…And in the Fifth Hour…

As soon as Sirius came out of the bathroom, Lily jumped on his back and handcuffed him to the nearest bedpost.

Sirius stared down at his handcuffed wrist, confused by how fast this encounter had gone. Lily happily slid off of his back and walked around to face him with a cheeky grin in place. The others simply watched this. They didn't want to be the center of Lily's anger, so they let it be. Plus, it was most probably going to be fun to watch.

"Damn you Debbie!" Sirius hollered at the ceiling.

He had asked if it was ok to come out of the bathroom, and Lily had said yes. She had sounded calm, so he figured he would just go ahead and hope for the best. Clearly, he should have waited longer.

"Alright Evans, this is going a bit far," he said, trying to sound calm, but on the inside he was getting a little freaked out.

Lily kept her grin in place as she shook her head. "No, Sirius.This is going too far."

Quickly, before he could react, Lily licked one of her fingers and dug it into Sirius's ear.

"AAHHH!" Sirius shrieked, not from pain, but from being completely grossed out.

He started smacking at her hand but she pulled it away before he could make contact.

"That was for Remus's lemon boxers!" She yelled.

"What!" Sirius asked incredulously, having no idea what she was talking about. But then he forgot this strange comment when he saw Lily start to circle him like he was her prey. "Ok, what is it that you want?" He asked.

"Well first, I want an apology." Lily snapped. "And second, I want to know whose idea it was to lock me in here with Potter."

Sirius shook his head. Apologizing for saying that nasty thing to Lily was no big deal. He could do that. But telling her who had come up with the incredibly stupid master plan of locking James and Lily in here together, he couldn't answer that. Honestly, he couldn't remember if it was him or Remus that had come up with it first. Peter's account of things did nothing to answer the question.

But he could always lie.

"I'm sorry Lily." He said, trying to sound sincere. "And it was Peter."

"WHAT?" Peter shrieked from his seat next to James on Lily's bed.

Lily didn't take her eyes off of Sirius. "No it wasn't. You're doing that thing you do when you lie."

Lily had no idea what signs Sirius gave to tell that he was lying; she didn't know him that well. She just said that to mess with him. And apparently it worked.

"Ok, fine, it was James."

Placing her hands on her hips, Lily fixed him with an intense stare. "Sirius. I could make this much much worse for you," she warned in a dangerous tone.

And Sirius was sure she could. But surely one of his friends would do something to help him. Surely. Yes, just like they had all rushed to help him when Lily was beating him to a bloody pulp with her text book. As this memory came back to him, Sirius pulled on the handcuffs but they were very much attached to the bed post and weren't going to come off easily.

Lily however, was ignoring his weak attempt to get away. Instead, she had gone over to her trunk and started searching through it. Finally she found two large vials that she used in potions. They would work perfectly for her plan.

Then she went into the bathroom and the boys could hear the sink running.

"Someone help me!" Sirius hissed at the entertained trio on Lily's bed.

With a big grin in place, James shook his head. "You asked for it, mate. What did you say to her, anyway?"

Sirius couldn't help but smirk at little. "I asked her-"

But Lily came out of the bathroom, ending this conversation. One of the vials in her hand was filled halfway with water, the other was still empty.

"So, Sirius," she said, "I've heard the rumor that you have a very weak bladder. I would like to test that theory." And with that, Lily sloooowly poured the water from one vial into the other. She let it drip one drop at a time.

One drop. Two drops. Three drops. A sweat broke out across Sirius's brow. Now he wished he had used the bathroom when he had gone in there instead of making funny faces in the mirror and going through Lily's stuff.

It was true that he had weak bladder, but he wasn't sure how Lily got this bit of information…

Over on Lily's bed, James was glad that he had told Lily about Sirius's bladder problems. It would most probably score him some major points with his favorite redhead. He was sure that Sirius would forgive him later for this. That is, if he found out that he had been the one to tell her.

Of course, Sirius would have to forgive him. Though they kept arguing over whose idea it had been to lock him in here with Lily, James was willing to bet that it had been Sirius. It just seemed so…Sirius like. Getting all five of them locked in this room would undoubtedly make him lose points with Lily. So therefore, in James's mind, it was ok to tell Lily about Sirius's bladder problems.

While James had been thinking this over, Lily had made some progress in her 'torture'.

She tilted the vial filled with water into the empty one and agonizingly slowly poured the water into it.

Sirius broke.

"ALRIGHT!" He roared. "It was MY IDEA! I came up with the whole thing and I'm sorry!"

Lily stopped her pouring of the vials and stared at him. "Really? It was you?"

"YES," he confessed, "now please let me go to the bathroom."

"Say you're sorry."

