Standing There By You
Chapter Fifty-Two- A Beckon, a Brew, and Much, Much More Blue
A/N: For once I don't really have anything to say. Hm, well I just watched What Women Want and it was cute : )
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The Pleasure of Your Company is Requested
For Marietta Aubine's First Annual Holiday Extravaganza
On the twenty-fourth of December, nineteen seventy-four
Located on LeBleu Lane, of Bordeaux, France
Owl R.S.V.P by the twenty second of November;
Necessary maps and floo instructions provided upon request
"An extravaganza," Grace said delightedly, "I've never been to one of those before!"
Julie's longwispy locks whipped around as she twisted quickly to face her friend. "What did you say?"
Grace waveda lavish invitation in the air, holding it up for both Julie and Lily to see. "An owl just dropped this off," she said, peering down at the ornate pressed parchment. She handed it over to Julie. "It's addressed to you."
Lily hopped off the end of her bed, peering over Julie's shoulder as she read. "Wow," she said, glancing up at Grace, "the gold script's been charmed to glisten- oh, and look at the gold poinsettia's growing along the edge..."
Julie smiled and slipped the invitation onto the nightstand behind her. "Yeah," she said, perching on the edge of her mattress. "Mum always has to be so formal."
"Your mother's hosting an extravaganza?" Lily asked, eyes flickering bright with astonishment. "That's amazing..." She gave a distant smile and rocked on the balls of her feet. "Will there be lavish gowns? Oh... And large, white stallions leading carriages across a calm, misty meadow,"
Julie giggled. "Well there'll be gowns and all, but I'm not quite sure about the white stallions and misty meadows. Though you never know, mum has a knack for turning something simple into something very..."
"Magnificent?" Grace supplied.
Lily crawled onto the bed as well. "Exclusive? Grand?"
Julie gazed back at both of her friends. "Erm, yes. All of those things." She leaned back against the bedpost and continued, "But you know, it isn't really all that spectacular. I have to get all dressed up- and not to mention help Rebecca get ready too, getting her stockings on is torture- and there's always so many people there, I mean,"
"We'll come then!" Grace offered, smiling eagerly at her friend. "You know, we can help you with your sister and keep you company- well if you don't think your mum will mind, that is."
"Oh," Julie habitually tugged at her ponytail. "I,"
"It'll be fun," Lily prodded, eyes sparkling still as she glanced between the invitation and Julie. "Don't you think? I've never been to a party like this before."
With a sigh, Julie gradually allowed a smile to spread across her face, wiping away any previous hesitation. "Well, all right then. I'm sure mum won't mind... There's going to be too many people for her to notice, anyway."
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Peter looked down at the small slip of parchment he clasped tightly, the paper worn and weathered from the short time he had handled it; though this didn't matter, as long as the glistening ink was not smudged and tall script still legible. And yes, he was proud to say, James's distinct penmanship was quite understandable. Well most of it, anyway.
Just as Peter got to pondering how exactly his friend's writing curved so gracefully in just the right places and swept flawlessly in the rest, he realized his own two scuffling feet weren't the only pair echoing in the formerly vacant wing.
Peter turned quickly to view the approaching company, and with a start found three familiar figures making their way toward him. Luckily, though, they didn't appear to have noticed him, giving him just the advantage he needed. Scurrying to the side, he took cover behind a large statue and pulled out the tattered parchment, placing it discreetly in the crook of his hand. Then, taking a sizeable breath for bravery, he stepped out into sight just as the three girls passed by, prepared to take the calm, casual approach his friends had instructed them to.
"'Ello!"
The three Gryffindor girls jumped at the sudden greeting, Lily dropping two of her books and Julie stumbling into Grace, effectively elbowing her in the stomach.
"Peter," Grace admonished, once she had gained back her breath from the unexpected blow, "You don't just jump out at people like that... What if I had been Professor Binns? He has a bad heart, you know."
