I am! I’ll be updating you guys on some stuff that’s been going on soon, but I am very alive, and very, VERY well too…
Let’s just say a lot of things that I wish would happened happened and it’s been lovely but of course it’s also been hectic with a lot of stuff going on.
Lilly.... Help me. I swear.
There's something wrong with me, why do I keep unfollowing you? Like I just realized I haven't been following you for a whole ass week.
I did follow you again. So all is well.
How are you doing luv? I hope you're doing well. I honestly wished I could talk to you in real life, because you're literally one of the sweetest people I know. I love you so much. Even if you didn't know(I know you do because I say it so often.) But you really mean a lot to me. And I honestly wished i had more time to read GC because why am I still at chapter 69...? I honestly know why, but I hate myself because of it. I really need to start reading GC again.
I'm actully doing quite well myself. I've begon having some private conversations with one of my teachers at my school because I've felt really bad lately, with my body. (I'm a bit chubby. And I really hate myself because of that. I have no reason to though.) Besides from that. My life is doing so well.
My band, the one I've told you about, we've finally figured out a name, 5 Star Michelin. Imma give you a short review of what we do and such. (Since I honestly just want to yap and catch up with you. Because I feel like my other ask's have been lost in your inbox.... properly have, but you're busy.)
On drums we have a girl named Puk(Danish name.) She's a few years younger than me.
On bass we have a guy named Sean. He's a few years older than me(I call him oppa since we're both into K-pop. I also need to tell you about that-)
And on rythen Guitar and second vocalist, we have my best friend, Luna.
And on second guitar and Front singer, we have me>,,^u^,,<
Anyways, this saturday, May 03 in Tivoli in Copenhagen, my band is going to play, We'll play two new songs we've made. "The Lovers" and "Dreams".
You're properly tierd of me. I'm tierd of myself sometimes, and I compleatly understand if you don't want to talk to me anymore... But I honestly feel so lonely sometimes. I really love you and @blacksgarden. You two mean the world to me. And you along with GC have properly saved me from depression.
EHEM- anyways, I figured out I like K-pop around my birthday. And honestly Sean(bassist.) also likes k-pop and a lot of the same groups as I do. So we can talk about that together. Some of it is honestly really good. But not all of it though. A lot of it isn't really my taste, but I still like around five groups. (ATEEZ, xikers, ENHYPEN, Stray Kids and ALL(H)OURS.) Yeah..
I hope you're doing well again, and your father is doing better from the surgery. I hope you'll be more online, it always makes my day better when you post something:> I hope my other ask's will eventully find their way back to you in your inbox.
Lots of love, and huge hugs from me.
Lots of love.
- Vilma
Love, first and foremost. I COULD NEVER TIRE OF YOU.
NEVER
NEVER EVER
NOT EVEN ONCE
PLEASE NEVER THINK THAT AGAIN, PLEASE!
Has it taken me ages to get through some asks? Yeah. I've been crazy busy and I've not managed to get much of GC written and that makes me run away from Tumblr because I feel terrible because what right do I have to be here if I'm not properly writing anything at all?
I'm really sorry you've been struggling with your body. I feel like we probably all have, and it's awful, I know, I've been there, sometimes I still am, but you don't need to look like girls in movies or magazines to be amazing. Heck, I think you're incredible and I don't even know what you look like! You don't need to be skinny to be pretty, you already are gorgeous the way you are. You are kind, lovely and sweet!
Please be reassured you can talk to me whenever you want. WHENEVER! It may take me some time to respond and I'm really sorry for that, but please don't feel discouraged over it, I'm just bad at keeping up.
I have seen your ask, but I since I haven't written anything for GC, I feel like I gave no right to write anything for anything else until I get more GC done and then it's just and endless cicle of me procrastinating and being caught up on life instead of going back to being a proper writer lol (being rejected by 2 Creative Writing programs is not helping my case).
It's lovely to hear about your band, if you're ever willing to share more, maybe even your songs, I'd absolutely love to take a listen! And I'm really happy you're finding friends and amazing people out there too!
Dad is doing well, we're still getting better but it's a whole work in progress, thanks for the sweet messages.
Pairing: Wolfstar x Reader
Word Count: 6.4 K
Warnings: none
Prompt: Potions and plans.
Proofread by sweet @daydreamandforget
Richard's photo on header by: @holdmymallowsweet
Chapter 76: She's Got A Way
Wednesday, 26 January 1977
“What’s that?” Sirius asked as he sat beside you in the common room. You had skipped the study club in the end. When students found out you were part of it, they started to crowd around the library with the sole purpose of asking you questions. The regulars found it harder to actually concentrate, and by Tuesday, you decided it’d be much better to stop going, at least until ‘the fresh paint dried’ and people got bored of asking questions you would not answer.
Not to mention how eerie it felt to be there without Nina sitting either next to you or a few seats away. On Monday, you had seen her wand and absentmindedly called her name aloud, intending to ask her to pass you some parchment, only to remember that she was no longer there, and you were the owner of her wand now. You got a few pitiful looks from some of the other club attendees, a short leg squeeze from Remus right under the table, and a chorus of hisses and tuts from the stubborn onlookers.
“Potions journal,” you answered Sirius’ question, as you opened it a little wider for him to see. “Wolfsbane.”
“Wolfsbane Potion? I don’t think I’ve heard of it.”
“You haven’t,” you said confidently. “It’s just been invented.”
Sirius frowned and looked at the pages again. “Is that the potion you helped Damocles Belby with?”
“The very same.” You leaned down, opened your rucksack, and handed the potion to Sirius. “I think Slughorn already gave a vial to Remus as well.”
“Mhm?” Sirius asked as he examined the bottle. The contents looked thick and syrupy, like Luminhoney.
“Yeah, and I’m sure Belby thoroughly checked the ingredients and the process, but… I want to make sure,” You added as you pulled out a smaller notebook that you’d filled with your own notes regarding the process used to make the potion. You also had several books that you’d borrowed from the library scattered around the table in front of you, and you were cross-checking every single step and ingredient to make sure nothing would be poisonous or toxic, especially the wolfsbane.
“Well, if it’s called Wolfsbane after the plant then?”
“Yes,” you said. “Aconite is very poisonous. In theory, the process we put it through to make this renders it harmless, but it’s extremely delicate and depends on exact measurements of several of the other ingredients.”
“You think Belby could have made a mistake while preparing it?” He wondered, rolling the bottle around his hand.
“I don't think so, no,” you said and then sighed. “But I’m not letting Remus drink this until I’m sure.”
“And how are you planning to do that? Feed it to rats?”
“Kless did that already,” you said as you shook your head. You scratched something in your notebook and then allowed it to fall on your lap as you turned your body towards Sirius. “That book there mentions a stone,” you said as you pointed at the largest book in your stack. Sirius raised one of his eyebrows. “An Italian alchemist called Andreas Berlusconi discovered it while trying to create the Philosopher’s Stone. He named it Scopritore di Veleni, but most people know it as Berlusconi Stone. Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire confiscated the stone. It’s rumoured that it was stolen shortly after his death.”
“Was it ever found?”
“No,” you sighed. “But according to this book,” you pointed at a small red book on the corner of the table, “Berlusconi’s writings were found in a lost archive in the late eighteen-hundreds, and guess who was made responsible for safekeeping them? Percival Dumbledore!”
“Didn’t he end up in prison?”
“He did,” you said with a small nod. “But it was for something else. The thing is, when he was thrown into Azkaban and Professor Dumbledore started working here, his entire book collection was donated to the school,” you said with a smile and leaned back, feeling very proud of your findings.
“Which means Berlusconi’s notes are somewhere in the library.”
“My bet is on the Restricted Section,” you said with an air of absolute certainty.
“And now, what?”
“Well, we get his notes and try to recreate the stone, of course!”
“Won’t they be in Italian?”
You shook your head and smiled, evidently showing that you had done your research, “The official language was Latin, but Berlusconi’s mum was from Burgundy and there are rumours that he used to write his notes in French so people wouldn’t easily understand them.”
Sirius’ smile mirrored yours. “If that’s true, he did us a favour... When are we going to start?”
“Has to be tonight,” you said. “I’ll ask Richie to go and check if the book is there. If it is, we'll try to collect it tomorrow. I don’t know how long the process to make the stone will take, but I hope we can do it before the next moon.”
“Why?”
“Remus told Slughorn he’d try the potion then.”
“So… are you sneaking out tonight?” he asked with a pointed look.
You shook your head, “Those nosy gits are probably still waiting for me there, because of the study club. I’ll just try and find Richie before curfew.”
“And what are you doing… after?” he added, wiggling his eyebrows. “You know, it’s close enough to the moon for us to use the ‘smell of the pack’ excuse.”
You laughed. Since the day in the bathroom, you had been sort of avoiding the boy’s dorm, at least when you knew Peter was going to be around. And you assumed he was thankful for it, since you were sure he’d have a hard time seeing you and Sirius all over Remus’ bed after what he thought had happened there, without Remus’ consent or knowledge. And while James hadn’t noticed your absence in their dorm much – being too preoccupied with the upcoming Quidditch match (even though Gryffindor wasn’t playing), Sirius and Remus had, and they missed you. Besides, they didn’t have much of an excuse to be close to each other without you around.
“Do you think Pete is ready?”
“Who cares if he is,” Sirius said dismissively. “He can act all sanctimonious all he wants, like he’s not fucking Annie around every broom cupboard in this school; we all know he ain’t a saint. And we’re talking about necessary cuddles here.”
You coughed out a laugh. By now you had to admit to yourselves that most of the time you three had spent cuddling had been anything but necessary – at least not for the safety of Vixen during the moon.
“I guess I could try,” you said, becoming softer all over. “We’d have to wake up for practice tomorrow either way.”
Sirius groaned and laid his head on the sofa dramatically, “James’ obsession with the Slytherin vs Hufflepuff game is doing my head in.” You sighed and nodded. “Last night he kept me up because he thought it was important to analyse Imogen and Henry's technique. He said she was ridiculously good now because she went into a Quidditch Winter Intensive with the Cannons, and she’d trained for hours every day there.”
“Huh, I had no idea,” you said with an interested frown. You hadn’t really had much time to catch up with Imogen, and while you had seen her in your shared classes, everyone who knew you well – and wasn’t the boys or your roommates – seemed to avoid the Christmas subject as much as they could.
Sure, the entire school kind of knew (or puzzled out) by now what you had done at Christmas, but you had no clue what those two had been doing. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Imogen play.”
“She’s good,” Sirius said. “But not good enough for Prongs to make me analyse old games that he stole from the fucking Hogwarts Quidditch Archive from last year.”
“There’s a Hogwarts Quidditch Archive?”
“Never ask him that question,” he warned. “But yes, there is one. They record all the commentary from the games and add some of the pictures taken to the files. I think they’re somewhere in the library, hidden behind a portrait or something.”
“Is that how James became obsessed with Minnie’s lost Quidditch career?”
“Yep,” Sirius said with a nod. “He found the records and read through almost every single one of her games back in third year. Lily was thankful for not being bothered by him for about an entire month. But hear this out. Everyone called Minerva Minnie in the games, so he had no idea it was the same person until he was called to her office due to a prank and noticed that she had a few pictures of Minnie. Naturally, he asked her about it, and she told him they were her old pictures. I don’t think Prongs has been that shocked since.”
You laughed, imagining a younger James putting together that his idol turned out to be one of his most strict teachers. You were about to say something else when you spotted Tom walking in through the portrait.
“Shit, what time is it?” you asked.
“They’re still in the study club,” Tom responded, walking towards you and sitting on the armchair to the right. “I promised to meet with Minho today, so I left early.”
You breathed and turned to the clock. “Did you by any chance see Richie on your way here?”
“Richie?” he asked with a frown.
“Richard Jackdaw,” Sirius explained. “The ghost.”
“Oh,” Tom said with a frown, remembering him from the Hallowe’en Party. “No, sorry.”
“No problem,” you said with a shrug. “I think I might know how to find him.”
“You do?” Sirius asked.
“Yep,” you said with a nod. “I’ll stop by the kitchens before meeting him; you two need anything from there?”
Tom shook his head, but Sirius’ eyes widened mischievously as he smiled, “Oh yeah, definitely bring us some snacks. For later.”
Tom looked in between the two of you, narrowing his eyes at the seemingly hidden message, and then smiled complicitly.
“Okay,” you said with an amused smile as you shook your head. “But there might still be no plan.”
Sirius pouted. “You wouldn’t dare deprive us of your delightful company, would you?”
“Dunno… perhaps I should,” you teased and leaned down to give him a quick peck on the lips just before walking towards Lady McDougal's.
“I reckon she’s feeling a lot better then,” Tom said with a thoughtful soft smile as he saw you disappear through the portrait. He hadn’t seen you so determined in a while. It was as if you somehow had been searching for a purpose, or a distraction, or perhaps both. Whatever helped you escape the pressure of the myriad of students chasing you about, digging for information.
“She is,” Sirius responded with a similar softness. Not because he thought you were over it; part of him suspected you would never really get over what had happened to you, but you were learning to deal with it in a way that wasn’t destroying you, which is what really mattered.
You popped your head from behind one of the statues and looked around to make sure there wasn’t anybody lurking, stepping out of the hole in the wall as quickly as possible and legging it towards the kitchens. You were quick with your spell on the ticklish pear and walked inside. It was weird to be sneaky at such a relatively early time. The kitchens were filled with busy house elves working on supper. They turned to look at you as the portrait closed behind you, and then went back to their tasks.
Nimbletwist was the first one to approach you. “Mistress is here again!” she said with her squeaky voice and a toothy grin.
“Yes I am,” you said, returning her smile.
“What’s you been needing today?” she asked. “More meat for small creature in your chambers?”
“Actually, I require some rotten meat,” you replied.
“Rotten, Mistress?”
“It’s for a friend of mine, yeah. He’d been trying to tell me something and I ignored him. Turns out he was right all along.”
“Mistress is planning a revenge then?”
“Not at all,” you said with a giggle, although you did wonder if Nimbletwist would have been willing to help had that been the case. It seemed like she really would, which was quite useful to know. “My friend is a ghost. I’ve been told they rather like the strong smell rotten meat has.”
“Of course,” Nimbletwist said with a nod. She had often chased ghosts out of the kitchen bins when stinky leftovers were present. She walked towards the far end of the room and placed something that looked rather dreadful onto a brown bag before closing it tightly and walking towards you. “The bag is charmed, Mistress,” she explained, “So the smell makes you not sick.”
You smiled, “That's so thoughtful, thank you.” You hadn’t even considered that you’d have to smell it all the way to the meeting place, and yet, you were still immensely thankful that she’d worry about something like that. She smiled proudly in return.
“Mistress needing something else?”
“Yes,” you nodded. “May I have some snacks? I think I might skip dinner today…”
“Those nosy kids still follow Mistress around, don’t they?” she said knowingly, as she shook her head and snapped her fingers, a basket started filling itself with a rather excessive amount of food. You didn’t even tell her you’d be eating with the boys, she would have given you enough food for an entire army.
When she was done you thanked her and asked her about her day. She said she’d been working in the kitchens the entire time, and that Peblier was on cleaning duty. “He seen those kids following you in the morning, Mistress.”
You sighed, remembering recent memory: a young and rather inquisitive Ravenclaw girl found you after Quidditch practice with James and Sirius, and sat right behind one of the doors to intercept you. She had planted herself right in front of you and was looking at you rather nervously.
“If this is about Christmas, you better get out of my sight before I hex you,” Sirius had said in a rather impassive tone. The small girl had looked quite terrified, you assumed it was due to the way both James and Sirius towered over her. You were a few inches taller than her as well.
“Well?” James said, his broom resting on his shoulder. He sounded a little more polite than Sirius, but he was just as fed up as him (and the rest of your friends) with all the outrageously harassing questions.
The small girl hiccuped, looked around, and stepped out of the way.
“You don’t have to be so mean, Pads,” you said as you walked along with them.
“Yes, I have to,” Sirius replied. “Last time I allowed them to open their mouths they asked about Regulus, and if you were cheating on me with him, and if that was why he was so insistent on helping you. Twats, the lot of ‘em.”
You’d cringed at the memory. It had been a pretty nasty assumption. Not to mention, some even had the nerve to insinuate something about you and Arkalis fucking Rosier, which you thought was both gross, and ridiculous. The man was older than your father!
Besides, hiding your new relationship had turned out a lot harder when all eyes were on you. You had to be careful when you were with Remus, or you’d end up creating even more rumours. At least nobody knew where you had been during the winter holiday, and most assumed you had been at the Leaky Cauldron the whole time, since someone claimed to have spotted you there at some point.
You were drawn back to the present by Nimbletwist handing you the basket. “I can trip them, Mistress. While they follow you, so they stop.”
“I don’t think that’s–“
“Or Peblier and I could add laxative potion to their food at breakfast, they’d have to leave ye alone, then.”
You tilted your head to the side, considering the option and then shook your head as you sighed. You could not do that to them. “They’re curious about… the events. It’s the biggest drama of the last few years and a welcome distraction from the war, I think. The Prophet needed news and so they've been exploiting the thing everyone was talking about. It’s understandable that they would have questions… they’re curious. We cannot punish them for it.”
Nimbletwist blinked, as if considering your words, and then shook her small head. Her big blue eyes shone. “Me sees it differently, Mistress. Curiosity is good if it does not affect others, but it’s bad if it does. Think about it. Curiosity must not be punished, but what if it becomes invasion?”
You were at a loss for words. Nibletwist’s thoughts were wiser than they let on. They didn’t just make sense, she worded them so brilliantly that it even got through you. “We’re still not going to hurt them, even if you have a very good point.”
“If ye change yer mind, Mistress. Nimbletwist and the elves are more than willing to help.”
“Thank you,” you said with a smile. “For everything.”
“Always joyous to help.” She smiled and walked back to the spot where she had been cutting carrots for a stew while you took the brown paper bag and the basket in your hands. “Have a good evening, everyone,” you said to the rest of the elves. Some replied politely, some seemed overly focused, and a few of the more grumpy ones looked pleased that you were finally leaving.
Once you were outside, the portrait closed right behind you and you took out the magic hairpin you’d gotten at Knockturn Alley out of your bag, and put it on. You had tried to use it as little as possible in Hogwarts since you knew how precious it was and you did not want people to recognise your secret identity, but you did not want to risk anybody finding you before you found Richie. Besides, at this point, a completely unknown and new student had higher chances of going unnoticed than you did, for better or worse.
You sped through the halls gripping the bag and the basket, with your head down; your steps just quick enough to avoid people looking at you for too long, but slow enough so it seemed like a natural pace. You found the right corner of the castle and rubbed the frog. In a matter of seconds, you were burped out inside the secret hiding spot. It was empty.
Not that you were expecting your ghostly friend to be here; to your knowledge, he didn’t really spend that much time here in general. What you did know is that he had spent a lot of time here when he was alive, and you were going to bank on that. You took off the hairpin and then placed both the basket and the paper bag onto the counter, while looking around the place. You were sure you’d find something that had belonged to Richie if you dug deep enough.
You opened some of the cabinets and dug through some of the books, opening the covers to see if they had a name tag on them. Most of them were library books, but once you had reviewed everything, you noticed there was something rather weird with the cabinet, the top shelf section seemed a lot deeper than the bottom. You raised one of your eyebrows before pulling enough books so that your hand would fit in. You knocked on the wood, and a hollow sound reverberated back to your ears.
“You sneaky little bastard, a hiding nook within a hiding spot,” you whispered as you pulled the rest of the books out. You then placed your hand back inside and started looking for the way to open the secret section. You slid your hand inside, brushing your fingers near the corners and feeling the wood’s grain as you did. You felt a sharp puncturing pain and pulled your hand out quickly. You had gotten a small splinter stuck in your index finger.
“Fuck,” you whispered and took your wand out and pulled the splinter out with a small and quick summoning charm before dragging your finger to your mouth and sucking the drop of blood that had spilt from it. You looked at the cabinet again and leaned your head down using Lumos to see what was in there. There was no button, no ribbon to pull, no door to slide, nothing. There had to be a way to get in there. But how?
