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A/N: Hey peeps this is Kassie I'm finally typing up a chapter, I'm not very good at typing (it's my fingers fault they have little minds of they're own). Any who hope you like this chapter please R&R. By the way we have eight chapters written it's just hard finding time to type them.
Chapter 3:
The next morning at breakfast Lily didn't show up, James sighed with a bit of relief.
Sirius entered the Great Hall he had a giant smile on his face. Sirius sat down in front of Remus and James.
"What's up?" Remus said witha twinkle in his grey eyes.
"Lily isn't coming to breakfast, she's too afraid to face youProngs." He said with an ever widening grin. James blushed and sat up straighter.
"Where is she?" he asked.
"In front of the doors." Sirius replied "Anne is trying to make her come in but no luck."
At that moment Anne and Peter came in together running. Peter stepped forward, "Lily says she will only come in, if you leave." he said to James. Anne shook her head up and down in agreement. Sirius and Remus laughed slightly and bent their heads over their food.
Lily was in the clutches of her friends who were behind her pushing her to go in. She sat herself on the floor and refused to get up when suddenly the doors to the Great Hall opened and out walked Anne. Peter followed her, then came Remus who looked at Lily on the floor. He smiled at her, then Sirius came and stood by Remus and stared as James stopped in front of Lily. She looked from the floor up to his eyes, he was shaky, but he tried to hide it. He held out a hand for her to take. She placed her hand in his, and he lifted her to her feet. Their eyes met, and she looked away. She removed her hand then walked off towards the common room alone; everyone followed her with their eyes.
James hesitated for a moment; then leaving his friends behind, he chased after her, calling her name. She went behind a tapestry and found a small passageway, but it was only a dead end. She began to run to the staircase leading to the common room that the first years used; she didn't pay attention and stepped into the trick step, her foot was caught and no matter how hard she tried, she remained stuck with every tug at her leg; she kept sinking deeper and deeper until her knee was just above the step.
Looking around James couldn't find any trace of Lily.
"Evans...erm…Lily" he called as he ran toward the common room. "Evans, come on don't hide." he pleaded. "I just want to talk to you please."
She could hear him but didn't want him to see her stuck like this, he was getting closer but there was no way out, he turned the corner and saw her. She felt like such an idiot. "There you are, I've been looking for you everywhere." He said as he sprinted toward her. "Here let me help you," he said with a sympathetic grin, "Just don't run away this time," he finished. She just grinned. She was so nervous she couldn't speak. "Ok on the count of three pull. One… Two… Three… Pull." They gave a really hard tug and her foot slipped out. "Is your shoe still there?" he asked as she moved her legs, "Cause I remember when I stepped in there this one time,the thing took my shoeand my sock." he said and then began to turn pink. 'I am such an idiot,' he thought to himself as his cheeks began to burn.
"Yeah I still have m-my socks and sh-shoes" she stammered staring down at her feet determined not to make eye contact.
"Lily about last night, I'm not embarrassed and you shouldn't be either. It was an accident. And that's my kind of accident." They both blushed. Then they looked at each other and smiled again.
"So about that map Lily," he began to say but was cut short as a greasy haired, long nosed, pale boy walked around the corner. "Hello Snape," said James in a sort of strained voice.
The boy was startled that James had addressed him by that name, but said in a cold drawl "Oh, hello Potter. What are you two doing here, pulling another prank?" He gave them a sneer and said "You're not with your usual crowd Potter, and Evans I'm surprised that a little mud-blood like yourself is aloud to even look at Potter since he is so famous for Quidditch and all."
Lily gasped and glared at Snape.
"You ugly little git." said James as he reached for his wand.
"Expelliarmus." shouted Lily as the two boys looked up startled and both of their wands flew out of their hands and into Lily's. "Get your filthy hands off of my wand Evans." Snape spat. Lily took the sleek black wand in one hand "OH…do you mean this wand, is this yours?" she asked pretending to sound sweet, Snape swore under his breath then said "Well that's obvious."
"Well I guess it is," she said and then walked swiftly to the railing of the stairs and dropped the wand "Oops, my bad." She said with a sickeningly sweet smile in Snape's direction. He glared at her for a moment wanting to say something but turned and ran down the stairs cursing.
James just stood there gaping. "I suppose you'll be wanting this back then." said Lily smiling at the confused look on James's face.
"Why didn't you let me handle him?" he asked taking his wand back.
"I'm a tough girl. I can handle myself." she laughed as he blinked in confusion.
