Chapter 17: Clean Slate
Dominique made her way to Sirius, who stood leaning against the wall by the stairs, looking quite bored.
"Hello dah-ling!!" Dominique hailed, as she joined him.
"Hello dear…where've you been?" Sirius asked nonchalantly, taking a sip of his tequila.
"Oh, nowhere…" Dominique replied with a hiccup. "Boy, I'm feeling a wee bit tipsy!"
Sirius glanced at Dominique with a raised eyebrow. "Just a wee bit?" he asked. At that moment, Megan joined Sirius and Dominique, clutching two martini glasses.
"Hey have you guys seen Remus?" she asked. "I've been looking all over for him!"
"Er, yea…" replied Dominique, "he's kind of busy though…"
Megan narrowed her eyes at Dominique and asked, "Doing what?"
"Oh…it's really a question of whom…" Dominique replied, pulling Sirius's drink out of his hands and taking a sip from it.
"What??" Megan and Sirius asked together.
"Yes," Dominique continued innocently, "he's just making passionate love to his girlfriend right now…"
Megan's eyes widened with disbelief. "I'm his girlfriend!!"
Dominique snickered. "Well, not anymore! Anyway, how thick are you? He's liked Kierra for ages, wasn't it obvious?"
"Oh my gosh…he…they…" Megan stammered.
"Oh get over it! You two have nothing in common anyway! You just dated him because he's in the popular crowd and because he's a seventh year…" Dominique drawled.
"That's not true!" Megan protested angrily. "I don't know what you're talking about!" she said as she turned to leave, running right into Kyle as she did so. "Oh…sorry.." she said quickly as she blushed.
"Er, Dominique, what exactly just happened?" asked Sirius. "Was there any truth to what you just said?"
"Well…" Dominique began, "I sort of locked them in that broom closet over there…they were annoying me…if they stay in there long enough, I'm sure they'll come to some mutual amity…" she said as she drained the last of Sirius's tequila.
"Wow…" Sirius said, looking bemused. "You're quite the oddity, you know that, right?"
"Sure…" Dominique answered, helping herself to another drink.
Sirius watched her with amusement. "D, how many of those have you had?"
"No idea, you?"
"Mmm…you're a bit drunk aren't you?"
"Just a little…" she slurred, "why, did you want to take advantage of me or something?" she added with a sly grin.
"I was thinking about it, but then I figured you'd kill me when you sobered up."
"Mmm…yea…" Dominique said, swaying into Sirius's arms to kiss him. She began to undo the buttons of his shirt as she did so. Sirius's eyes snapped open in surprise, but he quickly regained his composure and decided to respond in the same manner, when an annoying voice in his head warned him against it.
"Er…look, Dominique," he said, pulling away from her. "you're kind of…really drunk…right now, I mean, I don't mind doing this…but I thought you might…so maybe we shouldn't…I don't want you hating me tomorrow morning for this.."
"Really?"
"Er…really what..?"
"You…care…about me?"
Sirius looked at her as if she had asked him what color blue was. "Of course I do! I thought that was obvious!"
"Well then, we can't continue out here in the public…let's go upstairs." Dominique said, taking Sirius's hand and pulled him towards the stairs that led to the boys' dormitory.
"What? Are you serious?"
"No, you're Sirius, silly!"
"No…I mean, are you sure?"
"Don't you want to?"
"I'm a guy, I'll always want to..but do you? I mean, are you sure?"
"Yes! Come on! We're losing precious snogging time here!"
"Well, alright, if you insist!" Sirius said, sweeping up Dominique in his arms and carrying her up the stairs.
"Lumos" Remus muttered. Instantly the small dingy closet lit up. He glanced at Kierra, who was struggling to pull herself out of a bucket she had landed in. Remus couldn't help but break into a smile.
"Stuck?"
Kierra rolled her eyes. "Yes, genius, I'm stuck" she said sarcastically as she strained to get out. It was no use. Her butt seemed to be permanently lodged in the bucket. "How about some help?" she asked, looking at the ground. 'Gosh,' she thought, 'this is so embarrassing…'
Remus's smile broadened. "Sure…erm…here…stand up and I'll pull it off…" he said, trying to stifle a laugh.
