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Chapter 40: After affects

After classes were finished Lily retreated to the common room with Jamie, Ivy and Mary. Mary and Jamie still had pounding head aches, but it wasn't as bad as it had been earlier.

"So what were you guys doing last night?" Ivy asked.

"What do you mean?" Jamie asked sprawled out on the couch leaving the other girls to find spots on the floor or in armchairs.

"Well all we know," Ivy began indicating herself and Lily, "Is that you come in, late and drunk."Oh," was all Jamie said.

"We just went out to party. You know, girls night out." Mary explained looking at them and away from the essay they'd been assigned that day in Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"So it had nothing to do with Black?" Ivy asked.

"What? No!" Mary said quickly. "God, no. Jamie and I went to celebrate friendship and have a good time. Black, or any boy for that matter, had no affect on me, or my decision."

"That's right." Jamie added flipping a page in the book she had resting on the floor. "Because, let's face it, no guy is worth that much alcohol."

"How much did you drink anyway?" Ivy asked.

"Um," Jamie looked at Mary, who shrugged.

"A few bottles worth I guess." Mary offered.

"A few bottles meaning...?" Lily pressed.

"Relax. It wasn't enough to poison us." Jamie said. Mary shook her head in agreement.

"Nope. We were perfectly safe. Although, I'm still wondering why when I woke up, Sirius was in his underwear laying beside me." Mary said.

"He felt guilty, I guess, so took you down to the bathroom. Held your hair, wiped your mouth. All that jazz." Lily explained.

"Sirius? Are you sure you don't have him mixed up with his brother?" Jamie demanded.

"No, it was Sirius." Mary said. "But why would he do that?" Lily shrugged.

"Guilt is my guess. James said it was because he's a good guy." Jamie snorted at that.

"Yeah right. This is the same guy who, well there are just so many examples to choose from it would be hard to pick the worst."

"I know. But James doesn't see it and Sirius did carry her down there and was really nice. He practically stayed up all night." Lily said.

"Sirius?" Mary asked doubtfully.

"Yes. Sirius." Lily said.

"I have to agree, it doesn't sound like him." Ivy said.

"It was weird seeing it. But I'm not lying." Lily told them.

"Okay, but then why was he only wearing underwear?" Mary asked.

"Because when I went to get James to help me, that's what Sirius was wearing." Lily explained.

"He sleeps in his underwear?" Jamie asked sounding disgusted.

"And one sock." Lily said.

"Why only one?" Ivy asked.

"I'm not sure. But he only had one on last night."

"Awkward." Jamie said looking back down at her book.

"Ladies." Sirius said entering the room with James.

"Boys." Ivy replied. James went over to Lily.

"Hey, where have you been?" Lily asked as he kissed her cheek.

"Just some guy stuff." James explained vaguely.

"Ow!" Jamie complained from the couch. Lily looked over to find Sirius perched on her back. "Get off me!"

"Well, your hogging the couch." Sirius said stretching his arms across the back.

"So? Get off!" Jamie commanded. Sirius stood up, turning to throw her legs off the couch, nearly causing her to topple onto the floor.

"Could you be any more of an ass?" Jamie asked him, trying to regain some dignity with the way she sat beside him.

"Yes." Sirius answered slouching into the cushion. Jamie's face held nothing but absolute revolution as she looked at him and shook her head. She jammed herself in the corner to stay as far away from him without giving him the full couch. James sat on the arm of Lily's chair.

"So what have you been doing?" He asked her.

"I've been finishing that essay for Dada."

"I thought you finished that during lunch."

"No. I almost finished, but then you distracted me." Lily told him with a scowl.

"Well watch out, I'm going to distract you again." He warned leaning in for a kiss.

"I'm going to bed." Jamie announced shutting her book loudly just as their lips met.

"What no good night kiss?" Sirius teased turning around on the couch. Jamie spun around throwing her book at his head. But he was quicker. He ducked it than laughed looking behind him at the book on the ground. While he was looking away Jamie grabbed another book from the shelf near the stairs, this one made contact. Sirius shouted in pain, rubbing his skull as he looked back at her. Bad timing because Jamie had just summoned her first book, so on its way to her hand it nicked the top of Sirius's head.

He continued to rub the back of his head. "Ow. Bloody woman can throw." He said checking his hand for blood.

"Maybe you shouldn't tease her." Ivy said.

"Who shouldn't Sirius tease?" Lily asked having missed the whole scene.

"Jamie." Ivy answered.

"Ah." Was all Lily said.

"Do you even care that I was just hit by two books?" Sirius demanded. A laugh escaped Lily's lips before she quickly covered them. He glared at her.

"I'm sorry." She laughed. "That you got hit by books." Sirius stuck his jaw out with a frown.

"I'm going to bed. Coming Prongs?" Sirius asked still looking offended that no one carried.

"Yeah. I'll be there in a sec." James answered. Sirius rolled his eyes then pulled himself off the couch making his way up the stairs.

"I think I'm gonna go to bed too." Ivy said.

"Me too. Night Lily. James." Mary said. They each gathered their things and headed up the stairs waving before they disappeared.

"Wow." James said.

"Huh?" Lily asked scooting over.

"Could they be any more obvious? Oh come on Lily. Don't tell me you didn't notice their attempts to get us alone."

"Oh, please. You think very highly of yourself if you think they were trying to get us alone."

"Really? Look around." Lily did as she was told. They were alone.

"Well maybe it was coincidence?" She offered. James shook his head smiling.

"No. I'm pretty sure Mary and Ivy did this on purpose. Sirius and Jamie not so much."

"Well, I'm really tired, so don't expect me to stay down here too much longer." Lily warned.

"No?"

"Sorry. But I really am tired." Lily apologized. She wished she could spend more time with James, she hadn't had a lot of time that day, but she really needed some sleep seeing as she didn't much the night before.

"Okay. I have detention with McGonagall tomorrow right after dinner. And practice the day after. And I believe I have detention with Flitwick the day after that. Which leaves, what Saturday?"

"What's with all the detentions Head Boy?" Lily asked. James laughed shrugging.

"Get caught doing something wrong and suddenly the teachers want to spend extra time with you." He said.

"What did you do?"

"Sirius is waiting for me." James said taking evasive action.

"James,"

"Good night babe." he said. Lily was quickly learning James said 'babe' whenever he did something stupid or was trying to avoid telling her something. James stood up quickly heading to the stairs.

"Hang on." Lily said grabbing his robes. "What did you do?"

"Nothin' babe." James answered with an easy smile.

"James," Lily began narrowing her eyes in warning. But he was stronger than her and was able to yank her from the chair as if she were a doll.

He looked at her innocently and realized he was not getting out of an explanation. He settled for a truthful yet, not so truthful deviation. "Well... its a long story." he started. "IT involves McGonnagall, Dumbledore, Flitwick, the lake, and at least one statue." he said. "And I really don't feel like explaining the whole thing," he told her. With a quick kiss and a tug on his clothes, he was free of her grasp. He broke the kiss, smiled cheekily at her and disappeared up the stairs.

Lily watched him go, shaking her head. Once a Marauder, always a Marauder.

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