Hogwarts High

Disclaimer: This is written by two Harry potter fan girls, we do not own him as much as we want to say we do. So for this fic, you may thank Miss. Rowling and our two authoresses, DemonofDoom and Jillibean

Chapter Five-

Pool Side Chats-

Friday morning began slowly until breakfast; beginning with Skye's running at dawn and Carries pre-dawn raid of the kitchens, and fully becoming Friday when Remus walked up to Skye, who was sitting with Carrie writing on a scribbled piece of parchment.

"Uh, Skye, Carrie…" He said, wringing his hands nervously. "About last night, me being, well you know." The girls looked up at him with an 'Eh…?' expression, then:

POUNCE! Remus looked up at the two very happy girls, who were now, petting his fluffy hair with gusto and giggling.

"We think it's cuuuuuute!" they squealed in unison, cuddling his hair and petting him like a dog, with him looking at them both with an exasperated expression. What they all didn't see was Severus standing ten feet away, fuming with jelousy.

Remus nodded at them after they had finished petting him and said to Skye, "Wanna go eat now?"

"Sure." She said, standing and walking over to her house table.

"Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee..." Carrie said as she walked over the Slytherin table.

Remus sat down with Skye following. "Are you really okay with it?" he asked pleadingly.

"Of course I am! I love werewolves! Probably because I like wolves and all of the stories and novels I've read." she responded.

"Um, love?" he asked with a light blush.

"Love...? Oh!" Her cheeks turned a bright red, " Well, you know--it's not that I don't like you!--I mean--I don't love you--as a friend I do--but not that way--but I still like you--!"

Remus interrupted her by putting his finger to her lips. "I know what you mean. A lot of girls use that expression."

Skye smiled under his fingertip, "Okay. So you've told a lot of girls?" she giggled at him.

Remus blushed and shook his head. "No. but I hear them talking about fantasies with a gorgeous werewolf." He shook his head while Skye grinned.

-At the Slytherin table...-

Carrie had gotten what she wanted most of all this morning: coffee! Her obsession overly sugared coffee had gotten the best of her when she was fifteen, but increasing more at the age of 16. Now, at the age of 17, she hated to admit that she was addicted, but only to coffee that was sweet. She couldn't drink coffee that was black or just had cream in it. But, most teenagers were like this, such as Skye she supposed. Skye loves coffee too, but not quite as addicted and so Carrie respected that fact about Skye.

Carrie was sitting next to Severus enjoying her coffee. Neither of them was talking and it was starting to become uncomfortable.

"So, what's new Sevvie?" she asked.

"Don't call me 'Sevvie'." he replied.

"What's wrong with the nickname? I have the nickname Saffy."

"Where is that from?"

"A friend of mine was writing a story and she decided to add me into it. The character's name is Saffir. I told her a nickname could be Saffy (I have a liking towards nicknames). She just laughed and said she was going to start calling me that. She started too and people were like, w.t.f?"

"Umm...w.t.f?"

"You wouldn't understand, so don't worry."

He just glared at her and looked away.

"A nickname Skye has is Pixie. It's so cute. Then there is also Bird. And--"

"Could you just stop talking of nicknames." he said angrily.

She heard the anger in his voice, causing a string in her heart to hurt.

"Is something wrong?" she asked.

"How can you not see what's wrong?" he stated, "Both you and Skye are perfectly fine with the fact that a dangerous creature is in your presence!"

A good thing was, he wasn't yelling. But, it had the same effect on her nonetheless.

"You know about Remus?" she asked.

"Yes, I found out last night. And it seems you had too."

"Yes, I did, but why are you angry?"

"I don't like werewolves at all, for your information." he said, standing up and walking away.

-...-

Skye and Carrie were at P.E. playing a game of 'capture the flag', one of their least favorite games. Skye kept noticing Carrie wasn't her usual self, which was being happy and bubbly. Instead she was quiet and a look of pain in her eyes. Skye knew something was wrong and felt that it was her duty as her friend to find out what was wrong and help her feel better.

"Carrie, what's wrong?" she asked when they were both in jail (they both had gotten tagged).

"Nothing's wrong, I'm fine." she replied. This was usual, she would try to say that she was fine when she wasn't.

"C'mon, you can tell me."

Carrie remained quiet, but then spoke up, "Severus is mad at me."

"Why?"

"I think it has to do with us being okay with Remus'...condition."

