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A/N: hello again! This chapter took some thinking, so I hope you like it. Right now, I'm listening to Matchbox Twenty 'Bright Lights' and I'm very easily distracted. God I love this music! Did I ever say how much I love music? Anyway, read on, my readers, read on! Oh and THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE REVIEWS, YOU ALL ROCK!!!
Chapter Four
Decorators dream!
"It's perfect, guys," James wheedled, pacing up and down in front of them.
"I dunno," Sirius said dubiously. "It seems kind of extreme. I mean, redecorating their room? They seem kind of happy the way they are........."
The boys were sprawled on the grass in front of the lake, on Monday afternoon. Technically, they should have been studying for their Transfiguration quiz scheduled for the next day, but James was such a whiz at Transfiguration, he didn't feel the need for books, and Sirius couldn't be screwed. Remus and Peter had brought their books outside, and they were leaning against the tree, quizzing each other and listening to James at once.
Sirius was sprawled on the grass, fiddling with a small version of a quaffle, flipping it through his finger to catch it with his other hand. James was standing in front of the group, demanding their attention. He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it up. He figured that if he had to have messy hair, he might as well make it very messy.
"What do you mean 'happy with the way they are'?" he said, frowning. "They have the most boring dorm ever! They need help! Trust me, they'll be thanking us once we're done."
"He does have a point," Remus commented. "They have no character to their room. It's all very boring."
"Are you talking about the girls?" Peter said, looking up from his book. "Coz if you are, then I think James is right. Change is good. It keeps things interesting. "
"You took the words right out of my mouth," James said, smiling. Actually, he knew for a fact that lily Evans loved her dorm and how it was. The girls were going to kill him after what he was going to do to their room. But it would be worth it just to see the looks on their faces. Sirius sighed.
"Yeah, ok, whatever," he said. "Maybe you're right. We can decorate it this weekend."
James grinned. "I've got all that pretty much under control. We just need to decide on what theme we're going to do. I think it'd be cool if we tried to bring out the rebel in the girls."
"Will we be able to do it without them walking in?" Peter asked thoughtfully.
"Leave that to me," James said slyly. "I'll take care of everything.
****
"They're up to something," Lily said, peering through the gap in the curtain separating them from the boys. The Marauders had they heads together and were whispering furiously. "And I want to know whose lives they're making miserable this time."
Sarah rolled her eyes.
"You're too suspicious, Lils," she sighed. "Lighten up."
Lily turned around with a groan.
"I can't," she whined. "Just having them in here grates on my nerves."
"Let me have a look," Andrea said, getting off her bed and walking over to the curtain. She looked through. "Yep. They're up to something. I know that look on Sirius' face very well."
Sarah shook her head in defeat.
"I'm going down to the Common room," she said, grabbing a book from her bed and pushing aside the hanging to walk to the door.
The boys immediately leapt apart and watched her carefully as she walked past them, rolling her eyes, and slamming the door behind her.
It was Wednesday, and the seventh year Charms class had been cancelled, leaving them with the whole afternoon to themselves.
Lily flopped onto her bed. She stared at the ceiling, wracking her brain, trying to come up with what they were doing.
"That's it," she said, sitting up. "I just have to go see what they're doing."
"Curiosity killed the cat," Andrea remarked. "But then, you're more like a tiger anyway."
Lily grinned.
"And this tigers moving in for the kill." She ripped apart the hangings and strolled into the boy's side of the room.
"Hey!" James said indignantly. "I thought you weren't allowed to come into our side of the dorm."
"I just wanted to see how you are,' lily said, smiling disarmingly. James frowned at her suspiciously.
"We're good," he said shortly. "Now go away."
Lily rolled her eyes. "Alright, I won't tell you what I came to tell you." She turned to walk away.
"Wait," Remus said, earning himself a glare from James. "What is it?"
"I just wanted to tell you all that us girls will be out tomorrow night. We have to go to a Charms competition in Hogsmeade. So we won't be in 'till about 11 o'clock."
"Cool. Get lost," James said shortly.
