Chapter Nine

DC: I don't own Harry Potter

That night, Lily couldn't get to sleep. She found herself not getting to sleep a lot in her little life. So she went to her 'Daddy', and climbed onto his bed. James was sleeping, but he was doing something she had never seen him do. Well hear him do.

He was talking. His eyes were closed, but Lily could hear him talking. She leaned in to hear what he was saying.

"I…like…"

Lily leaned in a little more.

"Them…dirty…"

'I like them dirty?' Lily asked herself. She got off his bed, and went to the window. It was raining outside, and she could see mud all around. 'Them dirty! Ah! He likes me dirty! He must like everyone else dirty too!'

She got her little blanket, so she could carry the mud, and went to the door. She quietly pulled it open, making sure it didn't squeak. She then continued to go outside. Of course she couldn't open the big entrance door. She sat on the floor, in the entrance hall, and thought.

'Hmm…Ah! The secret entrance way!'

Lily knew secrets about Hogwarts, just like the Marauders. She went to the right portrait and opened it up. This led to the Hogwarts grounds. She saw the rain had stopped, to her convenience, and she looked at the ground.

Wet, and dirty mud. Like mud was clean in the first place. That's all she needed. She took a second to touch it, and then she leaped onto it. She rolled around and a round. She ran it through her long red hair, and slapped it onto her face.

She then took her blanket, and put as much mud, as she could handle, in it. She dragged it to her room, and pushed open the door. Luckily it hadn't closed all the way.

From what she knew, Remus was a very light sleeper. He could wake up with any sound, but her 'Daddy' and other 'Uncle' could sleep through anything. So she went to James first.

She pulled the mud around, getting mud all over in the process, and climbed onto James's bed. Lily pulled up his shirt, and opened her blanket of mud. She took a handful, and smeared it all over his stomach. She also put some in his hair.

She then went over to Sirius. Now Sirius could sleep through anything, and I mean anything. She didn't hesitate to smear it all over his face and in his hair. She got it on his bed, and hands.

Now she knew better with Remus. She only put mud inside his hangings, on the floor. She also got some on his hands.

She smiled at her cleverness, but soon realized she was out of mud. She wanted to do her room in the squishy stuff. So she went back out, but this time the door closed all the way.

Lily again went through the secret entrance, rolled in the mud some more, and then went back in. She went to the door, and found it closed. She tried the doorknob, but she was so muddy, that her hands just slipped around.

As Lily tried to get into her room, someone was up walking around. This person happened to be Dumbledore. He was walking around, when he saw a mud line.

'I wonder where this leads to!'

And so Dumbledore followed the mud line.

Inside Lily and everyone else's room, Remus heard the knocking around on the door. He stretched. As he did so, he could feel the mud on his hands. He hurriedly got up, and got onto his feet. When he tried to walk, he slipped on the mud, and got tangled in his hangings.

They ripped off, and he stumbled around the room. He found his way, somehow, to James's bed, and bumped into his nightstand.

James woke up, and his first reaction was to reach for his glasses. He put them on, and bushed his hand on his head. He felt the mud in his hair. He stood up, and the mud, which was on his stomach, fell out onto the floor.

"Moony stop!"

James helped Remus out of the hangings. Remus had the mud all over his face, because his hands were touching his face, and he was moving around so much.

And even though I said Sirius hardly woke up to anything, he sat up because of all the noise. There usually wasn't that much at night. He felt something on his face, and felt it. He didn't feel anything anyway because his hands were all muddy too. "What is going on?"

They say Lily's hangings closed, and knew she was probably asleep. But then they heard the shuffling outside the door. James grabbed his wand, and they snuck up to the door, trying not to slip on the extra mud along the way.

Outside the door, Lily was shuffling around, and still trying the doorknob. Behind her Dumbledore was slowly coming to a stop. "Lily?"

Lily jumped, turned around, and leaned on the door, "Grandpa!"

The door flew open, and Lily stumbled inside. She let the mud in her blanket fly out of her hands, and land on everyone. Even on Dumbledore who was standing outside the door.

"LILY!" The three Marauders yelled.

"Hello!" She said happily. She was on her back, and everyone was staring down at her. "When did you wake up? I thought you were a heavy seeper?"

James helped her up, and looked at her. Her hair was matted to her head with mud. Her nightclothes were dirty, and the mud was caked to her skin.

"What is the meaning of this?" Dumbledore asked. He didn't sound angry, and from the look of his face it seemed he was enjoying it.

"I don't know…sir…" James said. "Lily what made you do this?"

"I like them dirty!" Lily said, getting up off the floor. "That's what you said Daddy!"

"James!" Remus yelled.

"And I thought I was the one who made her do this!" Sirius said.

James put his hands up defensively. "I've never said that!"

"Yes you did!" Lily said. "You were seeping and you said, 'I like them dirty'!"

"I'll leave you to your things now. Goodnight." Dumbledore said.

Dumbledore left the four of them alone. Remus and Sirius were glaring at James. James didn't know what to say.

"If I was sleeping, then it wasn't my fault!" James said.

"What were you dreaming about, Prongs?" Sirius asked. "Little girls?"

"No!" James said. He thought hard about what he was dreaming about.

"We're waiting for an answer." Remus said.

"I know!" James said, suddenly remembering his dream. "I was dreaming about rice!"

Sirius and Remus gave him a weird look. James tried to explain. "You know, dirty rice! You know, the rice that has all the spices, and onions and such? That's what I was dreaming about!"

"Yeah sure." Sirius said.

"No! I'm serious!"

Lily wasn't paying them any mind. Now she was sitting on the floor, and scrapping off the dried mud on her arms, making an even bigger mess in the process.

"Lily, you need a bath." James said.

"We all do." Remus said.

"Okay then…" Sirius thought for a moment. "James, since it's your fault and all, you give Lily a bath, and me and Remus will go take baths in different bathrooms."

"It's not my fault!" James argued.

"Yay! Daddy Jamie is giving me a bath!" Lily said. She got up again, and tugged on James's hands with her muddy ones. "Come on!"

Remus and Sirius went elsewhere, and James gave Lily a bath. While he took his, Sirius and Remus came back and cleaned up all the mud in the room with their wands.

As Sirius, and when James came out, did their beds, Lily asked Remus for some water. She suddenly was really thirsty.

"Okay…" Remus said, going into the bathroom.

"Ooh! Uncle Siri? Can I seep with you?"

"Don't you think you should try to sleep in your own bed?" Sirius asked. Lily shook her head. Sirius smiled, and ruffled her, now clean, hair. "Oh, okay. Just for this night. Let me finish my bed."

He turned back to his bed, and Remus came back with the water. Lily drank all of it, and handed him the glass back. "Thank you Uncle Remie!"

Remus set the cup down, and climbed into bed. James was already in bed with his hangings shut. Lily climbed into bed with Sirius, and was soon asleep.

"Well…Lets see if I can get back to sleep." Sirius said to no one in particular.

"I know. This has been one…er…dirty night." Remus replied with a little laugh.

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Lala Rue here, and I like them Dirty! Actually I don't, but I love that line!

Yep yep, James has love dreams about 'Dirty Rice'. I do hope that's what it is, LoL.

No one agree's with me! I feel sad now...but Oh well... I can believe what I'd like to believe, but I want to say one thing:

Dumbledore didn't die right. You don't get thrown into the air with Avada Kedavera! You ShouldJust Fall!

Okie, with that said, and the capital letters for each word, and the two words in between italitized,I'll update soon...actually whenever I can get chapter ten down! LoL.

Love, Lala Rue!