A/N: Well hope you liked first chappy, I have been so tired and busy with homework and flag team that I really have no time any more, Kassie feels just about the same way, I really need more reviews, how about at least 20 reviews for this chappy, :P just joking, I don't need that many, even though it would be nice. Sorry for the mistakes for last chappy, if you found any, and for this chappy, if you find any. Don't forget to R & R!!!!
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Chapter 2------The Marauder Map
"Okay, no ones there, I'm safe...for now." thought Sirius, watching the Marauder Map as he walked down the corridor heading for the Great Hall. "Oh crap!!!" 'thump' he hit the floor and so did the person her walked into, the person he of course hadn't seen coming. He looked around to see who he'd run into, and to hi surprise and displeasure, he saw a pretty girl with bright green almond shaped eyes and long, rich red hair that fell to the middle of her back.
Lily looked up, still not noticing the other person, she began to pick up his papers along with hers. "I am really sorry, I didn't-" her words were cut short when she looked at Sirius, "Oh, it's you!"
Sirius looked at her, and a disgusted look swam across his face, "Damn it Evans, watch where the hell your going next time why don't you!"
She raised her nose in the air and replied, "well maybe if you would've paid attention to where you were going, this wouldn't have happened." she collected her books and parchment, standing up and left him on the ground to collect the rest of his stuff all by his lonesome.
She turned and walked away, her long red hair swinging against her back, Sirius scowled and mumbled to himself, "Oh, if James didn't fancy you I'd..." he began to search for the map he had been looking at. Without finding it for about 5 minutes, he saw a piece of parchment that didn't look like one of his or his friends. He unrolled it to find the name Lily Evans written neatly at the top, his mouth fell open in horror, his eyes so side they were sure to have popped out of his head; he stood up, wand in hand only and ran down the hall leaving his stuff behind in disarray. Suddenly he stopped...knowing he forgot his things and ran back.
He thought for a moment or two then ran to the library thinking that James was there, only to find Remus and Peter to be reading Magical Herbs and Fungi. "Where is-is James?" he asked out of breath.
"Dunno-" said Peter with a raised and eyebrow and a quick glance to Remus "you just missed him, he was looking for you, he looked pretty upset."
"Well that might be because he found out Lily has our map." Sirius said with a grim look on his face.
"WHAT?!" said Remus and Peter together.
"Yep, Lily took it, that little thief." Remus looked at Sirius, horror struck.
"Come on, maybe James can get the map back from Lily, but I doubt it." said Remus in a hurried voice trying to put things away.
"Well, if she doesn't, then, she can say hi to Padfoot face to face. But in the end, she won't have a face." Sirius said with a smile. They ran out of the library, leaving Remus a few seconds behind to check out the book.
When they were all finally in the common room, they looked around for James, but the only person there was...Lily. She turned to look at who had just entered the room, she quickly turned back around madder than ever. Peter and Sirius nudged Remus to step forward and talk to her. So he did, "Hullo Lily," he said, feeling kinda foolish.
She looked up at him and smiled slightly, "Hullo Remus." he nodded his head and took a step back, standing beside Sirius. "Pettigrew." she said with a cold greeting voice, he smiled largely, then noticing the coldness in her voice, is ceased to a hurt look.
Sirius crossed his arms, looking around trying to act hot; Remus getting very impatient, slammed his foot on top of Sirius' foot. He unhooked his arms and sighed loudly, Remus put his annoyed, pissy look on his face and stared hard at him. "Okay, fine!"Sirius said with an annoyed voice, "hi" Lily just stared at him with the look of utter hate.
"Yeah, well...What do you want?"Lily crossed her legs and arms. Remus stuttered, thinking on how to put it, until James was coming down the stairs from the boys dorm, he looked slightly depressed. Lily gathered her things and walked past James, up the stairs to her dorm. James looked up at Lily, and ran his hand through his hair, making it even more messy, if possible.
