Hi everyone! Next chapter! YAY! I'm really sorry this chapter again, took
longer to put up and yes I'm sorry that it is shorter as well! This chapter
was actually gonna be longer but then again, you know I'm spontaneous! (Did
that make any sense at all ?! Oh well!) Thank you SO much for all the
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that when you put the speech marks you put the exclamation marks and
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remember to do that (thanks Biddett!).
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Chapter 6: Two sides to every story.
"Padfoot hurry up!"
Sirius whirled around from talking to a very pretty, curly blond Hufflepuff to give Remus his most penetrating death stare.
"What'd he do that for?" Peter asked
"Well think about it Wormtail, if a stunningly beautiful girl came up to you and started flirting with you and your friend told you to hurry up what would you do?" James asked, pitying his fellow marauder for his lack of knowledge with girls.
"Well no girl would come up to me anyway, the last time I was in physical contact with a girl was when I tripped over Lauren Castledien and she slapped me in the face!"
Remus smirked, "that image will be plastered in my mind forever!"
Sirius finally waved goodbye to the blond haired beauty and walked back over to his friends.
"Well, mission accomplished!"
"Padfoot, you really need to find a new hobby" Remus said as they walked up the stairs out of the entrance hall.
"Well I can't help it if chicks swarm over me!"
"Your head is growing just as big as James'"
"Ah Uh, no ones head grows as big as mine!"
"You said it"
They reached the boys dormitories and James walked over to the mat in the far corner, shifted it aside and pulled out his invisibility cloak and the marauders map from underneath a loose floorboard.
"You know, I wonder if years from now, the next generation of students and we hope mischief makers to live in this very room, will find all our hidy holes" Sirius said thoughtfully.
"It's a possibility" Remus said looking at his watch, "Look Padfoot, you've made us fifteen minutes late! We're never going to get any sleep tonight!"
"Well I'm sure we can sleep in the room of requirement, it's comfortable enough!"
"Yeah we've already tested that!" James said, smirking at Remus.
"Well I can't help it if I was tired and I just happened to think of a nice squishy mattress and pillow when we were walking past the room!" Remus justified.
"Well come on, get underneath!" James said as he held up the cloak. It was a bit too small for all four of the tall sixteen year olds to fit under, though they managed to all squish together, just hiding there feet.
They walked along the corridors, checking the map every now and then to make sure no one was in their path. When they reached the eighth floor they all stopped in front of the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy and his ballet of trolls (who were all trying to hit him over the head with their clubs) and walked past the blank wall three times.
James opened the door that appeared and they walked into a brightly lit room with comfy silk cushions spread on the floor and a large bookcase filled with books of various charms and mischievous spells. There was also a small table with a couple of bottles of butterbeer and creamed pastries on it and many small artifacts that looked mostly like Zonko's products filled some shelves at the back of the room.
"Ahhhh! Home sweet home!" Sirius sighed as he flopped down onto one of the red cushions and grabbed a bottle of butterbeer.
"You know Peter, I don't know why you're always thinking of food when you're here but I don't mind it anyway! I just wish you would think I fire whisky for a change, I've only ever tasted it once and I still haven't been able to get my hands on any more of it! Though butterbeer will do me good!" James said, joining Sirius.
"Well if you ask me I think it's highly disturbing that all you two ever think about is wreaking havoc and girls!" Remus said, skimming the bookshelves.
"Well at least we think of two things! You only think of study!" Sirius defended.
"How do you know what's going on in my head!" Remus snapped.
"Maybe we should just let him go to sleep" Sirius muttered in James' ear.
"Well come on! Who's got some ideas for this full moon?" James asked innocently.
"Oh I do!" Peter squeaked as he spilled butterbeer all over his robes.
Sirius sighed and performed a charm to clean it up.
"What's your suggestion Wormtail?" James asked.
"I think we should go past Hogsmeade and see what's after it"
"Oh yeah, sure!" Sirius said sarcastically.
