Chapter 26: James the Fat-Head (Lily Hearts James)
"-And that is why I am the leader of the Marauders!" James said to his girlfriend Blake who was listening with all ears.
"Wow, so you're like the best marauder?" Blake asked James. They were sitting on the common room sofa right in front of the fire, which wasn't going due to the heat that the summer weather was bringing.
"You could say that," James said arrogantly.
"The smartest?" Blake was now leaning very closely towards James Potter.
"Of course," James said looking at his girlfriend.
"The fittest?" Blake said kissing James lightly on the lips, which concluded into another snogging fest.
Sirius walked into the common room, and rolled his eyes when he saw his best friend attached to his new girlfriends face.
"OI! James, let's go," Sirius said looking at James.
"Get lost," James said before going back to his snogging.
"Fine," Sirius said rubbing his hands together. "I'll watch." James quickly got up and said his goodbye's to Blake and was dragged out of the common room by Sirius.
"She's great, isn't she?" James asked Sirius dreamily.
"She's got a nice arse," Sirius agreed, in his own way.
James had a glazed look over his face and replied with a, "yeah." Sirius gave his best friend an odd look.
"Ok are you ready?" Sirius asked as him and James walked down a deserted corridor.
"Ready for what?" James asked.
"You have got to be kidding me? You do have the supplies, right?" Sirius asked opening up a classroom door for James to walk in.
"I'm not going to fuck you in the classroom, now matter how much you beg me Sirius." James said, looking at Sirius with the door open. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Get in you fatarse," Sirius said, James walked in to see Peter and Remus huddled over the teacher's desk at the front of the classroom.
"What's going on?" James asked with a look of confusion on his face.
"Prongs, please tell me you didn't forget," Sirius said looking at James with horror across his face that James could have forgotten.
"I did forget," James said slowly.
"NO!" Sirius yelled and fell to his knees.
"How could you forget, James?" Peter asked timidly.
"James Potter forgot our end of the year prank," Remus said smiling and not believing it.
James opened his mouth in shock, realizing he forgot the end of the year prank. He looked down at Sirius who was sobbing on the ground.
"I forgot!" James said, not believing it. "How could I forget?"
"I'll tell you how!" Sirius said getting up, suddenly perfectly fine, with no tears on his face, because of the violent sobbing. "You've been trying to forget Evans and –"
"I'm over Evans!" James yelled.
"-Let me finish," Sirius said. "Since you were trying to get over Evans, because 'You're a humpin'!' or whatever you were saying, You spent all your free time with little-miss-I-can't-find-a-bra, that's right, I noticed!" Sirius said, giving James a furious look. "So because of her, you forgot all about end of the year prank, which just goes to show that you are the worst marauder ever that you can't juggle girls and your loyal Marauder friends." Sirius said.
"I -," James started, but realized that Sirius Black was right.
"Are you sorry?" Peter asked, his hands seemed to be twitching quite a bit.
"Of course he's sorry!" Sirius snapped at Peter. "Because if he isn't, then, he is out of the Marauders."
"You can't decide if I'm not in the Marauders or not! You're not the leader! I'm the leader!" James said.
"What! You are certainly not the leader." Sirius said and started snickering at the thought of James as the leader of the Marauders. "Peter is more of a leader than you!" Sirius laughed at his own joke.
"Wormtail wishes he was the leader of the marauders," James said matter-o-factly.
Sirius opened his mouth in protest, but then, "Oh why, yes actually, that's true." Sirius agreed and him and James laughed, and seemed to forget about their little rift.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Ok, let's get back to this," Remus indicated to their rolls of parchment and other sorts on the desk.
They all started discussing what they would do at the end of the year prank.
Regulus Black was leaning against the cold stone wall in a deserted corridor in the dungeons. He was obviously waiting for someone. He glanced down at his watch and quickly looked behind him to see if anyone was coming down the corridor. He finally heard footsteps and straightened up. The person turned the corner and was walking down the corridor to meet up with Regulus.
