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Argh, this is hard. I have this chapter planned but nothing else until Christmas! Grrr.
This is going to be a long chapter (hooray!). I've been able to work on it now that my movie is done. Today was the screening. It when really well. (Thankfully, that we put all that hard work into it)
Hopefully this is good enough. I tried to base it more on Lily. I tried to edit a little, hopefully there's not many spelling or grammar errors.
Last time on Truth Be Told:
"I wish it was Friday." Sara grumbled.
"Hear hear!" The Marauders said.
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~*~Chapter 12 A New Teacher, Detention and a Walk to Cure the Kinks, Well Most of Them ~*~
The sevo (A/N: LoL get it? Trio as in Harry, Ron and Hermione,...sevo as in seven...as in The Marauders, Lily, Arabella and Sara...ah never mind) walked down for their first class in Defense Against the Dark Arts.
(A/N: OK, I've just noticed something, this wouldn't be their FIRST DADA class, or the last Potions class wouldn't be the first potions class either because I've typed up 'weeks have gone by' in my other chapters and they would've had them in then...oh well. Just go along with me here folks. You haven't met them, so I have to introduce them as they go there. So just PRETEND that it's their first time in this class. LoL, sorry.)
They took their seats in the back of the class as normal.
"Whoa, look at that dame." Sirius said.
Everybody settled down as a young woman walked in the room.
She looked to be in about her twenties with long brown hair in a pony holder, chocolate brown eyes and a small figure.
She smiled at the class showing them her pearly white teeth.
"Welcome class!" She said brightly. "I am Professor Kavanagh. I will be your Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher!"
Sara's jaw dropped. "That's Natalie Kavanagh! She was last month's front page model for Celebrity Witch!" She whispered.
Professor Kavanagh walked over to where they were sitting unbeknownst to them.
"Really? I thought I saw her somewhere." James said looking up and jumped as he saw how close she was to their table.
"Have you something to-Ms. Whitmore!" Professor Kavanagh said giving what looked to be a fake smile. "How-how wonderful."
Sara smiled back except hers didn't look like a fake smile. "Yes, very wonderful."
Professor Kavanagh walked back to the front of the class forgetting what she was going to say to the seven.
"Well, we're going to learn out of the book today I'm afraid." Professor Kavanagh said. "Turn to page...139..."
"Doesn't seem to like you does she?" Lily said to Sara.
Sara smirked flipping the pages in her DADA book.
"She's just sour because my sister and I beat her in the top ten list." She said.
Arabella rolled her eyes.
"Great job, now we're going to get picked on." She said.
Sara laughed quietly.
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"Well that was a bore." James said as class ended.
"Uh-huh." Peter said.
"Just because you guys don't think that you're going to get killed by a man- eating frog that lives in Africa, doesn't mean that it's not going to happen and that you should think it boring!" Arabella said in mock-anger.
Lily slapped her over the head.
"That's not what we were reading about, we were reading about how to protect yourself from Vampires!" She said.
"No!" Arabella said pulling out her DADA book from her bag. She flipped a few pages and pointed to page 139. "See Rowlvics! They look like frogs and eat humans. Therefor, man-eating frogs! And it's what we were-oh."
Sara had pointed to the bottom of the page.
"139 not 149." She said.
Arabella blushed. "Oops."
The Marauders laughed and Sara and Lily rolled their eyes.
"Great...we've made friends with the village idiot." Lily said shaking her head.
"Yes, and her name is Lily." Arabella said trying to make the others laugh at someone other than herself.
They all looked at Arabella.
"What? It was funny..." Arabella said blushing scarlet.
"Pathetic." Lily said.
Arabella rolled her eyes.
"You just don't appreciate humor." She said.
They all (except Arabella) groaned.
"Next class people!" Sirius said.
~
Their next class was potions, how-er-wonderful...
And James, Sirius and Sara were constantly reminded of their detention in case they 'forgot'.
Other than the three 'trouble makers', Remus, Peter, Lily and Arabella (well, Remus and Lily) gained Gryffindor 20 points.
"Stupid potions, should boil her in a caldron." Sirius grumbled about professor Verrand as they walked out of the dungeons and back up to the great hall for lunch. (A/N: I'm not sure how many classes they have before lunch or after it, so I'm just going to guess. 2 before it, 3 or 2 after it. Depending on the day or whether they have free classes)
They sat down at the Gryffindor table and started piling food onto their plates.
