Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!
The prank idea in this chapter was from Snaps4Hollywood!
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"Marissa please talk to me!" Sirius said as he grabbed her arm.
Marissa yanked it away, not caring about the tears pouring out of her eyes. "No! I never want to speak to you ever again! I hate you!"
Sirius stopped trying to grab her and just stood there, his mouth open and his eyes getting more wet. "Do you mean that?" he whispered, his emotions spread across his face.
Marissa felt badly for saying it, then shook the feeling away. "Yes, don't have Lily or Kiah or any other of the Marauders talk to me for you. I never want to see you again."
Sirius just stood there, watching her storm away, his heart dropping down to his knees. He felt like just wanted to die and end it all there, rather than go on living without Marissa in his life.
Sirius slowly made his way down to the Great Hall, his arms folded and looking straight ahead, not even breathing.
He got there and James smiled at him, but soon that smile turned into a worried frown. Sirius sat down and stared at his plate, making no move to fill it with food.
"Mate what's wrong? Are you and Marissa in a fight?" James asked.
Sirius closed his eyes tight and when he opened them a small tear escaped and fell onto his plate.
Lily saw this and said, "Oh my gosh, Sirius what's the matter?"
There was a silence while James, Peter, and Lily all stared at him (Remus was sitting with Kiah at the Ravenclaw table). Sirius took a deep shuddering breath and said, "She hates me. She just said it with so much anger, 'I hate you.'"
"Sirius what's going on?" Lily asked urgently.
Sirius let a few more tears fall out of his eyes and then stood up and ran out of the Great Hall up to the common room.
When he arrived there, he saw Marissa sobbing into a pillow on the couch. I could never hurt her . . . Sirius thought to himself.
Marissa looked up and saw Sirius standing there, tears pouring down his face and a look of hurt and concern glittering in his watery blue eyes. Marissa wanted nothing more than to just leap into his arms and forget about everything that happened. But she just turned her head away and buried herself in a pillow.
Sirius never thought it was possible to actually feel your heart break, but he felt it when she turned away and he ran up the boy's staircase, slamming the door shut. He leaped onto his bed and grabbed a pillow, squeezing it for all his might. He looked over at his nightstand and saw a picture of him and Marissa, sitting on the common room couch talking. They were holding each other and looking directly into each other's eyes while they spoke. That's all it took for Sirius. More tears slipped down his face as he remembered everything about Marissa he loved.
James, Lily, and Peter were running towards the common room after Sirius. When they got in there, they saw Marissa crying into a pillow. The three students looked at each other and James said, "Lily, comfort Marissa. I'll go to Sirius. Peter, go get Remus and Kiah and tell them what's going on." Lily and Peter nodded, and the three of them went their separate ways.
Lily walked over to Marissa. "Mara, what's wrong?"
Mara looked up at Lily, her eyes puffy and bloodshot from crying. "I went back to see what…hiccup…Sirius was up to, and when I got back to…hiccup…the classroom, I saw him kissing Calypso Aldrich from Hufflepuff," Marissa eyes spilled more tears and when she spoke again, her voice was thick and pain was glimmering in her eyes, "I gasped and he pushed her off of him and turned…sniff…towards me. He said 'Marissa, I can explain!' but I didn't care and I ran.
"He caught up to me and I told him I hated him," Marissa shuddered, "and he looked so hurt, as hurt as…hiccup…I am right now. He asked me if I meant it and I said yes but don't send anybody…sniff…to talk to me for you. And then I ran here," Marissa looked into Lily's eyes, "I don't hate him, I still love him more than anything, but I was so hurt and I wanted him to feel hurt too. But I don't hate him," Marissa whispered and started sobbing. Lily gave her a hug and Marissa started sobbing on her shoulder.
"It's alright Mara, there has to be some misunderstanding. Sirius would never cheat on you and you know it!" Lily said.
"But I saw him-"Marissa was cut off.
"You might have seen him trying to pull that slut off of him. Let me go talk to Sirius," Marissa nodded and Lily gave her another hug, and then sped up the stairs.
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While Lily was talking to Marissa, James walked into the room and found Sirius staring at the picture of Marissa and him, tears washing down his face.
James sat on the bed next to him. "Do you want to tell me what happened?"
Sirius nodded, but first batted at his shamefully and blasted his quill with fire from his wand. Then Sirius sat up, and told him the whole story.
