Disclaimer: I own nothing recognisable as J.K's work as per usual.
Sirius made his way up to the Gryffindor tower to get the cloak, he didn't meet many people on the way up, most of the students were outside enjoying the sunshine. Another reason to postpone the picnic Sirius thought to himself as he rounded the corner to the corridor where the fat lady's portrait stood proud upon the wall, "password?" the fat lady asked of Sirius in a tone that befitted an upper class lady, such as a lady or a baroness, "Billywig" Sirius responded in a hurried voice, the portrait swung open to reveal the hole that is the entrance to the Gryffindor common room.
He raced to his dormitory and then yanked the cloak from out of under James' bed and then proceeded to hurtle back down the stairs through the portrait hole and down into the dungeons to find an impatient Jane tapping her toes on the floor, the only sound available in the deserted corridors was that of Jane's feet. "At last, what did you do, get lost? I've been waiting for at least a half hour, what took you so long?"
"I got there as fast as I could, I can only run so fast you know" Sirius panted.
"I know I just got extremely bored of having to wait for you, I must've had about twenty Slytherins ask me out already, and some of them were pint sized" Jane responded sounding extremely aggravated
Sirius let out a bark of laughter at the comment about pint sized kids asking her out
"It's not funny, Sirius Black, and unless you want me to strangle you while you sleep I would stop right now!" Jane snarled at Sirius
Sirius shut up and stood stock still
"Better" Jane said, calming down a little and setting off down the corridor to professor Slughorn's office at a normal pace.
Sirius matched her stride easily as he was a good foot taller than her, he then proceeded to walk in front of her and stop outside the door to professor Slughorn's office, he then wrapped her and himself up in the cloak and they then proceeded into the poorly lit office.
As usual professor Slughorn was at his desk marking quizzes from the previous days lessons, a rather tedious and boring exercise even for a teacher such as Horace Slughorn, he was the sort that was always in good humour and liked the odd joke here and there, naturally he took a shine to the marauders straight away for this specific talent and they were rewarded with information regarding certain entrances and exits in the school grounds and gossip from the staff for their practical jokes in lessons, it was win, win for them all.
They then went to the potions masters' personal store of potions and Jane started to levitate them around the room, Sirius with inept placement started setting them alight, all three of them were treated to a dazzling fireworks display as the liquids and gasses gave off all sorts of reactions. In the heat of the moment and suspecting a possible attack Horace Slughorn whipped out his wand and…..
Find out what happens to the culprits of the mysterious 'attack' on Horace Slughorn in the next chapter. I won't carry on if I don't get enough reviews though, I'll set a target of about 15 maybe. Hopefully you lot will meet my target, I can think of a few more ideas to get things interesting.
This chapter goes out to my friend Seemah, who was the wonderful person that supplied this cliff hanger to me.
