Every wolf needs a moon
By Talia-Rose
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter so don't sue me. This story is set during the Marauders time at Hogwarts. And I'm sooooooooooo sorry that it's been a while since I updated but with my graduation this Friday, I've been concentrating on my school work because I really didn't want to fail. Law isn't an easy course to get into at university.
Chapter Thirteen: Diagon Alley for the day.
Breakfast at the Potter's was an interesting event. It was one of those kind of times where you make your own breakfast when you get up, which meant that Lily and Sonya were the first ones up after Mrs. Potter.
Sitting around the table with Mrs. Potter, Lily and Sonya were happily eating pancakes that Lily had made. While James' mother read the Daily Prophet, the two girls were chattering on about where they hoped to visit during the day.
"Hopefully they won't drag us into to many joke shops." Lily shook her head at Remus when he entered the room carrying a plate of toast.
"I can assure you dear lady that I hate going into the joke shops with Sirius and James. Since there will be three of us against the joke shops, maybe the other two will be more willing to miss out on those shops." He replied sitting down next to Sonya.
Mrs. Potter looked up, "My son likes joke shops? What exactly do you boys get up to at school?"
Sonya blushed and mumbled. "I know what Remus gets up to. Can't say the same about the other three."
He nudged her and replied to Mrs. Potters question; "James and Sirius are normally very well behaved boys at school. Believe me, when they've got the threat of Lily screaming at them for messing up, they tend to be good."
"Oh thank Merlin. For a moment I was worried that my son had been getting up to no good and acting like a prankster. And why would you be screaming at them Lily?" The motherly woman turned to the red haired girl.
Lily smiled sweetly, "Because I'm the only member of the student body with any sense of right and wrong. I make sure that all Gryffindors' behave well."
While Mrs. Potters' back was turned to them, Remus gave Sonya a good morning kiss. He quickly pulled away when she turned around and gave them a suspicious look, as if she knew what they had been doing. Lily looked like she was trying not to laugh and Sonya felt like reminding her of what happened the previous night but knew that she would end up getting them all in trouble if she made such a move.
"It's scary for a mother when she sees her children all grown up." Mrs. Potter shook her head, gazing sadly at Sonya. "I'm sure that your parents will be very proud of you Sonya, no doubt you are meeting every expectation that they had for you."
She choked on her food and Remus had to pat her back gently. "Yes, I'm sure that I am. But there is no doubt in my mind that there are a lot of expectations that they had for me that I will never meet for many reasons. On the other hand, isn't that always the case? Parents always seem to have expectations for their children that their children will never fulfill."
At that moment in time, Sirius and James literally staggered into the room like zombies, followed closely by Mr. Potter. All three of them had plates of toast and when Sirius saw that Sonya and Lily were finishing off pancakes, he woke up with an exclamation of 'how come they get pancakes?'.
"I made them Sirius and if you boys had been up when I did, you would have gotten some." Lily smiled faintly at James.
"It's no fair. The girls get pancakes and we all have to make do with toast. GO and make us some pancakes Lily Evans." Sirius moaned.
Remus arched an eyebrow and finished his toast off, "If you want pancakes Sirius, then go and make them yourself. Just because they're female, doesn't mean that they're your slaves."
Grinning, James leant over and pinched the last bit of pancake from Lily's plate. "I'll live on just this small piece of pancake. Besides Remus, have you ever seen Sirius try to cook? It's horrible!"
"I can't cook either…." Sonya murmured, waiting for the outcry of shock.
"She can't cook for the same reason that I can't. Our families have house elves who do everything for us." The dark haired boy growled, glaring at his toast.
Mr. Potter blinked in astonishment, "I'm astonished, you're a lovely young woman with such a perfect upbringing but you can't cook? Did your mother just simply decide not to teach you?"
Sonya shook her head, "I doubt that my mother could cook either."
"We'll just have to teach you over the rest of the summer. Won't we Lily?" Mrs. Potter smiled happily. "It will be such great fun! I haven't a doubt in my mind that you will make a good cook Sonya."
"Somehow I doubt that Sonya will have the disposition to make a good cook though she's really good a potions when she puts her mind to it. Hell, if I didn't know better, I would swear that Sonya hates food." James chirped loudly, receiving looks from everyone around the table. "What?"
Lily shook her head, "No, he's right. Sonya does seem to hate food."