'Uh-oh. Looks like Logan's going to get a mouthful.' Lily thought as she saw Sara tense up as Logan sat beside her.
"Hey." Logan said smiling at the girls.
"Hey." Lily and Arabella said.
"Hullo Logan." Sara said dully.
"What's up with you?" Logan asked.
"You're stupid friend made us get a longer detention!" Sirius said scowling at Logan from across the table.
Logan frowned.
"My stupid friend?" He asked.
"That's right! Clive Something-or-other." James said scowling as well beside Sirius.
Logan scowled back at them.
"Clive's not stupid. He's smarter than all of you put together." Logan then stood up and left to go down to sit with some other girls down the table.
"Clod." They all mumbled.
"What do you think of Logan now?" Remus asked Sara.
"Put a cork in it Lupin."
~
James and Sirius waited for Sara down in the common room at quarter to five.
"Where is she?" Sirius muttered looking at his watch.
They waited five more minutes before deciding to go up to the girls' dorm and getting her personally.
Arabella doing her hair up in a French Braid at the mirror, Lily's head was on her hand and her eyes were closed, Pauline was laying on her stomach, ankles crossed as they stuck up in the air, reading a magazine, Cecilia was painting her toenails and Sara was snoozing, her arm dangling over the edge of her bed.
When the two boys walked in, Cecilia jumped up, subsequently smearing red nail polish over her foot, Pauline and Lily ignored them (still not sure if Lily was awake), Arabella scoffed as she dropped her hair in surprise and had to start all over again and Sara was still snoozing.
"Gather her up would you." James said to Sirius.
"Me? Why do I have to?" Sirius asked.
"Because I don't feel like getting whacked in the face by a girl to whom I interrupted her beauty sleep." James said.
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"And you think I would?" He asked.
"Yes, of course." James said.
"Is there anything you boys want?" Cecilia asked putting on her best fake girlie voice (A/N: I hate it when people do that!).
Sirius and James looked at each other with wicked grins.
"Um yes...Cecilia right? Well, could you possibly wake Sara up for us?" Sirius asked.
Cecilia grinned.
"Anything for you two!" She said and bounded over to Sara.
James and Sirius snickered.
"Sara?" Cecilia said and shook Sara.
Sara mumbled and turned over.
"Why do you need her up anyway?" Cecilia asked turning back to the boys.
"Oh, we have a detention." James said.
"Poor dears." Cecilia said and turned back to Sara. "Sara, you missed your detention."
Sara bolted upwards which made her smack foreheads with Cecilia.
"Ouch!" They both yelled.
"Come on sleepy head! We've got a detention to go to." Sirius said.
"You mean I haven't m-m-missed it?" Sara said through a yawn.
"Unfortunately, no." James said.
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"Right on time!" Professor Verrand said as the three walked into her office.
The three grumbled quietly.
"Now, since I'm the potions teacher, I have filthy caldrons to wash and since it seems like a tradition for my to make everyone who has a detention with me to wash them. I'm not going to make you three wash them." Professor Verrand said smiling slightly.
The three looked at each other in surprise. 'What could be worse than scrubbing caldrons?'
"You will be marking papers instead."
The three frowned. 'Bingo.'
"Take a seat." Professor Verrand said gesturing at three seats in front of her desk. "Now, here is a answer sheet so you can mark off of this. Since there is only one, you must SHARE. Got that? Good. Now, if anyone comes to me complaining that their answer is the same as their friend's answer but they got it wrong and their friend got it right-I'm not going to be pleased. And then you will find yourselves right back here the next day scrubbing caldrons."
The three looked at each other.
"I hope I don't have to see you here scrubbing caldrons for at least another week." Professor Verrand said. "Any questions?"
The three shook their heads.
"No? Very well."
Then professor Verrand stood up and walked to the door.
"Now, if I come back later and these papers aren't marked and any of you are off gallivanting...oh yes. Mustn't forget, hand over your wands." She said sticking out her hand to take the wands.
The three reluctantly gave her their wands.
"I'll come back every half hour to check up on you. When you're done, I'll give you back your wands." Professor Verrand then closed the door behind her as she left.
"Well, best be getting to work then." Sara said looking up at the enormous stack of papers.
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"I wonder what they have to do." Remus said as he laid down in his bed feeling tired and worn out, even though it was only 10 after 5.
