(A/N: Ok I gave up on the whole stupid contest thing because A) it was stupid, B) Nobody would have guessed it, C) I really wanted to post, and D) My servant -as she so nicely calls herself- RidingStar95 reviewed so many times i na row I was starting to feel guilty that I hadn't posted yet, and E) I just wanted to end the contest because it was once again stupid.)

There before her stood a completely healthy, lively, energetic, handsome, young man with unruly raven hair, gorgeous hazel eyes, and the sweetest smile.

"J-J-J-J-James?" Lily stuttered.

"Hey Lily," James said, sticking his hands in his robe pockets.

"The Feast is now dismissed! Goodnight, sleep tight! Don't let the knargles bite!" Dumbledore said in a sing song voice.

Once everybody had emptied out of the hall, teachers included, there were only thirteen seventeen year olds left in the vast, empty hall.

First to break to growing tension in the awkward silence was James.

"So Sirius mate, I saw you get taken under by the candy corns," he said lightly trying to break the tension, yet only succeeding in breaking the silence.

"Why didn't you bloody tell us you were getting out of the Hospital Wing! We could have planned a prank! Gotten caught up on all of the pranks you've missed out on! I mean you could have at least let us know you were conscious! But nnoooo, you had to have it your way and scare half the bloody hall to death. Don't give me any of that I just woke up rubbish. It won't work on me 'ya know," Sirius ranted on defiantly.

"Jeez chill mate. I really did just wake up. Actually I'm not supposed to be out of bed. Technically... I had to do this weird spell that can make me float so I can 'walk'. Madam Pomfrey said I had like paralysis or something, what ever that means,"

"Chill? Chill? I don't think he is the one that needs to chill! You shouldn't even be out of bed! Come on let's go mister," Lily ordered bossily.

"I'm NOT going back there yet! I just woke up!" complained James who was being more livid my the second. I mean didn't they understand her.

"Yeah and you should be resting and getting better," chipped in Peter who was miraculously not on James' side.

"Thank you Peter. See everybody sees it my way so let's go! To the Hospital Wing," seeing James' stiff figure, she silently pleaded to Remus for help.

"James you really need to get back in bed. All that is coming out of your mouth is rubbish. You had a collapsed lung, paralysis, which by the way pretty much means you can't move the complete lower half of your body in this case, you were in a coma for about two months, and you still look like you've had insomnia,"

"Bugger off, I think I need to hear what my girlfriend thinks," gesturing for Renee and Claudia to state their less than wanted opinions on the matter.

"Well I think that James has been cooped up in that boring old Hospital Wing to long. He should totally take me out tonight. I mean what better way to get on a road to recovery is there than having a fun night with their girlfriend?" she asked innocently.

"I also think he should just let loose tonight. I mean they haven't seen for two whole months," Claudia added.

"That's because he just bloody woke up! He should be resting so sod off, he needs his sleep," Lily retorted. "Come onJames let's go. Come, chop chop. Madam Pomfrey is going to be enraged enough at you."

"I'm not going anywhere."

"James Potter! Get your bloody arse over here, or else I'll give you a detention with McGonnagall."

"Oh no! McGonnagall I'm so scared. Mr. Potter stop goofing off and Transfigure your mouse," mocked James.

"20 points from Gryffindor. Mocking an authority figure?" she cried incredulously. 'I would have thought better of you Mr. Potter you're Head Boy. Aren't you supposed to be in the Hospital Wing? Madam Pomfrey most certainly hasn't discharged you. I would know. If it had it would be the talk of the Staffroom. I was just in there too, they were talking, fighting I should say, Quidditch!"

"I tried to tell him Professor," Lily said shaking her head disapprovingly.

"Quiet Miss Evans,"

"Yes Ma'am,"

"Kiss up," James muttered causing Lily to cast a hurt look in his direction.

"Detention my office, next Saturday,"

"You see Professor I'm all booked up next Saturday. You see... I was going to go to Quidditch practice. You know I haven't been on a broom in a while and the match is coming up soon. Next week in fact," he said apologetically.

"'Was' is the key word in that sentence," she said coldly.

"Oh yeah mate, sorry to say this to 'ya, but I had to do this. You've been replaced," Sirius said not meeting his friend's eyes.

"REPLACED!" yelped James, a look of mortification crossing his face.

"Well you couldn't just expect me to leave the position open while you were in a COMA! I'd be bloody insane to do that. Do you know what would happen to us at the match if we showed up without a Seeker? Exactly. Bad things. Besides, you can't even walk properly. Just go back up to the bloody Hospital Wing."

