Late Night Tour
After the 'First
Day' party, everyone went up to their dormitories. Sirius was lying
in his bed, it was about 1:00 a.m., and he wasn't tired at all.
Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it wasn't. Either way, he sat up
and said,
"Prongs, you awake?"
"Yea,"
James replied. "Can't sleep."
"Moony, Wormtail…you
guys up too?"
"Eh, I am." Sirius heard Remus's
voice, "Peter's asleep though."
"Well…we might
as well get up," James said pulling back his curtains.
Sirius
and Remus did the same. As James grabbed his glasses, Sirius smiled.
"What now?" James said seeing the look.
"Well,"
Sirius said, "I was just thinking, the girls don't know their way
around the school. We're up anyways; so how about we go wake them
up and have a late night tour?"
"That's…actually,
that's genius!" said James grinning.
"What say you
Moony?" asked Sirius as James got out his invisibility cloak. Remus
sighed, and then said in a reluctant tone,
"Fine. But I
am not getting detention on my first day here, I'm a
prefect."
"Huzzah and such," said Sirius heading
down the stairs.
When they got up the
stairs to the girls dorms, they realized that Pence and Maj had their
own room, because the others were full. Remus opened their door
quietly, and Sirius and James bounded in. Sirius jumped onto Maj's
bed and Remus went over and tapped Pence. When both girls were up,
and not disoriented, Sirius smiled and said,
"How 'bout
a tour?" Pence and Maj smiled, as they got up.
Things were going
great as the five explored through the dark, empty school. As they
went down into the potions room, they pointed out the floating things
in jars, Maj grimaced,
"That's disgusting!"
"You any good at potions?" asked James.
"I've
always gotten good marks, I don't really like potions, but I'm
pretty good at it."
The
next stop was the library; they snuck in and carefully took of the
invisibility cloak. Pence's eyes grew wide when she saw the
Restricted Section. She took a step forward, then looked back and
said the first words she'd said all night.
"Can I?"
"No one's gonna know," James said looking over at
Remus who was grinning. Pence carefully opened the little gate that
was blocking off the Restricted Section from the rest of the library.
She stepped into an aisle carefully, her eyes moving from one book to
another. She ran her hand over the books, and smiled. After a moment,
she went back to the rest of the group.
"Sorry," she
said quietly.
The tour itself was a
success; apart, of course, from falling into several pits. As they
started up a staircase, James pulled on his earlobe, the one closest
to Sirius. To anyone else, this would mean nothing, but to Sirius it
meant,
"Do we have time for it?" Sirius
grinned and scratched his nose.
"There is always
time for it!" James sighed as they reached the next floor.
They stopped when
the got to the next floor.
"Now what?" asked Maj
looking at Sirius. He grinned and looked at James. Remus realized
what they were planning on doing.
"Guys…not
tonight, surely?" he said looking at James. James grinned as he
turned his look toward the two girls.
"We've
decided, that if you lot are going to be hanging out with us, you
need to spend a night in the Astronomy Tower," Sirius cut in,
"The Astronomy Tower, is not just a classroom, oh no, it is
a sacred meeting place. That is our place, to do," he smiled
mischievously, "Our things."
The two girls looked
at each other, and then Pence leaned in and whispered something in
Maj's ear. Maj laughed and said,
"Knowing them,
yes." Sirius raised an eyebrow and started walking towards the
Astronomy Tower.
When they all reached
their destination, they sat down as Sirius pulled out a plastic bag
filled with…weed. They all stared at it, until, to everyone's
surprise, Pence started laughing. Maj looked at her and started
laughing too. The boys looked very confused as Pence and Maj were
gasping for breath.
"They act like they're high
already…" James muttered to Sirius, who then said,
"What the hell are you laughing about?" The girls stared at each
other, still trying to get a hold of themselves.
"I
dunno," Pence said smiling.
"Neither do I!" Maj
said with a wide grin.
"You're both mad…" James
said shaking his head.
"Mm, good thing we won't
remember this in the morning!" Sirius said pulling out a silver
lighter and some paper.
"Let's go then." said Maj
grinning.
"Cheers."
It was five in the
morning; everyone was high, except Remus who refused to smoke as a
prefect. Everyone was just sitting around when Maj looked at Pence
and said,
"Why exactly were you in prison again?"
Sirius looked around,
"You were in prison?"
Pence gave a little grin, and without thinking answered,
"I bit someone at a Christmas party. His name was Andrew Webb…he
was…23 I think. I got seven months in the Kennel for it. God that
night sucked." Remus said,
"You were in the Kennel? You bit someone? Are you a-"
"Werewolf, yea,"
Pence shuddered, suddenly becoming aware of what she had just said.
She stood up and walked over to the balcony, Remus followed.
"Hey. Don't worry…" he hesitated before saying,
"I'm a werewolf too." Pence looked at him with tired eyes
and smiled.
"Thanks."
"It'll
be okay, Sirius, James, and Peter can turn into animals. They help
me. I'm sure they can help you."
"Maj can
turn into a fox, but I've only spent one full moon with her. I almost
ate her…she's so small." Remus nodded before putting his arm
around Pence's shoulders.
"I told you," Remus
said, "You've got friends here."