"What do you want?" said the girl, glaring at Regulus.
"Nice little outfit there Britney," Regulus said. Britney smiled sarcastically.
"You did not just send me an urgent owl just so you could compliment my outfit, Regulus," Britney said simply. "Well, what is it?"
"I know that you have it," Regulus said looking Britney up and down. Britney gave him an odd look.
"Have what?" Britney asked confused.
"The Dark Lord knows you have it, he wants it, he's tired of waiting for you," Regulus said.
Britney laughed and walked a little bit away from Regulus and turned around to face him. "I don't have it anymore."
"You don't have it anymore?" Regulus asked seriously.
"No, and you should stop before you get yourself deeper into those little Death Eaters. You can't handle it," Britney said shaking a finger at Regulus.
"Oh, and what is it that you're doing with the Dark Lord Britney?" Regulus asked sneering.
"Exchanging recipes?" Britney said smiling.
"You're fooling everyone quite well," Regulus said circling Britney like he had a few months ago.
"Oh no, you see, that's where you are wrong. I'm not fooling anyone," Britney said.
"It's the perfect plan; fool the mudblood into being your best friend. Seducing my idiot of a brother, pretending to care about that werewolf," Regulus said.
"I'm going to go now," Britney said smiling sweetly. "Goodbye, Regulus," she said and kissed him on the cheek and began walking away.
"Turner!" Regulus said.
"What?" Britney said looking back at him.
"If you do not comply with him, then -"
"I know, I'll die, whatever." Britney said waving Regulus off and carried on down the dungeon corridor.
Britney hurried out of the dungeon, before anyone would get suspicious, she carried on through the Entrance hall, and up the stairs. She continued to make her way to the Gryffindor Common Room, when she saw the four marauders coming out of a classroom.
"What were you nasty boys doing?" Britney asked, walking over to them grinning.
"Nothing you wouldn't do," Sirius said looking Britney up and down, just like his brother did a few minutes previous.
Britney glared at him. "You know, I think Remus is the only boy out of you idiots that is actually boyfriend material." Britney said. Remus' cheeks turned a slight pink.
"That's fine because I don't do the whole boyfriend thing," Sirius said. Britney raised her eyebrows.
"Good, because you would be a bad boyfriend," Britney said.
"Uh, no I would be the best boyfriend ever!" Sirius said with a slight laugh at the thought of him being a bad boyfriend.
James, Remus and Peter left unnoticed by Britney and Sirius.
"You would not, you don't know the first thing about even taking care of a girl," Britney said.
"Oh yeah I do, I take care of you fine," Sirius said crossing his arms across his chest.
"You don't take care of me," Britney scoffed.
"Yeah?" Sirius asked.
"I take care of myself."
Sirius smiled slightly. "You wanna go into this classroom and discuss this further?" Sirius asked seductively.
"No," Britney said.
"Well, it's all good anyways, I had sex with that girl this morning anyway," Sirius said stretching.
"What?" Britney asked. She walked slowly towards Sirius, anger across her face.
"Yeah," Sirius said uneasily.
"Was she good?" Britney asked.
Sirius' mouth opened slightly. "She was . . . fine. A little sloppy at the end." Sirius said thoughtfully.
Britney stood there glaring at Sirius for a while. "Ok, I'm with Simon, so its fine." Britney began to walk away.
"Wait," Sirius said walking beside her. "I've been thinking, you hate cheaters right?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, so?" Britney answered.
"You're a cheater." Britney stopped. "So I think you should break it off with Simon."
"I'm not a cheater," Britney said.
"Yes, you are. You are with me while you are having a relationship with Simon. You're just as bad as Dom is." Sirius stared down at her with a smug look on his face.
Britney breathed in deeply. She looked up and glared at Sirius. "Whatever you're trying to do, to make me want to break-up with Simon, just because you don't like the fact that I'm with him, is not working."
"Yes it is, because you are freaking out slightly." Sirius said he flicked her nose lightly and walked away leaving a very upset Britney.
