A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I know exactly where I'm going with this story now and I've got everything planned out although this chapter was kind of random. ( I was very sleep deprived when I wrote it..ehehe..) Oh and I really need a BETA so if there's anyone willing to help me about that, please Email me! ;)
Anyway, ReaD and RevieW! ;-)
Chapter 2
Sirius entered the dorm silently. The three other boys in the dark room were all fast asleep. Peter was snoring loudly and drooling, Remus was laying on his stomach, breathing softly meanwhile James was sprawled all over his bed, tugging on his thum.
Sirius threw all his clothes off and left them in a heap on the floor as he jumped into his soft bed.
"Ahh"..he sighed and hugged his pillow tightly..
"Padfoot? Is that you?" asked a sleepy and slightly rasp voice.
"Yeah.." replied Sirius.
"Did you get what we needed?" asked the voice's owner and raised his head from the pillow.
"Of course I did, Moony..." said Sirius and yawned
"No problems?"
"Well, I did run into Taleigh and Evans in the Dungeons.." said Sirius..
"Really?" asked Remus surprised and opened his eyes. "What in the world were those two doing down there so late?"
"Trying to steal some ingredients from the Potion's lab" replied Sirius.
" No way.."
"Yeah, not that they would have even gotten into Garlight's office if I hadn't been there" said Sirius, " They didn´t even know they needed a password to get in."
"Ameteurs" muttered Remus and settled back under the the covers before he opened his eyes again, "Wait, you told them the password?"
"Yeah.."
"Why?"
"Cause I got something instead.."
"And what was that?" said Remus suspiciously and smirked
"Remus, you are one filthy minded..." said Sirius in an indigniant tone.
"Well it's you, what am I supposed to think?"
"Ok, fine, I did ask them to be my sex-slaves but they refused-
"Bugger" said Remus
"so I got something else instead..."
"What?" asked Remus
"Well...I made them agree to help us with our next prank.."
"Huh? You did what?" said Remus and laughed
"I know! Say it Moony, your friend is a GENIOUS!"
" Padfoot, you are unbelievable," exclaimed Remus and grinned.
" But it's a great idea, right?"
" I'm not so sure," said Remus thoughtfully, " I mean, what are we going to make them do? They're kinda useless really. Evans hasn't even got one detention her entire life.."
" You think they'll get us caught then?"
"Yeah.. I mean it's risky isn't it?" said Remus and yawned, "Not the most experienced bunch, those two, eh?"
" I guess," admitted Sirius, "but I still think it's worth it",
"How is that? We'll get dismissed from Hogwarts for sure if we're caught again.."
" Oh come on Moony!" said Sirius daringly.." Think of the fun we'll have making them do all kinds of nasty things...and Prongs will be very pleased to get to be around Evans more.."
" True, he'll be ecstatic.." said Remus and sniggered. " So you're saying that we could use them for all the dirty work, right?"
"Exactly.."
"...I like that..."
" I knew you would" said Sirius and laughed, " You dog"
"No Padfoot. I'm a wolf" replied Remus
"Whatever," said Sirius, " so you agree to use them?"
"OK, but they are on your responsibility then," said Remus after a moment of silence.
"Fine!"
"Great, g'night Padfoot..." said Remus and stuck his head under the covers..
"G'night..."
-Next morning in the Great Hall-
" Lily..." said a groggy Vivian exasperated, "It's bloody six o'clock or something..
Why on earth did you drag me down here at this ungodly time? I think I've never been up this early my entire life before!"
"Stop whining, sleepy-head," said Lily and buttered her toast, " I just didn't want to run into the Marauders yet. We two need to talk this whole prank thing over before we meet those dunderheads."
Vivian yawned and poored some milk into her coffee, then drank it all in once.
"That's so unhealthy," said Lily and wrinkled her nose, " I don't understand how you can drink that disgusting stuff. You've had six cups of it already."
"I need some caffein, ok?" said Vivian and gave her friend a glare, "NORMAL people actually need to sleep more than 4 hours, you see.."
