Gideon and Fabien Crash In

The students started to enter looking around at the Great Hall, the teachers table had been replaced by lots of little tables with black table cloths and all the teachers were seated around them. Around the edges of the hall were the same tables with orange table cloths on them. Lots of little chairs were cramped around them and in the middle of the hall there was a dance floor. There were hundreds of pumpkins hanging in the air. No-one took seats but stood there in silence as Dumbledore got to his feet and said "Without further ado let the dance begin!" He clapped his hands and a band appeared on a stage in the corner of the dance floor. It was 'The White Rabbits Cauldron' a very popular wizard psychedelic band who had toured with the greats of the muggle and wizarding world in the late sixties.

James, Minerva, Remus and Amelia took their seats with Kingsley and Deon, Deon was Kingsely's cousin who was also a second year boy, who was at a table near the doors to the Great Hall. They were joined shortly after by Sirius and Mary.

"This sucks." Sirius said taking the empty seat in-between Minerva and Remus "We're not even old enough to drink."

"Ha. But we are!" Came a familiar voice behind them. It was Gideon and Fabien

"Hurry up Podmore." Gideon said turning around to look at the boy who was walking over to them; he looked very, very fat for a boy who had been quite weedy looking only hours before. Remus looked at all three of them saying "Do I even want to know?"

"Why yes you do my friend." Gideon replied with a grin on his face, pulling out a bottle from the inside of his robes and placing it down on the table.

"Now who wants some Firewhiskey?" Fabien asked looking at all of their shocked faces. Podmore, behind them, took off his robes that were filled with bottles of drink to reveal the weedy boy in nice dress robes that they were all familiar with.

"Store them under the table." Kingsley instructed.

"I'm off to spike the punch" Podmore mumbled taking two bottles of Firewhiskey with him.

"And how may I ask did you get all of this?" James asked looking at Fabien.

"Hey don't look at me"

"You do not want to know what I had to do to get all this" Gideon shuddered as he said this.

"I really think we do" Deon said crossing his arms and smiling at them.

"Let's just say Madam Rosmerta pays well" Gideon said looking quite ashamed of himself.

Deon took the bottle of Firewhiskey and downed half of it, looked around the room then nudged Kingsley saying "Emmeline Vance looks lovely tonight." He then proceeded to get up, walk over to her and ask her to dance.

"Her date does not look impressed!" Kingsley said as they watched him start dancing with her while her date went over to the punch to get a drink.

"I think some of this needs to get handed out." Gideon says just as Marlene McKinnon walked past him "Right after I do that!" he said pointing at her. Gideon followed her and asked her to dance.

"Oh dear she's laughing at him, not a good… No wait they are kissing! My brother has officially, and finally, pulled Marlene!"

"How long has he been after her?" Sirius asked looking at Minerva as he said it.

"Her first year, so, five years" Fabien replied still looking at his brother "And yes, they are leaving the hall, he has pulled!"

"Hey Amelia, do you want to dance? I mean if that's ok with you Remus?" Kingsley asked.

"Yeah that's fine go for it" Remus replied as Amelia beamed at him and whispering "Thank you" to him before her and Kingsley made their way to the dance floor.

"Why did you do that?" James asked.

"We were only here as friends and Kingsley has been really good to me so…" He trailed off looking up at where the teachers were sitting. The tables were all empty as they were all dancing.

"So? Anyone up for getting wasted?" Sirius asked, knowing the answer and handing everyone a bottle of Firewhiskey.

"I am so going to drink more than you without being sick!" Minerva said taking a bottle.

"You are so on!" Sirius replied.

Sirius and Minerva were sitting opposite each other with a small group of people surrounding them, two shot glasses had appeared in front of them.

"Ok the rules are:" A Ravenclaw called Benjy Fenwick, who was in Fabien's year, was talking through the rules. "No being sick. If you're sick you lose. You have to finish the bottle or more of the bottle than your opponent to win. No magic aloud. Do you both understand?" Sirius and Minerva nodded. Snape and Lily stood next to James.

