"Come on," Remus said grinning from ear to ear. "It was just a bit of fun."

"Yes it was, wasn't it Moony?" Sirius replied in agreement.

After Lily and James had found a way to reverse the damage on some level they began to plot a way to get back at the both of them, even better than before. Lily still had a faint sign of hairs on her neck, but it was determined that it would go away in a couple of weeks. Both of them agreed that they'd have to wait awhile before getting back at them for their mindless little prank, otherwise it would be well expected the something would happen to them. It took both Lily and James awhile to get to open their presents, but they finally got to it at about mid afternoon. Lily's parents had sent her an encyclopedia on potions, and she'd received a few chocolate frogs, and some other small trinkets from her friends in the muggle world. James opened his presents faster than Lily, eager to see what he'd get, and was pleasantly surprised to find dung bombs, and pocket sized book of the best pranks ever played from Sirius and Remus. James's father sent him a long four paged letter on what he had missed, and a few galleons to find something that he wanted.

Dear James

There's been a lot happening lately. If you've read the Daily Prophet, I'm sure you've found that the ministry has been going insane lately with Tom Riddle. He's considered a threat right now, so everyone is looking out for him, and especially his followers. Fourteen people have already been killed, and they've noticed that most of them had been Muggle-borns. One of the main followers so far has been determined to be a woman by the name of Madison Bloore. The ministry isn't telling the Prophet a lot. They want to keep most of the information we've found out quiet for awhile, until we know for sure, but we've been in constant contact with professor Dumbledore, because he's been sending us a lot of the school records, and a few written pages of incidents relating to them...

James didn't finish reading the letter, but folded it, and put it into his robes to finish reading later.

"What is it?" Lily asked, looking at James as he put it into his robes.

"It's nothing. It was just a letter from my dad," he replied, sighing loudly.

Later that night, James read the rest of the letter silently to himself, while everyone else was asleep. He heard Sirius snoring loudly behind him, and tried the best he could to cover his ears, meanwhile thinking of something to keep him quiet. As James finished the letter, he noticed that one of the names sounded quite familiar to him. He repeated it over and over again in his head, hoping that it might some way jog his memory but he had no such luck. James had kept in contact with his father about these types of things, so he pulled a piece of parchment out of one of his desk top drawers and a quill.

Dear Dad

I read the long, letter you sent me, and thought about one of the names you mentioned. Erikah Jaques sounds quite familiar to me. If you could owl me some information, I might be able to tell you more about her. I know that the ministry files are usually completely confidential, but I might be on to something. Let Write me back with an answer, and let me know how it goes.

Love James.

James folded up the letter, and put it back in his drawer, intending to mail it out in the morning. He heard Sirius snoring loudly again, and took his wand off of the night stand. James stood in front of Sirius bed, and he was still sound asleep. James pointed his wand at Sirius mouth.

"Confugo!" James said silently.

Immediately, Sirius stopped snoring and all was silent again. James crawled into bed, and shut his lamp off, plopping down on his pillow.

Over the next week, James and Lily spent most of their time together, as New Years eve approached, and they had found a way to get their revenge on Sirius and Remus. Lily sat there silently on a leather couch in the Gryfindor common room, leaning against James. She had fallen asleep on his lap, and James was afraid to move much, not wanting to wake her up. He stroked the side of her arm, noticing Sirius coming down from the boy's dormitory with Remus not far behind him. They both took a seat in front of Lily and James, and sat there silently for a few minutes before speaking.

"You know James," Remus began grinning widely. "You have an advantage here."

James looked down at Lily, half-knowing what he was meaning, and shook his head violently.

"Come on you two...don't you think you've already tortured her enough?"

Sirius smiled.

"Maybe," he replied innocently. "But I think...torture is too strong of a word."

"Come on, you made her look like some kind of beast," James shot back at the both of them.

Remus put his finger to his lip.

"James, you know it was funny. It was all in the name of fun," Sirius insisted.

James raised his eyebrows, and looked away from them momentarily. Lily was facing the back of the couch, with her eyes open, so none of them knew she was awake. Making sure she had a firm grip of the wand in her robes, she was ready to turn around at any second. Remus looked at Sirius for merely a second, and then looked back at James.

"Look at her," he said. "She's sound asleep, and the expression on her face will be-"

Before Remus could finish his sentence, Lily turned around quickly pointing her wand at the both of them, and mumbled something under her breath. James jumped, and although he couldn't see anything, he spotted both of them whimpering in pain, and rushing back to their dormitories.

"What in bloody hell did you do?" James asked as Lily sat up.

"Well, let's just say I know a simple spell that produces boils in some very uncomfortable places. I have a feeling both of them will have a bit of trouble playing Quiditch for awhile."

James grinned.

"What would I do without you?"

(yes updated already...in a day. So tell me what you think. I changed the title of the chapter to something that I think is much better suited to it. Anywho...thanks for reading, and I'll try and write as soon as I can. Don't you love summer? So much more time on your hands. Di (Moonlights-Angel)