CHAPTER 2
Pranks, kisses and anger issues
The next morning Lily awoke as she usually did, completely forgetting about last night's events, and possible repercussions. She got dressed showered and sat down at the breakfast table, next to Ally.
A loud fart noise came from her chair, causing the entire student population to stare at Lily, whose face had gone pink. She looked around for the source of the prank, and saw James Potter trying to look innocent, but failing miserably.
"Real mature, Potter is that the best you've got, Invisible whoopee cushions?" She stood looking for it, but it wasn't on her seat.
"Potter, I thought you were supposed to good at pranking, I'm probably better than you. Is that all you've got?"
James and Sirius looked positively scandalised. This girl beating James at Wizard Chess was now claiming she was better at pranking! That was their specialty!
Lily sat down and again heard the farting noise. James stifled a laugh.
Lily rolled her eyes and muttered a few words, flicking her wand carelessly and James hair was turned neon pink, and formed a Mohawk, unknown to him.
"Ha, you missed, I AM better than you." James called down the table, still not noticing his hair. Lily shrugged, and turned back to her breakfast.
Her blissful silence was interrupted by a short yell.
"EVANS!"
Apparently he had caught sight of his hair in spoon Sirius had handed him. Sirius had found it quite amusing that James was clueless but thought it would be funnier if he let him know.
James stormed up to her and wrenched her up by her shirt.
"Turn it back," he said through gritted teeth.
"Turn what back, Potter?" Lily asked feigning innocence.
"You know what I'm talking about Evans, don't play innocent with me." He growled menacingly.
"What ever are you talking about?" Lily blinked.
The entire hall was watching the pair. James' face turned red with anger.
"MY HAIR EVANS! YOU KNOW MY HAIR IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND YOU TURNED IT PINK. GET RID OF IT RIGHT NOW!"
"As you wish, Potter." She again flicked her wand, and everyone in the hall took in a breath. Lily slipped out of James' grasp before he could see what she had done. She quickly grabbed her bag and walked towards the door.
"EVANS!" James shouted. "YOU-YOU-I'M BALD!" You could practically see steam coming from his ears.
Lily turned around grinning. "You told me to get rid of it!" She called.
"EVANS, CHANGE IT BACK NOW!"
"Nah, I think it's an improvement," and she promptly ran off with an angry James close behind.
"Ah, young love." Dumbledore sighed, his blue eyes twinkling, making Professor McGonagall stare at him in disbelief.
class
Now, Lily Evans liked a good prank as much as the next person, but this was getting ridiculous.
Lily had soon discovered it was not her seat that was charmed to making the farting noise, but her.
In every one of her classes when she sat down she would hear it. As most of the teachers were in the great hall they knew what was going on, and dismissed it, but Lily wouldn't.
Every time the sound went off people looked at her, as if it hadn't been happening all day.
Lily was slowly becoming more and more infuriated. James had seemed to calm down, Sirius had talked him out of his anger and made Lily restore his hair, no matter how funny it was.
It was the class after lunch, Transfiguration, Lily's worst subject and coincidentally James' best.
McGonagall had forgotten all about this morning's incident so when Lily sat down and the noise went off Professor McGonagall immediately scolded Lily.
"Miss Evans, if you cannot control your…bodily urges please leave my classroom." The stern older woman told her.
Lily
felt herself go red. James wasn't even bothering to hide his
laughter. He then muttered something causing her skin to flash
colours and words such as 'Snapes girl' then she burst into song.
Lily felt her temper rising as his laughter grew louder. She finished
singing and sat down.
Lily was grasping her chair as her fingers
turned white. His laughter was ringing in her years like bells. It
wasn't even that funny he just wanted to annoy her. Soon her skin
stopped flashing and her hair seemed to crackle, as it did last
night. It went unnoticed by James who was howling with laughter. He
knew he was laughing more than necessary, but it annoyed Evans so who
cared, right?
