Hello again for the night!
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Next Chapter will be the Wedding of Narcissa Black, soon to be Narcissa Malfoy, and Lucius Malfoy. As well as all the things that come with it. Expect a looooong chapter!
I hope you like this little fun day with our lovely Marauders and Lily!
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July 20th, 1973
Hermione woke up the next morning to Lily poking at her chest. "Lily?"
"Yes?" The redhead asked as she poked the side of Hermione's left breast again.
"What the hell are you doing?" Hermione asked calmly.
"Why are your boobs so much bigger than mine?" Lily sulked, pushing together her boobs at the same time.
"Do you mind getting off me, Lils?" Hermione grunted out, Lily was sitting on Hermione's lower abdomen and now that she was aware of it, it was becoming increasingly harder to breathe.
"Sure, no problem," Lily stuck her tongue out at Hermione and crawled backwards off of her. "What are we doing today?"
"We can go swimming, and then I can show you the library? All after breakfast of course," Hermione suggested, sitting up.
"Has Remus made his move yet?" Lily asked randomly, and Hermione froze.
"I'm sorry..what?"
"He so obviously likes you, Mione," Lily rolled her eyes, exacerbated.
"No...he doesn't," Hermione frowned, "I mean...right?"
Both of you are living in denial. Much like Sirius is about Riley," Lily sang knowingly. I don't like Remus though...I like...
"Will Potter lose his shit if I wear a two piece?" Lily asked, walking over by the dressers, and rifling through her suitcase; she left it open last night after successfully finding her pyjamas.
"He'll lose it no matter what you wear," Hermione teased lightly.
At that Lily pursed her lips, and stood up, dangling the two piece white bathing suit between her fingers. "Then I might as well wear what I want then," Lily shrugged, walking over to the far corner where Hermione's bathroom was located. The night before Lily had merely smirked and wriggled her eyebrows at Hermione's sign on the door.
Hermione told her that if she hadn't specifically said no male marauders then she wouldn't have heard the end of it.
When Lily went inside the bathroom to shower and get changed for the day, Hermione stared down at her chest; examining it. I mean I'm going through puberty, and they aren't that big, they aren't even big B's yet. Though they are large C's when they're fully developed, at least they were last time I went through puberty. That's still such a weird thing to say. Then Hermione's mind began to drift; Lily's not right about Remus is she? I mean, maybe he had a mini crush on me, but he can't still like me? Right? Ugh. I don't know. I'm going back to bed until Lily gets out, Hermione grumbled mentally. Flinging herself back onto the bed, her head sinking into her pillow; Hermione pulled her sheets up to her chin as she bundled down into the warmth under her blanket. It's so nice and comfy, why would anyone ever want to leave?
...
Hermione's return to the land of dreams was short lived, as Draco had come into the room, and started shaking her awake. The boys (with the exception of Peter), had all slept in his room last night. Some may think it weird, but to them it had become a normal occurrence to share the same bed; so much so, that sometimes they would share beds at Hogwarts as well.
"Let me sleep," Hermione grumbled.
"C'mon, the boys want to go out to the pool for a swim," Draco informed her, not ceasing his efforts to wake her, now going a different route by tickling her ribs.
"Fine," Hermione groaned lightly, sitting up, one hand in her unruly curls, and the other laid across her bent knee. "Lily is in the shower, get out of here before she sees you and freaks out."
"She used to like me, why would she freak out?" Draco grinned, and Hermione swatted at him, glaring at him when he stepped back, away from the bed.
"Emphasis on used to," Hermione smiled sweetly. "Now get out. I have to go and shower and get dressed as well."
Draco hesitated for a second, Hermione's eyes rounded, he opened his mouth in protest, and she flung her wand at him. Bonking him on the back of his head as he tried to get away. "DRACO!" Hermione gasped loudly.
"Bloody hell woman, just cause you can't use magic verbally outside of school, doesn't mean you get to throw your damn wand at me," Draco moaned.
"Speaking of though, I've done it before...and the Ministry hasn't complained once?" Hermione whispered to Draco. Halfway through dinner the previous night, the ministry had sent a Howler; in a prissy voice the Ministry official had stated that Miss Lily Evans, an underage Witch had used magic outside of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Stupefy to be exact. There was no penalty this time, they were only going to give her a warning, and emphasized that she not do it again.
"Maybe we should ask Dumbles about it?" Draco stroked his chin thoughtfully. "We can worry about that some other time, right now we need to go for a swim. Shower later."
"Ew, no," Hermione scrunched up her face in disgust, throwing her sheets off of her, oblivious to the fact that Draco's eyes followed her as she got up and walked over to her dresser. Hermione was wearing a cropped, lavender top and a pair of black shorts that came just below her bum.
"Just hurry up, ok?" Draco called over his shoulder as he rushed out of the room, images of Hermione's exposed skin still fresh in his mind.
...
An hour later, all of the young witches and wizards were out by the pool. Remus was wearing swimming bottoms and a long sleeved tee shirt, sitting on the edge of the pool. Peter had just fallen in, and Sirius and James were engaged in a Chicken Fight with Hermione and Draco. Lily however, had climbed into the tree that partially covered the pool, and was sitting on one of the branches, kicking her legs back and forth. At the same time in a surge of effort, Hermione managed to knock Sirius off of James' shoulders.
"HA! We win!" Hermione started wiggling around in excitement, when Draco patted her thigh, and she ceased all movement immediately. Hyper aware of him and where she was, gingerly she tangled her fingers into his hair, gently tugged lightly on his raven tresses.
