Marauders - The Musical!
Author's Note - Can you see it? Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, singing their little hearts out! Well, I imagined it, and wrote it! Enjoy! And review! This is totally review driven! Read AN at bottom for more! This chapter includes slash, I couldn't help it, I was determined to save my slash tendencies for another fic, but, alas no, I found a good song, and I kept on visualising a particular scene…
Chapter Three - Sirius, with a little help from Wormtail and Prongs!
The next day…. Saturday 10th May 1976.…
Sirius, Remus, Peter and James had finished their Transfiguration homework in five minutes, it was on Animagus, and funnily enough, they knew all the answers! They had made their way down to a small hilly area by the lake; not many students were out, it was the Hogsmeade weekend, and the Marauders saw enough of Hogsmeade by night without having to venture it in the daylight with a babble of students in their wake.
Sirius sitting impatiently on a hump of grass watching Remus read. Peter was watching James play with the Snitch again. James only played with it to keep his mind of Lily, and now he had that bloody Howler, and Snape possibly turning them all into tenors rolling around in his head… Remus would normally have a chit-chat with Sirius when they sat by the lake when no other students were around, but, the book was just to alluring… It kept his mind of yesterday's embarrassment in the Great Hall. Peter just watched James catching that Golden Snitch…
Sirius couldn't remember a time when he was as bored as this… Maybe in their fifth year when they attacked Snape after their Defence Against The Dark Arts OWL, but this time, there wasn't even a greasy hair of Snape's to torture. Truthfully, he had one thing on his mind and he was staring at it…
"I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things, we can do the tango just for two, I can serenade and gently play on your heart strings, be your Valentino just for you…" Sirius sang, he whispered it to himself before he realised what he was doing. "Ooh love - ooh loverboy
What're you doin' tonight, hey boy!" Before he knew it, he was standing on the lump of grass, the sun gleaming down on him, giving him something of a Godly light. It made the others look up. James gasped and the Snitch flew off across the lake. Peter's eyes closed then opened again. Remus dropped his book and leant back surveying Sirius with interest. "Set my alarm, turn on my charm, that's because I'm a good old-fashioned loverboy!" Sirius was smiling wistfully at Remus, who quite frankly, looked shocked, but pleased at this new outbreak of song. James and Peter now joined it - it was awfully odd…
"Ooh let me feel your heartbeat!" Sirius wailed, grinning broadly, Peter and James now positioned them beside Sirius.
"Grow faster, faster!" James and Peter seemed to have taken up the position of backing vocals, and were singing quite hoarsely, all the same, it was rather remarkable!
"Ooh ooh let me feel your love heat! Come on and sit on my hot-seat of love and tell me how do you feel right after-all!" James and Peter had now taken up Oohing and Aaahing whilst Sirius bellowed (which was tainted with glee). "I'd like for you and I to go romancing…!"
James and Peter's robes suddenly turned a gleaming white, making Remus's eyes water. James took Sirius's right arm, and Peter the left, and hauled him off the slight hill, Sirius was resting his head thoughtfully in his hands as he was dragged down near to Remus. He then whispered in a singing voice; "Say the word - your wish is my command!" Remus opened his mouth to say something, but Sirius continued to sing. "Ooh love - ooh loverboy! What're you doin' tonight?"
"Hey boy?" Peter and James piped, now skipping merrily around Sirius, their arms folded in a sort of Russian style.
"Write my letter, feel much better! I'll use my fancy patter on the telephone!" Peter and James then pulled Sirius back up the hill and slid him back down so he was face to face with a mildly entertained Remus. "When I'm not with you, I think of you always I miss you -"
"I miss those long hot summer nights…"
"When I'm not with you… Think of me always…I love you - love you…" Sirius paused, his eye's lingered on Remus's face for a moment. Sirius then jumped off, James and Peter caught his arms and pulled him back on to the small hill.
"Hey boy where do you get it from? Hey boy where did you go?" Peter and James asked Sirius, still singing in their hoarse voices.
