Hello my beautiful readers!
Thank you to Yvonne, madwamoose, Marie and anon for your reviews, Also a huge thank you to those of you that followed and favourited. Also we're almost at 30 reviews! what? I know! You guys are honestly the best.
I just wanted to quickly address a question that came up in afew of the reviews, I had originally written a scene in that chapter that detailed the punishments of the Slytherins but it was super short and it needed so much editing and since I was exhausted I just deleted it aha! The answer to that question is that they all got two weeks of detention, the prefects got 50 points taken off and the others 20 points. Do remember there was maybe 30 or so students! Ouch.
Also I am so sorry if I muck up any English slang or colloquial terms, I am from Australia and have never been to the UK, literally all my knowledge of british terms comes from fanfics :) I probably should've said this at chapter one...whoops!
Anyway I love this chapter so much, you Liz/Sirius shippers will love it hehe, also this is my longest one and probably my lightest one, but the next few chapters are action packed, be warned!
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
― Mahatma Gandhi
"Mint or lilac?" Beverley asked the girls whilst running a hand through her cascading locks, "Or are they both too pale?" she tilted her head to the side.
"You've probably decided already babes!" Lily laughed and shrieked, "knight to E2, YES SMASH IT!"
"NO! Lils!" Mary Groaned falling back onto the bed, "Do you see how cruel she is!"
Beverley shook her head and twirled her wand in an intricate manner to change the colour of her hair to a beautiful mint colour, Before jumping onto the large bed and grabbing a handful of pepper imps.
"Get real Mary! You're not going to win!" Elizabeth laughed at Marys affronted expression as she continued with her drawing, "The only person who challenges Lils is James!"
"I will win you Grit!" Mary exclaimed jumping on Elizabeth with a laugh,
"Me! A grit! Where have you been the last seven years, Miss I-cant-get-the-dirt-out-of-my-nails?"
"You're just sore because you can't get close the plants!"
"They don't let me within a meter of them without attacking me!" Elizabeth countered and the girls burst into laughter at the blatant truth in that statement. Herbology was Elizabeth's least favourite and worst subject, the only reason she kept going in herbology was because she wanted to be a healer,well she did in fifth year anyway...now she had no bloody clue what she wanted to be! She was fantastic at the theory but the moment she chucked on gloves and moved towards a plant it attacked her, violently… Many of her visits to the hospital wing happened mid-way through herbology.
"Merlin it's been ages since we've done this!" Lily groaned as she fell back onto the pillows,
"Not really." Beverley replied, she bit her lip as she still contemplated her hair.
"Yes really! You mustn't have noticed with all your studying of Broom Cupboards." Mary laughed,
"Honestly, one would think that you're upto something Bev." Elizabeth added in with a wink.
"I hate you all! You're the worst friends ever; never want to see you again!" Beverley stood up and begun walking to the door with shuddering shoulders,
"But then who'd choose your hair colours!" Mary yelled out, causing Beverley to turn with a smile, before running to the bed and jumping on them,
"Nah I actually really love you guys!" She laughed, "Talking about rendezvous," she spoke with a smirk before looking at Lily, "have you are our ever so handsome head boy done some studying of your own."
"What!" she sat up on the bed looking distinctly like a rabbit being hunted for prey, Her face was rapidly turning crimson.
"Was it that good Lils?" Elizabeth laughed,
"Don't be so ridiculous Liz! James Potter and I will be nothing more than enemies."
"Maybe you should take that up with him because this seems distinctly one sided." Beverley laughed.
"Lils stop denying it, you like the guy!" Mary nudged her suggestively.
"I do not!" she yelled outraged,
"you do!" Elizabeth insisted, "You stare at him dreamily during transfiguration!" she exclaimed,
"I don…How do you know!" Lily exclaimed before slamming a hand over her mouth, "I have done no such thing!" she tried to fix her composure, her cheeks as crimson as her hair.
"You looove him!" Eizabeth teased in a sing song voice.
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"do not!"
"do too!"
"DO NOT!"
"DO NOT!"
"DO TOO!" Lily yelled back before realizing what she was about to say, The girls burst into guffaws, and Lily started denying immeadiantly. "That was unfair! YOU TRICKED ME! THAT IS NOT TRUE!"
