Note: Had some free time, so decided to put another chapter up early:)

*Last Chapter*

"It's Lily.." Marlene said.

"Its James." Sirius said quickly after.

They didn't need to say anymore, they knew what they were going to do. They walked out to the lake to see Severus standing on the edge skipping stones.

Severus stood with his back turned to them, he didn't even turn to see who it was, "I knew you'd both come around..."

Marlene and Sirius stood there and looked at Severus, "We better not regret this.." Sirius said.

Turning around, his arms behind his back he said, "Trust me, everything will work out..."

Marlene couldn't help but get the feeling that this could backfire. Majorly. But, she pushed it aside thinking it was just nerves.

"Ok, we're here, so what so you want us to do?" she then asked crossing her arms.

"Well, I've been thinking and it seems that nothing Lily could do could make Potter hate her, we've seen that for the past 5 years, so the only way to make this work is to make Lily mad at Potter then that should trigger a chain reaction..."

When he said that Sirius too had gotten that feeling that this would end badly, but just like Marlene he pushed it aside.

"So, again, what do you want us to do?" This time it came from Sirius.

"You, Black, need to get Potter, back into... what to you call it? Pranking... and you, McKinnion, need to make sure that Lily is around when it happens."

"What do you mean by us pranking? Who would it be on? And what would it be to get Lily made enough at James?"

"I think you know what I'm talking about, Black. Need I remind you about you last great, 'prank'." As Severus said this, something flashes in his eyes, but as soon as it appeared, it was gone.

Sirius tried not to cringe remembering that day, it wasn't one of their best ideas. Neither Marlene or Sirius spoke, so Snape took that as his opportunity to continue.

"And as to who it would be on, there is only one person that could possibly get Potter mad enough to do anything. Me."

Sirius looked like he wanted to argue, but ended up say nothing because they all knew it was true. Nothing and no one could get under James's skin more than Severus, except maybe Voldemort himself, but that was out of the question.

"So what then?" This time it was Marlene that spoke, "Sirius gets James into the idea of pulling a prank, and has to make sure that it is on you, since we all know that if you really get James going it will make him go all out. Then I have to make sure that Lily is around so that she sees that whole thing and gets mad at James? Making her see that he hasn't changed at all, and thus breaking up their friendship and we get the old James and Lily back?"

"Yes." Servus nodded, "That is exactly it."

"But, how do we know that this will work, you and Lily aren't exactly friends anymore, what if she doesn't care."

Severus didn't even have answer because Marlene beat him to it.

"It won't matter to Lily who it is, even though she hate Severus now-"

Severus tried not to wince at that statement even though it was true.

"- it will still make her incredibly mad because she hates the whole house rivalry thing. Also, you saw how she was with James before, and now that he doesn't do that type of things to other students anymore she doesn't mind him." she finished, then thought but didn't say, 'and maybe even like him...' and again she quickly bushed that thought away.

"Once again, your right." Severus said, "So, you in?"

Sirius and Marlene looked at each other as if having a silent conversation then nodded to each other and then to Severus, "Yes, we're in." They said simultaneously.

Severus smiled, and Marlene could have sworn she saw a slight temer of an evil smile in there, "Excellent. Now since it would look strange seeing the three of us together and the two of you together without trying to rip each others head off.

Marlene and Sirius looked away from each other for a moment.

"I will contact you when I have the rest of the details for the prank, now go." He said and turned his back to them and started to skip stones again.

Marlene and Sirius both walked away having a really bad really bad feeling about the whole thing and only hoped that things wouldn't go horribly wrong.