The rest of the class had started laughing under the influence of James. Lily was just getting angrier. Six years of built up anger was threatening to release. Something about James made her relive old memories. Six years of being unnoticed. Six years of being taunted by her sister. Six years she had to wear a mask to hide what she was feeling. Bad memories spiralled through her head. Her crackling hair was flicking and framed her face dangerously. Her emerald eyes flickered hazardously before turning into bright green flames. McGonagall watched the display cautiously ready to step in, but truth be told she was a little frightened.
At present, most of the class had turned to Lily and their laughter had stopped abruptly, but James being the arrogant person he is continued the act ignorant of what was happening with Lily. Lily had closed her eyes now and there seemed to be a faint golden glow surrounding her. Her crackling hair appeared to be flaming, anyone who witnessed this sight would have thought it were terrifying. The glowing teenager was now levitating slightly in the air, still surrounded by laughter coming from James, Sirius and a few others. Remus was trying to stop their laughter but his pleas were made in vain. Lily stopped levitating a few inches below the ceiling and looked deep in concentration. Now everyone had stopped laughing except James. Sirius was also trying to snap James out of his state. He and Remus finally shook him from his laughter and James opened his eyes and staring at Lily in awe.
McGonagall decided that this was enough, also she was quite intimidated by Miss Evans, though she would never admit it.
"Um…Miss Evans?" She called gently. "Miss Evans?" She tried for a few more minutes before looking to the class. Now Lily was glowing a more vibrant gold and her flaming hair was surrounding her.
"Evans, snap out of it!" James called.
Lily's eyes instantly flicked open causing the class to catch their breath. Her fiery emerald eyes were now glowing a deep purple and as she stared at James the floor began to shake. It shook more and more violently as time passed.
Lily and James had their eyes locked onto each others. Soon their classmates were holding onto chairs and other objects so they could stand, yet the floor still shook. Lily and James still kept their gaze strong. The lights were flickering and McGonagall was looking very frightened. A blast of heat came from the ground and the students all scrambled to get on top of desks, except James, who kept his stare. All of a sudden Lily and James simultaneously blinked and a flash of bright white light filled the class, and then it was gone, as were Lily and James.
"Mr Black, Please go and inform Professor Dumbledore of what has happened."
LILYJAMES
"What the-"
"OUCH!" James cried as Lily landed atop of him.
"WHERE ARE WE! WHAT HAPPENED!" she screamed.
"Well, I laughed at you, so you went psycho and started glowing, then you were levitating and your hair was on fire and your eyes went purple," he started, talking very fast, "then you and I were staring each other down and the ground was shaking hard, the lights were breaking and then there was a bright white light AND HERE WE ARE…" he finished dramatically. "You have anger issues."
"And where is here?" Lily asked standing straight.
"Here is…" James looked around, "Here is…I don't know."
They both glanced around the room. It was entirely bare, it was nothing but four white walls and a ceiling. No doors, no windows, no nothing.
"God, why am I stuck here with Potter, of all people?"
"You know Evans, I have only known you for a day and I already hate you."
"Well, the feeling is mutual."
There was a moment's silence.
"I'm so hungry I wish I had some food!" Lily said.
Out of thin air a silver platter appeared with food on it, Lily jumped, but started eating. James stared at the food as realisation dawned on him.
"Evans, we're in the room of requirement!"
"And?" she asked.
"That means we can get out!" he continued her. "The room gives us what we want, you were hungry, and you got food, you see?"
"I see, Potter I'm not stupid."
"So…" he spoke slowly, as if the internet to some one with amnesia. " We just have to wish for a way out!"
"Right, I get you."
"So concentrate really hard, on a way to get out."
They sat in concentration for a few moments. Nothing.
"Potter, nothing is happening."
"Oh, I wouldn't say nothing." He smirked.
"Oh?"
"Look," he pointed behind her at something hanging from the roof.
"That's…that's mistletoe…it's not Christmas,"
"Please Evans, obviously it's the way out. We simply have to kiss under the mistletoe and we're free."
"NO WAY! I AM NOT KISSING YOU!"
