Chapter Sixteen-
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That night, during dinner, the four sat in the deserted Common Room, playing with their bows. Lily grabbed a suction cup dart, and pulled it into her drawstring. She pulled back, looking directly at Sirius's forehead, and let go. Their was a snap of the string, the whoosh of the air, then the suction of the dart. Lily opened her eyes, the string of the bow had snapped, and she managed to hit Sirius directly it the mouth. "It was close, and this time only the string broke."' Remus said comfortingly.
In the past ten minutes, Lily had managed to break the bow three times, hit Sirius four times in each eye, nose and gut, and gotten a rather nasty cut from the drawstring. "Ugh, I suck. I wanted to shock Sev, not taser his eye out" she groaned.
"What about me?" Sirius asked while rubbing his jaw, "Girl may not be able to aim, but I wouldn't want her coming after me with a Taser Laser" Lily threw a pillow at him, hitting him square in the face.
"Still think I can't aim?" she asked, smirking while Sirius looked around for his bow.
"I'll show you how it's done, sister" he said while pulling his bow from his backpack. He grabbed one of the suction cup darts they had conjured and looked at a random point on the wall. Inaudibly, a small dot of fire burst from his wand and landed on a spot in the wall. "Don't take your eyes off it" he muttered before pulling back on his drawstring. It all happened so fast, Lily blinked, then the dart landed, and the burn mark on the wall was gone.
"How'd you do that?" Lily asked
"Aiming Spell" he shrugged, smiling wickedly
"Cheater" Lily said, shoving him playfully.
"Wait. Can you show it to us?" Remus asked.
Sirius nodded, "Of course. Why?"
"Because, if Lily's aiming tomorrow, I have a feeling more than just Snape will be hurting." Remus said before looking at his watch. "It's almost eight, the others will be back soon" he said.
"So? There's nothing wrong with a few friends shooting darts at each other" Sirius said, Lily smiled, rolling her eyes at him.
Remus sighed, "You're right Sirius" he said.
"He is?" Lily asked, acting as if it could never be possible.
"I am?" Sirius asked, with the same doubtfulness.
"Yeah" Remus nodded, "There's nothing wrong with throwing darts at our friends" he agreed while throwing a dart at Sirius. The usual sound of the suction cup sounded, and Lily looked at her friend; He had taken a dart to the nose.
"Of course you know" Sirius said, pulling of the dart, with a loud sucking noise. There was a small circle where the dart was, and Lily snickered as he went on, "This means war" He grabbed two darts and threw them at Remus, one hitting him on the right cheek and one in his hair.
"Ow" Remus hissed as he pulled a dart from his hair, a small clump came out. "Sirius" he said, before taking the darts and throwing them back at the boy. One landed on Sirius's hand, the other on Lily's chin.
"Okay, I get it. I won't take your Chocolate Frogs when you aren't looking anymore!" she said, holding her hands up in surrender. Sirius chuckled his bark-like laugh, while Remus looked at Lily.
"I'm so sorry Lil-You take my Chocolate Frogs?" He raised an eyebrow in suspicion. Lily flushed bright red, and looked down. Sirius's laughter was almost deafening now, as Melissa, Shaun, Jackie Robison, and a few more Gryffindor students piled into the Common Room.
"What happened?" Melissa asked, walking over to the group. She put her hands on the hips, and stared down at Sirius accusingly.
"You don't want to know" Lily said, dragging her friend up the stairs and into the girls' dorms to do their homework.
"Later Lils! Mel!" Sirius shouted after them.
"I'd better get going" Remus said, glancing out the window, looking at the night sky, with the barely visibly full moon out.
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"Where are they?" he heard Lily ask Madame Pomfrey. he groaned again, not because of the pain, but because he didn't want his friend to worry about him.
"Over here" Pomfrey said, leading Lily over to Remus and Sirius's beds, right next to James, of course.
"What happened? Frank told me that you said that these two landed themselves in here"
"You'd better ask them, I'm not exactly sure" Pomfrey shrugged before leaving to her office.
"Well?" Lily asked them, "What happened?"
The two groaned in unison, as they turned over, revealing their injuries. "Well, what happened was..." Remus began. He had a long scar from his eyebrow to his mouth, and no shirt on, but bandages all over his chest, and a band-aid on his cheek.
"At least Pete ran away before Rem ate him" Sirius said, chuckling weakly. Sirius had a few cuts on his cheeks, one wrap around his rib cage, bruises all around his arms and torso, as if he had been wrestled to the ground, and blood matted in his hair. But through all that, he still managed to look incredible.
"At least?" James asked, "He shouldn't have! He left you!" James shouted angrily, "You could have been killed, and he didn't give a damn!"
"James, calm down" Lily whispered.
"Fine" he said, still angry. "What happened anyway?" he asked the two.
"Well, after we made it to the Shrieking Shack, Remus went out of control, and when I jumped on him, trying to stop him from leaving, but then started pounding on my chest" he began, signaling to the bruises along his torso and arms. Remus gave him an apologetic look, "But I panicked, and clawed him, I missed and hit his face." he frowned, "Then he jumped off of me, and that's when he saw Peter and jumped on him, then he ditched us." Sirius said, sighing.
"How long 'till your out?" she asked stressfully, rubbing her forehead.
"We just have to stay for today" Sirius said, turning his body back and forth in pain.
"I told you not to go with me!" Remus said to Sirius.
"I couldn't let you go out by yourself, I had to go! You could have killed yourself" Sirius snapped.
