If you Want to Destroy my Sweater....

part troix
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"Moony!" Sirius ran up to Remus who was sitting by the lake, feeding the giant squid.

"Padfoot, that you?" Remus looked round and stood up, "you coming then?"

"Definitely." Sirius pulled his friend across the grass to the gates.

"Need a drink that badly do you?" remus laughed,

"Oh yes." Sirius nodded solemnly,

"Let's go then, make the most of it."

"That's the spirit." Sirius grinned.
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Harry watched out of the dormitory window as Sirius dragged his friend across, he smiled weakly.
"Exploding snap anyone?" Seamus called out, "Or we could do exploding poker..."

"I'm up for poker." Ron said, "Harry?"

"Alright, but you'll have to explain the rules." Harry sat down in the space Seamus had chosen for the poker table between the beds and got absorbed in the game until...

"HARRY!" Hermione exclaimed, "You're not gambling are you?"

"yeah." Ron laughed, "With matchsticks..."

"It's the principle." Hermione said stiffly.

"yes Percy." Ron grinned, "Just cuz you're not playing."

Hermione shook her head and walked out, with Crookshanks following at her heels.
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Edea opened the box. It was empty. She sighed, reading the golden lettering on the silk, which was 'Jeffernella's Jewellers, 11 Diagon Alley.'

"Oh Sirius." She moaned, "Leave the box, won't you."

She pulled out the first sheet of parchment from the file, reading the homework on grindylows she had set the second years...
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"yeah, i went to our vault too." Sirius gestured with his drink which splashed over the table.

"Oh?"

"Photos, millions of them." Sirius grinned into his beer. "Good times."

"You took a while in gringotts then."

"Didn't just go there." Sirius put down his pint. "Went to the jewellers too."

"Oh?" Remus grinned, "Bought youself a gold plated dog tag with 'Padfoot' inscribed in fancy lettering?"

"Thought about it." Sirius nodded, "I might, or i might bribe Edea to get one for my birthday."

"Puppy dog eyes, never fails."

"And to think i can actually do that literally." Sirius noted.

"So if it wasn't a dog tag?"

"Ring, Moony. I got a ring."

Remus raised an eyebrow, "I didn't think you were the kind of person to wear rings, i mean i always knew you wore that necklace that resembled a piece of string..."

"It was a pendant!" Sirius said indignantly. "The ring's not for me, its for Edea."

"Ohhh. You gonna ask her in the great hall infront of everybody just to see the look of daggers on her face?" Remus drained his pint and ordered another. "You gonna show me?"

"Got it right here in my.... oh sh*t..." Sirius searched all the pockets in his cloak getting slightly frantic... "i took it out of the box... oh no, i left the box in her room..."

"Padfoot, calm down, the box is empty right?"

"yeah, but that just ruins my day, she'll find the box, and cuz i've lost the ring its like... anticlimax..." Sirius moaned, "I am totally useless."

"No, you're not Totally useless, just marginally."
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Severus Snape was pacing the corridors when he saw a golden ring glinting in the setting sunlight, bending down he picked it up. "How odd." He murmured. "Yet strangely beautiful..."
He put the ofending article in his pocket and walked on, shouting at the odd student as suited him.
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Harry was out on the Quidditch pitch whn he saw Sirius running towards him...
"Sirius!" Harry glided down to the earth.

"Harry, i have a problem." Sirius fidgeted, he hated admitting to problems, they ruined his image somewhat. He could have sworn his godson had grinned at him when he said that.

"Yeah?" Harry asked.

"Tell me if you see a ring hanging round the castle will you? Just dont give it to Eddie, its very important..." Sirius said whilst scanning the ground around him... "This is SO not good."

"Sirius?" Harry caught his attention, "I don't like to say this... but you're supposed to be the creme dela creme of cool pranksters, and right now? you're acting more like yoghurt."

Sirius shot Harry a dirty look. "THANK YOU." he said grinning. "That was quite a good one actually, i'll remember to use that sometime."
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Remus burst into Edea's office suddenly, "Eddie!" he panted, "Hi."

"Don't call me EDDIE." Edea didn't even look up from her pieces of parchment,

"I've er.. lost my cloak pin, i think i might have left it in here.. is it alright to check the floor?"

