Standing There By You
Ch. 50- And Then There Are Times You Are Not So Brilliant
A/N: Hello. Okie doke, before we begin I just have to say one teensy thing. Several readers were ah, a bit angry that Lily went for Kirk instead of James… but I must say, if I'm going to follow the books exactly (or as much as possible) then Lily can't harbor any immediate feelings for him… I mean, we haven't even gotten to the O.W.L.s scene in OotP, of which she portrays much less than pleasant feelings ("I'd rather date the giant squid…" remember?). Please be patient loves, I promise it all empowers the plot ; )
I'm warning you in advance, this chapter is super-short. It'll be longer next time, promise.
"Sirius," James muttered gruffly, turning stiffly toward his friend. "I'm going to kill you."
"What James?" Angie asked brightly, inching closer to him and tilting her flushing face towards his. "Is something the matter?"
Sirius hid a smile as he watched Angie's knee bump against James's- over the course of about seven minutes she had managed to draw her frame alongside his, leaving all but one centimeter or two between them and making it very difficult for him to put one foot in front of the other. "You kids are just too cute," he observed fondly, hopping over some tossed shrubbery and striding his way into Hogsmeade. "But I'm going to have to catch you later; I think I'm going to go- urgh-,"
"Sirius," James hissed, tightening his grip on his friend's collar as he squirmed beneath it, "If you leave, I swear,"
"Oh that's just so cute," Angie declared, smiling cheekily. James jumped; he seemed to have forgotten their very near arrangement. She continued on anyway, "Always have to be together, don't you?"
"Oh yes, always," James replied dully, peering around him. Spotting an elaborate Quidditch display in a nearby window, he jumped at the chance and continued, "Here, you two stay here, and I'll be right back…" he hurried off, elated at the chance of escape.
Sirius chuckled, glad to be away from James's strangling grasp. "Well," he began merrily, "this is quite the lovely-,"
"Listen," Angie interrupted menacingly, eyes darkening and fingers clasping around his tie. "This is our date, you nitwit, so scat or I swear I'll-,"
Sirius emitted a strangled, gurgling sound and jumped nearly a foot at the sudden change in disposition, turning swiftly around and hurrying off in the direction his friend had. "James!"
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"Not very talkative today," Grace noted, resting her chin upon her hand as she watched Remus from across the table.
"Mmm," was all Remus managed to reply. He shrugged a shoulder and brought his mug of butterbeer up to his mouth. "Mrgh," he finished through a large sip of the steaming brew.
Grace smiled slowly. "What is it? Something on your mind?"
Remus opened his mouth and it appeared he might reply, but reconsidering he snapped it shut and ducked to fetch some change out of his robe pocket. "No," he said finally, though his voice was a bit strangled. "Perfectly fine."
Grace frowned and scooted her chair towards Remus. "Go on," she said, encouraging him with a bubbly voice like one would to a child. "Tell me, Remmey Bemmey-,"
"Nothing," Remus insisted.
"-tell Gracie Wacie what's wrong-,"
Remus gritted his teeth in an attempt to keep in the persistent thought boiling inside of him. "Nothing wrong," he said, "honestly."
Grace gave him a heartening shake of the shoulders. "Come on-,"
"Who're Ben and Jerry?" Remus finally exploded. His features were tense as an effect of withholding the question and vexation brightened his cheeks to an alarming shade of red.
Grace scrunched her noise in confusion. "What?"
"You know," Remus folded his arms clumsily, "you know… them. The ones you- you-," He looked around and leaned closer, lowering his voice to a whisper. "The ones you kissed."
She stared at him blankly. "What?"
"You know," Remus maintained his adamant whisper, "the ones you said I was, well, er, no match for…"
A sudden look of insight spread across Grace's face as her mouth broke out into a wide grin. "Remus," she managed to get out between laughs, "Ben and Jerry is a brand of ice cream!"
"Oh," he said, after several silent moments of allowing the realization to set in. He gazed dazedly at Grace's laughing face. "Oh."
