Betrayal
Ebony watched Remus work. She admired his concentration, as she had never had the attention span to concentrate on anything for more than five minutes. Instead, she preferred to hang out and smoke or deal some wiccapot.
It was only the two of them in the secret room that Sirius and James had named the Room of Blow. It was quiet and private, just what Remus needed at the moment. What he didn't need was Ebony's eyes always upon him, or a drift of smoke in his face every now and then. He wanted nothing more than to be with her, the small but romantic room didn't help anything.
He kept thinking about the amazing time that they'd had not so long ago, that led him to feelings of guilt for not thinking about the mess Frank was in, and that meant that he was not getting much work done. Translating the long and in his opinion overwritten tomes of Abotimier was boring. He found himself staring at the tiny writing with unfocused eyes. Mostly he thought about Ebony, and the way she made him crazy in both a good way and a 'I'm going completely mental with you sitting so close to me' way.
He read what he had written and sighed. "Damn, where am I gonna get Larifin from?"
He turned to look at her and only felt less like reading. She sat beside him, candlelight illuminating her face just enough for him to see the soft milky glow of her skin and the brightness of her blue eyes. She was rolling Wiccapot into cigarettes, one hanging out of her mouth also.
He reached up and stroked her blonde hair gently. "It's getting late, why don't you go to bed?"
"Late? It's four in the morning, what's the use of going to sleep now? I don't usually sleep during the week anyway. Class really interrupts with my social life." She summoned the ashtray from the other side of the room and added to the pile.
"What are you talking about? You don't go to class."
"You got me there." They were both too bored and tired to laugh so they just smiled. "I'll go, but. I'm getting bored. And I have somewhere to be for some, ahh…business."
She left the room and made her way to the Wiccapot dealing room, a room completely dedicated to her by Sirius and decorated by James. It was pretty much a small room with some couches and what Lily called a radio playing music softly. Lily was very into music, so was Remus actually. They often talked about a music group called the Beatles and Ebony caught Lily singing their songs when she thought she was alone in the dorm.
Ebony waited for her best friend, and co-dealer, Terran Duran in the room, wishing she was with Remus but knowing they couldn't be doing anything anyway. Terran never showed up, but at 5.03 exactly, Elizabeth Slater and Wendy Clear entered the room.
"Hey, Eb." Wendy sat next to her and Elizabeth stuck her head out into the hall.
"I'm pretty sure we weren't followed."
"Good." Ebony pulled a paper bag out of her robes and handed it to Wendy. "I'll discount it if you can tell me where I can get some Larifin."
Wendy and Elizabeth were the school know-it-all's. Most of the stuff they knew was useless, but sometimes it came in handy, especially if there was something to bribe them with.
"Larifin? That's what Severus Snape is always bragging about." Elizabeth hinted
"Snivellus." Ebony hissed. "Does he have any?"
"How big is this discount?" Wendy's eyes glinted and a sneaky smile appeared on her face.
"If you help me… a galleon for the lot."
Wendy and Elizabeth looked at each other.
"He says he does, but there's no way to tell for sure."
"Thanks." She gave them the pakage, took the gold coin and ran from the room.
~*~*~*~*~*
"I thought you said a few hours." James said to Remus.
"Leave him alone, James." Lily said seriously. She had been very tense since the whole Snape thing. "Let him speak."
"I still need some more time, and another ingredient-"
"Lets call it the secret ingredient." Sirius interrupted, still half asleep.
"Lets call it the hundred-galleon-only-sold-in-dark-magic-shop-need-to-be-liscenced-wizard-to-purchase ingredient."
"We'll go to Hogsmeade and steal it then." James said defiantly.
"They'd have it pretty well protected, Prongs. We can't just walk in there and…"
Remus was interrupted by Ebony bursting into the door. "Do you still need Larifin?" She panted.
"Yeah, why?"
"Snape apparently has a secret stash, in his room."
Sirius suddenly woke up. "Sniveldick. Perfect. We can do it."
"How are we going to get into the Slytherin common room?" Lily objected.
"Kim." Sirius said simply. "Now all we need is a distraction and I have the perfect distraction. Class."
~*~*~*~*
Later that day, while all the good boys and girls were in class, Kim, James, Sirius and Remus all entered the common room. Lily and Ebony waited at the door, keeping watch. They had no idea what to do if anyone came, but they knew someone had to be there, so they volunteered. Out of the thick of things, fray adjacent. These were all good in Lily's opinion.
They sat near the door, leaning against the cool stone walls. They were at first talking quietly and nervously, but the more time the others took, the more relaxed they got.
"You've been friends with Remus for a while, right." Ebony asked Lily.
"Well, you've been friends with him longer, but we've always kind of talked and stuff."
"I'm only friends with Remus because I'm friends with Sirius. You're just friends with him."
