The Kiss

A/N: Wow, can we take this opportunity to thank our first reviewer, what you said really made our day, or night as it were in Englishland. Thanks to the rest of our reviewers as well, what reviewers want, reviewers should have, so here we go drum roll please MORE SCENES. Can we also take the opportunity to point out that these events DID NOT all happen, we are not suggesting for a moment that James/Sirius got more action than James/Lily.

Disclaimer: If we say it is all ours will you (or anybody else) believe us?

Scene Three: Marauders seventh year. James and Lily are alone in a charms classroom, James has just asked her out…yet again.

"I'll date you when hell freezes over James Potter! No, even less likely, I'll date you when you get a french kiss from that sidekick of yours!" she screamed before exiting the room in a flurry of red hair.

James stared after her, "Well, what Evans wants, Evans gets," he muttered and set off for the Gryffindor common room in search of Sirius.

Sirius was sitting at a table pouring over the marauders map and planning the night's excursion as it was the full moon that evening.

James marched up to him, "Sirius?"

"Mmmmm?"

"You're my best friend right?"

"Mmmmmm?"

"So you'd do anything for me right?"

Sirius looked up, "James, mate, I don't have any money."

"Wha? No this isn't about money. But you'd do anything for me right?"

Sirius turned a worried expression on James, "James, I'm not attempting murder again, do you REMEMBER what happened the last time?" (A/N: Like I said, these scenes are not intended to have all happened so Sirius is referring purely to the months of detention they received, but feel free to snigger at the memory of our genius if you wish.)

"Sirius! Seriously! Would you?"

Growing concerned at James's continued serious expression Sirius nodded slowly, "Yeah, of course I would." Then memories of stunts pulled by his friend in years gone past flickered through his mind and he hastily added, "Within reason."

"How's french kissing me?"

"That's definitely NOT within reason!" yelped Sirius jumping up as Remus sniggered from the corner.

James turned to Remus, "Over my dead body!"

James turned back to Sirius, "And I will be using his dead body as a shield!"

"Sirius please!"

"You want to french kiss me?"

"No, of course not!"

Sirius looked relieved.

"I want you to french kiss me."

The look of relief vanished.

"Did I mention the part about a shield?"

James looked at the ground. "You're right Padfoot," he took a step towards his friend, "Have I mentioned how gorgeous you look today?"

Sirius beamed widely, "I always look…" then he noticed James leaning in, lips puckered, "Oh no!" he said, ducking.

"And why have you got this idea into your head?" asked Remus in a long suffering voice that told James his friend thought this was another of his bizarre schemes.

"It's to make Lily go out with me."

"Sure, convince her you're gay, what a turn on!"

"It turns me on," said Nearly Headless Nick floating through a nearby wall.

"Are you listening to our conversations?" asked Sirius in a horror-struck voice.

"That's not the point," cried James, "Are you gay?"

Nick drifted silently through the opposite wall, leaving Sirius to mutter about how he was never going to let that ghost in his dormitory again.

"And back to gay man number one!" said Remus, "This is a jealousy thing right?"

"No, Lily said she'd go out with me if I french kissed a guy."

Sirius looked at him with narrowed eyes, "Maybe you're delusional Prongs. What did she actually say?" he asked, refraining from leaning in to his friend.

"She said, 'I'll date you if you get a french kiss from that sidekick of yours.'"

Sirius swapped a look with Remus who shook his head, "I don't see a way of misinterpreting that, looks like you're up," he said and leaned back in his chair, grinning broadly.

Sirius sat down, "I'd get a new crush then mate," he said, his voice one which brooked no argument.

James stood over his friend. "Who lent you fifteen galleons so that you could bet on the Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw Quidditch match?"

"You!"

"Who covered for you with Amanda Higglesberry when you were snogging Chastity Wilde behind greenhouse three?"

"You!"

"And who…"

"Yes, okay I get it."

"You'll do it?"

Sirius sighed, "I'll do it."

"Do you think we should practice?"

"Practice?"

"So it looks good."

"I am not doing this in front of an audience!"

"No, I know, but do you think we should?"

Sirius shook his head and sighed again, "Okay, fine."

They moved together and as their lips met the portrait hole opened, admitting Peter. He glanced at James and Sirius now sucking face in the middle of the common room and then at Remus.

"Hey Remus," he said before doing a double take and swinging back round to James and Sirius who had yet to come up for air.

"It's okay Peter," said Remus calmly, "Sirius and James are just practising."

Sirius and James hastily separated themselves and looked over at Peter, trying to look as if this was a normal state of affairs.

"Do you often kiss when I'm not around?" asked Peter hesitantly.

"No but Nick does," said Sirius noticing Remus shudder.

Peter raised both eyebrows as he lacked the ability to raise just one.

"Nearly Headless Nick is gay. Didn't you know?" said James, sounding for all the world as though he had known for years.

"And we let him in our dormitory because?" prompted Peter.

"Because we're comfortable with our sexuality," Sirius said firmly.

Peter turned to Remus who was sniggering in the corner, "Why are they doing this?"

"Because between them they've kissed every girl in the school, they've got to their action somewhere."

"So what happens when they…you know…with every girl in the school?"

Remus fell on the floor laughing.

The next day after charms James tapped Lily on the shoulder as she made as if to leave the charms classroom.

"Lily?"

"The answer is no!" said Lily without turning around.

"I wasn't going to say that!" he said, sounding offended.

Grudgingly she turned to face him.

"Do you remember what you said to me yesterday?"

Lily pretended to think, "No?"

"You said you'd date me if…"

"Hell freezes over?"

"Or?"

"If you got a kiss from your sidekick," she continued, the conversation coming back to her.

"Well watch this," said James, grabbing Sirius.

"Stop the madness!" shouted Peter suddenly, breaking in between them and pushing them apart.

Remus shoved him out of the way, "My Wizarding Wireless is broken," he said, "I don't have any other comedy."

And Lily was left to look totally horrified as the boy who had been asking her out every other day (at least) stuck his tongue down his best friends' throat. By the time the pair resurfaced however, her expression had changed to one of faint amusement.

"If I'd known you were going to do it I'd have said when you get a french kiss from Snape."

"Is that a yes?"

"No, the answer is still no!" smirked Lily and walked out of the room.

James turned to Sirius who had drawn his wand and looked murderous. Quickly he began to fumble inside his robes for his own wand but was distracted as Remus said, "Not to interrupt but shouldn't someone stop her before she tells someone?"

Swapping a fleeting look Sirius and James raced down the corridor after Lily.

A/N: We do have a few ideas still to go but we will appreciate any ideas you can give us. There you go, incentive to push that little blue button!