Disclaimer – If I owned Harry Potter then I would be sleeping right now. I am writing this and not sleeping, therefore I do not own Harry Potter. It is that simple!
Author's note – so what do you think so far? Hey, guess what; I seduced this guy with a gum wrapper. It was quite nice if I may say so myself.
Date chapter started: Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Date chapter ended: Saturday, February 26, 2005
Dated story updated: Saturday, February 26, 2005
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Chapter 5 – Bargaining
"What is she on about?" Sirius said, once the surprise had sunk in.
"Evans is just full of surprises," James agreed.
"Lets just leave him here," Sirius said, as he changed the subject and motioned towards Snape.
"Good idea," James said.
The two boys checked to see if Snape was unconscious. When they were positive that he was, they pulled back the tapestry and slid down the secret slide that led into Hogsmeade.
(Sorry, but I am not going to tell about James and Sirius in Hogsmeade. They are just doing the usual so I see no point in describing it for you.)
(Now lets go back to Lily. This will be interesting.)
Lily stomped off down the hall and flung the door to the loo open, startling a first year that was sitting on the counter top. (A/N – I have been asked to put in explanations, so a loo is a bathroom.)
The second the first year saw the look on Lily's face, she raced out of the bathroom and Lily could hear her footsteps on the stone floor. Lily went into one of the stalls and started peeing until she heard a malicious laugh.
"Who is there?" Lily said as she got off the toilet and flushed it.
There was no response. Lily opened the door and came face to face with Peeves the poltergeist. He grinned evilly, dropped a huge water balloon on her and then flew out through the door, laughing once again.
Lily let out a loud scream as she stood there soaking wet. Then something happened that even she didn't suspect: Lily burst into tears. She sat down on the floor and continued crying. It felt good too. It felt amazing. She just kept on crying until she couldn't cry anymore. When that time came, she stood up and walked back to Charms, still in soaking wet clothes with eyes puffy from crying and a tear stained face.
She sat down at her seat and no one asked her any questions. She didn't even get a detention, though Professor Flitwick did give her a worried look.
When Charms was over, Lily stood up and walked out of the room.
"Lily, wait up," she heard Chloe call and turned to see her friend, who somewhat resembled a pixie, racing to catch up with her.
"What was that all about?" Chloe asked when she finally caught up to Lily.
"Nothing, but we need to do something; I may have messed up the mission a little bit," Lily said and let out a small giggle because she was feeling better from crying her eyes out.
"What did you do?" Chloe asked suspiciously.
"I got really pissed off and well broke up with Potter," Lily admitted.
Chloe let out a small giggle. "You couldn't even last 24 hours."
"Nope," Lily said as they continued to walk down the hall.
"Well we better go tell the other girls," Chloe said as she dragged Lily to Library, where she knew most of the other girls were studying, but studying could wait, now couldn't it?
The two girls jogged quickly to the library and scanned it for any of the k3w. They soon spotted Eva, Sophia and Natalie, but Paige was nowhere to be found. In only a few moments, though, Chloe had spotted Paige flirting with a boy behind some bookshelves and soon snogging him.
They decided to let Paige enjoy her snog and headed over to the other girls.
"We have news," Chloe said as she plopped herself down next to Eva.
"Like what?" inquired Natalie as everyone directed their attention towards Lily and Chloe.
"Lily broke up with James," Chloe burst out.
The three other girls burst into laughter.
"You couldn't even last a day," Sophia gasped through the giggles and tears running down her face from laughing.
"I know; I just got really angry," Lily said. "Please don't make me go through with this," she begged.
"Sorry chica, but you have to," Eva said and stuck out her tongue. (A/N – I think chica means girl in Spanish, but I am not really sure; I just like the word.)
"Go get lover boy back," Sophia commanded.
"Why I am friends with you guys, I will never know. Look at the pain you put me through," Lily complained.
"Shoo-shoo little fly and go find Jamsie," Natalie teased.
"Won't someone at least come with me," Lily pleaded.
"Nope," Eva said.
Just as Lily got up to leave Sophia opened her mouth, "Oh and one more thing Lily, this time you have to at least pretend you like him."
Lily frowned, but didn't argue; fine, she would pretend to like him, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to completely torture him out of his mind. They might think they knew Lily Evans, but only James would get to see her full potential. That was just his luck or should I say unluck? (A/N – I know that unluck is not a word, but this is my story so I can make up words if I want to.)
