James Potter felt ridiculously small

A second ago the room had been perfectly normal and James sized, now it felt like giants had invaded it and stretched it out for their use.

James had been minding his own business, gazing adoringly at Lilly out of the window when the room exploded in a cloud of dust. He had no idea what had just happened but Sirius standing in front of him, wand in hand and guilty expression plastered to his face gave him some idea.

Flicking his tail he narrowed his eyes angrily and…

Wait

His tail?

He froze and turned his head to look behind him. Instead of seeing his beautifully sculpted behind as he expected, James Potter was greeted with a furry backside complete with fuzzy tail.

Trying to see more, he got up and started craning his neck, attempting to see behind the black furry lump and trying in vain to stop his extra appendage from moving. The tail however had a different plan.

This, just happened to be the moment Lilly Marie Evans, red hair, green eyes and all, climbed into the common room. Lilly trying to see what all the commotion was, came over just in time to see a very small and messy kitten chasing his tail and getting exceptionally dizzy. The crowd parted slightly to let her through, a few departing with knowing smiles, the rest with their attention firmly fixed on the adorable kitten who by now had grown too dizzy and was sitting upright on the windowsill, swaying slightly.
James felt sick. The entire room was spinning and he could feel himself moving with it.

Stop.

The tail….. was still.

Slowly, with one eye narrowed in fierce concentration, he inched his feet away from the tip that was poking out from behind him….lowered his head….lifted his bottom in the air….and pounced.

By now Lilly Evans' gaze was glued to the charming kitten who was hopping like a mad pot trying to pounce on it's own tail.

"Whose is she?" she asked.

The kitten suddenly fell still. It whipped it's head around searching for something before it's eyes alighted on Lilly who was regarding it in vague amusement. The kitten drew it's furry body up quickly and stared at her with something akin to horror.

It glanced furtively around the windowsill and then re-bestowing its gaze on Lilly, licked its paw and began rubbing the fur on top of it's head with it.

The action was so James Potter that Lilly burst out laughing. Everyone else started giving her strange looks, all except for Sirius who was giving the kitten an evil glare which it was ignoring. As quickly as though he'd been hit on the head, Sirius suddenly beamed at Lilly.

"Lillykins!"

Lilly gazed at him warily, "Yes?"

"How would you like to do me a favor? Not a big one…" He backtracked on seeing the look on her face, "Just a small one?"

Sighing, Lilly nodded in compliance.

"Excellent! Well you see James is …. a little ill, and he needs someone to look after Kitty here mean while."

"Why can't you look after him?"

Sirius suddenly sneezed, "I'm a..a…achooo! Alergic."

Lilly was about to refuse when her gaze again landed on the kitten, which was staring up at her with huge brown eyes and something in her gave in.

"Fine" she said, "What's her name?"

At this the kitten let out yowl of indignation. Staring at it is surprise she asked againtentatively "His name?"

James was seething. He was a cat; Lilly thought he was a girl and he couldn't catch his own stupid tail.

What more could go wrong?

Lilly asked Sirus what he was called and he took it all back. The smirk on Sirius' overlarge face was far too smug for his taste.

"Schnookems"

What.

Schnookems?

James Potter was not going to be called that hideous name even once, let along for god knows how long he was stuck like this!

And it was all Sirius' fault!

Lilly Evans voice suddenly broke through his fog of rage, apparently yelling at Sirius to leave him alone. Sirius who was currently clicking his fingers at him

Why if he could just go up there and scratch the…

Suddenly with a lurch in his stomach, James was swept up in soft, pale hands and clutched gently to a warm, softly heaving chest draped with long curls.

James really loved Sirius.

The nicest friend a guy could have, his best buddy.

James Potter had his head on Lilly Evans' chest, all was right in the world.

He let out a rusty purr.

What did you think? I knew the view points switched but I tried make it clear. Thank you soooo much for all your reviews, (esp. the person who said they'd give it a chance), I'm sorry I can't thank you individually but my school servers gay and it will block me from in around two minutes.

Anyone want to beta? I really need on as I don't have time to go over this myself. I'm right in the middle of GCSE's.

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