I'll probably be late with this, but to celebrate Christmas, I present you with a quick dose of Jily sexual tension. ;)
DISCLAIMER: Neither the characters nor the world that is Harry Potter belongs to me, sadly.
The Idiots that Bet on Christmas
Christmas.
It's that time of the year and snowflakes are enveloping the Hogwarts grounds as well as the hair atop several heads of the student body that are mad enough to stay for the holidays, mistletoes are around every corner and door frame patiently waiting for an unsuspecting couple to pass through, heavily decorated pine trees are towering over the tables in the Great Hall, gifts are exchanged through packages of various sizes and laughter, and Sirius Black is not happy.
Glaring over his untouched chocolate truffle cake, Sirius most definitely decided that he is undoubtedly not happy.
Not even for the tiniest bit.
Because over his breakfast (well, first of all, who the fuck thought it even a remotely sane idea that chocolate fucking truffle cake is a good way to feed one's appetite first thing in the morning?) there is his best mate, in all his idiotic and lovesick glory, tangled up in a "fight" with his bloody girlfriend, Lily Evans.
Because unfortunately for him, those two are among those mad people who wanted to stay in Hogwarts to spend "their ickle last Christmas together" (he doesn't mean to be such an arse about it, but he couldn't really care less at the moment), and being the loyal and inseparable mate that he is, Sirius had begrudgingly agreed to stay with them, as well as Remus and several of Lily's friends (even though they agreed in a completely different manner). And being famously intoxicated with each other as they are, James and Lily had spent every waking moment since their break from Head duties and schoolwork even more wrapped up in each other's presence as ever and seemingly ignoring his attempts to make them separate their endless quality time between him and the rest of their friends.
Really, he thought as James popped a stolen strawberry from Lily's plate into his grinning mouth and Lily shoved him playfully while sipping at her water, why is he watching them spending their precious freedom fawning over each other when they can all be outside shoving snowballs into each other's faces? Or pranking their teachers since they really can't get into any trouble over the holidays? Or drinking firewisking in their common room and playing truth or dare? Or something - anything - else?
"Give me back my sodding breakfast, Potter," Lily amusedly warned James as he snatched her plate and held it as high up as his palm will go without elbowing into Remus.
"What, this?", Sirius huffed out an annoyed breath as his mate very carefully tossed the plate an inch into the air before letting it calmly drop down into his palm again. Fucking Merlin. "I thought you're already finished."
At the moment where James's glasses slid down his nose and his shoulders relaxed so that he can properly adjust them, Lily swiftly leaned in and made a grab for her unfinished breakfast, only for her boyfriend to kick his well-trained reflexes into high gear and swing his arm into a flat circle before shoving the remaining of her chocolate cake into his mouth. "Walp, woo bag, Ewanz," he teased her thickly through the multitude of sweetness and dough in his mouth.
Marlene doubled over in laughter and Alice and Dorcas shared an eye roll while Remus slumped against the wall torn between relief, shock, and laughter.
Sirius just glared, knowing what was going to happen.
Lily quickly closed her mouth that had momentarily dropped open at the sudden move and pushed hard at James's chest. "What the bloody buggering bleeding fucking Merlin's pants, Potter," she cursed at him somewhat angrily, that is, but the dancing twinkle in her eyes says otherwise.
James swallowed down his mouthful and smirked. "Woah there, that's a lot of offensive adjectives thrown at our wonderful Merlin, love, whatever did he do to you?" He casually set her plate down as if it hadn't been in the air just seconds and in danger of splattering onto Remus's lap.
Lily's lips twitched violently in her determination to hold back her smile at her incredible dolt of a boyfriend. "Don't even start with me. You better have a good reason to shove my sodding breakfast down your throat, or you bet your sorry arse that I'm breaking up with you."
Marlene snorted into another fit of giggles at the absurdity at even the thought of the idea.
"Oh come on, love, you know why."
