Summary: Lily and James love/hate fic. James uncovers some dark secrets in his seventh year.
Author's notes: Oi! ^.^ More reviews equal more fic! ^.^ YAY! *jumps around and applauds* Well, I don't have much to say here, so I'll just say this: Their names are SEER-ius and RAY-mus, damn it! *glares at her sisters* *coughs* Okay, I'm done. *waves happily to the readers*
Disclaimer: You know the drill...*sighs* I still want Jimmy, Siri, and Remy *dreamy sigh* ^.^
Of Hidden Truths
(Marauder Mornings)
"Foolish boy," hissed a voice from the dark. "did you really think you could save her?"
The voice brought the boy's attention to the woman who lied on the ground behind the man who owned the voice. She didn't look as thought she was even alive she was so pale and still.
"Mum!" he cried, taking a running step toward her, but stopped dead as the man before him produced his wand and pointed it at his chest, lazily.
"Go on and run, boy," said the man, lifting his hooded head just enough for the boy could see his smirk. "Go on and run. I know you fear me, boy..."
Stubbornly, the boy shook his head. He couldn't let the man scare him off. He had to help his mother. He couldn't run off like a coward. He wasn't a coward and he would prove that to the man.
And so he did. Standing up straighter and tightening his jaw, he defiantly glared at the man and forcefully spoke one work, "No."
Even that, however, didn't faze the man, who chuckled lightly and twirled his wand just a bit before taking a step forward and jabbing his wand into the boy's chest. "Trying to be brave, are we?" hissed the man as if it were a joke.
This only angered the boy more.
Eyes narrowed, he lifted his chin poudly and defiantly, glaring up at the darkness that he assumed where the man's eyes were. "I am brave," he snapped.
The man seemed to pause, as if surprised by the boy's actions. A hiss escape his lips and lifted his wand upward, pointing it toward the ceiling of the room they were in.
"Brave, are you, boy?" asked the man, slowly. A feeling of slight doubt entered the boy, but before he could reply, the man continued, "You dare to stand up before me, boy? You will find that those who stand up to me, tall, straight-back, and brave, die the same way...tall, straight-back, and bravely dead."
The boy took a step back, shaking with doubt and fear. "I...I'm not going...going to--"
"You stutter? Come now," smiled the man, his cloak shifting as he took yet another step forward. "I thought you were brave."
Sweat began to collect on the boy's brow. This was crazy...it had to be a dream. This couldn't be real. His mother was safe at home, right? And this was just a nightmare...just a silly...silly...
"James?" called his mum, croakly, but the boy didn't reply. It had to be a dream...it just had to be!
"James! JAMES!" shouted another voice and James jerked out of his sleep, only to yelp in surprise and fall off his bed. Sirius blew a string of hair out of his face, rolling his eyes, before he leaned over and looked down at his friend, who looked as if he was not 'all there.'
"Er...you know that the floor isn't all what it's cracked up to be," said Sirius, propping his chin on his hand. James blinked and looked to his friend for a moment before grabbing a pillow that had fallen with him and threw it into Sirius' face.
"Shuddup," he moaned in his half-waken state.
Sirius grinned widely and pushed himself into a sitting position on James' bed. "Come on now. I know you can't wait to start the day! What with potions with the Slytherins, Professor Binns' boring lectures, and McGonagall yelling, "TEN POINTS FROM GYFFINDOR! POTTER! BLACK! DETENTION!"
James couldn't help but to laugh. It was true that McGonagall would say that phrase every day they had Transfiguration with her. It was also common knowledge that the two Marauders were competing to see who would get the most detentions, which was why they had detentions almost every night.
After a few minutes of laughter, Sirius helped James off of the floor and began to head over to Remus, who was sleeping soundly in his bed. "You're just plain evil, Padfoot," laughed James.
"And proud of it!" Sirius grinned and began to poke their friend in the side, making him swirm under his blankets. Pretty soon, the poor boy was breathless as he was mercilessly tickled at the sides by Sirius Black.
"Say it, Moony!" shouted the most mischievous Marauder as he continued his onslaught. "Say it!"
"Nev--Padfoot! Stop! AH! MY...SIDES!" cried Remus as he rolled away from Sirius' touch, laughing so hard he was almost in tears.
