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Chapter 14:

"LILY! WHEN DID YOU GET BACK?" Claire screamed waking up the couple who were enjoying their sleep. They both opened their eyes to see Sirius and Claire inches from their face, staring at them with big eyes.

The sat up and rubbed the sleep out of their eyes while yawning in the process.

"What time is it?" James asked looking around the common room for a clock but didn't find one.

"Shush, I'm not talking to you" Claire said sitting down next to Lily.

"Neither was I" James mumbled looking at Remus who answered. " 8:00"

"Thanks man" James said shifting uncomfortably on the couch, as Claire squashed between him and Lily but half of her body weight was on his lap.

"Claire, why couldn't you just pull a chair over? You always have to squish me" James told slightly miffed, this being the third time this week she had done something like that.

"If you don't shut up, I will owl mum and tell her that you were the one that put itchy powder in her bed, in third year." Claire threatened as she was interrogating Lily, about her meeting with Dumbledore.

"You wouldn't…"

"Oh, I would…. Now zip it!" Claire replied as James sulked into the couch.

"So Lily how did the meeting go?" Ella asked, doing the sensible thing and bringing a chair over.

"Yeah, did Dumbledore have any information?" Sirius asked sitting on the floor by Claire feet.

"Yeah, he had heaps of information, but for some reason I feel like he isn't telling me some of it" lily began. "Guys, do I have to tell you everything because it is a really long story and I need to brush my teeth."

"Well, make it smaller and you can tell us all the details tonight after classes" Ella suggested and everyone agreed.

"Ok. My name is Lily Evans. I was born on the 11th of November by two muggle parents.

My grandmother from my mum's side was a witch. That is where I got my magic from. You might have heard her name before? It is Amanda Newberry…" Lily was about to say something else when Claire butt in.

"OMG! Amanda Newberry. As in the famous and best Auror of all time?" Claire asked in amazement.

"That's her. Yeah the rest of my family is muggles except for Amanda's parents. I have a sister who is two years older than me and her name is Petunia Evans. She will be getting married sometime this year."

"Is she hot?" Sirius asked. He still felt bad but was trying to lighten up the mood.

"I don't know yet, Sirius. But if she I will tell her to owl you sometime" Lily answered smiling as Sirius got slapped at the back of the head.

"Don't encourage him" Claire said poking Lily in the arm before waiting for her to continue.

"Um… that is about it, really"

"What about you parents? They were the people in the Daily Prophet, weren't they?" Remus asked.

"Yeah. Their funeral is going to be in a week from Sunday" she answered looking at her hands.

"Are going to go?" Ella asked looking sympathetically at her.

"Yeah, I told Dumbledore last night and he said I can take James with me, so I won't be alone."

"You hear that James? You better protect Lily with your life and if she cries you better be there for her to lean on" Claire threatened pointing her fingers right in James' face. He looked at her long nails and swallowed before replying.

"Please get your fingers out of my face. Of course I will be there for Lily, it there ever a tine where I am not? I am not that stupid and I will always protect her with my life, so you don't even need to ask. Lastly if you don't stop threatening me then I will Christina that you and Sirius had sex. Just remember how much she talks. The whole family will know before you can say 'I didn't do it'." James said smirking.

"But we haven't done it…. Yet" Claire answered hoping this would change the situation but it didn't.

"Yeah, but they won't know that. You would probably get a Howler from mum and dad, then the whole school will know" James said as everyone besides Claire and Sirius giggled silently trying their best to hold it in.

"Can you just imagine Christina being chased around the house by Claire screaming at the top of her lungs 'Claire had sex! She is gonna have a baby' in that little voice. How cute would that be?" Ella commented but stopped when she received a glare from Claire and Sirius.

"Wait a second... how does Christina even know what sex is?" lily asked looking at James who suddenly looked guilty.

"Well, I kind of paid Jakes five galleons to tell her." James answered as Lily rolled her eyes and the rest of the group shook their heads.

