I am Not a Hypochondriac

By Chrissy

Part 2

AN: Well here is the promised second part so please review!

Quack Hey hun, Yeah I was thinking about that too so I changed it, thanks for reviewing!

"We would but you see-" James was about to explain that he'd promised his Nanna that he'd take care of himself and Sirius at Hogwarts over the break and not go anywhere else, well at least he was going to until Sirius cut him off.

"We'd love to. We leave tomorrow night?" Sirius said, with his arms still wrapped around Narcissa. The girls nodded, "Then we leave for Paris tomorrow!"

"We'll be staying in muggle and Wizarding Paris so bring muggle clothes and robes. But right now we have to get to class... not that this little interlude wasn't fun, but we'd just hate to be late." Lily kissed James and pried Narcissa out of Sirius' arms and they fled the classroom in a desperate attempt to be on time for class. Their attempts were in vain because the bell rang the second they stepped out of the classroom. They were still running though. They were both prefects so if they told the professor that they'd been speaking with Dumbledore they would be believed.

James was now frowning at Sirius, "We promised Nanna we'd visit her for Christmas and then we broke her heart saying we had to stay at school. We lied to her Padfoot, and now we are breaking a promise to her too."

"You know you want to go and your Nanna will understand, plus all four of us could drop by on Christmas to say hello. Now stop trying to make me feel guilty because all I am thinking about is being alone with Narcissa." Sirius said as he and James got back under the cloak and exited the classroom.

Yeah like you'd do anything different in private than what you do in front of everybody else. James thought, it was a good thing he hadn't said that out loud too because Filch was coming down the hall at that very moment. The boys had walked down the hall quickly and sat in the back of the Charms classroom and removed the cloak. The proffessor hadn't noticed them appear in the back of the classroom, they were lucky.

Afterwards they made their way up to their dormitory and then started packing some clothes and robes into duffel bags, no need to take their entire trunks, even though the girls probably would. While Sirius was digging around in his trunk looking for his new pair of jeans, a black velvet jewelry case fell out of his trunk and clattered to the floor. James just stared at the case as he went to pick it up, Sirius snatched it and shoved it into his robes. "Padfoot was that what I think it was?" James asked his friend who had started blushing a great deal.

"Depends," Sirius said calmly as he continued packing, "What do you think it is?" After placing a spacing charm on his bag so he could fit more stuff inside, Sirius finished packing and looked up at his friend.

"Are you going to propose to Narcissa?" James asked flat out. Sirius could only nod before he started pacing around the room nervously. "She won't say no, she loves you. Lily and I are kind of engaged since I gave her that promise ring at the start of the term but I suppose I'll properly propose to her at the end of the year......."

"I know she'll say yes but what I am worried about is her family, what if they say no.... what if they won't let me love her forever?" Sirius said worriedly. He sat on his bed and James placed a caring hand on his shoulder, "Prongs, I have never been this scared in my life... not even when I realized what I was doing by leading Snape to the Whomping Willow, most certainly to his death, and ruining any chance for Remus to have a normal life. Now I'm just scared that a family of Slytherins hates me... is that reasonable?"

"Yes, Sirius it is totally reasonable. Lil's sister absolutely hates me and her entire family does too except for her parents. All of her cousins and aunts and grandparents even. Her parents adore me though. Even if her family doesn't like you, they'll see she loves you. As for Snape... you didn't mean it like that and you know it. You'd never even hurt a fly, much as you'd like to play it off otherwise. I know you too well." James said.

Sirius took out the box and showed James a simple silver band with a gorgeous shimmering diamond on it. The inside was engraved to say 'Sempiternus Caritas Pietas' which is a Latin phrase that Narcissa and he often exchanged. James read the ring's inscription out loud and translated, "Eternal love.... affection and devotion." James looked up at his friend, "I'll be at your wedding, my man, and you will be at mine."

"Yup, I still remember our promise. We'll be the best man at each other's weddings or we change our name to Stultus Fatuus... Stupid Idiot..... when did we start using Latin all the time?" Sirius really couldn't remember when they'd started using bits of Latin in everyday conversations and promises.

"Probably about the time we started coming here and learned Latin with Lil, Cissa, and Remus so we could come up with our own spells...... don't you think?" James said. Sirius nodded and put the ring away and he helped James pack. When they went down to the common room Lily and Narcissa were sitting in front of the fire reading each other's palms as they always did for fun.

"Matrimonium cito, matrimonium cito... gratulatio, Narcissa!" Lily squealed as she checked again and double checked with her Tarot cards. Narcissa smiled shyly and kissed Sirius as he came and sat next to her. Lily whispered to James about Narcissa's reading and he refused to comment.

"Sirius... sempiternus caritas pietas," Narcissa whispered as she tacked her head into his shoulder and he wrapped his arms around her and reciprocated the words.

Remus entered the common room and placed his things on the floor as he sat on an over stuffed couch. He raised a questioning eyebrow and said, "Where's Peter? He left for Honeyduke's when I went to the library and I must've been in there an hour and a half. He's really excited that we're spending Christmas together."

The two couples looked sort of guilty and smiled weakly at Remus. Lily and Narcissa decided to leave the boys to explain the change in plans and headed to the library themselves.

Author's note: I am just learning Latin myself and all the Latin I used in this is from a dictionary!

To translate what I used read this: Sempiternus Caritas Pietas Eternal Love(Affection & Devotion)

Matrimonium Cito Marriage Soon

Gartulatio Congratulations

Perlegere & Recognitio ........ READ AND REVIEW