FOUR CRAZY SIGNS OF LOVE
Complete summary: Sirius found a piece of paper stating fours signs of love to determine if the couple would match. Will the rest of the Marauders be a matchmaker to the couple of the year? What is the fourth sign blotted by a large spot of ink? LxJ, SxOC
Dedication: as usual, to Emitted from Altered Navigation of Outer Space. Heck, he helped me grab this idea from Mars.
Disclaimer: I'll be the richest kid in town if I do own Harry Potter… but I own anything that you cannot recognize…
Start here:"Black, Potter, can't you just shut up here in the library?" Lily hissed as she furiously continued to write.
James sniggered along with Sirius. "Evans, if you don't recognize my voice as music to your ears, get out of here. But I know you won't you like me very much."
Lily rolled her eyes. "If it pleases you, Bigheaded Potter," she collected her things and got another seat. She met a girl with brown hair and topaz eyes and talked to her. She was frowning as she sat down once again in the table were the two Marauders sat.
"Lily, I'll just go first and get the books," her brunette friend said.
"Fine," she grumbled angrily. "If there's another seat…" she started to murmur.
"Stop murmuring Evans, or you'll look like our dear old house-elf," Sirius teased. She turned to the other side and ignored the two, tapping the table with her fingers. "Prongs, I gotta go, looking for something," he excused, standing down and speeding to the door.
Sirius walked along the rows of books until he saw a piece of torn paper. He picked it up. "Four signs of love," he read. He excitedly pocketed the paper and sprinted to James once again. However, he saw that Lily's and James' eyes caught each other. They looked at each other momentarily and Lily broke off this eye contact when her friend arrived once again.
He took the piece of paper from his pocket and read the first sign. "The eye-locking scene. It happens when two people accidentally look at each other…"
He smirked and went to the other Marauders for the handy sign paper.
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"What the hell are you talking about?" Remus asked his friend.
Sirius showed him the piece of paper. "Four signs of love," he read aloud.
Peter stuttered. "Hello? When did that kind of crap came true?"
Sirius raised the paper. "This is the key to help Evans and Prongs get together!" he shouted triumphantly.
"Together what?" James grumbled as the portrait swung shut.
Sirius hid the paper instantly and painted himself a look of concern. "Prongsie, Buddy, what happened to you? Did a hippogriff run over you?"
"Stupid git, Padfoot. Evans just smacked me on the head," James said.
"Are you telling me again that 'I won't wash this cheek forever!'?" Remus asked James.
"Seriously, Moony, why don't you just shut up first before I tell the story?" he suggested sarcastically. "Well, I was walking and then Evans strode to me, asking if I had her book that was missing," he explained.
Everyone nodded. "Is that all, mate?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I told her it's not with me and she told me I'm a liar and slapped me heartily," James said in a painful sort of way.
"What kind of book? We can replace it on the next Hogsmeade meeting," Sirius suggested.
"I've thought of that but she told me that it cannot be replaced because it's a muggle book," James said. "Now, I cannot bring Evans to a date!"
"Stupid git, Prongs, you didn't steal that book, why are you hell guilty?" Remus asked him.
"Tongue-tied, obviously," Sirius said, grinning evilly. With a 'pop', a small note on the bulletin board appeared. The four sped to the note and read it.
We are going to announce that there will be a contest here in Hogwarts for the "Couple of the Year." There will be student voting and the lucky couple will be announced on the Valentine's Ball that will be held on the night of Valentine's Day.
If you want to register a couple, please approach your Head of House or to Professor Flitwick, the coordinator of this project.
"Well?" Peter asked the taller guys, unable to look at the parchment.
James looked disappointed at the announcement. "I thought I had the worst day so far, but now, I had the worst Valentine's, too!" he said, throwing himself on a couch, burying his face with his hands.
Remus sat beside him. "Prongs, cheer up, surely, you'll have a mate here," he encouraged.
"Moony, all I want is Evans," James said hopelessly.
Peter looked at James' best friend. "Cheer him up," he hissed.
Sirius was thinking for a moment. He decided to excuse himself because of his idea. "By the way, need to sleep. I'm tired," Sirius said, making a huge fake yawn.
He went upstairs to their room and closed the door. He lighted his wand lightly and started reading the paper.
"When you look at the girl, it should happen for at least 7 times, because seven is a powerful number well, that's true, seven is the most powerful magical number," Sirius remarked. He continued to read. "You'll expect that after the seventh stare, you can now move on to the next step…"
"Padfoot?" Remus scanned in the dark. "Why didn't you comfort James?"
"Moony, dear friend, what do you want me to do? Lament with him?" Sirius said heartily in a Slughorn way. "Besides, I'm just reading the plan for my next dark matchmaking scheme."
"Matchmaking scheme?" he asked Padfoot.
Sirius nodded with a smirk on his face and he said, "You'll see…"
NCSP:
"Kris, do you know how dangerous Black is?" Lily asked as she saw her best friend wink at Sirius.
Kristanna nodded. "I know. Deadly dangerous," she said in a rifty-pifty voice.
Sirius bumped to the hard stone post as he winked at the brunette. "That hurts!"
"Padfoot, you're just looking at Spencer and you bumped to that wall!" Remus tutted.
a/n: Please review! And please try to drop by my other LxJ fic, "Journey."