"It's true," Lily nodded, looking up at the pair of them as she bent down to retrieve her fallen books. "And he has been looking rather peaky lately."
"Sorry," Peter apologized, attempting not to act nervous or edgy. "Didn't mean to be so loud."
Julie looked up at the boy with a reassuring smile. "That's all right Peter, no harm done. Did you need something?"
"Yes I did," he replied, and taking a deep breath, turned to face Grace. "James told me to fetch you," he spoke very slowly, pronouncing each syllable with care. "The captain has just gotten through with him and now he wants the Chasers to practice the Reverse Pass and Woollongong Shimmy, before the game against Ravenclaw."
Grace raised a brow. "The Woollongong Shimmy in three days? He's nutters!"
Peter shrugged. "I'm just the messenger."
Grace sighed and glanced over at her friends. "You two go off to dinner," she told them. Rolling her eyes exasperatedly toward the heavens, she continued, "I'll see you in an hour or two, if I'm lucky." Her friends responded with sympathetic smiles and a wave, before joining the few lingering students that were heading off to dinner.
Grace started in the opposite direction and set off for one of Hogwart's familiar winding staircases, planning to hurry and grab her practice clothes and perhaps a pair of warmer socks. As October neared its end, the warm fall weather began to yield to the blistery conditions of winter and practice became bitterer with each passing day.
"Erm, Grace," Peter said, interrupting her as she pondered whether to wear her mohair socks or wool.
Grace jumped – she hadn't heard him join her. "Yes?" she asked, slowing down a bit.
Peter cleared his throat, taking a moment to glance at the parchment before he began the prepared conversation. "Oh, nothing really. I was just wondering if you knew where I could find any Sterniment Solution; I've been looking all over and I can't seem to find a single drop anywhere."
"Oh?" Grace inquired curiously, craning her neck to peer at him. "I'm not quite sure... Any particular reason you need it?"
Peter straightened up, tugging at his robes and swallowing hard. "James, Sirius and Remus have sent me to fetch a batch of it while they find erm, something in the Transfiguration room. So, you're certain you haven't seen any of it?"
"No, sorry," Grace shook her head. "I've never even heard of it."
"Oh," Peter said, trying to hide a persistent smirk that threatened to tweak his lips; his performance had gone off without a hitch! "Well, see you around then, good luck at quidditch." With a pathetic little breath for good measure, Peter set off trotting down the hallway, waiting until he got at least halfway down before ducking behind another pillar. From where he hid he could view Grace lingering where they had previously stood, looking torn and silently deliberating her options. Finally, with a face expressionless in the dim light of the corridor, she twisted around rapidly and proceeded quickly to the left- interestingly enough, the exact opposite of the direction she had been heading before.
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Grace skipped over a trick step and hopped quickly to dart across the upcoming hallway- she knew very well that the captain would be furious if she was late to practice, and an emergency one at that, but she had a sneaking suspicion that the boys had found out about the Age Line and were concocting something less than pleasant... on their behalf. Besides, if she was quick she'd miss a mere ten minutes at the most.
As she neared McGonagall's room Grace quieted the sound of her footsteps, careful not trip over any of the loose flags or disturb any miscellaneous magical creatures. Leaning against the course brick wall, she slid artfully along the surface of it until she was only two feet from the slightly ajar door. Craning her head, she bent forward to listen.
"A canister or one of Filch's ancient buckets," James decided; the sound of his set voice was soon followed by the hasty scratching of a quill tip. "That should be adequate enough to hold it all."
"A demulcent," Remus's voice hinted at intrigue. "How are you going to manage that?"
Sirius's chair grinded against the floor as he presumably stood up beside Remus. "That's just the base of it," he told him. "A demulcent's just profitable when you want to relieve pain or irritation. Though with the proper adverse solution that nonsense will be virtually non-existent and something much more appropriate – and not to mention humorous- in its stead. D'you think Peter's found a bottle of that Sternument mess yet?"