Lily trudged down the hallway, wondering where James was now. She decided to first check back where she had left him. She made her way down the hallway. Just as she turned the corner, she heard a groan.
Lily came upon Snape, just as he was getting up, and muttered something about Black and Potter being self absorbed gits. She quickly stunned Snape because she knew he wouldn't cooperate with her otherwise. She then put his wand back in his pocket that she had taken away from Sirius and levitated to him. She headed towards the infirmary and dropped Snape off.
When she was finished with that, she went back to searching for James. 'If I were James, where would I hide?' Lily asked herself. 'Probably in your pants,' she reminded herself.
Lily made her way back to the spot where she had collected up Snape.
(James and Sirius have just come back from Hogsmeade and entered Hogwarts through the way they left.)
James got out of the portrait hole and swayed to the side with a butterbeer in his hand. Sirius was not far behind and drunk as well. They were laughing randomly at nothing particular.
It just so happened that at this exact moment who would turn the corner but Miss Lily Evans. The trio was startled to see each other, but soon gained composure. It took James and Sirius a bit longer considering how drunk they were.
"Where were you?" Lily snapped finally.
"You would think you were my mother the way you go on," Sirius mumbled and took another swig of his butterbeer.
"I might as well be when I see the poor condition of how you live, if a person could call it living," Lily replied coolly.
"Hey, what happened to Snivelous," James said, as he realized Snape to be missing.
"I returned him to the infirmary, where he belongs after what you did to him," Lily said with disgust.
"Don't give me that; you know he deserved it," James shot back defensively.
Sirius decided it was time to interrupt, "So Evans, why were you looking for us anyway? I thought you were through with James."
Lily then remembered why she had gone after James in the first place anyway. I guess she would just have to put aside all the dislike she had for James Potter and pretend to like him, starting now.
"I wanted to apologize," Lily said and winked at James, giving him a suggestive smile.
"Geeze Evans, I thought only we were drunk," Sirius said as he watched her wink at James.
"Well you thought wrong," Lily responded as she walked up to James. Lily ran her hand down his arm until she reached his hand, taking his butterbeer and chugging the whole thing down.
"You have issues Evans; I think you need to go to the infirmary," James said. Now don't think he wasn't enjoying every moment of this, because he was.
"Better yet, get some therapy," Sirius retorted, praising himself for not being pulled in by Evans seductive actions.
Lily leaned back and laughed, "You could join me there any time you want."
"Yep, definitely therapy," James agreed.
"Lets go Evans; to the infirmary with you," Sirius said as he latched onto one of her arms while James grabbed the other.
"Let go of me," Lily demanded and then as an afterthought added, "Sirius."
"Whatever you say," Sirius said and let go. Then he turned to James, "I am just going to chill and leave you here with Evans," Sirius said and set off down the hall.
"What have you been smoking, Evans? You know that drugs are bad," James said as he turned to face Lily.
"Nothing," Lily said as she leaned herself up against the wall and looked at James.
James stared over at her. She looked amazing; her hair was flung messily over her shoulders, yet it looked beautiful. Her eyes were glistening with something he had never seen in them before: Mischief with a capital M. She had her back pushed up against the wall, with one of her legs bent and the foot pressed against the wall as well. Her hands were on her hips giving her figure…something…attitude, yes that was it, attitude. She was biting her bottom lip showing that she was somewhat bored. She had her chin out straight out with confidence. This was a new Lily Evans and James could tell.
James couldn't help himself for that one second of time; he leaned over and kissed Lily. He felt her go stiff against him. He pulled away after a few seconds.
"What was that for?" Lily demanded.
"Was it really that bad?" James asked, innocently.
Lily thought about it for a second. He did have soft lips; she would give him that. She paused and then responded, slowly, "I have had better, but you have nice lips." She paused and then added, "Oh yeah, here is your wand." She handed James back his wand; now she was down to two: hers and Sirius' wand.
Then Lily walked off down the hall. When she was almost at the end of the hall she turned back around and shouted back to James, "I will take you back if you want me."
"Whatever you say, Evans," James yelled and then turned and walked down the hallway the opposite way. He silently grinned to himself.
Lily continued down the hall and headed back to the library. She soon arrived and dropped down next to Eva.
"Mission accomplished?" her friends asked right away.
