A/N: I know I should be working on Finding Hope Again, but I'm sugar high and I

couldn't resist. Besides...I think this one is a funny story... so I'm editing it and adding to it and you know the drill!

Marauder Mishaps

Chapter One

A very hyper Lily Evans rushed through the portrait hole of the Gryffindor Tower. Feeling an extraordinary rush of giddiness, not to mention a bit of mischief, she sauntered towards the famous four pranksters of Hogwarts, collectively known as the Marauders. Her previous and last class was quite boring, as nearly all classes are during the second week of school. Even though she was an intelligent witch, she rarely found pleasure in many of her classes, so she plotted out a little plan to make them wish they had never been born. She was positive that it would work, but it would take some time. Despite her entertainment in messing with Hogwarts resident prank master, a title she scoffed at, she knew under normal circumstances she would not have even gone near him, but something inside her boiled every time she saw him, and it was most unnerving.

It was her seventh year and she was Head Girl, along with the infamous James Potter, someone she had never guessed could even possess the brains and talents needed to achieve the honorable position. Over the past years she had known him, she witnessed his cocky and arrogant behavior, and a grotesque delight in torturing other students. He was someone she personally disapproved of, but nonetheless he had been growing on her for a while now, but that did not mean that she couldn't use him for her own entertainment.

She swayed her hips in a most provocative way, catching the eye of James Potter. He was always such a sucker for seduction.

"Hey Lily," he said smoothly despite his excitement at her actions. Who could blame him? She was a very good-looking girl, even though they had never been the best of friends.

"Why hello there Jamesie-boy," she whispered in a husky tone.

"What brings you to this end of the common room?" asked Remus Lupin, who didn't notice her act because his nose was currently stuck in a very thick book.

"Well, I just couldn't help but notice James over here. He looks a bit..." she paused for effect while swiping her light pink tongue over her slightly chapped bottom lip, "lonely."

At this, James nearly drooled. Sure, he and the other guys of the Marauders were constantly flocked with some of the most popular girls of school, except for Peter Pettigrew, but Lily was different. She had a certain fire about her that made him back off from picking on Snape. She was a beautiful girl, and he didn't want to admit anything he thought of her aloud to his cronies, but he wanted to hold her more than anything else in the world as he would fall into her emerald green eyes.

"Yeah," added Sirius, another member of the Marauders and a best friend of James, "he sure is lonely, isn't that right Peter?"

"Huh?" questioned a clueless Peter. A suggestive look from Sirius indicated the possibilities of the situation, causing Peter to agree with him despite the fact that he was still confused. "Oh, yes, very lonely," Peter mumbled as he contemplated his next move against Sirius. They were playing a very one-sided game of Wizard's Chess. Sirius had never lost a game against Peter, but he still loved to play the game when there wasn't anything better to do.

"Well, James," she gracefully sat next to him, a bit to close for him to maintain any dignity he may have left, "I need your help with something."

If Lily sat any closer, she would have been able to see his cheeks tint a slight shade of pink. He loosened his tie even more than it already was. He adjusted his glasses and visibly tensed.

"What can I help you with?" he squeaked out, desperately trying to maintain his cool. He didn't understand why hefelt the way he did. If any other girl was in Lily's place, he would have been fine, but Lily seemed to have some kind of effect on him that made his brain melt.

She leaned towards his ear, nipping at it softly. She knew under normal circumstances, the thought of coming into any physical contact would have made her face turn green, but surprisingly she did not feel one bit of nausea.

"James," she whispered huskily, her voice filled with mock lust. Apparently he did not catch onto her act yet. She figured herself to be quite a good actress.

"Yes?" he whispered back, thankfully getting used to her forward actions.

"I need you to come up to my room in our dorm." Just for effect, she bit the bottom of her lip and looked up at him with wide eyes.

He put an arm around her waist and started moving his thumb in lazy circles. Maybe his secret wishes would finally come true, even though the logical part of his mind told him that one of her potions must have gone wrong.

