I whistled a merry tune as I made my way up to the Gryffindor tower after eventually getting something to eat and having a conversation with Sabione that didn't result in partial nudity or moderate violence I was feeling in a better mood then I had in weeks. I stopped near a suit of armour to grin around the grand marble floored hall for a moment. The suit of armour creaked as it turned to me.
"Looking dapper as always Siegfried," I informed the suit which turned again to face forward as I laughed and continued to strut up the hall. Throwing in some goofy twirls while I was at it.
Suddenly there was a croaky sort of breath emanating from around the corner which I swear I would recognise anywhere; Filch, I shuddered.
"I know you're there, students out of bed this time of night, I'll have you by your ankles I will." I gazed down at my shapely ankle, no, I didn't much fancy being strung up by it.
"Right," I mumbled aloud and I took off in a flat out sprint toward the tower, my feet pelting off the ground as quietly as I could make them as I heard Filches uncannily speedy shuffling bearing down on me. Edging around a corner a hand sprouted out from behind a tapestry and pulled me in to a dark nook. A body that was definitely a girls was pressed to mine and this realisation was quickly followed by a silk pair of lips humming against mine. She smelt like an unusual perfume though and still panting from the run I pulled back a small amount.
"Sabione?" I asked and the girl scoffed.
"James!" she admonished indignantly and I realised that I recognised the voice as I let my hands slip from her feminine waist.
"Evans?" I asked disbelievingly with laughter in my voice, had her and James been… her wand lit up the space as she sparkling emerald eyes came into view.
"Black!" she practically growled and then she blushed. "Get that damn supercilious smirk of you face before I break it off." she warned him and Sirius tried to keep from guffawing as he almost gave away there position.
"Are you sure you wouldn't rather kiss it off? Or are you saving your mouth for a certain arrogant specky prat?" he asked quoting one of Lily's less imaginative insults for James. Sirius relaxed against the wall rather enjoying himself as he raised an eyebrow and Lily put her face into her hands.
"No one was supposed to know," she mumbled as she sank down the wall. "And now you know you damn gossip queen EVERYONE is going to know," she moaned hopelessly and Sirius felt a little bad until the tapestry beside them shifted and he felt his heart stutter till James appeared and muttered.
"Moaning already Evans?" in a way that would have been rather heart breaking if he wasn't a complete twat and I couldn't hold in a snort of laughter as he turned to me with his mouth flapping about like a fish.
"Oh don't mind me James I was just getting her warmed up for you," I explained. I received a sharp kick in the shin from Lily and a rather prompt stinging hex from James that only just missed my nipple. "Oi, calm down mate," I groused. I rubbed my chest and pushed past him into the thankfully deserted hall. "An honest mistake," I added, winking at Evans, blowing a kiss to James, and running away as fast as my little legs could carry me. Those psychopaths deserved each other.
I eventually reached the Fat Lady and panted out the password. I was still wondering whether I should reveal the little scandal I had just uncovered or if I should do James a favour. Maybe blackmail him with it, seemed a fair compromise.
I walked into the empty common room to see Marlene and Sabione speaking rapidly to one another in hushed voices.
"If it isn't my two most favourite ladies in the whole world!" I exclaimed.
"Not now Sirius," Sabione warned. I was about to retort when a shaky breathy noise came from McKinnon's direction and I floundered.
"Marlene? Are you…" I could barely say the sentence but as strange as the word seemed it eventually made its way out of my mouth. "Crying?" Sabione made a cut throat gesture as I said this but Marlene nodded. Her navy-blue mascara mapped down the sides of her cheeks where she had pushed it and the red that usually stained her lips so tidily was worn away so that it only coloured the cracked edges of her mouth.
"No," she said in a perfectly regular voice. I'd only seen her cry once, two tears that day that I lost it to her and more or less broke her heart. Nothing like this. She stood up and pushed the mascara further toward her hair line as she sniffled and a miserable attempt at one of her cheeky smirks graced her quivering mouth. "I'm fine." Sabione looked at me and shook her head as Marlene said this and suddenly I realised what it was.
"Remus." My friends name fell from my mouth before I could think to stop it but Marlene just nodded clumsily and vaulted across the room to fall into my bewildered arms. I pulled her to me as she lay her head on my shoulder and shook with sobs. I ran my hand up and down her back trying to comfort her as Sabione stood and crossed the room, shrugging and shaking her head as if she didn't know what to say or as if she didn't feel it was okay for her to say it.
"He doesn't love me," Marlene sobbed into my shoulder and I shushed her, girl tears, Jesus what was I supposed to do? Sabione stood beside us and rubbed her hand over Marlene's arm biting her lip.
"I'm sorry," Sabione eventually said and Marlene clutched onto me a little tighter as she stilled a little and whispered.
"I know you can't help it, and it isn't your fault but still: thanks for saying that Sabione." Sabione nodded letting her hand drop away from Marlene's side as she looked at me with tired eyes.
"I really am sorry," she repeated, speaking more to me, and my brow furrowed. Her focus turned from me as she looked behind me at the stairway to the dorms and I turned with Marlene to face it just in time to see Remus walk down the stares looking a shadow of himself.
"Well isn't this cosy," he remarked, and I wondered how I had managed to spend so much of one night wrapped everyone else's girlfriend.
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