Alright people, I know this is a long time coming, but I have been soooo busy with my English class, that I am about to drop dead. So you better be thanking me, that I am taking the time out of what I am supposed to be reading Paradise Lost (by the way I am going to kill Jon Milton), just so I can update a story. I chose this one, because it only has one chapter up and I don't want ppl to think it is a one shot. Anyway here is the next, long awaited chapter.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, however I do own the plot.
BTW for those of you who are O.C fans, see if you can catch the reference to the last episode... lol.
Chapter Two
Not a Good Day
Lily woke up the next morning, she was sprawled across her bed, and she was still in yesterday's clothes. Slowly standing up, she looked around her Head Girl dorm, or what she thought was her dorm. It was completely different than what it had been the night before. She kept her room as simple and tidy as possible, this way she wouldn't be distracted from her studies. She even kept all photos and family memorabilia in the Head's Common Room. However, it wasn't like it usually was. Her room was full of stuff. There were clothes all over the floor, books were no where to be seen. Her walls were even colored, something she never had before in her life. There were photos and trinkets plopped down everywhere.
"What in the world is going on here? Is this Potter's room?" she looked around and saw a red and gold room. There were pictures of Sirius all over the place, however, surprisingly there were none of James.
"Wow, so he's gay (a/n: nothing rash meant towards gay people, I have gay friends, so no offense meant there.). That explains his infatuation with those marauders." She said smirking. "Then again there is that slight infatuation that he has over me. Well whomever he's obsessed with, does not change the fact, that I need to get out of his room." She quickly ran out of the room only to run straight into Remus Lupin.
"Oof, oh sorry Remus, my fault I didn't see you coming, I was in such a rush. I'm like a bull in a china shop really, so sorry." Lily said quickly, as she picked one of the said marauders off the ground.
"No, no, don't worry about it Lily. I was actually on my way to get you. Well I wasn't on my way to get you, I was sent to get you... by Sirius." He said quite quickly, and out of breath as a matter of fact.
"Black? Why? What does he want with me?" Lily asked cynically.
Remus merely laughed at her before he said, "Right Lil's like you don't know." And with that he laughed and began to walk off. However, he turned around once more, "Oh, and by the way... Sirius said for you to meet him where the sun and the moon cross paths," once again turning back around and walking off, "whatever that means."
Remus left, leaving Lily in 'slight' confusion.
"Black? Sun and moon crossing? And what the hell did he mean when he said 'like you don't know?'" Lily asked out loud as she walked into a clean Head's Common room. "What's going on? Potter? Are you here? Potter! Where are you? Did you do this?" The Head's Common room was never clean, it was the one place she had no control over because both her and Potter shared it, which meant the Marauders took it as their personal job to keep it the pigsty that it wasn't right now. Right now, it was the complete opposite of what it usually was. The room was spotless, there was no dust, nothing was laying around, there was no rubbish on the tables or sofas. Lily was speechless now.
'Why are you complaining? You are usually whining about how it is usually a dump. So he cleaned up a little, you should go and thank him.' Lily's conscience said.
'Yeah right, and fall victim to James Potter asking me out yet again... I think I'll pass. Next idea please.'
'I don't know, you still have to find Black. You could go find him.' The voice in her head suggested.
'Ugh, thanks for reminding me.' Lily thought as she finished walking down the stairs. "Well I might as well look for the prick then." She said out loud.
Lily walked out of the clean room, and out into the hallway. It was somewhat filled with students, who were most likely heading off to breakfast.
While walking down the filled half filled hallway Lily spoke softly to herself.
"Why am I doing this? When has Black ever wanted to speak to me? Odds are he is just plotting with Potter about how to torment me even more. In fact, I bet that is why Remus came to get me. Yes that's it, Remus came to get me, and now I'm on my way into yet another hell hole. Well not this time. In fact, I am still going to show up... that's right, I'm going to show up and then I'm going to show that that I will not be another innocent victim to their rude immaturity."
'Wow, you sound like you have rehearsed this a few times before.' Her conscience said mockingly.
'Believe me, I dream of the day I can overthrow those damn marauders!'
'Whatever you say.' The conscience sighed.
"Now, where do the sun and the moon cross?" Lily asked herself as she stopped to think for a second. Suddenly a smile spread across her face. "Of course! The Entrance Hall! The sculpting on the huge oak door is of a sun and moon both rising at the same time... I'm a genius!" Lily then ran off in the opposite direction in search for the Entrance Hall.
