"Bloody wanker—stupid arrogant—not good enough, twat! How dare he send me away like some dog, I'm her best friend!—just jealous." Emily mumbled to herself so outraged by Jacob that she found she was unable to form coherent sentences.

She had always thought Jacob was decent enough, perhaps a little conceited and full of himself, but he had always been rather charming and had never treated Lily badly. Yet it was his propensity to treat her as nothing more than a possession that had always irked Emily and now she was down right furious with his lack of ability to appreciate what he had. Lily deserved better!

His lack of respect and caring had forced her into such a towering rage that when she finally reached her destination, the portrait hole, she opened it so forcefully it slammed against the wall, but before the Fat Lady even had time to open her mouth to reprimand the girl she had already entered the common room. Her eyes scanned the room finding no shock of messy dark hair she continued to the boys staircase undeterred.

She vaguely noticed Remus coming to intercept her just as she put her foot on the bottom step. He grabbed her arm and said quietly "where do you think you're going?"

She turned to look at him then looked poignantly down at the place on her arm where he held her indicating he should let go.

In response he merely raised his eyebrows at her before saying calmly, "putting aside the fact that you're not supposed to enter the boys' dorm-"

"Please!" she scoffed "like you give a rat's about the rules"

"Putting aside the fact you're not allowed up there," he continued as if she had not spoken, "James and Sirius are talking and I really don't think you should disturb them."

"How touching," she said sarcastically, "but I really don't care if they are up there having a slumber party, teddy bear's and all, I need to talk to him and I'm going up there."

She turned to start walking again only to feel herself being tugged back she looked down again to find Remus still wasn't letting go. So she said as sweetly as she could "fine" before she stomped on his foot so hard he let out a very unmanly squeal, he doubled over staring at his foot, she didn't even spare him a second glance before she turned and started marching up the stairs

Just as she reached the Marauders dorm room door Remus reached the top of the stairs and mumbled "Merlin you're vicious, and here I thought only Lily had the violent streak."

She ignored him she reached out her hand for the door knob but stopped short when she heard the conversation coming from inside the room.

Emily turned her incredulous face to look at Remus to see that he had stopped trying to get her to not listen and go back downstairs and was looking just as shocked as she felt. Without saying a word they both came to the same decision and leant forward listening intently.

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"You!" shouted Emily pointing at James as she burst into the room Remus following quickly behind her and closing the door behind him before casting a secrecy spell so no one would overhear.

James and Sirius heads whipped round so fast you could hear the necks click.

Fuck, James thought frantically how much had she heard, but before he could panic any further though she had started talking.

"Are you in full working order?"

James who was terrified was thrown by the question; it had not been what he was expecting so a little baffled he eventually said hesitantly "umm, I think so."

"Prove it!" demanded Emily

"Prove-? Umm… I'm sorry what?"

"Demonstrate you are in full working order."

Sirius who had been watching this weirdly half formed conversation choked back a laugh at the absurdity of it all. Man this girl was a nut. He liked nuts.

"Okay," said James slowly as he stood up from his bed before bending his knees so was crouched down and then moved his arms about wildly, looking to all the world as if he were a starfish trying to unfurl itself. He did this demented version of a squat come star jump until Emily finally said: "okay you can stop now."

"May I ask why you made my esteemed friend here look like an idiot? Was it purely for pleasure or was there a reason?" asked a smirking Sirius.

"Lily asked me to make sure he was okay," Emily answered as if that explained everything.

"And you couldn't have just asked him?"

"Oh please," she rolled her eyes. "When do men ever admit to being hurt? Besides, where the fun in just asking him when you can get him to do ridiculous things like that?" she bantered.

Sirius stared at her a moment before he let out a short, rather unflattering, snort and said "fair enough," as if he heard such reasoning all the time and had become thoroughly used to it.

"So now that I have fulfilled Lily's request that I make sure you are alright-"

"Lily?" James was suddenly on full alert "is she alright?" he demanded in a tone of voice not even Dumbledore would ignore.

"Well she was walking and talking when I left her, but that fucking twat-cunt face sent me away before we reached the hospital wing! So I have no idea what the nurse's opinion on her health is."

"Fucking twat-cunt face?" inquired a deeply amused Sirius

"Jacob" hissed Emily her eyes practically igniting.

"Oh" was the only thing Sirius could think to say in response before getting into Emily's rhythm and asking "what did that toss-pot, dick head, streak of piss do to cause such an adverse reaction in his girlfriend's best friend. It's not normally a smart move to piss of the best friend" said Sirius wisely.

"Hmm; no, no it's not." said Emily with a smile at his profanity and a feral look in her eye.

"What? I thought we were allowed to play the worst name for bad boyfriends game" said Sirius when he received a disapproving look from Remus for his language. "She started it," he pouted petulantly when Remus smacked him upside his head.

"So what did he do then?" asked Remus as if nothing had happened

"Oh nothing just told me to piss off back to my common room, said he could look after Lily all on his own. Huh," she laughed "as if! He doesn't mind defending her against me, her best friend, but he didn't seem too protective when she was being attacked!" She stopped mid rant as if she had just remembered the reason for her visit. She spun around on the spot.

"YOU!" she pointed at James making him feel terrified again.

"What now?" he moaned fearfully

"You, James Potter, I could kiss you!" she said

Before she reached her destination thought Sirius's grinning head popped up in her line of vision. "Sorry sweetheart, no kissing "The Potter," he has enough girl problems as it is, but I would be more than happy to oblige you" he said winking.

She raised an eyebrow and let her eyes slowly run over Sirius form, just as Sirius was a starting to feel uncomfortable her eyes met his and she said "in your dreams man whore," before knocking him out of the way and flinging herself at James hugging him so tightly he started to go blue.

"Thank you so much," she whispered to him, her voice trembling a little "you saved her from the killing curse."

With those whispered words the light joking atmosphere that had come to the room ended and everything went quiet and still.

James patted her back awkwardly before saying quietly "it was nothing"

"It wasn't nothing" she said pulling back. "It was everything, not many people would have done that."

"Exactly what I said," came Sirius's uncharacteristically sombre voice

"I would do it again."

With those words she hugged him tightly before releasing him completely and stared at him searchingly "so you and Lily, eh? Well I can't say I'm not a little hurt she didn't tell me, but I guess I understand."

James paled a few shades. Shit just as he was starting to calm down and think that Emily had not overheard their conversation she proved him wrong. Bollocks.

She surprised him, however, by saying "So what are you going to do about it?"

"Do about it?" James questioned in a strangled voice.

"Yes, do about it. Are you deaf as well as an idiot?"

"Well I'm not going to do anything about it, she made it perfectly clear last time we were together that she had a boyfriend and what was between us was just physical. Not to mention I have a girlfriend of my own."

"Phff," Emily waved her hand, "nothing we can't fix."

"What if I don't want you to fix it?" James asked, staring at the floor.

Emily looked at him sharply before saying: "oh but you do and there's no point trying to deny it. After all isn't that what got you into this mess in the first place? But have no fear you have help now" she said looking at Sirius who was staring back at her breast before adding exasperatedly "sort of."

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Update yay!

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