"Scrub caldrons I expect." Peter said.
"Mmm." Remus moaned as the soft comforter wrapped around his body and the soft pillow overtook him and he fell into deep sleep.
Peter frowned at his friend.
Remus looked so pale and tired lately. (A/N: Hm, I wonder why?) He couldn't help but feel sorry for him. But it wasn't like they had stayed up to late and never got any sleep. They did go to bed before 1 o'clock but that didn't seem to be enough for Remus.
Peter sighed and slumped in his bed staring at the ceiling. 'Great.' He thought. 'Just great. Two of my friends are off in detention and my other friend is sleeping. But I'm not even the least bit tired. Merlin this was going to be long and boring...'
~
Lily's eyes snapped open as someone jumped on her bed.
"How do you like my hair?" Arabella asked grinning at her.
Lily looked at Arabella's hair and smiled in approval. "Very elegant." She said.
Arabella grinned and jumped off Lily's bed. "Excellent."
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Why did you do that now? We don't have classes until tomorrow and I don't think we're going anywhere except the common room and nobody really pays that much attention to your hair after dinner." She said.
Arabella shrugged. "I felt like doing it. And it makes me feel pretty." She said.
"You are pretty." Lily said.
"Yeah I know. But this makes me feel even more prettier." Arabella said grinning.
Lily rolled her eyes and closed them again.
"Why are you so tired?" Arabella asked.
"I'm not." Lily said.
"Then why are you sleeping?" Arabella asked.
"I'm not." Lily said again.
Arabella sighed in exasperation.
"What ARE you doing then?"
"Thinking." Lily said.
"Oh? About what?" Arabella asked.
"Stuff." Lily said.
"What kind of stuff may I ask?" Arabella asked.
"You know...stuff." Lily said. "Arabella, go pester someone else."
Arabella looked over at Pauline who was still reading a magazine on her stomach.
"Hey Paulie...what'cha readin'?"
~
After 27 hand cramps every 10 minutes for 2 hours, James, Sirius and Sara came back from their very wearisome job.
Peter sat on his bed, his mouth slightly open, staring at the wall.
But when the boys dormitory door opened and James and Sirius came in, he leapt up.
"I'm guessing that your evening was platitudinous?" Sirius asked as he noticed Remus sleeping. "As Remus the bromide sleeps away his life..."
Remus gave a grunt in his sleep as if understanding what Sirius said and Peter jumped back in surprise.
"Yeah, well...how was your punishment? What did she make you do? Wash caldrons?" He asked.
"Oddly enough, no. We had to mark papers." James said rubbing his hand.
"Mark papers?" Peter said laughing. "You two?"
"Shut up. We had an answer sheet." Sirius said.
Peter still kept laughing.
James and Sirius frowned.
"I feel like going down to the common room. It's only 7 o'clock." Sirius said looking at his watch.
James nodded. "I'm going to stay here, give myself a hand massage...to bad at Hogwarts you don't get your own personal masseuse."
"I'm coming with you!" Peter said scurrying over to Sirius. "Sorry James, but I can't stand another minute in here and I'm not going to be your masseuse so stop looking at me that way."
James shrugged and started rubbing his hand.
~
Lily opened her eyes as Sara came in grumbling and rubbing her hand.
"You're back." Arabella said giving Pauline's magazine back that she stole from her.
Pauline snatched it back and started reading again.
"Yes, thank god." Sara said flopping headfirst onto her bed, stuffing her face into her pillow.
Lily got up and stretched.
"I think I'm going to go for a walk. Get all these kinks out from laying in the same spot for hours." She said.
"OK." Arabella said.
"Mrf." Sara said through her pillow.
Lily put on her shoes and sweater and walked down to the common room.
"Where're you going Lily?" Sirius asked as Lily walked over to the portrait passing him and Peter.
"For a walk." Lily said.
"Can I come?" Sirius asked standing up from his chair he was sitting in.
"I don't see why not." Lily said.
"Don't leave me!" Peter said.
"Come too if you'd like." Lily said.
Peter jumped up and the three walked out of the common room.
~
Lily breathed in the cool refreshing air.
September was coming to a close and October was not far ahead which was already bringing cool air and darker evenings.
The three walked around the lake.
They stopped right in front of the giant squid which lazily waved its tentacles around.
"Getting cold Peter?" Sirius asked as Peter shivered.
