Heres my third chaoter and thank you to the one person who reviewed (though it does not say that on fanfiction). Please keep reviewing and I hope others follow your example. For diclaimer see introduction.
Sirius woke up the next morning feeling slightly light headed but he did not remember why. He pulled himself out of bed and got ready for the day. As he began to walk down the steps to the Gryffindor common room, he saw James walking slowly down the steps not paying attention to were he was going. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity, he rushed down the stairs and tackled James just as he reached the final step. James, who lost his balance, hit the ground hard and skidded into the door ahead while Sirius landed on top of him, laughing hysterically.
Sirius swiftly rose from on top of James offering him a hand to help him get up. James reached for his hand but when he saw Sirius's face gave a yelp. "Did you look in the mirror this morning?" James asked in a quivering voice.
"Why am I looking more handsome than usual?" Sirius said sarcastically.
"I'd say so," James replied with a hint of laughter in his voice. "I would look in a mirror before you go out in public looks like you got a huge bruise on your head."
Sirius ran up the stairs back to the dormitory and was quite startled to look into the mirror. A large bruise was left where his cut was from last night. It took over a large part of his forehead and looked very gruesome. He quickly put his hands over his head an bolted out of the room and down to the Hospital Wing.
Though Sirius's head was healed, it hurt for the next couple of weeks. Unknowingly, He seemed to have shifted into a regular pattern of activities while at Hogwarts. Though, about a month and a half into the school year, two things had caught his eye. One being the Forbidden Forest.
Sirius's curiosity seemed to have gotten the best of him when it came to that topic. It was mysterious and the fact that the students were not allowed into not only intrigued him, it encouraged him to go in it. It seemed that three days before Halloween he had made up his mind to go into the dark forest and see what it was all about. James, of course, was supporting the dangerous idea thinking it would be "totally awesome." Remus, on the other hand, did not seem to agree with the idea at all. Every time Sirius would start to plan his adventure in the dark forest Remus would protest loudly hoping another would hear his complaints. "I'm going in not matter what you say," Sirius said argumentatively at lunch one day. "You might as well stop wasting your breath YELLING AT US!"
"We already have mothers, but thank you for your offer," James said sarcastically.
"Come on guys, lesson to the lone voice of reason. If you go in there who knows what will happen you could be killed, and if you get caught coming out you'll be expelled!" Remus replied.
James stared at him hard in the eyes. "You're not even going to be here you said you were seeing your Grandmother and if you were youwouldn't the ones thatwould get intotrouble it'd be me and Sirius."
"What is your problem anyway?" Sirius said loudly.
Remus looked from one boy to the next in complete confusion, he as at a loss for words. He shook his head signaling his defeat. "If yougo init and intotrouble, I'll be the one to say I told you so."
"Great," Sirius in fake happiness.
You're probably wondering what the other thing Sirius had found out in the few short weeks he had been at Hogwarts, and that was his new found popularity with the fine ladies. No one, at first meeting Sirius, would think him to be such a flirt. James joked around saying it was impossible for him to talk straight out to a girl. Sirius would always come back saying that James wished he had his ability which often came into use. For instance, if he couldn't figure out his homework answers he'd simply ask one of his new "girlfriends" and they would answer it for him. Sirius had thought of not doing his homework at all and let his adoring fans do it, but Evans caught him and gave him a quite nasty lecture that he didn't want to have to listen to again.
Sirius had noticed, and was making fun of him more than ever, that James had truly had a crush on Lily Evans, who seemed to hate him. Sirius also had developed a crush on a certain red head from Gryffindor door, Rhys Davies, who coincidentally, seemed to like Remus who liked her and so forth became the first first year couple. But knowing Sirius "he always is up for a challenge."
On their way back to class (charms), the boys ran into Snivellus Snape. He turned the corridor and stood to face them. He wore upset and surprise on his face. He seemed to have immediately realized his mistake, but not before James could cast a spell on him that turned his legs into "jelly" legs. The four boys saw the spectacle to be quite fun and were hysterically laughing. Snape's face turned red and he seemed to be at a loss for words
"Yooouuuuu villainous pirates!" He shouted at them, which made them go into another fit of laughter.
Peter scurried away before anymore harm would be done. "'Villainous pirates' that's the best you can do?" James said.
"More like marauders if you ask me." Sirius said with a smile. "It sounds better."
"Does it?" said Professor McGonagall cold voice behind him.
"We were going to take the spell off of him really," James said pleadingly.
She gave the three remaining boys a cold glare. "Well take it off of him then," She said quickly.
