Disclaimer: See chapter one
Chapter Three, The reward?
Sirius and James were in James' room at the Potter mansion. They were discussing their newest plans for pranks against Severous Snape. They had come up with many so far, one of which involved soaking his underwear in meat and luring him to Hagrids hut so that Fang could have some fun.
"Hey Sirius," James said, "I think that I have finally developed a plan to get Lily to actually come closer to me!"
"Prongs, you have had dozens of ideas and NONE of them ever seem to work. Never ever. Just face the facts! LILLIAN MARIE EVENS WILL NEVER EVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU, for that matter even go OUT with you."
"Padfoot, you disappoint me. Do you remember me telling you how Lily's parents beat on her all the time?"
"Yes, I do. And I ALSO remember why they did it. Wasn't it because you stalked her for ages, they hated it, they couldn't do anything about it, so they did stuff to HER INSTEAD?"
James threw a pillow and hit Sirius square in the face. "Shut up. Anyway, I convinced my mum to go over to the Evans' place to look for Lily and, well you know, ask a couple of questions."
"Uh, James. I see a problem in this plan of yours. Several actually. One, how will this make Lily LIKE you. She'll probably hate you more because you sent you parents to check on her hoping that she would be sent home with them... Two, why would the Evans' tell your mum or dad anything, let alone allow them in their house if they are complete and total STRANGERS!"
"Sirius, My parents and her parents are good friends. Also, do you remember the promise that I made to Lily?"
"Hmmm, which one. Do you mean the one where you said, 'Lillian Evans, someday you are going to be my wife?' Or this one, 'Lily, I promise that you will one day regret all the mean, stupid lies that you have said about me'? Or what about this one, 'Lily, I – "
"Stuff it Padfoot. I mean the one where I said, 'I'll help you! I'll get you out of that place. As long as my name is James Isaac Potter I'll do it!' Well anyway I told my mum that I promised that to Lily and I think that my mum will get her out of there."
Knock, Knock
"James, its Mom, is Sirius in there with you? I need to speak with him too."
"Yup Mrs. Potter, I'm in here too!" Sirius half shouted with glee.
Mrs. Potter opened the door and walked into James' spacious room.
"Hey Mum! Did you go over to the Evans' did you see – "
"Yes James. Your father and I went there, and we see nothing wrong with how they treat their daughter Petunia or their niece Lily. They are treated like princesses, and they are not beaten like you said they were. So anyway about what I wanted to talk to you two about. James, your father and I feel that you and Sirius have been behaving very good lately so we have come to a decision that will be a reward for you both."
"One free night on the town?"
"How about, no howlers at school, ALL YEAR!"
"Um, no. Nothing THAT extreme. we have decided that Sirius' room will be changed to the one right across the hall so – "
Mrs. Potter was cut off by lots of yelling and shouting for joy.
"Mum, you have NO IDEA what you just did."
"Yeah, now the racket won't be just during the day –"
" – It will be 24 hours of everyday, NONSTOP!"
"Glad you like it. Sirius, I'll go and move you things quickly then."
"Alright thanks Mrs. Potter!"
When Mrs. Potter had left, shut the door and was out of earshot, Sirius and James groaned.
"Sheesh! That is no reward!"
"That's a punishment! Now that secret passageway we made connecting our two rooms will have been for nothing!"
"Plus, if my room is across the hall from yours we can't exactly sneak to each others room! They'll see us every time we try! I swear they have alarms in those halls, when one is triggered… BAM one of them is at the scene in an instant, finding us in the same room and then keeping an eye on us for the rest of the day."
"This blows."
Mrs. Potter rushed to Sirius' room to pack it up. When she opened the door the biggest mess that she had ever seen in her life greeted her. The dresser drawers open with clothes hanging out, broken quills, crumpled up pieces of parchment, clothes on the floor, books open and scattered throughout the room, bed unmade, the mess just went on and on… Oh my word! What does he do in this room? It looks like a pigsty! This is going to take a while…
Mrs. Potter quickly dashed about the room getting rid of all the trash. When she thought that she was finally done and could pack his things, she saw a bit of parchment sticking out from behind the dresser, like it was stuffed behind there to be hidden quickly. She pulled it out and saw that it was blank. Why was it hidden if it is just blank? Oh well, I guess that I'll just throw it away then…
Crash
James and Sirius burst into the room, panting.
"STOP gasp MUM!"
"Mrs. gasp Potter, don't throw that away!"
"Mum, let US finish packing, who knows what else you threw away-"
James stopped talking, EVERYTHING had been thrown out, everything but that small piece of parchment in Mrs. Potter's hand, all of their hard work. GONE. All the maps and spells and inventions that they had made. All of their planning. She had thrown everything out.
"Mum… where is everything that was gulp on the floor here?"
"All of the crinkled up pieces of parchment are in the fire, books are on the bed and all of the other trash is in the fire. Now I can finish packing, just hold this, if you really want a small bit of parchment with nothing on it kept…" Mrs. Potter handed Sirius the paper, took out her wand and yelled, "PACK". All of Sirius' things flew into his trunk and bags, just like at Lily's. Mrs. Potter grabbed all the leftover things that didn't go in them and threw them in.
"Here you go Sirius; James, help him carry everything to his new room. I'll be back in 5 minutes and I expect both of you and all of Sirius' things to be gone from here and in his new room." Mrs. Potter walked quickly away and down the corridor.
"Boy is she touchy today," Sirius muttered as he and James picked up his things and walked down the corridor.
"Yeah, she defiantly is… hmmm, I wonder…" James started to say.
"When we will have dinner? Or when we should activate our plan against Snivellous? Or when Li-"
"SIRIUS, SHUT UP AND STOP INTERRUPTING ME!!! I was going to say, I wonder why Mum wants the room empty. Maybe she and dad DID bring Lily back with them after all!"
"Don't count on it mate, remember what your mum said? I'm moving cause we were 'good little boys lately'. But if you want to check it out, the perfect time will be tomorrow night! Your mum and dad are going to a party and we are 'supposed' to come along, we could sneak back, use the passageway and check!"
"Deal."
Thanks to all of the reviewers: sparrow-girl, marisa, SiriusAllPunked, deltanu, and emsubeme.
Chapter 4 will be called.... The First Night