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A/N: Well, thanks for the reviews… I have a review plead though… Can you guys go read and review my other story *Prophecy: That Cat Had It Coming*… It's about when Sirius killed Bellatrix's cat… It's really funny, I swear! And, plus, it's begging for reviews!! Oh well, on w/the story… I hope you like this chapter… Sorry if it isn't that great… I kind of have a bit of a writer's block problem thing…
A/N 2: Hey! Dude, I just realized something… I haven't updated *The Line B/W Love and Hate* in, like, forever!! I feel so bad! And it'll be even longer cuz I plan on re-writing that too… Oh, btw, if you don't know what that is, it's my other story… If you like this, you should check it out! Anywho, here it is… Chapter nine revisited…
"I don't understand," Sirius said later that night as he and the rest of the Marauders sat in the common room. In his opinion, if anyone should've gotten more detention, it was Frank and Bellatrix. After all, he had snuck her into Gryffindor house and then not only snogged her, but snogged her in a dorm that didn't even belong to him! "Why did Frank and Bellatrix only get a weeks detention while I got a month?" Sirius asked in confustion.
Earlier that day, after everyone stopped screaming at each other and James had finished repeating "You—in my bed" over and over again in a daze, Frank and Bellatrix had taken off running and Sirius and James had followed them. Sirius wanted to jinx them and James wanted them to replace his bed. They ran through corridors, screaming at each other until McGonagall had caught them and made them stop. She had given Frank and Bellatrix a week of detention each and then banned Bellatrix from Gryffindor house. She had then turned to Sirius and given him a month of detention. An entire month. For being an innocent bystander. All he did was wake up!
"Well, mate, you see—" Remus began. He didn't want to be the one who had to tell Sirius about all James had done, but for the safety of James' life…
"And why was I unconscious for so long. I mean, all James did was a simple stunning spell?" Sirius asked in confusion. Sirius was going to have to re-teach stunning spells to James. He obviously had not gotten them the first time.
"Well, you see, after James stunned you, everyone in the class got up to come see what had happened. Lily saw James doodling her name all over his paper and he told her it was you. When you started to come to, James knocked his book off the desk to hit you so you couldn't discredit his story," Remus finished. He was a bit worried about how Sirius would react. After all, he and James were best friends and James had, well, nearly put Sirius in a coma…
Sirius stared at James in awe.
James avoided meeting Sirius' eyes and instead stared at the ceiling, humming a very odd tune.
"You knocked me unconscious?" Sirius asked James. Just when you think you can trust your best friend, they go and knock you unconscious with a book. People these days.
"But… He… She…" James sputtered. He couldn't cover up for what he had done. He was a terrible liar and the entire class (With the exception of Professor Binns) had seen what had happened.
"Why do I have detention for so long though?" Sirius asked in confusion. Why should he get detention for being unconscious? That was James' fault!
"My fault to," James said quietly. Why couldn't he have made up a better lie than Sirius wanting to 'float on the bubbles"?
Sirius raised his eyebrow. So, James had not only knocked him unconscious with a book, but also said that it was Sirius' fault? Some peoples children!
"When Professor McGonagall came to the door to ask why you had been gone for so long, I told her you wanted to skip class and that you were currently in the prefect's bathroom 'cause you wanted to see what it was like to float on bubbles," James said as he looked at Sirius in fear. Sirius was normally a pretty calm, easygoing guy, but when provoked… Well, he had almost killed Snape the previous year for no reason. Imagine what he could do to James if provoked! Sure, they were best friends, but…
"So now I have a months worth of detention?" Sirius asked in annoyance. Any other time, Sirius would find detention a good thing. It would mean that he would be ahead of James in their little competition, but a month? He didn't even do anything this time!
James nodded his head cautiously. He wasn't sure, but he thought he heard Sirius' voice shaking with anger.
"I told him it was a bad idea," Remus said quietly. He shut his mouth. He did not want to get involved.
"Where's Evans?" Sirius asked suddenly. He had a good idea for revenge. This one would really piss of James.
"What?" James asked, scared. Sirius wouldn't kill Lily, would he?
"Owlery," Remus answered casually without thinking. He immediately regretted what he had said. What did Sirius want with Lily?
"So, how long do you think Sirius is going to be mad at James?" Ava asked as Lily tied a letter to her mum onto her owl's leg. She was just trying to make casual conversation. It's not like she cared or anything.
"I think he'll get revenge and that'll be it… I mean, it's not like Sirius doesn't want to get detentions," Lily said, referring to the competition Sirius and James had going to see who could get the most detentions. Lily thought the entire thing was a bit stupid, but to each their own…
"True, maybe he'll be happy at the opportunity to be ahead of James in the competition," Ava said as Lily's owl took off, flying into the night and the two of them walked out the door. Ava watched it for a moment, thinking. What would Sirius do for revenge?
"What do you want with Lily?" James asked as he, Remus, and Peter ran after Sirius. Would Sirius really punish Lily because of something he had done? Call James crazy, but that did not seem like the Sirius thing to do.
Halfway to the owlery, the group of boys ran into Lily and Ava. They all stopped running.
"Hello, Lily, Ava," Sirius said in a mature voice. He was going to get James so bad. He'd hit him right where it hurt.
"Hey guys," Lily said with a smile. When had Sirius woken up? And when had he started to sound so mature? And why did he look so suspicious?
James' knees began to melt. Lily had the most beautiful smile. So bright. Tiny dimples. Red, luscious…
"Hey, conscious again, I see," Ava said spunkily. She wasn't trying to flirt, she was spunky by nature. If she were flirting, it would be obvious. Ava didn't tend to do anything subtly.