"Nope, can't say I do, you prat, I'm giving you two seconds."
"Evaaaannns," James stuck his bottom lip out in a pout, and widened his golden honey hazel brown eyes comically at her over the top of his spectacles. Sirius thought he's gonna hurl, if he even has anything in his stomach to hurl.
Lily just raised an eyebrow at James's adorable expression (at least, Sirius thought it was adorable, in a bird's mind at least, if the numerous times that that look got James off scot-free with nothing more than a frown in the past between his mother and the rest of the female population were any indication, but...wow, Sirius really needs to give this to Lily, she is clearly fending it off really well. A quick diversion of his eyes and he saw even Marlene had stopped her giggling and was blushing furiously). "Don't 'Evans' me, time's ticking."
Remus chuckled, but more at the reaction of Lily's friends than the impressive cheek Lily pulled through.
As his hands are so wont to do, they ruffled through James's hair. A lopsided smirk once again played on his mouth as he leaned toward the eye-twinkling lip-twitching redhead. "Aw, don't be mad, Lils, I'll get you something from Hogsmeade…", he murmured softly, but just loud enough for the rest of them to hear. "But if you insist," - now James's nose is brushing suggestively against Lily's - "you'll have to come and get it out of me."
"Is this what you were trying to do - I mean, get?" Lily's voice shook with laughter, finally cracking through her feigned furor. "A sodding goddamn kiss? God -" Lily squirmed away from him, ignoring his whimper at the sudden absence of her body - "You're so helplessly destitute."
James caught her hand as she scooted toward Marlene and pulled her back toward him. Lily's gasp of surprise is muffled against his sweater as she flew into him. His eyes were dark and hooded as he bent down and whispered something into her ear that caused a pretty tinge of pink to creep up her neck and into her cheeks. Her eyes flashed with something similar to the wild and uncontrollable mischief that Sirius is all-too-familiar with, since it's the same flash in James's eyes when he discussed a fantastic and original prank with him and Remus and Peter, and they locked coyly on the tiny smear of chocolate on the corner of James's mouth. She pulled back from his chest and her hands reached up to scrunch the collar of his shirt underneath and she pulled his head down -
Sirius shot up from his seat and slammed his palm down onto the wooden table, rattling his plate and startling the pair apart, momentarily burst out from their bubble of nauseating love. "I swear to Merlin, if you two shove your tongues down each other's throats one more time in the past hour, I will personally transfigure you two into dog food."
"I second that," Marlene hastily agreed, her face still flushed, but this time not from James's unique women-disarming-pout. "I now miss the times when Lilykins was in denial. There wasn't this much -" she gestured her hands back and forth between James and Lily -" grossness around."
"Hey!" Lily protested, making a childish face at the grinning blonde.
"Yeah, I can practically feel the hearts emanating from you two", Alice said to her fork.
"Alice!"
"Now that you guys mention it, I'd much rather prefer James's daily trips to the hospital wing", Remus jokes, winking at the scoffing Lily.
"Remuuuss, not you too", Lily groaned, pretending to be betrayed.
"Did you lovesick guys even notice that it's Christmas and that we're free to go out and enjoy ourselves?", Sirius questioned them both, still standing and staring imploringly at his two best mates.
"Ummm, yeah?" Lily peered up at him in amusement, but Sirius doesn't want amusement, damn it, he wants fun, anything that is not the snogging of her and James. Can't she see that? Where the hell did her cleverness go?
"But we are enjoying ourselves, Padfoot", James retorted half-heartedly, playing with a strand of Lily's hair and god knows what under the table that makes Lily bite her lip like that.
"You mean you two are, that doesn't include the rest of u -" Sirius stopped short as Lily suddenly coughed. God, he doesn't even want to know what that is disguising… "Ugh, you know what? I was going to be best man at your wedding - still want to, mind you - but this is really getting out of hand."