"Well, I'm not that tired..." said Lily irritated
"Which makes you an abnormal freak, I've always said this."
The girls ignored each other for a while, enjoying their scrambled eggs.
"Ok, I'm done. Let's go" said Lily with her mouth full, spraying
eggs all over Vivian as she spoke.
"Yuck!", spat Vivian and grabbed a napkin to clean herself.." Lily, that's disgusting!"
" I'm sorry," said Lily dryly, hiding a smile as she stood up and stretched her back.
"No, you're not," said Vivian annoyed but stood up as well and grabbed her school-bag.
"Ok, come on," said Lily and dragged her friend with her out of the Great Hall, "let's go to the library and talk there."
"It's only half seven. Charms starts at 08:30. What in the world are we supposed to talk about for twooo hours?" said Vivian and yawned again.
"About the ridiculous thing you made me agree to last night and how we are going to handle this situation ..."
"What situation?" said Vivian and ran after her friend who was starting to walk very fast." It's only a prank, Lily..Not that big of a deal.."
" JUST a prank?" hissed Lily and stared incrediously at her friend. "Vivian, these are the bloody MARAUDERS we're talking about...
"So what?"
"They're definately up to something disastrous that's what! We have to find a way to get us out of this!" said Lily who was starting to get frantic. All the nervousness that had been building up inside of her since last night was now starting to drip out.
." I don't know what I was thinking..."
" Calm down Lily.."
"...and Black said it's going to be the biggest prank of the school-year..."
"Lily-"
"Probably going to blow up the whole school or something.."
"They're not thaaat crazy..."
"And that insufferable Potter will come up with something awful to make us do.."
"Hey-"
"Loose my prefect badge..-"she gasped
" Hey..."
"Get dismissed!"
"LILY!" yelled Vivian at her friend and shook her hard. "Calm down or you'll start hyperventilating..."
The little redhead stared at her friend for a moment in a daze, then took a deep breath and leaned heavily against the wall behind her.
"Oops, lost control there for a minute.." she said finally.
"No, really?" muttered Vivian under her breath
"Sorry...I just..."
"It's ok. I'm a little nervous too," said Vivian and brushed a blonde lock of hair from her face as she leaned against the wall beside Lily,"but it'll be fine. We're in this together, yeah?"
Lily nodded but didn't look anywhere near reassured.
"Listen, those idiotic boys have broken all rules there are in this school but they're still here. I mean why would they dismiss us, "the perfect prefects" at our first prank? If we get caught that is..which we won't.." said Vivian
"Yeah, you're right, " said Lily admittedly, "they'd never do that.."
"The most we'd get is a detention or something.." said Vivian breezily
"Detention?"said Lily hesitantly and looked at her friend wide-eyed, "but I have a clean record, I don't want to ruin that!"
"Oh, loosen up Lily!" said Vivian and rolled her eyes. " One detention won't kill you.."
"One?" snorted Lily and reached for her school-bag that she had dropped on the floor in her panic-attack seconds before. "Knowing the stinken Marauders.,we'll be stuck in detention all year if we're caught.."
"Yeah, guess you're right," said Vivian and grinned
"Well, let's get to the library and make a plan at least," said Lily and started walking again, a look of determination in her eyes.
"A plan?" asked Vivian incrediously and followed her red-headed friend . She was starting to yawn again and her eye-lids felt terribly heavy.
"Yes.."
"Why do you always have to plan everything?" asked Vivian
"Because, that's the most safest and sensible thing to do," answered Lily, "and I am a sensible person.."
Vivian rolled her eyes. "What exactly are we going to plan, then?"
"Well, just how we're going to handle this," replied Lily and walked into the library, turning around to face her friend who'd suddenly stopped in the doorway.
"Seriously, there's nothing you can plan when it's concerning those guys," said Vivian annoyed, "you never know what they're up too!"
"But we have to prepare ourselves somehow!" said Lily and sat down, taking parchment and her favorite hot-pink quill up from the school-bag. "We're dead if we don't!".