"Yeah, Lily, could you do me a favor?" Sirius asked as he took a step towards Lily. James would never knock Sirius unconscious again.
James gulped. Why was Sirius so close to Lily? What was he…
"Ummm… I guess so," Lily said, shrugging her shoulders. He probably just wanted help catching up in Charms… Right? "What do you want me to do?"
"Help me get back at James," Sirius said. This type of revenge would go down in the books!
Lily looked towards James in confusion and shrugged her shoulders. Torturing James would be fun.
"Ok, what do you need? Help with Charms?" Lily asked, looking confused. How could she help Sirius get revenge on James by helping him with Charms?
"Not really, I kind of need this," Sirius said stepping even closer to Lily and snogging her on the lips.
Everyone in the hall gasped.
Lily pulled away after a couple of seconds looking very surprised and a little disturbed. Why had Sirius just snogged her?
Everyone else stood there in shock.
James was looking a bit nauseous. How could Sirus? He knew how much Lily meant to James!
Lily was looking a bit confused. She didn't know what to do. Why had Sirius just snogged her? They didn't…
"He—he—I—Lily," James sputtered. He couldn't believe what Sirius had just done! How could he? If that hadn't been Sirius' revenge on James for almost killing him, James would've almost killed him.
"It'll be ok, mate, just keep breathing," Remus said, clapping James on the shoulder. James looked as though he might start hyperventilating any moment now. Or pass out.
"What…" Lily began and then stopped with a look of wonder on her face. She could not think of any reason why Sirius had just snogged her. He didn't like her. They were friends. Why would he do that?
As a matter of fact, the only person who didn't look shocked was Ava. She understood what Sirius was trying to do. It was actually a brilliant idea.
"He—he—he—" James continued to spit out. He tended to sputter a lot when he was angry. He never said anything that made sense. Just a bunch of words.
"Why did he do that? Was that some sort of bet? Potter! Did you and Sirius make a bet to see who could snog me first!" Lily said accusingly. That was the only reason she could think of for Sirius to snog her.
"Lily, I swear," James began. How could she think he would do that?
"James, I don't want to hear what you have to say!" Lily said, taking her wand out, pointing it at James, and muttering something. He would pay.
"Nous pas—" James began. He stopped talking when he realized he was talking in a different language. He did not know how to speak French!
Everyone except Lily looked at him in confusion.
Lily just stood there looking quite happy with herself.
"I didn't know you spoke French, James!" Ava said cheerfully. You live next door to a person all your life and you think you know them…
"Oh, he doesn't," Lily said proudly. She felt a surge of pride for her Charm work. "He can't currently speak anything else though."
"You jinxed him!" Remus said, waving his hand in James' face. Remus had never known that such a jinx existed.
"Je ne sais pas," James spat out, looking confused. Why was he speaking something different from what he was thinking?
"He doesn't know," Ava said knowledgeably. She was fluent in French. Her father was French. She had been speaking it since she was a young child.
"He doesn't know what?" Remus asked in a slightly panicked tone as he waved his hand around in James' face as though trying to knock him out of a trance. What the hell was going on?
"He doesn't know very much," Lily said smugly.
"Undo this!" Remus demanded. James couldn't walk around speaking French!
"I will, eventually," Lily said with a smile. "Should teach you guys a good lesson."
"Apologize!" Remus told James. That might work.
"Pourquoi?" James asked in a confused voice. What did he do to Lily?
"He wants to know why," Ava said at the confused look on Remus' face. Some people were just hopeless.
"Just apologize!" Remus said with a sigh. He didn't know why, but apologizing might make Lily lift the jinx.
"Next time I have to pick a language that you guys don't know," Lily said as she stood there with her hand on her hip, waiting for Ava. She had just randomly chose French, forgetting that Ava spoke it.
"Je suis desole," James said, still confused about why he could only speak in a language he didn't know.
"He says he's sorry," Ava translated. Little did James know, apologizing would not help matters. Lily would stay mad at him as long as she damn well pleased.
"Good for him," Lily said with a smile. Like apologizing would help him now. "Now, come on, Ava, we have to finish our homework," Lily said before walking off.
Ava shrugged and followed her.
"Aren't you going to fix this?" Remus called after them. He did not know how to speak French! What would he do?
"Maybe eventually," Lily called back.
Remus buried his head in his hands with a sigh. Great, now James would just blabber on and on and Remus would have no clue what he was saying!
"Do you know the countercharm?" Remus asked James. Why he asked James, he never knew.
"Je ne sais pas," James said sadly. How long would she leave him like this?
"What?" Peter squealed.
James shrugged his shoulders in response. How could he tell them what he meant?
"Do you think Sirius will help us?" Remus asked. Even as he said it, he knew it would never happen. Sirius was too mad at James.
"Non," James said, nodding his head for emphasis. Too bad he couldn't do that for every word.
"Yeah, he's still mad at James… Do you think we could find this in the library?" Remus asked James. Once again, he never knew why he even bothered to ask James. He wouldn't understand his answer anyway.
"Oui," James said, looking slightly happier. That was it! They could go find the counter-jinx and then bang! They would beat Lily at her own game!
"Well, um, how about we go look for the counter-jinx then," Remus said after a slightly awkward silence. With James not even bothering to talk and Sirius not around, it was very quiet.
James and Peter shrugged their shoulders in response and the trio set off down the hall towards the library.
~~Well, there it is, hope you liked it! If you did, go review! I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but I won't update until I have fifty reviews… I'm sorry guys! It's only six though! Come on, you can do it! Anywho, hope you enjoyed!~~
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