Pushing the Right Buttons: Pink, Pink, Pink
Disclaimer: The song I used 'Teenage FBI' can be found on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack. (Means the back up singers are singing as well)
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Lily was amazed she was actually doing this. She had the potion, the plan, and the intense desire to see it done. It was right before the Halloween Feast, and the Marauders were tying up their mini concert with a brand new song, written by James. Remus however, was doing the actual singing as usual. Sirius and James sang backup and did the guitars, another one of their friends, Mundungus Fletcher, was the drummer, Peter would help set up the stage and that was the extent of his abilities.
"Someone tell me why
I do the things
that I don't want to do!
When (you're around me)
And somebody else.
Someone tell me why,
I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When (You're around me)
And somebody else.
"You ready Katie?" Lily asked nervously. Sonya and Laura smiled slightly amused, it was the twentieth time Lily had asked, literally Laura was keeping tally.
Katie was doing most of the work on this one. She smiled a cocky kind of smile and sighed happily. "More than ready, right after this last song. This is going to be so much FUN!" Katie punched the air to show her enthusiasm.
"Well put the potion in the cup then!" Lily prompted impatiently. Katie immediately complied, and was careful not to drink her pumpkin juice after.
"Gee Katie, a little anxious to play with Sirius' heart?" Laura sighed.
"Nah, I just want to flirt with him." She replied with a wide grin, Sonya giggled. "What?"
A few minutes later and the song had finished. James, Remus, Mundy (as most students called him) and Sirius took their seats. Katie (with her goblet of pumpkin juice in one hand) and Lily stood up and walked over to them, Lily doing her best to look as though she was being forced to go. "Hey there." Katie said a sultry smile on her face. She sat down on the long bench sidesaddle and placed her cup next to Sirius', Lily remained standing a stony look on her face.
"Hey." Sirius replied, his chocolate brown eyes quickly looked her over before he turned back to the conversation he and Remus had been having. They were talking about some final touches one of their new songs needed. "How about 'Passionate lady, give me your love' instead?" He asked his eyes briefly flicking to Katie, Remus considered a moment before nodding approval.
Lily rolled her eyes, as Katie glared slightly upset that she wasn't getting the attention she wanted. Lily saw the instant that Katie decided to throw caution to the wind and go all out. She reached over with the hand that wasn't on her cup, and forced Sirius to look at her. "How are you hot stuff?" Remus, Peter, Mundy and James' heads snapped to look at her. Katie used the fact that they were looking up at her and not at the table to switch her cup and Sirius'.
Sirius blinked twice and, Lily could swear that she saw a bead of sweat form on his forehead and something melt in his eyes. "Fine, and you?" He was speaking normally though.
The other Marauders, disappointed that they wouldn't be seeing a flabbergasted Sirius turned away, bored already. James switched his attention to Lily, as he had nothing better to do. "What are you doing here?" He asked, an eyebrow raised.
"I'm here under duress." She replied coolly, jerking her head over to where Katie was still trying to ruffle Sirius' cool demeanor. She had leaned in even closer and refused to let him go. "Are you quite finished yet?" Lily snapped.
Katie smirked devilishly, "Almost," She purred. "Give me a second." She kissed Sirius on the lips, holding him there for several seconds. "See you." She winked at him and walked back down to the section of the table they're friends were sitting.
Sirius and the others stared as she walked away. Sirius in complete and total shock, the other Marauders turned to one another began wondering what had just happened. "What was that all about?" Peter asked.
"I dunno." Sirius responded, STILL staring.
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The next morning, a Saturday, found James Potter happily floating in that nice warm little area between still sleeping and waking up. He was having a very nice dream about something or other (Fire Lily, as he had taken to calling her) when something jarred him from said happy floating.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
James and the other boys in the dormitory jerked back the curtains on their beds to see who had screamed and why. "What's going on?" He blinked the last bit of sleep from his eyes, as the other boys added their half-asleep musings.
"Is anybody hurt?" Remus asked climbing out of his bed.
"Who screamed?" Mundy said at the same instant.
Peter turned over and mumbled something about his mommy before waking up. "Whas zaa zaa?" He said, only semi-coherent.
"Someone played a prank on me!" Came a voice from in the closet. Sirius' James figured because he was the only one missing.
"And?" James said, before the statement had fully sunken in. "Waitaminute! Someone played a prank on YOU! How! When! HOW!" The others looked at each other in shock. No one had been able to play a prank on them before.
"The (bleep, bleep, bleep) if I know!" Came Sirius' still muffled voice.
"What did they do to you?" Remus asked.
