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"Well..." Sirius had to think of a comeback but before he could James disappeared below the ice.
"JAMES!" Sirius shouted realizing what had happened. Both he and Remus ran toward where they had last seen James. The ice was slippery and after much slipping and falling they made it there. All they saw was a large gaping hole staring at them, mocking them.
"We have to get him out!" Sirius said.
"I'll go in and get him and you stay out here and warm him up once I get him out," Remus said trying to stay as calm as possible. He thought that since he was a werewolf maybe he would be more repellent against the frozen water. He shed his outer clothing and without a moment's thought plunged into the water.
Sirius didn't know what to do and he felt so helpless. He couldn't even see what was happening in the water for it was far too dark. The night had started out harmless and just fun and games and look where it led them.
"When he gets out of there I am so going to make him pay for making me worry about him like this, if he makes it out, that is," Sirius said trying not to think of the alternative to James not making it out. They were best mates and without James Sirius didn't know what he would do. Sirius sat there on the ice all alone for what seemed like many minutes when it was only a few second before Moony resurfaced with and unconscious Prongs with him. Sirius helped pull them both out of the cold water and began putting heating charms on both of them and drying their clothes in the process.
"Make sure he's okay... I'll continue the heating charms," Remus said out of breath but knew that James was in bad condition. Sirius responded by climbing over to James and checking his pulse and seeing if he was breathing.
There was no breath.
"James! James!" Sirius said trying to fight panic while smacking his friend hoping it was just some prank.
"CPR, Sirius, CPR!" Remus said trying to get Sirius to understand and he did almost immediately cupping his hands together and pushing down on his friend's chest. It took a few tries but suddenly James sputtered and water sprang from his lips before taking a very strained breath. Sirius pulled him into a tight hug; he was so scared for his friend.
"Sirius?" a rough voice croaked.
"Gosh James don't do that I was about to kill you myself if this didn't," Sirius responded relief clear on his face.
"Sorry to put your panties in a twist Sirius just wanted to have some fun," James responded when he was finally released from Sirius's tight grip. His face was extremely pale and he was shivering violently.
"Well, I wouldn't have gotten my panties in a twist if you hadn't been so thick headed as to land yourself in a situation causing us to, once again, save your sorry ass," Sirius said playfully though still concerned.
"Quit arguing, guys, we have got to get him to Madam Pomfrey," Remus said always the responsible one.
"Aw come on r...r...Remus. I'm f...f...fine," James said his teeth chattering.
"It is only a day before break why busy her with it she already has the outbreak of wizards flu to deal with and then she probably won't let him go home either," Sirius whined but putting up a pretty good argument.
"Really, I...I...I'll be f...f...fine. Just n...n...need to get warmed up is all," James said with an innocent smile that ended up looking like a grimace because of his violent shivers.
"Fine if you guys really don't care about your health that much whatever just don't come crying to me let's just go in the castle at least we've been out here long enough," Remus said finally breaking down into their demands.
"Yes!" The two boys shouted giving each other a high five.
Sirius and Remus proceeded to then help James up. He wobbled a bit when he first stood up and was quite woozy and to better prove that point he ended up doubling over and getting sick before falling back on the ice.
"Shoot James! Those were my best shoes! Girls really digged them!" Sirius said noticing that his shoes were indeed covered in barf. "Shit," he said as he also noticed that James was unconscious again and didn't hear that he had ruined his best pair of ratty old shoes.
"Come on, Sirius, let's get him back to the dorm," Remus said ignoring the puke on his own shoes, "A quick scorgify will fix these anyways..."
The two boys then had one arm each around James and put the invisibility cloak over themselves and proceeded toward the castle.
"Merlin, James, couldn't stay away from that treacle tart could you?" Sirius started to complain when they had to climb all the stairs to Gryffindor tower.
"Quit complaining, Sirius, if guys would have just agreed to have him taken to Madam Pomfrey we wouldn't have to do this," Remus retorted.
"But then they would have asked us what we were doing at the lake and that would end us in detention...again."
"Still James could be seriously affected by this and your worrying about shoes and getting detention, like that would stop you guys."
"Well, someone's got to lighten the mood and I really liked those shoes, they were pretty and comfortable," Sirius pouted.
"Oh get over yourself." They then went into silence when they heard a noise coming from the hallway ahead of them.
"I should probably check on the Gryffindor's, who knows what those scheming boys are up to on the last night before break," McGonagall said to an unknown person.
"Ah, Minerva, I fear there is no way to stop them. Good boys, though, a little misguided," Professor Dumbledore said. "I think you can wait a few minutes until you go check and could join me for a cup of tea?"
"I suppose so..."
Like Dumbledore's words had been a cue the two boys went even faster to their dormitory because now they knew McGonagall would be checking in o them soon. Sirius had it in his mind that Dumbledore knew they had been out but covered for them very nicely. Sirius was internally grateful toward the old wizard.
Authors Note- well hoped you guys enjoyed it and please review even if it's just to fix my mistakes. I tried to lighten it up a bit don't really know if I succeeded or not, anyways please review because that would be awesome :)
