A/N- Okay, well here I am again with another chapter. I hope you don't mind
my very little bit of slash: it's not really my style usually, but I
couldn't think of another good way for Lucius to get back at Sirius. So if
you don't like it, please don't flame me.
A/N- Also, I'm planning to have Harry dare Fred, who started the game. This would end Truth or Dare, and the action would continue in other ways. Tell me if this works for you, because I can continue the game if you want, or I can move on as planned. R/R!
Remmie didn't register for a second that Lucius had picked him. When he did realize it, his mouth opened wide in shock. Everyone looked back and forth between them, sure that something interesting was about to happen. "I'll ask you again, Lupin. Truth or Dare?" Lucius drawled, looking quite content about something.
It was a hard decision. He was tempted to pick Truth for a second. But then he realized that that could reveal things he didn't want known. He knew most people in the room already knew that he was a werewolf, but he didn't have any desire to bring it up. So he went with the only other option he had.
"Dare," Lupin sighed, looking apprehensively into Lucius' cold, calculating eyes. Lucius' lip curled in satisfaction. He had been depending on that answer. Had Lupin picked Truth, his opportunity to get back at Sirius for giving Hermione that ridiculous idea for a Truth would be ruined. Luckily for him, he would now have his chance.
"Excellent," Lucius smirked, "Excellent. I Dare you to snog Black for two minutes. And remember, Lupin, this is Wizard's Truth or Dare. There is *no* backing out." Everyone's eyes darted back and forth again, this time between, Remmie, Sirius, and Lucius. "You have got to be kidding me, Lucius," Remmie said, looking from him to Sirius.
Lucius shook his head that no, he definitely wasn't kidding. Since when did Lucius Malfoy ever kid people? "That's a great one, Lucius!" Snape said. He, of course, was only too happy to see Sirius get upstaged by Lucius, and if Lupin also got his comeuppance, well, then in his opinion, it was like failing two Gryffindors with one zero.
"Alright then, where am I supposed to snog him?" Remmie asked, blinking slowly as though he couldn't believe Lucius thought he could just upstage him like that. Lucius smirked. "Lips, of course. I'm not as sick as that little Mudblood girl. Yes, just a two minute snog on the lips," he said, completely self-satisfied.
"Lucius, this is surprising! Coming from a Slytherin in the same dorm as Sevvie, I would've thought you'd be more creative!" Sirius laughed, knowing that the surefire way to make sure Lucius didn't upstage them would be to show that it didn't bother either of them.
"We'll see how cocky you are after you've had your little kiss," Lucius said sneeringly, "Now what are you waiting for? Step to the center of the circle and start snogging!"
"Yeah Sirius, what are we waiting for?" Remmie asked, catching onto Sirius's plan. Sirius winked at him, making sure Lucius didn't see, and they walked into the center of the circle, Parvati and Cissa both moving a little so that they wouldn't go too far away from their dates.
They each looked pointedly at Lucius, just to prove that this was no big deal. Once Lucius had conjured up a timer, and set it for two minutes, Sirius and Remmie started to snog. Of course, not wanting Lucius to prevail, they had to ham it up as much as possible.
As Sirius started to lay it on thick by moving his hands up and down Remus' back, everyone started laughing. Mr. Malfoy, however, didn't look entirely amused. And his expression changed from annoyed to incensed as Lupin got in on the act and started running his fingers through Sirius's hair.
At this point, no one could do anything *but* look at the two of them, and double up in laughter. Except, of course, for Lucius. As the clock he had conjured reached the one minute mark (meaning the Dare was half- over), he started glaring evilly at anyone who had dared to laugh.
This might have stopped people like Neville, who were clearly afraid of the wrath of Lucius Malfoy, from laughing. But a lot of people were fairly used to that evil glare, and were happy to see that his plan to seriously embarrass the two of them was failing.
Sirius and Remmie, of course, had gone to school with Lucius and were completely used to him, and so they didn't hesitate in continuing their fun. "Oooh!" Sirius squealed to Lupin, looking pointedly at Lucius as he said it. Both he and Remus were having to work very hard to keep from laughing themselves.
Luckily, they succeeded, and when they broke apart after the clock ticked two minutes, they both had flushed cheeks. "Thank you, Black and Lupin, for that sickening PDA," Lucius said scornfully. Sirius rolled his eyes, and Remmie said, "I thought it was your idea!"
