Tonight we are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the sun

Saturday November 17th, 1973

Quidditch Locker Room

"You'll be fine, Ellie. Stop worrying." David spoke, readjusting his dragon hide gloves. "But just so you know, this is a very important match."

Eleonore raised her eyebrow at the Quidditch captain, flinging her two fish braids over her shoulder. "Gee, thank you David. The weight on my shoulders just got a whole lot lighter."

The blonde fifth year laughed nervously, patting his ex-love interest on the shoulder. "We'll win this one, I can feel it."

Ellie nodded her head, her fingers wrapped around her broom, trying not to break it in half. This was definitely an important match. The gloomy November air didn't help whatsoever. She knew every moment now, there was a possibility that those dark clouds would crack open, resulting in heavy rainfall. She did not like playing in the rain.

"You okay, Ellie?" She heard James Potter speak right next to her. He was wearing the same outfit as her. Bright red and gold colours screaming out their similar house.

"Fine." She mumbled once again.

"Watch your back for the Rosiers. I don't trust either of them." James spoke, adjusting his glasses. "I know Alixana has been trying to get to you since first year. Malfoy's not really our fan either."

"I'm covering for her, it should be fine." Ellie heard a familiar voice speak, she turned her head towards the source, noticing that he had pushed all his dark hair in a small ponytail for the match. As much as she wanted to laugh at Sirius Black, she was too nervous right now to do so. "We've discussed tactics, everyone knows what they have to do."

Eleonore nodded her head, determinately looking straight forward when she heard the crowd roar outside. "Black is right. Let's kick their ugly little Slytherin asses."

It was showtime.

As soon as the Gryffindor Quidditch team stepped onto to field, it seemed as if time turned slowly for Ellie. Nearly the whole school had shown up for this game. This was an important one because whoever won this match, was far ahead of the other houses on the Quidditch Board. Which meant that there would be a big chance of winning the House Cup, even though it was still far away.

Hufflepuff had not been doing great but it surprisingly still won against Ravenclaw. Slytherin had beaten Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, just as well as the Gryffindors had. Ellie knew this match would not be an easy one and the pressure was on. She heard rumours that the last year Gryffindors had already stashed a couple bottles of fire whiskey to celebrate tonight.

They weren't even five minutes in the air when the clouds broke and heavy rain poured down the sky. Even though her clothes kept her warm, their outfits had special protection charms for water, she couldn't help but shiver. The wind was cold upon her face when she caught the quaffle from James and speedily flew towards the Slytherin hoops, ducking underneath Alixana and scoring by throwing it into the right hoop.

"ELLIE DARENSBOURG SCORES! 10 POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR! WHAT A WOMAN!" She heard a roaring applause in the background and couldn't help but smirk when she heard the Slytherin Quidditch Captain, Emma Vanity curse.

She just prayed to god David would find the Golden Snitch as soon as possible so she could get inside and out of this pouring rain. Emma Vanity had thrown the quaffle back into the game, straight towards Lucius Malfoy. She noticed Ian Willow going head to head with him and tried to move along, ignoring Sirius who kept around her to protect her from the bludger.

It was a constant game of back on forth. A dirty game of back and forth.

When Evasif Avery obviously purposely pushed the bludger her way, it was a close call with Ellie's head. "ELLIE! DUCK!" She heard the familiar voice of a certain Black scream through the rain. As stubborn as she was listening to him in school, she knew it would be a smart move to listen to him now. She immediately did so, her head being two inches away of pulp as the crowd screamed in horror.

"Fuckin' Avery." She gnarled her teeth, pushing away the few loose strands of wet hair out of her eyes. Her eyes quickly sought out Sirius, she mumbled. "Thanks Black."

"Keep focussed." He intensely spoke, his jaw gnarled together. "I'd like it if you stayed alive." Sirius spoke quickly, then flying away from her.

"Right." Ellie sighed, finally finding James in the game and noticing he just threw the Quaffle towards Ian Willow.

It was a long Quidditch game. One of the longest she had ever played. The Quaffle kept on going back and forth and when David Hamblin finally caught the Golden Snitch, Ellie thought she could cry from relieve.

"DAVID HAMBLIN HAS CAUGHT THE GOLDEN SNITCH. GRYFFINDOR WINS! YES! GRYFFINDOR! WHAT A MATCH! WHAT A GAME! THIS WAS SO INTENSE!" She heard the commentator scream as the crowd went wild.

