A/N: Hi. I own nothing, this includes 'Sugar Sugar'. Archie owns that.

Oh, also, this is just a little tip. You don't have to do this but anyways: IF YOU HAVE SUGAR SUGAR BY ARCHIE, THEN LISTEN TO IT WHILE READING PART (YOU'LL KNOW WHICH PART) OF THIS CHAPTER. Revised: 8/7/06

Song Lyrics: "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley

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Chapter Seven

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"Ouch!"

"What was that, Lily? I already told you I'm not letting you have the couch." Emma asked sleepily, sprawled out over a large couch.

It was now January fifteenth and all the Hogwarts students were snowed in. No classes since it was the weekend. The day after James kissed Lily again, he promptly visited the Hospital Wing for a week. And not to visit a sick buddy. Unless, of course, the sick buddy was him. . .but he couldn't visit himself. . .Or could he?

"I pricked myself with my quill." Lily moaned, holding up her thumb.

Emma and Alice made pained expressions,"Ugh, that looks pretty deep, Lily. Maybe you should go to the Hospital Wing." Alice suggested.

"Yeah, sure." Lily replied, getting up.

"You're like that one muggle fairy tale princess, Lily! She pricked her finger on a. . .I forgot what she pricked it on, but what does that matter? Anyways, she pricked her finger and then fell asleep, patiently waiting for her true love to come kiss her!" Emma stated.

Lily rolled her eyes with a smile on her face,"Yes, we're so alike. Let's see. I pricked my finger on a quill, she didn't. I'm not a princess. I seriously doubt I have three fairy godmothers. And I'd probably sleep forever since I lack a true love right now."

"Oh, but what about James? He's your true love! He'll be kissing you in record time." Emma teased.

Lily scowled,"Potter has gotten enough kisses out of me. I'd rather sleep forever then have Potter kiss me."

"What are fairy godmothers?" Emma asked Alice.

Alice shrugged in bewilderment.

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"Miss Evans! I trust you haven't got gum in your hair again." Madame Pomfrey said kindly as Lily walked into the Hospital Wing a few minutes later.

Lily sighed at the memory then replied,"No, not this time, Madame Pomfrey. Actually, I pricked my finger with my quill and I was wondering if you had anything for it."

"I just ran out of the potion to heal cuts like that! I have another for deeper cuts I could use, but I warn you it's a strong potion. You'll be put to sleep for a few hours. It might have a few other side effects. . ." Madame Pomfrey trailed off.

"Well, I don't have anything better to do, I guess." Lily replied, thinking about what she had done that day and what she planned to do:

What Lily Evans already did today:

Woke up at 12:10 (PM), ate lunch, sat around the common room for three hours reading and playing wizard chess with Emma and Alice, was dared to eat six vomit flavored Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans, got eight galleons from Emma and Alice for completing the dare (along with a stomach ache, not to mention thirty minutes in the loo), reading and wizard's chess again, afternoon snack (five cups of hot chocolate).

What Lily Evans planned to do the rest of the day:

Sleep for two more hours, have another afternoon snack (bacon, maybe), read some more, stare into space, twiddle thumbs, staring contest with Emma, twiddling thumb contest with Alice. . .basically nothing. . .

"Alright, dear. Just go lay down on one of the beds while I get the potion." Pomfrey said, walking back into her office.

Lily did as told and walked to a bed by the window.

A few minutes later Madame Pomfrey came to Lily's bed, a brown potion in hand.

Lily face scrunched up. All this for a cut.

"I'll send an owl to Gryffindor tower to your friends, telling them what's happened." Pomfrey said, handing the goblet to Lily.

Lily smiled and took the goblet,"Thanks, Madame Pomfrey."

"Oh, you're welcome, dear."

Lily drank the potion, choking some from its taste, but she got it down eventually.

