Prompt 23 - Accident
@wolfstarmicrofic June 23, word count 898
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Sirius hadn’t even bothered to get into his own bed and had gotten straight into Remus’s bed. They’d snuggled close and whispered stories to each other until Peter had thrown his pillow at them and told them to shut up, before falling back to sleep.
McGonagall found them in the morning as they were tucking into their breakfasts.
“Today you will be collecting all the dirty washing from each cabin and washing it. Ensure that you make careful notes of who’s washing is who’s. We find it easiest to wash each cabin’s washing together, so even if items of clothing get mixed up, at least they are in the right place.” She turned to leave. “Oh, and Mr Snape will be joining you.” She arched an eyebrow at them, daring them to question her.
“Yes, Minnie,” They said together glumly. She rolled her eyes at them and strode away, not bothering to correct them.
“Ha,” Sirius exclaimed triumphantly. “We finally wore her down lads. Only took what, three years? I knew we’d be victorious.”
Each person had their own labelled wash bag so that should make life easier for them.
Snape was waiting for them outside the main hall, his face screwed up in disgust.
“Okay, we’ll get Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Kelpie,” James pointed to himself and Peter. “Sirius, Remus, go get Hufflepuff, Sphinx and Centaur, and Snape, you can get Slytherin and Phoenix.” James clapped his hands together, “If we do this efficiently we’ll be done in—” Sirius jumped on him, knocking him to the ground and covering his mouth.
“Don’t you dare say it. Every time you say ‘We’ll be done in no time,’ something always goes wrong. So don’t you dare!” Sirius removed his hand from James’s mouth.
“No time!” James crowed from the floor.
“Damn it, James! Whatever, let’s just get on with it,” Sirius groaned. They split off to go collect the washing.
“Animals!” Sirius complained as he stuffed dirty washing into the bags the Hufflepuff cabin had failed to use.
“Yup,” Remus replied as he gingerly picked up a pair of underwear with the owner’s shorts.
The other cabins weren’t much better. They somehow ended up first back to the laundry room. There were three washers and three dryers. Remus looked down at the twelve bags in their hands. This was going to take all day.
“Well, let’s get started then, I guess. Do you have your phone on you?” Remus asked.
“Yeah, why?” Sirius pulled it out and threw it to him. Remus emptied one of the bags onto the floor. He moved some of the items about and took a picture with the bag next to it, then gathered everything up and put it in a washing machine.
They repeated the action until all the washers were full and filling with water. Sirius flopped onto the floor. “Now we have an hour to kill before that’s done,” He pulled Remus gently down to the floor with him. “Whatever could we do?”
“Whatever it is, do it elsewhere,” Snape sneered at them as he dumped his own bags on the floor beside them.
Sirius hopped to his feet and offered his hand to Remus to help him up.
“Come on Sevy, stop being such a grump,” Sirius jibed as he began emptying the bags Snape had brought in and taking photos of the contents.
“Who needs to go through this many clothes? I'm asking you, Sirius,” James grunted as he tossed an overfull bag in Sirius’s direction. “I swear you have more clothes in there than the rest of us put together.” Sirius shrugged.
“Some of us like to have options, James.”
“Some of us are spoilt brats,” Snape muttered under his breath.
“Far from it, Sevy,” Sirius beamed at Snape, having heard what he said.
“There are mops and buckets in the main hall for you to mop in there,” McGonagall appeared behind Peter, making him jump and squeak and putting a stop to whatever Sirius was about to say. “I want the floor, all the tables and all the chairs cleaned. There are cloths for those. Do not use the mop on the tables,” She narrowed her eyes at Sirius, who held up his hands in surrender.
“Don’t worry, Minnie, we’ll have it sparkling.” McGonagall sighed and left them to it.
“Sirius put a timer on your phone, then we know when to swap everything over,” Remus suggested.
He and Sirius took pictures of the clothes James and Peter had brought in and then went over to the main hall to join the others.
“It was an accident, Snape, calm down,” James was standing in front of Peter, trying to calm a seething Snape down.
“No one knocks over three buckets of water accidentally.” Snape spat back.
“It really was an accident, stuff like this just happens around him,” James snapped back, beginning to lose his cool. Remus went over to Snape to try to defuse the situation.
“Severus, why don’t you go get changed, we’ll cover for you, and we’ll make a start in here,” Remus suggested. Snape stormed off, leaving a trail of bubbles behind him.
“Today is not going to be fun,” Peter said sadly as he gathered the buckets to go refill them.
"Told you not to say the words, James," Sirius sighed dramatically, picking up a cloth and wiping the table closest to him.
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