"You're acting as we're about to face an army of dementors or something," said Vivian exasparated, "they're just boys, we can handle them.."
"But Potter will be there.." muttered Lily, her eyes blasing of the thought of her most hated enemy.
"He's making you nervous?" said Vivian teasingly and smirked.
"NO!" said Lily defensily and glared at her friend, "I just wan't to be prepared for everything that´s all!"
"Honestly, Lily. Don't give them so much credit.."
"But...-"
"No, Lily..this is ridiculous" said Vivian and yawned again." I'm going back to sleep."
"But-"
"No buts" said Vivian and turned away. "Come on, let's get back to the dormitory..."
Lily hesitated for a moment but then gave up. "Fine.." she muttered and threw her stuff back into the school-bag, running after her friend who was almost out of sight.
-Charms class-
"Hey, Evans" whispered James eagerly, "Evans!" Eeeevans...!"
"What, Potter?" hissed Lily finally at the boy behind her who had been trying desperately to get her attention for about five minutes...
"Here.." he whispered and threw a note straight at her head.
"Ow!" she winched and turned around, sending the boy a death-glare. "Watch it, you idiot!" she spat at him
"Sorry..." he whispered back at her and smirked.
She huffed and turned at Vivian who was focused on drawing small flowers all over her Charm's work-book, turning them multi-coloured with her wand.
"Vivian, look" whispered Lily and pinched her friend..
"What?" said Vivian distracted but then spotted the note Lily was holding. She grabbed it from her and unfolded it.
The girls leaned over the note and read it quickly.
Evans and Taleigh
23:00 PM, tonight in the North Tower at The Portrait of the One-Eyed Baron
Be there and don't be late...or else..
The Marauders
"ohhh...scary.." whispered Vivian and sniggered..
"They are sooo lame.." snorted Lily back and rolled her eyes..
Vivian giggled and took a pice of parchment and wrote another note with Lily peeking over her shoulder.
Potter and co.-
Or else what, you dunderheads?.But don't worry your little heads. We are honorable women of our words...We'll show up...
Vivian then turned with a smirk on her face, taking a good aim before she threw the folded note hard at Sirius's head that was resting on the table before him.
"Ouchh.." moaned Sirius and raised his head..."Whawasthaaa.." he mumbled sleepily and looked dazily around, blinking his eyes before he saw a note in front of him..
"I just sent them a note, telling them when they're supposed to meet us," explained James to his confused and sleep-deprived friend as they read the note together.
"Oh, ok.." muttered Sirius. His head fell back to the table with a loud thunk.
"Hey, Padfoot!" whispered Moony at him.
What?" croaked Sirius and raised up, his dark hair tousled and eyes half-closed.
"Tired?" asked Moony and grinned.
"Now why would you think that? I'm feeling so fresh," grunted Sirius sarcastically and tried to glare at his friend but then closed his bloodshot eyes quickly and groaned.
"Not a morning person, eh?"
" Not a morning persondoesn't even begin to cover it when Sirius is involved," said James to Remus, and they both smirked.
"He looks like a zombie..".
"I heard that!" hissed Sirius with his head back to lying on the table.
"I know, that's why I said it out loud.." replied Remus
"...well...thank you for that lovely compliment..."
"You're welcome..."
Sirius tried to fall asleep on his table for a few minutes more but finally came to the conclusion that he would never ever succeed to do so with Flitwick's annoyingly high-pitched voice piercing his ears so painfully. His incredibly unsensitive friends then made it even worse.
It's time for desperate measures, he thought, I just have to get out of here and get some sleep..
"Remember to flick the wand twice with your wrist...-
"Aaaaarghhhh!" interfered Sirius loudly and grabbed his head as in great pain
"Mr. Black? What in the world is going on?" asked Flitwick stunned and stared at the dark-haired boy who was now flunging his head around like a mad man.
The entire class turned around and stared at him wide-eyed.
"My 'ead!" yelled Sirius, "My 'ead!"
"What is it, lad?" called Flitwick alarmed and ran like the wind to his student
"It HUUUURTS!" howled Sirius, "and my ears...and...my..my BACK!"
