Summary: Lily hates James. James loves Lily. What will happen to make her
change her feelings toward him?
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex and Julia. Heehee.
Chapter 7: The Shrieking Shack
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The month of October when by unusually quickly. James and his gang had pulled as many pranks as they could, including putting spiders in a seventh year Slytherin's food. They couldn't wait for Halloween.
"James!" Lily cried as a boy figure ran passed her and grabbed her bag. She sighed. This was the second time that day he had done it. She continued walking to the Prefect meeting. When she entered the room, she took a seat next to James.
"Gimme my bag," she hissed. He didn't respond... only pointed to his cheek.
"Hell no."
"Then you won't get your bag back," he said simply and he turned back to Remus who was on his other side.
Lily sighed. 'It can't be that bad,' she told herself. 'It's only his cheek. I should be thankful he's not trying to make me kiss him on the lips or something.'
"Fine," she said to him. He turned around and smiled.
"I knew you'd come to your senses!" he said happily. She leaned over and quickly kissed him. She blushed slightly when she saw his smile.
"Now can I have it?"
"No."
"JAMES!" she yelled. Just at that moment, Professor O'Connell stepped into the room.
"Hello!" she smiled brightly. It was nauseating how enthusiastic she was. "Guess what?!"
"I give up!" James yelled, mimicking her peppy voice. She didn't notice.
"There's going to be a dance! On Halloween!" The rest of the meeting was spent on discussing what was going to be happening at the dance. "Magik" (A/N: lame, I know) was going to pay at the dance and could participate in the muggle tradition of bobbing for apples. There was going to be a contest for who could get the most apples.
"Now can I have my bag?" Lily asked James as the prefects filed out of the room.
"Kiss?" he asked in an innocent voice.
"No."
"Oh, alright," he said handing her the bag. She snatched it from him and stalked away.
"It was worth a try," James explained as Remus rolled his eyes.
About a week later, it was a Hogsmede weekend. Lily, Alex, Julia, and Samantha obviously went together while James, Sirius, Remus and Peter practically stalked them. They all wound up in the Three Broomsticks. The Marauders gradually snuck their way to the girls' table, though they didn't mind.
"I'm bored," Lily said suddenly.
"Deal with it," Samantha responded lazily.
"Let's play truth or dare," Peter suggested. Everyone agreed.
"Ooh! Ooh! I go first! I go first!" Sirius exclaimed, waving his hand around like a little kid.
"Alright, alright... jeez, calm dow!" Julia said to him.
"Ok... Peter! Truth or dare?" Peter turned red, as all eyes turned to him.
"Uh... truth?" he half asked, half said.
"Aw, wimp!" James laughed. Peter became redder.
"Alright," Sirius said, trying to think of a good truth. "Uh... hmm... err... oh! I've got one! Ok, is it true you still sleep with you're teddy bear?"
Peter became redder (A/N: if it's possible!) and answered, "Maybe." The game continued for awhile. Sirius stole a random stranger's butterbeer, Julia confessed she had a crush on Peter in the first year, and Remus stood up on the table and started making fun of himself. Then it was Remus's turn.
"Lily! Truth or dare?"
"Dare," she said with full confidence.
"Alright..." he looked at James and Sirius at this point, "I dare you to go into the Shrieking Shack!" Lily's eyes widened.
"No!" she said.
"You hafta do it, Lils, you chose 'dare'," Alex said.
Lily sat there for a minute. The Shrieking Shack was haunted! She couldn't go in there! She'd vanish, get killed or something! But she looked at everyone. All of her friends wanted her to go in. She was brave. 'I mean,' she thought to herself, 'I was put into Gryffindor for a reason.'
"Oh, alright," she finally breathed. "But only if you guys come in with me."
"But that totally defeats the purpose!" Julia exclaimed.
"No, no, no, it's alright!" James hurriedly answered. "We can go with her!"
"Good," Lily said as they left money on the table and left. They walked slowly to the gate of the shack.
"Let's go through the back," Samantha suggested.
Lily nodded. "It's awful quiet here today."
"I wonder why," James said, winking at Remus who held back a laugh (A/N: I'm assuming you know why). Lily nodded and everyone followed her as she snuck to the back window.
