I just randomly feel the need to remind you all that Hermonucleusus can't sing. Also, I don't own Harry Potter or the characters residing within it's pages.
Thanks as always to This. Is. SCRUMPTIOUS for beta reading.
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Blinking made Sirius's head hurt. The light coming in from the window only made it worse. He groaned as pitifully as he could manage and sat up. Quite promptly after doing so, he fell back down. His head felt like a bowling ball, and his mouth tasted like death. Something must have happened last night. Sirius could remember James, and drinking, but that was about it.
He tried sitting up again, this time succeeding. He desperately needed to pee.
When Sirius finally made it downstairs he found that not only was no one up yet, but that a certain young man by the name of Severus Snape awaited him in the hallway. Mr. Evans must have let him in as he left for work. The Slytherin stood up and practically lunged at the young man the moment his feet touched the linoleum.
"You dunderheaded git, do you realize what you did?"
Sirius cocked his head sideways in a very dog-like manner. "What did I do?" he asked, yawning. Stretching his jaw only made his head hurt more. Severus looked like he was about ready to lash out at him, but paused just before, looking over Sirius's shoulder. Curious, as he heard laughter, Sirius did the same.
James and Lily were just coming down the stairs. Sirius had nearly dismissed his best friends visit as a dream; now his pounding head made more sense. James looked away from his lady friend momentarily to notice the two dark haired young men at each other's throats.
"Hey, Snivellous... How'd you like the greeting gift I left you?" James smirked.
Severus's eyes filled with a hellfire of hatred.
"You," he spat.
"Me." James shrugged innocently.
"You dungbombed my house!"
"What?" Lily exclaimed, "James!"
"Hey, he had it coming," James responded, not a care in the world.
Suddenly, the sworn enemies had wands at the ready. Severus kept a firm grip on his, so much so that his knuckles turned a ghostly white. James was cockier, using his wand to taunt Severus.
"Stop-" Sirius started, only to be cut off by Lily.
"Stop it! This house will NOT become a battlefield for your petty rivalries. All of you, living room. Now."
Suddenly, flashbacks of last night began to hit Sirius.
'"WAHOO!" James yelled, throwing his arms up in the air as wind blew through his hair. This only made his passenger cling to him more and clamp a hand over his mouth. James pushed the hand away and took a swig from the firewhiskey bottle in his left hand before handing it to Sirius. Sirius took a swig himself.
"This is a muggle area Jamesh, shh!" He leaned over suddenly, almost making James loose his balance, "There! Tha's his house."'
Sirius held his head. He was beginning to remember what had happened, but he didn't want to think about it.
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Lily stood tall over the three young men, who were sitting in a row on the couch. She had her arms crossed, and her eyes were hard as she studied them.
Severus made himself smaller, crouching down with his arms resting on his knees. He glared at Potter who was on the opposite end of the sofa. The four-eyes was practically drooling. The sallow skinned teen caught Sirius's gaze. Black turned away with a start, realizing he had been caught. Severus suddenly felt self-conscious.
"The lot of you need to sort your priorities. I had hoped we could have a nice last summer vacation, maybe put the past behind and behave like the civilized adults we're expected to be," The red head started. She paced in front of Potter, Sirius, and Severus.
"But-"
"No 'buts' James, I mean it," Lily uttered.
Severus would never admit it, but sometimes the sound of Lily's voice just wasn't what he wanted to hear. This was one of those moments. The dark haired Slytherin simply sat there and contemplated a few of life's mysteries.
'Why in the name of Merlin did someone believe it was all right to throw bags of dung at a house at two in the bloody morning?'
'Why hasn't Lucius owled me yet with the plans?'
'What the hell is a Hufflepuff?'
and, the one he was the least proud of...
'Why hasn't Sirius noticed that our legs are touching?'
It wasn't hugely awkward in any stating of the word, but there it was. Sometime during the course of Lily's never ending speech, Sirius (Black, dammit, BLACK!) had leaned back to stretch. During the process, his leg had come to rest against Severus's and had refrained from moving since. What with everything that had happened, it was all Severus could do to ignore it.
"And for another thing-!"
"Uh, Lily," Sirius said. "I'm not sure what we're all doing here. You've been yelling at James this entire time. Sev and I don't need to be here..."
The brazen look in the young woman's softened slightly. "Sorry, I've been all over the place these past couple of weeks. I just wanted you three to see how stupid your childhood rivalry is. All the hate you have for each other was meaningless. The line between hate and love is so fine..."
Potter stood suddenly, making the springy old sofa bounce like a trampoline. He wrapped an arm around Evans and, Severus could only assume from his stance looking at the ground, kissed her.
"Fine. I'll get along with Sourgrapes, for your sake," he told her, smiling chivalrously.
"Thanks."
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Sirius smiled subtly, he had had trouble concentrating on what Lily was saying during her little speech, but he had something better. The look of embarrassment on Severus' face when their eyes met. Sirius didn't have to be gay to know he had been checked out. gay gay gay gay gay gay. It felt good to think it to himself. He only wished he'd had the bollocks to say it out loud. Then again, he had just been checked out by Severus Snape.
The Gryffindor shook his head and stretched, curiously touching his leg to Severus's, and settling in to the rhythm of Lily's voice as she went on about how stupid James had been, going out in the middle of the night and dung bombing the Snape household. Then Sirius remembered.
James had come all the way to Spinners End in the middle of the night. He got into the girly guest room Sirius was staying in and convinced his best friend to have a drink before playing a prank on an 'annoying git who lived around there'. Sirius got drunk. He couldn't do it, he couldn't dungbomb Snape's house.
Why not? Sirius looked over at Severus. His beak like nose poked out from underneath his shoulder length hair. Surely not.
He turned his attention to Lily, who was taking a breath.
"And for another thing-!"
"Uh, Lily," Sirius said. "I'm not sure what we're all doing here. You've been yelling at James this entire time. Sev and I don't need to be here..."
The mad look in the young woman's softened slightly. "Sorry, I've been all over the place these past couple of weeks. I just wanted you three to see how stupid your childhood rivalry is. All the hate you have for each other was meaningless. The line between hate and love is so fine..."
Another flashback.
'"I-I," Sirius sobbed. "I candot do dish James... I can't. Tag me homeeee"
James laughed and said, "You always were an emotional drunk."'
As soon as it appeared, it was gone.
James stood suddenly, Sirius had nearly forgotten he was there. He wrapped an arm around the red head and kissed her on the lips, taking full advantage of their dating status.
"Fine. I'll get along with Sourgrapes, for your sake," he said, smiling nonchalantly.
"Thanks."
After that, Severus got up as well and announced he had to go. Sirius followed him to the door for some reason beyond his understanding. In the mud room, they just stood there for a moment, in silence.
Sirius was unsure of what to do. A hug would be too much. A handshake, too little. He also had the growing want to kiss the Slytherin again. However, he didn't move. Instead, Sirius avoided eye contact and looked at anything but those onyx eyes.
"Bye," Sirius said.
"Good day," Severus said.
When the door was closed and Severus was gone, Sirius turned back towards the living room with a thought in his head.
'The line between hate and love is so fine...'
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I'm sorry for not updating sooner, but I had writers block, couldn't figure out how to get from point a to point b, so I finally figured out a way to combine the two!
I like the way it's going now, next stop, romance land?