Chapter Four
Two weeks later, illegally in Hogsmeade
"Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around... umm... what comes after that?" Sirius paused. "I've lost count."
"Thank God," muttered the other occupants of the Three Broomsticks.
"I guess I'll just have to start over!"
Everyone moaned.
"Ninety-nine thousand bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of-"
Peter had hit Sirius with a very-well done Stunner.
"Good aim, mate!" said James approvingly. Peter beamed.
"Now what are we going to do with him?" asked Remus, glancing over at Sirius, who was slumped over on the table.
"We," said James, "are going to leave him. Right here."
"We can't do that!" squeaked Peter.
"Oh, we can't?" James smirked and pushed his chair back from the table. "How much d'you wanna bet?"
Remus rolled his eyes. "James, you do realize you have a Quidditch game tomorrow morning, right?"
"Yeah, what's your point?"
"My point is you're going to need Sirius, or you'll only have one Beater."
James looked back over at Sirius and sighed. "Good point... well, let's get him, shall we? Somebody help me."
"Help you what?"
"Get Sirius! We're going to have to carry him, after all."
Remus sighed. "James, just wake him up..."
"Oh. Right. Ennervate!"
Sirius opened his eyes. "Where was I?"
"You finished." said James hurriedly. "It was great, everybody loved it. Now come on, we have to go back up to the castle."
"They loved it? Should I give an encore?"
"NO!" everyone yelled.
"Um... it was so good... that nobody... ummm..." James looked over at Remus for help.
"Nobody thinks they're worthy of an encore," finished Remus.
"Really?"
"Would we lie to you?" asked James.
Sirius thought about that for a moment. "Yes," he said matter-of-factly.
A/N: Okay. Moony and I have finally worked this out. She's going to throw ideas at me and I'm going to make them into a workable chapter. Like this one here. Moony gave me the idea (I mean the whole idea up to the point where James congratulates Peter for the Stunner) and I added a bit onto the end and polished it up. So that's how it's gonna work.
I'm going to de-song a songfic I did a little while ago and see if it'll work. If it will, I have another couple chapters to add to the end of it. :squee: