They were all sitting in the Great Hall. "You look awfully pleased, Tristan. What's up?" Tristan shrugged and smiled at Cris. Lily was just happy Tristan seemed to be in a good mood. Alia had a slightly uneasy feeling. Suddenly they heard an outbreak of laughter. It started at the Slytherin table and slowly caught on through the entire hall. Lily looked at Alia and Cris who were staring at Tristan. Tristan had glanced up and started laughing hysterically. The other girls followed suit. Remus and James and Peter had already sat beside them.
The entire hall was staring at Sirius. Sirius robes were flaming hot pink. His hair had been combed back greasily just like Snape. Across his robes in glowing neon writing was 'I LOVE SEVERUS SNAPE!' He even had some sort of lipstick on. The entire Great Hall was shaking with laughter. Lily caught Snape glaring at Tristan. Tristan caught his glare and shrugged her shoulders. Sirius came in and sat besides James. He glared at every one.
"What the hell are you all staring at?" Lily was laughing hard and Tristan had actually fallen out of her seat. Sirius glared,
"Hollis, you're gonna bloody pay for this." She was still laughing hysterically. She stopped laughing and gave a slight cough. She looked up at him with wide innocent eyes.
"Why I have no clue what you're talking about, Pinkie. I just am enjoying this moment, I mean I always knew you loved Snape I just didn't know you'd profess your love so openly." She gave him a smirk. Sirius glared. Remus cleared his throat and glanced at Sirius, trying to keep himself from laughing.
"Mate it's obvious someone pranked you, but can't you return to school clothes now?" Sirius sighed frustrated, and shook his head.
"No, the charm is that it will last the whole day." Tristan started laughing again.
"Someone has managed to prank the infamous Black, or should I say, Mrs.Snape?" He looked ready to hit her. She grabbed a slice of toast and stood up. "See y'all at Transfiguration." She left the Great Hall, still laughing. James shook his head.
"Padfoot mate, I think that you've met your match." Lily raised and eyebrow, "I don't know James, after all we don't know who it was." Sirius glared at Lily and took a bite of his toast. " I know who it was and trust me, they're gonna wish they didn't." Everyone dissolved in to laughter again.
Tristan had caught Snape and Malfoy's eye and about five minutes after she walked to the library they were there. She looked at them and glared.
"What did I tell you at the pitch? I told you it was too in the open, someone would see you? Well," she spat," Potter and Black bloody saw you." Malfoy returned her glare while Snape blanched a little. "
What did you tell Potter and Black?" Malfoy's cold eyes regarded her closely. She laughed,
" I told them you were taunting me about my family." He nodded in approval. A small smile graced his features.
"That was quite funny, what you did to Black." She gave him a fake innocent look.
"Why I don't know what you're talking about. He was just publicly displaying his affection for Severus." She smirked. Snape shivered. Malfoy laughed.
"I'm proud that you made it, Trixia." She nodded.
"I'm going before someone spots us. For future reference though, if you insist on approaching me publicly you might want to make it appear a little malicious. It makes an easier story." Malfoy and Snape both nodded.
"Very clever, Trixia, very clever." She nodded and walked out of the library. She allowed the cold mask to slide off her face. She took a deep breath and headed to class.
"Lily, I can't patrol tonight." Lily glanced up at James. Annoyance crossed her features.
"James, you can't just push off your responsibilities. Why can't you patrol?" He had been prepared for this question.
"Well, the Marauders are having a sort of calming meeting. We're trying to figure out how to prevent Hollis from getting hexed into oblivion by Sirius tomorrow." She looked at him skeptically. She conceded that it was a relatively good cause though. Everyone knew that it was Tristan who had pranked Sirius.
"Fine James, but next time you'd better have a more concrete reason." He grinned.
"Thanks Lily." She eyed him skeptically as he left their common room.
"Prongsie actually made it on time! Did you escape from your Lily love?" James glared at Sirius and swept the cloak over Sirius and Peter and himself. "Shut up Padfoot. I told her I was going to prevent you from hexing Hollis, tomorrow." Sirius let out a huff.
