Alrighte! Here is the next chapter! I'm really sorry it took so long to put
up this chapter but I've had a lot of assessments but I'm hoping that the
next chapter won't take as long! Well thanks to my reviewers! Hope you like
the chapter!
~*~mysitcaldreams
Chapter 5: Detention....for the thousandth time!
"Padfoot"!
"What"? Came Sirius' gruff voice from underneath the covers of his bed.
"We're going to be late for detention" James yelled from the other side of the room.
"Tell Lily I came down with an incurable disease" Sirius said, still tangled in the bedclothes.
"Yeah and how many times have we told that one"!
"You haven't, it's way too obvious" came Remus' voice from his once again curtain drawn four poster.
"Well I'm sure James can come up with some ungodly excuse"! Sirius pouted.
"Well that's true but I'm going down, I don't know about you but I'm not challenging the scariness of Lily Evans"! James said, "Good luck Padfoot, I'll try and convince her but I doubt it'll work"! He then walked down the stairs and came face to face with Lily at the bottom.
"You're late" Lily said to him, her best impression of professor McGonagall on.
"Yeah, only by 1 minute"!
Lily looked over his shoulder, "Where's Black"?
"I'm sad to say that he has come down with the flu, it's highly contagious, Madam Pomfry told him to stay in bed"
"He looked fine this afternoon; I highly doubt he could have caught the flu in between 2 hours" Lily said raising her eyebrows.
"Anything's possible" James shrugged.
"Alright Potter, you're wasting my time, go up and tell Black that if he isn't down here in one minute I'll go up there and drag him out"!
"Aye, aye captain" James saluted.
Lily was left waiting at the bottom of the stairs and within 30 seconds James had emerged from the dorm again.
"I'm sorry Evans but he won't come, I told you, he's sick" James said, hoping his face showed at least some sincerity.
"Bull crap"! Lily snarled and started to stomp up the stairs.
"Ahhhh Lily I wouldn't go in there if I was you, it's a bit messy and um Sirius has been sick a couple of time on the floor" James said barring the door. Lily pushed him aside in her fury and aggressively threw open the door, hearing it bang loudly as it collided with the inside wall.
"PETER HOW MANY GOD DAMN TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO SLAM THE DOOR"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remus yelled frustrated, then as he turned around from rummaging through his trunk his expression turned from anger to surprise.
"What tha"---- ?!?!
Lily turned to face him "I'm sorry Remus but I have come to retrieve your friend for detention, I'm sorry if I've disturbed your studying but I have had enough of his stupid excuses"!
"Thought that might be the case, I can't study up here anyway" He replied waving his hand at the lump that was Sirius curled up in his bed, snoring as loud as a giant.
Lily strode up to the bed and pounded on Sirius' back. "Sirius Black you good for nothing stupid git, get up now! You are NOT getting out of detention"!
Sirius rolled up into a ball and took no notice of this comment whatsoever.
James leaned against the door frame laughing and Remus sat on his bed, suppressing his laughing as best he could.
Lily than ripped the many blankets off him and threw them onto the floor.
"Lily" Sirius whined, "have some sympathy"!
Lily however did not reply, she was too pre-occupied trying to drag him from the bed by yanking at his arm with all her might. By this time James was sitting on the floor, hugging his stomach, tears running down his face from laughing so much and Remus was crawling over to join him.
Lily spun around and glared at them, "It's not funny! I thought you would know better Remus, being a prefect, it's a great responsibility and if you don't put your act together than I'm just going to have to tell Professor McGonagall"!
Remus stopped laughing abruptly. He suddenly jumped up, crossed the room to Sirius' bed and whispered something into his friends' ear.
Sirius leaped off the bed and hid behind it.
"You prat! They are too on"! he yelled, looking down at his crumpled black robes and long grey trousers.
Remus smirked and Lily hid her amusement.
"Well would you look at the time! We've already managed to waste ten whole minutes, looks like you boys won't be getting much sleep tonight or should I say tomorrow morning"
At that very moment Peter came bursting into the room, slamming the door into the wall.
