"Lily, Lily." Dani said in the Common Room. She was still in shock from what McGonagall had said earlier. Detention, Detention, Detention kept running through her head. For Dani it would be okay, but Lily was a goody two shoes and knew and liked it.
"I can't believe I got a detention." Lily said for the first time since diner ended. "And to make things worse, it's with that bloody James Potter! He's so…"
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"Prefect! I mean she's amazing! She's smart, gorgeous, interesting, and, and, I don't know!" said James enthusiastically! Sirius was upside down on James' bed with Remus next to him. They were used to James' rants about how wonderful Evans was. Peter had fallen asleep and was snoring softly. "I mean think about it. I get to spend 4 glorious hours with her. Who knows? She might actually fall for me." Sirius flipped over so he was standing up and facing James.
"Prongs, she's had the past 5 years to fall for you. What makes you think this year's gonna change?"
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"Honestly what makes him think this Year's gonna change?" Lily said as they walked down up to their dorm. "He's an idiot and an airhead. Why you're so close to him, I'll never understand." They opened the door and were immediately bombarded by questions.
"Lily, I can't believe it!" Alice Wintergreen said. Alice was one of the three girls that Dani and Lily shared a dorm with. Alice was dating Frank Longbottom who was in his 7th and final year at Hogwarts.
"I was in shock when I heard you got a detention." Molly Wickers said as she sat on her bed. Molly was currently dating Arthur Weasley. Arthur had graduated the year before and was pretty nice, though strangely obsessed with muggles. The other person they shared the dorm with was Ana. Ana was quiet, and really shy. Though Ana was rather pretty, because she got picked on by the Slytherins, she had a low self esteem. Just like Dani was the female Sirius, Ana was the female Remus. Ana, as usual, was hiding behind a book. While Danni walked over and started a conversation with her, Lily answered the questions shot at her from Molly and Alice. When Molly and Alice were finally satisfied with their answers, they walked over to their beds.
"Why do you dislike James so much, Lily?" Alice asked as Dani pried the book from Ana's hands.
"He started it." Lily pouted while crossing her arms across her chest. "Back in Second Year."
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""Why does Evans hate you so much?" Sirius asked. James sighed and plopped down on his bed.
"It all started with the Second Year Catastrophe Spin the Bottle Game."
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"Back in November of our Second Year, we were still friends. Some other Second and Third Years were playing a game of Spin the Bottle." Lily said. "The Marauders, Dani and I knew a few of them, so they asked us to play. We agreed."
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"That summer, my puberty had started. My voice had dropped, I grew a couple of inches, and I grew into my hair. I blended in well with the Third Years. And," James ran a hand through his hair. "Some of the girls thought I was a Third Year too."
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"Some blonde Third Year spins the Butterbeer bottle." Dani had picked up where Lily had left off. Molly and Alice's eyes were as wide as saucers. Ana was once again looking at her book, but the page hadn't turned, it was upside down, and her eyes had yet to move. "When the bottle finally stopped spinning, it landed on James who instantly turned bright red."
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"Stop barking Padfoot!" James yelled at Sirius who was rolling around on the floor laughing. "I was 12. Your first kiss wasn't until you were 14." That shut Sirius up. He pointed at Remus and James.
"That never leaves this room. Continue Prongs." James smiled. "Like I was saying, this pretty blonde Third Year started to grin like a bloody pumpkin when the bottle stopped. She got up, walked over and pushed Lily, who had been sitting next to me."
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"Then that bimbo pushes me over and sits next to James. She giggles, bats her eyes, the whole nine yards, and then she leans in and locks her lips with his. Within 10 seconds, James is French kissing a total stranger!" Lily ranted while pacing back and forth. Four sets of eyes followed her back and forth as she walked. "Then, when they finally come up for air, Potter goes…"
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"How about we continue this in Private." James said with his head in his hands. "S he nodded and we took off out of the Common Room. I can't remember what we did, but I'm more than sure, we were no longer virgins. We got back to the Common Room and went our separate ways at about 3 AM." James was now trying to suffocate himself with his pillow. Remus ripped it from his hands.
"Hey. You can kill yourself after the story. What happened next?" James nodded and sat up, but darkness shone vibrant in his eyes like every time Lily turned him down. "After that night my friendship with Evans went down hill. Apparently that blonde told every girl in school that I was really good, cause the next day, every girl seemed glued to me."
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"The next day, James walked with a strut. And girls seemed to fall at his feet when he smiled. It was Saturday and he would disappear with different girls for hours at a time. Suddenly the sweet James Potter I had met on the train was replaced by an arrogant, over confident airhead pretty boy." Lily landed on her bed.