"No, my teeth just chatter for no reason at all." Peter said hugging himself to keep him warm. They had been out for a while and it was slightly freezing. (A/N: LoL, that doesn't' make much sense.)
"Oh, well. I was going to suggest we go back but since your fine, we'll stay out here." Sirius said.
Peter scowled.
"All right, all right. Lils, you coming?" Sirius asked laughing and clamping a hand on Peter's shoulder.
Lily nodded.
"Yeah, wait for me."
They started walking back to Hogwarts.
Once they were inside, Peter sighed happily at the warmth.
"Ouch!" Lily said as something hit her in the back of the head and she saw stars. 'Ooo, look at that big one! It's the moon! At least...I hope it is...' Then everything went black.
~
'Hey, how come you get the chair?'
There were people around her.
'Because I'm special.'
'Special my ass!'
'Shut up both of you, I'm too tired and grumpy to hear you two fight over a stupid chair.'
'All of you be quite! Lily's sleeping!'
She couldn't figure out who it was that was around her.
Maybe she should open her eyes.
'I'll sit on you if you don't get out of the chair!'
She tried but failed in the first attempt.
"Get off the chair, I'm going to sit in it."
The voices became louder as Lily became more conscious.
She tried again to open her eyes and succeeding in getting blinded by white.
"Huh? What's going on?" Lily asked as she sat up which she regretted.
The back of her head was throbbing.
She laid back down and everything came into clear focus...for about a second then went blurry again.
This happened a couple of times and it made her feel sick to her stomach so she closed her eyes.
"Lily?" She remembered that voice. She's heard it before. But where did she hear it? She was having a temporary brain lapse. Or at least she hoped it was temporary.
"You took a pretty hard hit to the ground. And that stupid Clive kid hit you pretty hard too." The person said.
Now she remembered that voice! It was Sirius.
"Sirius?" Lily mumbled and reached out to feel where he was.
"Ouch! Thanks a lot Lily."
That was Arabella and she just poked her in the eye by the sound of it.
Her friends were all around her. Sirius and Peter must have gotten them. But WHERE she was, she didn't know. She could feel a bed underneath her...sheets over top of her...and a pillow behind her head...she couldn't be in her dormitory because everything was white...
"Where am I?" Lily asked.
"Hospital wing." That was James.
"What happened?" Lily asked.
"That Westman kid whacked you in the back of the head with a bat for a joke. He said he thought it was his friend but I doubt it." That was Sirius again.
Lily opened her eyes again. This time, the blur was gone and she could see everyone around her.
There was a tired looking Remus who looked to be falling asleep sitting in a chair on Lily's left side. Sara was on Remus's left side and Arabella was on his right rubbing her eye. James was on Lily's right side, Sirius was standing beside him and Peter was standing beside Sirius. (A/N: OK, I'll do a diagram and see if it works.
Arabella, Remus, Sara
|Lily's bed|
James, Sirius, Peter
There we go)
"Clive whacked me in the head with a BAT?" Lily said in shock and anger.
Peter nodded. "We thought you died. There was blood everywhere..." He shuddered.
"How did I get-why are you guys all here-?" Lily asked.
"Sirius brought you here, and I went and got everybody else." Peter said.
A woman in white who Lily was guessing was the matron started to come over.
"Uh-oh. Here come the nurse again." Peter said. "It's hard to understand her. She's French."
"It's not that hard." Sara said.
The nurse shooed James, Peter and Sirius away so she could get to Lily.
"'ow are vous feeling Mme. Evans?" She asked.
"Um, fine I guess." Lily said.
"Est vous head 'urting at all?" She asked.
"Bit." Lily said as the throbbing she was ignoring pounded more and more painfully.
"Puits, take zis. Et all of vous let 'er sommeil. Vous si be 'eading to bed 'oon quoi qu'il en soit." The nurse said handing Lily a vile that was in her cloak pocket.
Lily looked at it before draining it.
The six stared at her.
"Go!" The nurse said gesturing for them to leave.
The six nodded and muttered "Goodnight Lily, goodnight Madam d´Autmarre."
'Madam d´Autmarre...that's the nurse's name...must remember that' Lily thought. Although it didn't feel like she would remember it in the morning as she drifted off to sleep.
