The Londoner Marauder☆Jily AU

《 ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ #07》

Warning: Can cause death by Kadora fluff. Kindly proceed with caution. Aurora Esmeralda Potter will not take the blame for any deaths due to fangirl attacks. Thank you.

3rd February 1977, Hogwarts, Scotland

"Tell me, do you like Tsuki?" Sirius glared at James, arms crossed and a permanent scowl on his face.

"Obviously I do! Why would I date her if I didn't like her?" James frowned at his best mate, running a hand through his hair and staring down at Sirius.

"Oh I don't know," Sirius said sarcastically. "Maybe because you're a stupid, oblivious idiot who decides his fate without looking around him? You can't fucking wait to ask Evans about her view of you? Then you go around dating Yui Tsuki of all people?"

"First of all," James started, "Lily does not like me. Yui is the, er, practical choice. She's been after me since fourth year...so yeah, maybe she'll keep my mind off Lily. Plus, we share interests."

For two whole minutes, Sirius stared at James with an expression of total disbelief on his face, like James had just told him that the Puddlemere United just ranked the worst in the quidditch league. Then, he facepalmed and scowled again.

"Share interests!" Sirius groaned, flopping down on his bed. "Your only interests are quidditch, Evans, art and music. As far as I know (or as far as Kate's knowledge about Ancient Runes-obsessed people went), Tsuki is no fan of art and music. Quidditch, yeah, but Evans? Both of you love her?"

"Padfoot!" James spluttered, blushing. "We talk about quidditch!"

"That's all?" Sirius demanded. "Hey, Yui, did you know that Puddlemere won again? Hey, James, Kristy Thompson from the Chudley Cannons is hot, don't you think so? This is what you talk about?"

"We discuss strategies!" James sounded offended.

"Hey, that Ray's Roll makes any player's ass look hot, right?" Sirius gushed in his best Yui-ish voice.

"Padfoot," James warned, the corners of his eyes crinkling.

"Prongs," Sirius repeated in the same tone, smirking.

A pillow came flying towards Sirius, followed by another, and another ahd another until the whole dormitory was covered in feathers and the not-related-by-blood brothers was howling with laughter on the floor.

*~*~*~*~*~*~

4th February 1977, Beauxbatons, France

"Oh I'm so fucking glad about your break up," Marlene sighed happily, throwing an arm around Lily's shoulders.

"Xavier called it quits." Lily shrugged. "He said that we were not so comfortable with each other. It would be better as friends. I agreed, partially because I still love James."

"The Londoner Maurader owns your heart," Marlene said, rolling her eyes.

"If only I could be his," Lily sighed in defeat.

"You could be, if worked up the fucking courage to tell him that."

And where was the lie in her words? Lily mused as she heard Marlene rant about heavy workload and stupid boys with stupid date ideas. Mary was sitting at the foot of the bed, listening eagerly to Marlene and adding a few notes of her own, nods, and exclamations. Mary MacDonald was a nice audience if you ever wanted to rant.

While they talked, or more like Marlene ranted and Mary listened, Lily read some books, sipped green tea and daydreamed about James. Finally, she felt someone poke her sides and blinked at Mary.

"I asked you something." Mary frowned at her.

"Huh? Blanked out for a second there, what was it?" Lily asked, giving her and Marlene an apologetic smile.

Mary pursued her lips, clearly not satisfied with this answer, and said, "I do not accept it, but we'll talk about it later. I asked how you feel about a night in the Adhara Cottage tomorrow?"

"Cool," answered Lily, still looking slightly distracted.

"God damnit, Lils!" Marlene exclaimed suddenly, shaking Lily's shoulder forcefully, which had the redhead cursing rather badly. "Get out of Potter Land! You're literally a Potterhead!"

"Potterhead?" Lily and Mary echoed, blinking.

"Potterhead," Marlene confirmed. "Someone who has James Potter stuck in their head is a Potterhead."

"Miss Lily Potterhead Evans!" Mary giggled.

"Lily Potter," Marlene said, smirking slyly.

"Its beautiful," Mary breathed.

"GUYS!" Lily shouted, blushing to the roots of her hair. She clapped her hands to her ears and dived inside her white comforter. She could hear the muffled laughter of her true fucking traitorous best friends above her, but did not push them away when they wrapped their arms around her.

After all, what was friendship without a little teasing?

*~*~*~*~*~*~

5th February 1977, Hogwarts, Scotland

"A prank war."

"A what?" The Marauders and Alice blinked at Isadora and Kate.

"A prank war," repeated Kate firmly.

"Why?" Alice asked, looking genuinely curious.

"Because we are bored!" Isadora and Kate cried out together, rolling their eyes and glaring down at them, their arms crossed and matching glints of mischief swirling in their (currently) same eyes, blue-grey.

"I'm all for it!" The Marauders shouted together, leaving Alice to shrug. She agreed anyway, bless her soft, kind little heart. No wonder Frank Longbottom was a simp for her.

"Fucking fantastic!" Kate said eagerly. "Here are the rules-"

"Four teams-" Isadora interuppted.

"Two in each!"

"War will continue until the end of February!"

"Prank the other teams--"

"The one with the highest number of successful pranks will-"

"WIN!" All of them yelled together.

"But there are seven of us," Alice noted. "Which means that one of us must be alone."

"No worries!" Isadora chirped merrily. "Scarlett Potter's more than happy to join in! Soo..Siri and Jay, Em and Dorky, Katie and I, Ali amd Scar. Done! Easy!"

Kate beamed and wrapped her arms around Isadora in a tight hug. "You are a ray of sunshine!" the metamorphmagus exclaimed, kissing Isadora's cheek which had the girl blushing cutely.

"Amazing!" Scarlett Potter exclaimed, jumping out if nowhere and sitting between James and Sirius.

Emmeline and Dorcas shared a look and raced out of the common room, shouting after them "THE WARS START!"

A/N: #Kadora4life #AuroraIsABitch #CancelAurora2021. Take care and stay safe.

Love,
~Aurora♡