N/A I am a terrible person because this is a day late. To answer a question:, No, James does not know about Sirius and Lily, only Lily, Sirius, Marianne, and Lisa do, it is probably safer for them that way! James, and Sirius, Peter, and Remus, who he chose to confine in, as well as Lily and Severus Snape, know about James and Lily. As for the next one….I think its between Lily and
Fourth Guy: Remus Lupin.
Year: Fifth…confused? You should be!
Time: Almost Noon.
Day: First of classes.
Lets do this!
Lily smiled to herself as she removed her incredibly dirty gloves, glancing at Lisa who was, rather dramatically, trying to get a large piece of prickly vine out of her hair. She wasn't doing a very good job and it appeared the vine did not appreciate being yanked in such a way by a teenage girl.
Lily watched in poorly hidden amusement as the vine began to wrap itself around her friends hand as well, in a form of revenge. Seeing Lily smile at this made Lisa even more annoyed, which made Lily smile even more.
"You could help me." Lisa stated glaring at her. Lily chuckled, walked over and tickled the vine, which squirmed a bit but then fell to the ground leaving her friend free. Lisa grinned and fixed her hair looking pleased.
"Thanks." She glared at the vine still wiggling a bit on the floor. "You always know just what to do."
Lily leaned down and carefully picked up the vine using her in index finger and her thumb.
" It was kind of the obvious." She replied dropping it into a nearby pot. " It is called the 'Ticklish Tarantula Vine'". Lisa rolled her eyes.
" I always wondered why." She smiled. " But where does the 'tarantula' part come from?" She asked at they walked to the door of the greenhouse. Lily shrugged.
" Dr. Boregard Thatch, the man who discovered them, thought they looked like the legs of a tarantula."
Both Lisa and Lily looked behind them to see Remus, absolutely covered in dirt, at the nearest table, trying to shove what looked like an apparently very stubborn, oak tree sapling, into a small pot. Lily chuckled and walked over to help him as Lisa stood by the door and watched, not being in the mood to get attacked by another plant.
Once the plant was potted, and appeared to be sleeping, Professor sprout, who had apparently been watching from the other side of the greenhouses, walked over and using her wand, chained the plant to the table.
"Rambunctious little thing." She muttered looking it over before turning to face them. "Thank you Ms. Evans." She nodded to Lily. "Remus volunteered to help me after class today with a few plants, so thank you for helping him!"
" Your welcome." Lily blushed slightly.
" I saw you help your friend before with the 'Tickling Tarantula vine' as well, it seems you have a knack for stubborn plants." She continued gesturing to Lisa, who suddenly found something very interesting about the strap on her bag.
"Thank you professor." Lily replied.
Professor Sprout smiled. Then appearing to get an idea in her head looked at Remus for a moment before nodding to her self and then looking back to Lily.
" Ms. Evans, would you mind helping Mr. Lupin with one more thing?" She asked. Lily turned to Lisa who shrugged unhelpfully and checked her watch. "I can provide a note of excuse should you miss any class time." The professor added. "And it shouldn't take long."
Lily looked at the plant behind Professor Sprout and then at the dirt covered Remus who was pulling small twigs from his hair. She was already covered in dirt, and missing a little bit of Charms wouldn't kill her. She could get any notes later and the work would go faster with to people then it would if it were just Remus. Having come to this conclusion Lily nodded and said she would be happy to help.
As Lisa ran off to her next class she and Remus were led out of the greenhouse and to a medium size tree behind it. Here, they were surprised to see about a dozen little, floating clumps, of spiky leaves, some with berries and a few with red velvet or gold bows on them, which were all tied to the tree with thin, shimmery, purple strands of light. Which she didn't realize was there at first it being so bright out at the moment. As they got closer the plants immediately started to try and fight their way free.
"This," Professor Sprout said proudly. "Is the schools supply of Fluctuante Viscum Album or 'floating mistletoe'" She looked at them and they nodded quickly still staring at the strange display before them.
"What you need to do," She began and they turned again to her, " Is get them ready to be stored away as they serve no purpose after the holidays are over," Personally I doubt they serve a purpose even during the holidays. Lily thought to herself.
