James and Sirius made it out of the common room without anyone hearing them. They managed to get through the portrait hole when two seventh years came in. James could smell the fire whiskey on their breath and knew that they'd have a terrible hangover in the morning. Luckily for them, they wouldn't be starting classes for a few days. It was always like that so that the first years could get used to their new environment and the second years and up to catch up with their friends.

After many years of exploring the school itself, James and Sirius knew many shortcuts and they knew one that lead straight to the prefect's bathroom and they'd be able to get there before Lily got there.

Over their summer together, and many days spent at Diagon Alley, they found a book or pranking charms and curses that were legal and simple to use. What a great time to put it into action. Sirius clutched the book in his grip while James held the cloak over them. "This is going to be great!" James grinned. Sirius grinned back and agreed with him.

They finally came to the prefect's bathroom and gave the password and slipped inside. They gasped as they saw a huge swimming pool but quickly hid behind a plant, forgetting that they were still invisible.

A few moments later Lily came in and locked the door behind her and heaved a sigh. She took her robe off leaving her in tight jeans with holes in the knees and a light pink t-shirt. James stared with his mouth wide open as she kept undressing until she was left with nothing but her towel wrapped around her. James grinned as she took the towel off and sat at the edge of the pool stalk naked.

"Now I can see why you like her" Sirius whispered teasingly to James who swatted his hand at Sirius. "Shut up" he hissed loud enough for only Sirius to hear. They had to be careful about echoing in the bathroom because the room was so big.

Lily finally slipped down into the water and started playing with the random taps that were issuing bubbles of random smells, shapes and sizes.

They edged closer to the taps as she started to swim around at the other side of the pool and tapped the wand and muttered a curse and went back farther away to see what was soon to come.

"Sirius, I don't think I can do this to her" James whispered, still gawking at Lily's body. "Deal with it" Sirius murmured as Lily came back to the taps and turned the one which the curse was cast upon.

Before realizing what was coming out of the tap, Lily dunked underwater to get her hair back. When she came up she felt herself being covered with a thick, horrible smelling, sticky liquid. She opened her eyes and saw herself covered in blood. She screamed, making it echo off of the wall and scrambled out of the pool as Sirius muttered the counter curse.

She finally stopped screaming and looked down to what used to be her blood covered body and found that there was only water dripping off of her. She looked in the pool and didn't see any blood anywhere. She eyed the pool for a few more minutes and then clambered back in.

She started to calm down once again and started swimming laps. Sirius pulled James towards the edge of the pool once more. "Sirius, no more! That was enough!" James hissed. "One last spell?" Sirius asked his friend with pleading eyes. James rolled them and finally agreed. "As long as she doesn't find out it was us who did this to her."

Sirius tapped the water and muttered another charm. Lily had stopped swimming and was leaning against a wall of the pool, just letting her body flow in the calm water. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back.

Sirius and James watched as a figure came up from the bottom of the pool, its dead cold hand stuck out and ready to grab the first thing it came in contact with. It made its way towards Lily. Sirius grinned evilly while the color drained from James' face. The decay hand grabbed Lily's leg as she struggled and cried to get away, the arm just pulling her downwards. She finally got her leg free and scrambled out of the pool, wrapping a towel around herself and running in the direction of Professor Dumbledore's office.

Sirius and James crept over to the clothes that were left in a pile. Sirius handed James a pink and black silk matching set of bra and underwear. "Since you've been waiting so long for these from the love of your life, here's your chance and take them while you can, because that was probably the only time you'll ever see her without them on or in just those."

James rolled his eyes and took the book from Sirius as he gathered up all of Lily's clothes. She wasn't getting these back, oh no. Not after the way she treated them like dirt and practically made fun of he and Alexis being together.

They arrived back in the common room at 12:15. All was dark and quiet. Everyone had gone up to their dormitories to bed so they followed tout suite.

The next morning the boys woke up and smiled at each other. They had hidden her clothes under their beds and went to sleep. Pranking was such a long a tiring job for the both of them, but they enjoyed it.

After taking long, hot showers and getting dressed they went downstairs to find Belle, Alexis and Emma all crowded around a crying Lily. James and Sirius smirked at each other while Remus and Peter exchanged confused looks.

Alexis and Belle saw the four boys approaching and ran towards them.

"What's wrong with Evans?" Sirius asked Alexis innocently while snaking an arm around her waist and pulling her close for a hug.

"Oh she had a terrible fright in the prefect's bathroom last night and hasn't forgotten about it. Plus, someone saw her running to Dumbledore's office in nothing but a towel and started a stupid rumor that she wanted to give herself up to Dumbledore. Do you really think she's like that? It's stupid to think that a Prefect, especially one from Gryffindor, would give herself up to the Headmaster." Belle grumbled.

She turned and walked back towards Lily, all in a huff of what had happened. She sat down on the couch next to a sniffling Lily and wrapped her arms around her in a tight hug, calmly telling her that everything would be alright soon enough and that it wasn't possible for anyone to believe that she, of all people, would sleep with the Headmaster.

