The Room of Requirement

By: neen

Just a little note to help reduce the confusion…this story takes place in their SIXTH year! Thanks.

The Nightgown Memory

"Lily? What happened? James looked so angry when he went outside," Serenity informed, walking in the Common Room.

"Serenity, I'd rather not talk about it," Lily said in the same tired tone.

Serenity stood her ground. "Lily, you need to talk about it! It'll make you feel better—honestly."

Lily gave Serenity a questioning eye. "When did you become so persistent? I remember you used to give in to me all the time…"

Serenity turned slightly pink. "Well, I mean, this thing is something I feel passionately about, so um, that's why."

"Tell the truth," Lily said, shaking her head in disbelief.

"I am! Sirius and I would love it if you and James got together! Sirius is tired of James moping around every time you insult him and I'm tired of you liking James and refusing to acknowledge it!" Serenity's fair face turned slightly ruddy from anger.

Lily was shocked. Her usually quiet, gentle friend had suddenly developed this fiery personality. "Serenity…what's going on?"

"If you haven't noticed, I won't say!" Serenity said huffily, storming out of the Common Room.

"What is up with everyone?" Lily voiced angrily, kicking the armchair she had been sitting in, which only earned her a sore toe.

Sirius now entered.

Lily eyed him. "You too? Come to rant or shout at me, I suppose?"

Sirius shook his head. "No. I just wanted to know what made Serenity so mad. She wouldn't even look at me when she ran off."

Lily sighed. "She just got mad at me."

"Why?"

"Because I didn't notice something stupid," Lily said crossly, sitting down on the armchair she had just childishly kicked.

"Like what?" Sirius pressed.

"I don't know!" Lily said angrily. "How am I supposed to know? She didn't tell me anything!"

Sirius hesitated. "Has she been acting strange or something?"

"Yes! It's like she went crazy—fraternizing with people that are teaching her crazy things to tell me!"

"I think I know what it is."

"What?"

"We're going out."

"What?"

"Well, we are."

"Since when?"

"Last week. Then we started plotting—I mean erm, we, ah, we started trying to get you and James together because of a distinguished theory," Sirius explained.

Lily squinted her eyes in suspicion. "What distinguished theory are you talking about?"

"The Sirius Black Theory #3," Sirius said promptly.

"Which states…?" Lily asked, shaking her head in disbelief.

"IF James Henry Potter likes Lily Marie Evans and IF Lily Marie Evans thinks James Henry Potter is very handsome, funny, and is using 'the arch enemy' thing as a cover up for her undying love for him, THEN the two mad lovebirds should get together," Sirius said swiftly, flicking his elegant hair back.

"Where in Merlin's Beard did you come up with this load of rubbish?" Lily asked, completely astounded.

"I have good connections, Evans, and let's say that these connections are extremely trustworthy," Sirius whispered mysteriously, winking at her.

Lily raised an arched eyebrow. "You mean that these 'extremely trustworthy connections' is Serenity, right?"

"Well, at least someone uses their brains around here," Sirius exclaimed, widening his beam.

Lily snorted, most unladylike. "Nonsense. I have never in my life said anything of the sort—Serenity is saying rubbish to you, I'm terribly sorry to inform."

Sirius turned solemn. "Serenity tells me that you said all of this to her during the Potions class when we all tested the Veritaserum truth potion."

Lily paled slightly. "I don't know what you're talking about! Serenity said I just told her my most embarrassing moment which involves Potter dumping olive oil all over my hair that I straightened for once that morning in front of everyone in the Great Hall!"

"Well, she lied," Sirius said good-naturedly and smiled most evilly. "And I'm glad I learned that that was your most embarrassing moment."

Lily would not back down and shouted defiantly. "She's still lying! I don't give a damn about that stupid prick, all right? Not even a little ounce!"

"Fiery little thing, aren't you?" Sirius asked, chuckling as he stood up and left.

Lily glared at the doorway where James, Serenity, and now Sirius had all left her alone and she finally stomped up the stairs and flung herself on her bed in fury, cursing James Potter and all the crazy things he made her go through in one mere day.

o.O.o.O.o

"Women," James kept muttering to Remus, who was looking thoughtful.

"Prongs, stop it, you're making me dizzy," Remus said.

"Sorry," James murmured and two minutes later, he began muttering 'women' again.

"She might be in denial, for all you know," Remus said, trying to find a way to shut James up.

"You mean that she's lying?" James asked hopefully.

Desperate for James to stop buggering him, he nodded quickly. "Yes, I believe so."

