leaned over to James and asked, "How am I supposed to give the candy to Emmeline. I cannot give them to her in class and I do not want to it give her in the Great Hall. Everyone will see."

James paused to consider this, he had not thought of when and where they would present the girls with the things they planned to do. "Hmmm...." was all he said.

Remus cut in , "I guess you could go with one of them up to their dormitory and put them in her room." "But, boys aren't supposed to be in girls' dorms," he added as an afterthought.

"Have we ever not done something we weren't supposed to do?" asked Sirius.

Remus shook his head.

"Good then, I'll do that," said Sirius. He then proceeded to lean over and whisper Hestia's name.

Hestia did not hear him at first but then responded, "What?"

"Err can I talk to you after class?" questioned Sirius.

Hestia raised her eyebrows at this, "About what?"

"I'll tell you later," replied Sirius.

Hestia was silent for a moment , "Oh alright, Black ."

Sirius smiled to himself and went back to work. He didn't however notice that someone was slowly pulling his bookbag out from underneath his chair in attempts to get into it's contents.


After class....

The marauders walked outside and Sirius motioned for Remus and James to go on without him. They wished him luck and then turned to leave. Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy came hurrying out of the room , laughing insanely, and Snape bumped into Sirius.

"Watch where you're going, Snivellus," hissed Sirius.

But Snape and Malfoy were too busy laughing to respond, and they just kept walking. Hestia finally emerged from the room, accompanied by Lily and Emmeline and all three of them stopped in front of Sirius. Sirius cleared his throat, "Jones I would prefer to talk to you alone, please," he told them. Lily rolled her eyes and Emmeline just stared at him. Sirius found himself wondering if it was a inquisitive stare or an I-hate-you-Sirius-Black stare. He sincerely hoped that it was a inquisitive stare. Without another word Lily and Emmeline walked off in the same direction that James and Remus had headed. Politely Sirius told her that he didn't mean to bother her, he just had a question. Hestia, taken aback by the sudden change in personality, was kind back to him. "What did you need Sirius," she said placing emphasis on his first name.

Sirius cleared his throat, "Well it's like this. I have a present for Vance, and I'm planning on asking her to the Valentine's Ball. I was wondering if you would take me up to your dormitory and I could place the presents on her bed."

Hestia smiled remembering yesterday's conversation about which marauder each girl was attracted to. "I suppose that can be arranged. Do you need to do this now?"

"I would greatly appreciate if it could be done now, please," Sirius said sweetly and offered Hestia that 'I could melt anyone's heart' smile of his.

"Alright then, let's go," responded Hestia.

As they passed through the halls on the way to the dormitory they were not aware of several pairs of eyes following their every move. Snape and Malfoy, who were practically stuffing their fists in their mouths to keep from laughing. Emmeline, who was growing jealous by the second, Lily who was annoyed. And finally James and Remus who had their fingers crossed for good luck.

Once they reached the dormitory Hestia led Sirius over to the four poster bed with an emerald cloak draped over it. Sirius took out the presents and arranged them neatly on her bed.

"So did you just want her to find these here later on, or did you want me to go get her?" asked Hestia.

Sirius paused, he had not thought of that part. 'Smooth move, Sirius,' he chastised himself.

"I suppose it would be better if she found them herself," he replied.

Hestia nodded and smiled once again. "What's gotten into you, Sirius?"

"What ever do you mean?"he questioned her innocently.

"You're not being yourself," she responded quickly.

"Surely, you don't think of me as a bad guy, Hestia?" he asked offering that buttery smile again.

How could that she say that she did? Maybe they were wrong about the marauders, there was more to them than pranks and jokes. Hestia then said, "Not at all Sirius". The marauders really had a way of growing on someone.

Later on at dinner....

Emmeline Vance sat next to Hestia and across from Lily. It had really gotten under her skin that Sirius had wanted to talk to Hestia, ALONE. What could he have said to her? 'Maybe he likes her,' thought Emmeline jealously. Finally the curiosity was killing her so she had to ask."So, Hestia, what did Black want earlier?"

Hestia slowly finished a spoon full of mashed potatoes and took a long drink, as if stalling. "Just to ask me something."

"Oh," said Emmeline trying and failing to sound uninterested, "What did he want to ask?"

"Nothing really, it's not important," Hestia said nonchalantly

Emmeline's eyes flared with jealousy. "No really what did he say?"

