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"Remus!"
Remus froze, and started to try and get away faster.
Sirius was now scrambling after him, not bothering to get up on two feet, and not aware of the effect of the ice on his hands yet.
However, Lily skated past with James clinging onto her arm. "Jamesee is cold, we're going to get some hot chocolate, you coming?"
Sirius paused in his high suspenseful ice chase. "Hot chocolate?"
Remus started making his way to the nearest bank, taking advantage of Sirius' hesitation. "I'll get you some, Padfoot!"
"Moony! Get back here!"
While they carried on fighting, Lily made it to the bench where their shoes were. As James sat down, Lily bent down to take off his skates. Normally she would have made him do it, but James looked really really cold. (AN: I.e., he's a wimp when it comes to cold … low cold tolerance or something)
He was slightly blue, he was shivering and his eyes were unfocused. Leaving his skates for the moment, Lily got up and getting back onto the lake, skated to the other end where there was a hot chocolate stand. She bought two Styrofoam cups, wishing that they were butterbeers instead. Then she skated smoothly back to the chattering James.
"Here you are Jamesee."
He nodded his thanks and took it, holding it so it would warm his hands.
"Moony! Get back here!"
"Why? You'd just attempt to kill me."
"No. But I'd challenge your wussy ass to a snowball fight!"
"Hey look! Prong decided to give the ice another try!"
"Don't toy with me on this, Remus."
"I'm not."
"This is very important to me, Moony. Don't toy with my emotions like this!"
But Remus just pointed, and Sirius, with a dubious look, twisted around… and overbalanced, falling flat again.
Over where James was following Lily like a blind man, you could here a muffled "Damnit.." from where Sirius had his face buried in a snowdrift.
James was looking terrified, like his guide was planning to throw him over the edge of a cliff, but he had no proof.
"Lily?"
"Yea?"
"I'm coooolllddd…."
"Shut up Prongs. So am I."
"Well, if you stood up and got your face out the snow you wouldn't be, Padfoot."
Sirius turned his face to Remus, who was watching him with a smirk. "Remus, help me up. I feel like a penguin!"
"Have you really had enough, Jamesee?" Lily asked.
James nodded. "My feet feel … wet …"
Lily just blinked and started him back to the bench before going to fetch more hot chocolate.
7 minutes later, when Lily skated back with the hot chocolate, he was only a few metres closer.
She sighed, rolled her eyes and shook her head, before going to help him.
Remus, after being poked multiple times by Sirius, gave up again and left him, leaving Sirius wailing behind him. After a few steps, Remus grew sick of the noise and went to go help him, only after making him promise not to start poking again. When Sirius was up again, they started towards the bench, shuffling their feet in vague efforts to stay upright.
Lily had helped James onto the bench by this time, and had handed him his hot chocolate before untying her skates and putting on her boots.
James was left with the tough decision of warming up, or letting his feet breath and try to find out why they felt so wet.
He decided to warm up first, and while he was drinking his hot chocolate, Sirius and Remus got their boots on and started enchanting snowballs to follow Lily around and hit her on the head occasionally, when least expected.
Then Remus, seeing that Sirius was preoccupied, enchanted a snowball to go down the back of his shirt. Sirius merely shook himself, much like a wet dog and kept staring at James, grinning evilly. Remus finally caught on and crept up to James.
"Can I help you, Prongs?"
James was having extraordinary problems with his ice skates. The laces just wouldn't undo. But then he remembered the laces in the box, and put two and two together.
He turned to Sirius. "Alright. What did you do?"
"Me? I did nothing!"
"You? Nothing? Yea right. What's wrong, Jamesee?" Lily had returned with yet another batch of hot chocolates.
"Why am I always getting blamed for everything? I know for a fact it's Moony's fault!" Sirius complained loudly to the snowball hovering above James' head.
Remus, instead of wasting time with a reply, just took one step, and was on top of Sirius, shoving his head back into the snow. James joined quickly, forgetting the cold for a second, and handing his hot chocolate to Lily who discreetly too a few sips, then a few more.
Then, judging it had gone on for long enough, she picked up Remus dropped and forgotten wand and advanced. (AN: Cant you just hear the trumpets? :D)
They saw her coming and scattered, all half-frozen and chattering.
"James, take off your skates now. Here Remus." She handed the wand back.
"I can't Lil! Sirius did something with the laces!" And James attempted to tackle Sirius again, but his feet were too heavy, and he fell flat on his face.
Accepting this, Lily calmly took Remus' wand back and started stalking Sirius around the bench, where he was laughing his head off at James. And then he realized she was circling the bench towards him, and started to circle the bench as well.
See, Sirius could argue and fight with the best of them, but when an irritated red head female had her wand pulled a wand on him, and he knew he was too late to snatch his own wand out, well, what choice did he have?
"Ok, ok, I give."
"What did you do, Sirius?"
"I put an anti-untying charm on his laces."
"So that's why… ok…and what about his wet feet?"
"What, its my fault that he sweats too much now?"
Remus stuck up his hand slowly. "That was mine."
Lily turned a raised eyebrow on him. "Ok. Undo it."
Remus took back his wand and obliged, then handed it back to Lily who turned sharply to Sirius again, with such a scary face, that he yelped and hid behind the chattering but now grinning James. Lily abruptly pulled him out. "Sirius, which charm did you use?"
"I..I.. Stop looking at me!" he whined, winking at James who grinned even harder.
Remus and Lily rolled their eyes and looked somewhere else.
Sirius stopped grinning. "I forgot …"
"Lil! Lil, calm down. Take deep breaths. Calm down." Remus held Lily back, and she stopped straining towards Sirius, but Sirius still didn't come any closer.
Remus whispered in her ear, causing James to glare at him
balefully.
However, Lily came up, and waving Remus' wand, muttered a few counter charms.
The laces undid themselves on the third charm.
James, warmed up from the hot chocolate by now, glared at Remus, then very obviously put his arms around Lily and started to kiss her slowly.
Remus grabbed Sirius' arm and pulled him away before he could wolf whistle and annoy the couple. Piling a few of the boxes into Sirius arms and ignoring the grumbles, Remus turned to Sirius. "Lets go back to Prong's house now. He won't miss us, and he has to take Lily home soon anyway."
Sirius looked at the obliviously snogging couple and gave in, grinning slyly. "Maybe you're right. Let's give him another present and leave him alone."
Grinning at each other, they set off for James' house.
AN: Golly…I'm so sorry that took so long… I'm not even gonna bother to explain why, but then, there is no real reason….I just couldn't get
To the computer to type it O.o;
Anyway, the epilogue is next, and is up, and the sequel is already half written… Look out for it, it should be out in about 2 weeks … I hope..sometime
After exams anyway … It's called Christmas Day : Wizarding Style .. and if that goes well, then there'll be a New Years : Marauders Style .. but we'll see how the others do first, eh? Anyway, hope you enjoyed this, pls review!! ^^
