In the Tower
Chapter Seventeen: Sneer on Your Own
Summary: Sirius, Remus and Peter lock James and Lily in a tower over Christmas Break. They don't have anything right now, except a little bit of food, lots of French Almond Coffee, and the passion within themselves. And right now, they're just letting it out.
Disclaimer: Hm…. Nope. I'm still not J.K. Rowling. Sorry.
Author's Note: Ahhh, I want to scream in joy and dance and act stupid. Well, more than usual. Um, over Spring Break I wrote two one-shots, one is ten pages and another is twenty. So, if this chapter is late, you know what I was doing. Tee hee, right. I'm done. Writer's Block! Writer's Block! Ack!
Pope John Paul the second died Saturday in his Vatican City apartment at 9:30 on Saturday. Pray for him.
Previously: Remus and Somailia were back in the Gryffindor common room, because she begged and pleaded to be with him until Sirius and Katie would show up. They had almost been gone a day, and she had no idea where to start looking. So, he went up to take off the blankets of his bed, for he had a feeling they were the cleanest out of the other two beds in the dorm.
Well, as soon as he tore the blankets off his bed, he bit his lip to keep from screaming out. Lily and James were asleep in his bed.
"I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forgot." Neil Shusterman, "Downsiders"
"The show must go on!" Make that a baritone.
Remus leaned forward over James, and poked him hard in the side. James grunted, and wiggled closer to Lily. Remus leaned forward again, and flicked James right between the eyes. He shot up, and looked at Remus, blearily. "Took you long enough," Remus said, and shook the blanket out from under them. "I'll be needing this. You go back to sleep. Your day must have been," he raised his eyebrows, "tiring."
James tried to smack him in the head, but Remus ducked away and laughed. "Naughty, naughty." But in a softer, gentler tone, he told him, "Go back to sleep, James. You don't want to wake Lily up."
James glared at the post that must of resembled Remus, and mumbled, "All right, fine." He went lightly down on his back into the bed, and Lily instantly moved closer to him. Remus slowly shut the curtains, grinned maniacally, and bounded out of the dormatory.
Somailia looked up at Remus when he jumped the last steps down, and raised an eyebrow. "Lily and James are in my bed." He said simply, getting down on the couch next to her and with a flourish, unfolded the blanket and swept it onto them.
"Um?" She said questionably. "Is that a good thing?"
"Well of course it was." He said, looking at her, about to laugh. "They were just sleeping."
"Oh," she said, laughing lightly. "I thought they were doing something else." She winked at him roguishly, "if you know what I mean."
"Of course I know what you mean, jelly bean."
She snorted. "Jelly bean?"
"What? It rhymed." He said, defensively, putting a hand over his heart, with a sad, lost looking puppy face.
"Of course it did." She melted, and kissed his cheek before lying her head on his shoulder and very slowly, went to sleep.
"My feet hurt."
"We're almost there."
"I'm thirsty."
"We're almost there."
"I'm hungry."
"We're almost there." He said, exasperated.
"Carry me?"
"Anything, milady." And he swung Katie over his shoulder, and she laughed, before he set off at a trot toward the door that was now in sight.
"You brought the robes right?" Katie asked, obliviously.
"They're in my hand." Sirius said, shoving his hand up to show her the robes that were in his hand.
"Okay," she said in the same voice. He sighed exasperated, but smiled, because, well, because she was there. There with him, of all people. And that was the only place he would want her to be. And she was perfectly fine with that. He opened the door and looked out slowly, no one was there. He quickly came out, shut the door behind him, which instantly locked itself, and then he, with Katie on his shoulders once again, head off quickly to the Gryffindor common room.
"Bah," Lily said, getting up and trying to stumble into the bathroom. That is, if she knew where the bathroom was. She banged into two beds, three walls, and two doors. And each one was the one she hit before.
She fell into the bathroom and looked around. Okay, this wasn't the bathroom that she and James shared for two weeks. And it defiantly wasn't the girls' bathroom. It smelled of, she took a deep breath, manliness.
She stepped into the closest shower and turned on the water full blast. She basked under the water, not realizing she still had whatever clothes she had worn for two weeks on. Her lower half muscles ached that she didn't even know she had, and from the soreness she was having right now, she never wanted to do the act again.
