A/N- New chappie, hope you enjoy it! I know that I've said that it's Pre-OotP, but I may use some OotP references, but I will still keep this love/hate. Sorry about my contradicting uncanon-ness.

Sirius was on a mission. Anybody could tell that from his handsome yet determined and persevering stance. Or the way he paced the floor- in an adorably troubled masculine way, yet with a touch of sensitivity-

"Sirius! What are you doing?" Claire's voice broke through his slightly narcissist thoughts and he scowled at her.

"Can't you tell when someone is having a quiet moment of revelation and self-worship?" he asked her, annoyance written all over his face.

"Self-worship," Claire snorted. "Doesn't surprise me at all. But your little quiet moments should not be happening when you've gathered us all here for something 'important' that you refused to say exactly what it was, though it's clearly obvious that it's some other stupid plan (that won't work) to get Lily and James together."

"It was NOT clearly obvious, and for your information Clarissa, you are wrong," Sirius said smugly. "Because I don't have a plan."

Claire sighed and groaned. Sirius looked around him. "Hey where are Remus and Ayrah? And Peter? Oh wait, Peter's in detention," he said to himself.

"Remus and Ayrah decided to leave you alone in your 'quiet moment of revelation and self-worship' and have gone over there," Claire said pointing to a table where Remus and Ayrah sat across from each other working on homework and sneaking glances at each other.

Sirius harrumphed at Remus. "Some Marauder he is! Ditching his own friends to go to homework with his girlfriend! His non-ditzy girlfriend. There must be a Marauder rule against this," Sirius said muttering to himself. Claire slipped away rolling her eyes unnoticed by Sirius.

"Well Claire, I guess it's just you and me," Sirius said after he snapped out of it. He smiled at the air in front of him and then immediately frowned. "Claire?"

Lily went down to the kitchens and tickled the pear looking around her whilst she did so. What on earth did Potte- no, James want with her? If it weren't for her suspicion that it had to do with getting back at Sirius, she wouldn't have agreed to come at all. Not as if he gave her room to agree or disagree, he'd ordered her to. She grumbled to herself and she thought of that and stepped into the kitchen. Immediately, houselves swarmed around her.

"Hello Miss Lily! Would you be liking some more chocolate ice cream? There's plenty left over from dinner!"

"Chocolate chip cookies?"

"We've just made a fresh batch of brownies!"

"Your usual mocha coffee?"

Lily laughed and declined all their offers. "Actually, I'm here to meet someone, not eat, sorry."

The houselves looked mildly disappointed before disappearing to cook again. Lily stared after them wondering if she should reconsider and just get some coffee when someone bowled into her, knocking her to the ground.

"Ouch! Po-James! Why don't you watch where you're going?"

"Sorry E-Lily. It doesn't help matters much when you stand right in front of the entrance," James shot back at her. Lily didn't have anything to say to that, so she just pursed her lips.

"What are we here for?"

"Actually, we're here so I can show you a room where I will actually tell you why I asked to meet you. Because under normal circumstances I wouldn't," James said somewhat loftily.

"So shut up and show me the room," Lily snapped.

James smiled enjoying her aggravation and waved at the entrance. "After you," he said in a gallant voice. Lily raised her eyebrows at him but went first nonetheless.

After James climbed out of the kitchen, he unfolded a piece of cloth that Lily hadn't noticed before, and she stared curiously at it. The material looked like it was made of water, and it shimmered before her. James shook it out and Lily realized that this must have been the Invisibility cloak that he owned.

"Okay, we'll have to get under this since we won't want to get caught," James said as he opened the cloak and motioned to Lily to come over.

Lily came over and James draped the cloak over them. Lily noted that this was probably the closest she'd ever been to James before (of her own free will- the stupid closet did not count) and it made her rather uneasy. She attempted to shift away from him unobtrusively but succeeded in doing nothing but earning a strange look from him. She decided to pay no attention to anything but the direction they were going.

James stopped in front of a portion of wall, but Lily didn't notice and continued to walk before James quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her back. Unfortunately, he pulled a little too hard and Lily toppled over into him. Moments later, they were on the floor rubbing their heads, the Invisibility Cloak in a heap around them.

"Ouch E-Lily. What was that for?" James demanded.

"You wrenching my arm out of my socket and making me overbalance," Lily replied acidly.

James glared back. "In any case, we're here. It's called the Room of Requirement and it…" He went on and on sounding more and more condenscending. Lily gritted her teeth. I just need a room that will allow Potter and I to plan out a prank for Sirius, not a stupid history book tour of this castle. She shot him a dirty look as she walked away down the hall.

"Hey Ev- Lily where are you going?" James was shaken out of his explanation of how the Room had been used in the past and theories of how it had been discovered. She threw him a scathing look.

"Away," she replied shortly.

James rolled his eyes. "Come back here! I've just been explaining about this room!" He said gesturing to empty wall space.

Lily walked back over and turned to look at the wall skeptically. "I know you have glasses, but perhaps you need to get the prescription checked. That's a wall, not a door." But as soon as the words were out of her mouth, a door appeared in the wall and James grinned smugly. Lily just gaped at the door. Quickly gathering his cloak and pulling Lily behind him, he entered in the room.

"This is the Room of Requirement. As I said earlier," James repeated sounding a bit miffed that she had not bothered to listen to his explanation. "Now down to business. We must get back at Sirius."

"Sirius is probably the hardest person to prank though," Lily replied thoughtfully. "He'd take any prank in stride so the prank can't exactly go with embarrassment…"

"Sirius is NOT the hardest person to prank!" James said indignantly. "I am."

"Yeah right. I'm sure that's what you'd like to think but-"

"It's not what I'd like to think – it's what I know and what you know. You simply do not want to acknowledge my greatness-"

"Does your conceit have no bounds Potter? Honestly, all you ever do is talk about how great you are! Well news flash- far from being great, you are nothing but a stupid, arrogant, imbecilic, moronic, idiotic, asinine, conceited prick!" Lily screamed at him thinking about all the times that he had tried to assume superiority over her. She was tired of it.

Without a second glance at him she exited the Room, all thoughts of Sirius and revenge out of her head. James frowned a bit at her words and then another thought popped into his head. He sighed. "How are we ever going to get Sirius back?" Feeling irked that she wouldn't cooperate, he decided to do it own his own. After all, he was the Prank Master of Hogwarts he thought to himself a bit smugly.

'…stupid, arrogant, imbecilic, moronic, idiotic, asinine, conceited prick!' The words popped into James's mind unbidden, and he scowled at them. Was it his fault if she couldn't ever take a joke? What an uptight little priss, he thought disdainfully.

"Eureka!" Sirius cried at his library table loudly. Madam Pince glared at him dangerously, but Sirius ignored her. It wasn't as if he was ever quiet… or ever studied, it wasn't too clear to even him why he was in the library anyway. "I've got it!" His eyes lit up with excitement and he hurried off to tell everyone else. Oh this'll be very interesting indeed… he thought wickedly as he headed towards the Common Room.

A/N- I hope you liked it! Please review! I won't know what you think of it unless you do. =) Feel free to give me any suggestions or anything. Thanks for reading! -