"PETER HOW MANY GOD DAMN TIMES DO I HA"----
Remus stopped mid-sentence, staring at Peter as everyone else was in the room, he was running into the walls, banging his head on everything in sight, wincing every time and looking like he was struggling to say something, rasping for breath.
"Errrrrr... Wormtail, what exactly are you doing"?!?! James asked with his best 'what tha"? look plastered on his face.
Peter's tongue was lolling out of his mouth and he had a very pained expression about him as he once more banged his head into the bed post. He suddenly managed to rasp out something that they all strained to hear, but made no sense whatsoever:
"Shaphs" Peter gasped as Sirius tried to hold him still.
"What"?
"Shnaphe"
"Snape"? Lily asked.
Peter nodded before banging his head into the window pane.
"Stupid, bloody, ass of a git"! Sirius muttered.
James gave one swift wave of his wand, muttering a counter curse under his breath and Peter slumped onto the floor, grasping at his chest and heaving.
"Thanks" he gasped.
"How did you run into Snivellus"? Remus asked.
"I was heading down to the kitc"------
Peter was cut off by a loud cough made by James.
"Ahhhhh....the library I mean and I ran into him"
"Literally ran into him"? Sirius asked, bemused.
"Errr..yeah" Peter said, his cheeks turning rosy.
"Well as touching as this story really is I'm afraid it will have to wait for later as we are already fifteen minutes late"!!!!! Lily screeched.
Sirius jumped away from her, backing towards the door.
"Alright, alright, let's go then, I already have a headache and quite frankly I would rather not get a migraine" Sirius said rubbing his head.
"Adios" James called as he closed the boys' dormitory door behind him and the three of them walked down the stairs and out of the portrait hole.
Lily led them all the way to the Library, walking briskly and not uttering a word, she only spoke when they were standing in front of the Library door.
"Aright, Sirius, you'll be helping Madam Pince to order the encyclopedias in alphabetical order and yes, all of them".
Sirius opened his mouth to say something but Lily cut him off, eager to tell James just exactly what he was going to do, savoring every moment of it.
"And James you will be helping Filch get all of the Droobles best blowing bubble-gum off of the desks on the third floor without magic" She said grinning widely. However, She looked at James and he was grinning right back at her.
"I'm sorry Lily but you will have to give my poor friend padfoot here that rather disgusting job you were taking so much enjoyment out of giving to me as he is not allowed to set foot into the Library and hasn't since third year because he blew up the whole Q section"
Lily looked at him, her mouth hanging open. "You're probably just making that up"!
"He's telling the truth" Sirius said brightly, looking extremely proud of blowing up the Q section.
Lily looked like she would burst with anger.
"Fine" she said through clenched teeth, "Both of you get to it then and don't slack off, when you've finished give your slips to Madam Pince and Filch and they will both fill out what time you finished, so on and so forth, I expect you know the drill since you've been through it about a thousand times" She then walked away feeling rather agitated, back to the common room.
"Well Padfoot, want to take a short trip to the kitchens before we slave away"?
"Don't even think about it you two"! Came Madam Pince's voice from inside the library door, "Potter in here, Black down stairs NOW"!
They both trudged off to their respective places, muttering dully.
~*~
Lily stomped up the girls dormitory stair case, her anger was slowly wearing off but she was still annoyed that she hadn't been able to get back at James. Though all of her remaining fumes were swept away as she entered the dorm to find Miria and Andromeda both laughing hysterically, holding their stomachs.
Lily smiled at them both, "What have you two been up to?" She asked as she sat down on Andromeda's bed.
Miria handed her a picture out of the violet music box and at first glance of it Lily squealed and went bright red.
The picture was of course of her, but it wasn't any normal picture, she was dressed in a bright pink too too with pink, frilly lace and fluffy ballet slippers. But the worse thing was that she was sitting, asleep on a chair, her mouth hanging open with a trail of saliva running down her cheek. She was only five years old, and the picture would have been cute save the fact that her too too and slippers made her look hilariously comical.
"Ahhhhh! I thought I burnt all of these! How did they end up here?!"
Lily was now sifting through another couple of equally embarrassing baby photos in her music box.
Andromeda finally caught her breath and sat up next to Lily who stuffed the various photos in her robes.