Lily stared at the back of his head, imagining some extremely violent acts she could carry out on it, then stalked outside, slamming the door after her.
"Perfect," James purred after her. "We can do this tomorrow. The sooner the better."
***
It was almost midnight when the girls stumbled into the dorm, half asleep and utterly sick of Charms.
Fumbling with her wand, Lily managed to point her wand at the candles and mutter a spell to light them. Almost simultaneously, their mouths dropped open at what they saw.
The walls were painted black, and several posters of Wizard punk bands covered the spaces above their beds. Their hangings had been changed to black and silver, and their trunks made to look as if they had bloodstains on them. On the floor next to Lily's bed was what looked to be a skeleton, one hand chained to her bedpost. Slashes of red paint streaked through the black walls, resembling blood. Their notice board now looked like a huge slab of bloody meat, and their innocent pins were replaced with small daggers.
For a few seconds, they simply looked at their dorm in shock. Then-
"POTTER!" Lily shrieked, storming over to their side of the dorm, ripping the curtains so hard that they fell to the floor.
James turned over in his bed, muttering something. Heedless of the mess she was wading through, Lily marched over to his bed and pulled the coverlet off him, revealing his half naked body sprawled with his face buried in his pillow.
She pulled back her arms and slapped him hard across his shoulder.
He yelped, coming fully into awareness of what was happening.
"Ow! What was that for?" he said, sitting up and reaching for his glasses.
"That was for massacring our dorm," she said, eyes blazing, her brilliant red hair adding to the effect her anger had on her face.
"Massacring? What?" he said. He shook his head and looked around. Lily glared at him, and he shrugged.
"What did you do to our dorm?" Sarah said. "Why is everything so........well, death-ish?"
"Oh.......that," he said. A hint of a smile appeared on his face. "We thought you'd like it. You know, a bit of a change........"
Sirius began to stir, and Remus was watching them through sleepy eyes.
"Well, change it back," Lily said shortly, folding her arms.
"What don't you like it?" he said, looking hurt. "After all the effort we went to?"
"Potter, this isn't a game. Change it back now."
James looked away. Remus rolled his eyes and got out of bed. He pulled on a shirt from the pile on the ground and came to stand with James.
"Girls, we're sorry," he said. "I guess we shouldn't have done this. But we thought it'd be fun, and we got kind of.....carried away."
Andrea marche dover to Sirius' bed and prodded him hard.
"Wake up," she said. He rolled over. She prodded him again. "Wake up and change our room back. Now."
He sighed and pushed his way into sitting position.
"I can't," he said sleepily.
"What do you mean you can't?" she snapped.
"James put a permanent-sticking charm on everything," he explained, rubbing a hand wearily over his face. "Now can I go back to sleep?"
Andrea ignored him and turned to stare at James.
Sarah shook her head in anger, and Lisa flopped onto her newly-decorated bed in defeat. Lily looked angry enough to do James some serious damage, and he edged away from her slightly.
"You........You-," apparently she couldn't find a word strong enough to describe what she thought of him at that moment
"So we can't remove anything?" Grace said from her position in the doorway.
"Well, I can remove one thing," James said, unable to quite hide his grin. He waved his wand and the skeleton chained to Lily's bed disappeared.
She turned to him, breathing heavily, too angry to say anything. He grinned at her openly. Even Remus and Sirius couldn't help but chuckle slightly, and Grace had her eyebrows raised as far as they could go.
"I will never forgive you," Lily finally grated out. "Never!" with that, she stormed over to her bed and yanked the black hangings closed.
Shaking their heads, the other girls followed her example, leaving the boys feeling ashamed and laughing at the same time.
James grinned. Finally things were picking up.
****
A/N: you like? If you didn't like this, Please let me know why, and what you would like instead. So, 10 more reviews, and I will get the next chapter out soon, I promise! Please read my other fics too. Oh, and if you like one chapter fics, check our 'Sierra Sitruc', an author I stumbled over the other day. She has great one chapter fics, and she writes really well. Cya, and review!