You looked around the room, trying to dissect the problem into smaller bits, when you realised this wasn’t another one of your dad’s tests where there was only one solution, and it was typically his solution. You took your wand out again and pointed it straight towards the cabinet. “Accio wooden plank!” you said. The plank flew out of its way and crashed onto you sharply.
“Fuck!” you said again, now a tad angrier than when you got the splinter, but it was quickly dissipated when you realised there really had been something hiding inside the secret compartment. You smiled, discarded the wooden plank to the side, and pulled out an old-looking journal.
You opened the first page, and there it was, written in neat cursives: Richard Jackdaw.
Got you! You thought as you opened a random page of the journal. It started with a date and it was followed by a rather boring retelling of his day, ending with an interesting conclusion to a Defense Against the Dark Arts class that explicitly spoke of the Unforgivable Curses.
Of course, you knew what they were, but you had never seen such a thorough explanation of what they did and how to cast them properly. You eyed the journal a little bit more. The handwriting seemed slightly different at the beginning from the end, which you found oddly interesting. But the second part seemed to be written in more of a rush than the previous one, and you knew from experience how your own handwriting was remarkably different when it was written with care or when it was scribbled hastily. The writing spoke of a beautiful girl named Apollonia, another one named Anne, and later of a boy named Sebastian, who seemed to be the one that had taught him the Unforgivables.
You frowned but stood up, carelessly waving your wand over the floor so the wooden plank would go back to its place, and then placed the journal on top of the table. You picked a parchment and a charcoal pencil from your bag and started drawing a symbol with runes on the sides. Old magic, you had used it before in Potions, and it was often the main source in Divination. You had read a lot about it lately, and apparently there was a spell that could summon ghosts.
You had your doubts, of course. You had never heard of such a thing before the book you were currently reading. But if there were spells to repel them, why not some that could summon them instead? You added the last detail of the Antropos symbol and placed the journal in the middle.
“Kaleí Fantasmae,” you said as you pointed your wand towards the goblet with dried mugwort and sage leaves. “Faté Richard Jackdaw.”
You waited, looking around to see if he had arrived, and when nothing other than the room getting colder happened, you sighed. If you left through the Honydukes passage, you might arrive at the Headless’ Hunt reunion by the time–
“What in the name of Salazar is this?” You heard a bewildered voice from behind and smiled when you spotted him.
“Bloody hell, it actually worked!”
“You did this?” He asked as he pointed an accusing finger at you. “Of course you did this!”
You smiled apologetically at him, “I didn’t know it was going to work.”
“You wench!” he said. He looked quite offended, so you decided to just let him let it out of his system. “Did you at least consult whichever cursed book you got that spell from? Did it say how ridiculously disturbing it would be for a ghost?”
“I’m afraid the book did not really take into account the feelings of ghosts. It’s more about trapping them, and banishing them than anything…”
“Can you credit it?” he retorted, his cheeks blowing out some non-existent air before he turned to look at you again. “It was like apparating for the first time! And I’m not supposed to feel any pain or nausea!”
“I’m really sorry,” you said honestly. “I didn't mean to hurt you.”
“And yet you summoned me anyway.”
“I actually brought you something,” you tried appeasing him, taking the bag of rotten meat and pushing it toward him as you opened it, a peace offering.
He looked at the bag and opened it to examine its contents. His cranky expression started to fade before turning back to you, his frown deepening again. “Oh… Oh. You want something.”
You left the bag on the furthest edge of the table and sat on the other one, moving the sage goblet in between you and the meat. Turns out it's useful for more than one reason.
“Well, maybe I just want to have a meaningful conversation.”
“And I had a marvellous time getting here for it,” he retorted sarcastically.
“Enjoy your meat,” you smiled, and then spotted the journal again. You tapped your fingers over it. “By the way… I knew of Apollonia and Anne but, who was Sebastian?”
He turned back at you with a shocked expression. “You read my diary?”
“Well I needed something of yours to summon you,” you said with a shrug.
“How did you even find it?”
“With determination,” you responded as you shrugged. “I even got a splinter,” you said and showed him your still red finger.
“And you called me because?”
“Don’t make this sound so transactional!” you chided. “I actually did want to talk to you. And was planning to do it as soon as I bumped into you, so to speak… But I’ve been staying at the Gryffindor Tower a lot, and, well… The reason for which I summoned you came up.”
Richie’s annoyance seemed to dissipate again, his face turning into one of understanding. “Myrtle mentioned something about Christmas, the portraits have also been whispering things.”
You sighed and allowed your back to fall on the chair with an almost dramatic flare. You were still staring at the ceiling when you spoke again. “You’re not gonna tell me to talk about my feelings and share an emotional moment, are you?”
Richie straight up laughed at that, shaking his head as he looked at you. “I’m just happy you seem okay.”
You turned your head towards him. “Though you’d be better off without the pesky little human friend that summons you?”
“Perhaps, but I’d miss your nonsense,” he said with a shrug.
Now it was your turn to laugh. At least the ghosts didn’t pity you. Perhaps it was because they themselves had already died, and more often than not in terrible ways. If you were alive, then you were already winning. There was a comfortable silence as laughter died out and you turned to him with a cheeky smile. “So… who was Sebastian? Another conquest?”
“Ugh, not mine, no. I was never really into gentlemen if you know what I mean.”
“Best friend?”
“We weren’t even alive at the same time.” Richie laughed. “He was remarkably talented, though.”
“Why do you speak so often of him then?”
“I did not write that part of the journal. A really good friend of mine did. I once told you that you reminded me of them, remember?”
You frowned, you had a vague memory of it. “So he was their friend, not yours?”
“Indeed,” Richie nodded. “How are your boyfriends, by the way?” You laughed. He continued, “What? No correcting me this time? What about ‘Oh, Richie, but I only have one boyfriend!’ ”
“My voice isn’t nearly that high pitched, or annoying.”
“Would it make you feel better If we pretend it isn’t?”
You rolled your eyes. “They’re all right.”
“So you just gave up? You’re gonna let me call them your boyfriends?”
“I’m not giving up,” you said, leaning up, sitting up again and then shrugging. “You were right about the whole thing, turns out.”
“I was right? Of course I was right! You’re dating both of them now, aren’t you? Minx!”
“It's not public knowledge, and I’d rather it stayed that way,” you looked pointedly at him.
He hummed. “I’ll take it to the grave.”
“You must think you’re hilarious,” you said, even if you were shaking your head in amusement.
“Drop-dead funny,” he retorted.
You scoffed and shook your head with a faint smile on your lips before turning back to him. “Actually, I wanted to ask how you dealt with your relationship with Apollonia and Anne.”
“It’d be more like, how not to handle a relationship like that,” he said as he shook his head. “At the beginning everything was perfect. Llonie and Anne seemed to really be into each other, as much as they were onto me. But then I became obsessed with a puzzle I found on some pages of an old book and tried to decipher them with Llonie. Well, she found them an incredible bore, and told me to occupy myself with something more useful. Told me she could not marry a nobody who was stuck in his dreams–“
“Ouch,” you said with a small frown.
“Well, she was a Black,” he shrugged.
“Sirius is not like that.”
“Must be the Potter and Lupin influence then,” he said with a shrug. You were about to argue that Reggie wasn’t like that either, but that was another friendship that couldn’t be made public knowledge right now, for his safety.
Richie continued, “Anyway, Anne really liked puzzles and so we started spending time together for longer periods, trying to sort it all out by ourselves. Llonie then turned jealous because I was paying a lot more attention to Anne, and asked me if I would end up marrying her instead, and if that had been my plan all along, and I told her that I was happy with the relationship we had, that I wanted the three of us to be together…”
“But that didn’t appease her,” you guessed with a sad sigh.
“Right,” Richie agreed. “Eventually, Anne helped me solve the puzzle and I wanted to go into the cave. She said it was too dangerous, and that we should bring Llonie along – since she was remarkable at Defense Against the Dark Arts when we were in school, but I told her that she wouldn’t come, that she hated us now…”
He had a forlorn look in his ghostly face as he continued, “I should have gone to her, though. Anne was supposed to meet me at the gates. I left a puzzle to show her the way, but she didn’t come, I thought she had decided to leave me too and I went inside, alone. I found several treasure chests, small ones, but I was so sure there would be something big at the end of the map. When I arrived at the centre, I was suddenly beheaded by a massive stone statue.” You gulped, you had no idea Richie would actually tell you the story behind his death, since ghosts rarely talked about it. “To be honest, I barely even felt it. It was a sharp pain that lasted only for a split second. Somewhat of a… whooshing breeze? But when I came back as a ghost, I was disorientated and had no idea how I’d died.” Richie recounted with such a heartbreaking resignation, you almost wished you could hug him.
“I appeared on Hogsmeade and the only thing I could remember was that the two loves of my life had abandoned me, and that I had died because of it, so I left.” He sighed. “But people had seen my ghost and they started talking about it. Turns out Anne had gone to Llonie, trying to convince her to come along, but Llonie had refused. When she later heard of my death, she instantly blamed Anne for it and lied, saying that she had been the one to murder me.” You were horrified and felt great sympathy for Jackdaw, at his vulnerable revelations to you.
“You know, I found out too late that Anne hadn’t even managed to solve the puzzle I gave her, and that was the reason she’d gone to Llonie instead of me. She then spent years in Azkaban, convicted of a crime she didn’t commit.”
“That sounds horrifying.”
“It was,” Richie said with a nod. “But my friend, she found out, went to the cave, and solved the mystery of my death, returning something I had stolen and eventually – after I gave my testimony – absolving Anne.”
“But Apollonia had already died,” you said with a frown. You knew that part; you’d read the article about the solved mystery written by Auror Ominis Gaunt.
“Belladonna,” Richie said with a nod. “I have plenty of regrets, but my biggest is not talking it out with them and rushing into danger alone. It created a rift that ultimately destroyed us. One in Azkaban, the other alone, and me, a ghost.”
“I’m sorry Richie,” you said honestly. “I didn’t mean– I mean, I wanted to– Thanks for the tip.”
Richie smiled, “I like to imagine they’re both happy together someplace else.”
“But what about you? Have you never thought of… crossing the veil?”
“You can’t do that after you’ve rejected death. It won’t take you.”
“So, you’re stuck?”
Richie nodded with a small, almost regretful smile. “But it’s alright. I enjoy this place, the adventures and puzzles hidden in this castle and beyond have always been fascinating, I’m sure you’d agree.”
“Was Anne’s puzzle really hard?” you asked with a frown.
“I’m not sure she tried to solve it before going to Llonie, she wanted an excuse to convince her to come along. She loved her too, and Llonie loved her back. It’s ridiculous how such a strong love can turn into hate and resentment in seconds… Talk to your boys, always.”
You nodded, taking his words to heart. You would not make the same mistakes, you could not make the same mistakes.
“But hearing a sad ghost story is not the reason you summoned me here, is it? I’d believe it if you hadn’t brought the meat, but this,” he pointed at the paper bag “smells like good old bribery.”
You sighed, “There might be another reason I called on you.”
“If you want me to convince the Headless Hunt to do another one of those prank things, then it’s out of the question. Dumbledore was so angry he threatened to speak to the Spirit Division. They forced Myrtle back into Hogwarts, you know?”
You had heard of that story. Myrtle had crashed her brother’s wedding and made a fuss, and they called the department on her. Apparently, she wouldn’t be able to leave Hogwarts until all of her relatives had passed. “It’s not for a prank. Promise.”
“Oh?”
“It’s actually for information,” you explained. “I need you to go to the Restricted Section.”
“You’ve snuck in there already, why do you need my help?”
“I don’t know where the book I’m looking for is, or even if it is still there.”
Richie made a slightly disgruntled expression. “What are you on about now?”
“You could maybe ask the help of the ghost lady that haunts the Restricted Section… White-Haired Ellie?”
“Eleanor Atkinson,” he said. “We tried dating back in the nineteenth century, you know. It ended quite badly.”
“You’ve tried dating? As ghosts? How does it even–”
“Well, one has to keep himself busy after death,” he said with a small shrug. “I’m not really eager to see her again, though.”
“Please?” you said with a small pout. “I’ll get you more rotten meat…”
“How much more?”
“I’ll send my owl with a pack every fifteen days for 2 months, straight to the Headless Hunt Headquarters.”
“Six months.”
“I have things to do, Richie,” you said with a sigh. “Four is the best you’re gonna get.”
Richie gave you a pointed look, but acquiesced, “What book do you need then?”
“A journal – may be an annotated book – by Andreas Berlusconi.”
“Andreas Berlusconi?” Richard said with a frown. “Why does that name sound familiar to me?”
“Maybe you’ve read the book?”
“No, Llonie was the swot who knew about writers, not me. Andreas… Andreas… Hang on! I know him!”
“You what?”
“He’s a ghost! An honorary member of the Headless Hunt! I must have seen him last about… seventy years ago I think.”
“Honorary member?”
“Yeah, well, because he’s headless, but not from England. I think he’s often a substitute teacher at Durmstrang.”
“That means… we could possibly get in touch with him if we don’t crack it with his notes!” Your speech started speeding up, you were getting quite excited about new possibilities.
“And what do you want to crack, pray tell?”
“The Scopritore di Veleni,” you said with a smile.
“Am I supposed to know what that is?”
“The Berlusconi Stone, a magical item that helps you detect poisons.”
“Do you feel like you’ll get poisoned soon?” he asked with a frown.
“Huh?” you asked with a small frown of your own. “Not at all, it’s to help a friend.”
“One of your boyfriends?” he asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Maybe,” you replied with a sheepish smile… “Is it all right if I meet you tomorrow in my common room? At about six-thirty?”
“Sure,” he said with a shrug. “Why the urgency?”
“I can’t really tell you,” you responded. “But I have to replicate that stone before a deadline.”
“The stone that was lost and nobody’s ever managed to replicate?”
“Well, nobody’s ever had Berlusconi’s notes,” you said with a confident smirk.
For a second, Richie wondered if you were going on a wild goose chase to try and get your mind off things, but your words rang true as well. Perhaps the Berlusconi Stone wasn’t that hard to replicate. After all, Berlusconi hadn’t come off as a remarkably brilliant ghost when they met.
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Chapter 76: She's Got A Way
Wednesday, 26 January 1977
“What’s that?” Sirius asked as he sat beside you in the common room. You had skipped the study club in the end. When students found out you were part of it, they started to crowd around the library with the sole purpose of asking you questions. The regulars found it harder to actually concentrate, and by Tuesday, you decided it’d be much better to stop going, at least until ‘the fresh paint dried’ and people got bored of asking questions you would not answer.
Not to mention how eerie it felt to be there without Nina sitting either next to you or a few seats away. On Monday, you had seen her wand and absentmindedly called her name aloud, intending to ask her to pass you some parchment, only to remember that she was no longer there, and you were the owner of her wand now. You got a few pitiful looks from some of the other club attendees, a short leg squeeze from Remus right under the table, and a chorus of hisses and tuts from the stubborn onlookers.
“Potions journal,” you answered Sirius’ question, as you opened it a little wider for him to see. “Wolfsbane.”
“Wolfsbane Potion? I don’t think I’ve heard of it.”
“You haven’t,” you said confidently. “It’s just been invented.”
Sirius frowned and looked at the pages again. “Is that the potion you helped Damocles Belby with?”
“The very same.” You leaned down, opened your rucksack, and handed the potion to Sirius. “I think Slughorn already gave a vial to Remus as well.”
“Mhm?” Sirius asked as he examined the bottle. The contents looked thick and syrupy, like Luminhoney.
“Yeah, and I’m sure Belby thoroughly checked the ingredients and the process, but… I want to make sure,” You added as you pulled out a smaller notebook that you’d filled with your own notes regarding the process used to make the potion. You also had several books that you’d borrowed from the library scattered around the table in front of you, and you were cross-checking every single step and ingredient to make sure nothing would be poisonous or toxic, especially the wolfsbane.
“Well, if it’s called Wolfsbane after the plant then?”
“Yes,” you said. “Aconite is very poisonous. In theory, the process we put it through to make this renders it harmless, but it’s extremely delicate and depends on exact measurements of several of the other ingredients.”
“You think Belby could have made a mistake while preparing it?” He wondered, rolling the bottle around his hand.
“I don't think so, no,” you said and then sighed. “But I’m not letting Remus drink this until I’m sure.”
“And how are you planning to do that? Feed it to rats?”
“Kless did that already,” you said as you shook your head. You scratched something in your notebook and then allowed it to fall on your lap as you turned your body towards Sirius. “That book there mentions a stone,” you said as you pointed at the largest book in your stack. Sirius raised one of his eyebrows. “An Italian alchemist called Andreas Berlusconi discovered it while trying to create the Philosopher’s Stone. He named it Scopritore di Veleni, but most people know it as Berlusconi Stone. Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire confiscated the stone. It’s rumoured that it was stolen shortly after his death.”
“Was it ever found?”
“No,” you sighed. “But according to this book,” you pointed at a small red book on the corner of the table, “Berlusconi’s writings were found in a lost archive in the late eighteen-hundreds, and guess who was made responsible for safekeeping them? Percival Dumbledore!”
“Didn’t he end up in prison?”
“He did,” you said with a small nod. “But it was for something else. The thing is, when he was thrown into Azkaban and Professor Dumbledore started working here, his entire book collection was donated to the school,” you said with a smile and leaned back, feeling very proud of your findings.
“Which means Berlusconi’s notes are somewhere in the library.”
“My bet is on the Restricted Section,” you said with an air of absolute certainty.
“And now, what?”
“Well, we get his notes and try to recreate the stone, of course!”
“Won’t they be in Italian?”
You shook your head and smiled, evidently showing that you had done your research, “The official language was Latin, but Berlusconi’s mum was from Burgundy and there are rumours that he used to write his notes in French so people wouldn’t easily understand them.”
Sirius’ smile mirrored yours. “If that’s true, he did us a favour... When are we going to start?”
“Has to be tonight,” you said. “I’ll ask Richie to go and check if the book is there. If it is, we'll try to collect it tomorrow. I don’t know how long the process to make the stone will take, but I hope we can do it before the next moon.”
“Why?”
“Remus told Slughorn he’d try the potion then.”
“So… are you sneaking out tonight?” he asked with a pointed look.
You shook your head, “Those nosy gits are probably still waiting for me there, because of the study club. I’ll just try and find Richie before curfew.”
“And what are you doing… after?” he added, wiggling his eyebrows. “You know, it’s close enough to the moon for us to use the ‘smell of the pack’ excuse.”
You laughed. Since the day in the bathroom, you had been sort of avoiding the boy’s dorm, at least when you knew Peter was going to be around. And you assumed he was thankful for it, since you were sure he’d have a hard time seeing you and Sirius all over Remus’ bed after what he thought had happened there, without Remus’ consent or knowledge. And while James hadn’t noticed your absence in their dorm much – being too preoccupied with the upcoming Quidditch match (even though Gryffindor wasn’t playing), Sirius and Remus had, and they missed you. Besides, they didn’t have much of an excuse to be close to each other without you around.
“Do you think Pete is ready?”
“Who cares if he is,” Sirius said dismissively. “He can act all sanctimonious all he wants, like he’s not fucking Annie around every broom cupboard in this school; we all know he ain’t a saint. And we’re talking about necessary cuddles here.”
You coughed out a laugh. By now you had to admit to yourselves that most of the time you three had spent cuddling had been anything but necessary – at least not for the safety of Vixen during the moon.
“I guess I could try,” you said, becoming softer all over. “We’d have to wake up for practice tomorrow either way.”
Sirius groaned and laid his head on the sofa dramatically, “James’ obsession with the Slytherin vs Hufflepuff game is doing my head in.” You sighed and nodded. “Last night he kept me up because he thought it was important to analyse Imogen and Henry's technique. He said she was ridiculously good now because she went into a Quidditch Winter Intensive with the Cannons, and she’d trained for hours every day there.”
“Huh, I had no idea,” you said with an interested frown. You hadn’t really had much time to catch up with Imogen, and while you had seen her in your shared classes, everyone who knew you well – and wasn’t the boys or your roommates – seemed to avoid the Christmas subject as much as they could.
