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A/N: Well, thank you guys so much for all the reviews. Please, forgive me for waitingso long to update... It's been a crazy year so far and... Yeah, um, anyways... Here's chapter four just in time for Groundhog Day... I hope you enjoy it!
James Potter had never been a patient child. Sure, he was more patient than Sirius, but that's really not saying very much.
Today was no exception.
"WAKE UP!" James hissed in Sirius' ear a full hour before classes began.
"Lemme alone, I'm trying to get my beauty rest," Sirius grumbled before rolling over and snuggling into the covers.
"WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP!" James shouted as he jumped up and down up and down on the foot of Sirius' bed.
"What are you doing?" Remus grumbled from another part of the dormitory.
"We need to go get Lily-Groundhog back," James stated in a whiny voice.
"James," Sirius began in an annoyed (but still half-asleep) voice, "It's still dark outside!"
Peter continued to snore in the corner of the dormitory.
"Yeah, well, what about poor Lily-Groundhog? She's probably all alone in a box somewhere. She doesn't know that the sun isn't out yet. She's all alone, Sirius, with no one to rub her belly, no one to save the yolk of their egg for her, no one to sing to her, no one to-"
"All right!" Sirius snapped. "I'm awake!"
"Good," James said as he bounced jovially over to begin waking Remus.
"Don't even bother, I'm already up," Remus grumbled.
"Good, now if you'd both look this way, we can begin Operation SLG," James said in a remarkably professional voice as he bounded over to the center of the room where he had set up and chalkboard covered with little moving stick-figures and complicated arrows.
"Operation SLG?"
"Operation Save Lily-Groundhog, of course," James said in exasperation as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "No further questions, please. Now, if you would once again turn your attention to the diagrams, we will begin preparations."
After that, James launched into a very complicated explanation of exactly how he was going to sneak into the deputy headmistress' office and steal back his groundhog.
As a matter of fact, his explanation was so complicated that it left both Sirius and Remus with their mouths hanging open in complete and utter shock.
"Do you both understand?" James asked in a teacher-like manner.
Remus and Sirius stared at him in awe.
"Good. Operation SLG commences in exactly 3 minutes and 56 seconds." James said before turning and walking out of the dormitory.
"Professor McGonagall!" James wailed as he stood outside the door to the professor's office.
"Remmy," Sirius whispered in his friend's ear urgently, "What are we supposed to do?"
"Professor McGonagall!" James continued to wail before kicking Sirius in the shin.
"James, what the-" Remus began as he looked at the doubled over Sirius in concern.
"Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall began scoldingly as she stepped out of her office to see what all the commotion was about and found the three friends in the hall.
"Please, Professor, Sirius just ran into a gargoyle statue as he was taking his morning graze and I think he's hurt himself," James said in a stricken voice.
Sirius and Remus looking at their friend in shock before remembering what they were supposed to be doing.
As the professor began to look at Sirus'shin with a stern look on her face, James slipped silently into her office.
He crawled through the office whispering, "Lily!" in an urgent voice before he saw a box rattling in the corner.
"Lily!" James said in joy as he crawled over to the box and ripped it open. Taking the groundhog out of the box, he craddled her in his arms and began to weep.
How much time do we have left?" Sirius whispered in Remus' ear as Professor McGonagall stalked back into her office screaming about immature students, deducting house points, and-worst of all-a month's worth of detention for the three of them.
"Three days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, and 2 seconds."
Well, guys, there it is! I don't know quite how good it is, but I hope you enjoyed it! If you did, feel free to leave a review so I know what you think! Happy Groundhog Day!
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