In the Tower
Chapter Fifteen: Odd
Summary: Nah...
Disclaimer: Nah…
Author's Note: This chapter is completely, utterly, spontaneously, eagerly, blah, and blah a bunch of big words… re-written. I lost this document to the spontaneous, fluctuation, and deleting that my old computer loved to do. So, after very carefully reading chapter sixteen to spot any hints about what happened in chapter fifteen, I found quite a few. So, I'm going along with that outline. A lot of ideas and thoughts are changed, and how James and Lily got out of the tower was completely changed, because when I first wrote this, it was exactly as I wanted it. But now, slightly older and slightly wiser, I've changed it. So, cross your fingers and pray for me. I am so sorry this took so long.
Previously: He cleared his throat and they exited, he shutting the door behind her, and the carriage tottered away. "Well, you ready?" He said, grinning at her boyishly and crookedly at the same time.
"Ready as I'll ever be." She said, and they entered the threshold that was Hogwarts.
I couldn't find a quote so I made up my own. This is it.- Me.
"Kids these days," Madam Pomfrey said, her brow furrowed as Sirius Black and a… girl came running up to her as she walked slowly to the Great Hall.
"Hullo, Madam Pomfrey!" Sirius called loudly as he jogged up the grand staircase easily and the girl said to her politely hello as well.
Madam Pomfrey put her hands on her hips. "What did you do, Mr. Black? Nothing against school rules, I hope?" Sirius came to a stop right in front of her and smiled.
"Is dog piling on people against the rules?" He asked innocently, and the girl, Ms. Katie Ah Bleu, Madam Pomfrey believed her name was, rolled her eyes and put her chin on top of Sirius' head, looking around the hall.
Madam Pomfrey breathed out exasperated. "Well put her down then,"
Katie pushed off Sirius' back as he knelt to put her down. "Thank you Sirius, and I'll call you in the moment Madam Pomfrey is done fixing me up. Is that okay?"
"Of course it is!" Sirius said happily, and trotted off around the corner, leading the way to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey walked along side Katie, who was walking easily along, occasionally wincing as she pressed fingers to her ribs.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine," Katie said flippantly. "I don't know why he's fussing really; I just lost my breath for a few moments when they all decided to sit on me." Madam Pomfrey pushed open the dark hospital wing doors and ushered Katie inside, and Katie sat on the closest bed and watched patiently as Madam Pomfrey flicked her wand over at the candles and her medicine box came toward her. She smiled slightly as she watched Sirius sneak a peek through the doors.
"Well if that's it," Madam Pomfrey said watching Katie slowly. Katie swiveled her head and looked up at Madam Pomfrey.
"Yeah, that's it."
"Well go on then," Madam Pomfrey said with a small smile as Katie jumped up and threw herself into the doors and the doors swung open and Madam Pomfrey caught a glance of Sirius falling on his back and Katie screaming loudly and jumping to fall onto his stomach.
"Thank you, Madam Pomfrey!" Sirius and Katie called and then they, er, skipped down to the Great Hall.
Somailia scooted farther away from some guy and he scooted closer as well, and, no, was that drool? Ew! Katie walked calmly behind them upon reaching the Great Hall, and smacked him in the head. His forehead hit the table. "You're in my seat," she snarled with a fake smile on her face, "move."
"Make me," he said, and Somailia giggled, as Katie grabbed him by the back of the shirt and threw him out, making sure he hit the wall. She then calmly sat next to Somailia, said a pleasant hello, and started pulling every food within arm reach toward her, and started pilling onto her plate.
"You're weird," Somailia said, picking up her fork and stabbing a piece of chicken.
"Thank you," Katie replied through a mouth full of pasta, and grinned sloppily at Somailia.
"You're gross as well," Somailia said, wrinkling her nose as Katie belched.
"Comes with the package," she replied, chomping on a huge lamb chop. Her spin stiffened and she dropped her fork, her eyes suddenly vague and her face impassive.
"Katie?" Somailia asked, watching as Katie stood up mechanically and started to walk out of the room, and soon out the front door. Somailia threw a frightened look at Remus and Sirius, who were starting to stand up as well, ignoring the three girls who were trying to plant themselves down on their laps. Somailia shook her head and started to quickly walk out of the hall, listening to the sound of Katie's dull footsteps.
"Katie, this really isn't funny," Somailia huffed as she jogged to keep up with Katie, who wasn't paying her the least bit of attention and still walking toward the lake. Somailia tripped and fell into Katie who in turn tripped, and they started slipping face forward down to the lake. Somailia caught Katie's ankle as they slid off a knoll of ground and started going forward into the lake.
Remus and Sirius stood on top of the knoll watching as they plunged. Remus turned to Sirius. "How good of swimmers do you think they are?"
"Well, considering Katie is not with us at this time, I think she won't be able to swim at all. But I cannot vouch for Somailia."
"You think we should go get them?"
"Yeah, probably," Sirius said and slowly slid down the slope and took his shoes and his robes off before slowly getting into the water, watching carefully as Somailia came up with a gasp and started dragging a just-came-to-her-senses Katie toward Sirius.
"You can get her," Somailia said, letting go of Katie's ankle and swimming easily to the lake shore and shaking the water off herself as Remus conjured up some towels and gave one to her. Sirius started swimming toward Katie and she hesitantly did some clumsy strokes toward him.
"I can't swim well," she told him as he grabbed her arm and started wading toward shore.
"Obviously," he said, and she hit him in the back and told him while laughing to shut up.
"Honestly," Somailia said as she and Remus watched Sirius and Katie flirt like mad while Sirius was swimming them to "safety".