Paying no mind to the vigorous nodding of the rest of their friends, James snickered. "You're just jealous that I'm paying more attention to Lils here than you", he lightly accused, glancing up from nibbling Lily's ear. He mumbled something into her skin and Lily suppressed a giggle.
Sirius ignored this comment and continued on. "I bet you two can't lay off snogging - or shagging for that matter - each other for even three whole fucking days."
The pair stopped whatever it is they were doing as Marlene yelled "Ha, five galleons!", Remus corrected calmly "Seven", and Alice interjected "Ten" while Dorcas waved off "Twenty."
James mocked a frown at the challenge. "Are you seriously betting on us to stop our love for each other and spread it to you guys?" He crossed his arms and turned his nose in the air humorously, like a petulant little child refusing to do the task cast upon them. "Hmph, as if."
"Of course you can't", Lily placidly spoke up, inspecting her nails, "since it's apparent that you will bloody die if you don't have any form of physical contact with me in within the parameter of five seconds."
James rounded on her, aghast. "How can you say that, Evans?" He laid a wounded hand in his heart, faking offense. "You know you want me."
Sirius smiled at this exchange. Yes, he knows where this is going and yes, this is going to be so much fun.
"Oh?" Lily turned her head to face his. "Who's hand was it just now seeking to be in my knickers, hm?" At the collective Ooohhhh, James, you're so screeewwed around them, she smirked seductively up at him. "I accept the challenge dear old Black laid on the table for us, Potter, and I will gladly witness you make a fool of yourself again."
James looked genuinely confused. "Me? Make a fool of myself? Shouldn't that question be directed to you?" He inclined his head to once again murmur something in Lily's ear, but this time, it was in more of a growl, and his inaudible words seemed to match hers in enticement.
Lily laughed when he straightened, but her face once again blossomed into a pretty pink. "Wanker."
"Mmhmm, looks like I have to be one now, yeah?"
Smothering her mirth against his shoulder, Lily hummed against his neck. "Let's see how long you hold out."
James sticks his tongue out over her head at the self-assured look Marlene threw him. Bugger off, he mouthed at her, scowling at Alice and Dorcas when they both gave him a thumbs down. "Same to you, love." He pecked her hairline.
"Oh, I doubt that", Lily informed him in such a tone, sending a visible shiver down his spine. Before anybody at the Gryffindor table can react, she deftly flicked out her tongue and licked off the chocolate speck that she had been so mesmerized by, the one that was sticking innocently to the corner of James's mouth. At the low moan he emitted, Lily patted him consolingly, as if he had already lost the silent bet between them. "Better watch your back, Potter, or actually in this particularly hard case -" Lily gazed into his dilated eyes, daring him to reciprocate and give up right then and there -"your front."
And with that, she promptly got up, grazed her hand slowly and affectionately through his messy black hair, and left the Great Hall with a very alluring wink and air kiss tossed over her shoulder, surrounded by her three triumphant friends.
James's entire demeanor slumped forward and he made a rude gesture at Sirius. "I hate you."
Sirius casually settled back down into his chair and accepted Remus's congratulatory countenance.
Christmas.
It's that time of the year and snowflakes are enveloping the Hogwarts grounds as well as the hair atop several heads of the student body that are mad enough to stay for the holidays, mistletoes are around every corner and door frame patiently waiting for an unsuspecting couple to pass through, heavily decorated pine trees are towering over the tables in the Great Hall, gifts are exchanged through packages of various sizes and laughter, and Sirius Black most definitely decided that he is undoubtedly very happy.
Haha. Just as I suspected: late. And yes, I know, this wasn't quite the length I had expected it to be. Well, what do you guys think? Know what you want in the next chapter? Please tell me in the review section below! ;)
P.S: Which one do you think should give in? I haven't really decided yet.
P.P.S: I'm rating this T for now, but I'm currently debating on whether or not I should turn this into a M, for... y'know, later chapters.