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A/N: Hey!! On the request of everybody who reviewed, I'll try to get this chapter up quicker than before!! This chapter is really confusing, and I'm having so much trouble writing it. If you have any questions, ask me in your reviews!!!
Chapter 18: Surprising Endings?
James, Sirius and Remus waited patiently in their dormitory for the Masquerade party. Sirius was fashioning a cape over his shoulders, in front of the mirror, dressed as a muggle vampire. He walked over to James and Remus, holding his mask loosely in his hands.
"Why don't you guys get dressed? We have to be downstairs in 15 minutes," Sirius suggested, looking at the alarm clock beside one of the beds.
"Sure," Remus said, putting down his book and walking over to his trunk.
"Guess your right, Padfoot," James sighed, pulling off his shirt.
"So, gonna dance with Evans tonight?" Sirius asked James.
"Only if I can guess who she is..." James said.
"Come off it James, she's the only one in the whole school who has red hair," Sirius said, tossing Remus' book over his shoulder.
"She could have dyed her hair," Remus said.
"Women always go to the extreme," Sirius muttered.
Fifteen minutes later, Sirius, James and Remus walked down to the Entrance Hall, waiting to be let in. Remus scratched his arms, fake fur...he was disguised as a werewolf, ironic joke. The three marauders chatted amongst themselves, until the doors of the Great Hall opened.
They walked inside. It was breathtaking. The 4 house tables were cleared away, in place was a dance floor. There were small tables scattered around the large table of food, so that the tired party-goers could have a break. There was a large punch bowl, destined to be spiked by the end of the night and large trays of treats and candies. Candles floated in the air and there were pumpkins stacked on bails of hay. The lights were dim, but there was certain shine or sparkle to the Hall.
The band started to play some mellow music as the room started to fill up. People came up with so many creative costume ideas...monsters, famous Quiddich players and someone managed to dress as muggles. James turned to face the other side of the hall, at that exact moment, in walked a group of girls; fairy, flapper girl, princess and a girl in a cat suit. No red hair...no Lily, James thought. He tried to look for Lily or at least someone he recognized.
***
Sirius and Remus sat at a table in the corner, having a round of butterbeer. Both of them trying to scan the room for girls who were not occupied by another guy and talking mildly. James was lucky, the boys noticed. A girl with short black hair as approaching James. The girl was wearing a black and red, skin-tight cat suit and was totally hitting on the disguised James.
"Have any idea who that is?" Sirius asked Remus, pointing his attention to the cat suited girl.
"The one hitting on James?" Remus asked.
"Yes, her!"
"I dunno, looks familiar, do you reckon she knows that's James?" Remus asked.
"Probably not, when he's dressed like that!" Sirius remarked, "Anyways, I'm getting bored! As you can see, the ladies are getting restless without me!"
Remus snorted in his butterbeer as Sirius walked around to the dance floor and approached a girl. Remus decided that he might as well dance, considering it would be very dull sitting by himself, at a corner table, drinking butterbeer. He got up and walked up to a girl with strawberry blonde hair, masked as a princess. The dress was yellow with a tight bodice and white flowing sleeves.
"Care to dance, miss?" He asked politely.
"My pleasure, good sir!" The girl replied, taking his offered hand. She gave on last look at her giggling group of friends before facing her disguised partner. They started to dance slowly to the magic tune. After a few moments of awkward silence, Remus stuck up a conversation.
"May I ask you your name?" Remus asked.
"Oh no!! You'll have to find out my identity at midnight, when we take off the masks!" The girl replied.
"Fair enough," Remus replied, "Well, what house are you in?"
"That would give my identity away, and that's no fun, is it?" She smiled.
"No fun at all," Remus laughed. They danced a couple dances, chatted away happily about they're favorite Quiddich teams, school subjects and they're surprised loathing against Severus Snape.
"...and then a pile of sinksap was dumped on his greasy head," Laughed Remus. The girl's green eye's twinkled through her mask and she giggled intently.
"Only a Marauder would think of something like that!" The girl inquired a sly grin on her face.
"Me? A Marauder? Never!" Remus scoffed, hoping he could pass innocent.
