Happy Times
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. Just a few.
Remus was relieved. The long, tense weeks of waiting for his transformation to occur (actually they were really only two weeks) were gone for now, and he didn't have to live in fear for a while that he would suddenly bite of Davius' head . . . as tempting as the thought was . . . that would be murder. Darn.
But there were other things to laugh at, to enjoy. Like the time they found a secret passage behind a mirror, and where you went when you fell through the trick stairs. But they probably would not have learnt all of this, except for one thing.
James' obsession with Lily. If James had not been so obsessed with Lily, Sirius would never have asked her friend out for fun. And if Sirius hadn't dumped her, they would not have played the prank. If the prank hadn't double fired, Lily would not have hated James. But it was perhaps best to start at the beginning.
It just made Remus laugh.
That Monday morning after his transformation, James just seemed not to want to eat. He was staring into zero space. At least, they thought it was zero space, until Remus followed his direction to an auburn haired, green eyed girl, sitting with her two friends, who were merely having a talk with her- from what he picked up- about Charms lessons. James was just staring at her.
He had to do something about it.
"James. James. Earth to James Potter. Earth to James Potter!" he yelled while waving a fork in front of his friend's face. James blinked.
'What? Remus, why are you waving a fork in front of my face?" asked James, blinking some more.
Sirius stopped eying a Ravenclaw girl (who was eying him back) to watch the proceedings with interest. "Maybe because you are just staring at Lily like she is some kind of alien or something. Perhaps that's why."
"Thanks Sirius. He won't eat. He won't sleep. He won't talk. He stares at Lily, who by this time must be wondering who that dummy is over there staring at her!"
This got James attention, Remus was pleased to see. "What! She thinks that?"
Sirius, Remus and Peter exchanged glances and rolled their eyes. "No man," said Sirius. "I just think that you might want to eat your breakfast. Most important meal of the day. Staring at Lily won't help." James merely blinked as he, Remus looked at and waved food in front his face. 'Look James. They made pancakes. All swimming in maple syrup and butter, hey I think I'm going to get one to eat now. Oh yeah. They have blueberries." Remus didn't like blueberries. But they were alright, and plus they were probably going to get James' attention. When they didn't, he nodded at Sirius. Sirius looked at the pancakes and did a very tricky little charm that was waay advanced for a first year. Remus actually liked when he did those, and it turned out that Sirius was actually fairly good at charms, though hardly anyone knew this.
Then he called James. "James! Your pancakes have eyes on theeem . . ."
James looked down to see Lily's eyes staring at him from the pancakes. He rolled his eyes at the laughing Sirius. "Cut it out, will you?"
"We would. But maybe someone had better show you that Lily has pretty nice friends. Like the black haired one with grey eyes." Sirius just seemed amused. Looking back after the whole mess, Remus vividly remembered what it was like after Sirius said that. Sirius had had a taunting, daring look in his eyes that made him slightly abnormal, James had looked shocked, with a strange look in his hazel eyes, Peter's mouth had dropped open, and he himself had merely tried to look somewhat amused, and failed grandly.
"What!!! Evans is the best looking girl of the lot!" yelled James.
Heads turned, and James started turning redder and redder. Lily stood up and came over. Remus started to smile, and tried to suppress it, and Sirius began to laugh. Peter giggled nervously.
"Hello. Potter, what did you have to say about me?" she asked.
"Uum nothing, nothing at all." James merely looked redder.
Lily's eyes went narrower. Remus filled in for the nervous James. "He was just mentioning how good you are at charms, Lily. Don't worry," he managed as calmly as he could.
Unless he was imagining, Lily turned a faint shade of pink, and went back to her friends.
"Next time James, don't yell so loud." Sirius' had a wicked look of almost unholy glee on his face. "You'll ruin my good impression, that I want to make."
In the next week, when Remus had time, he often saw Sirius and the girl who was called Sadie together. Sadie seemed a happy girl, and Remus often spotted them in the library even when they had no homework. Lily, however, didn't seem too happy with the arrangement. Every time she saw Sirius, she narrowed her eyes at him, and those green eyes sent electricity through the air. You wondered how Sirius resisted it. James thought that Lily looked gorgeous when she did that. By now, Lily realized how James seemed to stare at her, but she evidently thought that he was tarred with the same brush as Sirius. She merely ignored him.
Then after around one week and two days disaster struck. In the form of an indifferent Sirius, an upset Sadie and a furious Lily.
"So what," Sirius maintained, "if we broke up over liking blackberries. I really think that you are overreacting a bit."
