"Please, I'll do anything," cried a terrified Peter Pettigrew as his captor held him over the edge of the mountain. He could see the declining drop and the flat of the mountain hundreds of feet before him. The grip on his arm tightened.
"Are you scared, Peter Pottygrew? Not as brave as your friends are you?" Sneered the voice from behind him. Peter blanched. He considered his friends for a moment. After all they had done for him, and he could not even repay them in one single act of courage. He stood there, trembling as always, too terrified to do the one thing he was asked to do...
"I...I can't!" He gasped in terror as he was pushed closer and closer to the descent. In one moment, Peter was forced roughly over the side of the mountain. Forgetting all that his ski instructor had taught him, he fell down into the icy snow below.
"That was really cruel Sirius!" Lily Evans shouted at Peter's captor. "Didn't it register in your acorn sized brain that Peter did not want to ski down the mountain?"
Sirius black laughed. "If we didn't do everything Peter didn't, we'd still be in our mother's wombs!" It had been Sirius's idea to go skiing, ever since he'd learned what his ski boots were for at the annual Christmas party.
"Don't know about you but I'm freezing my cheeks off up here, and I don't mean the ones on my face." James Potter glowered his bickering friends. "Can we go now?"
Lily Evans sighed exasperatedly and tossed her mane of red hair out of her eyes. Giving Sirius one final look of contempt she launched herself off from the top of the mountain and ski'd down magnificently.
"Oh no!" Remus was suddenly looking apprehensive. "She was the only one who knew how to ski!"
"You mean we're stuck up here?" Cried Octavius Jones from underneath a mass of scarfs and hats.
They all looked at each other in silence. They all knew that they faced two choices. On that they ski'd down the mountain and face the painful consequences at the bottom, or to try and live at the top of the mountain, in the freezing cold with only each other for food, and seeing as though the fattest and consequently tastiest member of the group was already laying at the bottom of the mountain, they decided with the earlier choice.
They each took a deep breath and launched themselves single file into the abyss. Lily was waiting patiently at the bottom, unscathed and cheerful, unlike Peter was sobbing and clutching a swollen wrist. Normally, his friends would have laughed at his patheticness but they were in so much pain themselves, that they were more inclined to stay quiet.
"You weren't scared were you?" Lily said with a smile playing on her lips. The boys suddenly seemed to have experienced a shot of testosterone, for they all got to their feet, despite their protesting bodies and carried themselves off to the ski lodge they were staying in, all commenting on how much fun the fall had been.
Naturally, on the other hand, Peter did not wish to pretend that he had enjoyed the experience, owled his Mother and went home within the hour. The others decided that it was not their loss, that they would have a better time without him eating his way through their supplies of chocolate and cake.
Despite the fact that it was only nine o'clock, the boys dragged themselves off to bed, blamed their tiredness on drink. Lily, deciding that it was too boring staying up with no company followed them shortly, sleeping on her own in the attic. None of them noticed the heavy snowfall which fell overnight on top of the lodge.
When they awoke, it felt like any ordinary morning. They all trooped down the stairs in their pyjamas, the boys looking tired with messy hair. Lily looked fresh and rejuvenated. The coffee was on, the toast burning and a trail of jam from one end of the table to the other. Nothing out of the ordinary.
They each then took it in turns to shower and dress, making it to the front door by ten o'clock.
"Gloves on everyone!" Octavius called like a military officer. The others stepped into line and pulled on their gloves.
"Scarves!" was the next order, followed by "Snow Boots!"
Finally, they were ready. James grabbed the door handle and pulled. Noting moved.
He tried again, this time using all his force. Impatiently, Sirius shoved his friend aside and tried for himself to open he front door.
Perplexed, he stood aside to allow Remus to have a go. Octavius tried next followed by Lily who sensibly attempted magic instead of feeble physical tactics. None of them could move the door.
"How about climbing out of the window?" Sirius suggested.
"In snow boots?" Lily scoffed. "How about we look out of the window to see what's actually blocking the door?"
Sirius blushed and moved aside for Lily to pull back the curtain.
"Can someone get me a cloth? The window's steamed up!" She called to the others who handed her one immediately. She began to rub at the window but it remained obscured.
"I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!" She screamed through gritted teeth. She stormed upstairs to look out of the top windows to see why she couldn't see through the bottom windows. She realised to her dismay that the top windows were as obscured as the bottom ones.
"Erm...Lily?" James called tentatively.
"WHAT?" Lily was becoming increasingly annoyed by now.
"I think...we're snowed in!"
"Oh...my...GOD!" Lily began to hyperventilate.
"Ok, breathe... don't choke on saliva... when...how are we going to get out?" Lily thought desperately. We're nearly out of food... how are we going to live? I'll have to eat the sofa... oh GOD I'LL HAVE TO EAT JAMES!"
Downsrairs, everyone was becoming increasingly nervous. If Lily was worried, then there was no hope. After all the worry about Lord Voldemort, they would all die of starvation in a freezing hut on the middle of a mountain.
Maybe they would not starve after all. If one of them died of cold, then the others would have enough food for a week, and then someone else would die and they would become the chefs special of the week and so on until they would be forced to hit each other with sharp icicles to ensure that they were the last peron left. Everyone one in the room looked shiftily at each other. James thought that Remus looked the tastiest, and had a feeling he'd tried to eat him before, but could not remember why.
they were all so concerned with who they would eat first, that none of them noticed Lily walking back in.
"Im hungry!" complained Sirius. "I always have five meals a day and its time for number three!"
"Three?" James said not sounding suprised.
"Yeah early morning munchies, breakfast and mid morning snack" Sirius counted them off of his fingers.
"We have no food" Octavius reminded him. Sirius merely looked at him. Suddenly a realisation hit him. James was his best friend, Remus was his other friend and Lily was pretty so none of them deserved to be eaten, but Octavius had no real conection with the group, and he had a decent amount of flesh on him. The idea of eating Octavius became more appealing by the second.
"Ok mate, back off" Octavius stood up suddenly. Sirius was looking ready to pounce. "Eat James instead"
"No way, I'm the youngest" James cried. He was only a few weeks younger than Remus.
"How about Sirius?" Remus suggested. "He's the tallest...more meat"
"Bite me" was Sirius's reply.
"Not a good thing to say to a..." James did not get to finish his sentence as he was knocked off of his feet by someone with a mane of long red hair."
James believing that the fight for his life had commenced pushed the body aside and launched himself onto the person closest to him. He found Remus's neck and bit down hard. He heard a yelp of pain, more scuffling before he was thrown backwards by a powerful blast.
Lily had her wand out and was looking around as though every person in the vincinity was armed and dangerous.
"No one will eat anyone. I'm going to the attic to see if there's a way out of my window." Lily was standing tall and strong, she knew that sensibility and determination would get them out of this mess.
"I'll go with you!" James chirped up beaming. He stood himself up and walked to Lily who eyed him warily.
"Well... ok, but any funny business and I'll hex you from here to gretna green!" James grinned to his friends, all lying on the floor, looking suspiciously at each other and marched up the steps behind Lily
ok guys hope you liked that chapter! The next chapter is actually ready and done! I will update very quickly if i recieve some reviews! If not then I'll put the chapter up anyway but on next Tuesday! Just depends on whether people want the next chapter, so please let me know!
Heres a sneak preview
"Shut up Sirius, I don't think anyone should take a man in a pink poncho seriously!" Lily cut in.
"Is it just because I'm a marauder?" Sirius replied cheekily.
"Yes" was the simple reply.
"Didn't stop you before" Octaivius snickered.
"Meaning?"
"Two words- Christmas and Party"