Grace exhaled deeply to try and calm herself. "You're something else, Remus. I can't believe you thought-," Abruptly the exultant girl's smile flipped upside down into a baffled frown. "Wait a minute," she said slowly, lifting puzzled blue eyes up to stare at Remus. "How did you…"
"More butterbeer?" Remus offered hastily, reaching to grab for Grace's mug. "You look really thirsty-,"
"But the only place I said that…" Grace continued, more so to herself than anyone else, "You couldn't have possibly-,"
"Be back in a moment," Remus said quickly, making to stand up. He cringed as Grace's eyes swelled to a size that could only mean one thing…
"You were spying on me?!" Grace admonished hotly, propping herself up to hover at a spot just above Remus. "What- the, the whole- oh-,"
"No, no not just you… everybody! All the girls!" Remus attempted… Poorly.
"You twisted little-,"
"No," Remus amended at once, "girls- girls, pajamas!" he tried again.
"Ugh," Grace withdrew her umbrella and swung it hard, buffeting Remus's shoulders. "You," smack, "disgusting," smack, "treacherous," smack, "lousy," smack, "heinous," smack, "sneak-,"
"No," Remus held up his hands to shield himself against her perilous rain-gear. "No you don't understand-,"
"I understand perfectly well," Grace huffed. "You've just told me the whole account yourself; now tell me Remus, exactly how long have you been sneaking up to girls' dormitories and taking notes on their nightly affairs?"
"Oh," a soft voice uttered above them, marked with surprise. They peered up to see Rosmerta staring down at them, a tray of empty mugs busying her hands. "I'll ah, come back in a little bit then, no?"
Remus cradled his head wearily as he watched her rush to a table at the other side of the restaurant, charily darting several glances back at him as she went. "Grace," Remus pleaded, turning back to his irate girlfriend, "please, I- it wasn't even my idea-," he clamped his lips shut and began to start over, "Well you see-,"
"I should've known," Grace said heatedly, folding her arms. "Friends initiated it, right?"
"Well…" as stuck as he was, Remus still felt he should at least try to defend his friends, "Well, yeah it was their idea, but I-,"
"Let them talk you into it?" Grace finished for him. She exhaled a livid breath. "Honestly-,"
"Hullo!" a familiar voice sounded beside them. They turned simultaneously to find Lily and Julie approaching, both bright-faced from the cool autumn air. Though, taking one look at the couple's unusual expressions- Remus's desperate pleading one, and Grace's infuriated banshee-like- they both stepped back a large pace. "Whoa…" Julie uttered, peering at each of them in turn. "What happened?"
The grin that turned Grace's lips appeared slightly maddened. "Oh," she clasped her hands together, still smiling that eerie smile. "Do sit down, it is quite the lovely story."
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"You idiot!"
"Gnargh," was all James managed to say, before his face splashed down upon a warm bowl of soup.
Sirius watched in amusement as his friend gurgled between Hubert's famous thick n' flat noodles. "Ha ha!" he proclaimed. "Now this is entertaining."
Across from them a terrified shriek sounded, and seconds later Angie was lunging across the table, hands held out far in the valiant endeavor of rescuing her beloved. "Lily!" she cried in anguish. "What are you doing to him?"
Lily only gave a furious grunt in reply, pushing harder on James's soup shrouded head. After twenty seconds or so, however, Sirius began to get a bit worried… Especially when James's leg performed a funny little twitch and his knuckles turned white from clutching the end of the table. "Ah… Lily, I do believe you're drowning him," Sirius informed her, tapping her lightly on the shoulder. When she didn't move and only muttered a gruff, 'I know', he hastily stood up and pulled on her wrist, rescuing his friend from murder-by-soup.
"Ugh!" James sloshed broth across the table, taking a huge gulp of air and gasping vigorously. "Are you mad?!"
"Honestly," Angie uttered, balancing her weight on one hand and with the other dabbing noodles off of James's face.
"Oh, not just mad, Potter," Lily spat, finally releasing her strong hold on James's hair, which in turn allowed it to promptly thump back onto the table. "I'm terribly mad. Want to know why I'm terribly mad, Potter?"