"Calm down!"
"And..and...my stomach as well! I think I need to hurl!" he added and made intense gagging noises.
"Dear me!" said Flitwick absolutely horrified."I don't understand, why are you suddenly in so much pain, lad?"
"I...I...have...a...a...disease..." whimpered pathetically Sirius and flung his head around a little more.
"What disease, boy?" said Flitwick hurriedly and put his hand on Sirius's shoulder.
"Erm...erm.." hesitated Sirius and quickly tried to think of some horrible disease. None he remembered seemed likely to cause such intensive symptoms. Maybe he should mention a muggle one, Flitwick probably didn't know anything about them, being a pure blooded wizard..
"Well?" asked Flitwick
"Uh...Gonnorrhea?" he said half-questionably making all the muggle-born students in the class instantly roll their eyes and snort.
(Obviously, Sirius didn't know that much about Muggle-diseases either)
"I've never heard of that one..." said Flitwick thoughtfully
"Really?" interfered Sirius quickly, "Well, it's very rare, but, please... Professor, would it be alright if I went to the infirmary and saw Madame Pomfrey? "
"Oh, of course, lad.You must go, immidiately!" said Flitwick and pulled Sirius gently up, "Would you like me to come with you?"
"Uh..NO!" said Sirius loudly and grabbed his head again, schrunching his face, "I wouldn't want to interfere with your teaching more than I already have. I'll just go by my own and get some pain-draught and a little rest..."
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely possitive!" said Sirius dramatically,"The class must go on!"
"Well, alright then," said Flitwick finally and led Sirius to the door," I hope you'll get better soon."
"I hope so as well," answered Sirius and whimpered a little more with his eyes half-closed.
"Well, off you go then!" said Flitwick (who truthfully told looked a little bit too eager to get rid of the whimpering and drooling boy) and opened the door for his student
"Goodbye, all!" said Sirius over-dramatically, winking to his friends in the back of the class as he looked back before he limped away..
"Can't believe Flitwick actually fell for that one," whispered Lily to her friend and rolled her eyes.. "Black is such an idiot...what a stupid act."
"Yeah.." agreed Vivian, not telling Lily that she was inwardly feeling very jealous of the boy who was now doubtlessly running to the dormitories to get some sleep..she was sooo tired...
-The Gryffindor boys' dormitories-
"NOOOO!" screamed Sirius wildly and ran through the bright green forest blindly
"Come here, you!" said the huge and disturbingly pink rabbit in a high-pitched voice, laughing manically.
"Stop following me, you insane rodent!" yelled Sirius and jumped over a fallen tree-log with massive speed.
"NO!" said the rabbit stubbornly who was skipping after him,"MUAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Sirius ran as fast as he could for a long time with the beast bounching behind him but then he started to feel very tired...and suddenly he tripped and fell on the ground hard.
Gigantic furry legs stopped at his side. Sirius turned on his back and looked the vivid pink monster in the eye.
"Why are you going to do with me?'" he asked dazingly, "Who are you?"
"Don't you recognise me, Sirius?" asked the rodent in a high-pitched voice and smirked .
"Should I?" asked Sirius and stared at the rabbit.
"Yes, you should..." hissed the gigantic animal and clicked it's finger so suddenly it turned into...
"PADFOOOT!" screamed James at the top of his voice and shaked his sleeping friend. "Would you bloody hell wake up!"
Sirius mumbled and opened his eyes a little to see the familiar figure of his friend leaning over him, the wild black hair standing out to every direction.
"What a weird dream," he mutttered and rubbed his eyes, "what time is it?"
"It's lunch-time, you slept through both Potions and Transformation you goof.." said James and smiled dryly, "Oh, and nice performance you had on Flitwick. Almost had me convinced-"
"Thank you, thank you.." said Sirius cockily and grinned at his friend.