"What are we going to do in your room?"

"I need you..." she trailed off and touched his arm suggestively.

"You need me?" he exclaimed a bit louder than he expected. The other three Marauders were now secretly listening to their private conversation, internally cheering their friend on.

"Oh, yes, James! It's just been so horrible."

"What's so horrible, Lily?" He pulled her over so she was sitting on his lap, her legs over his. He encircled his arms around her petite waist.

"Every night, James, I can't sleep." She waved her hand around dramatically. "I've thought about going to you, but I just could never bring myself to it." She couldn't believe how easily he was buying her story.

Their voices were now louder, providing easy listening for the rest of the common room. Majority of the listeners could faintly tell that Lily had something up her sleeve, or went insane from a messed up potion, but they did not dare voice their opinion for the scene was much too entertaining. Two of the spectators were the resident gossip-girls, Lily noted, so the story was bound to have reached multiple members of each house by dinner this evening, or breakfast the next morning.

"Oh, Lily," whispered James with lust dripping from every word. "I'll help you, I swear." His body was reacting to her presence in more ways than he thought possible, but deep down, something was telling him to put an end to all of it. He was not paying attention to that part of his brain, on the contrary, he could barely think in a logical sentence.

"Then will you go to my room with me? I swear that there are monsters under my bed, and I want you to get them out," said Lily, slightly blurring her words together, but still in a seductive tone. She was sure that his logic did not work as fast as she spoke, and she would be able to get him to at least move towards the portrait.

"O.K., Lily, let's go," he anxiously put her down and grabbed her hand. A little more than three-quarters of the way to the exit of the common room, he let go of her hand and turned around to face her. His left eye twitched uncontrollably as his jaw dropped. By now, nearly the whole common room was full of smiling and giggling students. They were amazed to see how easily their avowed and elusive prankster was pranked.

"MONSTERS!" he shouted as he waved his hands around like a mad man. He was obviously shocked.

The whole common room burst out in joyous laughter, and they all knew that this year was bound to be full of excitement and pranking, for James Potter had been fooled by none other than Lily Evans.

"Yes, Jamsie-boy. There are monsters under my bed, and I was hoping, since you are so excelled in Defense Against the Dark Arts, you could get them out!" said Lily ecstatically, biting her lip in a mocking gesture of the way she had behaved towards him earlier. James stood utterly befuddled, staring daggers at her. "You know," she added while touching his muscular arm, "maybe you could tutor me in DADA, seeing as how I'm just so terrible at it."

Even more laughter erupted fromthebystanders, except for the other three pranksters, for they knew that Lily was easily the smartest witch in the whole school, even though James liked to believe that he surpassed her intelligence by kilometers. Lily was well aware of his cockiness, but had never done anything about his degrading remarks towards her. She just kept on studying and doing better than he could ever phathom.

With a wink of her right eye and a tiny flirtatious wave, and after receiving applause from many members of Gryffindor, she walked out of the common room with dignity and a wide smile. Once sure that no one was around her, after walking down the corridors that led to her Head Girl suite, she leaned her back against a nearby wall and took a deep breath. She felt the butterflies scurry around her stomach and basked in the blissful giddiness that left her dizzy. She did not know why doing that to Potter had left her in such a state, but she did know that it slightly frightened her.

Shrugging off the feeling, she finished her small journey back to her room. Once arriving at the entrance, she whispered the password.

"Potter loves monsters." She couldn't keep the giggle out of her voice as she said it. Along with making a fool of him in the center of the common room, she changed the password to their dorms to something he would never imagine.

She took out her homework and looked over her assignments. Realizing that the Library would be very useful for a particular Charms assignment, she freshened up and headed out of the dorm, a smile still plastered on her face.

