-1I left Lily when I could safely hear her breathing deepen telling me that she'd fallen asleep before I disentangled myself from her, which was when I found myself in hard situation, in more ways than one. I think the sensual smell of her hit me just as I leaned over to pull my arm away without waking her up, and after pulling away I had to sit in the room for a little while longer repeating the mantra 'think unsexy thought' kinda hard as I noticed the curves of her lips and how soft they looked... Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts… Sirius in a bikini… that worked!
I finally went into the living room to find Sirius pouring over a map, I went over there a took a sip of the extra cup that had been set up and then grimaced.
"I made that brew over an hour ago," he smirked at me as I muttered 'twat' under my breath. But then his features softened and he asked how lily was as I made another round of brew's.
"I don't know, somethings up and she just wanted me to stay for a little while as she tried to sleep…"
"I think Stella's death hit her harder than she thought…" he concluded, but I wasn't convinced. "It would have been worse if it'd of been Alice though," this time I did believe that though, Lily and Alice were quite close, had been since Hogwarts.
"Oh yeah," I said as I threw a sugar cube at him.
"Excuse me," he exclaimed in mock annoyance, "what did I do to deserve such harsh treatment?"
"You didn't tell me about Alice…"
"ahhh… hoping you'd forget that," he grabbed the sugar cube and threw it at me I shot him a look of irritation. "You thought I was the Father you pompous arse."
"Not as if you haven't been with her before," I pointed out, "and you're more than fond of your meaningless shags."
"Still…I was hurt." he replied again in mock annoyance. "At least I get laid," I swear I hear him mutter but I chose to ignore him as I sat at the table with him and pulled the map closer to me, "uptight bugger"
"I know I heard that," I said, and threw the sugar cube at him in retaliation.
"Stop with the sugar cubes… at least throw something a little more…" and he grabbed my cold coffee and threw it over me. "er… bye" and ran off as I sat there with coffee dripping down my face.
"It's cold," Sirius moans.
"I know," I reply.
"It's cold," Sirius moans again.
"I know," I reply again.
A few minutes later…"It's cold."
"Sirius…"
"Fine, I'll keep quiet then…" He said. Then a few moments later, "you won't hear a peep out of me. I chose to ignore it and then he mutters again, "really do with a nice hot water bottle," I didn't respond and he still continued, I proceeded to count to ten after he said "or a hot chocolate." It was quite for another moment, I got to 7 in my counting… "with marshmallows."
"Sirius!" I cried exasperated bringing down my hands in a swift annoyed motion.
"Fine! It's just cold that's all I'm sayin…"
"I get that, but you mentioning it all the time is not helping," I replied.
"Don't know why we don't caste a warming charm?" Sirius moans, I open my mouth to say something but Sirius starts again first imitating me. "Yeah, I know it's a blue fire that'd cause muggles to get all scared and stuff… yada yada yada," he finishes with a smirk.
"I don't talk like that…" I scuffed my foot on the gravel path. We'd been walking on the hills surrounding us to get to know the area. Maps tell you one thing but not the state of the buildings, they could be magnificent and grand surrounded by landscape gardens, or disused crumbling buildings more like shacks surrounded by acre's of vast bare land, the latter being an accurate example of a death eater hang out..
"Yeah you do. And face it you always talk like it, accept your destiny."
"I'd rather get off this hill," I decided, scouting the empty fields for… well anything. "There's the building over there, fancy a look?"
"Nowt else to do," Sirius sighed.
We trudged over to the building, groaning occasionally as we noticed the land was uneven and on a rising slope. By the time we got close, we noticed it was in a reasonable condition but something was slightly off. I looked at my best friend and he gave me a look that meant he felt the same. I dumped my old rucksack on the ground not caring if any mud got on it and pulled out my invisibility cloak and gathered it round Sirius and myself. We walked closer to the house in slow steps, trending carefully as to not make any noise and went to the windowsill. Peering over, I noticed the house was lacking furniture and that there were a few sleeping bags arranged haphazardly around the room. Rubbish littered the floor as well as a few rags of clothing noting that somebody must have at least been squatting there.
"Death eaters?" Sirius whispered.
"Can't tell mate," I answered him in the same whispered hush.
"I can, smells of the stinky bastards… the stench was burned into my head from living with my family" he mutters.
"whoever it is, there's no one here at the moment." I looked at my watch, 5:30. It'll be dark soon, "we can wait around mate and see if anyone turns up or just take a few picture with the camera come back tomorrow and see if anything's been disturbed over night."
"it is cold," he mutters thoughtfully and I glare at him. After I cast a quick charm to see if there are any protection spells on the building, there weren't, he leans over the window sill and was about to swing a leg over. Until it got caught on the edge and he fell forwards landing on the floor with a great crash. I shake my head in disbelief, clumsy git.
I move to the front entrance and he's already there with the door open. "why didn't you just use alohomora?"
"more fun that way," he replies with a grin as he moves out of the way. "Feels like that guy from those films Lily watches, "Bont, James Bont."
"Its Bond Sirius, and technically we are spys already…" I note our exact co-ordinates after a quick spell.
"but we use the door normally, I don't like using the door…"
"you'll fall over less," I mutter as he carries on in his rant and is taking pictures of the surroundings.
"but we have cooler camera's and magic, spies with magic are a lot more sophisticated…"
He keeps his rant going as we work, but it makes me smile rather than annoying him. We decide that it was getting to late and we head back to Lily, a lot happier now that he realised he was going somewhere warm Sirius was pretty much bouncing the whole way back. He mention that it where we were would be a very good place to take Padfoot for a walk, I half expected him to transform then and there and want to play fetch, but I think his growling stomach won over.
By the time we got back, Lily was fast asleep on the couch, a warm broth over the stove ready for us. I grabbed a blanket and placed it over her as she lay by the fire, tucking her back behind her ear.