Lily laid back on her pillow. Things were getting blurry. Whoa! Is that-? No! It's a hippogriff holding a. . .microphone? It isn't going to-Oh. My. God. It is! What did Madame Pomfrey put in this-

Sugar, ah honey, honey

You are my candy girl

And you've got me wanting you.

Oh Merlin. Was she going crazy- Holy Crap! The hippogriff just did the splits! She couldn't do the split, but that big oaf could? And, oh Merlin, she must be going crazy! It's Potter. The hippogriffs head turned into Potter's fat head!

When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be

(I know how sweet a kiss can be)

Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me

Oh, thank you, Merlin! The song is over- No! Pottergriff is doing the tango with- what is that? Is that- ? Is that a. . .flobberworm?

Lily was becoming drowsy. Very drowsy. . .her last thoughts were: Great, just what I needed. Pottergriff serenading me. Then doing the tango with a. . .flobberworm. Oh, well,whatever floats his feather. . .did I just say that? Is that music I hear? Oh Merlin. . .

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"Alice, there's an owl at the window." Emma said, staring at the ceiling.

Alice rolled her eyes,"You can get it then."

"What? Why?" Emma groaned, still quite busy staring at the ceiling.

"I'm busy." Alice replied, looking up from an essay she was finishing.

"And I'm not?" Emma said, starting to count dust particles floating around her.

"Just what are you doing?" Alice asked.

"I'm working on divination." Emma replied simply.

Alice scoffed,"Just how are you working on divination?"

"I predicted how many dust particles I'll count before I get off the couch." Emma replied, muttering numbers,"You made me lose count! Thanks, Alice!"

"Since you lost count I guess you aren't working on divination anymore then. You can get the owl." Alice said with a grin.

Emma glared at Alice and slowly got off the couch walking to the window and opening it for the owl. The owl didn't seem happy about waiting out in the snow for five minutes while they argued over what exactly Emma was doing.

He pecked at Emma's outstretched hand before putting his leg out, a letter attached to it.

"Ow! You little. . ." Emma glared daggers at the owl. The owl puffed up then flew out the open window.

"And don't come back!" Emma shouted out the window before closing it.

"Emma, do you really think threating an owl will help anything?" Alice asked, a smirk on her face.

"Of course it will! Hey, this letter's addressed to us!" Emma stated, walking back to the couch and opening the letter.

Alice looked up from her essay curiously,"What does it say?"

Emma read aloud,"Dear Friends of Lily Evans- good to know that's she remembers our names, pfft, she should join Slughorn in the Never-Remember-Our-Names Club- Ms. Evans had pricked her finger earlier today and came to me for something to help it. The potion I gave her is, unfortunately, very strong. She fell asleep instantly, muttering thing about. . .well, I'm not sure. "Pottergriff" and "splits" were about the only words heard. She should wake up in a few hours time. Madame Pomfrey."

Alice laughed,"Looks like Lily's more like that princess than she let on."

Emma looked thoughtful for moment,"Yeah. . ."

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"Hey, Emma. Alice." The Marauders greeted an hour later.

"Hello, Marauders." The girls greeted.

"What are you two doing?" Sirius asked, sitting down.

"Oh, just counting dust particles and such." Emma said staring at the ceiling once again. She couldn't help it. The ceiling was just too interesting to resist.

James looked around anxiously,"Where's Evans?"

Emma smirked at Alice,"Oh, she's around."

"I'm not good with rhymes, Vance." James replied.

"I wasn't rhyming." Emma said, giving James a weird look,"If you must know Lily pricked her finger and went to the Hospital Wing earlier. Madame Pomfrey gave her a potion that made her go to sleep. It was ironic that that happened. We were talking earlier about how Lily was simliar to a muggle fairy tale princess. How she was pricked on her finger, then she fell asleep-"

"And she slept happily ever after." Alice cut in, glaring at Emma. She knew if Emma told James the rest of the story he'd get ideas. Then they'd be murdered by Lily for giving ideas.

