Before you read the story, please read this first! I have to address many things. First, prefects: I forgot that prefects are assigned in fifth year. Reading the book, I saw that Remus Lupin was made prefect. I didn't see any mention of a female prefect, and I've decided that having Lily as the other prefect would make adventures less fun, so the other Gryffindor prefect will be another random character who I'll figure out later.

Next is the problem of the OWLs. Apparently, they're in fifth year, which is something I forgot. Therefore, I apologize and will try my best to do as nicely as possible.

Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue.

Summary: Lily and Gina tell the Marauders about the duel, going on to say there has been a tradition of duels and Malfoy and Snape should win according to the tradition. Their seconds are always Melanie and Crystal. However, the Marauders ask the seconds to not go so that they can help the two girls. Meanwhile, Dumbledore tells the whole school about the tournament. Later, Lily and Gina meet Malfoy and Snape in the Astronomy Tower, all four without seconds. After some insults, Sirius "shows" up.

Chapter 4:

"In the flesh!" Sirius said with a grin. Then, he bowed and added, "Now, may I present James Har-"

"Don't you dare say it," James warned. He grinned sheepishly at the two girls staring agape at the boy who had apparently appeared out of thin air. "My . . . um . . . middle name is rather embarrassing."

"What in the world are you doing here, Potter?" Lily demanded. Gina nodded, looking extremely angry.

Something flickered, and Remus and Peter appeared with grins. Remus handed a shiny something to James, who hurriedly stuffed it in his pocket.

Remus explained about Melanie and Crystal and the plan. Meanwhile Gina muttered something to Lily about "not telling the boys; I knew something horrible was going to happen."

Sirius interrupted indignantly – even though he shouldn't even have been listening, the idiot that he was, considering Gina's mood – "Hey! It's not like we're going to kill you-"

He stopped as he saw Gina's wand pointing towards him. Gina's eyes were narrowed dangerously. Regardless of the danger, he wailed, "Why is it that I'm always interrupted?" Then, in an aside, he muttered to James, "I told you she'd kill me. I mean, she's got it bad for me."

Just as it seemed as if Sirius's parents would have no son in the near future, Sirius whipped out his wand and yelled, "Look out!"

While everyone ducked or turned, Sirius pushed Gina aside and yelled, "Impedimenta!" at Malfoy, who snarled and dodged the attack.

After looking confused and angry, Gina yelled a hurried, obscure "Thanks!" to Sirius, who just looked smugly at James, who looked exasperatedly at Remus, who just grinned. Then, Sirius went back to business and said conversationally to Malfoy, "Very unworthy of you, you know, to sneak up behind the person you're supposed to be dueling face to face. I expect you're scared, but still . . ."

"Unworthy attacks require unworthy measures," James commented behind Lucius. "The good thing about not being prefect is that I don't have to worry about the rules. Wingardium Leviosa!"

Everyone snickered as Lucius Malfoy slowly floated up, up, up. The Astronomy Tower was rather big, and James was a relentless person. Finally, Malfoy squeaked, "Let me down! Please, I won't do it again!"

James grinned, "Gladly," and immediately dropped Malfoy, who was at a great height. Lily glared at James, who obviously was willing to allow Malfoy to break a couple of bones, and muttered a spell to transfigure the ground into the first soft thing in mind. Since she was rather tired, the soft thing was a bed, adorned with beautiful designs. Gina groaned and glared at Lily, as if asking why in the name of Merlin she had to make a bed! Especially with the Marauders around, grinning like idiots – or, rather, Cheshire cats.

However, the boys weren't grinning at the girls, but at Malfoy and Snape. That might have scared the two girls a bit, but they were relieve when they realized the grins were mocking, evil smirks at Severus Snape, who was whimpering and crying with fear.

Peter taunted, "Seems like we learn new things every day, don't we, Snivellus?"

The taunt – which normally would have made Lily smile – made Lily's blood burn. She was just about ready to hex certain people to oblivion for barging into her own fights. Fortunately, Remus noticed Lily turning red and hurriedly told James, "I think we should just leave, James."

James didn't care. "I want to duel Malfoy!"

That did it. Lily started screaming at James. "You imbecile, you coward, you beast, you stupid ugly cow! How dare you interfere with our duel, then claim that you want to duel Malfoy!"

Looking blankly at Lily, James said blandly, "Would you rather Gina be hurt?"

Lily froze slightly, remembering, but she unwound enough and continued yelling at him, "Well, Gina was safe enough when Sirius pushed her out of the way!" – "Ugh, Lily, did you have to remind me?" Gina muttered. – "You just wanted the revenge and satisfaction of hurting Malfoy! You could have let Sirius do it, couldn't you? And now, back to my original point. Why did you interfere with our duel? I find that a very loathsome attitude of yours, and –"

James interrupted her tirade. "Evans, we just wanted to help you win –"

"And," Lily continued, bowling over James's words, "and you are an absolutely disgusting, slime-filled, rotten piece of meat that I have ever encountered!"

Gina whispered to Remus, "You know, James is actually pretty good. He's made her really mad. Only Malfoy and Snape could have done that before."

Remus replied dryly, "Don't tell James that – he'd be horrified at being grouped with Malfoy and Snape."

