Chapter 11: Lovely Revenge
"Over her eh?" James smirked as Remus finally returned to the table with their drinks.
"Yes, of course" said Remus, his voice unnaturally high. He cleared his throat and sat down on the stool opposite James.
"What did she want?" James asked, taking a sip from his firewisky.
"Nothing, she just came over and started flirting with me" Remus replied, his voice returning to its normal state, but his cheeks were quite pink.
"Really?"
"Yeah"
They both downed their drinks.
"Ahhh," said Remus, wiping his mouth on his sleeve "Yummm"
"Mmmm, this firewisky tastes like strawberries. I like strawberries-" James started saying before he lost conscious and his head thumbed onto the table. Remus jumped up and ran behind James, pulling him off the table and feeling his pulse. By this time, the table next to them (two 4th year Ravenclaws) had realized something was wrong and they jumped up and ran over to help Remus.
One of the Ravenclaws who had long, blonde hair in a high pony tail and green eyes went off to get some help while the other girl, who had mousy brown hair and brown eyes, started tapping James's cheeks to get him to wake up.
"Uhhhh" James muttered, slowly opening his eyes and gazed at the girl in front of him.
"You're beautiful" he muttered to the girl. The girl shot a sharp look in Remus's direction and he shrugged.
"What's your name?" James asked her. She nervously glanced at Remus to see if it was safe to answer the question. He just shrugged again.
"Megan, Megan Galbraith"
"Really, that's my favourite name" James said, staring into her eyes. "Do you love me?"
"Excuse me?" she asked James in shock
"Do you love me? Coz I need some loving, please! Do you love me?"
"I only met you a few minutes ago because it looked like you're drink had been spiked!" she exclaimed
"So? You could still love me. Do you love me?" James demanded, suddenly leaping from the chair and landing on his needs in front of the startled 4th year.
"PLEASE LOVE ME! I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED!" he screamed, the whole bar turning in their seats to look at them. Megan was petrified on the spot, her eyes swinging backwards and forwards between James and Remus.
"Just say it Megan, make him shut up!" her friend yelled at her from across the pub.
"Yeah say it! His screaming is ear piercing!" a random from the back yelled as James entered a new batch of screaming for her to love him.
"Okay! I love you!" she exclaimed and the whole pub cheered. James beamed as he stood up and put his arm around her.
"You're all invited to the wedding!" he announced to the pub and Remus and Megan screamed
"WHAT!"
"James, mate, she's like 12!" Remus yelled over the crowd which had now turned their backs on the 'happy' couple and continued on with their conversations.
"I'm fourteen!" Megan yelled at him.
"So, either way you're still heaps underage!" Remus yelled back, and, you guessed it, shrugged again.
"Don't worry my love, I'll wait until you are old enough" James said passionately, leaning down and kissing her on the cheek. She blushed and raised her hand and touched the place on her cheek where his lips touched her skin.
"No ones ever kissed me before" she said dreamily to James and Remus began hitting his head on the table.
"Well, remind me to do it more often" James whispered in her ear and she began giggling profusely.
"Oh brother, what the hell just happened" Remus muttered, as James took Megan's hand and walk out of the pub.
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"What the hell?" Melody muttered as James walked out hand in hand with a Ravenclaw girl.
"Where's the screaming mob with pitch forks?" Lily asked in surprise.
"Pitch forks?" Isabel asked, raising an eyebrow
"Okay, maybe not pitch forks but I was expecting a little more yelling and screaming" Lily said thoughtfully.
"Hey, isn't that Galbraith?" Melody asked, as they saw James's and the girl he was holding hand's with side profile as they entered Zonko's.
"It looks like it, but isn't she a fourth year?" Isabel replied, shielding her eyes from the sun to get a better look.
"So? She was probably the first person that he saw after taking the potion. Damn, I was hoping he would see Remus first. Oh well, lets go get some chocolate" Lily said sadly, heading off in the opposite direction.
"Lily, Honeydukes is that way" Melody said, pointing the way that James and the 'mystery' girl went.
"Damn"
-:-
"So what is you're favourite colour?" James asked, following Megan like a little puppy.
"Green" she replied, smiling
"Urgh I hate green" said James making a face.
