a/n First off I think I owe everyone a huge apology. I know there hasn't been an update since March. I my updating is sporadic but never has it been this bad. I promise it won't happen again. I think I owe you an explanation, I'm co-writing this with another person and I've been trying to get in contact with them through email but she is not reply, I don't know what has happen so I didn't update, didn't update because at first she just said she would be away for a little while and then she would be back so I waited for her to email so we could get this chapter written. I haven't talked to her since the start of summer and I've sent multiple emails and she hasn't replied so now I've taken this story over and I'm going to finish writing it. Thanks for bearing with this insanely long wait and again I'm so so so sorry.

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Days passed and slowly Serenity started to act more like herself again, but not quite. Lily was the only one that new about what had happened in the castle and she vowed to take it with her to the grave.

A week after they had rescued Serenity, Molly and Rose decided that it was time to continue on with the prank war.

"So we need something good," Molly said, "Any suggestions?"

The four girls were crammed onto Rose's bed. Each of them held parchment and quills.

"Whatever it is has to be huge," Lily said enthusiastically, "Remember this is for all the people that have been pranked by the Marauders."

"Except the Slytherins," Rose said.

"True."

Serenity shifted awkwardly and glanced quickly at her watch. For the next hour the girls threw out ideas, and every few minutes Serenity took a hurried look at her watch.

"Well ladies I think we're going to kick their sorry butts," Molly said.

"When are we going to start?" Rose asked.

"No time like the present," Lily said, "Come on Serenity, girls."

With a final check of the list that they had come up with the girls walked out of their dorm and into the Common Room. Serenity and Molly hung back at the stairs as Lily and Rose walked over to their boyfriends. Almost instantly they had the boys distracted and Molly and Serenity slipped up the boy's staircase.

"We're going for a walk," Lily said motioning to her and Rose's cloaks, "Care to join us."

Lily watched her friends sneak up the staircase and once they were out of sight she nodded to Rose who quickly stood up and said, "You know it would be a great day to go to Hogsmeade, to bad we can't leave the grounds."

"Yes it would, we'll go grab our cloaks," Sirius said.

With a look of panic in her eyes Rose raised her wand and quickly summoned the cloaks before the boys made it to the bottom of the staircase.

"Hogsmeade would be great today," Lily agreed.

Lily walked over to the window and looked outside at the frozen earth, it was all she could do to hold back her smirk. She and Serenity had found out one day that the Marauders knew of a secret passage to get to Hogsmeade, but the boys didn't know that. The girls had been sneaking out of the school almost as much as the boys had been for the past 2 years.

"Well there is a way," Sirius said so quietly you had to be right next to him to hear.

"Let's show them," Remus suggested.

"Are you sure you want to divulge a Marauder secret?" Peter asked skeptically.

"Come on girls, get ready for the time of your lives," James said loudly

Everyone stood up and headed towards the portrait hole. The Marauders quickly took charge and led the way to the One Eyed Witch, Rose and Lily faked clueless ness.

Once at the entrance to the passageway the Marauder all turned and said, "You must swear never to tell anybody about this, if a teacher found out it would be sealed off and there would go all of our fun and freedom."

"Understood," Lily said

"Good then we can go on."

Minutes later they were hurrying down the passageway to Honeydukes. Quietly they made their way through the store and out into the chilly November air.

"Let's go get a Butterbeer," Rose suggested.

"Good idea," everyone agreed.

And so they turned and headed in the direction of the Three Broomsticks.

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Back in the Gryffindor Tower Serenity rushed down the stairs and out the portrait hole closely followed by Molly.

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After their Butterbeers the sixth years wandered around Hogsmeade. Rose pulled Lily aside and whispered, "Do you think we can go back now?"

"It's probably safe, but let's just give it a few more minutes."

"Okay."

Meanwhile James whispered frantically to the other three Marauders, "Do you have this funny feeling that this is just a huge setup?"

They nodded their agreement, "And why was Rose so frantic about us leaving so fast that she summoned our cloaks?"

"Crap."

They darted in the direction of Honeydukes. Once safely in the passage they sprinted the whole way back to the castle. Lily and Rose ran behind them yelling at them to slow down and asking what was going on even though they knew why they were in such a rush.

As the boys sprinted up the corridor to the entrance of Gryffindor Tower Remus all but shouted the password. They portrait flung open and they piled through the hole. Lily and Rose were hot on their tale. The boys stopped suddenly in the centre of the Common Room and turned to face the two girls.

"That was not funny," Sirius said.

"What, nothings happened," Rose said.

"You think we wouldn't notice?" James asked, "I thought we weren't doing the prank war after all that had happened, I thought you weren't mad at me anymore?" he said to Lily.

"Who said we pranked you, it just seems like you are paranoid," she walked up to him and put her arms around him, "Do you have something to hide Potter?" she turned to Sirius, "And you Black, why do you keep looking over your shoulder like somebody's going to walk up behind you and hex you? Remus you keep looking at everyone nervously and Pettigrew well…your pretty much the same."

"Hey why does Remus get his first name and everyone else gets their last?" Sirius asked.

"A little choked up Black?" Lily said in a mock baby voice, "Well why don't you run off to Rachael, I'm sure she'll fuck it better."

Thankfully the Common Room was empty at this time.

A light bulb seemed to click on in Sirius' brain because he spun on his heel and pulled the guys up the stairs. Yelling and cursing could be heard from their dorm room and then a stampede of feet as they ran down the stairs.

"How dare you…"

"That's not funny…"

"Lame prank…"

"We would do so much better…"

"It's on!"

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