"What? That's really stupid to be mad at."

"Yeah, it is I suppose..."

"You know what, that's bullshit! He shouldn't be mad at you for being tolerant of other people! I'm going to give him a piece of my mind..."

Skye was about to storm off when Carrie grabbed the back of her collar.

"We're still in jail, remember!" she stated.

"I don't care, he needs--" she started but they were both tagged in.

"Well, now I can go talk to him." Skye said furiously.

"But, I don't know, I was annoying him a lot this morning like I usually do..."

"That doesn't make any difference."

Carrie looked at the ground as they walked back to their side. Thankfully, Skye didn't yell at Severus, yet...

-At lunch...-

Skye ate her food as if she was a wild animal, tearing off the food with her teeth savagely.

"Skye, you seem as if you're trying to kill that food a second time, what's wrong?" Remus asked, nervous that Skye might try to bite his head off.

"Severus is mad at Carrie for being tolerant about you." she stated angrily.

"Really?" This was new to Remus. He looked over at the Slytherin table to see that Severus and Carrie were on the complete opposite ends of the table, which was strange as they usually sat together.

"Do my ears deceive me?" Sirius asked, joining in on the conversation.

"I can't believe that little slime-ball is mad at her for this," James said.

"We need to teach him a lesson!" Sirius snarled.

"I don't think that's necessary. Besides, I don't think it will help Carrie any." Skye sighed, stopping her massacre to place her chin in her palm, her eyes downcast.

"You were pissed off at him just a minute ago," James said.

"I still am, but I'm worried for Carrie. It tares her apart knowing that a friend of her's hates her."

"Don't worry Skye, leave it to the Marauders to deal with it," Remus said.

"You're not going to do anything to him, are you?"

"Just trust me."

After lunch, Severus was sitting in the shadows, reading a Dark Arts book. He saw in the corner of his eye the Marauders standing around him.

"What do you four want?" Severus asked angrily, slamming his book shut with a snap.

"Why are you mad at Carrie?" Sirius asked, in the same tone.

"It's none of your business." he replied, starting to open his book again.

"Carrie's our friend, so it's our business. And if it's not, it's Skye's business which makes it ours." James said, reaching down and snapping the book shut a second time, clamping his hand over the covers so Severus couldn't force the volume open.

"Fine, it's your business."

"Why are you mad at her for being tolerant? Just because someone thinks differently than you doesn't mean you have to hate them."

"I don't hate her..."

"Then why are you tearing her apart?" Sirius asked angrily.

"Tearing her apart? What do you mean?"

The four boys shifted to the side to show the lake. Carrie was just sitting there staring out at the sky. Severus looked at her for a moment. Usually, Carrie would look over when someone looked at her, but she didn't. She just continued to stare.

Severus got up, but the Marauders stepped in front of him.

"Where do you think you're going?" James asked as Severus tucked the book beneath his arm.

"I should talk to her...and apologize..." he despised that he had to explain himself.

He walked over to her and sat down next to her. A single tear was falling down her cheek.

"Are you...crying?" he asked, shocked that she would show such an emotion.

"What? No..." she said wiping away the tear.

She was silent, and then continued, "Yes. I'm pathetic..."

"No you're not." Severus stated. "But, I'm here to say that I'm...sorry."

"For what?" she had never turned to look at him, "I was the one annoying you..."

"It's not that. It was the fact that you accepted Remus for what he is so easily. It doesn't make sense."

She rested her forehead onto the backs of her hands, which were on her knees. "I accepted him because he's my friend. I know that even though he's a werewolf, he would never hurt anyone on purpose."

There was silence, then,

"Why do you care if he's accepted?"

Now Severus was the silent one, but she deserved an explanation,

"I don't like werewolves too fondly, so I suppose...I..."

"Was jealous?" she finally looked over at him.

"What?" he blushed, "Of course not."

She finally smiled, "You are accepted, Severus. I accepted you."

He blushed and looked away, but smiled. "Thanks."

"Yay! Everything is back to normal! My spirit feels lifted." she said cheerfully. "I'm happy once again!"

"Well, that's good." he replied.

"That reminds me!" she suddenly said, "Well, okay, it didn't remind me but I just remembered!"

"What?"

"We need to see Skye!" she said, standing up and grabbing Severus' arm and dragging him off towards the castle.