"... but she was really interested. She kept asking mum and dad how many times they have done it at the dinner table. It was really funny" James added.

"Well, they obviously did it way to many times then" Remus said as everyone burst out laughing at the comment. James and Claire just glared at him.

"Can we not talk about how many times my parents have done it guys. It is getting really disturbing" Claire said making a disgusted shiver trying to change the subject.

"Yeah well guys. I am going to get changed. Then we have to have breakfast before classes" Lily said standing up, stretching and making her way to the girls dormitory with Claire and Ella. The boys soon did the same thing and retired to their dorms as well.

At 8:45 the group rushed down to the great Hall with their book bags. They grabbed a piece of toast, or for the girls a piece of fruit. Their first class was Defence Against the Dark Arts which wasn't that bad seeing as it was with Ravenclaw.

The rest of the day was filled with work and the group was packed with homework for the weekend. When classes were over lily and James made their way to the library to get some work done before their Prefects Meeting on Sunday. They also decided that they will do their homework tomorrow. Remus, Ella, Claire and Sirius were going back to the common room to do their homework. Although, Lily and James didn't think that Claire and Sirius would do it at all. They will probably snog on the couch or play games.

Lily and James entered the library and sat in the far corner by themselves, so they could get it done faster with no interruptions.

"Ok. So for the meeting tomorrow I was thinking that we could brief the Prefects on many of our ideas, like the cheerleading thing, night-time patrols, Hogsmeade visits and hopefully organize a Ball for Christmas." lily started as James wrote a few things down on parchment.

"But if we have a Christmas ball than not even half of the student population will attend because they will be going home to their families." James pointed out for Lily.

"Oh yeah... Well then why don't we have it on the Friday night? Because the train leaves Saturday morning and Christmas is on Sunday. If we have it on the Friday night than the students will be able to attend and see their families on the holidays." lily concluded very proud of herself.

"Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. Now about Hogsmeade visits I have already organized that so you can look over it later and make changes." James started showing lily a piece of parchment with dates on organized Hogsmeade trips.

"Yes, this is great, but add another visit close to Christmas time because girls need more time to shop for a dress." Lily added writing another date on the parchment as James watched her and smiled.

"Choose three days of the week" James told Lily who looked at him with a confused expression.

"What?"

"Just choose any three days of the week" he told her again.

"Friday, Saturday and Wednesday" lily told him as he wrote it down.

"Ok, those are the days that we patrol until midnight. The other days we can ask the prefects. Although we might have to change a few of these later, because I have Quiddich practice." James explained.

"Ok, well let me know and I will organize the chance with Remus and Ella" Lily said looking at him across the table.

"Is that everything?" James asked as he rolled the parchment up while thinking.

"Yeah, I guess so" Lily answered. They hadn't discussed the cheerleading thing, but she first wanted a yes or no answer before she told the Prefects.

"Ok. Well it looks like we missed dinner" James said looking at his watch "So, why don't we take our stuff back to Head Quarters and get something to eat with the others?" he suggested as they stood and left the library.

"You no were the kitchens are?" lily asked raising her eyebrows.

"Of course this is James potter you are talking to" he replied with an arrogant smile.

"And here I was thinking I was the only one that knew where the kitchens were? Well Ella, Claire and I anyway" Lily said as she kept walking with her head held high.

"What. How do you know where the kitchens are?" he asked. Lily had a reputation as a good girl, and her friends knew she could be naughty sometimes but he never expected that.

"That's for me to know and you to find out" she smiled innocently before giving the password to the portrait and entering the common room.

When they entered they heard a lot of screaming. They saw Remus and Ella sitting at the table working silently while Sirius chased Claire around the room. His face was currently a bright pink colour and he was wearing high, pointy shoes also bright pink.

"IAM GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS!" Sirius yelled as Claire squealed again and hid behind James.

"James. Help he is going to get me. Save me, pwease. I wuv u" she said doing a very good impersonation of Christina.