"So James, what are we going to do about it?" asked Remus.
"Do about it, I will tell you what we're going to do about it, we're going to do absolutely nothing, because there is nothing we can do!" he said kicking at a chair. "Boy I hate this."
"Then how are we going to get it back?" Sirius was getting very impatient at how James was taking everything, usually he would be coming up with a plot to do anything to get it back.
"There's nothing we can do, so just forget about it." he slumped down into a chair by the slowly burning fire.
"Forget about it, I am not going to forget this Prongs, this will eat at me day and night if we don't get it back this very instant," Sirius began to jump up and down like a three year old whining about wanting to go to a high priced toy store.
"Sirius, what exactly are you talking about, you and I are on the same background right?" Sirius looked clueless, James rolled his eyes, "Quidditch, remember, we can't start training right now, cause the teachers are doing something." Sirius' eyes went really wide.
"Quidditch, at this time, you are thinking about Quidditch!!! I am talking about the map, Lily stole our map you moron!"Sirius was finally throwing his arms up in frustration.
His fists became clenched, his eyes were wide, and his face was as white as a ghost. His legs went limp and he fell, only to catch himself on a chair and table, knocking pieces of parchment and books off. Remus ran and caught James before he fell completely. The two of them sat on the floor, James pulled his legs close to him and put his head on his knees, his knuckles white.
"So James, any ideas?" said Remus, getting up behind him. James turned around and began to get somewhat angry.
"Damn it Moony!" shouted James in a high voice, "I have no idea how to take it from her, especially since..." his voice went quieter, but still high and squeaky, "since I adore the girl. How do you expect me to just take it?"
"Rip it out of her hand, take her whole hand if you have to! We can't let her find out how it works, especially since it is still in visualization!" yelled Sirius. He slumped into a chair beside the fire. Remus held out a hand to James and helped him up. James put an arm on Remus' shoulder, and just sighed.
They heard quiet footsteps coming down the girls' staircase. All heads turned to see who it was. It was Lily, a very familiar looking piece of parchment in her hands out stretched. She looked up, a smug grin on her face. She looked directly at Sirius, an evil twinkle filled her eyes.
"You know Sirius, after that little mishap in the corridor earlier, I've been thinking... You're even worse of a person than I thought. Screaming at me for your lack of attention, and knocking the both of us down. And then putting a few of your papers into my stash, you know, this one," she held it up, it had all of their names in the Gryffindor common room. "You are sick, all of you! Sick, disgusting, pervs, spying on people like this!"
"Yeah well who cares, it's mine and I want it back!" he said jumping forward reaching for it, but she pulled it back in time.
"I'll give it to you, for a price." She had a cunning look on her face.
"Evans don't even think about it, we can work this out, just give it here!" James was getting sick and tired of waiting.
"Potter, don't you even dare try and sweet talk me, I know your game." she began to look bored.
"Don't make me hex you Evans," he cocked and eyebrow, his hand in his pocket on his wand. "Remember, just because we are in the same house and same year doesn't mean I won't hex you."
"You know you won't hex me, you've asked me out five times this year, and it's only been like, what, two weeks of school? You fancy me too much." Lily said with an evil grin. "Besides, Head Boy isn't aloud to hex Head Girl."
"Well maybe he does like you, but I don't and you know I'm not afraid to hex you myself." said Sirius. While the others were arguing, Remus nudged Peter in the side, indicating him to sneak upon Lily and take the map.
"Ohh, right...ouch! Stop kicking me Moony."
"Then be quiet!" Remus said through gritted teeth.
"Alright, alright." Said Peter, as he began to edge around the room, Remus watched him intently, hoping he won't get caught.
"Lily I swear I'll hex you if you don't hand it over, right NOW!" Sirius said in a threatening voice. There was a moments silence in which only James shifted uncomfortably.
"Wait, everybody, wait!" said Remus, noticing Sirius' hand slide into his pocket. "Okay, we didn't even hear what the price would be."
