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Chapter 22: Operation GSAATBNSY

"So let me get this straight," said James. He and Sirius were up in the boys' dorm. As he had predicted, he had gotten what was bothering Sirius out of him. "You don't like her anymore because she had a boyfriend she just broke up with?"

"Kind of. I mean, at Quidditch practice I flew by and smiled at her but she just looked at me and her arms were all over him. Then I saw them making out," said Sirius sadly.

"Well, he was her boyfriend. Not anymore, though, remember? You should go for it," said James encouragingly.

"Yeah, I guess," said Sirius, standing up. Then he sank back down onto his chair. "Oh, who am I kidding? Andrea would never go out with me."

James rolled his eyes, sighed, and left the dorm.

James' POV

Ok, so Sirius didn't have enough confidence to ask Andrea out. That was a first. Well I would just have to tell her that he liked her and see what she would do.

"Hey, Andy," I said, sitting down next to the girls.

"Don't call me that, Potter," said Andrea.

"All right, fine. But I have to tell you something reeeeeeeeeeeeally important," I said.

"What do you want, Potter?" said Lily. "We're trying to do our homework."

I looked over at her parchment which was covered in ink blotches and crossed out words.

"Obviously," I said with a smirk. She narrowed her eyes and swept her paper off the table and into her bag. "Anyway, Andrea, back to the matter at hand." I put my arm around her shoulders and put my feet up on the table. I could see a couple of girls looking and waving at me in the corner. I winked at them and they turned away, giggling.

God I love being me.

"Potter. What do you want?" said Andrea.

"Oh. I know who has a HUGE crush on you."

"I'm sure you do."

"So am I."

She sighed.

"Ok, who is it?"

"Sirius," I said.

"Sirius?" she asked, swallowing. Lily looked at her. "Sirius who?"

"How many Sirius's do you know, Andrea?" I said.

"One," she said quietly.

"Yeah. So do you like him back?"

"NO!" she said and slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Ok…"

What was wrong with her?

"Well…bye," I said and made my escape.

"Potter, wait!" said Ylan. I turned around.

"What?" I asked. She quickly nodded behind Andrea's back and mouthed "she does"

I grinned and gave her a thumbs up. Operation GSAATBNSY (Get Sirius and Andrea Together by Next School Year) was under way.

"Hello, ladies," I said walking over to the girls in the corner. They giggled as I sat down. "How's it going?"

This sucks. Ylan, Jenna, Lily, Remus, Peter, and I had been trying to get Sirius and Andrea together for a whole friggin week and we weren't any closer than when we had started. Sirius kept losing his cool around her and she would always remember about her unfinished potions essay when she saw him. Lily was acting strange around Peter, Sirius, and I too. Nothing was going right and frankly, I was really starting to lose patience over everything. To top it all off, it was a full moon On Sunday. Remus was starting to get irritable and Peter, Sirius, and I were too, but barely noticeably.

"Lily!" I shouted, running down the hallway after her.

"What?" she asked, turning around.

"Where are you going? Sirius and Andrea are both going to the common room right now! We need to get there!"

"I can't right now," she said. "I have…stuff to do."

"Like what?"

"Just stuff."

"Lily," I started but she had already run off. "God damn!" I shouted and walked, fuming, back to the common room. I'd had enough of this. Couldn't people just cooperate and stick to the plans?

I needed a break. Detouring from the route to the common room, I ran to the entrance hall and into the night. Without even stopping, I transformed into the stag and flew swiftly through the forest.

Lily's POV

I heard James shouting behind me as I ran to the Room of Requirements. I had followed the Marauders once and found out about it. Dumbledore said it was the perfect place to do it.

Thinking about what he was asking me to do sent chills down my spine. At first I couldn't believe he was asking me. I was only fifteen years old! But Dumbledore had assured me it would be fine.

Flashback…

"Enter," said Dumbledore when I knocked on his door. He had called me out of Transfiguration for this, and I hoped it would be important because I needed to work on that essay.

I went into his office. I had been there once or twice but it always amazed me.

"Please sit, Miss Evans," said Dumbledore pleasantly. I sat down in the chair in front of his desk. "I called you in here to talk about a matter of grave importance. As you know, Lord Voldemort is growing stronger as each day passes. He is killing more and more people, wizards and Muggles alike. Even those who pose no threat for him.

"I was recently called to Agatha Trelawney's home. She is a seer, a true one. She said she had something to talk to me about. While I was there, she made a prediction. I can't tell you exactly what she said, but it had to do with a member of your family being a threat to Voldemort."

"A member of my family?" I asked. "But my family is a Muggle family."

"Yes, but you aren't a Muggle, are you now, Miss Evans?"

"No…but I'm just Lily Evans! I'm only fifteen. How could I be a threat to Voldemort?"

"I'm not entirely sure. Miss Evans, I want to tell you about an organization called the Order of the Phoenix. It is an organization that helps fight Voldemort and his followers."

"I've never heard of it before," I said, astounded. "Who's in it?"

"Well, I am, for one. You most likely haven't heard of most of them, but James Potter's mother is a member."

"Does that mean…?"

"Yes, his father was a member as well. Miss Evans, it is very dangerous to be part of the Order."

"But…what does this have to do with me?"

"They are all doing their best to protect you, at the moment. Ever since I told them about Miss Trelawney's prediction, they've been working on it nonstop."

"Really? I don't want to cause any trouble…but I still don't understand."

"We have found out that Voldemort has learned of the prediction. He is now going to try and get to you. We need a way to get information about Voldemort (for he is onto the Order and is hiding himself most thoroughly) and get you out of Hogwarts for a bit."