"Oh, so now you wanna be nice to me?" James asked

She couldn't answer because Sirius stopped in front of James and Lily and they both burst out laughing. They fell to the floor holding their stomachs trying to catch their breathes.

"Guys, it isn't funny" he whined, giving them puppy dog eyes. Wow he can do that well Lily thought to herself.

"Sirius this is the last time I save your arse ok?" lily said turning his face back to its normal colour again. "Claire look at him. How could you do that to poor old baby Siri? How could you be mean to this cute, little squishy...um...DOG! Yeah" Lily said trying to find words that best described Sirius.

Sirius stood next to Lily and nodded to what she was saying until...
"HEY! You just called me an old, fat dog" he exclaimed very offended.

"That's because you are" James replied only to be chased by Sirius. Sirius was able to run faster without platform shoes on and he tackled James to the floor and they both started wrestling.

"Boys" Lily and Claire muttered at the same time and went to go sit at the table with Remus and Ella who were writing furiously.

"DONE!" Ella suddenly yelled scaring Lily and Claire. Although Claire wasn't that lucky and fell off her chair. She sat back down again, rubbing her bum.

"DONE!" Remus yelled. Claire fell off her chair again. This time she got up and was rubbing her head.

She stood up and decided not to sit down.
"Claire you can sit down" Ella told her but she refused.

"Why not?" Remus asked.

"If you guys yell and I fall of my chair again then I will hurt myself again. I can't put my bum through that pain again," she said.

"We aren't going to yell again" Ella said. Claire sat down but held onto the table for dear life. She didn't fall off so she relaxed into the chair a bit.

"He he I beat you" Ella said poking her tongue out at Remus who just sighed and smiled.

"Ok. What do you want?" he asked.

"Just a kiss for now, until I think of something else." Remus kissed her on the lips and smiled.

"Ok. Guys have you eaten anything because James and I were going to go to the kitchens to get food?" lily asked. Sirius head popped up. He thought this would be a perfect time to stop fighting with James. He joined the group at the table.

"Did I hear you mention food?" he asked a little too loud and Claire fell off her chair for the third time that day.

"What are you doing on the floor?" James asked as he didn't see what happened a few seconds before.

"Don't talk to me" she said as she rolled over onto stomach.

"Claire?" Sirius started. She didn't respond.

"Claire Bear, look at me" he said again. She still didn't look so he turned her head so she was looking in his eyes. The group watched very interested to see if Claire would hurt him.

"Are you ok? I didn't mean to hurt you" he told her.

"Where is sore?" he asked.

"My head" she replied as he kissed her head. She smiled up at him.

"Anywhere else?"

"My arse" she told him. She could see that he was thinking about doing it but she stopped him.
"But you can kiss me here instead" she told him pointing to his lips. He did as he was told. The group was surprised at how caring Sirius was being but that soon changed when they started snogging on the floor furiously and rolling around. Sirius was currently on top.

"OK! Well we are going to the kitchens so we will bring food back. Cya" Lily said casually and leaving with Remus, Ella and a very reluctant James.

The two couples walked down the corridors hand in hand.
"Don't worry. They won't do anything in the common room." lily assured James. He had been silent so far.

"Yeah. Unless they go into a room then there is no stopping them." Remus said very amused as James turned around and started speed walking back to Head Quarters. Lily pulled James in the other direction. She knew Remus was probably right. It was Sirius and Claire they were talking about.

Ella slapped Remus upside the head. "What was that for?" he asked rubbing his head.
Ella gave him the 'you-knoe-exactly-what-that-was-for-and-if-you-do-it-again-i-will-kick-your-arse' look so he didn't say anything else.

They tickled the portrait and made their way inside. They were greeted by two house elves.

"Good Evening. Nice to see you Mr. Potter and Mr. Lupin. Mr. Black isn't with you tonight? How strange" the little house elf said.

"No he is snogging James' sister in the common room" Remus said "Oops". Too late, he was already hit on the head again.

