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A/N: As always, thanks for all the reviews, they're greatly appreciated… I was surprised that no one asked why Ava and Sirius skipped class… Hmm… LOL! Well, here's the new chapter, hope you enjoy!
Lily was curled in a ball in her trunk. She had no idea how long she had spent there, all she knew was that none of the girls had come back to the dorm yet. She had tried to wiggle around so that she could reach her wand, but the trunk was too small and her books took up too much room.
"Why me?" Lily asked hysterically as she tried not to burst into tears.
"Where do you think she is?" Ava asked James as they reached the ends of the grounds. They had searched to the ends of the grounds and asked everyone they came across, but no one had seen their red-headed friend. Ava was running out of places to look.
James was no help and he knew it. He found it amusing to see the normally composed Ava searching around frantically. Lily would surface when she felt like it. James had tried suggesting they go check the dorms again, but Ava had cut him off before he had the chance saying that she didn't want to hear his annoying voice.
"Maybe we should check the dorms again?" Ava asked absent mindedly.
James rolled his eyes. Maybe if she would have listened to him when he tried to speak! Ever since this had happened, no one wanted to speak to him! Everyone just told him to shut-up! Christmas break was coming up. Lily had better set him right before then. He did NOT want to spend the entire time with Ava and her family.
"Come on, idiot," Ava said as she grabbed his arm and started back towards the castle.
James sighed and trudged along behind her. Normally, he wouldn't put up with her, but with the second quidditch match coming up soon, he didn't have time to be choosy.
"Hey, lads," Sirius began. He, Remus, Peter, and Frank were in the common room and there had been a question on Sirius' mind for quite some time now.
"Hey, Sirius," Remus said in a voice that mocked Sirius. He was trying to help Peter answer some questions for DADA and didn't really feel like listening to Sirius' insane ideas right now. Unfortunately, judging by the look on Sirius' face, it looked like that's exactly what Sirius would say.
"What now?" Frank asked with a sigh.
"I have been wondering," Sirius began, trying to find the right words to voice his concerns.
"Yes?" Peter squeaked. Sirius was like a factory for crazy ideas.
"See, James can't speak English," Sirius began again.
"I would've never noticed," Frank said sarcastically.
Sirius ignored Frank's comment and plowed on, unaffected.
"I was wondering if they might need a replacement for quidditch captain," Sirius spat out. It wasn't that he was embarrassed, it was just that insulting the captain of your house team or, for that matter, any one of the Marauders was a good way to get jumped.
"I'm sure Lily will set him right with plenty of time to train," Remus assured him. Stupid Sirius, for a moment, Remus had actually thought he had a valid concern about something or another.
"But what if she doesn't?" Sirius argued.
"Then I'm sure that the person next in line for captain would be Frank seeing as how he is a seventh year and he should've been captain to begin with," Remus assured Sirius again. He hated to kill Sirius' dream, but that's just the way things were.
"Yeah, mate," Frank said, obviously pleased with himself.
Sirius pouted for a moment before launching into his next tirade.
"So, you still dating the ice-queen?" Sirius asked Frank with a smirk.
"For your information, yes, I'm still dating Bellatrix and she is not an ice-queen. She can be a very cuddly person," Frank said knowingly.
After a moment of silence in which Sirius, Remus, and Peter just stared at Frank disbelievingly, Sirius—predictable enough—spoke again.
"Yeah, ok then. Um, if she's not an ice-queen, then how did you know who I was talking about?" Sirius asked knowingly. He had just trapped Frank in his own contradiction.
"If you hate her so much, then why do you always ask about her?" Frank asked.
"He's got a point, Sirius," Remus said after a moment in which Sirius glared daggers at Frank.
"Remmy?" Sirius asked calmly.
"Yes, Siri?" Remus asked. He hated it when Sirius called him Remmy and Sirius knew it. The only nickname he hated more was moony. Unfortunately, they were both very accurate nicknames that Remus could not get away from.
"Shut up," Sirius said.
"Do you think that if she's not in our dorm room, we should check the other dorms?" Ava asked as she fixed the stairs and pulled James up.
James followed her sullenly, not answering.
"Hello!" Ava said, waving her hand in his face. "I do believe I asked you a question!"
"Oui," James said simply. Looks like it was time to play mind games with Ava. Fun!
"Yes to the first or second question?" Ava asked in annoyance. It's a good thing she didn't know how to inflict the killing curse, because James was annoying her too much right now for him to continue living.
"Oui," James said again as he pretended to be clueless. He watched with satisfaction as Ava spat out many a curse word in French. He couldn't understand them—he could only speak French, not understand it—but it was good to know that he was annoying her as much as she was annoying him.
After finishing cursing James and everything else that had ever annoyed her in French, Ava let out something that sounded like a cross between a shriek and a bark and yanked James to the entrance to her dorm.
Lily's eyes popped open with happiness. Ava and James were back! All she had to do was get their attention and she would be home free!