"Say it!" Sirius grinned even more evilly and pinned his friend to the bed, continuing to torment his fellow Marauder. James was laughing so hard that he nearly fell of his bed for the second time in the morning.
"No-OOOO! SIRIUS!" Remus began to try to trap his attacker's hands, only to be tickled harder.
"Just say it already, Moony!" shouted James as he continued to laugh at his friend's antics.
Remus struggled for a moment before giving up and laughing so hard that he now had tears falling down his cheeks. "All right! All ri--AH! SIRIUS IS THE MASTER OF ALL HOGWARTS' PRANKS!"
Sirius immediately stopped, letting his friend breathe again and grinning impishly down at him. Remus tried to glare at him, only to laugh a bit more.
"You're such an ass, Sirius!" he said, pushing the dark-haired mischief maker off of his bed and lying back down, laughing still at his wake-up call. Sirius got off of the floor and grinned again with pride at what he had accomplish.
"Two down; one to go!" he stated, pointing a finger high in the air before marching over to Peter's bed. Sirius didn't get to wake his friend up, however, for the fourth boy shot up in his bed and backed away from his approach.
"Don't! Don't! I'm awake! I'm awake!" cried Peter, causing James and Remus to laugh and Sirius to pout.
"Well, that's no fun," he said, still pouting. Shrugging, he grinned at the two friends he did awake and shouted, "I've got the shower!"
James and Remus looked at each other before scrambling out of their beds, trying to stop Sirius from getting the bathroom before either of them, but they were too late. As soon as they were in front of the bathroom door, it shut and Sirius' laughter rang through the air.
Most of that morning, three-fourths of the Marauders spent their time banging on the door and shouting threats.
Eventually, the boys finally got Sirius out of the bathroom and took their own showers. They had just enough time to eat breakfast before sprinting down the hall for their double potions class with the Slytherins.
"What a way to start the day!" complained Sirius, tossing his hands in the air and nearly hitting Peter and James in the face. James ducked while Peter was barely missed by the flying hand.
"And being tickled without mercy isn't?" questioned Remus with a grin as they approached the classroom.
"But I wake you up all the time like that!" objected Sirius with a slight frown. James and Remus chuckled at him, while Peter lagged behind the three boys. It was the usual day for them, with the exception that James was blind as bat since he still had not reclaimed his glasses.
This was pointed out when the aformentioned boy ran into someone at the door of the classroom.
"Watch it, Potter! You blind bat!" shouted a red-faced Lucius Malfoy. James immediately recognized the Slytherin's voice and pushed himself away from the other boy, bumping into Sirius on the way.
"Watch it, Malfoy," warned Sirius as he nudged an angry James over toward Remus.
"And what are you going to do, Black? Hex me right in front of Professor Bulstrode's door?" challenged the blonde-haired Slytherin. Sirius pulled out his wand and jabbed it at the other boy as if it were a dagger.
"I shall slay thee with a weapon that hast brought on many pranks on thee!" he stated, continuing to act as if it was, indeed, a weapon. Malfoy backed up against the closed door, trying to get away from the seemingly mad-man's attack.
James and Remus couldn't help but to laugh at the Slytherin's facial expression.
"You're crazy, Black! And I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up in Azkaban one of these days!" shouted Malfoy just as the door opened. He quickly scrambled in as Sirius faked a thrust with his wand.
"Take that, foul beast! Thou shan't escape my weapon so quickly!" he called as he followed the slicked-haired boy into the room, pocketing his wand as he went. Snickering at their friend's actions, James and Remus followed with Peter close behind.
The Marauder's laughter from the previous moment was quickly silenced by a look from Professor Bulstrode, a red-headed plae man who was Head of Slytherin House and always sided with the Slytherins when it came to the case of the Marauders. He just didn't care about the other Gryffindors and James, Peter, Sirius, and Remus made it their job to keep the Gryffindors entertained...even if it meant loosing several dozen points.
"Take your seats before I either hex you all or fail you all," barked Bulstrode at the Gryffindors, who quickly scrambled to their seats. The Slytherins, however, took their sweet time getting to their seats.
"Ugh...who am I sitting behind, Padfoot?" whispered James as he stared a patch of blurry dark red. Sirius looked up and grinned widely at who he saw.