She finally reached the top of the Grande Staircase. She looked down to see the Entrance Hall filled with students, who were going to the Great Hall to grab some breakfast. Looking at her watch she saw that it was ten past eight. Usually, by quarter past everyone was where they needed to be (most likely at breakfast), so Lily thought she would wait five minutes, so she could catch Potter and Black by herself. She walked over to a pillar that was standing on top of a stoop, and sat down on said stoop. Placing her bag, which she had managed to grab before running out of the common room, next to her, she rummaged around inside of it obviously looking for something.
"Ah got ya." Lily said as she pulled out a small compact. "Now let's see what the damage is." She opened the compact, "bloody hell! Well it's a good thing I have five minutes, God only knows how they would make fun of me if I looked like this!"
'Not to mention the fact that you are in the same clothes as you wore yesterday, and your hair is in the same messy bun as it was in last night.'
"Oh shite, now they are going to think I don't shower. Great, just bloody fantastic, I can only imagine the rumors that will come out of this! Well at least I can fix my hair, and my face. The clothes, well, I'll play that one by ear."
Quickly braiding her hair and powdering her nose and cheeks, Lily noticed that the hallway around her was beginning to empty. Checking her watch once more, she noticed that four of her five minutes had gone by. She put her brush, and compact back in her sack and stood up off the stoop. She walked over to the banister and looked down on the entrance hall only to see... nobody.
"Well, where the hell are they? This is where the sun and the moon cross isn't it?" she looked up at the oak doors and saw on one of them, there was a rising sun carved into the wood. On the opposite door was a moon rising. "I'm pretty sure this is it. Maybe they are hiding and waiting until I am standing in a certain position so that they can hex me from behind. Well in that case, I think a protecting charm will be in order." She placed the charm on herself, tat would ward off any unwanted hexes (meaning all of them). "Now, here goes nothing."
Lily walked down the stairs and into the center of the Entrance Hall. "Now all I have to do is wait for a hex to fly my way, and we're set."
She then heard a voice fro behind her, "That hex better come with a pair of sunglasses, because you, my lovely, are absolutely radiant!" She then felt her body being turned around forcefully, and soon enough a pair of lips were pressed up against hers. They were soft and luscious, but not what she desired somehow. Who was this mystery man? She quickly pushed him away and when she expected to see Potter standing before her, she got the shock of her life.
"BLACK!" Lily felt disgusting, she had just shared a kiss with Sirius Black. She didn't know what to do, so she did the first thing that came to mind...
: WHACK :
She slapped him, she slapped him right across the face, and as hard as she could too.
"SIRIUS BLACK! IF I EVER CATCH YOU ANYWHERE NEAR ME AGAIN, I SWEAR I WILL ANATOMICALLY CHANGE YOU INTO A WOMAN BEFORE YOU CAN TURN YOUR HEAD TO THE LEFT AND COUGH!" With that said, she ran off before he had a chance to say anything.
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"What the bloody fuck was that all about?" Sirius asked himself out loud. "What did I do?"
Just then a boy cam up to him and put his hand on Sirius' shoulder. "What's wrong Padfoot, rejection from yet another girl?"
Sirius turned to see James Potter laughing at him.
"Not that it's any of your business Potter, but yes as a matter of fact my girlfriend basically just told me to bugger off." Sirius said rudely.
"Potter? Girlfriend? What's wrong with you Padfoot?" James asked, confused.
"Yes Potter, girlfriend, Lily Evans, we have only been going out since our fourth year. What does it matter to you anyway? You usually don't want anything to do with us. And what is this Padfoot business?"
James just stood there, taking this all in, mainly the part about Lily.
'Lily? Lily, and Sirius? Lily and Sirius since fourth year? Where was I? What is he talking about I don't care about them, and what is this 'Padfoot business' What is wrong with him?' James thought. He was livid inside.
'Now, now James, don't do anything you're going to regret.' His conscience answered.
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'Well, that went well.' James thought, as he rushed out of the Entrance Hall.
'I still don't see why you had to go and hit your best friend.'
'Ex best friend.' James snapped in his mind.
'Glad to see you took my advise on the whole not doing anything you're going to regret thing, because you might have just a tiny problem on your hands now. Well done, well done indeed. Because now not only do you have Lily hating you, I pretty much think you can put Sirius on the list too.'
'Well I don't care! He can hate me, because I certainly hate him!' James retorted.
'Hate is such a strong word.'
'Three years! Three fucking years, they've been going out, and my best friend couldn't even tell me! Forgive me for saying, but if your best friend can't even tell you he has a girlfriend, let alone the girl of your dreams, I don't think that friend is much of a friend!'
'But hate? Can't you just strongly dislike him?' James' conscience asked.
'Did I mention it was for three years?' James was not going to back down on this.
