James's Revenge- Chapter two
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"Prongs, you should just give up on her."
If anyone was to walk into the seventh year Gryffindor boy's dorm, these were the words they would've heard just then. And if they happened to be facing towards the middle bed, they would've seen James's scowl deepen quite considerably.
As fate would have it, someone had just walked into the boy's dorm and was facing towards the middle bed. This person happened to be Remus and as soon as he heard these words and saw James glaring fiercely, he had crossed the room and sat down on the floor in front of the bed. "What did you do this time?" He asked.
James turned his gaze towards him and looked offended. "Me? Why must you always assume that I did something?" He demanded.
Remus just raised his eyebrows at James and calmly said, "Because you're the one frowning at us like you got rejected, again, and Peter is the one telling you that you should give up on her. I think we all know who 'she' is, so what happened this time?"
"I charmed her hair to match her eyes… and glow… you know, just to get back at her a little for that time she yelled at me in front of the entire Great Hall." James replied sulkily.
Remus rolled his eyes at James. Sirius sat up from his spot on the bed quickly. "That's it! Get back at her."
Remus ignored him and went on. "James, which time was that? She's done it multiple times, but only because you keep asking her in front of everyone." He informed the love-sick fool on the bed.
James sniffed haughtily and opened his mouth to say something but Peter cut him off, "I still think you should just give up on her, mate and you'll be better off."
"Give up?" James asked, feeling affronted. "I'm a Potter, and Potter's do NOT just give up! Especially not on Lily." Here he paused to sigh loudly. "The problem is I can't give up on her, no matter how much she hates me."
"Guys." Sirius said, trying to get their attention.
"So what am I supposed to do? I don't want to be doomed to be single all my life! Oh, I can see it now: poor lonely James Potter, he never got the girl of his dreams. True love no longer exists for him…" James gave a dramatic cry and flopped backwards on the bed.
"GUYS!" Sirius yelled and the other three turned to look at him. "Finally." Sirius grumbled. "Took you guys long enough. And here I was thinking you were my best friends!"
James sat up and glared at Sirius again. "We are your best friends. However, I'm in the middle of a tragic life crisis so I would rather focus on that, thanks." He retorted.
"Yes. But what if I have a solution to your crisis for you?"
"I don't want a solution! I want sympathy. No solution, yes sympathy."
"Alright fine." Sirius said, "I guess I will just sit back at let Lily ride away in the sunset with Snivelly then."
James went from slouching position to sitting bolt upright in a split second. "What?!"
"I said, I'll ju- "
"Noo! Don't tell me! Lily wouldn't do that!" He yelled, covering his face with his hands. "Would she?" He asked, peeking out of his fingers.
Sirius nodded grimly. "Yup. In fact, I even heard her whispering about it in the Common Room just yesterday."
"NOO!" James wailed loudly, throwing himself off the bed and landing face-first on the carpet beside it. "I'm doomed." He muttered miserably.
Remus shook his head at Peter and mouthed, "I think hanging upside down got to his brain."
Peter looked alarmed at this information and moved as if to go help James but Remus whispered, "He should be back to normal after a sleep."
Wormtail looked relieved and got up to take to empty spot on James's bed. Sirius crawled forward so he could peek off the bed at James. "Prongsy mate, calm down. I was just joking."
"Don't call me Prongsy." James said sitting up.
"Whatever. Now are you going to listen to my idea?" Sirius asked impatiently.
"I guess. As long as it helps me get Lily." James grudgingly.
"Well… maybe you could get revenge on her." Sirius suggested. "You know, get back at her and show her you don't care."
"Padfoot! I am not getting revenge on Lily for whatever reason you may come up with. I don't want to hurt her and I don't think I could even if I tried." James protested.
Remus looked thoughtful. "Oh come on James, you have to admit it could work. And it is a pretty good idea. Well, as good an idea as Sirius can come up with." Remus said looking in Sirius's direction.
"Hey! Are you saying I don't have any good ideas?" Sirius demanded.
"Don't do that. It makes you look like a little girl. And anyway, I thought we were talking about me and Lily not Sirius's ideas however bad they may be."
"See!" Sirius shouted accusingly. "Even James thinks my ideas are terrible. What is this?"
"Padfoot shut up! We are trying to help James here!" Remus yelled at Sirius.
"Fine." Sirius grumbled.
"So what am I going to do?" James asked again.
Peter looked up from his spot on the bed. "Maybe you should try to get revenge on her James." He spoke up.
James huffed noisily. "Ugh, not you too! I don't want to get revenge on Lily, ok? Let's think of something else."
"Look James, I'm tired of you being all depressed whenever Lily rejects you and we just want to help, ok? Lily is a great friend of mine too and I would never do anything that would cause her harm, and I'm sure you wouldn't either." Remus said sensibly. "So if you got revenge on her, in a harmless way of course, it might open her eyes up more."
James sighed resignedly. There was no way out of it once Remus started using his Moony logic powers. "Fine, I'll do it. What do you suggest?"
Sirius grinned, a mischievous sparkle coming to his eyes. "Well now that you ask…"
"Don't even think about it." James cut in quickly.
"What?" Sirius asked innocently. "We are Marauders; we should be able to do something awesome."
"Well what you could do is actually keep to what you said. Don't ask her out again for a little while." Remus suggested. "It's not quite revenge but it will show her you're serious about it."
"It isn't going to change much. She still hates me. I bet she will feel glad I'm not asking her." James said and Remus gave a small, knowing smile. "And a prank won't work. It backfires every time and just makes her hate me even more.
The four of them sat in silence and thought for a while. The Gryffindor boy's dorm was eerily quiet. It was never this peaceful with all the Marauders there.
"Suppose…" Sirius said as an idea started forming in his head. "Suppose you got a girlfriend. Not Lily, but someone else. You know, to show her that you've moved on and don't care anymore."
"I suppose I could do that." James said doubtfully.
"Yes James. I think you should do that. It would give her time to get over her supposed hatred towards you and make her realize some of the feelings she might have for you." Remus agreed.
"So… I should basically just ignore her?" James asked.
"Yeah, that and pay lots of attention to your new girlfriend." Remus said.
"Yep! And it will be the greatest revenge in history! My idea wasn't so bad after all!" Sirius said gleefully, jumping off the bed and throwing his arms up in the air in excitement.
James chuckled. "Well I guess it couldn't hurt…"
"Nah why would it hurt Lily? She doesn't care! She might even get jealous! So let's start the plan right now by finding you a girlfriend! Operation set James up is now in action!" Sirius said, doing a little dance around James.
"Yeah, with all the girls that have a crush on you it shouldn't be that hard." Peter snorted.
"Well ok…"
"Now who would you most prefer to be with, James?" Remus asked.
James shrugged. "Lily. But that's not an option is it?" He asked and the others shook their heads. "Well then I don't really care. But preferably someone in Gryffindor and in our year or similar. That way Lily would see her a lot."
"Well definitely not Alice. Frank likes her and he wouldn't like you going out with her just for some revenge. Not Mary, she's just plain rude. Oh! I know! How 'bout Lisa?" Sirius wondered out loud.
"Yeah, I guess that would do." James agreed.
"So it's settled then." Remus said, standing up and heading towards the Potions homework he had to do.
Sirius jumped about excitedly. "High five Prongs! This plan is awesome!"
The four boys then went their separate ways to enjoy the time they had to do whatever they wanted before bed. They all woke up early the next morning, ready to set their plan into motion.
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My editing seems to make the chapters much longer. This one if about three times the length it was originally. Well, anyway, hope you all enjoyed it! I got a little bit carried away with their conversation, I hope you don't mind. :)
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