Ellie immediately flew back to the ground, jumping upon David and M.G. who were already hugging and screaming on the ground in joy. She jumped on top of them, knowing that she wouldn't crush them with her light weight. "GOD DAMMIT HAMBLIN! ABOUT TIME! GOD I'M SO HAPPY!" Ellie screamed, not caring about the mud and the rain covering all her clothes, face and hair.

It wasn't long until she noticed the rest of the team jumping upon the human pile in celebration. "FUCK YES! FUCK YES!" She heard Sirius scream on top of her and James Potter. For once, she didn't think about kicking him off, she was too happy right now.

Saturday November 17th, 1973

Gryffindor Common Room

"SPEECH! SPEECH! SPEECH!" Everyone chanted in the round common room. The fireplace was burning and after a good warm shower and a new, decent set of clothes, the party had begun. Ellie her suspicions were right, the last year Gryffindors had sneaked in some alcoholic beverages and mixed them with the fruit punch. A part of her recognized that Professor McGonagall knew about the festivities but decided, wisely, to ignore them all together. That twinkle in her eye when she congratulated the team did not go overlooked.

Even Lily, who otherwise wouldn't be up for a rebellion streak, seemed to have flushed cheeks and laughed at the way David tried to stand on a table but lost his balance a little. When he finally steadied himself, he lifted his red cup into the air. "We might not have won the war just yet but for merlin's fuck," Ellie heard Lily breath in heavily in shock right next to her. "We won this important, VERY important battle!"

Ellie cheered along with the crowd, lifting her cup in the air. She laughed at Remus throwing his arm around her neck and placing a kiss on her temple. She immediately responded by curving her free left arm around his waist.

"We have the best team ever! We now are so close to winning the cup at the end of the year! Guys… I do want to thank you-" David breathed in heavily, Ellie thought she could see his eyes tearing up.

"Oh god, you have to be kidding me." Ellie mumbled, trying not to laugh at her Quidditch Captain.

"You've been so good to me. I want to thank you as a coach. You've all invested yourself so much in the team. I'm so proud. Thank you, thank you, thank you. TO THE GRYFFINDORS!" David Hamblin finished, shouting the last few words through the common room.

Everybody immediately followed, lifting their cups again. "TO THE GRYFFINDORS!"

"I bet you're one happy girl." Remus smiled, sighing contently when Ellie turned around and buried her head in the crook of his shoulder.

"Happy is just a small word. We just won an important match, I have a wonderful set of friends." Her eyes shifted shortly towards Christina and Lily laughing on the couch. "And the best thing of all, I have you."

She watched how his green eyes sparkled as he stared at the dimples in her cheeks. He could tell by her speech that she was already a little tipsy. Remus was certain that this was the first time she actually drank alcohol. He promised himself he'd look after her and didn't drink anything of the 'fruit punch'.

"I was really worried about you, you know. That bludger got really close." He mumbled, enjoying the way her small, delicate hands rubbed against his back in a hug.

"Yeah, but I got away safely though." She grinned. "And we won."

Her annoyance instantly raised when she felt James Potter hug her from behind. His arms were long enough to wrap themselves around her and a part of Remus, resulting in Ellie being sandwiched in between the two. "Yes, you got away safely Ellie. I'm so happy!" She heard James speak, his head was lying in the back of her neck. His chest against her shoulders.

"Can't let anything happen to this pretty face." Another voice teasingly spoke, even though she was a little tipsy herself, she could tell by his voice that Sirius had more than one cup of fruit punch.

"Don't talk about my face being pretty." Ellie mumbled, trying to get closer to Remus and away from James Potter.

"Who said I was talking about you Darensbourg, I'm talking about Jamie." Sirius rolled his eyes, placing himself behind James and hugging him.

"I love you, for loving me." She heard James reply, his breath hot in her ear. She felt him release one arm he was hugging her with and assumed that he now hugged Sirius with his left arm, and still held onto her with the other.

Ellie rolled her eyes, pushing James' remaining arm away from her. "Let's split this hugging train up and let me have some time with my boyfriend." She ignored Sirius his wiggling eyebrows and grabbed Remus his hand. "Let's go somewhere alone."

She didn't hear Remus protest so she quickly made her way towards the punch bowl, refilled her drink and took a new cup from Remus as well. "Come on."

"Where are we going?" Remus looked a little worried but couldn't help but be interested as well. As much of a goodie two shoes he admitted he was, it felt good to be a little dangerous alongside Ellie. It was a new feeling he hadn't felt before.

Anticipation.

Keenness.

The urge to be alone with her.

He could feel it inside of him.

Her hand never left his as they left the common room through the portrait. He knew it was after curfew, he knew they were breaking the rules. Right now, he didn't care about that. He hadn't been alone with her in a week. Sure they had studied together in the library, giving one another an excited smile from over the table, but they were never alone.

