Chapter 17- Can squids get pregnant?
The months were flying by, and soon after Christmas, it was well...after Christmas...but it was also January...which would kinda mean that the months were going by incredibly slowly, but...oh well, you understand.
"James, I am bored!" Sirius said, being on the most comfortable chair in the common room. They had been talking about the broom James had just seen in Witch Weekly's new section on racing brooms. "You've said that a million times! Go and...bother the giant squid, why don't you..." Remus popped up from his odd position. His legs were up in the air and his back was against the seat of the chair. "I hear she's pregnant...wait, can squids get pregnant?" Peter then commented, wanting to be part of the conversation.
"You know, Pete, that's not a bad question...we should go find out." James said, getting up from his chair.
"Oh, it's no use anyways, the lake is completley covered with ice." Sirius said, looking out the window. He was even more bored, talking about some stupid squid. He wanted an adventure...a prank....anything!
"You could always study." Remus suggested. At this, Sirius made a face and walked out the door.
About ten seconds later he popped his head back in and said, "Hey, are we going to see a knocked-up squid or what"
"Well, here we are, where's the damned squid?" Peter said.
"Under the ice, idiot." Sirius said, apparently not in a great mood.
"Hey, leave Pete alone." Remus had taken up the occupation of protecting Peter from James' and Sirius' "jokes". Remus felt bad for Peter, always being the butt of the jokes, and felt that if he wasn't going to protect Peter, something very bad would happen.
"Can he not talk for himself?" James spat.
"Are we going to get into a fight? I don't like fighting..." Peter whispered, mostly to himself than to anyone else.
"Are we going to get into a fight?" Sirius mimicked. "God, Peter, you have no backbone at all!" "Why are you always picking on him?" Remus demanded.
"Because he has no life except us. Always tagging along like a puppy, it's god-damned annoying"
"You always make fun of him! Leave him alone. How would you like it if someone was always pointing out your faults?" "What faults? I'm perfect!" Sirius was apparently not taking Remus or Peter very seriously, which just got Remus angrier.
"Perfect my ass. You're concieted, never take anything seriously, not to mention the fact that you just put other people down so that you can feel better about yourself...if anyone ever tried to make fun of you, you'd hex them into oblivion! You're exactly like your parents!" Remus was venting off at Sirius, when he knew the problem wasn't Sirius at all-it was himself. He was disgusted by the fact that he still hadn't told the others about...he was just afraid they would leave him, and he'd be a freak show all over again.
Sirius kinda stood there, looking aghast at Remus' comment. Once Remus composed himself together a bit, he realized what he had just said. "Oh, Sirius...I'm sorry...I didn't mean it..." Remus said. "I'm just not in a great mood"
But Sirius still stood there with that same face; full of disappointment and worry.
"Siri...hey, Siri, you in there?" James waved his hand at Sirius' face. Then Sirius raised his wand and pointed it right at Remus.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" With a swish and a flick, Remus was up in the air, and in a tree. By the time James had seen where Remus had appeared, Sirius was walking back to the castle, with feirce anger radiating off of him.
James went running after him, with Peter left trying to decide whether or not to follow his friends. For the first time in Peter's life, he did not follow the most powerful wizard in the area...but stayed with Remus. Why, Peter wasn't sure, but he knew that Sirius was not a force to be reckoned with when angry, and Remus was his true friend. "Peter..." Remus said, coming down from the tree.
"Thanks." Peter said, smiling and waiting for Remus to get down so they could go watch James pound Sirius.
In the meantime, James had caught up with Sirius and stopped him by pushing him against castle wall.
"Sirius Black, you go apologize to Remus right now!" James said, angry as all hell.
"Why, are you his mother now?" Sirius shot right back at him. He wasn't about to let some dorky kid in glasses stop him from being who he was.
"When did you start believing you could do that?" James replied.
"Right now. Remus is right, I'm exactly like my parents, I might as well just stop trying to reject my destiny. It's all genetics"
James looked at Sirius hard, and then lowered his head. When he raised it again, he was smiling.
"If you ever say anything that stupid again, you will be thrown in the lake to live with the squid and her 15 kids"
"...But"
"But what?" James interupted. He didn't wanna hear some sob story about why Sirius was a jerk.
"But...we never found out if squids could get pregnant in the first place"
Unfortunately, Remus and Peter had reached James and Sirius just in time to see them laughing at some stupid joke. "You mean we missed the clobbering?" Remus asked.
"Aw, I wanted to see that so bad!" Peter said, chiming in with Remus.
"Badly." Remus corrected.
"What"
"It's 'badly'...not 'bad'..." Remus was a stickler for grammar if nothing else.
"Whatever." Peter rolled his eyes, "So, we missed it"
"Listen rat boy-" Sirius started, but saw James and immediately stopped. In a dead pan sort of voice, Sirius resumed. "I mean, Peter...I don't like the fact that you tag along all the time. It gets a little annoying, so could you quit it a bit?" "Why don't you like it?" Peter asked, meekly.
"Because, it's like...someone worshiping you. It's weird and I don't like it." Sirius replied, "So quit it, got it"
"Yup." Peter said, and all four boys kinda stood there and looked at random things. A tree, hawk, a black squirrel...ok...well, they'd never seen a black squirrel before, so this was interesting enough to keep their attention.
"Hey, look a black squirrel!" James said. "Ah, the Black squirrel is the best, you know." Sirius said, in a cocky sort of tone. "Nah, it looks kind of diseased...with a white stripe down it's back..." James said, observing the features.
"You know...it doesn't look like much of a squirrel, anyways..." Sirius said, suspiciously.
"That's because...it's not." Remus answered, backing away quickly.
"What is it?" James asked, cautiously stepping back, too. Sirius soon followed suit. But Peter, who was insisitant on following Sirius' orders (man, he was cooler than ever now!), stopped tagging along and approached it.
"It's a-" "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Peter had touched the animal and it had immediately sprayed a sour-smelling gunk.
"Skunk." The other three said simultaneously, laughing like mad.
I know, late by...15 minutes. Sorry. I had school, then I went to the opening of the fall show ( and my last excuse was the spring show...) To be perfectly honest, I haven't written since then because I stopped having good ideas. As you can see, still happening. But I will have to get over that...oh well. Thanks for reviewing...review again! I love that!
Leora