Lucius was very taken aback, but tried not to show that he was completely infuriated that his plan to embarrass them had now completely failed. Nevertheless, everyone else realized it, and Sirius and Remmie looked particularly smug as they smirked at him before going to sit down.
"So Lupin, is this the explanation for your monthly issues? Or for your long hair, Black?" Snape asked, trying to help Lucius out. Sirius got so mad at these comments that Lupin had to hold him back to keep him from jumping on Snape. But that wasn't the end.
Sirius was too mad to make a comeback, but Lupin pulled himself together. With one well-said comment from him about the way Snape swishes and shakes his butt when he walks, Snape sat down, glaring angrily at them. "And Lucius," Sirius said scornfully, regaining a little composure, "I don't think Remmie or I wear black bows in our long, blonde hair. And we're not the ones who are obsessed with what outfit we wear."
Lucius looked extremely irritated that he hadn't succeeded in embarrassing Remmie and Sirius, and even more irritated that they had made good comebacks about him and Snape. "The bow is a fashion statement, okay!" Lucius said, running a hand through his hair out of habit.
Everyone laughed. There wasn't a single person in the room who didn't enjoy seeing Lucius squirm, especially after he had tried to get the best of two of everyone's favorite people in the room. "Alright, shut up," Lucius said, glaring as evilly as he could under the circumstances. However, the evil glare wasn't as threatening, considering the fact that his face was all red.
"I said SHUT UP! Lupin, it's your turn to Dare someone," Lucius snapped irritably. Lupin looked up at him almost lazily, as if he couldn't care less, and nodded that he had heard. Unfortunately, most of the people Remmie would have picked had already been picked. However, there were still plenty of people left to Dare.
"Harry, Truth or Dare?" he asked, making a decision. Harry looked up, surprised to have been chosen, especially by Lupin. He would have thought that Malfoy or Snape would have picked him as revenge, but having his godfather's best friend/old professor pick him came as a little bit of a shock.
"Er-" he said, not sure what to pick, "how about Dare?" The group sarcastically gasped collectively. "I'll get back to you in one second," Lupin said to Harry, and then turned to Sirius and whispered something in his ear.
"See the chemistry?" Lucius asked. No one but Cho laughed. Everyone was pretty much ignoring him, and either focusing their attention on the Boy Who Lived, or Sirius and Remmie. Fuming, he laid back against a couch, thinking that he couldn't wait until this game was over and he could go relax in the Prefect's Bathroom. He would find out the password somehow.
A minute later, Sirius and Remmie stopped whispering, and both looked at Harry happily. "Should I be scared?" Harry asked, grinning. The two of them shook their heads. Harry knew he wouldn't have too much to worry about. No matter how immature and irresponsible the two of them acted sometimes, Harry knew they would never give him the same sort of embarrassing Dare that someone like Draco would.
"Okay Harry," Lupin said, smiling, "I Dare you to go into that broom closet with Ginny for 7 minutes. You know what everyone expects you to do. You know what Sirius would do. We'll all be anxious to find out what you do."
Harry had to admit, he was a little surprised. But he knew it could have been much, much worse, so he walked toward the broom closet, Ginny following embarrassedly behind him. "Be careful with her, Harry!" Ron called sincerely from where he was sitting next to Pansy.
Harry laughed. Ron was a little overprotective of his sister, but he was nothing compared to Percy. "Yeah Harry, don't do anything we wouldn't do!" Fred yelled out, laughing. "Or you'll have to face the wrath of Percy!" George said, only-half joking.
Grinning, Harry walked into the broom closet, followed by Ginny. Lupin closed the door behind them, with what Harry would've sworn was a small wink. Once the door was closed, Harry couldn't see anything. He had never realized that the broom closets of Hogwarts were so dark before.
"Harry?" Ginny whispered among the shadows, "Can you light your wand?" Harry laughed, not believing that he had forgotten to. He muttered, "Lumos" under his breath, and put his now lit wand on a shelf, where it enabled him to see a little better.
"That's better," Ginny said, leaning back against the wall in an attempt to look relaxed. Actually, though, she was anything but. Not only did she really like Harry, she had also never been in a broom closet with a boy before. "So, what do we do now?" she asked, eyes darting to and from Harry.
Harry hesitated before answering. He didn't have Ron's bluntness, or Draco's confident attitude. He didn't have Oliver's charm or Fred and George's hilarity. And he had absolutely no idea what to say to Ginny. He was beginning to slightly regret telling Sirius about his crush on Ginny. Obviously, that was how Lupin had found out, and why the two of them had made up this dare.