"Evans, you're in trouble now. Just wait 'till Lucius hears about this!" shouted Snape from the bottom of the stairs. He then ran off cursing loudly.
"I can't stand him!" said James clenching his fists, "It's a little old you know, calling you a-well…" She blinked, and looked away.
"Well class is about to start. Maybe we should go." He smiled at her words.
They walked close together, and she made sure to step over the trick step but missed the stepover it and tripped. James, with his quick reflexes (from all those years of quidditch author says with cheesy voice and wink), caught her in his arms. He looked down at her and smiled. He then stood her back on her feet and without noticing the two of them locked their hands and walked hand in handup the steps. James looked down and finally noticed their hands and turned his head and smiled.
"What? What is it?" Lily asked as she noticed the awkward grin. She looked down and realized that they were holding hands and pulled away. "Oh" she whispered quietly as he sighed and put his hands in his pockets.
Later they walked into the common room laughing, mainly from talking about her sister.
"Lily, Lily!" shouted Anne, running forward. Behind her were her other two friends Belle and Madison. They soon walked up to their dorm and disappeared.
Remus and Peter were on thefloor doing homework, though Remus did most of the work. Sirius sat in a chair beside the fire; James flopped onto the couch and rested his head on the arm. "What's up Prongs?" Sirius said as he jumped up and sat down next to him. "Nothing" sighed James.
"So where have you and Evans been all morning?" said Sirius as he sat up and looked at James.
"I went looking for her and I finally found her so we walked around and just talked." "Oh. Well we have Defense Against the Dark Arts today." said Sirius.
"Yeah" said James gloomily.
"What's eating you Prongs?" said Sirius sitting up. "You look like your being eaten by a hippogriff you aren't,are you?"
James shifted in his seat avoiding Sirius' gaze.
"What's wrong?" Sirius said seriously.
"Its Lily okay and there's nothing you can do about it, so just back off!" James snapped.
"Did she say something? Did she do something? What's wrong?" Sirius said a little alarmed.
"I'm just stressed, that's it, I'm just… wanting November to roll around so quidditch will start."
"James you obviously like Lily a lot, go get her alone and tell her that, even if she already knows." suggested Remus.
James stood up and walked to his dormitory to get his books and quills.
The whole day nobody not even the Marauders would save him a seat, the only remaining seat open was next to Lily. The only classes he didn't have with her were Divination and Herbology. During those two classes she had choir classes with her friends.
James loved to hear her sing; she was often humming or singing in the common room. Lily was always told by the teachers of the class that was the best. Every time he herd her sing it sent chills down his spine.
At lunch Lily, Belle, Madison, and Anne went down to the lake. They had began to sing the new song they had learned "something wicked this was comes". The girls sounded wonderful, it caused passersby to slow down to listen when they heard the girls.
After a few minutes of talking, the other three girls stood up leaving Lily on the ground.
"Well Lily we've got to go help Anne on her homework, she decided to not pay attention in Transfiguration today, and has no idea what to do!" Belle sighed, giving Anne a stern look. The girls said goodbye then departed, leaving Lily sitting alone. As her three friends walked into the castle they past the Marauders who were coming outside; Sirius began whistling, then he looked back behind him somewhere and shouted "Right professor your office tonight, we'll make it a date!"
The boy's spotted Lily and made there way over.
"Hey Evans," Sirius called "What's up?" he asked as they came nearer.
"Nothing! So what about you and the professor?" she asked curiously. Sirius smirked "McGonagall gave me detention, but I know she likes me… deep down, I mean how can she resist me?" He smiled cheekily "It's the BLACK magic, she just can't resist it!" he said emphasizing Black.
The other boy's rolled they're eyes and James snickered and said "yeah Sirius I'm sure she fell in love with your mischievous smile, or maybe because you've met her in her office so many times she really is beginning to believe that you two are dating, or maybe she's fallen in love with the way you throw parties in the middle of the night just to wake her up" James said sarcastically.
"Yeah, Sirius I'm sure she just can't resist the Black magic!" Remus stated innocently as Sirius frowned.
Lily laughed and agreed with Remus, Sirius just shrugged and brushed imaginary dust off his shoulders.
"Hey Prongs, do you want to go to the Quiditch Pitch we can invite Lily and the other ladies" Remus said while getting up off the ground. "What do you say Lils" Sirius asked hopefully.
"Sure what time" she asked.
"Bout an hour" Remus suggested.
