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Sirius woke up early the next morning. Early for him anyway, which basically meant with more than an hour before first lesson. An uncharacteristic frown crossed his face as he imagined Remus and Peter's reactions when they discovered his relationship with James.
Sirius dressed quickly and hurried to breakfast to join his friends. He walked past the Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables and took his usual seat at the Gryffindor table.
"What time do you call this?" Remus asked looking at his watch.
"Too bloody early, but I'm here," Sirius replied knowing exactly what his friend was getting at.
"We noticed," James said with a small smile towards Sirius, "but we're gonna have a problem now."
"What might that be Mr. Potter?" Sirius asked.
"You're gonna want feeding," James replied with a smile, "And I'm not sure that there's enough food to go around."
"Haha. Pass me some toast please." Sirius replied jokingly. No matter how confident he appeared on the outside he didn't feel it on the inside. He didn't know what he expected James to say but he didn't expect business as usual. Weren't they going to tell Wormtail and Moony? It didn't seem fair not to, yet James was acting as though it didn't matter. Was that true? Is this all another of Prongs' famous jokes?
Somehow Sirius made it through breakfast without any of them noticing the change in his behaviour but he couldn't keep it up for long. First lesson was Charms and they were studying appearance Charms and glamour. It would be a term long study so they all tried to pay attention as Professor Flitwick explained the basics.
Remus was making notes on the different uses of glamour when he noticed that James and Sirius were fidgeting about more than usual next to him. Remus realised that they were having some form of a game of footsie and decided to ignore them. Peter who was sat on the other side of Remus didn't notice because as usual he was paying attention to the lesson hoping he would understand what was going on so he didn't doom himself to another term of extra credit assignments.
Things didn't get any better in Herbology only this time James and Sirius were speaking in such a way Remus couldn't help but wonder if they really thought that they were keeping their relationship secret. However he realised that he could say that because he knew of their chaste kiss last night and the fact that they probably were dating.
Sirius meanwhile was lost in thoughts of his own, 'James has been flirting with me all morning and I'm sure that Moony knows something or he wouldn't keep looking like that. I wonder if James has noticed this yet. Probably not he is too busy flirting and having fun to care about other people. That sounded harsh. Even in my head that sounded harsh. I've got to talk to him soon or I'll start going crazy, and he won't understand why because surprise, surprise he's not the most observant person in the world when it comes to other peoples' feelings.'
"Sirius," James shouted across the Great Hall.
"What," he replied just before he stepped out of the great hall.
"Wait a minute, I'll come with you."
"You don't even know where I'm going."
"Flying," James said and with a nod from Sirius he knew he was right, "Catch up with you two later alright." James said his goodbyes to Remus and Peter and headed out after Sirius.
"There's no practice tonight so why are you going out?" James asked his best friend as they reached the Quidditch pitch, brooms in hand.
"I needed to clear my head. Think about thinks, you know?" Sirius said looking at James.
"Yeah, what's bothering you?" James asked. He didn't notice the angry glint in Sirius eye as he took off leaving James stranded on the ground below him.
Sirius looked behind him and watched as James flew off the ground and began to chase after him. In his mind Sirius knew James couldn't catch him if he didn't want him to; he had the better broom and neither was a better flier than the other. Sirius realised jams was closing in on him. He had wanted to be caught, the only way he was going to clear his head was to battle it out with James.
"Finished running away?" James asked pulling up alongside Sirius.
"Have you?" Sirius asked.
"I'm not running away from anything." James replied defensively.
"How about the truth?" Sirius replied just as quickly, "You weren't exactly telling Moony and Wormtail that today either."
"That's what this is all about? Why didn't you just tell me before?" James asked looking Sirius right in the eye.
"I thought it would be better if you figured things out on your own. Besides you probably wouldn't care anyway." Sirius said.
For the first time James realised how upset Sirius was, he usually guarded his emotions so well. If he was being this open he was hurting badly, James cupped Sirius' chin in his arm and said quietly, "I do care Sirius just I don't know how to tell them. They're important to me and I don't want to risk losing their friendship."
"I know what you mean, Moony knows. I'm almost sure of it he's been looking at us funny all day." Sirius said.
"Really I didn't notice." James replied in disbelief.
"I'm not surprised; you must have been too busy acting like a little kid."