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"But what really started the feud, was when we tried to drown Snape the March. And while she was telling to put Snape down, I hit on her…"
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"Then I slapped him, and that was the begging of World War 3." Lily finished Molly and Alice sat stock still, reeling in what they had just heard. Dani having been in the middle of James and Lily's fighting, crossed her arms as she lay on her bed, wishing that Lily could see just how much James honestly cared for her. All five girls were startled when a clock from inside the castle chimed 11 times. The girls were getting ready when Dani said,
"I'm hungry." Just then the window opened and a flying paper Crane flew in and landed on Dani's pillow. "I should have known." She opened it, and Alice instantly asked,
"It's from the guys, isn't it?" Dani nodded.
Hey Fireyes! (A/N you'll find out about the name later)
Knowing you, you're most likely hungrily.
Meet you in the Common Room in 5.
Love,
Your Boys
"Aww! I love how the sign all their notes that way. Love, your boys." It's as if they belong to you. Alice said. Dani smiled a toothy smile. I know. Any of you guys want to come?" We're gonna raid the kitchens." Molly shook her head.
"I'm stuffed."
"Me too." Added Alice. Ana whispered in a barely audible voice,
"No." Dani turned to Lily who was currently changing the curtains around her bed from Gryffindor Red to Emerald Green, her favorite color, like she did every year.
"Don't even think about asking, Dani. First of all, you finished dinner less than 2 hours ago. How can you possibly be hungry? And 2, I'm not going anywhere with Potter at night when I'm supposed to be asleep. So go. Have fun. Bye-Bye." Dani put on her flat black shoes knowing she had lost before she even started. When her shoes were on, she bid everyone good night and closed the door behind her. About 20 minutes later, the lights were out, all was quiet, and everyone was asleep. Everyone except a certain redhead with dazzling green eyes who was silently wondering what would have happened if she had agreed to break the rules.
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"James, I don't know. Maybe you should lay low. At least until after your detention tomorrow." Dani suggested after hearing James' one billionth plan to get with Lily. Dani and the Marauders (excluding Peter who was still asleep upstairs) were eating hot fudge sundaes at a table in the kitchen. Remus was staring at his half eaten sundae.
"Full moon's tomorrow." Remus said. Dani squeezed his hand in reassurance. Remus had accidentally spilled that he was a Werewolf after accidentally drinking Veritserum James and Sirius were going to use for a prank. They were in Second Year when that happened. In Fifth Year, Peter, James, and Sirius perfected their Anamanigus forms and started to accompany Remus till one day a tiger joined them. It turns out the books they would use, Dani would steal when they weren't looking. Dani had mastered her tiger form 3 weeks before the boys did. And she went every other month. Thus causing her Marauder nickname, Fireyes.
"Remus, don't worry. Everything's going to be fine. Like it always is." Dani said. Sirius and James nodded in agreement. Remus though, still had the strongest feeling that it wasn't. And something was going to go terribly wrong. If he only knew.
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Lily ran through the trees in the Forbidden Forest trying desperately to escape from whatever was chasing her. But it seemed the more she ran, the faster the creature got. As she ran, she cried. Branches scratched her arms and legs. They left marks on her beautiful face and twigs in her beautiful hair. Before long, she was extremely lost. So that even if she got away, she'd never find her way back. To make matters worse, it began to rain cats and dogs. Then she tripped on an uprooted tree root. She tried to get up to find that her ankle was twisted the wrong way. Lily was now crying because she was hurt, dirty, and she knew that soon her time would be up. The creature lured over her and she felt its rancid breath on its neck. She closed her eyes and prepared for the worse. One second she could fell its teeth skim her skin, and then they were gone. She heard a spell hit the beast and the beast hit a tree. There was such power and emotion in the spell, that the monster went through 3 trees and was killed before it hit the ground. Lily lifted her head to see James Potter's face only inches from her own. He pulled her to her feet, but when Lily tried to stand on her right ankle, she yelped with pain.
"Okay. Standing on my right ankle, not a good idea." Lily said as she winced. James chuckled.
"Well, I'll just have to carry you then." Before Lily could protest James had picked her up bridal style and had started walking back towards the castle. It seemed that the trees parted for them as they passed for no branches touched them at all. Once they were outside the forest, Lily saw a broom levitating and knew that was how James saw her. He gently placed her on the broom and then got on it himself. Lily placed his arms around his waist before James was situated on the broom.
"Um, James? You should probably know something. I don't like flying because I don't like heights. I unlike Dani haven't been on a broom since First Year." James looked back at her with his famous Potter smirk.
"Then hold on tight, cause we're going sky high!" And with that being said, he pulled up on his Nimbus, and untoward the sky. Lily closed her eyes and began to scream and imagine all the horrible things that could happen.
