"You're mad, the lot of you," Lily said, panting as the five of them stumbled into the Gryffindor Common Room. "Absolutely mad."
"We're all mad here," Sirius quipped with a Cheshire Cat-like smile.
"Don't worry, Lils," James said, smirking. "You'll be mad too."
"I think I already am," she muttered. "You've all corrupted me."
"It's one of our talents," Peter said proudly, before bidding them all goodnight and heading to the boy's dormitory.
"And if you think kicking Mrs. Norris when Filch was just a corridor away is crazy, you clearly haven't spent enough nights wandering Hogwarts with those two," Remus added wryly, following Peter up the stairs.
Lily just shook her head as she sat on an armchair before the fire, closing her eyes and breathing deeply. Sirius ruffled her hair as he passed by her to their dormitory.
"Don't stay up too late," he said, and Lily could hear his smile.
James walked to stand in front of her chair, dropping a kiss to the top of her head.
"Off to bed you go," he said, as she shook her head and ignored his extended hand.
"I'm perfectly fine right here, thank you very much. I'm too tired to go up the stairs."
"If you won't go to your dormitory by yourself, I'll have to bring you up there."
"And how do you propose to do that? You know you can't go up the stairs."
He grinned. "Well, I suppose I'll have to put you on my broom and fly you up there."
Lily laughed, taking his hand and allowing herself to be pulled up. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders as they walked to the girl's dormitory stairs.
"The sad thing is, I know you would actually do it," she said, leaning into him. "Fly me up the stairs on your broom, I mean. I don't know anyone else who would do something as insane as that. You're mad. Have I told you that?"
"You might've mentioned it once or twice," he grinned, and kissed her softly. "But you love me for it."
"I do, crazily enough," she teased, turning away from him to go up the stairs. "Just proof of how you've managed to corrupt me."
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