"Ok we'll be there" Lily said.
"Great!" Sirius said enthusiastically, "Let's go invite those beautiful ladies" he finished, a grin spreading across his face. Remus rolled his eyes and followed Sirius, while peter tagged along. As the boys began to walk away Lily could have sworn she heard Sirius say "When I say beautiful I mean Madison!" Remus smacked him over the head and glared at him.
"So your Prongs then?" Lily asked.
James just nodded. "Well I saw them on the map when I trying to make it work, and judging by the comments it said to me I'm guessing…" she paused for a moment to take a breath " your Prongs, Sirius is padfoot, Remus is Moony, and peter is Wormtail" she finished.
Again James just nodded while staring at her.
"Why do you guys have such weird nicknames?" she asked.
"Oh! Remus came up with them you should ask him" James answered nervously
"Lily about the map when are we going to get it back? We're going to need it next week!"
"Why?" she asked suspiciously.
"No special reason just the ordinary mischief!" he said smiling evilly.
"Come on you have to give me a better reason than that" Lily said slyly.
"I'll throw you in the lake if you don't give me the map back," he threatened playfully.
"You wouldn't dare!" she shrieked as he picked her up off the ground, he walked over to the lake, still holding her then purposely dropped her. As she fell she reached out and grabbed his robes pulling him in on top of her.
He pulled his head out of the water and looked around, suddenly he felt something push hard on his chest; he rolled over and Lily sat straight up gasping for breath. They helped each other out of the lake and headed off towards the castle again.
When they reached the common room Madison, Belle, and Anne looked up at Lily in shock.
"Um… Lily we'll just meet you in the dorm." Madison giggled. They all stood up and with they're books made their way up the girls' staircase.
Suddenly Sirius, Remus, and Peter came down the stairs laughing; they looked at James and Lily who were dripping with water. There mouths dropped open.
"What in the world were you two doing?" Sirius smirked.
"I knew we shouldn't have left you two alone without parental supervision!" Remus said a grin on his face.
"Well I was telling herto give the map back, when shesaid she wouldn'tgive it to me I threw her in the lake, as she fell in she grabbed my robes and we both fell in!" James said trying not to laugh. Finally everyone began laughing; when they stopped, Lily went to the girls' staircase "I'll be back in a few minutes with the girls!" with that she turned and left.
James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all sat in silence for a few minutes; James turning redder with every glance the other boys shot at him.
Girls dorm.
Lily reached the girls dorm. Where all the girls were getting ready to go outside.
"Lily whatever happened between you and Potter; we've decided we don't want to know about it!" Belle smirked while brushing her hair, the other girls agreed. Lily shrugged and began changing.
"Lily I hope you know that I'm not going to enjoy this at all if Snape comes around! It's not terrible going with the guys but remember I'm doing this for you so if Snape happens to follow us or something …" Madison took out her wand and pointed it at a picture of Snape, that he had given her for Christmas last year (which looked like it had caught fire more than once) and shot a curse at it that blew his nose off. Lily rolled her eyes and nodded, she was used to this kind of behavior from Madison when it came to Snape.
When Lily was changed the girls made there way down stairs.
Common room
The boys still sat there; Sirius, Remus, and Peter all staring at James. Suddenly all they're attention was on the girls' stair case as the four girls stepped out all looking around awkwardly.
"We're ready to go," Lily said looking at all the boys and smiling slightly.
The boys stood up and greeted the girls, Remus nodded to all of them pausing on Belle, Sirius gave them all a sexy grin then winked at Madison who rolled her eyes and looked away, James greeted them with "hello ladies", and peter waved.
Ten minutes later they were all in the Entrance hall about to leave when Professor McGonagall walked over to them.
"Ahh! Professor, I know you can't get enough of me but I have detention with youall evening tonight and I'm planning out our next few dates all ready, isn't that enough for you!" Sirius said while smiling broadly at her, Madison smirked but turned away so as not to show it.
McGonagall looked annoyed but chose to ignore his comment. "Mr. Lupin, Miss. Evans would you please follow me I need to discuss something with you in privet."
Remus and Lily looked at the others then marched off with the professor. Madison glanced at the others then sneaked off following the three. Sirius looked at James with a grin and the two followed by, the others followed Madison's example. When they caught up to her they found her with their ear to the door, when she noticed they were there she straightened up and walked over to them "I can't hear what they're saying," she sighed.
