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, Julia, and Helen. Heehee.
Chapter 22: Tag and Wasted Slytherins
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A few days passed by, and it was already Tuesday. The Marauders were sitting in the common room, doing absolutely nothing.
"I'm bored," Sirius said.
"What else is new?" Remus asked as he looked up from his book.
"Let's do something!" Sirius suggested.
James looked up from the Marauders Map. "Like what?"
"I dunno, let's play tag outside or something. We can get the girls to play and some other people..." Sirius said, but James was already by the stairs, calling to the girls.
"Hey, girls! We're gonna play tag outside, you wanna come?" The girls rushed downstairs with their winter coats on.
"Coming, coming, coming..." Julia said. Within 10 minutes, they were outside, looking for people to play with them.
"Gilderoy!" Lily called to the blond haired boy that was shivering in his bright green robes. "Do you want to play tag with us?"
"Sure, my dear," he said to her as he grinned.
"Yo, Chang, we're playing tag, join us!" Sirius said happily to an Asian boy having a snow ball fight with his friends Amos Diggory, Sally Walsh, and Freddy Brown.
"Sure, can they play?" he asked. Sirius shrugged and nodded.
In a few minutes, they had about 20 people playing from their year, several people from Hufflepuff and a bunch from Ravenclaw. A couple of people from Slytherin - Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, and two others – joined in, thinking this was their chance at getting back at the Marauders.
"Magic Freeze Tag?" Remus suggested to everyone.
"How do you play "Magic Freeze Tag"?" Lily inquired.
"It's like muggle freeze tag, except when you're tagged by the person who's 'it', you freeze in the exact position and you can't move an inch," Harriet Silverman, a Hufflepuff, explained. "You can still talk though," she added as she brushed a few snowflakes off of her chocolate-colored skin.
"Who's gonna be 'it'?" piped up a Ravenclaw named Sal Johnson.
"Er...," Remus started, but then James interrupted.
"I'm 'it'!" he yelled. And with that, the game started.
"Get away!" Peter screamed when he saw James running toward him. He ran into Severus Snape who threw him to the ground.
"Hey!" James called to him. "Snivellus! Get off of Peter!" He tagged both of them. He then turned around when he heard the crunching of snow.
He saw Julia creeping across an open space and took this opportunity to tag her. He walked fast towards her, but she didn't know he was there. All of a sudden, she looked up to see James grinning at her, about 7 feet away. Her dark blue eyes widened and she automatically ran for her life as James sprinted after her.
"OVER HERE, YOU GREAT PRAT!" Sirius yelled from the greenhouses. James looked in back of him to see Sirius with his tongue out and his hands waving by his ears. James sniggered and ran to him. This enabled Julia to run to Peter and un-freeze him.
"What about me, Smith?" Snape spat at her, his hands out in front of him.
"Uh, no," she said and she followed Peter away from him. He looked around for Malfoy and spotted him with a blonde girl.
"Lucius!" he yelled at his friend. Malfoy looked around, spotted Snape and sniggered.
"What is it? Gryffindors get you?" and he teased and turned back to Narcissa Black, Sirius's cousin. Snape cursed him out, but didn't speak loud enough for Malfoy to hear him.
"Lily, get over here!" James yelled by the lake. Lily peaked out from behind a tree and quickly went back into hiding when she saw James looking around for her.
"I saw you come over here before," he said to nothing. "You can't hide for long."
Lily giggled to herself as she spied James tripping on the root of a nearby tree. He quickly got up and messed up his hair. She smiled at how ridiculous he was.
"I found you!" he called as he looked on the other side of a tree. His face fell when he saw that no one was there. Lily saw him approaching her tree and quickly sneaked away when he wasn't looking.
"Ah-ha!" he yelled as he hopped around her tree. He frowned slightly.
"Jeez, Lil, I just saw you over here, you could've possibly-"
"BOO!" she screamed. He jumped around and fell again. She screamed when she saw his mock-upset face and ran as fast as she could. He jumped up and shot after her. But before he could catch her, he was stopped by Amos Diggory.