"I don't even want to know what you mean by that." James said Sirius sat in silence, James spoke first, "Actually yes I do, I want to know what the hell you meant by that"
"I meant that you're so busy flirting and playing footsie that you haven't realised how serious this thing is." Sirius replied quietly, "And I don't think you realise that if something goes wrong here that we might risk losing one of the best friendships that either of us is ever going to have."
"You don't think I'm taking thing seriously enough?" James asked. Sirius nodded hoping James would understand what he was getting at. "I don't want to lose what we had before but I don't want to miss out on what this could be either. What is it? Is it that you want to tell the others?"
"Well kind of. It almost seems like you're ashamed to admit there's something going on between us if they don't know."
"Will you believe me that I'm serious is I promise to tell the others?" James said looking straight into Sirius' deep blue eyes.
Sirius just stared back at James and nodded in a way which was hardly noticeable. Within seconds their lips met in a kiss which lasted longest out of the ones they had shared so far. James stopped the kiss first, "What do you say we go inside, it's fucking freezing out here?"
"Sure." Sirius said and they landed on the ground. Sirius slung his broom over his left shoulder and took James' left hand in his right. They walked back up to the castle hand in hand.
Gryffindor common room was surprisingly quiet when James and Sirius walked in five minutes later. They spotted Remus and Peter were playing chess in one corner of the room. James said, "Shall we tell them now or do you want to wait?"
"Might as well do it now, they deserve to know, even if they are never going to talk to us again." Sirius replied apprehensively. "Hey guys."
"Hey Sirius," Peter said.
"Hey," Remus replied, pointing to the chess board in-front of him he added "Checkmate."
"I'd give up if I were you Pete, you're not gonna beat him." James said laughing, "Not even if you cheat."
"How would you know that?" Remus asked James.
"I've tried." James replied, "I was sick of losing. It didn't work though."
"Serves you right." Remus said acting as though he was offended.
"Suppose so, hey guys can we tell you something?" James asked. Peter and Remus both nodded.
"Promise to keep it a secret?" Sirius asked.
"Uh-oh," Peter said, "What have you two done now?"
"Us, do something?" Sirius said, "Since when would we do anything?"
"Don't answer that," James said, "No this is serious."
"Uh-oh," Peter said again, "I better not get detention because of this. That's what happened last time."
Sirius chuckled, "I don't think you'll get detention for this. What we wanted to tell you is that… that… James and I… well…"
"Sirius lost for words, I don't believe it," Remus commented dryly.
"I know. What he was trying to say is that… well we're kind of… you know…"
"Both of you lost for words, now I'm getting scared." Remus said, "As a matter of fact I do know but he," gesturing towards Peter, "Is clueless."
"Told you," Sirius said to James who just shook his head, "Oh well what we were trying to say before we turned into bumbling idiots is that we started dating."
"When did this happen?" Peter asked looking confused.
"Last night," James answered simply, "After truth or dare."
"Ah OK. Cool." Peter replied.
"Cool, that's it?" James asked.
"What were you expecting?" Remus asked.
"I don't know really," James replied.
"We thought you might not want to talk to us." Sirius continued.
"Yeah right," Remus said with a look of disbelief, "You're still the same James and Sirius we've always known so why wouldn't we want to talk to you?"
Peter muttered under his breath, "Apart from the fact they always get us in trouble."
"That sounded strangely familiar." James said looking at Remus.
"It should; that's what you told me in second year." Remus replied.
"Yeah, I suppose it works both ways." Sirius said smiling, "One more thing."
James looked at Sirius strangely, "What?"
Looking straight at Peter, Sirius said, "You've five seconds to run because after that I'm going to kill you as soon as I catch you for saying that. You get in as much trouble as we do. 5-4-3-2-1" Sirius started to run after Peter who was already half way down the stairs.
A/N: What do you think? I tried not to be nasty to Peter because I figured that he must have been decent at one point. Also I have got this story planned out for the next 8 chapters but I don't know whether to carry on posting it here or not. Let me know in a review. (There would be more after that btw it's just that's how far I've got)
That's all for now
Trinity
P.S This isn't the end of my break officially but I should be posting pretty regularly (maybe even daily) on my stories for the next couple of weeks.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, he belongs to J.K Rowling and Bloomsbury and Warner Bros and a whole load of other people who aren't me and who are making a whole load of money of this. I on the other hand am making nothing. So there.