"Yeah, well, you know," Remus said vaguely, watching as Katie dunked Sirius in the muck and then ran out of the water, screeching and heading towards him. He threw her a towel and she caught it and started vigorously drying herself. Sirius appeared and shook like the dog he was, and Remus quickly deflected most of it by bringing a towel to cover up his face.
"You're weird,"
"Thanks," Somailia and Katie replied at the same time.
"Have we missed dinner?" Sirius asked, drying off his hair.
"Probably,"
"Do you think they'll let us in the Kitchens smelling like this?"
"That is such a stupid question, Sirius."
"I really, really want some nachos," Everyone swiveled their heads to look at Somailia. "What? I do!"
Remus looked at the others. "Up for nachos," he asked them.
"With the hot cheese? Like spicy, not warm, you know…?"
"Uh… sure, Katie,"
"Then I am!"
"We are completely random, you know." Sirius said to Remus.
"Um, yeah of course we are."
"Nachos!" That was Katie. I thought you should know that.
"Fine," Remus grumbled, and started walking up the slope and back to the school. "We'll get nachos."
Few Hours Later
James watched Lily sleep, as he had been doing for a few days past. A sudden scream blasted through the night, and James jerked up and fell off the bed. Lily simply rolled over and settled into a deeper sleep. He got up and grabbed his glasses and jammed them onto his nose before taking the stairs two at a time and going up to the edge of the tower.
"Hello?" He called, trying to see anything in the darkness.
"Lumos," He heard, and then Katie swam into view, standing far below him, her neck craned so she could see him. "Hi, James!"
"Uh, Hi, Katie," He said bewildered. What are you doing?"
"Talking to you, of course,"
"Who screamed?"
"I did, to get your attention."
"May I ask why?"
"You just did," She said with a small smile.
"So… how was it on the outside?"
"I was at your house for Christmas; it was very grand, as always. Sirius and I were riding a lot of the time and my sister completely missed seeing you."
"I miss her as well," James said his face sad. "She wasn't mad at me, was she? I hate not seeing
her. She's so…adorable."
Katie stuck her tongue out at him. "That's what you say, but you don't live with her."
"Whatever, where's Talons?"
"In the Owlery, of course,"
"Right, I knew that."
"Of course you did," She said looking at him with a completely sober look on her face. James leaned farther over the edge to see her. "Don't do that!"
"Don't do what?"
"Lean over the ledge like that,"
"Why not?"
"Your glasses might-," James' glasses fell off his nose and he heard the distinct tinkling as the glass shattered all over the ground. "-fall off," Katie finished. "Hold on, I'll go fix them," she said, and looked around the bushes. "Accio James' glasses!" The broken frame soared toward her and she caught it. She tapped the webbed glass with her wand, uttered some choice words, and then sent them back to him. "There, now take better care of your glasses!"
"Yes, mother," He mumbled.
"I heard that," she said indignantly.
"How?!"
"I have my ways," she said mysteriously.
"You're just weird,"
"That's a given,"
"…why are you really here?"
"I need to tell you something."
"Tell me what?"
"Um… well, I don't want to shout it."
"You'll have to shout it so I can hear it. Does it really matter if people hear you?"
"Yes, actually, it does."
"Why?"
"Why do you keep asking questions?"
"Why do you keep not telling me?" He shot back.
"Because it's confidential," she said smugly.
"You're being aggravating,"
"Well that's just normal for me then, isn't it?" She shifted on her feet. "Okay, hold on, I'll tell you." She grabbed a bag on the ground he didn't notice before and opened it, pulling out parchment, a quill and an ink well. She scribbled on it quickly, and then someone shouted her name, and she accidentally had the quill veer all around the parchment. She cursed loudly, and folded it up and sent it off to him. "I think you can still see some of it, but I have to go! Bye James!" Then she grabbed her bag and took off into the night.
James looked down at the note that was resting on the tower wall, and he hesitantly grabbed it and opened it. The ink wasn't dry when she folded it, so there were many smudges and random blots of ink. But James did get some of the message. And the two words he did under stand were "Escape…wall." And those two words bothered him for the rest of the night.
"Well?" Sirius said as Katie hopped into the Gryffindor Common Room and sat down beside him.
"Well what?"
"Did it work?"
She paused for a long moment. "I forgot what I was supposed to say… so we just had a conversation."
"That's impossible," Remus said, "how could you forget? We went over it numerous
times!"
"Because I choked, okay!"
"Do you want some chocolate?" Somailia asked randomly.
"What?"
"Do. You. Want. Some. Chocolate?"
"Sure…"
"Good!" Somailia said brightly, and pulled out a pack of chocolate.
"Do you always carry around a pack of chocolate?" Sirius asked staring at the package as Katie ripped into it.
"Yes," Somailia said blandly. She threw them each pieces of chocolate, and Remus shoved his piece into his mouth.
"Cherry," he said in awe as he sucked on the chocolate, waiting for the chocolate to melt and the cherry filling to show itself.
"Walnut?"
After a few moments of chewing and pondering, Remus said, "okay, now that we have had all of our chocolate levels restored, let us get back to the fact that you forgot what to say!"
"Well I couldn't help it," Katie said defensively, clutching on to the chocolate box, "He was acting odd. And you completely messed me up when you called my name, now he probably won't be able to read anything on my note!" She hmphed, and settled farther back into the couch.
"You were taking too long!" Remus said indignantly.
"Well, things like that take a long time!"
"How can it-!" Somailia shoved a piece of chocolate into Remus' mouth to keep him from talking.
"You guys fight for weird reasons," she said oddly, nibbling on a piece of chocolate. They all looked at her questionably. "Oh go make out all ready,"
And that they did… muwahahaha.
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