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Chapter Three
Remus and Lily (real Lily of course) walked down to the common room.
Sara was reading and it looked like James was sleeping on the sofa.
Remus and Lily walked over to them and Sara looked up.
"Remus knows." Lily said gesturing towards Remus.
Sara stared at them a minute before she shrugged, turning back at her book, and James bolted upwards, almost falling off the couch.
"What?" He asked, gripping the back of the sofa. "How? When? Why?"
Lily frowned at him.
"What does it matter?" She asked sighing.
"It just does! This just goes to show how you can't keep secrets!" James exclaimed.
Lily scowled.
"I didn't just go up to him and tell him. You know there are some smart kids in this school!" She said. 'Unlike you!' "He figured it out himself!"
James glared at her.
"Whatever."
"So...let me get this straight...James, you're in a girl's body? Lily's body?" Remus said which earned him a smack over the head from Lily.
James leaned over the sofa farther, making it almost tip over. "Remus, you have to promise not to tell Sirius." He said seriously.
"I know I know." Remus said rolling his eyes. "You'd think I was stupid."
"Well..." James said and Remus scowled.
"After what Lily just said!"
"Hey." Sirius said coming up to them. "What did Lily say?"
James's head snapped to Sirius and he gripped the sofa cushion. "Nothing." He said quickly.
"That was a fast walk." Remus said changing the subject.
Sirius shrugged. "I'm not one for long walks."
Remus shook his head.
"What's Peter doing?" Sirius asked looking over to the corner of the room where Peter was busily crawling on the ground, looking under the tables and chairs.
"Looking for things he might've lost." Lily said.
"Ah..." Sirius said. He made a thoughtful face before smirking. "You know what you two? I think we should do a big prank at the end of the year feast. Don't you think?"
Disagreement bells rang in Lily's head but she didn't say anything and turned to Remus who shrugged.
"Sure, why not? It's not like we don't do it every year." Remus said sarcastically.
Sirius grinned happily and clapped his hands together.
"Excellent! We should start planning—time is money!"
Sirius bounded up to the boys dormitory and Remus started to follow.
"Are you coming?" He asked Lily who stood by the sofa hesitantly.
Lily looked back at Sara helplessly before Remus gave her a push in the back to get her moving.
"So." Sara said looking at James who was frowning once the two left. "What's it feel like, sitting back and watching them do the end of the year prank without you?"
James scowled at her.
"Do you always bug your friends like this?"
Sara shrugged.
"Nope, but you're not really my friend are you?"
James crossed his arms over his chest and pouted.
"S'not fair." He said. "I should be up there planning the prank with Sirius and Remus."
"So should Peter, but you don't see him complaining do you?" Sara said nodded at Peter who was lifting up a seat cushion and looking under it.
"Well, Peter doesn't know what they're doing...and that's not the point!" James said adding the last bit in exasperation.
"Oh? I thought that was the point." Sara said crossing her arms over her chest and raising an eyebrow at him.
James stared at her for a minute.
"No uh…the point is...I want to be back in my own body, no matter how much I like being in Lily's!" He said, raising his voice a little.
Sara looked around the common room nervously but no one seemed to notice.
"James, please. I understand that you like to whine-"
"You'd be whining too if you were—I'm not whining!"
"No, of course not, but keep your voice down!" Sara finished.
James sunk down in the sofa in a huff.
"Why don't you...make up a prank and tell it to Lily? Then she could suggest it to the rest of your little clan and they could do it at the feast." Sara suggested.
James glanced at her out of the corner of his eye.
"What good will that do? Nobody will know that I did it."
"No you see? Everybody will know it was you. Well, everybody will know it was you and your friends." Sara said.
James turned his head toward the staircases.
"It's still not the same."
"Argh! I don't know what to tell you!" Sara said throwing her arms up in exasperation. "I don't know how this is going to work over the summer with you acting different than how Lily acts. Her mother's going to know something's wrong and then probably beat the bejesus out of you saying that you've been possessed and you're not her daughter-"
"Well technically I'm not."