"That's a little rude" Megan snapped, walking over to the other side of the shop.
"Oh, my love, I'm so sorry, please forgive me! Do you love me still? Please say you love me, I need your love! I only live because you love me!"
"Yes, I still love you" she smiled at him and he gave her a kiss. She turned quite pink with pleasure that a guy, not only older, but was a senior and was voted Mr. Hogwarts Hottest Guy 1980, had not only kissed her, but needed her love!
"Good, as I will never stop loving you," James announced happily and bounced over to the woopy cushion section.
"Ahhhhh boys"
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"Hey Moony!" Sirius yelled across the street, trying to get his friends attention. After a minute or so of waving furiously, Sirius finally caught Remus's attention.
"Oh hey Padfoot" Remus said, walking over to him.
"Where's Prongs?"
"Someone slipped something in his drink and he fell in love with a Ravenclaw 4th year and he was screaming at her in the bar asking if she loved him too," Remus explained as they started walking down the high street.
"Sounds like a love potion" Sirius said thoughtfully.
"And that is why you're good at figuring this stuff out,"
"Me? I suck at potions, I'm only good at Defence Against the Dark Arts"
"Exactly"
Sirius snorted at the fact Remus actually made a good joke.
"So, do you have an idea who it could be?" Sirius asked
"Nope, they probably slipped it in when Isabel and I were talking" Remus said, his cheeks turning a light shade of pink. Sirius stopped walking.
"Did you say Isabel?"
"Umm, yeah" Remus replied, expecting the worst.
"Isabel Scott?"
Remus nodded.
"Okay, sorry mate, I have to go" Sirius said and ran of in the direction of Honeydukes.
"Wow, I didn't think I would get off THAT easy" Remus said happily and walked off to continue his search for James.
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"Evans! Evans, Evans I'm glad I found you!" Sirius panted, finally locating Lily in between the shelves of candy at Honeydukes.
"Hey Black" Lily said, not even looking up from where she was reading the back of the box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans.
"Evans, I gotta ask you a question"
"Okay"
"Did you spike James's drink?"
"Yep"
"Really?"
"Yes"
"Wow, I thought you would at least deny it" Sirius said in surprise, leaning back on the shelf of candy.
"I would deny it if anything exciting happened, but all he did was fall in love with some 4th year" Lily replied, placing the box back and heading over to Isabel who was looking at sugar quills.
"But you didn't put the drink in his glass, did you?" Sirius asked, following her over to Isabel "Scott put it in when she and Remus were 'talking'"
"Very good Black, you should think of becoming a detective" Lily said, smiling sweetly before turning her back on him and the two of them walking over to Melody who was stacking sweets upon sweets into a basket.
"A what?"
"You know, a detective. They are hired to find out who did the crime and arrest them and stick them in jail" Lily explained, helping to over flow the basket in candy.
"You mean like an auror?
"Same thing, detectives are muggles, aurors are wizards"
"Or witches!" Isabel added, getting another basket as the other one was starting to overflow.
"So why did you do it?" Sirius asked, bouncing over and helping to pile up the candy as they moved over to the next row.
"We were bored, and we decided to have a little fun with James because he has been absolutely horrid towards me since I started here," Lily replied simply, picking up the now heavy basket and dragging it over to the counter where the lady raised her eyebrow at the extensive amount of candy in that basket, and nearly fainted when Isabel and Melody brought over another two.
"You girls sure eat a lot of candy" Sirius commented as they paid and exited the shop with two shopping bags each filled with candy.
"Its got to last till February," Lily answered simply as the four of them set off towards Hogwarts.
"Do you want some help carrying that stuff, it looks heavy" Sirius asked and was instantly dumped with three, heavy bags.
Ooff" Sirius moaned, under the weight.
"Well, you did offer" Isabel pointed out and the others shrugged. They all walked, or in Sirius case, staggered, up to Gryffindor Tower.
"Here you go, I can't go up there" Sirius said, giving the girls back their bags.
"Thanks," they replied once receiving their bag and headed up the staircase.
"Evans?" Sirius called up. Lily's head popped back down.
"Yeah?"
"How long is the potion going to last?"
"He will wake up tomorrow, not remembering a thing. You might want to let him know the events of today though" Lily winked and walked back up the stairs.