"I'm going to swing off of the rope swing," Sirius announced, swimming over to the edge of the pool and pulling himself out in one swift motion. You had to climb to one of the bottom branches in the tree to get to the rope, and soon, they were all in the tree except for Remus and Peter. Peter was staring up at the rest of them, dripping onto the grass, hugging himself. Hermione went first, she was wearing a navy blue, simple, triangle two piece, and Remus hadn't stopped staring her in adoration since she'd come outside. Mentally berating himself for ogling her and being disrespectful the entire time. James had on red swim trunks, Draco of course, was wearing black ones, and Sirius had on florescent yellow ones. Saying that he could pull off anything, and that he thought he looked quite lovely in them.
Here I go, Hermione thought excitedly, grabbing onto the rope tightly, hoping that her hands didn't slide or she was going to get rope burn. Taking a deep breath, she pushed off of the tree and sailed through the air, doing a back flip in mid air by accident and ended up diving into the pool. Quickly resurfacing and swimming over to Remus, faintly hearing Sirius declare, "that's it, it is so on, I can do better than that!"
"You sure you don't want to come in?" Hermione frowned, adding lowly, "Lily won't mind your scars, you know."
"I know, but well. I think I'll just watch you guys today," Remus smiled lightly, taking Hermione's wet hand in his own dry one.
"If that's what you wa-" Hermione began before pulling backwards and tugging Remus into the water with her. When he emerged, he looked at her in bemused disbelief, and the playful twinkle in his eye told her that he was going to get her back for that. She tried to swim away, but he grabbed her wrist before she could, and pulled her into him. The smiles on both of their faces froze, and they both grew serious in seconds. Remus brushed her curls out of her face, her cheek resting against his palm; his eyes had changed colour, and were now gold with amber flecks in them.
Sirius did a double front flip, and entered the water with a cannonball at that exact moment; splashing both of them, and then jumping on Hermione's back. James did a triple front flip, holding his knees as he too entered the water with a large splash. Draco and Lily decided to get on the rope at the same time, and Lily did a right twist in the air, and Draco did several front flips. Their tricks got more and more elaborate every time, Peter however was quite content to just jump into the water from the swing. Remus and Hermione swam around leisurely on the other side of the pool; away from where Lily, James, Sirius and Draco were doing tricks.
Eventually they all ended up just floating on top of the water, and playfully splashing one another and Draco began to look at Lily peculiarly.
"What you thinking about so hard, Draco?" Lily laughed breathily, kicking some water in his direction. Draco smirked wryly, and yanked on her foot, dunking her under the water when she got close enough. Running his hand backwards through his wet hair, blinking water droplets off of his eyelashes he responded, "I was just thinking that you were floating on top of the water. Lily. Floating, and then I thought, that you were like a Lilypad. From now on, that's what I'll call you, Lilypad." Draco nodded in confirmation after he said it.
"I second that nickname!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Such a weird boy," Lily shook her head, jumping on Draco's shoulders, taking him slightly off guard as she dunked him back. "There, now we're even," Lily laughed.
"She's amazing," James whispered on Hermione's right, as Sirius was on her left and examining her left hand for no apparent reason.
Hermione watched Draco scowl at Lily as he broke the water's surface. Then as he chased the redhead around the pool, almost crashing into Peter at one point. Then Hermione decided she wanted to join in, and started chasing Draco. Sirius, James and Remus shrugged and they joined in as well. James caught Hermione around her middle and spun her around as she tried to escape. When she stopped flailing, James' grip loosened, and Hermione turned around in his arms. She ended up looping her arms around his neck and hugging him. She could feel his like heart racing at a mile a minute from swimming so hard, and feel his wet hair dripping onto her shoulder, and she was happy. He was here, in this moment, and he was her brother. She had him here, and he was alive, happy and healthy, and that's all she really needed. I love you so much Jamie, I'm so happy I got to meet you. Hermione smiled to herself, hugging him tighter.
Remus was the first one to tap out of the remaining people that were still messing about. Remus heard everyone's hearts beating madly, panting heavily he turned to see Hermione and James hugging, and a small smile touched his lips. They may be crazy, reckless and do stupid things, but I'm really glad they're mine. His mind drifting back to that first day, when Hermione had come into his compartment, so she could wait for the trolley to come round. He wondered how different his life would have been if she hadn't, if he would be like Frank. Their good friend, but not here, not one of them.
Sirius dove forward, somehow managing to get a hold of Lily; Draco was right behind him, and Sirius held her arms behind her back whilst Draco tickled her.
"Both of you are terrible!" Lily gasped in between laughs.
"Just repaying the favour, sweetheart. I play to win." Draco said in a tantalizing tone.
The rest of the day went much like that, the seven of them messing about and playing around. Draco and James tried to teach Hermione how to play Quidditch, she knew how it worked after having watched Harry and then Ron play for years, but she'd never actually done it herself. Sirius was trying to get Lily on a broom, but the Muggleborn witch refused adamantly. Peter sat under the tree with Remus, who was watching them mess about on the brooms, and reading at the same time; ensuring that he engaged in small conversation with Peter at the same time.
It hit Draco at some point that evening that Hermione hadn't told them what her animagus form was, and he knew that she had to have figured it out by now. He had figured his out a few days ago, but he wasn't sure he was happy with his. Shit, are James, Sirius and Peter's leaves still in place? Draco thought in a panic. Sirius and James were almost done as well, Sirius would be finishing tomorrow, and James in three days. I haven't seen any Mandrake leaves floating around in the pool, so hopefully they're still in place.
Later that evening, Draco was able to confirm that they had in fact all kept their leaves in place. Thank Merlin. How they were able to mange that feat, with all the shouting and swimming they had done earlier, he had no idea. They had accomplished it though, that was all that mattered. I guess now I have to tell them what my animagus form is. More importantly, what's Hermione's?