OK, the scene at the end of the chapter with Lily and James is kinda based on the friendship I have with my best friends boyfriend, so if you wonder why the heck they're acting the way they are, that's why. Lol. R/R and enjoy!

Chapter Sixteen

The Brilliant Plot of Padfoot

Sirius sat upright in his bed. He had an idea...a way to make it up to James for everything he had done to him for the last six and a half years. His plan would work-it would just have to!

"Evans! Evans! Hey Evans!" Sirius yelled, hurrying down the hall two days later. Lily turned around to see a breathless Sirius running towards her. "I gotta talk to you about something."

"Can it wait until after breakfast?" Lily asked. She was very hungry and extremely eager to get to breakfast. 'It's most likely about Candace...' She thought.

"Well, as a professors pet like you would know, after breakfast we have classes, and this happens to be important."

"Let me guess. You tried to make a new and improved pass at Candace and she slapped you for getting too fresh." Lily muttered in annoyance. Candace had other friends. Just because she and Lily were best friends... Lily started down the corridor again and into the Great Hall.

"No, it's not about Candace. Wait! Come back! I can't talk to you in here!" Sirius groaned. So she was going to make things difficult.

"Guess it will just have to wait then." Lily responded, taking a seat at the Gryffindor table.

"Lily, you love making things difficult, don't you?" Sirius whispered in her ear.

"Always." Lily laughed in response. She hurried to pool every kind of food on her plate that she could.

The pancakes, the porridge, the waffles, french toast, bacon...it was all so delicious. "Lily?" Candace asked curiously. "You coming? Class starts in five minutes." Lily looked emptily down at her plate piled high with every variety of food which she had only just begun to eat from.

"You're kidding right?" Lily gaped.

"No, sorry." Candace laughed. "Here." She bundled up some french toast and bacon in a napkin for Lily, then tucked it neatly in her bag. "C'mon. We can't be late for Transfiguration." Lily grabbed another napkin and filled it with seven more strips of bacon, then hurried after Candace.

They stepped into the Transfiguration classroom right on time, and took their usual seats in the middle of the room.

"Good morning, class." Professor McGonagall said briskly, taking to the front of the classroom. She waved her wand quickly and the chalk marks on the board disappeared. A slight inclination that they were to be taking notes, and that a long and tiresome lecture was to come.

"After Christmas break, we will be practicing a rather difficult branch of magic called Metomoglition. It is the art of transforming ones self into an animal." Professor McGonagall said, waving her wand at the board as Metomoglition- The art to transform ones self into a particular animal, appeared on the board in small cursive letters. Lily fervently copied the notes down, not particularly favoring missing out on such an important lecture.

That is until her attention was pushed elsewhere, as a piece of crumpled up parchment flew through the air and landed on Lily's desk. Lily spun around in her seat to see who sent it, only to see Sirius gesturing madly for her to read it. Lily raised her eyes in shock as Candace shot an odd look at both Lily and Sirius. They had been whispering to each other during breakfast, and now passing notes?!

Lily unfolded the bit of parchment to see Sirius' handwriting scrawled on the top of what looked like a bit of James' homework. Lily began to read:

Lily,

Thought you might want to take a look at James' Muggle Studies homework as of late....

Question One: What is air conditioning, and explain how it is used.

Air conditioning is a device inside a television that makes the pictures appear on the screen. This is a complicated action, which requires several gears to spin all at once to make the pictures move as fast as they do. Then sparks of fire are emitted from the spinning gears which puts the color on the screen.

Question Two: What is the purpose of a sewing machine?

A sewing machine is used for particularly hard labor on the sheep fields of Ireland. The farmer takes the sewing machine out onto a particular stretch of eaten away grass and use the device to re-grow the grass so when the sheep returned to that part of the field to graze, there would be enough grass for them to eat.

Question Three: Name three jobs in the science field.

In the science field, people could work as farmhands, shepherds, and plowers to make sure all the science is processed to its greatest value, and can be sold in a marketplace to the muggles benefit.

It was all Lily could do to stifle a laugh, though sadly she failed. "Miss Evans." Professor McGonagall snapped in annoyance. "Kindly pay attention. And put your food away! There shall be no eating in this class."

"Sorry, Professor." Lily answered, making an attempt to hide her smile. She tucked her bacon back into her bag, and waited until Professor McGonagall was facing the other direction before she turned back to Sirius.

Sirius shot a grin at her and shrugged innocently. "Can I talk to you after class?" He mouthed wordlessly.

"Miss Evans!" Professor McGonagall barked, causing Lily to whip around in shock. "Kindly come to the front of the class and demonstrate transfiguring another student into an animal. Preferably a horse. I find that to be the most difficult kind of transformation."