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R/R!! That was a long chapter with a few big words. LoL. If you review more then I'll post more! :D
Argh, this is hard. I have this chapter planned but nothing else until Christmas! Grrr.
This is going to be a long chapter (hooray!). I've been able to work on it now that my movie is done. Today was the screening. It when really well. (Thankfully, that we put all that hard work into it)
Hopefully this is good enough. I tried to base it more on Lily. I tried to edit a little, hopefully there's not many spelling or grammar errors.
Last time on Truth Be Told:
"I wish it was Friday." Sara grumbled.
"Hear hear!" The Marauders said.
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~*~Chapter 12 A New Teacher, Detention and a Walk to Cure the Kinks, Well Most of Them ~*~
The sevo (A/N: LoL get it? Trio as in Harry, Ron and Hermione,...sevo as in seven...as in The Marauders, Lily, Arabella and Sara...ah never mind) walked down for their first class in Defense Against the Dark Arts.
(A/N: OK, I've just noticed something, this wouldn't be their FIRST DADA class, or the last Potions class wouldn't be the first potions class either because I've typed up 'weeks have gone by' in my other chapters and they would've had them in then...oh well. Just go along with me here folks. You haven't met them, so I have to introduce them as they go there. So just PRETEND that it's their first time in this class. LoL, sorry.)
They took their seats in the back of the class as normal.
"Whoa, look at that dame." Sirius said.
Everybody settled down as a young woman walked in the room.
She looked to be in about her twenties with long brown hair in a pony holder, chocolate brown eyes and a small figure.
She smiled at the class showing them her pearly white teeth.
"Welcome class!" She said brightly. "I am Professor Kavanagh. I will be your Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher!"
Sara's jaw dropped. "That's Natalie Kavanagh! She was last month's front page model for Celebrity Witch!" She whispered.
Professor Kavanagh walked over to where they were sitting unbeknownst to them.
"Really? I thought I saw her somewhere." James said looking up and jumped as he saw how close she was to their table.
"Have you something to-Ms. Whitmore!" Professor Kavanagh said giving what looked to be a fake smile. "How-how wonderful."
Sara smiled back except hers didn't look like a fake smile. "Yes, very wonderful."
Professor Kavanagh walked back to the front of the class forgetting what she was going to say to the seven.
"Well, we're going to learn out of the book today I'm afraid." Professor Kavanagh said. "Turn to page...139..."
"Doesn't seem to like you does she?" Lily said to Sara.
Sara smirked flipping the pages in her DADA book.
"She's just sour because my sister and I beat her in the top ten list." She said.
Arabella rolled her eyes.
"Great job, now we're going to get picked on." She said.
Sara laughed quietly.
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"Well that was a bore." James said as class ended.
"Uh-huh." Peter said.
"Just because you guys don't think that you're going to get killed by a man- eating frog that lives in Africa, doesn't mean that it's not going to happen and that you should think it boring!" Arabella said in mock-anger.
Lily slapped her over the head.
"That's not what we were reading about, we were reading about how to protect yourself from Vampires!" She said.
"No!" Arabella said pulling out her DADA book from her bag. She flipped a few pages and pointed to page 139. "See Rowlvics! They look like frogs and eat humans. Therefor, man-eating frogs! And it's what we were-oh."
Sara had pointed to the bottom of the page.
"139 not 149." She said.
Arabella blushed. "Oops."
The Marauders laughed and Sara and Lily rolled their eyes.
"Great...we've made friends with the village idiot." Lily said shaking her head.
"Yes, and her name is Lily." Arabella said trying to make the others laugh at someone other than herself.
They all looked at Arabella.
"What? It was funny..." Arabella said blushing scarlet.
"Pathetic." Lily said.
Arabella rolled her eyes.
"You just don't appreciate humor." She said.
They all (except Arabella) groaned.
"Next class people!" Sirius said.
~
Their next class was potions, how-er-wonderful...
And James, Sirius and Sara were constantly reminded of their detention in case they 'forgot'.
Other than the three 'trouble makers', Remus, Peter, Lily and Arabella (well, Remus and Lily) gained Gryffindor 20 points.
"Stupid potions, should boil her in a caldron." Sirius grumbled about professor Verrand as they walked out of the dungeons and back up to the great hall for lunch. (A/N: I'm not sure how many classes they have before lunch or after it, so I'm just going to guess. 2 before it, 3 or 2 after it. Depending on the day or whether they have free classes)
They sat down at the Gryffindor table and started piling food onto their plates.
