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Loving Lucy: Chapter Three

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Sirius was watching the glittering light filtering in through the fake wall, listening as the Slytherin's footfalls became more and more distant. Finally, he turned back to Lucy and flashed her a smile. Thats when he realized how close she was to him.

Lucy went to bring her hand up to twirl her hair, like she often did when she was nervous, but instead she just ended up hitting Sirius' leg.

"Sorry!" she said, blushing a deep shade of pink that Sirius could see, even in the dim light.

He laughed and looked down at her face. "Its alright..." he whispered.

Lucy couldn't draw her eyes away from Sirius' and she just kept staring at him, memorizing how the light made shadows across his nose. Then she realized she was staring at him like a fish and she looked away, laughing nervously.

She heard Sirius start to whisper something but didn't get to hear it on account of one, Mr. James Potter, green mustache and all, running into them, then rebounding off onto the hard, stone floor.

Lucy, too shocked to talk, held her breath as Sirius pushed past her out into the hallway, towering over James. This definitely wasn't what she had planned when she decided to get over him, she realized, thinking about how close they had just come to ... no, she couldn't even think about it.


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"So..." Lily went on, later that night in the girls dormitories. "You attacked a group of students, ran like a mad loon all through Hogwarts, hid in a secret room that nobody knows about with Sirius Black and thats why you blew us all off?" she asked, folding her arms over her chest.

Taking a deep breath, Lucy prepared herself to explain, but was saved doing so by Bridget parading into the dormitory and throwing open her trunk a few beds down. Lily and Lucy exchanged looks, but didn't say anything as Bridget came over towards them.

"What outfit should I wear to supper?" she asked, holding up two hangers, one with a mini skirt, tights and a layered spaghetti strap top, and the other a pair of trousers and a off-the-shoulder red top.

"I think you should go for the one with the trousers." Brianna suggested from a bed on the other side of the room.

"Nobody asked your opinion." Bridget snapped.

Lily jumped off her bed, shocking Lucy, who had always taken her to be more sweet and kind than anything else, but then again, people aren't always what they seem to be at first glance. She knew all about that.

"Why, Brianna's opinion doesn't matter? Does mine? Does Lucy's? I was under the impression you where asking a question? But apparently you didn't want it answered?" Lily snapped, tilting her head to one side.

Bridget didn't look taken aback at all, instead she just rolled her eyes and went back over to her bed, shoving one of the outfits into the trunk, then digging around in it for something else. Obviously, she was used to Lily snapping at her when she did something mean or nasty.

Lily went back to her bed, telling Brianna not to worry about anything that Bridget said, then she turned back to Lucy.

"And thats why you blew us off?" she asked, getting right back into the conversation.

Lucy looked for some way to explain herself, and kept opening and closing her mouth, but no words seemed to come to her. It had really just a been a spur of the moment thing and she hadn't meant to ditch them, or get her only friends mad at her.

"It doesn't matter." Lily said, smiling. "Its your first year here, you're going to need time to adjust." she went on. "I can't even remember my entire first year here, it was all a blur of stupid mistakes and such things. So one little ditching incident really doesn't matter that much." she finished.

Smiling, Lucy felt relieved, but out of the corner of her eye she watched Bridget applying makeup in the mirror, still with that smug look on her face that Lucy had seen earlier. Something about that worried her, but the problem was she didn't know quite what it was.


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"Pass the gravy." said Peter, his mouth already full with shepherds pie.

"I'll pass you the gravy on the one condition that you exercise good table manners for the rest of this term." Remus said, shooting him slightly disgusted looks.

Peter blinked a few times and then went back to his food. "Fine, I'll eat dry Shepard's pie." he spat.

Sirius watched them with one of his eyebrows raised. Good manners versus no manners, oh the irony of it all, he thought dully. Beside him, James was playing with his food, yes, for sure playing with your food was definitely going to get you girls, Sirius remarked.

"You know what?" he said, pounding his fist on the table.

