Chapter Forty-four;
[March 6th, 1999]
It had been two months since the children visited Hogwarts, things had fell into a routine of sorts – Severus and Sirius would wake up, get ready, see each other as much as possible throughout the day, after classes Molly would pester them with random things about the wedding, they would go to either Severus or Sirius' chambers to have some wine or play a game of chess or something of the sort, and then they would end up in bed doing much like Sirius had said the 1st, which was shagging like bunnies.
Now here Sirius was sitting at a table in the Three Broomsticks with the rest of the staff and some of the Order, Molly had pulled out a book of colors and samples of things for the ceremony she had chosen out that she thought would suit Severus and Sirius. Sirius was sipping at his firewhiskey, nodding his head to whatever she was saying, not really paying attention as he was taking a glance around and let his eyes fall on Severus who was standing by the bar counter, talking to Kingsley and Arthur about something. Sirius let his eyes run over Severus and smirked against his glass as Severus turned to see Sirius staring and rolled his eyes.
Sirius turned his attention back to Molly when he heard something about what two main colors they were going to use. "Scarlet and Gold, of course" Sirius said, smirking.
"Now, Sirius, did Severus agree on this?" Molly asked, shaking her head.
Sirius grinned. "No."
"Then don't you think you should discuss it with him?"
"Of course, I'll do that now. Excuse me" he said as he pushed out of his chair and sauntered across the room to where Severus stood.
Sirius snuck up on Severus, wrapping his arms around his waist and resting his chin on Severus' shoulder. "Hello, Kingsley, Arthur" Sirius greeted, nodding his head at them.
"What do you think you're doing?" Severus asked, turning to look at him and glaring.
"What's it look like I'm doing?" Sirius asked, smirking.
"It looks like you're using me as something to lean on because you're too lazy to stand on your own." Severus said, rolling his eyes and turning back to his glass of firewhiskey.
"You've figured me out – I'm not bonding with you for love, or your snarky attitude or anything that – it's actually so I can use you as something to lean on in public." Sirius admitted, grinning.
Severus rolled his eyes. "We should get back to the table" Kingsley said, nudging Arthur who followed him.
"You've scared them off, Sev" Sirius pouted.
"I did nothing of the sort."
"Hmmph. What two colors do you want for the ceremony?" Sirius asked.
Severus quirked his eyebrow. "Green and Silver."
"No."
"Yes."
"No!"
"Why the hell not?"
"I was thinking Scarlet and G-"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Same reason you won't let me have Green and Silver, I reckon."
"Fine… how about… Scarlet and Silver?"
Severus turned to look at Sirius. "Do those two colors even go together?"
Sirius gave a shrug. "They can, I guess. Much better than Green and Gold…"
Severus snorted, turning to face Sirius and giving a sigh, "Fine. Whatever colors so long as it's not purely Gryffindor oriented… I also refuse to where any Scarlet…" He said.
"So no Scarlet dress?"
"No, no Scar- what do you mean dress?" Severus spat, glaring.
"Well, one of us has to wear a dress…" He said, smirking.
"Sirius…"
"I'm kidding, of course I would never make you wear a dress…"
"I would never agree to wea-"
"Unless it was like a sex thing."
"Sirius!" Severus whispered, nudging Sirius' side roughly.
"Ow. I was /kidding/, Sev…" Sirius groaned, tilting Severus' head up and placing a kiss to his lips and then smirking.
Severus turned a light shade of pink before turning his face away from Sirius. "Don't…"
"Don't what? Kiss you?" Sirius asked as he leaned down and kissed Severus' neck.
Severus turned a deeper shade of red. "Sirius…" he said through gritted teeth.
"Sev" he said, licking up his neck and then nipping on his earlobe.
Severus unintentionally let out a soft moan, holding his hand up to run through Sirius' hair. "Stop it" he hissed.
