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"He's got it! BLACK'S GOT THE GOLDEN SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!" Xenophilius shouted into the microphone. Though no matter how loud he had said it, the comment couldn't be heard over the loud roar as everyone, besides the Slytherins, went wild.
Sirius shoved the fellow Slytherin seeker off him as he dusted himself off, stood up, and raised his hand, with the snitch, in the air; reinforcing the fact that Gryffindor had indeed, won the first game of the year. After a while of constant cheering, he lowered his arm. As the Gryffindor Seeker breathed a sigh of relief, he heard a sudden roar and looked up, simply to find his fellow teammates tackle him to the ground, and down he fell…again.
"Mate, that…that was FANTASTIC!" James praised as he slapped his best friend on his back; once Sirius sat back up of course, but he beamed as the rest of the team agreed in unison. As James helped his friend up off from the ground, Lily, Kat, Alice, and little Peter ran over the field to meet up with them.
"Blimey you guys, congrats!" Lily exclaimed as she tightly hugged the handsome boy and James, almost to the point of genuinely suffocating them.
"Good job Padfoot!" Peter squeaked shyly.
"Thanks Pete," Sirius responded, ruffling Peter's hair intentionally, happy for his friends praise.
After she had let go of the two, Lily looked up at Gryffindor captain and smiled. "I have to say, amazing job at picking out the team; you all did amazingly well," she complimented. "-and I actually mean it; when I say this to the fifth years that receive 'A's on every single subject on their O.W.L's is when I don't," James laughed. She continued, "-how they can be satisfied with an 'A' in every single bloody subject, well, it bothers me…" Lily trailed off.
"A lot of academic things bother you, Lils," Alice mumbled. The redhead glared dangerously at her friend who smiled back awkwardly.
Not even the slightest scared by the vicious look, Katherine interrupted and continued on from where her friend left off, "-but now's not the time to contemplate over that is it?" she was rewarded with uncomfortable silence. "I mean, look at this!" Kat waved her hands in the air. "We just one the first game of the year and-" Sirius stared at Kat, offended.
"'We'? If I remember correctly it was us," he motioned towards the team. "that did all the scoring and me, Sirius Black, who caught the snitch,"
"Alright, alright don't get your pants in a bunch," she scoffed.
Now he was just plain confused. "Pants…bunch…what?"
"Muggle saying," Kat explained; he nodded, still somewhat perplexed. "The point is," she went on, "you guys," she glared at Sirius who was happily content with the how she had formatted the introduction this time; all the glory going to him and the Gryffindor team. "-just won the first game of the year, and here we are, talking about academic grades and how it bothers each one of us!" Kat said exasperated. She glanced at the redhead sheepishly. "No offense, Lily,"
"None taken," Lily spat.
James smiled and gave the redhead an encouraging shoulder squeeze. "Aw, it's alright Lily," he said reassuringly. "You all want to go visit Remus before we celebrate?" he asked them all, and Lily smiled appreciatively at him for the change in subject; the rest of the team had quietly dispersed by then. They all agreed to stop by the hospital wing on their way to the common room, where all the festivities would be.
"We better make it quick though," Sirius said. "I want to get the common room before all the butterbeer run out…"
"So you're saying butterbeer's more important than Remus?" James questioned, amused.
"No- but…"
"HEY REMUS!" James suddenly shouted out loud through the whole entire field. "SIRIUS THINKS BUTTERBEER'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU ARE!" and he took off running towards the castle, knowing that Sirius would be right at his heels, chasing him.
"HE LIES MOONY!" Sirius exclaimed. "PRONGS LIES!" and into the school they went, their voices still echoing throughout the vacant hallways. With those two gone, a prolonged silence settled upon the rest of the group.
"Peter," Alice suddenly said.
"Yeah?" he asked.
And with a deadpan look on her face, Alice questioned, looking genuinely perplexed, "How the bloody heck do you live with them?"
DT
"How ya doing Moony?" Sirius asked his friend cheerfully. The two boys arrived at about the same time and thankfully, the rest of the group wasn't far behind; if it weren't for them, James and Sirius would still be at each other's throats.
Remus was sitting up in his bed, reading, or actually, rereading Hogwarts: a History, when the unexpected arrival of his two friends caused him to drop his book, ending his yearned for quiet time; for the moment.
His condition, on the other hand, was decent. Most of the color had returned to his face and it seemed that if he continued to progress as nicely as he had so far, they'd let him out by tomorrow morning, to everyone's relief.
"I'm okay," Lupin replied as he gave Kat and the rest of the people a hug.
"Good," Kat said, relieved. "With that sudden flu just coming from no where; it had us really scared," she went on, still looking somewhat concerned. Remus smiled; the tiniest bit of guilt for not telling everyone why he was stuck in the infirmary etched on his face. So that's what people think; that Remus has the flu…Moony turned towards James and motioned his head a tiny bit towards Lily. James nodded and Remus grinned gratefully at her. Lily smiled, nodding her head.
All of this non-verbal communication happened without any of the others, and by others, I mean Kat and Alice, noticing; you had to have some sort of skill to pull that off, right? Considering how observant those two are.
DT
"So James," Lupin started. "I hear the commenting for the game was…interesting this time around," he said, entertained.
