Chapter 14: Who's Better?

Britney sat down beside Alice for dinner. "Mmm, mashed potatoes!" Britney reached to go get some when Alice stopped her.

"Do you know where Lily is?" Alice asked.

"Er, no, maybe she just went to put away her coat and hat?" Britney suggested.

"Maybe," Alice said. "But why would it take this long?"

"Maybe she was out laughing longer than expected," Britney said thoughtfully.

Alice arched her eyebrows.

"Please, I've had a long day, I want to eat," Britney pleaded. Alice gave in. Britney immediately started piling food on her plate.

Dinner went by and Lily never showed up. Alice tried Britney again.

"Brit, we're now onto dessert and Lily isn't here," Alice stated. Britney looked up and down the table for any sign of Lily's hair.

"Er, I don't know where she is," Britney said slowly. "I'm sure your just overreacting, Alice. Maybe she just fell asleep in the dormitory, nothing to worry about." Alice nodded. Something didn't feel right . . .

Sirius, James, Remus and Peter

"I'm full!" announced Sirius.

"Ok," said Peter, who was still eating.

"Aren't you guys done yet?" Sirius asked. They all shook their heads. "Fine, I'll meet you in the common room!" Sirius got up and left the Great Hall on his own.

Sirius was walking quickly up the stairs, to the seventh floor, where the Gryffindor Common Room was located. Sirius was humming to himself when he heard angry voices and a voice pleading. It was a girl.

Sirius turned down a hall, in a different direction from the one going towards the Gryffindor Common Room, and followed the voices. Sirius then heard a muffled scream, Sirius started to quicken his pace, as he pulled out his wand.

Sirius stood in front of a classroom door. That's where the voices came from! Sirius hesitantly opened the door.

Inside was a girl with red hair and was surrounded by 5 older students. At the sound of the door opening, a girl with black hair turned around, with an evil smile on her face. She smiled even more at the sight of Sirius.

"Ah, my dear cousin!" she announced, the others turned around. Sirius now saw who was sitting down whimpering, it was Lily. Sirius sighed deeply. How was he going to do this?

"Bellatrix," Sirius nodded. "Er, what is this?" he asked.

Bellatrix laughed insanely. Sirius shivered slightly at the laugh. "This cousin, I'm just getting some little revenge on this mudblood!"

"She's not a mudblood!" Sirius said boldly. Bellatrix smiled wickedly.

"Is she your girlfriend?" she asked, smiling.

Sirius frowned deeply. "Look, Bellatrix, please let her go," Sirius pleaded, he knew it was no use.

"Why would I listen to a blood-traitor like you?" Bellatrix snapped. "Would you like to join her?" Bellatrix asked.

Sirius pointed his wand at Bellatrix. "You do realize dinner is almost finished, meaning someone will come in here to snog or something," Sirius said trying anything he could to get Bellatrix to let Lily go, without getting hurt.

Bellatrix just laughed. "Do you think that's going to stop me?"

"I couldn't tell you, dear cousin," Sirius said. He was slightly afraid, his cousin had no fear, and Bellatrix could seriously hurt Sirius right then and there.

"Please," Sirius pleaded.

"Look, you're pleading like a blood traitor, it's your own fault, and your poor mother is distraught by your behaviour. I am going to keep the mudblood, for however long I desire," Bellatrix said to Sirius.

"Bellatrix," Sirius muttered through gritted teeth. "Let her go," Sirius was getting very impatient and angry.

Bellatrix didn't listen.

"You know what, my dear cousin?" Bellatrix grinned.

Sirius just stood there and didn't answer.

Bellatrix laughed and pointed her wand at Sirius. "Stupefy!" she said lazily. And that was all Sirius remembered.

The Others

Where was Sirius? James thought. He was getting impatient, it had been one hour since Sirius left dinner, and the boys left shortly after that. James stood up in the common room.

"DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE SIRIUS BLACK IS?" James shouted through the common room. Everyone shook their heads. James sighed and sat back down beside Peter.

"He's probably just snogging someone," Peter said smiling. James shrugged, that could be the case.

"You can't find Sirius?" Alice said coming down the girl's dormitory stairs.

James, Remus and Peter shook their heads.

"Well we can't find Lily," said Alice impatiently. "She never showed up for dinner," Alice said looking around.

"Maybe Lily is the one Sirius is snogging," Peter said thoughtfully. Everyone glared at him. "Never mind," Peter said nervously.

"Where is he?" whined James. "It's so boring," he looked at Remus and Peter. "No offence!"

Britney came through the portrait hole. "Nope, she's not at the library," Britney said as she sat down beside Remus.

"Where is she?" Alice said exasperatedly.

They all sighed.

"How about we look for them together?" suggested Remus.

"Sure," they grumbled, and they all got up to look for they're missing friends.

Lily and Sirius

Sirius stirred. He was in a very uncomfortable position. His back was against something cold and rough. He shifted his position, he slowly opened his eyes. All he saw was grey and red. He opened his eyes fully.

"Nice to see you finally woke up," said a sweet voice.

"Lily?" Sirius croaked.

"My rescuer!" Lily exclaimed.

Sirius groaned. "Where am I?"

"In some classroom, I couldn't tell you which, but I was hoping you could, since you came here on your own free-will," Lily said exasperatedly.

Sirius tried to move his arms, but they were bound. "How long have I been sleeping?"