"AVA!" Lily shouted out in a tired voice.
Unfortunately, the trunk was so thick it was nearly soundproof.
"Did you hear something, James?" Ava asked as she stopped moving and looked around the room. It had sounded like someone had called her name from very far away.
"Non," James said, looking at her as though she were crazy. In all truth, he had heard something, but Ava didn't need to know that.
"Shut-up, I'm trying to listen," Ava said as she stood, frozen in position. Stupid James, didn't he know the difference between a rhetorical question and an actual question.
"Mais," James began.
"Shh!" Ava shushed him loudly.
James sighed. Stupid Ava. She had asked him a question! How was he supposed to know if it was rhetorical or not?!
"AVA!!!!" Lily cried out again, so loud that it made her throat hurt.
"Lily?" Ava asked, looking around. The sound had come from near the window.
"Hm?" James asked in confusion.
Ava ran towards the window and looked around, trying to figure out where the noise was coming from.
"AVA!" Lily screamed again, not as loud as the last time. Ava was right outside of her trunk.
"Oh Merlin!" Ava shouted out, realizing where Lily was, "She's in the trunk, James!" Ava said, before dropping to her knees, trying to unlock the trunk as James had done over an hour earlier. No such luck, it wouldn't open.
"Elle—" James began knowingly as he squatted beside Ava.
"Potter, I'm not a complete idiot, I know that she used one of her infamous lock-charms that only the best of the best can reverse," Ava said bitterly. Unfortunately, Ava was not the best of the best and did not know how to reverse the charm.
James sighed. He did know how the reverse the charm. Unfortunately, he was not able to at the moment seeing as how he couldn't say the proper incantation.
"How are we going to get her out?" Ava cried in a worried voice.
"Tu—" James began to tell her.
"James, tais toi," Ava said in an annoyed voice.
"Eh?" James asked in confusion. Why on earth would someone think that just because he could speak French that he could understand it?
"Shut up! I need to think!" Ava said as she stood up, put her hands on her hips, and paced around the room.
James sat there, watching her in amusement. Ava always lost her head in an emergency.
"I know! Lily, James, wait here while I go get Professor McGonagall!" Ava said, running out of the room excitedly.
Lily lied down, scrunched in her trunk, wondering where she would go as she listened to James rant on in French.
After James ranted on and on for atleast fifteen minutes, Ava came running back upstairs, followed shortly by Professor McGonagall.
James gulped. He wasn't supposed to be in there! He turned to subtly leave.
"Just a moment, Mr. Potter, I'll deal with you when I'm done," Professor McGonagall said as she took her wand out of her robes, pointed it at the lock, and muttered the counter-charm.
Ava dropped to her knees and frantically unlatched the lock and opened the trunk to reveal Lily curled up into a very tight ball. Ava helped Lily out.
"Well, thank you Professor," Lily said, cracking her neck. She was really quite sore from being in such a small place for such a long time.
"Not so fast," McGonagall said, her lips thin. "Mrs. Evans and Mr. Potter, see me tomorrow to get your detention assignments. Fifty points a piece from Gryffindor."
"But Professor—" Lily began to protest.
"No, I'm sorry, we can't have a prefect locking herself in her own trunk! Next thing you know, everyone will be locking themselves in their trunks! We can't have that now, can we? Imagine how we would explain to parents that their child died because they followed the example of their class prefect and decided to lock themselves into their truck which just so happened to be airtight! I'm sorry, it's just not going to happen!" Professor McGonagall ranted as Lily, Ava, and James stared at her in confusion.
"Please, Professor, I really think—" Lily began again.
"No, I'm sorry, detention for the both of you and anyone else who tries. You know, I'm very disappointed! Our top two candidates for head girl have both proved themselves to be unworthy! First Bellatrix snogging in someone else's dorm and now you, locking yourself into your own trunk!"
~~Well, there it is, hope you liked it! Yes, Professor McGonagall's and Sirius' rants were intended to be funny! Lol! Well, if you liked it, please go REVIEW! Please, for my birthday? I made it extra long! I'm hoping for 90, so please REVIEW!~~
Lightprincess~ Thank you! I'm glad you find it funny!
Lannei~ Lol! Sounds—er—Reads like you feel very passionate about the subject! As you can see, Lily will live, no reason to feel too bad for her!
Aurora_Borealis~ Did I already tell you that that was a really cool name? Cuz it is! Lol! You could always toy with their minds a bit!
PotterChick1~ Thank you!! You're so sweet! I tried to make the French really simple… I do hope you understand. Plus, James really hasn't said much, just thought it. Fortunately, he thinks en Englaise. Lol! Well, the trunk wasn't air tight, but McGonagall did think of that!
Loni~ Well, I hope you enjoyed it if you got around to it! Chow! Lol! Chow! (I love that word!) Chow!
Huntress-945~ Thank you! I'm glad you like it!