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Chapter 11: A wee bit of holiday cheer

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Remus who had been twiddling his thumbs suddenly looked up and gave her a piercing look with his deep blue eyes. She stared him down, right back and gave him the glare that she was famous for, at least in Sirius's case.

"I'm not…" Sienna whispered, Lily stared at her open mouthed, Sirius stared at her with obvious hurt in his face that he wasn't hiding, they were all gaping at her. "And might I ask… who with?" asked a very irritated looking Lily.

"Well you see it was in fourth year, and I was dating someone at the time, and we went to this party, well you all were at the party too. It was Katie Zaire's 15th birthday, and I had never had fire whiskey before so I got a tad bit drunk and well I slept with" she looked Lupin in the eyes, took a deep breath and said "Remus."

Everyone looked at Remus; the shock in their faces was evident. "I can't believe you had sex before I did!" Sirius said with a mock faint, and under his breath he muttered "with the one girl who I hoped that I would be her first time." For the first time since the question was asked Sienna looked Sirius straight into his deep eyes and saw everything that lay beneath.

The game continued Sienna dared Peter to kiss Natasha, much to the disgust of both Natasha and Remus. It was very short, very short because about a second after their lips touched because Natasha pushed him off her and ran to go brush her teeth.

Then because even if not everyone had been dared or truthed, everyone had still done something, save Alice and Frank who had quit the game and were snogging in the corner Sirius was asked truth or dare by Peter.

This time he wanted to switch things up a little, and said "dare." Peter's eyes glinted mischievously. "Ok then Sirius I dare you to snog Sienna for five minutes" he grinned, because it was the only thing that could cheer him up since Sienna's revelation, she choked and started coughing, and looked at Peter with disgust.

Slowly but surely he walked towards her, and he was sure that the whole world could hear his heart beating because it was so loud, then she carefully wrapped his arms around her neck and when she looked into his eyes all she saw was pure caring and love.

She brought his lips down to hers, and it was like an electric shock, the energy surge that ran through both their veins, the spark it was there. She brushed he tongue across his lips and he opened his mouth happily.

Sienna couldn't believe that she was snogging Sirius Black, the Sirius Black and she was actually enjoying it. When they had gone out in third year they had both still been the type to snog and dump, but she had never actually felt something for him, until well now.

After what seemed like seconds James could be heard saying "Ok break it up lovebirds, we have to get on with the game!

Sirius was the first to pull apart and all Sienna could whisper was "Wow, Sirius, that was… amazing! And James sorry to burst your bubble but he really is the best kisser in Hogwarts."

"You wish, my boyfriend could out snog you any day Black, just you wait and see!" Retorted Lily "Bring it!" said Sirius in a would be mad voice, that is if they weren't best friends.

"Oh its on" James cried out and pounced on Sirius and they started rolling on the ground wrestling. The girls couldn't help but burst out in laughter at their immatureness.

Suddenly Sirius stopped mid-fight and said abruptly "I can't believe we are fighting over who's a better kisser." James just laughed and got up and stood next to Lily.

The game went on until quite late in the night when the only people awake were Sirius, Sienna, Lily and James.

"Hey guy, what do you say that we do a prank on Kat and Peter, I mean they really are the cutest couple, even if she despises him." Lily said thoughtfully.

"Oh my dearest Lily, I think that we as The Marauders are quite a bad influence on you, not only are you a prefect who hangs out with us, you are starting to make up pranks. Oh and might I add that I think it is a brilliant idea!" James practically sang.

So they levitated Kat very slowly and very carefully into Peter's arms. Neither of them even stirred because they were sleeping so deeply. Then the four that remained headed off to bed.

It felt like she had only been asleep for a few seconds when she heard a faint screaming, which caused her to wake up and bolt out of bed. It was fairly late in the morning, and she headed down to the common room, pajamas and all.

"What the hell is going on here?" she asked in a sleepy voice, no one would ever be fully awake at this ungodly hour. Then she looked at a horrified Kat staring at Peter and burst out laughing "Oh, I see the problem here."

"The problem? THE PROBLEM! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN SAY AFTER THIS JOKE! CAUSE' I'M NOT LAUGHING, IT IS SOOO NOT FUNNY!"

Lily now had tears in her eyes from laughing so hard. Kat was fuming… she stalked out of the common room, and by that time Lily was on the floor from laughter. 'It is really to bad that James missed this, he would have loved it, oh well he's a guy he can sleep through anything' she thought to herself.

After everyone was up and dressed they headed down to breakfast. The first thing they saw when they came into the great hall was Kat kissing a sixth year Ravenclaw who happened to be their Quidditch captain. His names was Blake Mastriani, he was tall, dark, and handsome.

Everyone was shocked, 'was this her way of saying that she didn't like Peter' they were all thinking. And it was her way of saying that, because she was so embarrassed about it all.

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Over the next couple of weeks Sienna and Sirius, and Blake and Kat became more and more of couples. Lily was starting to miss her best friends who disappeared often, and would return much later.