"Aww, you had to lie to your Lily flower." James ground his teeth and elbowed Sirius.
"Shut up Padfoot, and I wasn't lying. You're not gonna hex Hollis once. She's one of Lily's friends and you already bugged her." Sirius glared in the darkness, but resolved not to hex her.
"Ready to run free wormtail?" Peter nodded. James and Sirius transformed and headed to the shrieking shack.
The next day Lily and Cris and Alia sat there waiting for Tristan. She was usually at breakfast uncommonly early and usually left early. They sat there for about three more minutes. Everyone stared in shock at Tristan. Her skin was green and her hair was silver. She had silver swirls on her skin and on her robes was written 'Slytherin Lover'. Her lips were painted silver. On anyone else that look would be absolutely awful, but she still looked absolutely gorgeous and… furious.
"Uh-oh," Lily said. Tristan came storming towards them. She sat and slammed her fist on the table with a crash.
"I'm going to kill that bloody prat!" She glared at everyone. They all knew she was talking about Sirius. Sirius came in and started laughing as soon as he saw Tristan. She stood up and stepped towards him. "Put me back to normal this instant!" He shook his head and laughed.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he mocked," I just find it funny that you're so open about your love for the Slytherins." She made a strangling motion with her hands and walked out of the Great Hall.
"Hmm, amateur but not bad if I do say so myself." Remus over at Sirius and shook his head.
Padfoot, talking to yourself is a big sign of insanity." Sirius just shrugged.
After that a full out war started between Tristan and Sirius. It was anywhere from amateur pranks, and obscure pranks, to big pranks. They would either argue and scream at each other or completely ignore each other. This was going on for two weeks now. Every time the two of them were in a room people would back away. It was two days before Halloween.
"Tristan, the two of you need to stop." Tristan glanced up at Lily and started to sneeze. Today Tristan appeared seemingly normal except every time someone said the word 'the' she would sneeze. It was a small prank but incredibly annoying.
"Look Lily, it's up to that arrogant prat. Besides we're doing quite fine." She motioned to Sirius, who every time he tried to take a bite out of something it would disappear. Lily shook her head. Alia laughed, "Well at least today is silly amateur pranks." Tristan gave a fake angry look and started to laugh again.
"Black! You don't put that there. The achoo The achoo Ugh, mandrake root doesn't get added until later." Sirius was ignoring her completely. He added the mandrake root. He was annoyed with her after she had charmed the suits of armor to go chasing after him. It was an amateur day, but there had been a prank where he couldn't talk sense around any girls. Whenever they went to kiss him he would scream cooties and run away, or faint. Through this episode, however, he had been dating Jessica Mulrone. He found that all though she was an obsessed girl she wasn't too bad. She was rather sweet and there wasn't much wrong with her. She hated Hollis, which was a major plus.
The potion exploded and purple goo was everywhere. Slughorn stared at the two of them. The goo was dripping down his face.
"Hollis! Black! Clean this up right away. Now, the two of you are partners, Mr. Black. Listen to each other. You have detention tonight. " He muttered a quick spell and the goo disappeared from his body. "See what you've done you moron." Sirius glanced up at Tristan who was shaking her head and muttering to herself.
"Well forgive me Hollis if I don't have the mind of a damn Slytherin. Hey, you weren't all either. She glared at him. "Well Black, thanks you we have detention." He shrugged his shoulders. She whacked him along side the head,
"Don't think of your bloody record. Think of the fact that we have detention together." His eyebrows shot up. She nodded. "Weren't paying attention to that were you?" He banged his head against the goo-covered desk. She smiled at the slightly squishy sound it made. "Let's clean the bloody mess." He glared at her.
It was dinner in the Great Hall. "So Lils, tell me how have you and James been getting on?" Lily raised an eyebrow at Cris. "I haven't a clue what you're talking about?" Cris scoffed.
