Day Three

Prompt: Sugar Plum Fairy.

Sirius came home early from work, looking forward to seeing Remus. He walked in, closing the door behind him and kicking off his shoes and hanging his jacket up. He headed into the living room, about to shout Remus' name, but paused as he noticed the Werewolf focusing hard on something.

Remus was on his knees next to the coffee table. His wand in hand and he was mumbling something.

Sirius headed over to him, dropping onto his knees on the other side of the table and giving his famous puppy-dog look that usually got Remus to pay him attention. Remus gave a slight shake of his head, not looking away from the chocolate.

Sighing softly, Sirius turned his attention to the chocolate on the table, realising it was a chocolate ballerina.

As he watched, the ballerina slowly began to move, the movements becoming more and more fluid and soon she was prancing across the table.

Remus let out a relieved sigh, and picked up his quill, making notes. Finally he looked at Sirius.

"Impressive," Sirius said. "You didn't just animate chocolate, you managed to get it to dance ballet. Why a ballerina though?"

"For Lily, I've made a bunch of them for Christmas. Her stupid rule where we make presents."

"Oh... what can I make?"

Remus grinned.

"Well, I'll be putting these in packets once I get the stags made for James. I think they'll need some special Marauder cards..."

"You, my dear Remus, are amazing."

"It's not really that difficult, I mean you can get chocolate frogs to act like frogs, and I started researching the charms, and -"

"Are you arguing with me, just accept that you're amazing," Sirius scolded him. His gaze fell on a box on the floor next to him. "What's this one?" he asked, putting the box on the table and starting to open it.

Remus grabbed the box and clutched it to his chest. "No!"

Sirius gave his famous look again.

"It's... it's part of your present," Remus said. "I don't want to spoil it for you though."

"Oh right," Sirius said and Remus put the box down again, and turned his attention back to the fairy.

"Why a fairy?"

"Lily has this little jewellery box and it plays a song - the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The ballerina just kind of twirls on the spot - muggle jewellery box of course. I just need to make it dance when the song is played."

Sirius watched him read through his notes.

"How long have you been working on this?" Sirius asked.

"All day," Remus said. "I already researched this, so it's just putting the spells into practice to see what works." Remus' attention turned back to his notes and Sirius got up.

"How about we order in tonight, and I'll give you a hand with the spells?" Sirius suggested. His suggestion was met with a nod and a grin.

Sirius crawled around the table so he was next to Remus.

"Now, let's see your list of spells."