Remus rolled his eyes. "A bit. A BIT! You do realize that you're saying that you broke up with a girl who you loved completely and absolutely for two weeks over BLACKBERRIES! Pardon me, but I think I have the right to freak out a bit."
"Yeah," said a nervous looking James. "And I think that there is also a very upset looking Sadie, over there, with a pretty angry Lily . . . ."
"Only angry," said Remus.
"I understated."
"She's absolutely completely and um. . .well furious, top class raging furious," squeaked peter, looking scared.
Then Lily stood up, and walked very slowly towards Sirius. Very slowly and deliberately in the Great Hall at breakfast. Silence fell.
"I think that we understated a little bit," squeaked James.
Later, that night, Sirius admitted it.
"Ok, so we understated a lot." He was very sore, since Lily had charmed him in some way or the other, and only performed the countercharm later on. So he was in pain.
"Well, it served you right," remarked peter, for once not squeaking.
"No it didn't," said Sirius. "I am going to get Sadie for this!"
"For what," asked James.
"I think he means setting a mad Lily Evans on him . . .aren't I right?" asked Remus.
"Hey, yes," was Sirius' reply. "Really, you shouldn't do that," said Remus. "Honestly. You are going to get into major trouble, and make Gryffindor lose points, not to mention you'll probably have to write a thousand word essay . . . if McGonagall is feeling generous."
Sirius laughed. "So what, all the fun is in the doing."
Somehow in the dark they all exchanged glances. Then James exchanged with Sirius, and they all lay back down, and supposedly went to sleep . . . though Remus wondered exactly why the light was so bright, and why there was so much whispering . . . .
But he was sleepy, so he went to sleep again.
He later regretted it.
He regretted it after, when on Saturday of the same week, Sadie came in with a major fluorescent green Mohawk, with her eyebrows dyed green. And you could tell very well, that she didn't realize it. It wasn't anything much.
James and Sirius looked perfectly innocent.
Remus sighed, and began to eat as fast as he could since, as soon as the famous Evans came in, there would be a total catastrophic disaster.
Then Lily came in, and Remus knew it would be a worse disaster. James looked shocked. Sirius looked more innocent.
Lily Evans' hair was dyed with gold and hints of purple set in a most outrageous style, with shimmer shine stars. And she didn't realize it. Then someone must have told her. Someone HAD to have told her. Definitely. Because she screamed, whipped Sadie's hair back to normal, whipped her own hair back to normal, then turned around and came after James and Sirius . . .
Everything happened in absolute slow motion then . . .
James and Sirius looked very scared . . . everyone started laughing more and more . . .Lily ran faster and nearly caught up with the shocked duo . . . Remus barely remembered feeling like his limbs were jelly as he got up and yelled at the two of them to run . . . while thinking that James broom reflexes needed quite a bit of work. They were very shabby . . . after all a human Bludger was charging them . . .peter had disappeared under the table and finally James ducked Lily's spell on the run
And everything went back absolutely normal, as James ran as fast as he could away from Lily, pelting full speed with Sirius behind him, and Remus was laughing his head off with the rest of the great hall. He managed however to get himself in the boys' dormitory where his friends were hiding in their trunks from the crazy Lily.
"We are going to have to avoid her for the rest of the day. Definitely so."
A shaking Sirius agreed to this.
The rest of the day was a grand joke. Every time they saw or heard Lily from afar, they ran or ducked. Except that outside the hall, they couldn't run or duck, but luckily James' sense of running and hiding in secret passages found him one behind a strange little hidden door.
They piled in, panting nervously.
Sirius, Remus and James were sitting there, keeping absolutely quiet, making sure they didn't even breathe until they heard Lily passing . . .
They were rather uncomfortable. It was very hard to stand up, making absolutely no noise whatsoever when you couldn't quite breath, and you had just been running very fast. Then as Lily's footsteps passed away, they relaxed.
"Hey," whispered Sirius, brushing his hair away from his eyes. "Where are we?"
James sounded businesslike as he noted "Secret room near the Great hall."
"Didn't we find this one already?" asked Sirius.
Remus shrugged. "I think so. I'm almost sure that we did."
"No, we didn't," said James, "we couldn't have."
"We need to keep track. In fact, I have an idea!" said Sirius, his eyes glinting.
"What?" they chorused.
"We need to write a map. And I think that we would call it 'The Marauders Map', for mischief makers through the years."
An awed silence followed, then James repeated
"The Marauders' Map."
"Definitely," said Remus.
I'm HOME!!! I went away for a month and you have absolutely no idea what it is like to be HOME!! Yeah. Anyway, Please read and review . . .you know you want to.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. Just a few.