"Then Marissa said that she never wanted to speak to me again and that she hated me. It felt like my whole world was crumbling beneath me. I asked her if she meant it and she said yes and don't send anyone to come talk to me for you. Then she went up to the common room and I went to the Great Hall," Sirius said tonelessly. "I can't go on living without her. Have you ever felt like that?"
James snorted. "Are you kidding me? Have you even seen Lily and I?"
Sirius gave him a small smile. "Where are Remus and Peter?"
"Peter is going to go get Remus and Kiah. I think you should talk to Marissa."
"I already tried, it doesn't work. And now she hates me," Sirius shut his eyes tightly, "I hate myself too."
At that moment, Lily burst into the room and went over to Sirius. "I just talked to Marissa and I need to know your side of the story before I tell you anything she said."
Sirius shook his head. "I can't tell it again." Lily nodded understandably and grabbed Sirius hand. Sirius looked at his two best friends and said, "James..."
"I'll do it," James said and retold Sirius' side of the story.
Lily grinned. "I knew there was a reason! You would never cheat on Marissa! Sirius, she said she never meant it when she said I hate you, she loves you more than anything, she said so herself."
Sirius perked up a little. "She does?"
Lily nodded. "But she may need a little convincing about you not cheating on her. I don't think we should help with that, you guys need to work this out yourself."
Sirius' face turned grim again, and he shot fire out of his wand without even looking. Remus' bed hangings caught on fire and Lily put it out with a flick of her wand.
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Remus, Peter, and Kiah entered the common room (after Remus put a Hearing-Be-Gone Charm on Kiah). Kiah saw Mara's puffy eyes and rushed over to her, hugging her tight and asking what happened.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" Remus asked.
Peter shrugged and explained what happened at lunch. " So I'm on instructions to get you then go up to the dorm room."
Remus nodded and ran up the stairs. When he arrived at the common room, he saw his bed hangings burnt, the lamp on fire, and Peter's nightstand knocked over. Lily was busy putting out the fire and cleaning up the mess.
James saw Remus and Peter and dragged them to the bathroom, putting a Soundproofing spell on the room.
When James saw his best friends looks, he explained, "Sirius is really upset right now and he shouldn't hear me retelling what happened again."
"So what did happen?" Peter asked, and James launched into the story.
By the time James finished, both boys were stunned. "Wha, wha, wha..." was all Peter could manage to say.
"Exactly. Are you sure your talking about Sirius and Marissa?" Remus asked.
James nodded solemnly. "Lily says we can't interfere with them getting back together, but I have an awesome prank idea to help."
Remus and Sirius perked up. "Tell us more..." Peter said.
"I would, but I think Sirius might burn down the dorm room, so we might want to help Lily put out fires. Let's all go to the Marauder Headquarters at one in the morning," James said.
The two boys nodded and cautiously made their way to the room, ducking to avoid flying fireballs.
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The four boys were under the Invisibility Cloak, making their way down to the Marauder Headquarters, Sirius sniffing the whole time with his head hanging low. He tried to talk to Mara during Herbology, but she shunned him away as more tears came out. By dinner, the whole school heard what happened between them.
Once they got inside, James told everyone to sit. Sirius half-heartily attempted to flop into an armchair, but missed and hit the floor with a loud thud. Sirius didn't even notice, just sat on the floor staring straight ahead.
James frowned upon him, then launched into his idea. "All right, I was thinking of ways to have Mara see what really happened in that classroom. At first a thought of a pensive but I had no idea where to get one and those are really expensive. So I thought of this amazing prank opportunity," James did a dramatic pause, looking at each of them in turn.
Remus groaned. "The full moon is coming James, don't mess with me. Just tell us."
James grinned. "I found a spell that can show what a person thinks. It only lasts 24 hours, so we'd have to do it Saturday so no one else will be able to interfere. Well, I toyed with the incantation a bit so it will work on everyone instead of one person. Also I added a few more spells just to Sirius so that Marissa can see pictures of what happened and what Sirius really feels. All he has to do is touch her and she will be seeing the situation from Sirius' eyes."
Feeling immensely proud of himself, James waited from some sign that Sirius even heard him speak. Sirius looked up at James, and slowly smiled. "That is bloody brilliant mate! I can have Marissa back!"
"Thank you, thank you," James said, bowing so low that his glasses fell off and broke. He quickly repaired them and said, "Let's get started, I still have that Herbology essay to finish."
