Chapter 4: Finding James

The sun was rising Remus awoke to find himself in the clearing that his friends and he found in the forbidden forest. At first he wondered why he was here, but then reality hit him and he knew why.Lily! Was the first thought that came to him.He only hoped that she was ok!

Sirius was awoken by remus kicking( please note this is the only way to wake sirius up because in actual fact he could sleep through an explosion and wake up the next day and ask why he was covered in debree).

"Sirius i'm worried about Lily! I want to go see her! Do you know where she is?"

"Yeah sure, she's in the infirmary, she hurt her head pretty bad did our Lily flower!"

"I'm also worried about James, why didn't he turn up last night?"

That's when it hit Sirius, he hadn't seen James since their last lesson together yesterday.Being the mindless pinhead Sirius was he completly forgot about James when Lily needed his help! (Lily is so beautiful, oh God Sirius snap out of itman, your best friend could be in trouble and all you can think about is Lily Evans........she does have nice legs i wouldn't mind doing........)

"Sirius? Hello? Is anyone in there?"asked Remus waving his hand infront of Sirius.

"Sorry mate i was just thinking!"
"Oh that would explain it!"

"Explain what?"

"Wht you zoned out, and why you never think at all during the day! But then it must be hard only having two brain cells! One is trying to find the other one whilst the other is trying to escape!"

"I resent that Moony! But then again who needs to think when your up in the astronomy tower with a beauty?"

"I'll never understand you Padfoot! Never! Let's go see Lily and then we'll go look for James! Ok?"

"Ok!"

"By the way what were you thinking so hard about?"

"None of your bloody business Moony!"laughed Sirius.

"Which girl is it your after this time Padfoot?"

"Huh? How did ......?How did you know it was a girl i was thinking about?"

"Coz you are just so predictable! So who's the unlucky victim?"

"Unlucky....who you calling unlucky, i'd say any girl is lucky to get a catch like me!"

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that and one day you might believe it! So..?"

"So.....what?"
"Cor blimey your thick! Who is the girl?"

"Your just tease me so i'm not going to tell you!"
"Hello, it's me Remus, since when did i turn into you and start teasing people?"

"Good point, it's Lily. She is perfect in every way possible. I really like her Moony, i'm gonna ask her to go to Hogsmead next week! Do you think she'll say yes, actually scrap that of course she'll say yes no-one can refuse the 'Sirius Black charm!'"

"If you say so mate, if you say so!"

"So!"chuckled Sirius.

"Your a nutter mate! Don't ever change!"grinned Remus.

"Come on we're nearly there maybe your get lucky and Lily will see you for the hunk you are!"

(Not if i have anything to do with it! I wouldn't let Sirius date her if he was the last man on this earth, she deserves much better than the likes of him! Woah slow down Remus he's your friend, why you acting this way?.........Your jealous coz you like Lily!......Me jealous! Get that idea right out of your head lupin! But she is beautiful, i've never met anyone like her!..... I hope to God i didn't hurt her last night!)

Lily was laying in the hospital wing in pain, she had hurt her head badly and none of the potions given to her were helping! If anything Lily felt they were making matters worse! She lay with her eyes closed, and heard footsteps getting closer. She opened her eyes to see none other than Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

"Hey Lily, are you ok? I just wanted to know why you wre down here!"

(Ok so that was kind of lame, i already know why she's down here. But i need to find out if she knows what i am!)

"I thought you already knew! Oh well! Malfoy thought it would be fun to play a trick on James and get one over on me at the same time!"

"Woah is that why we can't find James? We haven't seen him since yesterday! If Malfoy's hurt him i swear i'll make him die a very very slow and painful death!"shouted Sirius.

"Padfoot calm down. We'll find Prongs, but you have to calm down, shouting won't do anyone any good especially Lily!"

(Oh by the power of Merlin i hope she can't tell i like her! Oh will you shut up Remus, why would she ever like me? A werewolf no less! She's too good for you!)

Remus was snapped out of his thoughts by Sirius pouncing on Lily and sweeping her into a passionate kiss. Sirius didn't even notice Lily was petrified and wasn't kissing him back. When Sirius pulled away before Remus could shout at him, Lily slapped him so hard he fell off of the seat bounced when he hit the floor and then hit his head on a bedpan!

Remus just looked at Sirius and burst into laughter, he couldn't hold it back and before they knew it they were all laughing. Madame pomfrey was greeted to the sight of the three teenagers rolling around the floor in laughter and for once in her life she was proved wrong and that laughter is the best medicine.

The three of them set out to find James, and came across Peter. "Hey Pete, where you been? You ran off last night!"

"I hurt my head and couldn't concentrate enough to turn back into my animagus form, so i went to bed , i hope your not too angry with me!"

"We're not angry Pete, we're just trying to find James, we haven't seen him since yesterday and neither has anyone else!"

"Remus, maybe if we broke up into two groups we'd get to James more quickly!" suggested Lily.

"I agree Moony! I pick Lily!"

"Oh Merlin no Sirius why do you love torturing me so? I refuse to put up with this no manner, womanizer who is a very small excuse for a man!"

"Hey! There's nothing small about any part of me"said Sirius with a wink.

"Well Sirius i never ever want to find out about anything to do with the size of any part of your body!"

"Why? Is there someone you know who's better looking than me? I think not!"

"Actually yes there is! And your never going to find out who!"

Sirius just starred at Lily for a moment clearly shocked that this one girl, the only one he truly liked didn't like him! (Well this is going to take some work! I will win her over and she will be mine and who does she thinks she is saying there's someone better looking than me? I wonder who this jerk is, well one things for sure when i find out i'll jinx him into the next millenia!)

The four split into two groups, after much debate from Sirius and Lily, Lily eneded up with Remus and Peter with Sirius.

Peter and Sirius were searching the lower sectors of the castle whilst Remus and Lily were searching the upper sectors. Peter and Sirius were having no luck what so ever, and this Sirius found frustrating. Lily and remus weren't having much luck either, Remus suggested that they go to Proffesor Dumbledore. They were on their way down from the common room when Lily decided to speak ( I need to get away from Remus he's driving me nuts all i want to do is kiss him! Arggggg get a hold of your hormones Lily! You've never let anyone get to you why start now?)

"Hey Rem, i'm going to go to the occulumency classroom i left my notes in there yesterday! I'll be right back!"

"Ok, but i'll come with you i don't want to stand here, i could be at risk of looking like a wallflower!"

They stopped outside the occulumency classroom to find it locked. "That's perculiar, this room is never locked!"stated lily.

"Here, let me open it Lils, Aloha mora!"

The door opened Remus and Lily gasped at the sight that stood before them. It was James and he was in a bad way he had been stunned and had blood oozing from a deep gash inhis head.