Chapter 5- WWI

It had taken Lily and Kyla most of the night to get the cabin just as they wanted, but they had been proud of the results. They had decided to each take two of the beds and set them together. Kyla seamed them together with a spell Lily had never seen before. Lily was especially pleased with herself for fixing some of the loose floorboards that had been squeaking. The girls had even decorated it with a calming forget-me-not blue; it almost reminded Lily of a sea-scape picture. Between that and having had the pleasure of watching the boys do tasks in the woods with no protection on their feet, both were very tired and had a very deep sleep that first night in the cabins.

Lily was the first to wake up the next morning. The sun had been making its way through the window, and though they had simple white drapes that Kyla had conjured, it didn't keep it out of Lily's eyes. She sat up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes, going over to the sink and splashing her face with some water to complete waking herself up. She then commenced to her bed and wrote a bit about the prior day's experience.

Nearly ten minutes later Kyla woke to the scratching of a quill to paper. "Morning, Lily," she said tiredly.

"Good morning," Lily said a bit brightly.

"Ready to see how the boys handle no shoes today?"

"I don't know," Lily said, feeling a bit guilty. She was usually one for rules and precaution, and even though she would admit the boys deserved it, she

thought one day of that kind of torture was enough. "Shouldn't we give their shoes back?"

"Come on, you don't have to be such a spoil sport," Kyla said.

"I'm not trying to be, but this is their vacation too," Lily pointed out.

Kyla stewed on it for a minute. "All right, we'll give the gits their shoes."

"Should we do it now, before they know it was us?" Lily suggested, putting a robe around her camisole and plaid pajama pants.

"Sure," Kyla said, just putting on a jacket. "Let's leave them on the roof, and then they'll think some bird made off with them." Lily laughed.

They both slipped on some shoes and made their way to the main camping grounds. Lily had hid the shoes in a large hollow of a tree just behind the rangers'cabin. It wouldn't take much to get them back, but they weren't in a direct line of sight either. As they took the path toward the fire pit and flag pole, Lily and Kyla noticed the other campers going back to their own cabins. The odd thing was they were all laughing or whispering about something funny that had happened. "Maybe the staff did something this morning that we missed?" Kyla said.

Lily shrugged. They got to the clearing and noticed something strange on the flag pole. Lining the rope that usually bore the flag of Great Britain were several ladies undergarments. All of them were relatively small sizes, one just barely larger than the other. There was a bra the top of the pole that at one time had been a modest white undergarment belonging to Lily had red writing lined with gold saying 'Marauders Conquer all'.

Both of the women froze in their tracks. It would have been an interesting thing to see the two of them together: Lily's face draining of all color in embarrassment and Kyla's flushing with red in anger. "MICHAEL POTTER!" Kyla said after getting over the shock of what they were looking at. All the Marauders, including the honorary member, stayed where they were, trying to hold their laughter. Kyla extracted her wand and went over to the pole. Lily stayed put, starring at her blue lacy underwear, wondering which of the gits that she had tried to help out by talking Kyla into giving up on the prank had put it up there. James had stared at the same pair of underwear earlier, though he was thinking very different things.

"It's no use," Kyla said after her tenth or eleventh attempt to remove the offensive blow to her dignity. "They've charmed them up there."

Lily finally snapped out of it. "Maybe we just can't use our wands. Let's try getting them down the regular way." In the time she took saying this she was already over at the flagpole untying the rope and pulling it to get them down.

All the boys had gone silent and glared at Sirius whose job it had been to make sure the girls couldn't get the underwear down. "What?" he asked incredulously though he knew what he had done wrong. "It's Muggle! What did you expect?"

"For you to use your brain for once," Remus replied, but they all decided to go back to watching the girls gather their things off the rope while other campers still looked on.

"That was a good one Dad," James said, giving Michael a high five.

"I hope they remember that one," Michael said, reciprocating the pride in his son's voice. "Never try to beat a Potter at their own game, it just doesn't work."

They all snuck back to the path, careful not to step on anything that might hurt them and made their way to their cabin to actually get ready for the day. Fifteen minutes after they got back there was a knock on the door. Michael held a hand out, gesturing that he would answer the door and went slowly to the source of fear and excitement, opening the door to his angry wife. "Hi, honey, did you need something? Is there another snake in your cabin?"