Sirius and James raced to the door and began listening in on the conversation inside. Madison smirked "actually I could hear everything, I just want to see what happens when McGonagall finds them".
Inside the office
"Here are a few of the new schedules for the students who decided to change classes, and…" she paused for a few moments then said "there's something else you ought to know, we have reason to believe that a Slytherin might be trying to break into the Gryffindor Common Room." McGonagall said choosing her words carefully. Lily and Remus glanced at each other in surprise.
"Do you have any clues to which Slytherin itmight be?" Lily asked in suspicion.
McGonagall shook her head in disappointment "All we know is that it's an older year, probably a seventh year. So we need to change the password." Lily and Remus nodded and glanced at each other.
"The new password is…"
"Ow! James stop kicking me!" Sirius growled in pain.
"Then shut up! They're going to hear us!" James snapped. Just then the door opened and the boys fell in.
Madison laughed, while the other concealed they're smirks and fits of laughter.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Black on your feet now!" The Professor scolded. The boys stood muttering in pain.
The professor turned back to the two and added to Remus "By the way your disappearances are becoming a problem with the other students, we need to discuss it later," she finished quickly noticing the color draining from his face as he glanced at his fellow students. With that she stepped back into her office and shut the door with a snap.
The group went back to the Entrance hall discussing what had just happened, and trying to guess who was trying sneak in, every now and then Lily and Remus would glance at Madison and look away quickly.
"By the way Madison, we know you were following us!" Lily said turning to Madison "Yeah we herd you trip back there" Remus laughed.
"Curse your hearing both of you, Sirius if you make a comment I'll smack you" she said looking from Remus to Sirius who had opened his mouth to comment.
"What did McGonagall mean about your disappearances" Lily asked.
Remus went very white, "Can we talk about this later?" he asked in a croaky voice as the rest of the marauders looked at him eyes wide.
"Bu..." Lily's question was cut short as the boys took off running outside, while Peter waddled.
Lily stood stunned for a second then her and the girls sprinted outside after the boys.
"Wait!" she said as she caught up to the boys "It can't be as bad as sneaking out all the time or breaking rules is it?" She asked.
"Lily can we please just talk about it later?" James pleaded.
"No! I need to know, besides if it's dangerous then I have to know" she said suspiciously "I'll give you the map if you tell me!" she said.
"Lils we seriously can't tell you right now!" James stated, Sirius no comment.
Sirius frowned in disappointment.
"I swear, I'll tell you later" Remus whispered anxiously hoping she got the point, which she obviously did because she gave up the argument. Remus was thankful because he had some feelings towards Belle.
"Come on let's get to the Quiditch Pitch!" James motioned following Sirius.
Minutes later they were all standing inside the stadium looking into the stands, wondering where Sirius had gone.
"HELLO, LADIES, GENTS, GERMS, AND ALL THOSE IN BETWEEN IN OTHER WORDS THE MARAUDERS!" Sirius' voice boomed.
"Apparently Sirius has found the megaphone!" Anne laughed while the boys frowned slightly.
"Apparently!" Peter muttered looking Anne.
"ALL SLYTHERINS SUCK, DIE YOU EVIL, FOUL, GREASY, AND NOT TO MENTION STUPID, FAGS!" Sirius laughed evilly. James began laughing he laid down on the ground with Lily by his side; Remus, Belle, Peter, and Anne followed. Madison looked at themall the girls were talking to the boys that they were resting with she felt slightly left out but lay down anyways. Soon Sirius came back smiling in a satisfied way.
James helped Lily up, Sirius helped Madison, Remus helped Belle, and Peter helped Anne.
When they were all finally standing they heard cold a drawling voice drift across the field "We should have known it was Gryffindor's" the voice said, this was followed by snickers, from other loud voices. The marauders and the girls spun around to see Lucios Malfoy, Snape, Crabb, Goyle, and a few other Slytherins.
James took a step forward "Listen we don't want any trouble."
"You shouldn't have picked on better and more efficient students!" Malfoy sneered.
"Who you losers you were all just easy targets" Sirius smirked evilly.
"Lily you and the girls go on back to the castle" James said noticing Madison gripping her wand and glaring at Snape. Lily looked at him in confusion and shook her head.
"No I'm not leaving you, we're all young adults and we can all handle this, so I'm staying" she stamped her foot on the ground. James "sighed"; there was no point in arguing with her.
In the back ground Sirius had been making fun of the Slytherins, and suddenly Remus yelled "Oy! James, Lily look out."