"How are we supposed to get in? It's boarded up!" she said. James walked up and kicked the wood which fell off. Lily climbed in first, followed by James, Remus, Alex, Julia, Samantha, and Peter trailing at the end. Peter groaned as he fell on his butt and James and Sirius started sniggering.
"Shut up!" Samantha hissed to them and they stopped.
The girls looked around in a mix of amazement and fright. The wallpaper what scratched at in various places and chairs were bitten and broken on the floor. The boys just whispered, not amazed one bit.
"I did this?" Remus asked looking around.
"Basically," Sirius told him with a shrug.
"What was that?" Julia asked turning around.
"Nothing!" Remus said nervously.
"Come on, lets go upstairs," James said and everyone followed him.
"I'm scared," Alex whined to Remus.
"Come on, this is cool!" he told her. She rolled her eyes.
Everyone snuck up the creaking staircase. The girls huddled together while the boys attempted to get them into the rooms.
"Come on, Julia, it's not that scary!" Sirius yelled as she squeezed his arm in fright.
"Are you kidding me?! This place is freakin' haunted!" she whispered anxiously. "I mean, do you see the scratches on the walls? The broken furniture? The-" she was cut off by Alex's hand.
"Shut up! Do you want to disturb the ghosts?" she asked, her eyes wide. Remus and Sirius couldn't hold back their laughter. Ghosts?!
"What's so funny?" Alex and Julia asked at the same time.
"You're being RIDICULOUS!" Remus said and Sirius laughed harder. Julia and Alex shot them angry looks and followed Peter, Samantha, James, and Lily into the first room. Sirius and Remus walked in too, still sniggering.
They immediately shivered when they walked into the big, empty room. It was mostly dark, though there was a slit of light coming from a space between the boards that covered to window. There were spider webs on every inch of wall and the small table in the corner was bitten up. Old pictures of medieval witches and wizards were broken, the people in them starring as the kids with a frightening glare. Some were still on the wall, some broken on the floor with no one in them.
"Please," a picture of an old man said in a wheezy voice. The 8 kids' heads snapped to their left. "Leave while you can... there's a monster... he comes here sometimes..." Sirius patted Julia's back as she hugged him tightly, her teeth chattering.
"I'm ready to go," Lily said nervously. "Anyone coming?" and with that she speed out of the room.
"Coming, Lils!" Julia said and she ran out of the freezing room. After her, Alex and Samantha left and the boys were left in the room.
"This is funny!" James whispered to his friends. "We should totally scare them!"
"Didn't we already do that?" Remus asked, but they agreed to giving the girls one more fright before leaving.
"Aren't you guys coming?" Lily asked from the bottom of the stairs. Peter, Sirius and Remus rushed down the stairs to the four girls.
"Ready to go!" Sirius said happily to the others and he started to walk towards the window where they had broken in.
"Wait, where's James?" Lily asked him. Sirius looked at her like she was mad.
"He followed you girls out of the room a minute ago," he said convincingly.
"No her didn't," Samantha said slowly.
"Yes he did."
"No, he didn't, Sirius!"
"Ok, ok, look," Remus said, breaking up the argument, "obviously, no one knows where James is, so let's just find him. God!" he said, frustrated. Peter nodded in agreement.
"Oh, if I know James, and I do, he's just hiding somewhere," Lily said to them as if she wasn't worried, though there was a slight anxious tone in her voice.
"How do you know? I mean, you guys are right... this place is haunted!" Sirius exclaimed in his best worried tone. "And anyway, he wouldn't pull a prank on us," he concluded, referring to Remus, Peter, and himself.
"No he wouldn't..." Lily said feeling a bit defeated. But then a smile lit up on her face. "Because you guys are in on it!"
Sirius put on an insulted face. "I can't believe you're accusing us of this!"
"Ok, whatever, let's just find him and leave!" Julia said and Alex nodded in agreement.
"Ok," Remus said, "why don't we slit up or something? We could just make a loud noise when we find him." So they agreed to his plan. Sirius, Julia, and Lily took upstairs while Remus and Alex, and Peter and Samantha took different parts of the main floor. While Sirius, Julia, and Lily looked in three separate rooms, all of which James wasn't hiding in, James hurried downstairs quietly. This happened a few times.