Sirius chuckled softly. "Why, then we'd be here all day Lily."
Lily turned to give him an icy glare, and paced dangerously toward him. "Oh and what an incredible surprise," she started sarcastically, "Watson here is involved in the same crackpot scheme as Sherlock."
Both boys gave her odd looks, though James's was slightly soggier. "Who?" he asked.
"Sherlock is a renowned fictional detective, and Watson was his sidekick," Peter informed them. "Uncle Roberto's a muggle movie buff," he explained, shrugging.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Well thank you very much-,"
"I should think not!" Sirius exclaimed indignantly, nearly knocking his chair over as he stood up in a livid rage.
"No really," Peter said, confused. "My Uncle Roberto is a movie-,"
"If anyone would be Sherlock, it'd be me," Sirius raged on. "Sidekick?" he growled, "Sidekick!?"
"Why Evans," James tipped his head modestly, momentarily forgetting about his near death experience. "I never knew you fantasized about me in different forms- an intelligent detective, we know, now what else? A surfer on the France shores, perhaps? You know what kind of beaches they have there, don't you…" he trailed off as three more people rushed their way into the store, bell clanging madly as the door slammed roughly into the brick wall.
"You should be on quidditch," Grace said, holding a stitch that had formed on her side, and leaning against the wall for support. "Honestly, Lily, what was that…One and a half miles in four minutes flat?"
"Well when I have something to incite me…" she growled, glaring in James's direction.
"Oh," James raised his brows, "I incite you-,"
"Yes, actually, you do," she took a step towards their table and heightened her volume a tad.
"WHEN YOU SPY ON MY FRIENDS AND I IN OUR DORMITORY YOU CREEP-,"
Sirius held onto the table for fear of being blown away by Lily's infuriated wrath, as he looked around at the small gathering, trying to calculate exactly what she was yelling about. For what seemed to Remus the hundredth time that day, his eyes grew wide and practically reverberated 'epiphany'. "You told?" he admonished, staring at Remus in disbelief.
Remus sighed wearily. "I-,"
"Merlin, mate," James cut in, throwing his friend an imploring stare. "Is it so hard to keep a few scribbled notes quiet? You went through the trouble of writing them and then helping us hand them out; how hard is it not to say anything afterwards?"
Remus winced. "Actually, James…They didn't know about the notes." He glanced around him, as Grace and Lily discovered as one the full extent of the boys' scheme. "Well, until now that is."
"The notes you- you wrote the notes!?" Lily said, turning very red, very fast; be it from anger or the embarrassment of being duped by the boys she detested, they weren't quite sure.
"He does have very girlish handwriting," Grace admitted. Remus, not surprisingly, kept silent.
Next to her Julie folded her arms, frowning at the boys worriedly. "But they didn't really hear anything," she began, peering to the side at her steaming friends, before looking back at the boys. "Did you?"
Sirius raised his brows and emitted a low sort of chuckle. "Just how you dream every night about that kiss," he sighed dramatically, "how you can still smell my daisy fresh breath, amidst the overwhelming aroma of butterbeers crashing onto your head…"
"I did not," Julie insisted, hot cheeks tinting crimson, "I didn't even bring it up!"
"Yes, but it was in your face-,"
"Well," Lily said, briskly tugging at her robes and drawing them securely around her, "I'm certainly glad I didn't say anything…" Her eyes widened to an expanded width of perception, as she suddenly remembered a certain dare she had been allotted that previous evening. "Oh you presuming pig," she uttered, stomping towards him. "That's why you were all breathless in the corridor, isn't it? Did you run to meet me? Oh you know what, I'm glad she stole your knickers-,"
"Yeah," a dark look crossed James's face, "but don't think you can fool me with that Kirk Douglas act, I know you were really-,"
"Potter!" Lily hushed hurriedly, waving her arms in a sharp motion as a rash indication for him to stop talking. She glanced around anxiously at her surrounding peers, eyeing in particular a certain fair-haired boy seated only three booths away. "Stuff a kneazle in it, you blundering pillock, or I swear-,"
James promptly heightened his volume to roughly match Lily's previous hollering one. "Oh, what's wrong, Evans?" He gestured down the length of the restaurant, "I'm sure old Kirk here would love to-,"
"Potter!" Lily interrupted in a strangled, squeaking voice. She clobbered his head with her parcel from Honeydukes and pounded her foot against his shin, but to no avail. If anything, it caused more of a scene; Lily realized this of course, as Kirk, along with half of the boisterous crowd occupying the pub, turned around to witness the pummeling pair.