"LILY LIKES JAMES!" Beverley squealed before dashing to the door, Lily ran up after the mint haired girl, she pushed her into the door, barricading her, "Lils, you do realise I'm way taller than you and can easily get out."
"You wouldn't!"
"Take a chill pill Lils! I wouldn't do that to you! Plus I want to tease Mary about Remus." She laughed before ducking under Lily's arms and escaping.
"No teasing! I actually want to find out what's happening on that front!" Elizabeth yelled out with her hands up,
"There's nothing to talk about!" Mary replied with a roll of her eyes, although she was less enthusiastic than moments before, "because nothing has happened."
"Is that good or bad?" Elizabeth asked tentatively.
"I don't know!" she groaned and stood up pacing on the spot, "I don't know what I want! I like him, I like him lots and I just want to grab him and snog him against a wall but I don't know…how to." She looked at the girls with sad eyes,
"You don't know how to snog him against a wall?" Beverley questioned with a raised eyebrow and smirk.
"No you prat! That's the end goal, I don't know how to get there!" she huffed and sat on the edge of the bed,
"Is a relationship also part of the end goal?" Lily questioned, "Remus isn't the type for a fling."
"Of course it is! I want every bit of him! I want to spend my life with him, I want to marry him, shag him senseless and have his babies." She exclaimed waving her arms around,
"Hold up, Hold up! You're getting abit ahead of yourself there!" Elizabeth laughed
"MY INNOCENT EARS! Please…lets talk about something else. let's talk about…Sirius Black, self-proclaimed sex god." Mary begged the girls who looked at her as if she told them to go and pat a Cerberus on the head, Sirius Black was not a name that should be heard by innocent ears…full stop.
"You contradicted yourself about ten times just then!" Elizabeth exaggerated with a laugh.
"How many girls has he 'dated' so far this year anyway?" Beverley asked Lily who frequently caught him in broom closets,
"The ones that I've caught out, so far 19." She said with a grimace causing the girls to wince, Elizabeth shook her head
"With the way he's going there's going to be no more girls left for him!"
"With his reputation, no parent would willingly let him near their daughter." Beverley laughed and then gave an absurd suggestion that had Mary outraged. "Maybe his gay…with Remus."
"REMUS IS NOT GAY!"
"Maybe Sirius will flee to France or something when he realises that there's no witches left for him." Lily suggested,
"Nah, they'd all come running back to him." Elizabeth shrugged with a laugh, although her eyes seemed abit duller, not fully into the converstion.
"I have hope that one day Sirius Black will finally get his act together and settle down" Mary lay down on the bed and looked at the ceiling which was charmed by Elizabeth and Lily to look like the sky similarly to the Great Hall.
"And I'll leave my first born with Petunia." Lily scoffed jokingly, "Nah, one day Sirius Black will fall for someone, and when he does, I think he'll fall hard."
Just as any hormonal teenage girl her mind couldn't help but wonder off, could it be possible that it was her, that she would be the girl Sirius would fall for. Would they grow old together? How many children would they have? Would they get married? She could help but feel disappointed when her mind diverted itself...
Sirius Black was destined for greatness, and like all the greats, he was destined for a great love with a great woman; Not her...
She was Elizabeth Gilmore…
And that was all.
She was suddenly awoken from her slumber by someone jumping ontop of her bed, but when the sun blared into her eyes she had to quickly snap them shut before slowly opening them with a squint. As her eyesight adjusted she saw an image of a 3 girls with a wide grins ontop of her.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ!" they yelled at the same time in her face and bouncing on the bed causing her to jump up at the force. Mary was already in her running gear, she must've been up for a while now, Infact, by the look of the dorm, which was covered in balloons and streamers and banners, all three of them had been up for a while. Mary jumped off her bed after kissing her on the cheek and walking to the door.
" You can have your present later, I'll be back soon!" she gave a cheery wave before shutting the door behind her.
"I swear that girl will go on a run the morning of her wedding." Beverley rolled her eyes and chucked her three parcels, Elizabeth looked at them warily causing Beverley to look at her, "Its not going to explode on you, I swear."
