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Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, I would use my time MUCH more wisely
"Wakeupwakeupwakeup!" Hallee shouted, running around the dormitory. She had taken her blanket and was wearing it tied around her neck like a cape.
"Once you put some clothes on maybe!" Mary giggle-shouted. Hallee was jumping around in a navy bra, red and white striped boxers, and tube socks.
"No way! It's Sunday! No clothes for me!" Hallee was just standing still, but she tossed her cape back to make it billow.
"Are you on crack?" Alice asked, sitting up, her short brown hair sticking up in all directions.
"No, liquid heroin actually. I have a bit of a needle fetish." Hallee shrugged innocently, shoving a pile of chocolate frog wrappers under her bed inconspicuously with her foot.
"I would pay you money to run through the common room like that for five minutes." Lily said with a straight face. However she jumped up when Hallee headed to the door, "Never mind you're on a sugar high. You'd probably actually do it."
"Don't you have quidditch practice today?" Alice asked Dorcas, who was slowly rolling out of bed.
"Yea…in…FOUR HOURS? HALLEE IT'S 4AM! What the hell?"
"What?" Lily turned to look at Hallee, who was braiding bits of ribbon into Mary's hair.
"I got lonely." Hallee looked at everyone sadly.
Alice walked over to the door and opened it, "out, let us sleep."
"Fine, I bet there are more interesting people out there anyway." Hallee tossed back her makeshift cape and jogged down the stairs.
"Yes, the Hogwarts insomniacs are an interesting bunch." Alice mumbled, crawling back into bed.
Hallee looked around the room. It was funny how on a sugar rush everything seemed to vibrate a little. She walked to the couch and jumped on it, surprised to hear a small 'oof' come from under the cushions.
"Hello?" Hallee whispered, crouching down to couch-level.
"urrggg." The couch replied.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to jump on you. It must have hurt."
"uuuuuuuuuuh."
"Yea, but you have to admit you ARE playing it up a bit. I mean you're a couch. THOUSANDS of people must've sat on you-"
"Wait what?" Up from the cushions sat Sirius Black, looking very confused. Hallee fell back into a fit of giggles, "I thought you were a couch" she managed to say.
"Wait-what?" Sirius was looking very dazed. "What am I doing here?"
Hallee started laughing even harder, pointing to his forehead, where written in untidy black scrawl were the words "CAUTION: I SNORE".
"What?" Sirius whined.
"Nothing." Hallee put her hand down and sat on his lap.
"What are you doing up this late?" Sirius asked, adjusting her cape so it draped over her shirtlessness.
"Well you see, I've had a little stash of chocolate frogs hidden in the dorms since summer. I decided tonight would be a good night to eat them all." Hallee said simply, sitting up so the cape fell off her. She and Sirius were the only ones in the common room, and the flames in the fireplace crackled quietly.
"Here, move." Sirius leant her to one side while he pulled off his shirt, leaving him just in pajama pants. He handed the shirt to Hallee, who pulled it on, breathing in his scent.
"We have quidditch practice later today you know. If you show up all tired and out of it James'll have your head."
"James already has a head." Hallee said, not really paying attention, just staring at Sirius's chest, which was pretty muscle-y.
"I can't really argue against that." Sirius sighed, pulling Hallee against him so they were both lying on the couch comfortably.
The rain beat down on the quidditch pitch as James barked orders at the exhausted team, "COME ON KING! FOCUS!" He barked, spewing raindrops everywhere.
Hallee turned to him and gave him such a death glare James quickly turned around and started bullying Dorcas instead.
"JAMES!" Dorcas finally interrupted his rant about how a seeker should always take PERFECT care of their goggles in case of a rain storm, she pushed her bangs which had been previously plastered to her forehead out of her eyes. "We have been at this for hours! It is FREEZING. Can we PLEASE take a break?"
"Yea, I can't even tell the difference between a bludger and a raindrop anymore." Sirius complained, flinching at every cold raindrop that hit his severely bruised body.
"Well does anyone ELSE feel like we should call it a day?" James asked angrily at the rest of the team. Six people on broomsticks and Alice, in the stands, raised their hands.
"Fine, I guess you don't care about beating Hufflepuff in the next match then." James grumbled.
"James, they're HUFFLEPUFF, I think we have a chance." Sirius laughed while the other team mates cheered.
"Never underestimate your enemy!" Shouted James.
Hallee scooted closer to Sirius, "I miss Wood." She whispered.
"I miss ROSE." He whispered back.
"Whatever. Hit the showers." James rolled his eyes and let his weary team fly to the grass.
"LAND! LAND!" Dorcas hit the ground with a thud, and lay there while everyone else mulled about the pitch.