'Uh-oh. Looks like Logan's going to get a mouthful.' Lily thought as she saw Sara tense up as Logan sat beside her.
"Hey." Logan said smiling at the girls.
"Hey." Lily and Arabella said.
"Hullo Logan." Sara said dully.
"What's up with you?" Logan asked.
"You're stupid friend made us get a longer detention!" Sirius said scowling at Logan from across the table.
Logan frowned.
"My stupid friend?" He asked.
"That's right! Clive Something-or-other." James said scowling as well beside Sirius.
Logan scowled back at them.
"Clive's not stupid. He's smarter than all of you put together." Logan then stood up and left to go down to sit with some other girls down the table.
"Clod." They all mumbled.
"What do you think of Logan now?" Remus asked Sara.
"Put a cork in it Lupin."
~
James and Sirius waited for Sara down in the common room at quarter to five.
"Where is she?" Sirius muttered looking at his watch.
They waited five more minutes before deciding to go up to the girls' dorm and getting her personally.
Arabella doing her hair up in a French Braid at the mirror, Lily's head was on her hand and her eyes were closed, Pauline was laying on her stomach, ankles crossed as they stuck up in the air, reading a magazine, Cecilia was painting her toenails and Sara was snoozing, her arm dangling over the edge of her bed.
When the two boys walked in, Cecilia jumped up, subsequently smearing red nail polish over her foot, Pauline and Lily ignored them (still not sure if Lily was awake), Arabella scoffed as she dropped her hair in surprise and had to start all over again and Sara was still snoozing.
"Gather her up would you." James said to Sirius.
"Me? Why do I have to?" Sirius asked.
"Because I don't feel like getting whacked in the face by a girl to whom I interrupted her beauty sleep." James said.
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"And you think I would?" He asked.
"Yes, of course." James said.
"Is there anything you boys want?" Cecilia asked putting on her best fake girlie voice (A/N: I hate it when people do that!).
Sirius and James looked at each other with wicked grins.
"Um yes...Cecilia right? Well, could you possibly wake Sara up for us?" Sirius asked.
Cecilia grinned.
"Anything for you two!" She said and bounded over to Sara.
James and Sirius snickered.
"Sara?" Cecilia said and shook Sara.
Sara mumbled and turned over.
"Why do you need her up anyway?" Cecilia asked turning back to the boys.
"Oh, we have a detention." James said.
"Poor dears." Cecilia said and turned back to Sara. "Sara, you missed your detention."
Sara bolted upwards which made her smack foreheads with Cecilia.
"Ouch!" They both yelled.
"Come on sleepy head! We've got a detention to go to." Sirius said.
"You mean I haven't m-m-missed it?" Sara said through a yawn.
"Unfortunately, no." James said.
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"Right on time!" Professor Verrand said as the three walked into her office.
The three grumbled quietly.
"Now, since I'm the potions teacher, I have filthy caldrons to wash and since it seems like a tradition for my to make everyone who has a detention with me to wash them. I'm not going to make you three wash them." Professor Verrand said smiling slightly.
The three looked at each other in surprise. 'What could be worse than scrubbing caldrons?'
"You will be marking papers instead."
The three frowned. 'Bingo.'
"Take a seat." Professor Verrand said gesturing at three seats in front of her desk. "Now, here is a answer sheet so you can mark off of this. Since there is only one, you must SHARE. Got that? Good. Now, if anyone comes to me complaining that their answer is the same as their friend's answer but they got it wrong and their friend got it right-I'm not going to be pleased. And then you will find yourselves right back here the next day scrubbing caldrons."
The three looked at each other.
"I hope I don't have to see you here scrubbing caldrons for at least another week." Professor Verrand said. "Any questions?"
The three shook their heads.
"No? Very well."
Then professor Verrand stood up and walked to the door.
"Now, if I come back later and these papers aren't marked and any of you are off gallivanting...oh yes. Mustn't forget, hand over your wands." She said sticking out her hand to take the wands.
The three reluctantly gave her their wands.
"I'll come back every half hour to check up on you. When you're done, I'll give you back your wands." Professor Verrand then closed the door behind her as she left.
"Well, best be getting to work then." Sara said looking up at the enormous stack of papers.
~
"I wonder what they have to do." Remus said as he laid down in his bed feeling tired and worn out, even though it was only 10 after 5.