About a half hour into the search for James, he was hiding in a closet in the kitchen. Sirius, Julia, and Lily were downstairs in the next room.
"This is really scary," Julia said to Sirius, clinging to him.
"Aw, come on. You're with me!" he said in a happy tone. They continued flirting and then they were silent.
"Ya know, you guys aren't helping this search one bit, so I sugge-" Lily started before turning around to find Julia and Sirius making out. She frowned but let them be.
She continued searching a bit. The now very worried Lily stomped into the kitchen and looked around. It was extremely gross, complete with spider webs and rusty pots.
"James? Are you in here?" she asked hopefully. He heard here voice and opened the door a little. He spotted her walking towards him, looking in and under everything. A few seconds later, an empty can dropped. Lily jumped and whimpered.
"James, was that you?" she asked slowly walking towards the closet door. "James? This isn't funny... not one bit." She opened the door to find an empty closet with an old food can rolling on the floor. She started to panic. Maybe this wasn't James just playing a trick. Maybe this place WAS haunted, and he really WAS missing. Just as she started panting, James felt bad. He was really scaring her. The last thing he wanted to hurt her in anyway.
"BOO!" he screamed from the top shelf of the closet. Lily jumped and screamed, practically crying. He jumped down in front of her.
"YOU SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!" she yelled, clutching her chest.
"Sorry... I didn't mean to scare you THAT much," he admitted. He tried to comfort her, but she pushed him away and continued yelling.
"I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU JAMES POTTER!" she screamed. "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!"
"Would the reason that it scared you that I was missing be because... you care about me?" he teased, not expecting the answer she responded with.
"YES I CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU BLOODY GIT!" she screamed. Then she saw his face. He had a surprised look on and she realized what she had said. 'I just told James that I cared about him!' she told herself going red. 'What was I thinking?!' As James continued to stare at her, everyone came into the room, some (coughsiriusandremuscough) sniggering at what they had just heard. All of a sudden, Lily ran out of the room, and rushed out of the window.
----- Woo-hoo! Lily confessed that she cared about James! Yay! I wonder what she'll do next... in the mean time REVIEW! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Thank you!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex and Julia. Heehee.
Chapter 7: The Shrieking Shack
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The month of October when by unusually quickly. James and his gang had pulled as many pranks as they could, including putting spiders in a seventh year Slytherin's food. They couldn't wait for Halloween.
"James!" Lily cried as a boy figure ran passed her and grabbed her bag. She sighed. This was the second time that day he had done it. She continued walking to the Prefect meeting. When she entered the room, she took a seat next to James.
"Gimme my bag," she hissed. He didn't respond... only pointed to his cheek.
"Hell no."
"Then you won't get your bag back," he said simply and he turned back to Remus who was on his other side.
Lily sighed. 'It can't be that bad,' she told herself. 'It's only his cheek. I should be thankful he's not trying to make me kiss him on the lips or something.'
"Fine," she said to him. He turned around and smiled.
"I knew you'd come to your senses!" he said happily. She leaned over and quickly kissed him. She blushed slightly when she saw his smile.
"Now can I have it?"
"No."
"JAMES!" she yelled. Just at that moment, Professor O'Connell stepped into the room.
"Hello!" she smiled brightly. It was nauseating how enthusiastic she was. "Guess what?!"
"I give up!" James yelled, mimicking her peppy voice. She didn't notice.
"There's going to be a dance! On Halloween!" The rest of the meeting was spent on discussing what was going to be happening at the dance. "Magik" (A/N: lame, I know) was going to pay at the dance and could participate in the muggle tradition of bobbing for apples. There was going to be a contest for who could get the most apples.
"Now can I have my bag?" Lily asked James as the prefects filed out of the room.
"Kiss?" he asked in an innocent voice.
"No."
"Oh, alright," he said handing her the bag. She snatched it from him and stalked away.
"It was worth a try," James explained as Remus rolled his eyes.
About a week later, it was a Hogsmede weekend. Lily, Alex, Julia, and Samantha obviously went together while James, Sirius, Remus and Peter practically stalked them. They all wound up in the Three Broomsticks. The Marauders gradually snuck their way to the girls' table, though they didn't mind.