The Marauders, and a few other, heads turned to look at him, which is actually what he had wanted to begin with. Now the only problem was he forgot what his brilliant idea had been. "Dammit!" he swore

"You forgot what you where going to say, didn't you..." James stated, rather than asked.

"James, shut up, I'm trying to think." Sirius said, pounding his head with his fists and trying desperately to remember his brilliant, genius, amazing and completely awesome plan.

"AAH!" he said in triumph.

"Why don't we..." he stopped, looking around the Great Hall at all the people watching him. He motioned for them all to huddle as he explained his plan, careful not to let anyone overhear.

"That, my dear friend, is bloody brilliant!" James exclaimed

"Lets go get the rest of them." Sirius said, getting up from the table.

"Wait ..." Remus said concerned. "Maybe this isn't such a good idea." he began.

"Of course its a good idea!" Sirius cut him off. "I came up with it! Its brilliant! Perfect even!" he said "After all, everything I come up with is brilliant."

Remus gave him a look.

"Whats that look for?" Sirius asked, narrowing his eyes.

"Lets count of your plans that where not so brilliant, shall we?" Remus started.

"Well, thats going to be the worlds shortest list." Sirius scoffed.

"Lets see here..." Remus began. "The time you thought it would be funny to try that muggle robbing thing at Dervish and Bangs.." he started.

"And that time you put the live eels in McGonagall's pumpkin juice." James cut in.

"Hey, that was funny!" Sirius defended himself.

"And the time you shaved your head..." Remus said

"And what about the time you drank fifteen of those muggle soba poppy things?" Peter said

"ALRIGHT!" Sirius bellowed "I get it, just bear with me one more time?" he asked, giving the puppy eyes, and pouting.

"Fine Sirius..." said James. "But if you mess this one up I'm never listening to another one of your schemes ever again."

Sirius grinned, this was definitely going to be fun.


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Julia screamed, causing Lucy to bolt up in bed. And I had already been so close to wasting the rest of the evening sleeping, drat, she thought. Wow, she added, I think I just said 'drat' this heat must really be getting to me.

Stretching she looked over my Julia, who was holding her chest and demanding to know how ... JAMES, SIRIUS, REMUS AND PETER GOT INTO THE GIRLS DORMITORIES!

Lucy, wide eyed, jumped out of bed, then, realizing she only had on a tank top and panties (she was about to go to bed after all.) she pulled her bed curtains around her. But then she lost her balance and ended up falling back onto her bed, ripping the curtains down with her. As quickly as she could (and as gracefully) she sat up and stared at them.

"If you don't mind me asking ..." she started, trying to be as polite as she could, "why are you in the girls dormitories?"

Well, that just made Sirius, James and Peter's laughter double and they where in hysterics, so, luckily for Lucy, Remus strolled over to her and gave her a hand up, but didn't sit down, not quite sure if she would kill him if he did.

Just then, Lily chose that moment to come out of the showers wrapped in a towel her hair soaking wet. "Whats going on here?" she asked, before "AAAAEEEKKKK!" she screamed and went back into the bathroom and slammed the door behind her, causing even Remus to chuckle.

"Remus?" Lucy asked, looking up at him.

He looked down at her at the sounds of his name and nodded his shaggy, sand colored hair.

"You better shut up before Lily gets some clothes on and comes out here and beats you." Lucy warned.

"Yes, but she'll go for them first -he motioned to the other three marauders- they're laughing much harder." he explained.

"No..." Lucy said, "You see, she expects it of them." this made Sirius at least shut up, but it made Remus laugh again. "Very true, indeed." he said.

"Anyways..." Lucy went on, surprisingly happy that the evening had taken this most interesting turn. At least it kept her from going to bed early, which was something she never ever did except when extremely bored and on the brink of death by boredom.

"Why are you in the girls dormitories?" she asked.

"Let me guess..." Julia said "You took a wrong turn?" Well, at least Lucy got in a good laugh from that one.