"Ahh!" Amos yelled when he realized who he had run into. James quickly tagged him. Amos stopped moving, his hands over his mouth and his eyes wide. James looked around for Lily, but she was gone from sight.
"Damn," they said at the same time.
Across the grounds...
"Come on!" Alex said pulling Sally Walsh through the trees with her. "We need to get Sirius and Remus! They're frozen by the gamekeeper's hut!" she exclaimed, obviously out of breath. They creped through the outskirts of the forest and silently made their way toward the two boys. They were both in very comical positions. Sirius's left foot was up in the air and his dark brown eyes were shut tightly. His arms were out in front of him, as if he was cowering from a dangerous animal. Remus's eyes were open, as well as his mouth. He was hiding behind Sirius, ducking out of view. He was on his knees, his hands in the cold snow. The two girls giggled when they saw this.
"Oh, gosh that's funny," Sally whispered as they approached the horror- stricken boys. They quickly tapped them and the boys sighed with relief.
"Sheesh, we thought we'd NEVER get out of there!" Sirius moaned as he cracked his neck. Remus nodded as he stretched his arms. The girls grabbed the two boys as they saw James trudging over to them. They wormed their way through the edge of the forest, away from the spot where Sirius and Remus were stuck. But as they tiptoed through the trees, they bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going!" Bellatrix Black spat at the four of them.
"Oh, shut it, Bellatrix," Sirius sighed as he started to creep past his girl cousin.
"Or you're gonna do what?" she sneered, grabbing his collar. He choked a bit.
"Er, I'll tell everyone what you sleep with," he said as he tried to get out of his grasp. She immediately left go and hurried the other way, red as a beet.
"I thought so!" he called after her as he rubbed his neck.
"How do you survive as her cousin?" Remus questioned with a nasty look on his pale face.
Sirius shrugged as they continued walking. "I dunno... at least Narcissa can keep her mouth shut every once in awhile." They hurried out of the forest and they spotted James.
"Eek!" Sally squeaked as James turned around. The four of them hurried in different directions like cockroaches when the light is turned on. Sirius ran into several frozen people as he tried to escape James. Henry Chang ran towards Lily after being un-frozen by Sirius and freed her. But before she could run anywhere, James tackled her.
"Get off, James!" she yelled at him as he pretended to be dead on her. He got up after a few minutes and looked down on her. She couldn't move.
"I hate you, Potter," she yelled when she realized she was frozen. He winked at her and skipped away, looking for new victims. She sighed and waited for someone to get her. A few minutes later, Julia did a double-take when she saw her friend sprawled on the ground.
"Heehee, James got ya, Lily?" she said giggling.
"Ya-huh, what was your first clue?" Lily asked sarcastically. Julia giggled again. "Un-freeze me?"
"Where'd he go?" Julia asked. "Which direction?"
"To your right," Lily breathed.
"Thanks!" Julia yelled and she ran to her left.
"Wait... wait, Julia...!" Lily called after her. "She forgot to un-freeze me! Jeez, she's such a dumb blonde..."
(A/N: Eek! How do I stop this? When? Where? Ahh!)
Meanwhile, a bunch of kids broke into the gamekeeper's hut.
"God, he doesn't have any butterbeer!" Malfoy exclaimed as he raided the refrigerator.
"Any fire-whisky?" Bellatrix asked him. He came back a couple of seconds later with four bottles for fire-whisky. He passed them out.
"Jeez, how does he live in this small place?" Narcissa asked. Snape shrugged.
"My house could fit over fifty of these puny shacks in it..." Lucius Malfoy started.
"Oh, do shut up," Bellatrix snapped at him.
"At least my cousin isn't Sirius Black," he sneered at her. Narcissa smacked him.
"HE'S MY COUSIN TOO YOU KNOW!" she yelled. He turned red and Bellatrix sniggered. Snape finished off his fire-whisky.
"Are there any more?" he asked Malfoy. Malfoy drank the last drop of his and headed to the refrigerator.
After about an hour, the four were obviously drunk.