"You were adorable!"
"Yeah, adorably ridiculous!"
"Ahwell! We all have our embarrassing moments...Even if you have them every day!" Miria said.
"Yeah but you can just laugh it off!"
"That's what you learn to do"
"Wow, these are beautiful Lily!" Andromeda exclaimed as she picked up a pair of silver earrings out of the box. They were sparkling diamond Lilies, small and petite, the sought that suited Lily well.
Miria leaned over and goggled at them as well.
"Where'd you get them? They're gorgeous!"
"Well I found them on the windowsill in my room on my birthday but all the card said was Happy Birthday, without a signature or anything"
"Ooooo, looks like Lily has a secret admirer" Miria teased.
"Yeah right! It was probably from my cousins, whose parents made them send me something and the rich little brats didn't want to show they cared!"
"That's a likely version but I like my story better"
"I'm sure you do" Lily mumbled.
"Well I'm really tired, I'm gonna go to bed" Miria yawned.
"Alright but before you do I have a surprise for Annie!"
"What for? I love surprises!"
"Getting into the Quidditch team of course!"
Lily bent down under her bed and retrieved a small shoe box. She whispered 'Alohomora' and tapped the lid with her wand.
She then pulled out a think, silver bangle and handed it to Andromeda.
A grin spread across Mirias face and she pulled up her pajama sleeve to show an identical bangle.
Andromeda then noticed that Lily was also wearing one.
"These are really pretty!"
"Yeah and that's not the only good thing about them, Watch this!"
Lily pulled her wrist close to her mouth and pressed what seemed to be a tiny silver flower on the bangle. She then whispered something and pressed the small flower again.
Andromeda looked thoroughly perplexed until she suddenly realized that the bangle was heating up in her hand and small blue letters were starting to appear on it, they looked like they were melded into the silver.
The letters formed into words saying: our handy way to contact one another.
Miria then did the same thing and this time, in purple writing, the bangle spelt out: Cool, isn't it?!
Andromeda stared at them in amazement.
"These are awesome! Where'd you get them?"
"Well we bought the bangle and then it was just a matter of a couple of charms! You can use them wherever you go, you just have to press the silver flower and whisper into it and it will appear on the other bangles" Lily explained.
"It's got us out of heaps of trouble!" Miria put in.
"Really, I never thought you two would be the sought of students to get into trouble!" Andromeda chided.
"Only when Lily's mouthing off at James!" Miria teased.
"Shut your mouth or I'll wash it with soap!"
Andromeda smiled at her two friends and leant over to hug them. "Thanks guys"
"Well I'm off to bed! I just hope that Alice and Claudia don't make a racket when they come back up from the common room" Miria said as she closed the curtains around her bed.
Lily smirked to herself, "I wonder how Potter and Black are doing with their detentions" she voiced out loud.
"They're probably slaving away under your hard order!" Andromeda joked.
"Well, unlike them, I'm going to try and get some sleep tonight!" Lily said happily.
"Good idea"
"Yeah and someone is still waiting for quiet!"
~*~
However, both of the girls were wrong, both James and Sirius were sitting in the boys dormitories playing yet another game of wizards chess, In fact, it took them only precisely 43 minutes to finish their detentions.
"So how did you do it?" Remus asked as he watched James' knight chase one of Sirius' pawns off the board.
"Do what?"
"Get out of detention so soon?"
"Oh, well since most of that bubble gum was from me it wasn't too hard to find" Sirius said, moving his queen towards a quivering castle.
"James?"
"Well I, the king of all-knowing, had absolutely no trouble displaying my literacy skills by putting the whole five hundred and ninety seven encyclopedias in alphabetical order!"
Sirius snorted and patted James on the back, "Keep on dreaming mate, keep on dreaming!"
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Well I know that wasn't a very interesting chapter and it wasn't as long as most but the next one I hope is going to be more exciting, well not exciting as in action but as in interesting....oh I give up! I'll just shut up and write the chapter so you can see what it's like for yourselves! Thanks for hanging with me and don't forget to review!