"You said that in third year as well and that ended up well didn't it." She raised an eyebrow before a large grin split on her face. She unwrapped the first one which was a magical camera, the second was a set of magical makeup to which Beverley said 'I'm putting that on you today!', and last of all a beautiful Burgandy wool cloak with a beautiful golden clasp that had two large rubies in the middle of it, it also had a beautiful golden trim at the bottom . Elizabeth gasped as she pulled it out of the box it was contained in, as he eyes raked over the grand cloak her jaw dropped .
"Bev," she whispered, hugging the cloak to her body. "This…is beautiful." She ran to her and wrapped her in her arms in a tight embrace. They stayed like that for a while until Liz was hit in the head with a dog plushie toy, the one she got from the start of year feast.
"Oi! Am I chopped liver or something!" Lily waved her hands in the air with a smile on her face, Elizabeth took the two offered presents from her best friend and sat down, she unwrapped the gift to find a photo of them at the start of their 1st year in their robes, all done up, hair in pigtails and braids alike. A smile graced her features as she looked at Lils, a question written over her facial features.
"It's charmed, it changes the image every few seconds, in order, from the beginning to now, it adds photos automatically. To show that our friendship will never end, that no matter what we'll keep going, like a circle, a never ending cycle." She explained with a grin, tears welled up in Elizabeth's blue eyes as she held onto her best friend,
"I love you Lils."
"I love you Liz."
Elizabeth grasped onto the 2nd present and opened up the small box that was wrapped up in a charmed wrapping paper. She opened it and gasped at the sight of two small sapphire earrings.
"They're charmed, if you're ever in danger, all you need to say is double L and I'll get the message." Lily lifted her hair over her ear and showed off her emeralds.
"Lils, this is too much!" she exclaimed,
"You only turn 18 once." She muttered looking into her best friends blue eyes and smiling,
"You said that last year."
"I'll say it every year." She whispered back before hugging her
"Guys, I realise that this is a heartfelt moment and all but I'm feeling really left out here."
"Get over here you sexy minx." Lily laughed opening her arms wide, and the girls embraced, laughing.
"Feather boas?" peter asked,
"check."
"Sparkly pants?"
"check" Sirius replied, dragging one of Remus's muggle glitter gel pens across a piece of paper.
"Sunglasses."
"Check."
"Sirius everything is in the bloody bag, you don't need to go over it five times over. Lets just go up, hand them their stuff and go." James suggested, walking down the stairs, dragging Remus along. Afew moments later, Peter and Sirius swaggered down the steps holding two large bags that were full of garments.
"Do we knock, or do we barge in?" peter asked tentatively, they'd attempted to get up the stairs about twenty times until they turned into Animagus forms under disillusionment charms.
"Barge in, maybe they're chang…" Sirius blurted out but stopped as he was on the receiving end of Remus's glare.
"No, we will knock and act like perfect gentlemen." Remus scolded looking at each of his smiling friends whose smiles fell slightly.
"MERRY BIRTHDAY LIZ!" The four boys barged into the 7th year girls dormitory as Mary was taking off her top, she covered herself with her top.
"DID YOU HAVE TO BARGE IN!" she screamed, "AND WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?"
"WHY ARE YOU HERE?" Beverley yelled, her hair half curly and half straight.
"HOW DID YOU EVEN GET UP HERE!" Lily shouted, glaring at the group of four troublemakers, "BOYS CANT GET UP THE STAIRCASE!"
"Thanks guys." Elizabeth said, over all the noise causing everyone to turn to her, she was blushing from the roots of her hair at the guys paying so much attention to her. She didn't realise they had all remembered her birthday.
"Your welcome dearie, and LilyKins, we're Marauders, of course we can get up the staircase." James replied in an obvious choice, at Lilys obvious unsaid question, Sirius answered,
"We solemnly swear that we've not gone upto the girls dorm without due reason. Actually it's the first time we managed it and I have no clue how we did it." He gave her his best puppydog expression causing her to falter, In the moment of silence Sirius added in,
"Mary, do continue taking off your top, I'm sure you can give us a marvellous show." Sirius laughed before slowly coming to a stop at the girls glares. "Chuck these on." He threw the bags to Beverley and Liz, "Get all glammed up and meet us downstairs as soon as possible." The four boys ran out as fast as they could, leaving the girls shocked and confused at recent developments.
"DONT TAKE TOO LONG!" Peter Yelled as they slid down the stairs,
"TIME DOESNT STOP FOR YOU LOT!" James added on with a whoop.