"Sirius, you do realise that Flitwick will go bonkers when he finds out that you never went to Madame Pomfrey's at all?" said James
"Whateeever.." said Sirius simply and got up from his bed and stretched his back
"Ah, I feel sooo much better now. I hate being tired.." he muttered as he put his t-shirt and robes back on.
"Come on! Let's get something to eat! I'm starving," said James and dragged his friend with him out of the room.
They walked down the stairs from the boys' dormitories and through the almost empty Common Room to the portrait hole.
"Hey, look, there's Evans..." said James suddenly and pointed back at the red-haired girl who was sitting alone in an armchair and reading a book, taking no notice
of the two Marauders at all. James started to walk into her direction with a smirk on his face but Sirius, looking very annoyed, grabbed the back of his robes.
"Not now, mate. I'm not up for one of your stupid fights," he hissed
"Oh, common. I was just going to go and say hello.." said James innocently and ran a hand through the black hair on his head, making it even messier
"For just that, she'll staple your fingers to the wall or something."
"I wouldn't say that..." said James and grinned
"Oh yeah, she would. I'm sorry mate but face the truth. She really seems to hate your guts.."
"Nah, she loves me..."said James confidently "Just doesn't know it yet..."
Sirius looked at him and blinked incrediously, "God, your hopeless.." he then muttered and turned away from his love-sick friend, leaving him there staring at the redhead.
Sirius climbed up into the dark hole and began to crawl through it.
The day poor Prongs will get Evans to like him will be the day when Voldemort marries a muggle, he thought to himself.
Why the hell can't he just spot the obvious and bloody well mooove on.. .
He reached his hands out to push the portrait's frame but then suddenly it moved away before he even touched it.
An unsuspecting Sirius came tumbling out of the hole onto the person on the other side. The screaming pair spinned in the air and then landed with an alarmingly loud thunk on the floor.
"Ouch.." came from Sirius who was now laying sprawled out on his back with his face schrunched in pain. The girl was on top of him. Her body was laying flush against his and her blonde hair was hiding her face as she breathed heavily of shock into the curve of his neck. (Sirius couldn't help but enjoy that, even amidst all the pain in his back).
"You ok?" she whispered and lifted her head to see the person laying under her. When she saw who it was, her face reddened as she quickly scrambled of him.
"Hi there Taleigh. What a nice surprise," said Sirius, even managing to smirk at her through his groans of pain. "Bloody hell, my back hurts," he then muttered under his breath.
"You need a hand?" said Vivian after a moment of hesitance, looking ackwardly at him.
"No, I'll be fine," said Sirius stubbornly and raised his head in an attempt to stand up.
"Aaaarghhh!" he then yelled as his head and shoulders fell heavily back to the floor.
"Ok, maybe I do..." he finally whispered painfully after a few seconds silence.
"Thought so.." replied Vivian and smirked down at him. She suddenly just couldn't help but enjoy the sight of the arrogant boy looking so ackward and helpless.
"What's the magic word?"
"What?" croaked Sirius and blinked, "But you just offered me a hand!"
"So?" she said and smiled at him sweetly, " Can't a girl change her mind? Guess you have to ask me, nicely!"
"You want me to beg?" he said and glared at her
"Yes..beg!" she said and looked at him expectantly.
"You actually think that I'm going to let you humiliate me like that? There's no way I'm begging!" he said and glared at her which was kinda hard to do with his eyes watering of all the pain.
She just glared back and they stared stupidly into each others eyes for a long time, neither giving in to each other.
"You're so pathetically stubborn. Just do it and I'll help you to Madam Pomfrey's," said Vivian finally, suddenly realising how ridiculous this staring-game must look.
"Not a change, Taleigh!"
"Come on..." she said
"Dream on! Just be the nice person you are and help me up!" he spat at her.
"No" she replied calmly, " I won't. Oh, and who ever said I was nice?"
"Very funny. You've had your laugh. Would you just help me up?"
"Yes, if you beg!"
"I won't!"
"That's it, last chance..." she just replied and smirked at him
"No.."
"3 seconds..."
"But-"
"3.."
"Oh common..."
"...2..."
"Are you actually serious?"
