Author's note: Chapter 6 is a super-long double chapter. I'd rather have all the events happening in the same day on one chapter, even if it's really long, than a breakdown of it into 2 chapters. So if you don't like long chapters, I hereby apologize.

"Yo! People!" James said loudly to his sleeping friends as he brought up the breakfast from the Kitchens. "Wake up already."

"Ah. It's the day of the performance, isn't it? It was posted that today all classes will be canceled." Sirius said as he sat up from his bed. Reaching from his bed, he was unable to find his Mercutio costume. He stood up, his blanket falling off from him, revealing a rather muscular body from playing Beater and his Kamikaze boxers he got as an April Fools joke from the Marauders. Remus somehow convinced Lily to get one in a Muggle shop, which was pretty surprising.

"No wonder the girls fan over you." James laughed. " Anyways… what happened to your matching Kamikaze pajamas?"

"It's in the wash." Sirius sighed. " The fangirls snuck in and stole my other pairs while we were sleeping, or so it seems, because when I woke up to get breakfast that day, my drawers were a mess and my spare pajamas were gone, along with several pairs of my boxers."

"That's too bad, Padfoot." Remus chuckled. "The downside of being the most sought-after guy at school. I've recently heard from my contact from within the Fan Club—You know—my cousin Marlene—that you've acquired some fan boys."

"FAN BOYS? Are you f---ing serious?" Sirius shouted, not thinking about what he just said.

"As much as the half of the female population in this school would appreciate it, I am not doing you. I'm straight, y'know." Remus said, laughing. "You are the only Sirius in the school."

"Hey! I didn't mean it in that way!" Sirius picked up his pillow and smacked Remus. "Goddamn puns."

"Blame the fangirls." Remus said, putting on his shirt. "And why are you still in your boxers?"

"Ah! That's right! My costume… ah. Here it is." Sirius said as he picked up his costume and hastened to put them on. "Thank Merlin Artemis didn't make us wear tights."

"Padfoot in tights… haha!" James chuckled. "Anyways. Hurry up. They want to run it through before the performance this afternoon."

"Okay." The other three said, now fully dressed, as the four Marauders descended the stairs to the final run-through before the play.

"Where did Snape go?" Artemis said anxiously to Sirius. "He's been missing this whole rehearsal. How irresponsible."

"It's good that Claudia's a very good actress, so our final rehearsal can go on." Sirius said, now being off stage since he "died" as Mercutio. "Where the Hell is Snivelly? I swear… if he doesn't show up by the time of the performance, I'd literally kill him with my rapier."

"You do realize that those rapiers are those collapsible ones that fold in when you apply pressure to it, right? I mean… we have to make the stabbing realistic that way. " Artemis informed him. "And we should go find a coffin. It's already Act 4. They'll be needing it."

"If we don't get one in time, what should we do?" Sirius asked.

"We use a bathtub." Artemis said. "But we have to find it before the performance."

"I'll tell Regulus to get us a bathtub if we don't come back by Act 5." Sirius said. "He should listen to me on this one. It's all for the better."

"True. Tell him, then we'll go."

"Artemis! I found a coffin!" Sirius exclaimed as they got down to the dungeons.

"Great. Now help me carry it upstairs." Artemis said, as she and Sirius picked up the two ends of the coffin. "This is surprisingly heavy. Your brother's a feather compared to this thing." She commented, referring back to a month ago when James and Snape beat Regulus up for asking Lily out.

"It is." Sirius said. "Feel's like something's in it. Should we open it, Artemis?"

"Yes." Artemis said and she opened the coffin, revealing a sleeping Snape inside.

"WHAT THE F---ing HELL?" They exclaimed in unison. Snape, at the sound of their profane exclamation, woke up.

"Snape! It's almost the end of the final run through and rehearsal, Goddamit! And you can sleep?" exclaimed Artemis, apparently angry with Snape.

"I am sorry. I drank too much last night and I lost a bet. So I ended up sleeping in the coffin and not realizing the time." Snape said politely, but only because he doesn't want to be on the receiving end of Artemis's physical punishment. Lily's slap was hard enough to bruise his face for days, and she had no physical training whatsoever. He shuddered to think about what Artemis can do to him, being a Martial Artist and all. He's seen what happened a few months ago when Avery harassed her. He ended up in the Hospital Wing for weeks.

"Carry this coffin upstairs for us. It's your punishment for being late." Artemis said coldly. "And no complaints. You shouldn't be drinking last night. Save that for the cast party."

Snape breathed in relief. So he's only carrying a coffin upstairs and not going to suffer physical injuries. Without him in it, it's positively light.