"Lily Dearest! How good of you to visit!" he exclaimed, while James made a face of disgust. Evans turned in her seat and also made a face of disgust.
"You two? Why is it always that I am stuck to babysit you?" she asked in exasperation. James scowled at that, while Sirius pouted somewhat.
"Shut it, Evans. We were here first. Blame yourself for where you're sitting," said James in annoyance. Evans studied him for a moment before smiling somewhat pleasantly.
"Very well. Oh, and, Potter." She tossed him the glasses she had taken the other day. James, suspicious that she had done something to them, studied them for a second before putting them on his face. Immediately his vision cleared and he glared at the girl in front of him, who grinned more widely in an almost evil way.
"What are you grinning at?" he asked, again in annoyance. Sirius looked over at the two again and nearly fell out of his seat, laughing at what he saw.
Bewildered at his friend's reaction, he turned to look to Remus, who sat behind him. "Moony, is there anything wrong with my face?" he asked, getting frustrated.
Remus looked up from what he was writing and studied James' face only to shake his head and go back to writing. "Nothing wrong with your face, necessarily...your eyes, well..."
"My eyes?" asked James as he snatched the mirror Evans was holding out to him with a cheeky grin. He studied his image for a moment before his face went red. "EVANS!"
Everyone looked over to where the outburst had come from. James Potter was sitting there with a red face and glaring with...rainbow colored eyes at Lily Evans, while Sirius Black tried to control his laughter and Remus Lupin was writing the instructions on a piece of parchment.
"POTTER!" James looked over to Bulstrode in surprise, not noticing that everyone was now laughing at him. "Ten points from Gryffindor for the disruption. Evans!" Now Evans looked up in equal surprise. "Both you and Potter have detention. Tomorrow night."
Evans' mouth fell open while James smirked. Served her right, charming his glasses to make his eyes change colors and thinking she could get away with it. James then pulled out an old piece of parchment and drew yet another tally on it.
"Understand me, Potter? Evans?" demanded Bulstrode.
"Yes, Sir," they answered, Evans with some sadness and James with no real emotion.
"Six thousand, seven hundred fifty-seven, Padfoot," he told his friend in a whisper. Sirius scowled at him and poked him in the side with his wand.
"Methinks thou hast cheated somewhere," he whispered back.
"Methinks thou hast been hit in thy head too much," retorted James with a smirk as he shoved his friend's wand away. Sirius gave him a hurt look, but chose not to say anything as Bulstrode began to pair them up with partners.
The rest of potions went fairly well, in the Marauder's book. They were able to play a few minor pranks on the Slytherins and got away with it and were able to pull a few on Bulstrode himself. However, this did not help James' situation. He was stuck with color-changing eyes for a while and he would have to serve detention with her--with Evans.
Talk about a way to start a day.
The moment the four left the room, however, they ran into more trouble. Lily Evans quickly walked in front of them, spun around, and glared directly at James, who gave her an innocent look.
"Yes? Is there something you want, Evans?" he asked in false innocence. Evans' face went red, but she didn't reply as she glared at him for a moment longer before stalking off to her next class, History of Magic.
"Aw..." cooed Sirius.
James shot him a look.
"What are you going 'aw...' about?" he asked, partially curious and partially angered, for he knew what Sirius was cooing about.
"You and Lily are such a lovely couple!" squealed Sirius in a girl's voice. Remus chuckled, but didn't say anything, while James glared at the two.
"That is not funny, you two. I hate that girl with a passion--" he started to rant.
"Love usually blossoms from hate," pointed out Remus as they continued on their way to History of Magic themselves.
"Bugger off, you two. You don't know what you're talking about," said James hotly as he chose to ignore them while on the way to their class. That, however, didn't go as planned either.
"Oh, please! You two are so...so..." started Sirius, waving a hand dramatically.
"So...what?" asked James, raising a curious brow.
"So...prefect for each other." James made a face at that. "Seriously, when's the wedding?"
"There is no wedding that has me and Lily Evans as bride and groom, and there never will," snorted James.
"I highly doubt that." Sirius grinned.
"Stuff it, Padfoot, or else I'll feed you to the foul beat Malfoy," warned James. Sirius chortled and took out his wand once again, waving it in front of him like a dagger.
