A/N: YAY! We've finished all of our year 10 exams now!!!! I hate physics and I have soooo failed it!!! I don't care how much work it takes a boy to run up some stairs!!!! It's so pointless!!!

Anyways… This story should be finished before the summer holidays, hopefully! Then we might start on the second one! We have a storyline and everything! Look out for Louisa Coeurnoir! Hehe! She's cool!

Back to this story now!

Chapter 17

Lily woke up bright and early the next morning. She was surprised to find herself feeling sad until everything came flooding back to her. She was so upset that she started to cry and woke Gemini up.

"What's wrong?" she asked, yawning loudly.

Between sobs Lily managed o blurt out everything. "I don't want to be in detention. I've never had detention before and I don't want one now. It's entirely Sirius and James' fault. If they hadn't suggested to go on a midnight adventure, then we wouldn't be in detention."

Gemini tried reassuring her and said, "Don't worry. It's probably not as bad as you think. At least you will be with me and not on your own."

Lily smiled between her sobs and thanked Gemini. She got dressed, brushed the tears away from her eyes and went down to the Gryffindor Common Room where she found James and Sirius talking quietly. She decided to sit away from everyone and opened a book to read. She couldn't concentrate on what the words were as the events from the night before flashed through her mind.

James and Sirius went over to Lily. "Hi Lily" said James softly. At the sound of James' voice she looked up and started to cry again. James and Sirius didn't know what to do. They weren't prepared for her crying, shouting maybe, but not crying. They didn't know what to do.

Finally Sirius spoke, "It's ok Lily, everything will be fine."

"You have no idea how I feel, do you?" she shouted, feeling the familiar red flush creep up her cheeks.

"Well, not really actually." Answered Sirius truthfully.

"Well I'm very upset with myself. If I hadn't gone along with that stupid plan of yours…" started Lily but she was interrupted.

"Well WE didn't force you to come!" James shouted, beginning to get annoyed with her constant whinging.

Lily just carried on crying and James and Sirius left her to go to the Great Hall for breakfast. Gemini soon came down from the girls' dormitory and went over to comfort Lily in her time of despair.

Soon Katie came down as well and went immediately over to Lily and Gemini. She saw Lily's stated and asked her what was wrong.

"It's nothing," she said, not wanting to let on.

"Well cheer up then! It can't be that bad!" she said with a bright smile on her face.

Lily, Gemini and Katie went down to the Great Hall for breakfast and were surprised to find post for them. Lily opened hers straight away, it read:

To Miss Evans

Your detention will take place today after dinner. Stay in the Great Hall once you've finished.

Yours,

Professor Dreamstone

After she'd read it she turned to Gemini and Katie, who just stared back at her. They decided to eat their breakfast and left the Great Hall afterwards.

They went back to the Gryffindor Common Room bit on their way they bumped into Kate and Robyn, who were with Lucius and Snape. As they passed, Kate stopped to talk to Gemini, "My, my, look who we have here. It's Gemstone, carrothead and big mouth!"

"Go away Kate," Gemini said and she tried to walk past them. Kate walked the same way as Gemini so Gemini tried to side-step past again. Finally, Gemini got very frustrated and got out her wand. "Wingardium Leviosa!" she said and Robyn, Kate, Lucius and Snape flew straight into the air.

Gemini, Lily and Katie walked underneath then and down the corridors to the stairs then let Kate and the others down. They climbed up the stairs ignoring the furious cries of Robyn, Kate, Lucius and Snape.

They went to the Fat Lady and said "Fermata Gorgola." They portrait swung open and they climbed in. They saw Sirius, Remus and James corning a terrified Peter.

"You little sneak!" James shrieked.

"Funny," thought Lily, "He shrieks like a girl!"

"What's going on?" asked a confused looking Katie, for once she was silent.

James turned to her and said, "It was this little sneak who told on us. He's a liar and a rubbish friend!" he shouted.

Lily had never seen James so upset before. If James knew any good spells he probably would have used them right now. Gemini was thinking the same thing. For as long as she could remember whenever James was upset he just bottled it up and was in a mood all day.

Sirius was now looking at James, unsure of what to do. "Come on James, leave him. He'll deserve what he gets." James seemed to take this to heart and walked away up to the boys' dormitory.

Everyone, except Peter, traipsed after him. When they got to James' bed, Katie was ecstatic. "WOW! We're in the boys' dormitory!" she looked around and said. "it looks just like ours" she added unenthusiastically.