"Well if you don't want me here I guess I should. Come on Renee, at least I'm wanted by somebody," kissing her cheek in an appreciative manner. Grabbing her arm roughly he started to strut off.

"Hold UP! It's not that we don't want you." yelled Lily. "If you very much have to know, I spent almost everyday for a whole month! at your bedside. never leaving, ever! Not even to eat. Sirius and Remus here had to literally drag me out of there. If you call that being not wanted, then I'm a hag,"

"Well then Lily, you're a very pretty hag at that," This earned him a soft slap from Renee which he shrugged off, and a major death glare from Lily, Kylie, Alice, Morgan, Lauren, Remus, Sirius, Frank, and Logan. This didn't even falter his expressionless--expression?? (A/N: If that makes sense... )

At this comment Lily was nearly in tears. James would have won the battle if it had not been for Alice, Remus, and Sirius.

"WHO THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" Alice vociferated enough for the whole school to hear.

"Well last time I checked I was James Potter. How about you?" he said with a passive face.

"JAMES! DON'T TALK TO HER LIKE THAT?" Sirius bellowed steadily losing his cool which he said 'could never leave somebody as cool as him'. "WHAT THE HELL HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU!?"

James took a deep breath and sighed over dramatically.

"'Ya know, I think that it's best you just let me have a nice night with my girlfriend," Claudia coughed beside him. "and her friend." He added as an after thought.

"BEST FOR YOU??" Remus asked incredulously, "BEST FOR YOU?? How is going out with you girlfriend, most likely partying mind you, rather then lying in bed at the Hospital Wing with a nurse constantly watching over you, trying to fix your paralysis, better for you? Just curious here,"

"Well I don't want to bore you with the details, so I think I'll just leave," James said pointing to the door.

Renne and Claudia wore haughty smirks on their face as they walked out, leading, James in tow.

The rest on the other hand had looks of outrage. Defeat of course. Yet utter outrage.

Accepting the defeat they went up to the Hospital Wing to go talk to Madam Pomfrey. Well at least Sirius and Lily did. The others were all full of pumpkin pie, candy corns, more pie, and candy to stay up past another blink.

knock knock

"Come in, come in," said a flustered Madam Pomfrey. "I lost my patient!! Lost him! I've never in my history of healing lost a patient before,"

"Who are you looking for?" Lily asked politely.

"James Potter. He's just dissapeared on me,"

"Oh, you're looking for James are you? Well that's easy he crashed the feast, got caught under the invisibility cloak, got in a row with all of his best friends, and right about now he should be snogging his girlfriend in a broom closet on the... Hold on wait for it... sixth floor," Sirius said with an air of 'I-know-my-best-friend-better-than-you-' superiority.

"Snogging his girlfriend?? It's ten o' click at night, and it's past curfew!"

"Well technically, he's Head Boy. Which technically means he can be out after hours. Also that means by his honor, he has to give her a detention," Lily said deep in thought.

"Well if you know him so well why don't YOU go find him?" Madam Pomfrey asked irritably.

"Well we only came up here to say when he does get here, which he will, to strap him down extra good onto his bed, take away his wand, put a silencing charm on him, give him sleeping draught, and maybe even some good old fashioned Muggle duct tape would work, just in case the silencing charm wears off," Lily said boldly.

"I've never tried that before," Poppy mumbled.

"Well you should try it, it would do wonders for your stress levels," chipped in Sirius.

"Well you never know until you try it," Poppy said shrugging her shoulders in a defeated manner.

"We can't look for him because we are incredibly exhausted, so if you wouldn't mind," she said while trekking off, pushing the double doors open, and casting a meaningful glance in Sirius' direction indicating him to follow.

"Oh, OH! You want me to follow you! Gotcha, Well see 'ya Poppy!" and left with a wink, leaving a very confused 25 year old Hospital maitron in her quarters.

"Well that could have gone better," voiced Sirius.

"'Ya think?"

For the rest of the way to the Gryffindor Common room they walked in a comfortable silence. The only sounds that could be heard were the soft snoring of the portraits they passed. That was until Lily just had to break the all to familiar silence.

"What do you think was wrong with James? I mean he didn't really seem himself tonight," Sirius asked concern flooding through his voice.

"Well the only medical explanation would be he had some sort of brain damage from the curse that we didn't know about. Personally though, knowing James, it was just a random mood swing. I mean did you realize when we first saw him he was all timid, shy, and well-- un-Jamesish," she finished lamely.

"Well I hope it stops soon," Sirius complained. "He's driving me bloody insane and he hasn't even been awake 24 hours yet!"

