"James Harold Potter you get in here right this minute!!!!!" yelled the head girl from her bedroom, which was just across the hall from the headboy's room. "I mean it! This has happened one too many times! Panty raids are no longer a funny joke to pull!! JAAAAAAMEEEES bring back my underwear, RIGHT NOW!" LIly's face was turning red. This was the fourth time this year the Marauders, specifically James, had snuck into her room and stolen every article of underwear she owned.

Hearing guffaws the titan haired madwoman stepped into the parlor between the two rooms. She was just in time to see a flick of black robe disappear around a corner. "Ohhhh I'm going to make him wish he'd never even SEEN a pair of my underwear..." muttered Lily udner her breath, stamping over to the door on the oppisite side of the parlor. "Alohamora!" she hissed after trying the knob and finding the door locked. It swung open. As she was stomping in to find soemthing to destroy she found herself tackled by five feet and eleven inches of lanky black haired wizard.

"James Potter, you give me back my underwear right now!" Lily demanded of the lump on top of her.

"What makes you think i have it?!" He said, a cheeky grin plastered across his face, only just visible behind his hair.

"If you don't then Remus and Sirius and Peter do! I need a bra damn it! Bouncing around without one rather hurts you know!"

"Urgh, fine." James relinquished one, not intending on giving anymore of them back.

"James those are EXPENSIVE underwear! Give it all back!!!!!"

James rolled his eyes and gave it all back, pulling out all his pockets. "You're such a spoil sport sometimes." he said, the grin still there.

"Somebody's sleeping in their own bed tonight." Lily informed him with a grin of her own.

"Awww, come on...." said James, looking at her with puppy dog eyes. Lily turned around to carry armfuls of udnerwear back into her room to put it away. James followed her, pushing his hair from his face.

"I'm putting a passworded locking charm on my underwear drawer." said Lily over her shoulder, stuffing her underwear into it's drawer. She pulled on her underwear and a bra without taking off her clothes, much to his amazement.

James jaw dropped when he realised. "How do you do that?!"

"Ummm... Weren't you watching?" blinked Lily.

"Yeah but, I couldn't do that even if I tried."

"It takes practice." Lily was grinning. He was so adorably clueless. James smiled back.

"You're still sleeping in your own bed." Lily didn't stop grinning.

"Damn." muttered James.

"Oh, and the underwear is esier if you're not wearing anything else under your robes." said Lily. She winked at him and left the room, heading to the Gryffindor girl's dorm. James' eyes widened, and he watched her walk away.

Remus and Sirius came into the room. "What's up?" they asked, seeing the look on James' face.

"Oh, don't worry about it." replied James, watching Lily disappear.

Remus quirked a brow. "Seriously, james, what's up? Did you piss Her Highness off?" Remus and Sirius had taken to calling Lily that. Only when she wasn't there because Her Highness had become extremely good with a wand.

"Well, she's put a passworded locking charm on her underwear draw, she told me to sleep in my own bed tonight, and also," a grin spread across James' face. " I was enlightened about her underwear wearing habits." Sirius started laughing and remus joined in and soon they were all hanging off of each other. Peter looked in and, un-noticed, left. Lily went into the girl's dorm, looking for Willow.

Willow was sitting on her bed, curled up in a rather large jumper.

"That Remus'?" asked Lily, flopping on the bed next to her. "Oh, I wanted to ask you, if you want to crash in my room tonight, you can, I'm making James sleep in his own bed tonight. He and the guys raided my panty drawers. Again."

Willow nodded. "Yea." She replied. "Will they ever stop doing that? I mean, once, its funny, two times is pushing it, but four? I'll talk to Remus if you want. Oh, and It'd be great to come stay with you, we haven't really talked to much, you being head girl and all that."

"Eh, don't worry about it, I'm going to put a locking charm on my underwear drawer. But yeah, it'll be great, we never have sleepovers anymore." Lily paused. "Well, with each other anyway."

Willow laughed, "When you can peel James off of you, and I can shake Remus off, we don't really have much time left in the day."

"Men." giggled Lily. "Wait, did I say men? I meant boys."

"Well they are pretty much, I mean, James is almost 18." said Willow, thinking.

"Ah yes, but it's not really age that makes the difference.... He's still conducting panty raids for gods sake!" pointed out Lily. Loudly. The sound travelled well, and that sent Sirius and Remus into reknewed laughter, James went aliitle red, though no one could tell.

Willow giggled, "Yeah, they need to grow out of that soon." the girls started giggling. Willow calmed herself down, falling back onto her bed, looking upwards at the canvas top of the four poster bed. Lily fell back next to her.

"I love them all dearly, but sometimes, they are just prats, Remus included."

"Is it jsut me or has peter been kind of odd lately?" asked Lily, going a bit quieter.

"Yeah, I noticed that aswell, sneaking around and dissappearing. Very odd."

"It's strange. All the stuff about You-Know-Who in the papers lately too... It's insane. Everybody's different. Except for James, who hasn't changed since he was five, except for horomones."

"Yeah, I know what you mean."

"Well, Remus is the most mature of the four."

"Sirius is probably the least. And Peter, I just don't know about him anymore..." Willow sighed.

"Yeah. He never talks to anyone anymore. He's never around, he doesn't go to Hogsmeade with us, or participate in panty raids."

Lily paused, then hesitated. "And, I think I saw him talking to Lucius Malfoy. Civilly."

Willow sat up. " He wouldn't dare..." She said, looking disbelievingly at her.

"I don't think they're friends. But I saw Lucius talking at Peter, and Peter didn't say anything back."

"That's worrying, Lils." said Willow, looking down at her.

"Well you know, Peter's never had as much backbone as the rest of us. I used to wonder why he wasn't in Hufflepuff."

"Hmmm." Willow thought. " We have to find out what Lucius has been saying to him.

"Willow, leave it alone, it's his business who he talks to."

"It's Lucius though, But I have a really weird feeling that nothing good is going to come from it, I really do." '

"Oh Willow. I'm sure you're blowing it out of proportion. Let's sneak down to the kitchens and get candy for tonight."

"Sure." said Willow, shaking the feeling off.

That night they were locked into Lily's room, having already twice ignored James when he came to try and get Lily to let him in. There were piles of food all around them.

Willow was wrapped up in a thick blanket and leant back against Lily's bed. "It's nice to be like this again."

"Yeah, it is." said Lily, smiling.

"So, what's new?" Willow asked.

Lily shrugged, shaking her head. "Nothing."

"Same." sighed Willow. "Merlin but our lives are uneventful."