Sure, the entire school kind of knew (or puzzled out) by now what you had done at Christmas, but you had no clue what those two had been doing. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Imogen play.”
“She’s good,” Sirius said. “But not good enough for Prongs to make me analyse old games that he stole from the fucking Hogwarts Quidditch Archive from last year.”
“There’s a Hogwarts Quidditch Archive?”
“Never ask him that question,” he warned. “But yes, there is one. They record all the commentary from the games and add some of the pictures taken to the files. I think they’re somewhere in the library, hidden behind a portrait or something.”
“Is that how James became obsessed with Minnie’s lost Quidditch career?”
“Yep,” Sirius said with a nod. “He found the records and read through almost every single one of her games back in third year. Lily was thankful for not being bothered by him for about an entire month. But hear this out. Everyone called Minerva Minnie in the games, so he had no idea it was the same person until he was called to her office due to a prank and noticed that she had a few pictures of Minnie. Naturally, he asked her about it, and she told him they were her old pictures. I don’t think Prongs has been that shocked since.”
You laughed, imagining a younger James putting together that his idol turned out to be one of his most strict teachers. You were about to say something else when you spotted Tom walking in through the portrait.
“Shit, what time is it?” you asked.
“They’re still in the study club,” Tom responded, walking towards you and sitting on the armchair to the right. “I promised to meet with Minho today, so I left early.”
You breathed and turned to the clock. “Did you by any chance see Richie on your way here?”
“Richie?” he asked with a frown.
“Richard Jackdaw,” Sirius explained. “The ghost.”
“Oh,” Tom said with a frown, remembering him from the Hallowe’en Party. “No, sorry.”
“No problem,” you said with a shrug. “I think I might know how to find him.”
“You do?” Sirius asked.
“Yep,” you said with a nod. “I’ll stop by the kitchens before meeting him; you two need anything from there?”
Tom shook his head, but Sirius’ eyes widened mischievously as he smiled, “Oh yeah, definitely bring us some snacks. For later.”
Tom looked in between the two of you, narrowing his eyes at the seemingly hidden message, and then smiled complicitly.
“Okay,” you said with an amused smile as you shook your head. “But there might still be no plan.”
Sirius pouted. “You wouldn’t dare deprive us of your delightful company, would you?”
“Dunno… perhaps I should,” you teased and leaned down to give him a quick peck on the lips just before walking towards Lady McDougal's.
“I reckon she’s feeling a lot better then,” Tom said with a thoughtful soft smile as he saw you disappear through the portrait. He hadn’t seen you so determined in a while. It was as if you somehow had been searching for a purpose, or a distraction, or perhaps both. Whatever helped you escape the pressure of the myriad of students chasing you about, digging for information.
“She is,” Sirius responded with a similar softness. Not because he thought you were over it; part of him suspected you would never really get over what had happened to you, but you were learning to deal with it in a way that wasn’t destroying you, which is what really mattered.
You popped your head from behind one of the statues and looked around to make sure there wasn’t anybody lurking, stepping out of the hole in the wall as quickly as possible and legging it towards the kitchens. You were quick with your spell on the ticklish pear and walked inside. It was weird to be sneaky at such a relatively early time. The kitchens were filled with busy house elves working on supper. They turned to look at you as the portrait closed behind you, and then went back to their tasks.
Nimbletwist was the first one to approach you. “Mistress is here again!” she said with her squeaky voice and a toothy grin.
“Yes I am,” you said, returning her smile.
“What’s you been needing today?” she asked. “More meat for small creature in your chambers?”
“Actually, I require some rotten meat,” you replied.
“Rotten, Mistress?”
“It’s for a friend of mine, yeah. He’d been trying to tell me something and I ignored him. Turns out he was right all along.”
“Mistress is planning a revenge then?”
“Not at all,” you said with a giggle, although you did wonder if Nimbletwist would have been willing to help had that been the case. It seemed like she really would, which was quite useful to know. “My friend is a ghost. I’ve been told they rather like the strong smell rotten meat has.”
“Of course,” Nimbletwist said with a nod. She had often chased ghosts out of the kitchen bins when stinky leftovers were present. She walked towards the far end of the room and placed something that looked rather dreadful onto a brown bag before closing it tightly and walking towards you. “The bag is charmed, Mistress,” she explained, “So the smell makes you not sick.”
You smiled, “That's so thoughtful, thank you.” You hadn’t even considered that you’d have to smell it all the way to the meeting place, and yet, you were still immensely thankful that she’d worry about something like that. She smiled proudly in return.
“Mistress needing something else?”
“Yes,” you nodded. “May I have some snacks? I think I might skip dinner today…”
“Those nosy kids still follow Mistress around, don’t they?” she said knowingly, as she shook her head and snapped her fingers, a basket started filling itself with a rather excessive amount of food. You didn’t even tell her you’d be eating with the boys, she would have given you enough food for an entire army.
When she was done you thanked her and asked her about her day. She said she’d been working in the kitchens the entire time, and that Peblier was on cleaning duty. “He seen those kids following you in the morning, Mistress.”
You sighed, remembering recent memory: a young and rather inquisitive Ravenclaw girl found you after Quidditch practice with James and Sirius, and sat right behind one of the doors to intercept you. She had planted herself right in front of you and was looking at you rather nervously.
“If this is about Christmas, you better get out of my sight before I hex you,” Sirius had said in a rather impassive tone. The small girl had looked quite terrified, you assumed it was due to the way both James and Sirius towered over her. You were a few inches taller than her as well.
“Well?” James said, his broom resting on his shoulder. He sounded a little more polite than Sirius, but he was just as fed up as him (and the rest of your friends) with all the outrageously harassing questions.
The small girl hiccuped, looked around, and stepped out of the way.
“You don’t have to be so mean, Pads,” you said as you walked along with them.
“Yes, I have to,” Sirius replied. “Last time I allowed them to open their mouths they asked about Regulus, and if you were cheating on me with him, and if that was why he was so insistent on helping you. Twats, the lot of ‘em.”
You’d cringed at the memory. It had been a pretty nasty assumption. Not to mention, some even had the nerve to insinuate something about you and Arkalis fucking Rosier, which you thought was both gross, and ridiculous. The man was older than your father!
Besides, hiding your new relationship had turned out a lot harder when all eyes were on you. You had to be careful when you were with Remus, or you’d end up creating even more rumours. At least nobody knew where you had been during the winter holiday, and most assumed you had been at the Leaky Cauldron the whole time, since someone claimed to have spotted you there at some point.
You were drawn back to the present by Nimbletwist handing you the basket. “I can trip them, Mistress. While they follow you, so they stop.”
“I don’t think that’s–“
“Or Peblier and I could add laxative potion to their food at breakfast, they’d have to leave ye alone, then.”
You tilted your head to the side, considering the option and then shook your head as you sighed. You could not do that to them. “They’re curious about… the events. It’s the biggest drama of the last few years and a welcome distraction from the war, I think. The Prophet needed news and so they've been exploiting the thing everyone was talking about. It’s understandable that they would have questions… they’re curious. We cannot punish them for it.”
Nimbletwist blinked, as if considering your words, and then shook her small head. Her big blue eyes shone. “Me sees it differently, Mistress. Curiosity is good if it does not affect others, but it’s bad if it does. Think about it. Curiosity must not be punished, but what if it becomes invasion?”
You were at a loss for words. Nibletwist’s thoughts were wiser than they let on. They didn’t just make sense, she worded them so brilliantly that it even got through you. “We’re still not going to hurt them, even if you have a very good point.”
“If ye change yer mind, Mistress. Nimbletwist and the elves are more than willing to help.”
“Thank you,” you said with a smile. “For everything.”
“Always joyous to help.” She smiled and walked back to the spot where she had been cutting carrots for a stew while you took the brown paper bag and the basket in your hands. “Have a good evening, everyone,” you said to the rest of the elves. Some replied politely, some seemed overly focused, and a few of the more grumpy ones looked pleased that you were finally leaving.
Once you were outside, the portrait closed right behind you and you took out the magic hairpin you’d gotten at Knockturn Alley out of your bag, and put it on. You had tried to use it as little as possible in Hogwarts since you knew how precious it was and you did not want people to recognise your secret identity, but you did not want to risk anybody finding you before you found Richie. Besides, at this point, a completely unknown and new student had higher chances of going unnoticed than you did, for better or worse.
You sped through the halls gripping the bag and the basket, with your head down; your steps just quick enough to avoid people looking at you for too long, but slow enough so it seemed like a natural pace. You found the right corner of the castle and rubbed the frog. In a matter of seconds, you were burped out inside the secret hiding spot. It was empty.
Not that you were expecting your ghostly friend to be here; to your knowledge, he didn’t really spend that much time here in general. What you did know is that he had spent a lot of time here when he was alive, and you were going to bank on that. You took off the hairpin and then placed both the basket and the paper bag onto the counter, while looking around the place. You were sure you’d find something that had belonged to Richie if you dug deep enough.
You opened some of the cabinets and dug through some of the books, opening the covers to see if they had a name tag on them. Most of them were library books, but once you had reviewed everything, you noticed there was something rather weird with the cabinet, the top shelf section seemed a lot deeper than the bottom. You raised one of your eyebrows before pulling enough books so that your hand would fit in. You knocked on the wood, and a hollow sound reverberated back to your ears.
“You sneaky little bastard, a hiding nook within a hiding spot,” you whispered as you pulled the rest of the books out. You then placed your hand back inside and started looking for the way to open the secret section. You slid your hand inside, brushing your fingers near the corners and feeling the wood’s grain as you did. You felt a sharp puncturing pain and pulled your hand out quickly. You had gotten a small splinter stuck in your index finger.
“Fuck,” you whispered and took your wand out and pulled the splinter out with a small and quick summoning charm before dragging your finger to your mouth and sucking the drop of blood that had spilt from it. You looked at the cabinet again and leaned your head down using Lumos to see what was in there. There was no button, no ribbon to pull, no door to slide, nothing. There had to be a way to get in there. But how?
You looked around the room, trying to dissect the problem into smaller bits, when you realised this wasn’t another one of your dad’s tests where there was only one solution, and it was typically his solution. You took your wand out again and pointed it straight towards the cabinet. “Accio wooden plank!” you said. The plank flew out of its way and crashed onto you sharply.
“Fuck!” you said again, now a tad angrier than when you got the splinter, but it was quickly dissipated when you realised there really had been something hiding inside the secret compartment. You smiled, discarded the wooden plank to the side, and pulled out an old-looking journal.
You opened the first page, and there it was, written in neat cursives: Richard Jackdaw.
Got you! You thought as you opened a random page of the journal. It started with a date and it was followed by a rather boring retelling of his day, ending with an interesting conclusion to a Defense Against the Dark Arts class that explicitly spoke of the Unforgivable Curses.
Of course, you knew what they were, but you had never seen such a thorough explanation of what they did and how to cast them properly. You eyed the journal a little bit more. The handwriting seemed slightly different at the beginning from the end, which you found oddly interesting. But the second part seemed to be written in more of a rush than the previous one, and you knew from experience how your own handwriting was remarkably different when it was written with care or when it was scribbled hastily. The writing spoke of a beautiful girl named Apollonia, another one named Anne, and later of a boy named Sebastian, who seemed to be the one that had taught him the Unforgivables.
You frowned but stood up, carelessly waving your wand over the floor so the wooden plank would go back to its place, and then placed the journal on top of the table. You picked a parchment and a charcoal pencil from your bag and started drawing a symbol with runes on the sides. Old magic, you had used it before in Potions, and it was often the main source in Divination. You had read a lot about it lately, and apparently there was a spell that could summon ghosts.
You had your doubts, of course. You had never heard of such a thing before the book you were currently reading. But if there were spells to repel them, why not some that could summon them instead? You added the last detail of the Antropos symbol and placed the journal in the middle.
“Kaleí Fantasmae,” you said as you pointed your wand towards the goblet with dried mugwort and sage leaves. “Faté Richard Jackdaw.”
You waited, looking around to see if he had arrived, and when nothing other than the room getting colder happened, you sighed. If you left through the Honydukes passage, you might arrive at the Headless’ Hunt reunion by the time–
“What in the name of Salazar is this?” You heard a bewildered voice from behind and smiled when you spotted him.
“Bloody hell, it actually worked!”
“You did this?” He asked as he pointed an accusing finger at you. “Of course you did this!”
You smiled apologetically at him, “I didn’t know it was going to work.”
“You wench!” he said. He looked quite offended, so you decided to just let him let it out of his system. “Did you at least consult whichever cursed book you got that spell from? Did it say how ridiculously disturbing it would be for a ghost?”
“I’m afraid the book did not really take into account the feelings of ghosts. It’s more about trapping them, and banishing them than anything…”
“Can you credit it?” he retorted, his cheeks blowing out some non-existent air before he turned to look at you again. “It was like apparating for the first time! And I’m not supposed to feel any pain or nausea!”
“I’m really sorry,” you said honestly. “I didn't mean to hurt you.”
“And yet you summoned me anyway.”
“I actually brought you something,” you tried appeasing him, taking the bag of rotten meat and pushing it toward him as you opened it, a peace offering.
He looked at the bag and opened it to examine its contents. His cranky expression started to fade before turning back to you, his frown deepening again. “Oh… Oh. You want something.”
You left the bag on the furthest edge of the table and sat on the other one, moving the sage goblet in between you and the meat. Turns out it's useful for more than one reason.
“Well, maybe I just want to have a meaningful conversation.”
“And I had a marvellous time getting here for it,” he retorted sarcastically.
“Enjoy your meat,” you smiled, and then spotted the journal again. You tapped your fingers over it. “By the way… I knew of Apollonia and Anne but, who was Sebastian?”
He turned back at you with a shocked expression. “You read my diary?”
“Well I needed something of yours to summon you,” you said with a shrug.
“How did you even find it?”
“With determination,” you responded as you shrugged. “I even got a splinter,” you said and showed him your still red finger.
“And you called me because?”
“Don’t make this sound so transactional!” you chided. “I actually did want to talk to you. And was planning to do it as soon as I bumped into you, so to speak… But I’ve been staying at the Gryffindor Tower a lot, and, well… The reason for which I summoned you came up.”
Richie’s annoyance seemed to dissipate again, his face turning into one of understanding. “Myrtle mentioned something about Christmas, the portraits have also been whispering things.”
You sighed and allowed your back to fall on the chair with an almost dramatic flare. You were still staring at the ceiling when you spoke again. “You’re not gonna tell me to talk about my feelings and share an emotional moment, are you?”
Richie straight up laughed at that, shaking his head as he looked at you. “I’m just happy you seem okay.”
You turned your head towards him. “Though you’d be better off without the pesky little human friend that summons you?”
“Perhaps, but I’d miss your nonsense,” he said with a shrug.
Now it was your turn to laugh. At least the ghosts didn’t pity you. Perhaps it was because they themselves had already died, and more often than not in terrible ways. If you were alive, then you were already winning. There was a comfortable silence as laughter died out and you turned to him with a cheeky smile. “So… who was Sebastian? Another conquest?”
“Ugh, not mine, no. I was never really into gentlemen if you know what I mean.”
“Best friend?”
“We weren’t even alive at the same time.” Richie laughed. “He was remarkably talented, though.”
“Why do you speak so often of him then?”
“I did not write that part of the journal. A really good friend of mine did. I once told you that you reminded me of them, remember?”
You frowned, you had a vague memory of it. “So he was their friend, not yours?”
“Indeed,” Richie nodded. “How are your boyfriends, by the way?” You laughed. He continued, “What? No correcting me this time? What about ‘Oh, Richie, but I only have one boyfriend!’ ”
“My voice isn’t nearly that high pitched, or annoying.”
“Would it make you feel better If we pretend it isn’t?”
You rolled your eyes. “They’re all right.”
“So you just gave up? You’re gonna let me call them your boyfriends?”
“I’m not giving up,” you said, leaning up, sitting up again and then shrugging. “You were right about the whole thing, turns out.”
“I was right? Of course I was right! You’re dating both of them now, aren’t you? Minx!”
“It's not public knowledge, and I’d rather it stayed that way,” you looked pointedly at him.
He hummed. “I’ll take it to the grave.”
“You must think you’re hilarious,” you said, even if you were shaking your head in amusement.
“Drop-dead funny,” he retorted.
You scoffed and shook your head with a faint smile on your lips before turning back to him. “Actually, I wanted to ask how you dealt with your relationship with Apollonia and Anne.”
“It’d be more like, how not to handle a relationship like that,” he said as he shook his head. “At the beginning everything was perfect. Llonie and Anne seemed to really be into each other, as much as they were onto me. But then I became obsessed with a puzzle I found on some pages of an old book and tried to decipher them with Llonie. Well, she found them an incredible bore, and told me to occupy myself with something more useful. Told me she could not marry a nobody who was stuck in his dreams–“
“Ouch,” you said with a small frown.
“Well, she was a Black,” he shrugged.
“Sirius is not like that.”
“Must be the Potter and Lupin influence then,” he said with a shrug. You were about to argue that Reggie wasn’t like that either, but that was another friendship that couldn’t be made public knowledge right now, for his safety.
Richie continued, “Anyway, Anne really liked puzzles and so we started spending time together for longer periods, trying to sort it all out by ourselves. Llonie then turned jealous because I was paying a lot more attention to Anne, and asked me if I would end up marrying her instead, and if that had been my plan all along, and I told her that I was happy with the relationship we had, that I wanted the three of us to be together…”
“But that didn’t appease her,” you guessed with a sad sigh.
“Right,” Richie agreed. “Eventually, Anne helped me solve the puzzle and I wanted to go into the cave. She said it was too dangerous, and that we should bring Llonie along – since she was remarkable at Defense Against the Dark Arts when we were in school, but I told her that she wouldn’t come, that she hated us now…”
He had a forlorn look in his ghostly face as he continued, “I should have gone to her, though. Anne was supposed to meet me at the gates. I left a puzzle to show her the way, but she didn’t come, I thought she had decided to leave me too and I went inside, alone. I found several treasure chests, small ones, but I was so sure there would be something big at the end of the map. When I arrived at the centre, I was suddenly beheaded by a massive stone statue.” You gulped, you had no idea Richie would actually tell you the story behind his death, since ghosts rarely talked about it. “To be honest, I barely even felt it. It was a sharp pain that lasted only for a split second. Somewhat of a… whooshing breeze? But when I came back as a ghost, I was disorientated and had no idea how I’d died.” Richie recounted with such a heartbreaking resignation, you almost wished you could hug him.
“I appeared on Hogsmeade and the only thing I could remember was that the two loves of my life had abandoned me, and that I had died because of it, so I left.” He sighed. “But people had seen my ghost and they started talking about it. Turns out Anne had gone to Llonie, trying to convince her to come along, but Llonie had refused. When she later heard of my death, she instantly blamed Anne for it and lied, saying that she had been the one to murder me.” You were horrified and felt great sympathy for Jackdaw, at his vulnerable revelations to you.
“You know, I found out too late that Anne hadn’t even managed to solve the puzzle I gave her, and that was the reason she’d gone to Llonie instead of me. She then spent years in Azkaban, convicted of a crime she didn’t commit.”
“That sounds horrifying.”
“It was,” Richie said with a nod. “But my friend, she found out, went to the cave, and solved the mystery of my death, returning something I had stolen and eventually – after I gave my testimony – absolving Anne.”
“But Apollonia had already died,” you said with a frown. You knew that part; you’d read the article about the solved mystery written by Auror Ominis Gaunt.
“Belladonna,” Richie said with a nod. “I have plenty of regrets, but my biggest is not talking it out with them and rushing into danger alone. It created a rift that ultimately destroyed us. One in Azkaban, the other alone, and me, a ghost.”
“I’m sorry Richie,” you said honestly. “I didn’t mean– I mean, I wanted to– Thanks for the tip.”
Richie smiled, “I like to imagine they’re both happy together someplace else.”
“But what about you? Have you never thought of… crossing the veil?”
“You can’t do that after you’ve rejected death. It won’t take you.”
“So, you’re stuck?”