"Wormtail, come on, you know I can't go that far! What if there's muggle town beyond it, what will they say if they see a stray werewolf on the run, I only just let us go on the outskirts of Hogsmeade! It's way to dangerous" Remus said looking at Peter.
"Well does anyone else have any suggestions?" James continued.
"I do" Sirius said automatically.
"Here we go!"
Remus sat down and grabbed another of the butterbeers.
"Well I was thinking"-
"That's dangerous!"
Sirius threw another of his death stares at James.
"I was thinking that we could pay the greenhouses a visit!" Sirius said this with such evil glee that everyone looked at him as if he was a psycho maniac on the loose (which was partly true).
"To do what exactly?" Remus asked, coming out of the trance.
"Well as you know, Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor in the first quidditch match of the season"
They all nodded, waiting for him to go on.
"Well I was thinking we could begin it with a bang!"
"You're NOT going to blow up the greenhouses, just because professor Sprout is the head of Hufflepuff house that is no means to"-
"Hold your pixies Moony! I'm not THAT destructive!"
"Coulda fooled me!" Remus muttered.
"Although you know how much I like big bangs that wasn't the plan I was going for. Just think, if we could sneak into one of the greenhouses and maybe give some of the hedges a little trim, into a lion shape and letters that spelt out 'GRYFFINODOR WILL WIN' could you imagine the look on their faces!" Sirius finished with a wide grin.
James grinned back at him. "I like it"
"One problem" Remus stated.
"What?" they both asked in unison..
"How exactly WILL we get in their? The greenhouses are always locked after lessons"
"Alohomora" Peter piped up.
"Hey, good one Wormtail!"
"mmm...i don't know, I think Sprout would lock them with stronger magic that can't be opened by a simple first year charm" Remus said logically.
"Yeah, true"
"I'll check some books and see if you can get stronger charms and counter curses" Remus said bouncing happily over to the high bookshelves.
"Alright, I'll have a look at some of this stuff" Sirius said pointing towards the many Zonko's products.
"Yeah me too" James said, eagerly following Sirius to the table.
"Well I'll...errr....eat!"
~*~
Lily's eyes snapped open as an ear-piercing scream ripped through the air.
She leapt out of her bed and crossed to another nearest to her, that she was sure the scream had come from. There she found Andromeda sitting bolt upright, sweat covering her face and tears streaming down her cheeks, a face of pure terror.
Lily saw Miria rush to the other side of Andromeda's bed as well, her face showing the worry that Lily was feeling.
"Annie! ANNIE! What's wrong?" Lily asked, placing her hand on Andromeda's shoulder, trying to steady her uncontrollable shaky.
Andromeda was thoroughly distraught, she didn't utter a word. She just kept shaking and the tears wouldn't stop leaking from her eyes.
Miria and Lily looked at one another, concern written all over one another's faces.
"We better get Madam Pomfrey" Lily said starting to rise, but Andromeda suddenly caught her arm with a grip as cold as ice.
"Sirius" she sobbed.
Lily would have objected at all costs to go into the boys dorm again, but as she took another look at Andromeda's ghostly white form she hurried to the door, passing her two other room mates who were both looking equally worried.
Lily ran up the boys dormitory stairs and burst into the marauders room, quickly flicking on the light switch.
James looked around from his drawn curtained bed to look at Lily with uttermost surprise.
"Evans what the hell are you doing up here? It's three am in the morning!" This was a very large sentence for James to come up with when he was half asleep and Remus, who had been waken up by Lily's racket would have congratulated him on stringing the words together except he was too pre- occupied watching her as she as she was shaking Sirius awake.
"Sirius wake up!"
They could all hear the definite tone of urgency in her voice now.
Sirius sat up slowly.
"Evans isn't it a bit early to be giving out detentions?"
"It's Annie!" Lily said desperately.
"What? What happened?" Sirius asked now fully awake.
"She screamed and woke up, she's shaking all over and wouldn't say a word until she asked for you" Lily said hurriedly, but Sirius had already jumped out of his bed and sprinted to the door.