"Just sounds like someone I fan--I mean, know," The girl quickly covered, turning a slight shade pink.
"So you like a Marauder, do you?" He asked.
"Maybe...they can all be idiots at times," The girl argued, "Especially that Potter!"
Something about how the disguised girl said that, sounded familiar. There was a slight twinge in Remus' stomach, but he ignored it.
"Tell me if you see a certain Red-head, I've been dying to ask to her something," Remus asked.
"Lily Evans is the only Red-head in the school, why would you want to talk to her? The only boy I've seen interested in Lily is James Potter," The girl smirked.
"Yes, I have been dying to ask her a question, but I have no interest in her, I actually fancy another," Remus replied simply.
"Ooo...Can you tell me?" The princess girl asked.
"No!"
"Why not?"
"You might be her," Remus said, twirling the girl around him.
"Fair point," The girl said. Remus and the Princess-dressed girl danced a bit more, but decided to split up. They had promised to meet up with each other at Midnight, so they could see each other's identities.
Remus walked over to Sirius who was flirting with a girl dressed as a green fairy. He touched her arm and she smiled softly, grabbing his hand. Sirius whispered something in her ear and she blushed. Remus dragged Sirius away, before Sirius did something he would regret because he might drink to much butterbeer.
"I'll look for you at midnight!" Sirius called after the giggling Fairy girl but then turned to Remus, "What!?"
"Just helping you out, Padfoot, wouldn't want you do something you might regret," Remus said, sitting down at a table and resting his feet.
"Like what? Shag her?" Sirius asked, sitting down beside Remus, he did have too much to drink, "because she did have a nice figure."
Remus just rolled his eyes.
"So, who were you hanging out with?" Sirius asked.
"That girl, there," Remus pointed out the Princess, who was now talking to the Green Fairy.
"Name?"
"I dunno," Remus said, disappointed.
"You don't know her name?!!" Sirius laughed.
"It's not like you know the Fairy girl's name," Remus glared, Sirius went silent, "Anyways, she's really sweet. Reminds me of--"
"Jeannie?" Sirius smirked.
"What?" Remus tried to act cool, but he could feel his face burning.
"You heard me, Jeannie. I know you fancy her. Hogwart's walls do talk...so I did hear what you two did in the Library," Sirius smirked,
"Now all you have to do is ask her out!"
"I can't ask her out! She probably doesn't feel the same way about me anyways," Remus argued.
"You don't know that, Moony!" Sirius said, grabbing himself some more butterbeer, "Ask her out!"
"But I don't know where she is, or what she's disguised as," Remus explained, gabbing the spiked butterbeer away from Sirius.
"Well, that Princess girl reminds you of Jeannie, it's most likely it is! So ask Princess Jeannie out," Sirius said, grabbing back the butterbeer and taking a large gulp.
Remus didn't answer, he just thought about this intently. Why not ask Jeannie out? It's probably her anyways...if it reminded him of Jeannie, what are the chances she's not? The Princess girl acts like Jeannie, or I think she does. What do I have to lose? I'll ask her at midnight!
A word of advice: Don't listen to a drunken guy, especially a drunk Marauder!!
***
"I had a fun time!" The raven haired girl said, dressed in a catsuit, to the disguised James.
"Me, too," James said, only have listening and half praying it was Lily. The girl did sound very, very familiar. James looked at the girl through her mask and his stomach did a flip-flop.
The eyes weren't green, but dark chocolate brown.
"We better go back up to the castle, it's almost midnight. We'll be doing the identity revealing soon and I can really know who you are,"
The girl laughed and got up from the grass and started to walk, "You coming?"
"Yeah, you know, it's really hard to walk in this," James argued, slowly getting up from his spot, "I should have never dressed like this."
"Why did you decide to wear that costume?" The cat girl asked.
"Long story," James said, avoiding the subject. Actually, it wasn't that long, simple really. He dressed up as a knight, full suit of armor because he wanted to be Lily's knight in shining armor. Corny, that's how Sirius put it. But James didn't care; he just wanted Lily, by any means possible.