"Oh come on, the two of you are getting along, laughing, even joking. What's going on with that?" Lily blushed.
"I still don't know what you're talking about." The other three girls merely laughed.
"You know Lily, it's okay to say that you like him. I mean the two of you are Heads together as well as friends. Sides the boy's head over heels for you." Lily shook this off and narrowed her eyes a little at Tristan.
"Look we're just friends, I don't feel that way about him and he doesn't feel that way about me. Now in my opinion, Cris and Remus would be the perfect couple." Cris immediately shook her head.
"No, we are most definitely just friends. There's nothing between us." The other three girls just laughed. "Really, so why is it that he lights up when he sees you. You light up when you see him too."
"Oh and he calls you Talia, hmm what's up with that?" Tristan added. It was now Cris' turn to blush a little. She glanced at her plate, "Look we're just friends, we have been for some time. He calls Talia because I told him my full name was Cristalia and I said he could call me Talia if he wanted. That's it." They all gave her skeptical looks, which she shrugged off.
"What about you, Lia? Hmm, what's new on the love frontier." Lia kept a straight face and looked straight ahead.
"Absolutely nothing, being a friend with Hollis here doesn't help too much in the love department." They all gave her a questioning look. "Well all the girls hate Lily because of James, they hate Cris because or Remus, they hate Tristan because of the war with Sirius. All the guys don't bother with me because I'm usually with Tristan when she shuts them down." They all laughed and patted her on the back. Tristan gave a sly smile.
"Well obviously something paid off because I think Andrew Jacobsen is interested in you." The other girls nodded in approval.
"See Lia, there's one good guy. Your love life definitely doesn't suck." The girls were laughing. Tristan caught James staring at Lily. Then again she couldn't blame him, with that trollop, Jessica Mulrone, any girl was an improvement. Well that was Black, always finding the cheap girl. In all honesty though, Jessica really wasn't so awful. There was nothing very wrong with her apart from the fact that she was shallow and absolutely hated Tristan. She saw James walking towards them. She glanced at the empty seat beside Lily and grinned.
"Don't look now but lover boy is coming your way." Lily glanced up and saw James.
"Do you mind if I sit here, Mulrone over this is getting a bit nauseating?" Lily glanced over towards Jessica and Sirius and gagged on her pumpkin juice. Jessica was leaning over Sirius feeding him his food. Tristan caught this and started to laugh hysterically. Lil nodded slowly. "So Lily, any thought to whether or no the ball should be formal?" She nodded.
"Yeah, I was thinking we could do dress robes for this ball, and do muggle formal wear for the graduation ball. What do you think?" He had been watching her intently. He nodded enthusiastically.
"That sounds great. I'll tell the umm, the umm, well whomever is in charge of advertising." Lily giggled and shook her head.
"Really James, you need to remember who you assign tasks to." He grinned and shrugged his shoulders. They sat in silence for a moment. Everyone fidgeted uncomfortably. Lily glanced at James nervously, "So, um James… How's quidditch?" He looked at her an smiled enthusiastically.
"Quidditch is doing well, I mean Padfoot is a great beater, but our other beater, Mackel isn't as talented as Forin was. Our seeker is also shaping up really well. I know we'll beat Hufflepuff next match." Lily smiled at him and then glared at Tristan who appeared to be muttering a spell, whilst staring at Sirius. She shook her head. She saw Tristan glance once towards the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables. She stood abruptly.
"Look, I better go and get a head start on homework." She stood to leave. Alia grabbed her arm and instantly let it go as Tristan jumped away.
"Holly, you haven't eaten anything, work can wait." Tristan softened a little when Lia called her Holly. "I'm fine, but I want to get all my work done. I was thinking of maybe heading to the library." She smiled quickly and fled from the hall.
She was walking towards the library. She felt a wand press into her back. Her entire body stiffened. She actually relaxed when she heard the cold voice of Malfoy.