"(Bleep bleep bleep-ing bleep bleep)!"
"That's not telling me much." Remus smiled softly at the string of rather angry and vulgar words.
"Sirius just come out of there!" James marched over to the closet door and tried to open it. It didn't work, Sirius was holding it shut from the other side.
"How bad can it be?" Mundy asked biting back laughs.
"Bad."
"How bad!!!!"
"I hate pink." Sirius moaned woefully. This time it was James who was using the angry and vulgar words. "Alright, but don't laugh, this isn't remotely funny." Sirius cautiously stepped out blushing almost as pink as his hair. Yes, his hair. It was a horrid, horrid shade of bubble gum pink, with darker streaks of hot pink through it, for good measure.
They tried, they really, really, tried. Honestly, they did. But one little snort from Mundy was all it took and he, Remus, James and Peter burst out laughing.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!"
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James had managed to get Sirius to go through the day as though his jet- black hair wasn't pink. Things did go rather normally, except for the fact that when people saw Sirius for the first time that weekend, they promptly burst out laughing. And despite the fact that for most of Saturday morning Sirius sulked about it, by that evening he was able to chuckle and admit it was a rather good prank.
Sunday found that Sirius was playing along, now that he was used to the fact that someone had played a Marauder-worthy prank on him, quite frankly it wasn't anything he wouldn't have done himself. At the top of each hot pink streak he put a lavender ribbon, braided it, and then had a shiny bead at the bottom. Every once in awhile he would charm the ribbons another color and then ask the people around him if it clashed.
James walked up to where Lily, Katie, Sonya, and Laura, were sitting in the library. He grinned and stuck out his hand. "Congratulations on a prank well played."
"How-?" Laura began.
"Thanks, so what does Sirius think of his new hairstyle?" Sonya asked.
James suddenly frowned. "Actually I wanted to talk to you about that. Or actually I needed to talk to Lily about it."
"You can talk here." Lily responded rather coolly.
"Look Evans, I'm calling a temporary truce, for a very important reason. It's not something I can talk about here though so if you would please…" He trailed off and gestured to the door.
"Fine." Lily stood and they walked out into the corridor. "Spill." She growled spinning around and shoving his shoulder to the wall.
"Again congratulations on the prank. However, you need to clean up the mess that you have now made." James was glaring at her, for some reason that Lily couldn't quite place. She raised an eyebrow and waited for him to go on. "See, my dear Marauder wannabe-"
"WANNABE! Excuse me, but I don't want to be an immature prankster, thank you very much! I'm just giving you some well-deserved payback!!!" Lily stamped her foot to emphasize her comments. James stood stoically in the face of her newest temper tantrum.
"Are you quite finished?"
'ARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Lily thought, 'How does he know exactly what it takes to make me angrier than I already am?!' She nodded mutely as she didn't trust herself to say anything.
"As I was saying, Sirius has had a long time crush on little Miss Katie back there. And just when he thinks she just might have noticed his existence in the halls of Hogwarts, it's revealed,"
"That she was only talking to him to play a rather humiliating prank on him." Lily finished for him and cringed. "Ouch."
"Ouch is right. Sirius might be pretending to enjoy his new hairstyle, but the fact of the matter is he is truly upset by this new development. If anything can be said for Sirius, it's he's a good actor."
"If it's any consolation, Katie had a bit of a thing for Sirius as well. She played that prank mainly to help me out, and to show Sirius she was up to his level."
James finally smiled. "I hoped so, Sirius is quite taken with her. Unfortunately this hasn't worked out the way that was intended it would seem. So you, Fire Lily, have to fix it. And as I'm the one that got you angry with us in the first place, honor dictates I must help."
Lily gave a disdainful snort. "You and honor? Can you put those two words in the same sentence?"
James' steel blue eyes seemed to shift somehow and he tensely replied that they had best figure out what they were going to do exactly, turned on his heel and left.
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AN: Remus's prank is in the next chapter! If I can figure out exactly what I'm going to do to the poor boy. I ran this by with some of my friends and they came up with some really good pranks, but seeing as they are all quite unspectacular and quite small really, I'd figure I'd to them ALL to Peter. We are talking about six or seven pranks ranging from gluing his shoes to the floor to sneaking into the bathroom and stealing his clothes while he's in the shower. Hee hee, I'm so cruel.
And right now, my dear sister Alita is begging me to let her use the computer. She and my elder brother have been working on some Digimon story that they have, quite literally, been working (actually putting off) on for a whole year. Poor Alita, she's had a nasty case of writer's block and hasn't written a story in quite a looooong while.
Ah, well.