'I could fall. I could break my neck. I could get killed!'
"Lily!" James yelled over her screaming. "Open your eyes." He felt her shake her head into his back. "I know with our past and everything this is the last thing you want to do, but trust me." Lily rolled her eyes in her head.
'He's right. That is the last thing I want to do.' She said in her head. But she opened her green eyes anyway. "Wow." Lily breathed. The bright almost full moon, contracted beautifully with the stars and the dark sky.
"Now you see why I love to fly." James said while looking at Lily. She smiled and nodded. "Good. Now you're gonna see something else I love to do."
"Sexually harass me?" Lily said without thinking. James rolled his eyes playfully.
"No. This!" James dived without warning. Lily would've screamed but it got caught in her throat when she saw the ground getting closer. She closed her eyes and waited for the impact, when all the wind coming at her face stopped. She opened her eyes to se they were hovering 25 feet off the ground. "And that is what I, James Potter, Seeker Extraordinaire, like to call a Wronski Feint." Lily was shaking behind him. "Lily, if I'm gonna take you back to your dorm, I need to be able to breathe." Lily loosened her hold and James' lungs. But just slightly. This time, James rose slowly, giving Lily a chance to see what he saw when he flew by her window at night. The light from the moon cast a shadow over the Quidditch Pitch and the fields and it was so beautiful. Lily was so busy looking at the grounds, she didn't notice they had arrived at her open dorm window until James had jumped off the broom and into her room landing on his feet.
"Cat." Lily said. James smiled. He motioned for Lily to jump next. Lily shook her head violently and clutched the broom. She just realized that if she fell, she'd die before she hit the ground. James gently put his hands on her waist and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
'To think. 6 years of fantasizing really does pay off.' He pulled her off his broom and carried her to her bed. Luckily for them no one else in the room was awake. He placed her quietly in her bed and turned to leave, but Lily's arms were still wrapped around his neck.
"James, thank you. For saving me and for the amazing view." James nodded but honestly had no idea what she just said. He was lost in her emerald eyes. Lily too had grown silent. She was too busy staring into his gorgeous hazel eyes to speak.
'It's now or never.' He thought as he slowly leaned down, giving Lily a chance to reject him, but praying she didn't. Lily saw him lean down towards her, and strangely she didn't want to stop him. I n what seemed like an eternity to both James and Lily, his lips met hers. It was a soft and gentle kiss but held the passion of 6 years in the making. James flicked her bottom lip with his tongue. Lily hesitated, but soon opened her mouth and granted him entrance.
"Soon it was an all out tongue war. Subconsciously, James had gotten on top of Lily and was now straddling her hips. Lily's arms moved from his neck to pull off his shirt. James broke the kiss and took it of for her, but his lips went to her neck and he bit down softly.
"James." Lily moaned. Gaining confidence with each moan Lily provided, James slowly sunk his hands up her shirt. He ran his fingers over her flat stomach, down her curvy sides, and stopping at her bra. "Well." Lily said. "I never thought James Potter would be scared to take off a bra." James pulled back to look down at the girl who both secretly scared him and publicly turned him on. Lily's eyes were still a little puffy from when she had been crying, her cheeks were streaked with tears, her hair and twigs and sticks in it, her lips were now swollen from snogging, she had starches all over, and hickeys from James were now forming on her neck. To someone else, Lily might have looked utterly repulsive, but to James she was her angelic self as usual.
"I'm not scared." He said. "I just want to make sure you were okay with it." To answer his question, Lily began to unbutton her shirt. With each undone button, James' heart began to beat faster. When Lily pulled off her shirt, James saw her baby blue bra was clasped in the front. With fumbling fingers, and with his eyes concentrating on hers, he opened the clasp. He slowly looked down as if treasuring the moment. When his eyes reached her chest they seemed to pop out of his head. He then flicked the nipples with his thumbs. Lily's eyes snapped shut and she groaned in pleasure. Lily raked her nails down his chest feeling his muscles tense and release over and over again. After hearing James groan into her breasts from her pleasurable torture, Lily's hands dropped even lower to his pants. She undid his belt and threw it across the room. She undid his pants and pushed them down to reveal red and gold silk boxers and James kicked them the rest of the way down. James then pulled down Lily's skirt, and saw she was wearing baby blue knickers to match her bra. James once again pulled back, but this time he asked the question with his eyes.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Lily closed the hangings around her bed.
"Yes."
James and Lily awoke in their own beds, both drenched in their own sweat. Lily wore a look of fear, while James' grin was as big as Hogwarts. Then, they both screamed. While Lily's was one of terror, James was one of pure childish glee. Either way, everyone was Gryffindor Tower was definitely awake now.