The girls tipped their bags onto their respective beds and pulled at what the marauders had given them, each bag had a message written on it, the exact same for each girl.
'GO WILD GIRLIES!'
"Well, I guess we should make the most of it?" Beverley suggested with a smirk.
It seemed that no matter what people said, no matter how ridiculous the marauders were, they knew how to choose clothing. Each of the girls were decked in disco clothing, that looked chic ravishingly wild.
Lily was decked in a Gold v neck satin jumpsuit, it had a straight leg with a halter neck as well as a thick banded belt around the waist. She wore it with gold black platform pumps, gold hoop earrings, and a gold necklace with an emerald pendant. Her auburn hair was is loose curls cascading down her back, gold eyeliner and burgundy lipstick.
Mary was wearing a two piece outfit, she was wearing a pair of yellow skin tight bellbottoms, Her top was cropped, showing her stomach which was muscled after years of playing quidditch and training, it was covered in multi-coloured swirls of pinks, purples, oranges, yellows…all the colours of the rainbow and more. She was accessorized with Orange pumps, orange hoop earrings and hot pink lipstick. Her hair was tied back into a tight ponytail, the tail part in permed curls.
Beverley had on a Black jumpsuit which had a fuchsia belt as well as different coloured dots that shimmered when caught by light. It was halter necked with a shallow V-neck, emphasising her cleavage, The bottom of the jumpsuit was bellbottomed, she was also wearing fuchsia pumps with the same colour hair, silver jewellery and hot pink lipstick.
Elizabeth however stood out the most out of the group, she was wearing white knee high boots with a dress that went just above mid-thigh, it was light blue and covered with darker blues, lighter greens and aqua flowers all over it. It was square necked and long sleeved. The sleeves flared out at the wrist going into frills. Her dark hair was straightened falling behind her back, it was pulled away from her face with a thick white headband and white large earrings. Her eye makeup was copper with light pink lipstick. Over the dress was a white sash with the words Birthday Girl embroidered on them in gems that was charmed to changed colour every 10 seconds.
"We look good." Beverley swooned as they looked in the mirror, all done up and ready. As the girls went to walk out the door Elizabeth stopped them, they looked at her questionably.
"We need to take a photo, my first one on my new camera." She gave them her best puppy dog eyes, "Its only right that the most important people in my life get the first photo." Mary rolled her eyes,
"Just because its your birthday."
"Nah babe, you secretly love it!" Lily laughed.
Elizabeth set up the camera as it begun to flash, she ran over the girls and stood in between Mary and Lily. Large smiles graced the girls faces.
Theirs was a friendship destined to last forever.
The group of eight walked down the busy streets of Hogsmeade, actually six were walking, Beverley was trying to convince Peter to skip with her, arm in arm causing what looked like a skip/drag movement to happen, catching attention from those that were in surrounding them. Of course they were catching attention; they were Hogwarts age, In coloured disco clothes, coloured hair and looked upto a whole load of mischief.
Out of all of them, the boys looked most ridiculous; the tallest of them was Remus, who was decked out in canary yellow bell bottoms, a black shirt and sparkly black boots. His hair was charmed turquoise, around his shoulders was a yellow feather boa making him resemble a turquoise haired bumblebee, Elizabeth mused, did bees even have hair?
"I'm Hungry." Sirius groaned,
"We know, you've only said that 10 times in the last five minutes." Lily drawled, rolling her eyes,
"Yes but that means that I mean it." He replied before turning to Remus, "Oi, Bumblebee, Are we going to get something to eat anytime soon?"
"Well Sirius, generally when you're infront of the three Broomsticks you're going to eat or drink, so I'd say about now." Remus replied sarcastically. He rolled his eyes and Sirius pulled a face.
"If the wind changes your face may stay like that." Peter chirped, Remus looked at him with a look that clearly depicted 'Are you Seriously telling me old wives tales.'
As they entered the Three Broomsticks many eyes turned to look at the group of oddly dressed teenagers.
"Rosmerta my dear!" Sirius yelled across the bar, and a pretty woman was leaning on the bench talking to someone who seemed of old acquaintance to her, jumped up at least a foot in the air. A large smile grew on her pretty face and her hazel eyes started jumping as she saw the get up of their group.
