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The Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers
Chapter 1 – Back to School
The Marauders were deep into discussion about their latest plots when Peter Pettigrew noticed Lena passing their compartment.
"Hey, that was one of them!" he said in a squeaky voice. Peter's voice had always made him sound like he was terrified of everything.
Sirius jumped out of his seat and poked his head out of the compartment. He saw Lena heading to the Prefects compartment. "What was her name again?" he asked as he pulled his head back and closed the door.
"Wolf." Remus said. "Lena Wolf, I think."
"Moony, you should consider pairing up with her." Sirius grinned and James laughed. "Considering your special situation and her last name, you two won't have problems at all."
"Shut it, Padfoot." Remus said, but grinned.
"She reminds me of someone, with that black hair." Peter said.
"Of course!" James said, excitement and mischief glowing in his eyes. Sirius just stared at him. "Padfoot, who do you know that has black, greasy hair?"
"Aaah!" Sirius grinned. "Snivellus."
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Padfoot?" James said.
"Absolutely."
"Will you two stop your telepathy thing?" Remus said. He put a book he was reading down and stared at his two friends. "It gets scary sometimes. And you should tell us what you're thinking about."
"Moony, my dear boy. You have just lost the chance of being paired up with the Wolf girl." Sirius grinned.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Not that I'm disappointed or something, but care to explain yourself?"
"Do you have that old spell book with you, Peter?" Sirius asked and when Peter nodded, he sat down and started explaining what he (and obviously James) had in mind.
"I swear those prefects need to be whipped." Lena said as she angrily returned to her compartment.
"What did they do now?" Slim asked.
"I went to ask them politely," she looked at Gwen for moment and then turned back to Slim, "about how much longer do we have until we get to Hogsmeade. And all they did was glare at me like I was a Thestral!"
"You can't see Thestrals." Cyndi said.
"Exactly!" Lena said throwing her arms in the air.
Gwen giggled. "You were ignored."
Lena poked her tongue out at Gwen. "Meanie." She mumbled and Gwen continued giggling.
"We've been on the road for about two hours, I think." Pike said as he put an arm around Cyndi's shoulder. "I think we still have a couple of more hours until we get there."
"Why are you on a hurry, anyway?" Cyndi asked.
"I'm just tired." Lena said.
"Oh, I know that look!" Gwen said. "You're hiding something from us!"
"I am not!" Lena said and adjusted the collar of her turtle neck sweater.
"Why are you wearing that?" Slim asked. "It's not even that cold this time of the year."
"New term, new style." Lena replied and got up. "I'll go and see what the others are doing."
Sirius finished telling his friends of his genius plan, and he asked Peter to give him the spell book. Peter took it out of his bag and gave it to Sirius.
"It should be here somewhere. I know my mother used it on her cousin once." Sirius said as he looked through the pages.
"Padfoot, I don't think this is a good idea." Remus said. "It's a bit... extreme."
"Yeah, and with those Slytherins around her all the time, I doubt that we'd succeed." Peter said.
"She's not surrounded by them all the time." James said. "That bloke, what was his name? The one with the silver hair."
"Bonecrusher." Sirius said as he continued reading.
"Yeah, him." James said. "He's with the Hagrid girl all the time, so he won't be around most of the time."
"What about Draigh?" Remus asked.
"We can distract him." James said. "Peter would go and ask for help. Homework assignment or something."
"You forgot the other girls." Remus said.
"And there, Remus, my dear fury friend, is where you come into action." Sirius said, closing the book.
"Don't tell me I have to flirt with them!" Remus said.
"Not quite." Sirius said. "But almost."
"Almost?" Remus asked.
Sirius roared with laughter. "Just kidding, Moony."
Remus glared at him and sighed.
"You should bring Snivellus to wherever she is at the time I'm about to cast the spell." Sirius said.
"What spell are you using anyway?" James asked.
Sirius opened the book to the page where he found the spell. "The Amortentia spell." He said and showed them the page. "Works just like the potion, only this one doesn't wear off. A counter spell should be used to stop it." He grinned.
"Sirius," Remus said. "You do realize that you'd be breaking over 50 school rules by only thinking about using that spell, don't you?"
"I do." Sirius said and shut the book. "But no one would know. This spell is undetectable." He winked. "Only it hurts at the beginning when it reaches the target."
"We don't want to have her end up in the Hospital Wing!" Peter squeaked.
"She won't. I promise." Sirius said and opened the book again to learn how to cast it. "Snivelly needs to be the last person she sees before she gets hit with the spell." He said and continued reading.
"And then he was hanging from a tree, while his legs were running in circles around it." Dense laughed at the story she was telling. The others who shared her compartment laughed with her as well.
"Did they fix him?" Nim asked.
"I have no idea." Dense replied. "I was forced to go to my room by the time the Ministry people came." She continued laughing. "You should've seen his face. He It was priceless!"
JJ grinned. "I wish I could do the same to my neighbor."
"You'd probably end up apologizing and telling everyone it wasn't your fault and then you'd promise to help them with their daily chores." Siri laughed.
JJ made an innocent face. "I wouldn't do anything of that sort." She said and winked.
At that moment, the compartment door opened and Lena walked in. "Hey everyone, what're you up to?"
"Dense was telling us how she hexed her neighbor last summer." Nim said.
"Poor bloke had to hang from a tree while his legs ran in circles." Rianna said.
Lena grinned. "Way to go, Dense!"
"Thanks!" Dense said with a smile.
"I'm hungry." Cory said.
"Yeah, me too. Where's the candy lady?" Rianna asked.
"Candy lady?" Lena asked.
"It's easier to say than 'the food trolley'." Rianna replied with an innocent look.
Lena looked across the corridor and saw the food trolley on its way to their compartment. "Speak of the devil." She said and grinned. "I say we should make Cory pay for our lunch."
"I second that!" Nim said with a smirk.
"Me too!" Rianna jumped off her seat.
"Cory we're hungry!" JJ said.
"Yeah, Cory. Buy us some nice food or... else." Dense added.
Cory gulped and stared at the six girls surrounding him. Nim raised an eyebrow and glared at him. "So?" she asked.
"Sooo," Cory said. "Hey, why don't you ask Pike or Slim to buy you food!"
"Because they're not in this compartment." Siri said, crossing her arms.
"So, waddaya say Cory?" JJ asked with a mischievous grin. "Or do you want me go tell Gwen a little secret?"
"NO!" Cory said and regretted bursting out like that. "I mean... umm..."
"A secret!" Nim said. "Since when do you keep secrets from us, Cory?"
"I don't!" He said and glared at JJ. "JJ's just trying to tease me."
"She is?" Siri said, grinning.
"Oh, all right. You win. I'll buy your lunch." Cory said, admitting defeat.
"Cool, I'll go tell the others." Lena said and went to the other compartment.
"Hey! No one said they were invited!" Cory protested, but it was too late. Slim walked in with a sheepish grin plastered on his face.
"I heard Cory's buying lunch?" Slim asked and looked at Cory.
"Yep." Rianna said. "Isn't he sweet?"
"I don't know about sweet, but mate," Slim said to Cory, "I feel for you." He put his hand on his chest and nodded, then returned to his compartment. Cory sighed and took out a little pouch and went out to call the 'candy lady'.
After having their little feast, they thanked Cory (Gwen even gave him a kiss on the cheek, which made Slim wolf whistle and Cory blush) and half of them went back to their compartment.