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That Halloween was something to be remembered. For one, it was Lily's first Halloween at Hogwarts, and she found the whole experience amazing. For two, it was always eventful every five minutes when James screamed across to the Ravenclaw table:
"Do you still love me? I need your love to survive! Please love me, I need you're love, I desire you, love me!!"
And then you would here the reply of:
"Of course I do Jamisy!"
And then there would be a lot a blown kisses. The teachers thought this was highly amusing, thinking James was doing it of his own free will to entertain the school on Halloween. Only six people knew better, and only four of them knew who caused it and they weren't saying anything.
The next morning, James awoke to find his best mates leaning over him.
"AHHH! Don't do that!" James yelled, his startled yells causing them to back away.
"Haha sorry Prongs, just checking you weren't dead" Sirius laughed and they walked closer to him again.
"Oh wait, today's Saturday. Yes! Hogsmeade here I come!" James yelled, pulling back the covers and swinging his legs out of bed.
"Uh, no James"
"Huh?"
"Today's Sunday, we went to Hogsmeade yesterday" Remus explained, hoping his friend wouldn't freak out about losing his memory.
"I had a dream that you and I" he said, pointing to himself and Remus "went to Hogsmeade and we went to the Three Broomsticks and we had a drink, but I don't remember anything else so it must have been a dream"
"Uh, no. The thing is Prongs, that did happen" Remus said awkwardly, shifting his wait from one foot to the other and he watched himself do it.
"But I don't remember anything else, I don't remember coming back here, I don't even remember going to the feast. What happened?" James was starting to freak out, as you would when you realize you've lost your memory.
"I'll answer this" Sirius said stepping forward.
"Well?" James demanded
"When you went to the Three Broomsticks, do you remember how Remus went to get the drinks?"
"Yeah! That's right, he and Scott were all over each other flirting!" James exclaimed and Remus turned red as the others turned to look at him.
"Talking eh?" Peter asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, well, anyway" Sirius said, clearing his throat "The thing is, while pretty boy over there was preoccupied with Scott, someone slipped a love potion in your drink, the one which makes you crave love"
"Desire love" Peter interrupted
"Same thing" Sirius said, shrugging. James groaned.
"So who did I fall in love with?"
"A fourth year Ravenclaw by the name of Megan Galbraith". James face was blank
"Who?"
"Exactly, but the thing is, like little girls are, she thought it was for real so now she thinks that you are madly in love,"
"Oh, and you're wedding is in four years, next September,"
"WHAT!"
"Uh yup"
"So who put it in?" James demanded, getting out of bed and starting to dress.
"Uh, James, isn't it a LITTLE obvious?" Sirius asked him, hoping he wouldn't explode
"You're joking! She didn't! She couldn't!"
"Why not, she's in our potions class"
"I'm going to make her pay!"
"Uh James, there is no need to over react here," Sirius said, trying to get him to calm down.
"Shut up, I'm not taking any of YOUR advice, I know you're on her side"
"And for a bloody good reason, she's FIFTEEN not bloody eleven!"
"So, what's the difference between a 1st year and a 5th year?"
"Actually, she's in 6th year, she hasn't had her birthday yet"
"And I care, why?"
"Because you are being horrible to her! Yeah, sure, she lied about her age, but she only made herself a year or two older, not seven!"
"Meh"
"You know, you are a real dickhead, do you know how upset she's been?"
"Upset enough to spike my drink with a love potion,"
"She did that out of retaliation! You would have too"
"Okay okay, fine, I believe you, she's fifteen. She still spiked my drink"
"Only because you have been a real bastard"
"Did you say that that Megan girl doesn't know it's a potion? That its for real?"
"Yes" Sirius said slowly, not sure where this was going "What's that got to do with anything?"
"Fellas, I've just gotten a new, younger girlfriend"
A/N: Another chapter, James is a real dickhead isn't he? Hmmm. I'm sorry, I didn't put an author's note in my last chapter, I pre wrote it and forgot to add it in. Anyway, I would like to announce that Chapter 8 (in the chapter guide thing its 9) I received a huge 22 reviews! So thanks you so much! A little late, I know, but better late than never! Anyway, that's the largest amount of reviews I've ever received for one chapter so thank you!
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