Remus was relieved. The long, tense weeks of waiting for his transformation to occur (actually they were really only two weeks) were gone for now, and he didn't have to live in fear for a while that he would suddenly bite of Davius' head . . . as tempting as the thought was . . . that would be murder. Darn.
But there were other things to laugh at, to enjoy. Like the time they found a secret passage behind a mirror, and where you went when you fell through the trick stairs. But they probably would not have learnt all of this, except for one thing.
James' obsession with Lily. If James had not been so obsessed with Lily, Sirius would never have asked her friend out for fun. And if Sirius hadn't dumped her, they would not have played the prank. If the prank hadn't double fired, Lily would not have hated James. But it was perhaps best to start at the beginning.
It just made Remus laugh.
That Monday morning after his transformation, James just seemed not to want to eat. He was staring into zero space. At least, they thought it was zero space, until Remus followed his direction to an auburn haired, green eyed girl, sitting with her two friends, who were merely having a talk with her- from what he picked up- about Charms lessons. James was just staring at her.
He had to do something about it.
"James. James. Earth to James Potter. Earth to James Potter!" he yelled while waving a fork in front of his friend's face. James blinked.
'What? Remus, why are you waving a fork in front of my face?" asked James, blinking some more.
Sirius stopped eying a Ravenclaw girl (who was eying him back) to watch the proceedings with interest. "Maybe because you are just staring at Lily like she is some kind of alien or something. Perhaps that's why."
"Thanks Sirius. He won't eat. He won't sleep. He won't talk. He stares at Lily, who by this time must be wondering who that dummy is over there staring at her!"
This got James attention, Remus was pleased to see. "What! She thinks that?"
Sirius, Remus and Peter exchanged glances and rolled their eyes. "No man," said Sirius. "I just think that you might want to eat your breakfast. Most important meal of the day. Staring at Lily won't help." James merely blinked as he, Remus looked at and waved food in front his face. 'Look James. They made pancakes. All swimming in maple syrup and butter, hey I think I'm going to get one to eat now. Oh yeah. They have blueberries." Remus didn't like blueberries. But they were alright, and plus they were probably going to get James' attention. When they didn't, he nodded at Sirius. Sirius looked at the pancakes and did a very tricky little charm that was waay advanced for a first year. Remus actually liked when he did those, and it turned out that Sirius was actually fairly good at charms, though hardly anyone knew this.
Then he called James. "James! Your pancakes have eyes on theeem . . ."
James looked down to see Lily's eyes staring at him from the pancakes. He rolled his eyes at the laughing Sirius. "Cut it out, will you?"
"We would. But maybe someone had better show you that Lily has pretty nice friends. Like the black haired one with grey eyes." Sirius just seemed amused. Looking back after the whole mess, Remus vividly remembered what it was like after Sirius said that. Sirius had had a taunting, daring look in his eyes that made him slightly abnormal, James had looked shocked, with a strange look in his hazel eyes, Peter's mouth had dropped open, and he himself had merely tried to look somewhat amused, and failed grandly.
"What!!! Evans is the best looking girl of the lot!" yelled James.
Heads turned, and James started turning redder and redder. Lily stood up and came over. Remus started to smile, and tried to suppress it, and Sirius began to laugh. Peter giggled nervously.
"Hello. Potter, what did you have to say about me?" she asked.
"Uum nothing, nothing at all." James merely looked redder.
Lily's eyes went narrower. Remus filled in for the nervous James. "He was just mentioning how good you are at charms, Lily. Don't worry," he managed as calmly as he could.
Unless he was imagining, Lily turned a faint shade of pink, and went back to her friends.
"Next time James, don't yell so loud." Sirius' had a wicked look of almost unholy glee on his face. "You'll ruin my good impression, that I want to make."
In the next week, when Remus had time, he often saw Sirius and the girl who was called Sadie together. Sadie seemed a happy girl, and Remus often spotted them in the library even when they had no homework. Lily, however, didn't seem too happy with the arrangement. Every time she saw Sirius, she narrowed her eyes at him, and those green eyes sent electricity through the air. You wondered how Sirius resisted it. James thought that Lily looked gorgeous when she did that. By now, Lily realized how James seemed to stare at her, but she evidently thought that he was tarred with the same brush as Sirius. She merely ignored him.
Then after around one week and two days disaster struck. In the form of an indifferent Sirius, an upset Sadie and a furious Lily.
"So what," Sirius maintained, "if we broke up over liking blackberries. I really think that you are overreacting a bit."