"So, one at a time, you." She pointed to Remus. "Will point your wand at the binding I've put on a particular plant and say 'Liber Captivio' and the plant will be released." Remus nodded and repeated "Liber Captivio"
" You get to do the tricky part," She turned to Lily. " The second that plant is free I assume you know what it will want to do ," Lily nodded and glanced at the plants struggling to pull itself towards her and Remus, and a few which were making sparks which she assumed meant they were trying to apperate. " So the second its free you must use two spells on it, the first is 'deta leviosa' which will get rid of its ability to fly, the second is ' deta appratis' will prevent it from apperating." She explained.
Lily repeated the spells in her head. They were simple enough.
" You must work fast for if it gets above you then the charm will be countered. When ever it is above someone the charm that makes it stationary will over power what ever hexes are sent at it." She continued. Lily smiled remembering her constant reminders to Lisa, " The charm is too strong!"
"You must work fast and say the spells in that order precisely," Professor Sprout pointed at the closest plant. "Now, before I go work on another task I would like to see a practice run."
Lily pulled her wand from her pocket and looked over to Remus who pulled out his wand as well and aimed it at the plant the professor was indicating.
" Liber Captivio." He said quietly and the shimmery purple binding disappeared. Lily in stared at it for a half a second of terror that she would do the spell wrong. But it was only a brief hesitation before she drew back her wand almost yelled the first spell, causing the plant to suddenly drop to the ground, as it fell she quickly said the second which caused the plant to glow yellow for a brief moment but then it just lay there fidgeting a bit. Lily stared at it as Professor sprout smiled, looking pleased.
" Good. You can put them in this bucket over here." She pointed to a large wooden bucket in a line of several at the back of the greenhouse. And with that she walked back around it and out of sight.
The job went rather smoothly once they got the hang of it. They got into a bit of a rhythm which made it go faster. Remus would say his spell, right after Lily would say her first one, as it fell she would say the second, and every two or three they would pick them up and take them over to the bucket. While they put the fidgety little plants in the bucket (which was a task of its own) they chatted a bit, just like they did on patrol together. When they were about half way through, Remus brought up the subject of what had happened before break.
"Merlin I hate these things!" Lily exclaimed as a particularly troublesome clump of leaves attempted to roll itself away after somehow jumping out of her hand before she put it in the bucket.
"With good reason to." Remus replied picking up the plant and tossing it into the bucket. "James wrote me a letter during break about what happened in the library," Lily froze and looked at him coolly.
"Did he now?" She asked narrowing her eyes. Remus nodded calmly.
" Yeah, guess he didn't tell us on the train because he didn't really know how, he's not good with talking about stuff like that." He smiled. " That's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard of happening to a girl," Lily couldn't help but smile as well.
" I mean you just go to get a book you needed for studying in the library and who happens to be getting a book from that shelf, James potter! And of course he has to be all gallant and get your book for you, and when you try to escape? One of these stupid little things shows up!" He held up one of the plants for emphasis.
" That's all he told you?" Lily asked slightly confused. That's it? That she ran into him, he got her book and when she tried to leave the mistletoe appeared. He told them nothing about following her, watching her study, telling her he liked the way she did, the long explanation of why. His little speech on muggleborns, the one she couldn't help but listen too, and the one that pieces of had been sneaking into her thoughts ever since the holidays began. He told them none of that? Was it because that didn't matter to him? Not like it mattered to her or anything.
" Is there more?" Remus asked surprised. " I didn't believe it even happened at all!" Lily smiled, slightly relieved she had been rescued from her forest of thought. These days the random appearance of it was more and more common, luckily the house had been a whirlwind of distractions almost the entire break, she just hoped school would provide just enough work to do so.
" There isn't more to it then that really no," She replied. "I just assumed he would make something up to impress you guys or something." That was truthful enough.
Fortunately Remus agreed that it was very like James to make something up and he too was surprised. He then went on to change the subject to how he, James, Peter, and Sirius had apparently surprised Marianne in some way. She barley listened though; she was too bust trying to distract the forest which was now growing at a phenomenal rate after being fed Potter and now the topic of Sirius and Marianne. If it was important Marianne would tell her later.
And so with her exploding, yet looking calm and ready, Remus assumed she was good for the next round. Yet she shook free from her mind but a second too late.
"Liber Captivio" Remus muttered. The purple light disappeared, but in the second Lily was distracted, thinking about blood and such, the plant realized it was free. As it began to sparkle the first thing that came to mind was that she didn't want it to be anywhere far away she needed it here or at least close to here.
"Deta appratis!" She shoutedquickly. But it could fly, fast too. So She could even say the other spell it had reached its destination. Dead center above her and Remus.