"That's lame. She just slept forever? What kind of ending is that?" Sirius asked,"Boo!" He yelled, throwing popcorn at Emma and Alice.

Remus looked at Sirius curiously,"Where did you get that popcorn?"

"Oh, I have my sources." He said mysteriously.

Remus rolled his eyes. Sirius probably just searched under the couch cushions for some. Merlin knows what you'd find under them.

"Black, what are you doing?" Emma exclaimed, shaking the popcorn out of her hair.

"The story was lame. So I did my job of booing and throwing things at you." Sirius explained.

Emma rolled her eyes and threw the popcorn back at Sirius.

"Wait. . .that's not how the story goes! The muggle fairy tales always end with a a prince and princess riding off in the sunset, living- not sleeping- happily ever after." James corrected, looking suspiously at the girls.

"They don't always ride off into the sunset!" Emma protested.

"Oh really? Tell me one then." James asked slyly.

"Okay, the one we were just talking about for example. She sleeps until her true love comes and kisses her, then she wakes up. Then they get married and become king and queens, then they live happily ever after." Emma explained proudly then clapped a hand over her mouth.

"Emma!" Alice hissed.

"Oops." Emma said sheepishly.

"Interesting." James mused.

"No, James. That's not interesting. Quidditch, think of quidditch. That's more interesting then a stupid old fairy tale. Right, Emma?" Alice asked, glaring pointedly at Emma.

"Er, right! Quidditch! Magnificient sport! There's the wonderful bludgers and . . .he's gone." She trailed off as they watched James stroll casually out of the common room.

"We are so dead." Alice muttered, staring at the portrait hole.

"Hey, maybe we'll be dead happily ever after." Emma said faintly.

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"Hi, Madame Pomfrey." James said, walking into the Hospital Wing.

"Oh, Mr. Potter, what happened? Not in another duel, were you?" Madame Pomfrey greeted, hands on her hips, peering at James for battle wounds.

James laughed,"No, I was just came to see if. . .Lily Evans was here." He ended awkwardly.

Madame Pomfrey nodded, watching James curiously,"That she is, Mr. Potter. You can visit her if you want. There's no reason to though. She's just asleep. Please don't wake her up."

"Thanks, Madame Pomfrey." James grinned and walked by Madame Pomfrey.

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"Come on! We have to stop gapping like idiots at the portrait hole and go stop James!" Alice exclaimed frantically, standing up and dragging Emma to the portrait hole.

Emma protested all the way.

Alice stopped as she got to the portrait hole.

Emma sighed,"Thank goodness. I see you decided not to go. . ."

"You three," Alice said, pointing to the rest of the Marauders, still sitting, confused,"Come with us. He's your friend."

"What's going on?" Remus asked, standing up and walking over to Alice and Emma.

"No time, we'll explain on the way." Alice said, hurridly grabbing Remus and Emma, along with Sirius and Peter, making way for the Hospital Wing.

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James looked around the Hospital Wing till he found a peacefully sleeping Lily.

"Hey, Evans." James said quietly, sitting down. He breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't yell or hex him. . .well, she was asleep, but still. . .

Lily stirred some and began mumbling things James could barely recognize.

"Sugar Sugar. . .Pottergriff? Why. . .winking. . .me? Don't set the. . .dungbomb. . .off. . .zzzzzzzzzzzz. . .sleeping beauty. . .don't be stupid. . .Emma. . .I am not. . .like sleeping beauty. . .pfft. . ."

Lily rolled on her side, facing James,"Stupid Marauders. . .why are they. . .ball room dancing?. . .Black, Potter!. . if you even think I'll let you. . .spike Professor Mcgongall's punch, you're wrong. . .Petunia. . .I saw you snogging that big oaf and you know it!. . .I'll tell. . ."

James chuckled, Lily sounded like a seven-year-old tattling at that last one.