"Yes, well seeing how my ass is stuck in it…I think standing up might prove to be a bit difficult…" she said testily, "quit laughing, it's not funny!!" she shouted, but she immediately fell into laughter as well. It was pretty funny actually, she had to admit.
"Come on, get me out of this!" She said through her laughter.
"Right…sorry…" he said, still laughing. Remus knelt down beside Kierra and studied the bucket. "Er, ok…here, let's turn you over…" Remus said, gently pivoting Kierra and her bucket so she now faced the ground. "Ok…let's try to pull this off…" he said with another laugh.
"Come on, hurry up! Before someone comes in!"
"That would be fun"—
"Get a move on before I shove this broom up your ass" Kierra said nastily, pointing at a grubby broom that lay on the floor by her.
Remus stopped laughing, though he still smiled. "Right, sorry Ma'am…" Grasping the bottom of the bucket, Remus gave a heavy tug, but the bucket wouldn't come off. "It's pretty…stuck there.." Remus said, giving it another pull.
"Maybe if you stop laughing for like two seconds, you can put in more of an effort!" Kierra growled.
"Well, it's hard not to! Hey if you were in my place, you'd be laughing your ass off too! Oh wait…I guess you wouldn't, seeing how it's stuck in a bucket…oww!!" Remus exclaimed. Kierra had given him a hard punch in the leg. Remus laughed as he rubbed his leg.
"Ok..let's try this again…" he said, as he grasped the rear of the bucket again. He pulled with all his might, yet to no avail.
"Wait…just magic it off!" Kierra exclaimed.
"Oh…right…ok…er…where's your wand?"
"Mine fell somewhere…use yours!"
"I'm using mine to keep this closet lighted…I can't do two spells at once with it…"
"Right…"
"Maybe we can grease your"—
"Don't even finish that sentence!" Kierra warned.
"Right..sorry…"
"Ugh, can't you try again?" Kierra whined.
"It's stuck! Either your rear is too big or that bucket is too small…" Remus stopped when Kierra gave him an angry glare. "I mean…it's the latter of course…your…yours isn't big…not at all…" Remus stammered.
"uh huh…"
"No really! It's not!" Remus exclaimed apologetically.
"Right…"
"Seriously! It's actually kind of small! Er…no not too small!" he said quickly as Kierra shot another look at him. "Yea…it's really the perfect size…it's really cute"—Remus stopped himself. 'Cute? Cute?? Did I just say that out loud??' he thought to himself. He looked down at Kierra, who seemed to be thinking the same thing as him, only instead of being embarrassed, she looked rather amused.
"Er…thanks…I guess?" she said, blushing.
"Uh….let's try again…" Remus said awkwardly, taking a hold of the bucket yet again. Suddenly an idea came to him. "Kierra…hold onto that bar over there..just keep a good grasp on it..and I'll pull on this bucket..that might work.."
"Erm..ok…" Kierra said, doing as she was told.
Remus pulled hard again on the bucket; this time it came off, (making a popping noise as it went, lol) and the force sent Remus, along with the bucket, flying backwards, slamming right into the door.
"There! Nothing to it!" Remus breathed as got up.
"Yea…" Kierra muttered, rubbing her butt. "That didn't feel too nice…" she said, smiling at Remus, who smirked at her.
"Ok let's get out of here…" Remus said, tugging on the door knob. "Oh great, it's locked.."
"Ah, found my wand!" Kierra said, "Here…alohamora!" she said, and there was a sudden clicking noise. As Remus tried turning the knob, it jammed up and would not open. He tugged at the knob and pushed at the door.
"Something's jammed up behind it." He said.
"Oh great…" Kierra said, leaning against the wall, "now what do we do?"
"Well…" Remus said, turning to face Kierra, "we could just do what Dominique intended us to do when she locked us in here."
Kierra looked at Remus, slightly startled. "Oh! Er…."
"listen," Remus interrupted, "I know I've been a pain in the ass, no pun intended," he added with a smile, "and you've got plenty of reason to not like me now…what with the things I've said, and how I've acted…but…I still really, really like you…if you could just give me a chance…let's just start over…with a clean slate…can we do that?" he asked, looking at her almost pleadingly.