"Sirius Black, you dog!" She laughed as she shook her head, Her joyful expression became bewildered as she inspected their outfits. "What on earth are the lot of you wearing?"
"Clothes, Rosmerta dear. I Know you prefer me without them." He winked in a charming manner., she let out a deep laugh.
"Oh don't give me that!" she patted him on the shoulder, her eyes were glimmering with humour, "Go, choose a table, I'll be over soon."
Sirius lead the group to a table at the back with a dazed look on his face, the boys were looking at him with amusement, the girls however were shocked that they weren't busted immeadiantly.
"What the hell was that?" Beverley gaped as they took their seats.
"That my dear was Madam Rosemerta." Sirius replied with a smirk as he picked up the menu, his jaw seemed to have slackened at the sheer sight of all the options, and drool was beginning to drip down his chin, it seemed as though he'd never seen so much food in his life, which was an unrealistic assumption. He spends the majority of the year at Hogwarts. Seriously.
"I know that!" she exclaimed, "But why didn't she say anything, or tell us to go."
"Because we do it all the time and she likes us too much." Peter replied for Sirius who seemed to enamoured by the menu to reply.
"All the time?" Lily raised an eyebrow at the statement and Peter fell silent.
"It depends on how you look at it." He answered with a smile, his small blue eyes watery and he kept looking down, biting at the bottom of his lip. Lily turned to James with a questionable expression on his face, his gaze flickered down to the menu.
"Oh look, burgers! I love Madam Rosemertas buns!" Beverley let out a snort causing James to redden as he realised the implications of his words.
Before Lily could answer to Peters statment, Elizabeth intervened "Lils, come on! It's my Birthday!" she groaned pulling Lily towards her and pressing her index finger to her forehead, "Head Girl mode OFF." When she took her finger off her forehead a pale spot was left making her skin discoloured and uneven, snickers rose from the group at the mark on her forehead that would be temporarily there.
After a while the group was sipping on drinks and had light meals in front of them,
"No my butt cheeks are firmer than yours." Sirius commented whilt holding his fork out mockingly at Lily, who was slowly reddening as the conversation progressed. Elizabeth raised her eyebrows, she liked the sound of firm buttocks, they'd be nice to squeeze whilst... she inconspicuously shook her head. now was not the time for such uncouth thoughts.
"Yours cant be firmer than mine! I do squats!" Lily spluttered causing chuckled to go around the table. Mary mutter under her breath 'occasionally,' causing Lily to nudge her in the side.
"I play quidditch!"
"Yes because that does so much for your buttocks." She replied sarcastically. Before the argument got any further James stood up, and Sirius clicked his glass of Butterbeer for him to get everyone's attention, obviously he was sick of arguing the battle he'd already won.
"My friends, today we are gathered to celebrate the 18th Birthday of one Elizabeth Noelle Gilmore. Liz, you are such good of a person that you let us sneak you out of the school for your birthday."
"Like I had a choice!" she shouted at him jokingly, her voice merry and face cheerful.
"Anyways…after that rude interruption, we have found that turning 18 brings out many fun traits in a person. Like sneakiness. Who knows what you could've found out in the last day with your new sneaky skill set!" James mock gasped causing the group to roll their eyes collectively.
"I've been waiting patiently for someone to bring up the topic, but it seems that nobody thought of presents so I present, get it" he laughed, whilst the rest of them rolled their eyes. "Your present." He whipped it out from under his seat, and bumped his head on the table, and his shin on the chair… and his hip whilst standing up.
She took the gift tentatively from him and slowly unwrapped it. She was so blessed to have such wonderful friends, she did not even consider herself to be really close to the boys, but to think that they thought to take her out. She felt so honoured. From the corner of her eye she noticed a wand pointed at her from Lily, obviously protecting her, however she did not notice the one that was pointed at her head.
James was bouncing in his chair as she unwrapped his quidditch wrapping paper present, it was a box, however when she opened it a strange floating sensation came over her, she had to touch it, she was so compelled to touch it, she had no choice.
