A/N: Last day of Blackinnon Week 2020!
Prompt: First anything (it can be canon or au): House, marriage proposal, kid, etc. - I'm writing Marlene's first time pranking Sirius.
A/N: Today's story is from an image prompt. If you hop over to my AO3 or Tumblr you can find the link to a picture that looks a lot like Marlene having chained up Sirius' motorcycle. =)
Jape
The Marauders had just pulled off their end of year prank, their final one, the one to be remembered by students for years to come. And as they celebrated in the common room, Marlene wondered if anyone had ever pranked the Marauders. When she mentioned it to Dorcas and Lily, they both agreed that no one had ever succeeded in pranking the four boys without getting pranked back tenfold.
But the Marauders had sworn they were done with pranks now. Which meant that there wouldn't be the concern for retaliation from the best pranksters the school had ever seen.
The three girls determined it would need to be done after they were done with Hogwarts, mostly because they couldn't come up with anything to pull off in less than five days. It also helped that if the Marauders did determine they were going to fight back, they wouldn't all be living in the same room.
And then Dorcas had a stroke of genius when she suggested they hit all four boys separately with personalized pranks. Peter's would need to be done remotely somehow, but they could each be there to personally prank their respective favorite Marauder of the group.
And Marlene knew exactly what she was going to do. Because if she'd learned anything watching the Marauders prank for years, it was that the best pranks had a worthy return for the prankster.
The girls waited until a few days after they'd ridden the train home to coordinate their prank. Which for Marlene involved coordinating with Mia Potter to sneak over to the Potter's shed before the sun was fully up.
She crept into the shed and quietly pushed out Sirius' most prized possession, his motorcycle.
The Potter's back garden had a lovely old stone bench near the back door. It was close enough to the back door to be seen from the kitchen table. Exactly what she needed. Marlene parked the bike right next to the bench before sitting down next to the bike and waving her wand. Golden chains wrapped themselves around the bench and the bike. Then she cast herself invisible.
Now all she had to do was wait.
Which surprisingly wasn't long. Marlene had been sure she'd have to cast the bike invisible so James wouldn't see it before Sirius made it downstairs and where he could see his bike chained to the bench. Fate, apparently, had other ideas.
Marlene held her breath as she watched Sirius stumble groggily into the kitchen and reach for the bread box. He cut a slice before returning the loaf and looking up out the window.
He dropped the slice of bread.
Sirius bolted out of the kitchen and through the black door, wand raised high.
"What the Hell?" He pointed his wand at the chains and vanished them.
Marlene muttered under breath and put them back.
Sirius stared at the bike for a moment and then spun around with his wand held out in front of him.
Carefully, he pointed his wand at the bike and transformed the chains to vines.
Marlene transformed the vines into gold ropes.
Sirius stayed silent, but his eyes were calculating now. He transformed the gold ropes, this time into shoelaces.
Marlene changed them back into gold chains.
Now Sirius smirked.
"Come on out, McKinnon."
Marlene felt her jaw drop. How did he know?
"Marls, it was a great prank, but you didn't think about the fact that only you would choose to make everything gold."
Marlene swore under her breath. He was right. She hadn't even realized everything had been gold.
So, she likes shiny things, so what?
"I'll make it worth it if you come out now, Marly," his tone left no doubt what he had in mind.
"Fine," Marlene huffed and dropped the invisibility charm.
Sirius grinned and flicked his wand at his bike, the gold chains disappearing in a shimmer. Then he climbed on.
"Hop on, McKinnon," he motioned behind him.
Marlene grinned; this was her return on the prank.
"Will you let me drive?"
"Probably, but you'll never know if you don't climb on, will you?" Sirius started the engine and gave Marlene a pointed stare.
She jumped on the bike.
"Are Doe and Lils in on this too?" Sirius maneuvered the bike out onto the road.
"They've got their own things to worry about," Marlene evaded the question.
Sirius laughed and pulled the bike up into the air.
"You didn't leave poor Pete out, did you?"
"Of course not," Marly scoffed. "His surprise should be getting to him about now, Doe was going to send the owl first thing."
"What are the rest of them getting?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," Marlene pulled herself closer behind him.
Sirius laughed and took the bike into a dive. Marlene laughed at the rush as he pulled them up just before they came too close to the ground.
"Knowing what the other girls have planned might be just the persuasion I need to teach you how to ride." He took them back up into the air. "Looking at motorcycles your entire life and all you have to do to get to drive one today is tell me what James, Rems, and Pete are getting for their pranks today."
Marlene bit her lip. "You won't try to stop them?"
"Marauders honor," Sirius brought them close to the treetops and Marlene let her hand brush against the top most leaves.
"You have a deal, Black."
Sirius brought them down to the ground to park the bike and then tugged Marlene to straddle the bike in front of him, face to face.
"Pleasure doing business with you McKinnon," He kissed along her neck and Marlene ran her black nails along his scalp.
"First I get the riding lesson though," Marlene murmured in his ear.
Sirius shook his head, "First, we do this," he brought one hand from her waist to her chest. "Then I teach you to fly," he bit lightly on her neck. "And then you're going to tell me what the lads got so that I can make fun of them for it."
"How do you know they won't make fun of you for what I did?" Marlene grinned.
"Doesn't matter, because they aren't ending like this, Mar." He nuzzled behind her ear. "I'm definitely getting the best prank."
Marlene laughed, "Are you, by chance, impressed Black?"
"Damn, straight I am," Sirius captured her lips.
And when the sun was much higher in the sky and Marlene steered the bike over the Potter's house, she was pretty sure that she definitely had come up with the perfect prank.