And Remus, who at first had no idea what had happened in the last five seconds because it had happened so fast, was putting it all together in his head. She was putting something together too. First Sirius, then Potter, now Remus! Wait, and Peter, in her third year, that meant….All of them.
And from the way they acted they hadn't told each other, except for Potter….but he didn't fully tell them, not really…would Remus tell them? Would they all then share, Potter…..oh Merlin Potter! He would kill them all! She hoped she would be included because honestly, Potter was enough to ruin her life, all the Marauders? What had she done to deserve this?
Along the lines of James committing murder Remus seemed to think the same thing.
"James is going to Murder me!" He whispered sounding remarkably like Sirius.
But he wasn't Sirius, he was Remus. And Remus conducted himself a bit differently.
"That is beside the problem at hand though. That can be worried about later. Our job now is to disable these daft little clumps of leafs and put them in a bucket." He jabbed his thumb in the direction of the tree.
" Obviously, as awful as it is for you Lily, you're going to have to suffer through a few seconds of kissing me." He gave her an apologetic smile, which she returned, before continuing. "Now this one can't apperate," He pointed above them. "That's done, so I assume instead of popping away it will just zoom off or something, no telling where it will go though, and these things are really fast."
Lily nodded in agreement. And they both were silent as they attempted to think of a plan.
" Hmmmmm" Lily was once again felt the way Lisa felt when Lily and Marianne reminded her of the strength of the charm. "What if right before we kiss I get my wand ready and just, I don't know, surprise it, with the spell in the middle of it , before it has a chance to dart away?" She said trying to sound as calm and on task he did.
" I was thinking something along those lines too," He replied looking up at it with a glare. "Since it's all we got we should try it." He decided and she nodded. He walked closer to her and sighed putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm really sorry about this." She whispered. She put her wand behind her back and tried to aim it towards the plant.
"It's not your fault." He replied. "Is your wand ready?" She smiled at him and nodded.
"Yeah. As good as aiming behind my back will get it." She whispered.
"Here goes nothing then."
And then, she was kissing a werewolf, who was best friends with Potter, behind a greenhouse while trying to aim her wand at something hovering above their heads and it felt perfectly normal. No time to get lost in the forest, she had an obnoxious plant to disable.
She waited a few seconds before she slowly pulled her mouth just far enough away from his to say the spell. And weather or not these plants could expect things or not, it did not see the attack coming.
And down it came, landing with a satisfied little bounce on top of Remus's head. It began to roll away at surprisingly fast speed but he dove down and grabbed it before it got too far. He looked up at her from the ground and grinned. She smiled down at him and helped him up.
"Well, it worked!" He said happily as they walked to the bucket.
"True but there's still around 6 of them left." She pointed out as Remus possibly being more forceful then needed, shoved the plant into the bucket
"Maybe if I warn you before I say the spell we can get back the rhythm we had going." He replied.
And, of course, the rest of the job went on as if nothing happened. Well, except for when they finished and when they went to get their bags and notes for their teachers. As they were waiting for Professor Sprout to finish up with some kind of Swedish Snow flower, he leaned over to whisper something to her.
"Lily," He whispered. "About before," The forest began to prep itself for growing. "I just want you to know I won't say a thing to James or anyone at all."
"I know you won't and I won't either, not even Lisa," She paused for a moment. "Or Marianne." He looked relieved and she let her self feel the same. She hadn't really thought he would tell anyone, not really.
N/A I am a day late, I am tired, final chapter! Whaaaaah! Well it's been fun guys. I might do more like this so wait around, Shout out to Swedes, a Jon Johansson from Flagabotan or something like that bought a CD from my dads mini business on Amazon. Beatles rule! You got good taste bro! And Sweden is just awesome in general so yeah.. Ireland's rockin to! Mostly cause I'm Irish…and French. I think….we Americans are a bit o everything! Sorry for any terrible editing, I'm tired and wanted to get this out right away because it's a day late…..If you want more on Marianne and Sirius I have a whole story based on them I actually started long before this…..It's pretty popular I guess… .I like it….. I'm Sirius obsessed though…and I don't always "connect" my pieces all my Nextgen are totally different and my other Marauders are…well there's like one and it's James/Lily first kiss so check that out… and yeah! Long annoying N/A Whooo! Oh and...werewolfs of London...awho0woh0whowho0whoo was stuck in my head all day and had nothing to do with this!