Lily sighed,"Flamigos. . .so many flamigos. . .Pottergriff. . ."

James raised an eyebrow,"Pottergriff?" He muttered to himself.

"Yes, Pottergriff. . .please stop doing the splits. . .zzzzzzzzzz. . .no more. . .singing!. . .look at cute little baby!. . .oh, a dragon!. . .ahhhh!" Lily whimpered.

"That's interesting. We go from telling a fellow named Pottergriff to stop doing the splits, to no more singing, to a cute baby, then to a dragon. What are we dreaming about, Evans?" James asked.

"Jamie. . .Pecker. . .James. . .Bloody. . .Potter. . .they seem familiar. . ."

James winced at that.

"And Aurora's true love came next to her. . .and. . .and. . .and. . ."

"And what?" James asked.

"And. . .and. . .and. . .and. . .he. . ."

"He what?" James asked again.

Lily sighed dreamily,"He kissed her. . ."

"Ah, that's what Emma was talking about." James thought aloud.

"They lived happily ever after. . .zzzzzz. . ."

"They did?"

"Yes. . .they did. . ." Lily answered.

James was a little startled that Lily actually answered him. He decided to try again,"Do you want to live happily ever after?"

Lily sighed again, a smile playing on her lips,"Everyone what's to live happily ever after. . .and find a prince to sweep them off their feet. . .someone to love them. . ."

"I'd like to live happily ever after. . .zzzz. . ." Lily murmured, shifting some again.

James scooted his chair closer to Lily's bed,"You do?"

"Yes. . .how many times do I have to repeat myself? Are you deaf?. . ." Lily asked.

James laugh.

Lily's eyebrows wrinkled,"Pottergriff?"

James bit back a laugh,"Er, yes?" He asked, playing along.

"I didn't know you could do anything else other than sing a stupid song and do the tango with a flobberworm. . .and here you are talking to me. . . And your not acting like a arrogant, perverted prick. . .What's up. . .with that?"

"You're one of a kind Lily Evans." James murmured.

Silence. Lily seemed to be sleeping soundly now.

"I want to live happily ever after as well. . ." James whispered, then curse inwardly at how cheesy that sounded and changed his words,"I mean, me too." Ah, that's better.

"Maybe our lives could be like a fairy tale. I could be your prince and you could be my princess. I'd kiss you and you'd wake up. Then we'd, like you said, live happily ever after. . ." James trailed off in horror. Look what this girl was doing to him! She was turning him into a cheesy pansy! He decided to change that sentence around as well,"I, er, mean, er. . .yeah. . ."

Lily sighed and shifted again.

James hesitantly leaned forward toward Lily just as two heavy figures jumped on top of him, screaming like banshee's.

James gave a yelp of surprise (honestly, this girl was turning him into a pansy!) making Lily wake with a start.

"James! Don't! Evans'll hex you till you can't see straight! Don't try to make a fairy tale real!" Sirius yelled, holding James in a headlock, while Remus held James arms.

"What are you doing?" James exclaimed, fighting out of their grips.

"What's going on?" Lily asked cautionously to a panting Alice and Emma standing next to her bed.

"Oh, nothing. . ." Alice said quickly.

"Nothing? Potter just tried to kis- oof!" Emma was cut off as Alice nudged her in her side,"I mean nothing."

Something unexpected happened.

Lily started sobbing.

The others ((Along with Peter, who just arrived)(and Madame Pomfrey)) stopped what they were doing and stared at Lily.

"Evans?" James asked, concerned, pinching Sirius' arm to get out of his headlock.

Lily didn't respond, unless there was some sort of secret code in her sobbing.

"What did you do?" Alice, Emma, and Remus hissed at the same time to James.

"I didn't do anything, I swear!" James exclaimed. It was true.

"Now, now children, calm down. The potion Ms. Evans had had some other side effects with it. Like becoming very. . .emotional. . .and changing moods quickly." Madame Pomfrey explained.