Kierra stared at him for a moment before breaking into a smile. "Yes, I would love if we could do that."
Remus's face lit up and he smiled back at her. "Really?"
Kierra giggled. "Really…."
"So…" he said after a moment's silence, "where do you want to start from, if we're starting with a fresh slate?"
Kierra smiled. "Wherever you want."
Remus paused in thought, then smiled and drew closer to her. "Remember when we first kissed, outside, during that storm?"
"yea…"
"Let's pick up from there…"
"Sounds good to me…"
"Ugh, this place is so disgusting…" Dominique exclaimed as Sirius dropped her on his bed. "Don't you guys ever clean up around here?"
Sirius grinned and reached into his nightstand and pulled out a small flask. "None of us are really good with those household spells…"
"So do it without magic! It doesn't take that long…what's that?" Dominique asked, pointing at the flask that Sirius was now opening up.
"That's woman's work…and this," he said, putting the flask to Dominique's mouth, "is a little antidote that James and I brewed, it's a sober-upper!"
Dominique took a sip of it and nearly choked. "It tastes dreadful!"
"Yes, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles. It works wonders though. Drink some more."
As Dominique took another sip, the room seemed to come into clearer view. "Wow…it does…" she said as she looked around. "wow, disgusting is un understatement for this room…."
Sirius chuckled and took the flask away from Dominique, replacing it in his nightstand. "Yea well, you can clean it up for us when I'm done with you…" he said as he plopped onto his bed.
Dominique smiled slyly. "And what do you plan on doing?"
"Exactly what you've been longing for…" he answered as he pulled himself on top of Dominique and kissed her.
"Ahem…"
Sirius pulled away from Dominique immediately and hopped of his bed. "Prongs!"
"Padfoot!" James answered in equal enthusiasm. "I just came up here to retire for the night, don't mind me!" he said as he went to his bed and tucked himself in, glancing at Dominique and smiling mischievously at her.
"You're still wearing your clothes, you know that mate?" Sirius asked, as he helped Dominique out of his bed.
"Yea, I wear clothes to bed, unlike some people…" he said, widening his eyes at Sirius.
Dominique giggled and stared incredulously at Sirius. "You sleep naked??"
Sirius ignored her. "I meant you're still dressed up…not to mention you're still wearing your shoes." Sirius said, pointing at the tennis shoe clad feet that peeked out from underneath James's blankets.
"Yes," James said, getting out of his bed and heading to the bathroom. "He sleeps stark naked. Kinda gross isn't it?" he said to Dominique.
Dominique sniggered. "What're you giggling about?" Sirius asked her, wrapping his arms around her waist, "Have you got a problem with that?"
"No, not at all!" Dominique replied, trying to stifle another laugh. "Well, I should head back to bed…my own bed, that is…" she said as she pulled away from Sirius and headed towards the door.
"Wait!" Sirius called suddenly, "Remus and Kierra! Are they still downstairs?"
Dominique's face lit up. "Oooh!! I forgot about that! Let's go check on them!!" she said excitedly as she opened the door.
"Check on who?" James asked as he came out of the bathroom, buttoning up his nightshirt.
"Kierra and Remus!" Dominique replied. "Come on!"
"Er, what happened to them?" James asked, as he followed Sirius and Dominique down the stairs.
Sirius quickly explained what Dominique did to Kierra and Remus.
"Aw, poor Moony! Having to be stuck with that little brat in that tiny closet!" James laughed. "Well, either they're at each other's throats right now, or they've got their tongues down each other's throats…"
"It's the latter!!" Dominique squealed as she opened the door. But just then, Kierra and Remus parted from each other and quickly looked away from their laughing friends, blushing furiously.
"So…you two are together now?" Sirius asked.
"Uhh…"
"Er…"
Kierra and Remus exchanged shy glances at each other and both nodded at once.
"Well, it's about time!" Dominique announced. "And to think, it was all because of my meddling," she said, smiling broadly at the new couple. "And you're very welcome!"