"Leave Hogwarts?"

"For a little while, yes. For this, however, I have a dangerous proposition for you. It would be much to our advantage if you would agree to try and find Voldemort and collect information. He would never suspect it."

"Professor…you want me to go after Voldemort?"

"Well, not exactly. Just to find where he is. We'll send members of the Order with you and they will send a message back to the rest of us. Of course, you will not be able to just go. You'll need to do something."

"Do what?" I asked shakily. I couldn't process this.

"You'll need to become an animagus."

"An animagus?"

"Furthermore, it will have to be without the Ministry's knowledge as Voldemort can easily find records of animagi and become aware of you."

We sat in silence for a while.

"Miss Evans? Do you think you're up for it?"

"It would be helping the Order out a lot. It would be keeping me and my family safe. It would keep Voldemort out of Hogwarts…I guess I can't really say no."

"Oh, yes you can. The Order will understand completely. After all, you are only fifteen years old."

"No, I'll do it. I'll do it Professor," I said.

He gave a small smile.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes," I said firmly.

"Wonderful. In two days time I will provide you with the potion. Since the school year is almost over, you will spend the summer practicing and when you get back to school we shall carry it out."

I nodded and started to leave, already starting to imagine it in my mind.

"Oh, and Miss Evans?"

I turned around.

"Please send Mr. Potter in. He should be at the gargoyle."

"Yes, Sir," I said and left the room. Potter was indeed standing at the statue. He didn't look the least bit surprised to see me there and didn't even say anything as he sped up to Dumbledore's office.

End Flashback…

It had been two days since then. Dumbledore had just given me the potion and I was going to try it out.

I need a place to become an animagus.

I paced around the tapestry three times and a blue door appeared. I entered and poured the potion in my mouth.

James' POV

A month later, examinations were over and everybody was packing their trunks. Operation GSAATBNSY hadn't been active for a while. Lily was barely ever around, as she was always disappearing somewhere. Sirius, Remus, and Peter had taken to following her, only to determine she was doing something in the Room of Requirements. Ylan and Jenna were forced away from us Marauders by Andrea, who knew something was going on. So there I was, the only one left who wasn't preoccupying their time with something that prevented Operation GSAATBNSY from going on. But, with Sirius and Andrea doing other stuff all the time and me not being able to find either of them, I couldn't really continue trying to get them together. So, I spent the rest of the time I had hanging out with other people in or around our year. They were a bit surprised to see the Great James Potter coming over to them to hang out for a couple of days without the other Marauders, but they got over it.

On the day we were leaving, Lily couldn't very well be doing anything mysterious as we had breakfast and then we were out so Sirius, Peter, and Remus couldn't follow her. Andrea made her friends avoid us up until the very moment we stepped off the train, thinking we couldn't do anything then.

She underestimated the Marauders way too much.

"Hey, Sirius," I said. "I think you left your Exploding Snap Cards in the compartment!"

"Noo!" shouted Sirius and ran back aboard the train. Remus, Peter, and I followed him, grinning to each other. On the other side of the train, I knew Lily, Ylan, and Jenna had somehow gotten Andrea into our compartment.

Sure enough, as soon as Sirius burst into the compartment, there were two shrieks and yells of "what are you doing here?" I ran up to the compartment and poked my head through the door.

"Hey, guys. We don't have a lot of time, so I just want you to know you won't be getting out of the compartment until you kiss. For two minutes. Of the French variety. Yeah, so you might want to get at it," I said pointing at my watch. I slid the door shut and placed a locking spell on it.

"James!"

"Potter!"

"LET US OUT!"

"Have fun, you guys," I said and sat down. Everyone else followed my example.

"You think they'll do it?" asked Remus.

"We'll wait and see."

Sirius' POV

James is going to pay for this. I don't know how, I don't know when, but he will.

I turned to face Andrea.

"So…I guess we're stuck here for a while, huh?" I said.

"Yeah, I guess," she said. "But what if the train leaves?"

"Ah, well then, we're screwed." Realizing what I just said I tried to fight down the heat in my cheeks. Andrea turned slightly pink too. "Ahem. Um, what I meant was, we're in trouble because James won't let us out until we, uh, do what he wants."

"You mean, make out for two minutes?"

"Basically, yeah," I said. "We don't have to though," I added quickly, "if you don't want to. We'll get out somehow."

"No, I'll do it," she said. Blushing again she added, "We have to get out somehow, right?"

"Yeah." Why did I feel so nervous? This wasn't like me!

"So then…"

"Let's do it," I said, finishing her sentence. I knew the Marauders and Andrea's friends were waiting just outside the compartment, which, unusually, made me even more nervous.

I stepped closer to her and she looked up at me. I leaned in uncertainly and left a little distance between us, waiting for her to close it. She did momentarily and our lips came together. Fireworks erupted in my head. My arms went around her waist and hers snaked up to my neck. I slowly moved the kiss into a french. Only because otherwise we wouldn't leave, of course. I didn't want to or anything. I didn't like her anymore. Right? Shaking these thoughts from my head I pulled her closer.

James' POV

In five minutes, a green light appeared at the top of the compartment door. That meant it actually took them three minutes to even start doing it. Wimps. All of us stood up and I unlocked the door. Andrea only just managed to jump away from Sirius before we saw anything. Her cheeks were as read as Lily's hair and I could see Sirius trying hard to fight his own blush down. I grinned at them.

"How was it?"

Sirius smacked me on the back of my head.

"Well, judging from the amount of lip gloss on your lips, Sirius, and lack of it on yours, Andrea, I'm guessing you guys had a good time." Their fingers immediately flew up to their mouths.

I took that time to run away.