"That foul beast shan't scare me! Thou hast mistaken me for someone else, my good sir!" he stated, poking James in the ribs with his 'weapon.' James growled playfully at him.
"Thou hast better point thy weapon someplace else," he said, shoving the wand away from him. Sirius sniffed as if insulted and jabbed his wand at the smaller boy's ribs again.
"Thou hast insulted me! Thou must fight me to thy death!" he shouted, stopping and standing in a position that suggested he was holding a sword rather than a wand. James stopped as well and pulled out his own wand, copying his friend's stance.
"We fight to thy death, peasant!" The two were about to play-act a sword battle when Remus stepped between them, arms spread perpendicular to his body.
"Not in the halls, you two. And especially not when we have to get to class," he said with a pointed look.
Both James and Sirius pouted, but pocketed their wands again.
"Spoiled-sport," murmured Sirius as they began their trek to their next class again.
"I heard that," called Remus, who was behind the two, making sure they didn't stop again.
Sirius scowled.
"Damn wolf hearing."
"Heard that, too."
"What don't you hear?" asked James, chuckling at the two as they reached their destination. Remus gave him a wry grin, but gave no reply as they entered the classroom.
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Phoebe Goose: Yes, it certainly enjoys tormenting us, doesn't it? Ebil website...-.- Anyways...^.^ Thanks for reviewing again! How was Jimmy able to see without his glasses? Well, I am a person with an eyesight of 50/20 with my glasses on and if I take off my glasses for a long time, I can forget that I don't have them on ^.^'' Pretty much what happened to Jimmy. He forgt he didn't have his glasses and adjusted to having his eyesight a bit fuzzy for a owhile. O.o Chapter two? *pokes* You mean three. ^.^'' And I'll try my best to finish this fic...it would just be HORRIBLE if I left it to rot like my LOTR fic (which I will continue! just you people watch!)
Author's notes: Oi! ^.^ More reviews equal more fic! ^.^ YAY! *jumps around and applauds* Well, I don't have much to say here, so I'll just say this: Their names are SEER-ius and RAY-mus, damn it! *glares at her sisters* *coughs* Okay, I'm done. *waves happily to the readers*
Disclaimer: You know the drill...*sighs* I still want Jimmy, Siri, and Remy *dreamy sigh* ^.^
(Marauder Mornings)
"Foolish boy," hissed a voice from the dark. "did you really think you could save her?"
The voice brought the boy's attention to the woman who lied on the ground behind the man who owned the voice. She didn't look as thought she was even alive she was so pale and still.
"Mum!" he cried, taking a running step toward her, but stopped dead as the man before him produced his wand and pointed it at his chest, lazily.
"Go on and run, boy," said the man, lifting his hooded head just enough for the boy could see his smirk. "Go on and run. I know you fear me, boy..."
Stubbornly, the boy shook his head. He couldn't let the man scare him off. He had to help his mother. He couldn't run off like a coward. He wasn't a coward and he would prove that to the man.
And so he did. Standing up straighter and tightening his jaw, he defiantly glared at the man and forcefully spoke one work, "No."
Even that, however, didn't faze the man, who chuckled lightly and twirled his wand just a bit before taking a step forward and jabbing his wand into the boy's chest. "Trying to be brave, are we?" hissed the man as if it were a joke.
This only angered the boy more.
Eyes narrowed, he lifted his chin poudly and defiantly, glaring up at the darkness that he assumed where the man's eyes were. "I am brave," he snapped.
The man seemed to pause, as if surprised by the boy's actions. A hiss escape his lips and lifted his wand upward, pointing it toward the ceiling of the room they were in.
"Brave, are you, boy?" asked the man, slowly. A feeling of slight doubt entered the boy, but before he could reply, the man continued, "You dare to stand up before me, boy? You will find that those who stand up to me, tall, straight-back, and brave, die the same way...tall, straight-back, and bravely dead."
The boy took a step back, shaking with doubt and fear. "I...I'm not going...going to--"
"You stutter? Come now," smiled the man, his cloak shifting as he took yet another step forward. "I thought you were brave."
Sweat began to collect on the boy's brow. This was crazy...it had to be a dream. This couldn't be real. His mother was safe at home, right? And this was just a nightmare...just a silly...silly...
"James?" called his mum, croakly, but the boy didn't reply. It had to be a dream...it just had to be!