"Yes, thank goodness for firewhiskey…" Remus said, causing everyone to laugh.
"I don't get it!" Dominique said.
"Nevermind, darling" Sirius said, "well, let's all get to sleep, it's really late…"
"Congratulations, mate!" James said excitedly, patting Remus on the back, "She's liked you for ages, you know…I knew all along…"
"You really take pride in knowing that little fact, don't you Prongs?" Sirius said. "Oy…Moony, I guess you won't have to worry about breaking up with Megan!" he said, pointing to a couple that occupied one of the couches.
There was Megan, sharing a kiss with none other than Kyle Watson.
"Oh!" Remus said at once. "Well...how about that…my ex, and Kierra's ex…"
Kierra watched them with amusement. "Funny…I don't even care…"
"Neither do I…" Remus said.
"Aw, aren't you two cute??" James squealed, jumping in between Kierra and Remus, wrapping his arms around them and crumbling up their hair.
"Agh!!" Kierra exclaimed, slapping James away. "Oh, look!" Kierra said, pointing over at a disheveled figure that lay slumped against the wall. Peter had finally opened his eyes and seemed to be coming to his senses.
"Wormtail! Get up!!" Sirius said, "geez, you missed like the whole party! We're going to bed now!"
"What'd I miss?" he asked wearily as he pulled himself up.
"A lot…" replied James.
"Like what?" Peter asked, glancing at Kierra and Remus, noticing that they were holding hands. "Are you two..?"
"Yea" Remus answered.
"When? How?"
"In the morning…we'll talk in the morning…" Remus replied. "I am dead tired."
"Me too" Sirius said, as he and the other marauders headed up to the boys' dormitory, leaving Kierra and Dominique to themselves.
"So???" Dominique looked excitedly at Kierra; her eyes were practically dancing in their sockets. "How'd it happen?"
Kierra grinned but shook her head with a sigh. "I'll tell you all in the morning…"
"aw, come on!" Dominique protested as she followed Kierra up the stairs.
"tomorrow….so I can just tell you, Lily and Alice at once."
"Fine…" Dominique grumbled as they tiptoed into the girls' dormitory.
Dominique made her way to Sirius, who stood leaning against the wall by the stairs, looking quite bored.
"Hello dah-ling!!" Dominique hailed, as she joined him.
"Hello dear…where've you been?" Sirius asked nonchalantly, taking a sip of his tequila.
"Oh, nowhere…" Dominique replied with a hiccup. "Boy, I'm feeling a wee bit tipsy!"
Sirius glanced at Dominique with a raised eyebrow. "Just a wee bit?" he asked. At that moment, Megan joined Sirius and Dominique, clutching two martini glasses.
"Hey have you guys seen Remus?" she asked. "I've been looking all over for him!"
"Er, yea…" replied Dominique, "he's kind of busy though…"
Megan narrowed her eyes at Dominique and asked, "Doing what?"
"Oh…it's really a question of whom…" Dominique replied, pulling Sirius's drink out of his hands and taking a sip from it.
"What??" Megan and Sirius asked together.
"Yes," Dominique continued innocently, "he's just making passionate love to his girlfriend right now…"
Megan's eyes widened with disbelief. "I'm his girlfriend!!"
Dominique snickered. "Well, not anymore! Anyway, how thick are you? He's liked Kierra for ages, wasn't it obvious?"
"Oh my gosh…he…they…" Megan stammered.
"Oh get over it! You two have nothing in common anyway! You just dated him because he's in the popular crowd and because he's a seventh year…" Dominique drawled.
"That's not true!" Megan protested angrily. "I don't know what you're talking about!" she said as she turned to leave, running right into Kyle as she did so. "Oh…sorry.." she said quickly as she blushed.
"Er, Dominique, what exactly just happened?" asked Sirius. "Was there any truth to what you just said?"
"Well…" Dominique began, "I sort of locked them in that broom closet over there…they were annoying me…if they stay in there long enough, I'm sure they'll come to some mutual amity…" she said as she drained the last of Sirius's tequila.
"Wow…" Sirius said, looking bemused. "You're quite the oddity, you know that, right?"
"Sure…" Dominique answered, helping herself to another drink.