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After more days of Sirius trying to get Marissa to look at him, Saturday came and Sirius woke up at 5:30 A.M., too excited to sit still.
He started dancing around the room, singing at the top of his lungs his famous song. "Listen baby, ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby! If you need me call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far,"
Remus groaned and turned over in his bed, seeing Sirius dancing around the room and singing. He also saw it was 5:30. "Not again . . . " Remus moaned. He shut his bed hangings and put a silencing spell around his bed, but not before throwing a pillow at Sirius.
Sirius caught the pillow and continued singing. Soon Peter and James woke up, and began throwing pillows and other various objects towards Sirius.
"Do you have any bloody idea what time it is?" James yelled.
Sirius grinned. "It's now 5:57 in the wonderful morning!" he sang.
The door to their room burst open and a spell was fired into the room, silencing Sirius and knocking him backwards from the force of the spell. James and Peter turned to see a fiery redhead standing in the door.
"Instead of throwing soft fluffy pillows at him, you could've done that so some people could get sleep," Lily said angrily.
James smiled. "I need some sleep, want to share a bed?"
Lily grinned and climbed under the covers with James and snuggled up to him. James shut the bed hangings, laughing at the disgusted look on Sirius' face.
When it was the proper time to get up, everyone headed down to breakfast; the Marauders (especially Sirius) were excited about the upcoming prank.
Sirius was hopping towards the Great Hall entrance when he saw Marissa eating with Kiah, Brielle, and Danielle. He stopped in mid-step, his grin slowly turning to a frown. Marissa's head was hung low and she was pushing her food absentmindedly around her plate with a spoon.
Peter saw this and went over to Sirius and clapped him on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it, you'll have her back by this afternoon." Sirius nodded and kept walking, his head down and avoiding eye contact.
Lily kissed James on the cheek and went to sit down next Mara. The Marauders went to sit at the other end of the Gryffindor table. This was the ritual the young Gryffindors had taken up, girls sitting on one end, boys on the other.
"Marissa, Sirius has tried to talk to you a lot, why don't you quit being stubborn and just listen?" Bri asked.
Marissa glared at Brielle. "Because, he'll just lie," she said, her voice barely above a whisper.
Lily sighed. "I agree with Bri, I think you should talk to him about it. We could nick some truth potion from Snelling, then you'd know. Trying to forget about him will just make you more miserable."
Marissa sighed and rubbed her eyes, smearing the mascara she had on her eyelashes. "I just don't know, I still love him so much, but every time I see him I feel like I want to die." Tears started leaking out of her face.
"Don't cry Marissa! You've already cried too much! Just go ask Sirius if you can talk to him and discuss it. Or we can wait until we can get some truth potion." Kiah said.
Mara shook her head. "No, no, its fine. I'll figure something else out. I think I'm just going to-"Marissa was cut off by a very loud bang in the room. Smoke filled the entire Great Hall.
Once it cleared away, everyone saw something very unusual. There were little white bubbles over their heads. What is going on? Lily thought. Right as she thought that, it was written above her head in her handwriting. Lily was shocked.
"Do these show what we think?" Kiah asked as she looked at her speech bubble that said, 'what happened?'
"Probably, I bet the Marauders did it..." Lily said, cutting off when she saw Mara's speech bubble spell out, 'I remember when Sirius and I used to come up with prank ideas, and we never told anyone that half the ideas were mine...'
Lily, Kiah, Danielle, and Brielle looked at her. Marissa caught the stares and looked up, seeing her thoughts. She frowned and the words erased, instead displaying I'm going to kill the Marauders. Lily smiled to herself. This should be interesting, she thought as she watched the words appear over her head.
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After breakfast Marissa, Lily, and Kiah ran to their common rooms and got their cloaks. It was a beautiful day outside, although a bit chilly, and all their homework was finished. The Marauders, on the other hand, didn't finish theirs, but were of course putting it off to last minute.
The three girls went to their favorite oak tree, arms full of plans for the upcoming wedding that summer. Meanwhile, the four boys were changing the lake various colors out of sheer boredom. Well, almost all four. Sirius was sitting on a large rock, lazily twirling his wand and watching Marissa laugh with Lily and Kiah. I wish I were the one making her laugh . . . Sirius thought, he had forgotten the bubble over his head. Remus saw what it said, pocketed his wand and sat down on the rock next to him.
"Quit torturing yourself and ask to talk to her alone," Remus said.
"No, she'll just push me away," Sirius said tonelessly.