~Jaizar
A/N: hello again! This chapter took some thinking, so I hope you like it. Right now, I'm listening to Matchbox Twenty 'Bright Lights' and I'm very easily distracted. God I love this music! Did I ever say how much I love music? Anyway, read on, my readers, read on! Oh and THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE REVIEWS, YOU ALL ROCK!!!
Chapter Four
Decorators dream!
"It's perfect, guys," James wheedled, pacing up and down in front of them.
"I dunno," Sirius said dubiously. "It seems kind of extreme. I mean, redecorating their room? They seem kind of happy the way they are........."
The boys were sprawled on the grass in front of the lake, on Monday afternoon. Technically, they should have been studying for their Transfiguration quiz scheduled for the next day, but James was such a whiz at Transfiguration, he didn't feel the need for books, and Sirius couldn't be screwed. Remus and Peter had brought their books outside, and they were leaning against the tree, quizzing each other and listening to James at once.
Sirius was sprawled on the grass, fiddling with a small version of a quaffle, flipping it through his finger to catch it with his other hand. James was standing in front of the group, demanding their attention. He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it up. He figured that if he had to have messy hair, he might as well make it very messy.
"What do you mean 'happy with the way they are'?" he said, frowning. "They have the most boring dorm ever! They need help! Trust me, they'll be thanking us once we're done."
"He does have a point," Remus commented. "They have no character to their room. It's all very boring."
"Are you talking about the girls?" Peter said, looking up from his book. "Coz if you are, then I think James is right. Change is good. It keeps things interesting. "
"You took the words right out of my mouth," James said, smiling. Actually, he knew for a fact that lily Evans loved her dorm and how it was. The girls were going to kill him after what he was going to do to their room. But it would be worth it just to see the looks on their faces. Sirius sighed.
"Yeah, ok, whatever," he said. "Maybe you're right. We can decorate it this weekend."
James grinned. "I've got all that pretty much under control. We just need to decide on what theme we're going to do. I think it'd be cool if we tried to bring out the rebel in the girls."
"Will we be able to do it without them walking in?" Peter asked thoughtfully.
"Leave that to me," James said slyly. "I'll take care of everything.
****
"They're up to something," Lily said, peering through the gap in the curtain separating them from the boys. The Marauders had they heads together and were whispering furiously. "And I want to know whose lives they're making miserable this time."
Sarah rolled her eyes.
"You're too suspicious, Lils," she sighed. "Lighten up."
Lily turned around with a groan.
"I can't," she whined. "Just having them in here grates on my nerves."
"Let me have a look," Andrea said, getting off her bed and walking over to the curtain. She looked through. "Yep. They're up to something. I know that look on Sirius' face very well."
Sarah shook her head in defeat.
"I'm going down to the Common room," she said, grabbing a book from her bed and pushing aside the hanging to walk to the door.
The boys immediately leapt apart and watched her carefully as she walked past them, rolling her eyes, and slamming the door behind her.
It was Wednesday, and the seventh year Charms class had been cancelled, leaving them with the whole afternoon to themselves.
Lily flopped onto her bed. She stared at the ceiling, wracking her brain, trying to come up with what they were doing.
"That's it," she said, sitting up. "I just have to go see what they're doing."
"Curiosity killed the cat," Andrea remarked. "But then, you're more like a tiger anyway."
Lily grinned.
"And this tigers moving in for the kill." She ripped apart the hangings and strolled into the boy's side of the room.
"Hey!" James said indignantly. "I thought you weren't allowed to come into our side of the dorm."
"I just wanted to see how you are,' lily said, smiling disarmingly. James frowned at her suspiciously.
"We're good," he said shortly. "Now go away."
Lily rolled her eyes. "Alright, I won't tell you what I came to tell you." She turned to walk away.
"Wait," Remus said, earning himself a glare from James. "What is it?"
"I just wanted to tell you all that us girls will be out tomorrow night. We have to go to a Charms competition in Hogsmeade. So we won't be in 'till about 11 o'clock."
"Cool. Get lost," James said shortly.