"Great. You arrived just on time, Snape." Professor McGonagall said. "We're just about to do Scene 3."

"Yes, professor." Snape said, as Claudia handed her rapier to him. "Er… why is there a bathtub on stage?"

"Because that's going to be the coffin if we can't find it on time. Well, it's too troublesome to change it now," said Regulus, who just appeared at Claudia's side.

"Enough talking. Let's get started." McGonagall said. Snape obliged and the scene starts as he walks on stage with one of the 3rd years playing his page.

"Anyways," Regulus continued, "The guy who plays the Friar Lawrence is still missing. I ended up subbing for him."

"This can't be good," said Claudia as a 4th year Hufflepuff boy entered the room.

"Hold." Professor McGonagall said and everyone stopped whatever he/she was doing. "What is it, Smith?"

"Madam Pomfrey said that Evan Brockelhurst can't make it to the performance today and please find a replacement for his role." The boy said, "He'll be okay, but he'll need a week to recover."

"What happened to him?" Claudia asked.

"According to Madam Pomfrey, he fell off the Astronomy Tower during class. Apparently, he accidentally tripped over some equipment and fell over a window." Smith said, "Luckily Hagrid was there, and caught him, so he didn't die. I have to go now. Good luck today on the performance, I really look forward to watching it today!"

"Claudia… if you don't mind…" Professor McGonagall said as Smith left the room, but Sirius cut her off.

"I have the perfect person in mind." He said mischievously, and he whispered a name in Professor McGonagall's ear.

"You can't be serious, Black!" she exclaimed.

"But I am Sirius Black. And Sirius Black is serious." Sirius said playfully. "I'm dead now anyways, so I'll go get him." Without another word, he ran off.

"If he only uses his brains on his homework…" Professor McGonagall shook her head. "Dunno how he still have the best grade in the whole Transfiguration class regardless."

5'o clock P.M. at the Great Hall of Hogwarts, the play was about to begin. Claudia, Remus, Regulus, The students playing Sampson, Gregory, Abraham, and the other Montague servingman got ready to enter the opening scene.

"Break a leg." Sirius said.

"You too." Replied Claudia, Remus and James.

"Why break a leg? Isn't that a bad thing?" asked Peter cluelessly.

"It's an expression of good luck used before performances." Remus told him.

"Are you completely sure that he can pull off Friar Lawrence, Sirius?" Artemis asked.

"Why not?" Sirius replied. "Anyway, you should go up now. You're doing lighting and special effects, aren't you?"

"Oh yeah." Artemis said as she climbed the ladder that leads up to the lights and the special effect magic buttons.

"Then have my lips the sin that they have took." Lily recited on stage. It was now Act 1, Scene 5.

"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." James said. He was supposed to act kissing Lily at this point, but he can't bring himself to act it anymore, like he's been doing at the rehearsals. She was the most beautiful woman in the universe in James's mind, and with the lighting effects, that he really kissed her.

Lily was taken by surprise. She did not expect that James was really going to kiss her, as this was on stage. She thought about pushing him away, but not before she realized that this was on stage, so she went along with it.

"You kiss by the book." Lily said after they broke apart, and found herself not merely acting it, but saying how she really felt.

Snape was furious backstage and was itching to beat James to a pulp, But Regulus, who was offstage at the moment, foresaw what will happen if he isn't restrained and smacked him on the head.

"Don't." He said quietly. Snape grudgingly obliged as the scene went on.

"PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE!" The Hogwarts students exclaimed at the start of Act 2, Scene 3. Dumbledore, it seemed, was the one whom Sirius has asked to be the sub-in Friar Lawrence. He was wearing the monk robes, and his hair was magically modified to look like a monk's for the duration of the play. Even so, he was recognizable by the students of his school.

Dumbledore went on to his soliloquy at the beginning of the scene, pulling it off with perfection.

"You're a genius to think of Professor Dumbledore, Sirius." Remus told Sirius offstage. "I'd never think that Dumbledore could pull it off this well."

"Great minds think alike, Remus." Sirius joked, receiving a sharp blow in the elbow from his friend.

"Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me: I have it, And soundly too: your houses!" Sirius said his final line on stage as he acted passing out into Remus's arm from the "blood loss", generated by the magic buttons that were charmed by Flitwick himself to do all the special effects. Most of the students were smart enough to know it was fake even though it looked realistic, after initial shock, as they know that a student will never be killed for the sake of a play, even though many of them were teary-eyed, since Mercutio was a very well-liked character. However, the Fan Club isn't so bright.