Lily's eyes widened in shock. She'd never transfigured anyone into a horse before! They had practiced the root with smaller animals, but the larger the animal, the more difficult it was supposed to be.

"Mr. Potter. Please come up to be transfigured." Professor McGonagall said clearly. James stood to his feet and walked to the front of the classroom.

'I...I love you.' James voice repeated in Lily's head. She swallowed hard and raised her wand. "Denso Cheval." Lily said clearly, trying to inject all the confidence she could in her voice. With a pop, a large black stallion was standing at the front of the classroom. It shook its long black mane majestically, and took to blinking around the room looking politely surprised. Lily gasped half in awe that she actually did it, and half because of how beautiful the stallion was. It was amazing that it once was James Potter...

"Now kindly turn your classmate back to normal." Professor McGonagall said, looking rather pleased, yet surprised at the same time.

"Erm..." Lily racked her brain. How did she turn him back? "Credenza." Lily finally said clearly. There was a loud crash and laying on the floor was a legless donkey with a coarse black tail sprouting out of it's nose.

"Oh my god!" Lily said in shock. The class erupted into a roaring laughter.

"Silence!" Professor McGonagall called, her voice cracking like a whip. "Miss Evans, please accompany Mr. Potter to the hospital wing, if you will."

"Yes Professor." Lily responded meekly. She raised her wand and performed a hovering charm on James, directing the legless donkey out the door. The last thing Lily saw before she left was Sirius gasping for breath rolling on the floor in painful glee. Lily directed James up three flights of stairs until she finally reached the hospital wing. She couldn't believe she had turned James into a legless donkey! And in front of the whole class! What an ass she made of herself! Or, more like what an ass she had made of James. She couldn't help but smile.

"Goodness gracious! What now?!" Madam Pomfrey shrieked when Lily entered, James floating merely feet in front of her.

"Transfiguration class." Lily responded quietly, resisting the urge to laugh. She had to admit, it was pretty funny.

"Who is this?" Madam Pomfrey inquired, snatching Lily's wand out of her hand and directing James onto an open bed.

"James Potter." Lily responded.

"James Potter? I could've guessed! One minute falling off his broom two hundred feet in the air, the next getting attacked by the Whomping Willow. Honestly. He even came here in his third year and asked for a cure to a broken heart. Said it was all your fault too." Madam Pomfrey babbled mindlessly, shoving Lily's wand back into her hand, then rushing around the hospital wing for various ingredients to change James back to normal.

Lily couldn't help but smile. A cure for a broken heart? That was almost cute!

Twenty minutes later, the bell rang, and footsteps echoed down the corridor, and finally into the hospital wing. Sirius stepped inside, and laughed at the sight of his decrepit friend lying almost lifeless on the hospital bed, still in the shape of a legless donkey- even the tail was still sprouting out of the nose.

"So, Evans. What did you think about James' Muggle Studies homework?" Sirius grinned.

Lily snorted. "I think he needs to get his head examined here as well."

"Yes, so obviously he was way off." Sirius said, looking satisfied that Lily had agreed. "Meaning you should probably start tutoring him again."

"What?" Lily laughed. "He doesn't want to be tutored anymore."

"Only because you refuse to talk to him during your cozy little sessions. It's rather difficult to learn when the teacher won't talk, and James was thinking it was a huge waste of time." Sirius said firmly. For once he was actually being serious, and it greatly surprised Lily.

"Look, he brought it upon himself for me to not talk to him." Lily huffed offensively.

"For telling you he cares? For telling you the truth about Remus?" Sirius asked incredulously, lowering his voice so Madam Pomfrey wouldn't hear from her office. "Sorry, honey, but you need to look things over again and figure out what the hell he did wrong. Cause from where I'm standing, it was nothing."

"Where you're standing, Sirius, isn't a place we call Earth." Lily retorted.

"Seriously, Evans. You give the guy a hard enough time the way it is, but to totally hate him when he really did nothing wrong..."

"Seriously, Sirius. Stop or you'll be laying on that bed looking exactly like James."

"Can't stop. I have to make things up to James. I have to fix everything and I have a plan. Which conveniently involves you." He grinned.

"Oh yes, conveniently." Lily muttered sarcastically.

"Now, you owe James probably about 30 hours of tutoring, right? Accounting for the three weeks you wouldn't talk to him after he told you about Remus, and for the week and a half that you haven't been tutoring him."

Lily rolled her eyes. "What are you getting at?"

"And you're muggle born...so what better way to make it up to him, and give him the best tutoring anyone could get, by taking him home with you for the holidays."

Lily snorted. "You're joking right?" She asked, staring at Sirius.

