Along with Halloween came the first Quidditch. The first match of the season would take place right after the feast in the Great Hall. They would play, as tradition went, Slytherin. Since Halloween fell on a Saturday, Sirius would be holding a practice before the big match. Practice went smoothly, for the most part his team was in tip-top shape. Sirius would be spending most of the game aiming bludgers at his brother's head. Regulus was in 5th year and the Slytherin seeker. The biggest disappointment of the day for Sirius was that he wouldn't be able to completely stuff himself at the Halloween feast because if he did he'd be to slow for the match. So Sirius settled for a record low of two servings of food, and hurried to change into his quidditch gear and address his team with a pre-game speech. Sirius changed in his dorms and walked into the locker room to find his team already there.
"Well, I don't want to bore you guys so I'm keeping this short. We all know we want to kick Slytherin's arses, but we there will be a killer party in the common room if we win. So are we ready?" Sirius said, and the team cheered. He thumped James and Remus on the back and kissed Marlene on the cheek as they walked out of the locker room and on to the field.
The Slytherin team consisted of Regulus, Bletchley, Mulciber, Nott, Avery, Dolohov, and Flint. Sirius briefly shook their captain Bletchley's hand whilst glaring at him. The teams then took position, and Madame Hooch threw the quaffle in the air..
"Anddd…the quaffle goes to Potter," the commentator from Ravenclaw Sam Goldstein began. Now to Weasley who dodges a Slytherin and throws to Diggory who passes back to Potter…WHO SCORES! GRYFFINDOR 10 SLYTHERIN 0. The game went on quite similarly, and after an hour the score of the game was 160 to 100. James had 10 goals, Bilius Weasley had 3 goals, and David Diggory had 2 goals.
"Regulus Black is going into a dive. Has he seen the snitch? Vance takes off after him, but she may be too late! BLACK IS REACHING FOR THE SNITCH AND…. HE IS KNOCKED OFF COURSE BY A BLUDGER HIT BY HIS BROTHER! VANCE CATCHES THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!"
The Gryffindor stands erupted into cheers as the team flew back to the ground after doing a few loop-de-loops in the air. All you could here at the pitch was the chanting of, "BLACK, BLACK, BLACK, BLACK." lifted onto the shoulders of James and Remus. Sirius blew kisses towards the students and bellowed,"THAT WAS FOR YOU MINNIE," at the top of his lungs towards the teachers, which caused James and Remus to drop him. He then kissed Marlene, and they headed back up to the castle.
By the time the team was showered the party was in full swing. The marauders secret stash of firewhiskey went to good use as well as some butterbeer from the kitchen. After about an hour of drinking, Sirius and Marlene were dancing on the table, James was controlling the music, Peter was passed out on the couch, Frank and Alice, were making out on the stairs to the girls dormitory, and Remus, Lily, and Grace were laughing loudly at a stupid joke someone told. the crowd that had remained were all older than fifth year. Lily and James didn't let the first and second years to attend at all, and the third and fourth years weren't allowed to have firewhiskey so they got bored and left. It was around midnight when James suggested a game of spin the bottle. They were too drunk to realize that it was such a juvenile game so a circle had quickly formed and an empty firewhiskey bottle had been placed in the middle.
"I go first!" Sirius exclaimed and leaned forward to spin the bottle. It landed on Eliza Moore, who smiled as Sirius crawled over to messily kiss her. Marlene looked away. Eliza spun the bottle next and it landed on David Diggory whose kiss resulted into such a heated snogging session that they left the game.
"Well then, I guess I go," Marlene said with her words slurred. She spun the bottle and Sirius couldn't contain his excitement as it landed on Lily. He, however, was quickly disappointed as Marlene quickly pecked Lily on the lips. The game went on in quite a similar fashion. Lily kissed Remus. Remus kissed Grace as she blushed profusely. Grace kissed Bilius Weasley. Bilius Weasley quickly kissed Sirius on the and left muttering he needed 'mouthwash and a shag'. Sirius kissed Lily as James fists unclenched as she spun the bottle and it landed on him. Lily crawled over to wear James was sitting and kissed him. James was quite happy until Lily seemed to fall. He looked down to where she fell, and noticed that she had passed out.
James sighed, and said, "I'll carry her back to our dorm." He slung her over his shoulder and Sirius handed him a familiar looking piece of parchment. James heard the game return to full swing as he stepped out of the portrait hole and muttered, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," while pointing his wand to the parchment. He was relieved to see that Filch was in the dungeons because he wasn't prepared for a run-in especially when he was tipsy and looked a bit like a kidnapper.
The journey to the dorm was not very bad. He only almost fell about six times. It took him twenty minutes to get up the stairs inside the dorm. When he reached and opened the door he practically threw the still sleeping Lily on her bed. He then pulled the covers over her. Lily stretched her arms in her sleep, and grabbed the collar of James t-shirt pulling him so they were face to face.
Groggily, she said, "I love you, James." The four words effectively sobered him up, but what shocked him even ore was when she pulled him in for a kiss.
AN:/ I added pictures of the characters to my profile. I couldn't figure out how to put the links their, but the web addresses are there. If anyone knows how to put links on profiles please tell me. Hope you liked the chapter! R&R:)