Richie nodded with a small, almost regretful smile. “But it’s alright. I enjoy this place, the adventures and puzzles hidden in this castle and beyond have always been fascinating, I’m sure you’d agree.”
“Was Anne’s puzzle really hard?” you asked with a frown.
“I’m not sure she tried to solve it before going to Llonie, she wanted an excuse to convince her to come along. She loved her too, and Llonie loved her back. It’s ridiculous how such a strong love can turn into hate and resentment in seconds… Talk to your boys, always.”
You nodded, taking his words to heart. You would not make the same mistakes, you could not make the same mistakes.
“But hearing a sad ghost story is not the reason you summoned me here, is it? I’d believe it if you hadn’t brought the meat, but this,” he pointed at the paper bag “smells like good old bribery.”
You sighed, “There might be another reason I called on you.”
“If you want me to convince the Headless Hunt to do another one of those prank things, then it’s out of the question. Dumbledore was so angry he threatened to speak to the Spirit Division. They forced Myrtle back into Hogwarts, you know?”
You had heard of that story. Myrtle had crashed her brother’s wedding and made a fuss, and they called the department on her. Apparently, she wouldn’t be able to leave Hogwarts until all of her relatives had passed. “It’s not for a prank. Promise.”
“Oh?”
“It’s actually for information,” you explained. “I need you to go to the Restricted Section.”
“You’ve snuck in there already, why do you need my help?”
“I don’t know where the book I’m looking for is, or even if it is still there.”
Richie made a slightly disgruntled expression. “What are you on about now?”
“You could maybe ask the help of the ghost lady that haunts the Restricted Section… White-Haired Ellie?”
“Eleanor Atkinson,” he said. “We tried dating back in the nineteenth century, you know. It ended quite badly.”
“You’ve tried dating? As ghosts? How does it even–”
“Well, one has to keep himself busy after death,” he said with a small shrug. “I’m not really eager to see her again, though.”
“Please?” you said with a small pout. “I’ll get you more rotten meat…”
“How much more?”
“I’ll send my owl with a pack every fifteen days for 2 months, straight to the Headless Hunt Headquarters.”
“Six months.”
“I have things to do, Richie,” you said with a sigh. “Four is the best you’re gonna get.”
Richie gave you a pointed look, but acquiesced, “What book do you need then?”
“A journal – may be an annotated book – by Andreas Berlusconi.”
“Andreas Berlusconi?” Richard said with a frown. “Why does that name sound familiar to me?”
“Maybe you’ve read the book?”
“No, Llonie was the swot who knew about writers, not me. Andreas… Andreas… Hang on! I know him!”
“You what?”
“He’s a ghost! An honorary member of the Headless Hunt! I must have seen him last about… seventy years ago I think.”
“Honorary member?”
“Yeah, well, because he’s headless, but not from England. I think he’s often a substitute teacher at Durmstrang.”
“That means… we could possibly get in touch with him if we don’t crack it with his notes!” Your speech started speeding up, you were getting quite excited about new possibilities.
“And what do you want to crack, pray tell?”
“The Scopritore di Veleni,” you said with a smile.
“Am I supposed to know what that is?”
“The Berlusconi Stone, a magical item that helps you detect poisons.”
“Do you feel like you’ll get poisoned soon?” he asked with a frown.
“Huh?” you asked with a small frown of your own. “Not at all, it’s to help a friend.”
“One of your boyfriends?” he asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Maybe,” you replied with a sheepish smile… “Is it all right if I meet you tomorrow in my common room? At about six-thirty?”
“Sure,” he said with a shrug. “Why the urgency?”
“I can’t really tell you,” you responded. “But I have to replicate that stone before a deadline.”
“The stone that was lost and nobody’s ever managed to replicate?”
“Well, nobody’s ever had Berlusconi’s notes,” you said with a confident smirk.
For a second, Richie wondered if you were going on a wild goose chase to try and get your mind off things, but your words rang true as well. Perhaps the Berlusconi Stone wasn’t that hard to replicate. After all, Berlusconi hadn’t come off as a remarkably brilliant ghost when they met.
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hiiii love! I love ur writing and I've been reading ur fics a lot lately. I just read "the stash", the fics of the marauders, and I wanted to ask u if you could make the same thing but with different ending. If I discovered that someone made those things about me, asking or not, I would have been utterly disgusted, I think the problem it's not of the one who had the idea, but of the one who made it reality.
I don't know if ur okay with it, it's ok if u aren't, I still liked the original but it made me pretty uncomfortable and just wanted to ask u this, better to ask than not.
just so u know I love u and ur writing🫶
If there's a chance I made u uncomfortable I'm truly sorry.
byeeeee, luv u!
Hey Lovely!
First of all, I want you to know you did not make me uncomfortable at all, and I completely understand your point of view. The fic does come with the proper tags, and I tried to include them as a way to help people avoid being triggered, since it can definitely be a delicate situation.
It's totally understandable that it made you uncomfortable. Honestly, if something like that happened to me in real life, I think I’d have very mixed emotions too — anger definitely being one of them.
That said, I usually like to keep my fics on the positive side, and changing the ending would lead to a much sadder tone, which I personally don't enjoy writing for one-shots. So I’m really sorry, but I won’t be able to deliver the alternate version you asked for.
Please don't feel bad, though! Your message was super respectful and sweet, and if anything, I just feel worse about not being able to say yes.
Pairing: Wolfstar x Reader
Word Count: 6.6 K
Warnings: Nakedness, teasing, tons of fluff.Consent is Sexy.
Prompt: Finally a quiet time for the three of them.
Proofread by sweet @girlwihkaleidoscopeeyes
Chapter 75: After the Lovin'
PMarauders Chapter 75
You were wrong.
There really was a way for the three of you to fit into the bathtub as you would find out soon; all it took was determination, apparently.
Sirius arrived a few minutes after Remus started filling the bath. He was shamelessly naked – you and Remus too, but you both seemed slightly more bashful about it – as he looked through the potion cabinet they had on top of the toilet. Sirius took two bottles and dropped some of their contents in the tub as it continued to fill. Suddenly bubbles started to form, almost spilling over the tub. The aroma came shortly after; not quite the citric one of his usual soap, but similar enough as if it had been made by the same potioneer.
“What is it?” you asked, taking it from his hands.
“One of his fancy soaps,” Remus said teasingly.
“Oh, Girard & Aubert,” you said as you noticed the label, the French accent coming naturally with the name. “These really are fancy!”
“Oh please,” Sirius said with a wave of his hand.
“Avis used to love their vanilla and midnight breeze candles,” you said as you thought of your mother. “She often smelled like one of their parfums as well, I don’t really remember the name, although I could probably recognize the bottle…”
“That fancy then?” Remus asked with a raised eyebrow. He knew the soaps Sirius used were expensive, he had no idea just how expensive they might have been.
“Yeah, that’s why I ransacked Walburga’s stash every once in a while,” he said proudly.
You smiled as you gave the bottle back to him. It was half empty already, but Sirius didn’t seem to care; he threw some more into the bath before placing it back into the cabinet and pulled out another potion. “And that is?” Remus asked as he dipped his hand into the bubbles. The water was halfway up and he moved to the side, motioning you to get in.
“Relaxing potion,” he responded, “Lavender and Dream Willow Bark. Effie gave it to me and James to use before Quidditch Matches and after intensive training.” He then popped the cork off and poured a good deal in, the relaxing aroma of the potion quickly blending with the others and flooding the atmosphere in a leisurely aura.
“Oh, that’s really nice,” you said as you inhaled.
“Go on, Luv,” Remus whispered and you finally got in the tub, most of your body disappearing within the bubbles. You sighed, clearly pleased and completely missing the smirk Sirius had on his face as he looked at Remus. You still had your eyes closed when you felt someone else getting in, his legs bumping into yours and bending so as not to hurt you.
Sirius leaned down and threw some of the water at your face before he dipped his own under the bubbles and turned back up while pushing his hair back. “Show off,” Remus scoffed playfully, not quite believing he was literally in the bathroom with the two of you.
“Thought you’d enjoy it,” Sirius said with a smirk and a wink.
“Move,” you said as you pushed the side of his hip with your feet. “Can’t stretch properly.” Sirius shook his head as he settled on the side, taking your leg and lazily playing with it under the water. It was delightful, except something wasn’t quite perfect yet.
“Moony, we miss you,” you said with a pout, your arm over the edge of the tub, the bubbles covering your top half, even if only barely.
“We’d need a bigger tub,” he said as he leaned to press a kiss on your pouty lips.
“Lies,” Sirius said. “Come over, Starshine,” He commanded as he extended his arms towards you. You looked at him questioningly and he just motioned for you to do as he said. You leaned to kiss Remus one more time and then moved, sitting on top of Sirius' thighs. “See? I’ve made space.”
“So what? You’re planning for her to sit on top of you the whole time?” Remus asked as he stood to get in, or at least try to. Which turned out not to be as hard as it seemed. He was inside seconds after, his long legs entwined with yours and Sirius’.
“Of course not,” Sirius answered. “She’ll be sitting on top of you for the rest of the bath,” He added and grabbed your waist, gently pushing you onto the taller boy. You fell on top of Remus with a splash and a giggle, chest against chest and bubbles all around. He placed his hands around your waist and pulled you a little higher to drag you into a soft kiss.
Sirius smiled fondly as he looked at the two of you and started playing with some of the bubbles. I could definitely get used to this, he thought. He sat up a little straighter and pulled open one of the nearby cabinets, taking out a sketchbook he’d charmed with a water repelling spell. “May I draw you?” He asked as he flipped the sketchbook open.
You pulled your head a little higher to exchange a simple look with Remus. You rolled your eyes with a smile and he shrugged in response. You turned your head towards Sirius. “You’ve drawn us plenty of times.”
“Not like this…” Sirius said.
“You’ve drawn her naked,” Remus said. You turned your whole body around now, remembering the drawing from that one time and wondering if he still had it.
“I meant together,” Sirius said as he started tracing something on the paper.
“Like this?” you asked as you tilted your head to the side. You were on top of Remus, both of your faces now looking directly at Sirius with unmistakable adoration.
Sirius looked up from the paper, his eyes shining with the most stunning of sights, breath knocked out of him. Moony’s shoulders stood inches above yours, making you seem so small and delicate in front of his wide, strong shoulders. The bubbles were barely covering your breasts, and there were soft and delicate droplets of water lazily running down both of your bodies; your hair was half wet, and every time you breathed out, more bubbles would pop around you, conspiring to reveal more of your enticing form to them. Your lips were slightly swollen and kissed out, just like Remus’, and the two of you had a healthy glow emanating from your faces – a warm kind of blush, a remnant from your earlier activities.
“Exactly like that,” he breathed, and took his pencil, wondering if it was even possible to capture such beauty with merely graphite and paper. He rarely used charmed pencils to draw since they were trickier than normal ones. Still, the idea that both of his lovers would be able to move around in his sketchbook after he was done with the drawing, and that he could capture a piece of you, a magical snippet of your time together, and immortalise it forever... it was too impossible to resist.
“Okay,” you said, biting your lip and accommodating yourself onto Remus, his slippery skin feeling soft and warm against your own. Absolutely delightful, you thought after taking another sniff of the soothing aroma that filled the room. Remus had his hand on one of your thighs and was rubbing it lazily up and down, from your knee to your pelvis, his knuckles sometimes appearing above the water and moving some of the bubbles around. Your head rested against his chest as you stared at Sirius.
Sirius was concentrated, his gaze darting between the paper and the two of you. Sometimes he moved his hand to use the eraser placed on the edge of the tub and then blew on the dusty residue, seeing it disappear and turn into bubbles the moment it touched the water. Perhaps he charmed it too, you thought as you looked at him. His thick lashes were coated in tiny droplets of water, sticking into one another and looking even darker than normal. One of his legs was bent to support the notebook and the other one was straightened, rubbing gently with yours and Remus’ as it lazily moved up and down under the warm water.
Remus was the first one to yawn, his hand on your thigh stilling. You didn’t want to turn around, afraid to wake him if he really had fallen asleep, so instead you nudged Sirius with your feet. “Is he asleep?” you whispered.
Sirius looked up from his notebook and nodded softly. “A few minutes ago, actually,” he responded, voice equally soft. “But it’s alright, I’m working on the surroundings now.”
“May I see?” You asked, extending your hand.
“Sure,” Sirius said, extending the sketchbook. You motioned to grab it – “When it’s ready,” he said as he pulled it back cheekily. You scoffed playfully and kicked the side of his leg which got him to chuckle softly. “If you see it now you might not like it.”
“I like everything you make,” you retorted, still trying to convince him.
“And you'll see it when it’s ready, yeah?” he responded and pushed some bubbles towards your chest.
“Afraid of seeing something that might distract you?” you teased with a soft smirk.
“Afraid of drawing something that might distract me,” he corrected with a smile. “It wouldn’t be fair to feast while Rem is asleep, would it?”
“Who knows?” You shrugged. “He might enjoy waking up to a spectacle.”
Sirius chuckled again and focused back on his drawing. You smiled and yawned, the calming smell and Remus’ chest steadily moving you up and down enough to lull you.
“You can fall asleep too if you want, love,” Sirius said as he bit the back edge of his pencil and stared at the creamed-coloured paper. “I’m still working on the details.” You pursed your lips in response, but laid your head on Remus’ shoulder, turning slightly so the side of your head was calmly resting against it. You could hear and feel his heartbeat, strong and steady, a lullaby in and of itself.
Safe, you realised. There is no place safer than this. And you didn’t quite mean their bathroom, nor the Gryffindor common room. You didn’t even mean the school. You meant them. They were safe.
Eventually, your eyes closed as well. As the two of you slept soundly, Sirius continued working on his drawing. He pulled a few colour pencils and started adding lines of colour on the reflections of the bubbles, trying to capture the way the light hugged your faces and features with each stroke. He was diligently working on Moony’s eyes when he heard something outside. His ears perked up, the coloured pencil falling into the water as he hastily pulled Remus’ wand from the side and pointed it at the door.
“Colloportus,” he whispered. After a second he decided it wasn’t enough and he cast another spell. “Colloportus maxima,” ensuring that no one would be able to open it from the other side.
Thankfully he had cleaned the bed sheets before getting into the bathroom with the two of you. However, he did not remember to pick up the discarded clothes from the floor.
The doorknob rattled and then he heard a short breathy curse. “Sirius, you left a bIoody mess here!” Peter's voice said. “Open up, will you? I need to take a piss!”
Sirius didn’t make a sound, and then Peter started to furiously knock on the door, startling both you and Remus awake. Remus immediately became slightly panicked, but Sirius had his finger over his mouth. Yes, you needed to tell Peter already, but the three of you naked in a bathtub was not the way to break the news.
“Sirius!”
“I can’t open the door, Wormy.”
“What?” The other boy asked as he exhaled in exasperation. “Sirius I really need to fucking go to the loo and you have nothing I haven’t seen already.”
“I still can’t open the door.”
“Fuck off, mate. I’m gonna break it open if you don’t–”
You opened your eyes wide, looking back at Sirius who looked like he didn’t know what to do. “You can’t come in, Pete!” you rushed out, your eyes closing tightly as you winced, waiting for a reply. Peter seemed to pause on the other side of the door. The furious knocking was replaced with an eerie silence.
Peter hesitated. “Vixen?” he asked timidly.
“I mean, there is definitely something you haven’t seen in here.”
“And he will definitely not be seeing it,” Sirius said, a hint of possessiveness in his tone. You thought it was funny, especially from someone so eagerly ready to share with the other boy now sitting in the tub.
“I’m– I’m sorry,” Peter stammered. “I thought you were gone, I–” Peter finally noticed some of the clothes scattered on the floor and blushed furiously when he saw your knickers near one of the pillows. He whipped his gaze back to the door before he noticed that there were two and not one pair of trousers on the floor. “On Remus’ bed?!” he blustered before he could stop himself. “He’ll be furious!”
Remus tried not to laugh. But you felt his chest tightening and shaking behind you. He leaned onto you a little closer to whisper in your ear: “Even if I had seen that before we were together, I would have been more frustrated than furious...”
“Well, Moony doesn’t need to find out, does he?” Sirius said to Peter, mildly distracted by Remus’ teasing. He had not heard what he said, but he’d seen your reaction to it, which gave him a good enough idea.
“Sirius I dunno–”
“Keep a little secret for us, would you, Pete?” you added, in a saccharine and more persuasive voice. That same tone you often use to get your way.
“Well… fine. But you better clean this mess up before he arrives!” Peter said with a frown. “And, don’t even dare using my bed, ever!”
“It’s the furthest from the door. No need to worry, Wormy,” Sirius said with a satisfied smile. He knew Peter would be frowning on the other side of the door.
“Uh– speaking of Remus…”
“Yes?” you asked. Sirius turned to you and you shrugged in return.
“Do you know where he is?”
Remus pinched the side of your stomach playfully, clearly in a good mood about the whole thing now. There was some splashing inside as you squirmed out of his grasp. Sirius turned to you with raised eyebrows.
“Perhap– AH!” you squirmed and broke into a laugh as Remus tickled you. You gave him a look and he just smiled.
“Punishment for shagging in my bed,” he said in a hushed tone.
Peter heard your laugh and some splashing from behind the door. Fucking hell. Maybe he didn’t need to know where Remus was so urgently after all, he thought, blushing furiously.
“As if you hadn’t loved every minute of it, Moony,” Sirius whispered back.
You shook your head and turned it back at the door. “Maybe he’s at the library.”
“Yeah?” Pete asked, unsure.
“He mentioned something about it,” you added with a shrug. Remus had both of his hands on your shoulders now, rubbing soft, distracting circles, the cheeky arsehole.
“Hey Wormy,” Sirius said, a smirk spreading across his lips. He waited for a second, the silence confirming he had his attention. “Would you mind, erm… leaving? We were in the middle of something,” he added, wiggling his eyebrows at you. You splashed the bubbly water at his face.
“Right, sorry,” Peter said. “You won’t take too long, will you?” he added afterwards, in that clumsy manner of his. “I wanted to take a shower before dinner. I was going to sit with Annie...”
“I mean, for Vixen’s sake I hope I don’t last too little eith–” Sirius’ mouth was cut off by your hands flying to it, in a furious attempt to stop him from spitting out more filth. Remus looked at the two of you amusedly as you stared at Sirius, livid.
“Pete,” you said. “Please go before Sirius continues to embarrass me.”
Sirius said something about it being nothing but the truth, but his voice was muffled by your hands.
“Sorry for um… interrupting,” Peter said right before scurrying away from the scene. Maybe it was all karma for that one time you had accidentally busted him making out with Annie in the broom closet. It wasn’t until you heard the door slam in the distance that you finally removed your hands from Sirius’ mouth. He started laughing and so did you and Remus, you more out of shame than anything else. The idea of Peter assuming that things happened inside his bathroom making you feel like an intruder.
“Ugh, I’m not gonna be able to look him in the face from now on!” you complained in between laughs.
“I doubt he minds it much,” Sirius said with a shrug.
“I mean, he might,” Remus said, with the sole purpose of teasing you further. “Serves you right, doing it on my bed, atrocious!” Sirius just laughed in return, wincing and fishing his yellow-coloured pencil from the bottom of the tub. “You coloured us?”
“I couldn’t resist not doing it,” Sirius responded. “I would have done watercolour but this sketchbook has an always dry charm.”
“Oh,” Remus said as if only now he realised something. “That’s the reason you wanted it.”
“Also the reason he takes so long when he takes a bath, I guess,” you teased. The boys had a running gag about Sirius always taking the longest in the bathroom. James was a close second.
Sirius pulled his tongue out to you and sat the sketchbook near the sink. “You think he’s gone by now?” he asked Remus.
“Yeah,” he responded, “he wouldn’t want to hear you two moaning and grunting all over his bathroom.”
“But you would,” Sirius teased with a wink.
Remus rolled his eyes at his comment but leaned closer to you and placed a kiss on your cheekbone, “I would,” he whispered near your ear and you giggled in return, both of you looking at Sirius in an enigmatic manner afterwards, knowing it would rattle him.
