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James looked over to Lily in the dim light, trying hard to stifle a grin. Her glare let him manage: barely
"Potter." She hissed, arms crossed across her chest. He couldn't help it; he grinned down at her.
"Yes, Evans?" he asked.
"Get us out of here!" she snapped. James hesitated, and Lily raised an irate, slightly threatening fist. "NOW!" Unfortunately, next to James' tall, muscular body, her small fist looked slightly comical,
James lifted an eyebrow, "Why would I want to do that?" he asked
Lily huffed, and tried to stand up, angrily slamming into the side of the cupboard, "Ouch!" she yelped as the cupboard slowly tiled sideways. Lily, caught off-balance, threw her weight into the side, helping the cupboard on its travel to the floor – with James on top of her.
He grinned down at her, "Nice move, Evans," he said, "Couldn't have done it better myself."
Lily glared at him, "Please get off me!" She exclaimed, blushing furiously.
"And where would you like me to go? As you may be able to see, there is not a lot of room for movement in this cupboard." James retorted back.
"Potter!" she snapped, disconcerted by the feeling of his weight over her.
James grinned again, lifting an eyebrow, "That's my name, what do you want?"
Lily sighed, "At least right the cupboard up."
James chuckled softly, "Again, why would I want to do that?"
"Look, right it up or I'll scream at you."
"And hurt my precious ears?" James asked mockingly, grinning down at her as Lily glared, "Fine." He huffed. With one heave of his strong body against the other side of the cupboard, they were both upright again. With one difference: by moving the cupboard like that, Lily was shoved against James.
"Hello again, Evans," he said, "I thought you wanted me to get off you? Well, I did, but now you're on me."
Lily blushed again, "It's hot in here," she muttered.
"Only 'cause you're here." James replied with a smirk.
Lily's blush grew suddenly worse. She glared up at him, inwardly cursing at how tall he was, and why did he have to smile down at her like that? She broke eye contact with him, looking at her suddenly very interesting shoes.
"How are we going to…"
James slid a cool finger under her chin, lifting her gaze to meet his, "Do you really want to, Lily Flower?"
Lily gulped, her face suddenly matching her hair, making her do a very good impression of a stop sign.
James leaned downwards towards Lily's very red face. Lily, not knowing what she was doing, leaned up towards him. Both leaned in closer to each other, getting increasingly closer with every inch.
"Umm… Potter?" Lily stammered, "I just had a rather disturbing thought…"
At this close range, all Lily could see of James was his eyes and teeth. Both sparkled with mirth.
"Yes, Lily, and what would this disturbing thought be?"
Lily gulped as James's breath tickled her nose.
"Holy Merlin…" Lily thought, as their lips passed beyond the three inches barrier, "I cannot believe that I actually want to kiss James P…"
Suddenly, the cupboard door swung open, to reveal one certain Remus Lupin, who was looking rather pleased with himself. He raised an eyebrow as Lily and James sprung apart.
"I'm sorry, did I interrupt something?"
Lily gulped.
"No." she said just as James said "Yes."
They both glared at each other, as Remus chuckled.
"Well, I just wanted to tell you that Sirius said sorry and that I am here to rescue you."
"Yeah, Moony," James mumbled, "you are ever the gallant rescuer…"
Lily elbowed James in the ribs.
"Thank you, Remus." Lily said, taking on her prefect tone, "Your help is much appreciated."
James huffed as Remus laughed.
"Well, I could always leave…"
Lily shook her head vehemently, and elbowed her way past him back into the light of the hall.
James followed, with mixed emotions on his face. Anger, for Remus walking in on them, and Pride, for almost kissing Lily Evans.
"So." James commented, "You got Padfoot to apologise."
Remus nodded and stretched.
"I just got him to see things from my point of view."
James grinned.
"What curse did you use on him?"
Remus grinned back.
"Oh, you'll find out."
Sirius yelped as he ran through the hallway. Many girls looked at him as he passed.
It was remarkable that, even when being chased by bats, Sirius Black could look amazingly attractive.
He ran past Remus and James, the bats swooping in and plucking the hairs at the back of his neck.
Remus noticed Sirius's female fans.
"Isn't it incredible how, even cursed by a flock of Hair-Eating Bats, Padfoot manages to keep his fans happy?"
Sirius stopped in front of the two boys and flapped his hands behind his head, wincing as the bats pull out a particularly stubborn hair.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He repeated as the bats worked themselves up into a hair eating frenzy.
He ran off, yelping as the bat's changed their attention to his arm hairs.
"Did you curse him to say only those words?" James asked Remus.
Remus shook his head, grinning proudly.
"No, that is all his own device."
James laughed. A fourth year Hufflepuff girl sighed and clasped her hands.
"His hair was all ruffled…" she sighed, happily.
James and Remus exchanged one look, before promptly bursting into laughter.