The house elves didn't see lily and Ella standing behind the boys and greeted them as well.
James ordered the food and they made their way back to head Quarters.

When they reached Head Quarters, Claire and Sirius were not there. James was thinking the worst as he made his way his room. He opened the door and found Sirius lying on his bed reading a magazine. He then heard a flushing sound. He turned and saw Claire leave the bathroom fully dressed.

"What were you doing in there?" James asked curiously.

"I had to pee" she shrugged as she sat on the bed next to Sirius peeking over his shoulder at his magazine.

"So... what have you guys been up to while we were gone?" James asked casually although Sirius and Claire could tell he want to know if they did it or not.

"Nothing." Sirius answered simply wanting to see what else James would do to get an answer. Let's see what Prongsie will do to find out? Sirius thought to himself. Claire obviously understood what Sirius was trying to do and decided to play along with it.

Lily, Remus and Ella stood in the doorway, watching James as he tried to get answers from Claire and Sirius without it looking obvious. They enjoying watching him try.

"Did you have... fun together when we were gone?" James asked again sitting on his bed.

"Oh yeah, we had so much fun. It was very... what's the word?" Claire said stopping to think.

"Pleasurable?" Sirius answered smiling at her.

Claire clicked her fingers, "Yes that's it"

It was obvious that Claire and Sirius were just messing with James' head, except he was the only one that didn't know that. The others joined in.

"So Sirius, I hope you didn't hurt Claire while we were gone?" Lily asked sitting next to James and Ella sat with Remus on his bed.

"Yeah, I mean you can be a bit rough sometimes. Not I would know I just happened to observe once in a while." Remus said amusement.

"No, he was really kind and sweet and perfect. That is why I love our time together alone" Claire stressed the last word. This finally sent James over the edge.

"WHAT! You guys actually did it? Padfoot this is my baby sister we are talking about and ... why aren't you listening to me?" James yelled. Sirius didn't even look up while James was going crazy which annoyed James even more.

"Oh, I am Prongsie, I am." Sirius said turning the page of his magazine again.

"Don't call me that"

"Whatever. Prongsie you just need to relax. Your time will come." Sirius said. Everyone was silent as they watched James face turn red. Lily was getting a bit scared and shifted over to Remus bed and sat next to Ella. James looked like he was going to punch someone.

"HA! James we are only kidding. We didn't have sex, far from it actually. We snogged a bit after you guys left and then we got bored so we just sat around waiting for you guys." Claire said.

James face turned back to its normal colour as he looked and the amused looks he was getting from Remus' bed.

"Prongs man, you need to lighten up" Remus said which only earned a pillow in the face.

"Yeah James one day we are going to do it. So you better punch my face in now" Sirius started, "On second thought just kick my arse because my face is to damn sexy to ruin" he grinned.

"Lets test that theory" James said grinning evilly as he made his way over to Sirius bed. Claire squealed and jumped onto Remus bed. Remus now had three girls on his bed. Sirius and James started wrestling again and things were back to normal.

"Ok you guys can wrestle I will just make out with your girls friends" Remus said and the others played along. The girls pulled his shirt off and were playing with his hair, although only Ella kissed him. That very second Sirius and James stopped fighting and exchanged glances.

The girls jumped off the bed and Sirius and James stared attacking Remus with pillows and anything else they could find. The girls left the room and went to go eat. They figured the boys might be occupied for a while. Now and then they might hear a loud humping noise but that was normal.

The girls were talking when James, Sirius and Remus all walked into the common room. Each one of them had not shirt one, their hair was messed up and they were looking for food.
Once everyone was full Ella thought it would be fun to play a game. It was a good idea at first until she realized what kind of crowd she was with.

"Spin the bottle" Sirius suggested.

"Truth or Dare" James yelled.

"I never" Claire yelled, everyone looked at her. "Oh, right we don't have alcohol, scratch that" at that moment Sirius started scratching his crouch.

"SIRIUS!" they all yelled.

"What she said to scratch it." he replied.