~*~mysticaldreams
P.S. Oh yeah, how could I forget my faithful reviewers! Thanks to: Biddett da Pigeon Stalker, Agloechen, Hyper Fairy Queen, James-Padfoot! Thanks!
~*~mysitcaldreams
Chapter 5: Detention....for the thousandth time!
"Padfoot"!
"What"? Came Sirius' gruff voice from underneath the covers of his bed.
"We're going to be late for detention" James yelled from the other side of the room.
"Tell Lily I came down with an incurable disease" Sirius said, still tangled in the bedclothes.
"Yeah and how many times have we told that one"!
"You haven't, it's way too obvious" came Remus' voice from his once again curtain drawn four poster.
"Well I'm sure James can come up with some ungodly excuse"! Sirius pouted.
"Well that's true but I'm going down, I don't know about you but I'm not challenging the scariness of Lily Evans"! James said, "Good luck Padfoot, I'll try and convince her but I doubt it'll work"! He then walked down the stairs and came face to face with Lily at the bottom.
"You're late" Lily said to him, her best impression of professor McGonagall on.
"Yeah, only by 1 minute"!
Lily looked over his shoulder, "Where's Black"?
"I'm sad to say that he has come down with the flu, it's highly contagious, Madam Pomfry told him to stay in bed"
"He looked fine this afternoon; I highly doubt he could have caught the flu in between 2 hours" Lily said raising her eyebrows.
"Anything's possible" James shrugged.
"Alright Potter, you're wasting my time, go up and tell Black that if he isn't down here in one minute I'll go up there and drag him out"!
"Aye, aye captain" James saluted.
Lily was left waiting at the bottom of the stairs and within 30 seconds James had emerged from the dorm again.
"I'm sorry Evans but he won't come, I told you, he's sick" James said, hoping his face showed at least some sincerity.
"Bull crap"! Lily snarled and started to stomp up the stairs.
"Ahhhh Lily I wouldn't go in there if I was you, it's a bit messy and um Sirius has been sick a couple of time on the floor" James said barring the door. Lily pushed him aside in her fury and aggressively threw open the door, hearing it bang loudly as it collided with the inside wall.
"PETER HOW MANY GOD DAMN TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO SLAM THE DOOR"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remus yelled frustrated, then as he turned around from rummaging through his trunk his expression turned from anger to surprise.
"What tha"---- ?!?!
Lily turned to face him "I'm sorry Remus but I have come to retrieve your friend for detention, I'm sorry if I've disturbed your studying but I have had enough of his stupid excuses"!
"Thought that might be the case, I can't study up here anyway" He replied waving his hand at the lump that was Sirius curled up in his bed, snoring as loud as a giant.
Lily strode up to the bed and pounded on Sirius' back. "Sirius Black you good for nothing stupid git, get up now! You are NOT getting out of detention"!
Sirius rolled up into a ball and took no notice of this comment whatsoever.
James leaned against the door frame laughing and Remus sat on his bed, suppressing his laughing as best he could.
Lily than ripped the many blankets off him and threw them onto the floor.
"Lily" Sirius whined, "have some sympathy"!
Lily however did not reply, she was too pre-occupied trying to drag him from the bed by yanking at his arm with all her might. By this time James was sitting on the floor, hugging his stomach, tears running down his face from laughing so much and Remus was crawling over to join him.
Lily spun around and glared at them, "It's not funny! I thought you would know better Remus, being a prefect, it's a great responsibility and if you don't put your act together than I'm just going to have to tell Professor McGonagall"!
Remus stopped laughing abruptly. He suddenly jumped up, crossed the room to Sirius' bed and whispered something into his friends' ear.
Sirius leaped off the bed and hid behind it.
"You prat! They are too on"! he yelled, looking down at his crumpled black robes and long grey trousers.
Remus smirked and Lily hid her amusement.
"Well would you look at the time! We've already managed to waste ten whole minutes, looks like you boys won't be getting much sleep tonight or should I say tomorrow morning"
At that very moment Peter came bursting into the room, slamming the door into the wall.
"PETER HOW MANY GOD DAMN TIMES DO I HA"----
Remus stopped mid-sentence, staring at Peter as everyone else was in the room, he was running into the walls, banging his head on everything in sight, wincing every time and looking like he was struggling to say something, rasping for breath.