"Actually." Sirius said, brushing back his silky dark hair. "We came to offer a proposal." and after a moment, Sirius elbowed James in the side and continued the routine that they had rehearsed outside.

"Yes, we where planning on taking a trip to Hogsmeat with a few close friends and we where wondering you fine young ladies would like to join -he had to pause to look at his lines, which he had written on the back of his hand- us." he finished.

"Absolutely not." Lily said, coming out of the bathroom in a nightdress and housecoat.

James rolled his eyes, but didn't move from the doorway. "Are you positive? Julia? Brianna? Lucy?" he asked, making special effort not to mention Lily's name and was trying his hardest not to even look at the fiery red head.

There was silence for a few minutes, and it seemed that nobody wanted to be the first to speak, not wanting to get on bad terms with Lily. So, taking (what in her opinion anyways) was a good strategy, she decided to go through her first.

"Lily? Common, lets go. I'm bored out of my mind and I mean, whats the worst that could happen?" she asked, pouting. She had a good pouting routine and she knew it, she had used it many times and had practiced it often.

Lily sighed and bit her lip. She really really really wanted to go, but at the same time she knew that sneaking into Hogsmeat wasn't a good idea. Her sister, Petunia, had caught her sneaking out when she was younger and she had gotten in a lot of trouble because of that. Really, she didn't like getting into trouble unless it was necessary.

"Oh, fine." she said, after a long while.

Lucy jumped for joy, mentally that is, still being wrapped in a bed curtain.

"Yes! OK, now get out so we can get dressed." Julia said, shoving the boys closest to the door out. Almost immediately Lucy saw the stairs turn into a slide and the boys slid, shouting, out of site, just as the door came closed.

Everybody in the room, next turned to Remus, who hadn't moved, and Lucy narrowed her eyes playfully at the amber eyed man. Which really, come to think of it was a little bit odd, wasn't it? Amber eyes. Where had she seen amber eyes before? She had heard something about people with amber eyes, but what was it?

The next thing she knew the door had slammed shut and Remus was no where to be found. Damn he was fast, she thought, laughing. Finally she stood up and went over to her trunk, digging inside it for something suitable to wear.


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A few minutes later Brianna, Julia, Lily and Lucy came down the girls staircase to find most of the fifth, sixth and seventh year Gryfindors all crowded in the common room, chatting and apparently waiting for them. Sirius searched out Lucy and pulled her into the throng of people, introducing her to people as they went.

Sirius kept hold of Lucy's hand as they went, not wanting to lose her, which was surprisingly easy, as he had found out earlier. Finally they came to James and Remus, who where standing on either side of the portrait hole like security wizards.

"How are we getting there?" Lucy asked, letting go of Sirius' hand.

"You'll see." Sirius said with a mischievous grin.

"I don't like that look on your face." Lucy said honestly, but still trying to smile as to not offend him or anything of that sort.

Sirius stuck out his tongue, and Lucy tried to look offended while still trying not to laugh, which is terribly hard, believe it or not. So, naturally, having to get him back she pulled down his hat so it covered both eyes then she took a few steps back, laughing.

Sirius didn't like that. He pushed back his hat and progressed towards Lucy, who kept moving backwards until after a few steps she hit a wall. Oh, shit! She thought, closing her eyes. Sirius hadn't made up his mind what he was going to do yet, so finally deciding to be nice, he pecked her on the lips and straightened up again.

Lucy opened her eyes and was about to say something that she hoped was clever, but never got the chance because right then James announced that it was time to go. Sirius took Lucy's hand again and lead her back into the line. He wanted to find Peter, who had managed to disappear somewhere, but decided that being with Lucy at the moment would be more beneficial to him then finding the smelly little rodent.

James performed the disillusionment charm on everybody as they went out the door, as to decrease the chances that they would be caught. Lucy, the Marauders and Lily, for some reason, where the only people who didn't complain about the spell. (exp: Eww, did you just out egg on my head!)