They both jumped when Albus tapped both of their shoulders, pulling away from each other and Severus blushing behind his hair. "Both of you come back to the table" he said, gesturing them to follow. They both followed in step and took their seats, Sirius now by habit placing his arm over Severus' shoulders and with his other hand sipping at his glass of Firewhiskey.
"Did you two decide on colors?" Molly asked.
"Actually yes, Scarlet and Silver" Sirius told her, smiling.
"Oh, I like those choices" Molly said as she wrote them down. "Flowers?"
"Flowers?" Severus asked.
"Yes, for tables and things." Molly informed him.
"Oh, uh… how about…." Sirius paused and thought to himself – he really didn't know any flowers.
"Lilacs?" Severus blurted out.
"I like Peony's" Molly suggested.
"Ah, possibly, Stephanotis?" Severus asked.
The conversation over flowers went back and forth for at least ten minutes, deciding tulips would be best. Sirius was completely lost as they went onto another subject of the wedding – he was only brought out of his thoughts and staring at his firewhiskey glass when he heard something about 'no sex'. "Excuse me?" He asked, pushing off from leaning on the table to stare at Molly.
"Welcome back to the conversation, Sirius – I was saying how you shouldn't have sex anymore until the wedding night" Molly said, taking a sip of her drink.
"Wait, no sex? That's insane." Sirius said, scoffing. "Right, Sev?" He asked, turning to see Severus with a 'deep in thought' expression. "You're not really considering this…"
"Sirius – most couples do this before the bonding ceremony, hell most couples actually wait for their first time to be after the bonding ceremony." Severus said, glaring at Sirius.
"Yeah, well… we're not most couples. I refuse to go without sex for Merlin knows how long…" Sirius groaned.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Severus asked.
"Well… we don't really have a date picked out."
"And that's my fault?"
"Well… I don't know, just pick a date."
"Fine, July, after school."
"July? You want me to go without sex until July?" Sirius asked rather loudly.
Severus' eye twitched in annoyance. "Sirius!" Minerva screeched.
"What?" He asked, turning to look at her, and then turning back to Severus who was now staring at his lap and fiddling with his fingers, hiding behind his hair. "Oh, please. Stop acting like an innocent school boy. You don't need to get embarrassed about everything sexual or about kissing, it was cute before, but it's not like you're a virgin /now/" Sirius said, rolling his eyes and grabbing his glass to finish off his firewhiskey.
Sirius wondered why a strange silence fell as he held his glass against his lips, he eyebrow quirking as he remembered what he had said. His eyes quickly widened and he turned to look at Severus who was staring down at his lap with an emotionless expression. "Sev…" he began but was interrupted by Severus pushing out of his chair quickly and walking out of the pub. Sirius watched in silence and frowned, letting out a sigh when the door was closed.
"Sirius…" Molly began.
"Don't. I know…" Sirius interrupted her.
"No, I don't think you do, Sirius" Minerva joined in, glaring at him.
"Listen, I'll go apologize, okay?" Sirius said as he stood up.
"Apologizing doesn't fix what you did" Molly said, Sirius was surprised to see only the two mothers of the group was scolding him, everyone else sat in awkward silence.
"Well what the hell am I supposed to do?" Sirius asked.
"Maybe thinking before you say or do something would work, Merlin knows you never learned that, Sirius Black" Minerva said in a cold tone as she stood up from the table and walked out.
Sirius sighed and ran a hand down his face, taking a seat in his chair and ordering another firewhiskey. The others slowly came out of the awkward silence to speak about subjects which Sirius wasn't listening to as he was lost in his own thoughts, slowly sipping his firewhiskey. By the time he looked up as Remus tapped his shoulder, most of the order and staff had already left. "Are you coming, Sirius? The rest of us are heading back to Hogwarts."
"Oh… I'll, um, be along later" Sirius said.
Remus frowned and nodded his head, patting his friend on the back. "Padfoot, I'm sure everything will be fine, yeah?"
"Yeah… thanks, Moony" Sirius said, giving a faint smile and turning back to his glass, when everyone was out the door, he drowned down his glass and ordered another.