"James, who do you think is going to win?" Lily asked looking from Sirius to Minerva

"Honestly, Minerva is." James said eyeing up Snape with suspicion.

"Well she has been drinking with the Prewett's since she was eleven" Snape said smiling as he said this. "They gave her her first drink."

"Fill your glasses" Benjy instructed. "Start when you're ready."

Minerva did her first two shots and refilled her glass for the third before Sirius hadn't even finished his first one. They had both finished the bottle of fire whiskey within half hour at the same time. A few of the group moved to the dance floor as to not draw attention to Minerva and Sirius. They decided to see who the true champion is to do another bottle.

"I really don't think that's the best idea." Kingsley said as he walked passed them towards the punch to get drinks for him and Amelia.

Shot One

"So how are you this fine evening?" Sirius asked

"You should get drunk more, you're more polite" Minerva responded

Shot Two

"I am sorry for not saying happy birthday."

"I'm sure you are." Minerva said frostily

Shot Three

"No I really am, I mean I was just being"

"A tosspot?"

"No, well yes."

Shot Four

"Can I ask you a something?"

"Ok" Sirius said looking up at her

"What is your problem?"

Shot Five

"I don't quite understand?"

Shot Six

"I mean you ignore me for days, why?"

Shot Seven

"I don't no 'cause, I guess?" Sirius trailed off

"Is this 'cause someone asked me to the dance or?"

Shot Eight

"No it isn't at all…."

Shot Nine

"…well maybe a little bit"

"Well ask me before someone else does!" Minerva retorted

Shot Ten

"I will"

"Really?"

"Yeah I will!"

Shot Eleven

"Jesus I cannot do this anymore!" Sirius coughed

"So I win!" Minerva said taking the twelfth shot, getting up and falling into Fabien.

"Can I ask you one thing?" Sirius said then continued without hearing an answer

"Why kiss James?"

She bent over, inches from his face and said so everyone around them could hear

"I'll do anything to wind you up, I love to see you annoyed!"

Fabien then grabbed her by the hand and lead her to the dance floor just as a slow song started to play. Sirius led Mary and started to dance with her. After two songs Minerva and Fabien had disappeared in to the rose garden that was located just outside the front doors. James looked at Lily who merely said "Alright, we'll follow 'em. I'll see you hopefully soon Severus" She said giving him a hug before following James to the garden.

Entering the rose garden they could see Pr. Slughorn and Pr. Swooly in deep conversation patrolling the garden. Two figures rolled out of one of the bushes.

"For god sake Gideon!" They heard Pr. Swooly say helping him to his feet "If you're going to do that, have a little class and take it up stairs!"

Gideon helped Marlene to her feet both wearing embarrassed faces.

"Off with you now." Slughorn chuckled.

As the both of them reached the steps to the entrance hall, a bottle narrowly missed Marlene's head. She caught sight of one of her friends and then rushed up the stairs. Gideon turned around to see who had thrown the bottle. It was Lucius and his gang of Slytherin's.

"Hey mate, just lay off will you?" Gideon said

"No we won't!" Yaxley retorted. He was a little bit shorter than Malfoy but he had an arrogance about him that no one else surrounding him had.

The next thing anyone saw was Gideon punching Lucius in the face and Lucius doing the same back. Gideon's friend King joined in and so did the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team as well. A few Hufflepuff's including the Bones boys, Edward and Edger, and Podmore, who proved no help at all, and Benjy from Ravenclaw who was giving it all he had. Slughorn approached the group trying to calm them down and received a glass bottle over the head from Travers, a burly fifth year who looked like a wall, knocking him out cold.

"Maybe we should go somewhere else?" Fabien suggested, he leaned in and kissed Minerva, who slapped him round the face instantly. As she stormed off past the fight, that was in full swing, several other teachers were now trying and failing to break up the fight. Meanwhile Dumbledore and McGonagall were standing at the doors of the great hall chuckling, obviously they had been on the Firewhiskey as well. Mary came storming out of the Great Hall and Sirius was following her.