"Lupin, what are you talking about?" Sirius was angry.
"Well let's see what Lily wants first." said Lupin. James and Sirius looked as if they wanted to argue, but saw Peter slowly edging towards Lily and caught on. "Go on Lily, what would you like...a kiss, sure, I'll give you a kiss...for the map." he said sarcastically, taking a step toward her encouraging the others to do the same. James and Sirius started walking toward her with evil grins.
She blushed furiously as Lupin stepped the closest and was only a few inches away from her face. He began to blush also, "Wow, Remus that is the most interesting color I have seen before on your face...actually that is the only color I have really seen you as." laughed Sirius.
"Shut up!" he yelled turning a bright shade of magenta.
"Oh you know I'm only joking." said Sirius taking a step forward. Sirius reached out a hand and was ready to put it behind her head, and pull her to him. She slapped his hand, and quickly put the map in one of her robe pockets and quickly backed away. "No, don't." she paused, "please."
Just then, James jumped forward and grabbed her arms while Sirius grabbed her legs, and the two of them took her to the floor. "Lupin grab her arms while I tickle her!" called James.
"NO, no, no, no, no, no, please don't!" pleaded Lily as James got ready to tickle her.
"Okay, then tell me where the map is,"said James, keeping her pinned to the floor.
"I'm not telling!" she rebelled.
"Okay, I guess I have to tickle you till you tell me then." James said in a glee full voice; he startled tickling and no matter what she did the boys were too strong.
"Peter, get over here and search for the map while James tickles her!" Sirius called.
"Wait no, that'll be my job." said James, "Come tickle her Peter." Just as James was about to reach in the pocket the map was in, they all heard someone gasp at the bottom of the girls' staircase, James looked up to see Madison staring at then all. Lily took her chance, when she noticed the boys' attention weren't on her much anymore, and broke free. She ran to the stairs without a backward glance. "See ya later boys, oh and thanks for the map!" and disappeared.
As much as the boys wished they could be angry at Lily, none of them could seem to find anything to be mad about, even Sirius. "Evans is pretty clever isn't she Prongs" said Sirius with a smirk spreading across his face.
"Tell me about it." Said James as they climbed to their feel, when they were all finally on their feet, they looked from one to the other, then all burst out laughing till they fell to the floor again, eyes watering. They finally stopped laughing got off the floor and walked slowly up to their dorm room. When they got there, Sirius, James, and Remus all got into sleek black shorts letting the rest of their muscular, smooth, toned bodies show. (A/N: Lets just say they are boxers that the boys all favored, and bought.) They turned around to look at Peter who had newly fallen, knocking over a lamp while trying to pull off his shoes. They all smirked and turned back around.
"Peter, who don't you sit down to take off your shoes?" said Lupin lightly.
"Sorry, I just-just oh...I guess I wasn't thinking." said Peter shakily. "Sirius, don't you make a comment!"
Sirius turned around and cocked an eyebrow. "Now what made you think I was gonna say somethin'?" he said with a grin. His smile widened as he looked at Peter's outfit, with a glance at James and Lupin and a nod toward Peter, they both turned to look. Peter was wearing a pin striped outfit with little bunny slippers on. They all were grinning now, eyebrows raised.
"What?"he squeaked suspiciously.
"Oh, nothing Wormtail."said Sirius as he turned back around, "we just love those sweet little bunny slippers you're wearing." Peter went red.
"My mum thought they were cute, and bought them." he said in an embarrassed tone.
"Right, okay." said James turning around like Sirius. Lupin just smiled and sat down on his bed picking up a book. Suddenly James had an idea. "Hey my fellow Marauders, how about we go downstairs and try and sneak into the girl's dorm and get the map." All three boys looked up in surprise at first, and were all sneaking downstairs.
"Okay," said Lupin, "Now this is gonna be difficult, these stairs have a spell on them, but I don't remember what it does to keep boys out, or how to prevent them from keeping us out." he said curiously, walking over to them.