Sirius woke up early the next morning. Early for him anyway, which basically meant with more than an hour before first lesson. An uncharacteristic frown crossed his face as he imagined Remus and Peter's reactions when they discovered his relationship with James.
Sirius dressed quickly and hurried to breakfast to join his friends. He walked past the Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables and took his usual seat at the Gryffindor table.
"What time do you call this?" Remus asked looking at his watch.
"Too bloody early, but I'm here," Sirius replied knowing exactly what his friend was getting at.
"We noticed," James said with a small smile towards Sirius, "but we're gonna have a problem now."
"What might that be Mr. Potter?" Sirius asked.
"You're gonna want feeding," James replied with a smile, "And I'm not sure that there's enough food to go around."
"Haha. Pass me some toast please." Sirius replied jokingly. No matter how confident he appeared on the outside he didn't feel it on the inside. He didn't know what he expected James to say but he didn't expect business as usual. Weren't they going to tell Wormtail and Moony? It didn't seem fair not to, yet James was acting as though it didn't matter. Was that true? Is this all another of Prongs' famous jokes?
Somehow Sirius made it through breakfast without any of them noticing the change in his behaviour but he couldn't keep it up for long. First lesson was Charms and they were studying appearance Charms and glamour. It would be a term long study so they all tried to pay attention as Professor Flitwick explained the basics.
Remus was making notes on the different uses of glamour when he noticed that James and Sirius were fidgeting about more than usual next to him. Remus realised that they were having some form of a game of footsie and decided to ignore them. Peter who was sat on the other side of Remus didn't notice because as usual he was paying attention to the lesson hoping he would understand what was going on so he didn't doom himself to another term of extra credit assignments.
Things didn't get any better in Herbology only this time James and Sirius were speaking in such a way Remus couldn't help but wonder if they really thought that they were keeping their relationship secret. However he realised that he could say that because he knew of their chaste kiss last night and the fact that they probably were dating.
Sirius meanwhile was lost in thoughts of his own, 'James has been flirting with me all morning and I'm sure that Moony knows something or he wouldn't keep looking like that. I wonder if James has noticed this yet. Probably not he is too busy flirting and having fun to care about other people. That sounded harsh. Even in my head that sounded harsh. I've got to talk to him soon or I'll start going crazy, and he won't understand why because surprise, surprise he's not the most observant person in the world when it comes to other peoples' feelings.'
"Sirius," James shouted across the Great Hall.
"What," he replied just before he stepped out of the great hall.
"Wait a minute, I'll come with you."
"You don't even know where I'm going."
"Flying," James said and with a nod from Sirius he knew he was right, "Catch up with you two later alright." James said his goodbyes to Remus and Peter and headed out after Sirius.
"There's no practice tonight so why are you going out?" James asked his best friend as they reached the Quidditch pitch, brooms in hand.
"I needed to clear my head. Think about thinks, you know?" Sirius said looking at James.
"Yeah, what's bothering you?" James asked. He didn't notice the angry glint in Sirius eye as he took off leaving James stranded on the ground below him.
Sirius looked behind him and watched as James flew off the ground and began to chase after him. In his mind Sirius knew James couldn't catch him if he didn't want him to; he had the better broom and neither was a better flier than the other. Sirius realised jams was closing in on him. He had wanted to be caught, the only way he was going to clear his head was to battle it out with James.
"Finished running away?" James asked pulling up alongside Sirius.
"Have you?" Sirius asked.
"I'm not running away from anything." James replied defensively.
"How about the truth?" Sirius replied just as quickly, "You weren't exactly telling Moony and Wormtail that today either."
"That's what this is all about? Why didn't you just tell me before?" James asked looking Sirius right in the eye.
"I thought it would be better if you figured things out on your own. Besides you probably wouldn't care anyway." Sirius said.
For the first time James realised how upset Sirius was, he usually guarded his emotions so well. If he was being this open he was hurting badly, James cupped Sirius' chin in his arm and said quietly, "I do care Sirius just I don't know how to tell them. They're important to me and I don't want to risk losing their friendship."
"I know what you mean, Moony knows. I'm almost sure of it he's been looking at us funny all day." Sirius said.
"Really I didn't notice." James replied in disbelief.