Sirius watched her with amusement. "D, how many of those have you had?"
"No idea, you?"
"Mmm…you're a bit drunk aren't you?"
"Just a little…" she slurred, "why, did you want to take advantage of me or something?" she added with a sly grin.
"I was thinking about it, but then I figured you'd kill me when you sobered up."
"Mmm…yea…" Dominique said, swaying into Sirius's arms to kiss him. She began to undo the buttons of his shirt as she did so. Sirius's eyes snapped open in surprise, but he quickly regained his composure and decided to respond in the same manner, when an annoying voice in his head warned him against it.
"Er…look, Dominique," he said, pulling away from her. "you're kind of…really drunk…right now, I mean, I don't mind doing this…but I thought you might…so maybe we shouldn't…I don't want you hating me tomorrow morning for this.."
"Really?"
"Er…really what..?"
"You…care…about me?"
Sirius looked at her as if she had asked him what color blue was. "Of course I do! I thought that was obvious!"
"Well then, we can't continue out here in the public…let's go upstairs." Dominique said, taking Sirius's hand and pulled him towards the stairs that led to the boys' dormitory.
"What? Are you serious?"
"No, you're Sirius, silly!"
"No…I mean, are you sure?"
"Don't you want to?"
"I'm a guy, I'll always want to..but do you? I mean, are you sure?"
"Yes! Come on! We're losing precious snogging time here!"
"Well, alright, if you insist!" Sirius said, sweeping up Dominique in his arms and carrying her up the stairs.
"Lumos" Remus muttered. Instantly the small dingy closet lit up. He glanced at Kierra, who was struggling to pull herself out of a bucket she had landed in. Remus couldn't help but break into a smile.
"Stuck?"
Kierra rolled her eyes. "Yes, genius, I'm stuck" she said sarcastically as she strained to get out. It was no use. Her butt seemed to be permanently lodged in the bucket. "How about some help?" she asked, looking at the ground. 'Gosh,' she thought, 'this is so embarrassing…'
Remus's smile broadened. "Sure…erm…here…stand up and I'll pull it off…" he said, trying to stifle a laugh.
"Yes, well seeing how my ass is stuck in it…I think standing up might prove to be a bit difficult…" she said testily, "quit laughing, it's not funny!!" she shouted, but she immediately fell into laughter as well. It was pretty funny actually, she had to admit.
"Come on, get me out of this!" She said through her laughter.
"Right…sorry…" he said, still laughing. Remus knelt down beside Kierra and studied the bucket. "Er, ok…here, let's turn you over…" Remus said, gently pivoting Kierra and her bucket so she now faced the ground. "Ok…let's try to pull this off…" he said with another laugh.
"Come on, hurry up! Before someone comes in!"
"That would be fun"—
"Get a move on before I shove this broom up your ass" Kierra said nastily, pointing at a grubby broom that lay on the floor by her.
Remus stopped laughing, though he still smiled. "Right, sorry Ma'am…" Grasping the bottom of the bucket, Remus gave a heavy tug, but the bucket wouldn't come off. "It's pretty…stuck there.." Remus said, giving it another pull.
"Maybe if you stop laughing for like two seconds, you can put in more of an effort!" Kierra growled.
"Well, it's hard not to! Hey if you were in my place, you'd be laughing your ass off too! Oh wait…I guess you wouldn't, seeing how it's stuck in a bucket…oww!!" Remus exclaimed. Kierra had given him a hard punch in the leg. Remus laughed as he rubbed his leg.
"Ok..let's try this again…" he said, as he grasped the rear of the bucket again. He pulled with all his might, yet to no avail.
"Wait…just magic it off!" Kierra exclaimed.
"Oh…right…ok…er…where's your wand?"
"Mine fell somewhere…use yours!"
"I'm using mine to keep this closet lighted…I can't do two spells at once with it…"
"Right…"
"Maybe we can grease your"—
"Don't even finish that sentence!" Kierra warned.
"Right..sorry…"
"Ugh, can't you try again?" Kierra whined.
"It's stuck! Either your rear is too big or that bucket is too small…" Remus stopped when Kierra gave him an angry glare. "I mean…it's the latter of course…your…yours isn't big…not at all…" Remus stammered.