"I'm bored," Lily said suddenly.
"Deal with it," Samantha responded lazily.
"Let's play truth or dare," Peter suggested. Everyone agreed.
"Ooh! Ooh! I go first! I go first!" Sirius exclaimed, waving his hand around like a little kid.
"Alright, alright... jeez, calm dow!" Julia said to him.
"Ok... Peter! Truth or dare?" Peter turned red, as all eyes turned to him.
"Uh... truth?" he half asked, half said.
"Aw, wimp!" James laughed. Peter became redder.
"Alright," Sirius said, trying to think of a good truth. "Uh... hmm... err... oh! I've got one! Ok, is it true you still sleep with you're teddy bear?"
Peter became redder (A/N: if it's possible!) and answered, "Maybe." The game continued for awhile. Sirius stole a random stranger's butterbeer, Julia confessed she had a crush on Peter in the first year, and Remus stood up on the table and started making fun of himself. Then it was Remus's turn.
"Lily! Truth or dare?"
"Dare," she said with full confidence.
"Alright..." he looked at James and Sirius at this point, "I dare you to go into the Shrieking Shack!" Lily's eyes widened.
"No!" she said.
"You hafta do it, Lils, you chose 'dare'," Alex said.
Lily sat there for a minute. The Shrieking Shack was haunted! She couldn't go in there! She'd vanish, get killed or something! But she looked at everyone. All of her friends wanted her to go in. She was brave. 'I mean,' she thought to herself, 'I was put into Gryffindor for a reason.'
"Oh, alright," she finally breathed. "But only if you guys come in with me."
"But that totally defeats the purpose!" Julia exclaimed.
"No, no, no, it's alright!" James hurriedly answered. "We can go with her!"
"Good," Lily said as they left money on the table and left. They walked slowly to the gate of the shack.
"Let's go through the back," Samantha suggested.
Lily nodded. "It's awful quiet here today."
"I wonder why," James said, winking at Remus who held back a laugh (A/N: I'm assuming you know why). Lily nodded and everyone followed her as she snuck to the back window.
"How are we supposed to get in? It's boarded up!" she said. James walked up and kicked the wood which fell off. Lily climbed in first, followed by James, Remus, Alex, Julia, Samantha, and Peter trailing at the end. Peter groaned as he fell on his butt and James and Sirius started sniggering.
"Shut up!" Samantha hissed to them and they stopped.
The girls looked around in a mix of amazement and fright. The wallpaper what scratched at in various places and chairs were bitten and broken on the floor. The boys just whispered, not amazed one bit.
"I did this?" Remus asked looking around.
"Basically," Sirius told him with a shrug.
"What was that?" Julia asked turning around.
"Nothing!" Remus said nervously.
"Come on, lets go upstairs," James said and everyone followed him.
"I'm scared," Alex whined to Remus.
"Come on, this is cool!" he told her. She rolled her eyes.
Everyone snuck up the creaking staircase. The girls huddled together while the boys attempted to get them into the rooms.
"Come on, Julia, it's not that scary!" Sirius yelled as she squeezed his arm in fright.
"Are you kidding me?! This place is freakin' haunted!" she whispered anxiously. "I mean, do you see the scratches on the walls? The broken furniture? The-" she was cut off by Alex's hand.
"Shut up! Do you want to disturb the ghosts?" she asked, her eyes wide. Remus and Sirius couldn't hold back their laughter. Ghosts?!
"What's so funny?" Alex and Julia asked at the same time.
"You're being RIDICULOUS!" Remus said and Sirius laughed harder. Julia and Alex shot them angry looks and followed Peter, Samantha, James, and Lily into the first room. Sirius and Remus walked in too, still sniggering.
They immediately shivered when they walked into the big, empty room. It was mostly dark, though there was a slit of light coming from a space between the boards that covered to window. There were spider webs on every inch of wall and the small table in the corner was bitten up. Old pictures of medieval witches and wizards were broken, the people in them starring as the kids with a frightening glare. Some were still on the wall, some broken on the floor with no one in them.
"Please," a picture of an old man said in a wheezy voice. The 8 kids' heads snapped to their left. "Leave while you can... there's a monster... he comes here sometimes..." Sirius patted Julia's back as she hugged him tightly, her teeth chattering.