- I wonder what Skye is up to anyways...-

The Marauders had met up with Skye and told her what happened. She anticipated to see the results, but at the moment was monitoring some enchanted knitting needles.

"Umm, Skye, what are you doing?" Remus asked, looking over Skye's shoulder. She was in a corner of the Gryffindor common room.

"It's a surprise! And a celebration!" Skye explained, "But I'll tell you as soon as Carrie gets here..."

"What?" Sirius exclaimed, looking up from a magazine he was reading, "Slytherins can't come into the Gryffindor common rooms!"

"They can, actually," she continued to explain, "Dumbledore said so. He said that as long as the superintendent is here, there aren't any portraits, and since there aren't any portraits, people from other houses can go into different common rooms!"

"That seems a little unrealistic..."

"Well, even if she couldn't, we would anyways!"

Skye smiled brightly and Sirius glared. At that moment, Carrie and Severus burst into the common room.

"I thought you said Carrie was coming here. You never mentioned he'd be here too," James stated.

"Whoops. I meant to tell you that. We had planned everything this morning." Skye said.

"Okay, I'm here," Carrie stated to Skye, "So, how's it going."

"Everything is going great! They'll be done once classes are over!"

"What's going on?" Remus urged.

"Okay, so this is what's going on," Skye explained, "Carrie and I are planning to go to the prefects' bathroom and take a swim! Do you guys wanna come with us?"

All four of them had blushed, and Peter being the oblivious one,

"Sure, we'll go!"

The four boys glared at him, but Remus said,

"Yeah, you can count on us to be there."

"I'm only going cos Carrie is," Severus stated.

"Okay! Meet us there at eight!" Skye said, taking the knitting needles and dragging Carrie off to the girls' dormitory.

"You do know this will be very weird," Remus said.

"But we'll get to see them..." Severus started, then, "Were those bathing suits?"

"I think so..."

They were all in silence.

-The last two classes...-

Carrie and Skye couldn't stop talking about the 'Friday celebration', or so they called it. The boys tried to listen in, but then they would stop talking and start giggling. They were barely doing their work in chemistry and almost didn't finish by the bell. And in their next classes, they didn't talk much, which was rather surprising. Well, for Carrie, all she did was sleep, and Skye loves English so she did her work with lots of effort. But after classes were over, Skye met up with Carrie and dragged her off to the Gryffindor common room.

"I'll see you later, Sevvie!" She said, as she was carried off by Skye.

"Later..." He called glumly.

-That evening outside the Prefects bathroom-

Skye and Carrie walked in silence, clutching towels and their wands to their chests. They looked around when they reached the door for the still enchanted Prefects bathroom (If muggle schools don't have Prefects, why make an unenchanted Prefects bathroom?) and slipped inside after whispering the password. (Soap Suds)

They giggled as they entered the large, pool-like-bathroom, running over and turning on all of the colored taps, Skye giggled and did the most damage, as well as being highly amused by the colors.

"C'mon, let's get in before the guys show…" Carrie said, pulling off her jacket and unbuttoning her blouse, revealing the kitted top of the black with skulls bikini.

"Alright…" Skye replied, untying her shoes and pulling down her skirt, exposing her pale skin to the light as well as the lavender tie bikini bottom she wore. In a few moments, both girls stood in only their suits and had dove into the water, truing off the taps to keep the pool from over flowing.

They started to swim a little, when they then saw the portrait open. All five boys were present. Skye swam to Carrie and whispered in her ear. She giggled and nodded.

The boys were undressing to show swimming trunks underneath their clothes.

"Hello boys," said Skye. The group turned around to see both Skye and Carrie having just getting out of the pool, wet and in bikinis. All five boys rushed and jumped into the pool and were against the pool wall.

Both girls busted up laughing. "Why are you up against the wall?" Skye asked.

"Oh, no reason," Remus replied.

"Okay," Skye said, then the girls jumped into the pool with a big splash.

"Ahhh, so warm..." Carrie stated.

"Hmm, you know what?" Skye asked Carrie, "I wonder who were those two others that steered Remus away from us last night."

"Oh, that was us." James stated mater of factly. "We're animagus. Well, illegally...but you won't tell will you?"

"So long as you don't tell anyone we're animagus too." Skye replied.

"What?" Sirius exclaimed.

"Yep." Carrie beamed, treading water lazily.

"What are you?"

