(Sooo...this one is a bit longer than usual...)
Remus watched as Sirius paced back and forth, unable to channel his restless energy. They’d all gone out before but it didn’t last long since the alarmingly cold temperatures soon turned them into human icicles.
James was off with Lily and Peter was beating some second years at chess, leaving Sirius and Remus to their own devices. Usually they had very little trouble thinking of what they wanted to do, but Sirius was too restless for even a snog at the moment.
“Moony?” Sirius said, approaching with the mischievous glint in his silver eyes that he knew Remus couldn’t resist. “We should do something.”
“Like…” Remus said, raising an eyebrow.
“Go to Honeydukes. It’s been ages since we’ve been, and our supply is running low.”
Remus thought for a moment, two impulses warring with themselves. Sirius knew he did not like to be low on chocolate; none of them did. And they were, since James had grown a conscience and started refusing to go with them. Remus had a feeling he hadn’t changed one bit, and he was more doing it so he could impress Lily when the others landed in detention and he didn’t.
Then, there was the sneaking out bit. As seventh years, they were well practiced at this sort of thing, so much so that it had sort of lost its appeal once their curfew grew later. But, Remus reasoned…it wouldn’t hurt anyone if they blew off some steam and wandered out of the dormitory in the invisibility cloak. They all knew where James stashed it, and they could use it when they wanted, as long as he didn’t need it himself.
“Ok, let’s go,” Remus said, sliding off his bed and toe on his shoes.
“Brilliant,” Sirius said, lighting up. He grabbed the cloak and threw it over himself.
Remus went into the common room and opened the portrait of the Fat Lady as Sirius slipped past. He followed, and made sure the portrait was closed. He didn’t get under the cloak until they were near the statue of the one-eyed witch. Remus had little time to marvel at how little room there was under the cloak with two of them, when all four of them used to fit because the next thing he knew they were in the secret passage.
Sirius pulled off the cloak and beamed at Remus. “Pleased with yourself, are you?” Remus said, chuckling. “It’s not like we’ve never done that before.”
Sirius shrugged and pressed Remus against the wall of the secret passage and kissed him. “It’s just been awhile is all. Nice to know the Marauders haven’t lost their touch.”
Remus rolled his eyes and said, “Of course we haven’t. We’ve just become more…discreet in our sneaking out.”
With that, Sirius grabbed his hand. “C’mon, Moony…let’s go.”
