The shortest chapter in the history of ever, and for that I am sorry. I tried to pad the chapter out more, but it had to end in a specific place and there was only so much stuff I could put in-between the two events.
Edit: Forgot to format before. Very sorry.
Although both James and Sirius had dropped to their knees to greet Bobsleigh, the dog seemed to have different plans. Once he had got to around a foot before them he turned and ran back in the opposite direction., down to the end of the corridor and around the corner.
James and Sirius were not having this; they had spent the last goodness-knows-how-long trying to find this dog, it was not going to get around now! After a brief glance at each other, the two took off and ran after Bobsleigh as fast as their legs could carry them (which, to tell the truth, was actually pretty fast).
"So – " Lily lay back. "What to do, what to do…"
Remus laughed. "In a room where we can get anything we require, we can't think of anything to do. We can get books, or Monopoly…"
Lily shook her head. "The last time I played Monopoly it was with Tuney. She decided to add in some new rules and you should have seen what happened. It was – "
Remus furrowed his eyebrows. "What was it?"
Lily shook her head distractedly. "Oh God…"
Remus sighed. "Sudden realisation?"
Lily nodded absently. "Am I going to see them again?"
"I dunno…" Remus shrugged. He had come to the realisation of the reality of the situation in the night, and had had a mini panic attack, before deciding that it would do him no good.
Coming to terms with the situation was always the hardest. Remus knew that.
Knowing they were going to have to deal with it was only slightly better.
"Oh…" Lily put her head in her hands. "You know, right now, I could really do with a cup of tea."
"Unfortunately we can't get one of those," Remus shrugged. "Believe me, I've been craving one since this whole thing started."
Lily gave a shaky laugh. "Anyway."
Remus nodded. "Anyway."
After around ten minutes of running at full pelt, Sirius and James found themselves needing to slow down or they were going to burst a lung (or at least that was how it felt).
Bobsleigh, seeming to understand that, slowed down as well, until all three of them were just walking briskly, breathing heavily. After two minutes of solid panting, they had finally regained enough breath to talk.
"So… At what point did we appoint Bobsleigh as our guide?" James asked, watching the dog running a little way ahead of them, but keeping within their sights.
"At the point where we didn't want to lose him again," Sirius replied, rolling his eyes slightly. "We looked too hard for that dog to lose him now, when he's running only slightly ahead of us."
"Actually, he's a bit further way now," James noted, causing Sirius to sigh and them both to start running again.
Lily did a sort-of strange happy dance. "Why did we never open this door before?"
"Because it wasn't there before. It appeared because you wanted something to do."
"There's a whole library through here! Every book I've ever wanted to read! God, I love this room…"
Remus watched as Lily opened the door and went inside, closing the door behind her. He doubted she was going to be out soon, and the closed door probably meant that she didn't want to be disturbed.
He sighed and lay back. Perhaps he should get something to do too.
No sooner had this thought crossed his mind, in skipped (yes, skipped) two certain somebodies, throwing rose petals (yes, rose petals).
"Honey, I'm home!" crowed Sirius Black.
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