"Yeah, I suppose. Why do you want to know?" Lily wasn't sure where this conversation was going, but it was starting to make her nervous again.
"Have you ever had sex with him?" Ebony blurted out.
"What!? No." Lily turned to face Ebony. "That's like you having sex with Sirius."
"Well, we have."
"Seriously? I didn't think you
guys were…with each other."
"Well we're not anymore. But it was last Christmas, we bumped into each other
and we found out we lived near each other, so we started hanging out. On New
Years Eve, we were kind of bored…and well, we weren't bored for long." She gave
a little laugh. Lily stared at her, flabbergasted.
"Well, anyway. I wanted to talk about Remus."
Lily blinked a couple of times until she finally managed to form words. "Yeah, that's right. What, you want to have sex with him too?"
"Well, I already have."
Lily returned to her speechlessness until she finally stuttered. "W-well…how…how is he?"
"Oh God! He's amazing! That's what I wanted to talk about. I think he was a virgin, or not really that experienced. He's never had a real girlfriend and he doesn't seem the type for flings. But he was so good, so…perfect."
At that moment Kim and Remus came out of the Slytherin common room with huge smiles on their face. Lily noticed that Remus walked over to Ebony and held her hand.
How long has this been going on…and why didn't I notice. They're so obviously involved.
Kim gave Lily a small paper bag and said, "Take it and get to work. I'll stay here and keep watch."
"Where are James and Sirius?" Lily asked.
"They decided to do some snooping around, want to see if Snape has any dirty little secrets."
Lily's looked at Remus and Ebony holding hands again. "Dirty secrets, right. Good luck then."
Kim covered the other three in the invisibility cloak and listened to their footsteps echoing in the empty hallway until they eventually faded away. She didn't expect anyone to come. Not very many who student's skipped class went to their common rooms, but when someone did come it was the last person she wanted to see- Snape.
Severus Snape was not a very popular guy. He kept to himself- mostly because he wanted to but partly because no one wanted to hang around him. As a result of this, he loved the chance to get a bit of attention. He liked it when he was noticed. But he got suspicious when a friend of his enemy started talking to him for no reason.
"Hi Severus. What are you doing out of class?" Kim tried to sound as natural as possible and she pretty much did, but Snape was smart and she didn't know if he was capable of accepting that she was talking to him or not.
" I just got out of the hospital wing. Apparently I had quite a fall. Snape sounded angry but looked tired and somewhat embarrassed.
"Oh, that's a shame. You've missed out on class."
"I don't need class to know stuff. I'm already working at an advanced seventh year level."
"I heard you failed transfiguration." Kim said snapping out of her fake kindness.
"I knew you were up to something. Don't talk to me muggle lover."
"Muggle lover? I don't know any muggles."
"You're friends with Longbottom and Guthrie and that awful Lily Evans."
"They're not muggles." Kim blocked Snape as he tried to walk towards the door. She was about the same height as him so she looked straight at his eyes as he spoke. She noticed that they lit up a bit when he spoke.
"Evans and Guthrie are filthy mudbloods and Longbottom might as well be, with his mudblood mother and muggle loving father."
"You're very judgemental for a guy with no friends. But maybe that has something to do with having no friends in the first place."
"Just fuck off will you." Snape shoved her aside and muttered the password. Kim followed him into the common room, desperate to stop him.
"Wait Severus. I need to tell you something." Kim yelled loud enough for James and Sirius to hear.
"What?" Snape hissed turning around to face her. She stepped towards him, accepting what she had to do to save her friends from a month of detention. In the next couple of second she had taken a few more steps towards him and kissed him on the mouth.
Kissing Snape was like kissing an animal. Kim had to keep her mind blank just to stop herself from gagging. His breath was disgusting. Kim didn't think he'd brushed his teeth in a month. He didn't move his mouth but Kim noticed that his eyes were closed and he was making soft noises that indicated to her that he was enjoying himself.
He moved closer to her so his greasy hair fell against her face. Kim had had enough and pulled away. As she did, she heard a voice from the direction of the boys dorms.
"I never thought you'd ever be kissed by a girl Snivelfreak, but then, I bet you didn't think you'd die before you had a chance to get a life."
Snape ignored Kim who was now spitting into a tissue and looked at James face. He had never seen so much anger in his eyes. Sirius stood behind him and was looking down at the ground.
Could he seriously want to kill me? There is only one thing that could make him that angry.
"Well, Potter, you finally figured it out. You finally discovered that I was having an affair with your precious Lily. You can kill me, but I can only hope that she's told you about how bad you are in bed and how she comes to me almost every night so I can give her what she's been missing out on. But by all means, kill me, she's only going to come after you."
A/N I love the next chapter, its worth reading and will be posted in the next couple of days once I've typed it up so keep an eye out for it.
