A/N: Ok so this chappy continues straight after the last because I kind of forgot about their detention until now. Also I think I'm going to make the first two years or so a bit quicker than I first thought because as Hello? Mary said, they wouldn't really be into girls yet - I keep forgetting they are so young! So basically I want to get to the good years which will be about third year onwards.

Sorry this chapter took so long, I finished it on Wednesday evening and sent it to my Beta but it was kind of late, then the next day we had a massive thunderstorm and stupid NTL had major problems so I couldn't get on the internet till now, which is Saturday morning So sorry it's late, but here it is anyway.

Disclaimer: All recognizable stuff belongs to JKR

Hello? Mary - Wow two reviews!Very good point with the girl liking-ness! Like I said I keep forgetting they are only like 11 years old but I will try my hardest to remember. I know what you mean about people not reading the books though; I've just read GoF then OotP then PoA (don't ask about the order!) and it's so annoying when facts aren't right - I know I cant talk while I'm messing around with ages but I made it clear I knew they were out of cannon. Glad you liked the howler; I thought it would just be a good way to introduce the fact that his whole family hates him. Thanks for reviewing and please keep reading!

Tekvah Ariel - Glad to hear you are glad to hear that I like you reviews (if that makes any sense!) I just don't really know what to do with the girls because they don't get up to as much as the marauders, but I'll try adding something in to stir them up a bit. I suppose you could say Peter is loyal in that he is still friends with Remus after they find out about his lycanthropy and becomes and Animagus but that could be just out of fear, I don't know. He's certainly not loyal in the future but I'm sure I'll think of something. Have fun with your plotting and keep reading!

Chapter 5 - First detention and Old Friends

Three of these people however did not retreat to their dorm. At five to seven James, Sirius and Remus were to be found trying to work out where the trophy room was. About twenty minutes later, with help from older students who were out and about, they made their way there.

"You're late." Filch growled from the shadows of the trophy room.

"We er, got lost, never been here before." Remus stated, eyeing the caretaker suspiciously. He was middle-aged but looked older because he always slumped around. He had hair that looked as if it was never washed, and a nasty smell radiating from him. He also had a pet, Mrs. Norris, who was a kitten that could be no more than a few weeks old.

"Right." He said, emerging from the corner and surveying them with lamp like eyes that were oddly like his kittens. "There's the polish and cloths, I want all the trophy's shining when I get back." And he left with his kitten in his arms.

"This sucks!" Sirius complained, picking up a cloth and moving over to the trophies, "It'll take ages to clean these, I don't do muggle cleaning!"

"Sirius stop acting like a girl," James interrupted, "just get cleaning if you want to get some sleep at all tonight."

"Well it's not my fault we're here is it?" Sirius retorted, "You're the one that got us caught."

"Well you're the one who started it by doing magic in the first place!"

"You didn't have to tip the girl's boat over!"

"You thought it was pretty funny at the time!"

"SHUT UP!" Remus shouted at the two boys standing in front of him shouting at each other, abandoning what they were supposed to be doing, "It doesn't matter whose fault it is just get on with it."

The two boys looked from the stern look on Remus' face to the cloths clenched into their fists and burst into fits of laughter.

"What's so funny?" A confused Remus asked, only resulting in them laughing harder while he had no idea what was going on.

A few hours later Filch returned and told them they could go to bed and left them complaining that it was slave labor to make students work like that.

"I have a house elf to do those jobs!" James complained angrily as he nursed his sore wrist, "Seriously we have to be more careful from now on."

"There are other forms of detention you know." Remus commented, "Writing lines, cleaning classrooms, trips to the forbidden forest,"

"Why do they let students in there if it's meant to be forbidden?" Sirius asked.

Remus rolled his eyes, "You go in with a teacher or Hagrid, students aren't allowed in unsupervised because it's dangerous." He continued, emphasizing the last word.

"Well I think it sound like fun, we should explore there Friday, I mean what can hurt us with our wands?" James said, ignoring Remus' comments. However at these words Remus had stopped talking about how dangerous it was and suddenly looked very edgy and a little paler than usual.

"Er, sorry guys, I er, won't be here Friday." He said, hoping they would leave it at that, he should have known that they wouldn't but it was worth a try.

"And why not?" Sirius demanded, ignoring his friend's strange behavior.

"Er, you see, I er," He started, trying to think of a good excuse, "My aunt Miriam died and it's the funeral on Saturday morning so I'm leaving on Friday to go home." He finished, praying they would believe him.

"O." Sirius stated, feeling guilty at pushing his friend to tell him, "Next week then." It was more of a statement than a question and the three walked in awkward silence up to their dorm not really knowing what to say.