Inside was a snitch, it wasn't gold however, it was different colours, flashing everytime you blinked, it was most peculiar. When Elizabeth touched her the floating sensation left her and she looked up to see everyone on the table laughing at her, The snitch was charmed to make you feel like you're doing something when you're really not doing that thing. Elizabeth was standing on the table, just standing and other than the raucous laughter coming from the table the inn was silent, people looked at her as if she was sane, others looked at her with caution. She looked down at her hand and noticed the snitch before throwing it at James head. His quidditch reflexes caused him to dodge seconds before it hit him.
James shook his head as she sat down, cheeks flushed and eyes stinging, how dare he embarrass her like that, on her birthday of all days. She had honestly been so overjoyed and now they'd thrown her newfound trust down the drain, she'd felt so good and they spoilt it. Lily was glaring at James.
"Okay, that wasn't your actual present Liz," he laughed, she let out a sigh of relief but also felt trepidation at the idea of another present from a marauder, would it make her vomit her guts out this time? "That was a sample of something zonko's is coming out with soon and wanted us to test out... anyhow This is your actual present." He threw to her another quidditch wrapped present this one was soft and felt like…clothing?
She pulled out a Gryffindor quidditch jersey, or two… One had Potter printed on it, of course it did, James was to arrogant to not give one without his own name. and the other had Black? She must've looked confused when he answered,
"Sirius's one is there because Lilykins is the only one whose meant to wear my clothing but i couldnt give you a jersey with my best mates name on it, so you can hang mine up in a frame and wear Sirius's one." He spoke chirpily with a smile, he had dimples, since when did James have dimples? Dimples were cute, she loved dimples. A laugh escaped her, the others snorted at his answer as they had been just as confused.
"Thanks James."
Remus and Peter passed over their gifts, Remus had gotten her a book called New theory to Numerology and a small book full of wizarding fairy tales called The tales of beadle and Bard, Peter got her a box of Honey dukes assorted, which was full of chocolate frogs, sugar quills, Droobles, every flavour beans and so much more! And Sirius well…he just sat in his chair…did he not get her something. Whilst it seemed arrogant of her to think he would, afterall he didn't know her all that well. She had hoped, a miniscule particle of her had hoped that maybe he would've thought of her, But it seemed that Sirius Black would truly never notice her, not for any occasion.
However she did not let this get her down, Her day was turning out to be brilliant.
And Sirius Black wasn't going to ruin it for her.
It was 7 by the time they decided to start leaving the Inn, when the first argument started up,
"I'm paying!" Elizabeth argued vehemently to James.
"Nope!" he begun to walk out. "You shouldn't shout people for your own birthday!"
"What are you doing!" She yelled after him as he walked across the room, "Are you not going to pay?"
"I thought you didn't want me to?"
"No…I…"
"Liz chill. Moony, Padfoot, Wormy and I come here so often that we made a deal with Rosie to pay everything at the end of the year. She keeps track, trust me."
"What about us?" she flailed her arms around, she wasn't going to not contribute.
"You're included." He smiled before walking out, "Cya Later Rosie dear."
"You shouldn't have done that!" she wacked James around the head, "I could've at least shouted drinks."
"Oi, don't muck with my hair!" he winked, "Its your birthday, I would've payed for you anyways. I have money falling out of my ears, honestly, there's no need."
"I'm not happy with this arrangement."
"Well you're gonna have to suck it up then aren't you."
"It's not gonna! It's going to!" Remus yelled out across the road, she could suspiciously hear peter cough out a 'Walking Dictionary' under her breath but she couldn't be sure. She let out a snort of amusement, how such a group of mismatched people could become friends based on one mutual interest baffled her.
"James look at this tshirt!" Sirius laughed pointing to one in the window. It was a white tshirt that had large black print on it saying 'I'm so Wingardium levio-so done with you'. The boys looked at one another then ran into the shop to see if they had anything else, Remus and Elizabeth went in after the two whilst the others were at honeydukes.
Whilst looking through the racks of printed tees much laughter was shared. "Moony, buy this one!" On the grey shirt was a large book and on it was spelt BOOKWORM. Remus glared at the two boys who were still laughing, actually, one might say that they were giggling, what were they? Old ladies?
"Remus, what about this one?" Elizabeth showed him a black tshirt that had printed 'Do you want to have a howling good time' he gave her a look that said…really, can you be any more obvious. Well the answer to that is yes, she could. She could go into the great hall and yell it out for all the heavens to hear about. She had found out his secret in third year, she had seen him in the hospital wing during one of her herbology hospital visits, she had read many books and done a lunar chart and wallah, she had figured it out and confronted him, but no matter what, she stood by him.
