A/N: This one's really short, I didn't have much to write…I just didn't want to put all this into the last chapter; it would be way too long. Hope you like it! R&R please!
P.S. I fixed my spelling of LILY'S name (thank you tiedye)
Speechless
James was gazing off into space again. It didn't take a genius to guess why.
"Hey mate, you want to know what I think?" Sirius offered.
"No not especially, but has that ever stopped you before?"
"Exactly. Glad to see you're finally catching on!" Sirius responded jovially,
"Now, maybe you just need to show her that you actually LIKE HER! I'm getting the feeling that, while asking her out 24 times a day is a respectable approach, she's not getting the message."
"Hey, look whose talking." James stabbed back.
"I don't know what you're talking about Jamsie. Now like I was saying-"
"Sirius mate? Stuff it." Sirius looked slightly taken aback, Peter meanwhile was giggling again.
"Oooh you got told!" he squealed.
"Burn!" at this he started laughing hysterically again, clearly thinking he was extremely clever. The other three looked at him with pity, he tried so hard sometimes.
"Peter"
"Yeah?"
"Never say that again. Ever."
"Oh…"
But this discussion was stopped abruptly, when James suddenly stood up and strode across the room towards the girls' staircase.
"Uh oh."
"James, you're not going to do anything drastic are you mate?" Sirius called, sounding slightly worried. But James didn't stop; instead he headed straight for the red-headed girl nearing the end of the stair case.
"Evans, what exactly do you think of me?" he asked her, looking straight into her eyes. He wasn't sure what had come over him, but he suddenly just had to know. Becca shot a nervous glance towards the other marauders, and snuck around the two to join them.
"I think, that you are in my way James" she said without flinching.
"No I'm serious here,"
"No actually you are James."
"Haha, you are just so witty Lily." She was temporarily taken aback by the use of her first name, but that wouldn't let her get her guard down.
"Well thank you oh-so-very-much, now please move." She made to go around him, but he grabbed the banister, cutting her off.
"Not until you tell me what you think of me."
"Honestly?"
"Yes."
"Uh-oh," Bee whispered.
"What, is she going to kill him?" Remus asked tentatively.
"Yep, pretty much. She's been saving this one up for a while."
"I think you are an arrogant, disgusting, perverted, egotistical, pathetic waste of oxygen, that is an idiotic, superficial, wannabe, foul-mouthed, evil little COCKROACH!" she practically screamed.
"Sounds like she's turning into you Bee."
"Oh, go jump off a cliff."
"And will you PLEASE stop running your hand through your hair like that? It is positively PATHETIC!" Lily finished, slapping his hand away from his head. His hands both dropped to his sides, and Lily shoved her way past him and out the portrait hole. James didn't move; he was still staring at the spot on the staircase that she had just been standing on. Silently, he moved towards the boys' staircase, and all of the marauders stood up to follow him.
"Hold on," Bee said, grabbing Sirius' shirt and pulling him back down. "I need to talk to you." Sirius looked skeptical.
"But James, he-"
"Don't worry. The other two can handle it for now." She reassured him. "Besides, that's precisely what I want to talk to you about." He finally seemed convinced, and sank reluctantly into an armchair, while the other two followed James.
"So, what is this about, exactly?" he asked her a little nervously.
"We have to fix this." She stated simply.
"Fix what?" he asked, clearly not catching her train of thought.
"Fix what?" she asked sarcastically. "FIX THEM YOU IDIOT!"
"I think they are way past fixing. Besides, you heard what she said, she HATES James. She made that quite clear Bee." He said, wondering if she somehow missed the rather impressive string of insults he just witnessed.
"Oh she just thinks she hates him, or wants to for that matter. Trust me on this one. I know Lily practically better than I know myself and she only wants to hate James. Honestly, I think she's always liked him a bit, but would never admit it. That would go completely against everything she stands for." She said in her most convincing voice. However he still looked a little unsure.
"I don't know, I mean what if she was serious? She just killed my best mate; I can't stand to watch him be taken down like that again." Bee couldn't help but be moved a little by his compassion for his friend. She'd never seen this side of him before.
"If I swear to you that she won't, will you help me? Because I know for a fact that if he is serious with her, she won't bite back again." He still looked nervous, clearly not trusting Becca.
"Ugh," she sighed, "I askedher! I asked what she would do if I could prove that he was serious!"
"And?"
"And she was speechless!"
"Wow."
"Yeah, no kidding…"
"Lily Evans was speechless?"
"Yep."
"Alright, so maybe you've got a point. Well less than a point. Let's say you've got a 'pointlet'. Why did you want to talk to me about it anyway?" Sirius asked. He couldn't find a connection between the two, and in the past six years she had never expressed a desire just to talk to him for no real reason.
"Ah, I figured you'd be asking me that soon. So basically, I'm sick and tired of hearing Lily rant about how she 'hates' James, and I want them to get together. But I need your help…" she trailed off, twisting her hands together as she said the last part. Sirius grinned. Bee needed his help; that could prove to be interesting.
"Okay, but for a price."
"I had a feeling you'd say that, so I came prepared. If you help me, I will turn my 'maybe' into a 'yes'." She declared. Sirius raised both eyebrows, rather surprised he just got her to agree to go on a date with him, and he hadn't even asked her that day. Well except for saying that he saw them in Hogsmeade together during Divination, but that didn't really count. Oh, and he offered to buy her real breakfast that morning before class if she went with him on the weekend. But really, if you thought about it hard enough, that didn't count either.
"Fine."
"Really? That's all you want?"
"Are you offering more?" he said coyly, arching one eyebrow.
"Oh get over yourself you great prat, I was only saying that I wasn't expecting you to give up without more of a fight."
"Yes, I have to admit neither did I, but you seem to be missing one important fact m'dear."
"Yeah? And what would that be?" she asked with a laugh, she had made special care not to forget a thing.
"I just won a five year long fight." Bee looked as though someone just slapped her. She was completely at a loss for words; speechless. She didn't like losing, it wasn't exactly something she dealt with well. Sirius knew this perfectly well, and was loving every moment of it. He grinned at her triumphantly. But just as he was sinking into his gloating stage of winning, a wicked smile flashed across her face. He knew that look too well.
"What's that look for?"
"Oh, nothing." She said airily, waving a hand casually and standing up to leave. He leaped up too, and grabbed her shoulder, spinning her back around.
"Tell me."
"There's nothing to tell. Just that you didn't win." Now it was his turn to look shocked.
"Yes I did! You just said you'd go with me!"
"Exactly, but I never said it was a date. Besides, we're going to need most of that time to put our plan into action." Sirius glared at her.
"Fine, we'll call it a tie, considering that you still are spending the entire day with me."
"Deal. Now if you'll sit down, we can discuss our plan."
The plan was set. Everything was working perfectly. It was so simple, that it was flawless. Needless to say, Bee and Sirius were rather proud of themselves. Lily however, was less than pleased.
"What do you mean you can't spend the day in Hogsmeade with me?"
Lily protested. Bee was looking rather guilty, and doing what she had learned was best to do when she pissed off Lily; hiding underneath her covers.
"I can't, I have plans."
"WITH?" Lily demanded.
"Sirghusnhmmph" she mumbled in response. Usually, she was good at making up excuses, while the guys all found it rather annoying that she could get them to believe anything, she found it extremely useful. However, lying to a professor about why your essay is only half finished, and lying to your best friend, were entirely different things. She just couldn't lie to Lily.
"Erm, sorry, didn't catch that." Lily said sarcastically from her place at the end of Bee's bed. Bee sighed; there was no point in hiding it now.
"I'm going with Sirius."
Lily fell off the bed.