Hestia turned to glare at her friend, "I said nothing really."

"Well if it's not important, then why can't you tell me. Who was it about?" demanded Emmeline.

"He asked me a damn homework question," snarled Hestia, who never swore or showed anger.

Emmeline noticed her friend's dangerous tone and desisted with her questions. "Fine," she mumbled under her breath.

Silence.

"Well, I'm going to up to our room,"announced Emmeline who was still fed up with Hestia's lack of response to her questions.

"You do that," said Hestia egging her on.

Emmeline got up and stomped off. Lily went to stand up to go with her only to be pulled back down into her seat. Lily turned to Hestia, "What did you do that for?"

Hestia only grinned, "You'll see."


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Emmeline tried to control her rage as she raced up the staircase to her room. The nerve of Hestia sneaking off with Black. It was not that she didn't trust her friend, but wait a second. 'Ohhh no! I'm jealous? How could I be jealous, it's only Black. It's not that I like him or anything' she told herself. 'No I'm not jealous. I just don't believe friends should keep secrets, especially not with the damn marauders,' she argued with herself. Emmeline stomped up the stairs and threw open the door to her room and stopped dead in her tracks. Her jaw hung open for a second before she registered what was on her bed. There, neatly arranged, was some candy and a little card. She hurried over to her bed and opened the card and read it aloud, "From a friend, sorry for the past." The blonde picked up the wand and swished it and it spelled out in the air in gold writing, will you go to the Valentine's Ball with me from Sirius. Emmeline next examined the chocolate bear holding the singing candy hearts. She picked them up out of their bag and they began to sing. A long list of insulting swears. She dropped them, a look of surprise on her face. A practical joke, how funny, and so like the marauders. She was so delighted by the whole situation that she decided to let that go. 'That Sirius Black is really something else,' she thought. She broke off a piece of the chocolate bear's ear, and ate it. The chocolate was extremely creamy and rich, and probably the best she had ever had. She was unaware however, of the fact that her pretty golden locks were beginning to change into a putrid green as she ate the chocolate.

Back in the Great Hall....


Sirius Black had just entered the Great Hall. He could not contain his anger anymore, and his eyes began quickly searching for someone. More like two someones, who were going to be in more trouble than they could handle. His only enemies were Snape and Malfoy, so it had to be them who changed the messages on the card and wand for Emmeline. Besides, they sat behind him in potions, a perfect time to switch things. Finding the Slytherin table he watched Snape and Malfoy who were chatting with some friends and laughing loudly. Sirius could literally feel the steam rising from him because he was on fire with rage. Forget hexes, he was going to kick the living shit out of both of them. About to approach the table and get his vengeance, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He spun around to find Remus, and James, who had been searching for him. Both noticed the psychotic glint in Sirius' eyes. However, James was the one that had to ask, "Sirius what's wrong?"

"I'm going to kill Malfoy and Snape,"Sirius managed to choke out.

Remus stared at Sirius for a moment, "What happened now?" he asked.

"I went to put the presents on Emmeline's bed for her to find. And the card and wand they they ...." Sirius could no longer form complete sentences because his anger was stopping him.

"They what?" demanded James.

"They changed the words in the card and wand," said Sirius trying to take a breathe to calm himself.

"What did they say," inquired Remus, who was also angry like Sirius and James.

"The card had a list of dumb blonde jokes, you know how Emmeline hates those," began Sirius.

"And the wand?" asked James

"Made comments about her large....assets,"said Sirius.

"Forget about you killing them," said James , "I'm gonna do it for you."

Sirius and Remus lunged for James who was about to walk off to the Slytherin table.

Remus gasped, "Sirius , did you check everything else to make sure it was okay?"

"Well, yeah , everything else looked okay. What are you playing at Remus?" questioned Sirius.

"Because Emmeline just entered the Great Hall with green hair and she's holding the candy hearts you gave her."

Emmeline hurried up to the boys but she didn't look angry at all. Sirius wondered if she had not seen her hair yet. Her long sunlight tresses were her pride and joy, and spent almost as much time perfecting it as Sirius did his "spikes", as he called them. Emmeline smiled at Sirius, "Black could we talk for a second?"

Sirius gulped, "Alright." And they walked off together.

Once they were out of earshot from anyone else Emmeline stopped in front of him and turned around to face him. "YES!" she exclaimed.