Lily dabbed her eyes with a tissue and James felt a pang of guilt for doing what he did to Lily the previous night. James looked at his friends and noticed Remus looking at him with a suspicious expression as if he was eying him up.

"Come on," Sirius said. "Let's go get some breakfast!" He then turned to the girls on the couch. "Are you coming or are you going to stay up here and cry all day long because of some stupid rumor that isn't even true?" Sirius winked at Belle who blushed slightly. Alexis looked at Sirius and then to Belle for a moment then laid her head on Sirius' shoulder.

"Well" sniffed Lily. "If you insist…" she trailed off while getting off of the couch. She ran over to Sirius and flung her arms around him. "And I'm sorry for how I treated you last night." She moved over to James and hugged him too. "All of you."

They made their way down to the Great Hall, Lily staring at the ground as she entered and everything turned silent. They all sat down together at the table, receiving many stares throughout the hall. Conversation slowly began to pick up, but the eight Gryffindors still received many stares.

Alexis couldn't take it anymore and gave Sirius a quick peck on the cheek and walked over to the Ravenclaw table to join her friend Sibyll Trelawney. Both girls were deeply into divination and Alexis found that Sibyll was quite lucky to be the great-great granddaughter of Cassandra Trelawney who was known to be a very famous and very gifted seer.

"I knew you would sit over here" Sibyll said in her usual mystified voice. "I saw it in the card this morning" she added, looking up over her huge glasses.

Alexis sighed. "Yes, there's a lot of tension between my friends after a rumor that was started about Lily." She explained to Sibyll about what was being said about Lily and Professor Dumbledore.

"Yes I heard" Sibyll said. "Many people have been talking about it all morning. I, myself, know that it's not possible to be true. The only one low enough to do that would be a Slytherin, and Dumbledore wouldn't even go for it."

Alexis nodded. "Yeh, it's pretty pathetic."

Back at the Gryffindor table, everyone sat quietly eating their breakfast.

At that moment Lucius Malfoy, a very popular Slytherin seventh year, walked over to the table and sat down next to Belle. She had always found him attractive, but she had Ben now.

"My my Belle, how you've changed over the summer" he said and licked his lips while looking her over.

She blushed furiously as Sirius spoke up. "What are you doing here Malfoy? Nobody wants you around so why don't you just leave?"

"But I do believe Belle wants me around, isn't that right?" he said while stroking her cheek.

Just then there was a cough from behind Lucius and Ben squeezed his way between the two and placed his arm around Belle. She relaxed a little in his arms.

Lucius then turned to Lily. "So how was the old man?" he asked with an evil smirk plastered on his face as her eyes became filled with tears that she eagerly held back.

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

He rolled his eyes. "Oh please, everyone knows that you gave yourself up to Dumbledore last night. Severus saw you running in nothing but a towel and you were headed to his office. He said you looked quite eager too" he said with his famous and evil smirk.

"Back off, Malfoy" James growled, getting defensive. "Ooo is ickle Jamesy sticking up for ickle Lily? Why don't you stay out of this Potter and realize that she won't think any better of you if you stick up for her" Lucius said with a satisfied smirk.

"That's it!" James started to reach for his wand but Lily stopped him.

"He's right James. Did you honestly think that if you stood up for me then I'd start swooning over you like every other ridiculous girl does? Because that is never going to happen. I'm sorry but you're a prat and I would never think highly of you. It's almost impossible."

James looked shocked and a satisfied smile curled onto the lips of Lucius.

"And as for you" she said turning her attention to Lucius and slapping him hard across the face. "That's what you deserve."

He took hold of her arm and twisted it. "Watch yourself, mudblood. You aren't the only prefect this school has so stop thinking you're the shit because you aren't. If I were you, I'd watch your back."

Lucius stood up and started to walk away but placed a hand on Belles shoulder and held tightly onto it.

"And if you ever decide that you could do better than him" he said indicating to Ben. "Then let me know, because I will gladly fill that spot" he said looking wickedly into her eyes.

"I don't think that day will ever come Malfoy" Ben said, rising to his feet and turning to look at Lucius. Bens face became slowly more and more red.

"Really?" Lucius said with daring eyes. "I think the day may come soon than you think." He took Belles hands to his lips and kissed it.

Ben drew his wand. "Stay away from her Malfoy. We have no intentions of breaking up so just stay away from us." He growled.

"I know what you're doing, Ben" Lucius said with a hint of amusement in his voice. "You won't be able to keep it a secret much longer."

Belle looked at Ben as if to say 'What is he talking about?' but Ben avoided her eyes and kept a cold, hard stare at Lucius. Belle finally asked him what Lucius meant and Ben stayed quiet.

"You'll find out soon enough" Lucius said and winked to Belle then stalked back to the Slytherin table.

Ben sat down again, this time a little stiff and rigid, but still slid his arm right back into place.

Everyone looked around at each other, a little unsure of what was to come this year at Hogwarts.