"Yes," Lily said and then reached over to get her things that she had left with her friends.
"You don't seem thrilled, but you don't seem thoroughly disgusted either," Chloe noted.
"Well, he does have soft lips," Lily pointed out.
Her friends gaped at her; "You were snogging James Potter."
"No, to be accurate, he was snogging me," Lily corrected.
"Oh, just so much difference," Natalie replied, sarcastically.
"Yes, there is," Lily said. "Now, can we please just do homework; I don't want to think about snogging Potter longer than I have to."
Her friends exchanged glances without Lily noticing and then they went back to homework as well.
Lily had just finished her detention with Professor Talon. Unexpectedly, the second she stepped out of the potions room, Sirius was standing there with a grin on his face.
"Evans, just the lady I was looking for," he said and offered his arm to Lily.
Lily took it, reluctantly.
"Why were you waiting for me?" Lily inquired.
"Every lovely lady needs an escort, even from detention," Sirius said.
Lily couldn't help herself; she laughed.
She could tell that Sirius Black was up to something, but what he was up to she had no idea.
"I think I can escort myself, but the thought was nice," Lily added against her own will. "When did I suddenly become lovely?" Lily then asked.
Sirius looked like he was caught off guard and stuttered for a second, "Err…umm…well…err."
Lily laughed before he could answer. "At a loss for words? That is probably a first," she sniggered.
"Hey," Sirius said, relaxing. He realized that Lily wasn't actually that bad when she lightened up, but then again why was she being nice? He had to stay on track and figure out what was going on for James. James had asked him to after all. And James had seen Lily first so even if Evans grew on him she was off limits…for the moment.
"I have one for you; why are you being nice to me?" Sirius asked as they continued to walk.
"Well…" Lily began. Excuses, excuses, there were so many to pick from, but which was the perfect one?
"Well?" Sirius asked.
"Err…where are we going?" Lily asked as she realized that she had no idea where they were headed.
"You still haven't answered my question, Evans," Sirius said, putting a little edge in his voice to let her know that he meant business.
"Well I guess you don't want to have a friendly talk so I'll just be leaving," Lily said, releasing herself from Sirius' grip and taking off down the hall towards Gryffindor Tower.
"I can catch you, Evans," Sirius shouted and took off after Lily. For some unknown reason, he wasn't catching up with her and just stayed the same distance from her, while Lily was ahead, grinning to herself. You see, Lily had taken up running over the summer and was actually excellent at running. 'That will show, Black' Lily thought triumphantly to herself.
"Hey Evans, I have a deal to make," Sirius shouted as he raced after her in hot pursuit.
Lily stopped and turned to face him; this sounds interesting. "And what would that be?" Lily asked as she walked slowly towards him.
"See, I have this map of Hogwarts. It is a magically map and can show where everyone is exactly when they are there. I am willing to give you this map for five days, if you tell me why you are dating James," Sirius offered, finishing his sentence just as Lily came face to face with him.
"Two weeks," Lily wagered.
"One week," Sirius said.
"Fine," Lily said. "Where is the map?"
"It is in my dorm, now why are you dating James?" Sirius asked.
"You don't get an answer until I get the map." Lily demanded.
"Fine, but do we have a deal?" Sirius inquired.
"Yeah," Lily said and stuck out her hand to shake on it.
The two headed off towards Gryffindor Tower at a slow pace to go get the map. They had been walking in silence until Lily felt a burst of energy come on.
"Last one to your dorm has to kiss Potter," she shouted and took off.
"Evans!" Sirius shouted and took off after her. "Unfair; you got a head start!"
Lily just laughed and continued to run. With her burst of energy she was running way faster than Sirius and made it to the fat lady's portrait faster. Lily yelled the password as she raced for the door. It flung open and she ran through with Sirius only moments behind her. Lily raced up the boys' stairs and ran into the room that had Sirius, James, Remus and Peter carved into the wooden door. Lily tried to slow down, but was too late and crashed right into James.
James fell over and Lily fell on top of him. Just at that moment Sirius ran into the room, tripped over Lily and James and then landing on top of them as well. Then to top things off Remus ran out of the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around his waist and asked what was all the noise about.
Then Remus noticed the pile of bodies, grinned and just turned around and headed back into the bathroom.
Sirius quickly jumped up and offered Lily a hand.
"Well that was awkward," Lily said as she accepted Sirius' hand and was pulled to her feet.
