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Prompt: Tattoo

Word Count: 320 words

Summary: James and Lily try to explain why Maria can't and won't get a tattoo.

"You are not getting a tattoo."

"Your mother's right, as long as you are under our roof, you will not get a tattoo."

"Besides sweetheart, girls don't even look good with tattoos." Lily and James alternated between demanding and cajoling, in a vain effort to convince their daughter that tattoos were a bad idea.

"They do too, Mum! Sirius, don't girls look good with tattoos?" James and Lily's glares made it quite obvious to Sirius what they thought the correct answer to Maria's question should be.

"Well, yes. Girls do look good with tattoos, especially when they first get them."

"PADFOOT!"

"SIRIUS!"

"Hey, I love you guys but I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to hide the truth of what happens." Eager but slightly confused, Maria asked,

"What happens?"

"Well, at first the tattoo looks really cool and sex-um," one glance at a fuming James Potter and he reconsidered his wording, "attractive. But then, eventually, the girl grows up."

"Well obviously, but what-"

"Shh, don't interrupt. So, the girl gets grown up, and eventually she gets old. Now when people get old, they get wrinkly. Wrinkly, old people also get saggy. So what was once this cool, se-attractive tattoo is now this sagging smear of green color. And green is one of the Slytherin house colors. So that is why you shouldn't get a tattoo."

"Okay. I won't get one then." The 7 year old smiled sweetly, got off the couch, and went to go play outside. Smirking, Sirius turned back to his friends who were staring at him with jaws dropped.

"What? H-How?" Laughing, Sirius replied to Lily's incredulous stammering,

"You just have to speak to the audience, Lils!" He ruffled James hair, patted Lily on the shoulder, and sauntered out onto the pitch to go flying with Maria. Lily slowly turned back to James and said,

"How about we not mention this to anyone else."

"Yeah."

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