I know, I know, I've died for a while, but I'm back with a new story, and since quite a few people asked about the old one, I'll get working on that one again later on if I can find all the files I saved it under.
This is a completely new story and follows a different theme to my usual ones. So please review ;-) Hopefully i'll get the rest of the story out to you soon. All of this is done is Sirius's POV.
As always, I don't own any of these characters. Now on with Chapter One!
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I sat down hard on the log, and glared at the leafy floor. I knew I was sulking, but I didn't care. 5am. What kind of moron wakes up at 5am? I had MUCH better things to be doing than sitting in the middle of the bloody Forbidden Forest. If I was going to get attacked by some stupid trees and who knows what else from inside this stupid place, then couldn't I at least do it at a NORMAL time, when I have had a NORMAL amount of sleep?
I felt someones hand on my shoulder. Remus's probably, Peter was too pathetic to even try that on me. Well, maybe intelligent in this case because anyone who dared to annoy me at 5am was asking for it. "Get off." I hissed, and shoved his hand away, before returning to staring at the floor. Just 5 minutes. Give me 5 minutes to wake up properly, and I'll be in a better mood. Until I realise that I'm still in the middle of a stinking forest, that is. I suddenly felt something odd on my back, and jumped up, throwing my arms over my head, before I noticed Remus staring at me with a bemused look on his face, a few leaves still left in his hands.
"Do you have a newly developed leaf phobia?" He asked me. Peter sniggered slightly, just like he always does. He probably doesn't even know what a phobia is, but he'll still laugh along blankly because that's all he knows how to do. I gave him an evil glance and he shut up instantly, but still flashed a nervous, goofy grin at me. I ignored him and turned back to Remus.
"No, I just don't want leaves in my hair, that's all." I told him. Well, he might think it's pathetic, but it's better than telling him I was worried the trees were attacking me isn't it? He nodded though, and put the leaves down.
"I think one of us should go back and get James." He said. "He's missing out by not being here." I looked around. Yes. He is really missing out. 3 people, sitting in complete silence, in the middle of a dark forest.
"He's probably gone back to sleep." I told him. Remus nodded.
"I would say so. But then...it's not exactly like him to put up an even bigger fight than you, is it?" I shook my head.
"Let's go back up there and look for him." Get a few minutes more sleep, while I'm up there.
"Nah, we'll just start the discussion now." Remus said, and began a talk on how yesterdays events had gone. Despite how tired I was, I couldn't resist laughing along with his descriptions, he always knew how to make me laugh. And it was funny. See, every morning we would get up and discuss what we were going to do to Snape that day. And honestly, there is nothing I like more than annoying Snape. Only, we usually get up around 7, but I think Snape must have noticed because yesterday he wondered right into the middle of our talk. This ruined our plans completely, but hey, it turns out we're pretty good at thinking up new plans on the spur of the moment. And that's why today we're up at 5, we can't risk him wondering in on our talks and bringing a teacher in with him this time. Though personally, I would rather risk the teacher, because yesterday was just so hilarious.
"So, what do you think we should do today?" I asked, staring straight at Peter. On que, he instantly giggled at me and said nothing. Right. Whatever. "This isn't fair. Every single day it's been me, Remus or James thinking up the ideas. I think it's about time that you had an idea." I told him, staring directly into his eyes and making him squirm.
"Sirius, I've got a plan though." Remus said. "Basically, I was thinking that with the amount of success we got last time we - "
"I think we'll use your plan as backup." I told him without looking away from Peter. "I'm sure it's a great plan but it's not fair for you to be doing all the work when Peter hasn't helped us out at all. Now. Peter. What do you think we should do?"
"I liked Remus's plan." He said, giggling loudly.
"You didn't even hear his plan!" I snapped. "So you don't know if you like it or not! Should I speak slowly, will you get it then? What - should - we - do?" Peter giggled at me, but I wasn't about to back down. Saying nothing, I continued staring at him until the nervous grin was wiped off his face.
