8:36

"Wake up, woman!" Sirius said, pulling his pillow from under her head and smacking her in the face. She mumbled a few choice words and buried herself into his bed. Sirius growled.

"Let her sleep," James moaned from his own bed. "It's better for my health if you shut your face."

"She comes in here and steals my bed and you're on her side?" Sirius asked incredulously.

Aurèlie let out a noise that sounded like laughter as she pulled his blankets off the floor where he had slept the night before and tugged them over her head.

"'s Saturday," Aurèlie moaned. "No classes. Sleep in."

"We have a bet for me to win. And Hogsmeade is in one day," Sirius said, snatching one of James's many pillows and wacking the lump blankets on his bed. "So. Wake. Up."

The blankets heaved a sigh and the Slytherin sat up slowly, her hand pressed to her eyes. "Fine. Whaddayu wanna bet on?"

The pink-haired girl's head bobbed slowly and her eyes stayed shut as she waited for Sirius's answer. Stormy grey eyes narrowed as he tried to determine if she was awake.

"Le's," Aurèlie yawned, swinging her legs over the side of the bed and standing shakily. "Le's 'ave a treasure 'unt."

James nearly jumped out of bed as she paused and touched his foot lightly to stop swaying. "Whassamadder?" he croaked sleepily. "Whass goin' on?"

Sirius sighed.

9:54

"So," Aurèlie said, "If you can find me before midnight, you win and I'll go to Hogsmeade with you."

"And if he doesn't find you?" Remus asked.

"I will find her," Sirius said.

"If he doesn't find me..." Aurèlie poked her eggs with a fork. "He has to ask Snape to Hogsmeade."

Sirius blanched and James stopped nodding off long enough to laugh at him.

"Fine," Sirius said, glaring at her. "I'll find you. But you can only hide in the castle. Not on the grounds. And not in any of the house's common rooms or dorms."

"Fine," Aurèlie said, glaring back. "I'll even let you use your friends; it's not like they'll be of much help."

Sirius turned to his friends. Remus was buried in a book, James was sleeping in his toast, and Peter...Sirius wasn't even sure what Peter was doing.

"Oh," Remus looked up from his book as Aurèlie stood to go hide. "Give me your maps."

James startled from his nap, batting the piece of toast from his cheek. "What?"

Aurèlie frowned but pulled her map out of her hoodie's pocket and handed it to the boy. Sirius's face dropped as he handed the werewolf the Marauder's Map.

"I won't help either of you anyway," Remus said, tucking the maps into his bag. "I have a paper for Runes."

"We have a paper in Runes?" Aurèlie mused as she walked out of the Great Hall."

As soon as she was out of sight, Sirius turned to Remus.

"No," the werewolf said before his friend could ask for the maps. Sirius pouted and sat back to pull an egg out of James's hair.

6:13

"This is impossible," Sirius moaned.

He plopped down on the stairs as they moved again and ignored Peter's squeak as he tried to sit on a vanishing step. James bounced on the balls of his feet.

"Come on, mate. Me getting a date with Lily was supposed to be impossible too," James said with a grin. "If anyone can get a date with the Emerald Rose of Hogwarts, it's you."

Sirius glanced up. "Yeah?"

James shrugged. "I don't see why not."

Sirius heaved himself up and grinned back at James. "All right."

11:21

"Hypothetically speaking, were would you hide if you were a Slytherin? Or didn't want to go on a date with someone? This is all hypothetical, of course." Sirius stared at the redhead as she glanced up from her textbook.

"You're looking for Aurèlie?" Lily asked.

Sirius stared at her.

Lily laughed. "Don't worry, I'll help you."

The black-haired boy sighed in relief and collapsed on the couch beside her. "Thank god. Someone with a brain."

"I take offense to that," James called from where he was folding pages of his Potions textbook into paper airplanes and making them dive bomb Peter who countered with his own Transfiguration textbook paper airplanes.

Lily smiled at Sirius gently. "If I were a Slytherin, I would hide somewhere no one else knew about...and if I didn't want to go on a date with someone, I would hide the last place that someone would look. So combine that. Where would you not think to find her that very few people know about?"

"If no one knows about it, how am I supposed to think to find her there?" Sirius frowned.

Lily rose an eyebrow. "Well okay, think of it this way. What did you have before that you don't have now?"

Remus scolded James on paper airplane-ing the next Monday's assignment. Sirius's eyes widened. "The Map."

"Remus didn't take your Map away until after right?" Lily asked. "So if Aurèlie knew you'd be able to just look and find her easily...I would hide somewhere you couldn't see me."

"But all the rooms are on the Map-" Sirius stopped at stared at Lily. "Except one."

Sirius jumped up, turned and squished Lily in a hug, and then ran out of the Common Room.

"Wait, Sirius!" James called, noticing his friend disappearing from the Portrait Hole.

Lily waved him down. "It's fine, he found her."

James looked at Lily adoringly. "Thanks for helping him."

"I'm helping her too," Lily said with a smile that made James melt before she turned back to her textbook.

"You're smitten," Remus said with a grin that made James flush and direct a paper airplane at him.

11:48

"Come on," Sirius said, glaring at the wall. "Open."

"You really don't know how to use it?" came a familiar voice.

Sirius scowled. "Well I don't run away to hide from scary things."

His brother scoffed. "What are you hiding from then?"

"I'm not hiding," Sirius snapped.

Regulus rolled his eyes. "Walk in front of it three times thinking about what you need. Merry belated Christmas present."

Sirius glared until the fourth-year disappeared and stared at the wall. "This better work."

11:52

"Cutting it rather close don't you think?" The blonde glanced up from her Runes essay.

Sirius sat down next to her on the floor. "That's the new style."

"I thought you would have given up after five," Aurèlie said, gathering her parchment.

"You were worth the extra effort," he said, ignoring how pathetically sappy he sounded.

Aurèlie looked at him with an amused brow raised. "Well, I'm happy to hear that."

"You should be proud of me. I'll tell you all about my adventures on our date," Sirius said smugly.

The cerulean-haired girl smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "I can't wait."

Sirius watched in a sort of stunned silence as she stood and walked back to the door. She paused as she rested her hand on the brass doorknob and glanced back at him.

"If I promise you can sleep in your own bed tonight, if you don't make me walk back to your dorm all by myself," she said with a half-smile.

Sirius stood, smirking at her. "I think maybe we should wait until after the date to sleep together."

Aurèlie rolled her eyes. "Get your mind out of the gutter. I'll just kick James out or something."

Sirius laughed and opened the door, unconsciously taking her books from her. Aurèlie, who was very conscious of the exchange, would later deny she turned a shade of red darker than Lily's hair.

A/N: I was thinking about having him not find her...but I'm not quite that evil. And Regulus! I, personally, rather like Regulus so I'm trying to figure out how to involve him in this story. I think that would be interesting.

Hogsmeade on Valentines Day next chapter! Do you guys want to see some of James and Lily too? Know that they won't be the main pairing but I can add them in there if you want it. I think they're cute. And Andrew Garfield in the Amazing Spiderman? I think James is Spiderman, guys!

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