See you, and any prank ideas are appreciated.
Disclaimer: The song I used 'Teenage FBI' can be found on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack. (Means the back up singers are singing as well)
~~
Lily was amazed she was actually doing this. She had the potion, the plan, and the intense desire to see it done. It was right before the Halloween Feast, and the Marauders were tying up their mini concert with a brand new song, written by James. Remus however, was doing the actual singing as usual. Sirius and James sang backup and did the guitars, another one of their friends, Mundungus Fletcher, was the drummer, Peter would help set up the stage and that was the extent of his abilities.
"Someone tell me why
I do the things
that I don't want to do!
When (you're around me)
And somebody else.
Someone tell me why,
I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When (You're around me)
And somebody else.
"You ready Katie?" Lily asked nervously. Sonya and Laura smiled slightly amused, it was the twentieth time Lily had asked, literally Laura was keeping tally.
Katie was doing most of the work on this one. She smiled a cocky kind of smile and sighed happily. "More than ready, right after this last song. This is going to be so much FUN!" Katie punched the air to show her enthusiasm.
"Well put the potion in the cup then!" Lily prompted impatiently. Katie immediately complied, and was careful not to drink her pumpkin juice after.
"Gee Katie, a little anxious to play with Sirius' heart?" Laura sighed.
"Nah, I just want to flirt with him." She replied with a wide grin, Sonya giggled. "What?"
A few minutes later and the song had finished. James, Remus, Mundy (as most students called him) and Sirius took their seats. Katie (with her goblet of pumpkin juice in one hand) and Lily stood up and walked over to them, Lily doing her best to look as though she was being forced to go. "Hey there." Katie said a sultry smile on her face. She sat down on the long bench sidesaddle and placed her cup next to Sirius', Lily remained standing a stony look on her face.
"Hey." Sirius replied, his chocolate brown eyes quickly looked her over before he turned back to the conversation he and Remus had been having. They were talking about some final touches one of their new songs needed. "How about 'Passionate lady, give me your love' instead?" He asked his eyes briefly flicking to Katie, Remus considered a moment before nodding approval.
Lily rolled her eyes, as Katie glared slightly upset that she wasn't getting the attention she wanted. Lily saw the instant that Katie decided to throw caution to the wind and go all out. She reached over with the hand that wasn't on her cup, and forced Sirius to look at her. "How are you hot stuff?" Remus, Peter, Mundy and James' heads snapped to look at her. Katie used the fact that they were looking up at her and not at the table to switch her cup and Sirius'.
Sirius blinked twice and, Lily could swear that she saw a bead of sweat form on his forehead and something melt in his eyes. "Fine, and you?" He was speaking normally though.
The other Marauders, disappointed that they wouldn't be seeing a flabbergasted Sirius turned away, bored already. James switched his attention to Lily, as he had nothing better to do. "What are you doing here?" He asked, an eyebrow raised.
"I'm here under duress." She replied coolly, jerking her head over to where Katie was still trying to ruffle Sirius' cool demeanor. She had leaned in even closer and refused to let him go. "Are you quite finished yet?" Lily snapped.
Katie smirked devilishly, "Almost," She purred. "Give me a second." She kissed Sirius on the lips, holding him there for several seconds. "See you." She winked at him and walked back down to the section of the table they're friends were sitting.
Sirius and the others stared as she walked away. Sirius in complete and total shock, the other Marauders turned to one another began wondering what had just happened. "What was that all about?" Peter asked.
"I dunno." Sirius responded, STILL staring.
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The next morning, a Saturday, found James Potter happily floating in that nice warm little area between still sleeping and waking up. He was having a very nice dream about something or other (Fire Lily, as he had taken to calling her) when something jarred him from said happy floating.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
James and the other boys in the dormitory jerked back the curtains on their beds to see who had screamed and why. "What's going on?" He blinked the last bit of sleep from his eyes, as the other boys added their half-asleep musings.
"Is anybody hurt?" Remus asked climbing out of his bed.
"Who screamed?" Mundy said at the same instant.
Peter turned over and mumbled something about his mommy before waking up. "Whas zaa zaa?" He said, only semi-coherent.
"Someone played a prank on me!" Came a voice from in the closet. Sirius' James figured because he was the only one missing.
"And?" James said, before the statement had fully sunken in. "Waitaminute! Someone played a prank on YOU! How! When! HOW!" The others looked at each other in shock. No one had been able to play a prank on them before.
"The (bleep, bleep, bleep) if I know!" Came Sirius' still muffled voice.
"What did they do to you?" Remus asked.
"(Bleep bleep bleep-ing bleep bleep)!"