"I do not…. I just have a very small appetite. Besides, when you've been raised in a family that will have dinner parties and balls for the slightest of reasons, you learn not to eat very much because you don't know who might be trying to poison who." Sonya shrugged, looking hardly looking nonplussed about the matter.
Sirius grinned, "Remember the dinner party at your uncle Terrance's place? The one when the Malfoys' came?"
She grinned in return and Mr. Potter looked interested. "Do tell us Miss Delcot. James will tell you that I'm not fond of the Malfoy family."
"Well he had been such an awful git to me that I found one of my uncle's pet hounds and set her on him. Lucius ran and ran trying to get away from the wolfhound but she wouldn't give up on her quarry. Eventually my uncle came out and called her off the boy but it didn't matter, I had made him the laughing stock of the dinner party. Sirius was there. In fact, I believe he was one of the ones laughing the hardest." She sat back and frowned thoughtfully.
Mr. Potter laughed along with the others – except his wife – and smiled at Sonya. "But aren't the Delcots' related to the Malfoys'?"
"Aren't all Wizarding families like those ones related Mr. Potter?" Lily asked.
"Indeed they are. Well, no matter about it. Now, can we all be ready to go to Diagon Alley in half an hour?" He asked.
Mrs. Potter let the two girls go, telling them that she'd look after the dishes. Lily and Sonya shut their door and turned to each other thoughtfully. While Lily fussed around in her things looking for something to wear, Sonya pulled a black cotton skirt and a red silk shirt from her trunk. What she planned to wear was totally gypsy and she was proud of it.
"Why are so many of your clothes like that?" Lily asked, helping Sonya lace up the special corset.
"Because the Delcot and Delune families are primarily Romanian. It is a heritage that I am proud to be able to claim though I couldn't give a fig about the rest of the Delcot heritage." She replied, breathing deeply. "Why don't you borrow some of my clothes? You'd look stunning in something like this."
Sonya dug out a similar black skirt to the ones she was wearing as well as a deep forest green silk shirt that matched Lily's eyes. Holding up the clothes for Lily to inspect, she smiled faintly at the shock that James would get.
She frowned, "I don't know. Wouldn't it look odd without a corset and you only have the one."
"You're overage. Lend me your wand."
Transfiguring an odd sock into a corset, Sonya handed all of the clothes to Lily. She dressed slowly, having to get Sonya's help with the shirt and corset. When she was done, Lily curled her hair to match Sonya's and took the black and green coat that was handed to her. They finished getting ready within the half an hour and quickly rushed to meet the others at the fireplace.
"Did anyone order gypsies for lunch?" Sirius blinked at the two girls in surprise.
Remus and James exchanged looks before smiling at them with the wisdom that saying nothing would serve a better purpose than commenting. Mrs. Potter clicked her tongue in delight, inspecting what they were wearing. The embroidery on the shirts and coats as well as how lovely they made the two girls look delighted her though she was worried about the effect it would have on the boys with them.
"Are you sure that you want to wear such lovely clothes to Diagon Alley?" Mrs. Potter asked them.
"They're not special clothes Mrs. Potter. I normally wear these kinds of clothes most of the time. Lily thought that she might try some out for the day to see what she thought of them." Sonya smiled and nodded to Mr. Potter.
When they reached Diagon Alley, Mr. Potter told them that he would meet them back here at four in the afternoon and that they weren't to be late. His last words before he left were 'behave yourselves like good little children.'
"Good little children? Are you kidding me? Firstly we're not little children and secondly we're not good." The young master Black rolled his eyes in sarcasm.
James grinned, "Good? What is this good that you speak of? I've never heard of anything called good!"
The two girls groaned and exchanged looks as if to say 'great, they're going to be like this all day.' Linking arms with Sonya on one side and Lily on the other, Remus looked almost pleased with himself when he suggested that they go and find a nice book store to look in.
"Book shop?" The other two called out. "We're not going to some shitty book shop!" Sirius muttered in annoyance when James ran after them because he didn't want to let Lily out of his site for long.
Remus guided the girls to his favorite bookshop – a place that Sonya had been to once before while he was there. "What was it that you wanted to find Sonya?"
