AN: This is a fic for the Challenge: The person before You's OTP. My paring was Sirius/Lily with the prompt, Muggle Bands.


Sirius Black first heard about the Sex Pistols when he saw Lily Evans, James's long time crush and "twoo wuv" walk into the common room, where he had been lounging, on a Sunday afternoon in sixth year, wearing a t-shirt saying "Sex Pistols!" and a picture of some guys singing and playing guitar on the front.

Guffawing, Sirius asked a confused Lily, who had turned around at the sound of the guffaw, if she was planning to sex pistol those guys, making an obscene gesture.

Scowling at him, and flinging her fiery red hair angrily behind her head, she answered haughtily: "Of course not, Black you arsehole. They're a muggle band, and they're really quite brilliant."

Hearing the word muggle, Sirius immediately sat up straight, always on the lookout for ways to irritate his dear beloved mother, Walburga Black.

"Muggle, you say? Do tell me more."

Narrowing her eyes, Lily wondered at his abrupt turnaround, but she didn't think of it long, as she had just been singing the Sex Pistols debut single, "Anarchy in the UK" and the part where they sing "I wanna be Anarchy, And I wanna be Anarchy" was stuck in her head and she wanted to share the brilliance that was the Sex Pistols with someone, and even though Sirius was an irritating bastard most of the time, he looked kind of really focused on what she was saying now, so, abandoning all propriety and common sense that said that Sirius Black was a prankster at heart and would never let her live it down if he was playing a prank on her somehow and she fell for it, she motioned his legs away from the double seat couch he was lying on and sat down beside him, starting to tell him about the wonderful Sex Pistols.

So absorbed were Sirius and Lily in their conversation, that they didn't notice how silent the common room got as the people in it noticed that the people who usually shouted and raged at each other were now sitting on one couch, together, close together no less, as they had gravitated towards each other as they got more drawn into the conversation.

It was into this silence, punctuated only by the excited voices of Sirius and Lily, that James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew climbed into the common room.

Immediately seeing the source for the whole common room's silence, James took in the stances of Lily and Sirius, leaning towards each other, each gesturing excitedly and sitting much closer to each other than was strictly necessary. Getting a strange look on his face, half amusement and half jealousy, James walked up to them and, startling them, asked: "And what are you talking about so amicably?" wearing a strange smile on his face.

Sirius immediately jumping up, began spouting words of praise upon the Sex Pistols, jumping up and down like an excited puppy.

Lily meanwhile, looked as if she had realised who she had been talking to, and who that person was friends with, got a half disgusted look on her face, stood up and began to walk away.

Sirius, seeing her making her escape, grabbed her arm and pulled her next to him, asking her to explain why the Sex Pistols were so amazing, only to realize that James was staring down at his hand with a very strange expression on his face.

Looking down, he realised he still had Lily's wrist in his grip. Suddenly realizing what they must have looked like to James upon walking into the common room, Sirius let go of Lily's arm only to find her staring at him in surprise, almost as if she had had a reaction that she hadn't been expecting.

Into this awkward trio, Remus thankfully made his entry, enquiring calmly of Sirius and James if they had finished their Transfiguration essay. Darting a scared look at each other over their 1000 word essay that they suddenly remembered was due tomorrow, they dived onto their book bags, desperate to get it done in time. Crisis averted, for now.