"Um...I...I think that...we should...we should um..." He looked at Remus for support. I couldn't see his face, but he said nothing. "OK...um...I think...we should steal the curtains from his bed!" He said triamphantly. I stared at him in blank disbelief. I turned to Remus, who was doing the same.
"WHAT?" I shrieked at him, jumping from my log. "How is that even a suggestion? What is wrong with you?" He gave me a goofy grin, which just flared my temper even more. "THIS IS RIDICULOUS!" I screamed. "You never do anything! All you ever do is sit there and giggle at us, well I'm not having this any more. Why can't you just - "
"SHUT UP." Hissed Remus suddenly. I turned to him, preparing to start an argument. See, there are reasons why you don't wake me up this damn early in the morning. He shook his head at me, and then sat bolt upright, his eyes focusing on the top of his head, listening intently.
"What do you - "
"Ssh!" We paused like this for a moment more, Remus in his odd position, me staring at him, and Peter looking uncomfortable. After a few seconds, he looked to an area just west of where we were, then back at me, smirking slightly. "Over there." He said, nodding in the direction he had previously looked in.
"What did you hear?" I asked. He shrugged.
"Someone. Human someone." He said. "I don't know who, but I'm betting it's Snape, coming to foil our plans of eevviill," he said, doing a very good impression of Snape's voice. "Come. Let's find out." He dived on the ground and crawled a few paces forward, pausing for us. I dropped down beside him, laughing evilly to myself, and followed him. I could hear Peter drop down behind us and crawl along as well. It's amazing how much I will object to being woken up, but will happily crawl along in the mud, but oh well, that's life for you. We had only been crawling for around a minute, if that, when Remus stopped suddenly, and we paused behind him. He looked at me, a gleam in his eye, and then began quietly making a hole in the bush in front of him, peering through it. I don't think I have ever seen him look so gleeful. Even when we are torturing Snape he doesn't seem to enjoy it this much.
"What do you see?" I asked him. He turned to me and smiled again, but didn't answer the question. I repeated it, sounding a bit more irritated this time.
"Sirius, you really need to get yourself some patience." Remus whispered, shaking his head at me and moving back slightly. "I hear you can get some very well priced ones at Hogsmeade, actually." He said, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, yeah." I said, smirking, and moved over to look through the hole as well. It took me a moment to realise what was going on. A flash of light hair, amongst black hair. But that guy wasn't Snape, Snape wasn't built like that, it was...James. My eyes bulged slightly as I recognised the figure, and Remus chuckled lightly next to my ear.
"That was my reaction too." He giggled. "I mean, Lily and James? Something up with that pairing, for sure."
"Lily?" I asked him, and looked back through the hole. He was right. I hadn't even looked at her, just the shock of James abandoning us to be with some random girl was enough for me. "Lily Evans?" I don't know why I was asking for clarification, it wasn't like I couldn't see the person perfectly anyway. Remus nodded.
"Lily Evans." He repeated. "Who would have thought?"
"Not me." I said, shaking my head. "I would have thought - " I paused. James was looking in our direction. "Can he - " I began to ask Remus.
"I don't know how." He said, frowning slightly. "Back up slightly." I did as I was told, but I could still feel James' glance on us.
"Wormtail? Is that you?" James called over. Me and Remus looked at each other, before turning back to see what Peter was doing. He was quite a way back from us, lying flat on the ground, his head in the direction away from us. That absolute moron. No wonder we were spotted, he wasn't exactly easy to miss, this bloody gigantic lump's head in full view of them.
"What do we do?" Remus whispered.
"WE RUN." I said, without any other hestitations. I jumped up and took the lead, Remus close behind me, Peter's heavy footsteps in the distance behind us.
"We should wait." Remus said, slowing down.
"NO - WAY!" I grabbed his arm and pulled him forwards. I heard a loud shriek and a thud from behind us. James must have caught up with Peter. That or the fat oaf had fallen over himself, both likely stories. But whatever, there was no way I was going to wait for him now. "Just keep going!" I yelled at Remus, pulling him as fast as I could towards the castle, and back to our dorm.