Lily sat on the edge of the lake with her feet in the water. Her shoes and socks were right beside her. She just wanted some alone time to think for a while. She couldn't decide how she was feeling about James and Blake. Lily hoped that it wasn't anything terrible that she was feeling. Her heart was telling her how she felt but Lily's head was telling her heart to shut up. Lily sighed loudly.
"Hey Lillian," said a quiet voice. Lily turned her head to see Britney walking slowly towards her and eventually sitting beside her and taking her own shoes and socks off and putting her feet into the lake.
Lily didn't respond with a greeting, only just continued to stare out at the water. Britney stared at her for a bit before watching her feet while she moved them in circle motions in the water.
"What's going on?" Britney questioned after about ten minutes of silence.
"I'm thinking."
"Oh?" Britney was watching Lily with a sort of look of concern on her face.
"You know -," Lily started, but then seemed to think better of it and stopped herself and started picking at the grass.
"What? You can tell me," Britney said.
"We haven't talked about me lately; we've only been talking about you and Dom or you and Sirius. Which I get, but, now, I'm kind of confused about where my head is at. After a few months of not really actually talking about it with someone, I don't know how to start."
Britney nodded and stared up at the sky. Grey clouds seemed to be rolling over Hogwarts. It looked as if it was about to rain. Most people were inside packing for the return home tomorrow.
"And the whole James giving up on me is kind of bothering me," Lily said after a while.
"Yeah, well you know James is – wait! What?" Britney said looking at me quickly. "You like James Potter?"
Suddenly there was a loud thud, a scream and a groan. Lily and Britney turned around quickly, to see Peter Pettigrew in an awkward position on the ground covered in dirt and leaves. He seemed to have fallen out of the tree.
"Were you spying on us Pettigrew?" Britney snapped. She got up quickly and walked towards him. Lily pulled her feet out of the water and started to put her socks and shoes on.
Peter replied with a groan, he was slowly moving into an upright position.
"Peter," Britney said pulling him to his feet, where he stumbled a bit and stood there uneasy. "You were listening to us!" she accused.
"No, I wasn't," Peter said, he then seemed to realize he was in front of Britney and Lily and started blushing a furious red.
Britney grabbed his ear. Lily admired Britney's anger toward the boy. Peter started moaning about the pain.
"What do you think you're playing at Pettigrew?" Lily snapped on Peter's other side.
"Errrrr! Stop!" Peter started to screech. Lily pushed Peter down so he was now lying in front of the tree. Britney let go of his ear and they both stood in front of him glaring.
"Now if you don't tell us what you were doing, you will regret it! We will cause you so much pain." Lily said angrily.
Peter was still a bright red. Lily was still glaring at Peter before Britney screamed.
"EW! Peter! URGH!" Britney shouted, as she turned away in disgust.
Lily looked at Britney questionably. She then looked Peter and let out a short scream. "Is that a boner? That is so nasty!" Lily screeched. She put her hand over he eyes.
Britney turned back around. "Ok, just calm down, relax!" Britney said holding her hand out in front of her as 'stop' sign.
"I can't," Peter said in a high voice.
"Oh my God!" Lily said shaking her head. "Bye, Pettigrew!" Lily said and she and Britney hurried off back to the castle.
Peter sat there for a few seconds, before Sirius jumped out of the tree beside him.
"Good going Wormtail!" Sirius said. "Normally I don't scare off girls that way, but -" Sirius left his sentenced unfinished. "Ok you can stop now," Sirius said with a look of disgust at Peter.
"Ok!" Peter said in his high voice again. He sat up.
"So, Ms. Lily Evans has affections for our little Marauder buddy." Sirius said watching Britney and Lily scurrying back to the castle. "I knew we would get some good information out of Lily!" Sirius said triumphantly.
"I thought we were here to make sure Britney wasn't hooking up with Simon King?" Peter asked.
"Well, that was the original idea, but we got great information out of this little spying game." Sirius said. "James will flip when he hears this."