James then stood up and gave them questioning looks.
"Well Black, looks like you loose," Lily said, her eyes glimmering. "Give him a nice one on the lips," Lily directed.
"What is going on?" James asked, but was cut off by Sirius kissing him on the lips.
Lily started laughing and fell on the floor; the look on James' face was priceless.
Sirius quickly pulled away and started wiping his mouth on his sleeve and making spitting noises. James just stood there, motionless and dumbfounded.
"Come on mate, was I really that bad?" Sirius joked.
"Err…why did you kiss me?" James asked, still in shock.
"Because Evans can run faster than me," Sirius said, simply and then started searching around the room for the map.
Lily looked around the boys' dorm. It had clothes thrown everywhere along with assortments of random things such as food and parchment. None of the beds were made and some of the covers were even sprawled on the floor. One of them had quite a few ink stains in random areas.
"What are you looking for?" James asked Sirius, which made Lily jump because she had completely forgotten that James and Sirius were in the room with her.
"The map," Sirius said. "Where did you put it, Jamsie?"
"In my trunk and don't call me Jamsie. Why do you need it?" James asked.
"I made a deal with Evans here," Sirius said motioning towards Lily as he went over to James trunk and started throwing things out of it and across the room in his search.
"And what deal would that be?" James asked.
"Sorry mate, this deal is off limits to you. Evans only serves the handsome," Sirius said as he finally found the map and pulled it out.
James whacked Sirius on the back of the head. "That isn't only your map you idiot! You can't just go and give it to the likes of anyone unless we all benefit from it," James pointed out.
"Oh yeah," Sirius realized. "Well Evans, looks like you are going to have to strike deals with the likes of James, Remus and Peter."
Lily thought about it for a second. She really wanted to find out about this map. Plus it would be fun to know where everyone was at every second for a whole week. She decided to bargain.
"Ok, I'll bargain," Lily agreed. "Since you are already here Potter, I guess I will just start with you; what would you like?"
"Snogging lessons, not that I need them or anything," James said, grinning.
"For how long?" Lily asked.
"A month," James said.
"No way!" Lily shouted. "I will do three days at the most."
"Come on Evans, at least give him a week," Sirius said.
"Fine you get a week," Lily said. "Deal?"
"Deal," James agreed. "One question though; since when do you listen to Sirius?"
Lily glared at James.
"Ok, ok, I will go disappear," James said and left the room.
"Ok, so where is Peter?" Lily asked, turning to Sirius who was still holding the map in his hands.
"Common room," Remus answered from the door.
"Thanks," Lily said and walked to the doorway. She stopped and turned, "Change quickly because I will be wagering with you next."
Lily went and found Peter, whom she agreed to tutor for a week in order to have the map for a week. Then Lily headed back upstairs where Remus was all changed. She agreed to help him and the other marauders play out one of their tricks during the week she had the map.
"The map is mine now," Lily said as she stuck her hand out.
"All yours for a week," Sirius said, grinning as he handed the map over. "One more thing; can I have my wand back?" Sirius asked.
Lily handed over Sirius' wand and then looked at the piece of parchment; it was blank.
"This isn't a map," Lily said.
"Oh yes it is my dear," Sirius replied slyly.
It must be in some kind of special ink Lily realized. "How do you turn it on or whatever?" Lily demanded.
"How am I to know?" Sirius asked, innocently.
"Well it is your map; you have to know how to use it. You said that I could have the map for a week Black," Lily complained.
"And you do have the map; I never said anything about telling you how to use it," Sirius pointed out.
"You…you…you…grr," Lily said and stormed out of the room, with the map. She startled James on her way out who was confused by her new found anger after she had just moments before been smiling like a clown on crack.
END OF DAY ONEAuthor's notes – so what did you think? Why don't you click that special button that says review and tell me some of your thought, even if they are completely random.
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Lilred-07 – Yes, it shall be interesting. I am still thinking of what shall be the opportune moment.
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SirusLivesOn – No, none of them are based on any of my friends, sadly. I am not a very social person. I personally like hanging out with guys because most of the people at my school, which is an all girl's school, are boring and self-centered. Yes, I do like Eva though; she is pretty cool.
RainPoet – Yay I feel so special! That sucks about your upload thing; I hate when they get all screwed up and crappy. It really sucks. If I have time I shall read your story.
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