"I hope so," James said, and the scratching of the quill came to a sudden stop. "You told him it was in the second greenhouse, didn't you?"
Sirius took a few moments to answer. "I think I might've told him the third, actually. But he's got to have enough sense to check the next one over, don't you think?"
"Yeah," said James, the quill sounding once more. "Just as long as we get it - without that solution we'd end up pouring three buckets full of rejuvenating lotion on the girls. What a waste that would be."
A small gasp escaped Grace's lips, but she quickly covered her mouth before the boys could take notice of her. Before she could celebrate discovering the boys' scheme, however, she had to get to that solution before Peter did. Spinning around, she set off for the grounds once more, this time not minding about warm socks or sweaters.
"Well," Sirius popped his head out the doorway just in time to watch Grace disappear up the stairwell. "I'd say I deserve at least three awards for that."
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Julie held the heavy crystal cruet in a gentle grasp, eyeing the powdery contents curiously and carefully shifting it this way and that. "I don't understand," she said, looking up at Grace with large eyes magnified by the amplifying thickness of the glass. "Why did you nick this? Won't Professor Sprout be upset?"
"Never mind that," Grace waved a dismissive hand. "We can dump out the contents and return it to her tomorrow- it was all dusty, I'm sure it hasn't been touched for years."
"Right," Lily frowned at the bottle. "So what do you need it for?"
An excited smile spanned across Grace's face. "I overheard the boys talking," she said, "just before dinner- they need this solution for a trick they were going to try and pull on us... Can you believe the luck? Though I did I miss practice; I was only ten minutes or so but by the time I got back the pitch was completely empty."
"Absolutely brilliant," Lily said, grinning. "Good work, I'd love to see their faces when they find they're missing their key ingredient."
"Yes," said Grace, "and now we can get them back with their own scheme! Imagine they're faces then, why don't you?"
Lily's eyes flicked up hastily to meet Grace's. "You think we should pull the entire trick? I don't know Grace, this one will be really obvious it was us- the other was passable as Peeves; and where were they planning to do it, the hallway? All of the teachers would see..."
"Oh come on," Grace prodded, looking at each of her friends in turn. "This is much too good to pass up!" Her gaze stayed on Julie. "Don't you think?"
"I- well," she looked from one friend to the next, "We did just do that whole Age Line thing, so we really are even with them..."
Grace slumped against her bedpost. "I suppose you're right," she relented grudgingly. "We got them back well enough in Defense Against the Dark Arts, anyway." She worriedly allowed an anxious smile. "And I already have a detention Friday; I'm lucky I didn't get Sprout, she was livid mad when Pomfrey came barging in and disrupted her class with the first years."
Julie laughed, looking around at Lily and snatching the crystal cruet she loosely beheld. "What is this stuff, anyway?" she asked, squinting curiously at the fine, powdery contents. "I've never heard of the Sterniment Solution before."
"Neither have I," Lily reached across the bed to have a look at it for herself. Finding no label or other inclination of its purpose, she frowned and let the bottle rest on her bed. "I can probably find it in one of my books, though." Her top half disappeared as she bent backwards and fumbled about the floor, but re-emerged moments later with a large red book in tow. "Let's see," she muttered, crossing her legs and flipping through the pages. "Stamochosus, Stellicidium... Ah, here we go: Sterniment Solution- Colorless powder taken from the Billowcheks in the early 17th century, et cetera, et cetera..." her eyes brightened as she turned the page and read further, "When in contact with water this magical substance will transform into whatever shape the beholder imagines it to- oh, I've heard of this before! It's a remarkably powerful concoction... You know, I'll bet it wouldn't hurt it we tested a bit."
"Ooh, all right," Grace leaped off the end of her bed and moved to fetch a cup full of water. "Can we make it look like Alden Alexander?" She smiled over her shoulder. "He's been on the Chudley Cannons for three years, and his biceps clearly show it."