Life was getting lonely as December approached. James and Lily were spending tons of time together, and so were all the couples of Hogwarts. Except for Peter, they both felt like their friends had abandoned them for their boyfriends/girlfriends.

Lily and Remus had to go to a prefects meeting one chilly day, so arm in arm they marched up to Dumbledore's office. Said the password "lemon peppermint" and walked in. They were slightly late so they slipped into chairs and listened attentively.

"As you know Voldemort" several gasps and flinches could be seen and heard throughout the room "is definitely stronger. We are currently in a time of war and I fear that fun has been taken away from the students. I figure that you need a break, so that is why I decided to schedule a Hogsmeade Visit." Several prefects cheered at this.

Dumbledore continued "It is to take place on Saturday December 14th. All students as you know, third year and up will be allowed to attend, and I figure it will help to bring in some holiday cheer." The 14th was only two weeks away, Lily and Remus couldn't wait to tell their friends.

"I would advise you take caution, at who you trust and where, be careful while in Hogsmeade and please pass this message on to your fellow students. We will be posting this up in each of your common rooms. That is all, you may leave."

Lily and Remus got up, they were absolutely ecstatic to tell their friends the good news! It was so absolutely exciting, that they couldn't believe it! Finally they were going to have some freedom, not that they didn't adore Hogwarts; it was just that it was good to be able to leave school once in a blue moon.

Once they got inside the common room they rushed over to their friends to tell them the good news. Besides, they all had to do their holiday shopping anyways and that was the perfect time, right before the term was over and everyone would be leaving.

"Ok so who is signing up for staying this Christmas?" asked Natasha with curiosity. All of the nine friends raised their hands. "Wow better outcome then I thought it would be, I was sure that at least some people would go home to spend time with their ickle-families." Sirius said thoughtfully.

Remus gazed at the marauders with a look that clearly said 'do you think I would be going home, what with the full moon and all?' and then it hit him. Natasha, she would never ever want to go out with him if she knew the truth. It would make her want to break up with him, this was it she had to end it with her.

"I can't go home; I can barely stand the sight of Petunia, let alone stay with her for a few weeks!" Lily said everyone nodded understandingly at Lily's very strange sister.

They all continued working on their very extremely large pile of homework. It seemed that ever since the mention of the holiday season that the teachers had been in a mad dash to give them as much homework as possibly possible.

James, Peter, Remus, and Sirius's detentions kept having to be delayed because of this or that, excuses, excuses, how teachers used them often. Finally McGonagall talked to them one dreary and quite cold night.

"You four will be serving you detentions this Friday, there is no way that we would be putting all of you together, who knows what type of havoc and pandemonium you could wreak; so each of you will be separate from the others. James you will be with Professor Slughorn and testing antidotes to potions, Remus you will be de-sliming the Herbology Greenhouse because a few plants blew up some nasty slimy stuff and you will be cleaning it without magic, Sirius you will be cleaning the trophy room with nothing but a toothbrush, and Peter you will be repairing some of the items that Peeves has broken over the years."

None of them had very pleasant detentions, and none of them were quite looking forward to it. Maybe sometime some how something good would happen to them in detention, but all of them highly doubted it.

Once the night they had all been dreading came, the classes seemed to drag by. After dinner with a quick kiss from Lily, James headed off to see Slughorn.

"Since I really enjoyed your little joke, young man you will only have to test four potions and their antidotes. If the antidote doesn't work, I have one right here in case of an emergency."

James gulped down the first potion, which actually didn't taste that bad but it made him feel light headed and horrible. Slughorn tipped the glass with the antidote inside into James's mouth and instantly he was back to normal once again. It went on like this for James for the next hour, he felt sicker and dizzier and more out of his body then he had ever felt in his life during that hour, but at least it was a short detention, the others weren't so lucky.

Remus headed down to the Herbology Greenhouses just as the sun was setting. "Oh well at least I have a pretty view of the sunset… and the moon" which reminded him about the next full moon that was to happen within a matter of weeks.

There was what looked like plant ooze all over the ground, it practically covered the whole floor. Remus bent down to touch some, but it burned him a little so he made a mental note to try and not touch it anymore. There was a mop and bucket in the corner, with gloves next to them. Slowly but surely he started the torturing work that took him about three hours.

Sirius practically skipped down to the trophy room, he had cleaned it many times and knew each of the trophies by heart, he could tell you who was awarded what and who the person was. He, James, Lily, and Remus had a few with their names on it as well.

He picked the toothbrush and started scrubbing, it was quite hard to get the tarnish off all of the silver items, and to scrub the polished wooden floors with nothing but a small item used to clean teeth. He was even unluckier then Remus, his detention took four hours because he had to clean till it was absolutely spotless.

Peter was the final person. He was stuck with screwing in the bolts from chandeliers that Peeves messed up, and re-hooking them to their original spots. He also had to repair a few broken desks and desk chairs that had been broken from the heavier students that sat on them, mostly the Slytherins. Peter blushed at this thought because he remembered breaking a desk once by tripping over it, it was quite embarrassing. After a while he finished, his detention hadn't taken more then two hours.