They got silently to bed, James and Sirius thinking it must be horrible for him to have to go to the funeral, and Remus was feeling guilty he lied to them, after they had been his friends, 'but they wouldn't be their friends if they knew the truth' a little voice said in his head, and he too fell asleep.

The next morning Lily was first to awake, which was something seeing as yesterday Mia and Jessica had shouted at her for fifteen minutes and finally had to chuck water on her to wake her up. She looked at the clock on her bedside table, (A/N: I'm not sure if they had clocks but we can say she transfigures her watch into a clock at night) it read 6:05. "Way too early" Lily thought, but couldn't get back to sleep, so, resigned to the fact she would have to get up, went to take her shower and get dressed before anyone else was up.

When she had finished this it was still only twenty past 6 so she decided to wait in the common room so she didn't wake anyone up.

James had also woken up early; he had been having the same nightmare he had the night before, reliving the day it happened. He took a shower to try and get the images out of his head, but failing he decided he would read his favorite book, Quiddich through the Ages, until the others awoke. He got dressed, grabbed his book and was heading across the common room when a figure with long red hair caught his attention.

Lily heard footsteps coming nearer and she turned around to see who was up this early.

"Potter" She uttered, glaring at him with disgust in her eyes.

"Great," He thought, "just what I need."

"What are you doing here Evans?" He replied, his anger threatening to offload onto the person in front of him.

"It's none of you business Potter. And I could ask you the same thing."

"It's none of your business" He retorted, mimicking her words.

"How original" She commented, rolling her eyes at him.

"Well I could stay here and throw insults at you all day but I can think of much better things to do with my time. Bye Evans." And he left before his temper could get the better of him.

Lily was not feeling much better, she was furious at him for thinking he could talk to her like that. She stomped up to her room opening the door with a crash that woke up her other roommates. They looked up and subconsciously shrank away from the fury emitting from her.

"Er, Lily" Mia ventured, "What's up?"

"Potter" she growled before sitting at her table and furiously brushed her hair.

"Ah." Mia finished. It turned out today was not the day to tell Lily that she lived next to James Potter and had been his friend for several years before school. Yes that's right, Mia is friends with James. She hadn't seen him since they separated on the platform at 9 and ¾ because of obvious reasons with Lily. Mia knew it was just James' nature to get them soaked and didn't mean anything by it but knew that Lily would never believe her. She sighed; this was going to be a long week.

James meanwhile had stormed up to his room, forgetting that his roommates were still asleep and proceeded to throw the glass on his bedside table at the wall with a loud crash.

"Huh? Whas' matter?" Sirius said groggily, sitting up to see what the fuss was.

"I'm just coming mum!" Peter exclaimed before realizing he was at school, he turned slightly pink but no-one noticed. Remus had awoken gracefully and they were all staring as Sirius' glass smashed into the wall. It turned out James had some anger issues.

"James?" Sirius asked cautiously, "You ok?" James threw Remus' glass to the wall hen turned round with a smile on his face,

"Fine," He smiled, turning to the mirror to try and make his hair lie flat.

"Then what the bloody hell was that about!?" Sirius shouted, "It's half past 6 in the bloody morning!"

"Yes it is!" Said a voice from the door, "Stop shouting or I will put you in detention and take points from my own house!" Will, their head boy had just stormed in and out apparently not happy about being waken up so early.

James just went to sit on his bed feeling that breaking things was a much better way of taking out your anger than shouting, Remus and Peter went back to sleep without a word and Sirius returned to his bed muttering angrily about something James couldn't hear.

"So what happened?" Jessica asked Lily as they made their way down to breakfast.

"I was just sitting there because I couldn't sleep and he just came up and insulted me then walked off. He was totally big headed and stupid and he just makes me so mad!" Lily exclaimed taking her seat at the Gryffindor table. "And the way he acted like he was so much better than me just because he's James Potter." She finished, piling her plate with food, Lily ate when she was annoyed or nervous.

"Oh." Mia started. She knew she had to tell Lily, she wanted to talk to James, he was her oldest friend. "Er, Lily?"

"What!?" She snapped.

"I know you don't like him but er,"

"But what?"

"Well you see,"

"Just spit it out Mia."

But at that moment James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked into the great hall, looking tired and in Sirius' case pissed off. They took the seats as far away as possible from the girls and started eating and talking with their heads huddled together.

"They are just so immature" Lily continued with her ranting. "They're probably plotting something else to do that will get them in trouble. What was it you wanted Mia?"

"Nothing" She sighed, poking at the food on her plate.

A/N: Hmmm I wonder what's happened in James' childhood . . .poor thing.

I know it took ages to get this one up but again I'm really really sorry! And I am coming on when it's my birthday to give this to you so I should get something for that.

Silver Lily x x