"I know, I know...," Lily said comfortingly.

The next day they were happy to see James in the Hospital Wing strapped into the bed, mouth covered with a sticky, silvery strip that looked mysteriously like duct tape.

There was also a price to pay for this gorious sight. Renee, Claudia and their croonies were standing beside his bed lovingly stroking his hair, whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Well that was mostly Renee, but you get the point. Again they were pleased to see a sign of great discomfort from James.

Of course the thought of having six 'beautiful as they like to call themselves' young woman surrounding your bed, and being uncomfortable just went zip right over their pretty little heads.

cough cough

Everybody looked over to the source of this unexpected sound and found a very distressed Madam Pomfrey in their place.

"I would appreciate it if you could please leave Mr. Potter alone. He has just woken up from a two month coma for god's sake!" cried Madam Pomfrey.

"Well I guess I'll see you later Jamsie poo!" yelled Renee as she walked to the double doors.

"Yeah, see you James," the five other girls sighed dreamily as they got up to follow Renee.

"Well they took a long time," Morgan said irritably taking Renee's vacated seat.

"Hey mate, while you have the straps on the bed I want to ask you a question," Peter said a smile crossing his lips.

"Why the bloody hell are you acting like a bloody-egotistical-self centered-prat as Lily so nicely puts it," Morgan interrupted cutting off Peter while Lauren took the liberty to pull of the duct tape.

"AAAHHH," James yelped.

"Well you should of thought of that before you acted like a git," Remus said reasonably.

"Well I wouldn't have acted like a git if I hadn't been bloody seduced!"

"Yeah, right," Lily let out a dry laugh at this comment.

"Seduced? You know that's just a temptation that weak people give into right?" Kylie asked sweetly.

"I'm not weak!" James growled. "I could get out of this bed if I wanted to 'ya know!"

"Yeah sure, of course you can James. I think I'll just let you think that," Logan said walking away from the bed.

"Sirius don't we have Quidditch practice in like," Remus started, "ten minutes?"

"Crap!"

"Yeah it's in, oh no, seven minutes!"

"Well go on then, don't be late for your oh so important Quidditch practice, that I can't go to," James sourly said.

"Chill out mate,"

"Yeah seriously once you get discharged I'll kick of the second year who is filling your place just for you. How 'bout that?"

"Well I guess that sounds reasonable," he grumbled.

"Cool, catcha later!" they both yelled over their shoulders while dashing to get their brooms from the dorms.

"Yeah, and Alice, Morgan and I have a Gobstones meeting? It's in five minutes also isn't is?" Peter inquired.

"Oh, yeah I totally forgot about that! Thanks for reminding me! Let's go, we don't want to be late, remember last time..." they both shuddered at the memory.

"Oh and I have to go to that place next to the place where... yeah," Lauren started.

"You should come with me, Logan!"

"Huh, what? Why?"

"Because I said so. Also my boyfriend lives with you, is a Marauder, and hasn't had his fair share of pranks this month," she said ticking each reason off on her freshly manicured fingers.

"What ever you say. What ever you say,"

"Erm, well I think I should go now. It's a nice day out and Frank and I have to get some studying done." Alice said hastily.

"Yeah, what Alice said," and scampered off to follow his girlfriend's now retreating back.

"I think they did that to us on purpose," stated Lily.

"Did what?" James asked obliviously.

"Oh, never you mind,"

"I guess I'll get up and go then. You're obviously tired. I'm tired. Our friends are idiots. I think those are all sure signs for me to leave,"

"Wait Lily!" he croaked before she left.

"Come closer,"

Confused Lily bent over towards James' face. He could not be doing what I think he's doing. He just couldn't be. He had a girlfriend! Didn't he? Yes, yes he did. She was just in here giggling like a mindless idiot a few moments ago. Wasn't she? Yes, I am not going crazy, he really is crazy! Fighting an internal battle between herself she completely zoned out to James talking.

"LILY!" James shouted awakening her from her complex thoughts.

"What?! What did I miss?"

"Oh, nothing. Just bring your face a little closer to mine. Yeah that's it face me. Close your eyes." Miraculously Lily obliged, waiting to get a surprise of well, quite some time...

A/N: hehehe -cackles madly- -rubs hands together while laughing- HA! cliffy! P The great thing is I know what happens! You'll probably expect it though. It was just perfect timing to put this here. So.. Sorry if you get disappointed in the next chapter of the obvious-ness of what shall happen. Well yeah. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! I need at least 10 reviews before I post again in sing-song voice

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-Brittney/Sirius' Sweetheart