"Errrrrr... Wormtail, what exactly are you doing"?!?! James asked with his best 'what tha"? look plastered on his face.
Peter's tongue was lolling out of his mouth and he had a very pained expression about him as he once more banged his head into the bed post. He suddenly managed to rasp out something that they all strained to hear, but made no sense whatsoever:
"Shaphs" Peter gasped as Sirius tried to hold him still.
"What"?
"Shnaphe"
"Snape"? Lily asked.
Peter nodded before banging his head into the window pane.
"Stupid, bloody, ass of a git"! Sirius muttered.
James gave one swift wave of his wand, muttering a counter curse under his breath and Peter slumped onto the floor, grasping at his chest and heaving.
"Thanks" he gasped.
"How did you run into Snivellus"? Remus asked.
"I was heading down to the kitc"------
Peter was cut off by a loud cough made by James.
"Ahhhhh....the library I mean and I ran into him"
"Literally ran into him"? Sirius asked, bemused.
"Errr..yeah" Peter said, his cheeks turning rosy.
"Well as touching as this story really is I'm afraid it will have to wait for later as we are already fifteen minutes late"!!!!! Lily screeched.
Sirius jumped away from her, backing towards the door.
"Alright, alright, let's go then, I already have a headache and quite frankly I would rather not get a migraine" Sirius said rubbing his head.
"Adios" James called as he closed the boys' dormitory door behind him and the three of them walked down the stairs and out of the portrait hole.
Lily led them all the way to the Library, walking briskly and not uttering a word, she only spoke when they were standing in front of the Library door.
"Aright, Sirius, you'll be helping Madam Pince to order the encyclopedias in alphabetical order and yes, all of them".
Sirius opened his mouth to say something but Lily cut him off, eager to tell James just exactly what he was going to do, savoring every moment of it.
"And James you will be helping Filch get all of the Droobles best blowing bubble-gum off of the desks on the third floor without magic" She said grinning widely. However, She looked at James and he was grinning right back at her.
"I'm sorry Lily but you will have to give my poor friend padfoot here that rather disgusting job you were taking so much enjoyment out of giving to me as he is not allowed to set foot into the Library and hasn't since third year because he blew up the whole Q section"
Lily looked at him, her mouth hanging open. "You're probably just making that up"!
"He's telling the truth" Sirius said brightly, looking extremely proud of blowing up the Q section.
Lily looked like she would burst with anger.
"Fine" she said through clenched teeth, "Both of you get to it then and don't slack off, when you've finished give your slips to Madam Pince and Filch and they will both fill out what time you finished, so on and so forth, I expect you know the drill since you've been through it about a thousand times" She then walked away feeling rather agitated, back to the common room.
"Well Padfoot, want to take a short trip to the kitchens before we slave away"?
"Don't even think about it you two"! Came Madam Pince's voice from inside the library door, "Potter in here, Black down stairs NOW"!
They both trudged off to their respective places, muttering dully.
~*~
Lily stomped up the girls dormitory stair case, her anger was slowly wearing off but she was still annoyed that she hadn't been able to get back at James. Though all of her remaining fumes were swept away as she entered the dorm to find Miria and Andromeda both laughing hysterically, holding their stomachs.
Lily smiled at them both, "What have you two been up to?" She asked as she sat down on Andromeda's bed.
Miria handed her a picture out of the violet music box and at first glance of it Lily squealed and went bright red.
The picture was of course of her, but it wasn't any normal picture, she was dressed in a bright pink too too with pink, frilly lace and fluffy ballet slippers. But the worse thing was that she was sitting, asleep on a chair, her mouth hanging open with a trail of saliva running down her cheek. She was only five years old, and the picture would have been cute save the fact that her too too and slippers made her look hilariously comical.
"Ahhhhh! I thought I burnt all of these! How did they end up here?!"
Lily was now sifting through another couple of equally embarrassing baby photos in her music box.
Andromeda finally caught her breath and sat up next to Lily who stuffed the various photos in her robes.
"You were adorable!"
"Yeah, adorably ridiculous!"