"Pete, come here" Sirius whispered, "we're gonna toss you up a couple stairs and have you climb the rest, and tell us if the spell hurts, and if it don't, then we'll come too."
"No, let's levitate him up there." said Lupin.
"I'd rather just throw him." said Sirius with a little disappointment in his voice, but settled for levitating him.
"Okay now just stand there Wormtail," said Lupin.
"Wh-what are you gonna d-do?" he asked, hoping he didn't sound scared.
"Don't worry Pete, you're gonna be our test rat, okay?" James paused, "and you have to tell us if the spell or whatever hurts, alright?" asked James with a reassuring smile.
"All-alright I guess." said Peter with a small smile that faded away as Lupin pulled out his wand and started to levitate him up the stairs.
After he was about half way up the stairs, steadily levitated from Remus' wand, who in the process was beginning to become tired and uneasy. "Does it hurt?" Sirius asked in a dark voice.
"No but my face feels really weird." squeaked Peter quietly.
"Okay, well I'm going to slowly bring you down from there." he said in a calm voice. But as he was slightly in sight, they could see as clear as if it were day, and began laughing at the sight of him. His hair had grown longer, and his face looked really girlish, he was wearing blush and bright red lipstick. And Lupin began laughing so hard that he became very tired and wasn't concentrating and the levitating spell wore off, and Peter fell to the stairs which turned into a slide and he yelled as he slid down the slide, "WHAT HAPPENED TO NICE AND EASY!" Peter yelled. Lupin, Sirius, and James were still laughing up a storm when girls started coming out of their dorm rooms to see what was going on. James was beginning to breathe normally when he saw what she was wearing; it was a pink night-dress that went just above her knees, it was slightly see-through, but had another layer under it. And a dark red robe, her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She looked down at the boys, and began to get red and hot in the face. All the girls began to laugh hysterically at the sight of Peter, Lily tried not to laugh.
"What the hell is going on, were you four trying to get in the girls dorm rooms, that will be 10 points from Gryffindor," she placed her hands on her hips, the girls from 7th to 1st year were pleading and complaining for her to reconsider, she held up her hand to silence everyone, "Do I have to make it 15? Now, you four should leave, you are all in so much trouble when I tell McGonagall tomorrow. Remus, I would have expected so much better from you!" The boys scampered out, Remus turned at the calling of his name, then left.
"Lily, you sound like a freaking teacher. Don't be so hard on them, they're only boys." said Anne beside Lily. The girls walked back into their separate dorms, Lily went to hers, laughter could be heard from everyone dorm, but were soon hushed ad silence was breached. As Lily and her room mates got settled, Lily lit a candle.
"Well, that was so funny," Belle laughed, and leaned her head on the back of her pillow. Lily sighed and picked up the map from her bedside table, and looked it over. The boys' names were set in the common room. She jumped up and changed into pants and a long sleeved shirt, she pulled the ponytail out and let her hair fall down to the middle of her back. She hid the map in her pocket and went to the door. She went downstairs quietly, not making a sound, laughter could be heard from downstairs. She sat down on the stairs, so she wouldn't be seen, and listened to their conversation.
"You know Peter, I think all those girls were very fascinated by your bunny slippers." said Remus sounding amused. Lily giggled slightly, and covered her mouth. The boys stopped talking for a brief moment and glanced back and forth at each other. They exchanged evil smirks and began to talk about her.
"Hey James, did you see Lily's nightdress?" Sirius smirked. Without meaning to the thought sent shivers down his spine.
"Well obviously he did, he's still google-eyed about it, can't you tell?" laughed Remus.
"The way she had her hair was just, well...wow!" continued Sirius, his eyes darting from the girls stairs to the boys. He growled in a low voice, it made Lily blush at what they were saying, and how they talked about James' reactions. She could hardly contain herself from falling over laughing.