"Harry, I'm supposed to be the nervous one here. If we're both nervous, then we're in trouble!" Ginny said, laughing. Harry cracked a smile. She was right, though, he shouldn't be nervous. It was just Ginny, after all, Ron's little sister. Not so little, but still.
"Maybe we could just stand here until the seven minutes are up," Harry suggested, feeling stupid already. Ginny shrugged. If Harry wasn't going to kiss her, she understood. Of course he was nervous! He had a right to be nervous. He was Harry Potter.
After a few minutes of silence, and awkward glances, Lupin spoke up from the other side of the door. "You have one minute left of your Dare, Harry!" he called. Harry nodded, but realizing that Lupin couldn't see through the door, he said, "Okay!"
Then he looked back at Ginny, who had a funny expression on her face. Had Harry had more than a tiny clue to do with girls, he would have known it was a combination of nervousness and excitement.
Just as Harry was trying to count down the final 45 seconds he would be spending in a dark broom closet with no girl intuition, he got the shock of his life. Ginny swallowed her fear, took a step toward Harry, and kissed him. They broke apart a few seconds later, both blushing incredibly.
Ginny grinned at Harry, very proud of herself. Harry grinned back. He decided without any hesitation that kissing Ginny was much better than kissing Cho. Then Harry realized with dismay that he hadn't really returned the kiss. Seeing the look on his face, Ginny asked, "Want to try that again?"
Harry nodded, grateful that he wasn't going to have to be in charge of everything. Ginny put her arms around him and kissed him again. Harry felt very awkward as he embraced her, but he returned the kiss, and this time, it lasted more than a few seconds. In fact, they were still snogging when Sirius and Remmie opened the door.
Sirius tapped Harry's shoulder, and Remmie tapped Ginny's. Blushing loads, they broke apart. "Wow Harry, that was some snog," Ron said from near by. Harry looked over at Ron, nervous that he would be mad at him for kissing his younger sister. But to his great relief, Ron was smiling, and he didn't look at all upset.
When Harry looked away from where Ron was sitting, he glanced over at Sirius and Remmie and their dates. Sirius was mouthing, "High five!" to him from across the room, and Lupin winked at him again. "Harry, I think it's your turn to Dare somebody," Ginny said softly.
A/N- Also, I'm planning to have Harry dare Fred, who started the game. This would end Truth or Dare, and the action would continue in other ways. Tell me if this works for you, because I can continue the game if you want, or I can move on as planned. R/R!
Remmie didn't register for a second that Lucius had picked him. When he did realize it, his mouth opened wide in shock. Everyone looked back and forth between them, sure that something interesting was about to happen. "I'll ask you again, Lupin. Truth or Dare?" Lucius drawled, looking quite content about something.
It was a hard decision. He was tempted to pick Truth for a second. But then he realized that that could reveal things he didn't want known. He knew most people in the room already knew that he was a werewolf, but he didn't have any desire to bring it up. So he went with the only other option he had.
"Dare," Lupin sighed, looking apprehensively into Lucius' cold, calculating eyes. Lucius' lip curled in satisfaction. He had been depending on that answer. Had Lupin picked Truth, his opportunity to get back at Sirius for giving Hermione that ridiculous idea for a Truth would be ruined. Luckily for him, he would now have his chance.
"Excellent," Lucius smirked, "Excellent. I Dare you to snog Black for two minutes. And remember, Lupin, this is Wizard's Truth or Dare. There is *no* backing out." Everyone's eyes darted back and forth again, this time between, Remmie, Sirius, and Lucius. "You have got to be kidding me, Lucius," Remmie said, looking from him to Sirius.
Lucius shook his head that no, he definitely wasn't kidding. Since when did Lucius Malfoy ever kid people? "That's a great one, Lucius!" Snape said. He, of course, was only too happy to see Sirius get upstaged by Lucius, and if Lupin also got his comeuppance, well, then in his opinion, it was like failing two Gryffindors with one zero.
"Alright then, where am I supposed to snog him?" Remmie asked, blinking slowly as though he couldn't believe Lucius thought he could just upstage him like that. Lucius smirked. "Lips, of course. I'm not as sick as that little Mudblood girl. Yes, just a two minute snog on the lips," he said, completely self-satisfied.