After everybody was disillusioned, James, Remus, Peter (who had shown up sometime earlier) and Sirius, who dragged Lucy with him, lead the group down the seventh floor corridors and through secret tapestries and staircases, until finally, they reached a hump-backed witch and James tapped it with his wand, muttering something as he did so.

The hump opened up and everybody started climbing inside, even though it was quite a tight squeeze for some. Sirius kept hold of Lucy, who was crouching just behind him and a hand on the wall beside him, just so he didn't accidentally hit his head, therefore messing up his hair. And it might cause brain damage as well but really that didn't matter much, as long as his hair was fine.

"Light your wands!" Remus whispered in the dark from somewhere in front of them. Almost at once, everybody whispered "Lumos!" and the tunnel lit up in a flash.

"Whoa!" Sirius said, letting go of everything to hold his eyes. "My eyes!" he yelled, as did some others behind them.

Sirius, temporarily blinded, stumbled and fell forward, knocking down James, who ended up kicking Remus very hard in a very painful area.

"Bloody Hell!" he yelled, falling down to.

"Sirius!" James howled, trying to pick himself up off the ground.

"..."

"Fine, blame the blind man." Sirius said "Typical."

"SIRIUS!"

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After that little (whats the word I'm looking for...) predicament, was over they followed the tunnel for what seemed like miles, then, finally they emerged in the basement of a dark, old, storeroom.

"Sirius?" Lily called, clambering out of the tunnel. "Where did you lead us?" she asked wearily.

"Why does everybody blame ME?" Sirius yelled the last word. "ALWAYS ME!"

Thump, Thump, Thump, from upstairs.

"Lucy?" James asked, leaning up against a shelfing unit.

She looked over at him, "Yes James?" she said.

"How does it feel to be dating a walking catastrophe?" he asked.

"Eh, can't complain ...much." she added as an afterthought.

Sirius rolled his eyes and grabbed Lucy's hand again, leading her upstairs. Soon they where followed by the rest of the Gryfindors, who really didn't have anything better to do. He opened the door at the top of the steps and came out behind the counter of Honeydukes.

"Hurry up!" he whispered behind him, at the sound of more thumping from upstairs.

"Either somebody's getting busy or we're about to get caught." James said, earning him a smack across the back of his head from Lily.

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Luckily, they managed to get out of Honeydukes without incident, and soon they where strolling down the streets of Hogsmeat, having been disillusioned by Remus, Sirius and James just after leaving the sweet shop.

Lucy hugged herself, really regretting not wearing a sweater. "Where are we going?" she asked finally, hoping it would be somewhere inside and warm. Maybe a place with something warm to drink too, she was really craving a butterbeer.

"You'll see." Sirius said, for the second time that night.

After the sun had sunk low in the sky, they came to stop in front of what looked like a club, with bright, flashing lights that could be seen from under the hardwood door. Even from outside, they could hear loud, fast music playing

"Is this where we're going?" Brianna asked, either worry or excitement in her voice, Lucy couldn't tell.

The wicked grin on Sirius' face told Lucy the answer to that, and for the first time ever she was actually worried of going into a place and drinking sherry and making a fool of herself. What had happened to her? Whatever it was she had a feeling it might be Sirius' fault. Damn him.


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OK, so, how did you like that chapter? Fairly uneventful, I know but I have some things planned for the next chapter that should be fun. :D I'm going to try to update quicker now, and I know I say that all the time, but I have what I hope is a really good idea so I am motivated, HAHAHAHA. I expect the next chapter will either be up in a few days or next weekend.

Now, onto the reviews!

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StarLightStarBright567: I know, it is kind of confusing isn't it? I'm happy you figured it out though, after I posted it I got one of my friends to read it and she said it was confusing too, so I've been worrying a bit. Oh, and James, if you mean the mustache, one of the Slytherins gave it to him when they where flying hexes everywhere. Or, if you mean where he ran off to, they where supposed to be splitting up so they could get away from the Slytherins. OK, well, I hope you liked that chapter, and the next one should be up soon. :D

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