This is a completely new story and follows a different theme to my usual ones. So please review ;-) Hopefully i'll get the rest of the story out to you soon. All of this is done is Sirius's POV.
As always, I don't own any of these characters. Now on with Chapter One!
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I sat down hard on the log, and glared at the leafy floor. I knew I was sulking, but I didn't care. 5am. What kind of moron wakes up at 5am? I had MUCH better things to be doing than sitting in the middle of the bloody Forbidden Forest. If I was going to get attacked by some stupid trees and who knows what else from inside this stupid place, then couldn't I at least do it at a NORMAL time, when I have had a NORMAL amount of sleep?
I felt someones hand on my shoulder. Remus's probably, Peter was too pathetic to even try that on me. Well, maybe intelligent in this case because anyone who dared to annoy me at 5am was asking for it. "Get off." I hissed, and shoved his hand away, before returning to staring at the floor. Just 5 minutes. Give me 5 minutes to wake up properly, and I'll be in a better mood. Until I realise that I'm still in the middle of a stinking forest, that is. I suddenly felt something odd on my back, and jumped up, throwing my arms over my head, before I noticed Remus staring at me with a bemused look on his face, a few leaves still left in his hands.
"Do you have a newly developed leaf phobia?" He asked me. Peter sniggered slightly, just like he always does. He probably doesn't even know what a phobia is, but he'll still laugh along blankly because that's all he knows how to do. I gave him an evil glance and he shut up instantly, but still flashed a nervous, goofy grin at me. I ignored him and turned back to Remus.
"No, I just don't want leaves in my hair, that's all." I told him. Well, he might think it's pathetic, but it's better than telling him I was worried the trees were attacking me isn't it? He nodded though, and put the leaves down.
"I think one of us should go back and get James." He said. "He's missing out by not being here." I looked around. Yes. He is really missing out. 3 people, sitting in complete silence, in the middle of a dark forest.
"He's probably gone back to sleep." I told him. Remus nodded.
"I would say so. But then...it's not exactly like him to put up an even bigger fight than you, is it?" I shook my head.
"Let's go back up there and look for him." Get a few minutes more sleep, while I'm up there.
"Nah, we'll just start the discussion now." Remus said, and began a talk on how yesterdays events had gone. Despite how tired I was, I couldn't resist laughing along with his descriptions, he always knew how to make me laugh. And it was funny. See, every morning we would get up and discuss what we were going to do to Snape that day. And honestly, there is nothing I like more than annoying Snape. Only, we usually get up around 7, but I think Snape must have noticed because yesterday he wondered right into the middle of our talk. This ruined our plans completely, but hey, it turns out we're pretty good at thinking up new plans on the spur of the moment. And that's why today we're up at 5, we can't risk him wondering in on our talks and bringing a teacher in with him this time. Though personally, I would rather risk the teacher, because yesterday was just so hilarious.
"So, what do you think we should do today?" I asked, staring straight at Peter. On que, he instantly giggled at me and said nothing. Right. Whatever. "This isn't fair. Every single day it's been me, Remus or James thinking up the ideas. I think it's about time that you had an idea." I told him, staring directly into his eyes and making him squirm.
"Sirius, I've got a plan though." Remus said. "Basically, I was thinking that with the amount of success we got last time we - "
"I think we'll use your plan as backup." I told him without looking away from Peter. "I'm sure it's a great plan but it's not fair for you to be doing all the work when Peter hasn't helped us out at all. Now. Peter. What do you think we should do?"
"I liked Remus's plan." He said, giggling loudly.
"You didn't even hear his plan!" I snapped. "So you don't know if you like it or not! Should I speak slowly, will you get it then? What - should - we - do?" Peter giggled at me, but I wasn't about to back down. Saying nothing, I continued staring at him until the nervous grin was wiped off his face.