"James! JAMES!" shouted another voice and James jerked out of his sleep, only to yelp in surprise and fall off his bed. Sirius blew a string of hair out of his face, rolling his eyes, before he leaned over and looked down at his friend, who looked as if he was not 'all there.'
"Er...you know that the floor isn't all what it's cracked up to be," said Sirius, propping his chin on his hand. James blinked and looked to his friend for a moment before grabbing a pillow that had fallen with him and threw it into Sirius' face.
"Shuddup," he moaned in his half-waken state.
Sirius grinned widely and pushed himself into a sitting position on James' bed. "Come on now. I know you can't wait to start the day! What with potions with the Slytherins, Professor Binns' boring lectures, and McGonagall yelling, "TEN POINTS FROM GYFFINDOR! POTTER! BLACK! DETENTION!"
James couldn't help but to laugh. It was true that McGonagall would say that phrase every day they had Transfiguration with her. It was also common knowledge that the two Marauders were competing to see who would get the most detentions, which was why they had detentions almost every night.
After a few minutes of laughter, Sirius helped James off of the floor and began to head over to Remus, who was sleeping soundly in his bed. "You're just plain evil, Padfoot," laughed James.
"And proud of it!" Sirius grinned and began to poke their friend in the side, making him swirm under his blankets. Pretty soon, the poor boy was breathless as he was mercilessly tickled at the sides by Sirius Black.
"Say it, Moony!" shouted the most mischievous Marauder as he continued his onslaught. "Say it!"
"Nev--Padfoot! Stop! AH! MY...SIDES!" cried Remus as he rolled away from Sirius' touch, laughing so hard he was almost in tears.
"Say it!" Sirius grinned even more evilly and pinned his friend to the bed, continuing to torment his fellow Marauder. James was laughing so hard that he nearly fell of his bed for the second time in the morning.
"No-OOOO! SIRIUS!" Remus began to try to trap his attacker's hands, only to be tickled harder.
"Just say it already, Moony!" shouted James as he continued to laugh at his friend's antics.
Remus struggled for a moment before giving up and laughing so hard that he now had tears falling down his cheeks. "All right! All ri--AH! SIRIUS IS THE MASTER OF ALL HOGWARTS' PRANKS!"
Sirius immediately stopped, letting his friend breathe again and grinning impishly down at him. Remus tried to glare at him, only to laugh a bit more.
"You're such an ass, Sirius!" he said, pushing the dark-haired mischief maker off of his bed and lying back down, laughing still at his wake-up call. Sirius got off of the floor and grinned again with pride at what he had accomplish.
"Two down; one to go!" he stated, pointing a finger high in the air before marching over to Peter's bed. Sirius didn't get to wake his friend up, however, for the fourth boy shot up in his bed and backed away from his approach.
"Don't! Don't! I'm awake! I'm awake!" cried Peter, causing James and Remus to laugh and Sirius to pout.
"Well, that's no fun," he said, still pouting. Shrugging, he grinned at the two friends he did awake and shouted, "I've got the shower!"
James and Remus looked at each other before scrambling out of their beds, trying to stop Sirius from getting the bathroom before either of them, but they were too late. As soon as they were in front of the bathroom door, it shut and Sirius' laughter rang through the air.
Most of that morning, three-fourths of the Marauders spent their time banging on the door and shouting threats.
Eventually, the boys finally got Sirius out of the bathroom and took their own showers. They had just enough time to eat breakfast before sprinting down the hall for their double potions class with the Slytherins.
"What a way to start the day!" complained Sirius, tossing his hands in the air and nearly hitting Peter and James in the face. James ducked while Peter was barely missed by the flying hand.
"And being tickled without mercy isn't?" questioned Remus with a grin as they approached the classroom.
"But I wake you up all the time like that!" objected Sirius with a slight frown. James and Remus chuckled at him, while Peter lagged behind the three boys. It was the usual day for them, with the exception that James was blind as bat since he still had not reclaimed his glasses.
This was pointed out when the aformentioned boy ran into someone at the door of the classroom.
"Watch it, Potter! You blind bat!" shouted a red-faced Lucius Malfoy. James immediately recognized the Slytherin's voice and pushed himself away from the other boy, bumping into Sirius on the way.