"Isn't is just peachy talking about someone behind their backs," said James in a sarcastic tone, "so maybe if Lily came out from hiding on the stairs, it would be okay." her mouth fell open, how did they know she was there? She stepped out of hiding.
"Nice of you to join us," said Lupin in a polite voice still snickering. She laced her hands together and smiled, blushing crazily, looking around trying to change the subject.
"How did you guys know I was there?"she glanced at James, and looked away quickly at the sight of his bare body, she tried to focus on her feet, the floor, or a wall, it wasn't working. She glanced at the three guys wearing just their shorts and slouching in chairs, the heat of the fire glistening on their chests then she turned to look at Peter who was still wearing his fluffy bunny slippers, which had ruined the heat of the moment. She stared to giggle at the sight of him, he snapped his little attention to her, he mumbled a few words in which bed was distinguishable then left the room sulkily. "Oops, I didn't mean to make him feel bad." said Lily feeling a bit guilty.
"Oh, he'll get over it." said Sirius stretching, his muscles flexing. Lily went and sat down in a chair near Remus and began to blush when she caught James staring.
"So Lily, what are you doing down here so late at night?" asked James after realizing that he was staring at her and looked away slightly pink in the face.
"Oh," said Lily, "just wondering why you all were still down here," she said, loftily glancing at all of them, ending on James, who happened to be staring at her Pocket.
"Lily, why don't you just give us the map back." he voice calm, he seemed to be sharing the same train of thought as James. He began to stand up and step toward her.
"Black, what are you doing," said Lily as he leaned down close to her, only inches from her face.
"I just want my map back." he said in a sort of pleading voice.
"Umm, Black." she said looking into his eyes that were pouring into hers.
"Please." he said softly... She couldn't stand it, he was too close and she became nervous. Suddenly Sirius stood up straight and walked back to his seat. "Sorry." he said quietly as he sat down. They sat there quietly, Lupin shifted, and turned his head so that his shaggy, goldish brown, hair was just barely in his eyes, then slowly he closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep.
Suddenly James was too his feet, pacing until her stopped infront of Lily, and smiled while out of habit, ruffled his hair. "Lily, it's late, erm..., please just give us the map and let's all go to sleep." he said rubbing his eyes under his glasses for a moment.
Lily stood up suddenly and walked over to his and said, "James, I can't give it to you just like that, I know you'll use it for mischief. So I'm sorry, but I can't." she turned to leave, but felt him grab her hand, she turned to look at him and bode him goodnight. Until she noticed that he was really close to her face. At that moment Lupin shifted again, (purposely) and knocked James into Lily. It was only a brief moment. Their lips locked together, James' hand grasped hers and held tight, her grip on his became tighter as well; when they ran into each other, his arm went around her waist. Both of their eyes were closed. Sirius straightened up, his mouth dropped open. Lupin opened his eyes to see if his plan had worked then her smiled. Lily pulled away, and looked around, she pulled her hair behind her ear, her face was much like her hair. James looked away, he could have been just as red as she was.
"Well goodnight boys." Lily said in a high voice. No one replied. She smiled at James who smiled too. She ran up to her dorm room, and disappeared from sight. She reached her room and jumped on her bed, pulling the pillow to her mouth, and screamed loudly into the pillow. The boys could hear quite well, which seemed to have echoed. Remus looked at Sirius, he winked at Lupin, and the two of them smiled at each other. Soon, they began to roll on the floor with laughter. James continued to stand, he was still stunned. Several girls from the dorms yelled at her and them to "SHUT UP!" which made the boys laugh harder. Sirius had no sound coming out of his mouth, even though he was laughing; his face was red from lack of breath. Lupin's silvery eyes were sparkling a bright blue.
A/N: Well, that took forever to type, I am now ready for a long, long sleep. Hope that you hade fun reading this, a little had happened in this chapter. But keep reading and don't forget to review!!!