"So basically you were using me to make Minerva jealous!" She shouted at him

"No, I never said that!" Sirius shouted back. Mary stopped and turned to face him looking angry with tears streaming down her face.

"Yes you did! I should have known! You're a horrible person Sirius!"

"No I never said that!"

"I heard you telling Remus!"

"I didn't mean it like, I mean." He was trying to explain himself without success. Minerva had stopped half way up the stairs to listen at what was going on.

"You lied to me Sirius!"

"Oh my god, get over it!"

"Get over it! Get over it!"

Not much more was heard as Sirius bent over and was sick on her shoes, she grabbed hold of Lily who had been standing with James near the door and made her way up to the Gryffindor common room.

"I'm going to go find Remus and I'll meet both of you up in the common room." James said heading back into the Great Hall.

The fight was still in full swing behind them and looked like there were no signs of letting up.

"Hey, do you just want to go up to the common room?" Sirius asked turning to look at Minerva; she looked so beautiful even if her hair was a bit of a mess.

"Yeah, umm…let's do that." she answered.

They walked in silence in till they reached the fifth floor.

"Ahhhhh, I hate men!"

"Wow thanks Fang! Now I really wish I didn't have balls." She shot him an angry look; she really did wish he wouldn't always call her that.

"Sorry." Minerva said looking up at him. There were tears in her eyes but he wasn't sure if it was from the Firewhiskey or not. "I mean, why do they do stupid things?"

"Like what?" Sirius asked, not really liking where the topic of conversation was going.

"You know"

"No I don't know"

"Well… Like get into fights and think it's cool to try and kiss you and just be… Just be"

"Twats?" Sirius asked

"Yeah! I just don't understand it, at all."

They had reached the corridor to the fat lady, Sirius looked at Minerva, there were silent tears pouring down her face. He grabbed her by the hand and pulled her tightly towards him, she didn't seem shocked by this. Her arms wrapped around his neck, one hand entangled in his hair. He felt such warmth from her and didn't understand why. Minerva had always been his best friend, the only girl who would give him the time of day. The only girl who didn't want him and yet he wanted her to want him, it was a strange thing, a strange feeling. He wrapped his arms tighter around her, trying to give her some form of comfort. He was at least a head taller than her. Sirius didn't know why he did it but he kissed her forehead.

"It's ok, really it is, not all guys are twats, just most of them." She looked up at him with wonder and amazement, she had stopped crying now.

"Why did you do that?" She asked.

"I'm not quite sure." He said looking down at her worried. Had he done something wrong? She had had a bad enough night as it was, he didn't want her to think he was coming on to her or anything like that. But to his shock she kissed his collar bone, he suspected she may have wanted to kiss him higher up, but he didn't mind if it was just his collar bone, it was better than nothing.

"Why did you do that?" He asked looking down at her with great interest.

"I'm not quite sure." she answered.

The hand that wasn't entangled in his hair lowered and landed on his hip, she was still looking up at him. Her hand that had been on his hip was now on his back, he kissed her forehead again, then moved down to her nose. He had never noticed the little freckles that were there before now. He wanted to kiss it again. Then just as he was about to, her nose met his and their lips touched, if only for a second. He didn't want it to be like this, not with her this upset and with both of them this drunk. Minerva looked down at her shoes and Sirius felt embarrassment course through him, and he felt her shiver. She looked back up at him, biting her lip. He leaned in and kissed her. He had kissed a girl before, Sirius had got through a few girls already, but this time it felt different. This kind of kiss was different, it wasn't about lust or looking cool, it was about just him and her and no-one else. It felt like the world had stopped for a few short moments. Then as soon as it had started it was over and she had let go of him, walking through the portrait hole and into the common room without him.

"Crap." He muttered under his breath. Heading towards the fat lady all he could think about was Minerva and how stupid he was at times.