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Daisy had been deep in conversation with Sirius about Saturday's Quidditch game against Huffelpuff when they'd been suddenly interrupted by McGonagall yelling at Lily and James for sending notes in class.
Daisy jerked her head up quickly
What the hell?
Since when did Lily Evans send notes in class! Let alone get caught for it.
Daisy watched shocked along with Remus and Chelsea as Lily picked up her bag and walked out flanked by a very happy and enthusiastic James, who appeared to be bouncing on the balls off his feet.
"Ohhhh little miss goody two shoes has gotten in trouble!" whispered Black in her ear. His body up against her slightly …..she knew that McGonagall could see them ….god knows she'd seen Black hit on a thousand girls in the school but for some reason she wasn't saying anything and after Potter had finally left the classroom she continued to write on the board again ignoring Black's little charade.
Daisy just swatted him away before he got to close, "Don't be stupid you and I both know Lily would have been the innocent one in the situation, James is always making trouble!"
"I don't know," whispered Black, "From what I can tell Little Lilykins won't be too innocent by the time James gets through with her!" he continued swinging back on his chair and folding his arms, a smug grin plastered all over his face.
At this point most of the eavesdropping class where trying to stifle laughs behind text books at Black's comments.
Daisy slightly disgruntled at having to have Black sit next to her for the entire class ……not to mention having to listen to him crap on and sit with that smug look on his face slipped her hand to the side of his chair.
"Really…." She said softly, "Is that what you think?"
Moving her hand on to his lower thigh, he stopped midway swinging his legs back and forth and raised his eyebrows suggestively. Doing nothing just continuing to swing back on his chair, Daisy moved her hand slowly towards the inside of his thigh as she felt him hold his breath slightly.
Waiting for her to continue he looked at her seductively but instead of continuing like he was obviously wanting her too, she pushed the chair back and Black a smug look still on his face fell straight back on his chair, his arse landing on the ground as the rest of group, no longer trying to hold it in burst into laughter just as McGonagall announced the end of class.
Daisy, smiling at herself shoved her quills and parchment into her bag, swung it over her shoulder and blowing Sirius a mocking kiss continued to walk out of the room with Chelsea and Remus.
"Oh come on Moony I'm in pain here!" called Sirius obviously not bothering to get up yet.
But Remus just shrugged his shoulders and followed the two girls out to lunch.
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Sirius lay on the floor for a couple more seconds soaking in defeat before pulling himself up and placing the chair back on its four legs, stood for a moment watching McGonagall pack up her desk.
"I suggest Mr Black" she said lightly, "that you restrain yourself from attempting to seduce Miss McTennon in the future……… that is unless you feel yourself in need of serious bodily harm".
"Oh really?" he replied "I don't know Minerva, from the looks of things I was actually going quite well" he said winking.
"Mmmmm I think not" she continued looking sternly at him her arms crossed, "I think James has a better chance of getting Miss Evans to go out with him" she said shrugging her shoulders and walking out the door but not before adding.
"And that's really saying something!"
Sirius just stared…..
Suddenly he glanced at his watch though……he hadn't realised the time and leaving his bags and everything ran straight out of the room.
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Lily was on her way to lunch walking past the statue of Wendlin when Daisy ran practically straight into her! Dumbledore hadn't even been mad….in fact he hadn't even asked why they were there instead he just sat down and they ended up talking about head duties and how the year had been going….. they were only a few weeks in and so much had happened! Of course James was in a good mood by then after Lily had proceeded to talk in detail about how much of a sleaze Amos was and how she'd never consider dating him.
So then they'd been leaving together and Lily had been expecting to walk with lunch with James but then all of a sudden he'd glanced at this gold clock in Dumbledore's office and before she could say anything ….had sprinted out!
God he was rude! Just when she was getting to think he was o.k he acted like a jerk…not even saying where he was going! Lily was actually intending not to go to lunch….show him a lesson…. When her thoughts had been inturupted by a very excited Daisy.
"OH MY GOD!" she yelled "Get your arse down to the hall right now!" she said grabbing her and pulling her towards the direction of the hall.
Lily was panting trying to keep up with Daisy…..she guessed Quidditch had been keeping her fit over the summer holidays.
By the time Lily got to the hall she had an intense stitch in her left side and was bent over…..but looking up expecting to see something found the huge oak doors to be closed.
But not for long at that moment Daisy pushed open the doors and Lily gasped.
The whole hall had been redone, all the tables had disappeared or been pushed to the side and in the middle of the hall was a mini Quidditch pitch ….with teachers playing on it!
Of course it took Lily awhile to realise that it wasn't actually the teachers playing but little dummies. The teachers having been split onto Gryffindor and Slytherin teams the crowd was now cheering and booing as James, Sirius and Lupin seemed to be conducting what was going on.
Speaking of which where were the teachers? Not to mention Peter! Lily watched as James bewitched the mini Dumbledore to go flying towards McGonagall and hit her over the head with a beater's bat as the entire crowd gathered down the bottom continued to roar with laughter. As the three of them continued to make the teachers hit and maim each other in various ways.
Of course no one else seemed to be noticing the lack of teachers or that the food designed to appear on the tables was now banking up on the ones squished into the corner, everyone else now having to much fun to notice.