"Good. That's exactly what I thought as well," James nodded.

o.O.o.O.o

"Lily? Wake up—it's Saturday and we have a Hogsmeade trip," Serenity said, poking Lily in the forehead. Lily grabbed at Serenity's hand but missed completely.

"James? What are you doing here?" Serenity tried.

"James can't possibly be up here, Serenity—he's a boy, remember? Boys aren't allowed in the girls' dormitory," Lily mumbled sleepily and flipped over.

"Says who?" James had zoomed in on his prized broomstick, grinning. Some of the girls giggled loudly and winked at James, but James took no notice.

Lily thought she nearly died of shock when she saw James's face staring at her in her bed. She looked down at her thin, gauzy nightgown that she had donned and screamed. "GET OUT, YOU PERVERT! OUT, OUT, OUT!" Lily whacked James with her pillow repeatedly, screaming.

"Ouch—mad, are you?—Blimey! Ow—stop that, have you gone mental? Ouch! Trying to kill me—ow, are you?" James asked, nearly knocked down from his broom. Defeated, he retreated, flying out the door. Lily managed to fling her pillow at his head one last time before he disappeared out the door.

"Nice one, Lils," Serenity said, grinning as she watched the entire episode.

"Thanks," Lily grunted, fluffing her pillow back to its original plump self.

Then she remembered why she was mad at Serenity last night.

"You! You didn't tell me you and Sirius Black were going out!" Lily cried indignantly, shaking her pillow forcefully.

The girls around her began whispering angrily.

Serenity glanced at the threatening pillow and shrugged. "Didn't have time. Come on, Lily—you better change—unless you want James catching you in that again and having a nosebleed?"

Serenity ducked the blow Lily had tried to give her with the pillow in her hand and grinned broadly, looking curiously like Sirius Black.

o.O.o.O.o

James's nose was indeed bleeding rather profusely, but he was grinning nonetheless.

"What happened?" Sirius demanded immediately as he changed into silver robes.

"Well, I got in, like you thought I would—and then—I saw her. In her wonderful nightgown," James said, sighing deeply. "That memory is one I would keep forever if I had a Pensieve."

Remus shook his head while Sirius snorted impatiently.

"A nightgown?" Sirius asked sarcastically. "What? Was it thick and pink and fluffy with the words 'I love James Henry Potter' all over it? Idiot."

"No." James still had a blissful look on his face. "It was sheer."

Sirius widened his eyes. "No way, you damn lucky stag!"

Remus cleared his throat loudly. James and Sirius looked startled and then James began blushing deeply. "Now that I believe you two have gotten your minds out of the deep end of the gutter…we have to go to Hogsmeade now."

"Damn! I need to change still," James swore loudly and rapidly donned a Gryffindor red dress robes.

Remus walked out in front but nevertheless, he still heard Sirius muttering to James, "Hope Evans is still in her nightgown—I want to look—or Serenity for that matter."

There was a resounding slap two seconds later and Remus chuckled lightly before stepping out of the door.

o.O.o.O.o

"Well that was a dull Hogsmeade trip," Sirius announced grumpily. "Serenity changed into dress robes."

"Is that a bad thing?" Remus asked pointedly.

Sirius grinned. "Might be. Anyways, we had minimal snogging because Prongsie here decided to ambush us each time to see where his dear Evans went!" Sirius shot James a glare.

James shrugged it off. "I just wanted to know."

Sirius continued glaring. "That's your reason for making us come back to Hogwarts at an ungodly three o' clock in the afternoon?"

"Lily came back."

Sirius gave a loud snort of disbelief. "Because Lily came back," Sirius said in a mocking voice. "So what?"

"You didn't have to come back," James said distractedly.

"Yes, we did, Prongsie! You made us, remember? You were threatening to hex off my right buttock if I didn't come!" Sirius exploded heatedly.

"That's right," James nodded absently and left the Common Room, leaving Sirius's mouth open.

Remus walked over and closed it with a slap under Sirius's chin.

"Ouch, Moony! What was that for?" Sirius whined.

"To help you," Remus sighed and walked upstairs to the boys' dormitory.

"I am the most unlucky thing in the world today," Sirius announced dramatically, giving a great sigh as he sat down in the armchair, waiting to see if Serenity would think to wear her nightgown if she were to come into the Common Room.

Author's Note:

Sorry for all the pervertedness, you guys…but they are male chauvinistic pigs who have only ONE thing on their minds…and we can all guess what that is…sighs Guys.

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