“You think you’re so funny,” he scoffed in amazement. “But I’ve always had the best sense of humour,” he added as he pushed himself off the sides of the tub and landed right on top of you and pressed a kiss to Remus’s lips as he pressed his chest against yours.
“That’s not particularly funny,” Remus said with an amused smile as Sirius pulled back from the kiss.
“Isn’t it? I thought you’d laugh so much you would never want me to stop.”
“Well, I never said I’d want you to stop,” Remus added as he dragged him closer. You pressed a kiss to Sirius’ neck and felt him shiver as you grazed your teeth against his soft skin in a playful manner. Slowly squirming in between the two of them and kissing his neck until you reached his earlobe, pressing soft kisses to his face and then, when you were sure he wasn’t expecting it, blowing straight onto his ear. He pretty much jumped back as both you and Remus laughed.
“What the hell?!” Sirius asked, heart hammering against his chest as he looked at you in shock.
“Well, you had the best sense of humour, didn’t you?” you asked in between laughs.
“You’ll see,” he said with a smile and drew closer again, hands going straight to the side of your stomach, where he knew you were the most ticklish.
After about half an hour or so of back-and-forth teasing, the three of you somehow decided it was time to leave the bathtub, lest Peter come back and realise that the amount of clothes laid on the floor belonged to more than two people.
“Here, take this,” Remus said as he got out of the tub and picked out a clean towel from their stack.
“Thanks,” you said as you stood up, ready to catch the towel with your hands but ending up being wrapped in it as you stepped out of the tub. “Oh, thanks,” you muttered a little startled as he picked one from his shoulder and started drying your hair.
“No problem,” he said with a smile and pressed a kiss to your lips. You smiled, a little dazed at his careful handling.
“He’s just trying to seduce you,” Sirius said as he dried his hair and started to untangle it with his fingers. He was sitting on the edge of the tub, a towel carelessly thrown over his lap by Remus, and the other around his shoulders. He looked still glistening and slightly flushed. Had it been any other moment, you would have assumed that flush had to do with a warm bath and not with you and Remus standing half-naked right next to him, let alone for the exact thing you’d been doing before it.
You wondered if you looked as fucked out or delighted as he did. You hadn’t gotten a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, but you certainly felt the way he looked.
“Of course I am trying to seduce her, and you as well,” Remus responded with a smirk. He knew just how competitive Sirius was, and if that competitiveness fueled your delight, then he would gladly indulge in it.
“Don’t tempt me to throw the two of you back in the tub,” he said as he pointed an accusing finger at the other boy. “I have certain ideas of things that would be more than enough to beguile you, and that you were too tired for earlier.”
“I have some ideas of my own,” Remus responded with a smile, eyeing you closely as he did. Whatever was in his mind, had to do with you. “But this tub is way too small for those.”
“Oh,” you said, feeling your cheeks warm at the thought. Remus laughed. You weren’t sure you had ever heard him laugh as much in one day as you had these past few hours. Perhaps the pent-up emotions from before really had caged a side of him that you were more than eager to discover. A more teasing, and way more playful side.
“Who’s gonna get out of here first?” Sirius asked.
“Should be you,” Remus said, hands still busy drying your hair – technically making a ratty mess of it, but you weren’t about to complain from a divine scalp massage. “Peter knows you were in here anyway.”
“Right,” Sirius said with a nod, his eyes narrowing on Remus. He knew that was right, but he still thought it was rather convenient for Remus to get you for a few seconds longer. Not that he was jealous, or… Perhaps he was, but not in the “she’s mine” type of jealousy, but in the “I also want to spend more time here” kind.
Sirius walked towards the door and opened it carefully, leaning against the frame and looking around. “Just us,” he said as he allowed the door to fully open, pointing his wand at the dorm door and locking it one more time, a stronger spell this time around.
You stepped outside next, looking for your discarded clothes all over the floor. You still had the towel wrapped around you and leaned down to look for your knickers under the bed when you noticed someone being overly quiet near the corner.
“Looking for something, Étoile?” he asked, a smug smile playing on his lips as he stared at you, your underwear dangling from his forefinger.
You sighed as you spotted him, knowing full well that all he wanted was to be a tease about it.
“May I please have my knickers back?” you asked as you blinked his way.
“I thought they were mine now,” he said with a smug smile.
“What?” you asked, confused.
“Do you not remember?” He asked with a smile.
You faintly recalled Remus throwing them his way after taking them off of you. Your mind had been busy, but not so busy that you’d forget telling him he could keep them. “I remember Remus throwing them out of the way, I guess they accidentally fell on your face…” you responded with a shrug and a faint smile.
“No, they were most definitely thrown my way on purpose.”
“Were they, though?” you asked as you tilted your head to the side and pulled your bra from under a pillow. “Would Moony be able to confirm that?”
“I would not,” Remus said as he stepped next to Sirius and took them from his hands in a fast movement. He’d already gotten a new pair of trousers on and was walking around shirtless while looking for one of his jumpers. You smiled, thinking he was going to hand them over to you – finally – but instead, he swiftly placed them in his pocket. You gasped. “Surely you already have a pair,” he said as he looked at Sirius with a smug smile. Sirius stared at him as dumbfounded as you.
“You can’t be serious!”
“I can be as serious as he is,” Moony retorted, moving to his chest of drawers on the side and pulling out a worn band tee, putting it on before letting himself fall on the bed. He looked up at you from there, eyes big and innocent as he asked. “You don’t really mind it, do you?”
You pursed your lips, thinking of a proper answer. “She does not,” Sirius said as he laid his arm over your shoulder and handed you your skirt with the other.
“Are you expecting me to wear this skirt without knickers?” you asked indignantly.
“I wouldn’t mind,” Sirius said with a smirk and you scoffed. Then you pulled the skirt on and turned around before taking off the towel and putting on your bra.
“You’ll give it back, won’t you?” Sirius mouthed at Remus.
“Don't really want to,” he responded.
“Then don’t,” Sirius mouthed as he bit his lip and moved towards his trunk. “Use this instead, Starshine,” he said as he shot you a pair of grey boxers.
“Really?” you asked as you caught them.
“Better than nothing, isn’t it?” He said with a smile. You shook your head with a short, amused laugh, and then leaned down to put them on.
Eventually, you took one of Remus’ jumpers and pulled it on – not the one you’d been wearing, but the one he had earlier. You then allowed yourself to fall over Remus’ bed in the same way he had. “You took my jumper,” he said as he pointed a finger towards you.
“And you stole my kickers, deal with it.”
“You’ve been stealing my jumpers for way longer than that.”
“Well, they smell nice.”
“I could say the same thing.”
“Ugh, that’s grotty!” you told him as you pushed him playfully.
There was a knock on the door after that. The three of you looked at each other. Sirius was the only one not fully dressed yet. “Who is it?” Sirius asked as he pulled on a pair of checkered pyjama bottoms.
“Me!” James said from the other side of the door, sounding flustered.
“Oh,” Sirius said as he walked towards the door to open it. “Come in.”
James had messy hair – way messier than normal – and he was looking at the three of you with the guiltiest of expressions. “Wormy didn’t– he didn’t come here, did he?”
“Wormtail?” Sirius said with a raised eyebrow. “Same person you promised you would entertain so we could have our picnic?”
James looked around the room, with cups half drunk and some sweets half eaten. “I’m really sorry!” he rushed. “I was with him and the girls, but then his girlfriend came over, and they were talking, and I lost sight of him for just one second, and then he was gone! Annie said he’d gone back to look for Remus and I swear I was going to track him to stop him but then–” he hesitated.
“Yes?” you asked as you sat up on the bed, pressing him to continue.
“Well, I was on my way, but then Lily saw something in the middle of an alleyway… It was a baby Neverbird, and she wanted to help it, so we picked it up and took it to S. Stirling and then I was going to come look for Peter, but she said she thought she left something else in the alley, and I swear I believed her!”
“What?” Remus asked, turning around on the bed to lay on his stomach and using his elbows to prompt himself up. Your hands mindlessly went to his hair and you started scratching his scalp.
“Well, I thought she really had left something, but turns out she hadn’t, she just wanted a quiet place to… erm–”
“You fucking tosser! You allowed Peter to burst in on us shagging because you wanted to snog Lily?” Sirius said, exasperated enough for James to believe him.
“He did what?” James asked in shock. “You said you were not going to do that!”
“How is that relevant?” Sirius added. “We wanted to tell him and now he’s properly narked off because we didn’t!”
James’ face fell. “Is he really?” He dramatically flopped to the floor. “Merlin, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to– I shouldn’t have let it happen! Lily is my life but I shouldn’t have let her distract me. I’m a terrible friend, the worst of friends! I’d understand it if you never wanted to talk with me again, I promised I’d keep him away and…”
As James kept rambling on, you turned to look at Remus and whispered, “Should we tell him?”
“Sirius would say to let him suffer a bit more.”
“I mean, he tried, the poor sod,” you added with a shrug; your tall boyfriend mirrored you, and then nodded.
“Hey, Prongs,” you said, but he continued mumbling. You rolled your eyes and called him again. When that didn’t succeed, you took a pillow from the bed and threw it at his face.
“Ow,” he said as he finally looked towards you. He stilled, he had been so wrapped up in his self-commiseration that he hadn’t realised how calm both you and Remus looked.
“Technically, Peter didn’t barge in on us,” you explained with a shrug.
“What?” James asked, clearly more confused than before.
“We were in the bathroom,” you added.
“I mean, Peter might have got the idea that Vixen and I were shagging in there, but he has no idea Remus was with us.”
“So he–” James said as he looked between the bed and Sirius. “You mean he didn’t– Padfoot! You’re such an arsehole!” he added as he hit Sirius with the same pillow you’d thrown at him earlier. Sirius guffawed.
“That'll learn you, mate! Serves you right for getting distracted with the sweet redhead instead of covering for us properly.”
“You’re such a git!” he yelled without any real bite as he hit him one last time with the pillow and then walked towards the centre of the room where a good deal of the picnic still lay. James took one of the sandwiches in the basket and started munching on it. “How was your date? Before Peter, I mean…”
“Fantastic,” Remus said with a smile as Sirius said, “Brilliant.”
You smiled, you couldn’t agree more. In fact, you weren’t even that bothered about Peter’s intrusion. If anything it was more of a reminder of how important it was for you to tell your friends, since apparently you weren’t all that good at keeping the relationship a secret. How exactly did they manage to hide Moony’s secret for so long? You wondered. “Yeah, Sirius did a fantastic job with the picnic.”
“So did Vixen entertaining Remus.”
“As if that had ever been hard for her,” James said in between bites. “Nine times out of ten, if she’s not with either of us, guaranteed she’s with him.”
“Or scheming,” Sirius said with a wink. “Making friends with the ghosts and whatnot.”
“Come off it, I’m not that much of a schemer, am I,” you argued, just afterwards remembering something you had been pondering about before the picnic. “And what I’m about to say is a mere coincidence and has nothing to do with scheming.” James smiled, though he had his back to you. “I'm gonna need your cloak later this week, Prongs.”
“Not for scheming?”
“No, not for scheming.”
“Are you absolutely sure?” he teased further. “What is it you need it for?”
“Well, why else would I need an invisibility cloak for? Not to be seen!”
“Your disillusionment charm is remarkably good, if you need the cloak then you’ll be sneaking off somewhere where you do not want to risk being found out,” James retorted. “Where are you going to go?”
“Not just me, Rem is coming too.”
“I am?” Remus asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Of course,” you smiled. “We’ll go back for that Dreamspore.”
Monday, 24thJanuary, 1977
“Hey!” you heard from behind you, followed by your name. “Wait, wait!”
You hesitated, biting your lip and sighing as you turned. Kless was a few steps behind.
“Oh, hi!” you said as you spotted him. Just him, you thought.
“I’ve been looking for you for a while. It’s like you’ve been hiding…”
To be fair, you kind of had. You've tried to keep yourself busy these last few days. Ever since the start of term, people either avoided you like the plague or were very insistent on asking questions about “The Great Christmas Fire of 1976.” The Slytherins had blown them off from the start, and people were too scared to ask Rosier about it repeatedly, since Barty spread the rumour that he had been hexing those that made references to the disaster at his house. You, on the other hand, seemed like the most approachable person from the ones confirmed present at the party, and the list was constantly fluctuating, with some students claiming they had been there for traction only to be debunked days later by someone who had actually been there.
So they approached you, who were both confirmed to be there and the centre of a whole conspiracy regarding the start of the fire. Some approached you kindly and signalled their support with a few brief words, while others were more insistent, firing question after question after question at you, making you feel like you were on an Auror interrogation. You had tried to delicately answer some of them, but their questions were anything but delicate. A girl had even asked you if you were a pyromaniac and if that was the reason you’d started the fire and burned your mother. Marlene had almost hexed her on the spot, and would have, had it not been for Lily who stopped her and told the girl to run.
That’s why whenever someone randomly called your name in the halls, you often ignored it and continued walking to your next class. Not that you were particularly excited about Herbology.
“I have been hiding a little,” you admitted, adjusting your backpack. You hadn’t seen Kless in a while, but at least you were sure that he wasn’t going to be an arse and ask you about the fire. At least you hoped he wouldn’t.
“Right,” he said, remembering the drama going on. Kless had never been into politics; he loved potions, and making potions, and the art of extracting elixirs and ingredients, and he really focused on it. In fact, he exclusively read the “Potion Advancements” section of the Daily Prophet and little else, so he hadn’t even heard about the fire until days later when some people were discussing it in class. “I trust you know I don’t believe in any of that rubbish people have been saying about you.”
“I assumed you wouldn’t,” you responded with a smile, looking around, making sure no random person would be approaching you. The hall seemed relatively empty, which was indicative of one thing only: you were going to be quite late for class.
Kless smiled, “I won’t take long,” he said as he moved his shoulder to bring his satchel forwards and opened it. “I’ve been looking for you because I think I’ve finally” – he switched to a whisper on the last part of his sentence – “cracked the Wolfsbane potion,” he said carefully as he took out a vial and a small notebook. “I made you a copy of the recipe. It’s extremely detailed, but I’d rather prepare it with you if you want to learn how to make it.” He handed you the notebook. “Not because I don’t think you can follow instructions, Slughorn has mentioned that you’re really good at potions and all that, but this one took me so many tries to get right,” he added. “Although, I’ve yet to know if it actually works.”
“How are you planning to find out then?” you asked as you looked at the potion in your hands. It was a rather large bottle, about the size of a large anti-cough brew.
“Ugh well… My older cousin knows someone,” he said. “They will be trying it for me. I can tell you how it goes afterwards. Slughorn also said he’d get somebody to test it.”
“Right,” you said with a smile. “It’s totally safe, isn’t it?”
“Are you planning to drink it?” he asked jokingly. You didn’t respond, so he cleared his throat. “Right, sorry. Yes, it’s completely safe. You can revise the ingredient list if you please. Wolfsbane might be worrisome but it was neutralized. I’ve read a lot about it and even tested it on some rats the house elves caught for me.”
You smiled. “Just wanted to make sure... Wouldn’t want your cousin’s friend to find out the ugly way... By the way, does he study here?”
“It’s a she,” Kless said. “And she did.”
“Oh, no chance I’ve met her, then.”
“Oh, you know her alright,” Kless said with a laugh, but did not elaborate. You narrowed your eyes at him but didn’t press further. “This is yours,” he said as he handed you a small leatherbound notebook. “It’s got all the important stuff.”
“Thank you,” you said as you took the notebook in your hands and flipped the cover to look at some of the notes. “I definitely want to learn how to make it.”
Kless smiled, “Can you do Friday?”
“I’ve got Quidditch practice and then study club, I guess I could skive off the study club, but…”
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Pairing: Wolfstar x Reader
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Warnings: Nakedness, teasing, tons of fluff.Consent is Sexy.
Prompt: Finally a quiet time for the three of them.
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Chapter 75: After the Lovin'
PMarauders Chapter 75
You were wrong.
There really was a way for the three of you to fit into the bathtub as you would find out soon; all it took was determination, apparently.
Sirius arrived a few minutes after Remus started filling the bath. He was shamelessly naked – you and Remus too, but you both seemed slightly more bashful about it – as he looked through the potion cabinet they had on top of the toilet. Sirius took two bottles and dropped some of their contents in the tub as it continued to fill. Suddenly bubbles started to form, almost spilling over the tub. The aroma came shortly after; not quite the citric one of his usual soap, but similar enough as if it had been made by the same potioneer.
“What is it?” you asked, taking it from his hands.
“One of his fancy soaps,” Remus said teasingly.
“Oh, Girard & Aubert,” you said as you noticed the label, the French accent coming naturally with the name. “These really are fancy!”
“Oh please,” Sirius said with a wave of his hand.
“Avis used to love their vanilla and midnight breeze candles,” you said as you thought of your mother. “She often smelled like one of their parfums as well, I don’t really remember the name, although I could probably recognize the bottle…”
“That fancy then?” Remus asked with a raised eyebrow. He knew the soaps Sirius used were expensive, he had no idea just how expensive they might have been.
“Yeah, that’s why I ransacked Walburga’s stash every once in a while,” he said proudly.
You smiled as you gave the bottle back to him. It was half empty already, but Sirius didn’t seem to care; he threw some more into the bath before placing it back into the cabinet and pulled out another potion. “And that is?” Remus asked as he dipped his hand into the bubbles. The water was halfway up and he moved to the side, motioning you to get in.
“Relaxing potion,” he responded, “Lavender and Dream Willow Bark. Effie gave it to me and James to use before Quidditch Matches and after intensive training.” He then popped the cork off and poured a good deal in, the relaxing aroma of the potion quickly blending with the others and flooding the atmosphere in a leisurely aura.
“Oh, that’s really nice,” you said as you inhaled.
“Go on, Luv,” Remus whispered and you finally got in the tub, most of your body disappearing within the bubbles. You sighed, clearly pleased and completely missing the smirk Sirius had on his face as he looked at Remus. You still had your eyes closed when you felt someone else getting in, his legs bumping into yours and bending so as not to hurt you.
Sirius leaned down and threw some of the water at your face before he dipped his own under the bubbles and turned back up while pushing his hair back. “Show off,” Remus scoffed playfully, not quite believing he was literally in the bathroom with the two of you.
“Thought you’d enjoy it,” Sirius said with a smirk and a wink.
“Move,” you said as you pushed the side of his hip with your feet. “Can’t stretch properly.” Sirius shook his head as he settled on the side, taking your leg and lazily playing with it under the water. It was delightful, except something wasn’t quite perfect yet.
“Moony, we miss you,” you said with a pout, your arm over the edge of the tub, the bubbles covering your top half, even if only barely.
“We’d need a bigger tub,” he said as he leaned to press a kiss on your pouty lips.
“Lies,” Sirius said. “Come over, Starshine,” He commanded as he extended his arms towards you. You looked at him questioningly and he just motioned for you to do as he said. You leaned to kiss Remus one more time and then moved, sitting on top of Sirius' thighs. “See? I’ve made space.”
“So what? You’re planning for her to sit on top of you the whole time?” Remus asked as he stood to get in, or at least try to. Which turned out not to be as hard as it seemed. He was inside seconds after, his long legs entwined with yours and Sirius’.
“Of course not,” Sirius answered. “She’ll be sitting on top of you for the rest of the bath,” He added and grabbed your waist, gently pushing you onto the taller boy. You fell on top of Remus with a splash and a giggle, chest against chest and bubbles all around. He placed his hands around your waist and pulled you a little higher to drag you into a soft kiss.
Sirius smiled fondly as he looked at the two of you and started playing with some of the bubbles. I could definitely get used to this, he thought. He sat up a little straighter and pulled open one of the nearby cabinets, taking out a sketchbook he’d charmed with a water repelling spell. “May I draw you?” He asked as he flipped the sketchbook open.
You pulled your head a little higher to exchange a simple look with Remus. You rolled your eyes with a smile and he shrugged in response. You turned your head towards Sirius. “You’ve drawn us plenty of times.”
“Not like this…” Sirius said.
“You’ve drawn her naked,” Remus said. You turned your whole body around now, remembering the drawing from that one time and wondering if he still had it.
“I meant together,” Sirius said as he started tracing something on the paper.
