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A/N: Special thanks to my friend Antwon for helping me with this chapter! PLEASE REVIEW! Disco fevah!

Ice, Elbows, and Snowmen

"James, you've still got the tic-tac-toe game on your face," Peter pointed out.

"Shut up, Peter! I couldn't remove it! I don't know what kind of ink that woman used!" James began rubbing his cheeks frantically but to no avail. He's cheek did look unbelievably rosy after that.

The two boys were headed for the lake for next part of James's Christmas plan. After the "painful success" of his first few good deeds, James and Peter began making plans for today's good deed. Operation Jell-O, they called it.

"Ok, do you have everything?" James asked praying silently that Peter wouldn't mess up this time.

"Yup," Peter answered, "I have the Jell-O, a school broom, and ice skates. Did I forget anything?"

"You forgot a change of underwear."

"NOOOOOOOO!" Peter looked as if he was about to need that change of underwear really soon.

"Never mind, give me the ice skates."

James walked over to the frozen Hogwarts Lake and skated around. He wrote a message on the ice. For Lily, he thought.

"So you understand the plan, Peter? You fool Lily into flying up with the broomstick, you distract her with a fireball, I throw the Jell-O at her face, she loses balance, I skate and catch her, and she looks down and sees the message, I make her happy. That, again, would be two good deeds in one day. Got it?" James again began to pray silently.

"Right, I'll just wait for you to start signaling to start the fire, ok?"

James breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank God, Wormtail"

The boys took their respective positions; James behind a tree and Peter next to it. Just in cue, Lily came strolling in whistling "God Rest Thee Merry Hippogriffs" as she walked.

"Lily, Lily?" Peter ran to the girl like a little kid.

"What is it this time, Pettigrew?" Lily asked. "Did you pee your pants again?"

"NO!" Peter blushed. "My quill got stuck up the tree."

"And how'd it get up there?"

"I…uh…I sneezed it up! Yeah, that's it! I sneezed it up!"

(James slapped his forehead. "Of all excuses that moron could make….")

Lily gave Peter her deadly one-eyebrow-raised stare. "You sneezed it up?"

"Y-yeah," Peter gulped.

"Why can't you just climb up and get it?"

"My body has too much mass therefore the pull of gravity is strong on me. I cannot possibly pull myself up that stationary life form." Peter sounded as if he memorized his statement by rote…and he did.

(James slapped his forehead again. "He wasn't supposed to quote the book!")

"Merlin, Pettigrew! When did you learn to talk like that?"

"Uh…Remus taught me? So can you help?" Peter pouted.

"All right, Pettigrew. Just get that idiotic look out of your face." Lily began climbing up the tree.

"No wait! I've got a broom." Peter stepped forward and handed Lily the broom.

"Ok then, Peter."

Lily flew up and disappeared behind the tree"s many branches and began searching. Peter could no longer see her and so decided to follow James's voice as to where to launch the fireball from his wand ("He should be near Lily," Peter said.). James slowly started walking nearer Lily, Jell-O in tow. He was looking right up at her and didn't notice that he was walking straight into the tree's trunk…and he did.

"OW!" James yelled, rubbing his forehead.

Peter heard James's voice and in his excitement shot straight toward James's voice instead of using it as a guide toward Lily. Peter's "incredibly aimed" fireball shot right into the unfortunate Potter lad's pants.

"MERLIN!" James ran toward the lake so as to rid of his hot buns, but he didn't forget to throw the Jell-O at Lily. It hit her face and fell onto the ice, but Lily remained in the air.

James still kept running, and running, and running…? "Wait! THE LAKE'S FREAKIN' FROZEN! PETER, YOU IDIOT!" James continued running around in circles until he slipped onto his bum and bumped in forehead on the ice ("OW!), and yet, the flames were still alive.

And, again, Peter stood frozen to the spot about to pee in his pants, and Lily flew in to the rescue. She ran unsteadily in the slippery silver ice towards James in the frozen Hogwarts Lake and didn't notice the strawberry flavored Jell-O lying on the ice, and so, sadly, she too slipped onto the ice with her elbow hitting and knocking the wind out of James as she did. Lily put out the fire with an Aguamenti spell, but it was too strong (it did put the fire out, though). The force of the water coming out from Lily's wand cause the two to slide back toward the tree causing them to hit its trunk and release the snow it held in its branches toward them.

"James, are you all right?"

"OW?" That was all James could say at the moment. His glasses were next to him on the ice… broken, and everything was a blur. The first thing he saw was Lily's flaming red hair. "AH! It's still burning! AGUAMENTI!" He released a jet of water toward Lily's head causing it to hit the tree and release more snow.