"SIRIUS! NOOOO! DON'T DIE!" They exclaimed.

"Shut up. It's just an act." Said a 7th year as the Fan Club breathed out in relief.

Meanwhile, the part of the school's female population (and a select few male) who were in support of Sirius having a relationship with Remus were drooling. They know it isn't real, but the sight of Sirius passing out into Remus's arms was good enough fanservice for them. If they can't have the real hardcore… they'll settle for an act.

"…For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Said Frank Longbottom, who played the role of the Prince Escalus, as the play concluded. A tremendous amount of applause followed as the minor cast members reappeared on stage. The Major cast, of course, gets announced.

"Mercutio." Announced Professor McGonagall as Sirius walked on stage, followed by the greatest applause by far, mainly because he just gained about another 50 fans. Being the gentleman he usually was to girls, Sirius decided to wave to the audience, and his fans positively squealed.

"Talk about popularity." Remus, who was just reintroduced on stage as Benvolio right before Sirius, whispered. "Maybe we should get a lock on our dormitory. You'll be out of boxers by the end of the year if we don't."

"Good idea." Sirius whispered back as Professor McGonagall announced Romeo and Juliet, or James and Lily, and their reappearance. They received just as great as an applause that Sirius got, and almost as much squealing. James had his fair share of fan girls. He was not drop-dead gorgeous like Sirius, but he was fairly good-looking and was the Quidditch captain of the Gryffindor Team. After he took center stage for the bow that the cast does to the audience at the end of plays, Sirius nudged him. "Your month-long ban is over." He whispered, loud enough so only Remus, Peter, and James heard him.

"Right." James whispered back. In an instant, he was down on his knees. "Will you go out with me, Lily?" James reached for his wand to produce some flowers, when he realized that he doesn't have his wand on him.

Artemis, above the stage, knew what James wanted to do. Producing a rose with her own wand, she dropped it down.

"Thanks, Art." James said as he caught the rose. "If you will go out with me, Lily, please accept my rose."

Lily was moved. James asked her out in front of the school! It would be just bad to refuse now. Thinking back, he was always nice to her, does whatever she wants, even though she wasn't all that nice to him, even when he's not up to mischief. He did hex Snape a lot, but thinking about it, Snape was not exactly a tame little bunny, either… on some occasions he made the first move. Plus, James was a good kisser, and he really liked her. Reasons enough, Lily took the rose. "I accept." She said.

It was not in James's plans that the whole audience stood up and applauded, nor did he plan that it suddenly started showering rose petals from above the stage. Artemis obviously decided it on her own, but it certainly helped the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, Regulus had to repeatedly smack Snape to keep him from doing rash things.

The Marauders, Lily, and Claudia returned backstage after the end of the performance, to find Artemis waiting there with multiple bags, and wearing a gothic-style dress, with high-top boots. No make-up, though. Artemis hated wearing makeup.

"I got your outfits for the Holiday party here. Hurry up and change. I want to eat." She said. Here----" she said as she passed the bags to each of her friends.

"Nice seeing you in something feminine for a change." Sirius said, grinning. "You look great, though."

"Thanks. I thought it'd look out of place if I wore something that I'd usually wear." Artemis replied as Sirius took his robes out of his bag. It was black and sleeveless, with the hem of the bottom artistically tattered and dark red belts and buckles. "So, what d'you think?"

"Hmm… Maybe I shouldn't wear this. I'd look so sexy that the fangirls will rape me on the spot." Sirius said as everyone laughed.

"I take it as you like it, then. And the fangirls are afraid of me. That I assure you." Artemis said.

"Did you plan this, Artemis?" said James as he looked as his outfit, a dark red, long, dress robe with some Victorian styles. It matched Lily's perfectly.

"Er… I dunno." Artemis said with feigned innocence, causing more laughter.

"Nice. I get some decent clothes for a change," Remus said, looking at his own dark blue dress robes. "I'm going to change, guys." He ran off to a bathroom as Peter hid behind some curtains to put his on. Claudia just returned from the girls bathroom with her light green dress.

"Alright. Time to party." Sirius said after everyone was dressed in their formal robes. "Artemis, I call the first dance with you."

"If you don't mind me stepping on your foot on occasion, that is." Artemis said. "But I'd love to see the faces of those fangirls."

"That'd be a funny sight to see. They are too afraid to attack you, and they're jealous." Sirius said with a smirk. Even though he's nice to girls, a few pranks on the Fan Club on this occasion can't hurt. "Anyways, we can't see their faces until we're actually dancing."