She sat down on Sirius' bed and Sirius cried, "ARGH! A girl on my bed! Get off!" Katie started laughing and wouldn't budge. Sirius began pushing her and started to laugh as well. Finally, because Katie was so stubborn, he gave up and sat beside her. Gemini joined him on his bed and Lily was left standing in the middle. She decided to join Remus and James on James' bed.

James was still upset over what Peter had done and decided to change the subject. "Christmas soon, what does everyone want?"

"A BROOM!" said Sirius and Gemini together, they looked at each other and burst out laughing. James ignored them and looked to Remus.

"I want Chrysolite." He said with a gleam in his eyes. The others just looked in confusion.

"What's a Chrysolite?" Sirius asked.

"The word Chrysolite is the greek work for gold stone. Chrysolite stone is the zodiac stone for Libra-23. I need it to complete my crystal and gem collection."

"I thought you collected rocks" said Lily.

"Yeah, but I also collect twigs, crystals, lamps, magnets and everything really. I just left them all at home." Remus said, wishing that he'd brought them so that he could show the others, who were glad he hadn't.

"Well I want a broomstick too. And a book and lots and lots of chocolate!" said Katie to no one in particular. "What about you James, what do you want?"

"A broom, an invisibility cloak, Quidditch through the Ages and sweets," he replied. Sirius looked at James and told him that invisibilty cloaks were not only rare but cost millions of galleons. He concentrated on what Lily was saying.

"I just want to go home and see my mum and dad. I don't want to see my stupid sister and her stupid friend though!" she said defiantly. They chatted for a while longer until it was time for dinner down in the Great Hall.

They arrived to the loud chatter of children and the warm air. They sat down and ate hurriedly at the sight of food. They had missed lunch because they'd been having an exploding snap tournament. James won of course, he was amazing at exploding snap.

All of a sudden Sirius fell to the floor groaning and clutching his stomach.

"Sirius, are you ok mate?" James asked unsure of whether or not to laugh or get help.

"Errrrrrrr" mumbled Sirius.

"What?" asked James, leaning closer.

"I said 'not really!'" shouted Sirius. James jumped up and began to laugh. Sirius knew how to make James laugh, he do seeing as they go back years. Sirius got up from the floor and sat back on the bench. He smiled at everyone and carried on eating.

Finally everyone was full and most people were returning back to their common rooms. Everyone, that is, except the Slytherins. They went over to the Gryffindor table.

"Why aren't you leaving then?" Lucius sneered.

"Why don't you mind your own business?" Katie said.

"Don't tell me what to do! If anything, it should be me telling you!" he said.

"Well, we don't like you so go away!" Sirius said, boredly.

"Hah hah!" Lucius said sarcastically.

"You know, people who say hah hah have no sense of humour, they only say it because they can't think of a witty retort," Sirius said.

"…Oh hah hah," Lucius said and turned and left, the rest of the slytherins followed.

Professor Dreamstone watched the slytherins leave and then walked up to the Gryffindor first years.

"Now, for your detentions you will be in pairs. Katie wit Sirius, Gemini with Remus and James with Lily…" she started but before she could continue both James and Lily protested.

"But I hate him he's horrible you can't make me work with him!"

"Carrothead! I can't work with her! We'll kill each other!"

"You will work together otherwise you'll have detention for two weeks. Now, Katie and Sirius you will be helping me with some errands, Remus and Gemini you'll be helping the head boy and girl and Lily and James you will be helping Hagrid."

At the mention of Hagrid Lily and James started to protest again.

"But Professor I don't want to…"

"He scares me Professor…"

"Now James, I don't care if he scares you, you must learn to conquer your fears. Now be silent!" she silenced them with her glare. They all left to go to their separate detentions and Lily and James were left alone in the Hall, not talking to each other.

Hagrid entered the Hall and came towards them with a big black dog in tow. Lily was scared, but she didn't want any more detentions so she kept quiet. She decided that one night with Hagrid and Potter couldn't be too bad.

"Hiya you two, 'ow are ya? I'm 'agrid, as yer probably know and ternight were goin' into the forbidden fores'"

"But Hagrid we can't go into the Forbidden Forest, we're not allowed!" said James, his voice slightly higher than usual.

"Well, your wiv me an' Fang so yer can!" he said and walked towards the door to the school grounds. James and Lily had no option but to follow him, keeping well apart from each other.

