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Chapter 4-Of Troll Fetuses and Horny Teddies!

On Saturday night, after a hard week of classes and homework, the last thing that the marauders wanted to do was a detention. But they had to. And the party was definitely awesome, in their eyes anyway. So at 7:45pm, when it was just starting to get dark, the 8 teenagers trudged down to Hagrid's Hut.

Well, it's with Hagrid, so it shouldn't be too bad, they all thought.

When they got to the hut, Hagrid bounded out with Fang, his dog, and a crossbow. The marauders were all slightly worried about why they needed a crossbow…

"Um, Hagrid, why do we need a crossbow?" Lily asked as they walked towards the herbology greenhouse.

"Fer protection." Hagrid replied gruffly.

The teens were no longer slightly worried. They were now quite alarmed.

"T-to protect us from what?" Peter stammered as they walked into the greenhouse.

"Well, we're goin' into the Forbidden Forest," Hagrid replied.

"WHAT!" The marauders shouted at the same time. They were no longer quite alarmed, they were now extremely frightened.

"We can't Hagrid, we'll get killed!" Madeline cried.

"And it's against the rules! I'm a prefect, I'm supposed to be setting an example!" Lily cried.

"Don' worry, we're not goin' tha' far in, Dumbledore granted us permission, and if anythin'bothers us, that's what the crossbow's fer!" Hagrid said, rummaging through a storage cabinet. "Ah, here we are."

Hagrid held up 4 pictures of a very ugly…something. One could only assume it was…

"What the hell is that!" James asked, slightly disturbed.

"A troll fetus?" Sirius asked.

"Why, it's a prickled teddy bear plant!" Hagrid replied like it was obvious.

"Ah…" James said.

The Marauders all had amused looks on their faces. Sirius coughed, and Hagrid said,

"Well, that's its nick name, not scientific or common name or anything…I don' actually know wha' that is."

"Ooh," the teens said, relieved of the tension caused by this… odd…name.

"Madame Pomfrey and Professor Sprout need it for some potion, and yeh guys are goin ter find some. They need at least 8, so yeh guys are gonna split inter pairs o' two, and find 2 for each group."

Hagrid was now leading them into the forest. They walked for about ten minutes when Hagrid finally stopped at a huge tree stump.

"Lily an' James," Hagrid said. He handed them 2 containers, 2 pairs of dragon hide gloves and a picture of the ugly plant.

"Sirius an' Nicole," Hagrid repeated the same action for Sirius and Nicole, Remus and Sarah, and Peter and Madeline.

"I'll give yeh half an hour before I signal yeh ter come back. We'll meet at this stump. If anything goes wrong, send up sparks, an' we'll get yeh. Anyone who doesn't come back with at least one plant within 5 minutes of the signal gets another detention. Unless, of course, they're in mortal peril. Understand?"

The students nodded.

"Off yeh go."

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James looked at the picture of the ugly plant and compared it to the plant in front of him.

Greenish brown, orange puss bubbles, and brown thorns, must be it, he thought.

"Lily my love, I've found it!" James sang as he put on his dragon skin gloves. Lily came over carrying a container with another ugly plant in it.

"Great, in under 5 minutes we've managed to get both!" Lily grinned.

The put the plant in the container and cleaned themselves off.

"Scourgify," they both muttered.

"By the way," Lily added, "Don't call me 'your love' unless you mean it."

James looked at Lily and grinned.

"How do you know I don't mean it?" James asked.

Lily looked into his eyes, it was very dark out already, only the moon was lighting their way, but Lily could still see the warmth in his eyes.

"Do you?" She asked him.

James moved closer to Lily and cupped her face with his hands.

"I mean it everytime I say it to you," he said softly.

He moved closer to her and gently kissed her lips. Lily was starting to respond to the kiss when the signal went up in the distance.

"We should get back," Lily muttered, a blush showing on her face even in the darkness. They walked back to the meeting spot in silence.

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Remus and Sarah walked through the forbidden forest in silence. It was rather uncomfortable for both of them. Sarah, because she now knew that Remus had lesbian fantasies with her and one of her best friends, and Remus because Sarah now thought that he was having fantasies involving herself and Madeline. That, and both him and Sarah had confessed that they fancied each other in the letters they had been sending each other over the summer. But they had made a vow to never discuss the letters again after summer, just to keep it a summer thing. But, anyways, now they were walking through the forbidden forest in search of ugly plants with puss bubbles. How romantic!

