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Chapter 12- The First Prank
Morning in the Girls Dorm
Ahhh… How I love the morning, the peace, the silence, the noise? Let's see what's up…
"Lily Evans! Open those bright green eyes of yours and move your to-die-for arse here!" a certain brunette whom we all know as Alexa, screamed. A little lump under the sheets moaned. "5 more minutes, Petunia…"
Alexa groaned and finally said (quite loudly) "You better move your arse before I call James to do it for you" at this, Lily bolt upright.
"Huh? James, Where?"
"That's it, Good girl… Now do you want to hear your first prank ever or what?"
"Umm… Okay" at this Alexa jumped on the bed and whispered something to Lily. Lily's eyes widened and yelled. "Alexa, you are so mean!"
"I would have preferred genius but mean sounds nice, so what do you say?"
"Let's get the equipment!"
The Great Hall-The Marauders
James woke up early that Thursday just to sneak into Hogsmeade and after his little trip he was quite hungry so he headed to the Great Hall.
"Prongs, what took you so long?" Sirius called to James as James entered the Great Hall.
Along the way James tripped Snape as Snape went out, signed a few autographs, piled 10 pancakes on his plate, stole the syrup from Peter and poured all of it in his plate and replied, "You fell asleep on the Invisibility Cloak and I had to get it off without earning a black eye" in a matter of 20 seconds.
"Oh so did you get the good stuff?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah…" James held out a bag of 'Trilly's Triple Tongue Twisters' (I just got the name of the candy from another fanfic entitled 'Just that Simple' in another website, please don't sue me) It makes the words of the one who uses it come out as if his/her tongue is knotted. "So have you guys got the Cockroach Cluster?
"Here it is!" Peter held a plastic bag containing the oh-so-pungent Cockroach Cluster.
"Brilliant work, Garbage Picker Wormtail! I'm promoting you to Head Garbage Picker" James announced.
"Umm… James, I'm your only Garbage Picker" Peter said.
"You ungrateful little scumbag, after all the things we did for you, this is how you thank us?" Sirius said in mock anger.
"Duke Padfoot is correct! We helped you brew that love potion for that Ravenclaw girl you were infatuated with," James added.
"For your information, Instead of making the girl fall for me she fell for Moony and Frank Longbottom found the bottle of leftover potion thinking it was a Cheering potion and drank it!"
"Well, It doesn't sound that bad, Garbage Picker Wormtail" James said.
"Frank fell in love with me instead of that Ravenclaw girl!" Peter whined. "And his girlfriend, Alice Porter nearly hexed me to the next decade!"
"Oh… So you were that guy…" Sirius said reminiscently.
"Anyway, we have to find Snivellus" Sirius said and the rest of the marauders nodded and stood up.
"Exactly what are we going to do to Snivellus?" asked Remus.
"We're going to put the Leg-Locking curse on him and make him eat the Triple Tongue Twisters and put the Cockroach Cluster in his pants" Sirius replied.
"How-creative…" James said. It was almost 10 minutes and they still haven't found Snape and James was beginning to get impatient.
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"Okay… Is he tied up already?" Alexa whispered. The girls were under black cloaks and in the Boy's bathroom. What they're doing there? You'll find out soon.
"Yep… Let me put this card" Lily stuck a card on the toilet saying, "You've been pranked by The Marauderette"
"Okay so do the spell" Alexa urged.
"Okay…"
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It was almost 15 minutes when James decided to ask for directions.
"Lily Love, do you by any chance know where Snivellus is?" James called to our favorite red head.
"I think I found him in the third floor" Lily replied and with a quick smile she was off.
"C'mon Prongs let's go" Remus said but James was glued to the ground and was staring at Lily's back.
"Hey, mate… try not to burn a hole in her back" Peter said.
"Did you see that?" James squealed.
"See what?"
"She smiled at me…" James gushed.
"Oh brother… I'm taking things in my own hands!" Sirius grabbed James' collar and dragged him upstairs but on their way the sight they saw shocked them out of their wits. There, in the third floor, wearing a safety helmet and tied to a rampaging-and moving toilet was Severus Snape.
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"AAAAHHHH! RUN!" Sirius screamed and they scrambled to run away from the surprisingly fast toilet which by some coincidence chased after them. This went on for 10 minutes when Remus finally got tired and stunned the toilet.
"Hey why didn't you do that sooner?" James said breathlessly.
"I enjoyed running anyway the stunning spell won't last that long so let's run, we missed first period already."
"You mean we're going to leave snivelly?" Peter said. The rest looked at Snape and at Peter.
"I guess we are" Peter muttered then they ran to the nearest classroom only to discover that the door was locked.
