A.N HELLO everyone! Yeah, I know it's been a while. Stupid, stupid, stupid time, why must you keep moving. So here's the fourth chapter and some shout-outs to reviwers who hopefully haven't given up on us yet. LURVE TO YOU ALL!
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Chapter 4: Underwear
The Great Hall was swarming with hungry witches and wizards. As tradition normally held, all the students were present for dinner on the first day of school. The Gryfinndor table was perhaps the noisiest, as the rowdy first years talked about the experiences they had shared in their classes, the one topic everyone was talking about was those, "four boys and how they had turned 'Snivellus's' robes invisible." People kept walking up to Lily and asking how it had been, but when she told the truth (that she had shut her eyes) everyone just smiled superiorly and chuckled.
Lily glared down the table at James, Sirius and Peter, who were indeed basking in the glow of their recent antics. "After Astronomy class tonight, we're going to make our moves. What do you say?" Brent asked. Lily took a bite out of the chicken and gave a swift glare down the table at the boys again.
"I can't believe those two let Remus take the fall for that. I can't believe Bell did something like that!" she snapped.
Brent looked up from her ribs and Lily sighed, "Yeah, well I can, Remus isn't pure blood is he?" she muttered, poking at the meat in front of her. Lily cocked an eyebrow and Brent went on, "Pure blooded wizards normally have a superiority complex, they think they're better than the rest of the wizarding race, who mixed with muggles to survive. I'm a pure blood, you are a muggle born and Calista's a half-blood, because only one of her parents was a witch." Lily nodded spinning her spoon around in her mashed potatoes. "Well, it doesn't matter much, because we're getting them back tonight, don't you worry."
Lily smirked and chewed on her bottom lip as laughter erupted from the end of the table. She rolled her eyes, just thinking of what derogatory joke James had come up with this time. "Amazing how we've only known those boys a little while and they've already caused us so much trouble," Lily muttered out loud. Brent nodded as Lily's eyes traveled from the plate in front of her to Brent's face.
"Er…Brent? You've got… well, you've got barbecue sauce up your nose."
"Hello Lily," James said from behind her. She turned to face him just as Brent snorted the sauce into her napkin. James sat next to her ad Sirius sat next to Brent, trying not to look at her nose.
"What do you want Lames?" muttered Brent angrily. James's eyes narrowed at Brent and he looked at Lily.
"I just wanted to come over and see how Lily was doing, since she didn't seem to be enjoying herself as much as the rest of the house," said James, smirking. Lily rolled her eyes and gave an annoyed look to Brent.
"Oh, I'm doing just famously. Remus, on the other hand, is currently serving detention and has lost us fifty house points thanks to you two. But, of course I'm alright, thank-you for asking," she muttered. James looked her up and down, his smirk flickering a bit.
"Well if you hadn't have made such a big deal out of it, we probably wouldn't have been caught!" snapped Sirius, stepping in for James. Brent glared at him.
"Excuse me? You de-robed someone in the middle of a classroom, if we weren't going to 'make a big deal' out of it, someone else would have!" she said angrily, raising her voice.
"But you must admit it was funny," said James, with nothing to shoot back at her. Lily's eyes flitted over the bowl of mashed potatoes next to her and then to James's head.
"Yeah, I have to admit something was funny about it…" she muttered. Brent looked confused as Lily picked up the mashed potatoes, taking the spoon out of it.
"Really? What?" asked James.
"This part." And with that, Lily dumped the entire bowl onto James's head, pushing the potatoes into James's eyes and ears. Brent's mouth went wide as she started laughing at them. James sputtered incoherently as Sirius looked just as shocked as Brent. "Come on Brent, we're leaving," she snapped, grabbing her bag and quickly getting up. Brent bounced on her chair happily as she grabbed her own bag, and then leaned over the table.
She patted the bowl on James's head and then took a finger of potatoes as she quickly turned and followed Lily out the door.
Brent and Lily made their way to the infirmary to visit Calista while darkness began to fall outside. Brent was staring at the floor, and almost walked past the wing until Lily grabbed her arm and yanked her inside. "Where are you going?" she muttered. Brent shrugged and went with her to the back of the ward, where Calista was laying in bed, doing the school work she'd missed that day.
"Hi!" she exclaimed as soon as she saw the girls. "Wow, I didn't expect you guys to come visit me!" Brent grinned and sat down next to her on the bed, while Lily pulled up a chair to the bed.
"Hey, we're your friends, of course we'd come visit," said Lily. Brent's eyes once again slid out of focus and Calista cocked an eyebrow.
"Did… um, anything happen to Brent?" she muttered to Lily, edging away from their blond from. Lily snorted.
"I think she's always been like that," she said giggling as Brent finally snapped to attention.
"What?" she asked. Lily and Calista laughed a little harder and Brent smiled guiltily. "I was thinking, we really need revenge on James and the boys." Calista's brows furrowed and she looked at Lily.