" No, you're that git.."
"Haha, cute..."
"...1..."
"Taleigh!"
"...0..."
"But you cant-"
" Bye Sirius! Have fun on the floor!" she said cheerfully and started to walk away.
Sirius stared at her withdrawing back incrediously. He couldn't believe she would just leave him in such pain like that! His mind was in a haze and he was starting to feel cold and numb. Yes, Prongs would eventually come out of the common room and find him but who knew how long of a time that would take? (James and Evans's fights often lasted for hours..) He really didn't feel like being on the hard stone-floor a second more than he had to so after a few moments he finally managed to swallow his pride and call weakly after her, "No wait!"
She turned slowly and looked back at him questionately. "What?"
"Uh..come back..." he muttered
She slowly walked back to him with her eyebrows raised, "change your mind?"
"Yeah...fine...I'll...I'll beg..." he whispered and opened his dazed
eyes, trying hard to focus on hers.
"..."
"Yes?"
" uh...pl...please help me?" he finally let out.
"That's not enough, love.."
"Ok..uhh...pretty.. please?" he tried and looked at her hopefully
She said nothing
" Oh, fine.." he grumbled, "Please, sweet darling Vivian, help me up?"
" Is that actually the best you can do?" she asked but not without noting that he had actually called her by her first name. Wow, he must really be in pain then!
Please, you most beautiful, charming, witty, funny and smartest girl in the entire school-
" Just the school?" she interrupted and glared mockingly
"- no uh, the UNIVERSE! Yeah, that's right...would you please help me up to Madame Pomfrey's? Pleeeease, I'll do anything!" he finished with the most pathetic
lost puppy-dog eyes she had ever seen.
"Anything?" she asked with a twinkle in her eyes and a broad grin on her lips..
"Yah..." he replied and closed his eyes, "Whatever.."
"Well that wasn't so hard was it?" she said and finally pointed her wand at him.
Suddenly he was floating gently in the air beside her. His back still ached but he was very relieved to get of the cold and hard stone-floor.
"Alright then, to the Hospital Wing!", she chirped and the pair quickly went on a journey up a few stairs and through a few corridors to see Madame Pomfrey.
"Almost there! You'll be fine, ya little ninny!" she said but Sirius didn't utter a word back to her. No comeback at all...
She looked at him more closely,
Oops, he's fainted...maybe I should have taken him a little earlier...
She stopped in front of Madame Pomfrey's office and knocked on the door. She was for some reason starting to feel a little sorry for the boy floating beside her and even a little guilty for being so unsensitive. But then she was quick to shrug it of when thinking of how he would have done the exact same thing to her (or better yet, something worse).
Madame Pomfrey opened up the door, gasping when she saw them and quickly getting them into the hospital wing.
"What happened, dear?" she asked while rushing Sirius's unconcious form gently into a bed.
"Well, he fell out of the Gryffindor portrait hole straight unto his back," answered Vivian ackwardly, "and I kind of landed on top of him..."
"Oh the poor boy.." muttered Madame Pomfrey while carefully examining
his back. "He's broken 2 ribs!"
Vivian paled and she was immidietely stricken with guilt. Yeah, maybe she should have taken him here a little earlier..
"But he will be fine right?"
"Oh yes of course! It's just very painful but nothing that I can't fix!" said the Madame and smiled gently at Vivian
"Good.." said Vivian, " But will he have to stay here for long?"
"Well, I'm afraid he'll have to stay the night at least.." said Madame Pomfrey and then quickly got up and ushered Vivian out the door. " Now I must get to work, dear. You can come and visit your boy later.."
"Oh, ok. But-"
"Stop worrying, dear! Your boyfriend will be fine!"
"Boyfriend!" said Vivian horrified, "Oh god no! You've got it all
wrong Madame, I don't even-"
Madame Pomfrey shut the door in her face
"...like him..."
A/N: Ok, that's it for chapter 2...I promise that the next chapter will make a little more sense. You'll get to know the characters more and what the prank is like ;O) Anyway, thanks for reading!