Lily laughed as her friend returned with the water. "I'm not sure it gets that detailed... Actually, I'm not sure how it works in general; from what I've heard it's coppice, forest-like and such, very primeval. Here, hand me the water."
Julie reached across and passed the water from Grace to Lily, and then watched as her friend dumped a small puddle of water on the dresser and moved to clutch the solution.
"I'm not sure how much I should use," Lily frowned down at the vial. "I suppose a few shakes should do it." She clutched the elaborate glass in one hand and attempted to twist off the plug with the other. Having conquered the small task, she placed the rubber stopper on the edge of the table and tipped the container so that a small amount poured into the palm of her hand. "It should have an instant reaction, I believe, if,"
"Lily," Julie's eyes widened, "look at your hand!"
"What," Lily looked down, and started when she saw the lump of the formerly color-less powder spreading magically across her hand; as if instigated by mere oxygen it rapidly turned blue, changing the skin it traveled along with it. "Oh!" she cried, hurrying to wipe the powder from her hand. This only succeeded in spreading the vivid color onto her other hand as well, and sprinkling small morsels that specked lightly across her nose and brow.
Grace grimaced at the effect and hastened forward to assist... Unfortunately at the precise moment Julie decided to as well.
Even the minute floating particles seemed to stop. "Oh," Julie finally spoke, daring to open her eyes and view the multihued collision. "Oh..."
Lily lifted her arms, shaking off excess powder and watching as it slid off and left a bright layer of blue in its wake. "Well," she managed, voice strained and slightly squeaky. "The book didn't say anything about that happening."
Grace inched her hand behind her and grasped for the book. "Er, Lily..." she said hesitantly, peaking over the book at her very colorful friend. "I think these ah.. pages were sort of stuck together..." she cringed as she looked back down at the reading. "You read the last half of an entirely different concoction."
Lily remained still. "Oh," she spoke forcibly calm. "What was the correct half, then?"
"It turns the skin it surfaces blue," she stated the obvious fact. "And then," she winced, "it turns very, very itchy. Sort of like an advanced muggle itching powder, I'd say."
"Oh bugger," Lily barely had the time to utter, before the heavy itching sensation reacted across the blue skin from her elbow to her wrist. "Oh bugger."
Julie jumped as her friend knocked into her in a mad rush for the small bowl of water, of which Grace barely had time to warn would only increase the urge to scratch. "Ugh!" she shrieked, clawing vigorously at the vivid indigo layer. "Oh my Word- this is the worst, I've never- ugh,"
"Here," Julie said frantically, flapping the book madly in attempt to circulate fresh oxygen about her. "M-maybe this will help."
"No," Grace grabbed the book back, "it'll only make it bluer."
Lily hopped up and began performing a frantic dance, eyes popping wildly and creating an overall aura of hysteria. "You know," she said through gritted teeth, "Maybe getting them back isn't such a horrible idea."
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James ducked underneath the ill-furnished desk, taking advantage of his rare early arrival and fishing inside his pack to retrieve what seemed, to most, an ordinary hand mirror. He tapped it several times and beckoned his friend with a firm voice, but when several minutes later he still hadn't received a response, he tucked it away and resorted to leaning with a bored sigh against the back of his chair.
"I think I can come up with something to help relieve you of your boredom," a chipper voice offered from above. James looked up to see his Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher smiling down at him and holding out a heaping pile of parchments. "Grade everything up to question forty," he instructed, setting the pile on top of the desk. "Don't worry about the essays- I'll have to look those over myself."
James cringed at the pile of parchments. While a detention with Fides beats one with Fluent or McGonagall any day, the pile of exams was enormous and it would surely take him hours to trudge through them all. "Professor," he called hesitantly, and the young instructor turned around to face him. "Sorry sir, it's just I have quidditch in an hour and a half and the match is this weekend, by the time I get through all of these,"
"Ah, don't worry," Professor Fides said, walking onward. "You'll have help."