"And then what'll I say to Lily eh? 'Oh sorry Lily, you'll have to stay in James's body forever because your mother killed him for being an idiot'. What'll she think? She'll probably beat the bejesus out of me for not telling you how to act around her mother. And when I meet you in heaven, I'll beat the bejesus out of you again!" Sara had gotten up and was pacing back and forth, flailing her arms about, receiving a few weird looks from people around the common room. "If you even go to heaven!"
James stood up and grabbed her shoulders, giving her a shake.
"For bloody sakes, shut up!"
Sara stopped and stared at him, her face starting to flush.
"I won't do anything stupid." James said slowly.
Sara gave a laugh and James let go of her.
He paced the floor, copying Sara's steps.
"James, it's going to be all right." Sara said quietly, sitting down on the sofa and looking up at him.
"Oh Merlin." James muttered, putting his hand over his forehead as he sank down onto the couch.
Sara frowned and shook her head.
"How come you had to go and change bodies eh? That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard tell of!" She complained.
"Quiet! You don't want somebody to hear do you? Remus already knows!" James barked.
"That wasn't a matter of overhearing." Sara said.
"Doesn't matter!" James snapped. "We don't want anyone else to hear!"
"What the hell?" Someone cried, jumping up from behind the couch James was sitting on.
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Back to when the boys (and Lily) left up to their dorm
"Have any ideas James?" Sirius asked excitedly.
Lily looked at Remus for help; she really wasn't any good at making up pranks.
Remus took a step behind Sirius and mouthed something to her.
Lily furrowed her brow trying to read what Remus was trying to mime to her.
"James?" Sirius asked.
Lily narrowed her eyes in concentration while Remus did what he was trying to say slower.
Sirius gave her an odd look before turning and looking at Remus who stopped immediately and gave him a grin.
"What are you two pulling?" He asked looking back and forth between Remus and Lily.
"Nothing." They both said simultaneously.
Sirius narrowed his eyes but was distracted.
"Hey...where's Peter?" He said and looking at Peter's empty bed. "He didn't come with us?"
"No. He was still looking around the common room." Remus said.
"Hmm...I should go get him." Sirius said thoughtfully. "He can't miss the planning."
"Right." Lily said.
Sirius bounded back out of the boys dormitory's.
"He sure is weird." Lily mumbled staring at the door where Sirius left through.
"Uh huh." Remus said.
"Now...what were you trying to say?" Lily asked turning back to Remus.
Remus glared at her and threw up his hands.
"I can't believe you didn't understand me!" He said. "I was doing it so perfectly!"
"Obviously not."
Remus frowned.
"Fine, I won't tell you my plan then."
"Remus!"
"Nope."
"Remus!"
"No."
"Lupin!"
"Uh-uh."
"Argh!"
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"Pe-ter..." Sirius whispered to himself as he jumped down the last few stairs and looked around the common room. "Where are you..."
He spotted Peter looking underneath a table by Sara and James, and walked over to him.
"Hey Pete. We're planning our prank for the year end feast." Sirius said.
Peter looked up at him.
"Oh good, I just—my chess piece!" He said. The knight he had a tight grip on slipped through his fingers and rolled off by the couch where James was sitting.
"I'll grab it." Sirius said dropping to the floor. He crawled under the few tables over to the couch where the knight had taken refuge under.
Peter waved nervously at a first year who was staring at him interestedly.
"I uh, dropped something." Peter said jabbing his thumb at Sirius who was laying on the floor digging under the couch for Peter's chess piece.
The first year slowly turned back to his friend and whispered something in his ear.
Peter turned back to Sirius, startled when he had yelled something.
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"Sirius!" Sara and James said in surprise and horror.
"What the hell?" Sirius repeated.
James looked at Sara anxiously. "You-you didn't hear anything did you?"
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Yep, another chapter. Hmm…this one wasn't as easy to fix up as the others, but I tried at least…that's what counts, right?
Right?
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