Lisa: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Heather: Oh my...
Lisa: Yeah, I have a soar throat so I don't know why I would yell, but these jolly ranchers are really helping.
Heather: I'm sure they are...
Reception and a Proposal
Sirius picked up his shot glass and downed yet another shot of fire whiskey and slammed the small glass down on the counter top. It was getting late in the evening, the party was still going on, and almost everyone was drunk off their asses. Sirius was hooking up with almost every female at the wedding, as Remus and James had predicted the night Alice and Frank told them of the wedding. As of right now he was with a girl by the name of Susan, a relative of Alice. You'd think a girl would know better then to start making out with a guy who she just saw drag a different girl to the back of the room, but she was quite drunk herself.
"C'mon then luv..." Sirius drawled as got up and put his hand around the girl. "Let's go over... uh..."
"There?" She helped out and pointed to an almost empty corner of the room.
"Tha' works perf'ctly." He stumbled over his words and both of them began walking over to the corner, both of them tripping into one another and laughing and nothing in particular.
Alice noticed him walking over there with Susan and jogged over there to catch them before they did anything. "Sirius, Sirius, Sirius, no, okay, no, not my baby cousin. No way, uh uh, sorry."
Sirius's grin went away in an instant. "But, Alice." He started to complain. "Yer c'usin's really hot!"
Alice's hand then came out of no where and slapped Sirius across the face, he made a blank face and looked back to her. "Ow..." He said.
Alice rolled her eyes at him and took the hand of her little cousin before dragging her away complaining.
Sirius watched them go and then wandered around the room a bit more. In a minute or so, he ran into Andy and Remus who were snogging on the couch, more then anyone have ever seen them go at it. Both defiantly drunk, but neither got sloppy drunk, their decision making skills and senses were just extremely dulled. Sirius fell down next to them getting their attention and making them stop. "So, Moony, could I borrow her for a minute or two?"
Remus raised an eyebrow at him and scoffed. "Get your horny ass of the couch, Padfoot, you're not going any where near her."
"Yeah, Padfoot, go away." Andy said and wrapped her arms tighter around Remus. "Go snog another one of the girls here."
"'ve snogged th'm all." He moaned.
"Then go snog yourself I have business I have to finish." Andy said and leaned in on Remus once more. The two would never snog like this in public, at a wedding to make it worse but they were both drunk.
Sirius sucked on the side of his mouth for a moment before getting up and sauntering over to the other side of the room where Lily and James were sitting, James, a little bit drunker then Lily. It looked as though she was trying to keep him under some sort of control.
"'ey Prongs!" Sirius said and sat down. "Wha'cha'doin' here?"
"Hangin' out with me girl." James said looking over to Sirius. "Wha're you doin'? I think you'd be out on th' dance floor by now."
"I did... I threwed up ov'r there, I th'k th' lady cleaned it up though..." Sirius slurred pointing over to a corner of the room.
Lily looked shocked by this, someone had thrown up in the room and no one yelled or did anything? And he thinks it was cleaned up? "Sirius, just how many drinks have you had?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I dunno... But 'm bored..." He moaned and put his head down on the table.
James shrugged. "Gonna go 'ome then?" He asked his eyes half closed and his vision blurred.
"No!" Sirius yelled like a child. "I wanna go 'ave more fun." He said and stood up very wobbly. "None of yous were none help at all..." He walked away, James wanted to go after him and jump on his back but Lily stopped him just in time.
Sirius walked around and walked into a hallway to see a couple snogging at the wall. He scoffed and rolled his eyes, apparently no one was allowed to snog here except him. He was about to walk away when he noticed just who this couple was. He started grinning and laughing to himself putting his hand over his mouth to be sure not to let them know he was there.
He covered his face with his hands like a five year old and peeked though his fingers to catch the faces of Heather and Chris snogging some more before Sirius dashed back into the main room. He was laughing at what he just saw before running into Laura who it looked as though she had a few too many.
"Oi! Lookit, it's Laura Jean." Sirius said with a big grin.
"Lo, Sirius," She said putting her hands on his shoulders to steady herself.
