This will likely be the final update this weekend. The children are comming home so I won't have a chance again for a day or so.

I do hope you have enjoyed the back to back chaapters though!

I have enjoyed writing them!

And to a reviewer, I didn't forget, I thought it should get its own chapter.

Chapter 11

The Silent treatment

Racing Sirius back to the common room James took a shortcut that dumped him out on the fifth floor. He rounded the corner and ran headlong into a wall of anger, irritation, and red hair. He recovered quickly though and smiled brilliantly at her though.

"Fancy running into you in a place like this Evans." He said cheekily, holding out his hand to help her up from the floor.

She glared at him.

"Yes because it is so rare for me to be walking to the library and all during a break." She deadpanned.

"Oh, well come on, I will walk you there. It is the least I can do." He said with a smirk as he picked up her bag.

"No, the least you can do is leave me alone. I am certain you had somewhere to be seeing as you ran me down on your flight to get there. Besides it would be a devastatingly boring walk as I am still not talking to you." She said huffily.

"Not talking to me? Why?" he asked genuinely confused, but he grinned as they began walking in step towards the library.

"I haven't spoke to you since Wednesday, why do you think?"

"Uhm…Lils, you never speak to me. I didn't know I was undergoing a punishment of sorts. What did I do on Wednesday? I thought we pranked the Slytherins on Friday after detention." He mumbled thoughtfully.

Lily flipped her hair and her eyes flashed as she clucked her tongue.

"I find it pathetic that you don't even know what you did because you get up to so much nonsense. You knocked me down three flights of stairs you bloody wanker."

"Oh, the surfing stairway, right. Heh that seems like a lot longer ago than just a week. In my defense I didn't mean for you to fall into it. Really do you not look at the stairwell before you step onto it?" he said with a glint in his wide hazel eyes.

"You will never ever change. It is always because something was up with someone else. Or they should have been watching where they were going or they pranked me first. You are ridiculous. You are going to make the most unproductive adult wizard of all time. It is a good thing you want to play Quidditch forever since all you seem capable of is playing games." She said angrily.

James stopped in his tracks and stared at her.

"That was a bit harsh don't you think? What happened to being friends?"

"What happened to being normal?" she rebounded.

"You can't just speak to people like that. You know the words that come out of your mouth do have an impact Evans. It isn't like you are throwing marshmallows and cotton candy at a bloke. You are a bitch sometimes." He said dropping her back at her feet.

She was shocked into silence for a second before she recovered.

"Yeah, well you are a prick. I don't understand why the whole school falls at your feet. You aren't worth it."

"And you Lily Evans wouldn't know what I am worth because you can't get your head out of your arse long enough to find out."

She raised her hand to smack him, but his quidditch reflexes bested her and he caught her hand before it made impact. They glared into one another's eyes, both seething in anger and frustration. And then, she flung herself forward with such force that she threw him against the wall and she kissed him.

He felt fire and ice both spill through his veins. How could you be so angry with someone and yet still want them so so badly. He pushed her away and saw the yearning in her eyes so he glanced around to figure out just where they were. Grabbing her by the front of her cardigan he grabbed both of their bags in the other hand and drug them into the nearest broom closet before pushing her against the wall and flattening her with a kiss.

"Merlin I hate you." She said as he placed his hand on her lower back and kissed her neck.

"Likewise." He muttered before making her squeal by picking her up and wrapping her legs around his waist. He pressed her into him and kissed her hungrily. You could taste the desire. It was so intense she wasn't even concerned that his arms were holding onto her bare thighs high up on her hips , under her skirt. Her skin seemed to tingle where his hands were.

This continued until her cardigan lay forgotten on the floor and her top two buttons on her blouse had somehow been torn off. James shirt was completely open and as he stepped back from her she watched the muscles ripple as he gasped for breath.

"We have got to stop doing this." She said in between pants.

"I don't see why. I like this kind of fighting." He said with a wicked grin.

"Yes I am certain you do. We will talk about it, when I am actually talking to you again that is." And she grabbed her bag and flounced out of the closet, flushed face and all, leaving a dumbstruck James in her wake.

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"Mate, seriously I could attach springs to your feet and you would have less bounce in your step, what is with you?" Sirius said as the boys walked down to transfiguration after lunch. They had both missed all of their morning classes.

"I am just excited that you are going to be living with us that is all."

"Right, and that is why your shirt is buttoned wrong and you are missing your tie."

"Oh shit I left my tie, do you think Minnie will notice?" James said pushing his hand through his already tangled hair.

"Well seeing as you look like you just got the sense shagged out of you, yeah I am going to say she's gonna notice."

"Do we have time to get it? It is near the library. Come on we'll take a shortcut."

Sirius chuckled as they turned around.

"We had better run, or we are going to be really late." Sirius said taking off full tilt down the corridor.

They were both sprinting as they hurtled over the tiny professor Flitwick.

"Sorry Flitsie!" Sirius yelled behind him

"yeah sorry Professor. We know 10 points each! Sorry" James shouted out as he rounded the corner.

The Professor shook his head and giggled at their antics.

"Those two are going to be the death of Minerva, honestly." He said as he waved his wand to take away the points.

"Siri stop!" James yelled as Sirius bolted past the closet.

James skidded to a halt at the door and opened it, revealing not only his tie but a Gryffindor girls' cardigan and tie as well.

"And whom might those articles belong to?" Sirius asked reaching for the items.

James turned a brilliant shade of red as he pulled the tie over his head and began to tighten in.

"I would prefer to keep that to myself thanks."

"You aren't snogging a first year right?" Sirius joked as they started a brisk walk back to transfiguration.

"No." James scoffed in indignantly.

"Well, there's a cardigan, so that limits it to the female population. And there is a Gryffindor crest so I guess I will just accept your good taste, and say thank Merlin you seem to be moving past the whole Evans debacle."

"Erm, yeah that is long gone. I don't even think about it anymore." James hedged as they picked up their speed and raced back the rest of the way.

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In a flair of arms, legs and heavy breathing James and Sirius fell in a heap through the door to McGonagall's class.

"Well Mr. Black, Mr. Potter so nice to see you two behaving yourselves and coming to class on time today." She said, her lips in a fine line.

"Uhm, we..er.." James searched for a reasonable excuse.

"We got lost!" Sirius shouted out before really thinking it through.

"Oh, really. Do tell how two sixth years got lost on the way to a class they have had since first year. Please do tell." She said as she sat in her desk and intertwined her fingers as if waiting in great anticipation.

"Right well, you see were…Well what happened…and…Slytherins yeah. And then we were lost."

James dropped his head into his hands and listened as his fellow sixth years stifled their laughter.

"Mr. Black are you aware that none of that was even remotely a sentence?"

Sirius looked at thei professor with a scandalized expression.

"What, were you not paying any attention to me? Why ask for the story if you are going to tune me out?"

At this James couldn't help it, he burst into laughter and doubled over grabbing on to the closest table he could find.

"Right, well I think it is safe to say we shall be adding another night to your list of detentions and Mr. Black I think we will make it 15 more points for your cheek." Sirius grumbled as he sat down but James was still laughing slumped over on a desk.

"I suggest you find your seat James. McGonagall looks ready to kill you." A girl's voice said. He looked up and smiled into the delicate face of a blonde headed Ravenclaw.

"Right. Right. Thanks" he said trying to stop laughing as he took his seat next to a clearly harassed Sirius.