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By mid November, James and Lily and everything else had more or less gone back to normal with the exception of the fact that Lily now knew that James was finally beginning to grow up. Or so Lily thought…
"Sirius," James said in a hushed whisper one day when they were in History of Magic. They could not go through this again. Professor Binns could not be THAT clueless.
Sirius gave him a sad puppy face. This tactic usually worked on James.
"Come on James. We haven't done it since the first lesson." Sirius hissed in his most convincing manner. He could not sit here, daydreaming for any longer. He had daydreamed about everything under the sun. They had atleast a half hour of class left. Sirius was bored out of his mind. James had to agree.
"No," James said, turning back to his parchment where he was scribbling "James (Heart) Lily", "Lily Potter", "James Evans", "Mrs. James Potter", and "Mr. Lily Evans". This was one of James' favorite ways to pass by the time.
"Come on, James, you can totally stun me," Sirius said a few minutes later. This was the tactic that had convinced James last time. Sirius hoped for the sake of his sanity that it would help again this time. If not, he would have to stun himself. He had never tried this before and did not know if someone could actually curse themselves.
James looked up at him. Part of him wanted to say yes because who knew what Sirius would do if James didn't go along. He might even try to stun himself. That would not work well. As far as James knew, a person could not actually curse themselves. The other part of James did not want to stun Sirius. Lily would find this very immature.
"Sirius, Professor Binns isn't even this thick. You don't think he'll figure us out eventually? I mean, do we really want to ruin this now when we still have a year and a half?" James asked quietly. He hoped this would be a good enough reason for Sirius. After all, they really did have a year left. What would they do all of seventh year to get out of class?
Sirius furrowed his brow in confusion. James did have a point, but Professor Binns would never figure it out. Maybe if it were Professor McGonagall or something, but Binns… No…
"But J-ames, I'm bored," Sirius whined. He hoped that if he whined enough, James would give in. Hey, it had worked all of Sirius' childhood.
James looked up at Sirius, glanced at the professor, and sighed. He was torn. He knew it was a bad idea, but he really wanted Sirius to shut up.
"Fine, but not again for a long time!" James said in a fake-annoyed voice. James couldn't be mad at Sirius, it was hard to do. Sirius was just too funny to stay mad at.
Sirius' face broke into a smile. He had won. James had given in. Soon, they would be home free. Out of class.
James pointed his wand at Sirius and muttered the curse and Sirius' body went rigid and he fell out of his chair. James took a deep breath and braced himself for what was to come.
"Has Potter passed out again?" Professor Binns asked when he noticed that half the class was congregated around a stiff body on the floor.
"No, sir, I'm Potter. It's Black who's passed out again," James protested. Would people ever quit confusing James and Sirius? Yeah, the day I die, James thought to himself as he rolled his eyes in annoyance.
All the students in the class had gathered around James' and Sirius' desks by now. Apparently Sirius hadn't been the only one bored.
"James," Lily muttered out of the corner of her mouth. There was a piece of parchment on James and Sirius' table with her name written on it. She reached for it curiously.
James looked up to find her holding the piece of parchment he had just been scribbling on. Not now, not when she finally thought being in the same room as him was bearable. She would kill him. James racked his brain for a good excuse as to why that piece of parchment had been sitting on he and Sirius' table. Just in the nick of time, an idea came to him.
"It's—it's—it's Sirius'," James said with a head nod and a what-can-you-expect smile. He hoped that Lily would buy this excuse. It just might work. It was believable, right?
"Sirius?" Lily asked questioningly as Ava looked over her shoulder at the parchment. Why would Sirius write about she and James on his parchment during class. Lily pondered for a moment.
Ava looked up at James with her eyebrows raised.
James swallowed the lump in his throat. Ava knew. James knew she knew.
She knew he knew she knew. Should she help? It was nice to see James squirm.
"Yes, Sirius," James said in an attempt at a steady voice. If his voice was shaking, Lily would never believe him. She would be able to see right through him. She couldn't figure out the truth now, not now.
Sirius started to stir on the floor.
James gasped and then he "accidentally" knocked the book off the desk and it fell on Sirius' head, knocking him unconscious.
"Why would he?" Lily asked, wrinkling her nose. Maybe Sirius was creepier than she thought he was. Did he have a life of his own or just James'?