"Scrub caldrons I expect." Peter said.
"Mmm." Remus moaned as the soft comforter wrapped around his body and the soft pillow overtook him and he fell into deep sleep.
Peter frowned at his friend.
Remus looked so pale and tired lately. (A/N: Hm, I wonder why?) He couldn't help but feel sorry for him. But it wasn't like they had stayed up to late and never got any sleep. They did go to bed before 1 o'clock but that didn't seem to be enough for Remus.
Peter sighed and slumped in his bed staring at the ceiling. 'Great.' He thought. 'Just great. Two of my friends are off in detention and my other friend is sleeping. But I'm not even the least bit tired. Merlin this was going to be long and boring...'
~
Lily's eyes snapped open as someone jumped on her bed.
"How do you like my hair?" Arabella asked grinning at her.
Lily looked at Arabella's hair and smiled in approval. "Very elegant." She said.
Arabella grinned and jumped off Lily's bed. "Excellent."
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Why did you do that now? We don't have classes until tomorrow and I don't think we're going anywhere except the common room and nobody really pays that much attention to your hair after dinner." She said.
Arabella shrugged. "I felt like doing it. And it makes me feel pretty." She said.
"You are pretty." Lily said.
"Yeah I know. But this makes me feel even more prettier." Arabella said grinning.
Lily rolled her eyes and closed them again.
"Why are you so tired?" Arabella asked.
"I'm not." Lily said.
"Then why are you sleeping?" Arabella asked.
"I'm not." Lily said again.
Arabella sighed in exasperation.
"What ARE you doing then?"
"Thinking." Lily said.
"Oh? About what?" Arabella asked.
"Stuff." Lily said.
"What kind of stuff may I ask?" Arabella asked.
"You know...stuff." Lily said. "Arabella, go pester someone else."
Arabella looked over at Pauline who was still reading a magazine on her stomach.
"Hey Paulie...what'cha readin'?"
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After 27 hand cramps every 10 minutes for 2 hours, James, Sirius and Sara came back from their very wearisome job.
Peter sat on his bed, his mouth slightly open, staring at the wall.
But when the boys dormitory door opened and James and Sirius came in, he leapt up.
"I'm guessing that your evening was platitudinous?" Sirius asked as he noticed Remus sleeping. "As Remus the bromide sleeps away his life..."
Remus gave a grunt in his sleep as if understanding what Sirius said and Peter jumped back in surprise.
"Yeah, well...how was your punishment? What did she make you do? Wash caldrons?" He asked.
"Oddly enough, no. We had to mark papers." James said rubbing his hand.
"Mark papers?" Peter said laughing. "You two?"
"Shut up. We had an answer sheet." Sirius said.
Peter still kept laughing.
James and Sirius frowned.
"I feel like going down to the common room. It's only 7 o'clock." Sirius said looking at his watch.
James nodded. "I'm going to stay here, give myself a hand massage...to bad at Hogwarts you don't get your own personal masseuse."
"I'm coming with you!" Peter said scurrying over to Sirius. "Sorry James, but I can't stand another minute in here and I'm not going to be your masseuse so stop looking at me that way."
James shrugged and started rubbing his hand.
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Lily opened her eyes as Sara came in grumbling and rubbing her hand.
"You're back." Arabella said giving Pauline's magazine back that she stole from her.
Pauline snatched it back and started reading again.
"Yes, thank god." Sara said flopping headfirst onto her bed, stuffing her face into her pillow.
Lily got up and stretched.
"I think I'm going to go for a walk. Get all these kinks out from laying in the same spot for hours." She said.
"OK." Arabella said.
"Mrf." Sara said through her pillow.
Lily put on her shoes and sweater and walked down to the common room.
"Where're you going Lily?" Sirius asked as Lily walked over to the portrait passing him and Peter.
"For a walk." Lily said.
"Can I come?" Sirius asked standing up from his chair he was sitting in.
"I don't see why not." Lily said.
"Don't leave me!" Peter said.
"Come too if you'd like." Lily said.
Peter jumped up and the three walked out of the common room.
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Lily breathed in the cool refreshing air.
September was coming to a close and October was not far ahead which was already bringing cool air and darker evenings.
The three walked around the lake.
They stopped right in front of the giant squid which lazily waved its tentacles around.
"Getting cold Peter?" Sirius asked as Peter shivered.