"I would like to know whose idea this was," Kyla's face was completely red as she held out the underwear balled up in her fist. Even Michael was having a difficult time not fearing this change in the blonde haired woman standing in front of her. "The ring leader's I'm assuming."

"Ring leader? I don't know what you're talking about, honey. We've just been getting ready to go canoeing," Michael feigned innocence as the other boys tried to do the same while looking busy gathering things for canoeing at the same time. "Besides, I don't think it's very appropriate for you to be waving those around a bunch of teenage boys sweet pea."

"Oh, you're going to get it, Michael, just you wait," Kyla said before turning around and making her way back to the cabin where Lily was waiting.

Michael closed the door and all the boys burst into laughter. "That was so worth it!"

"Hell yeah!" Sirius added.

Remus died down with his own side splitting laughter, "do you think we should apologize?"

"No," James answered.

"Just follow in our footsteps lad, and we'll have the best summer ever," Michael said clapping Remus on the back. Remus was about to argue back, but even he had to admit that was fun, he only wished that he could see Lily's reaction now.

"The nerve of that lot! How dare he do something so…so…" Kyla wrung her hands together in a choking motion as she tried to find the word.

"Maybe we should just give them their shoes and call it a draw," Lily said, packing her things away still embarrassed from the incident.

"No way!" Kyla said giving her a murderous glance, really meant for those residing in cabin 4. "Don't you understand Lily? It's us against them! They think they can control us unless we show them otherwise! They can't get away with this or they'll think they can walk all over us and you don't want to live the rest of your life like that, do you?"

"Well, not really, but won't they-"

"We won't let them get away with anything. We can't or they'll steam roll all over us. Every time they do something to us, we do something that's better no matter what. Now come here and we'll come up with something good."

Lily decided it might be okay to throw out the rule books this time, although it did make her a bit uncomfortable. One summer of pranks couldn't do too much… right?

A/N: Another ending to another chapter. I've been so sad that Fan fic has been down today, but I did finish another chapter…. Now I think I'll attempt writing more on another story that I haven't updated in the last decade…jk. Anyhoo: Thank you to all of my faithful reviewers, please count yourselves among them and add yourself to the ranks of Sarah-mason19's army…. I mean clan... I mean groupies. Just please review and tell me what you think, even if you are crazy I might get a good laugh from it.

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Writegirl709: I'll try to keep it up, but I make no promises not to have a mental break down, especially since things have been really crazy lately.

Roxy-babe88: Thank you for reviewing! I hope you like this chapter and hope to hear from you soon.

Tanya J Potter: Here you go, I updated soon, so review soon =)

Space-pirate10: No, you're a wanky fruit =) (trade marked by Crescent Lovegood) I'm sorry it wasn't 'like now' but here's the update. Keep up because these are going to be some funny pranks.

Orumai: I'm sorry you feel that it's inconsistency, but I never find her 'liberal' in the conventional sense, and she is by no means chewing him out without reason. I think you need to realize that all people, including parents, are going to have their moments. She was merely showing him how wrong he was in the situation and not considering either herself or Lily. When it comes to Kyla and Michael being like James and Lily, you're right and you're wrong. James does take after his dad in a lot of areas, but Lily is less of a 'break the rules' type, but Kyla will break them when it won't cause harm to anyone. Just because I have Lily and Kyla hanging out doesn't mean they're exactly alike. Either way, I'm sorry you don't like these concepts.

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Katkit: I don't think Lily's parents are as 'cool', not that I don't think their nice, but I think James's parents needed to be 'cool' to pull off this concept. I'm glad you like those two characters, because they are among my favorite. I hope you keep reading and reviewing. Always good to hear from you.

Storywritter10791: I try to update asap, and I'm sorry this one didn't get up sooner, I've been really preoccupied.

JamieBell: Great words from Michael Potter eh? I think he's so funny with his 'women like to clean' bits, even though he'd cower in front of her. Just wait until you see what the girls do next muahahaha I'm really like writing this one, and soon I'll post on my others, I promise. I know exactly what I want to do in the next chappie for 'Harmony at Hogwarts', but I'm waiting to get the words to one of the songs. Anything to help make a boring day fun… that's my job; well actually I nanny and greet people at the airport, but you know. Thank you for your stellar responses and awesome reviews. You go girl! Oh yeah peps, check out some of her stuff. It's great. She just wrote a one shot called 'Looking Above' that absolutely rocks. The descriptions are amazing and you can relate to it so well.