“Like this?” you asked as you tilted your head to the side. You were on top of Remus, both of your faces now looking directly at Sirius with unmistakable adoration.
Sirius looked up from the paper, his eyes shining with the most stunning of sights, breath knocked out of him. Moony’s shoulders stood inches above yours, making you seem so small and delicate in front of his wide, strong shoulders. The bubbles were barely covering your breasts, and there were soft and delicate droplets of water lazily running down both of your bodies; your hair was half wet, and every time you breathed out, more bubbles would pop around you, conspiring to reveal more of your enticing form to them. Your lips were slightly swollen and kissed out, just like Remus’, and the two of you had a healthy glow emanating from your faces – a warm kind of blush, a remnant from your earlier activities.
“Exactly like that,” he breathed, and took his pencil, wondering if it was even possible to capture such beauty with merely graphite and paper. He rarely used charmed pencils to draw since they were trickier than normal ones. Still, the idea that both of his lovers would be able to move around in his sketchbook after he was done with the drawing, and that he could capture a piece of you, a magical snippet of your time together, and immortalise it forever... it was too impossible to resist.
“Okay,” you said, biting your lip and accommodating yourself onto Remus, his slippery skin feeling soft and warm against your own. Absolutely delightful, you thought after taking another sniff of the soothing aroma that filled the room. Remus had his hand on one of your thighs and was rubbing it lazily up and down, from your knee to your pelvis, his knuckles sometimes appearing above the water and moving some of the bubbles around. Your head rested against his chest as you stared at Sirius.
Sirius was concentrated, his gaze darting between the paper and the two of you. Sometimes he moved his hand to use the eraser placed on the edge of the tub and then blew on the dusty residue, seeing it disappear and turn into bubbles the moment it touched the water. Perhaps he charmed it too, you thought as you looked at him. His thick lashes were coated in tiny droplets of water, sticking into one another and looking even darker than normal. One of his legs was bent to support the notebook and the other one was straightened, rubbing gently with yours and Remus’ as it lazily moved up and down under the warm water.
Remus was the first one to yawn, his hand on your thigh stilling. You didn’t want to turn around, afraid to wake him if he really had fallen asleep, so instead you nudged Sirius with your feet. “Is he asleep?” you whispered.
Sirius looked up from his notebook and nodded softly. “A few minutes ago, actually,” he responded, voice equally soft. “But it’s alright, I’m working on the surroundings now.”
“May I see?” You asked, extending your hand.
“Sure,” Sirius said, extending the sketchbook. You motioned to grab it – “When it’s ready,” he said as he pulled it back cheekily. You scoffed playfully and kicked the side of his leg which got him to chuckle softly. “If you see it now you might not like it.”
“I like everything you make,” you retorted, still trying to convince him.
“And you'll see it when it’s ready, yeah?” he responded and pushed some bubbles towards your chest.
“Afraid of seeing something that might distract you?” you teased with a soft smirk.
“Afraid of drawing something that might distract me,” he corrected with a smile. “It wouldn’t be fair to feast while Rem is asleep, would it?”
“Who knows?” You shrugged. “He might enjoy waking up to a spectacle.”
Sirius chuckled again and focused back on his drawing. You smiled and yawned, the calming smell and Remus’ chest steadily moving you up and down enough to lull you.
“You can fall asleep too if you want, love,” Sirius said as he bit the back edge of his pencil and stared at the creamed-coloured paper. “I’m still working on the details.” You pursed your lips in response, but laid your head on Remus’ shoulder, turning slightly so the side of your head was calmly resting against it. You could hear and feel his heartbeat, strong and steady, a lullaby in and of itself.
Safe, you realised. There is no place safer than this. And you didn’t quite mean their bathroom, nor the Gryffindor common room. You didn’t even mean the school. You meant them. They were safe.
Eventually, your eyes closed as well. As the two of you slept soundly, Sirius continued working on his drawing. He pulled a few colour pencils and started adding lines of colour on the reflections of the bubbles, trying to capture the way the light hugged your faces and features with each stroke. He was diligently working on Moony’s eyes when he heard something outside. His ears perked up, the coloured pencil falling into the water as he hastily pulled Remus’ wand from the side and pointed it at the door.
“Colloportus,” he whispered. After a second he decided it wasn’t enough and he cast another spell. “Colloportus maxima,” ensuring that no one would be able to open it from the other side.
Thankfully he had cleaned the bed sheets before getting into the bathroom with the two of you. However, he did not remember to pick up the discarded clothes from the floor.
The doorknob rattled and then he heard a short breathy curse. “Sirius, you left a bIoody mess here!” Peter's voice said. “Open up, will you? I need to take a piss!”
Sirius didn’t make a sound, and then Peter started to furiously knock on the door, startling both you and Remus awake. Remus immediately became slightly panicked, but Sirius had his finger over his mouth. Yes, you needed to tell Peter already, but the three of you naked in a bathtub was not the way to break the news.
“Sirius!”
“I can’t open the door, Wormy.”
“What?” The other boy asked as he exhaled in exasperation. “Sirius I really need to fucking go to the loo and you have nothing I haven’t seen already.”
“I still can’t open the door.”
“Fuck off, mate. I’m gonna break it open if you don’t–”
You opened your eyes wide, looking back at Sirius who looked like he didn’t know what to do. “You can’t come in, Pete!” you rushed out, your eyes closing tightly as you winced, waiting for a reply. Peter seemed to pause on the other side of the door. The furious knocking was replaced with an eerie silence.
Peter hesitated. “Vixen?” he asked timidly.
“I mean, there is definitely something you haven’t seen in here.”
“And he will definitely not be seeing it,” Sirius said, a hint of possessiveness in his tone. You thought it was funny, especially from someone so eagerly ready to share with the other boy now sitting in the tub.
“I’m– I’m sorry,” Peter stammered. “I thought you were gone, I–” Peter finally noticed some of the clothes scattered on the floor and blushed furiously when he saw your knickers near one of the pillows. He whipped his gaze back to the door before he noticed that there were two and not one pair of trousers on the floor. “On Remus’ bed?!” he blustered before he could stop himself. “He’ll be furious!”
Remus tried not to laugh. But you felt his chest tightening and shaking behind you. He leaned onto you a little closer to whisper in your ear: “Even if I had seen that before we were together, I would have been more frustrated than furious...”
“Well, Moony doesn’t need to find out, does he?” Sirius said to Peter, mildly distracted by Remus’ teasing. He had not heard what he said, but he’d seen your reaction to it, which gave him a good enough idea.
“Sirius I dunno–”
“Keep a little secret for us, would you, Pete?” you added, in a saccharine and more persuasive voice. That same tone you often use to get your way.
“Well… fine. But you better clean this mess up before he arrives!” Peter said with a frown. “And, don’t even dare using my bed, ever!”
“It’s the furthest from the door. No need to worry, Wormy,” Sirius said with a satisfied smile. He knew Peter would be frowning on the other side of the door.
“Uh– speaking of Remus…”
“Yes?” you asked. Sirius turned to you and you shrugged in return.
“Do you know where he is?”
Remus pinched the side of your stomach playfully, clearly in a good mood about the whole thing now. There was some splashing inside as you squirmed out of his grasp. Sirius turned to you with raised eyebrows.
“Perhap– AH!” you squirmed and broke into a laugh as Remus tickled you. You gave him a look and he just smiled.
“Punishment for shagging in my bed,” he said in a hushed tone.
Peter heard your laugh and some splashing from behind the door. Fucking hell. Maybe he didn’t need to know where Remus was so urgently after all, he thought, blushing furiously.
“As if you hadn’t loved every minute of it, Moony,” Sirius whispered back.
You shook your head and turned it back at the door. “Maybe he’s at the library.”
“Yeah?” Pete asked, unsure.
“He mentioned something about it,” you added with a shrug. Remus had both of his hands on your shoulders now, rubbing soft, distracting circles, the cheeky arsehole.
“Hey Wormy,” Sirius said, a smirk spreading across his lips. He waited for a second, the silence confirming he had his attention. “Would you mind, erm… leaving? We were in the middle of something,” he added, wiggling his eyebrows at you. You splashed the bubbly water at his face.
“Right, sorry,” Peter said. “You won’t take too long, will you?” he added afterwards, in that clumsy manner of his. “I wanted to take a shower before dinner. I was going to sit with Annie...”
“I mean, for Vixen’s sake I hope I don’t last too little eith–” Sirius’ mouth was cut off by your hands flying to it, in a furious attempt to stop him from spitting out more filth. Remus looked at the two of you amusedly as you stared at Sirius, livid.
“Pete,” you said. “Please go before Sirius continues to embarrass me.”
Sirius said something about it being nothing but the truth, but his voice was muffled by your hands.
“Sorry for um… interrupting,” Peter said right before scurrying away from the scene. Maybe it was all karma for that one time you had accidentally busted him making out with Annie in the broom closet. It wasn’t until you heard the door slam in the distance that you finally removed your hands from Sirius’ mouth. He started laughing and so did you and Remus, you more out of shame than anything else. The idea of Peter assuming that things happened inside his bathroom making you feel like an intruder.
“Ugh, I’m not gonna be able to look him in the face from now on!” you complained in between laughs.
“I doubt he minds it much,” Sirius said with a shrug.
“I mean, he might,” Remus said, with the sole purpose of teasing you further. “Serves you right, doing it on my bed, atrocious!” Sirius just laughed in return, wincing and fishing his yellow-coloured pencil from the bottom of the tub. “You coloured us?”
“I couldn’t resist not doing it,” Sirius responded. “I would have done watercolour but this sketchbook has an always dry charm.”
“Oh,” Remus said as if only now he realised something. “That’s the reason you wanted it.”
“Also the reason he takes so long when he takes a bath, I guess,” you teased. The boys had a running gag about Sirius always taking the longest in the bathroom. James was a close second.
Sirius pulled his tongue out to you and sat the sketchbook near the sink. “You think he’s gone by now?” he asked Remus.
“Yeah,” he responded, “he wouldn’t want to hear you two moaning and grunting all over his bathroom.”
“But you would,” Sirius teased with a wink.
Remus rolled his eyes at his comment but leaned closer to you and placed a kiss on your cheekbone, “I would,” he whispered near your ear and you giggled in return, both of you looking at Sirius in an enigmatic manner afterwards, knowing it would rattle him.
“You think you’re so funny,” he scoffed in amazement. “But I’ve always had the best sense of humour,” he added as he pushed himself off the sides of the tub and landed right on top of you and pressed a kiss to Remus’s lips as he pressed his chest against yours.
“That’s not particularly funny,” Remus said with an amused smile as Sirius pulled back from the kiss.
“Isn’t it? I thought you’d laugh so much you would never want me to stop.”
“Well, I never said I’d want you to stop,” Remus added as he dragged him closer. You pressed a kiss to Sirius’ neck and felt him shiver as you grazed your teeth against his soft skin in a playful manner. Slowly squirming in between the two of them and kissing his neck until you reached his earlobe, pressing soft kisses to his face and then, when you were sure he wasn’t expecting it, blowing straight onto his ear. He pretty much jumped back as both you and Remus laughed.
“What the hell?!” Sirius asked, heart hammering against his chest as he looked at you in shock.
“Well, you had the best sense of humour, didn’t you?” you asked in between laughs.
“You’ll see,” he said with a smile and drew closer again, hands going straight to the side of your stomach, where he knew you were the most ticklish.
After about half an hour or so of back-and-forth teasing, the three of you somehow decided it was time to leave the bathtub, lest Peter come back and realise that the amount of clothes laid on the floor belonged to more than two people.
“Here, take this,” Remus said as he got out of the tub and picked out a clean towel from their stack.
“Thanks,” you said as you stood up, ready to catch the towel with your hands but ending up being wrapped in it as you stepped out of the tub. “Oh, thanks,” you muttered a little startled as he picked one from his shoulder and started drying your hair.
“No problem,” he said with a smile and pressed a kiss to your lips. You smiled, a little dazed at his careful handling.
“He’s just trying to seduce you,” Sirius said as he dried his hair and started to untangle it with his fingers. He was sitting on the edge of the tub, a towel carelessly thrown over his lap by Remus, and the other around his shoulders. He looked still glistening and slightly flushed. Had it been any other moment, you would have assumed that flush had to do with a warm bath and not with you and Remus standing half-naked right next to him, let alone for the exact thing you’d been doing before it.
You wondered if you looked as fucked out or delighted as he did. You hadn’t gotten a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, but you certainly felt the way he looked.
“Of course I am trying to seduce her, and you as well,” Remus responded with a smirk. He knew just how competitive Sirius was, and if that competitiveness fueled your delight, then he would gladly indulge in it.
“Don’t tempt me to throw the two of you back in the tub,” he said as he pointed an accusing finger at the other boy. “I have certain ideas of things that would be more than enough to beguile you, and that you were too tired for earlier.”
“I have some ideas of my own,” Remus responded with a smile, eyeing you closely as he did. Whatever was in his mind, had to do with you. “But this tub is way too small for those.”
“Oh,” you said, feeling your cheeks warm at the thought. Remus laughed. You weren’t sure you had ever heard him laugh as much in one day as you had these past few hours. Perhaps the pent-up emotions from before really had caged a side of him that you were more than eager to discover. A more teasing, and way more playful side.
“Who’s gonna get out of here first?” Sirius asked.
“Should be you,” Remus said, hands still busy drying your hair – technically making a ratty mess of it, but you weren’t about to complain from a divine scalp massage. “Peter knows you were in here anyway.”
“Right,” Sirius said with a nod, his eyes narrowing on Remus. He knew that was right, but he still thought it was rather convenient for Remus to get you for a few seconds longer. Not that he was jealous, or… Perhaps he was, but not in the “she’s mine” type of jealousy, but in the “I also want to spend more time here” kind.
Sirius walked towards the door and opened it carefully, leaning against the frame and looking around. “Just us,” he said as he allowed the door to fully open, pointing his wand at the dorm door and locking it one more time, a stronger spell this time around.
You stepped outside next, looking for your discarded clothes all over the floor. You still had the towel wrapped around you and leaned down to look for your knickers under the bed when you noticed someone being overly quiet near the corner.
“Looking for something, Étoile?” he asked, a smug smile playing on his lips as he stared at you, your underwear dangling from his forefinger.
You sighed as you spotted him, knowing full well that all he wanted was to be a tease about it.
“May I please have my knickers back?” you asked as you blinked his way.
“I thought they were mine now,” he said with a smug smile.
“What?” you asked, confused.
“Do you not remember?” He asked with a smile.
You faintly recalled Remus throwing them his way after taking them off of you. Your mind had been busy, but not so busy that you’d forget telling him he could keep them. “I remember Remus throwing them out of the way, I guess they accidentally fell on your face…” you responded with a shrug and a faint smile.
“No, they were most definitely thrown my way on purpose.”
“Were they, though?” you asked as you tilted your head to the side and pulled your bra from under a pillow. “Would Moony be able to confirm that?”
“I would not,” Remus said as he stepped next to Sirius and took them from his hands in a fast movement. He’d already gotten a new pair of trousers on and was walking around shirtless while looking for one of his jumpers. You smiled, thinking he was going to hand them over to you – finally – but instead, he swiftly placed them in his pocket. You gasped. “Surely you already have a pair,” he said as he looked at Sirius with a smug smile. Sirius stared at him as dumbfounded as you.
“You can’t be serious!”
“I can be as serious as he is,” Moony retorted, moving to his chest of drawers on the side and pulling out a worn band tee, putting it on before letting himself fall on the bed. He looked up at you from there, eyes big and innocent as he asked. “You don’t really mind it, do you?”
You pursed your lips, thinking of a proper answer. “She does not,” Sirius said as he laid his arm over your shoulder and handed you your skirt with the other.
“Are you expecting me to wear this skirt without knickers?” you asked indignantly.
“I wouldn’t mind,” Sirius said with a smirk and you scoffed. Then you pulled the skirt on and turned around before taking off the towel and putting on your bra.
“You’ll give it back, won’t you?” Sirius mouthed at Remus.
“Don't really want to,” he responded.
“Then don’t,” Sirius mouthed as he bit his lip and moved towards his trunk. “Use this instead, Starshine,” he said as he shot you a pair of grey boxers.
“Really?” you asked as you caught them.
“Better than nothing, isn’t it?” He said with a smile. You shook your head with a short, amused laugh, and then leaned down to put them on.
Eventually, you took one of Remus’ jumpers and pulled it on – not the one you’d been wearing, but the one he had earlier. You then allowed yourself to fall over Remus’ bed in the same way he had. “You took my jumper,” he said as he pointed a finger towards you.
“And you stole my kickers, deal with it.”
“You’ve been stealing my jumpers for way longer than that.”
“Well, they smell nice.”
“I could say the same thing.”
“Ugh, that’s grotty!” you told him as you pushed him playfully.
There was a knock on the door after that. The three of you looked at each other. Sirius was the only one not fully dressed yet. “Who is it?” Sirius asked as he pulled on a pair of checkered pyjama bottoms.
“Me!” James said from the other side of the door, sounding flustered.
“Oh,” Sirius said as he walked towards the door to open it. “Come in.”
James had messy hair – way messier than normal – and he was looking at the three of you with the guiltiest of expressions. “Wormy didn’t– he didn’t come here, did he?”
“Wormtail?” Sirius said with a raised eyebrow. “Same person you promised you would entertain so we could have our picnic?”
James looked around the room, with cups half drunk and some sweets half eaten. “I’m really sorry!” he rushed. “I was with him and the girls, but then his girlfriend came over, and they were talking, and I lost sight of him for just one second, and then he was gone! Annie said he’d gone back to look for Remus and I swear I was going to track him to stop him but then–” he hesitated.
“Yes?” you asked as you sat up on the bed, pressing him to continue.
“Well, I was on my way, but then Lily saw something in the middle of an alleyway… It was a baby Neverbird, and she wanted to help it, so we picked it up and took it to S. Stirling and then I was going to come look for Peter, but she said she thought she left something else in the alley, and I swear I believed her!”
“What?” Remus asked, turning around on the bed to lay on his stomach and using his elbows to prompt himself up. Your hands mindlessly went to his hair and you started scratching his scalp.
“Well, I thought she really had left something, but turns out she hadn’t, she just wanted a quiet place to… erm–”
“You fucking tosser! You allowed Peter to burst in on us shagging because you wanted to snog Lily?” Sirius said, exasperated enough for James to believe him.
“He did what?” James asked in shock. “You said you were not going to do that!”
“How is that relevant?” Sirius added. “We wanted to tell him and now he’s properly narked off because we didn’t!”
James’ face fell. “Is he really?” He dramatically flopped to the floor. “Merlin, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to– I shouldn’t have let it happen! Lily is my life but I shouldn’t have let her distract me. I’m a terrible friend, the worst of friends! I’d understand it if you never wanted to talk with me again, I promised I’d keep him away and…”
As James kept rambling on, you turned to look at Remus and whispered, “Should we tell him?”
“Sirius would say to let him suffer a bit more.”
“I mean, he tried, the poor sod,” you added with a shrug; your tall boyfriend mirrored you, and then nodded.
“Hey, Prongs,” you said, but he continued mumbling. You rolled your eyes and called him again. When that didn’t succeed, you took a pillow from the bed and threw it at his face.
“Ow,” he said as he finally looked towards you. He stilled, he had been so wrapped up in his self-commiseration that he hadn’t realised how calm both you and Remus looked.
“Technically, Peter didn’t barge in on us,” you explained with a shrug.
“What?” James asked, clearly more confused than before.
“We were in the bathroom,” you added.
“I mean, Peter might have got the idea that Vixen and I were shagging in there, but he has no idea Remus was with us.”
“So he–” James said as he looked between the bed and Sirius. “You mean he didn’t– Padfoot! You’re such an arsehole!” he added as he hit Sirius with the same pillow you’d thrown at him earlier. Sirius guffawed.
“That'll learn you, mate! Serves you right for getting distracted with the sweet redhead instead of covering for us properly.”
“You’re such a git!” he yelled without any real bite as he hit him one last time with the pillow and then walked towards the centre of the room where a good deal of the picnic still lay. James took one of the sandwiches in the basket and started munching on it. “How was your date? Before Peter, I mean…”
“Fantastic,” Remus said with a smile as Sirius said, “Brilliant.”