Before James could question his professor, a loud entrance distracted him from the back of the room. "Sorry," Grace said breathlessly, bustling across the room and tossing her bag next to the seat beside James's. She crammed faintly blue speckled hands further into her pockets. "We had a bit of a erm, crisis in the dormitory."
"Quite all right," said Professor Fides. "James, if you could instruct her please?"
James nodded and turned to raise an interested brow at his company. "Detention, Shadron? Remus is starting to have a bad effect on you."
Grace rolled her eyes and reached for a pile of tests. "Just tell me what to do, would you? I don't want to be late to practice." James relented and relayed the instructions to her, handing her several more papers in the meantime so his pile was considerably less. "Do you know what happened yesterday?" she asked, sliding the papers back into his pile. "When I arrived at the Pitch everyone had already left."
"Oh..." James shifted his gaze and decided now would be a good time to start grading the papers. "Nope, no idea."
Grace shrugged and turned back to her own pile, just as Professor Fides began talking once more on the other side of the room. Both parties brought their eyes up to look at him, but found he was discussing something with another student they hadn't noticed enter the room.
James's eyes narrowed. "What's he doing here?" he muttered sourly.
"Contact me after classes tomorrow, then," Professor Fides said over his shoulder, readjusting a large bag as he moved toward the back of the room. He directed his gaze at James and Grace. "And just bring the tests up to my desk when you're finished. I'll be two classrooms down if you need me." A few strides later and he had departed into the hallway.
James crossed his arms. "Isn't this ironic?" he called, voice ringing in the emptiness of the room. "A snivel devoted to the Dark Arts studying in the shadows of the Defense room. What are you doing, spying to get a peak of what the good side looks like?"
Severus remained rapt in the task of what looked to the others as a whole bunch of pointless writing. "Oh just grade the papers," Grace said, marking a large X while she spoke. "Really helps rid of stress, actually."
James scowled. "I can't concentrate with that filth in the room. What are you doing here, Snivellus?"
Finally Severus broke his intense staring match with the desk and lifted his eyes toward James. "None of your business, Potter," he snapped briskly. When James did the inevitable and disobliged, opening his mouth to send back another rebuke, Severus hastened to interrupt him. "Go on, or is it too hard for you to concentrate on a few first years' examinations? I know, the big words must be excruciating."
James was out of his chair in about 1.2 seconds. "Sod off, Snivelly," he said, moving swiftly across the room. Severus hovered his hands protectively over his books and papers, looking back at James with darting eyes. "What are you working on, there?" James inquired, reaching a hand easily through the boy's feeble barricade.
"Don't be an idiot," Grace's voice rang irritably from across the room. "The team will have your head if you do anything to get booted from the game."
"Stuff it Shadron," James growled, staring away from her and down at Severus's scattered parchments. "Why so secretive?" he asked. "Hiding something?"
Severus kept his gaze fixed on his guarded papers. "I wouldn't want you to worry your precious little head over a piece much too grueling for you to ever under,"
"You blistering,"
"Did you need a quill, James?"
The boys whipped around at the sound of their professor's voice, both having momentarily forgotten their settings and caught off-guard by the unusual question. "I," James began to respond, but not quite sure how, "I-er,"
Professor Fides shrugged a shoulder. "Well that's the only reason I could imagine why you would get out of your seat," he said. "If circumstances were ideal you would be continuing through the papers, but as you must have lost your quill or ran out of ink, you have risen from your chair and requested Severus's assistance. Is that correct?"
"Yes," James responded, even though it was clear to all the room's occupants Professor Fides knew very well he had not ran out of ink or anything of the sort. "But I've uh- found one now, so I'll just get back to my seat." He did as he had said he would, but not before sending a dark look in Severus's direction and vowing to himself he would find out what the boy was up to.
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A/N: Sorry this chapter cut off kinda weird, if I had continued with the rest it would've been terribly long and a very extended waiting period. I'll fill you in on the rest next chapter though... As yes and finally, thanks to all my lovely reviewers : )
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