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Chapter 7, Truth or Dare Discoveries
Lily stared blankly ahead. She had been for the past hour or so; Hermione had lost count. She was starting to worry about her friend.
Suddenly, Lily whispered, "I think I get it now. I love James, which I already knew, but James loves me and we end up married. You, Harry, and the rest are from our future. Anything I don't know that I should?"
Hermione pondered telling her friend for a few moments, and then went against her better judgement. "Well, I'm called Hermione Jane Granger and the siblings are Ginny, Ron, Fred and George Weasley. I can't tell you Harry's surname."
"Why not?"
"I just can't. Anyway, we should probably go down and talk to the rest." She got up and walked down the Girls' Staircase to the Common Room with Lily following.
Sirius grinned at them as they went down. Lily hurried over and whispered in his ear. His expression changed from one of humour to one of suspicion.
Hermione moaned at the look on Sirius's face and banged her head on the table, realising how stupid she'd been to tell Lily without asking the others first.
"Sorry guys," she said to the Weasleys. "I told her your real names, and mine too…not Harry's though."
Ron groaned. "And you moan at me for doing stupid stuff!"
Sirius had just told the other Marauders (they'd reluctantly allowed James to be there). They were equally as confused and annoyed as he was. He started tapping his fingers impatiently on the table, trying to come up with an idea to destroy his boredom.
"I know! Let's play ToD!" he shouted out in excitement.
"ToD?" Ron repeated in confusion.
"Truth or Dare," Remus explained. He told the purebloods what that meant and how to play it, and then went on to say, "Normally we'd play Dare or Dare, but I reckon Padfoot's decided to go easy on you."
"Cool!" the twins said when Remus had finished. "We're in! Sounds like fun!"
And that was how they came to be sitting in the Fifth Year Boys' Dormitory in their pyjamas, just after dinner.
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The game started with perfectly placid dares and questions, like `who do you fancy?' and `I dare you to start singing I'm a Little Teapot out in the corridor now'. But as it progressed, the questions and dares started getting harder, and they were all being sent from the Marauders and Lily (until Fred, George and Ginny caught on, and joined in).
Eventually, Hermione got bored. "Truth or Dare?" she asked Lily, having a perfect idea of what she was going to ask either way.
"Um…dare," Lily said decidedly, thinking Hermione couldn't come up with anything vile because she'd been keeping the levels down all evening and stopping Harry and Ron participate in the `I can come up with a dare worse than yours!' game everyone seemed to be playing.
Hermione looked at her watch. "Normally I'd make you do this for the whole game, but do you think that's too mean?" she asked.
Sirius chuckled. "What is it?"
Hermione leant over and whispered in his ear. The boy cracked up. "Fantastic!" he yelled. "I never knew you had it in you! I knew you had a backbone somewhere…Anyway, the whole game could be amusing…"
"Yeah, but I was thinking maybe twenty minutes? That way they could have their turns to ask questions and do dares and such afterwards…"
Sirius shrugged. "Okay, that'd be good. It's a good idea; I wonder why I didn't think of it."
Lily was looking worried now. "Who's `they'?" she asked softly.
Hermione grinned. "Why, you and James, of course."
"What are we…?"
Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at the bathroom door, where she chanted a spell.
James, who recognised the spell, widened his eyes and whispered, "No…"
The brunette grinned at him. "Yes. Now, you have twenty minutes. Go."
James, biting his lip, grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her into the bathroom after him. The moment they were in, the door shut and locked itself behind them. They heard a roaring of laughter behind the doors, and James supposed that Hermione and Sirius had just told the rest of the group about their evil plan.
Lily's voice broke his reverie. "James? What are we supposed to do?"
"Um…" James thought about how he could word his description. There was only one word he could think of. "Kiss."
Lily's eyes widened. "Sweet Merlin…for twenty minutes?"
James nodded. "Yeah."
"But…why?" Lily knew perfectly well why; she just wanted to hear it out of James's mouth.
"Because…because they think we should be together, I guess. I…I don't know…I guess it's because I…because I…" he broke off what he was saying. It was almost too hard to say.
Almost.
"Because you what?" Lily asked softly.
"I…I…I…I love you."
It sounded so much better when he said it.
Lily smiled warmly. "Well, that's good then."
James's eyes widened. "Wha…why?"
She knew what she had to do; she just had to get up the courage. It wasn't like she'd ever been in a relationship before. Actually, as far as she knew, James hadn't either.
This was going to be weird.
Lily realised she had to do it, no matter the consequences. She just didn't care…she was going to do it anyway.
"Because then I can do this," she replied gently. With all her daring, she put a hand on his shoulder, leant up, and pressed her lips to his.
She could hear his quick intake of breath, and felt him stiffen. Lily wondered what was wrong until his arms surrounded her and he kissed back.
Outside, Hermione chuckled. "I should have kept it for the whole game. They're not going to stop any time soon."
"Well, let's keep the game going."
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A while later (much later than twenty minutes), Lily and James came back in holding hands.
"Finally!" Sirius said cheerfully. "Well done, Hermione!"
The game continued. Then there were a few serious questions.
Remus asked Ginny, "Where and when are you from?"
"Hogwarts, 1995," she told him softly. Remus's eyes widened.
"Wow."
Then there was, from Peter to Ron, "Why did you lie to us about your names?"
The reply came, "Because it would change history and the future, had we told you immediately. But we have to thank Hermione that you found out anyway." He growled at her.
Sirius muttered, looking backwards and forwards between the friends, "You're too much like James and Lily. I reckon you two should go out."
Ron and Hermione's eyes widened and they shook their heads rapidly, in shock. They turned to look at each other at exactly the same time, and then looked away quickly, blushing, when they realised. "That's gross!" they chorused, knowing it would never work. Harry smiled at them, amused.
The final question of the evening destroyed the light note of Sirius's comment. It was from James to Harry, and the question was, "What's your real full name?"
Everyone in Harry's group just stared. The Marauders and Lily looked on eagerly, also wondering what it was.
Harry bit his lip, and after a long while he finally said softly, "Harry James Potter."
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Now what did you think of that? That was good (I reckon)…but it hasn't finished yet! Two chapters left.
That was changed from the R/Hr version on ff net. If you want to read that, go to my profile and the ff net.
ly,
J xx
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