"She meant...oh never mind" Remus started but decided not to finish.

"Ok fine. Put your hand up if you want t play Spin the bottle?" Ella asked. Sirius' hand shot straight up in the air and almost knocked out in the process.

"Ok, now put your hand up for truth or dare" Ella questioned again, more hands went up in the air and Sirius sighed in defeat.

"Claire, why did you choose spin the bottle?" Sirius asked.

"Because you are next to James and if it landed on you then I would have to kiss my brother. I only kiss him unless I have to or if I am in a good mood, and I am not in a good mood." she answered as everyone nodded. It actually made sense.

"Fine. Truth or dare but I go first then" Sirius said "Ok Ella; truth or dare?" Sirius asked with one of those evil smiles that always made her feel uncomfortable.

"Truth"

"Hmmm... Is it true that when the full moon goes down and you transform back into your human form, you are naked?" he asked. Many looked at him in disgust at such a question, especially Remus.

"Yes Sirius it is true" Ella answered sighing she was about to asked someone else a question but he continued. "So, Lily and Claire have seen you naked right?" he asked again.

"OK SIRIUS, that's enough" James said elbowing Sirius hard in the stomach. No one expected Ella to answer, "Yes, they have" The boys stopped and looked at her, but Lily and Claire didn't care at all. Ella had a sudden idea.

"Remus; truth or dare?" she asked but didn't wait for his answer." Truth, ok. Does that mean that Sirius and James have seen you naked?" Remus looked at her and blushed, but answered.

"Yes" they boys went red and looked down at the floor.

"Guys can we please get off the naked subject please? It is boring." Claire asked playing with her nails. Lily nodded in agreement.

"Ok. Sirius; truth or dare?" Remus asked grinning, he already knew that Sirius would pick dare.

"Dare" Sirius answered proudly.

"Ok. I dare you to go into Filch's office and act gay. Now when I mean gay you have to be wearing girls' clothes, make-up, your hair has to be fixed with pink ties and you have to ask him out" Remus challenged as everyone laughed but Sirius accepted without hesitation.

The girls dragged Sirius into their room and closed the door. James pat Remus on the back "Nice one. How did you come up with that one?"

"I had a dream that he did it. It was very disturbing actually" Remus answered cringing at the memory.

The door opened and the girl came out first giggling like crazy. Finally Sirius came out and the boys started laughing straight away. Sirius was wearing a mini-skirt, and one of Claire's strapless tops, the same bright pink shoes he was chasing Claire in earlier and his hair was tied in pig tails with pink scrunchies. He wasn't embarrassed and he modelled in front of the boys. They closed their eyes when he came too close, after all they didn't want to see what was under the skirt.

"Wow Sirius, you look like a poof" James said and was slightly amazed at how well Sirius could walk in 6 inch heels.

"You look great too darling" Sirius said putting on a queer voice that kind of scared the others.

"Lets go" lily said. It was 9:15pm so there might still be people wandering the corridors.

They left and they finally arrived outside Filches office. The group stopped Sirius before he went in.
"Now remember you have to ask him out on a date" Remus reminded him "and we will know because we are coming in, under an Invisibility Charm."

Lily cast the charm on everyone but Sirius and once she was invisible Sirius went in. Filch was sitting at his desk and didn't hear the door open. The group under the charm stood in the corner and watched Sirius work his magic.

"Hello, darling. Did you miss me?" Sirius asked in his queer voice catching the caretaker's attention.

"Minerva, is that you?"

"What NO!" he asked.

They were all surprised that Filch couldn't recognize Sirius and even more surprised that he thought it was professor McGonagall. Looks like McGonagall has Filch and Dumbledore wrapped around her pinkie finger Sirius thought to himself before continuing.

"I'm Sabrina, and you look lonely" making his way over to the desk and sitting

"Do I know you?" Filch asked as he looked 'Sabrina' up and down.

"Great he is checking me out, jut what I need" Sirius thought.