"Oh, I see..." They walked up to the castle silently. Once in the doors, James and the cat girl walked into the middle of the dance floor, the same moment Professor Dumbledore was walking on stage to make a speech. James saw a sight of Sirius with a girl dressed as a Fairy and Remus with a pretty princess. But then something caught James' eyes. It was the princess...a strand of auburn red hair. The princess was wearing a wig, a blonde wig...it was Lily. James heart burned, he was with the wrong girl.
"On the count of three, we shall reveal ourselves and take off the masks!!" Dumbledore announced to the eager disguised students.
"1"
"2"
"3!!!"
Midnight (James' POV)
The Cat suited girl ripped off her mask, eager to see her blind date. James froze. It was Sarah Knight, the Ravenclaw girl who played the drums in Morgan's band. 'Oh god,' James thought, his last shred of hope disappeared, 'why me?'
"Ummm...aren't you going to remove your helmet?" Sarah asked.
"I don't think so...I have to go," James said desperately leaving the confused Sarah Knight behind in the crowd.
Midnight (Sirius' POV)
The now sober Sirius stripped off his Vampire mask to reveal his handsome face and turned to the Green Fairy girl, who was fumbling with her mask.
"Here, let me help," Sirius said, untying the girls mask.
"Thanks," the girl said and spun around to face the unmasked date.
Both of them froze.
It was Sirius!
And it was Morgan!
"You!" Sirius said, gawking at Morgan.
"No, You!" Morgan laughed, "I can't believe this!"
"Out of all people, I end up with you!" Sirius laughed.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Morgan said, punching Sirius lightly on the arm.
"Nothing, it was a compliment!" Sirius said.
"About what? Ending up with you? I hardly call that a compliment!" Morgan sniffed.
This went on for a few minutes, both of them making a couple snide remarks and then setting off a full blown argument, with half the student body watching. But then it was like something clicked and at the same moment, both Morgan and Sirius jumped on each other and started to kiss each other madly.
Midnight (Jeannie's POV)
Jeannie fumbled with her fingers and praying that the guy beside her was Remus. She flattened out her pretty blue Flapper-girl dress and then her hat, right before Dumbledore announced it was midnight.
"1"
"2"
"3!!!"
Jeannie shut her eyes as she undid her mask. She cautiously opened her eyes. And, like James, her heart dropped into her stomach.
"Hullo, lovely!" Amos Diggory said, behind his toothy grin. Jeannie was speechless. Why did she, out of all people, end up with Diggory? He may be in Ravenclaw, but he was stupid and horny!
"Goodbye, Ugly!" Jeannie said, and walked away from Diggory.
Midnight (Remus' POV)
"1"
"2"
"Jeannie--Will you go out with me?"
"3"
The Princess girl ripped off her mask.
"Now, Remus, where did you ever get the idea that I was Jeannie?" Lily laughed as she folded up her mask in her hands and looked at Remus in the eyes.
"What? Lily? I thought you were Jeannie!!" Remus laughed nervously.
"Hmmm...no!" Lily said, "Why would you think that?"
"Long story, but in a nutshell, it has something to do with: Drunk Sirius...Familiar Princess...and Jeannie..." Remus laughed.
"Well, never take advice from Sirius....especially when he's drunk," Lily said.
"Very true!!"
"So...when has this crush developed on Jeannie?" Lily smirked.
"What makes you think that?" Remus said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "What? Faux fur is itchy!' Lily rolled her eyes.
"Come on, Remus!" Lily urged.
"Since the beginning of the year..."
"And...?"
"And? We...uhh...kissed in--" Remus started to say, confused.
"The Library, I know! Jeannie told me!" Lily said.
"What else did you want to know?" Remus asked.
"Nothing...this is just so great!" Lily said.
"What is?"
"I guess you'll have to wait and find out...it's not really for me to tell anyways! You have to talk to Jeannie!!" Lily said, giddily.
A/N:
Phewf!! I'm finally done! It's taken me forever to get this finished...I just didn't know how to write it! If your confused or not...REVIEW ANYWAYS!! I know that you see that blue box in the left hand corner of the computer screen...CLICK IT AND REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until next time, --Morgan
A/N: Hey!! On the request of everybody who reviewed, I'll try to get this chapter up quicker than before!! This chapter is really confusing, and I'm having so much trouble writing it. If you have any questions, ask me in your reviews!!!
