train - prongsfoot - @dailyprongsfoot - word count: 720
“Where the fuck’re you bringing me?” Sirius demanded, though he grinned as James pulled him through the thick London crowd. “I thought you said we were doing something romantic?”
“This is romantic, you berk, now would you let me do my thing?” James retorted haughtily.
“Your thing?” Sirius shot back, chuckling as he worked to keep up with James’s pace. “Mate, you already picked me up a long time ago, you don’t have to–”
But at that point he figured out where they were going.
“Prongs, are we near King’s Cross?” he demanded, trying to decide how he felt about this.
James paused, turning to shoot him a look. “Listen, you royal arsehole. I am being bloody sweet. Do not ruin this for me, hm?”
Unable to decide what was sweet about going to a Muggle train station, especially on this day, Sirius tilted his head to the side. But still, he figured James’s plans were never boring, so he might as well come along for the ride. “Fine,” he agreed, making sure his sigh was extra dramatic.
They wove through the throngs of people into the station and, unsurprisingly, up to the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. Without a word of explanation, James pulled Sirius through until they were safely on platform 9 ¾, surrounded by Hogwarts students about to board the steaming scarlet train.
“You really had to do this today, eh?” Sirius called over the kids and parents, shaking his head good-naturedly. “What’s this about, Prongs?”
“All in good time!” James yelled back, still pulling him along, head on a swivel as he do-doubt looked to make sure nobody noticed them.
It was when they got to the door of the train that Sirius stopped him again. “You know you can Floo to Hogsmeade, right?” he asked with a laugh, gesturing to the car. “We don’t have to stow away with a bunch of kids. Not that I’m not up for adventure, but–”
“We aren’t going to be on long!” James reassured him, rolling his eyes. “Just a few minutes. C’mon, we haven’t got much time!”
So Sirius followed him. Because really, he would follow him anywhere.
They barrelled down the thin hall of the compartments, Sirius reflecting about how small everything felt now. It’d been so long since they’d been here, since the end of their seventh year. So much had changed. They’d grown, matured, come together and drifted apart. But really, it had all started here, in this same train, in compartment–
“Compartment two,” James announced, throwing open the door to the very first place the two of them had met, a beaming smile on his face. “You remember?”
Of course he did. He’d been eleven and terrified, wanting to get away from his awful family but with no idea how. And James Fleamont Potter had sidled up to him with a grin and a promise to change his life forever.
Somewhere in this compartment, their names were carved in the wood. JFP+SOB. How many students had seen them and not known how much it meant? How many students had sat here and not known how life changing this place had been for them? After looking around for a moment, Sirius turned back to James.
Only to find him down on one knee.
“Oh, bloody fucking hell,” he said loudly. A few students out in the corridor peeked their heads in, looking thoroughly confused.
“Pads,” James said with a shaky smile as he held out a box with a ring, “I–”
“Fuck yes. Fuck yes!” he yelled, unable to let James speak, too excited to do anything but jump on top of him and kiss him.
“I had a whole speech prepared!” James protested against his lips, but he was laughing as he spoke so Sirius knew he wasn’t in trouble.
And fuck, it was perfect. Of course James would make sure they were in the place they’d met when he proposed, of course he would sneak them onto the damn Hogwarts Express. What else would he do? How else would he–?
The train whistle blew, startling them both from their…activities.
So of course they celebrated their engagement by jumping out of a moving train hand-in-hand, giggling like madmen as they sprinted through the crowd.
It just made sense. It was them.
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