"Watch it, Malfoy," warned Sirius as he nudged an angry James over toward Remus.
"And what are you going to do, Black? Hex me right in front of Professor Bulstrode's door?" challenged the blonde-haired Slytherin. Sirius pulled out his wand and jabbed it at the other boy as if it were a dagger.
"I shall slay thee with a weapon that hast brought on many pranks on thee!" he stated, continuing to act as if it was, indeed, a weapon. Malfoy backed up against the closed door, trying to get away from the seemingly mad-man's attack.
James and Remus couldn't help but to laugh at the Slytherin's facial expression.
"You're crazy, Black! And I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up in Azkaban one of these days!" shouted Malfoy just as the door opened. He quickly scrambled in as Sirius faked a thrust with his wand.
"Take that, foul beast! Thou shan't escape my weapon so quickly!" he called as he followed the slicked-haired boy into the room, pocketing his wand as he went. Snickering at their friend's actions, James and Remus followed with Peter close behind.
The Marauder's laughter from the previous moment was quickly silenced by a look from Professor Bulstrode, a red-headed plae man who was Head of Slytherin House and always sided with the Slytherins when it came to the case of the Marauders. He just didn't care about the other Gryffindors and James, Peter, Sirius, and Remus made it their job to keep the Gryffindors entertained...even if it meant loosing several dozen points.
"Take your seats before I either hex you all or fail you all," barked Bulstrode at the Gryffindors, who quickly scrambled to their seats. The Slytherins, however, took their sweet time getting to their seats.
"Ugh...who am I sitting behind, Padfoot?" whispered James as he stared a patch of blurry dark red. Sirius looked up and grinned widely at who he saw.
"Lily Dearest! How good of you to visit!" he exclaimed, while James made a face of disgust. Evans turned in her seat and also made a face of disgust.
"You two? Why is it always that I am stuck to babysit you?" she asked in exasperation. James scowled at that, while Sirius pouted somewhat.
"Shut it, Evans. We were here first. Blame yourself for where you're sitting," said James in annoyance. Evans studied him for a moment before smiling somewhat pleasantly.
"Very well. Oh, and, Potter." She tossed him the glasses she had taken the other day. James, suspicious that she had done something to them, studied them for a second before putting them on his face. Immediately his vision cleared and he glared at the girl in front of him, who grinned more widely in an almost evil way.
"What are you grinning at?" he asked, again in annoyance. Sirius looked over at the two again and nearly fell out of his seat, laughing at what he saw.
Bewildered at his friend's reaction, he turned to look to Remus, who sat behind him. "Moony, is there anything wrong with my face?" he asked, getting frustrated.
Remus looked up from what he was writing and studied James' face only to shake his head and go back to writing. "Nothing wrong with your face, necessarily...your eyes, well..."
"My eyes?" asked James as he snatched the mirror Evans was holding out to him with a cheeky grin. He studied his image for a moment before his face went red. "EVANS!"
Everyone looked over to where the outburst had come from. James Potter was sitting there with a red face and glaring with...rainbow colored eyes at Lily Evans, while Sirius Black tried to control his laughter and Remus Lupin was writing the instructions on a piece of parchment.
"POTTER!" James looked over to Bulstrode in surprise, not noticing that everyone was now laughing at him. "Ten points from Gryffindor for the disruption. Evans!" Now Evans looked up in equal surprise. "Both you and Potter have detention. Tomorrow night."
Evans' mouth fell open while James smirked. Served her right, charming his glasses to make his eyes change colors and thinking she could get away with it. James then pulled out an old piece of parchment and drew yet another tally on it.
"Understand me, Potter? Evans?" demanded Bulstrode.
"Yes, Sir," they answered, Evans with some sadness and James with no real emotion.
"Six thousand, seven hundred fifty-seven, Padfoot," he told his friend in a whisper. Sirius scowled at him and poked him in the side with his wand.
"Methinks thou hast cheated somewhere," he whispered back.
"Methinks thou hast been hit in thy head too much," retorted James with a smirk as he shoved his friend's wand away. Sirius gave him a hurt look, but chose not to say anything as Bulstrode began to pair them up with partners.