You smiled, you couldn’t agree more. In fact, you weren’t even that bothered about Peter’s intrusion. If anything it was more of a reminder of how important it was for you to tell your friends, since apparently you weren’t all that good at keeping the relationship a secret. How exactly did they manage to hide Moony’s secret for so long? You wondered. “Yeah, Sirius did a fantastic job with the picnic.”
“So did Vixen entertaining Remus.”
“As if that had ever been hard for her,” James said in between bites. “Nine times out of ten, if she’s not with either of us, guaranteed she’s with him.”
“Or scheming,” Sirius said with a wink. “Making friends with the ghosts and whatnot.”
“Come off it, I’m not that much of a schemer, am I,” you argued, just afterwards remembering something you had been pondering about before the picnic. “And what I’m about to say is a mere coincidence and has nothing to do with scheming.” James smiled, though he had his back to you. “I'm gonna need your cloak later this week, Prongs.”
“Not for scheming?”
“No, not for scheming.”
“Are you absolutely sure?” he teased further. “What is it you need it for?”
“Well, why else would I need an invisibility cloak for? Not to be seen!”
“Your disillusionment charm is remarkably good, if you need the cloak then you’ll be sneaking off somewhere where you do not want to risk being found out,” James retorted. “Where are you going to go?”
“Not just me, Rem is coming too.”
“I am?” Remus asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Of course,” you smiled. “We’ll go back for that Dreamspore.”
Monday, 24thJanuary, 1977
“Hey!” you heard from behind you, followed by your name. “Wait, wait!”
You hesitated, biting your lip and sighing as you turned. Kless was a few steps behind.
“Oh, hi!” you said as you spotted him. Just him, you thought.
“I’ve been looking for you for a while. It’s like you’ve been hiding…”
To be fair, you kind of had. You've tried to keep yourself busy these last few days. Ever since the start of term, people either avoided you like the plague or were very insistent on asking questions about “The Great Christmas Fire of 1976.” The Slytherins had blown them off from the start, and people were too scared to ask Rosier about it repeatedly, since Barty spread the rumour that he had been hexing those that made references to the disaster at his house. You, on the other hand, seemed like the most approachable person from the ones confirmed present at the party, and the list was constantly fluctuating, with some students claiming they had been there for traction only to be debunked days later by someone who had actually been there.
So they approached you, who were both confirmed to be there and the centre of a whole conspiracy regarding the start of the fire. Some approached you kindly and signalled their support with a few brief words, while others were more insistent, firing question after question after question at you, making you feel like you were on an Auror interrogation. You had tried to delicately answer some of them, but their questions were anything but delicate. A girl had even asked you if you were a pyromaniac and if that was the reason you’d started the fire and burned your mother. Marlene had almost hexed her on the spot, and would have, had it not been for Lily who stopped her and told the girl to run.
That’s why whenever someone randomly called your name in the halls, you often ignored it and continued walking to your next class. Not that you were particularly excited about Herbology.
“I have been hiding a little,” you admitted, adjusting your backpack. You hadn’t seen Kless in a while, but at least you were sure that he wasn’t going to be an arse and ask you about the fire. At least you hoped he wouldn’t.
“Right,” he said, remembering the drama going on. Kless had never been into politics; he loved potions, and making potions, and the art of extracting elixirs and ingredients, and he really focused on it. In fact, he exclusively read the “Potion Advancements” section of the Daily Prophet and little else, so he hadn’t even heard about the fire until days later when some people were discussing it in class. “I trust you know I don’t believe in any of that rubbish people have been saying about you.”
“I assumed you wouldn’t,” you responded with a smile, looking around, making sure no random person would be approaching you. The hall seemed relatively empty, which was indicative of one thing only: you were going to be quite late for class.
Kless smiled, “I won’t take long,” he said as he moved his shoulder to bring his satchel forwards and opened it. “I’ve been looking for you because I think I’ve finally” – he switched to a whisper on the last part of his sentence – “cracked the Wolfsbane potion,” he said carefully as he took out a vial and a small notebook. “I made you a copy of the recipe. It’s extremely detailed, but I’d rather prepare it with you if you want to learn how to make it.” He handed you the notebook. “Not because I don’t think you can follow instructions, Slughorn has mentioned that you’re really good at potions and all that, but this one took me so many tries to get right,” he added. “Although, I’ve yet to know if it actually works.”
“How are you planning to find out then?” you asked as you looked at the potion in your hands. It was a rather large bottle, about the size of a large anti-cough brew.
“Ugh well… My older cousin knows someone,” he said. “They will be trying it for me. I can tell you how it goes afterwards. Slughorn also said he’d get somebody to test it.”
“Right,” you said with a smile. “It’s totally safe, isn’t it?”
“Are you planning to drink it?” he asked jokingly. You didn’t respond, so he cleared his throat. “Right, sorry. Yes, it’s completely safe. You can revise the ingredient list if you please. Wolfsbane might be worrisome but it was neutralized. I’ve read a lot about it and even tested it on some rats the house elves caught for me.”
You smiled. “Just wanted to make sure... Wouldn’t want your cousin’s friend to find out the ugly way... By the way, does he study here?”
“It’s a she,” Kless said. “And she did.”
“Oh, no chance I’ve met her, then.”
“Oh, you know her alright,” Kless said with a laugh, but did not elaborate. You narrowed your eyes at him but didn’t press further. “This is yours,” he said as he handed you a small leatherbound notebook. “It’s got all the important stuff.”
“Thank you,” you said as you took the notebook in your hands and flipped the cover to look at some of the notes. “I definitely want to learn how to make it.”
Kless smiled, “Can you do Friday?”
“I’ve got Quidditch practice and then study club, I guess I could skive off the study club, but…”
A/N: Hi guys! I'm back... kind off. Imma try to post at least twice a month, but if things go well, we'll be back to our weekly posting soon, I just need to get back on track with my writing which honestly has been a lil hard - words of encouragement do help though, and they're always welcomed, as you know <3
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Hey love, was wondering if you could make the Gilded Constellations book into a pdf when it’s finished? And make a pretty cover?
If you let me, I’d love to get it printed off (for personal use only ofc) to have on my bookshelf! Would fit right next to ATYD lol. If not, all good ily anyway
Thank you for all the effort and love you put into your work! xxx
Hey, luv! I do plan on creating PDFs and EPubs once Gilded Constellations is done! So totally!
I wanted a printed version myself as well, and have created covers (they'll probably change before the final version is ready, though). AND, I must say: I'd be honoured to be placed next to ATYD on your bookshelf!
hi Lils! i was just thinking about the glided constatations and i’m wondering whether either the picture of sirius and remus or sirius’ sketches will be brought up? feel free to ignore my question, if you don’t want to spoil or just don’t want to answer; im just being curious:p
Heheheheheheehehehehe... Next chapter will give you more answers than I can ᓚ₍⑅^..^₎♡
(this is my first time asking/requesting something so please bear with me!)
so l've been scrolling on the Harry Potter (fanon) wiki-what one does when their bored-and I found a reflection spell, (incantation: Speculo) it deflects the spells away from the castor. I would love to see this in Gilded Constellations cause I am obsessed with it!! You don't have to, of course!
thanks!
Oi! I love these kinds of requests/suggestions! Especially with spells because trust me, it's hard to find out which spells to use when I need them, and it requires a lot –and I mean A LOT– of digging!
I may or may have not already used it in some unedited chapters, but you'll have to wait a lil bit and see.
And, as you guys may already know, I love to hear your comments, and suggestions and everything, so please don't feel deterred by the improper amount of time it takes me to respond to some asks, I really love getting them!
So please, never ever be scared of sending an ask or a DM or anything similar, they make my day, and remind me that people have not forgotten of GC even if I've been uncharacteristically absent since like December.
Lilly please please please come back, the world need more GC 🥺 (I hope you’re fine though)
Hey Luv!
I've been busy like crazy, but I am planning to come back to GC! Crossing my fingers I'll be able to do it next week also. Thank you for still being here <3
Pairing: Wolfstar x Reader
Word Count: 6.6 K
Warnings: SMUT. Threesome. Dry humping, hand job (male and female reciving), P in V, endless teasing. / Remus' first time with Vix and Siri. Consent is Sexy.
Prompt: Finally a quiet time for the three of them.
Proofread by sweet @girlwihkaleidoscopeeyes
This chapter can be read as a one-shot
Chapter 74: Las Palabras de Amor
You rolled on your side, sitting on your shins so you were now looking at Sirius instead of leaning on him, your head tilted slightly to the side as you eyed Remus. You locked eyes; his, more golden than brown at this point, seemed to sparkle as you stared at each other.
It was almost as if you were in potions, silently communicating to each other exactly what you’d be doing next. By the time you turned back to look at Sirius, he was looking at you with a mix of nervousness and excitement, Adam’s apple bobbing as the two of you veered closer, his breathing short.
He’d become prey as both you and Remus moved as gracefully and decisively as if Moony or Vixen would when stalking each other in a game. It didn’t matter that he was bigger than you or that he, as Padfoot, could kind of control Moony. At that point, Sirius didn’t even feel canine, he’d turned into a rabbit or a baby deer, facing two beasts that seemed ready to devour him. He wasn’t sure he wanted anything more than that.
You leaned a little closer, even if you felt slightly exposed due to the lack of fabric covering your top half. There was a confidence in your movements that you weren’t exactly sure how you’d gotten. Both of your hands travelled to Sirius’ jaw while Moony’s moved to his hips. You allowed your fingers to brush down from there to his neck, gently tracing his Adam’s apple as you went down, stopping right on the second button of his shirt. As you started unbuttoning, Remus brushed his hands over Sirius’ abdomen – oh, how he’d dreamed of being able to do something like that – locating the last button of the shirt and working on it with a patience that was as maddening as it was exciting.
The pads of your fingers on Sirius’ skin felt like burning every time they brushed against it, making him crave more. He almost felt bad for teasing you so much earlier, but the wait was making him infinitely more excited for what was to come, whatever it might be, whatever it was that you and Moony told each other with that long look from earlier.
Your hands connected with Remus halfway through the shirt; he undid the last button as you allowed your palms to rest over Sirius’ torso, feeling how warm it was against your hands and feeling a slight chill run down your spine. Was the window still open? You’d been so distracted that you hadn’t even noticed the small snowflakes slipping in from the window and melting against the warm stone. Not that you’d care to close it, but the chill got a reaction either way, voluntarily or not, making your breasts perk up again. Sirius bit his bottom lip, trying to suppress a groan and failing, eyes locked on your breasts.
“Something’s distracting him,” Remus said with a smile, eyeing your erect nipples for a second before focusing back on Sirius’ shirt; if he stared at you any longer, he’d become just as distracted.
“I noticed,” you replied with a smirk, allowing your nails to gently brush against his torso as you pulled the shirt to the sides. Both you and Remus worked together to remove Sirius’ shirt completely, Remus leaning in to press a short wet kiss against his neck before letting him fall back on the mattress. “Can’t blame him for it either.”
You smiled, not missing the lascivious look Remus had given you as he kissed the other boy’s neck. You blushed, both aroused and shy; you’d never had two of the hottest people you knew stare at you with such hunger. As if they’d been famished. You swallowed, taking a deep breath, your chest rising and falling gently before leaning in to kiss Sirius’ neck, knowing Remus would appreciate the fact that he’d get his lips.
For a second, you stared at the two of them kissing, feeling even wetter than before just from the sight. Who would have thought I’d be into that? You wondered as you reached for Sirius’ crotch again. This time you weren’t planning to let him turn you around before he was completely speechless (not that he had much to say now that both you and Remus were onto him).
While you slid your fingers in between yours and Sirius’ bodies, the back of your hand brushed against Remus’ crotch, earning a soft groan from him. “Sorry,” you mumbled as you continued on your way down.
“Never be sorry about something like this,” he retorted with a sly smile directed your way before he went back to kissing Sirius.
You managed to unclasp Sirius’ trousers with one hand and pulled them down with the help of a slightly airy and aroused Remus. Now we’re even, you thought, once they were both shirtless and in just their boxers. You barely noticed Sirius’ cock straining against the soft fabric of his underwear before you’d dug your hand inside.
“Mhmhmh!” Sirius moaned into Remus’ kiss.
Remus smiled, pulling apart for a second just to be able to see Sirius’ face as if he couldn’t quite believe this was really happening: he really was kissing Sirius! You were right there next to the two of them, watching, kissing, feeling, enjoying it as much as he was, enjoying it as much as Sirius was.
Remus really should have known; he should have known that the two of you wanted him as much as he wanted you – since the Hallowe’en party when you were dancing together, and he thought he was in heaven. He should have realised it then, but what really mattered was that he knew now.
And there was nothing more exhilarating than being wanted, knowing that he was wanted, and that he was part of you as much as you were a part of him. Even beyond the sex and the kisses, there was a connection so deeply rooted that no poison, no cruel hand and no force of nature could tear them asunder. And he loved it, he loved every bit of it. From Sirius’ soft lips, and his blushed face to your soft – and slightly desperate – breaths.
“You’re so beautiful,” he told Sirius as he stared into his eyes. Sirius smirked, and you knew he was about to retort with something clever, destroying the adorable moment Remus had just created, so you decided to stop him: you reached inside his pants, wrapped your hand around his cock, and pumped. Whatever Sirius was going to say got caught up in his throat, and instead came one of those lewd moans of his.
He threw you a withering look, and you gave him an innocent shrug in return, “You wanted to say something, Pups?”
He opened his mouth to speak again, and you repeated the action, causing him to close his lips with barely enough wherewithal to hold his grunt. You just smiled, raising one of your eyebrows at him before turning to Remus, who was looking at you with a rather impish face.
“He wasn’t joking when he said you were a tease.”
“No idea what you’re talking about, Rem,” you said, angling your arm so it would brush against his cock again, now getting a moan out of him.
“Luv, that’s just–” Remus started.
You pumped again, making sure your hand was still brushing against Remus, “Suck it up,” you responded with a smile. You’d been teased by both boys earlier; they deserved to be teased in an equal amount.
Remus groaned and leaned into you, pressing his lips against your neck with a desperate grunt while sucking moderately, like he’d seen Sirius do to tease you in public. And that was the effect he was trying to get; he just didn’t expect the stifled moan he’d get from you, just from a little sucking near your collarbone. Either way, that wasn’t going to stop your resolve, so you continued pumping Sirius, finding a steady rhythm that had him mumbling incoherencies along with a few profanities, while Remus groaned audibly (from your hand brushing against his crotch), alternating between kissing Sirius’ lips and your neck, in retaliation from your incessant teasing.
Sirius’s chest heaved up and down, breath ragged from how worked up he was from the kisses and the touches, and of course, your hand that seemed a little too confident with what it was doing. How quickly had you learned to make him feel so heavenly after that one time in the fae pool.
Remus’ hand was lying on Sirius’ torso when he gently slid it towards your arm, allowing it to brush from your shoulder to your elbows and then down to your wrist; the same wrist he could feel moving on Sirius’ cock, and he was tempted to wrap his own fingers around yours. But there was still some uncertainty in him, a fear of being rejected, of his touches scaring Sirius instead of pleasing him. So he decided to keep his hand there, gently wrapped around your wrist only, his fingers brushing against your skin in a soft, almost repetitive motion as he sighed.
“Just ask him, Rem,” you said when you noticed his indecisive hold, constantly inching closer to your fisted hand and then pulling back.
“No– it’s not–”
“Remus would like to touch you,” you said instead, perhaps a bit too bluntly since Remus glared, as if you had outed him. “Are you okay with that?” you added more softly, slowing down your pace to get Sirius to focus.
“Of course,” Sirius retorted with a grin, leaning up and pulling Remus’ towards his lips. “You may touch me, wherever and whenever you want, darling,” he added in between kisses. You smiled, feeling Remus’ hand slowly creep around yours, his fingers wrapping completely around your own and helping you pump. Then you slid your hand off gently, allowing his alone to replace it. Remus’ grip was much firmer than yours. “Fuck,” Sirius moaned as the other boy sighed. He could hardly fathom what he was doing – and who he was doing it to – and yet he kept moving his hand, gently pumping as his breath became more ragged.
Remus’ bigger hand made Sirius feel much smaller, but it covered more ground as it moved, and when he flicked his thumb up to gently rub around his tip, Sirius was a goner. Remus knew exactly what he was doing.
You raised one of your eyebrows, impressed at how quickly Remus had undone Sirius, and looked down at his hand with curiosity, wondering if you could learn from his technique – and then realising how ridiculous the thought was. Still, the competitive side of you wanted to be just as good, so you stared, moving your hand to Sirius’ inner thigh and rubbing softly, your nails sometimes grazing his skin and causing him to shiver.
Remus pumped again and turned to you. “Come ‘ere, Little Witch,” he said, leaning down to kiss you as he twisted his hand, earning a grunt from Sirius, whose hips started to bump up towards his hand in an uncontrolled motion.
“Shit, wait, I think I’m going to–”
“It’s okay,” Remus said, his teeth gently biting your bottom lip as he pulled from you and turned his eyes back to Sirius. “I’ll catch it,” he added, his thumb softly brushing against his tip. “Go ahead, Pads, make a mess.”
“Fuck,” Sirius replied, breathing hard as the first spurt of cum left his cock. Remus caught it with ease, and continued moving his hand.
“You’re doing amazing, Luv,” he said, voice low and slightly just raspy enough to make both yours and Sirius’ mind reel. He was patient, looking at his bright eyes as he continued to milk him to completion, until he finally went soft in his hand.
Sirius’ head was thrown back on the pillow as he tried to steady his breathing. “Fuck, that was–” he breathed, “You were–” another breath, “–We should have done this ages ago.”
You laughed, leaning up on your elbow to look at him better. His face was flushed, lips red and swollen and gaze weary, as if he was still lost in the pleasure you had both given him. You tilted your head to the side and smiled, gently moving your hand towards his face and pulling some of the sweat-stuck curls from his cheek. Sirius really was a sight to behold. As angelic as he was devious, an absolute dream come true. “Gorgeous, isn’t he?” you smiled.
“Absolutely,” Remus responded, voice low as he turned to you, gaze still as hungry as the one he used to regard Sirius earlier. “And so are you, lovely.” He brought his cum stained hand towards his own boxers, and sighed when he felt the warm sticky substance against his own cock. There was something unfathomably lecherous about having Sirius’ cum around himself, it made his own cock twitch and spurt out a bit of precum. “Little Witch, would you mind if I stare at you shamelessly while I finish myself off?” he asked as he stared at your breasts and pumped himself once.
You narrowed your eyes at him, while the idea of just being watched was tempting, you weren’t planning on letting him finish by himself. Not if you and Sirius could help it – once he’d recovered, at least.
“Actually, I do mind,” you responded, and Remus seemed taken aback, his grip around his cock faltering, his lower abdomen burning in protest due to the lack of friction.
“What?” he managed to say.
“Well, I don’t mind you looking,” you clarified and then smiled. “I mind the fact that you won’t let me take part,” you leaned towards him; Sirius placed a hand on your back and pushed encouragingly, even as drained as he was.
“I just thought you might be tired,” Remus said, “that you wouldn’t want–”
“Don’t make assumptions, Rem,” you said, a hand on his shoulder while you whispered in the most sultry tone you could muster. Your hand moved from there to his collarbone, your fingers gently brushing against his skin before you leaned down and kissed him there. “You may go on,” you added when you realised his hand on his cock still wasn’t moving.
Remus tightened his grip again, grunting pleasurably when he felt you sucking on the side of his neck. Sirius had leaned up a little bit, watching the two of you even if you were shielding Remus almost completely.
“Sorry, quite rude of me,” you chastised yourself once you noticed, playfully eyeing Sirius before turning to Remus again. “How about we give him a better look?” you added, pulling your head back to level it to Remus’ gaze.
Remus seemed confused, about to say something when you leaned down, purposefully tilting yourself towards his lap as you slowly pulled your skirt down, allowing Sirius to get a good view at your rear before sliding it off completely and straightening your back again. “You said you really like it, Pups, didn’t you?” you added before throwing it towards his face.
