Author's Note: Well, I'm glad to see that I actually got some reviews. Within a few hours, too... Well, since this chapter was written right after I posted the first one, I'll just type it now.
Title: Role Reversal
Rating: PG
Spoilers: There aren't too many spoilers in chapters 1-12. The whole story has some spoilers, but how else do you write a fanfic? The chapter with major spoilers is "Old Friends".
Summary: James and Lily make a bet. Lily has to pull a bunch of pranks and James can't do any.
Disclaimer: I, of course, do not own Harry Potter or its characters. If you're reading this, you should already know whom it belongs to anyway.
Setting: This story is set in MWPP years. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this fanfic.
!!! = setting change
italics = emphasis
-Wanna Bet?-
The next morning (and afternoon), Lily and James avoided each other like the plague. Which was just fine with their friends, who didn't want them to fight anymore.
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Everyone in the Great Hall was eating dinner peacefully. That is, until a shout was heard from the direction of the Slytherins. Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy were standing up, looking down at the pink dresses they now had on. They both also had curly blond hair. Malfoy didn't look as bad as Snape, since his hair was already that color in the first place. James and Sirius gave each other a high five as the two embarrassed Slytherins rushed out of the Great Hall to the safety of the dungeons (AN: Pff. How safe can dungeons be?). By now, nearly all the students who had witnessed the incident were laughing. The Marauders were definitely laughing the hardest.
Lily, however, looked unimpressed. Veronica noticed this and said, "Lily? What's up?"
"Nothing. I just don't see what's so impressive about that."
"Yeah, well, I'd like to see you do better, Evans," James retorted.
"I think I can."
"Wanna bet?"
"That sounds interesting. Why don't we make a bet?"
"Seriously?" James asked. "No pun intended," he said to Sirius.
His friend just grinned.
Lily replied, "Yeah, a real bet."
"All right. Let's talk. After dinner."
"Fine."
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"So what are we betting?" James asked. James and Lily were sitting in the Gryffindor common room, in the two best armchairs, which would have been near the fire if there had been one. There wasn't, since the weather was still quite warm. They were sitting away from everyone else so no one would overhear what they were saying.
"Money?"
"Let's decide that later. Right now, we need to decide the rules of the game."
"Okay, I bet that you can't pull off at least one prank a day for a month," James said. "And…" He paused for a moment to think of some way to make the bet more interesting. "And four of those pranks have to be big enough to be witnessed or heard about by the majority of the students."
"Hmm... okay," the redhead replied. "Then I bet you that you can't pull any pranks for a month. Not one."
"Ooh. That's gonna be hard. But okay."
"Right. So what are we betting?"
"How about... whoever loses their bet has to be the winner's slave for a month?"
"Fine. But the slave cannot be forced to do homework or something dangerous or against the rules."
"All right."
"Wait. What if we both lose?" Lily asked.
"If we both lose, you will be Sirius and Remus's slave, and I'll be Sarah and Veronica's. And we both do something to the Slytherins. Just for fun."
"Let's recap. If you pull a prank from tomorrow to October second, then you will be my slave. If I fail to do at least one per day from now until October second, then I'll be your slave."
"Don't forget that four of those have to be well-known."
"I know. Anyway, about the other parts of the bet. If we both fail, then our friends get to boss us around."
"Right."
"We have to tell them about this bet, don't we?"
"Yes, we do."
Lily grinned. "You'd better start working out, Potter. You're going to be carrying my books to class for a month."
"I don't think so, Evans."
The two shook hands and the bet was made.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's Note: So what'd you think? Good? Bad? Confusing? Hehe.