Things were so hectic. Ellie was constantly training for the match and with a rough full moon last week he had to catch up on a lot of homework, he had really missed her. He liked that he could take care of her now. He liked that she needed him.

His thoughts were preoccupied but stopped abruptly when he heard her give a small shriek. Ellie turned on her feet immediately, pulling him along. "Filch. Hurry!" She quickly spoke, her feet rapidly sprinting towards another corridor. Remus immediately followed, never releasing her hand in the process.

The half-moon casually lightened up the dark corridors they were running through and when his girlfriend finally opened a door and pushed him inside, she quickly followed, locking it behind them. Darkness surrounded the small space, Remus could tell by the way she pushed herself against his chest that this wasn't one of the largest rooms in the castle.

"Lumos." Ellie whispered, holding up her wand.

Remus had been right. They were stuck in a broom closet. Buckets and a ton of cleaning supplies were hanging above their heads. Ellie nearly laughed when she noticed both of their quickened breaths but when she noted footsteps outside, her eyes widened.

"Where are the little naughty students out of bed after curfew? Oh where, oh where?" She heard the familiar voice belonging to Filch speak as her lips tightened and she tried to hold her breath.

Please don't open this door. Please don't open this door.

Ellie did not feel in another detention. She had received one last month for throwing a shoe she had to transfigure at Sirius and James their heads during a Monday lesson of transfiguration. As happy as Professor Mcgonagall had been that they had won the match, Ellie knew she would not be amused if she got caught in a broom closet with her boyfriend.

Ellie locked her green eyes with Remus' and tried not to laugh as they held their breaths. When they finally didn't hear footsteps outside the door anymore, she exhaled and laughed. "That was so close."

"I hate that guy." Remus replied, taking in Ellie's flushed cheeks from underneath his gaze.

"Let's not talk about him, it's just you and me now." She mumbled, closing in the small gap they had created. "Just you and me."

"You're a bit drunk." Remus teasingly spoke, pushing a strand of black hair away from her forehead so he could look into those piercing green eyes.

"Hmm and you're my boyfriend." Ellie mumbled, throwing her arm around his neck and pushing herself close. "So I think you should kiss me. I've been waiting for my celebration kiss."

He couldn't help but wonder how in Merlin's sake he had ever managed to make her his girlfriend. How she so blindly loved him, every single inch of him, knowing fully well what kind of a monster he was. She was truly a magnificent witch, inside and out. "Are you going to keep staring at me or are you going to kiss me?"

He shook his head, smiling at her anticipated grin. He wanted to go slow, romantic but as soon as he pushed his lips upon hers, Ellie responded with every fibre of her being. It was as if something exploded inside that little broom closet.

He noticed through the light of her wand every single detail about her face. The flushed cheeks, her dilated pupils, her irregular breathing. He could even feel her increased heart rate underneath his fingertips around her neck.

He was in so much trouble.

When their tongues waltzed together synchronically and he felt her jerk him closer by pulling his hair, he groaned. How many nights had he dreamt of being alone in a broomcloset with Eleonore? How many nights had he wished for her lips to attack him as brutally as they did now?

His instinct, her smell.

Remus felt her biting his bottom lip in eagerness and that's when the wolf howled inside of him. That exact moment she bit him, the straining in his pants made it more than obvious what he wanted. He breathed her in once again as his hands wrapped themselves around her bare thighs, lifting her around his waist.

Never disconnecting her lips with his, she got the message loud and clear when she wrapped her legs around his lean torso. Feeling for the very first time in her life, a real man against her thighs. She always thought she'd be a little scared of it but this, this was different. This was Remus.

Eleonore felt her back being pushed against the one spare, free wall and groaned, her mouth widening in surprise.

She realised she was far, far away from holding hands and stealing cute glances.

"Ellie-" She heard him groan in the crook of her neck. "We need to stop, else I won-"

"Shhhh." She replied, throwing back her head back against the wall to give him more space to kiss her underneath her ear. "This feels good, this feels right, Remus."

"Ellie- this is not, you don't know how dangerous this is, I don't kno-"

"Is this about your condition again?" She paused, throwing her head back a little to stare at him. "You know I don't care-"

"But I care!" He quickly responded, the heat in the room cooling down immensely. "I – I – " He wasn't sure if he should have said it, it wasn't a word he just threw around and he didn't want to scare her off either.

But he did love her.

"I love you, I do but this is not the way we want to learn each other's bodies. Not in a broomcloset, Eleonore. You deserve so much more than a dusty bucket above your head and a wer-" He knew he shouldn't have said that, he knew she would get angry.