Sirius smiled as he pulled it down. Remus, who was still trying to process what was happening, turned to you. There was admiration and raw desire in his eyes as he stared at your fully naked body for the first time. Your breasts falling gracefully as you curved your back, your legs bending smoothly, each one of your curves having a softness, plusness, and delicacy to them. “You’re… absolutely perfect,” he whispered, completely enraptured by you. His hand regained its pace around his cock when he felt it twitch in protest at the lack of movement. His motions were almost languid, softly drawing out the pleasure as much as he could, not wanting the moment to end, not wanting either of you to pull apart.
He was definitely not expecting you to jump over his thigh, fast but making sure to press yourself against his leg to let him feel how wet you were, before leaning completely on the side, Remus’ profile and your front now in perfect view of Sirius.
“Better?” you asked him with a sly smirk.
Sirius gave you a daring look.“Yeah, I think so,” he said nonchalantly. “Except maybe–” he took his wand from the nightstand, “– Evanesco,” he whispered, completely vanishing Remus’ boxers.
You blinked in disbelief at his wand skill; performing a spell like that was already quite complicated with an object alone, on a person it made it ridiculously tricky, yet he’d done it with little to no effort while being fucked out and turned on.
“Fucking impressive,” Remus said.
“For sure,” Sirius replied, staring at the other’s cock, which brought you back to the moment in an instant.
You looked down at him. You’d felt how big he was before, but seeing it, tall and proud right in the middle of his legs, was something entirely different. Your hand was on his inner thigh in a second, tracing soft circles before wrapping around his own around his cock. He mumbled your name, almost in a warning tone and you pressed a kiss to his collarbone. “Allow me,” you said as you pressed a kiss to his strong shoulders.
“You don’t have to just because–”
“I want to,” you said, same soft voice, fingers lacing with his as you managed to fill some of the soft skin around his cock in between them. In a move that was almost the same as the one he’d done with Sirius’ cock, your hands switched with each other, and now yours were wrapped around him, Sirius’ sticky cum acting as a lubricant as you started to pump.
“Fuck,” Remus sighed, looking at your hand moving on him, your beautiful face in rapt concentration trying to find just the right up-and-down pattern that had him moaning your name. It didn’t take you too long. And while he absolutely loved the euphoria you were giving him, he still didn’t want it to end. A bed with two of you on it was already heaven. A bed with the two of you, stripped naked, was far beyond it. He, of course, didn’t want to cum down from it.
But your hand was making it almost impossible for him to continue holding back, and when he thought he was about to cum he gripped the sheets tightly, “Little Witch, I think I’m going to–”
You pulled your hand off him before he finished the sentence, allowing your thumb to brush over his tip in a torturous and impossibly teasing manner. The look he gave you was so helpless it was almost comical. Brows furrowed, chest heaving up and down and an incredulous look on his face. Sirius regarded the two of you amusedly, his dick was half hard again.
Remus could barely muster his words as he looked at you, still in disbelief. “To cum?” you asked nonchalantly. “I figured.”
“Then why would you–” he couldn’t finish his sentence, you jumped back towards his lap, legs around his own and closed the gap between your bodies, allowing the tip of his cock to brush against your folds. “Because I want you cumming somewhere else.”
“What?!” he asked, voice a mere squeak.
“She’s taking the potion,” Sirius said, looking at you to confirm. You nodded, and rocked your hips against Remus, pulling your hand down and positioning him, first letting his tip brush over your folds, your breath hitching as it touched your clit.
Remus, who only now seemed to have gathered his wits, blinked a couple of times before placing both hands on your shoulders. “Wait, no, wait!” he said, alarmed as he pushed you back gently. You instantly stopped touching him, looking at him with concern, frowning your brows and searching for his face that seemed alarmed. He looked down on himself and you, so close, he thought.
“What is it?” you asked, confused and slightly upset. He doesn’t want me, a voice in your head seemed to say. That’s ridiculous, he definitely wants you! Another responded.
“I can’t–” he said. “Not without rubbers.”
“Rubbers?” you asked. He nodded towards the pack of condoms still on the floor. “What– Why do you need those?”
“Because of Moony,” he said solemnly.
There was instant understanding in your head, the tension from earlier relinquishing, your shoulders relaxing, apprehension leaving you entirely. You placed your hand around his neck, gently brushing the nape with the pads of your fingers. He seemed to also relax into your touch.
“Rem, Luv. Lycanthropy does not work like that,” you said reassuringly. You finally understood why he insisted on carrying them with him, he was terrified of turning someone into a werewolf.
“You don’t know!” he retorted. There was apprehension and perhaps, a hint of pain or resentment towards himself stuck in his gaze.
“She’s read a whole lot about werewolves though,” Sirius said. “Knows way more than I do; I reckon she knows even more than–”
“You don’t know!” Remus insisted.
“Right,” you said appeasingly. His eyes were golden, but not with pleasure this time around, more like he’d been cornered. You breathed, trying to think of the right way you say it, “I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, but there is no need to rush it. We can wait, ask around, and only go for it when we’re sure. How does that sound?”
Remus seemed to finally breathe again, you saw the tension release his muscles just like it had done with yours earlier and you smiled, leaning closer to him and pressing a soft kiss to his forehead. “Meanwhile,” you smiled, raising your hand and channeling all your energy as you’d practice while flying and pulled the strip of rubbers into your hand. “We can use these…” you said with a raised eyebrow and a suggestive smile. “If you’re still up for it,” you added, although his cock, still standing proud, gave you half the answer.
He laughed, his gaze turning to the side as he bit his lip. Of course he wanted it, he needed it like he needed air and water. “You don’t give up easily, do you?”
“You should have known by now, Moony,” Sirius said as he pulled himself a little bit higher on the bed, earning a somewhat better view of both of your faces. The tension from the earlier situation had been enough to snap him from his fucked-out tiredness and fueled him with some much-needed adrenaline. “She’s dating the two of us, even after you played hard to get.”
You straight up laughed at his comment. “Such an idiot,” you mumbled.
Sirius just smiled confidently and leaned close enough to press a kiss to Remus’ shoulder and looked at you through his lashes. “Perhaps, but without your stubbornness, we wouldn’t be here,” he teased further.
“Oh, shut it,” you smiled, playfully trying to push Sirius’ face off of Remus’ shoulder, but he was faster, grabbing your hand and pulling you closer to him, causing your folds to smash against Remus’ hard cock again and instantly earning a groan from him.
Sirius bit his lip as he looked down. “Come on, Étoile, I think it’s time to end our poor guy’s suffering.”
You smiled, pulling back to rip one of the rubbers from the strip and giving it to Remus. “I guess he will teach you how to use them in the end,” you added with a teasing grin and Remus’ hands carefully opened the silver package and slowly rolled down the condom around himself.
“Does it feel different?” Sirius asked out of curiosity, not quite thinking.
Before Remus even had time to think of the answer, which you assumed he wouldn’t have, you replied, “We can try later and you tell us.” You turned to Remus and smiled, “Ready?”
He smiled and nodded in return. You breathed, raising yourself a little and grabbing his cock to line it with your entrance. He stared at your hand in his cock, and then at your determined gaze as you accommodated yourself, his breath getting caught in his throat as he braced himself for what was about to happen. Feeling completely unprepared and utterly ready at the same time.
You breathed and slowly lowered yourself on him. Remus’ hands were instantly on your waist, taking away some of the weight from your legs as you slowly sank into him. “You good?” he asked about halfway through. Sirius pressed a quick kiss to his neck as he smiled, his nose and lips still brushing against the other’s skin. Of course, Remus would take the time to ask about your well-being in such a situation, he thought.
“Mhm,” you managed to say with a nod; he could hear the slight strain in your voice, you were adjusting to him. Sirius already suspected there hadn’t been that many times for you before, he’d ask eventually, not out of jealousy, but out of curiosity. As you continued to lower yourself onto Remus’ cock you breathed deeply.
Remus looked like he was trying his hardest not to move. Sirius could easily feel the tension on his shoulders and muscles, the stutter in his breath, the restraint he was enacting to be able to hold back. But he waited nonetheless. You had your head hidden in his neck, and were still breathing rather deeply, Remus was gently brushing his hands on your back now. “Still good?” He asked as he gently turned his head towards you. He couldn’t see your face but you smiled as you clenched around him in response. “Fuck!”
“She just fucking clenched, didn’t she?” Sirius said with a wicked smile, leaning a little bit higher on his shins as he tried to look at the spot where the two of you were joined. He swallowed when he did. He had imagined what that looked like on the fae pool, but seeing it, even if it was Remus’ cock instead of his own, was doing it for him. His hand travelled to his cock, he couldn’t care less if he was going to be sore later.
“Yeah, she– ah!”
“Did it again,” Sirius finished as he bit his lip, his hand already pumping gently as his thumb brushed his tip.
“Thought you might like it,” you said. Remus still couldn’t see your smile, but he sure as hell heard it. You pressed a kiss to his neck, as you started to move, your hips slow and gentle as they moved out and in, and you squeezed.
“Shit,” Remus said as he sighed. “You feel fucking amazing!”
“I bet she does,” Sirius whispered with a smile, thinking of how you felt wrapped around his cock as he continued to touch himself.
“You’re not so bad yourself,” you joked as you pressed another wet kiss to his neck.
Remus managed to get conscious enough to look at Sirius with a raised eyebrow. Sirius shrugged in return. “Not so bad?” he said, a playful smile appearing on his lips, despite how overwhelmed he already was. “Can’t leave my girl with that impression, can I?” He asked, eyeing the other boy seconds after.
Sirius seemed to understand whatever it was Remus meant with that comment almost instantly and smiled, the time it took you to react to the exchange was cut short by Remus grabbing your waist and flipping the two of you around, your head landing softly onto a pillow as he laid you down on the bed.
You swallowed as you looked at him, one hand still wrapped around your waist while he used the other to hold himself up. He looked at you with a sly smirk, as if he knew exactly what each ragged breath that came from your delicate lips meant. You looked back at him with parted lips, your heart beating faster as your eyes locked on his, both shining with lust.
“That was hot,” Sirius commented with a smile, “She liked it.”
“I know,” Remus replied with a smile as he pulled his arm from underneath you. “I felt it,” he added with a smile. He was still, looking at you with a teasing grin. As if waiting for you to ask him to move. You held his stare defiantly and clenched. He cursed. “You really are a charming li–” you clenched again and he stopped breathing for a second, biting his lips while he regained his focus. “–Little Witch,” he finished.
“Thought that’s the reason you–” he placed his free hand on your breast, pinching your nipple as he stared straight at you– “call me that,” you finished with a smile.
So playful, Sirius thought as he looked at the two of you, perhaps I could make things happen. Sirius leaned closer, switching his left hand to his cock to leave his dominant free and move that one between your bodies. He sneaked it in right to the place where the two connected and then pressed his index to your clit while his knuckles brushed the top side of Remus’ cock, drawing slow circles onto both. Although he couldn’t see directly, he was remarkably good at finding soft spots, and he could tell once he had.
Remus seemed to shiver, his hips moving slightly back as he touched him, also a result of your very tight clenching once Sirius started circling your clit. “Stop torturing each other,” Sirius said playfully. “You both know how fucking incredible you are.”
You smiled, and angled your hips upwards, sinking deeper into Remus’ cock before pulling back down again. Remus sighed in pleasure and started to move his hips as well, Sirius’ hand in between your bodies adding an extra layer of friction that had both of your minds reeling.
As Remus continued thrusting into you he leaned closer, his skin craving yours like a famished animal, a yearning he’d withheld for too long finally finding solace; in the plushness of your breasts and the hardness of your nipples, in the curve of your waist and mellow sounds your throat kept making. For him.
He had enough sense left to press soft, wet kisses against your lips, cheeks and jaw, as he relished on the myriad of feelings you were giving rise to. His nose, buried in your hair, the way you smelled of sweat and perfume and Sirius, was so perfect that he was overwhelmed with the sensory overload of it all. His breath tickled the soft skin of your neck as he continued to pound into you.
“You’re amazing… you feel amazing,” he mumbled as he thrusted, feeling Sirius’ hand with each move of his hips which was driving him just as mad as your walls wrapped around his cock. He pressed a quick kiss to your cheek. “I never imagined I would– fuck.”
“I know,” you said breathily. “Fuck, I know,” you added, your hips chasing his own, matching his pace and surpassing it with frantic movements.
You weren’t sure where you ended and he started, let alone whether either of you could think properly at this point, at least not past basic actions: hips moving, kissing and mumbling senseless incoherencies; soft loving words, moans and curses blended into the atmosphere around you, the vibration of your voices saturating the air like stars in the sky.
Sirius wasn’t much better either, with one of his hands right between the two of you and the other on his cock, his thoughts were mostly focused on how alluring Remus’ back looked as it flexed, and how wonderful you looked right under him, your hair sprawled to the sides, making sounds that were as obscene as they were delightful.
At some point Remus managed to push Sirius into a laying flat position, having him almost beside you so he could reach his mouth while he continued to fuck into you. He could have both, he had both, and heaven was nothing but a petty promise in comparison to it. His movements became faster and more erratic the further it went. He kissed Sirius’ soft lips, losing himself on the boy for what could have been an eternity from how intense it felt.
“Fuck, Rem,” you managed to whimper, driving his focus back to you.
It might have been Sirius’ hand the one circling your clit and making your mind grow even fuzzier, but it was Remus’ weight on top of you, it was his strong chest the one pressing you onto the bed, his cock stretching your walls so tight that you barely noticed the slick wetness leaving your body as he fucked you, running from the place where your bodies connected toward your ass, and finally drenching the bedsheets.
Oh, how bad you three were ruining that bed…
“You’re close, aren’t you, Starshine?” Sirius asked while Remus’ panting breaths mingled with yours. Both of Sirius’ hands were busy, but Remus had been alternating between kissing you and Sirius, switching almost any time he needed to stop to breathe. He wondered if there was a way of being even closer to the two of you, and hoped he’d have time to figure it out.
“Mhm...” you moaned.. “Think he… he’s too,” you added, noticing how much more erratic his movements had become. You clenched harder, and you noticed how tense he’d become, his abs tightening and his head buried in the curve of your neck instead of returning to kiss. Sirius eyed him, Remus had his eyes clenched shut as he focused, trying to fuck you through his own high.
“It’s okay,” you cooed as you noticed him struggling to hold. You couldn’t quite feel his cum inside you, but you felt the warmth either way.
“No, I wanted you to–”
“It really is okay,” Sirius reassured him as well. His hand on your clit did not stop even when Remus’ movements started to slow. And your breath became ragged until you saw stars, gently moaning his names. Eventually, his hand slowed, stilling right in the middle when Remus’ weight fell onto the two of you. Remus breathed; exhausted, delighted, awed – He’d glimpsed at whatever lays beyond heaven for the first time in his life.
His body pressed into you and Sirius, sated and spent, Remus uttered, “I love you both so fucking much,” without even thinking. And then he tensed, looking up and at the other boy’s face with eyes wide open, as if he’d just said something ludicrous.
You smiled, moving one of your hands to rest against his arm, but Sirius beat you to speak, with a smile on his face, looking back at Remus with a tenderness that you had only seen a few times, on those rare occasions he let out raw honesty. “We love you too, Remus.”
“To the moon and back,” you added with a fucked out and yet slightly teasing smile.
You stayed like that, tangled together for a while, enjoying the sweet moment until Remus accidentally moved his arm and noticed Sirius’ cock still hard. He bit his lip. He was still half-soft inside you when he grabbed it and started pumping on it lazily. You didn’t have much space to move, but you managed to get one of your hands onto Sirius’ head and gently scratched his scalp with your hands as Remus helped him finish again.
His sounds were enough to make you wet again, coating Remus’ half-hardness as he continued to pump. It didn’t take longer than a few minutes for Sirius to cum onto Remus’ hand again, making a mess on the bed that equaled the one you had made earlier.
“I swear I’d go on for days if tiredness wasn’t a factor,” Sirius sighed contentedly as he looked at Remus and then at you, getting a glimpse of one of your still hard nipples, the lack of movement making you finally notice how cold it had gotten.
“Bet,” you said with a smile, and pulled the side of the duvet that wasn’t squelched under the three of you to cover yourself from the cold.
Remus sighed, and placed one of his hands in between your head and Sirius’, attempting to stand, but both you and Sirius pulled him back down. “Let’s stay like this a little longer,” Sirius mumbled.
“I’m still inside–”
“–Does it bother you, Starshine?”
“What?” you asked, turning back to him – you’d been looking at the window, trying to shut it with wandless magic, but you were too tired to properly work it out. Honestly, you were still shocked at the fact that you’d successfully accio'd the condoms earlier.
Sirius looked down. Remus hid his face on the boy’s chest, feeling rather bashful at Sirius’ shameless staring.
“Oh,” you said. “Not at all, I’m just cold.”
Remus moved his hand without even looking and the windows shut by themselves. The temperature in the room warmed almost instantly.
“Fucking impressive,” you said. “I’d been trying to do that for the past few minutes.”
“While Remus was helping me cu–”
“–I was cold,” you added before he said something obscene. In return, he wiggled the finger that was still on your clit and you hissed. “Stop teasing! We’re all exhausted.”
“Are we, though?”
“Yes,” both you and Remus retorted and Sirius just smiled. You stayed like that for a little while longer. Enjoying the way their skin felt against yours, and the way they felt against each other. You wondered if it would ever get better than this; it seemed impossible, but the two of them had already shown you how “impossible” could be easily conquered.
“We should clean up and get dressed before they get here,” Remus said as he raised his head and looked at the clock. “We don’t want James or Peter to see us like this.”
“Hm…” Sirius said thoughtfully. “That could be a way of telling him.”
“That could be a way to scare the shit out of him,” you responded.
“But then after the shock, he’d know,” Sirius tried to reason.
“You’re absolutely mental,” Remus said as he pressed a kiss to the boy’s collarbone, and your lips, and pushed himself up. This time neither of you stopped him. He got out of you with a low hiss and pulled the condom off before vanishing it.
“Étoile,” Sirius asked as he watched Remus’ rubber disappear. “How are you planning to figure that one out?”
“I have contacts,” you said with a smirk. And then looked down on yourself. You were still rather wet and sticky. Perhaps I could take a quick shower, you thought while looking at the bathroom. Remus and Sirius weren’t much better either, Remus was sticky with Sirius’ first orgasm and Sirius still had cum all over his belly. “We’re a mess.”
“A beautiful mess,” Remus smiled.
“A delightful mess,” Sirius agreed.
You looked at Remus, leaning on his shins as he stood from the bed, he had a small purple mark near his collarbone, which blended seamlessly with some of his scars. You had no idea if that had been you or Sirius that caused it, the fact that it could be either one was exhilarating. “Couldn’t agree more…”
“Let’s get you cleaned up,” Remus said, extending his hand to you.
“What? Aftercare?” you asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Sirius, have you been neglecting our girl?” Remus teased as he looked at the other boy.
“Last time we fucked it was in the water, and trust me, I cared mighty well for her.”
You laughed and didn’t complain as Remus pulled you to their bathroom and started the taps. “Not so hot,” Sirius said from the room as he cleaned the bedsheets with a swipe of his wand. He knew Remus usually took scalding showers.
“You’re not even here,” Remus retorted from the bathroom, although he did open the cold tap a little further.
“Yet…” Sirius added, and you laughed. There was no way in hell the three of you would fit into the small bath.
A/N: Hope you like this one. Next week we might not get a chapter because I weill be exceptionally busy, but I'll try either way. Love, Lils
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Lilly, I can't even begin to describe how much I adore you. I know I'm coming to you late with this humble love note but I hope you had the most wonderful day yesterday and that it was filled with all the love and warmth you deserve! ( ˶˘ ³˘(ˊᗜˋ*)!♡
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It took courage to reach out. I, of course, commented and liked absolutely everything you posted because I was in awe of everything you did (and readers should always be supportive of their creators, especially in the fanfiction world), but the day you followed me back, I was shook! Absolutely starstruck, I swear!
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