'Fine, we can hate him, but I still have one question, and I can probably tell that you aren't going to like what it is.'
'What can possibly be worse than finding out that my best friend and my girl have been in a relationship since our fourth year? Please enlighten me.'
'Well first of all, she isn't yours, and the question actually contains said girl... what are you going to do about her?'
'What do you mean, what am I going to do about her?' James asked harshly.
'I mean, you are head boy, she is head girl... you are bound to see her, not to mention you are kind of heading towards your common room where you know she likes to eat her breakfast everyday.'
James stopped in his place, 'good point. What am I going to do? Last night was so great, we didn't fight, and she kissed me, sure it was on the cheek, but she didn't even wipe her mouth off afterwards. And now this? I don't get it, what did I do wrong?' James sighed, 'What am I going to do?'
'That's a good question... you could try talking to her.'
'Yeah that would go down well... I can see it now... Hey Lily, I don't know if you know this, but you kissed me last night. I'm sorry I wasn't aware that you and my best friend were a thing. It's funny you see it is bad enough that you had to go behind my back for three years, let alone the fact that he is my best friend, and has known that I have like d you since the day I first saw you, but now you kiss me, and expect that I don't get something from it? Yeah I can see that going down very well! Excuse me for saying this, but you are out of your mind if you think that that will go anywhere but straight to hell.'
'Are you quite finished? Now, I know you are angry about this situation but I don't see any way out of it, unless you talk to her. And before you say anything, I want you to think about something. Do you really think that if you talk to her, it will go anything like what you just said? Really, I have never known you to lash out at Lily, besides you really don't have any personal relations with her... yet, so she didn't have to tell you. If you're going to be mad at somebody, it should be Sirius. And about the whole her kissing you thing, I really have no answer for you. I didn't kiss you, that would be physically impossible, and I don't know why she kissed you. I know nothing of what she felt, and the only way for you to find out is if you talk to her. Don't be mad at her, she is probably just as confused as you. Talk to her, talk to her and figure this out.'
James sighed and said out loud, "Fine, you know best." And James walked off down the hall towards the Gryffindor tower.
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James arrived at the portrait of the fat lady minutes later, and when she asked for the password he merely stood still and looked at her.
'Now is the time when you say felt-tip pens.' James' conscience said.
'I know what to say you half wit. Just let me take my time with this one. It isn't everyday that you go and talk to the girl of your dreams about her and your best friend.'
'Well you might want to hurry up, she doesn't look to happy.' James looked up at the fat lady, who did indeed look very impatient.
'Ugh fine.' James sighed, and said, "felt-tip pens."
The portrait opened and he walked into the main Gryffindor common room.
'And who the hell came up with that retarded password? Wait let me guess... old fumbly Dumblydore.'
James just laughed at his mind's remarks, and continued on into the common room. It was completely empty, as he had suspected it would be. He walked over to the right hand corner of the room, where a tall and proud statue of a lion stood.
"Lion's pride." James whispered into the lion's ear (a/n: do lions have ears?), and the lion suddenly came to life, and stepped aside, so on the wall behind him, a door became visible. James walked through the entryway to the Head's Common Room, and soon found himself in front of a wall with a small box-like opening inside of it. James took out his wand, and placed it inside the opening. As soon as his hand retracted, the opening was sealed with a transparent glass-like substance.
A blue light shown through the glass. It was obvious that this was a wand identification contraption. After about thirty seconds of the identity process, the window opened up again, and James was able to retrieve his wand again. Then the wall began to spilt in two, revealing the Head's Common Room behind it.
James could feel his anger reviving itself again, as he rushed inside the room.
"LILY!" James yelled.
'Now James, please don't hit Lily.' His conscience pleaded.
"I'm not going to hit her, pea brain, I just want to talk to her... LILY!" James said out loud.
Lily then appeared out of the kitchen. When she saw who it was, she flipped out.
"JAMES POTTER, IF I EVER CATH YOU OR ONE OF YOUR DAMNED MARAUDER FRIENDS, NAMELY BLACK, ANYWHERE NEAR ME EVER AGAIN, I WILL PERSONALLY PERFORM AN UNFORGIVABLE ON YOU, AND I DON'T CARE IF I GET THROWN IN AZKABAN FOR IT!" Lily yelled.
"What are you talking about woman? I haven't come anywhere near you! If you are talking about last night, then I'm sorry for saving you from Malfoy, and by the way... YOU KISSED ME! And if you are mad at Sirius, then I don't see why you should be... I mean he is you boyfriend, isn't he?" James asked that last piece with hope that she would say no.