"Oh come on Evans, I don't want to kiss you, but I DEFINITELY don't want to be stuck in here with you for all eternity. I have a date with a hot Ravenclaw tonight!" he said pleading his case.
"I will not kiss you!" she said as if that was that.
"Evans, don't try and pretend. I know you're dying to kiss me, I mean I'm James Potter, everyone wants a piece of this, male or female." He said waving a hand up and down his body.
Lily snorted.
"Fine Evans, but denial isn't just a river in Egypt."
"That saying is so lame."
"Whatever, can we just kiss and get it over with?"
"Fine, hurry up, and don't try anything funny!"
"As if."
They reluctantly walked over to the mistletoe and Lily stood on her toes as James leaned down.
"Are you sure this is the only way out?" Lily asked when they were inches away from each other.
"Do you see a door anywhere?" he asked waving his hand around at the room.
"No, but there could b-" Before she could finish her sentence, James grabbed her forcefully and kissed her on the lips.
It was a kiss neither would forget. It was like fire and ice uniting, flowing through their entire bodies as their lips met, though brief they were both left with a tingling sensation on their lips when they parted.
And they were outside. There was an uncomfortable silence. They both avoided each others eyes.
"Hey Potter?"
"Yes Evans?"
"You said the room gives us what we want right?"
"Wow, you actually listened to me." He stated sarcastically.
"Whatever, but anyway, if all we wanted was a way out, why didn't it just make a door? Does that mean one of us wanted to-"
"Lily!" She was cut off by a scream from her best friend, Ally.
"Hey, Ally."
"Where have you been? We've been looking all over for you, come on you've been gone for 4 hours!"
"WHAT!" Lily and James screamed together.
"It was 20 minutes at the most." James said.
"No, James it was four hours, oh and your friends are looking for you downstairs." She turned back to Lily.
"Let's go, Lils, we'll have a girls night, you know, nails, hair, makeup, the whole shebang. Bye James."
Ally, marched off dragging an unenthusiastic Lily behind her.
Girls night, James thought cringing, what a horrid thought. Talking about boys, no doubt. I bet I come up. He thought smugly. How can you talk about hot males and not think James Potter?.
!COMMON ROOM!
"Jamesy Wamsey!" a high pitched screech yelled as James walked into the common room.
"Jamesy, I thought you were gone forever. I'm so glad you're back." The owner of the voice then jumped into
James' arms.
"Sirius!" James bellowed. "Get Off! And how many times do I have to tell you, DON'T CALL ME JAMSEY!"
"But Jamesy, I missed you!" he called.
"Padfoot." He growled.
"Right, right, I get it, not with all your fans watching, got to keep up your image," he winked, "right, lets do the awkward I'm-so-glad-you're-back-but-can't-show-it-cos-I'm-a-man-hug thing, don't forget to pat my back."
He and James pulled it off flawlessly with a slight back pat at the end.
"Perfect," Sirius cried. "Eureka to the gods, we have finally mastered it, call the emperor he will want to know, for there shall be a parade in our honour." With that he proceeded to prance around the room, like no male should ever do, trying to swing dance with random people at tables. As it was Sirius it was considered cute by the females present and they whirled off to tell their dorm mates of such things.
"Who gave Padfoot the Sugar Quills?" James leaned forward to ask Remus.
"Well…you see…they were hidden under my bed and he kind of…found them and…ate the lot." Remus said rather nervously.
"THE LOT!" James cried his eyes wide in fear, "OH GOD HE IS GOING TO BE LIKE THIS FOR DAYS!" And he sunk his head in his hands and whined, as Sirius tried to organise a conga line.
The next morning an enthusiastic Sirius woke James by bouncing on his bead.
"Prongs bounce Prongs bounce Time to get up bounce bounce NOW!"
"Alright, Padfoot, I'm awake." James silently vowed never EVER to give Sirius Sugar quills again.
Sirius let out a giggle and ran to the bathroom.
A few moments later he came out and rested on the doorframe.
"It's all your, Prongs." He snickered.
