When James left the bathroom the dorm room was completely empty apart from peters cat who was lounging around on the floor. The fat orange cat was prone to laying in patches of the sunlight and not often leaving the room. James hadn't ever had much to do with the cat but neither had Peter, he often forgot feed the beast. Sticking to tradition he rolled his eyes and ignored the cat. He was just loosening his tie (to look devilishly handsome) when Peters cat lunged at him and stuck its claws into his thigh.
"WHAT THE FUCK!!" he yelled in a high-pitched voice flinging the cat from him. "Get off me you dirty rat" James grabbed his bag and wand and ran out of the room wincing as each foot hit the hard-wooden floor.
Limping down the stairs a well of blood was growing on the outside of James's pants. His day was not starting off well considering his mum had threatened him only last week about not sending anymore clothes. It wasn't like he knew Sirius was going to attempt to breath fire while on James's bed. He would have to beg Remus to perform a healing spell on him before transfiguration or else McGonagall would have his head.
Walking down to the hall he tried to keep his mind focused on what he would have for breakfast; scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, bright orange pumpkin juice with dazzling green eyes and a mean temper. DAMMIT he couldn't get his mind off Lily. Sweet Lily with her cute freckles and her ability to slap him in the face even though she was a foot and a half shorter than him.
"arghhh"
People walking in the halls behind him stopped to look. He had said it out loud and he was now blushing a Bright scarlet.
"okay so can we go over the plan one more time before James gets here?" peter asked clearly not paying attention to the last three times they went over the plan.
Remus sighed "we leave Lily a note saying that she has to meet Slughorn in the empty classroom on the sixth floor on Friday, then we get Alice to take her wand beforehand otherwise shell get out. Then we tell Prongs that Lily wants to meet him in the same classroom 5 minutes after Lily gets there. Then we wait outside under James's cloak and SHERBAG! We lock the door" Remus ended by dazzling his hands a little.
"sherbang?" Sirius asked, making the exact face he makes when asked a question in Herbology. Sirius wasn't a student who liked to pay much attention, well he wasn't a student who like to LOOK as if he was paying attention. He only took herbology because he knew it would annoy his parents if they found out. But when he was asked a question in class his face would all scrunch up and he made a weird wheezing noise that indicated that he had no idea.
"it's a muggle word, just let it go" peter explained clearly having heard it before.
Sirius just let out a loud 'hmph' not impressed that he was the only one who hadn't heard the phrase.
The boys sat eating their breakfast and contemplating the plan over their morning pumpkin juice when James walked in. usually when James entered the hall everyone would stop what they were doing and stare. This morning everyone did stare but it wasn't at his good looks it was at how terrible he seemed. Instead of how he usually looked; jet black hair all messy but in a neat way, loose tie, clean shirt and a big grin.
James's pants had a grey stain growing bigger and bigger every step he took, his hair was tangled and looked as if he fell in the bin with all the lint that had been caught up. His cool, calm demeaner that radiated off him was replaced with anxiety and stress. His tie was cut in half and he had food stuck in his teeth.
From the common room to the great hall James had fallen down a flight of stairs right into a student holding their breakfast, he had been slapped by some girl who though that he was Sirius and that wasn't the worst of it. he sat down at the table between peter and Remus and laid his head on an empty plate needing some rest. Laughter erupted at the Gryffindor table mainly around James, most of it coming from Sirius. Tears of laughter streamed down his face as well as Peters and Remus's. after around five minutes the laughter had died down, and the three boys were left on the ground holding their stomachs and puffing.
A loud sigh was let out from James's direction "are you guys finally done?"
A small giggle escaped Sirius
Wiping away a tear, "yes, now what the hell happened to you!?" Remus asked stifling a laugh.
"clearly nothing good!" James yelled back his face still on a plate. He took a moment to breath and sat up. "can one of you please heal my leg? If I go all the way to see miss Pomfrey the bloody patch will be the size of my leg." He justified.
Remus didn't even answer, he just pulled out his wand and tried to remember the spell. When he went to preform it, Sirius butted in and shouted the spell with unearned confidence.
"siRIUS!" James shouted clutching the table, attempting to deal with the pain.
James looked down at his leg and saw that the bleeding had stopped, and he couldn't even feel anything.
"see, it worked didn't it" Sirius stated crossing his arms and acting superior.
"I can't feel my leg" James said a little baffled and breathless
"I think what you meant to say was 'thankyou'" Sirius stated, sticking his nose up in to the air.
"SIRIUS!!! I CAN'T FEEL MY LEG!" James shouted running low on patients.
"shit!" Sirius let out got onto his knees and started apologising.