"I know I kissed you! And no that is not what I am talking about! And what do you mean Black is my boyfriend- oh my god, it can't be!" Lily quickly turned around, and ran up her side of the staircase towards her room. She rushed inside, and it wasn't long before James heard a high pitched scream coming from her room. He ran up the stairs, and stepped inside her room. He had only ever done this once before, at the very beginning of the year, and he knew it didn't look anything like this.
The room was a mess, the walls had color on them, and Lily was in the middle of all of it. She was kneeling on the ground in complete and total silence.
"Lily are you okay?" James asked with concern in his voice.
"This can't be happening, I am not Sirius Black's girlfriend, nor will I ever be!" Lily yelled.
James slowly walked up behind her and saw that she was looking at a photo of Sirius and Lily holding each other.
"Well as glad as I am to hear you say that, and as much as I hate to say this, I think that photo proves that you are."
"NO! How can he be, when I have no recollection of it! It's not possible. How do you just wake up and have a boyfriend, who is the one person you can't stand the night before? Tell me, because I would love to know!"
"Wait, you don't remember?" James asked.
"Nope, not a thing." Lily said calmly as she looked up into his eyes.
"That is odd. Wait a second, why are you still wearing your clothes from yesterday?" he asked.
'Ugh, I knew this was coming.' Lily thought.
"I could ask you the same thing." She answered with a smirk, finally the hostility seemed to be gone.
James realized she was right, and then said, "Oh no."
"What?" Lily asked, "Potter, what is it?"
"Lily do you think you could bear talking to Sirius one more time?"
"Ugh do I have to?" She whined.
"Yes, if you want to figure this out! Now go get him."
"Me? Why me, you're his best friend!"
"True, but you are his girlfriend!"
"I am not! You want him, you go get him!"
"I can't." He said simply.
"And why may I ask not?"
"Because, I sort of just hit him. There are you happy? Now can you go?"
"Ugh, fine I'll go, but why did you hit him?" She asked.
"Well, I was just a little jealous when I found out my best friend was dating you."
"You were jealous?" Lily asked, with a small blush in her cheeks.
"Of course I was, you know I've liked you since our 1st year!" James said as Lily stood up.
"Actually I thought that was all a plot just to get me into bed, and then you could say you bedded the bookworm (a/n: I've decided she is also a bookworm... deal with it, lol)."
"Why would I do that?" James asked.
"I don't know, look I feel awkward, why don't I just go get Black." And with that said, she ran out of the room.
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About five minutes later, two voices could be heard yelling in the hallway behind the entrance wall. James knew it was Sirius and Lily bickering.
"DON"T TOUCH ME BLACK!" Lily yelled.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU LATELY?"
Just then they walked into the room, and before they could bicker even further, James cleared his throat to get their attention.
"What do you want Potter?" Sirius asked harshly.
"His name is James." Lily snapped, it was slightly ironic that she called him James, seeming as the past half an hour she hadn't called him anything but a marauder or Potter.
"Fine then, what do you want James?" Sirius asked childishly.
James sighed, and started to ask, "alright, can you tell me what Lily and I were wearing yesterday?"
"Why?" Sirius scoffed.
"Just do it!" Lily said as she slapped him over the backside of his head.
"Ok, fine... um... Lily you were wearing a red shirt, with some tight jeans, really brought out your ass, and some clogs, I think." Sirius said, smirking when Lily rolled her eyes. James felt like he was about ready to kill Sirius for saying that. "Um, as for you
Pot-James, I think you were wearing a green jumper, and a pair of black slacks. Why do you guys need to know this?"
"Actually I don't know." Lily said. "James, care to explain?"
"Padfoot, you are sure that we weren't wearing these clothes yesterday?"
"Positive, and what the fuck is up with this Padfoot business?"
"Oh shit." Was all that James said.
"WHAT!" Sirius and Lily asked at the same time.
"Lily do you remember anything that happened last night?" James asked.
"She better." Sirius said, with a smirk, shortly then after receiving a slap in the stomach from Lily.
"Um... well, I remember when I was patrolling, and Malfoy, well you know... and then we patrolled together, and then something weird happened in the Entrance Hall, and then we decided to go to bed... but I don't remember going to bed, that is the weird thing." Lily answered.
"What the piss are you talking about Lily? You didn't patrol last night, you were with me, what is going on here?"
Then Lily realized what James was getting at... "Oh no."
"Oh no is right." James said.
"What, what's wrong?"
"Ugh, this is not a good day."
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Right so a really long chapter, I hope you liked it. I promise to have more of my other stories updated by the end of the weekend, for those of you who read them. Well tell me what you think of it, that means REVIEW! Dominique