"I'm sorry."

Sighing, Lily carried the vials into the bathroom as Sirius yelled at her to hurry up. Once she was finished, she came back out and looked at him.

"Ok, where did you put the key?" She asked, motioning towards the handcuffs.

Sirius gaped at her. "WHAT KEY?"

Lily stared at him. "The key to the handcuffs, moron, where did you put them?"

"Oh hell NO," Sirius felt himself paling dramatically at these words. He never remembered seeing a key. He had just been so excited to find the handcuffs, he hadn't ever looked for one. "Look under Debbie's bed!" He yelled, pressing his legs together.

Remus, Peter, and James, who were finding this to be hilarious, were once again howling with laughter.

Lily was starting to feel guilty. She had only wanted to mess with Sirius; she didn't want to end up with his bladder bursting. That was a level of mean that even she couldn't go to. She rushed over to Debbie's bed, ignoring the laughter coming from the other three Marauders, and started searching frantically for the key.

"HURRY UP!" Sirius was screeching at her, making things tenser than they already were.

The stupid key was no where to be found. Lily searched every inch under Debbie's bed and then every inch on top of it. She stood up to tell Sirius that she couldn't find it, only to see that someone had brought him a trashcan over and he was busy urinating into it.

And then her eyeballs nearly exploded.

"AAH!" She covered her eyes and spun back around to get away from this sight. That was forever going to burned into her retinas now.

Remus, James, and Peter were still laughing like a pack of hyenas over on her bed. She furiously shot them a look that could burn through lead. They all shut up at once.

"Ah, that is much better," Sirius was sighing happily and Lily could hear the sound of his pants zipping.

Assuming that it was safe to turn around now, Lily did just that. She sent James a pouty look.

"James, will you take care of that?" She motioned to the now ruined trashcan.

He stared at her. "Ew." But when she made her eyes go a little bigger and rounder, he sighed. "Oh alright..."

James shuffled over to pick up the trashcan and Sirius made a sound that sounded remarkably like a whip in James's direction.

Once James had entered the bathroom, Lily made her way over to Sirius.

"I'm sorry if you are." She told him.

He lifted an eyebrow at this. "Was that your first apology ever?"

Lily shrugged. "Yes."

After staring at each other for a minute, Sirius nodded. "Ok, I forgive you…and I'm sorry too. For everything." He held his free arm out to her in an invitation for a hug, and she accepted, wrapping her arms around his waist and warning him not to touch her with that hand.

Peter and Remus applauded.

"Just remember," he said into her hair, "If you decide not to go with James after all, there's always Sirius Black. You know, once you go Black you never go back."

Rolling her eyes at this corny remark, Lily laughed.

James finished furiously scrubbing hands in the sink and came out to this sight.

"What are you doing?" He hollered.

Everyone turned to look at him.

"I mean, I er-" He started ruffling his hair, "let's all sit far apart from each other. That sounds fun, doesn't it?"

After giving him a knowing look, Sirius let go of Lily and motioned towards the handcuffs still connecting him to the bed post.

"Can someone help me here? Surely there's another way out of these."

"What fun would that be?" Remus muttered quietly as he made his way with Peter over to Sirius. No one heard this remark, however, as they all started trying to think of ways to get Sirius free.

They spent twenty minutes doing this. Their first thought, and the most hated solution by Sirius was for all of them to spit on Sirius's wrist to make it slick so that they could slip the handcuffs off. Of course they knew that it would be the same thing for them to just get water and throw it on him, but spitting was more fun. Plus it was funny to hear Sirius screaming like a girl.

Then, when this didn't work, Lily found a hair pin and started trying to pick the lock. This didn't work either. Then the boys decided to figure out who was the strongest by kicking, punching, and pulling on the bed post and trying to rip it from the rest of the bed.

This obviously did not work either.

It was after that that James thought to get shampoo and put it on Sirius's wrist. That had actually been working. Until Remus and Peter had also gotten shampoo and started to unnecessarily pour it on parts of Sirius that weren't chained to the bed.

Like down the front of his shirt, and then down his pants.

Lily screamed at them about wasting money, Sirius screamed something about it burning down his pants, Peter screamed when Lily took the shampoo from him and smacked him with the bottle, Remus laughed as he poured his whole bottle on Sirius's head, and James was still trying to work Sirius's wrist free through all of this chaos.

After another ten minutes of that, Peter was hiding from Lily in the closet, sporting a bruise on his arm in the shape of a shampoo bottle, Remus was cramping from laughing so hard, Lily was trying to get the shampoo off of the floor, James was looking very tired, and Sirius, finally free, and covered in shampoo was trudging into the bathroom to go take a shower.