She ran out after him just in time to see him stare exasperated at the stairs leading up to the girls dormitory. However, he put his foot on the first step and then the next and the stairs didn't change at all, he stared at them for a while, perplexed and then sprinted up them, two at a time.
By the time Lily got into her dorm Sirius was already by Andromeda's side, hugging her soothingly, like a big brother protecting his little sister.
He rocked her back and forth, comforting her with whispered words.
Lily was amazed, she had never seen this side of Sirius before, to her he had always been one more pain in the ass to handle, but this time she actually saw the serious side, the side which hardly anyone had ever seen.
As Andromeda started to settle down Sirius pulled away from her to examine her face.
She was very pale and had tear streaks coursing her cheeks.
"You'll have to go to the hospital wing" he now said, examining her sweaty palms, "Madam Pomfrey will be able to give you a potion for your fever".
"Is she going to be alright?" Miria voiced the question everyone wanted to know.
"She'll have to stay overnight" Sirius said helping the shaking Andromeda from her bed.
"Has this happened before?" Lily asked curiously.
Sirius Studied Lily's face, obviously weighing up whether he should tell her or not. He sighed, "Every couple of months". But he didn't explain any further, he just picked up Andromeda's arm and swung it around his neck to support her as she tried to stand straight.
Lily ran up to help but Sirius stopped her.
"It'll be alright Lily, I can help her to the hospital wing, get some sleep, she'll be alright, I'll tell you how she is in the morning"
Lily and Miria were both a little put out by this objection but they both decided not to argue, it didn't seem right to fight with a serious Sirius.
They both then walked down the stairs, and again, it didn't change. They both watched as they stepped through the portrait hole and out of sight.
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Hope you liked it! Yes and in the next chapter I will explain the stairs thing! Well anyways I hope you liked the chapter and PLEASE review because I just LOVED getting all those reviews last chappie! Thanks! You all rock! James-Padfoot, Fire of Ice, blackdragonofdeath13, x-woman1, Headmaster Cromwell, slippersRfuzzy and Kiwi, Shadow Of Dreams, mystical boot, Agloechen, Biddett da Pigeon stalker. Thanks!
~*~mysticaldreams
~*~mysticaldreams
Chapter 6: Two sides to every story.
"Padfoot hurry up!"
Sirius whirled around from talking to a very pretty, curly blond Hufflepuff to give Remus his most penetrating death stare.
"What'd he do that for?" Peter asked
"Well think about it Wormtail, if a stunningly beautiful girl came up to you and started flirting with you and your friend told you to hurry up what would you do?" James asked, pitying his fellow marauder for his lack of knowledge with girls.
"Well no girl would come up to me anyway, the last time I was in physical contact with a girl was when I tripped over Lauren Castledien and she slapped me in the face!"
Remus smirked, "that image will be plastered in my mind forever!"
Sirius finally waved goodbye to the blond haired beauty and walked back over to his friends.
"Well, mission accomplished!"
"Padfoot, you really need to find a new hobby" Remus said as they walked up the stairs out of the entrance hall.
"Well I can't help it if chicks swarm over me!"
"Your head is growing just as big as James'"
"Ah Uh, no ones head grows as big as mine!"
"You said it"
They reached the boys dormitories and James walked over to the mat in the far corner, shifted it aside and pulled out his invisibility cloak and the marauders map from underneath a loose floorboard.
"You know, I wonder if years from now, the next generation of students and we hope mischief makers to live in this very room, will find all our hidy holes" Sirius said thoughtfully.
"It's a possibility" Remus said looking at his watch, "Look Padfoot, you've made us fifteen minutes late! We're never going to get any sleep tonight!"
"Well I'm sure we can sleep in the room of requirement, it's comfortable enough!"
"Yeah we've already tested that!" James said, smirking at Remus.
"Well I can't help it if I was tired and I just happened to think of a nice squishy mattress and pillow when we were walking past the room!" Remus justified.
