Saturday 21st October (Head Common Room-4:47PM)
"What time is she coming? Did she say how long she would be?"
"James! That's the third time you've asked and my answer is still NO!" I laughed as James sunk further into his seat, a pout on his lips.
James, Sirius, Peter and I were sat in the Head's common room, Butterbear and Firewhiskey in hand as we celebrated Gryffindor's win and waited for Lily to get here. I was seated in the armchair in front of the fire, with Sirius resting on the arm. Peter was sat in the armchair opposite. James was on the love seat, taking up all the room as he was slouched down and spread across the whole thing.
After the game, Lily had found Peter and I whilst we were waiting for the guys and told me she had to do some stuff but would meet us later in the Head's common room. When I'd told James that she would be meeting us later, he almost tripped over his broom with excitement as he all but skipped up the path to the castle. Leaving Peter, Sirius and I laughing at his idiotic actions.
"She's taking ages." James whined and stood up to walk to the small kitchen that was hidden away in the back.
"Merlin, Lily better hurry up or I'm going to kill James myself." Sirius stated from beside me causing me the chuckle, Sirius glanced at me and a smile graced his lips. Even though the love seat was now free, Sirius remained where he was.
"Who's killing James?" I looked up to see Lily entering through the door, satchel over her shoulder and books in hand.
"Oh, Sirius was going to but you're here now, so.." I answered whilst standing up to go help her with her books. Confusion flashed over Lily's face but she must have dismissed the comment as she didn't say anything as she handed me some books. "Where do you want these?" I asked, gesturing to the books in hand.
"Oh, um..we can put them on the kitchen table."
I lead the way into the small kitchen, placing the few books Lily had passed to me onto the round wooden table and looking up to find James, who had his head int he fridge, completely unaware of Lily now in the room. I smirked and waited for James to notice.
"Hi, James."
THUD!
"Ow, shit!" James jumped at the sound of Lily's voice and smacked his head on the top of the fridge. He rubbed the top of his head and spun around. His face was contorted in pain but a silly grin hung on his lips and he looked at Lily.
"Hey Lil's, how you doing?" He asked as he leaned against the counter.
"Uh, I'm good, doing a lot better than you by the looks of it. Sorry, I didn't mean to make you jump." She replied, the smile tugging at her lips made me think she wasn't that sorry.
"Nah, I'm alright. Just happy to see you." He beamed at her, as he hopped up onto the counter, swinging his feet like a child and his eyes sparkling with joy.
"Likewise." Lily responded, her smile growing wider as she then moved to sit at one of the table chairs, I took note that it's was coincidentally the one closest to James.
"Uh, I'm gonna leave you two to it." I said, taking my cue to leave.
I walked through the little archway back into the common room and as I crossed the room, I noticed that Sirius had moved into my seat and that Peter was looking now looking through the big bookcase by the stairs.
"Oi, Sirius. Get out of my seat." I called as I neared him. He grinned up at me as I came to stand by him.
"Nope. If you want to sit here then you're just going to have to sit on my lap." He replied cheekily and I blushed, turning to look at the fire.
"No, Sirius, I chose that seat because it was closest to the fire and I'm still cold from earlier." I reasoned, pleading to him with my eyes.
"I can keep you warm." He stated innocently, looking up at me with puppy dog eye. My cheeks reddened and suddenly the room felt alot hotter.
"I-I'm good thanks." I stuttered, moving away to the love seat, flopping down onto it and pulling my legs to my chest, resting my head on my knees.
"You sure? You were just complaining that you were cold." He smirked at me and leaned forward onto his knees, staring me in the eye. "Though, you do look positively flushed." A smile threatened his lips and his eyebrow quirked up.
"Sirius, be quiet." I ordered to which he chuckled.
(Head Common Kitchen-5:33PM)
Not long after Lily and James had joined us in the lounge, I dragged Lily back up to help me with my search for food as dinner wasn't for an hour and I had been hungry since we got back from the game.
"What's up with you and Sirius?" Lily asked from behind me and she filled a glass with water whilst I searched the for food.
"What do you mean?" I replied, still rummaging through cupboards. "Do you actually have food in this kitchen?"
"Third cupboard from the right." I followed her instructions and sure enough I found a selection of food. "And you know what I mean, the flirting and longing looks."
I screwed my face up in confusion and turned to look at her. She was leaning against the counter, glass in hand and a smirk on her lips. "We don't longing look at each other."
"If you say so.." She rolled her eyes and took as sip of her drink.
"Anyway, you can't talk, you and James may as well just jump each others bones by the looks you throw at each other." I retorted, smirking at her before turning back to grab a chocolate bar from the cupboard.
"Oh shut up." Lily said before smacking me playfully on the arm.
(Dorm Room-6:13PM)
Opening the door, I peered inside to find that it was dark except from the light that was peeking through the curtains from the soon the be setting sun. Looking around the room, I spotted Remus sleeping peacefully on his bed, his soft snore filling the room.
Quietly, I closed the door and crossed the room over to my side table and grabbed the book Lily wanted to borrow.
As I turned around to head back towards the door, Remus' snoring stopped and in it's place was muffled words. With curiosity getting the best of me, I tip-toed over to his bed and closed my eyes to focus on his words.
"No..i-it hurts." Flicking my eyes open, I gazed at his face and found it was contorted in pain. An urge to help him ran through me and I knelled down beside him, placed the book on my lap, took his hand in mine and begun drawing slow circles on his palm.
"It's okay, Remus. You're okay." I whispered to him, in hope to soothe his pain. After a few minutes, his mumbling stopped and his snoring restarted.
Sighing, I stood back up and picked up my book from the floor. Leaning down, I kissed Remus on the cheek and then left the room as soundlessly as I could.
(Dorm Room-11:54PM)
"Ow, Sirius, get of me!" A voice whispered into the darkness.
"Peter, shut up!" A deeper voice replied.
Woken by the noise, I opened my eyes to be met with black. It took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust but when they did, I could make out two figures making their way over to the door and by the names said, it was Peter and Sirius.
I was about to call out to them to ask what they were doing but in that second I glanced towards the window and saw the full moon staring back at me and it clicked. Sirius and Peter were sneaking out to go meet James so then they could be with Remus tonight in the Shrieking Shack.
The door opened silently and a slither of light illuminated the room. Peter's face appeared in the light and he turned around to check that I was still sleeping and I almost didn't close my eye in time.
" 'Mione's still asleep." He said after a few seconds.
"Keep moving before she wakes up." Sirius urged and then I heard the click of the door and I opened my eyes to be met with darkness again.
...
An hour passed before I heard the howling of what would sound like a wolf, but I knew to be Remus. Leaving my bed, I made my way over to the window and searched the forest until I found what I was looking for.
A stag, a dog, a rat and a werewolf.
Ooo, Hermione see's them all for the first time.
3 Questions: Favourite line? Did you like flirting Sirius? What do you think of the Lily and Hermione friendship?
Sorry this chapter is shorter, the ending was so hard to write and I don't even know why, just none of the words seemed to flow as I was writing it and I sort of just wanted to end it.
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Kaitlin xx
P.S. Happy Birthday to Harry Potter!