"That's not telling me much." Remus smiled softly at the string of rather angry and vulgar words.
"Sirius just come out of there!" James marched over to the closet door and tried to open it. It didn't work, Sirius was holding it shut from the other side.
"How bad can it be?" Mundy asked biting back laughs.
"Bad."
"How bad!!!!"
"I hate pink." Sirius moaned woefully. This time it was James who was using the angry and vulgar words. "Alright, but don't laugh, this isn't remotely funny." Sirius cautiously stepped out blushing almost as pink as his hair. Yes, his hair. It was a horrid, horrid shade of bubble gum pink, with darker streaks of hot pink through it, for good measure.
They tried, they really, really, tried. Honestly, they did. But one little snort from Mundy was all it took and he, Remus, James and Peter burst out laughing.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!"
~~
James had managed to get Sirius to go through the day as though his jet- black hair wasn't pink. Things did go rather normally, except for the fact that when people saw Sirius for the first time that weekend, they promptly burst out laughing. And despite the fact that for most of Saturday morning Sirius sulked about it, by that evening he was able to chuckle and admit it was a rather good prank.
Sunday found that Sirius was playing along, now that he was used to the fact that someone had played a Marauder-worthy prank on him, quite frankly it wasn't anything he wouldn't have done himself. At the top of each hot pink streak he put a lavender ribbon, braided it, and then had a shiny bead at the bottom. Every once in awhile he would charm the ribbons another color and then ask the people around him if it clashed.
James walked up to where Lily, Katie, Sonya, and Laura, were sitting in the library. He grinned and stuck out his hand. "Congratulations on a prank well played."
"How-?" Laura began.
"Thanks, so what does Sirius think of his new hairstyle?" Sonya asked.
James suddenly frowned. "Actually I wanted to talk to you about that. Or actually I needed to talk to Lily about it."
"You can talk here." Lily responded rather coolly.
"Look Evans, I'm calling a temporary truce, for a very important reason. It's not something I can talk about here though so if you would please…" He trailed off and gestured to the door.
"Fine." Lily stood and they walked out into the corridor. "Spill." She growled spinning around and shoving his shoulder to the wall.
"Again congratulations on the prank. However, you need to clean up the mess that you have now made." James was glaring at her, for some reason that Lily couldn't quite place. She raised an eyebrow and waited for him to go on. "See, my dear Marauder wannabe-"
"WANNABE! Excuse me, but I don't want to be an immature prankster, thank you very much! I'm just giving you some well-deserved payback!!!" Lily stamped her foot to emphasize her comments. James stood stoically in the face of her newest temper tantrum.
"Are you quite finished?"
'ARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Lily thought, 'How does he know exactly what it takes to make me angrier than I already am?!' She nodded mutely as she didn't trust herself to say anything.
"As I was saying, Sirius has had a long time crush on little Miss Katie back there. And just when he thinks she just might have noticed his existence in the halls of Hogwarts, it's revealed,"
"That she was only talking to him to play a rather humiliating prank on him." Lily finished for him and cringed. "Ouch."
"Ouch is right. Sirius might be pretending to enjoy his new hairstyle, but the fact of the matter is he is truly upset by this new development. If anything can be said for Sirius, it's he's a good actor."
"If it's any consolation, Katie had a bit of a thing for Sirius as well. She played that prank mainly to help me out, and to show Sirius she was up to his level."
James finally smiled. "I hoped so, Sirius is quite taken with her. Unfortunately this hasn't worked out the way that was intended it would seem. So you, Fire Lily, have to fix it. And as I'm the one that got you angry with us in the first place, honor dictates I must help."
Lily gave a disdainful snort. "You and honor? Can you put those two words in the same sentence?"
James' steel blue eyes seemed to shift somehow and he tensely replied that they had best figure out what they were going to do exactly, turned on his heel and left.
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AN: Remus's prank is in the next chapter! If I can figure out exactly what I'm going to do to the poor boy. I ran this by with some of my friends and they came up with some really good pranks, but seeing as they are all quite unspectacular and quite small really, I'd figure I'd to them ALL to Peter. We are talking about six or seven pranks ranging from gluing his shoes to the floor to sneaking into the bathroom and stealing his clothes while he's in the shower. Hee hee, I'm so cruel.
And right now, my dear sister Alita is begging me to let her use the computer. She and my elder brother have been working on some Digimon story that they have, quite literally, been working (actually putting off) on for a whole year. Poor Alita, she's had a nasty case of writer's block and hasn't written a story in quite a looooong while.
Ah, well.
See you, and any prank ideas are appreciated.