Hallee didn't bother to change, knowing she would get just as drenched and frozen once she reached the castle. Sirius jogged up next to her as she was leaving the pitch, "You seem grumpy." He grinned, slinging an arm over her shoulder.
"You seem free of messages." Hallee retorted, he had discovered the writing on his forehead at a reasonable hour in the morning, and washed it off after a very long tantrum.
"Yes, well, actually I have one more message." He turned to look at Hallee, who had stopped to listen to him.
"Yea?" Hallee started walking again.
"Yea. Do you have plans for the Hogsmeade trip next Saturday?"
It was cold. It was EXTREMELY cold. Fall had turned to winter in no time and snow was falling in thick blankets all over the school.
"Everyone chop chop! Hogsmeade trip today! I expect you all to look fabulous!" Alice stood and walked around the room, waking all the girls up.
"I'm up, I'm up!" Hallee kept her blanket around her as she padded to her dresser and pulled out neon orange tights, faded ripped jeans, a long sleeved white shirt, and a black pea coat.
"So let's see here…Hallee has a date…I have a date…Mary has a date…so that leaves Dorcas and Lily to go frolic in Hogsmeade together." Alice counted the girls off on her fingers as Hallee messed with her hair so it hung interestingly around her face. She reached for her trademark blue eyeliner.
"Actually…" Lily hadn't gotten out of bed, "I'm feeling a little sick, sorry Dorcas but I think I'll stay here."
"That's okay, I'll hang out with Marley."
"Brilliant, our day is planned." Alice clapped and looked at herself in the mirror. She had on dark jeans, a black long sleeved shirt, a black oversized blazer, and a burnt orange scarf.
Hallee walked over to Lily, "You sure you don't want to come?" She was about to put the back of her hand on Lily's forehead but Lily swatted it away, "no, no, I'd just slow you down. I think I need sleep."
Hallee frowned but shrugged and grabbed her pink beanie with the ears sewn on, "Alright, if you feel better find me." And Hallee, Alice, Dorcas, and Mary left the room.
"So…where to?" Hallee asked, walking in time with Sirius.
"I have somewhere in mind." Sirius stopped walking and gestured towards the building the couple was in front of.
"No. no no no. I thought you knew me better than that! I will never step foot it that devil place!" Hallee protested, stomping her foot in the snow and glaring at the pink and fluffy Madame Puddifoot's.
Sirius just smirked, "of course I know you better than that. Follow me." Sirius grabbed her hand and led Hallee around to the back where there was nothing but the back wall and a small window high up.
"We have to get up there." Sirius pointed to the window and pulled out his wand. Waving it once, rungs appeared on the wall, forming a way to the window. "Ladies first." He grinned at Hallee and pushed her up the first rung. Hallee noticed the slight squeeze he gave her butt, but ignored it…she had kind of liked it….
Hallee pushed open the window and crawled inside. She was in a very low-ceilinged attic. SO low-ceilinged she had to crawl to get anywhere.
"Sirius, why are we up here?" Hallee asked, looking around.
"You'll see." Sirius gave another smirk and led the way, crawling so they were in the middle of the room, where you could see below through small slats in the wood. They were right over Madame Puddifoot's. Hallee could look down and see the tops of lover's heads, and if the wood wasn't there, she could reach out and touch that cupid's wing.
"THIS is the reason we are here." Sirius reached into his coat and pulled out a large bucket. How he had hidden that in his jacket, Hallee will never know.
"WHAT is that?" Hallee asked, wrinkling her nose at the nasty smell it was giving off.
"Oh, just your average bucket of frog spawn." Sirius said with nonchalance. Now help me find a disgusting and unsuspecting couple."
Hallee grinned, realizing the plan, and started peeking through the slats.
"Oi! Ugh! Gross!" Hallee turned to look at Sirius, who was watching down at a particular slat with great distaste.
"What? Who?" Hallee asked, crawling over.
"Take a look for yourself."
Hallee looked down and almost gagged. The sandy blond head of Amos Diggory was currently frenching the chestnut brown one of Celia. "Hand me that bucket."
"With pleasure." Sirius slid the bucket to Hallee, who positioned herself over the slat and waved her wand a bit to make it larger. She then tipped the bucket slightly so a large clump of greenish goop fell down to the shop.
It was as if the whole thing was in slow motion. The goop was closer to Celia, so it hit her first, landing on the center of her head and splattering on Amos's face.
"EEEEK!" Celia screamed and looked upwards for the culprit. All she saw, however, was a very confused cherub who began checking his bucket of pink confetti for wayward frog spawn.