James threw himself on the ground and pulled Lily with him. Hexes began flying everywhere, and once James' glasses shattered, but Sirius repaired them in an instant.
Minutes later, several people were lying on the ground looking terrible and trying to stand and up, mainly slytherins. James had several people's wands in hand; he lay on the ground his legs magically bound. Lily stood up and did a few counter curses; her hair had been turned dark blue.
Malfoy's hands were covering his face, he had began to scream in pain and when he removed his hands it was plain to see boils covered his face forming the word 'freak'!
Sirius however was sitting on the ground next to Madison in fetal position humming a song, rocking back and forth as he did so. Lily could of sworn he was humming "Ring around the Rosie".
Madison looked dead as she lay there passed out on the ground, Lily looked around and saw Snape looked almost the same way except not as pale, Lily guessed
They had shot a curse at each other and that they're curses had rebounded on each other and hit they're owners.
Peter was on the ground barking and whining, like a dog. Lily walked over and helped Belle and Anne to they're feet. The three girls conjured up stretchers for they're companions and left. Lily stood beside James, who had dropped the Slytherins wands.
Belle had fixed Lily's hair to its natural color, then she went to help Remus get to his feet, he was good to walk but he limped terribly.
The Slytherins could be heard getting up and searching for their wands that had been carelessly dropped on the ground.
Lily sighed "This was so stupid!" she thought to her self, then she began to grin as she thought back on all the times she had herd Slytherins say stuff like
"Stupid mudblood!" or "That little mudblood thinks she is so smart!" when she passed them in the corridors, after thinking about this she couldn't help but laugh at the look on Malfoy's face when those boils spread across it. Yet she was still worried about what madam Pomfrey would think when she noticed that it was Gryffindor's and Slytherins who were all beat up.
While she was thinking about this Belle was helping Remus his left leg was still bleeding and had began to turn green. James was walking beside Sirius' stretcher, and even though James completely fine he was humming "It's a small world after all" with Sirius. Madison however was still unconscious but had began to mutter rude comments about Snape, so rude that Remus every now and then would shake his head and chuckle a bit as he glanced behind at her. Anne had decided to accompany Peter who barking mad literally, he was still barking, whining, and whimpering, Anne couldn't help but giggle.
Lily looked around at the group and noticed James looking at her suspiciously, she looked away quickly and called to Belle who was still a few feet behind, but before Belle had got there James through himself on the ground, wrapped his arms around Lily's legs and said in his most childish voice "I wuv you Wily!".
"Yes well get off Potter!" she said while shaking him off, "Belle could you please come over here for a moment?" Lily called again. Belle left Remus' side; he stumbled for a second before James jumped up and helped him walk. "yes, Lily what did you need!" Belle asked as she walked next to her friend. "Oh! Actually I don't want to walk alone!".
The two girls looked over at Anne who had just shrieked. Peter had began to lick and gnaw on her arm. "EWW!!!!" she mouthed to them.
Minutes later they arrived in the hospital wing, getting fixed up only Madison, Sirius, and Peter stayed. Remus' leg was fixed in five minutes and the rest were fine except for a few bruises.
James, Lily, Belle, Remus and Anne finally got back to the common room after being interrogated by Madam Pomfrey.
"I think I've had enough excitement for now I'm gonna go on and take a nap before dinner" belle said making her way to the girls stairs Anne agreed "me too" with that the girls left. Remus sighed and he left as well.
Meanwhile back in the hospital wing Madison had just regained conciseness and was just sitting up in bed when Madam Pomfrey came bustling in.
"Awake are you?" without concern "well good maybe you can tell me what happened to you and these boys" she finished while pointing at Sirius who was humming some nonsense, Peter who was now asleep and no longer barking or whining.
"We err… were attacked by Slytherins" she nervously glancing at Sirius who winked but kept humming.
'Faker' she thought to herself but said nothing, she looked back at madam Pomfrey who was giving her a disapproving look obviously not believing Madison's story. Madison looked away from her nagging gaze.
"Is he gonna be ok?" she asked nodding at Sirius, who was now singing "I love you" to Madison.
"Yes he'll be fine" madam Pomfrey said waving her hand impatiently in his direction.
"I love you Madison" he began singing getting up out of his bed, he walked over to her bed and got inches away from her face, he was just looking into her deep blue eyes…
Ha Ha! A little cliffy of my own. Any ways hey thanks for reading and reviewing on the past few chapters and I hope you like this one too! Please R&R thanks a lot!