A/N- I don't own anything you recognize.

I woke up at 5:30am to type this, so I hope you all enjoy it and review! I'm still trying to get it done by Christmas!

This chapter is dedicated to my cat, Christy, who died a few days ago. She was sweet, and I loved her. It is also very sad that I can't dedicate this chapter to a specific reader, because I only got one review on the last chapter so far, and Rino has already had a chapter dedicated to her. I don't like to duplicate chapter dedications.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.

The fight the night before was already becoming the stuff of a Hogwarts legend. How three heroic Gryffindors had outsmarted ten Slytherins and all escaped alive remained a mystery to most. Of course, the teachers and headmaster demanded to know the truth at once, and all the students had been gathered together and questioned. At the end they determined that there wasn't enough evidence to suggest that it had been any more than a normal struggle between the Marauders and the Slytherins, so James, Sirius, Severus, and a few of the other Slytherins who bore signs that proved their part in the brawl were given detentions for a month. Somehow, by James quick thinking and talking, Lily had evaded any punishment at all.

James was still in the hospital wing that night. Although he could see Madam Pomfrey's reasons for keeping him there until tomorrow night, as her plans were, he had important business to attend to. The nurse had let Sirius go, so James summoned him down to the wing using their two-way mirrors.

"Hey, mate," greeted Sirius. Madam Pomfrey gave him a disapproving look for his boisterous behavior.

"Hi, Padfoot," said James, "I need a favor…"

"That's what friends are for! What do you want me to do?"

"Well, you see, I didn't tell you about this before, but I overheard Lily listening to this song one day- the Twelve Days of Christmas- and I guess it kind of… inspired me to give all these gifts to her, so, you know, maybe she'll think I'm her true love. I don't know if it will work, I'm sending the gifts anonymously, but if I'm in the hospital wing, I can't send her a gift at all! So would you do it for me?"

"I suppose," agreed Sirius, "wouldn't be the first girls dormitory I've snuck into at night… I remember it was around Easter last year and I snuck into…. Well, you probably don't want to know the whole story, but it sure was fun."

"Keep that to yourself," advised James, "Here, this is the sixth gift," he said, dropping a glittering bracelet into Sirius' palm. It was a gold chain with six green oval beads, or eggs, hanging off it, with a gold goose imprinted on each one. Between the green beads were red, heart shaped ones. Sirius thought he might take a leaf out of James book and give Carmella something similar for Christmas, but without the geese. "Just leave it under the tree for her, thanks mate!"

"Anytime," said Sirius, as Madam Pomfrey shooed him out the door, "See you!"

James was left with nothing to think of except for all the things that could go wrong with the decision he had just made. He suppressed a shudder.

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It was twelve-forty when Sirius set off for Lily's dorm room. He did so on foot, looking forward to the experience. It was one of the few dorms he had not been in before, and he was quite looking forward to it, though he promised he'd be a good boy tonight, for James' sake. Both Lily and Robbin were sound asleep when he entered, this is too easy, he thought to himself. He laid the bracelet under the tree and turned to leave, just as an alarm went off. He froze. Lily turned over, not noticing Sirius, and cursed her alarm clock for going off, cursed herself for not shutting it off from the night before, and cursed the alarm clock once more before shutting it off and flipping over in bed. That's when she saw Sirius. Sirius gulped.

"What the hell are you doing in my dormitory?" asked Lily. Clearly, she had the wrong impression that he was here to… well… be Sirius.

"It isn't what you think, Lily, just calm down," soothed Sirius.

"Then what is it?" she asked, not calming down.

"Well, umm… what it is… is really none of your concern," he said.

"You're in my room, at 12:45 at night. That's none of my concern?"

"Well…" Sirius was having a hard time coming up with a story. His eyes darted to the tree, a movement that Lily didn't miss. Comprehension dawned on her face.

"Your… you… IS THIS A BLOODY JOKE?" Lily was screaming, "DO YOU KNOW HOW SIRIOUSLY I TOOK THOSE STUPID, IDIOTIC, BLOODY GIFTS?! AND IT WAS YOU? I cannot believe this!"

"No, really Lily, I could never come up with all that. I'm just delivering this one for someone… really!"

"Whatever, Black. Get out of my room!"

"Yes, ma'am," said Sirius sarcastically, but he obeyed, and walked out the door, shutting it behind him.

Lily collapsed on her bed and began to cry. It had all been a joke. A cruel, pointless joke.

A/N- a short chapter I know, but a lot of you seemed to think that Lily was completely oblivious. Well, now we took care of that problem, now she has the wrong impression. Stupid bloody alarm clock!

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~LU xD