"For making your book spray out that stuff?" she asked. Lily suddenly remembered that Calista had gotten sick before their Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
"Obviously you didn't hear about to oh-so-wonderful Fantastic Four turning someone's robes invisible today," said Brent grinning at Lily. Lily rolled her eyes while Calista looked shocked.
"Yours?" she asked shrilly. Lily's cheeks went red as she told Calista about how James had tried to curse her robes invisible, but the curse had hit a Slytherin boy instead. Brent smirked at Lily as she said this.
"Well he was pretty hot," she muttered. Lily's lips rose in a snarl and she gave Brent a weird look. "Well… he was," she said. "I don't know what it is about Slytherin's, but they're really… um, alluring?" Lily shivered and shook her head, looking at the floor.
"I wish I could have been there!" exclaimed Calista, a note of sorrow on her voice. Brent laughed.
"Ah, but Lily left out the best part!"
"What do you mean the best part?" Lily raised her eyebrows and stared at Brent, who smiled widely. "Lily forgot to mention that the boy had no underwear on and she got a front row seat." Lily glared and Brent backed a little off the bed. "Um, I love you sweetie…" Her eyes clearly said 'It was just a joke don't kill me.'
"Okay," Calista said, putting her hands out to stop Lily from jumping Brent. "So what kind of 'revenge' are you planning on?"
"Well… I was thinking we could go ahead with one of our plans…"
Lily and Brent opened the door to the boy's dormitory. A few hours after they had visited Calista. It was dark and the only sounds that could be heard were the snores of the first year boys.
"Okay, let's go…" Lily whispered. She groped her way through the dark, Brent following close behind. It seemed like everything was going to go fine, until a loud noise ripped through the silent calm air of the room.
"OW! OH OW! GODDAMNIT!"
Lily whirled around and saw a silhouette of Brent hopping up and down holding her foot.
"Shhhh…" Lily whispered angrily. Brent put her foot down and glared, but Lily didn't see it due to the lack of light.
"I ran into someone's trunk, ok?" Brent whispered angrily. Lily looked around. The two girls froze as he shakily murmured, "Wh-who's there?"
The silhouette of the boy slowly bent over to retrieve something, and then shot up, shouting "LUMOS!" A blinding light erupted from the wand and Lily ducked quickly under the nearest bed. Brent stayed still as she was pinned by the light. Sirius blinked several times to get used to the light, then spotting Brent at the foot of his bed, raised an eyebrow and pulled his comforter farther up on his body.
"B-Brent!" Sirius sputtered. Brent blushed a little and waved.
"Er, hallo…"
"What are you doing here? Do you realize you're in the boys dormitory?"
"Er… I was… um… just... on a walk? YEAH! Yeah, on a walk," said Brent nodding and grinning at him. Lily tried not to laugh uncontrollably as she listened to her friend.
Sirius still had his eyebrows raised. "On a walk in our dorm?"
"N-no…" Brent blushed a little more. "I was… er… looking for you! Want to go to the kitchens and get some hot chocolate?"
Sirius's eyes widened, "You know where the kitchens are?"
Brent gave him an 'Are you stupid?' look as she answered, "Yeah, hello, my daddy went here, he found a lot of the hidden passage ways." Sirius looked impressed and hopped out of bed.
"Okay, let's see if you're telling the truth," he said. Brent licked her lips.
"You might want to um… put on some pants," she muttered, pointing at his boxers. Sirius looked down and blushed, nodding.
"WE WILL BE BACK IN FIFTEEN MINTUES!" She said as loud as she could without waking the others. Lily nodded. She knew that was all the time she needed. Sirius raised his eyebrows again.
"OH KAY!" Sirius got out of bed and they left, closing the door lightly behind them.
Lily scrambled out from under the bed and bumped into the boys arm. She winced waiting for him to wake up, but the snoring continued. She got up slowly, trying to catch a glimpse of the boy. James was snoring quite loudly, one arm hanging off the side of the bed. Lily cringed and walked to the foot of the pour poster.
"I hope this works."
Lifting her wand up enough for her to see it, she pointed it at James's trunk and whispered, "Wingardium Leviosa." The trunks lifted into the air. Lily smiled and did the same to Sirius, Peter and Remus's trunks. The boys were still sleeping and Lily fought the urge to giggle insanely.
She opened the door and slowly floated the trunks from the boy's dormitory to the girls. She went back to the boy's dorm and began to gather the remaining articles of clothing off of the floor when she heard Brent talking outside the door.
"SO! I HAD A GREAT TIME SIRIUS! NOW THAT I'M BRINGING YOU BACK TO YOUR DORM I HOPE THAT NO ONE RANDOMLY SHOWS UP! GOOD NIGHT!" Lily could almost imagine Sirius holding his hand over his ears, as she scrambled back underneath James's bed.