Remus rolled his eyes. "A bit. A BIT! You do realize that you're saying that you broke up with a girl who you loved completely and absolutely for two weeks over BLACKBERRIES! Pardon me, but I think I have the right to freak out a bit."
"Yeah," said a nervous looking James. "And I think that there is also a very upset looking Sadie, over there, with a pretty angry Lily . . . ."
"Only angry," said Remus.
"I understated."
"She's absolutely completely and um. . .well furious, top class raging furious," squeaked peter, looking scared.
Then Lily stood up, and walked very slowly towards Sirius. Very slowly and deliberately in the Great Hall at breakfast. Silence fell.
"I think that we understated a little bit," squeaked James.
Later, that night, Sirius admitted it.
"Ok, so we understated a lot." He was very sore, since Lily had charmed him in some way or the other, and only performed the countercharm later on. So he was in pain.
"Well, it served you right," remarked peter, for once not squeaking.
"No it didn't," said Sirius. "I am going to get Sadie for this!"
"For what," asked James.
"I think he means setting a mad Lily Evans on him . . .aren't I right?" asked Remus.
"Hey, yes," was Sirius' reply. "Really, you shouldn't do that," said Remus. "Honestly. You are going to get into major trouble, and make Gryffindor lose points, not to mention you'll probably have to write a thousand word essay . . . if McGonagall is feeling generous."
Sirius laughed. "So what, all the fun is in the doing."
Somehow in the dark they all exchanged glances. Then James exchanged with Sirius, and they all lay back down, and supposedly went to sleep . . . though Remus wondered exactly why the light was so bright, and why there was so much whispering . . . .
But he was sleepy, so he went to sleep again.
He later regretted it.
He regretted it after, when on Saturday of the same week, Sadie came in with a major fluorescent green Mohawk, with her eyebrows dyed green. And you could tell very well, that she didn't realize it. It wasn't anything much.
James and Sirius looked perfectly innocent.
Remus sighed, and began to eat as fast as he could since, as soon as the famous Evans came in, there would be a total catastrophic disaster.
Then Lily came in, and Remus knew it would be a worse disaster. James looked shocked. Sirius looked more innocent.
Lily Evans' hair was dyed with gold and hints of purple set in a most outrageous style, with shimmer shine stars. And she didn't realize it. Then someone must have told her. Someone HAD to have told her. Definitely. Because she screamed, whipped Sadie's hair back to normal, whipped her own hair back to normal, then turned around and came after James and Sirius . . .
Everything happened in absolute slow motion then . . .
James and Sirius looked very scared . . . everyone started laughing more and more . . .Lily ran faster and nearly caught up with the shocked duo . . . Remus barely remembered feeling like his limbs were jelly as he got up and yelled at the two of them to run . . . while thinking that James broom reflexes needed quite a bit of work. They were very shabby . . . after all a human Bludger was charging them . . .peter had disappeared under the table and finally James ducked Lily's spell on the run
And everything went back absolutely normal, as James ran as fast as he could away from Lily, pelting full speed with Sirius behind him, and Remus was laughing his head off with the rest of the great hall. He managed however to get himself in the boys' dormitory where his friends were hiding in their trunks from the crazy Lily.
"We are going to have to avoid her for the rest of the day. Definitely so."
A shaking Sirius agreed to this.
The rest of the day was a grand joke. Every time they saw or heard Lily from afar, they ran or ducked. Except that outside the hall, they couldn't run or duck, but luckily James' sense of running and hiding in secret passages found him one behind a strange little hidden door.
They piled in, panting nervously.
Sirius, Remus and James were sitting there, keeping absolutely quiet, making sure they didn't even breathe until they heard Lily passing . . .
They were rather uncomfortable. It was very hard to stand up, making absolutely no noise whatsoever when you couldn't quite breath, and you had just been running very fast. Then as Lily's footsteps passed away, they relaxed.
"Hey," whispered Sirius, brushing his hair away from his eyes. "Where are we?"
James sounded businesslike as he noted "Secret room near the Great hall."
"Didn't we find this one already?" asked Sirius.
Remus shrugged. "I think so. I'm almost sure that we did."
"No, we didn't," said James, "we couldn't have."
"We need to keep track. In fact, I have an idea!" said Sirius, his eyes glinting.
"What?" they chorused.
"We need to write a map. And I think that we would call it 'The Marauders Map', for mischief makers through the years."
An awed silence followed, then James repeated
"The Marauders' Map."
"Definitely," said Remus.
I'm HOME!!! I went away for a month and you have absolutely no idea what it is like to be HOME!! Yeah. Anyway, Please read and review . . .you know you want to.