"Well, this place seems safe…" Sirius muttered then all of a sudden the Charms classroom door flew wide open knocking down the marauders to the ground, leaving them there to be trampled and crushed.
"You-ouch-spoke-ouch-too-ouch-soon" James gasped as the students stepped on him.
"Agh… oogh…eep, my aching Spleen!" Sirius moaned. This went on for 5 minutes when the stampede finally stopped leaving the four unfortunate boys to bleed and die because of blood loss.
"Is it over?" Remus asked. "Are we in heaven?"
"Judging from all the pain, I'd say were in hell" James said.
"Hey James…" Lily suddenly said and James bolt upright.
"Hey Lils… erm… hi" James stammered and mentally scolded himself for his appearance and his lack of decent sentence forming. "So how are you?"
"Better than you've been, obviously" Lily replied. "Your robe is dirty, your tie's loose, and your hair is dusty, your glasses are broken and your face is bloody, best be off bye" Lily smiled and took a few steps on the remaining marauders (Agh, oof, eep) and disappeared.
"Prongs, as much as I enjoy the miracle of you two lovebirds talking to each other without anyone breaking an eardrum could you by any chance pull us upward since you're all straight and upright? You're wonderful scarlet desire stepped on us" Sirius snapped.
Silence
"Hey, Prongs!"
"Did you see that?" James gushed.
"Oh No" Remus cried.
"Please don't say it! I might have to murder you…"
"She smiled at me" James finally said with a dreamy expression.
Loud groans and Sirius saying "Why can't I use my limbs now that I need it?" followed.
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"I can't believe it worked, Alexa!" Lily exclaimed as they were headed towards the Great Hall for dinner.
"Yeah, me too-whoa!" Alexa yelped as 4 pairs of arms pulled her inside a broom closet.
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"Okay… Now that we're all neat and shiny, no thanks to Prongs here let Operation Recruit Alexa Deux begin!" Sirius announced. The boys were inside a broom closet ready to kidnap Alexa when she passes by.
"She smiled at me! What did you expect?" James protested.
"Well it is Lily Evans… what did you expect from a lovesick puppy like him?" Remus said.
"Hey!"
"Wait! I see her coming!" Peter announced.
"Okay! Let's pull her in"
What happened next was quite a scene. James and Remus pulled Alexa's arms, Sirius covered her mouth and Peter, Well Peter tried to make himself some room because the broom closet is going to be crowded.
"Alexa Deux you are officially held prisoner of the marauders" Sirius said when they were all settled.
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"What?" Alexa hissed as she looked at the four shining faces of the boys inside the broom closet.
"But don't worry we will release you" James assured. "In one condition" James added and an evil grin appeared on his face.
"Uh Oh… I have a bad feeling about this" Alexa muttered.
"Don't worry we just want you to help us with the bet that James officially named 'The 50 First Bumps" Remus said.
"Oh… You want me to help make Lily bump into you?" Alexa asked.
"Yep… So will you?" James said hopefully.
Alexa pretended to think and finally said. "Of Course, I think Lily and you would make a fantastic couple"
"Alexa, Where are you?" a voice called from outside.
"I think that's her, you can go now" Alexa started to get out when James said. "And Alexa, Thanks"
"No problem" Alexa whispered. "Hey Lily I'm here!"
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"Oh Alexa, where did you disappear to?" Lily asked.
"Nowhere… Hey what's that?" Alexa pushed Lily towards a painting opposite of the broom closet giving the marauders a time to escape.
"Umm… It's a painting, are you feeling alright?" Lily asked.
"Of Course, hey did you know that walking backwards is good for the heart?" Alexa then started to position Lily to walk backwards.
"What? Oh-Okay" then they clumsily walked towards the Great Hall backwards, earning them a lot of weird looks and an unfortunate bump with James.
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Is Alexa a great accomplice or what? I know this chapter is quite awkward but I did try… Anyway I hope you like it, it took me so long to finish it and make it longer so like my science teacher says after a boring lecture "Any Violent reactions? Irrelevant Questions, and then she'd call my name and scold me for talking, drawing, breathing etc., never a day without a scold from her, except on Tuesdays because we don't have a class with her-oh how I love that day… well I do hope you like this chapter and if you do, let me know by this:
O- Outstanding and why?
E-
Exceeds Expectations and why?
A- Acceptable and why?
P- Poor and why?
D- Dreadful and why?
Info:
Since Alexa is such a great accomplice Lily and James bumped for 5 times that evening, The walking backwards thing and Alexa chose to leave the table exactly when the marauders were passing by so they bump, then when they got in the Common Room and when they were about to leave to sleep and when Lily returned to the Common Room because she forgot her books. Oh and Lily was the one who pranked Snape and the Marauderette was the latest buzz among the Gryffindors.
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