Chelsea and Hannah were standing next to each other cheering and clapping their hands in delight, as Lily noticed a few more people pulling out there wands to have a go at moving the teachers themselves, at this point having seen there work as done Sirius, Lupin and James all took a bow and jumped off the little platform they'd made as students clambered up to have a go.
Lily was looking round to see where James had gotten to when she felt the familiar claps of his hands around her waist, the only to familiar feel of his breath sweeping down her neck and she shivered ever so slightly.
"Are you impressed?" he asked.
Normally her instincts would have pushed him away straight away but something was different, with no one else watching she just continued to enjoy him so close to her.
"Is this why you were running off so quick?" she asked quietly so that no one else would tune into their conversation.
"Yeah…. I was actually going to make it the whole Gryffindor team against measily Amos but then I felt sorry for the guy……your slaps tend to hurt…." he whispered back….not that there was really any need as the commotion in the hall was just getting louder and louder each second.
Lily just laughed quietly as she felt her back curve into his chest as he continued to stand behind her.
Lily was sure he was about to say something else as well when all of a sudden about 20 teaches burst into the hall. Unfortunately though it was so loud with all the cheering, screaming, and hitting that only the people closest to the doors seemed to even notice. Many of the teachers looked on in shock as they watched their own bodies fly towards and hit each other.
Of course the minute this had happened James had pulled away from her and had tried to hide his only too guilty face in the sea of other people, and it took another couple of minutes for everyone to realise that yes….the teachers were standing in the doorway and complete silence crept over the room.
"Thank you for that …….lovely entertainment, but if you don't mind I'm quite hungry and would like some lunch" boomed Dumbledore as various teachers started putting the furniture back and getting rid of the mini field.
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The talk of the Quidditch pitch prank had continued on for nearly a week afterwards, each person telling of their own version and fantastic stunt. Of course for this the Maraduers had served their biggest amount of detention yet and on top of Quidditch training Lily was really only seeing James for duties…..much to her disappointment. Due to frequent attacks by death eaters and the turmoil that the minestry was currently in Christmas had been scheduled a couple of weeks early than normal. For Lily it had come so fast with all the homework, fights and responsibilities and everything else that was going on, it was only when the 8 of them had finally managed to get down to the head's compartment that talk finally started about what would be happening in the holidays.
"Welll……Ickle little Prongs here wouldn't manage to get through the holidays by himself so being the noble person that I am I'm going to be babysitting him" said Sirius booming out his chest, for which he received a rather big club round the head from James.
"Yeah I'll be staying a week with my mum" said Remus, but the four marauders and Lily were really the only ones who knew what he meant ….. the first week of the holidays was actually a full moon, "But then my uncle is having a family reunion up in Switzerland so I think I might come to your place to" he continued shrugging his shoulders.
"Petunia" said Lily somewhat icily, "Is coming round for Christmas dinner" said Lily, Zoe and Hannah shuddering at the thought of Petunia…..let alone Petunia pregnant. "So I'll probably be planning to get away from there," she said glancing at Daisy a silent agreement passing through the two of them. Last year Lily had spent nearly the entire holidays at her house, she was from one of those old Wizarding families and Lily had just loved looking at all the unusual things spread about her house.
Unfortunately the conversation stopped there as they felt the jolt of the train underneath them and the whistle erupt as the giant train pulled into the station and everyone started to clear out of the compartment hugging and wishing goodbyes, promising to catch up over the holidays.
Lily held back a bit a realization washing over her that yes….she actually would have to see Petunia as she struggled to reach for her trunk.
Luckily though she was saved the trouble as she watched the effortless James pull it down for her, his muscles flexing as he placed it on the ground for her as they walked off the train in silence.
A wave of peculiar regret washing over her as she realized the holidays actually meant not seeing him for the whole Christmas holidays. Not that normally she cared, but something had been happening with her lately, it was like she'd gone crazy. Wondering what he was up to and where'd he'd gone. She no longer minded running into him in the hallways or sitting with him in class…..well that was what friends did…..but to Lily it felt like something more……was it something more?
Lily glanced up at James as she stood on the end of the platform as he pulled the last of their cases of the train.
"Prongs you fat shit…..hurry the fuck along!" yelled Sirius wildly beckoning from where he stood with what Lily assumed was James's parents. Of course for that comment he was shot a nasty look from many 1st year parents and lite smack around the head from Mrs Potter as they turned away and started to line up to get out through the barrier.
James ran his hand through his hair absentmindly.
"You know Lil, if you want to come round my place it's cool Sirius will be there anyway…." He said trailing off and Lily got the slight impression that he was a little embarrassed.
"Plus" he added in, "I'm having a party!" The trace of embarrassment gone and the James Lily knew appearing again as a sort of playfulness came back into his eyes, a fantastic grin plastered onto his face.
"Potter" said Lily "I'm just getting away from you, what the hell makes you think I'd want to march straight back in and hang around with you and Black" she said teasing him, and not being able to hold back a grin at the same time.
"Oh don't even deny it" he laughed back turning his head to her as he started to walk away. "I'm irresistible and you know it!" he said before disappearing into the crowd.
The sad thing was though that Lily knew he was right! And she had a sneaking suspicion that for some reason she would end up seeing him and Black these holidays!
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