Chapter 18: Surprising Endings?
James, Sirius and Remus waited patiently in their dormitory for the Masquerade party. Sirius was fashioning a cape over his shoulders, in front of the mirror, dressed as a muggle vampire. He walked over to James and Remus, holding his mask loosely in his hands.
"Why don't you guys get dressed? We have to be downstairs in 15 minutes," Sirius suggested, looking at the alarm clock beside one of the beds.
"Sure," Remus said, putting down his book and walking over to his trunk.
"Guess your right, Padfoot," James sighed, pulling off his shirt.
"So, gonna dance with Evans tonight?" Sirius asked James.
"Only if I can guess who she is..." James said.
"Come off it James, she's the only one in the whole school who has red hair," Sirius said, tossing Remus' book over his shoulder.
"She could have dyed her hair," Remus said.
"Women always go to the extreme," Sirius muttered.
Fifteen minutes later, Sirius, James and Remus walked down to the Entrance Hall, waiting to be let in. Remus scratched his arms, fake fur...he was disguised as a werewolf, ironic joke. The three marauders chatted amongst themselves, until the doors of the Great Hall opened.
They walked inside. It was breathtaking. The 4 house tables were cleared away, in place was a dance floor. There were small tables scattered around the large table of food, so that the tired party-goers could have a break. There was a large punch bowl, destined to be spiked by the end of the night and large trays of treats and candies. Candles floated in the air and there were pumpkins stacked on bails of hay. The lights were dim, but there was certain shine or sparkle to the Hall.
The band started to play some mellow music as the room started to fill up. People came up with so many creative costume ideas...monsters, famous Quiddich players and someone managed to dress as muggles. James turned to face the other side of the hall, at that exact moment, in walked a group of girls; fairy, flapper girl, princess and a girl in a cat suit. No red hair...no Lily, James thought. He tried to look for Lily or at least someone he recognized.
***
Sirius and Remus sat at a table in the corner, having a round of butterbeer. Both of them trying to scan the room for girls who were not occupied by another guy and talking mildly. James was lucky, the boys noticed. A girl with short black hair as approaching James. The girl was wearing a black and red, skin-tight cat suit and was totally hitting on the disguised James.
"Have any idea who that is?" Sirius asked Remus, pointing his attention to the cat suited girl.
"The one hitting on James?" Remus asked.
"Yes, her!"
"I dunno, looks familiar, do you reckon she knows that's James?" Remus asked.
"Probably not, when he's dressed like that!" Sirius remarked, "Anyways, I'm getting bored! As you can see, the ladies are getting restless without me!"
Remus snorted in his butterbeer as Sirius walked around to the dance floor and approached a girl. Remus decided that he might as well dance, considering it would be very dull sitting by himself, at a corner table, drinking butterbeer. He got up and walked up to a girl with strawberry blonde hair, masked as a princess. The dress was yellow with a tight bodice and white flowing sleeves.
"Care to dance, miss?" He asked politely.
"My pleasure, good sir!" The girl replied, taking his offered hand. She gave on last look at her giggling group of friends before facing her disguised partner. They started to dance slowly to the magic tune. After a few moments of awkward silence, Remus stuck up a conversation.
"May I ask you your name?" Remus asked.
"Oh no!! You'll have to find out my identity at midnight, when we take off the masks!" The girl replied.
"Fair enough," Remus replied, "Well, what house are you in?"
"That would give my identity away, and that's no fun, is it?" She smiled.
"No fun at all," Remus laughed. They danced a couple dances, chatted away happily about they're favorite Quiddich teams, school subjects and they're surprised loathing against Severus Snape.
"...and then a pile of sinksap was dumped on his greasy head," Laughed Remus. The girl's green eye's twinkled through her mask and she giggled intently.
"Only a Marauder would think of something like that!" The girl inquired a sly grin on her face.
"Me? A Marauder? Never!" Remus scoffed, hoping he could pass innocent.