"He, yep, he's obsessed with us getting together. Says he wants a little white picket fence. Double wedding and all," James said, talking a bit too fast and hoping she believed him. He worried briefly that he had gone too far. What if she didn't believe him? Then she would think he was even more of an idiot that she had before because he had made up this elaborate story.
Lily tilted her head questioningly. What in the hell was he talking about? Why was he so nervous? He was almost visible twitching.
"I wasn't aware Sirius was so… feminine…" Lily mumbled. Lily had always thought of Sirius as a guy on a testosterone trip, but maybe she had been wrong. Maybe Sirius was the more sensitive of the two… Nah…
Ava looked from Lily to James to Sirius on the floor and burst into laughter and walked back to her seat. Lily was actually buying this crap. James was feeding it to her and she was eating it right up.
"Come on now, everyone back to their seats," Professor Binns said in his monotone voice, breaking up Lily and James' potentially disastrous conversation.
James went to walk back to his seat when he suddenly remembered Sirius—now really unconscious—lying on the floor. Just when he had finally gotten away from that idiot and his crazy ideas…
"But, sir, what about Black?" James asked the professor. He had wanted to leave him on the floor, but Sirius would be furious if they had gone through ALL that and he woke up and was still in Professor Binns' class.
"You are Black," Professor Binns droned before turning back to his notes.
James sighed. Professor Binns thought he was Sirius again. Would people ever quit confusing them?
"But, sir, what about Potter?" James asked the professor. Maybe if he just played along, the professor would actually know what he was talking about.
"Damnit, Black, just leave him on the floor. He'll come to eventually," Professor Binns said, turning back to his lecture notes.
James caught Remus' eye and shrugged. Remus shrugged in return. He would just leave him there until the end of the class. Sirius would live.
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"So, do you think we should take him to the hospital wing?" James asked after classes that day as he, Remus, and Peter squatted on the floor of their dorm room, staring at Sirius who still was unconscious. James was a bit worried. He had just been trying to knock him out for a little while. Maybe he should have just stunned him again.
They had levitated him there after class and were currently trying to figure out what to do with him.
"No, we'll get in trouble," Peter squeaked.
James rubbed his chin pensively. James really did need to catch up to Sirius on detentions. Then again, they would probably blame it all on Sirius and give him detention instead of James.
"What should we do?" Remus asked as he tried to take Sirius' pulse as he stared at James. Remus was usually the voice of reason who always knew what to do, but at this moment he did not have any ideas.
"How am I supposed to know?" James asked questioningly as he looked around. Maybe they should put Sirius on a bed. Why was Remus—the level headed one—asking him? Remus should know!
"You're supposed to be the brains!" Remus said as he buried his face in his hands in annoyance. For the top boy in the class, James sure was stupid. To think, James was the top candidate for head boy next year. Remus shuddered as he thought about the mass-chaos it would create.
"I thought that was you?" James asked with a confused look on his face. Remus was, after all, the prefect. Perfect prefect.
Remus sighed. Genius? He thought not.
"You're the one who thought it would be a good idea to knock him unconscious so that he didn't discredit your story," Remus said, raising his eyebrows at James. How did he get into these situations? Oh, yeah, on that first train ride when James and Sirius had stumbled into his compartment looking for Ava. They had been best friends ever since. In other words, James and Sirius had been getting him in trouble ever since.
James got red and started mumbling about how it was a bit necessary.
"Besides, Peter's getting paler by the second!" Remus said, gesturing to Peter who was sitting on the floor near Sirius, looking nauseous. Peter did not handle stress well. Remus suspected that he would be bald by thirty.
James sighed. He did not know any healing methods. Even if he had, bringing someone back to consciousness was very complicated magic.
"Oh, come on, Pete, he'll be alright… Eventually," James said encouragingly. James did not want to have to deal with one person who was projectile vomiting and another who was unconscious. It was just too much. "As soon as Moony here remembers who the brain is."
"You're the brains! Everyone knows it! Now think," Remus said in an annoyed voice. It's a good thing that there would be a Head Girl because James could never manage alone. Lets just say that if the world were full of people like James, no one would ever know what they were doing, where they were going, or when to get there. Mass chaos.