"uh huh…"
"No really! It's not!" Remus exclaimed apologetically.
"Right…"
"Seriously! It's actually kind of small! Er…no not too small!" he said quickly as Kierra shot another look at him. "Yea…it's really the perfect size…it's really cute"—Remus stopped himself. 'Cute? Cute?? Did I just say that out loud??' he thought to himself. He looked down at Kierra, who seemed to be thinking the same thing as him, only instead of being embarrassed, she looked rather amused.
"Er…thanks…I guess?" she said, blushing.
"Uh….let's try again…" Remus said awkwardly, taking a hold of the bucket yet again. Suddenly an idea came to him. "Kierra…hold onto that bar over there..just keep a good grasp on it..and I'll pull on this bucket..that might work.."
"Erm..ok…" Kierra said, doing as she was told.
Remus pulled hard again on the bucket; this time it came off, (making a popping noise as it went, lol) and the force sent Remus, along with the bucket, flying backwards, slamming right into the door.
"There! Nothing to it!" Remus breathed as got up.
"Yea…" Kierra muttered, rubbing her butt. "That didn't feel too nice…" she said, smiling at Remus, who smirked at her.
"Ok let's get out of here…" Remus said, tugging on the door knob. "Oh great, it's locked.."
"Ah, found my wand!" Kierra said, "Here…alohamora!" she said, and there was a sudden clicking noise. As Remus tried turning the knob, it jammed up and would not open. He tugged at the knob and pushed at the door.
"Something's jammed up behind it." He said.
"Oh great…" Kierra said, leaning against the wall, "now what do we do?"
"Well…" Remus said, turning to face Kierra, "we could just do what Dominique intended us to do when she locked us in here."
Kierra looked at Remus, slightly startled. "Oh! Er…."
"listen," Remus interrupted, "I know I've been a pain in the ass, no pun intended," he added with a smile, "and you've got plenty of reason to not like me now…what with the things I've said, and how I've acted…but…I still really, really like you…if you could just give me a chance…let's just start over…with a clean slate…can we do that?" he asked, looking at her almost pleadingly.
Kierra stared at him for a moment before breaking into a smile. "Yes, I would love if we could do that."
Remus's face lit up and he smiled back at her. "Really?"
Kierra giggled. "Really…."
"So…" he said after a moment's silence, "where do you want to start from, if we're starting with a fresh slate?"
Kierra smiled. "Wherever you want."
Remus paused in thought, then smiled and drew closer to her. "Remember when we first kissed, outside, during that storm?"
"yea…"
"Let's pick up from there…"
"Sounds good to me…"
"Ugh, this place is so disgusting…" Dominique exclaimed as Sirius dropped her on his bed. "Don't you guys ever clean up around here?"
Sirius grinned and reached into his nightstand and pulled out a small flask. "None of us are really good with those household spells…"
"So do it without magic! It doesn't take that long…what's that?" Dominique asked, pointing at the flask that Sirius was now opening up.
"That's woman's work…and this," he said, putting the flask to Dominique's mouth, "is a little antidote that James and I brewed, it's a sober-upper!"
Dominique took a sip of it and nearly choked. "It tastes dreadful!"
"Yes, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles. It works wonders though. Drink some more."
As Dominique took another sip, the room seemed to come into clearer view. "Wow…it does…" she said as she looked around. "wow, disgusting is un understatement for this room…."
Sirius chuckled and took the flask away from Dominique, replacing it in his nightstand. "Yea well, you can clean it up for us when I'm done with you…" he said as he plopped onto his bed.
Dominique smiled slyly. "And what do you plan on doing?"
"Exactly what you've been longing for…" he answered as he pulled himself on top of Dominique and kissed her.
"Ahem…"
Sirius pulled away from Dominique immediately and hopped of his bed. "Prongs!"
"Padfoot!" James answered in equal enthusiasm. "I just came up here to retire for the night, don't mind me!" he said as he went to his bed and tucked himself in, glancing at Dominique and smiling mischievously at her.
"You're still wearing your clothes, you know that mate?" Sirius asked, as he helped Dominique out of his bed.