"Just sounds like someone I fan--I mean, know," The girl quickly covered, turning a slight shade pink.
"So you like a Marauder, do you?" He asked.
"Maybe...they can all be idiots at times," The girl argued, "Especially that Potter!"
Something about how the disguised girl said that, sounded familiar. There was a slight twinge in Remus' stomach, but he ignored it.
"Tell me if you see a certain Red-head, I've been dying to ask to her something," Remus asked.
"Lily Evans is the only Red-head in the school, why would you want to talk to her? The only boy I've seen interested in Lily is James Potter," The girl smirked.
"Yes, I have been dying to ask her a question, but I have no interest in her, I actually fancy another," Remus replied simply.
"Ooo...Can you tell me?" The princess girl asked.
"No!"
"Why not?"
"You might be her," Remus said, twirling the girl around him.
"Fair point," The girl said. Remus and the Princess-dressed girl danced a bit more, but decided to split up. They had promised to meet up with each other at Midnight, so they could see each other's identities.
Remus walked over to Sirius who was flirting with a girl dressed as a green fairy. He touched her arm and she smiled softly, grabbing his hand. Sirius whispered something in her ear and she blushed. Remus dragged Sirius away, before Sirius did something he would regret because he might drink to much butterbeer.
"I'll look for you at midnight!" Sirius called after the giggling Fairy girl but then turned to Remus, "What!?"
"Just helping you out, Padfoot, wouldn't want you do something you might regret," Remus said, sitting down at a table and resting his feet.
"Like what? Shag her?" Sirius asked, sitting down beside Remus, he did have too much to drink, "because she did have a nice figure."
Remus just rolled his eyes.
"So, who were you hanging out with?" Sirius asked.
"That girl, there," Remus pointed out the Princess, who was now talking to the Green Fairy.
"Name?"
"I dunno," Remus said, disappointed.
"You don't know her name?!!" Sirius laughed.
"It's not like you know the Fairy girl's name," Remus glared, Sirius went silent, "Anyways, she's really sweet. Reminds me of--"
"Jeannie?" Sirius smirked.
"What?" Remus tried to act cool, but he could feel his face burning.
"You heard me, Jeannie. I know you fancy her. Hogwart's walls do talk...so I did hear what you two did in the Library," Sirius smirked,
"Now all you have to do is ask her out!"
"I can't ask her out! She probably doesn't feel the same way about me anyways," Remus argued.
"You don't know that, Moony!" Sirius said, grabbing himself some more butterbeer, "Ask her out!"
"But I don't know where she is, or what she's disguised as," Remus explained, gabbing the spiked butterbeer away from Sirius.
"Well, that Princess girl reminds you of Jeannie, it's most likely it is! So ask Princess Jeannie out," Sirius said, grabbing back the butterbeer and taking a large gulp.
Remus didn't answer, he just thought about this intently. Why not ask Jeannie out? It's probably her anyways...if it reminded him of Jeannie, what are the chances she's not? The Princess girl acts like Jeannie, or I think she does. What do I have to lose? I'll ask her at midnight!
A word of advice: Don't listen to a drunken guy, especially a drunk Marauder!!
***
"I had a fun time!" The raven haired girl said, dressed in a catsuit, to the disguised James.
"Me, too," James said, only have listening and half praying it was Lily. The girl did sound very, very familiar. James looked at the girl through her mask and his stomach did a flip-flop.
The eyes weren't green, but dark chocolate brown.
"We better go back up to the castle, it's almost midnight. We'll be doing the identity revealing soon and I can really know who you are,"
The girl laughed and got up from the grass and started to walk, "You coming?"
"Yeah, you know, it's really hard to walk in this," James argued, slowly getting up from his spot, "I should have never dressed like this."
"Why did you decide to wear that costume?" The cat girl asked.
"Long story," James said, avoiding the subject. Actually, it wasn't that long, simple really. He dressed up as a knight, full suit of armor because he wanted to be Lily's knight in shining armor. Corny, that's how Sirius put it. But James didn't care; he just wanted Lily, by any means possible.
