Ch 9: Sirius' plan
"What the hell could it be?" I muttered partly to myself and partly to Lily Dearest who was walking with me back to the common room.
Sirius had left me at breakfast, apparently to get whatever he needed for his plans today.
"No idea, but knowing Sirius its most likely something a bit…risqué," replied Lily.
"Oh la la, parlez-vous français?" I asked in what I believed to be a perfect French accent, but what some natives might scoff at.
She simply raised a questioning eyebrow at me, "you speak French now?"
"Option two, you know if this whole Hogwarts thing doesn't work out," I said with a grin, which she in turn rolled her eyes at. Of course, this girl did it way more than I did now. "But you're not helping my dilemma! I need to find out Sirius' plan so I can make my own plans in order to be ahead of his plan, so that I become a goddess and not a bimbo in his eyes! It's all about the plan Lily, all about the plan!"
"Right," Lily said with a light smile, "I guess the only thing for you to do is to wait and see, and then make sure your one step ahead of him."
"But what if he out does me somehow?" I asked slightly worried.
She turned to me in fake shock, "You're saying that Sirius Black can outsmart THE Gwendolyn Taylor."
I stopped in full realization. "What am I thinking! Of course he cannot!
I'm Gwen Taylor for Pete's sake! Master of trickery! The ultimate companion for mystery and danger! I'm amazing!"
"God, I swear if your ego got any bigger you'd be rivaling Potter for 1st place for the most annoying, self-loving teenager in all of Britain!"
"No, you see Lily Dearest, I HAVE won first place, just in the American division!"
Yep, I got another eye roll for that one.
Yay, common room time!
"Twinkleberry!" I said to the fat woman in the pink dress. What an odd password. Whatever, to the present! Lily and I walked through the portrait hole and were heading for the staircase when we got a bit interrupted.
"Lilykins!"
"Ah, your Prince Charming is calling you Lils," I said to Lily who let out a heavy sigh and turned to face James Potter as he approached her. I turned as well, like I'd miss this for some quality homework time, get real.
"Lily darling is been too long!"
"Potter, I thought I told you to call me either Lily or Evans. You can even combine them if you like, but stop with the pet names!"
"Lily Evans," James said, getting down on one knee, to the shock and horror of Lily, "will you go to Hogsmeade with me?"
"No."
"Yes?"
"No."
James pouted and then will a sigh of defeat turned to me with a mischievous grin, completely forgetting him momentary rejection.
"Sirius want you to meet him on the Quidditch pitch."
I raised an eyebrow at this, "when?"
"Now, he sent me to tell you. Technically he was going to send Remus, but I uh… had a motive to take the task."
"I can see that," I said with a grin, turning to see Lily stomping up the stairs, "she'll come around eventually."
"I know," James said with another sigh, "one day she will see that she is totally perfect for me and that she can't resist my charm any longer. I know she secretly pines for me, it's what keeps me going. The thought of my Lily Dearest sitting all alone at dinner or in the library and then letting her thoughts drift to her beloved… me. Oh, the way her hair shines like the sun, and her eyes…"
Through this spiel of his I had managed to make it to the portrait hole on tippy toes. Well now that I think about it, I doubt he would have noticed if I had even slapped him in the face (I know Lily does that quite often, I bet he's immune to it now).
Finding the Quidditch Pitch was no problem, for one I had already attended my first ever Quidditch game about a week ago. Yes surprising I know. But Americans seem to have a bigger interest in Quodpot for some reason. I mean I love Quodpot, I was on a couple of the school teams. (In America there schools only have one team and play against other schools not each other). I mean I'm good on a broom and everything, but trying out eight times is mighty annoying, so I went with trying out five times, only getting rejected once, and that was because the team was full and the captain thought it would be mean to kick the girl with a brace off the team. But whatever, I'm totally over it. Totally 100% passed that fated afternoon… yep, that's me.
Anyway, not only was it easy to find because of the whole 'I've been there before' thing. But also there was the fact that it was this huge field outside with these ginormously tall posts. Anyway, I made it there will no problems. As I got closer I noticed Sirius standing there with a broomstick. Yay, flying! Wait, why is there only one? Crap!
I approached Sirius with a slight pout, though I tried hard to hide it. I mean I know I'm supposed to be wooing him and everything, and the whole of let me hold on to you while I pretend to be afraid of heights thing would be perfect and all. But I haven't flown since the summer and I have been dying to get on a broomstick, but Lily has been pretty much been keeping me hostage and making me do homework this past month.
Sirius noticed my pout and frowned, "what's wrong?"
Crap! "Uh, nothing…" should I lie and go with cute, or tell the truth and get some thrill out of it. Suddenly I got a brilliant idea.
"Were you planning on having us ride together?"
He fake sighed then smiled, "You got me; I thought you'd never figure it out!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, it's just that well…" I put the cutest puppy dog face on that I could muster, "I was hoping we could race?"
He laughed at that, "YOU want to race ME?"
I tried very hard not to glare. Well that was the biggest challenge if I have ever heard one.
"Yes… but not just that! I was thinking, the loser has to do WHATEVER the winner wants!"
A huge mischievous grin grew on Sirius' face, "You're on. Let me go get you a broom."
"No, no it's ok I got my own," I said, losing my sweetness. Hey, I'm very competitive, which must be why I'm so good at everything.
"Accio broomstick!"
Sirius' smile faltered ever so slightly, "Have you ever played Quidditch before?"
"Quidditch? Me? No never!" Well at least that part was true.
It only took a couple of minutes for my broom to arrive, which I quickly mounted and kicked off.