"Lucius, this is surprising! Coming from a Slytherin in the same dorm as Sevvie, I would've thought you'd be more creative!" Sirius laughed, knowing that the surefire way to make sure Lucius didn't upstage them would be to show that it didn't bother either of them.
"We'll see how cocky you are after you've had your little kiss," Lucius said sneeringly, "Now what are you waiting for? Step to the center of the circle and start snogging!"
"Yeah Sirius, what are we waiting for?" Remmie asked, catching onto Sirius's plan. Sirius winked at him, making sure Lucius didn't see, and they walked into the center of the circle, Parvati and Cissa both moving a little so that they wouldn't go too far away from their dates.
They each looked pointedly at Lucius, just to prove that this was no big deal. Once Lucius had conjured up a timer, and set it for two minutes, Sirius and Remmie started to snog. Of course, not wanting Lucius to prevail, they had to ham it up as much as possible.
As Sirius started to lay it on thick by moving his hands up and down Remus' back, everyone started laughing. Mr. Malfoy, however, didn't look entirely amused. And his expression changed from annoyed to incensed as Lupin got in on the act and started running his fingers through Sirius's hair.
At this point, no one could do anything *but* look at the two of them, and double up in laughter. Except, of course, for Lucius. As the clock he had conjured reached the one minute mark (meaning the Dare was half- over), he started glaring evilly at anyone who had dared to laugh.
This might have stopped people like Neville, who were clearly afraid of the wrath of Lucius Malfoy, from laughing. But a lot of people were fairly used to that evil glare, and were happy to see that his plan to seriously embarrass the two of them was failing.
Sirius and Remmie, of course, had gone to school with Lucius and were completely used to him, and so they didn't hesitate in continuing their fun. "Oooh!" Sirius squealed to Lupin, looking pointedly at Lucius as he said it. Both he and Remus were having to work very hard to keep from laughing themselves.
Luckily, they succeeded, and when they broke apart after the clock ticked two minutes, they both had flushed cheeks. "Thank you, Black and Lupin, for that sickening PDA," Lucius said scornfully. Sirius rolled his eyes, and Remmie said, "I thought it was your idea!"
Lucius was very taken aback, but tried not to show that he was completely infuriated that his plan to embarrass them had now completely failed. Nevertheless, everyone else realized it, and Sirius and Remmie looked particularly smug as they smirked at him before going to sit down.
"So Lupin, is this the explanation for your monthly issues? Or for your long hair, Black?" Snape asked, trying to help Lucius out. Sirius got so mad at these comments that Lupin had to hold him back to keep him from jumping on Snape. But that wasn't the end.
Sirius was too mad to make a comeback, but Lupin pulled himself together. With one well-said comment from him about the way Snape swishes and shakes his butt when he walks, Snape sat down, glaring angrily at them. "And Lucius," Sirius said scornfully, regaining a little composure, "I don't think Remmie or I wear black bows in our long, blonde hair. And we're not the ones who are obsessed with what outfit we wear."
Lucius looked extremely irritated that he hadn't succeeded in embarrassing Remmie and Sirius, and even more irritated that they had made good comebacks about him and Snape. "The bow is a fashion statement, okay!" Lucius said, running a hand through his hair out of habit.
Everyone laughed. There wasn't a single person in the room who didn't enjoy seeing Lucius squirm, especially after he had tried to get the best of two of everyone's favorite people in the room. "Alright, shut up," Lucius said, glaring as evilly as he could under the circumstances. However, the evil glare wasn't as threatening, considering the fact that his face was all red.
"I said SHUT UP! Lupin, it's your turn to Dare someone," Lucius snapped irritably. Lupin looked up at him almost lazily, as if he couldn't care less, and nodded that he had heard. Unfortunately, most of the people Remmie would have picked had already been picked. However, there were still plenty of people left to Dare.
"Harry, Truth or Dare?" he asked, making a decision. Harry looked up, surprised to have been chosen, especially by Lupin. He would have thought that Malfoy or Snape would have picked him as revenge, but having his godfather's best friend/old professor pick him came as a little bit of a shock.
"Er-" he said, not sure what to pick, "how about Dare?" The group sarcastically gasped collectively. "I'll get back to you in one second," Lupin said to Harry, and then turned to Sirius and whispered something in his ear.
"See the chemistry?" Lucius asked. No one but Cho laughed. Everyone was pretty much ignoring him, and either focusing their attention on the Boy Who Lived, or Sirius and Remmie. Fuming, he laid back against a couch, thinking that he couldn't wait until this game was over and he could go relax in the Prefect's Bathroom. He would find out the password somehow.
