Chapter Nine
Knights in Invisibility Cloaks

"Are you ready to – what the hell?" Victoria was surprised to see James and Sirius coming down the stairs of the boys' dormitory, right behind Remus, who looked incredibly exasperated.

"James and Sirius think they're coming with us," he explained.

Victoria stifled a laugh. "Well they're not."

"I tried that. It doesn't work."

"Remus is going on a date," they sang together, clearly rehearsed. "Remus is going to Hogsmeade on a romantic little date!"

"Shut up," Remus rolled his eyes, and took Victoria's arm in his. She was wearing a summery floral dress – the type that only seemed to work on incredibly skinny people and hangers. To their annoyance, as they started to walk out of the common room, James and Sirius insisted on following, in the most infuriating manner.

Victoria rounded on them scarily. "If the two of you are planning on having children, you'll stay away from us today, understand?"

They nodded, apprehensive expressions replacing the smiles on their faces.

Remus grinned and they walked out of the common room.

"Did she mean having children with each other, or having children in general?"

-*-

"We should not be doing this," James laughed, from beneath his invisibility cloak.

"When has that stopped us before?" Sirius grinned back.

"True. Ah man, Peter should be here. It's annoying that we can't all fit under here anymore."

"Yeah. Oh well, he'd disapprove of the Remus stalking anyway." Sirius flicked his hair out of his eyes. "Remus himself would disapprove of the Remus stalking."

"I'm actually pretty worried for my balls. I mean if Victoria catches us – oh shit, look!" James nudged Sirius hard, and pointed in the direction of the staircase, where Lily and Severus Snape were having what looked like a very heated discussion. Avery and Mulciber, two ridiculously terrifying Slytherins were standing behind him, menacing expressions on their faces. She tried to get away, several times, but Avery grabbed her arm, keeping her rooted to the spot.

"That filthy little – "James began, making to get out from under the cloak, but Sirius grabbed him warningly.

"Careful mate, you know what she'll be like."

"She clearly needs some sort of help,"

"What, d'you want to be her knight in shining armour or – oh, for Merlin's sake,"

James wasn't listening, and had confunded Severus, from beneath the cloak. His eyes went somewhat foggy and dazed for a moment. Sirius rolled his eyes and stunned the two cronies, to stop them cursing Lily. "Quick, get under." James grabbed Lily's arm and pulled her under the cloak, much to her disgust.

"Potter, what the hell do you think you're doing?" she gasped, as they hurried her away from the consciousness-regaining Severus and the other two slowly-reviving Slytherins.

"I told you. Don't say I didn't tell you." Sirius muttered under his breath, as Lily began fighting to get away from them. She ripped the cloak off them, angrily.

"What makes you think you can just grab me, and – and put this – what the hell is this thing, anyway?" James opened his mouth to explain, but she spoke over him, "You know what, I don't even care. You are such an arrogant little – "

"I was trying to rescue you!" James said helplessly, only now noticing the idiocy of his actions. "They were threatening you!"

She opened and shut her mouth like a fish. "For all you know, we could have been having a perfectly civilised conversation. You don't – "

"Okay, you can yell all you like in a sec, but Snivellus is coming this way," Sirius said grimly, looking at the map.

"Under here," James said, practically lifting Lily and shoving her into a broom closet.

"Get off me!" she shrieked, as they shut themselves in with her. "You two are so – "

"Hey, I was against this idea from the start," Sirius cried, as James was looking very pleased with the situation.

"I could have you expelled for this kind of abduction." Lily sniffed unhappily and pushed against the door, trying to get it to open. After a moment of struggling she turned around and looked at the two amused boys. "It won't open."

"I think you need a man's help," James said, proudly flexing his muscles. She almost laughed. James attempted to push the door open, without luck. "Err, Sirius," he muttered under his breath. "Help."

Sirius smirked. "I'll show you what a real man is, Evans." But Sirius too couldn't reveal the entrance to the corridor. "What the fuck?!"

"Oh, he wouldn't..." Lily had picked up the Marauder's Map, which Sirius had thrown on the floor of the closet. They grabbed it from her and studied it to see Severus walking down the corridor, away from the closet they were seemingly trapped in. Though all he could see was the tiny black dot, James could easily imagine the smug smile on his unfortunately hideous face. The thought had him clenching his fists angrily.

Sirius collapsed on the floor. "James, are we trapped in here? I'm hungry."

Lily rounded on James with a deathly expression. "If you've got me trapped in here with the two of you, I swear to Merlin, Godric Gryffindor and freaking Nicholas Flamel, I will kill you!"

James' lips twitched. "Firstly, it wasn't me who got us trapped in here. It was Snape. Secondly, who's Nicholas Flamel? And thirdly," he grinned. "You're pretty when you're mad."

She shrieked so angrily she could have been mistaken for a banshee, and Sirius jumped. "James Charlus Potter, you little – "

"Hey, you know my middle name!"

She looked positively murderous, and it was with good sense that James moved away from her to sit on the floor beside Sirius.

"I wish Remus was here," Sirius sighed unhappily.

-*-

Remus and Victoria strolled along arm in arm, passing through the main high street before beginning to stroll down the small winding lanes of Hogsmeade Village. After what seemed like ages of walking, they arrived at a small clearing – a grassy moor which seemed to be purely countryside, and completely different to anything he'd ever seen at Hogwarts.

"I've never been this far from the high street," she said thoughtfully.

"Me neither. This is pretty cool," he said, turning to her with a smile on his handsome face. "You're pretty cool, you know?"

She shrugged happily. "I guess – oh!"

He interrupted her and titled her chin upwards and kissed her. After a moment, she began kissing him back, her long slender arms wrapped around his neck.


I love Remus. Yeah, I said it again.
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