"Yea, I wear clothes to bed, unlike some people…" he said, widening his eyes at Sirius.
Dominique giggled and stared incredulously at Sirius. "You sleep naked??"
Sirius ignored her. "I meant you're still dressed up…not to mention you're still wearing your shoes." Sirius said, pointing at the tennis shoe clad feet that peeked out from underneath James's blankets.
"Yes," James said, getting out of his bed and heading to the bathroom. "He sleeps stark naked. Kinda gross isn't it?" he said to Dominique.
Dominique sniggered. "What're you giggling about?" Sirius asked her, wrapping his arms around her waist, "Have you got a problem with that?"
"No, not at all!" Dominique replied, trying to stifle another laugh. "Well, I should head back to bed…my own bed, that is…" she said as she pulled away from Sirius and headed towards the door.
"Wait!" Sirius called suddenly, "Remus and Kierra! Are they still downstairs?"
Dominique's face lit up. "Oooh!! I forgot about that! Let's go check on them!!" she said excitedly as she opened the door.
"Check on who?" James asked as he came out of the bathroom, buttoning up his nightshirt.
"Kierra and Remus!" Dominique replied. "Come on!"
"Er, what happened to them?" James asked, as he followed Sirius and Dominique down the stairs.
Sirius quickly explained what Dominique did to Kierra and Remus.
"Aw, poor Moony! Having to be stuck with that little brat in that tiny closet!" James laughed. "Well, either they're at each other's throats right now, or they've got their tongues down each other's throats…"
"It's the latter!!" Dominique squealed as she opened the door. But just then, Kierra and Remus parted from each other and quickly looked away from their laughing friends, blushing furiously.
"So…you two are together now?" Sirius asked.
"Uhh…"
"Er…"
Kierra and Remus exchanged shy glances at each other and both nodded at once.
"Well, it's about time!" Dominique announced. "And to think, it was all because of my meddling," she said, smiling broadly at the new couple. "And you're very welcome!"
"Yes, thank goodness for firewhiskey…" Remus said, causing everyone to laugh.
"I don't get it!" Dominique said.
"Nevermind, darling" Sirius said, "well, let's all get to sleep, it's really late…"
"Congratulations, mate!" James said excitedly, patting Remus on the back, "She's liked you for ages, you know…I knew all along…"
"You really take pride in knowing that little fact, don't you Prongs?" Sirius said. "Oy…Moony, I guess you won't have to worry about breaking up with Megan!" he said, pointing to a couple that occupied one of the couches.
There was Megan, sharing a kiss with none other than Kyle Watson.
"Oh!" Remus said at once. "Well...how about that…my ex, and Kierra's ex…"
Kierra watched them with amusement. "Funny…I don't even care…"
"Neither do I…" Remus said.
"Aw, aren't you two cute??" James squealed, jumping in between Kierra and Remus, wrapping his arms around them and crumbling up their hair.
"Agh!!" Kierra exclaimed, slapping James away. "Oh, look!" Kierra said, pointing over at a disheveled figure that lay slumped against the wall. Peter had finally opened his eyes and seemed to be coming to his senses.
"Wormtail! Get up!!" Sirius said, "geez, you missed like the whole party! We're going to bed now!"
"What'd I miss?" he asked wearily as he pulled himself up.
"A lot…" replied James.
"Like what?" Peter asked, glancing at Kierra and Remus, noticing that they were holding hands. "Are you two..?"
"Yea" Remus answered.
"When? How?"
"In the morning…we'll talk in the morning…" Remus replied. "I am dead tired."
"Me too" Sirius said, as he and the other marauders headed up to the boys' dormitory, leaving Kierra and Dominique to themselves.
"So???" Dominique looked excitedly at Kierra; her eyes were practically dancing in their sockets. "How'd it happen?"
Kierra grinned but shook her head with a sigh. "I'll tell you all in the morning…"
"aw, come on!" Dominique protested as she followed Kierra up the stairs.
"tomorrow….so I can just tell you, Lily and Alice at once."
"Fine…" Dominique grumbled as they tiptoed into the girls' dormitory.