When they got to the Forbidden Forest Lily and James were terrified. The trees loomed above them and the darkness and coldness didn't make things any better. Lily shivered and wished she'd brought her cloak with her. James saw this and smirked smugly, glad that he'd got his!

Hagrid stopped and started talking to a man, or was it a horse? Lily stared at the creature and listened to what it was saying.

"The moon will be bright soon. Jupiter is strong too."

"Hey Fri, have you seen anything peculiar lately?" Hagrid asked. Fri looked at Hagrid and replied, "Jupiter is strong tonight." Lily didn't know how that was an answer, neither did James. Hagrid just said, "Thanks Fri, I'll see yer soon" and walked on.

After a few minutes, James decided to ask, "Errr…Hagrid, where are we going?" Hagrid stopped and said, "We're just looking for clues."

"What sort of clues?" he persisted.

"Anything that's unusual. After what happened at Quidditch, we're all suspicious about something or someone that's trying to sabotage Hogwarts. But yer not supposed to know tha'!" he said quickly.

James began to process this into his brain and was immediately more enthusiastic about going into the forest. Lily on the other hand was terrified of what they might find. Suddenly a loud scream could be heard from the left of Hagrid and he immediately ran towards it. James and Lily tried to follow but they soon fell behind, not able to keep up with Hagrid's giant strides.

"Oh my god Potter! Where are we? I don't like it here!" Lily said desperately.

"Don't worry Evans, I'm here to protect you" he said jokily.

"Not funny" she said.

They decided to stay where they were and wait for Hagrid to find them. They sat down on a rock and noticed lots of spiders crawling into a hole. James decided to take a closer look and looked inside the hole. It was pitch black and very scary. James came away and hurried back to Lily.

Lily stared in open horror as a gigantic black spider was crawling its way out of the hole and behind James. She lifted her arm and pointed to something behind James. James didn't have to look at what she was pointing at to know it was something horrible. Just her expression said it all.

He turned around slowly and was eye to eyes with a gigantic spider. He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out.

"Who are you?" the spider asked. James just opened his mouth and closed it again. Lily decided to speak, "I'm Lily and this is Potter, who are you?"

"I'm Aragog, what are you doing here?"

"What is this, twenty questions?" James mumbled to himself.

"We were in detention and then we heard a scream and then Hagrid left us."

"Hagrid, he sent you here?"

"Well, yes, sort of." She said, not liking the expression in the spider's many eyes.

"Very well," he clicked his pincers together and James and Lily were instantly surrounded by spiders with no escape.

"What are you doing?" she asked, her voice shaking.

"Getting my family their dinner. You don't mind do you? If Hagrid sent you here then you must be food"

"NO!" screamed Lily hysterically. James worked his mouth and screamed "HAGRID!" it was very high pitched and if Lily wasn't about to die she would probably laugh.

Just as the spiders headed in their direction they heard a thundering noise. It was Hagrid. "Stop!" he shouted, "They are friends!"

Aragog looked at Hagrid confused, "You sent them here for us, they are our dinner Hagrid."

"I didn't send them here! We got separated!" Hagrid explained. He beckoned for Lily and James to move behind him and they did so gratefully. Lily grabbed James hand and edged her way out of the circle of spiders.

"But Hagrid" Aragog whined like a spoilt child.

"I'm sorry Aragog. They aren't food, they are pupils at the school and you won't hurt them!" with that he headed towards the school. "I'm sorry Lily and James. It's all my fault, if I hadn't run off to find whatever screamed you would never have met Aragog!" he said, crying.

"It's ok Hagrid, we understand, just don't do it next time!" Lily said soothingly. They walked back to the school in silence and Hagrid escorted them back to the Great Hall. By now it was dark and Lily and James said goodnight to Hagrid whilst they went back to the Common Room. They said the password and went to sit with Sirius who was still up.

"Why are you two holding hands?" he said in disgust. Lily and James immediately let go. They had forgotten that they were still holding hands.

"Nothing, so how was your detention, I bet it wasn't as eventful as ours!" he said, changing the subject.

"Oh yeah?" Sirius said challengingly and began to tell them exactly what he had done with Katie and Professor Dreamstone. When he finished talking James decided to tell Sirius about their detention. Lily left them to it. She was tired and went up to the girls' dormitory and said goodnight to Sirius and James.

When she was out of sight, Sirius said, "So what happened between you two?"

"Nothing" he replied blushing at the thought of them holding hands.

"Well, ok, let's go to bed" and they went straight there. James' head only had to touch his pillow and he fell asleep immediately.

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