"Let's do this!" I said excitedly, while Sirius still remained on the ground. He however quickly followed my lead and took me over to our starting position. I added a few wobbles for special effect, which made Sirius smile like he had already won.
"Ok, we're going to race once around the entire pitch, no cutting corners!"
I pouted at this and added, "Sirius, I do hope you'll go easy on me!"
"Of course I will love, but don't be crying when I beat you!"
"Bring it!"
And with a good 3-2-1 count down, we were off! At least I was, I think Sirius had the intention of giving me a head start, till he realized I had kinda lied to him.
However, the boy's not stupid so he didn't pause for long. We were now pretty much neck to neck.
"You little sneak!" he yelled as he neared me.
"What?" I asked innocently, while still focusing on the field.
"You said you couldn't fly!"
"I never said that!" I said, and then of course I stuck my tongue out at him, "you asked if I played Quidditch and I never have. Quodpot is my thing!" With that I leaned as far down on my broomstick as I could get, we were at the halfway point.
We remained neck to neck nearly the entire race. Sirius was a damn good flier! He managed to gain a few inches on me as we drew closer to the finish line, but I wasn't having any of that. I moved sideways a little before using all my weight to knock into him and his broom. He was momentarily stunned, allowing me to gain a pretty decent lead, but he was still gaining. Just a couple more yards… YES!
"WOOOO!" I shouted as I began to slow my broom down. I looked back, the hugest smile of glee on my face and saw Sirius, who had the biggest look of disbelief.
"That's right, I whooped your ass!"
Sirius quickly lost his look of frustration and came over to me. "All right your highness, what is it that you ask of me? And may I add, I do hope it is something kinky." He added as he wiggled his eyebrow at me.
"You betcha!" I said, biting down on my touch lightly. I headed towards the ground and he followed me. I hit the ground first and then turned to Sirius as he did the same.
"I want you to kiss…" Sirius looked at me excitedly, "James."
"WHAT?"
"You SAID anything," I said with a triumphant smile. While I do like to stick to my plans wooing Sirius just isn't as amusing as watching him kiss his best friend.
"It has to be on the lips AND last for at least five seconds. I won't ask you to use tongue, that's a bit too kinky for my liking…" I said with a slight frown as I thought about it.
I looked at Sirius who was staring at me as if I just sprouted horns and started skipping around singing 'ring around the rosie'.
"I do hope your kidding," Sirius said in disbelief.
"Nope," I widened my eyes for special effect, "the infamous Sirius Black isn't backing down from a bet are you?"
He contemplated it for a moment, then narrowing his eyes he said, "you are pure evil Ms. Taylor… I like it."
Then with a wicked smile he turned and headed towards the castle, to meet his fate.
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Sirius practically sprinted back to the common room. I guess to him, the sooner he got this over with the better. Even though I had to practically jog to keep up with him I was quite enjoying myself.
We hit the portrait hole in a matter of minutes. Sirius hadn't spoken a word to me since we left the Quidditch Pitch. While this was all very funny, I do hope I didn't ruin my chances at wooing him!
"Twinkleberry!"
There were lots of people in the common room some chatting about their weekends, while others were huddled in the corner trying to do homework, Lily being one of those people. The Marauders were also in the room, sitting on the couch and chairs by the fireplace. James looked up as we entered and waved us over. Sirius who I noticed had come to a halt, simply stared at him for a moment, a look of fear crossing his face. Then with a flash of determination he made his way over, eyes narrowed and fists clenched tightly.
"Hey Sir-"
There were several gasps as everyone took in the scene. Sirius had pulled James up quickly and planted one on him like there was no tomorrow. I made sure to count as he did such, 1-2-3-4-5. As soon as I hit five he stopped, trying to ignore the look of shock on James' face as he turned back to me and asked, "satisfied?"
"Uh… mate," James said, catching not only Sirius but the whole room's attention as he recovered from his shock and asked, "what was that about? I mean I love you too, but as a brother… you know that don't you?"
Sirius glared at James. Sirius was about to open his mouth, when I, who had managed to hold back my laughter throughout the whole thing, said, "Yea well, Sirius was talking to me about how he wasn't so sure about his sexuality. I told him, I said, 'Sirius, what better way to find out your true feelings than to experiment on the man closest to your heart?'"
Wow, if looks could kill! I swear if I didn't screw up my plan with the whole kiss thing, this sure as hell did. The entire common room was cracking up. However, poor James who was unable to see the humor behind this gave his best mate a worried glance.
Then the weirdest thing happened, Sirius burst out laughing. He keeled over pointing at James face. I couldn't help it, I looked too. James looked so priceless, he was in between an 'I'm worried for you' expression, shock and disgust. I cracked up laughing, ending up rolling on the floor with Sirius. It took James a minute, but then he caught on as well, giving a faint chuckle and adding, "Sirius, you are a sick person!"
"Sh- she ma- made me!" he managed to get out between laughs.
"I- if yo- you co- coul- could see yo- your face!" I added as well, holding my side, which felt like it was about to split open. The common room started to simmer down after that. But I swear, James would not sit next to Sirius for fear to boy would be coming back for seconds.
I spent the rest of the night laying on the couch with the Marauders and laughing about the event and our evening. Lily even came over to give her two cents to a few of the debates we were having. I ended up catching Sirius staring at me a lot that evening, and I must say if I ruined things with him, he was sure as hell not showing it!
A/N: hey yall, Im guessing all previous readers of this story are gone since I started and stopped this in 2007, but I'm back! And I'm hoping some readers will come back as well. Ive got some pretty sweet ideas for this story and ive decided to drag it out through all of sixth and seventh year. Hope you liked this, will update soon!
