A/N: Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Since I'm not sure when I'll have time to do this over the next few days I'm giving you your chapter early. I'm not sure whose idea this first was, mine or RandomMuggle's but I've been meaning to write it a while. I don't own HP.

Favor

October 30th, 1991

Third year

"Peeves!" Leili hissed as the Poltergeist swooped overhead. The girls had been following the Gryffindor trio (and Neville) and had ducked into an empty classroom to avoid being seen.

"Students out of bed," he singsonged, "students out of bed!"

"Peeves!" Leili whispered louder.

"Filch is coming! Students out bed! I'll tell Filch I will!" the bell on his hat jingled, seconding his delight.

"If you distract Filch from us and Harry and his friends, we will give you a favor!" Jo said, thinking quickly. Peeves stopped his cackling and zoomed in to within and inch of their faces. "If you distract Filch long enough for the seven of us to get away, Leili and I will let you ask three things of us."

"Threesies for sevensies? Students out of be-ed!" Peeves called toward the door.

"Each!" Leili amended. You can ask three things each of us. You won't tell Filch or Harry and his friends. Deal?"

"Deal!" Peeves cackled joyfully. He sailed through the closed door, startling the already terrified trio.

"Peeves! Shut up Peeves, please! You'll get us thrown out!" Hermione begged.

"Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty!" He sing-songed.

"Not if you don't give us away, Peeves, please!"

"Should tell Filch, I should," Peeves said in a saintly voice, his eyes sparkling wickedly. "It's for your own good, you know."

"Get out of the way," snapped Ron, taking a swipe at Peeves. Big mistake.

"STUDENTS OUT OF BED!" Peeves bellowed, "STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!" Still hiding in the unused classroom Jo was banging her head against the wall. Leili slipped her hand between Jo's forehead and the wall, to stave off any possible brain damage.

"Well. That went well." Leili sighed.

"Six favors. Six. And he's still calling Filch. I'm going to blast him into oblivion!"

"Oh no, you're not. You go out there now, you could be seen and being seen is a really bad idea."

"Which way did they go, Peeves?" they heard Filch say. "Quick, tell me."

"Say 'please."'

"Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?"

"Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in that annoying singsong tone.

"All right-please," Filch grouched.

"NOTHING! Ha ha! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Hahaaaaa!" they heard the sound of Peeves' belled hat jingling away and Filch cursing in rage. After Filch stomped away, the girls opened the door carefully. The corridor was empty, Harry and his friends were gone, Filch had left and Peeves was nowhere to be seen. As they began to creep quickly away, growling began to fill the corridor.

"Uh-oh." They ran toward the door, Jo yanking it open just as Harry's hand turned the doorknob on the other side. The door swung open, hiding them briefly. Harry grabbed the edge of the door and slammed it shut. The girls pressed themselves into the shadows against the wall as far as they could. They were lucky. The kids were too focused on the dog on the other side to notice them. They ran down the halls, not stopping until they were in front of the Gryffindor Portrait. Once the kids were out of sight, the girls hightailed it back to their own dorm.

"That must've been some dog, to scare them so badly," Leili said.

"You didn't see it?" Leili shook her head, 'no'. "I caught a glimpse through the crack in the door when it opened. It was big. Like 'Clifford the big red dog' big."

A/N: I'm going to ask a favor myself, If anyone has any ideas for the favors the girls now owe Peeves, either drop me a note or tell me in a review.