"And a what, Remus?" Ellie unlocked her legs from around his waist. "A werewolf in between my legs?" She whispered harshly.

"Ellie-" He sighed, trying not to stare at her red, plumb lips.

"I think it's time for you to let me decide what I deserve." She pointed out, staring at him. "If you can't ever get over that, then I don't think we'll get along very well."

"You're right. I- I'm sorry, Ellie." Remus shook his head, watching how she finally took his hand inside hers and placed a kiss upon that one scar that ran across the knuckles of his right hand.

"I'm sorry too." She mumbled, somehow immediately sobering up, "And I do love you, as well. I'm just going to have to keep on telling you that, won't I?"

Remus smiled, placing a kiss upon her temple, "Sit with me." He sank down on the floor and Ellie felt him push her down upon his lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck protectively. "I'm really happy we're having some alone time though. I was quite proud of you on that Quidditch field today."

"Oh really?" She grinned, looking at him. "I wish I could have seen your face when the commentator gave me that one compliment."

"Which one? He gave you quite a few." Remus replied in challenge, raising his left eyebrow.

"Hmm… Well I was playing the game with intense concentration. You will have to sum them up again." She squinted her eyes in a playful matter.

"Well he pissed me off at the beautiful long legs comment."

Ellie threw back her head in laughter, but immediately tried to silence herself with the palm of her hand when she realised where they were. "That was one of the first."

"The green piercing eyes that can see through any thunderstorm." Remus pointed out.

"Jack did not say that!"

"He did, he did!"

"Well, all the girls are very jealous of me as well so we match." Ellie mumbled, placing a sloppy kiss upon his flushed cheeks.

"They're not."

"They are! You're cute!" Ellie laughed when Remus scrunched his nose at her. "Too bad you're all mine."

"I am."

"You are."

"Remind me to thank Sirius later." Remus spoke, his eyes travelling every inch of her face.

"Why?" Ellie looked a little confused.

"He saved you today. If not for him, you wouldn't be sitting on my lap right now, you'd be in the hospital wing."

Saturday November 17th, 1973

Gryffindor Common Room

When Remus and Ellie finally made it back safely towards the Gryffindor Tower without getting caught, they noticed that the party inside the common room had died down. It made Ellie wonder how long they were away. She tried to hold back laughter when she noticed Peter snoring the day away in front of the fireplace. His head was almost as red as a tomato from the heat of the fire.

"Look at Petey!" Ellie giggled, pointing at her friend.

"He's going to feel that tomorrow." Remus grinned, shaking his head.

"Holy sh- Look at Marlene!" Eleonore's eyes widened at her blonde friend. She was spooning Sirius Black on the floor. "I need my camera for this. This is blackmail material. Literally."

"They probably won't remember it tomorrow." Remus whispered, stepping over another passed out body from a sixth year.

"If Sirius is here, James shouldn't be far." Ellie mumbled, her eyes scanning the common room for her second team mate. "Speaking of the devil." She finally found him underneath the study table. "Do you have a marker?"

"I'm not getting stuck in between my girlfriend and my friends. You're on your own with this one." Remus tried not to laugh at Ellie's shocked face.

"You said you loved me." She whispered harshly.

"I do very much." Remus tried not to laugh when he nodded his head at her. "That's why I'm going to wish you a goodnight. I'll see you in the morning." He quickly gave her a kiss on the lips and winked at her before turning around and walking towards the staircase.

"Get back here!" Ellie demanded, trying to stop her boyfriend and hoping he'd jump along the bandwagon for her plan.

"Love you." Remus smirked, leaving his girlfriend alone in the common room. There was no way in hell he'd want to be part of the guys' payback plans.

Ellie bit her lip in anticipation. She only had quills. She needed a marker. A decent one. She stared at James Potter once again, he was such an easy target. Her eyes shifted towards the lifeless form of Sirius Black lying passed out. She had been waiting for this moment her entire school carrier. She knew just the right person who would think the same thing.

"Lily." Ellie nudged her friend in bed. "Lils, I have a plan. Get up."

"Ellie? What're you doing? It's two am." The red head mumbled, trying to rub her eyes. "Where have you been?"

"In a broom closet with Remus but that's not the point." She ignored Lily raising her eyebrow at her. "Potter and Black are passed out downstairs. I need a marker. I only have quills."

"You're up to something." Lily spoke, immediately being awake. "And it involves pranking Potter and Black… I'm not the usual one for pranks but I can make sure you do it right. It would only be a friend helping another friend out, right?"