"ALRIGHT! I'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW, SIRIUS!" Brent yelled again.
"OKAY GOODNIGHT!" Sirius yelled back, then the door opened and there were heavy footfalls upon the floor as he crossed the room to his bed. Lily watched his feet as he walked and waited until he laid into his bed. She poked her head out and slowly crawled out of the dorm room, boys clothing in tow.
The next morning presented a large piled of clothing in the girl's dormitory. Brent and Lily were surveying it proudly.
"We rule," muttered Lily.
Brent grabbed a pair of underwear form the pile and grinned, "Sirius's mum sews his name on his undies," she smirked, tossing the Hanes to Lily, who leapt aside.
"Eww, Brent!" she said watching the knickers fall.
"Oh come on, I'd know it they were dirty. Besides, boys wear the same pair of underwear for weeks. He hasn't even worn those it looks like," she said holding another pair up and examining them. She smirked and promptly placed that over her wild strawberry blond hair.
"Get those off your head!" said Lily, eyes wide with disgust.
"No, I'd rather like it if Sirius knew I was the one who stole his clothes from under his nose," she chuckled, going to the door. Lily grimaced and followed, holding her bag tightly against her back. They made their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast, Lily spotting someone waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
"Brent," she whispered, nudging her. The boy from yesterday turned nervously looking around the stairs, until he spotted Brent and went up to meet them.
"Hi," said Brent, grinning widely and splaying her hand out in the air. He eyed it suspiciously for a moment before shaking it.
"I wanted to thank you… for yesterday. Bella is… well… you obviously know her…" Brent grimaced and nodded.
"Fourth cousin thrice removed," she muttered. Snape nodded and handed her a small leather pouch. Lily took time to analyze his features as they had their uncomfortable conversation. He was tall, and rather gangly, his skin yellow as his teeth and hooked nose prematurely greasy. His long black hair hung limp and stringy around his starved looking face. He was most definitely not hot, but then… Brent was an odd little girl.
"Well… well thanks," he muttered, eyes flitting to Lily, who stopped staring so intently at him. "Nice… hat by the way…" Brent grinned and patted Sirius's underwear on her head. He turned quickly and walked into the Great Hall, where Brent and Lily soon followed, finding that Calista had already returned from the hospital wing.
"Hiya!" said Brent, grinning widely as she took the seat next to Calista, who eyed her head, as well and many people in the hall, who had taken to whispering that she had underwear on her head.
"Brent, why are you… wearing those?" she muttered, as the Great Hall doors opened again and four boys walked in, Sirius wearing extremely short pants and white shirt, while Peter looked like a bit of a clown in his large clothes. James and Remus had obviously borrowed clothes from someone who matched their sizes.
Brent took no heed to the new comers as she undid the tie on the leather pouch Severus had given her and dumped out the things inside. There were two balls, which jingled as she shook them out. "Stress relievers! How cool!" Lily gave her friend an odd look as Sirius eyed her new "hat", walking behind her. He opened his mouth, about to say something, when Calista asked, "Where did you get them?"
"Severus gave them to me." Now many things went wrong with this very statement. First of all, Sirius and the rest of the boys had not noticed she'd just opened a present, secondly, Sirius had been thinking, "Who gave her my underwear?" The only conclusion each one of them came up with, is that Severus Snape, the naked Slytherin, had in fact, snuck into the boy's room last night and stolen all their clothes. How he did, they did not know, but with a few exchanged glances and rosy cheeks, they stalked over to the Slytherin table, attracting much attention.
Brent and the girls finally took notice as Sirius punched Severus in the face. "You little worm!" he shouted, looking extremely hulk-like in his clothes that were much too small for him. Severus stumbled backwards into the group of Slytherin's around him. Brent's eyes widened as she stood up.
"Bloody hell, they just can't-"
"HOW DID YOU GET INTO OUR DORMS LAST NIGHT YOU sniveling GIT?" shouted James. Peter glared angrily at the tall Slytherin boy and put up his fists in a weak attempt to defend himself as Snape's eyes narrowed. Brent gulped, looking at Lily and Calista, whose victorious faces looked very fearful. All three of them rushed over to the Slytherin table and launched themselves in the middle of the two groups.
"Sirius! Stop it! He didn't do anything!" she shouted. Sirius glared at her and grabbed his underwear from off of her head.
"I'll be taking these back," he snapped. Peter looked at James, who was glaring vindictively at Severus.
"Watch you're back Snivellus," he threatened, turning and leaving with Sirius, Peter and Remus. Lily gulped, her face white as she looked at Brent and Calista. Severus looked at Brent, but stayed silent as he turned and left. Lily gulped and grabbed her friends, dragging them out of the hall.
"I think we just got someone seriously in trouble," she muttered.