Flash

By

Snuffles4Eva

A/N: I wrote this merely because I got a couple of reviews asking for another. This is to appease JILYlover28, who asked for another chapter, and fireflower297, to whom I offer my humblest apologies that this is not a sequel, but I hope it makes up for it :).

Disclaimer: I wish I could have made up characters as wonderful as Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Alice, Marlene, and all of the others, but, alas, I'm just piggybacking J.K. I've gotta say it's a great ride, though.

Sirius gagged.

Well, you would too, if you had the rear end of one Peter Pettigrew unceremoniously plonked on your face.

'MMF' he shouted beneath Peter's buttocks.

'Get off him' James commanded.

'Thank you' yelled Sirius 'whose crazy idea was this?'

'Moony's' said James simply.

'Liar' muttered Sirius.

'I don't care what you think; all I want is for you to delete that picture'

'What picture?' Sirius decided to feign innocence.

'Oh I think you know' threatened James.

'Oh the one where you and Evans have got it going on?'

'NEVER say that again about Lily'

'Aww, we're Lily now are we? That's so sweet! When's the baby due?'

'Shut up, Padfoot' James was beginning to get annoyed.

'Hit a nerve, have I?'

'Just delete the picture'

'How about no'

'Delete it, Padfoot'

'Or what?'

'Or else'

'Or else what?'

'You're enjoying this, aren't you?'

'Well, if being subjected to a full body-bind, interrogated by your best mate about his crush, and sat on by Pete is your idea of fun, then I guess I could answer truthfully'

'You're winding me up on purpose, aren't you?'

'Might be'

'You-' James jumped on Sirius, hitting any part of the boy he could reach. From his spot on his bed, Remus discreetly waved his wand letting Sirius free, as to give him chance to fight James back.

The boys fought on the floor for a while, until Remus lazily waved his wand again, muttering 'Protego'. James was suddenly thrown off Sirius by an invisible wall. Sirius clambered to his feet.

'Thanks Moony, my old pal' he cast a wink to the werewolf, who rolled his eyes, and immersed himself further into his book.

'See you round James' he smirked at his best mate, before sauntering out of the door.

'Why didn't I get a goodbye?' Peter whined.

….

Sirius smiled down at the thing in his hand. Success! His diversion had worked. Now all he had to do was find Mrs James Potter (i.e. Evans).

….

'Evans!' He greeted her cordially.

'What do want, Sirius?' she sighed 'Another proposal? Because I don't think my heart could take any more'

'Aww, you've got heart-aches over ol' Prongs'

'I have not!'

'Again Evans?'

'Again what?'

'You're floating'

'What?'

'You're floating… on Da Nile River!'

'What?'

'Da Nile River?'

'You're in denial, love' said her best friend, Alice Prewett, who happened to be walking past at that exact moment.

'Alice! You're my friend!' Lily exclaimed.

'And thus, it is my job to help point out the things that you cannot see, things that are very influential in your life. And for once, Black here is right: You are in Denial' And with that she walked off to meet her boyfriend of 3 years Frank Longbottom, who was watching the scene with a smile on his face from his position at the portrait hole.

'Alice!' But the black-haired beauty only waved backwards to her, as Frank took her arm, and they wondered off through the portrait hole.

Lily turned peeved back to Sirius.

'C'mon Lily; Fancying James is not that bad, is it?'

'Yes!'

'Why?'

'Because he's er… er, erm, 'cos he's my fellow head!'

'What's that got to do with the price of Quills?'

'What?'

'What is it with you today? You've got this blank look on your face and you keep saying 'What' in a really stupid manner.'

'There's nothing wrong! I just meant that we would never get anything done!'

Lily blushed as she realised what she had just said, and who she had said it too.

'Because you would be doing other activities' Sirius waggled his eyebrows suggestively 'and look, you're blushing again! I think you've thought about it before, haven't you! Lily Evans wants to-'

Sirius was cut off by a hand to his mouth.

'Shut up Sirius!'

'But you don't deny it do you?'

Lily blushed, but turned to go up to her dormitory, determined to leave the common room with some dignity intact.