"Then let's go." Artemis laughed as she and Sirius stepped into the dance floor. The Fan Club, standing nearby, flushed bright red. Sirius and Artemis were silently laughing. The Fan Club members' faces were priceless. Nearby, James, Remus, Lily, and Claudia were laughing their head off. Peter immediately ran off to find some food.

"Shall we go too?" James asked Lily, who nodded and joined the couples that are dancing.

"Hey Claudia. Want to dance?" Remus asked Claudia just as James and Lily went on to the dance floor.

"Sure." Claudia said, leaving Peter eating by himself at a distance.

Soon, the song ended, and Artemis and Sirius joined Peter by the food table. They all love to eat, after all. The dancing was just to see the jealous faces of the fangirls, which they thoroughly enjoyed watching. Lily and James, however, remained on the dance floor for the next song, and Regulus walked over, as he can't stand Snape's constant ranting any longer.

"If you don't mind, may I dance the next dance with you?" He asked Claudia.

"Okay." She said, as Remus joined Sirius, Artemis, and Peter at the food table.

Although Sirius was the best-looking guy in school, Regulus, being his younger brother, had similar genetics, and Regulus was rather attractive himself. And like his brother, he had his own Fan Club, although smaller. And they happened to be at a distance, looking like they'll lunge at any moment,

"Seems like your brother's Fan Club's getting jealous." Remus commented. "This is amusing. Let's watch."

"Agreed. Jealous fangirls' faces are priceless. Anyone got a camera here?" Sirius said as Frank Longbottom, a friend of the Marauders but a year junior, appeared with his girlfriend Alice, and handed him a camera.

"Thanks, Frank." Sirius said as he took a picture of the fangirls with their priceless expressions. "Got to show this to James later."

"No problem, Sirius." Frank said. "And it seems you have finally settled down and found yourself a girlfriend."

"What do you mean by settled down? I never had an actual relationship with anyone. All those dates I go on by request hardly count. I'm always playing pranks on people there's hardly time." Sirius said. "You are not under the impression that I'm a womanizer, are you?"

"You referring to me, Frank?" Artemis said on the side. "You know I don't go out with anyone. I'm here mostly for the food, and to mentally torture Sirius's Fan Club."

"True… I'm just teasing." Frank laughed. "Well, I'll be seeing you guys. Remus, you should find a girlfriend too."

"I got to study. No time for that." Remus said. "But thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind when I get some free time."

"Well, we're going to dance now, so see you all later." Frank said as he and Alice went on to dance.

Remus appeared to have gone back to Claudia and resumed dancing with her as the next song began, so Sirius and Artemis decided to think up more mental tortures for his over-sensitive Fan Club. But before they can do that, Remus's distant cousin and spy for the Marauders came up to them.

"I've got bad news, Sirius," She said. "Your brother's Fan Club has recently merged with your Fan Club. So now you've just gotten about 15 more obsessive, rabid fangirls, not counting the ten-or-so new members that just recently joined. Thought you should know."

"Thanks, Marlene…wait…WHAT?" Sirius exclaimed. Now his Fan club exceeds 50 people… how's he going to handle that?

"Yes. I know. It's deep trouble. Anyways, I'll get in trouble with the club if they notice me here talking to you alone, and then I can't spy for you anymore. So got to go!" said Marlene as she left hurriedly.

"Oh Merlin." Sirius muttered. "Not good."

"It's nothing, Sirius. Just more people to mentally torture, that's all. After all, you still have me as your bodyguard." Artemis commented as James and Lily, a bit tired from the dancing, came to join them.

"Anything with you two?" James asked.

"Not much. We're just figuring out a way to mentally torture Sirius's… or should I say, the Black Brothers' Official Fan Club of Hogwarts." Artemis said lightly.

"Wait… the Black Brothers' Official Fan Club of Hogwarts?" Regulus, who was near by, overheard the line and came over. "You don't mean…"

"Yes, Regulus, the worst has come. Our fan clubs have combined." Sirius said in a grave voice.

"Why don't we all sit down and figure out a way to mentally torture them together?" Lily suggested, which they did so.

After several minutes of intense discussion, they finally reached a method.

"Hello girls!" Sirius, Regulus, and Artemis appeared at the large gathering of Sirius and Regulus's now combined fangirls.

"Hello, gorgeous." The girls replied, thinking that they're in heaven, since both of the Black brothers talked to them! Then they saw Artemis, whose arms were around both of the guys. The fangirls screamed and passed out. Too much for them to take.

"Lily is a genius." Artemis said. "But next time, have Claudia do this. I'd rather not put my arms around people."

"But it was worth it, wasn't it?" Sirius said. "That was epic!"