Just as Madame Pomfrey said, Lily all of a sudden stopped sobbing and smiled a wide smile.

"Hi, Emma! Alice! Pettigrew! Remus! Pothead, ha-ha, Pothead! Black! Madame Pomfrey!" Lily greeted happily and overly-enthusiastically.

"Er. . .is this the mood swings you were talking about?" Alice asked as Lily shook hands with everyone, nearly shaking their arms off in the process.

"Yes, I'm afraid so. . ." Madame Pomfrey muttered slowly.

Lily then quickly stopped shaking their hands and her smile turned into a frown, shoulders sagging.

"Turn your frown upside down, Evans!" Sirius said happily.

Remus rolled his eyes.

Lily sighed depressed,"My hair's red."

"That's not hard to notice." James pointed out.

Lily glared,"Thanks, Potter. . .It's short too." She sighed again, even more depressed.

Tears began to pour down Lily's face,"You know what else?" She asked, sobbing.

The group shook their heads.

Lily sighed heavily,"Me neither."

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After about twenty minutes, Lily's mood swings began to wear off and the fifth year Gryffindor's made their way back to Gryffindor tower.

All because of a stupid quill.

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A week later. . .

The Marauders along with Lily and Emma (Alice was off tutoring a first year) were sitting in the library studying. Or at least three of them were. . .

"Pettigrew, Black! Will you please stop shooting paper balls at each other?" Lily asked tiredly, pulling a paper wad out of her hair.

Honestly, she didn't even know why they were sitting with the Marauders.

Emma got up to look for a book on demiguises a while ago. Leaving Lily to fend for herself with the troublemakers.

"Hey, Evans!" James said loudly, from a bookshelf two rows from their tables.

Glares were heard.

"Yes, Potter?" Lily asked evenly.

"Can you come help me find something on clauricorns?" He asked.

Lily sighed and got up.

She noticed, as she walked by, a group of 2nd years snickering at something.

Lily shook her head and continued walking.

"Okay, you're in the wrong section." Lily said plainly to James.

"What? This is the C's section. Clauricorns start with 'C'." James argued.

"Clauricorns are another name for leprechaun's, Potter. So, they'd be in the L's section." Lily argued back.

"There should be something on them here too though." James said back.

"No, there shouldn't." Lily snapped.

"Yes, there should."

"No, there shouldn't."

"Yes, actually, there should."

"No, actually, there shouldn't."

"Yes, actually- Oy! What do you think you're doing?" James interrupted, looking down.

Lily looked down as well.

There, next to Lily's and James' ankles, were two of the second years Lily saw snickering a few moments ago.

Lily's eyes widened as she saw what they were holding.

Handcuffs.

And she doubted they were just carrying them just be carrying them around.

The second years snickered before attaching Lily's left ankle to one part of the handcuffs, or really now, anklecuffs. Then quickly attached the other part of the cuffs to James' right ankle.

The second years grinned, backed up, watching Lily and James.

"What- Oh, my God! Get these off me, get these off me!" Lily wailed, shaking her foot around, nearly making James trip and fall.

"Evans, calm down!" James said very calmly,"Now, give us the keys you. . .cute. . .little. . .tykes. . ." James said through gritted teeth.

The second years just grinned, holding a shiny key up, then ran off.

"ARGH, YOU LITTLE. .sorry, Madame Pince." Lily whispered, embarrassed as Pince came by and glared at her.

Once Pince left to be nosy somewhere else, Lily turned to James,"Come on, Potter! We've got to get them!" She hissed, then tried to run off, only making her and James trip and fall to the floor.

"If you'd kindly wait for me, Lily, it would help." James said, standing up and holding his hand for Lily to grab. Lily ignored it and got up by herself, almost tripping again.

"Fine. Let's go, Pothead." Lily growled, dragging James along by the ankle, careful not to trip.

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A/N: Revised: 8/7/06

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