"D'ya 'appen 't know where Wormtail is, dear?" Sirius asked looking around the room with his shaggy black hair in his face.
"I th'nk I saw him ov'r..." she looked around. "Somewhere."
"'E's too short 't see anywhere..." Sirius complained as he craned his neck to see around the few people who were still left in the place.
"'Ey! It's fun 't be short..." Laura said poking Sirius in the chest.
He shrugged. "I wouldn' know."
There was a long silence before Sirius looked around for Peter one last time and sighed. "So, d'ya wanna go in th' back closet? I th'nk no ones in there now." He said jutting his thumb behind him.
Laura raised her brow at him and then looked down and she shook her head. "You snogged ev'ry girl in th's place t'night, there is no way... in HELL 'm gonna go snog ya now." She poked him hard in the chest. "Yer chest 's harder th'n I r'member..."
"But I drank a shot af'er that last g'rl... wha's 'er name..." He said and stared off into space for a second.
Laura shrugged. "Okay... le's go."
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The next morning Sirius woke up in his flat, he had no idea how he got there. But that's where he was. He was dressed in boxers and lying on top of his sheets. Moaning he tried to sit up only to realize that he had a pounding headache, looking around he was thankful that someone had closed the curtains on the windows.
Tenderly he got up holding his head and slid off his bed, there were sounds coming from his kitchen, he wondered if he bought one of the women he hooked up with the previous night home. If he had, he wondered which one, he was quite drunk.
Pushing open the door and making his way into the kitchen he squinted at the sudden light and rubbed his eyes. Almost physically puling his eyelids open he looked around to see who was in his kitchen. To his surprise it was no blond girl with big breasts, it was none other then Remus Lupin, making himself some tea.
"Moony...?" Sirius asked walking over and grabbing the tea kettle from the stove top. "What are you doing in my flat?" he asked before tiling back his head and drinking the tea straight from the kettle.
"I took you home, you were in no shape to floo on your own, probably would have ended up in someone's house." He answered. "And I just had the good graces to stay and make sure you didn't die from alcohol poisoning or choke on your own vomit."
"You weren't entirely sober as I remember, or of what I remember..."
Remus sighed. "Yes, well I'm a much more coordinated drunk then you. But it was a hell of a night. By the way, do you remember where you were the last hour or so? No one does, you just sort of disappeared."
Sirius closed his eyes and let out a long breath, is mind flashed back to the night before and he couldn't remember much. Just many girls... some flashes of his friends, but the later he got into the night the less he remembered. "I dunno," he said before actually getting a mug and pouring himself some tea. "It's real fuzzy, hm, I thought my liver could've handled more..."
"Well that's what happens at weddings, particularly ones with many Order members in it." Remus smiled. Looking down at his watch he sighed, well its past noon by the way, I should head back to Andy's house. You know I think we found a spot to live."
"Really?" Sirius asked with a smile as he picking up some pills from the counter and downed them to try and rid himself of the massive headache. "Where?"
"It's a small cottage outside London, a bit far, but nothing a good floo or a nice calming broom ride couldn't fix." Remus said with a smile, "Daina found it when she was investigating some of the places death eaters could have been hiding out."
Sirius raised an eyebrow. "So you're future home was once inhabited by death eaters?"
"No, no," Remus said holding his hands up to stop Sirius. "She was just you know, going through the neighborhood and this one was for sale. It's cheap, not the biggest house... or the fanciest, but it's what I can afford."
Sirius smirked. "Then you're lucky Andy isn't into materialistic stuff."
"Speaking of her, I should head back, told her I'd be home by noon." Remus said putting down his tea and walking over to the fireplace.
"If she's even up, but I doubt it, she tends to sleep in, yes?" Sirius asked taking another swig of the tea. "Oh ow..."
"What?" Remus asked as he grabbed a handful of floo powder.
"Headache..." He moaned. "Don't suppose you know any spells for a hangover do you?"
"I do, but... I don't think I'm going to tell you just yet." Remus smiled and threw the powder in the fire and leaving Sirius alone in his flat.
"Jerk off." Sirius said after Remus had left.