"No. I'm not joking. Sirius is serious." He laughed.

"No. No! What? Why would I even consider it?" Lily burst.

"Because, you know you like him." Sirius grinned. "I know I might not be the best with things like this as of late, thanks to Candace, but I can tell you like James. Not very much, but enough to more then tolerate him."

"I'm not taking him home with me. That would be two weeks with my parents, my magic hating sister, her evil boyfriend and James. No, that wouldn't mix at all. And besides, my parents would never go for it." She laughed, amazed Sirius would even suggest such a thing. It was absolutely ridiculous!

"Ah, but I've already taken care of that." Sirius replied, taking two sheets of parchment out of his pocket. "Here's the one I sent your parents, and here's their response." Lily raised her eyes as she took the letters from Sirius and began to read them.

Dear Mum and Dad,

I have a friend named James who happens to be awful at Muggle Studies (The study of non-magic people) and throughout the course of the year I've had to give him tutoring lessons. Well, his teacher gave a request that I would take him home with me for the break to give him a first hand account of what living with non-magic people would be like. So I was wondering if that would be alright with you, if he stayed in the guest bedroom for the winter break strictly for studying matters.

Love,

Lily

Dear Lily,

That would be absolutely wonderful! We look forward to meeting your friend for Christmas, and we'll have the second floor guest bedroom prepared at your arrival.

Lots of Love,

Mum and Dad

Lily widened her eyes in shock. "I can't believe you! Sirius Black, you insensitive jerk!" She yelled angrily, thrusting the letters back at Sirius. "I can't believe you wrote my parents about something you hadn't even talked to me about, something that I won't EVER agree to in my life!"

"Lily please!" Sirius took to begging. "Please take him home with you. What was the first thing that came to your mind when he told you he loved you?" He asked, his dark eyes full of a plea that Lily could hardly deny.

"What the hell is he going on about! That's it! That's all I thought, then everything disappeared from shock. That's it!"

"OUT!" Madam Pomfrey's voice came from behind them. "Both of you! He needs rest!"

"He isn't quite human enough yet to even get rest!" Lily fumed.

"Out, out, out!" Madam Pomfrey shooed them into the corridor.

"Lily, I'll do anything. I'll make a deal with you. This is the one way I can make everything I've done wrong up to James."

"How will it be making it up to him?"

"Because I assure you, Lily. You spend enough time with him, you will like him! Please! I'll do anything!"

"No!" Lily laughed, flat out. "No! I'm not bringing him home with me and that's that!" She huffed, turned on her heel and strode away down the corridor.

"Lily, I really didn't want to resort to this, but how would you feel if everyone knew about the time in our third year when you grabbed my Firewhisky to spike the drinks instead of the Butterbeer?"

Lily stopped dead in her tracks. Yes, she remembered the incident very well, though she tried to forget about it.

"You know, did a nice table dance for us all, tripped and fell off the table, your bottle of Firewhisky breaking the Common Room window." Sirius grinned.

"Sirius Black, you tell anyone you won't live to graduate." Lily threatened, though she came back to Sirius' side. "You would have died that night if you hadn't taken the blame with McGonagall for breaking the window."

"Ah, see, I'm a real pal." Sirius grinned. "So, shall we make a deal? You can choose the terms. Anything you want, and I'll do it, as long as you take James home for the break."

Lily laughed, still in disbelief that Sirius would even suggest such a thing. "I'd rather take the whole school knowing." She said, turning and walking back down the corridor.

"How would that look for a Head Girl?" Sirius called behind her.

"It was the third year, Sirius! It's not going to sell for much!" She laughed.

"How about in the fifth year when James tricked you into..."

"Fifth year was two years ago. Doesn't work." Lily continued, turning around the corner.

"I will win, Evans! You just watch me!" Sirius hollered behind her.

"I'd love to see the day..." Lily mused quietly to herself. This could get interesting. But why on earth would Lily ever even consider bringing James home with her? Her entire family would think she was dating him, and that was the last impression she wanted to give them.

"Miss Evans, could I kindly have a word with you?" Professor Pall called Lily over from across the corridor.

'Oh Lord.' Lily thought. 'This must have to do with James. What now...?'

"Sure, Professor." Lily responded, approaching him.

"I have listed here that you signed up to possibly take home Muggle Studies students over break to give them a first hand account of what it's like to live like the non magic folk..." Professor Pall began, looking down at the scroll of parchment he held in his hands.

"There's a program that involves that?" Lily muttered darkly to herself. "Wait? I signed up for it?" She asked incredulously. She heard a loud burst of laughter, and spun around to see Sirius leaning on a stone gargoyle, as if the gargoyle was the only thing that was keeping him on his feet. Without it, he would have been rolling on the floor in laughter.