"I learned my passion in, the good old fashioned school of loverboys!" Sirius whipped off his robes to reveal leather trousers and a black tee-shirt. He jumped up in the air, did the splits somehow, and landed, beaming at Remus, back on the grass beside him. A musical interlude preceded, in which, James and Peter in their white robes grasped Sirius's arms and pranced around Remus grinning at him. Remus couldn't do anything apart from stare at him with an odd expression on his young face.
"Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely…"
"One…Two…Three…Four…Five…Six…Seven…Eight…Nine O'clock…" James and Peter started to skip around Sirius, who was bending down to Remus.
"I will pay the bill, you taste the wine! Driving back in style, in my saloon will do quite nicely… Just take me back to yours that will be fine (come on and get it)." Remus gestured to go and get it, but a force kept him down. "Ooh love, ooh loverboy-"
"There it goes again! What're you doin' tonight, hey boy? "
"Everything's all right! Just hold on tight that's because I'm a good old fashioned loverboy!" The song ended. James and Peter flanked Sirius, who was bend down in front of Remus his left arm waving merrily up behind him, and his right arm was shaking down and in front of him. Remus tried to hold in the laughter, but couldn't. He fell backwards on to the grass.
"Er, Moony?" It was Peter, he was back in his black robes bending over Remus with suspicion. Remus let his giggles surpass before sitting up to face his friends, and Sirius.
"Oh god… It happened again, this time the three of you!" Remus fanned himself with his hand. "Sirius was in lead, you two were backing singers… I never knew Padfoot!"
"Never knew what?" Sirius asked Remus looking at him warily.
"That, er, you could do the splits whilst in leather trousers, quite an accomplishment!"
"I what? Did the splits? Are you sure, Prongs is the athletic one, not me…" Sirius shook his head violently, however, he was still in his leather trousers and tee-shirt.
"But I think I know what triggers the singing!" Remus grinned. James never looked happier.
"Really? What? Then maybe Evans will forgive me!" James's eyes glazed over.
"Let's not go that far!" Sirius laughed.
"STOP!" Remus shouted, waving his hand in front of James's face. James shook his head and looked perplexed at being disturbed. "Stronge emotions trigger the singing outbursts!" This seemed to take a while to sink in to the others.
"I was thinking about Lily… You were thinking about friendship… god knows what Padfoot was thinking about… Then Wormtail and me must have gotten involved with what Padfoot was thinking somehow…" James muttered, looking pensively at the lake. Sirius's eyes suddenly widened in realisation.
"Shit…" He muttered, "Moony, what did I sing exactly?" Remus shook his head looking at the floor smiling grimly.
"Mmm…. Something about a Good Old Fashioned Lover-Boy." Remus whispered in Sirius's ear.
"Shit…" Sirius swore again, he had hoped no one would find out his secret. Peter and James looked at Remus and Sirius unaware of what Remus whispered to Sirius.
"Padfoot? Moony? What?" Peter asked. Sirius smiled at Remus and bowed to him. Remus smiled back at Sirius with raised eyebrows and tapped his foot impatiently.
"Lets… Go back to the common room…" Sirius said thoughtfully, still smiling thoughtfully at Remus.
"Why?" James asked, turning around. "It's fine out here-"
"I'm bored, I want to sleep."
"You sleep anywhere, you slept under the table in the Great Hall in out first year-"
"Yeah well, I was eleven… And that sofa looks inviting, not the grass."
"Right - fine…" James groaned, he glanced over at Peter who just shrugged. "When's full moon?" He added, now turning to face Remus.
"Two weeks…" Remus sighed, his eyebrows dropping.
"Ooh good!" James rubbed his hands together and grinned at Sirius. Remus sighed heavily and rolled his eyes at James.
Author's Note, again
Wee!!!! All these reviews!! You're all spoiling me! Really you are! Well, don't dawdle, review again! Thanks soooo much for them! Hugs to all of you!!
Disclaimer I do not own the characters, unfortunately, and nor do I own Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, by the ever marvellous Queen, who I appear to have an obsession with! Blame my mother…