The door slammed open and Lily screamed silently. Two forms bounded into the room, and went into separate showers, throwing off their clothes in record time, and turning the shower on loudly. The first form, the rather tall one, started singing. Lily gaped in horror. Sirius Black was singing in the shower. And he sounded… okay. She blocked out her ears with her hands while scrubbing her hair harshly, making sure that nothing from the tower was left on her skin.
"Sirius!" A voice yelled out on the other side of what Lily assumed was Sirius' shower, and Lily gaped in horror as she realized the voice was quite female. "Shut up!" The girl continued, "You cannot sing at all! Very off-key."
"Shush Katie," Lily's nose screwed up in disgust. So, Katie was here then? Puh, as soon as I'm out of here, I'm gonna catch her and take points. "It's not like you're much better. You should hear Jamsie sing," Lily bit her lip to keep from calling out and telling Sirius that James hates being called that, "he is one of the best singers I've heard in a long time. Man, if he singed for Lily," she wanted to say that he had, "then she should of fell to his feet and told him to let her ravish him." She couldn't hold her tongue.
She shut off her shower, stepped out and went to the stack of clothes where they were boyish. She threw open the curtain without looking down and told him coldly, "He did sing to me, thank you, and I should tell you, he sung me a song in French about wanting to ravish me, and I was thinking of letting him ravish me then. But I ended up telling him that his voice was hot. Good enough, eh?" Then she winked at Sirius, who was gaping at her, his hands trying to cover his… extremities, and shut the curtain of the shower for him. As she walked out, she called out, "Hello, Katie!"
Katie screamed. Sirius burst out laughing as the door shut after Lily. "Well, then I guess they're out, huh?"
"Yeah!" Katie said in a high-pitched voice. She turned off her shower and stepped out, drying herself off with a towel right next to her shower. Sirius stepped out and walked naked, because somehow there were no towels near his shower, imagine that, and Katie just happened to stand next to the towel rack. "Sirius," she squeaked, "get a towel."
"That's what I'm trying to do," he told her, swaggering over to the towels. She closed her eyes and held one out for him. He pouted and snatched it from her hands. "Fine, be that way."
"Sirius," she said, calmly, with her eyes still closed, "do you not remember what I told you Friday night?" She peeked open her eyes and saw him standing in front of her with his hands crossed over his chest and, thank you, a towel around his waist.
He looked at her in the eye grudging, "yes," he said, sulking.
"Then don't do that until I want you to, please!"
He smiled slightly, walked forward and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her lightly on the forehead. "Fine, I will. But that doesn't mean I won't do it unexpectedly."
She smacked him upside the head and the water in his hair showered on her. She smiled slightly. "Only you would do that, but please, please, not until I tell you I really, really, truly, want to."
"Fine, fine." But then he grinned. "We must go see Jamsie!" Speak of the devil, he stumbled into the room.
"Okay, okay!" He called back at the closing door. Lily must have been yelling at him. He looked up at them, then took a double take. And then rubbed his eyes, and then squinted at them.
"We really are here you know," Katie said, her lip twitching.
"Uh huh," Sirius said, looking over his shoulder to see James. "We really are."
James stood up tall and straightened his shoulders. "Somailia told me that you were sweet on Katie, Sirius, but I didn't know she was sweet on you too!" Then he made a gagging noise. "I think I'm going to be sick. Katie, how can you stand to see Sirius in a towel? I want to throw up each time I see it." Sirius maturely stuck his tongue out at James, and Katie grabbed it before he slipped it back between his lips.
"Now, now, boys, play nice." She said, holding Sirius tongue while making him shake his head and looked at James pointedly.
"Yes, mother." They both told her sarcastically, thought Sirius' didn't sound much like what he said, she still had his tongue. She let go of Sirius' tongue, and he stuck it back in his mouth quickly. She wiped her hand on her towel shaking her head, laughing.
Katie smiled at both of them. "Good," she said, patting Sirius on the head and unraveled herself from Sirius' arms to walk over to James and hug him.
"Ugh…" he said, before he held her, "you're in a towel!"
"Would you rather hug me, or Sirius?" She said, sighing into his shirt while Sirius watched it rolling his eyes.