"You'll go with me?" asked Sirius excitedly.

"Of course! That was so sweet! Nobody has ever done something that sweet for me!" cried Emmeline.

Sirius's anger had dissipated and he was ecstatic, "Well it's the least I could do , I mean..."

"Oh stop ! That was so nice of you, how did you know I love chocolate bears?"

Sirius smiled, "Ummm lucky guess?"

Emmeline smiled back at him, "Well I have one question though. It's about these," she indicated the candy hearts. "Why did they.....cuss me out?"

Sirius eyes grew big, "THEY WHAT?"

Emmeline picked one up out of the bag and

CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED....

Emmeline giggled at it, apparently she found it funny. Very fortunate for Sirius.

"Lily would hate these!" exclaimed Emmeline.

"Snape and Malfoy altered some of my gifts for you," said Sirius.

"What do you mean?" asked Emmeline.

"When I took them out of my bookbag to put them on your bed , they didn't look like they did when I bought them. That's when I figured that Snape and Malfoy, my only enemies, had obviously taken them out of my bag in potions. The message the wand created had been altered and the message in the card had been changed. I should have checked the candy hearts, but they looked normal," said Sirius.

"Those bastards!" said Emmeline , "How could they do that?"

"And there's something else, Emmeline," mumbled Sirius about to reveal that Emmeline's hair was now a revolting green color.

Emmeline's smile fell, "What's that Sirius?"

Sirius hated to tell her what happened, afraid somehow she'd blame him. And it was the first time ever that he could recall at least, that she had called him Sirius instead of Black. He swallowed hard, "Look into that mirror on the wall, behind you".

Every feature in Emmeline's face showed the mortifying fear she felt. 'Is something wrong with the way I look?,' she wondered, 'no wonder people were pointing at me when I entered the Great Hall'. Slowly she twirled around and....

An eardrum shattering scream reverberated throughout the entire Castle. House elves in the kitchen dropped plates, windows broke. Dumbledore , who was in his so called office, wondered why the lenses in his glasses broke.

"THEY DID THIS TO ME!!!!? LOOK AT MY HAIR!! MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR!!" she shrieked.

"We'll get them back, we will pull a prank on them. Or I- I'll fight them!" said Sirius.

Emmeline stopped screaming. "No I have a better idea," an evil grin spread quickly across her face like wildfire.

Sirius loved her evil grin and knew she was planning something good. "What's that?"

"Someone told me that greasy Snape has a crush on me."

"Disgusting.... And your point is...." said Sirius.

"Well I suppose that they did this to ruin your plans of asking me. So ....just follow my lead," said Emmeline.

Emmeline hurried back out into the Great Hall with Sirius on her heels. She stomped in with this look of twisted fury on her face. In front of the whole school she bellowed, "How could you Sirius Black?"

Sirius did not like this plan, especially since it involved embarrassing him, but he knew he had to do it to get the girl. Who knows, maybe a little more too. "Emmeline, I didn't do it ! I swear it! It wasn't like that earlier! Please listen to me!"

"Everything is a joke to you Black! I can't believe you! And no I will not go with YOU!"

"But Emmeline I didn't do this!" yelled Sirius.

"I don't ever want to talk to you again Black!" screamed Emmeline.

Some of the students in the room were laughing because they thought Sirius' prank was funny, others were appalled at Emmeline's green hair.

Emmeline quickly ran out of the room pretending to be really upset and mumbling insults. Sirius chased after her. Lily, Hestia, James and Remus all jumped up and ran out of the Great Hall. It looked like some sort of relay race with how fast they were all running to catch up to each other. Either that or the house elves were giving away free desserts in the kitchen.

When the four that were chasing Sirius and Emmeline caught up to them in the Gryffindor common room (Sirius had chased Emmeline all the way there), everyone was completely out of breath. Hestia's normally flushed cheeks, were now redder than a tomato. Remus was so out of breathe that he keeled over.

"What happened? What did you do now?" demanded Lily angrily to Sirius, while shaking her finger at him. Lily stopped her questioning when she noticed the smiles on both of their faces and that Emmeline had grabbed Sirius' hand.

"Alright you guys, explain everything," she said, knowing something was definitely going on.

-L*W*S

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P.S. Candy! Your name is all over this chapter! LOL!