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James opened his eyes and looked around at his new house, just a couple days before the wedding they had moved into the new house. He narrowed his eyes, the sun was blaring through the window in his face. Putting his hand up he blocked the light and stood up to close the shades. This must have made a disturbance on the bed because he heard Lily moan next to him. After closing the shades he turned around to see her looking up at him with those beautiful green eyes.
"Hey, Lily Flower," James said as he crawled into the bed next to her and taking his glasses off the night stand at the same time before sliding them on his face.
"Hello, Jimmy." She said with a smiled as he rolled his eyes at the, in his opinion, ridiculous nickname. "How's your head?"
"How did you know my head hurt?" He asked her.
She smirked and started playing with his messy hair. "You were so drunk last night there is no way you don't have a hangover."
"You were a bit drunk too." He countered.
"Not as much as you." She smiled and cuddled her head in his chest.
James sat there and took a deep breath. Moving his hand over to the nightstand he opened the drawer and pulled out a small velvet bow. Biting his lip and clearing his throat he began to talk to Lily in a quiet voice. "So, the wedding, makes you think, huh?"
She opened her eyes and looked up to him, "yeah, it does, why?"
"Well it's just... you know this war, it could get bad, we don't know what could happen... to you... or me..."
Furrowing her brow she sat up so she was eye level with him. "James, what's all this about?"
"Well, I was just thinking, I mean, we've been dating for a while now, you remember when you first went out with me? It was all because of that race? Andy made that bet." He started babbling.
She smiled. "Oh yeah, I still think she cheated, but it doesn't really matter anymore I guess."
"She kinda did, as we were racing she bumped people out of the way to help me win, so did Sirius, the others helped too, but they kept them in the back. Andy and Sirius 'patrolled' around me." James said and a loot of realization washed over Lily's face.
"I knew it!" She slapped his chest. "I knew you cheated."
"Just proves how much I loved you even then." He smiled at her.
She looked at him in silence for a moment. "James, what's all this about? Why the sudden stroll down memory lane?"
"Well... Lily... Lillian Marie Evans..." He opened the small velvet box with the thumb of his hand as he sat next to him on the bed and bought it up. "Will you marry me?" he asked and help the box open in front of her.
Lily looked shocked and then looked down at the box, a look of confusion spread across her face. "Well, James, I would love to." She giggled a little bit. "But, there's no ring in that box." She reached her hand out and grabbed a small note in the box. "Only this."
"What...?" James said as he grabbed the note, the ring was expensive, he wanted it. "Dear Prongs." James rolled his eyes, the messy handwriting, it had to be Sirius. "You must be proposing to Lily now, you would never check the box before hand in fear of dropping the ring. (I'm grinning now by the way). I know this was probably the worst possible thing I could do, but I had too. As a fellow Marauder, you understand. Haha, but anyway, sorry, mate, the ring's in your dress robes pocket. Say yes Lily, I want you in the family."
James grunted and shot up while Lily sat on the bed laughing. "Well," she started. "You have to admit, it got you a tad riled up."
Rummaging through his dress robes he wore the night before he found the ring in the inside the pocket. Sighing he walked back over to the bed and sat down. "Let's try this again." He said and held out the ring making Lily gasp at its size and beauty. "Lily Marie Evans, will you marry me? If anything happens to me in this war, I want to make sure I'm married to the most beautiful girl in the world."
She nodded. "Yes, James, oh... Merlin yes I will! I will!" She screeched as he slid the ring on her finger. She squealed and launched herself forward to hug him.
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Elsewhere in the wizarding world Laura was waking up in her bed at the Potter home, she had yet to find herself a decent flat. She found a nice building though she was just waiting for someone to finish moving out, it was just a couple blocks away from Sirius. She sat up and looked around. Sighing she thought back to the party the night before.
Halfway through rubbing her eyes she stopped and stared forward with wide eyes. "Oh my God..." She said. "What did I do?"
Lisa: Well my throat still hurts... a lot... so I won't be talking much.
Heather: I will! Um... uh... yeah... so yeah! Review! And um... yeah...
Lisa: Well said.