"Well come on, get underneath!" James said as he held up the cloak. It was a bit too small for all four of the tall sixteen year olds to fit under, though they managed to all squish together, just hiding there feet.
They walked along the corridors, checking the map every now and then to make sure no one was in their path. When they reached the eighth floor they all stopped in front of the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy and his ballet of trolls (who were all trying to hit him over the head with their clubs) and walked past the blank wall three times.
James opened the door that appeared and they walked into a brightly lit room with comfy silk cushions spread on the floor and a large bookcase filled with books of various charms and mischievous spells. There was also a small table with a couple of bottles of butterbeer and creamed pastries on it and many small artifacts that looked mostly like Zonko's products filled some shelves at the back of the room.
"Ahhhh! Home sweet home!" Sirius sighed as he flopped down onto one of the red cushions and grabbed a bottle of butterbeer.
"You know Peter, I don't know why you're always thinking of food when you're here but I don't mind it anyway! I just wish you would think I fire whisky for a change, I've only ever tasted it once and I still haven't been able to get my hands on any more of it! Though butterbeer will do me good!" James said, joining Sirius.
"Well if you ask me I think it's highly disturbing that all you two ever think about is wreaking havoc and girls!" Remus said, skimming the bookshelves.
"Well at least we think of two things! You only think of study!" Sirius defended.
"How do you know what's going on in my head!" Remus snapped.
"Maybe we should just let him go to sleep" Sirius muttered in James' ear.
"Well come on! Who's got some ideas for this full moon?" James asked innocently.
"Oh I do!" Peter squeaked as he spilled butterbeer all over his robes.
Sirius sighed and performed a charm to clean it up.
"What's your suggestion Wormtail?" James asked.
"I think we should go past Hogsmeade and see what's after it"
"Oh yeah, sure!" Sirius said sarcastically.
"Wormtail, come on, you know I can't go that far! What if there's muggle town beyond it, what will they say if they see a stray werewolf on the run, I only just let us go on the outskirts of Hogsmeade! It's way to dangerous" Remus said looking at Peter.
"Well does anyone else have any suggestions?" James continued.
"I do" Sirius said automatically.
"Here we go!"
Remus sat down and grabbed another of the butterbeers.
"Well I was thinking"-
"That's dangerous!"
Sirius threw another of his death stares at James.
"I was thinking that we could pay the greenhouses a visit!" Sirius said this with such evil glee that everyone looked at him as if he was a psycho maniac on the loose (which was partly true).
"To do what exactly?" Remus asked, coming out of the trance.
"Well as you know, Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor in the first quidditch match of the season"
They all nodded, waiting for him to go on.
"Well I was thinking we could begin it with a bang!"
"You're NOT going to blow up the greenhouses, just because professor Sprout is the head of Hufflepuff house that is no means to"-
"Hold your pixies Moony! I'm not THAT destructive!"
"Coulda fooled me!" Remus muttered.
"Although you know how much I like big bangs that wasn't the plan I was going for. Just think, if we could sneak into one of the greenhouses and maybe give some of the hedges a little trim, into a lion shape and letters that spelt out 'GRYFFINODOR WILL WIN' could you imagine the look on their faces!" Sirius finished with a wide grin.
James grinned back at him. "I like it"
"One problem" Remus stated.
"What?" they both asked in unison..
"How exactly WILL we get in their? The greenhouses are always locked after lessons"
"Alohomora" Peter piped up.
"Hey, good one Wormtail!"
"mmm...i don't know, I think Sprout would lock them with stronger magic that can't be opened by a simple first year charm" Remus said logically.
"Yeah, true"
"I'll check some books and see if you can get stronger charms and counter curses" Remus said bouncing happily over to the high bookshelves.
"Alright, I'll have a look at some of this stuff" Sirius said pointing towards the many Zonko's products.
"Yeah me too" James said, eagerly following Sirius to the table.
"Well I'll...errr....eat!"
~*~
Lily's eyes snapped open as an ear-piercing scream ripped through the air.
