Me: I'm back!

James: Oh Joy

Sirius: Didn't you just update?

Me: No…..

Sirius: Well you're writing this shorter then a 6 month apart there's got to be something wrong.

Me: NO!

James: Well you readers and reviewers are probably seeing this 5 months later then when she started it.

Me: HEY!

Sirius: No, more like 8.

Me: That's it, JAMES YOU ARE IN TROUBLE!

James: Huh?

Me: I'm the author, and wait until you see what I have planned for you! MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

James: HELP!

Sirius: HA HA HA HA HA!

Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, wish I did.

Chapter 13: Punishments and Plans

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Sirius, Remus, and Peter were sitting in their dormitories, waiting for James to come and tell them what his punishment would be. All three of them felt slightly guilty after witnessing the prank in action. As they waited for James to return, they began to talk. "That was harsh," Sirius finally said, hanging upside down off his bed and looking at the other two marauders.

"You guys were the ones who wouldn't listen to me," Remus lectured, not looking up from his transfiguration essay.

"I know."

Before anything else could be said, the dormitory door opened, and there was standing a very shocked looking James Potter. He walked like a zombie into the room and to his bed, collapsing on it and staring up towards the ceiling with his eyes unfocussed.

"James! James Mate, can you hear me?" asked Sirius.

"What happened in there?" Peter asked, a tremble of fear going through his voice. Even Remus had looked up and was staring at his friend; face a mixture of concern and sternness.

"I have to…write…sweet poems to every Gryffindor girl in our year."

Peter spit out the chocolate in his mouth and started coughing, earning a disgusted look from Remus. Sirius had fallen off his bed and landed hard on his head. Wincing, he looked up at James. "Including Evans?"

"Including Evans."

Remus laughed at the look on his three friends faces. "Honestly it's not that bad," he said, returning to his essay as if doom had not come out of James mouth.

"Not that bad? NOT THAT BAD!" Sirius yelled, causing Remus to jump and knock over his bottle of ink on to his pillow. "It's terrible! Haven't you seen James try to write? He's terrible! And sweet poems to the girls, to Evans and…Celebrean."

Remus glanced at Sirius before turning back to his ink stained pillow. "You'll pay for that."

Peter pulled out another chocolate frog and looked up at James. "How long do you have to finish?" he asked, taking a bite of his candy.

James glance finally moved from the ceiling to look at Peter. His eyes behind his pair of classes held sorrow and hopelessness. "Until tommorow."

Peter almost choked and desperately tried to swallow. Even Remus looked surprised at the fact that James only had one night to write four sweet poems. "And you guys can't help me, he'd know."

Sighing, James sat up and walked to his trunk, pulling out four sheets of parchment and a bottle of ink. Reaching under his bed he pulled out a quill and sat down, beginning to write. His friends looked at him in pity before working on their homework.

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In the girl's dormitory, a normal hand sized Lily was sitting with Celebrean, rambling about how much she hated James. Celebrean, who had been listening to this for the past hour, was getting very bored.

"If you're so mad at him, do something about it!" Celebrean finally snapped.

Lily stares at Celebrean, as if she were insane. "Do something about it? Do what about it? There is nothing to do about it!" Lily stated, jumping up to begin pacing the room. Celebrean watched her do this for several minutes before getting an idea.

"Prank him back."

"What?" Lily asked, stopping in mid-stride to stare at her best friend.

"You heard me. Prank him back. Get him back for what he did to you."

Lily continued staring at Celebrean, and suddenly an idea appeared in Lily's head. An evil glint came to her eye, and a small smirk came to her face. Celebrean moved away from her slightly, as if afraid Lily would attack her at any moment. "That's a great idea! And I have the perfect plan."

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The next morning in the great hall, four school owls flew to the four Gryffindor girls. Lucky for James not all the girls had enrolled, otherwise he would have had more poems to write, though he had been up all night writing these.

As soon as Missy Morris and Ginger Gornelo read theirs they broke into girlish giggles, waving to James and looking excited. James banged his head on the table, which was not a good idea since he was eating porridge.

The others burst out laughing and James, looking very soggy, glared at them all, standing up to leave the Great Hall.

Meanwhile, farther down the table, Lily was reading her poem and not looking pleased.

Lily

I'm sorry for what I have done

But please do not be glum

For this poem I hope to make you see

How stupid I can sometimes be

For with this poem I must say

I did not mean what I said that day

So sorry I am right now

Hopefully you didn't have a cow.

-James Potter

Celebrean looked at Lily's poem and started laughing. "He does not know how to write does he?" she asked.

Lily wasn't laughing. "I know this is his punishment, he's not really sorry! You know he's not!"

"No, he's not," Celebrean said carefully, pushing a strand of hair out of her face. "But I think the others are," she said, who were watching for her reaction. Rolling her eyes, Lily snatched Celebrean's poem out of her hands and read it.

Celebrean Celebrean,

Nothing rhymes with Celebrean,

You have a good spirit

I know of someone who likes it

You have a good punch

And I have a hunch

That when you read this

Laugh you will

Maybe even forgive me?

Get Evans to, too?

-James Potter

"He will never win a poetry contest," she said, shaking her head kind of sadly.

Lily laughed.

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"Come on mate, it wasn't so bad," Sirius said to James that evening. James didn't say anything, just lay there staring at the wall.

"For what should have happened, he got off easy. I'm surprised we didn't all have to do it, or all get detention or something," Remus said, finishing up his potion homework that had been assigned that day.

"Yeah James, thanks for not telling about us helping," Peter piped in, sitting on his bed and looking admiringly at James.

Remus placed his stuff away and lay back on his bed, looking around at the others. "He probably knew, but couldn't prove it."

The others shrugged.

"Well I'm going to bed," Remus announced, who was followed shortly by Peter. Once they heard Remus's breathing grow steady and Peter's snores grow loud, Sirius turned back to James.

"Okay, what's wrong?" he asked.

James looked at Sirius. "I just have the strangest feeling that this is not over."

As this was all going on, in the girl's dorms two girls were up, plotting and finishing the last details of their plan for tommorow. They were prepared, and though they knew it could be a better plan, they knew it would embarrass James well enough.

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A/N: I'm not very proud of this chapter, I could never seem to write it out the way I wanted to. I think it was a little boring myself, but review anyway, please? Next chapter is a prank on James, that should be better right?

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