Hide
She's standing right beside me, back pressed against the door, eyes shut and lips moving to a silent prayer.
I ask in a whisper, "Are you okay?"
Her eyes fly open and dart sideways to me, green orbs reflecting the light from the candles floating above our heads.
"Of course you pick the room with absolutely nowhere to hide," she mutters. "A whole bloody castle and you pick the most open room in the whole place -"
A muffled shout from the other side of the door cuts her off.
"Shh!" I press my finger to my lips and shush her, urgently scanning the room for something, anything, that could provide us some cover.
I think of the Sirius sneaking around under the cover of the invisibility cloak and clench my fists.
"Look, there!"
She's pointing to the very far end of the hall, to the professors' table with the deep purple cloth draped over the top and trailing onto the floor. It's a long shot, and we're going to have to sprint if we're ever going to make it, but it's our only choice.
I clasp her hand, and she gives me a determined nod.
We can do this.
We take off running down the hall, leaping up the steps and sliding onto our knees underneath the long wooden table underneath the window. Just as she tugs the purple cloth back down behind us we hear the bang of the doors being thrown open.
She stares at me, eyes wide, and I clutch her hand tighter.
The footsteps draw menacingly closer, echoing around the cavernous hall. I can feel my pulse beating at my wrists as I try to breathe silently. She's biting her lip now, looking tense and scared and still so beautiful. The footsteps are relentless.
And then they stop.
There's a pause, where we hold our breath and don't dare move, waiting, hoping -
And then the cloth is thrown aside and Remus is staring in at us.
He points, smiles triumphantly and crows, "Knew I'd got you!"
"Damn it," she curses, crawling out from under the table and dusting herself off. "I'm picking the room next time, Potter."
"Like you'd do any better, Evans." I roll my eyes.
"The whole castle and you go for the Great Hall? Bit obvious."
"Oh shut up, Mooney. Found the others?"
"Not yet. But you can help me now." Remus grins, obviously very pleased with himself for capturing two new teammates.
"Peter'll be in the kitchens."
She laughs and punches my arm. "At least his crap hiding place has good food. What did we get? Dust."
"Just be grateful I didn't throw you in a broom cupboard, Evans."
"At least I would have been better hidden in there."
a.n. Sorry, please forgive me, I'm going to challenge myself and throw as many updates as possible at you over these two weeks I have off uni to make it up to you. Inspire me with requests and reviews! Love to you all.