"Good question." Sirius waved the birdie at James, and James shook his head at him over Katie's, holding in his laughter. "Ah, when I was little, like when we were two and three to six, it would have been you because we didn't believe in cooties, when I was seven to twelve, it would have been Sirius."
Katie giggled. "You matured young then?" She kissed him on the cheek and then Sirius bounded up, wrapped his arms around both Katie and James and hugged them tightly, smashing Katie in the middle. "Guys," she said after a few minutes, "I can't breathe."
"Good!" Both the boys cried out happily. Her arms were stuck limply at her sides, and she couldn't do a thing about her predicament.
The door opened slightly, and they all turned a little so they all could see who was coming, still hugging. Remus poked his head in and laughed at Katie's face. "Oh, what the hay," Remus said, before bounding up to the group and hugging them. James and Katie were shoved toward each other tightly so Remus and Sirius could get their hands at least on the others' hands.
"Ow, ow, breasts, breasts." Katie said, but it was muffled in James' shirt, because he must have been at least at least a foot taller than her for she was slight and her height didn't help her with it. She said it shamelessly, she had been around these boys for so long it didn't matter, and she was almost completely open with them.
James grunted in return, "Ow, ow, testicle area, testicle area." Then he grinned and said to Remus and Sirius, "You want to know what would be really bad right now? If you started jumping up and down." Both the boys grinned evilly, trying to look at each other through James' hair, and synchronized, started jumping up and down. Katie and James howled in pain. Remus and Sirius moved even closer together, making Katie's front be jammed against James, and James testicle area smashed against her pelvis.
Someone laughed in the bathroom, and it echoed through out the room, making all four of them look around for the source. "That's a compromising position James and Katie are in you know. Lily and Sirius should be suspected things."
"It's Sirius' and Remus' fault, Som!" Katie said, struggling against James and Sirius, against James moans of `please don't do that, please,' and Sirius, `yes, please keep doing that!' "Sirius, release your hold on us, this feels very wrong." Sirius laughed loudly and detached his arms from around Remus, James and Katie, making her jump out of the huddle and took deep breaths of air, returning her face to its natural color. When she finally had her color recovered, she stomped right up to the farthest shower, and said, "You're boyfriends fault! No, wait it isn't your boyfriends fault, though he went with it, it was James' fault because he suggested it!" She turned and stalked toward James and tried to smack him on the head but he ducked each time laughing. She narrowed her eyes at him and growled, then walked over to the shower again.
Somailia burst out of the shower, giggling hysterically. "Not funny, not funny, not funny!" Katie said, each time wapping Somailia hard on the back, trying to hide back her blush, which against her will was rising very high and very noticeable on her cheeks.
Remus laughed. "I just realized that Sirius and Katie were in towels!" Then he looked hard at Katie and told her seriously, "You might want to pull that towel tighter there, or else Sirius will follow you around like lost puppy."
"Wouldn't that be a disgusting sight," Lily sneered, opened the door and leaning against it. Katie instantly glared at her and Lily glared back willingly. James stepped between them like a referee.
"Why do you guys hate each other?"
They answered at the same time; "She almost killed you!" Lily cried out, while Katie said softly, "She started it!"
James' eyes widened and Remus bit his lip to keep from laughing, Somailia was on the ground crying because she heard what Katie said very clearly, and Sirius was watching both of them, sizing them up. "Let them fight, James!" Sirius called out eagerly; "I'll watch that!"
Katie and Lily both looked over at him, Katie trying to hold back a frown of exasperation and Lily's lip curl in distaste. "We are not going to indulge in your sexual fantasies, Black," Lily said, and Katie nodded surprising all who saw it, but Lily didn't so she continued on, "but I'm sure Miss Ah Bleu will do it for you."
"That was uncalled for!" James shouted out looking hard at Lily, while Sirius said, "Now that was way below the belt, for both of us!" Katie looked deathly calm, but when you would look at her hand you could tell she was ready to knock Lily's nose in, her knuckles turning white from the restraint of keeping the violence to herself. Remus looked at Lily starting to saying, "Now, Lily," in Katie's defense, while Somailia stocked toward Lily with a gleam in her eye. Remus grabbed Somailia's waist and held her tight to his chest where she couldn't do anything harmful.
