Chapter 5: Firewhiskey
"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good," Lily said, pointing her wand at the Marauder's Map. Soon the paper filled with footprints and names of everyone in the school. "Hurry up, we need to go," James whispered harshly, ushering the group through the portrait hole. The group snuck down the empty corridor, Lily kept her eye on the map. "Looks like if we take the east shortcut then we won't run into a teacher," Tala crocked. "Yeah," Sirius agreed.
15 minutes later
"You're here!" Claire exclaimed, running up to James. "Why wouldn't we be," James retorted. "Now lets get to it, pace around that wall and think 'I need someplace to party' and don't lose your train of thought," Rae stepped in. They started to pace rhythmically. Soon a door appeared. They stepped through the door to find a room filled with everything you could possibly imagine.
The Order of the Veil sat patiently waiting for Hermione. She was still at Hogwarts; probably caught up with grading homework. An unneeded tension swept the room. Soon sparks arose from the fireplace. Hermione stepped out of the fireplace swiftly. Ron leaped up and hugged her, "I've missed you," Ron sniffled. Groans rippled through the room. "Must you be so…disgusting…gross…icky…yes icky!" Luna said proudly, Luna had never lost her childish ways. "Yes…!" Ron grunted. "On another subject…Luna's in love!" Ginny childishly teased. "So who is it?" Neville asked.
"Tell us him name!" Hermione persuaded. They had been trying to persuade Luna to tell them his name. "Okay, okay!" Luna blushed. "Gabe Thompson!" Luna giggled. "Shit, does he have a daughter?" Hermione said, her eyes bulging from her head. "Yeah. Gre…Greer! Haven't met her yet, though I want to," Luna responded. "She's Lily and Tala's new best friend. The three are inseparable. Which reminds me Keegan, James, and Sirius have a new friend…Sate Malfoy. Thank God he's nothing like his parents or for that matter grandparents," Hermione ranted. She filled them in on the children and how they were doing.
"What's this?" Sirius said, picking up a large bottle. The bottle was amber, it had a scratchy label and it had a distinct fowl odder when Sirius lifted the lid. "Well, let's taste it!" Andrea beamed, "Anyone want a shot?" Sirius looked at her, then took two small crystal goblets from the bookcase were he had found the bottle. Andrea took the goblets and lifted the lid, she poured a minute (AN To all who don't know the context in which I'm using minute, it's not minute as in 60 seconds but as in small. Enjoy! AN) amount into each goblet. She handed a goblet to Sirius. "Bottoms up!" Sirius said, raising the goblet to his lips. The brown liquid burned in his mouth. He swallowed suddenly knowing what he was drinking. "Holy shit! That's Firewhiskey!" Andrea declared, slamming the goblet on a table. "Was it good?" Sate questioned. "Try for yourself," Sirius said grabbing another goblet. "Lets all try it," Lily screamed lively, sticking her tongue out. Soon the drinks were passed around, the only one's who were hesitant were James and Claire. "Only 1 drink for me, I have practice tomorrow, James I advice you the same," Claire muttered. James nodded. "Toast! To Quidditch and to beaters!" Tala toasted. "Cheers!" they coursed. Soon they were all drinking the liquid.
20 minutes later they were all (except for Claire and James) drunk as dogs (even though they had all (except Sirius and Andrea) had had only 1 drink). Lily was dancing as the Witchy Wizards music rang throughout the room. Claire and James were dangerously close to kissing (AN I know it's snogging, but snogging implies making out which means they would have had to already have kissed AN). Claire was pushed up against James in result of Greer and Sirius dancing. "This is amazing," Claire giggled. "Defiantly," James said matter-of-factly. "Thank God that Firewhiskey only takes 30 minutes to were off," James exclaimed, glancing about the room. Claire shifted to James side, "Say what you want but I'm laying on you," Claire said, resting her head against his shoulder. A grin that could only be described as "ear to ear" spread across James's face. He sighed a "lovesick" sigh. (AN don't you love air quotes, except here they are virtual air quotes AN)
The after affects of the Firewhiskey were droning off. Greer and Sirius were now sitting on the ottoman. His head on her shoulder and a tetchy look was on her face. "Save me," Greer mouthed to Lily. Lily sprang to her feet and tried to pull her brother off. It would have been easier if he weren't asleep. Finally, Lily managed to pull Sirius up. "Shall we go back to the common room?" Lily said addressing the whole room. This was answered with groans of agreement.
Enjoy it? Well I must apologize to Deb for not letting her betta this. I feel horrible, but this was too good (in my opinion) to post. And sorry to Lib 4 not calling u and 4 Susan 4 not letting u pre-read. So sorry to u all. Hope u enjoyed it. And let me put this in a different point of view:
I slave over a hot computer screen 4 hours on end, and the least you could do is send me 1 stinkin review!
Sry I had to do that! KK I'll post soon (?)
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SOS16 or Tessie