"Whut time is it *hic*," Snape asked.
"I dunno... *hic*... twelve-teen o'clock?" Bellatrix suggested as she stumbled to the refrigerator to get more fire-whisky.
Narcissa snored loudly on the couch as Malfoy fell in front of it.
"Ow," he said as he rubbed his head, though he didn't get up.
"Haha, Lucius, you're *hic* drunk!" Snape yelled and he immediately started laughing.
"Nope," Malfoy yelled at the dust bunnies under the couch. "No 'm not!" Narcissa snored loudly again.
"'ere's no more *hic* drinks!" Bellatrix yelled as she rested her head on a shelf in the refrigerator.
"Dammit!" Snape yelled. Bellatrix staggered forward and fell onto him.
"Get off!" he roared but she just kissed him. (A/N: WHY she kissed him, I do not know. I was just possessed to write it. Who would want to kiss him?)
"Whoa!" Malfoy yelled idiotically as he turned his head and looked up at them. "Snape's gettin' some action!"
"Hm, bugger off," he yelled at him when Bellatrix got off of him. She fell to the floor, but didn't move.
"Ah!" Narcissa yelled as she woke up. "Where am I?!"
"Shut it," Malfoy moaned grumpily as he turned back to the dust under the old couch.
"Ha!" Bellatrix yelled randomly as she smashed a bottle onto the floor. Snape looked out the window and saw the snow falling heavily. Everyone had already gone inside.
"Maybe we should *hic* go," he suggested. Bellatrix stood up and headed for the door. She struggled with the doorknob for a moment but finally got it to open. The wind hit her face and she forced herself out of the hut, the other three stumbling behind her.
----- Weird way to end it I think. Whatever, I had no choice! Was it too weird how I went from following the Gryffindors to following the Slytherins? Hopefully it wasn't. Ok, sorry I didn't update right away, I wasn't here yesterday. Thank you so, so, so, much for your reviews. I love you all!
Wow, you people really need to REVIEW, so REVIEW please!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Rien. Niente. Well, except for Samantha, Alex, Julia, and Helen. Heehee.
Chapter 22: Tag and Wasted Slytherins
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A few days passed by, and it was already Tuesday. The Marauders were sitting in the common room, doing absolutely nothing.
"I'm bored," Sirius said.
"What else is new?" Remus asked as he looked up from his book.
"Let's do something!" Sirius suggested.
James looked up from the Marauders Map. "Like what?"
"I dunno, let's play tag outside or something. We can get the girls to play and some other people..." Sirius said, but James was already by the stairs, calling to the girls.
"Hey, girls! We're gonna play tag outside, you wanna come?" The girls rushed downstairs with their winter coats on.
"Coming, coming, coming..." Julia said. Within 10 minutes, they were outside, looking for people to play with them.
"Gilderoy!" Lily called to the blond haired boy that was shivering in his bright green robes. "Do you want to play tag with us?"
"Sure, my dear," he said to her as he grinned.
"Yo, Chang, we're playing tag, join us!" Sirius said happily to an Asian boy having a snow ball fight with his friends Amos Diggory, Sally Walsh, and Freddy Brown.
"Sure, can they play?" he asked. Sirius shrugged and nodded.
In a few minutes, they had about 20 people playing from their year, several people from Hufflepuff and a bunch from Ravenclaw. A couple of people from Slytherin - Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, and two others – joined in, thinking this was their chance at getting back at the Marauders.
"Magic Freeze Tag?" Remus suggested to everyone.
"How do you play "Magic Freeze Tag"?" Lily inquired.
"It's like muggle freeze tag, except when you're tagged by the person who's 'it', you freeze in the exact position and you can't move an inch," Harriet Silverman, a Hufflepuff, explained. "You can still talk though," she added as she brushed a few snowflakes off of her chocolate-colored skin.
"Who's gonna be 'it'?" piped up a Ravenclaw named Sal Johnson.
"Er...," Remus started, but then James interrupted.
"I'm 'it'!" he yelled. And with that, the game started.