"I wouldn't do that," Katie said calmly, staring Lily straight in the eye, "because I love Sirius, I truly do, and he loves me. And we promised each other that we wouldn't do that until we were absolutely, one hundred percent ready. So talk about things you know rather than things you're only guessing at."
Lily bowed her head and scuffed her shoe on the tile floor. "Sorry," she muttered.
Sirius growled, "Don't do it again," while Katie waved a nonchalant hand at Lily and said, "it's fine."
They all stared awkwardly at each other. "Well!" Remus said, clapping his hands together suddenly, making them all jump. "Now that we're all here, I think we need to tell everyone what we did on vacation." They all blushed. "But, I think that Lily and James should get into clean clothes, and Sirius and Katie should get into real clothes."
Sirius grinned, walked over to Katie and took her hand, whispering something into her ear. She blushed, and Lily gawked at Katie and Sirius' intimacy. She never thought people like that, Sirius a womanizer and Katie a… lunatic, could treat each other like that, be so close to each other.
She shrugged to herself. Ah, well, I'm sure that's what people will think once James and I come out as a serious couple. Whatever, she thought, opened the bathroom door widely and slipped down the boys stairs to the girls. And as she stepped into the dorm, she promised herself that she was going to go back to the boys' bathroom and tell them all about her two weeks with James. As she stumbled to where her bed was, she remembered that she and James stayed in the Head dormitory. She clanked down the stairs as soon as James did, and they grinned nervously at each other. She reached out and entwined her fingers with his, and he smiled wider. They walked out of the common room and walked slowly to their room, ignoring the people whom stared at them and their entwined hands as they passed by.
When he said the password to the portrait and told it firmly, that yes, he and Lily were going out, and no he wasn't going to tell how it came to be and would you just let us the bloody hell in? They then ran up the stairs to their private rooms and she changed her clothes and brushed her hair while James flew into the shower, washed quickly and was dressed and waiting for Lily before she even reached the common room. She leaned close to his ear, smiled and whispered, "I'm sore."
He blushed but she didn't see it, and he said in her ear, "Me too." They both grinned stupidly at each other, before entwining their fingers again, and left their common room. As they entered the boys' seventh year bathroom, they realized they were the last ones to get there, and all the good spots were taken. For example, Remus and Somailia were sitting in the dry bathtub, talking quietly to each other, Remus letting his fingers trail up and down Somailia's back while she ran a finger up and down his arm. Sirius and Katie took up the wall under the towel rack, and, Lily almost laughed, Katie was wearing Sirius' uniform, complete with Gryffindor tie. James leaned toward Lily and whispered softly in her ear, "She was never fit for Ravenclaw anyway. It would have been better if she was in Gryffindor; I would have been her older brother figure. And Sirius would be her best friend."
Lily smirked and said quietly, "Good thing she wasn't in Gryffindor then, eh?"
"Stop gossiping about me!" Katie called from across the room, startling James and Lily. "It echoes in here, you know!"
"Shh." Sirius said softly to Katie, and sending a withering look at James and Lily she shushed almost immediately.
"All right! Let's start with our breaks! Who wants to go first!" Remus said, clapping his hands again. Somailia smiled at him but rolled her eyes. "Oh, Lily and James, I have your wands, so feel free to point them at me in anger whenever you feel necessary. I won't feel bad at all." He tossed them to Lily and James, who both instantly shot out their arms and caught their wands, caressing the familiar, and mightily missed, wood sticks. Lily kissed her wand happily and plopped herself down on the floor so she could see the other four perfectly clearly, before pulling down on James' pant leg, making him fall heavily on his behind.
"Sorry," she said, and he looked at her.
"It's okay," he squeaked out and she bit her tongue to keep from laughing. Lily magiked up a bottle and placed it between the six of them, who all raised her eyebrows at her, except herself of course.
"No, we are not playing spin the bottle. But since none of us are volunteering, whoever the bottle lands on has to tell the story from their point of view, kay?"
"Okay," they all answered. She spun it, and it landed on… Remus.