The two girls then transformed into their animagus forms. Skye into a large white tiger with brown eyes, and Carrie a raven with blue eyes.

"Ah, I see. Their markings are their eyes." Remus stated, "White tigers usually have blue eyes, and ravens usually have entirely black ones."

"But it's not very recognizable." James stated, nodding.

"That's a good thing." Sirius added.

"It is?" Peter asked, blinking between his friends.

"Of course, Wormtail. That way no one could really tell the difference."

"I understand."

Severus was off in a corner just listening to all of it. Carrie came up behind him and gave a caw. He jumped a little from the surprise. She changed back to human form and sat on the pool's edge.

"You won't tell anyone either, right?" she asked innocently.

"I don't know; I think Dumbledore has a right to know..."

"Pleeease?" she gave him a look with her big blue eyes.

He couldn't resist; there was something about those eyes...

"Fine..."

"YAY!" she then gave him a hug, which made him blush, and drew attention to them.

"Aww, look at the love birds." Sirius stated.

"We're not love birds! Besides I have a boy--"

There was suddenly a strange sound from a bag near the corner of the room.

"Speak of the devil!" Carrie rushed over to her bag and pulled out a mirror.

"A mirror?" Peter asked.

"It's a communication device. Carrie and Pat can contact each other anytime with it." Skye answered.

"What is it, sweetie?"

"We should leave them alone..." Skye said, starting to swim to the other end of the pool.

"Aw, c'mon, we wanna know all of the mushy-love crap." Sirius sarcasm was at its best it seemed.

Severus looked over at Carrie, who seemed to be in a really serious conversation.

"I'm going to agree with Skye."

They all started having fun and splashing water at each other. About fifteen minutes later...

"So, what are you guys doing?" Carrie's voice was a little wavery, and quiet. Her eyes were brimmed with tears, she stood by the edge of the pool, head down.

Skye becoming concerned, "Carrie, what's wrong?" She got out of the pool and stood next to Carrie.

"Me and Pat, are no more..." she leaned her head down and sobbed on Skye's shoulder.

"I'm so sorry," Skye said with sympathy, her arms wrapping around her friends shoulders.

For five minutes Skye comforted Carrie while she cried, and the boys just looked at each other nervously, not knowing what to do.

"Well, at least you're with your friends to comfort you," James stated, swimming over to the edge of the pool and hooking his arm over, trying to lighten the mood.

Carrie raised her head and gave a weak smile to him. "I suppose..."

"So, is it...final, or a break?" Skye asked.

"Final..." tears streamed down her cheeks uncontrollably.

"How long were you two together?" Severus asked.

"Almost a year and nine months..."

There was a shock amongst the boys.

Sirius got out of the pool and over to Carrie. "Don't worry, Carrie. The pain will go away within time."

He patted her shoulder.

"It doesn't feel like it, though...he's everything to me...I don't know what to do, what to think; how am I to get over this?"

"It's different for everyone, but you'll find a way. But for now, just have fun with your friends."

They all nodded. Then James added,

"Yeah, Sirius. You should know about relationships."

The girls were confused and so Remus cleared it up by saying,

"Sirius gets all the girls let's just say, so even just a day with him breaks a girl's heart."

This brought a little chuckle to her.

"Hey, you laughed!" Remus stated.

"Yeah..."

"Then this will too!" Sirius exclaimed, pointing his wand towards Peter. A tidal wave then hit him, sending him underwater.

They all busted up laughing, and continued to splash each other. But, Remus kept looking at Skye, and Severus at Carrie.

Author's notes

Well, lookie here, it took forever to get this bit typed, gah! Twas that hardest chapter yet. Chapter six is already handwritten several pages and I'm in the process of typing it, we hope you enjoy it! Let's see, what to discuss about this chappie….

We wanted to introduce our characters as animagis as well, because being an unregistered animagi is such a rebel thing to do! Any way, Skye is a white tiger and Carrie is a raven. Why a tiger and a raven? Because kitties rock and raven's are Carrie's minions.

Then there is the whole Severus and non werewolf tolerance. We couldn't have the almost deadly prank Sirius played on Sev occur in our fic, it wouldn't seem to fit ya know? So we just put in this hatred against werewolves, which could be considered common.

Though, Skye doesn't hate werewolves, she loves them! This comes from a deep seated need of mine to own a wolf and date a werewolf.. I'm not so lucky, since my boyfriend is only currently human… I'm working on him though.