"Get away!" Peter screamed when he saw James running toward him. He ran into Severus Snape who threw him to the ground.
"Hey!" James called to him. "Snivellus! Get off of Peter!" He tagged both of them. He then turned around when he heard the crunching of snow.
He saw Julia creeping across an open space and took this opportunity to tag her. He walked fast towards her, but she didn't know he was there. All of a sudden, she looked up to see James grinning at her, about 7 feet away. Her dark blue eyes widened and she automatically ran for her life as James sprinted after her.
"OVER HERE, YOU GREAT PRAT!" Sirius yelled from the greenhouses. James looked in back of him to see Sirius with his tongue out and his hands waving by his ears. James sniggered and ran to him. This enabled Julia to run to Peter and un-freeze him.
"What about me, Smith?" Snape spat at her, his hands out in front of him.
"Uh, no," she said and she followed Peter away from him. He looked around for Malfoy and spotted him with a blonde girl.
"Lucius!" he yelled at his friend. Malfoy looked around, spotted Snape and sniggered.
"What is it? Gryffindors get you?" and he teased and turned back to Narcissa Black, Sirius's cousin. Snape cursed him out, but didn't speak loud enough for Malfoy to hear him.
"Lily, get over here!" James yelled by the lake. Lily peaked out from behind a tree and quickly went back into hiding when she saw James looking around for her.
"I saw you come over here before," he said to nothing. "You can't hide for long."
Lily giggled to herself as she spied James tripping on the root of a nearby tree. He quickly got up and messed up his hair. She smiled at how ridiculous he was.
"I found you!" he called as he looked on the other side of a tree. His face fell when he saw that no one was there. Lily saw him approaching her tree and quickly sneaked away when he wasn't looking.
"Ah-ha!" he yelled as he hopped around her tree. He frowned slightly.
"Jeez, Lil, I just saw you over here, you could've possibly-"
"BOO!" she screamed. He jumped around and fell again. She screamed when she saw his mock-upset face and ran as fast as she could. He jumped up and shot after her. But before he could catch her, he was stopped by Amos Diggory.
"Ahh!" Amos yelled when he realized who he had run into. James quickly tagged him. Amos stopped moving, his hands over his mouth and his eyes wide. James looked around for Lily, but she was gone from sight.
"Damn," they said at the same time.
Across the grounds...
"Come on!" Alex said pulling Sally Walsh through the trees with her. "We need to get Sirius and Remus! They're frozen by the gamekeeper's hut!" she exclaimed, obviously out of breath. They creped through the outskirts of the forest and silently made their way toward the two boys. They were both in very comical positions. Sirius's left foot was up in the air and his dark brown eyes were shut tightly. His arms were out in front of him, as if he was cowering from a dangerous animal. Remus's eyes were open, as well as his mouth. He was hiding behind Sirius, ducking out of view. He was on his knees, his hands in the cold snow. The two girls giggled when they saw this.
"Oh, gosh that's funny," Sally whispered as they approached the horror- stricken boys. They quickly tapped them and the boys sighed with relief.
"Sheesh, we thought we'd NEVER get out of there!" Sirius moaned as he cracked his neck. Remus nodded as he stretched his arms. The girls grabbed the two boys as they saw James trudging over to them. They wormed their way through the edge of the forest, away from the spot where Sirius and Remus were stuck. But as they tiptoed through the trees, they bumped into someone.
"Watch where you're going!" Bellatrix Black spat at the four of them.
"Oh, shut it, Bellatrix," Sirius sighed as he started to creep past his girl cousin.
"Or you're gonna do what?" she sneered, grabbing his collar. He choked a bit.
"Er, I'll tell everyone what you sleep with," he said as he tried to get out of his grasp. She immediately left go and hurried the other way, red as a beet.
"I thought so!" he called after her as he rubbed his neck.
"How do you survive as her cousin?" Remus questioned with a nasty look on his pale face.
Sirius shrugged as they continued walking. "I dunno... at least Narcissa can keep her mouth shut every once in awhile." They hurried out of the forest and they spotted James.