A minute later, Sirius and Remmie stopped whispering, and both looked at Harry happily. "Should I be scared?" Harry asked, grinning. The two of them shook their heads. Harry knew he wouldn't have too much to worry about. No matter how immature and irresponsible the two of them acted sometimes, Harry knew they would never give him the same sort of embarrassing Dare that someone like Draco would.
"Okay Harry," Lupin said, smiling, "I Dare you to go into that broom closet with Ginny for 7 minutes. You know what everyone expects you to do. You know what Sirius would do. We'll all be anxious to find out what you do."
Harry had to admit, he was a little surprised. But he knew it could have been much, much worse, so he walked toward the broom closet, Ginny following embarrassedly behind him. "Be careful with her, Harry!" Ron called sincerely from where he was sitting next to Pansy.
Harry laughed. Ron was a little overprotective of his sister, but he was nothing compared to Percy. "Yeah Harry, don't do anything we wouldn't do!" Fred yelled out, laughing. "Or you'll have to face the wrath of Percy!" George said, only-half joking.
Grinning, Harry walked into the broom closet, followed by Ginny. Lupin closed the door behind them, with what Harry would've sworn was a small wink. Once the door was closed, Harry couldn't see anything. He had never realized that the broom closets of Hogwarts were so dark before.
"Harry?" Ginny whispered among the shadows, "Can you light your wand?" Harry laughed, not believing that he had forgotten to. He muttered, "Lumos" under his breath, and put his now lit wand on a shelf, where it enabled him to see a little better.
"That's better," Ginny said, leaning back against the wall in an attempt to look relaxed. Actually, though, she was anything but. Not only did she really like Harry, she had also never been in a broom closet with a boy before. "So, what do we do now?" she asked, eyes darting to and from Harry.
Harry hesitated before answering. He didn't have Ron's bluntness, or Draco's confident attitude. He didn't have Oliver's charm or Fred and George's hilarity. And he had absolutely no idea what to say to Ginny. He was beginning to slightly regret telling Sirius about his crush on Ginny. Obviously, that was how Lupin had found out, and why the two of them had made up this dare.
"Harry, I'm supposed to be the nervous one here. If we're both nervous, then we're in trouble!" Ginny said, laughing. Harry cracked a smile. She was right, though, he shouldn't be nervous. It was just Ginny, after all, Ron's little sister. Not so little, but still.
"Maybe we could just stand here until the seven minutes are up," Harry suggested, feeling stupid already. Ginny shrugged. If Harry wasn't going to kiss her, she understood. Of course he was nervous! He had a right to be nervous. He was Harry Potter.
After a few minutes of silence, and awkward glances, Lupin spoke up from the other side of the door. "You have one minute left of your Dare, Harry!" he called. Harry nodded, but realizing that Lupin couldn't see through the door, he said, "Okay!"
Then he looked back at Ginny, who had a funny expression on her face. Had Harry had more than a tiny clue to do with girls, he would have known it was a combination of nervousness and excitement.
Just as Harry was trying to count down the final 45 seconds he would be spending in a dark broom closet with no girl intuition, he got the shock of his life. Ginny swallowed her fear, took a step toward Harry, and kissed him. They broke apart a few seconds later, both blushing incredibly.
Ginny grinned at Harry, very proud of herself. Harry grinned back. He decided without any hesitation that kissing Ginny was much better than kissing Cho. Then Harry realized with dismay that he hadn't really returned the kiss. Seeing the look on his face, Ginny asked, "Want to try that again?"
Harry nodded, grateful that he wasn't going to have to be in charge of everything. Ginny put her arms around him and kissed him again. Harry felt very awkward as he embraced her, but he returned the kiss, and this time, it lasted more than a few seconds. In fact, they were still snogging when Sirius and Remmie opened the door.
Sirius tapped Harry's shoulder, and Remmie tapped Ginny's. Blushing loads, they broke apart. "Wow Harry, that was some snog," Ron said from near by. Harry looked over at Ron, nervous that he would be mad at him for kissing his younger sister. But to his great relief, Ron was smiling, and he didn't look at all upset.
When Harry looked away from where Ron was sitting, he glanced over at Sirius and Remmie and their dates. Sirius was mouthing, "High five!" to him from across the room, and Lupin winked at him again. "Harry, I think it's your turn to Dare somebody," Ginny said softly.