"POTTER!" Lily screamed. She grabbed James's glasses, repaired it, and shoved it into his face. "LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID! I'M SOAKING WET!"

Horrified, all James could do was cover his face with his hands and muttered, "Sorry, Lily." And yell, "DON'T HURT ME!"

Lily pointed her wand toward her head and dried herself up. "We gotta get you to Pomfrey and fix that bump on your head." Lily said sharply.

"But isn't she out ice fishing?"

"Crap! Oh, yeah," Lily replied. "We might as well go to the teachers. Maybe now they'll be able to hear us this time."

And so, with sore bottoms, James and Lily limped quietly toward the staffroom to ask for some help. But, sadly, the world still had something against them….

"Oh, Merlin, not again," Lily cursed. The door was locked once again. "What the heck are they having in there this time?"

And, as if to answer her question, loud music began playing from inside the staffroom…

Staying alive! Staying alive!

Ah, ah, ah, yeah!

Staying aliiiiivvvveeeee!

"Of all days to have a dance party, this is when they decide to have it! And to DISCO music at that! DISCO MUSIC!" Lily began banging her head on the door. "Come on, Potter. I don't even want to see what they're doing there now."

And so James and Lily trudged back outside and left the professors to carry on with their disco conga lines and bad Saturday Night Fever (or whatever you call it) imitations inside the secret staffroom.

"We might as well gather the mess you created near the lake before someone else gets hurt," Lily started.

"Yeah," James replied rather miserably, "we should."

The two headed down toward Hogwarts Lake not saying a word to anyone. James's head was swimming due to the bump in his head, he couldn't think clearly but one could see from the look on his face that he was quite miserable at that time. No one even dared to look at Lily because even without looking they could feel her anger bursting from within.

"Some good deed snowman I made," James mumbled. "Everything went wrong today."

"SNOWMAN?" Lily yelled. "You gave me that card?" Lily was about to start telling James off at that moment, but she was stopped. She saw how disappointed James looked.

"I'm sorry, Lily," James whispered, "I never planned for any of this to go wrong."

"So you're that 'handsome snowman'?"

James nodded.

"I know that snowman story, too."

James raised his head. "You do?"

"Yeah, I heard Peter reading it aloud to himself a few days back."

"Oh."

"I think he forgot to tell you one bit though."

"What's that?"

"The snow princess didn't end up with the snowman. The kiss did turn him into a prince, but that didn't make her love him. After seeing that the princess never loved him but someone else, he asked to be frozen into a snow globe for the princess to keep; he couldn't stand the sadness. It would only melt him."

James looked like he was about to cry. "Oh, that sucks. I can't believe Peter forgot to tell me that."

"Thanks, though." Lily couldn't help feeling sorry for James and gave him an awkward pat on the back.

"Sure," James replied. "I think I need to lie down. My head's swimming right now, and I don't feel too well."

But Lily knew better. "Poor James," Lily whispered as she watched him limp toward the castle.

Lily sadly headed for the ice to retrieve the broom and scoop up the Jell-O that was left behind. She didn't mind cleaning up after Potter's mess this time seeing as the poor guy was quite depressed right now and his stupid friend was somewhere still controlling his bladder problem. As she was picking up the broom, she saw something written inside a heart on the ice:

Happy Christmas, Lily

You fill my heart with glee

And as you read this poem

I hope you'll think of me

-James

"That git," Lily sniffed. She dropped the broom and ran toward the castle. "JAMES! HEY, JAMES!"

James turned around and was about to apologize once more before Lily ran up to him and gave him a big kiss…on the cheek.

"Thanks!"

"Oh!" James was turning scarlet and his legs began to feel like strawberry Jell-O. He was about to fall over before Lily caught him by the elbows.

"C'mon, James," she said, "let's get some hot chocolate."

James and Lily walked toward the castle with James's arm around Lily's waist. "Hey, Lily," he whispered.

"Yes, James?" She gasped. Their faces were inches apart.

Both their hearts were beating quickly and they couldn't feel the winter chill. It felt like it was summer again. James's face moved closer to Lily's blushing one.

"Sorry about the Jell-O," he whispered.

"W-WHAT?" Lily's eyes grew large with fury. "IDIOT!" She smacked him on the back of the head. "YOU THREW THAT?"

James looked down. "I guess that means no hot chocolate?"

Lily's face quickly softened, and her anger disappeared. "Nah, you went through too much trouble….."

"YAY!" James did a victory dance, looked at Lily, smiled, and…and kissed her swiftly—but gently—on the lips.

They both got dreamy looks in their eyes. "Wow…" they whispered and continued walking to Hogwarts castle to get their hot chocolates.

The snowman got his snow princess that, after all…on that Christmas Day Eve….

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