She leapt out of her bed and crossed to another nearest to her, that she was sure the scream had come from. There she found Andromeda sitting bolt upright, sweat covering her face and tears streaming down her cheeks, a face of pure terror.
Lily saw Miria rush to the other side of Andromeda's bed as well, her face showing the worry that Lily was feeling.
"Annie! ANNIE! What's wrong?" Lily asked, placing her hand on Andromeda's shoulder, trying to steady her uncontrollable shaky.
Andromeda was thoroughly distraught, she didn't utter a word. She just kept shaking and the tears wouldn't stop leaking from her eyes.
Miria and Lily looked at one another, concern written all over one another's faces.
"We better get Madam Pomfrey" Lily said starting to rise, but Andromeda suddenly caught her arm with a grip as cold as ice.
"Sirius" she sobbed.
Lily would have objected at all costs to go into the boys dorm again, but as she took another look at Andromeda's ghostly white form she hurried to the door, passing her two other room mates who were both looking equally worried.
Lily ran up the boys dormitory stairs and burst into the marauders room, quickly flicking on the light switch.
James looked around from his drawn curtained bed to look at Lily with uttermost surprise.
"Evans what the hell are you doing up here? It's three am in the morning!" This was a very large sentence for James to come up with when he was half asleep and Remus, who had been waken up by Lily's racket would have congratulated him on stringing the words together except he was too pre- occupied watching her as she as she was shaking Sirius awake.
"Sirius wake up!"
They could all hear the definite tone of urgency in her voice now.
Sirius sat up slowly.
"Evans isn't it a bit early to be giving out detentions?"
"It's Annie!" Lily said desperately.
"What? What happened?" Sirius asked now fully awake.
"She screamed and woke up, she's shaking all over and wouldn't say a word until she asked for you" Lily said hurriedly, but Sirius had already jumped out of his bed and sprinted to the door.
She ran out after him just in time to see him stare exasperated at the stairs leading up to the girls dormitory. However, he put his foot on the first step and then the next and the stairs didn't change at all, he stared at them for a while, perplexed and then sprinted up them, two at a time.
By the time Lily got into her dorm Sirius was already by Andromeda's side, hugging her soothingly, like a big brother protecting his little sister.
He rocked her back and forth, comforting her with whispered words.
Lily was amazed, she had never seen this side of Sirius before, to her he had always been one more pain in the ass to handle, but this time she actually saw the serious side, the side which hardly anyone had ever seen.
As Andromeda started to settle down Sirius pulled away from her to examine her face.
She was very pale and had tear streaks coursing her cheeks.
"You'll have to go to the hospital wing" he now said, examining her sweaty palms, "Madam Pomfrey will be able to give you a potion for your fever".
"Is she going to be alright?" Miria voiced the question everyone wanted to know.
"She'll have to stay overnight" Sirius said helping the shaking Andromeda from her bed.
"Has this happened before?" Lily asked curiously.
Sirius Studied Lily's face, obviously weighing up whether he should tell her or not. He sighed, "Every couple of months". But he didn't explain any further, he just picked up Andromeda's arm and swung it around his neck to support her as she tried to stand straight.
Lily ran up to help but Sirius stopped her.
"It'll be alright Lily, I can help her to the hospital wing, get some sleep, she'll be alright, I'll tell you how she is in the morning"
Lily and Miria were both a little put out by this objection but they both decided not to argue, it didn't seem right to fight with a serious Sirius.
They both then walked down the stairs, and again, it didn't change. They both watched as they stepped through the portrait hole and out of sight.
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Hope you liked it! Yes and in the next chapter I will explain the stairs thing! Well anyways I hope you liked the chapter and PLEASE review because I just LOVED getting all those reviews last chappie! Thanks! You all rock! James-Padfoot, Fire of Ice, blackdragonofdeath13, x-woman1, Headmaster Cromwell, slippersRfuzzy and Kiwi, Shadow Of Dreams, mystical boot, Agloechen, Biddett da Pigeon stalker. Thanks!
~*~mysticaldreams