The rest of potions went fairly well, in the Marauder's book. They were able to play a few minor pranks on the Slytherins and got away with it and were able to pull a few on Bulstrode himself. However, this did not help James' situation. He was stuck with color-changing eyes for a while and he would have to serve detention with her--with Evans.
Talk about a way to start a day.
The moment the four left the room, however, they ran into more trouble. Lily Evans quickly walked in front of them, spun around, and glared directly at James, who gave her an innocent look.
"Yes? Is there something you want, Evans?" he asked in false innocence. Evans' face went red, but she didn't reply as she glared at him for a moment longer before stalking off to her next class, History of Magic.
"Aw..." cooed Sirius.
James shot him a look.
"What are you going 'aw...' about?" he asked, partially curious and partially angered, for he knew what Sirius was cooing about.
"You and Lily are such a lovely couple!" squealed Sirius in a girl's voice. Remus chuckled, but didn't say anything, while James glared at the two.
"That is not funny, you two. I hate that girl with a passion--" he started to rant.
"Love usually blossoms from hate," pointed out Remus as they continued on their way to History of Magic themselves.
"Bugger off, you two. You don't know what you're talking about," said James hotly as he chose to ignore them while on the way to their class. That, however, didn't go as planned either.
"Oh, please! You two are so...so..." started Sirius, waving a hand dramatically.
"So...what?" asked James, raising a curious brow.
"So...prefect for each other." James made a face at that. "Seriously, when's the wedding?"
"There is no wedding that has me and Lily Evans as bride and groom, and there never will," snorted James.
"I highly doubt that." Sirius grinned.
"Stuff it, Padfoot, or else I'll feed you to the foul beat Malfoy," warned James. Sirius chortled and took out his wand once again, waving it in front of him like a dagger.
"That foul beast shan't scare me! Thou hast mistaken me for someone else, my good sir!" he stated, poking James in the ribs with his 'weapon.' James growled playfully at him.
"Thou hast better point thy weapon someplace else," he said, shoving the wand away from him. Sirius sniffed as if insulted and jabbed his wand at the smaller boy's ribs again.
"Thou hast insulted me! Thou must fight me to thy death!" he shouted, stopping and standing in a position that suggested he was holding a sword rather than a wand. James stopped as well and pulled out his own wand, copying his friend's stance.
"We fight to thy death, peasant!" The two were about to play-act a sword battle when Remus stepped between them, arms spread perpendicular to his body.
"Not in the halls, you two. And especially not when we have to get to class," he said with a pointed look.
Both James and Sirius pouted, but pocketed their wands again.
"Spoiled-sport," murmured Sirius as they began their trek to their next class again.
"I heard that," called Remus, who was behind the two, making sure they didn't stop again.
Sirius scowled.
"Damn wolf hearing."
"Heard that, too."
"What don't you hear?" asked James, chuckling at the two as they reached their destination. Remus gave him a wry grin, but gave no reply as they entered the classroom.
sCHEm: Couldn't sign in? I know, Ff.n's been a pain *makes a face* It kept messing up and not letting me read fics! *cries* The ebilness of it all! ^.^ Thanks for the nice review. I hope this chapter will prove to be interesting! ^.^
lono: Continuing. ^.^ Glad you are enjoying the fic. ^.^
Midnite Jewel: ^.^ Thanks for the compliments, but really...it's not that good is it? *face goes red*
Y.Kuang: *is speechless, face red* Oh, dear...this has...got to be one of the best reviews yet. *sniffles* You actually told me WHY you love it so much! *sniffles* You really think my writing is good? Well, I have to say that I have read a couple of your fics and you are certainly a good writer. ^.^ Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for the wonderful review...you just made my day with that one. ^.^
Phoebe Goose: Yes, it certainly enjoys tormenting us, doesn't it? Ebil website...-.- Anyways...^.^ Thanks for reviewing again! How was Jimmy able to see without his glasses? Well, I am a person with an eyesight of 50/20 with my glasses on and if I take off my glasses for a long time, I can forget that I don't have them on ^.^'' Pretty much what happened to Jimmy. He forgt he didn't have his glasses and adjusted to having his eyesight a bit fuzzy for a owhile. O.o Chapter two? *pokes* You mean three. ^.^'' And I'll try my best to finish this fic...it would just be HORRIBLE if I left it to rot like my LOTR fic (which I will continue! just you people watch!)