"Hullo, Kirk!" James waved cordially.
The Ravenclaw smiled meekly. "Hi."
"You know," James began, pacing along the tables. "Uber hughum tennish droid,"
He wagged his finger at Kirk, and then turned to wink at Lily. "I'd bet you'd like to know what that really means, eh Douglas?"
Kirk narrowed his eyes in thought, before clearing his throat and leaning across the booth, edging slightly towards the other end of it. "Erm, actually," he cleared his throat again, "It was 'Oober higham jennish froyd', if I uh, remember correctly."
Lily paused in her pounding and turned to stare at him. "How did you remember that?"
James frowned. "What does it matter-,"
Shrugging, Kirk ducked his head, reaching inside his robe pocket. He straightened back up, having retrieved a crisp piece of scribbled-upon parchment. "I wrote it down," he told her, a diffident smile inching sheepishly across his face. "I've been attempting to identify its meaning for the past few days, actually…"
"Well that," James smirked and shook his head, "that's the most ridiculous-,"
"Really?" Lily said, a grin turning the corners of her lips as she tucked and re-tucked a wavy red tress behind her ear.
"No, what," James looked rapidly between the pair. "Don't-don't look at him like that, what're you doing-,"
"I've been looking at it all this past week," Kirk confessed, ignoring James's protests. "It's, er- been driving me mad."
Lily laughed nervously. "Oh well, it didn't really mean anything, I just-,"
"I'll tell you what it means," James offered, walking quickly over to Kirk's booth and roughly gripping his shoulder, leaning in and whispering a few gruff words. He smirked when he was finished, leaning back and folding his arms with satisfaction.
Kirk merely emitted a quiet 'Oh', before looking back up at Lily. He shrugged, tugging on the collar of his robes. "Never would've guessed that." Lily opened her mouth to assure him anything James had said was bullocks, but before she could Kirk spoke back up again. "Would you like to walk back with me, Lily? Erm… Perhaps stop at the bookstore along the way?"
"The bookstore?" James chided, forcing a few hearty laughs. "What kind of-,"
"Sure," Lily gave a breathy laugh. "Just let me just gather my things." She bent down to retrieve her damaged parcel and stood back up to remove the scarf she had attempted to strangle James with. "Ready! I-" she paused for a moment, turning around to direct her gaze at a gaping James. "Oh don't worry Potter," she said, eyebrow arching high as she pulled on her cloak and scarf. "I won't forget about your little…peeking party. A little retribution is in order, eh?" She thumped his shoulder and smirked before turning to join Kirk, "Might just have to bring out that Marshmallow fluff."
James's mouth dropped open as Kirk hastily scooted out of his chair, joined Lily, and made their way across the crowded restaurant.
"Boy," Sirius remarked, craning his neck to view the couple re-enter the brisk outdoors. "Did that backfire or what?"
A/N: Hi! Please don't hate me. I would hate it if you hated me. Love Kirk, be one with Kirk... Okay fine, despise Kirk, that's all right, just as long as you come to terms with it. Yeah, so this was supposed to be an ultimately spiffing chapter, because it's my fiftieth and all (woot!) but, blech. I'm sorry it's so short... Butit's 11:35 and I still have gov and math to study for... Ah and here's a lesson kiddies (or biggies) don't sit around all break and pick at your toes, and then wait till the very very last second to do your grade-determining math project.... Heh, not like I would do that or anything.
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Lol… Guess which night I wrote that.
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Ieyre- Ah yes, it should be very amusing. Poor James, us cruel people finding joy in his misery. Splendid times, aren't they?
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