"Course." Edea nodded, "Just don't mind me if i keep marking,"

"No problems." Remus sank down to his knees putting his head to the floor and searching across for the ring.

"Er... Remus?"

"Yes?"

"If you've lost your cloak pin, why is it on your cloak?"

Remus looked down onto his shoulder, seeing his platinum pin plainly in view... "Er.. this isn't mine, its... its Sirius', i'm just borrowing it because i lost my other one..."

"You're lying." Edea said without looking at him.

"How do you know?"

"I'm trained to know this sort of stuff." Edea looked up at him, and grinned. "Is this by any chance what you're looking for?" Edea handed him the box.

"If its empty, then no." Remus said, "But i'll take it anyway if thats' okay."

"Sure." Edea shrugged, "Tell Sirius i hope he finds it."

"Erm, yes." Remus frowned as he walked out of the door, walking quickly down the corridor to the staff room, still scanning the floor.

"Moony?" Sirius came running up, "Any luck?"

"I have good news and bad news, i have the box but no ring."

Siris hit the wall with his hand, "arrrrrrrrgh." He grasped his hand which was now in a great deal of pain. "hang on..." He pointed at the distant figure of Snape, who was holding something glittery in his palm, "is that what i think it is?"

"Oh dear." Remus could see what was going to happen... "Sirius... don't do.."

Sirius had walked up to Snape and started yelling, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY RING?"

Snape sneered, "A fetish for women's jewellery, Black? I always thought Azkaban did something to your head, but maybe you were always like that."

Sirius was not in a good mood, partly brought on by too much drink, patly because he rarely failed, and he hated to fail infront of Snape of all people. "Yes well, who would have guessed you wore luffy slippers and other such bed-wear... and yes i DO still have the stash of photos."

Snape was par-boiling by this time.

"Ohh, watch it, you go any more angry and the grease will start sizzling... hey, then we could like.. fry sausages on it." Sirius was grinning now, "A real camp fire... CAMP being e operative word in that sentence."


"WHAt the hell is going on?!" Edea stormed out of her office.

"Well, baby." Sirius started, "I was going to ask you to marry me, but im having trouble getting ol' Severus here to part with the ring."

Edea raised her eyebrow, "Okay, this is so not what i wanted to hear. Sort it out...NOW."

Snape merely glared at her,

"Or would you like to be flat out on the floor again?" Edea pointed her finger at him, "It wasn't even a hard punch, really..."

Snape threw the ring at Sirius, who caught it deftly.

"Good catch." Remus nodded, "You should be seker on the teacher's quidditch team."

"Not a teacher." Sirius shrugged.

"That's a flaw..." Remus agreed. "Oh well."

"Okay, i'm oging to go to bed, and you two are going to sort youselves out..." Edea sighed walking back up to her office, slamming the door behind her.

"You know who she reminds me of?" Remus mused, "Hermione, Harry's friend."

Sirius looked amused. "As far as i've heard Hermione gave Malfoy a good slap a few years back."

"So i've heard." Remus agreed. "So, what are you going to do now?"

"Huddle in a corner and weep over my failure." Sirius said mockingly, "No, i'm going to be me. I'll do things my way."

"I pity Eddie." Remus said quietly, "if you're going to burst out into some tacky song..."

"Uhm... no." Sirius wrinkled his nose, "i dont sing. i tend to warble off key."

"I know."

"Action plan ring is now in action."

"That was an awful sentence."

"Thank you." Sirius rolled his eyes.



TBC-
thank you to.... right here we go, list of names and comments...

sweets- thank you! yes i'll make it formal, i just like running them round in circles, if you want formal, the next chapter you will like...
Arianwen- hehehe, i'm glad you like it, yes we must start that story!
kat&gilly- i think you know what the box is now! hehehe thanks.
cherry- someone recognised the title! yay!
nekomi- i am writing more, lots more! thank you for support!
vmr- thanks, i'll keep writing fora s long as i have ideas, which may be quite a while...

everyone else who reviewed the other two stories in prequels to this- thanky ooo!

i must finish the trick is to keep breathing some time soon. damn, totally stuck on that one.