"I'm not surprised; you must have been too busy acting like a little kid."
"I don't even want to know what you mean by that." James said Sirius sat in silence, James spoke first, "Actually yes I do, I want to know what the hell you meant by that"
"I meant that you're so busy flirting and playing footsie that you haven't realised how serious this thing is." Sirius replied quietly, "And I don't think you realise that if something goes wrong here that we might risk losing one of the best friendships that either of us is ever going to have."
"You don't think I'm taking thing seriously enough?" James asked. Sirius nodded hoping James would understand what he was getting at. "I don't want to lose what we had before but I don't want to miss out on what this could be either. What is it? Is it that you want to tell the others?"
"Well kind of. It almost seems like you're ashamed to admit there's something going on between us if they don't know."
"Will you believe me that I'm serious is I promise to tell the others?" James said looking straight into Sirius' deep blue eyes.
Sirius just stared back at James and nodded in a way which was hardly noticeable. Within seconds their lips met in a kiss which lasted longest out of the ones they had shared so far. James stopped the kiss first, "What do you say we go inside, it's fucking freezing out here?"
"Sure." Sirius said and they landed on the ground. Sirius slung his broom over his left shoulder and took James' left hand in his right. They walked back up to the castle hand in hand.
Gryffindor common room was surprisingly quiet when James and Sirius walked in five minutes later. They spotted Remus and Peter were playing chess in one corner of the room. James said, "Shall we tell them now or do you want to wait?"
"Might as well do it now, they deserve to know, even if they are never going to talk to us again." Sirius replied apprehensively. "Hey guys."
"Hey Sirius," Peter said.
"Hey," Remus replied, pointing to the chess board in-front of him he added "Checkmate."
"I'd give up if I were you Pete, you're not gonna beat him." James said laughing, "Not even if you cheat."
"How would you know that?" Remus asked James.
"I've tried." James replied, "I was sick of losing. It didn't work though."
"Serves you right." Remus said acting as though he was offended.
"Suppose so, hey guys can we tell you something?" James asked. Peter and Remus both nodded.
"Promise to keep it a secret?" Sirius asked.
"Uh-oh," Peter said, "What have you two done now?"
"Us, do something?" Sirius said, "Since when would we do anything?"
"Don't answer that," James said, "No this is serious."
"Uh-oh," Peter said again, "I better not get detention because of this. That's what happened last time."
Sirius chuckled, "I don't think you'll get detention for this. What we wanted to tell you is that… that… James and I… well…"
"Sirius lost for words, I don't believe it," Remus commented dryly.
"I know. What he was trying to say is that… well we're kind of… you know…"
"Both of you lost for words, now I'm getting scared." Remus said, "As a matter of fact I do know but he," gesturing towards Peter, "Is clueless."
"Told you," Sirius said to James who just shook his head, "Oh well what we were trying to say before we turned into bumbling idiots is that we started dating."
"When did this happen?" Peter asked looking confused.
"Last night," James answered simply, "After truth or dare."
"Ah OK. Cool." Peter replied.
"Cool, that's it?" James asked.
"What were you expecting?" Remus asked.
"I don't know really," James replied.
"We thought you might not want to talk to us." Sirius continued.
"Yeah right," Remus said with a look of disbelief, "You're still the same James and Sirius we've always known so why wouldn't we want to talk to you?"
Peter muttered under his breath, "Apart from the fact they always get us in trouble."
"That sounded strangely familiar." James said looking at Remus.
"It should; that's what you told me in second year." Remus replied.
"Yeah, I suppose it works both ways." Sirius said smiling, "One more thing."
James looked at Sirius strangely, "What?"
Looking straight at Peter, Sirius said, "You've five seconds to run because after that I'm going to kill you as soon as I catch you for saying that. You get in as much trouble as we do. 5-4-3-2-1" Sirius started to run after Peter who was already half way down the stairs.
A/N: What do you think? I tried not to be nasty to Peter because I figured that he must have been decent at one point. Also I have got this story planned out for the next 8 chapters but I don't know whether to carry on posting it here or not. Let me know in a review. (There would be more after that btw it's just that's how far I've got)
That's all for now
Trinity
P.S This isn't the end of my break officially but I should be posting pretty regularly (maybe even daily) on my stories for the next couple of weeks.