"Dude, is it already that time of the month?" James asked. That was one way to annoy the hell out of Remus.
Remus sighed at glared at James.
"How about if we try to find something in the library about reviving the unconscious?" Peter suggested in a squeaky voice.
James and Remus sighed. Peter was showing off his stupidity again.
"Lily, you aren't that naïve, are you?" Ava asked when she and Lily were sitting in the common room that night. Ava had refrained from telling Lily exactly what had happened with hopes that Lily would figure it out herself. She was smart. Lily still hadn't figured it out.
Lily slammed down her quill in annoyance. Ava had asked her this atleast a hundred times in the past hour. Couldn't she just come right out and say what she wanted to say!?
"For the fifty-billionth time! What are you talking about?" Lily snapped. She looked around the room to find James, Remus, and Peter trying to sneak out the portrait hole—unnoticed and failing pathetically. Lily sighed.
"Do you really not know what I'm talking about?" Ava asked exasperatedly. Was Lily really this blind?
Lily didn't have time to answer because Frank walked in and sat down beside them, put his face in his hands, and sighed loudly.
"Frank, is there something you wanted?" Lily asked sweetly. She didn't really want to know, but it seemed like the nice thing to say at the time.
"No, I'm fine," Frank said with a sigh.
"Well, if you're fine, then you should really—" Ava began, but Lily cut her off. Ava really didn't want to hear about the trouble in paradise.
"Are you sure there's not something you want to talk about?" Lily asked with a sweet smile. She was trying to be nice and helpful.
"Well, if you really want to know," Frank began.
"No—" Ava began. Lily hit her in the rib. Ava rubbed her rib. She did NOT feel like listening to Frank whine about the difference between true love and lust.
"Of course we want to know," Lily said with a sympathetic smile. She shot a warning glare at Ava to shut her mouth.
Frank sighed again.
"It's just… Bellatrix," Frank said, sighing again.
Ava winced. She hated Bellatrix. Frank was quickly working his way towards being hated by Ava as well.
"If you sigh one more time, I'll make sure you never breathe again," Ava threatened. She was not in a very patient mood today. She also did not give a flying—er—cow about Frank's love life problems. Actually, he was one of her friends. She would care if he were dating anyone other than Bellatrix.
Lily glared at her. Ava was so rude.
Frank droned on.
"I mean, she's so… vicious. I mean, it's great sometimes, like, you know when—" Frank went on.
"I'm sorry," Ava burst in. She knew what he was going to say. It was more information than she had ever wanted to know. "I can't. I don't want to know."
"Yeah, we have no desire… It's disturbing," Lily added, nodding her head for emphasis. If that's what Frank wanted to discuss, he would have to wait for Sirius to come to because she was not discussing it with him.
"So, where do you suppose we should begin?" Remus asked when he, James, and Peter were in the library. He and James had figured that they should accept Peter's idea. Even if they couldn't find out how to revive Sirius, they could still find out as much as they could.
"Hospital wing?" Peter squeaked. It would be so much easier to just take him to Madam Pomphrey.
"Now, where would the fun in that be?" James asked, clapping Peter on the shoulder and walking towards a bookshelf. He was trying to stay optimistic about the whole thing. Peter was obviously about to blow a vein and Remus was obviously having a stupid day. James had to be that mature one.
~~I know, it's a short chapter, but I think it's a funny one!! If you like it, review! In the next chapter we get to find out about Sirius' reaction to James knocking him unconscious…~~
Chiquita-3 (Kelsey!)~ Thank you for talking to me and for reviewing every chapter! So, to answer your questions… I'm glad you like my OC's, I love them! Don't worry, I got the choking on my spit thing from personal experiences… No, Sirius just has really large pockets and he didn't kill the cat. In his opinion, the cat had it coming… Of course we'll be meeting Lily's family. Unfortunately for him, so will James *Evil laugh*… Of course Ava will have a love interest *Evil laugh*… It's too soon for snogging…
PotterChick1 (Katie!)~ I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well! Of course James had to cheer up!
PhsDrummer07 (Lindsay)~ Of course!
Aurora_Borealis~ I love Ava too! She's a bit like me too! But there's a character more like me that I wrote in Unconditional Love…
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Lililvr~ I hope this chapter was funny! I also hope you finish cleaning sometime this century!