"Ahwell! We all have our embarrassing moments...Even if you have them every day!" Miria said.
"Yeah but you can just laugh it off!"
"That's what you learn to do"
"Wow, these are beautiful Lily!" Andromeda exclaimed as she picked up a pair of silver earrings out of the box. They were sparkling diamond Lilies, small and petite, the sought that suited Lily well.
Miria leaned over and goggled at them as well.
"Where'd you get them? They're gorgeous!"
"Well I found them on the windowsill in my room on my birthday but all the card said was Happy Birthday, without a signature or anything"
"Ooooo, looks like Lily has a secret admirer" Miria teased.
"Yeah right! It was probably from my cousins, whose parents made them send me something and the rich little brats didn't want to show they cared!"
"That's a likely version but I like my story better"
"I'm sure you do" Lily mumbled.
"Well I'm really tired, I'm gonna go to bed" Miria yawned.
"Alright but before you do I have a surprise for Annie!"
"What for? I love surprises!"
"Getting into the Quidditch team of course!"
Lily bent down under her bed and retrieved a small shoe box. She whispered 'Alohomora' and tapped the lid with her wand.
She then pulled out a think, silver bangle and handed it to Andromeda.
A grin spread across Mirias face and she pulled up her pajama sleeve to show an identical bangle.
Andromeda then noticed that Lily was also wearing one.
"These are really pretty!"
"Yeah and that's not the only good thing about them, Watch this!"
Lily pulled her wrist close to her mouth and pressed what seemed to be a tiny silver flower on the bangle. She then whispered something and pressed the small flower again.
Andromeda looked thoroughly perplexed until she suddenly realized that the bangle was heating up in her hand and small blue letters were starting to appear on it, they looked like they were melded into the silver.
The letters formed into words saying: our handy way to contact one another.
Miria then did the same thing and this time, in purple writing, the bangle spelt out: Cool, isn't it?!
Andromeda stared at them in amazement.
"These are awesome! Where'd you get them?"
"Well we bought the bangle and then it was just a matter of a couple of charms! You can use them wherever you go, you just have to press the silver flower and whisper into it and it will appear on the other bangles" Lily explained.
"It's got us out of heaps of trouble!" Miria put in.
"Really, I never thought you two would be the sought of students to get into trouble!" Andromeda chided.
"Only when Lily's mouthing off at James!" Miria teased.
"Shut your mouth or I'll wash it with soap!"
Andromeda smiled at her two friends and leant over to hug them. "Thanks guys"
"Well I'm off to bed! I just hope that Alice and Claudia don't make a racket when they come back up from the common room" Miria said as she closed the curtains around her bed.
Lily smirked to herself, "I wonder how Potter and Black are doing with their detentions" she voiced out loud.
"They're probably slaving away under your hard order!" Andromeda joked.
"Well, unlike them, I'm going to try and get some sleep tonight!" Lily said happily.
"Good idea"
"Yeah and someone is still waiting for quiet!"
~*~
However, both of the girls were wrong, both James and Sirius were sitting in the boys dormitories playing yet another game of wizards chess, In fact, it took them only precisely 43 minutes to finish their detentions.
"So how did you do it?" Remus asked as he watched James' knight chase one of Sirius' pawns off the board.
"Do what?"
"Get out of detention so soon?"
"Oh, well since most of that bubble gum was from me it wasn't too hard to find" Sirius said, moving his queen towards a quivering castle.
"James?"
"Well I, the king of all-knowing, had absolutely no trouble displaying my literacy skills by putting the whole five hundred and ninety seven encyclopedias in alphabetical order!"
Sirius snorted and patted James on the back, "Keep on dreaming mate, keep on dreaming!"
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Well I know that wasn't a very interesting chapter and it wasn't as long as most but the next one I hope is going to be more exciting, well not exciting as in action but as in interesting....oh I give up! I'll just shut up and write the chapter so you can see what it's like for yourselves! Thanks for hanging with me and don't forget to review!
~*~mysticaldreams
P.S. Oh yeah, how could I forget my faithful reviewers! Thanks to: Biddett da Pigeon Stalker, Agloechen, Hyper Fairy Queen, James-Padfoot! Thanks!