Together, Sirius and Remus heaved the slightly wasted James Potter up the moving staircase and into the Griffindoor common room. Rae and Peter trailed behind them, making sure that no-one that had the potential to snitch on them could see them. Sirius and Remus threw James onto the crimson sofa in the empty common room.
"Everyone must still be at Hogsmede." Remus said, rubbing the shoulder that had been supporting James.
"Bloody good thing too," Sirius said, watching James take another
swig from the firewhisky bottle, "I really don't think you should
drink anymore of that mate…"
"Why?" James grinned, "Cos
you want it?"
He waved the bottle in Sirius' face and Sirius
grinned.
"You caught me," He chuckled and took the bottle from James before taking a swig, "Lets save it for later though yea? You never know if we'll ever get the chance to sneak another one in again." Sirius gave the bottle to Peter who for one moment looked so excited that he might have wet himself.
"Put it in James' trunk Wormy." Sirius said and Peter's face fell almost instantly. As soon as Peter disappeared up the stairs to the boys dormitories Sirius turned to Rae.
"So what do you need?" He asked.
"Well…I think we need some moly for the drowsiness…some powdered root of Asphodel and some knotgrass." She said, using her fingers to list the ingredients.
"And you can find them all in Slughorn's potions cupboard?"
"I
think so…although he's never given us that much moly; there might
not be enough."
"Right," Sirius said turning to Remus,
"Moony you look after James whilst I help Rae with the
ingredients."
"Oh you don't need to…I can-" Rae began to
protest but Sirius interrupted her.
"Listen, I'm not letting you take the rap for pocketing stuff when it's not even your fault that-"
"It's not yours either..." Rae argued.
"No but it was my idea…so there." Sirius said, playfully sticking out his tongue, "If anyone catches us just blame it on me; I'm used to detentions it wont make a difference if I get another one."
"Very heroic." Sirius heard Remus mutter under his breath; he could swear he heard a grin in his voice.
"Fine…" Rea sulked although she was smiling all the same, "I better take Spratz back and empty my bag so we'll have something to put the stuff in." She darted towards the portrait hole and disappeared from view before Sirius turned to face Remus.
"What did you mean by that?" Sirius said, narrowing his eyes.
"By what?" Remus asked, acting the innocent before chuckling quietly. Remus continued to grin as he arranged the now snoozing James into a more comfortable position and Sirius continued to watch him with narrowed eyes.
"So erm…that rose she was holding…" Remus said, trying not to laugh, "Who err…did she get that herself?" Suddenly it clicked and Sirius' expression changed to shock.
"What!? Me and Rae!?" He gasped,causing Remus to laugh.
"Well why not?" Remus asked.
"Well! She's…I'm…we're not…she's not my type!" Sirius blurted out, causing Remus' laughter to become much louder, "Shut up Remus! What do you know about girls anyway?"
"I didn't say I knew anything…all I'm saying is that you've
never really taken as much notice to a girl as much as you have
Rae."
"What? That's bullshit! I haven't kissed Rae have I?
I haven't…well…done that with her have I?"
"Well
that's precisely my point; it's never taken you more than twenty
four hours for you to get with a girl before. You must really value
her to wait this long. Imagine that! A sensitive Sirius Black! I
think you've found the one Sirius!" Remus chuckled.
"Well what if I'm not planning to kiss her or…do that with her!?"
"Ha! Sirius Black actually befriending a girl with absolutely no intention of anything more? Now that's bullshit."
"What do you mean? I'm not a man whore!"
Remus raised and
eyebrow and Sirius sighed.
"Ok, fine…maybe I am…but-"
"Sirius, you can't tell me that you don't find her a little bit
enthralling."
"Why do you?"
"Yes I do; even James wants
her around and you know how hard he's stuck on Lily Evans. She's
fun and different what's not to like?"
"But do
you…like…her?"
"No…but I can guarantee you
that you will." Remus grinned as Peter returned from the boys
dormitories.
"Who're we talking about?" Peter asked.
"It's nothing don't worry…" Remus said," Have you been at James' firewhisky? Cos you smell like you have."
Suddenly the portrait hole opened once more and Rae scrambled through.
"I don't think the fat lady likes a Ravenclaw knowing the
Griffindoor password; she might change it tomorrow just as a heads
up." She said, blushing now that all eyes were on her.
"Then
we'll just have to tell you it again wont we?" Sirius smiled;
from the corner of his eye he thought he saw Remus' grin spread,
"Are you ready to go then?"
"Mhm." She smiled, before
turning her attention to the sleeping James Potter, "We're going
to need quite a bit of that asphodel…"
Sirius and Rae headed towards the portrait hole and readied themselves for the potions cupboard ambush.
"Have fun…" Remus grinned and Sirius threw him a look over his shoulder as he disappeared through the portrait hole.
It was going to be easier getting to the potions cupboard than it was getting back; people were already starting to return from their visits and by the time they were done near enough the whole school would be back. Sirius and Rae slipped through the dungeons and into Slughorns class, careful as to not make too much noise; they weren't allowed in the dungeons without a teacher. Together they strolled towards the potions cupboard to which Rae used a spell that Sirius had never heard of.
"It's stronger than Aloe Hamora," She explained, "I heard Slughorn use it when he gave me stuff for the bleach. He uses it so students won't be able to open it."
"Until now." Sirius smiled, placing his wand on the nearest workbench so that he could use both hands to open the door. Careful as not to make the door creak, they slipped into the potions cupboard and began searching through the jars and containers for the right ingredients.
"Right so moly, powdered root of Asphodel and…?" Sirius asked as he looked behind two jars of black gunk.
"Knotgrass," Rae said as she searched through a box of herbs, "I
think I found the moly."
"Is there enough?"
"Yea it looks like it…"
"Oh hey I found the knotgrass!"
"So that leaves the…AHHH!"
Sirius turned just as a tall slim shadow abolished the little
pool of light from the doorway. Severus Snape stood in the doorway
with a nasty smirk on his face. He held Rae by the wrist and pried
her wand out of her hand.
"I wonder what Slughorn will have to say about his favourite student stealing potions ingredients. My, my Sirius you do work fast."
"What do you mean? Give her wand back!" Sirius yelled, darting for the wand but Snape stepped out of the way.
"What I mean is that you're already dragging your latest prey for
a little seven minutes in heaven," Severus snarled, "Not only
that but you've managed to convince her to do your dirty work along
with it. How do you do it Sirius? No matter, I'm sure Slughorn has
more of a right to interrogate you than I do."
"OI SNIVELLUS
GIVE IT BA-" Sirius yelled, but he was interrupted by the slam of
the cupboard door and the twisting of the lock. Sirius slammed into
the door and began fumbling with the handle as Severus cackled and
left the potions room, but it was no use; they were locked in. Sirius
searched his pockets for his wand but bitter realisation hit him as
he realised that he had left it on the worktop when trying to open
the door.
"FUCK!" He yelled before slamming his fist into the door.
"Well Rae..." Sirius said turning to face her, "I don't suppose you carry a pack of cards with you do you?"
Authors note: Hey again guys, sorry for the
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