"Oh, I see..." They walked up to the castle silently. Once in the doors, James and the cat girl walked into the middle of the dance floor, the same moment Professor Dumbledore was walking on stage to make a speech. James saw a sight of Sirius with a girl dressed as a Fairy and Remus with a pretty princess. But then something caught James' eyes. It was the princess...a strand of auburn red hair. The princess was wearing a wig, a blonde wig...it was Lily. James heart burned, he was with the wrong girl.
"On the count of three, we shall reveal ourselves and take off the masks!!" Dumbledore announced to the eager disguised students.
"1"
"2"
"3!!!"
Midnight (James' POV)
The Cat suited girl ripped off her mask, eager to see her blind date. James froze. It was Sarah Knight, the Ravenclaw girl who played the drums in Morgan's band. 'Oh god,' James thought, his last shred of hope disappeared, 'why me?'
"Ummm...aren't you going to remove your helmet?" Sarah asked.
"I don't think so...I have to go," James said desperately leaving the confused Sarah Knight behind in the crowd.
Midnight (Sirius' POV)
The now sober Sirius stripped off his Vampire mask to reveal his handsome face and turned to the Green Fairy girl, who was fumbling with her mask.
"Here, let me help," Sirius said, untying the girls mask.
"Thanks," the girl said and spun around to face the unmasked date.
Both of them froze.
It was Sirius!
And it was Morgan!
"You!" Sirius said, gawking at Morgan.
"No, You!" Morgan laughed, "I can't believe this!"
"Out of all people, I end up with you!" Sirius laughed.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Morgan said, punching Sirius lightly on the arm.
"Nothing, it was a compliment!" Sirius said.
"About what? Ending up with you? I hardly call that a compliment!" Morgan sniffed.
This went on for a few minutes, both of them making a couple snide remarks and then setting off a full blown argument, with half the student body watching. But then it was like something clicked and at the same moment, both Morgan and Sirius jumped on each other and started to kiss each other madly.
Midnight (Jeannie's POV)
Jeannie fumbled with her fingers and praying that the guy beside her was Remus. She flattened out her pretty blue Flapper-girl dress and then her hat, right before Dumbledore announced it was midnight.
"1"
"2"
"3!!!"
Jeannie shut her eyes as she undid her mask. She cautiously opened her eyes. And, like James, her heart dropped into her stomach.
"Hullo, lovely!" Amos Diggory said, behind his toothy grin. Jeannie was speechless. Why did she, out of all people, end up with Diggory? He may be in Ravenclaw, but he was stupid and horny!
"Goodbye, Ugly!" Jeannie said, and walked away from Diggory.
Midnight (Remus' POV)
"1"
"2"
"Jeannie--Will you go out with me?"
"3"
The Princess girl ripped off her mask.
"Now, Remus, where did you ever get the idea that I was Jeannie?" Lily laughed as she folded up her mask in her hands and looked at Remus in the eyes.
"What? Lily? I thought you were Jeannie!!" Remus laughed nervously.
"Hmmm...no!" Lily said, "Why would you think that?"
"Long story, but in a nutshell, it has something to do with: Drunk Sirius...Familiar Princess...and Jeannie..." Remus laughed.
"Well, never take advice from Sirius....especially when he's drunk," Lily said.
"Very true!!"
"So...when has this crush developed on Jeannie?" Lily smirked.
"What makes you think that?" Remus said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "What? Faux fur is itchy!' Lily rolled her eyes.
"Come on, Remus!" Lily urged.
"Since the beginning of the year..."
"And...?"
"And? We...uhh...kissed in--" Remus started to say, confused.
"The Library, I know! Jeannie told me!" Lily said.
"What else did you want to know?" Remus asked.
"Nothing...this is just so great!" Lily said.
"What is?"
"I guess you'll have to wait and find out...it's not really for me to tell anyways! You have to talk to Jeannie!!" Lily said, giddily.
A/N:
Phewf!! I'm finally done! It's taken me forever to get this finished...I just didn't know how to write it! If your confused or not...REVIEW ANYWAYS!! I know that you see that blue box in the left hand corner of the computer screen...CLICK IT AND REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until next time, --Morgan