"Make her, or we would've stayed up until three in the morning for nothing," Remus said.
Sirius shook his head, and Remus pulled out his wand and pointed it at his chest. "Now, or I will hex you," Remus said. Sirius gave him a half grin and walked over to Marissa.
When he got closer to the oak tree, Marissa acted like she was searching for something in a bridal magazine. "Marissa can I please talk to you for a second?" Sirius said.
Marissa looked up into his eyes and felt tears sting the corners of her eyes. "No, can you please leave?"
Sirius sighed. "Look, I think we really need to talk about this. We can't go on living like we are now, or at least I can't. Please?" He asked hopefully.
Mara shook her head, and started digging through magazines; her head down so Sirius wouldn't see her eyes. Sirius looked helplessly and Lily and Kiah, so Lily pulled out her wand and dug it into Mara's back.
"Ouch! Quit it!" Mara said, swatting the wand away.
"Not until you go with Sirius. I will give you boils if you don't leave right now," Lily said.
"I don't care, I'll go to Madame Pomfrey," Marissa said confidently. Sirius almost laughed at this.
"Well if you don't leave, you won't be my maid of honor," Lily said.
Marissa glared at Lily, and stood up. She led the way back into the castle, and Sirius hurried after her, mouthing a thanks to Lily.
Marissa went to the first empty classroom she saw and waited outside the door for Sirius. He caught up and pulled her inside the classroom, conjuring two chintz armchairs facing each other. Marissa sat down in one of them, facing away from Sirius.
Sirius sighed. "Marissa will you please look at me?" Mara ignored him, looking around the room. "Seriously, I need your attention and I can tell you what really happened that day."
Marissa snapped her head back towards him. "Why should I? You'll probably lie just to get me back!"
"You know I'm not like that! I would feel guilty about it," Sirius said. "Will you please just listen to what I have to say?" Marissa looked him up and down, and then nodded shortly. "Okay, we did this prank so you could see what really happened. I had spells put on me so if I touched someone they would see a memory I was thinking about. I also have spells put on me so the memories won't lie, it will be what really happened." He knelt down to her level. "Take my hand,"
Marissa hesitated for a second, then reached out and grabbed his hand. Sirius grinned at her and closed his eyes concentrating on when he and James were writing notes to each other. Marissa closed her eyes and saw their conversation on the paper through Sirius' eyes. She felt what he felt like, what he thought, all of his feelings out in the open.
Mara saw him turn back to the classroom and catch Calypso Aldrich. She saw and heard everything they said. She felt the kiss and how tight she was holding on. She felt Sirius trying to push her off and she heard the gasp, her gasp. She felt all the pain and hurt, and the heartbreak when she said those three fateful words. Marissa now knew she hurt him worse then he ever hurt her.
When Sirius let go of her hand, they both opened their eyes, which were swimming with tears. Marissa looked at him and said, "Those emotions were all real?"
Sirius nodded, wiping away the tears sheepishly. "Now you know the truth. You can still be mad at me if you want."
As Sirius was turning to walk out of the room, Marissa grabbed his hand and turned him around. "Thank you for showing me, I never meant to hurt you that much, and I didn't mean it when I said I hated you."
Sirius grinned a little. "You mean it?"
Marissa smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply. "What do you think?" she asked when they broke apart.
Sirius smiled and said, "I'm not sure, wanna show me again?" Marissa kissed him again, and that's the way they stayed for the rest of the day, locked in each other's arms, promising themselves that they will never let go.
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Author Notes: Blah blah blah blah BLAH! God I HATE these early chapters! As for the later chapters posting, I'm almost done, this chapter is really short, it's just I don't have the motivation to finish. I'm out of school as of yesterday so I'll have more time to edit and post. But please get to 100! This chapter last time I had almost 200.
xx-Heartbroken: I know exactly what you mean with those stupid fights. They make Lily out to be this uptight, freak out, goody goody person when I don't think she was like that at all. To quote Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off: "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond." That is not what Lily is. I can't sing Kelly's songs either but I love her music so so so so so so so much! Her personality is amazing also, she's so real and down to earth. I've seen her in concert three times and I am going to see her again this summer. I was so close to meeting her each time and I barely missed her but this time I'm applying for meet and greets and hopefully I'll get one. I would pass out if I met her. About the Lily-Snape thing, think close to rape and you'll see why she's so traumatized.
CASOCCERCHIC02: Thanks!
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