…And in the Second Hour…

"YOU ARE A TRAITOR JAMES POTTER!" Sirius yelled from his position under the bed.

Lily and James giggled as they continued to draw on Peter's face, ignoring Sirius's screaming just as they had for the past fifteen minutes. Using their quills and ink they had given Peter a long, curly mustache, a pair of glasses, several large moles, and what appeared to be a giant spider on one of his cheeks where they had actually just spilled the ink.

"Quiet Black or you're-"Lily stopped short when Peter started rousing. She locked eyes with James and they both scrambled up at once, scooping up the quills and ink and sprinting over to the other end of the room where they stood with their backs to Peter, staring out of the window.

Peter's groaning filled the air and Lily and James turned, pretending that they just noticed him waking. James walked forward and bent over him.

"Hey Peter, how you feeling?"

Peter blinked several times slowly before answering. "What happened?"

He couldn't help himself, James snorted. "Evans hit you with a book."

Gaping at him, the boy on the floor sat up. "Ow, this hurts…and why does my face feel weird?"

"PETER!" Sirius started yelling at him from under the bed. "Peter, they-" but just as Lily ran over to kick him, he stopped. "Hey what's…Are these handcuffs?"

Sirius excitedly jumped out of under the bed and showed them a pair of shiny handcuffs. "Evans, please tell me this is your bed."

Lily took a second to glare at him before answering. "No…That's Debbie's bed...Oh God, I don't want to think about what Debbie was doing with those."

James nodded appreciatively. "Alright Debbie." When Lily shot him a look he quickly started shaking his head. "I mean no Debbie."

"I'm thinking Debbie and I are going to have a conversation when she gets back from break." Sirius said while happily swinging the handcuffs around on one finger.

"CAN I COME OUT OF HERE?" Remus hollered from the bathroom.

Lily started. They had all completely forgotten about Remus. Oh well, a little suffering would do him some good. Thanks to him, she would be getting her fair share of it. Glancing over at Sirius, she wondered if she should attack him again…but just as this thought crossed her mind the sun glinted off of the handcuffs he was still swinging around on his hand.

"Come out Moony, besides, its three boys against one girl, what's she gonna do?" Sirius laughed after saying this.

Remus exited the bathroom just as James responded. "How about she beat the crap out of you with a book, knocks Peter out and makes both of you so scared you run and hide?"

Sirius pocketed the handcuffs before crossing his arms. "Whatever."

They all stood around staring at each other.

"So what do we do now?" Peter asked. No one had anything to say to this.

"There has got to be some way out of here other than the door…" Lily said thoughtfully while looking around.

She walked over to the window and looked out of it. She could try calling for help, but they were so high up it was doubtful anyone on the ground would hear them.

"Hey—" she turned back to James, "You have an owl, right? How do you get it to come to you?"

James stared at her blankly. "Um…you've never owned an owl, have you?"

Lily shook her in head in response.

"Well, usually when you have a letter to send, you go to the owlery."

Her shoulders slumped as she heard this news.

"Hey, do any of you girls have a broomstick in here?" Remus asked, trying to be helpful.

Lily shook her head. At least she didn't have one. She thought that maybe Debbie had one, but she had gone home for the Easter Holiday (along with everyone else in Gryffindor) and took her trunk with her.

"Can't you call your owl?" Lily asked hopefully.

James shrugged in response to this. "I've never tried…"

Well, at least it was something. Lily walked over to her window and opened it. She turned to James when she realized she didn't know what he called his owl.

"What's your owl's name?"

"Eddie."

Lily stared at him. "Your owl's name is Eddie?"

"Yes," James seemed a little defensive. "And it's a great name for an owl."

Sirius snickered at this. "That's a stupid name for an owl."

Judging by the defensive tone James was giving, Lily figured that they probably had this argument a lot. When the two boys started arguing, she ignored them in favor for leaning a little out of her window and calling.

"EDDIE! EDDDIIIIEEEE!"

Bird was probably deaf.

"EDDIE!" She yelled as loud as she could but she didn't see any sight of the bird.

After about six minutes of this, Lily's voice was starting to become hoarse, James and Sirius were still arguing, Remus was looking extremely annoyed, and Peter was picking at the bump on the back of his head.

"Prongs, no one else's bird is named Eddie-"

"EDDIE!"

"That's why it's a good name for an-"

"EDDIE!"

"It's not a good name it's-"

"Eddie, PLEASE!"

"Padfoot!"

"EDDIE!"

"Yeah, that's right, I said it was-"

"EDDIE!"

"Take it back!"

"EDDDDIIIIEEEE!"

It was easy to see why Remus now had a pounding migraine behind one of his eyes. Just as he went over to scream into a pillow, Lily pulled herself back into the bedroom and closed the window.

She crossed her arms and grumpily sat on the window sill. "Well I guess that won't work."

Sirius and James seemed to be giving each other the cold shoulder now. Remus was screaming into Debbie's pillow, while Peter came over and sat next to Lily.

"I'm real sorry about this, Lily."

Lily turned to scowl at him. "Why did you all plan this, anyway? What on earth did you think you would gain from it?"

Peter shrugged. "Nothing, really. I just went along with those two," he jerked his thumb at Remus and Sirius, "they wanted to see what would happen…and they also wanted you and James to hook up."

For a few seconds, Lily saw red. "And it didn't occur to any of you that I simply just don't like James?"

Peter's reply was cut off when Sirius walked over to them.

"Lils you got any food in here?"

One of Lily's eyes was starting to twitch again. "NO, BLACK, I don't! And if I did, I wouldn't give any to you!"

Sirius's mouth dropped open at this. "Why not?"

"You REALLY have to ask that?" Lily screeched.

Remus pulled his face out of the pillow at this and he walked over with James to join the rest of the group.

"You know, Lily, you are being really mean!" Sirius said accusingly.

"And your point is?" Lily crossed her arms as she waited for an answer.

Remus held his arms outstretched between them. "Ok, let's just cool down…"

Lily jumped to her feet. "YOU COOL DOWN!" And she stomped into the bathroom and slammed the door.

Remus was left standing, still with his arms out and a confused look on his face. "That made no sense…"

"What is wrong with you guys? Why did you lock us all in here?" James asked, ignoring Remus's statement.

"Excuse me, Prongs, but you locked us all in here," Sirius stated matter-of-factly.

Peter pointed at Remus and Sirius lazily. "Ask those two."

"We thought you two needed some alone time," Remus dropped his arms and turned to James, "to—you know—fall in loooove."

James stared at the three of them for a few moments. "That was really not necessary."

Sirius squinted his eyes suspiciously at him and took a step closer, studying his face. "You know, James, you are acting weird. This is not the James Potter I became friends with. You've changed, mate, and I don't like it." He took another step closer to him, "I don't like it at all!" He whispered the last part dramatically before swinging back around and walking away.

"What are you hiding, James?" Peter asked him in the same suspicious tone.

James rolled his eyes. "I'm not hiding anything!"

"That was a little defensive." Remus crossed his arms as he studied him.

The door to the bathroom was jerked open at that moment and Lily exited, holding a roll of toilet paper.

"Just so you buttheads know, there are limited amounts of this," she said while waving the toilet paper around in the air, "so while you are here, NO number twos!"

All four of the boys fought not to laugh at this. It turned out to be very hard to control themselves. They only managed weak nods at the angry Lily who seemed satisfied before stomping back into the bathroom.

Sirius turned to Remus. "What have we done?"