"Speaking of which, where are they?" Peter interrupted. Peter was exceptionally observant – he claimed it came from being small and overseen most of the time – which was why he was part of the Marauders.

"Oy, James!" Sirius yelled, disrupting the argument, "you and Lily might want to concentrate on Malfoy and Snape before you continue your fight!"

"Oh, yeah," Lily muttered. She looked at James, and they were finally in unison as they got ready to hex the two boys who were trying to sneak away unnoticed.

"Ready, Evans?"

"You have no idea how ready, Potter."

"All right, then. On the count of three. . ."

"Bloody hell, who cares? On the count of one!"

"Did you just swear?"

"Potter!"

"Fine, fine, geez! One. . ."

"Impedimenta!" James and Lily said together.

The two Slytherins were knocked over by the spell, and they lay stunned on their back for a while before they slowly got up and turned to look at James and Lily.

"I got Malfoy," James said out of the side of his mouth to Lily.

"Fine, whatever. I'll just take Snape, then." came the cool reply.

"Expelliarmus!" Lily cried, catching Snape's wand before he could do anything.

"Ha! I can do better than that. Tarantallegra!"

Lily almost couldn't stop herself from laughing as Malfoy's legs began moving. He had been spelled to dance. Then she collected her wits and performed the Locomotor Mortis spell on both Snape and Malfoy (though she had to use Finite Incantatem and Expelliarmus on Malfoy first).

Gina walked over to where they lay, legs bound. "Well?" she prompted, almost gently. "Do you two give up?"

Malfoy reluctantly nodded, not meeting anyone's eyes.

"I think it's safe to say that we won this duel," Lily said. She looked at them impassively. "And I also think that it would serve you right for what you did to us in third year if I left you like this. But I won't be as mean as you were then. I'll just leave the wands. . . right. . . here."

Lily dropped Malfoy and Snape's wands in the corner so that it would be hard for them to get it. James stopped her.

"That's a great idea and all, Evans, but with only the Leg Locker curse on them, they can get it. I propose Petrificus Totalus."

Gina spoke up. "I don't think that Lily and I will like that, so we'll just leave and let you do whatever you want to them. Wait, no. I meant we'll just leave and let you perform the curse and that's all."

Peter grinned up at her. "Oh, don't worry, Gina. Sirius won't let James do anything you don't want him to."

Gina turned red and glared at Peter, who just nonchalantly turned away, so Gina had to satisfy herself with glaring at Sirius. Of course, no one thought of Remus, prefect that he was.

"Hey, um, guys? I think you'd better leave pretty soon. I'm feeling that urge to take off points, and you know perfectly well that I can't take off points when I'm not supposed to be patrolling these areas right now," he stated.

Laughing, James shooed Lily and Gina out, along with Remus, so that he, Sirius, and Peter could do "the deed."

"Thanks, Remus," Lily smiled gratefully at Remus, who smiled back and shrugged.

"We'll just be going, then, 'kay?" Gina informed Remus. "We don't want to be out any later than we have to. After all, classes start tomorrow."

Remus opened his mouth to reply, but the rest of the Marauders appeared. Peter, who had heard Gina, told them good night, that they'd taken care of everything, and needed to some more things before they'd get to bed, so the girls should go back to the Common Room soon. He also added, much to the disgust of Sirius, who wanted to tell Gina himself, that they would have something very interesting to look forward to tomorrow at breakfast. Everyone left the Astronomy Tower, feeling rather depleted of energy, but satisfied with everything that they had done.

"Lily, why were you so angry at Potter back in the Tower?" Gina asked softly as the two girls silently made their way back to the Common Room.

"What?" Lily asked absently. She was busy putting down charms that would throw Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat, off their track.

"Why were you so mad at him?" Gina repeated patiently. She knew how careful Lily had to be with the charms, and therefore Lily couldn't pay much attention to her questions.

"Because he was interfering with our duel when he hadn't even asked or told us," Lily replied. "That's why I was mad. Oh, and he is something of a brat, I suppose. But Peter and Remus and Sirius seem all right."

Gina spluttered for a while, before crying out in as soft a tone as she could muster, "Sirius? All right? Are you crazy, Lily? Sirius is the biggest prat of them all! Even James is less of a spoiled brat than Sirius is! He actually expected me to swoon at the sight of him so that he could ask me to do his homework for him!"

"Well, then, Peter and Remus are all right then," Lily said agreeably. She didn't care, either way; as long as James was acknowledged as arrogant and something of an egotistical person.

Gina subsided after Lily had agreed with her. She had nothing else to do, so she occupied herself with counting the number of doors they passed. It was a rather unusual thing for her to do, but it was fun: the number was always different when they passed by. For example, tonight there were 58 doors, when just that afternoon there had been 39 doors.

When the two tired girls finally arrived at their dorm, making sure that no one else in the room heard them enter, they fell onto their beds and fell asleep immediately, not bothering to change.

A/N: Okay, how was that? I apologize for the very long lag in between stories, I sort of lost my feel for this story. I'm working on it, though! The quality of this chapter also leaves something to be desired, but. . . hey, as long as it's up, right? Well, review please! Thanks!