Nyee...It's still too shooooort... Sorry mates. Still hectic around here, but since school has started I discovered two things about my school life. One, it's horribly boring, and two (most importantly) I have two free periods in a row!! Which means I can type some!! YAAY! So, I'm going to work on that next week, and I've also got no homework this weekend. All very very good things if you ask me. So, next chapter I hope will be at LEAST 5 pages in Word. This one's only 3.
FallinAngelGirl, I believe it was ye who asked about my exchange student. She's from Japan, and she absolutely loves America!! Land of the free, home of the brave, all that good stuff. She has 3 English classes (English 9, TOEFL, and English Language Development) and she's also taking Spanish 1, so...in my books, she's crazy to be taking on that much stuff!! CRAAAAZZZYYYY!!! ...Ahem...
Onwards with the story of impending happiness! Or doom...whichever you'd prefer.
Sirius, James, Remus, Tonks, and Lily made their way up the hill to the shrieking shack slowly, laughing and joking. Sirius was talking about a prank they'd pulled on Professor McGonagall earlier in the week, "Yeah, and then she went bright blue while she was talki--" He stopped mid-sentence, staring down the hill in confusion.
James poked Sirius, "Hey, what's the deal?" He asked, before he followed Sirius' gaze. A look akin to Sirius' appeared on his face, but Remus remained emotionless, peering down the hill with a more intrigued look than confusion.
They could see two people standing at the bottom of the hill, looking up at them, and they all knew who it was.
Tonks and Lily were the first to react, unfreezing their limbs and making their way down the hill towards Wren and Severus.
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Wren glanced sideways at Severus as Tonks and Lily approached. His gaze was latched onto the boys' figures farther up the hill. Wren sighed inwardly, and then smiled at Tonks and Lily as they reached them. "Hey you two!" She greeted them.
Tonks smiled, "Hi Wren! E'llo Severus." She looked from Wren to Severus and a look of realization fell over her face. Lily smiled at Wren, but she only managed a tiny reproduction of it for Severus. "Hey." She said.
Lily and Tonks glanced at each other, and then looked at Wren, raising their eyebrows at her. Wren didn't say anything, but her face grew a shade redder and she glanced at Severus. Lily and Tonks smirked at the two, glancing again at each other. Severus wasn't following any of the silent female communication, so he kept an eye on the Marauders, who were coming down the hill.
Tonks grinned, "So this is why Sirius couldn't show you around…someone had already beaten him to it, eh?"
Wren smiled, "Yeah, you could say that."
Lily smiled at Severus fully this time, "Should we go, Sev? We don't want to intrude or anything."
Severus almost fell over in shock. It was the first complete sentence Lily had said to him in over a year. He shook his head, "You don't have to go." He seemed to not completely be 100 honest with his answer as he glanced at the Marauders who were almost in hearing distance.
Lily grinned, "We won't tell them…no offense, but they're boys…they'd believe you if you said you could fly."
Wren winked at them, a silent thank you, and then turned and waved at the Marauders. "Come over here and join us! We were just about to stuff ourselves with candy!" She laughed as both Sirius and Remus slightly increased their pace to reach them faster.
"What's going on?" Sirius asked as the others joined them. "Why's he here?"
Severus glared at Sirius, "I do believe I'm allowed to be up here." His voice was conversational, but his eyes were full of malice and hate.
Wren sensed danger and stepped quickly in, "We were talking Sirius. Honestly." She grinned, and Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"About what?" Remus wanted to know. He stood casually beside Sirius, his hands behind his back, making him look a bit like a professor. He smiled genuinely at Severus, and Severus figured he was really only curious and not trying to start something.
"Wren was telling me about her Hippogriffs." He said, his mind moving back to their conversation in the library, "And we were admiring the view."
Wren bit her lip hard to stop a giggling fit when Severus finished the last part of his sentence. Picking up hers and Severus' bags, she handed him his and then sat down on the grass. When no one seemed to be joining her, she grinned. "Fine…more for me." She turned her bag upside down and emptied a huge pile of candy onto the grass. Remus, Tonks and Lily immediately sat down next to Wren, selecting a piece of candy each, with Wren's permission.
Wren kept an eye on the others as she searched through the pile of candy. After a long moment of glaring at each other, Severus, Sirius, and James sat down, completing the small circle of students.
They all rummaged through the candy for a moment, and then sat back to eat it. Wren had chosen Every Flavor Beans and was sharing with Tonks, Lily had a caramel apple, Severus picked out some Cockroach Clusters, Sirius and James were quietly squabbling over a large packet of Whistlers, and Remus was happily nibbling at his bar of chocolate.
Tonks kept grinning at Wren, and every time she did, Wren threw jellybeans at her. They all began discussions of who had the best common room, and it turned into a small candy war, in which Lily almost got beheaded by a Fizzing Whizzbee. After that, the conversation was directed to favorite classes. That's when things started to get a bit ugly.
Severus was arguing with James and Sirius about Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and which was more useful.
"You never know when you might run into a dark wizard." James was saying.
"Oh yeah, that's really likely, considering this is Hogwarts, guarded by spells and enchantments to keep that sort of thing out." Severus scoffed.
"There must be a loop hole somewhere in the system though…" Sirius said thoughtfully, before a smirk spread over his face. "…otherwise there wouldn't be slimy gits like you around, Snivelly."
In a flash, Severus tackled Sirius. Being no match for him at hand to hand combat and such, he went straight for his wand, jamming it against his throat. "Say that again." He whispered, menacingly quiet. "Give me a reason to hex you." His eyes glinted maliciously. "I dare you."
Sirius remained perfectly still, hardly daring to breathe. "You wouldn't." He said shakily, as if to convince himself.
"Oh wouldn't I?" Severus replied, keeping Sirius pinned to the ground with his wand. Behind him, James quietly drew closer, and Wren, Tonks and Lily had their wands drawn. Remus was watching the proceedings with a look of disgust on his face.
James tackled Severus, and Sirius rolled out from under Severus' wand's tip. Severus and James rolled a few feet and then started fighting, throwing punches at whatever they could see and reach. Sirius leaped into the fray and joined the fight.
Wren jumped up, and Tonks and Lily copied her immediately. "Now?" Lily asked, watching the boys with wide eyes.
"Wait." Tonks replied, keeping her wand trained on the boys.
The three girls let the others fight without interfering until Severus went for his wand again, and Sirius and James went for theirs in the same instant. "Now." Wren said quietly.
Wren, Tonks and Lily all fired disarming spells at Sirius, Severus and James. Their wands flew out of their hands, landing softly on the ground. As they all paused in their tussle to turn and stare at the three girls questioningly, Wren, Tonks and Lily petrified the three of them.
Wren smiled apologetically at them, Tonks laughed openly at their frozen faces, and Lily shook her head in disgust. Severus was sporting a torn lip and bloody nose, but James' nose on the other hand, looked broken. Sirius had what appeared to be two swelling black eyes.
Severus, James and Sirius had no choice now but to wait for the curse to be lifted, and, considering the casters all looked rather annoyed, that might take a while.
I seriously think Padfoot, Prongs and Moony would all be great friends with Sev, and vice-versa, if they just TRIED HARD ENOUGH!!! AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!! ...I want to smack their heads together...but I can't. Soooo...tell me how you liked it!! Please? You know you want tooooooooo!!! Tell you what. If I get 5 reviews for this chapter, I shall (somehow...) make the next chapter not at least 5 pages long, but at least 10 pages long!! Won't that be nice? Yes? Ah, and I'll even throw in a promise to not cliff-hang you this time!! So, review please!