A/N: This is the second part of the last chapter. I haven't slept at all, although I meant to, so this chapter is probably going to be really bad. –yawns–
Disclaimer: J.K.R. owns HP. Not me.
The compartment door slid open again and a very unhappy looking James trudged inside, stepping over Sirius's long legs. He sat down and slumped in his seat, muttering, "Why doesn't she like me?"
"Evans again?" Sirius asked, looking over at his friend. James nodded slightly. "What'd she say this time?"
"The usual. She hates me, I have a big head, I'm an arrogant toerag, ect." He sighed. "She didn't even look at me when I went to go get her so we could tell the prefects what to do."
Sirius clapped James on the back; James went flying forward and nearly fell from his chair. "Don't worry, mate. She'll come around eventually."
"But this is our last year!" James whined. "After this year, who knows when we'll see each other again!"
"You'll see each other every morning because you'll be sleeping together," Sirius quipped. Remus snorted.
"I'll never get her that far," James said, grinning weakly.
"Bet you could if you knew what you were doing," Sirius challenged.
"Hey! I know what I'm doing!"
Sirius raised his eyes to the ceiling. "Outside of bed, Prongs. You'll never get her to date you because you are arrogant, big-headed, a toerag…"
"That's the pot calling the kettle black," Remus muttered, turning a page in his book.
Sirius grinned. "Point is, Prongs, you have to shape up and get a girl to put in a good word for you. A girl who is close to Evans and would do that for you."
James groaned and sunk lower in his chair. "Great. I just had to pick the girl who is only really close with –" His eyes light up. "I have an idea."
"Oh Merlin. Just when my novel was getting good, too," Remus complained, marking his page and shutting the book. But he looked somewhat interested with James's idea.
"Well, Prongsie-poo?" Sirius prompted. "What's the master plan?"
"Padfoot, I need you to ask out Amber."
Sirius fell out of his seat. "Say what?" he asked incredulously, standing back up. "You mean honorary Marauder Amber Young? As in, the same girl I asked to put in a good word for me to Melinda Waters?"
"Just temporarily!" James reassured him. "Hear me out. The way I see it, if you and Amber start to date, she'll make you sound less like a jerk. She mostly talks to Evans! I mean, Lily! If you sound less like a jerk, maybe Lily will think I'm not so bad!"
"I don't think this'll work," Remus said doubtfully. "Amber would never go out with Padfoot. Besides, what about his sleeping-with-all-his-girlfriends thing? He's slept with half the female population."
"I could get her in bed easy," Sirius said crossly. "Not counting last year, when she rejected me, I'm sure she's dying to sleep with someone. She never has before. I think. Has she?" He looked from Remus to James.
James shrugged but Remus said reluctantly, "She has. Over summer break."
James and Sirius stared at him until James finally managed to say, "How do you know that?"
"Because she slept with me," Remus muttered, looking at the ground and his cheeks turning red.
Sirius and James grinned identical grins and congratulated Remus, who kept turning redder.
"Well, now that we know that Moony has gotten lucky, then I think we might be able to pull off Prongs's plan…" Sirius said.
A/N: And so the plot begins. :) A little more behind why Amber and Remus 'did the deed' in later chapters.