"Eek!" Sally squeaked as James turned around. The four of them hurried in different directions like cockroaches when the light is turned on. Sirius ran into several frozen people as he tried to escape James. Henry Chang ran towards Lily after being un-frozen by Sirius and freed her. But before she could run anywhere, James tackled her.
"Get off, James!" she yelled at him as he pretended to be dead on her. He got up after a few minutes and looked down on her. She couldn't move.
"I hate you, Potter," she yelled when she realized she was frozen. He winked at her and skipped away, looking for new victims. She sighed and waited for someone to get her. A few minutes later, Julia did a double-take when she saw her friend sprawled on the ground.
"Heehee, James got ya, Lily?" she said giggling.
"Ya-huh, what was your first clue?" Lily asked sarcastically. Julia giggled again. "Un-freeze me?"
"Where'd he go?" Julia asked. "Which direction?"
"To your right," Lily breathed.
"Thanks!" Julia yelled and she ran to her left.
"Wait... wait, Julia...!" Lily called after her. "She forgot to un-freeze me! Jeez, she's such a dumb blonde..."
(A/N: Eek! How do I stop this? When? Where? Ahh!)
Meanwhile, a bunch of kids broke into the gamekeeper's hut.
"God, he doesn't have any butterbeer!" Malfoy exclaimed as he raided the refrigerator.
"Any fire-whisky?" Bellatrix asked him. He came back a couple of seconds later with four bottles for fire-whisky. He passed them out.
"Jeez, how does he live in this small place?" Narcissa asked. Snape shrugged.
"My house could fit over fifty of these puny shacks in it..." Lucius Malfoy started.
"Oh, do shut up," Bellatrix snapped at him.
"At least my cousin isn't Sirius Black," he sneered at her. Narcissa smacked him.
"HE'S MY COUSIN TOO YOU KNOW!" she yelled. He turned red and Bellatrix sniggered. Snape finished off his fire-whisky.
"Are there any more?" he asked Malfoy. Malfoy drank the last drop of his and headed to the refrigerator.
After about an hour, the four were obviously drunk.
"Whut time is it *hic*," Snape asked.
"I dunno... *hic*... twelve-teen o'clock?" Bellatrix suggested as she stumbled to the refrigerator to get more fire-whisky.
Narcissa snored loudly on the couch as Malfoy fell in front of it.
"Ow," he said as he rubbed his head, though he didn't get up.
"Haha, Lucius, you're *hic* drunk!" Snape yelled and he immediately started laughing.
"Nope," Malfoy yelled at the dust bunnies under the couch. "No 'm not!" Narcissa snored loudly again.
"'ere's no more *hic* drinks!" Bellatrix yelled as she rested her head on a shelf in the refrigerator.
"Dammit!" Snape yelled. Bellatrix staggered forward and fell onto him.
"Get off!" he roared but she just kissed him. (A/N: WHY she kissed him, I do not know. I was just possessed to write it. Who would want to kiss him?)
"Whoa!" Malfoy yelled idiotically as he turned his head and looked up at them. "Snape's gettin' some action!"
"Hm, bugger off," he yelled at him when Bellatrix got off of him. She fell to the floor, but didn't move.
"Ah!" Narcissa yelled as she woke up. "Where am I?!"
"Shut it," Malfoy moaned grumpily as he turned back to the dust under the old couch.
"Ha!" Bellatrix yelled randomly as she smashed a bottle onto the floor. Snape looked out the window and saw the snow falling heavily. Everyone had already gone inside.
"Maybe we should *hic* go," he suggested. Bellatrix stood up and headed for the door. She struggled with the doorknob for a moment but finally got it to open. The wind hit her face and she forced herself out of the hut, the other three stumbling behind her.
----- Weird way to end it I think. Whatever, I had no choice! Was it too weird how I went from following the Gryffindors to following the Slytherins? Hopefully it wasn't. Ok, sorry I didn't update right away, I wasn't here yesterday. Thank you so, so, so, much for your reviews. I love you all!
Wow, you people really need to REVIEW, so REVIEW please!