He groaned, and Somailia patted him on the back sympathetically. "When I got home from the train Tina burst on me telling me that we were going to meet her boyfriend." Sirius and James instantly sucked in a breath between their teeth, and Lily, Somailia and Katie had sad faces on for him. "Mum and Tina made me be very nice while he was there, and once he left they backed me in a corner and demanded what I think about him." (Skipping to when he gets to the Potter house,) "So Sirius made me floo over to James' house, which I was very happy for, I tell you what. Brendan was coming over every night! It was driving me insane! I packed my trunk and my mum shrunk it for me and I flooed away as soon as I could. But then, as soon as I slam out of the fire place I land into Somailia, knocking her flat on the ground, and alerting Katie and Sirius out of their snogging session to know what was happening when they heard Somailia scream.
"But anyway, Sirius and Katie were always either gone out riding their horses and snogging or snogging in Sirius' room or wherever they happened to find each other, leaving Somailia and I to ourselves. I remember the thing that stuck out in my mind the most was she and I were walking aimlessly around in a deserted park with the snow falling lightly and I felt the urge to spill my heart and all its secrets out to her. And I did, and she didn't judge me, she didn't interrupt me. And she held me while I sobbed in her shoulder. And basically… that's it."
"Great ending," Katie and James said to Remus sarcastically, "it explained everything!"
He stuck out his tongue at them, and spun the bottle. It landed on, they all smirked, James. "Well, all I remember when before I got in the tower was Peter giving me a… muffin, and Sirius falling off the Quidditch stands, all the way down."
"What?!" Katie screamed, turning to look at Sirius from all angels and inspect him.
"Really, dahling, I'm fine." Sirius said, watching the others.
"James, never scare me like that again!" Katie howled at James, who cowered toward Lily.
"I won't I promise!" He said, looking at her nervously. But he cleared his throat, and said, "Well, I guess I should say that I woke up to hear Lily screaming very, very loudly in my ear." They all laughed at him, and he continued telling them about his and Lily's break until they all knew what happened. "So! That's me and Lily's Christmas Break!" He then spun the bottle, and it landed on Katie. She groaned very loudly.
"Fine! Um… I first saw Sirius as he toppled out of your car, James, and ran toward the stables with Charlie running toward him, and I was on Clam Chowder…" she said, and continued, "pranked Sindy Park… Christmas I woke up in a toga… kissed Sirius for the first time… invited Somailia and he invited Remus… I suddenly woke up awake in the lake, the boys wading toward me… he took me to a hot bath," and Lily and Somailia cut her off.
"He took you to a hot bath? Aww!" They said, looking admiringly at Katie and Somailia and glaring at their boyfriends.
"Where's the hot bath?" Remus and James deadpanned.
Sirius shrugged. "I'll show you the door later."
"You better!" Both the girls told him sternly, while Katie kind of did the smile and nod thing.
"I will!" He said, raising his hands to try and shield himself. They both nodded happily, and he lowered his hands warily. "Hey, Katie?" He said, looking at her, and she turned her head to see him.
"Hmm?"
"What happened to you? On Friday? I know you remember what happened, tell me, please?"
She looked around and saw Remus, Somailia and James looking at her worriedly. Lily just looked confused. "Okay, fine!" She said, grudgingly loud. She said to them slowly, "I felt something… wrong in the room. It made my skin prickle into goose bumps and the hair on my skin stand on end. The air got heavier and it was really hard for me to breathe. Time seemed to have slowed down and everyone moved slower and people talked in that slow monotone voice like they do in the movies, you know? I saw something move quicker than it should have out of the corner of my eyes, and when I stared at it, everything around that thing went black and my eyesight zoomed in on it. It was Voldemort."
They all stared at her. "That was a good way to ruin the good mood, wasn't it?" She mumbled looking at them.
"Yeah." They all said at the same time, just looking at her oddly.
"Stop staring at me!" She cried, flinging herself at Sirius, who tried to hide her in the protection of his arms.
Remus cleared his throat. "Somailia saw something in the library the other day."
Somailia shot him a look. "You said you didn't believe me!"
"I think the time fits to talk about it with the people who are here that might cause it." The other four stared at them, one peeking out of another through his hair.
"Fine." She said coldly, before looking directly at James and Lily. She took a deep breath, and said to them loudly, "I saw your son."
Lily Evans and James Potter, his third time in two days, fainted dead away on the floor.
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