"Thanks." James mumbled before going into the bathroom. He grabbed his shampoo from under the sink and his soap from the sink top. He wiped off the mirror and noticed he had a beard.
"Hmm, that's odd." It was about 3 inches long and purple. "Must be Padfoot's doing."
He grabbed a razor and roughly shaved it off.
He looked in the mirror to fid the beard was growing back, but now it just kept growing past 3 inches and counting.
"Padfoot!" James screamed.
"Yes dear." Sirius greeted. "Wow. Man, I think you need to have a shave."
"Padfoot, why did you do this to me?" James growled.
"It wasn't me, though I wish it was." He announced happily.
"Evans." He muttered.
He tried to make his way down stairs but the beard was so long he tripped and fell.
"EVANS!" he yelled as he hit the ground.
Lily who was already in the common room took this as her cue to leave.
GREAT HALL
"EVANS!" A red faced James yelled. He had tripped a few more times on the way down to the great hall.
"Uh oh." Lily mumbled. James beard was now almost twice the size of him, but on the plus side it had stopped growing.
"EVANS! GET RID OF THIS BEARD RIGHT NOW!" he said traipsing over to Lily and falling on his face again.
Half of the hall snickered but shut up when James got up and glared around the hall.
Lily however was the only one laughing still.
"EVANS! I know you did this." He said loudly. The entire hall was silent. No one had ever gotten James this mad yet this girl had done it again. The teachers were ready to step in just in case it got serious.
"Interesting, I know I did it too." She said while forking pancakes onto her plate.
"Fix it." He growled.
She waved her wand and instantly his beard was braided.
"There much better, now leave me alone I'm trying to eat breakfast."
James was furious. "Here Evans, you may want some maple syrup to go with those pancakes."
He grabbed the maple syrup and poured it over her red hair. The hall seemed to take in breath.
Lily and James just smirked at each other. "Potter, I noticed you haven't had breakfast, would you like some eggs?"
She picked up a tray of eggs and pushed it into his robes, rubbing it in. James glared at Lily. Lily glared at James. The students gasped. Sirius grinned and bounced up and down. James promptly picked up a jug of cream and poured it down Lily's shirt. Lily then poured Pumpkin juice over his head. They both reached for the butter when a yell stopped them. They had forgotten everyone was watching them.
"STOP!" McGonagall yelled.
"SCOURIFY." She yelled cleaning them up.
"Detention, both of you, next Friday at eleven." McGonagall Yelled. "Your behaviour is disgusting and I would expect more from Gryffindor students!"
"But…But-"
"No, that is the end of the matter. You will be grading Charm papers, with Professor Flitwick, Thank you." And she curtly walked off.
Oh god, what did I do to deserve such a wrath. Lily contemplated.
Please let the ground swallow me whole now, James thought, because this is can't be any better than hell.
With james
"James, she pulled one over on you that time, I don't think I've ever seen you so…humiliated." Sirius teased as James sat down beside them. He was positively Livid.
James took a deep breath, Sirius was right, he had never been treated like this in his life, even most Slytherins held some respect for him.
"Sirius, Remus, Peter gather round." He said seriously. Remus looked worried, while Sirius looked positively expectant and Peters face was trembling with delight.
"Guys, I swear over the marauders map, that I will make Evans suffer, I will make her beg forgiveness, I will make her cry out and feel pain like she never has before." His face wore a twisted smirk, none of them had ever seen before, they knew this was serious.
"James don't you think this is going a little too far," Remus tried reasoning with him.
"Yeah, Prongs, she's just a girl, and she's in our house." Sirius was a little frightened too, he had never seen his best friend behave like this. Yet, he knew their reasoning was no use. James had never been this solemn in his life. He never even spoke like this about Snape.
Lily Evans, Sirius thought worriedly, I pray that you are ready for this, Good luck.
"No, Moony, Padfoot, don't try stopping me. I am going to make Evans wish she was never born." He glanced at her. "I, James Potter am going to break Lily Evans, if it's the last thing I do." He spoke in a deadly serious tone.