James grabbed his wand, mumbled a few words, and a gold colored ray hit Snape in the legs. Instead of it curing "jelly" legs Snape's legs totally disappeared. Sirius let out a howl of laughter. "Very funny Mr. Potter," she said slyly. "You three will be spending your new week's detention with Mr. Filch."
She turned to go back down the corridor with a smile. The boys stood there in shock, but quickly began to rush back to class. When a voice called out behind them "And Mr. Potter if you don't take that curse off of Mr. Snape that'll two weeks.'
Remus was shaking with anger at dinner. "You had to drag me into getting in trouble?" Remus said angrily.
"What are friends for?" Sirius said with a smile.
Remus began to mutter under his breath and his face began to grow red. "It's only a weeks detention," Sirius said gently.
"A weeks detention for you Sirius Black only adds on to your mounting reputation as 'the bad boy' for the rest of us it looks like were idiots being pulled into to one of your pranks. YOU ARE A SELFISH Son of A—", Remus yelled.
"You really think I'm a quote on quote 'bad boy'," Sirius said with a bright smile.
"Why are you giving all of the credit to Sirius?" James said in an offended manner. "I cast the spell! And Why does he get to be the 'bad boy'?"
Peter stood on the side of the argument watching the boys quarrel and chuckling to himself. Remus looked like he was about to burst with anger, James looked thoroughly offended, and Sirius looked as though Christmas had come early.
The group of first year Gryffindors came down the hallway talking merrily to their pack. "Hey Rhys, do you think I'm a 'bad boy'?"Sirius said with a smile.
"Nice try Sirius. IF the worst you can do is trip some one on the stairs I don't see how that qualifies you." She said walking away with an evil smirk on her face.
Sirius looked very upset and turned to Remus how was calming himself down. "You planned this all didn't you?" Sirius said unhappily. Remus looked shocked and slightly confused.
"What are you talking about Sirius?" Remus asked
"You betrayed the Marauders!" Sirius shouted
"I betrayed the what?
"You wanted to get us in trouble so you could have people smite my pride, didn't you? And it's the Marauders! This is what we're calling our group."
"Group?"
"Yes, our group consisting of you, James, Peter, and I."
"Oh," Remus gave him a strange glare and said sarcastically." That's exactly it you found me out. Damn you Sirius you're good."
"Really? I mean I knew I was that good all the time." He said with a smile.
"You are so full of yourself." Remus said with a sigh.
Sirius smiled back," Oh, I know."
The boys stared at each other for a couple of minutes before laughing. Remus still looked shocked at being called a betrayer, but saw that it was in good nature. Sirius was in good humor as he walked to his detention.
Professor McGonagall never seemed to be very forgiving in assigning detention, especial to Sirius. It could have been the fact that it was his second in the first three weeks of the school year, but Sirius had a hunch that he would be there a lot more later in life.
Remus, James and Sirius sat in her office for three hours writing lines, each of them having to write something different. Sirius go the pleasure of writing "I will never ever curse anyone in the corridors again or tempt any one to." He thought this was quite boring and added on a few words at the end like "in the site of Professor McGonagall" or "with the exception of Snivellus Snape."
At the end of their long detention, which was at nine o'clock, Sirius was assigned one more for "not writing the correct sentence." The boys headed back to the common room. Secretly, Sirius thankedwho ever was to be thanked; that he was not walking by himself for almost every student gave him an evil glare as he walked past. James and Remus did not seem to notice or they just didn't mind, but Sirius saw it as their opinion on his family, but not him.
When they got into the common room, Sirius flopped in a chair and took out his homework. For once in his life, he felt rather studious but that feeling was soon taken away when a small blonde hair girl sat in the next chair over to him.
She stared at him intently as he worked. Sirius was beginning to become annoyed with her antics. "You know I didn't sit next to you for no reason." The girl said coldly.
Sirius annoyed her at first but cocked his head in her direction and said, "Unless you want to do my homework you can go bother someone else."
"I did not come over here in hope of doing your homework; if I wanted to I would do my own."
"Well, then go off and do your own," Sirius said trying to brush her off.
Sirius tilted his head back to his work. Something tapped him on his shoulder and he immediately got angry He turned his head viciously and said "I already told you to go away!"
Rhys stood in front of him, standing her arms akimbo. "Sirius Black, you don't have to yell at her," she said angrily, red hair swaying. "I could here you all the way across the room."
"But she—" Sirius began.
"Sirius this is Gwen, one of my fellow first year girls now be nice."
Sirius sat there speechless. He couldn't seem to figure out how she had managed to talk control of him for as soon as he left he began to talk to Gwen as the normal Sirius Black (if you could call him normal).
Thats the end of the second/third chapter. I would except the next one to be longer and go up either Saturday or Sunday. Please r&r. This is more of a set up for the next one !