She smiled faintly at him, kissing him lightly on his cheek and headed over to the stationery section of the shop to look for what she wanted. While she was doing that, Lily disappeared to look at books on healing. Funny thing was, James followed her and tried to make it look like he was actually interested in the book he had picked up that was titled – much to Remus' amusement – 'How to raise your children safely'. He pointed this out to the annoyed Sirius and the two of them burst out laughing.
"What's so funny Remus? Sirius?" Sonya walked back over to join them with a thick leather bound book full of blank pages held in her arms.
He leant in and pointed towards James, "Look at what he's reading Wolfie. He's trying to get close to Lily so he can talk to her but the book he picked up is a little suspicious."
Sonya's eyes went wide and she giggled, covering her mouth with one of her hands. "Shouldn't someone tell him? I mean, Lily will probably kill him when she sees what he's reading. By Merlin, wouldn't you think that he would have noticed what he's reading?"
"Prongs isn't reading it, he's just trying to get close to Evans. He wants to ask her out again because he thinks that she'll agree this time." Sirius rolled his eyes and went off to see if he could find a book on Quidditch.
"What is that for Sonya?" Remus noticed the book that she was clinging to.
"My old journal is all full and I need a new one."
"You keep a journal? What for?"
"I write stories and poems and those kinds of things in my journals. I even draw pictures in them. That's why I make sure that I always buy a blank book." She smiled at his curious expression. "Bet you didn't know that about me… but then, I don't get much time for it any more. Not since I changed schools."
While she paid for the book and for an advanced transfiguration book, Sonya kept a close eye on Lily and James. They were standing side by side, appearing to be looking at books but she could tell that they were talking quietly.
"What I'd give to be a fly on the wall over there." She murmured to herself.
Joining her at the counter, Remus hugged her warmly and chuckled. "Why would you want to be a fly on the wall over there? I bet that they're not saying anything that we haven't already said."
Her eyebrows shot up when she thought about some of the things that they had said to each other. "Remus Lupin! I hope that they're not saying anything that we've already said. If they were and we knew it, I'd never be able to look at a bookshop or library in the same way again."
Laughing at her thoughts, he tilted her chin up and captured her lips in a gentle kiss. There was the sound of someone clearing her throat and they broke apart to see the woman behind the counter giving them appraising looks. She handed Sonya the book wrapped in brown paper and shook her head before murmuring something about how much things had changed since she was their age.
"Lets grab the other three and go. I don't like those looks that the lady behind the counter is giving us." Sonya wandered over to James and Lily, tugging on the other girls' coat sleeve.
Lily and James looked guilty as they followed Sirius, Remus and Sonya out of the bookshop. Holding out her hand, Lily smiled at James warmly and he responded by taking the offered hand and holding it in his. Glancing back, Sonya smiled happily at the sight of her two friends holding hands like lovers.
For the rest of the day, they wandered around Diagon Alley, going into shops that they normally wouldn't when shopping for school things. The only down side to the day was when they walked into Lucius Malfoy.
He caught sight of Remus and Sonya first, while they were walking along holding hands and talking quietly to each other. Rolling his eyes, he stalked over to them, not noticing that Sirius, James and Lily had gathered to the side. "Well, well, if it isn't two Gryffindor's walking along the street in dream land. Not so brave without your cousin's dog are you Sonya Delcot?"
She grinned at him, "Go away Lucius or I'll find some other dog to set on you. Though, I do feel sorry for the poor creature I sent after you last time since there isn't enough soap in the world to wash clean her mouth after she bit your backside."
"You didn't tell me that part of the story, Wolfie. But then, neither did Sirius and he was there when it happened unlike you." Remus chuckled. "You told me that you sent for the dog to be set on him but then walked away."
"Oh, she was brave. Sonya Delcot had the dog brought but she wasn't even there to watch it. In fact, I believe it was your dear Sirius Black who told her exactly what happened – at the dinner table mind you! The dinner table!" Lucius growled angrily and in shame.
Sirius walked over and patted Lucius on the back, grinning. "Why don't you just go and find my beloved cousin? No doubt she's missing your close attentiveness. I just hope that you two never have kids. They'd be absolute shits."
When he saw James and Lily standing to the side with their arms crossed, Lucius shot Sonya a dark look before turning on his heel. Once he was a safe distance off, he called back. "By the way Sonya, have you spoken to your cousin Nathan lately? I've heard from Catalina that he's turned rather… dark recently."
Sonya froze. 'Nathan? Dark? I don't believe it.'