Ellie looked a little confused at her best friend, "What?"

"Just beg me to do it."

"Please Lils, help me out. I really need your help with pranking Potter and Black." Ellie whispered, placing her hand palms together in a praying gesture.

"Well, if you really, really need my help but it's only because you practically begged for it." Lily grinned, a mischief twinkle in her eyes. "I brought a marker from back home."

"Who are you and what have you done with my Lily Evans?" Ellie questioned, placing her hands in her waist.

"You've converted her." Lily mumbled, searching her bag for that marker.

"I don't feel bad for a minute." Ellie grinned.

"FOUND IT!" Lily squeeled.

"Ssshhh-" Ellie looked around in the other beds, noticing that only Alice was asleep in hers. "You'll wake up Alice- Wait, where's Tina?" She looked around confused, Ellie knew that Marlene was downstairs but the other blonde was missing.

"Last time I saw her she was literally hanging on every word Ian Willow was saying." Lily shrugged, passing the thick black marker towards Eleonore.

"We'll look for her in a minute. Let's do this first." Ellie laughed, trying to get out of the sleeping dorms as quietly as possible.

Lily and her descended down the stairs as quietly as possible. Lily's eyes widened at the sight of the common room, "The house elves won't be amused. Look at this mess." She mumbled.

"Important things first." Ellie mumbled, making her way towards the big table in the middle of the common room. She knew James Potter was lying underneath it, passed out. "Look at that pretty face." Ellie tried holding back laughter, James his glasses were crooked upon his head and if her eyes didn't betray her, there was a small patch of drool coming out of the corner of his mouth.

"That's disgusting." Lily commented.

"They're so innocent when they're asleep." Ellie grinned, opening the lit of the marker. "Way too innocent."

"What are you going to do?" Lily questioned, trying to mask her own enthusiasm.

"Make him a real man." Ellie tried to steady her hand, drawing a classic moustache above his lip. When she thought she could see his lip twitch, Ellie immediately paused, holding her breath. A small snore escaped James Potter's lips as she sighed in relieve. When she finished the moustache, she went for the forehead.

She could hear Lily's giggles right next to her when she formed the words upon his forehead. "Done. On to the next one." Ellie elegantly rolled herself from underneath the table standing up straight to walk towards the place where her favourite classmate was lying passed out.

Ah, the apple of her eye.

Sirius Black.

Eleonore smirked, staring at his lifeless body. "I'm getting a little scared of you, right now, honestly." Lily spoke, looking at her best friend.

"I have been waiting for this moment for a very long time." Ellie grinned, crunching down next to his head. She tried to ignore his long eyelashes and went to work. Five minutes and a few creative artworks and funny words later, Ellie stared down at her masterpiece with crossed arms. "I think I did a pretty good job."

"They'll kill us if they find out we did this." Lily mumbled, trying not to laugh.

"That's why, you always have to be one step ahead." Ellie pointed out. "You don't think we'd keep this marker, right?"

"What are you doing?" Lily wondered, watching how Eleonore made her way back to James Potter. She carefully lifted his right hand, praying for Merlin that he would not wake up. She was glad that she could place the marker in his hands without him noticing anything.

"They'll think they did it themselves. They won't remember last night, they're that stupid." Ellie shrugged, happily coming back up from underneath the table.

"How in Merlin's name aren't you a Slytherin?" Lily grinned, she couldn't wait for the boys to wake up in the morning.

"It's because I have balls, Lils. Come on, let's get to bed." Ellie laughed, throwing her arm around her friends' neck. It was times like these she would never forget.

When both girls finally entered the sleeping dorms once again, Lily went to bed. Ellie still had to change into her pyjamas and quickly did so. She knew she still had to brush her teeth and marched towards the small bathroom. She raised her eyebrows in surprise when she opened the door.

"Lils?" Ellie whispered harshly, turning her head towards her friend.

"Yes?"

"I've found Tina. She's asleep on the toilet seat." Ellie tried not to laugh at the stack of blonde hair on top of the loo.

"Oh thank god." Lily mumbled, trying to hold back laughter herself.

Author's note: I know, I know. I have been gone for quite some time but I've had a lot of issues in my personal life. I broke up with my longterm boyfriend of nine years, had to live back with my parents for a while, then I bought a house and Monday I have the key so as soon as I settle down there, I should be updating again more frequently. I do hope you've enjoyed this chapter, it's a happy chapter. We need some of those too in this story, it'll become quite dark towards the end. I will let them be careless and fun right now, they deserve that. You know the drill. Leave me a little review if you want to see more. Xo Eva