Meanwhile, a very angry and confused James was causing a ruckus in the common room. He was not very proud to admit that Lily had fooled him, gave him a taste of his own medicine, made a fool out of him, and succeeded in making the whole common room laugh at him endlessly. A few sympathetic sixth year boys patted his back sympathetically, but as soon as he took his original seat and turned his back, they chuckled lightly to themselves.

"Monsters?" he questioned himself as he sat down in his comfortable chair, which was in fact not truly his, but it had been his seat of choice for the past seven years, and everyone knew that while James was in the common room, no one was allowed to sit there.

Once in his fifth year, a scrawny first year boy had sat there, unknowing that it was the throne of the head of the Marauders. Just as James was about to hex the small boy into the next century, Lily gave him the meanest Bat-Bogey he had ever seen, and that was something. She then told the first year to watch out for James, but to sit in whatever chair he wanted. She made an announcement to the common room that clearly stated no chair belonged to James Potter or any one else, and that they could sit wherever they pleased.

After Lily traveled back up to her dorm, James made another announcement that the chair was his, and that Lily did not know what he was talking about. He then proceeded to threaten the other members of Gryffindor, telling them that if they ever even thought about sitting in his lovely chair that they would, in fact, regret they were ever born.

"James, I have to admit, you got tricked," said Sirius Black with a sympathetic look. Even though he was tempted to laugh after the whole ordeal, he felt bad for his best mate. He and James had been through everything together, and even though James had never told him, he knew that he secretly fancied the red-haired intelligent beauty, but he couldn't really blame James for that.

"Honestly, though, monsters?" was all James could say as he buried his head in his hands as he let out a long exasperated sigh. He mentally beat himself up for ignoring his first thoughts of the whole awkward situation.

While James wallowed in self-pity and Sirius patted his back, Remus motioned at the exit to Sirius and a still-confused Peter. Sirius coaxed James to stand again and the group walked out of the room. They figured that the situation would be handled better if they were in the confines of the Head Boy's dorm.

"Oh, why monsters?" whined James as he was led out of the common room by his friends. He knew that they were heading back to his dorm, and did not object, but he hoped that Lily did not go there for if she was, she would know that he told his friends the password, something that they vowed not to do.

While they walked down a corridor a little ways away from their destination, they saw a, what seemed to be, extremely happy Lily strolling down the path to the Library. Remus, knowing that it would be best if James did not see Lily for a very long while, assured that he would not see her by remarking on a random portrait on the wall. The four boys stared at it, agreeing with Remus, and then continued. Lily was far gone by then.

Once they reached the entrance to the Head Boy and Girl dorm, they waited for James to say the password, but he was still in a slight daze from the previous events. Taking matters into his own hands, Sirius decided to give the password in place of James.

"Slytherins suck," proclaimed Sirius proudly. He knew that originally James wanted the password to be "Snape sucks," but Lily would not have that. He then persuaded Lily to half-heartedly agree on a password that did not degrade Severus Snape directly, but still reflected his views on the evil house.

The four boys waited in a stupor for five minutes before James realized that the door was not opening. Slightly better off than he was before, James repeated the password, but nothing happened. Remus had a feeling that Lily changed the password, but tried saying the password nonetheless, and for the third time nothing happened.

An anger in James had replaced the giddy feeling Lily left him with long ago, but it seemed as though he could not hold it in any longer. His left eye began to twitch again as the rage exploded.

"BLOODY HELL, EVANS," screamed James as loud as his voice would let him go. He felt considerably better, but had a sudden urge to hex her pretty little face into oblivion, yet deep down, he wanted to shake her hand for following through with such a well-thought out prank. He angrily ran his hands through his shaggy black hair. Revenge brewed in his mind.

Remus, knowing where Lily was, said nothing to the othersfor her protection. He had always been the reasonable one of the group and knew that it was best for Lily if she stayed away from James for a good long time, even though she would be able to hold her own against him. Realizing the time, Remus knew that supper was to be served soon, so he led the group to the Great Hall with a sigh. This was his last year at Hogwarts, and he sure as hell was going to miss it.