"Well you don't you meet me at the Hogs Head tomorrow and we can talk more?" Sirius asked playing with Filch's hair.

It is greasy just like Snivellus, man I got to get out of here" he thought to himself.

"I guess I can" Filch said smiling and showing his ugly, yellow teeth.

"Great, well I will see you then. Bye darling." Sirius said when he got to the door he opened and waited a few seconds for the others to get out of there. He blew two kisses to Filch before closing the door.

He walked down the hall and back to Head Quarters in silence. When they were in the common room and nobody else was there, the group removed the charm and burst out laughing. They laughed so hard they were rolling on the floor clutching their stomachs with tears in their eyes.

Sirius watched them; he let out a chuckle now and then. Five minutes later the group was still laughing so he decided to take a quick shower. He pulled the girls clothes off and had a shower, scrubbing him to make sure any Filch germs were off him. Ten minutes later he joined the group who stopped laughing and were now in their pyjamas.

"Man that was good. I cont remember the last time I laughed so hard" lily said as Sirius sat down in the circle again.

"Ok Lily; truth or dare?" Sirius asked back to his jumpy and excited self.

"I'm going to take a gamble and choose dare" she answered. When she saw Sirius grin she immediately regretted it.

"I dare you to give James a lap dance" he said simply. Everyone looked at him then back t Lily. She wasn't going to back out otherwise he will choose something worse so she had to do it.

"OK" she pulled a chair out for James to sit on which he did with caution. She was about to get started but Sirius stopped her.

"What are you doing?" he asked. She looked at him confused.

"You have to change your clothes and get some music." he told her.

"What am I suppose to wear?" she asked.

"Let me handle that" Claire said as she pulled lily into the room and shut the door.

"Oh no." Ella started "Why did we put Claire in charge of clothes?" Ella said to herself rubbing her temples as Claire dragged lily out of the room. "I hope you learnt something new today" Ella said to the boys. Lily was wearing mini-shorts, black leather boots and a red bikini top. Claire took out a CD and conjured a cd player. Lily felt uncomfortable at first but got a bit use to it. The worst part was yet to come.

James watched as Lily made her way over. "How long does this dance go for?" he asked Sirius who smirked and answered "a whole song".
Great! Why did she have to be so damn sexy? He asked himself as the music started.

Lily started dancing. (A/N: I don't really want to write down the specific moves so use your imagination) The song finally finished and James just sat there in silence as everyone looked at him, waiting for a reaction.
"Gotta pee" he said jumping up and running to the bathroom.

"I'm going to change. I feel like a slut" lily said before changing.

When everyone was seated in the circle they continued.
"I'm bored" Claire complained.

"Ok Claire; truth or dare?" Lily asked.

"Dare" she said without skipping a beat.

"Um... I don't know. Guys help me" Lily said thinking.

"Claire are you in a happy and friendly mood?" Ella asked grinning.

"Yep, a very happy mood." she answered.

"Ok, on behalf of Lily, we dare you to pash your brother" Ella said. Claire was silent.

"I shouldn't have told you..." she mumbled to herself. She had to do the dare otherwise a worse one would be chosen. It would also be chosen by Sirius. She got up moved over to James.

"Eww, I am not kissing her" James said moving over to Lily who giggled.

"Come on James, she is your sister. If Lily was still my sister I would have kissed her. Your family so you can't get any bad germs or anything." Sirius said.

James sighed "Fine" closing his eyes.

Claire grabbed his face and pash him hard. They pulled away after a few seconds.
"Nope. You didn't use tongue, do it again. I am a kissing expert and I could tell there was no tongue. Do it again" Sirius said. They both looked at him with disbelief.

Claire did it again. They used tongue this time and as soon as it was over they jumped apart.

Lily yawned. "You know what? This has been fun but I am tired. I'm going to bed. We can continue this game tomorrow."

They all greeted each other goodnight and went to their rooms. They brushed their teeth and climbed into their beds. The light was turned off and they fell asleep instantly.

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