Sirius and James were now holding grey tshirts and rolling on the ground with laughter, "What on earth?" she muttered and they showed the tshirts they were holding, 'His very deer to me,' one said and the other said 'his my home dog.' When Remus saw them he begun snickering, before slowly laughing, real laughs, bent over and gasping he was laughing, at a stupid tshirt. What had the world come too? This must have been an inside joke because it made no sense to her what so ever.
Boys…
In the end James and Sirius walked out with their couple esk t-shirts, still chortling…what one earth was so funny about the tshirts, she would never know…
James had slipped his over his Red shirt and Sirius did the same with his grey shirt, they looked quite the pair, arms interlocked and walking down the street together. honestly people walking by probably thought they were dating.
Once the group got their stuff gathered, they, started to head to the outskirts of Hogsmeade where music could be heard, as could laughter and cheers. The group stood outside of a large building, flashes of different colours reflected off the window, the floor was vibrating from the sheer force of the music and dancers inside. The girls stood gaping in shock and the boys stood there with wolfish grins. They were at 'Entranced and Enchanted' a club on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, it was for the younger generation and it played a fair bit of muggle music.
"So, ladies, you ready for a night of fun." James smirked before pushing both doors, they begun coughing from the smoke wafting in the air, Lily winced as her eyes began to tear up from the smoke. As they approached the bar a barmaid in a short French maid outfit approached them.
"What would you like?" she smiled, her eyes raking over all four boys and shockingly, the girls as well, in a rather appreaciative manner. Elizabeth shifted on her feet as she could feel the womans piercing stare on her body.
"A round of firewhiskey thanks." Sirius told her with a charming grin, Within a minute 8 shot glasses filled to the brim with firewhiskey were in front of them. Lily shook her hands at the sight.
"No, I...I'm a terrible drunk." She warned stepping back. Elizabeth couldn't help but nod along to Lily's assessment of herself. Her mind drifted along to the time when Beverley got firewhiskey from an older boy and they snuck it into the dorm. Lily got off her head drunk and it ended with a large smooch between best friends and a very awkward morning after.
"Come on Evans, you can't be that bad." Sirius replied with a grin, a small smile crossed her features.
"Nope." She popped the 'p' and shook her head stubbornly, Sirius pouted and gave her his best puppydog eyes which, mind you were extremely realistic, poor Remus, he must've built up some sort of immunisation over the years.
"Evans, one, one is all I ask, for your best friends birthday." She let out a sigh as he broke through her well built barriers.
"Fine just one, but that is it, someone has to help you prats get back."
However one turned into two, and two turned into four, and four turned into eight and they were still going…
"ANDDDD NOW, FOR SOME KAREOKEEE!" the crowd went wild as a bright spotlight begun to speed around the room, trying to pick someone who would go up and sing a song chosen by them. The spotlight moved over them and for an agonising moment she thought it was for her, she hoped it wasn't her, she was an awful singer, people actually blocked their ears when she sung. She will never sing her future children a lullaby because she doesn't want to damage them for life. It cant be her, she'll get up there and vomit, she panicked. She was so sure it was going to land on her.
Until it stopped… On Sirius. Sirius Black, self proclaimed sex god, who broke mirrors with his voice, who sounded like a screeching banshee…was going to sing karaoke, god bless them all.
Sirius swaggered upto the platform with his head up high, The marauders were splitting themselves with laughter as they regaled to the very attractive barmaid stories of Sirius singing. He looked down towards the screen where the song chosen would appear.
Dancing Queen- ABBA
Oh merlins saggy left…This was going to be a disaster. But she couldn't help but giggle at the thought of Sirius with his pink feather boa and glittery gold shirt singing Dancing queen.
Sirius was jumping on the spot waiting for the music to start playing…and when it did, he lived upto his name, shining brighter than any star.
He held the microphone to his lips and moved around the stage, he waggled his arm and moved his legs in odd ways, the crowd loved him, they cheered him on. He shimmied and swung around the stage as if he'd been doing it for years. Whilst his voice was not spectacular, not at all, his screeched the high notes and one may say that the room was shaking…as was the windows. Thank merlin for magic because the windows would soon shatter, was that a crack?