"Um...I...I think that...we should...we should um..." He looked at Remus for support. I couldn't see his face, but he said nothing. "OK...um...I think...we should steal the curtains from his bed!" He said triamphantly. I stared at him in blank disbelief. I turned to Remus, who was doing the same.
"WHAT?" I shrieked at him, jumping from my log. "How is that even a suggestion? What is wrong with you?" He gave me a goofy grin, which just flared my temper even more. "THIS IS RIDICULOUS!" I screamed. "You never do anything! All you ever do is sit there and giggle at us, well I'm not having this any more. Why can't you just - "
"SHUT UP." Hissed Remus suddenly. I turned to him, preparing to start an argument. See, there are reasons why you don't wake me up this damn early in the morning. He shook his head at me, and then sat bolt upright, his eyes focusing on the top of his head, listening intently.
"What do you - "
"Ssh!" We paused like this for a moment more, Remus in his odd position, me staring at him, and Peter looking uncomfortable. After a few seconds, he looked to an area just west of where we were, then back at me, smirking slightly. "Over there." He said, nodding in the direction he had previously looked in.
"What did you hear?" I asked. He shrugged.
"Someone. Human someone." He said. "I don't know who, but I'm betting it's Snape, coming to foil our plans of eevviill," he said, doing a very good impression of Snape's voice. "Come. Let's find out." He dived on the ground and crawled a few paces forward, pausing for us. I dropped down beside him, laughing evilly to myself, and followed him. I could hear Peter drop down behind us and crawl along as well. It's amazing how much I will object to being woken up, but will happily crawl along in the mud, but oh well, that's life for you. We had only been crawling for around a minute, if that, when Remus stopped suddenly, and we paused behind him. He looked at me, a gleam in his eye, and then began quietly making a hole in the bush in front of him, peering through it. I don't think I have ever seen him look so gleeful. Even when we are torturing Snape he doesn't seem to enjoy it this much.
"What do you see?" I asked him. He turned to me and smiled again, but didn't answer the question. I repeated it, sounding a bit more irritated this time.
"Sirius, you really need to get yourself some patience." Remus whispered, shaking his head at me and moving back slightly. "I hear you can get some very well priced ones at Hogsmeade, actually." He said, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, yeah." I said, smirking, and moved over to look through the hole as well. It took me a moment to realise what was going on. A flash of light hair, amongst black hair. But that guy wasn't Snape, Snape wasn't built like that, it was...James. My eyes bulged slightly as I recognised the figure, and Remus chuckled lightly next to my ear.
"That was my reaction too." He giggled. "I mean, Lily and James? Something up with that pairing, for sure."
"Lily?" I asked him, and looked back through the hole. He was right. I hadn't even looked at her, just the shock of James abandoning us to be with some random girl was enough for me. "Lily Evans?" I don't know why I was asking for clarification, it wasn't like I couldn't see the person perfectly anyway. Remus nodded.
"Lily Evans." He repeated. "Who would have thought?"
"Not me." I said, shaking my head. "I would have thought - " I paused. James was looking in our direction. "Can he - " I began to ask Remus.
"I don't know how." He said, frowning slightly. "Back up slightly." I did as I was told, but I could still feel James' glance on us.
"Wormtail? Is that you?" James called over. Me and Remus looked at each other, before turning back to see what Peter was doing. He was quite a way back from us, lying flat on the ground, his head in the direction away from us. That absolute moron. No wonder we were spotted, he wasn't exactly easy to miss, this bloody gigantic lump's head in full view of them.
"What do we do?" Remus whispered.
"WE RUN." I said, without any other hestitations. I jumped up and took the lead, Remus close behind me, Peter's heavy footsteps in the distance behind us.
"We should wait." Remus said, slowing down.
"NO - WAY!" I grabbed his arm and pulled him forwards. I heard a loud shriek and a thud from behind us. James must have caught up with Peter. That or the fat oaf had fallen over himself, both likely stories. But whatever, there was no way I was going to wait for him now. "Just keep going!" I yelled at Remus, pulling him as fast as I could towards the castle, and back to our dorm.