La Gioconda

by Maeglin Yedi

Pairing: Harry/Sirius

Rating: PG-13

Warning: Slash and art ;-)

Disclaimer: All these lovely boys and men still do not belong to me. JK Rowling is the lucky lady who gets to take them all home at night.

Feedback: most welcome; maeglin.yedi@lycos.nl

Summary: A trip to the Louvre: Sirius is enthralled by all that Muggle Art. Harry´s enthralled by something else.

A/N: Written for the Canis Major Dictionary Drabbles:  Monomania

Wordcount: 744

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"I think it would really be a lot more interesting if she would just move," Sirius whispered to Harry while he stared at the Lady who gave him a shy smile in return. And kept giving him a shy smile.

Sirius thought it was rather unnerving that Muggle Paintings did not move. At all.

"I really don´t get what all the fuss is about this particular painting," he continued his quiet rant to his lover. "I mean, look at all these Muggles, they are practically worshipping the bloody painting and all she does is sit there and flash this really suspicious little smile."

Harry grunted something incoherent in response. He had hardly listened to Sirius´ comments on the famous ´Mona Lisa´ because he was having a lot of trouble with the piece of modern Muggle technology Hermione had given him for his birthday.

A digital camera.

"Oh Harry, it will be perfect for your trip to Paris," she had said enthusiastically a couple of days ago. And Harry had agreed at that time.

Now he wished he had spent just a little more time reading the instructions, and a little less time shagging Sirius. Somehow the mere thought of going to Paris together for a week had made the both of them horny as hell.

Harry briefly considered pulling out his wand, and hexing the offending object into working but he glanced around. The horde of Muggle Tourists that were gathered around The Mona Lisa, and therefore also gathered around Sirius and him, made him decide that it would be better to keep his wand in his pocket, and try to get that stupid camera to work....the Muggle Way.

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"Wouldn´t it be fun if this guy would start moving," Sirius whispered mischievously to Harry while they were standing in front of ´Mummy of a Man, 3rd or 4th century BC´ in the Egyptian Antiquities hall.

"Imagine the looks on all those Muggles´ faces."

Harry cursed silently when the button he pushed on the camera did not lead to the result he had hoped for. The lens zoomed shortly, and then a weird message appeared on the LCD screen. ´USB port ready.´

Harry sighed.

"Besides, everyone knows all the Egyptian Pharaohs were Wizards," Sirius concluded.

A soft gasp from an entire Muggle family who were standing besides them attracted Sirius´ attention, and he glared at the startled faces.

"You´ve got to love Egyptian Mythology. Just like Fairy Tales," he quickly added, and the Muggle family gave both him and Harry one last look before they quickly moved away in the direction of ´The Large Sphinx, pink granite, found in Tanis.´

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"Look at all these poor sods," Sirius said while they wandered through the Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Halls.

"For their sakes I hope they are Growers, because they really don´t have a lot to be showing for themselves. If only those sculptures would move, we could find out."

A sudden flash temporarily blinded Sirius and he bumped his head against the marble elbow of ´Artemis the huntress, called Diana of Versailles´.

While he tried to blink away the multi-colored flashy dots that were terrorizing his vision he heard Harry make a happy squeak besides him.

"I´ve found the flash!"

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"Smile!"

Sirius looked at Harry surprised, and heard the click of the camera Harry had been playing with all morning.

"It works!" Harry exclaimed happily, and Sirius smiled at his lover. Harry was just so adorable when he was happy like this.

"Oh look, Sirius, it´s the Mona Lisa!"

Sirius looked in the direction that Harry pointed at, and concluded that yes, they had ended up in the same hall where they had started their visit to The Louvre.

"I don´t get what the fuss is about," Harry said when Sirius stood besides him and once again looked at the Lady in the painting who was smiling shyly at them. "If only those Muggle paintings would move."

Sirius threw his arm around Harry´s shoulders, and pulled him close. Harry looked up at him surprised, and Sirius smiled at his young lover. He lowered his head, ignored the gasps and offended snorts coming from all those Muggle tourists around them, and gave Harry a long and gently kiss.

When he pulled back Harry gave him a shy smile that could compete with Mona´s any day. Sirius caressed Harry´s cheek with his thumb and smiled back at him.

"Yeah, if only they would move."

~~Fin~~

A/N: for those who are interested in this kind of information: La Gioconda is the original Italian name for The Mona Lisa ;-)