"I'm ready to go," Lily said nervously. "Anyone coming?" and with that she speed out of the room.
"Coming, Lils!" Julia said and she ran out of the freezing room. After her, Alex and Samantha left and the boys were left in the room.
"This is funny!" James whispered to his friends. "We should totally scare them!"
"Didn't we already do that?" Remus asked, but they agreed to giving the girls one more fright before leaving.
"Aren't you guys coming?" Lily asked from the bottom of the stairs. Peter, Sirius and Remus rushed down the stairs to the four girls.
"Ready to go!" Sirius said happily to the others and he started to walk towards the window where they had broken in.
"Wait, where's James?" Lily asked him. Sirius looked at her like she was mad.
"He followed you girls out of the room a minute ago," he said convincingly.
"No her didn't," Samantha said slowly.
"Yes he did."
"No, he didn't, Sirius!"
"Ok, ok, look," Remus said, breaking up the argument, "obviously, no one knows where James is, so let's just find him. God!" he said, frustrated. Peter nodded in agreement.
"Oh, if I know James, and I do, he's just hiding somewhere," Lily said to them as if she wasn't worried, though there was a slight anxious tone in her voice.
"How do you know? I mean, you guys are right... this place is haunted!" Sirius exclaimed in his best worried tone. "And anyway, he wouldn't pull a prank on us," he concluded, referring to Remus, Peter, and himself.
"No he wouldn't..." Lily said feeling a bit defeated. But then a smile lit up on her face. "Because you guys are in on it!"
Sirius put on an insulted face. "I can't believe you're accusing us of this!"
"Ok, whatever, let's just find him and leave!" Julia said and Alex nodded in agreement.
"Ok," Remus said, "why don't we slit up or something? We could just make a loud noise when we find him." So they agreed to his plan. Sirius, Julia, and Lily took upstairs while Remus and Alex, and Peter and Samantha took different parts of the main floor. While Sirius, Julia, and Lily looked in three separate rooms, all of which James wasn't hiding in, James hurried downstairs quietly. This happened a few times.
About a half hour into the search for James, he was hiding in a closet in the kitchen. Sirius, Julia, and Lily were downstairs in the next room.
"This is really scary," Julia said to Sirius, clinging to him.
"Aw, come on. You're with me!" he said in a happy tone. They continued flirting and then they were silent.
"Ya know, you guys aren't helping this search one bit, so I sugge-" Lily started before turning around to find Julia and Sirius making out. She frowned but let them be.
She continued searching a bit. The now very worried Lily stomped into the kitchen and looked around. It was extremely gross, complete with spider webs and rusty pots.
"James? Are you in here?" she asked hopefully. He heard here voice and opened the door a little. He spotted her walking towards him, looking in and under everything. A few seconds later, an empty can dropped. Lily jumped and whimpered.
"James, was that you?" she asked slowly walking towards the closet door. "James? This isn't funny... not one bit." She opened the door to find an empty closet with an old food can rolling on the floor. She started to panic. Maybe this wasn't James just playing a trick. Maybe this place WAS haunted, and he really WAS missing. Just as she started panting, James felt bad. He was really scaring her. The last thing he wanted to hurt her in anyway.
"BOO!" he screamed from the top shelf of the closet. Lily jumped and screamed, practically crying. He jumped down in front of her.
"YOU SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!" she yelled, clutching her chest.
"Sorry... I didn't mean to scare you THAT much," he admitted. He tried to comfort her, but she pushed him away and continued yelling.
"I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU JAMES POTTER!" she screamed. "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!"
"Would the reason that it scared you that I was missing be because... you care about me?" he teased, not expecting the answer she responded with.
"YES I CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU BLOODY GIT!" she screamed. Then she saw his face. He had a surprised look on and she realized what she had said. 'I just told James that I cared about him!' she told herself going red. 'What was I thinking?!' As James continued to stare at her, everyone came into the room, some (coughsiriusandremuscough) sniggering at what they had just heard. All of a sudden, Lily ran out of the room, and rushed out of the window.
----- Woo-hoo! Lily confessed that she cared about James! Yay! I wonder what she'll do next... in the mean time REVIEW! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Thank you!