Jade's eyes flew open. There was an unusal weight on her right ankle. Don't move Jade. But the weight on Jade's ankle shifted itself.
"Serena." Jade hissed. "Serena!" She knew Serena was a light sleeper. But that wouldn't work on the lightest of sleepers. Jade concentrated on Serena's pillow that in the night she had discarded on the floor. It flew up and hit Serena in the face.
Serena groggily looked up from her other pillows. "Jade do not move. There's an animal on your leg." Serena explained calmly. "Well get it off me!" Jade hissed. She didn't want to scare the animal by screaming in case it bit her.
"It's an owl." Serena told Jade as she walked in closer. "It's holding something." Serena took the piece of rolled up parchment from the owl's talons and examined it. The owl immediately took flight out the window.
"What's going on?" Lily groaned. By now she had woken up. Serena and Jade quickly explained. Serena read the letter out loud.
Meet us outside. Bring a sweater it's cold.
-MWPP
"Well come on let's go!" Jade urged grinning. Lily and Serena sighed but agreed to go with Jade.
Jade, Serena, and Lily grabbed sweat shirts and headed out into the castle.
"What time is it?" Lily asked when they got outside. It was pitch black. "Knowing the marauders early." Jade stated. "That's helpful."
Sirius suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "You all know the drill. Moony with the ladies, me Prongs, and Wormtail go via animal." Sirius explained.
Remus grabbed the invisibility cloak and threw it over himself and the girls. Sirius turned into a dog, James a stag, and wormtail a rat.
They stopped when they came to a large pile of dirt. Sirius turned back into human form. "Here we are." James and Peter turned back into their own human forms. Sirius cleared away the pile of dirt and pulled open a hatch.
"Black, Potter, Pettigrew!" The boys spun and signaled for the others to stay hidden. Alexis Rhode, Vanessa Rollins, and Lucius Malfoy stood arms crossed in front of them.
"Out a little late are we?" Lucius drawled. "We, is the key word here Lucy." Sirius explained cheerfully. "Oh by the way where's Snivelly?" "Where Severus is, is none of your business." Lucius snarled. "Touched a nerve, have we?"
Lucius advanced on Sirius wand raised. Not knowing that there were four people standing under an invisibility cloak just in his path, he fell into them knocking them all down.
Alexis and Vanessa ran to help Lucius but they too fell into the mess. That was the last straw.
The entire group went rolling forward and fell down into the hatch.
There was a tremendous bang and everyone was engulfed in darkness.
"What just happened?" "I believe we just fell down the hatch." Remus explained standing up and rubbing his elbow. "Lumos." A couple of people fallowed Remus' example until there was enough light.
"What was that bang?" Peter asked timidly. "That, bright spark, was us hitting the ground after falling through a whole in the Erath." Sirius explained, annoyed.
"Wrong." Remus held his wand up to the top of the hatch. "That bang, was the hatch door closing after us." Remus reached up and pushed on the door. "We're trapped."
"What! No! We can't be! It's freezing! We'll be dead by tomorrow!" Alexis pushed on the top of the hatch. Despite her ravings, Remus was right. They were trapped.
"Don't worry someone will know I'm missing. They'll come for us." "No one's going to know your missing Malfoy, and even if they do they won't come for us. They won't want you back!"
Lucius pulled out his wand, remembering the reason they fell down here anyone. "I'll tell them you froze." "Me! Why not you Lucy?" Sirius challenged, pulling out his own wand.
"Wait! Everybody stop!" Jade yelled. "As much as I would like to see Sirius kick your arse, Malfoy, we have to all get along. If I can remember correctly we are stuck in a hatch and if any of us want to live we need to work together. We can be our normal evil selves when we get but for now we have to work together.
Lucius snorted, but he put his wand away, obviously cherishing his own life more then destroying Sirius's. "I'm going to sleep." He announced and leaned back against a corner of the wall. Lucius pretended to go to sleep but everyone knew he was still wide awake.
"So…er…anyone want to play a game?" Sirius asked scanning the present company. Vanessa raised one eyebrow skeptically. "Boy, what you on?"
"Well there's nothing else to do." "We could sleep." Vanessa pointed in the direction of Lucius. "You think he's asleep." "I see you're point." Vanessa seemed deflated. To everyone's surprise she suddenly looked up. "Fine. What are we playing?"
Sirius's face lit up then fell. "Don't know." "How about Truth or Dare?" Lily asked from behind everyone else. "What's Truth or Dare?" Alexis asked. "Muggle game." Lily explained curtly staring Alexis right in the eyes. "Alexis nodded. "Fine. How do you play?"
"Are you playing Lucy?" Sirius asked cheerfully. "No.", he answered, simply and coldly. "Aw, someone's grumpy!" Lucius ignored the comment.
"Truth or Dare?" James asked happy to be starting the game. "Dare." Jade answered simply.
"I dare you to… umm…" Lily whispered something in his ear. "I dare you to kiss Sirius."
Sirius raised his eyebrows and Jade gave James a death glare.
When Jade walked over to do so, Alexis smiled hugely. "Lexi!" Jade growled. Jade leaned over and kissed Sirius. Alexis clapped a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing and James wolf whistled.
"Okay. My turn." Jade grinned evilly as she turned to Remus. "I am thoroughly scared right now." Remus shared. "Truth or Dare?" "Truth." "Oh come on Remus!" Sirius smirked. "If it was Jade would you do dare?" Remus pointed out. "I see you're point. Continue." Do you like Serena?" Remus's face changed expression. "Good. She likes you too."
Remus turned to Lily not sure what just happened. "Truth or Dare?" "Dare." Remus grinned he knew just what his dare would be. "I dare you to go with James on the Hogsmede trip this weekend." Lily's face turned as white as a ghost. Slowly she turned to face Alexis.
"Truth or Dare?" she asked distracted. Alexis thought for a moment. "Dare." "I dare you to…"
Before Lily could finish her sentence she heard voices.
"Guy's do you hear that." Everyone was silent as they strained to hear. "We're down here!" Lucius shouted. "Down here! Down here!"
Lily could now recognize the voice it was McGonagall. Lily was never happier to hear the professor. "Do you hear that? It's coming from over there." McGonagall pointed to the spot where the hatch was now covered with snow.
"Professor, we're down here! Professor! Professor!" Everyone in the hatch was now shouting on the top of their lungs.
McGonagall began to run towards the hatch. She bent down and brushed away the snow. There, underneath the pile of snow, was he opening to the hatch. McGonagall pulled on the handle. "It's stuck!" She yelled to someone behind her. "Come help!" The person ran over and helped to yank the hatch open. There were many shouts of "Hallelujah" as light filled the hatch.
"Oh my goodness!" McGonagall exclaimed when she noticed that there were ten people stuck inside the hatch. "How did you all get down here?" "Can we explain when we're out?" Sirius begged knowing that if McGonagall found out she would shut the hatch and leave. "Of course."
"Severus, we will talk about what you were doing out so late once you help them out."
Severus leaned over to help them out of the hatch. He helped Lucius, Alexis, and Vanessa out. If McGonagall were not standing over him he would have left the others inside. But with a look of distaste on his face he helped the others out with a death grip as if trying to break their hands.
"Snow!" Sirius yelled happily. He grabbed some in his hand and hurtled it at a poor undeserving wall. However McGonagall not noticing stepped right in the line of fire of this poor undeserving wall and got hit squarely in the face with Sirius's snowball.
Her lips disappeared into a fine line and she gave Sirius a look as if she clearly wanted to throw him back in the hatch but to everyone's surprise she just smiled and hurtled a snowball of her own at Sirius's head.