Everyone was waiting for Sirius when he got back and then they all sleepily went to bed and put on their pajamas. They were fairly excited for the week after next because that was when the term was over, and they could relax and do what ever their hearts desired.

The next week passed in a blur. It was a good blur though, with all the holiday cheer, no one could help but have a sheepish grin on their faces. Hagrid as usual, brought in the twelve different Christmas Trees which were decorated with elaborate lights that everyone knew to be fairies, who were quite vein. Atop each of these trees was a magnificent star, and the evergreens themselves were draped with garlands and beautiful ornaments. The castle was something to look at, that's for sure.

Before Lily knew it, they were picking out outfits to go to Hogsmeade in. "You know Lily I think you should wear a green sweater, khaki pants, these adorable black boots, and a pale green scarf; it would definitely match your eyes!" Lily was so excited, this was her and James's first official date and she couldn't wait, even if they had been boyfriend and girlfriend for what seemed like quite a long time, but in reality was only a few months.

Lily put on her outfit, and proceeded to help her friends pick out theirs. Whenever there were Hogsmeade visits or anything of the sort, they would put all their clothes out on each of their beds, and it was like a mall with all the clothing to choose from; there was something for every occasion.

Once the girls were all ready, makeup, hair, and clothing they headed down to meet their boyfriends. "Oh by the way" Sienna mentioned to Sirius "Brandon wrote to say he would be dropping by today, and I'm going to give him the slip." Sirius just smiled at his lovely girlfriend that he knew he loved with all his heart.

The large group headed down to the little village talking about everything, what they should do over the holidays, how they couldn't believe that they only had a year and a half to go and they would be out of Hogwarts; and before they knew it they were approaching a sign that read "Welcome to Hogsmeade!"

The couples broke off; Lily and James headed to Honeydukes, Kat and Blake went towards the Shrieking Shack, Sirius and Sienna went to Zonko's, Natasha and Remus rounded off to The Three Broomsticks, Alice and Frank headed off to be by themselves, and Peter didn't know what to do.

While in Zonko's Sienna felt familiar arms being wrapped around her and she turned around to see the one and only Brandon Adams. She squealed "Hi Brandon, how's it going?" he bent into kiss her and she pushed him off herself. "Look about that, I've been thinking, maybe we should just be friends. I mean you are cute and all, but I realize now that well, I don't think I ever had any feelings for you, I just wanted myself to think I did." He looked shocked at her revelation.

But soon his shock turned to anger. "You cheated on me didn't you? I can't believe this!" He paused and waited for her to say something, anything but all she did was look at her shoes with embarrassment so he continued "You can do whatever you want, I can't control you and I except that I know you can do better then him." And he nodded towards Sirius.

She turned and grabbed Sirius by the arm and they left the store. Just in time to run into a gang of 7th year Slytherins, who they didn't really know, all they knew was that they were wearing green robes and they were enemies.

Immeaditly Sirius went into action, blasting spells at them. It took them a minute to comprehend but they soon were right there with him blasting spells and shouting insults. Suddenly out of the corner of his eye Sirius saw the Slytherin that was battling with said "Crucio."

Suddenly all sorts of things rushed through Sirius's mind at that particular moment. He remembered the lesson Raman had taught them, he thought about the effects of the curse, he thought about the only girl he had ever loved and then he did something. Before it could even touch Sienna, Sirius jumped in front of it and took the curse for himself.

He felt a hot pain surging through his body, which felt like white hot knives piercing his body all over, it was the worst pain he ever felt. He didn't even feel himself fall to the ground, or hear Sienna gasp with horror, and he never even felt himself being picked up by James, because by that time he backed out.

Sienna punched the death eater that had Sirius under the curse, so hard in the nose that it broke with a satisfying snap under her fingers. But he didn't let go with the cursing, he kept at it, and Sienna was so worried about her boyfriend.

After James had picked him up and taken to the hospital wing, he lay there so still that he looked dead, but luckily he was only asleep, asleep in a sleep that the healers feared he might not wake up from.

Sienna sat by his bedside, crying, she whispered "Sirius please don't leave me, you are the only person that I have ever felt anything for, you might be the only person that I truly care about, please don't leave me" she begged. This was the first time that her friends had seen her crying since she broke her arm in 3rd year.

Hey guys! Hows's it going? I am so impressed by the amount of reviews I have gotten, even if it wasn't 10! I love you guys soo much! So now I'll pass out virtual cookies! I'll probably have the next update up in about a week, cause I have five days off due to Thanksgiving break! Ok right now I want to say one thing, I did not copy anyone purposefully. For one thing proposing for a truth or dare game, is pretty normal, at least for my friends and me. Secondly blushing is natural and happens all the time… at least to me, I swear I wasn't copying! I don't copy people, and if you think I am copying you, which I would never do, but if someone does copy you take it as a compliment because it means that they liked your work enough to imagine something else that started with your story. SO PLEASE REVIEW! Oh yeah, one more thing… guess what! I get to see GoF early! I am so excited, and will post up how it was.

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