"What's this, a holly branch wondering from her tree?" She knew that there had to be other people watching. She whirled around and made move to grab his wand. He grabbed wrist, grasping it loosely. Let's go for a walk, Hollis." She squirmed a little but walked with them. They had reached an empty classroom. He slammed the door shut behind them and muttered a quick locking and silencing spell.
"Very good Lucius." He glared at her angrily and gripped her arm tighter, twisting her entire body and slamming her against the wall. She didn't so much as flinch at the pain.
"Who do you think you are, giving orders? You're such a tease, one moment you're with us. You're a dark viper. The next moment you're flirting with Black and getting your friends suspicious." She stared at him and shock. She was breathing hard. He released her and stepped back. A look of disbelief crossed her face.
"Me making eyes and Black? You're as mad as a bloody hatter. I hate him. He thinks that by being a lover of mudbloods he's so superior. Well his way isn't the way of the Dark Lord. Now I know it's hard for you to trust me, but let's face it, I'm for real. As for giving the orders, " she gave him a cold smile, "I think we can safely say that The Dark Lord gives the orders. " He glared at her. His eyes were dark with some emotion she couldn't even begin to describe.
Don't make the mistake of crossing any of us, Trixia." She gave him a twisted smile.
"Don't make the mistake of crossing me and we'll be just fine. Now is there any pressing reason that we had to go through this little scene?" He glared at her.
"The day after tomorrow, at 2 o'clock in the morning, be in the Slytherin common room. Don't even say that you can't do it. You've done it once before. I'm sure you can find a way back." He left immediately after. She slowly walked back to the common room. Her robes were pushed up.
She glanced at her arms from where he'd grabbed her. They were already bruising. She walked past the Great Hall, quickly as she heard the chatter of dinner conversation. She walked to her dormitory and sank face down onto the bed.
Lily was sitting in the common room. She couldn't sleep. She was sure that James was asleep, so she sat in the common room buy herself reading a book. She almost jumped right off the couch when she heard a voice. "Lily, what are you doing awake?" She looked up into the hazel eyes of James Potter.
"Nothing, I just couldn't sleep, so I decided to read a book." He nodded slowly and gave her a dazzling smile.
"Well I couldn't sleep either, can I sit next to you?" He motioned beside her on the couch. She nodded and swung her legs off. He laughed as he sat beside her. "Hmmm, tomorrow's the Halloween feast." She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. Why didn't I ever see that freckle before. I mean, it's not noticible but it is right next to his eye. His incredibly shining hazel eyes. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. What am I thinking? I'm not one of his fan club girls.
"Lily, are you all right?" Concern flooded his face as he peered at her. She shook herself out of her thoughts.
"Sorry, I'm fine. I was just thinking about… about… about whether or not we should have a Hogsmeade trip next weekend or the weekend after." He glanced at her thoughtfully.
"I say the weekend after." She seemed to think about it for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
He sounds so enthusiastic. He isn't doing to badly as Head Boy! Oh Merlin, I am not going to turn into one of his fan club girls.
"Um, I'm feeling kind of tired now. Goodnight James." She fled from their common room.
"So, Holly, how was detention with Black?" Tristan glared at Lia. She sighed deeply and rolled her eyes.
"You really just had to ask. Well fine, I can see that you all want to know anyway. It was terrible. At first we did fine, but then he charmed things around the room to fly around me. Then I charmed his desk to lift up and fly around the room. Then it all went down hill from there. Let's just say that it's over and luckily we didn't get caught, so we have no more detentions together." She sighed. "Hmm, today's Halloween."
Cris nodded, enthusiastically.They all shook their heads at Cris' enthusiasm. Lily glanced over once at James and turned away instantly, but not before giving him a quick smile. She figured that the Head Girl should smile at the Head Boy.
A/N Please Review! I know that the last few chapters have like completely sucked, I blame it on the holiday season and the fact that midterms are slowly creeping up on me. My updates will be better if you REVIEW! I haven't gotten any new reviews in ages :(