"You!" She pointed at the cherub, "This is a NEW dress! Now look! It's RUINED!" Hallee was surprised to hear it was a dress, it looked more like a tube top pulled down. She was still trying to figure out how she didn't have frostbite when Sirius tapped her shoulder. "Bracey! Brilliant work! Really, I'm proud." He pecked her cheek and Hallee's stomach did back flips at his gesture. "AND I've found another couple." Sirius pointed to a redhead and a messy-haired brunette at the table next to Amos and Celia, who were both trying not to laugh at the shrieking girl.
"WAIT! That's…That's Lily and James! But Lily was sick! And…she LIED!" Hallee stared at the two and noted how they were holding hands over the table.
"You didn't know they were going out?" Sirius looked at Hallee confusedly. "James hasn't shut up about it since last quidditch practice when she asked him out."
Hallee growled. How could she not know about this? How could Lily hide this? At least she had some awesome blackmail though….But WHY would they go to THIS devil place?
"Wow I bet you're steamed. I bet you just want to pour frog spawn all over them." Sirius waved the bucket in front of Hallee tantalizingly.
"No way am I letting you ruin this." Hallee decided, after eyeing the bucket for quite some time. "I have wanted them to get together FOREVER and now they are and…"
"But just picture it." Sirius interrupted, still waving the bucket.
Hallee imagined Lily's shocked look as James got a face full of frog spawn and tried to hold back a smile. "Well…it WOULD be hilarious…" Then she imagined Lily's furious look as she maimed Hallee in ways unspeakable with magic for breaking up her date. "But HELL no."
"Pleaassseee" Sirius gave her big puppy dog eyes but Hallee just shook her head, immune to such cuteness.
Sirius got a wicked smile and shrugged before starting to pour the spawn himself. Seeing what he was doing, Hallee launched herself at him and grabbed the bucket, keeping it far away from Lily and her wand of doom.
"Babe, I didn't think we'd be in this position until at least the third date." Hallee blushed as she realized that she was straddling Sirius, and moved to get off him. Instead he grabbed her wrist and flipped over so she was lying down on her back and he was on his forearms over her. "But I'm not complaining." He kissed her hard, and she responded by running her tongue along his lips, which he eagerly parted. While their tongues were almost moving of their own accord, Hallee was removing her jacket as Sirius was removing his.
It was by the time both shirts were off and Sirius was kneading…places…that Hallee backed away, "Sirius…I'm not…that is to say…I haven't exactly…well…."
"I get it love." Sirius sighed, straightening up and removing his hands.
"It's not that it wasn't FUN." Hallee blushed a little at Sirius's smirk, "But I don't think I'm ready for that."
"You don't have to be." Sirius shrugged, "From now on we move at your pace, not mine."
Hallee managed to hide her sigh of relief.
"Because when the time comes, I want you to only focus on how awesome I am." Between sputtering Hallee managed to punch Sirius on the shoulder. "Come on. I think we've tortured enough people for one day." She grabbed her shirt and put it on.
"Let's play a game." Hallee said, taking a long sip of butterbeer she looked around the Three Broomsticks with interest.
"Alright, what'll we play?"
"Erm…" Hallee thought, "Here, see that table over there?" Hallee pointed to a table where three witches and two wizards sat. Two of the witches were twins and were sitting next to a muscular wizard. All three were sitting across from a witch in a VERY revealing dress clinging to a sleazy looking wizard. "Let's try to make up a story about them."
"What do you mean?"
"Here, I'll show you." Hallee gestured with her head to the muscular man, "The muscle man likes the taller twin, but he and the shorter twin are together."
Sirius nodded and smiled, getting the idea, "And the shorter twin LOVES muscle man, as does the taller twin."
"Meanwhile the slutty girl is sleeping with the muscle guy in secret because…"
"…she and the sleazy guy are fuck buddies and he pays her to be his prostitute!" Sirius said, rather loudly. "ALL the girls are his prostitutes!"
"Sirius! Shh!" Hallee looked nervously at the table, where they had all turned to look at Sirius questioningly. "He's a writer." Hallee lied to the table, "He blurts out plots sometimes. Sorry." When they turned away both Hallee and Sirius started laughing.
"That's some love triangle you made there." Hallee said, once they were done cracking up, "It was pretty complicated."
Sirius frowned, "I don't like complications…they're too…complicated."
"Thanks for those words of wisdom Confucius." Hallee rolled her eyes and took another sip of butterbeer.
"So are you going to harass Lily forever about her date with Jamsey-poo?" Sirius asked, changing the subject.
"Of course I am. Who do you think I am, someone who respects other people's privacy?" They both laughed.
So now that I'm done being a lazy jerk face I'm back to writing and the updates are going to be coming MUCH faster, count on it! The story is ALMOST at its end (Now that I've said it I'm going to decide to add more chapters, just watch me)! But the climax is soon (LOL THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!) Sorry, its 4 am…