A/N: I'm going away for two weeks on saturday, as you know, so this will be the last update!

disclaimer: not mine.

Chapter eleven.


"Oh shit." Ellie said, as she chopped her beartrog roots,

"What?" Emma asked, "Did you chop them wrong?"

"Um, yeah. Sorry Em. I'll have to start again." She said; they were sitting in Potions, trying to make a very complex potion. She got up and walked over to Professor Slughorn, "Excuse me sir, may I please go to the bathroom."

"Miss Andrews, your energy draught is not even near done, go back to your seat."

"But Professor!" she persisted, "I really need to go."

"What is that urgent? I'm sure you can wait five minutes." he said.

"I can't!"

"Why?" he asked,

"Because, I have womanly issues." Ellie said cheekily, and then added, "I think you know what I mean."

"Fine!" he said, he was a bit disturbed, Emma and Kat were cracking up in the background,

"Thanks Professor, love ya lots!" she cried, hitting James hard on the shoulder and running out the door.


A few minutes later James joined her; he was looking quite pissed off that she had hit him on the shoulder so hard,

"Why are you out here?" Lily asked, "Don't you have womanly issues or something?"

"No."

"Why'd you hit me so hard?"

"Cos' I knew that James would do anything to get out of class, and you would want to stay in character. Meaning that if I hit you, you would complain and get sent to the hospital wing. You know, some people would think that James had a thing for Madame Pomfrey."

"That is too disturbing. Eww." Lily said, cringing, "Why'd you tell Slughorn you love him?"

"Lils, it's a phrase."

"Yeah, but he doesn't know that."

"Yeah I know, but I love to confuse him, it's so funny. It's like watching Bambi learn how to walk."

"Why'd you want me to get out of class?"

"I'll explain on the way, come on." She said.


She walked quickly down the hallway; Lily had to jog to keep up with her,

"We're going to get the invisibility cloak and then we're going to go and see James in the hospital wing.

We have a major problem."

"What?" Lily asked worriedly,

"Holidays." She said, "Christmas holidays are in a week, what the hell are you going to do?"

"Oh shit." Lily cursed, "What are we going to do?"

"Is there any way you could stay at James' or vice versa?"

"No, my parents are too strict about that."

"Well, you're going to have to go to each others house and do your best to act like the other one."

"So I'm going to have to teach James more about me, and he's going to have to do the same for me?

"Seems that way."


James rolled over, happy that he didn't have to be in class making potions.

"Aah!" he screamed, as he opened his eyes, he had seen two faces sitting right in front of him, but

suddenly they disappeared.

"Miss Evans? Is everything alright?" Madame Pomfrey asked worriedly,

"Yes, I'm fine." James said in an unusually high voice, Madame Pomfrey gave him a strange look and hurried back into her office, James turned back to where the faces had been, he saw himself and Ellie

sitting in front of him.

"Problem James." Ellie said,

"Yeah, big problem." Lily added,

"Thank you Lily for adding that." Ellie said sardonically, "Christmas holidays in one week, you have to go to Lily's house and be her for a whole week, she has to be you."

"What? So I have to go and live in her house, with her family, for a week?" James asked, he was shocked,

"Yeah. Kind of sucks doesn't it." Ellie said, "Well at least you don't have to go to an orphanage, where the food sucks and smells like feet and the nuns hate me because of my unnatural affliction, I like to scare the others by morphing my hair and saying hocus pocus stuff."

"Won't they let you stay for the holidays?" Lily asked,

"No, they're not going to let me have a fun Christmas, that would be sinful. I am a witch, I must be burned at the stake!" she said dramatically, "I don't care though, and it's fun scaring them."

"Can't you ask Dumbledore to write to them?" James asked,

"Maybe, I'll see what he can do. Why don't you guys stay?"

"My parents like traditional Christmas. The whole shebang." Lily said,

"Uh, Lils? Never say that again." Ellie told her,

"What?"

"Shebang."

"Shebang shebang shebang!" Lily cried,

"Stop."

"Shebang."

"You're acting like Sirius."

"Sheb… what?"

"You're acting like Sirius."

"Okay I'll stop." She said,

"James, why can't you stay?"

"Parents are also very traditional, and they hate having me away for so long during the school year, I

am a wonderful son after all." He boasted, Lily snorted, "Lily, snorting is very unbecoming."

"Oh get over it." she said, "what the hell are we going to do? This sucks."


a/n: hope you liked it, please review. i'll do my best to update soon when I get home.

signing out,

pinocchio.