'Aw, no Evans, Please don't leave! I actually came to ask about Hogsmeade. Please talk to me' Sirius did his best pout. Lily turned around.

'C'mon Evans, hug it off, right?'

'You want me to hug you'

'Well that's what you birds do when you've argued and what not, isn't it?'

'Yes Sirius. That's exactly what 'we birds' do.'

'Gimme a hug then'

'Bit eager, aren't you? Anyone would think your reasons weren't strictly platonic' Lily teased, the usual brightness now replacing the slight look of anger and annoyance that had been there previously.

'Nah, James'd skin me alive if I made a move on you'

Lily raised her eyebrows, but moved toward him with open arms.

'Thanks Evans, always knew you were a good'un'

Sirius stepped into her open arms, and gave her a big 'Padfoot' hug. Unfortunately for Sirius and Lily, a certain Mr Potter suddenly appeared at the bottom of the Boy's stairs.

'Ah crap' said Lily, as Sirius was turned away from the Boy's staircase.

'What?' Sirius asked unknowingly.

'SIRIUS BLACK!' came a murderous roar.

'Ah crap' muttered Sirius.

'Get going then, idiot' yelled Lily, as James came running full pelt at the two of them.

Sirius detangled himself from Lily's arms and ran as fast as he could to the portrait hole, jumping through it, and rushing off into the castle somewhere. Seconds after Sirius had stopped hugging her, James rushed past, anger in his eyes.

'James!' she cried, but he didn't hear her, and continued to chase Sirius. She sighed. Trust James to get the wrong end of the stick. He was an idiot.

Yeah, but a cute idiot said a little voice in the back of her head. She humph-ed, and then followed the two boys who had become to be two of her best friends.

…

'I am having a good day!' thought Sirius, as he zoomed through Hogwarts, taking all sorts of shortcuts he knew 'Plan A: Success. Plan B: Success. Plan C: About to be a success. Just one small problem about Prongs wanting my hide, but other than that, it's been brilliant'.

Turning a corner, Sirius slowed down, and pulled out the Map (which he had stolen from Moony's case, just a couple of hours earlier). He spotted James' dot moving rather quickly just a few corridors away. Just behind it he spotted Evans' dot moving at a quicker pace than he would've anticipated, but he couldn't stop to think about it now.

His brain working quickly (because Sirius wasn't stupid), he devised a plan, and ran off, down in the opposite direction, turning left, then right, then left, his legs rather than his brain telling him where to go. Eventually he was brought to the end of a hallway just to see a flash of bright ginger hair disappear around the corner at the end of it.

'Evans! Oi, Evans' he called. The flash of ginger reappeared as Lily stuck her head around the corner.

'Sirius, what're you doing here? James'll have your guts for garters!'

'My guts for what?- Oh never mind. Listen Evans, I need you to distract James. Please?'

'Distract James? How?'

'Oh I dunno, snog him or something, just get him off of my case!'

'I can't snog James!'

'Why not? You fancy him don't you?'

'Well, yes but NO!'

'Don't have the guts?'

'Neither will you, if you don't get moving soon. Now get out of here, and I'll er, er, be a distraction'

'Knew you could do it Evans' and with that Sirius winked and ran past her, catching her school robes and pulling her into a nearby broom closet.

'Sirius, have you actually got a death wish?' Lily asked incredulously.

'No, we just needed a place to formulate our plan. Getting on with it, if you swing a left at the next hallway, you should catch up with James at any point- I know my best mate, and he'll be going to the Room of Requirement-'

'But what happens if you don't know him enough, and he finds us in here?'

'So what if he does?'

'He'll think we're-'

'Snogging?' a new and angry voice entered their conversation. The door was flung open, and a furious James Potter stood before them.

Lily slowly inched away from Sirius. James growled, and they both cringed.

'Ah, crap'

…

A/N: Was it worth me making it into a multi-chaptered? I hope you think it was.

Anyway, this is gonna be quite short, no more than a couple of chapters left… In theory. You never know, this plot might run away with itself. I doubt it though. Only a few chapters planned in my ol' noggin, and I'm the one writing this, so there we go.

Hope y'all are having a good New Year,

Snuffles4Eva