"Heh, yeah, well..." James face flushed. "No one else knew much about the darn subject besides Lovegood," He stood up straighter. "But if I do say so myself, the game itself went by pretty well,"
"It did," Remus agreed. "Oh yes, and Padfoot," he turned towards Sirius. "during the whole commenting, I think I picked up something vaguely along the lines of, and please correct me if I'm wrong, 'Mother Nature can go BOOM,'," Everyone in the room laughed. "Care to explain that?" Remus asked innocently.
"You guys are still on that?" he whined, his face pink. He sighed, "If you want the whole story, it's pretty long; see-"
Sirius was about to say more when James interrupted and states, "He was high," Sirius glared at him.
"Ah…that clarifies so much…" Remus said. "You know," he continued. "that explanation only applies to you; if it were anyone else in this room or world, I'd still be as confused as ever,"
"I'll take that as a compliment," Sirius snapped.
And that was pretty much the end of their conversation.
DT
After a little more talking, the six waved goodbye to Remus and started towards the common room. Before they even reached the portrait hole, they could already hear the celebrating on the other side of the wall.
"Password?" the Fat Lady asked them.
"Dilligrout" Lily stated firmly.
"Alright fine, I'll let you lot go," The Fat Lady sighed as she unveiled the portrait hole. "But you tell those rascals in there to quiet down! I have to get to Violet's early tomorrow morning, they're giving me a headache, and I can't sleep!" she exclaimed.
"Will do Fat Lady, will do," Sirius called out before the portrait door swung close with a loud "Humph!"
If the room was loud before, then now, the noise was deafening; much to the Fat Lady's displeasure. With the Gryffindor captain and star Seeker's arrival, everyone crowded around the two and cheered as loudly as they could. Sirius and James were lifted up into the air, though James looked a little uncomfortable, considering that all the other times he was lifted up in the air was on his broomstick. Sirius on the other hand, seemed to enjoy all the attention from fellow housemates (and of course, girls) because, well, he was Sirius Black.
Fortunately, James was let down soon, though Sirius was still floating in a sea of hands, and he approached Lily with two butterbeers in his hands. She was sitting in a chair, staring at the scene, looking rather uncomfortable, with Kat and Alice no where in sight. Lily look up and saw the black-haired boy approach her and smiled gratefully when he tossed her a bottle of butterbeer and seated himself next to her.
After a short moment of silence between the two, James turned towards Lily and started, "So where'd future Mrs. Longbottom and Mrs. Lupin go?" he asked nonchalantly.
Lily stared straight ahead and smirked. "Mrs. Longbottom's somewhere with Mr. Longbottom and Mrs. Lupin wasn't in the mood to stay and went to get some sleep,"
"Ah…and what are you doing, Mrs. Potter?" he asked just as casually.
Lily scoffed and she turned to smacked James in the arm. He laughed and Lily said bitterly, "That's Ms. Evans to you Mr. Potter," though surprisingly, she let the comment pass without much fuss.
Another session of awkward silence fell between them, both of them in deep thought. While she was still pondering on some unknown subject, Lily chuckled.
"What?" James asked.
"Just watching Sirius dance around drunk," She stopped for moment. "Which reminds me- shouldn't you be out there partying, absorbing all the attention like you do, or at least use to?"
"Nah," he said. "It's not like it makes me feel better when other people start giving you all this attention over one little good thing you did. Once the time passes, everything's back to normal and no one remembers a thing," James reasoned. "Plus, most people don't like it, acting all arrogant and snotty," He looked at Lily and she caught his eye, blushing. He's changed, she thought. James Potter's really changed; he's nicer, less arrogant, funny, pleasant to be around and I found out about all this when? Today! Wow…I really don't know that much about him, Lily concluded.
"So," she started. "tell me about yourself,"
James blinked. "What's there to know?"
"Eh, anything," she said. "Since you're not an arrogant quidditch player/ pig anymore," Lily joked but continued on. "and we're now friends and all," she tried to look unmoved when she said this. "I feel we should get to know each other better," Lily sat up straighter and looked at James. "So, you start,"
"Well, I'm James Potter and it just so happens that, according to someone, I use to be an arrogant quidditch player/ pig but now, still according to that same someone, it seems that I'm just a regular quidditch player and friends with a know-it-all," He grinned at Lily who laughed but urged him on.
James looked at her, still a little puzzled at the sudden interrogating but continued anyway; his family, how he found interest in Quidditch… "So one day, I walk into my dad's workshop and he has these broomsticks flying around…"
Lily laughed when James reminisced funny times; when she heard about the time he lost his mother in Diagon Alley and went into almost every shop, requesting for "A somewhat young woman with the name of Rose Potter,", Lily imagined everything he told her.
So there they were, the two young friends; catching up on each other, and making up for the lost years.
"And what are you doing, Mrs. Potter?"
Ms. Evans, Lily thought, smiling to herself, is happily enjoying herself with Mr. Potter.
Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone! So anyone watched Harry Potter 7 pt 1? I did! And in my opinion, it was a pretty good movie. XD Anyway, about the story- I feel like Lily's life is getting too decent, if not perfect, and nothing's really happening; so just a precaution- prepare yourselves for some twists in the near future- thanks so much for reading and as always, reviews are loved and greatly appreciated!
PS, I felt kind of bad expressing Kat as 'Mrs. Lupin,' knowing that she wasn't going to end up with him at the end…:( just a side note.