Lily stared at the back of his head, imagining some extremely violent acts she could carry out on it, then stalked outside, slamming the door after her.
"Perfect," James purred after her. "We can do this tomorrow. The sooner the better."
***
It was almost midnight when the girls stumbled into the dorm, half asleep and utterly sick of Charms.
Fumbling with her wand, Lily managed to point her wand at the candles and mutter a spell to light them. Almost simultaneously, their mouths dropped open at what they saw.
The walls were painted black, and several posters of Wizard punk bands covered the spaces above their beds. Their hangings had been changed to black and silver, and their trunks made to look as if they had bloodstains on them. On the floor next to Lily's bed was what looked to be a skeleton, one hand chained to her bedpost. Slashes of red paint streaked through the black walls, resembling blood. Their notice board now looked like a huge slab of bloody meat, and their innocent pins were replaced with small daggers.
For a few seconds, they simply looked at their dorm in shock. Then-
"POTTER!" Lily shrieked, storming over to their side of the dorm, ripping the curtains so hard that they fell to the floor.
James turned over in his bed, muttering something. Heedless of the mess she was wading through, Lily marched over to his bed and pulled the coverlet off him, revealing his half naked body sprawled with his face buried in his pillow.
She pulled back her arms and slapped him hard across his shoulder.
He yelped, coming fully into awareness of what was happening.
"Ow! What was that for?" he said, sitting up and reaching for his glasses.
"That was for massacring our dorm," she said, eyes blazing, her brilliant red hair adding to the effect her anger had on her face.
"Massacring? What?" he said. He shook his head and looked around. Lily glared at him, and he shrugged.
"What did you do to our dorm?" Sarah said. "Why is everything so........well, death-ish?"
"Oh.......that," he said. A hint of a smile appeared on his face. "We thought you'd like it. You know, a bit of a change........"
Sirius began to stir, and Remus was watching them through sleepy eyes.
"Well, change it back," Lily said shortly, folding her arms.
"What don't you like it?" he said, looking hurt. "After all the effort we went to?"
"Potter, this isn't a game. Change it back now."
James looked away. Remus rolled his eyes and got out of bed. He pulled on a shirt from the pile on the ground and came to stand with James.
"Girls, we're sorry," he said. "I guess we shouldn't have done this. But we thought it'd be fun, and we got kind of.....carried away."
Andrea marche dover to Sirius' bed and prodded him hard.
"Wake up," she said. He rolled over. She prodded him again. "Wake up and change our room back. Now."
He sighed and pushed his way into sitting position.
"I can't," he said sleepily.
"What do you mean you can't?" she snapped.
"James put a permanent-sticking charm on everything," he explained, rubbing a hand wearily over his face. "Now can I go back to sleep?"
Andrea ignored him and turned to stare at James.
Sarah shook her head in anger, and Lisa flopped onto her newly-decorated bed in defeat. Lily looked angry enough to do James some serious damage, and he edged away from her slightly.
"You........You-," apparently she couldn't find a word strong enough to describe what she thought of him at that moment
"So we can't remove anything?" Grace said from her position in the doorway.
"Well, I can remove one thing," James said, unable to quite hide his grin. He waved his wand and the skeleton chained to Lily's bed disappeared.
She turned to him, breathing heavily, too angry to say anything. He grinned at her openly. Even Remus and Sirius couldn't help but chuckle slightly, and Grace had her eyebrows raised as far as they could go.
"I will never forgive you," Lily finally grated out. "Never!" with that, she stormed over to her bed and yanked the black hangings closed.
Shaking their heads, the other girls followed her example, leaving the boys feeling ashamed and laughing at the same time.
James grinned. Finally things were picking up.
****
A/N: you like? If you didn't like this, Please let me know why, and what you would like instead. So, 10 more reviews, and I will get the next chapter out soon, I promise! Please read my other fics too. Oh, and if you like one chapter fics, check our 'Sierra Sitruc', an author I stumbled over the other day. She has great one chapter fics, and she writes really well. Cya, and review!
~Jaizar