"Without James there, you could have died"
"Pft" Sirius scoffed, "Like that ever scared me before"
"Well, it should!" Remus insisted
"Will you two can it!" James snapped, the two looked up at James, along with Lily. "Remus, you know Sirius is smart enough not to get himself into any big danger." James said.
"That's true, you always manage to get yourself out of sticky situations" Remus agreed. "Like that one time you got all that honey and glue on yourself" he laughed
"Yeah, how did you get out of that?" Lily asked, "Better yet, how'd you get into that?" she said in an afterthought.
"Anyways" James pressed on, "And Sirius, you know that Remus is clever enough not to get himself into any major trouble, he's been going on his own for the past four years"
"You're right, we only just finished our training this year" Sirius admitted. "Friends, again?" he asked.
"Until we end up killing each other" Remus agreed, chuckling. James and Lily joined in the laughter, until Lily remembered something. The same thought seemed to pop into everyone else's head, but Remus was the first to acknowledge it. "Where's Peter? We haven't seen him since he ran off"
"Maybe he's under a rock" James muttered.
"James" Lily said warningly
"What? He's a rat!" he shouted. Lily rolled her eyes, sitting at the foot of James's bed. Lily let out a laugh. "What?" James asked.
"I just realized that today's the Hogsmeade trip, and we promised we'd stay with you, all day. Now we will, well, you will. I'm going to end up leaving at some point" she said, smiling.
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She did end up leaving, for one hour to Hogsmeade, but came right back.
And the next day, the boys were free from the infirmary, a relief, not only to them, but also James and Madame Pomfrey. As they were eating breakfast, Sirius was digging into his pancakes as Lucius walked by. "Look at Black's hands" Travis snickered, looking at Sirius's pink hands. "Can you spell gay?"
"How many tries to I get?" Crabbe asked.
Lucius rolled his eyes before looking at Sirius. "They're pink!" he gasped, "You!" Malfoy shouted at Sirius
"Can I help you Lucius Mouthful?" Sirius asked, causing not only Lily and Remus to laugh, but also Travis.
"I don't get it" Goyle whispered.
"You did this to me!" Malfoy hissed, holding up a lock of pink hair.
"So what if I did?" Sirius asked, standing up and balling his fists.
"So, I'll kill you" he growled
"Over a little spilled dye?" Sirius asked incredulously, "Wait. I'm dying over dye? How ironic" he chuckled
"Sirius, it's not the time for jokes" Remus muttered
"Why? He's just a loser with pink hair. Whatcha gonna do about it, Bubble Gum Pop?" Sirius challenged
Lucius growled in anger, Lily couldn't believe the teachers weren't stepping in! "I'll tell you what I'm gonna do about it, Blood Traitor" Lucius said warningly
"Blood Traitor? That's it? My mum has better insults than that!" Sirius chuckled
"It's true, she does!" Remus agreed.
"I don't need to waste my time insulting you when I could be landing you in the hospital wing with your idiot of a friend" Lucius smirked.
"Why don't I land you in the dog house, with your mama?" Sirius snapped.
"Oooooh" the entire cafeteria said.
"Yeah? Well....Well your mother looks like Voldemort!" Lucius said. The entire room cringed at the mention of the darkest wizard on rise.
"So? I hate my mother, that's more like a joke than an insult to me" Sirius chuckled as Regulus came running by, crying. "Sorry Reg. You'll be owling mum, then?" Sirius asked as if he couldn't care less.
"Black" Lucius growled, "You will pay" he spat, before turning around back towards the Slytherin table.
"What? Lucius Malfoy won't attack me? I thought you were going to 'Land me in the hospital wing with my idiot of a friend'. Backing down now that you've made an innocent, very annoying, young boy cry?" he challenged
"Yeah Lucius!" someone challenged, "Afraid of being beat by some punk?" they mused. Sirius knew that voice: Bellatrix.
"Oh Bella, come out and play" Sirius sang, "I know that Madame Pomfrey grew back you eyebrows, so you've got nothing to worry about! Besides your natural face" he mused
"Alright you two, break it up!" McGonagall snapped. As she pulled the two apart, she turned to Sirius and winked discreetly before walking away.
Sirius sat down next to Lily, who sighed. "There goes our cover" she muttered, looking at everyone who was whispering about them.
"I knew it wasn't Diggory" one said
"Sirius? Well, it makes sense. His family's full of Slytherins. 'Course he'd know where the Common Room is" another said
"It couldn't have been him all by himself, he had to have help"
"You think Lily helped? You know, to avenge James? I always knew that she fancied him"
"The nerve of these people" Lily spat, crossing her arms.
"You just can't except that they're right" Sirius sang.
"I'm surprised it took them this long to figure it out. What this the fireworks and everything" Remus said.
"Yeah" Lily said, sighing heavily.
"Well, maybe they don't necessarily think we did it" Sirius said hopefully.
"Maybe. Now, it's time for Phase...What Phase are we on?" she asked
"Let's see. Stake Outs, Hair Dye, Fireworks...Four" Sirius answered
"Phase Four: Taser Laser Archery" she said wickedly.
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-Chapter Seventeen-
"You may think you're smart, Evans, but we know the truth and we will get you" Bellatrix growled lowly before storming off. "You and you're little dog too!" she added.
"She's the dog" Sirius muttered. "Thanks Lil, you saved my arse" he said, smiling brightly at her.
"No prob" Lily said back.
"I guess that cleared our name, huh?" Remus said.
"Yeah, I guess it did" Lily said.
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