Elizabeth and the rest of the group were cheering him on and dancing on the coloured dance floor. This was one of her favourite songs.
And then more than half way through the performance Sirius walked down the stairs. What was he doing? Was he walking towards her? He walked over to her, and grabbed her arm. He twirled her around and dragged her up on stage. Her pulled her into his arms and swayed around with her. He spun her out as the chorus begun. Her cheeks were flaming, her heart fluttering and her stomach churning. This handsome boy had bought her up onto stage with him. She was dancing with him. What the hell? And the crowd was going wild for the couple.
As he placed his hand on her cheek and looked into her eyes, her stomach was churning so hard she thought she was going to puke on his face. People continued to cheer, she felt so sick, but she had never felt more alive than in this moment, she felt her blood rushing through her veins, she felt the alcohol singing and her inhibitions fading.
You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave them burning and then you're gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...
And they danced. They jumped and she even joined in, together they had the crowd screaming and dancing with them. Was this what celebrities felt everyday of their lives? This felt great, this felt wonderful. Was this freedom?
Her cheeks were flushed and her chest was heaving as they belted out the chorus and twirled around the stage, dropping to the ground suggestively caused the entire club to cheer madly.
You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen
The song then ended, Sirius and Elizabeth stood facing one another, grey and blue orbs gazing at eachother and a magnetic force seemed to pull them closer and closer until they could feel each others warm breaths on their faces they stood in the same position, microphone near their mouths and hands interlocked around the cylinder. Sirius broke the connection between them and into the microphone he yelled out,
"THAT WAS FOR THE BIRTHDAY GIRL! LETS GET TOGETHER AND SING FOR HER EH!" He yelled out, the DJ managed to find the Happy Birthday track and started playing. Elizabeth was standing still in the middle of the stage, Sirius Black standing next to her, holding her hand and beaming.
As the crowd sung her a happy Birthday, she felt so…special, so loved. For a moment she couldn't help but admire Sirius Black, and all he'd done for her that night, he made her feel like some sort of celebrity, like she was important, like she was alive.
And the feeling was addicting.
Sirius and Elizabeth were standing just behind the exit to the one eyed witch passage way, Once again, like several hours beforehand, their eyes connected and they gazed at eachother. Their chests were heaving from exhaustion and their hair was mussed for wind and sweat, Elizabeths makeup had smudged and Sirius's clothing was stained with mysterious substances. In that moment they weren't the most glamorous pair.
"You know, I didn't… hic…give you your present…hic…but I had it on me…all night." He stuttered and hiccupped inbetween words. Her heart began to thump in her chest in anticipation. He didn't forget...
"You did." She looked at him, her eyes widened in shock, she started biting her nails and fiddling with her hands. He didn't have to, she wanted him to of course, but he certainly didn't need to.
"Yeah… here." He gave her a small square box that was wrapped in blue wrapping and a silver ribbon. The blue of her eyes, a very light blue.
To her great shock he then walked away, as if not wanting to see her reaction, not wanting a thank you. She looked up and watched his retreating figure, a shadow in the brightness of the crescent moon. She moved out of the passage and begun to open the box in the middle of the corridor, the moonlight staining her features. She bit her lip as she slowly opened the box within/
It was a necklace, not just any necklace, but a beautiful one, one of the most beautiful she'd seen. It was so simplistic, but so perfect. It had a thin silver chain and on the end was a pendant, a sapphire gem, the perimeter of the gem was encrusted with diamonds. It was in one word, elegant. She picked it out of the box and held it in her hands, it was so light, but definitely real.
Her bloodshot eyes filled with tears emphasising the blue. She looked through the crescent windows and stuck her head out of it, and in the corner of her eye she saw a bright shimmer. She turned towards that shimmer and that shimmer turned out to be a star.
The brightest star in the sky.
Sirius.
Unconsciously, she held onto the necklace tighter.
She never wanted to let go…
Awe yay! All I can say for now is that there is going to be plenty of romance :)))) I really wanted next chapter to be a surprise but I guess one tiny sneak peek cant hurt...
"Sirius! It isn't real!" James implored, "Its all inside your head."
What does it mean? You'll find out soon!
On a side note, I reckon we need a ship name for Sirius and Elizabeth... Any ideas?
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