Keywords: Trouble Lurking
Remus was wandering around Hogwarts, trying to find Sirius or James whilst simultaneously scanning the hallways with a very nervous expression clear on his face. When someone clapped a hand down on his shoulder, he jumped a foot in the air and emitted a somewhat girly shriek. Sirius chuckled heartily as Remus scowled at him.
"Nice manly scream there, Moony. Why're you walking around looking as though Davina Bulstrode's been stalking you, and is hiding round the corner planning to jump you? If she is, thank Merlin she's moved on from me, that was bloody scary that was." Sirius shuddered dramatically.
"No, no. She's still madly in love with your devilishly good-looks and astounding charm," Remus commented dryly. "You know how nervous I get around this time. I feel like trouble is just lurking around the corner." The two started walking, Sirius leading the way to the Great Hall with a bounce in his step.
"Do you want me to look around corners and make sure there's nothing there?" He teased and Remus flushed as Sirius playfully stuck his head around the corner, and then froze.
"Sirius? What's wrong?" Remus peered over his friend's dark head and frowned at what he saw. Severus Snape and Lily Evans were locked in a tight hug, Lily's head tucked tightly against Severus's shoulder. Severus wasn't wearing his robes and Remus could see a patch of wetness on his shirt, which was growing larger even as he stroked Lily's flaming red hair tenderly and whispered in her ear. She was crying, and crying hard.
"Subausculto," Sirius whispered, pointing his wand at the pair. Suddenly Remus could hear every word and he raised an eyebrow at Sirius who simply grinned cheekily and shrugged.
"Please tell me what happened, Lils?" Severus was murmuring over and over again to Lily, whose shoulders were shaking with the force of her sobs. "Come on, it's just a few words." There was a long moment of silence before she finally started mumbling into his shoulder quickly.
"Mum's in hospital, they say it's cancer, and I was crying on Delilah's shoulder in the Great Hall when Potter came over in all his arrogant glory and told me he'd never hurt me the way whatever prat had who was making me cry, and so I should stop crying over something so insignificant now and go out with him! Then when I said no, he implied it was you who had made me cry and waltzed away," she gasped into his shoulder. Sirius frowned and removed the spell, seeing Severus's smug expression.
"That snake has something coming to him," Sirius muttered and disappeared.