"I always win..." He gasped in between breaths. Luckily Professor Pall was shuffling through his papers and didn't notice Sirius.

"You signed right here. See?" He asked, handing a piece to Lily. She had to admit Sirius was getting very good at copying her handwriting.

"Of course, Professor. It just slipped my mind. It's been kind of hectic recently." She responded. What else could she say? She couldn't deny signing up! That wouldn't be nice. And besides, if Professor Pall needed to send a student home with her, which she hoped and prayed wouldn't be James, then she would just have to oblige to it.

"Yes, of course. Anyways, I was wondering, as James was your tutoring student, if you would take him home with you. I know it's a lot to ask, as we usually only pair same sex people together, but I feel you can give him the best taste of it out of anyone. But he said your tutoring lessons have stopped since the Head Student duties are just too much at the moment. But his work has been greatly declining since then, and when you were tutoring him, he was doing a lot better." Professor Pall sighed. "Sometimes I wonder how he ever made it to the seventh year."

Lily smiled slightly. On top of her to-do list. Kill Sirius.

"Sure Professor. I'd be glad to help out." She responded.

"Thank you very much, Miss Evans." Professor Pall smiled. "And I'll have you take these forms, you fill these out, and James will fill these out. I'm sure he'll be glad to go, it's such a great opportunity."

"Yes, I'm sure." Lily answered, her falsely happy voice fading as Professor Pall handed her about twenty forms to fill out.

"Thank you again!" Professor Pall responded, whisking off down the corridor. Lily waited until he was completely out of sight before she turned to Sirius.

"Sirius Black!" She yelled angrily. A steely glint was in her eye, and she had every intention to hurt Sirius. As much as she could. Whether it be physically, or emotionally.

Sirius stopped laughing when he noticed the look in Lily's eye as she glared at him with utmost anger.

"Oh shit..." He muttered, turning towards the oak doors, pushing them open and speeding outside. Lily dropped her bag and her twenty forms and raced out behind him, pulling the doors shut after her. Small snowflakes had begun to fall to the ground, and her panting breath rose in the air before quickly evaporating.

"Sirius Black, you little son of a bitch!" Lily called, running as fast as she could behind him. Though at this point, she was having more fun plainly chasing him rather then trying to hurt him.

"That's right! My mum is a bitch!" He called behind him.

Lily chased him all the way passed the greenhouses for about what seemed like a mile before he collapsed to the ground leaning against the castle wall. Lily plopped down onto the ground next to him.

"Wow, that was refreshing." She panted. "Now I have to kill you." She grinned, jumping on top of Sirius, tackling him so he was laying flat out on the ground. She pinned him in the stomach with her elbow, applying not too much pressure, but just enough to make it slightly painful.

"Give up?" She grinned.

"Heck no." Sirius grunted rolling over, knocking him off of her. She attempted to pin him again, but he merely picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. "There we go. That's easier. Do you give up?"

Lily laughed as she stared down at the ground. "Nope. You are the biggest ass in the school, Sirius." Lily smiled.

"Me?" Sirius grinned. "Nah. That would have to be James. Thanks to you of course."

"Oh shut up." Lily giggled. "Can you put me down?"

"Nope. You seem quite comfortable to me." Sirius laughed, hoisting her up a bit so she was more firmly rested on his shoulder.

"Come on, I have to get you back somehow." Lily grinned, making no attempt to get down. If she did, it would only make her landing more painful.

"Ah, well, out of the kindness of my heart, I will pretend that you are taking James home willingly, and our little deal idea is the way it's going to go down. So Evans, state your terms. You take James home for Christmas break, and I...?" Sirius asked, waiting for Lily to finish the sentence for him.

Lily started thinking as hard as she could. What would be equal to what he had done to her? What was the last thing he wanted to do...?

"I know." Lily grinned.

"Yes? Tell me, Senorita Lily." Sirius laughed, setting her softly back onto the ground.

"You have to ask Candace out." Lily explained. "And no getting cold feet."

"Damn! Of all things..." Sirius groaned.

"Come on, you like her and you know it. Asking her out will only take the relationship a bit further."

"Guess I have to tell Harmony things won't work out with us..." Sirius joked.

"Sirius!" Lily gasped, not catching on to his sarcasm.

"It was a joke, Lily. A joke." Sirius laughed. "I would never mess around with Harmony. One minute you're having fun with her, the next she's bawling her eyes out. It's rather annoying." Sirius grinned. "But I guess it's only fair. You have yourself a deal, Evans." Sirius grinned giving her a firm handshake.

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