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'Finally! Some peace! I hate it when James goes off showing his hot body.' Lily picked her wand up again and –'OH MY GOD! Did I just call him James? OH MY GOD! I JUST CALLED HIM HOT! I CAN'T BELIVE IT! Ok Lily, calm down, breathe in, breathe out, breath in, breathe out.' Lily continued transfiguring herself into a black dog and manage to accomplish the task, ten minutes before the bell.
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That evening when Lily had finished all her homework, she was sitting by the fire reading. Well not really reading but thinking of the day's events.
'I called him James. I thought he was hot. What's happening to me?'
A voice woke from the back of her head. 'I think you like him Lily…'
'Do not! He's a prat!'
'A prat who you like.'
'Not!'
'Yes.'
'Not!'
'Yes.'
'NOT!'
'What did you say Lily?' James looked up from his potions essay.
It took a few moments for Lily to realize that she had tried to fight back a voice from her head by saying no out loud. 'Oh, er, nothing,' she replied and looked back down at her book, her face pink.
'Lily looks so cute when she's blushing…'
At a quarter to 10, Lily had finally convinced herself to go sit at the table opposite James. She stood up and went to sit down.
'Oh, Merlin! She's sitting right opposite me!'
'I can't believe that I'm actually sitting opposite him!'
'Uhh… we have patrol duties at 10.'
'Yup, just lemme finish off this sentence.' There was a small silence. 'ok done.'
'Well, I've thought it all through, you start from up here on this floor and make your way down, and I'll start from the dungeons and make my way up,' said Lily as they climbed through the portrait hole.
'Do you want me to walk down with you?'
'What do you think my answer would be?'
'Y-''
'No. Remember, tell people off if they're wandering around and…and basically doing whatever a Marauder would do.' Lily made her way down to the dungeons, her read hair bobbing in the distance.
James sighed, 'well, I might as well start.'
James's first fifteen minutes of his patrol wasn't very interesting apart from meeting a couple of walking sticks hanging in mid-air.
'Hi Peeves.'
'Ooh, it's wee Potty. What's Potty doing up here this late?' Said Peeves appearing.
James muttered something inaudible.
'I should tell the new Head Boy or Girl! You'll be in so much trouble!'
'I'm sure he'll be very interested,' and he ducked underneath and continued patrolling.
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'At least I don't have Ja-Potter sticking to me during patrol duty. Why am I all of a sudden using James not Potter?'
'Ahh! That's because-''
'Oh, shut up!'
Lily Went down the Potions corridor and when she reached a fork, she saw a black shadow flicker out of the corner of her right eye.
'Ooh…my first victim!' Lily checked her watch. It was quarter past and she was determined to get through all the floors until she met James.
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James had finished patrolling the seventh, sixth and fifth floor and made his way down to the fourth with his eyes drooping.
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Lily followed the black shadow at a fair distance, creeping behind suits of armour every now and then.
'It's going up to the fourth floor. I wonder why.' Lily kept following
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James wandered down the stairs to the fourth floor. He saw a big fat shadow in the distance.
The black shadow now seemed to have grown humongous.
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He stopped.
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She stopped.
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He stared.
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She stared.
The figure though kept moving.
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Lily decided to put a stop to this.
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James decided to put a stop to this.
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'CAUGHT IN THE ACT!' Yelled Lily and James at the same time.
The figure broke apart.
One shuffled back to the other side of the corridor.
Lily and James lit a lamp that was just above where the 'figure' at the same time.
James's jaw dropped.
Lily's eyes nearly popped out.
It was Severus Snape.
Snape looked down at his feet.
Lily and James, together, lit the other lamp above the other figure.
Lily nearly fainted but held herself.
James's jaw dropped, if possible, lower.
It Lucius Malfoy.
Malfoy looked down at his feet.
It was a while before anyone spoke.
'Well, um… twenty points from uhh, Slytherin, each.'
'Err…yeah, so you two had better, uhh… go back to your common room and…and… go to bed.'
Malfoy and Lucius shuffled their feet down to their common rooms.
James and Lily watching them go.
Just as they turned the corner, James and Lily saw an arm being out around someone's waist.
'Well…that was a, umm…interesting patrol duty…'
'Oh, yeah…very interesting…let's go up to bed…'
'Uhh… good idea.'
Lily and James walked back up to their common room in silence.
'Odio reconcilio.'
Lily and James walked in.
'Well, goodnight Potter.'
'G'night Lily.'
Lily climbed into bed and thought about the night's events. 'It's been a weird night. Very weird.'
'That's nice dear.' Replied her sleepy mirror.
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James climbed into bed and thought about the night's events. 'It's been a weird night. Very weird.'
'That's nice dear.' Replied his sleepy mirror.
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