A Fairy Tale

A Fairy Tale | Interlude

Andie strolled down the second floor corridor slowly, not wanting to go back to the Gryffindor Tower so quickly. She wasn't avoiding anybody. She just wanted to be alone for awhile.

Andie turned the corner and nearly crashed into something. Or rather, someone. Someone wearing something you don't usually find at Hogwarts.

"Sirius, what are you wearing?" Andie asked.

"Glasses," Sirius said coolly, turning to her grinning. No, there are plenty of people that wear glasses at Hogwarts, like James for instance. But nobody--nobody--wore-- "X-ray glasses to be precise," he continued.

"Why are you wearing X-ray glasses? And how do you know about them anyways? They're muggle stuff!"

"Wizards have X-ray glasses too. And they actually work unlike those muggle ones. I got them at Zonko's. And as for why I'm wearing them..." Sirius looked Andie up and down and wolf-whistled. "Damn, girl. I love your curves."

"Sirius! Take them off!"

"I prefer them on," Sirius said joking, eyes rested on her figure.

Andie turned red and grabbed Sirius by his tie. She shoved him against the wall.

"Whoa," he said. "Down, girl."

"Take them off before I take it off for you!"

"My glasses or my pants?"

"I'm serious, Black!"

"Actually, I'm Sirius Black."

"You asshole!"

"Okay, okay," Sirius said. "I'll take it off." Andie backed off as Sirius removed the glasses. "No need to resort to swearing, Andie. We don't want to make your beautiful mouth any fouler, do we?"

"If you value your manhood, however small it may be, Black," Andie said, red in the face and fists clenched, "You'd better knock off your perverted acts before I knock it off." With that, Andie kicked him somewhere that might reduce or prevent his chance to reproduce, and stormed off.

Sirius cried out in pain, and clutched his pants. "Damn it!" he said. Then he added indignantly, "And my it is so not small."

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A Fairy Tale | Chapter 10

Andie and Ronnie descended the staircase leading from the girls' dormitory to the Common Room. They spotted Remus and Sirius sitting in the corner, playing chess.

"Hey," Ronnie said.

"Hey," Remus said, giving her a gentle smile. "Hi Andie."

"Hi Andie," Sirius said.

Andie frowned. "Hello Remus," she said, ignoring Sirius.

Remus leaned over towards Sirius and whispered, "What's up with her?"

"Ah, well, I would assume that she is still upset about the X-ray glasses incident, but assumptions are bad, so I shall say nothing."

"Well, that was pointless since you did say something. So that was why you bought the glasses. To annoy Andie?"

"Well, I wouldn't say annoy..."

"I would."

"Would you?"

"I would."

"Would you really?"

"I really would."

"Would you really would really?"

"Stop," Ronnie said. "Look, we just want to ask you guys if you know what's up with Lily."

That got Remus and Sirius to shut up.

"What?" Sirius asked.

"Do--you--know--what--is--wrong--with--Lily?" Andie said, breaking up the sentence for Sirius slowly.

"Er..." What to say, what to say?? Sirius thought. Oh! I know. Play dumb. "What?"

"What about you, Remus?" Ronnie tried.

"I--we haven't noticed anything."

"Really..." Ronnie arched an eyebrow, observing her boyfriend carefully. "But you must've noticed some things."

"No, nothing."

"Nothing? Don't you think it's weird the way she's been acting around James?"

"Nah. Maybe...maybe she finally realized that she really likes him?"

"Maybe..." Ronnie eyes looked over her surroundings. It landed on Sirius's book bag. "Or maybe not." She bent over and grabbed a folded parchment that was sticking out of the bag.

"Wait!" Remus said. "That's--I mean, why did you take that? It's just a scrap parchment."

"Scrap parchment? Is that why "Project Extraterrestrial: Potions Ingredients and Plan Hairbrush" is written on outside?"

Remus leaned over towards Sirius again and whispered, "Damn it, Padfoot! Why did you label that?"

"Because," Sirius whispered back, "I thought that our project should be more organized. Professors usually like it when our work is organized. Sometimes they give extra points."

"Yes, but no teachers are looking at our project, are they?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So we don't get any extra points!"

"Ahem." Ronnie cleared her throat while Andie tapped her foot expectantly. "You guys know we heard every single word, right?"

"Er..."

"You guys had better tell us what's going on right this instant!" Andie yelled.

"Well...you see..."

And the boys began telling the girls everything that had happened since Remus made the horrifying mistake of asking Sirius what was the plan.

"...And that's what happened," Remus finished up. "Are...are you girls going to tell Lily?"

"We could and we should," Ronnie said.

Sirius and Remus groaned.

"But," she continued, "We're not."

"Really?" Sirius asked.

"Really. As much as it's awkward seeing Lily acting like this, I can't say that it's been a bad thing."

"Yeah," Andie agreed. "She seems really...happy around James and although it might just be the effects of the potion, we don't want to take it away from her. Not yet anyway. You guys said that I should wear off in two days right?"

"Right," Sirius said, actually acting serious. "Three top."

"I just hope that everything would be back to normal after this whole project of yours is over..."

Isn't it funny how things never turn out the way you wish? Well, for these Gryffindors, this certainly won't be normal...and not exactly funny either.