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Written for the February Event (Teamwork) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Teamwork Prompts: (Lyric) "I'll drown my beliefs to have your babies.", (genre) Romantic Comedy

1000 Word Challenge: Dare

Word Count: 783

James' Declaration

"Go on Prongs, I dare you," Sirius whispered, giving his fellow marauder a little nudge in the back. "Quick, do it now before she leaves."

James glared at his so-called best friends and clambered up from his seat in the Great Hall just as Lily walked past.

"Hey Evans!" he called loudly, capturing the attention of the fiery redhead, ruing the moment he ever made that silly bet with Padfoot.

"what do you want James?" she asked spinning around to face him.

"I'll drown my beliefs to have your babies." James declared, getting down on to his knees in front of Lily and raising his arms above him.

Lily quirked her eyebrow at James, before exchanging humoured looks with her two best friends.

"And what beliefs would they be Potter?" she asked. "That you can get away with cursing anyone and everyone who gets in your way just because you 'feel like it?' Or how about the notion that all Slytherins are evil?"

"Agree to go on a date with me and maybe you'll find out." James suggested waggling his eyebrows. "Come on you know you want to Evans. How many guys do you know who will offer to have your babies? Well apart from Snape that is."

James heard his friends behind him stifle a snigger as he fought to keep a smirk off his face. It was a well known fact at Hogwarts that Severus Snape had some kind of obsession with Lily, and hovered around her like a bad smell despite the fact that she had ended their friendship over a year and a half ago. It was something that irked James to no end.

"You can't have babies Potter!" Lily stated, furrowing her eyebrows at her fellow Gryffindor, wondering if he had taken a bludger too many to the head. "It's impossible, just like the chances of me ever agreeing to go on a date with a pompous arse like you."

"If you agree to go out with me, I'll find a way to make it possible Evans." James promised, shuffling closer towards Lily on his knees in full awareness of the number of eyes currently on him. "I'll save you from the pain of childbirth and cursing my name anymore than you already have."

"I will never stop cursing your name Potter." Lily laughed quietly. "Why don't you go and find your broomstick and have her babies instead? You might find her to be a more willing partner."

The girls next to Lily burst out into fits of laughter as soon as the words left their friend's mouth.

"Hey Lils what goes on between Prongs and his broomstick in private is for the changing rooms and the changing rooms only," Sirius chirped in, earning a roar of laughter from Remus and Peter.

James turned towards his friend and narrowed his eyes at him, silently telling him that what he just said was totally uncalled for, even though if roles were reversed he would have said the same.

"Dude, you're supposed to be improving my chances, not encouraging Evans," he muttered out of the corner of his mouth. "Talk me up Pads, or I'll tell McKinnon what you – "

"Okay, okay," he whispered raising his hands in mock surrender, and turning back to the head girl. "Lily did you know that Prongs here has a rather large 'broomstick' and it's never been used, if you know what I mean? Maybe you could let him take you for a ride on it sometime."

Sirius fought to keep back the laugh that he so desperately wanted to let out as he felt two hands simultaneously slap him across the face and the back of his respectively.

"See you guys are a match made in heaven," he called as Lily and her friends walked away from the marauders. "Two halves of a whole. Like two peas in a pod. Evans, you're the Amata to his Sir Luckless."

The group of Gryffindor girls carried on walking away without even so much as a backwards glance at the marauders.

"Give it up Pads, she's gone," James lamented as his eyes followed her out of the Great Hall. "I think you've just gone and blown any chance I had with her dude."

James picked up his Pumpkin Juice from the table, and took a long deep drink from it, wishing that it contained something a little stronger.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that pal. I mean did you see the way she checked out your package before they left. She's definitely interested," Sirius said, casually throwing his arm around James' neck. "Trust me mate, she'll be your girlfriend before Christmas, and that's a promise."

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