"Stunned!" Lily sighed. "For about and hour or so," Lily said.

"We have to get out of here," Sirius looked around. No one was there except for Lily and Sirius.

"What's your brilliant idea, Einstein?" Lily asked sarcastically.

"Who's Einstein?" Sirius questioned, trying to move his feet.

"Never mind," Lily sighed.

Sirius struggled with the ropes.

"That's not going to help, moving," Lily said. Sirius just smiled at her.

"Don't worry, beautiful Lily," Sirius said, moving around.

Lily rolled her eyes. Sirius bit his tongue. He could do this easily. He saw his wand, and what he thought was Lily's at the other end of the classroom.

Sirius squirmed his hand free, so he could move it to his pocket. Got it! Sirius pulled out his knife, his father gave him for his seventh birthday. Sirius had to admit, it was a very trusty knife. He cut the ropes. He was free.

Lily stared at him wide eyed.

"Easy," Sirius said.

"Do you mind?" Lily asked sweetly. Sirius grinned.

"Yes m'lady," Sirius said. He untied Lily. As soon as he did so, she hugged him.

"You're my knight in shiny armor!" Lily hugged him tightly. She let go and kissed him.

At that exact moment, James, Remus, Peter, Britney, Alice, Daisy and Tess, came in.

"I told you they were snogging!" Peter said.

Lily pulled away. "Thank you!" she said smiling.

James felt a pain in his heart, but shrugged it off.

"Is this what you were doing?" asked Alice. "We looked everywhere for you! And here we find you two snogging!" Alice said outraged.

"We weren't snogging," Lily defended.

"Then what were you doing with your lips together?" Tess asked.

"I was saying thank you," Lily said shyly.

"For what?" Remus asked.

"He saved me," Lily said. "See, as I came back from laughing really hard in the snow, I decided to take off all my outdoor stuff, so I headed back to the Common Room. Then someone called my name and when I turned around I was stunned. Then I woke up to Bellatrix and her gang started sending spells and stuff. Then Sirius came in and he started talking with Bellatrix, and – hey wait! You're related to Bellatrix?" Lily asked Sirius.

Sirius nodded slowly.

"Ok anyway," James said quickly. He knew Sirius didn't like talking about who he was related too. "Go on!"

Lily nodded. "So then, Bellatrix stunned Sirius and Bellatrix and her gang left us tied up. An hour later Sirius woke up and he untied himself and me. I was stuck here for a good 2 and half hours. So I kissed Sirius to thank him," Lily said the other part quietly.

"Rough," Britney mumbled.

"Hey! You know what I realized?" Sirius asked happily.

"What?" asked Peter.

"I kissed and got kissed by two very pretty girls in one day!" Sirius said gloating.

Britney and Lily glared. While everyone else laughed.

"Who was better?" asked James.

Britney rolled her eyes, while Lily sighed.

"Hmm," said Sirius thoughtfully.

"If you answer that I will hurt you," Lily said.

"Fine! I won't!" Sirius said, still smiling.

"Let's get out of here," said Remus smiling. He handed Lily and Sirius they're wands.

"Britney was really good," Sirius finally said, as they exited the classroom. "But Lily was a little bit better!" Sirius said joyfully. Britney's eyes widened. Lily kicked Sirius hard in the shin. Britney slapped him over the head.

"What?" he asked, grinning mischievously.

"I'm hungry," Lily said as they headed to the Gryffindor Common Room. "I didn't have dinner," Britney bit her lip.

"I'll show you to the kitchens," she said quietly.

"Are you serious?!" James and Sirius asked smiling widely.

"Yes," Britney said sighing. "I might as well," she said. "But its late, and curfew is in a few -," before Britney got to finish, James and Sirius rushed into the portrait hole. Once everyone entered, James and Sirius came bolting down, with a cloak in their hands.

"Ok, us four are going! We'll see you later," James said quickly.

They exited the portrait hole. James threw the cloak over the four of them.

"What is this?" Britney asked.

"Shh," James said.

"Lead us to the kitchens, but be quiet and go slowly," Sirius said.

Britney slowly led them to the Entrance Hall. She took them a flight of to the right of the main staircase in the entrance hall. They went down the stairs to a broad stone corridor, brightly lit with torches. The corridor was full of portraits. They went down the corridor. They went to the end of the corridor, where a huge portrait of a bowl of fruit stayed. Britney pulled out her finger from under the cloak. She then tickled the pear, which started laughing.

They portrait swung open, to reveal a huge room, about the size of the Great Hall. Four long house tables remained in the middle of the room, the exact same position as the real ones above.

James pulled off the cloak. Immediately they were attacked by houselves. There had to be over one hundred of them. James and Sirius grinned broadly.

"What can I get for you sirs?" asked the house-elves.

Lily hesitated. James and Sirius started ordering food. Lily ordered hers, as she watched the house-elves scurrying away fetching the food.

After they left with they're pockets full of goodies and such, James and Sirius thanked Britney over and over again, as they headed back to the Common Room.

A/N: I have started to write year 5, as I might have already said, and wrote chapter 2, today, i think it's called "A Fun ride on the train." I'm not sure. But I know I'll be writing a wedding by the third chapter...any guesses who?

I'd like to thank Anna for writing a bit of the winks story today for me! I LOVE YOU! you have to write more in a few days;)

Anyways...R/R!