"No, my teeth just chatter for no reason at all." Peter said hugging himself to keep him warm. They had been out for a while and it was slightly freezing. (A/N: LoL, that doesn't' make much sense.)
"Oh, well. I was going to suggest we go back but since your fine, we'll stay out here." Sirius said.
Peter scowled.
"All right, all right. Lils, you coming?" Sirius asked laughing and clamping a hand on Peter's shoulder.
Lily nodded.
"Yeah, wait for me."
They started walking back to Hogwarts.
Once they were inside, Peter sighed happily at the warmth.
"Ouch!" Lily said as something hit her in the back of the head and she saw stars. 'Ooo, look at that big one! It's the moon! At least...I hope it is...' Then everything went black.
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'Hey, how come you get the chair?'
There were people around her.
'Because I'm special.'
'Special my ass!'
'Shut up both of you, I'm too tired and grumpy to hear you two fight over a stupid chair.'
'All of you be quite! Lily's sleeping!'
She couldn't figure out who it was that was around her.
Maybe she should open her eyes.
'I'll sit on you if you don't get out of the chair!'
She tried but failed in the first attempt.
"Get off the chair, I'm going to sit in it."
The voices became louder as Lily became more conscious.
She tried again to open her eyes and succeeding in getting blinded by white.
"Huh? What's going on?" Lily asked as she sat up which she regretted.
The back of her head was throbbing.
She laid back down and everything came into clear focus...for about a second then went blurry again.
This happened a couple of times and it made her feel sick to her stomach so she closed her eyes.
"Lily?" She remembered that voice. She's heard it before. But where did she hear it? She was having a temporary brain lapse. Or at least she hoped it was temporary.
"You took a pretty hard hit to the ground. And that stupid Clive kid hit you pretty hard too." The person said.
Now she remembered that voice! It was Sirius.
"Sirius?" Lily mumbled and reached out to feel where he was.
"Ouch! Thanks a lot Lily."
That was Arabella and she just poked her in the eye by the sound of it.
Her friends were all around her. Sirius and Peter must have gotten them. But WHERE she was, she didn't know. She could feel a bed underneath her...sheets over top of her...and a pillow behind her head...she couldn't be in her dormitory because everything was white...
"Where am I?" Lily asked.
"Hospital wing." That was James.
"What happened?" Lily asked.
"That Westman kid whacked you in the back of the head with a bat for a joke. He said he thought it was his friend but I doubt it." That was Sirius again.
Lily opened her eyes again. This time, the blur was gone and she could see everyone around her.
There was a tired looking Remus who looked to be falling asleep sitting in a chair on Lily's left side. Sara was on Remus's left side and Arabella was on his right rubbing her eye. James was on Lily's right side, Sirius was standing beside him and Peter was standing beside Sirius. (A/N: OK, I'll do a diagram and see if it works.
Arabella, Remus, Sara
|Lily's bed|
James, Sirius, Peter
There we go)
"Clive whacked me in the head with a BAT?" Lily said in shock and anger.
Peter nodded. "We thought you died. There was blood everywhere..." He shuddered.
"How did I get-why are you guys all here-?" Lily asked.
"Sirius brought you here, and I went and got everybody else." Peter said.
A woman in white who Lily was guessing was the matron started to come over.
"Uh-oh. Here come the nurse again." Peter said. "It's hard to understand her. She's French."
"It's not that hard." Sara said.
The nurse shooed James, Peter and Sirius away so she could get to Lily.
"'ow are vous feeling Mme. Evans?" She asked.
"Um, fine I guess." Lily said.
"Est vous head 'urting at all?" She asked.
"Bit." Lily said as the throbbing she was ignoring pounded more and more painfully.
"Puits, take zis. Et all of vous let 'er sommeil. Vous si be 'eading to bed 'oon quoi qu'il en soit." The nurse said handing Lily a vile that was in her cloak pocket.
Lily looked at it before draining it.
The six stared at her.
"Go!" The nurse said gesturing for them to leave.
The six nodded and muttered "Goodnight Lily, goodnight Madam d´Autmarre."
'Madam d´Autmarre...that's the nurse's name...must remember that' Lily thought. Although it didn't feel like she would remember it in the morning as she drifted off to sleep.
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R/R!! That was a long chapter with a few big words. LoL. If you review more then I'll post more! :D