"Except for the fact that James doesn't like Lily anymore," Peter muttered.
"Yes he does, he is just too stupid to realize the truth. But I won't just bring this little Lily hearts James situation up until the moment is perfect! So don't utter a word about this situation to Prongs!" Sirius said.
"Don't worry I won't," Peter said quietly, as he slowly and finally stood up.
"Ew! Ew! Ew!" Lily screeched as she and Britney ran to the front doors of the school and pulled them open and ran through the Entrance Hall. People were staring at them as if they were mad. They finally stopped when they reached the top of the stairs. "I've never seen that happen to a guy before!"
Britney scoffed. "Maybe not in front of you."
Lily scowled. "It was so gross! I have never had that happen to me ever!" Lily whined to Britney.
Britney snorted. "That was nothing." Britney waved it off and started to walk to the next flight of stairs.
"Nothing?" Lily questioned as she walked alongside Britney with a look of horror on her face. "You weren't running from nothing."
"No!" Britney said. "It was nasty and totally uncalled for, and I hope that never happens again, it's just I've seen…more." She finished lamely.
Lily shivered. "If by more you mean Sirius, than I don't want to here any more." Lily said.
Britney sighed. They were silent for a moment. "Look, Lily I have to tell you something, earlier today, I was in the dungeons and -"
"Britney!" said James as he was coming down the stairs towards them. He looked kind of pale and uneasy. "I've been looking for you all day. You had to go and talk to Sirius, didn't you?" He snapped. "Hey Evans!' James said as he nodded towards Lily.
"I've been busy," Britney said. Lily looked between them. There was something different. It looked as if they were having a silent conversation between each other.
"Can we talk about this somewhere else?" James asked.
"Yeah," Britney said. "I'll talk to you later Lily," Britney said, and she and James Potter walked away.
Lily felt a surge of jealously, but suppressed her feelings. Britney Turner and James Potter together? That was ridiculous, Lily thought. Was it? They were good friends; they've known each other their whole lives. Was it so ridiculous?
Lily began to walk up the stairs, and decided to go to the library for a while. When she walked in she saw Remus sitting by himself reading. Lily sat beside him. Remus looked up and greeted her.
"Is James dating Britney?" Lily asked Remus. Remus looked at her for a few seconds, as if to ask are you serious? Then snorted.
"No," he said. "That would be the worst couple in history, worse than Britney and Sirius."
"Why?" Lily asked not quite understanding.
"Their pride would totally kill each other."
Lily thought for a moment. "Sirius has pride."
"Sirius can also laugh at himself. James can also laugh at himself, but in a different way."
Lily nodded.
"Why are you asking?" Remus looked at Lily with suspicion. Lily rolled her eyes at Remus.
"I just was there when James asked if he could talk to Britney privately. It was very weird, that's all."
Remus nodded in an I-don't-believe-you way. "Britney and James are friends." Remus said.
"Obviously," Lily said. "You don't know how many times I've told Britney to stop being friends with that fat-head."
"Fat-head?" Remus chortled.
Lily smiled. "Fat-head, yes," Lily laughed slightly.
"Lily, let me just say this." Remus started looking at Lily seriously. "When James had said that he was over you, I knew that would change the situation. I knew that you would start to like him, and James would get over you with another girl. Now, I don't know for sure if James is totally over you, but I haven't heard him utter your name in his sleep since he announced his resignation on you," Lily gave Remus an odd look at the thought of James saying her name in his sleep.
"Ok," Lily said slowly. "But what am I supposed to do?" Lily asked.
"Well, if you really like him, then you should make him like you again," Remus said simply.
"But what if he doesn't want to like me again or he can't like me again?" Lily asked.
"I know James, and he is not over you. He may be on the surface, but deep down, he is still overly obsessing over you."
"Overly obsessing over me," Lily repeated with a scowl. "Maybe getting him to like me again, is a bad idea."
Remus just shrugged.
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