Chapter 10 (I think) (title goes here)
"Ok, Mr. Black, you are free to go–"Madame Pomfrey paused as Sirius pulled back the covers of his hospital bed and bolted towards the door.
"And please try to keep your self out trouble, or at least mortal danger." Yelled Madame Pomfrey as Sirius thanked her and ran out the room.
Sirius kept running until he finally slowed his pace down, and began to walk towards the Great Hall, where everyone was having lunch. Sirius had been sitting in the hospital wing for over an hour, thinking over what happened earlier this morning. Every thought that went through his mind, made him madder and madder.
Images flashed in his mind, of James and Remus fighting, of Snape interrupting, of the snake, of the pain that surged through his hand and up his arm.
All of which were Snape's fault, and for every single one of them Snape will pay the consequences , in the best way I can imagine. Sirius was thinking angrily as he opened the great double doors that gave him entrance to the Great Hall.
People stopped and turned as Sirius sauntered towards the Gryffindor table. He sat down and without saying a word to James, Remus, Lily or Peter who were all staring at him, he began to pile his plate with food, as though he hadn't eaten for a week. The Marauders and Lily continued to stare at the obviously hungry Sirius until James had enough of the silence.
"Woah, Sirius, you have been in hospital for what? An hour?" James laughed as his friend began to stuff potatoes, two at a time, in his mouth.
"I missed breakfast!" said Sirius through his potato, bits escaping from his hungry mouth.
"No you didn't!" Exclaimed Peter who was laughing at him as well.
"Mieh" Sirius shrugged and continued to eat by shovelling fooddown his throat as fast as he could it seemed, only pausing briefly to breathe.
Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius and the laughing Peter and turned to James.
"Did you get it?" she hissed at him quietly, but not nearly quietly enough. For Remus, who was sitting next to James heard her.
"Got what?" inquired Remus, his eyebrow raised.
Lily widened her eyes innocently, "Why, the lubricant of course!"
James' eyes lit up in excitement. "Really?"
"No!" Lily yelled, shocked that he took the joke so seriously.
"Don't change the subject," Remus said. "Even though it was a nice try doing so." He smiled. "What did you get James?"
"I don't know…what did I get Evans?" James asked putting on a ridiculous face.
"You idiot!" Lily exclaimed. "What were we talking about in the hall?"
"Umm… how nice you looked?" James guessed, hoping that the compliment would make her shut up about the mirror.
"No Potter… If your head is so full with that ego of yours, you can't even remember what occurred basically twenty minutes ago, I shall have to spell it out for you, in nice simple words so that you can understand." Lily glared at James, obviously annoyed. James closed both of his eyes, and braced him self for what Sirius would say, if he was bothering to listen. James opened one eye. She hadn't said anything…yet.
"We," Lily started to say. James closed his eyes again. "Were… talking…about how you were going to give me that blasted mir…" she stopped when she saw Sirius' face look up from his nearly empty plate. Sirius swallowed the mouthful of whatever he was eating and looked to the cringing James, then Lily and then back to James again. James noted the silence and opened his eyes.
"You told her about the mirror, didn't you?" He said coldly.
Damn, James mouthed. He opened his mouth to explain but Sirius stopped him with a hand. "Don't bother Prongs." Sirius stood up and was about to step over the chair when he saw Snape from over the other side on the room sneering at him. Sirius snarled and stormed out of the Great Hall, his anger fuming.
This is all Snape's fault, everything always is, and it's that slimeball's fault Lily and James are fighting, it's his fault that Lily wants my precious mirror and it's his damn fault that Remus is a werewolf... ok, that probably stretched the blame a bit too far, but everything else damned is! Sirius sighed as he walked out of the Great Hall and made his way outside for a breath of fresh air.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Lily, completely lost. James turned to face her.
"I have one word for you Evans, that pretty much sums all this up; Snape." James said looking over in the direction of the Slytherin table.
"Oh…yes, well I suppose that does explain his reaction. Snape always brings out the worst in people." Lily surmised. "It's rather sad, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is," said Remus shaking his head. "and that tendency is shown very well around Sirius and James. They are worse than opposites, because they simply will not mix. Oil and milk."
"Hey! That's only because he's a slimy git!" Added James grinning. Remus just rolled his eyes.
"Well, somebody had better go and check on Sirius, and see if he's alright." Lily said, looking over in the direction of the doors of the Great Hall.
"What is it with girls and checking on people? I mean, if he wants to be alone, let him." James remarked.
"Great best friend you are." Sneered Lily.
"Oh well at least I don't go running around saying" James put on a high pitched feminine voice and said, "Hey wait for me, please, tell me all your problems because I'm a nosy girl, so therefore I can help!"
"You are impossible James Potter!" Lily spat and walked off in the same huff that Sirius did moments before. Just as the double doors slammed shut in her aftermath, the bell rang for 5th period.
"Well I guess I'll be seeing her sooner then she hoped." James smirked. "We have History of Magic together." James sighed dramatically, "Well I'm off. If I don't return, say something nice about me at my funeral." James mock saluted, grinned and left Remus and Peter sitting at the nearly empty Gryffindor table.
"Better get to class then," Peter sighed and stood up to fast causing him to knock into the table and bump all the goblets half full of pumpkin juice over the place.
"Oops." Peter said moving rather quickly towards the doors in which James had exited. Remus looked over at the staff table and saw Professor McGonagall shaking her head at Peter's clumsiness, and then saw her wave her wand at the vast mess Peter had made and turn back to Professor Slughorn, who she appeared to be in a deep conversation with.
The door of the classroom opened with a squeak. Lily walked in and had the entire class staring at her. Professor Bings, who was at the front of the class turned and looked at her.
"Miss Evans," he said peering at her from over his folder he was holding. "You are late… but…seeing as this is your first misdemeanor I'll over look it. Please take a seat…over there by Mr. Potter." Professor Bings waved his hand in the direction of James' table and continued his talk on the importance of homework completion to successfully pass the unit while Lily made her way over to the table James was sitting to one side to. James began to say something when Lily interrupted him abruptly.
"Don't say a word, Potter," she snapped before he opened his mouth fully.
"I wouldn't dream of it Lily flower." Smirked James as Lily sat on the other side of the table, as far away from James as she could manage. It was like this for the rest of the lesson.
James and Lily worked in silence, the only exception being when Lily ran out of ink, and had to ask James to borrow his. He gladly shared but it was an inconvenience for Lily, because James had left his inkbottle was in the middle of his books, and Lily suspected that this lack of moving the bottle was so she had to lean over him to use it. I bet he doesn't mind that at all, Lily thought heatedly. In fact, I'll bet a thousand Galleons it was deliberate! It put her in a rather foul mood, so that when the bell rang for 6th period, Lily dumped her books in her bag and stormed out of the classroom. James sighed and did the same thing, following her in the direction of the common room.