"There's one!" Sarah suddenly exclaimed, breaking the silence, "And another one right beside it! Awesome!"

They quickly put the plants into the containers, careful not to break the puss bubbles. Gag.

"Ah, excellent, and now we're done with the prickly pandas with 20 or so minutes to spare!" Remus grinned.

"Prickly teddy bears, not pandas…" Sarah laughed, trying to think of another topic of discussion.

"So, umm… in your letters you said that you and the others guys were going to start a band…how's that coming?" Sarah asked.

Stupid Question, she thought instantly, stupid question stupid question, weak weak weak weak-

But Remus was obviously relieved to have a topic of discussion.

"I thought we weren't going to talk about the letters?" He smiled.

"Well, I was thinking that we could, you know, forget the letter promise and um..." She began.

"And pick up where the letters left off?" Remus finished.

Sarah nodded.

"Well, in that case, we should start dating…" Remus said, not looking directly at Sarah.

"Yeah, we should!" Sarah grinned. This was exactly what she had been waiting for.

"So, that's a yes?" Remus asked.

"Yeah!" Sarah said.

Then they saw the signal.

"Time to go," Remus said. He held out his hand for Sarah to take.

She took his hand and they walked off towards the meeting spot, plant containers in their free hands.

Well that was the best detention I've ever had, Sarah thought.

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"Have you seen any horny teddy's yet?" Sirius asked Nicole as they made their was through the forest. Nicole looked at him; amused by his name for the ugly plant that they were supposed to find, and laughed at the serious look he had on his face.

"What?" Sirius asked Nicole, confused by her sudden outburst of laughter.

"It's called a prickled teddy bear, not a horny teddy!" Nicole laughed.

"Oh," said Sirius, and they both started laughing.

"And no, I haven't seen any yet," Nicole added.

"That sucks," said Sirius, "I wanted to get those out of the way so I could talk to you."

"Really?" Nicole asked. Sirius nodded.

"I haven't had the chance to talk to you in months, I feel like I don't know anything about you," he said truthfully.

"Well," Nicole said, "If we don't find those plants soon we'll have plenty of time to talk during out next detention!" Nicole and Sirius laughed.

Then, something ahead caught Sirius' eye.

"Did you see that?" He asked Nicole. She shook her head, and Sirius saw it again.

"What about that?" He asked. Nicole shook her head again.

"Sure you've got all your marbles?" She asked, but then she saw something glow in the distance.

"Woah!" she cried.

Sirius decided to turn the tables.

"What, seeing things are you now?" He grinned.

Nicole punched his arm playfully and ran towards the now steady light, with her wand out. Sirius ran after her.

When they finally reached the source of light, they just gaped.

"What the f-" Sirius began, but he was cut off by Nicole pointing out the sparks that went up about half a kilometer away.

"We have to go," She said, "Just remember that it's half a kilometer north of the tree stump…we'll come back."

Nicole and Sirius reluctantly tore their gaze away from their discovery, and went to meet the rest of the Marauders and Hagrid.

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Madeline's gaze was glued to the ground, in search of the ugly plant that she didn't really want to touch anyway. Nicole and Sirius were ahead of her and Peter, they were also not looking too intent on meeting the prickled teddy bear.

Madeline was thinking about her week when she suddenly found the ugly plant.

"OOMF!" Madeline cried as she tripped over the prickled teddy bear. She lost her balance and almost fell over when-

"Gotcha," Peter caught her in his arms.

"Thanks," she mumbled. She was quite aware that he was still holding her…and she liked it.

"Don't mention it," he replied. Madeline could feel his breath on her neck. She felt something inside of her, she didn't know what it was, but Peter felt it too.

"Umm..." Madeline began, but just as the word escaped her mouth she felt Peter's lips on hers. It was the greatest feeling she had ever felt. As Madeline started to return the kiss, she felt a chill go up and down her spine.

"Go out with me…" Peter murmured when they broke apart. Madeline wasn't sure if that was a question or a demand, but she agreed.

"Okay," she grinned.

They were about to kiss again when something moved ahead of them. They both reached into their pockets for their wands, and drew them at the sight ahead of them.

"Oh, Merlin!" Madeline cried.

"Holy shit!" Peter managed to say.

Both Madeline and Peter were too scared to move.

"Welcome," said the feeble voice of the creature ahead of them.