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Tweak says, "don't you shed him no tears,"

Sirius Orion Black (biscuitforblack) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-03-27 20:21:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2023 08, lily luna potter, sirius black

RP: Saturday at the Potters
Characters: Sirius, open to other Potters
Time/Date:Saturday, Late morning , August 27, 2023
Location: Potter home, Godric's Hollow
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Sirius wakes up to life in the Potter home.
Status: Open

Sirius hadn't slept well, not that he would ever admit it to anyone. What sleep he did get had been full of nightmares and fitful dreams. All of it ending with Sirius standing in a closed off room with the veil, watching it waft toward him as incoherent voices called to him from just beyond it. Every time he tried to move closer to see what was beyond the veiled archway, he woke up in a cold sweat.

On the umpteenth time of waking up, Sirius finally decided that sleeping wasn't going to happen.

He stared up at the ceiling for several minutes of the unfamiliar room before tugging the pillow free from behind his head and covering his face with it.

Best way to get rid of frustration?

Growl into the pillow for a moment.

That done, Sirius allowed the pillow to drop onto the floor and swung his legs over, sitting up to peer around at the room. He still didn't entirely understand what he'd done to earn a kid being named after him.

Sirius blinked, another thought crossing his mind.

It was infuriating that everyone he ran into now knew about his animagus. Couldn't a bloke have any secrets?

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 03:35 am UTC (link)

Brooms.

The thought lit up Sirius' world like a firework as he swiftly calculated the improvements in brooms over the years and how much more Utterly Impossibly Fast they would be now. It almost made him giddy.

"What sorts out?" Sirius asked, ignoring all other threads of conversation and honing in. "D'you know what the speeds are like now? Anything like that?"

And which Quidditch teams were still 'round?

School was a load of bollocks compared to everything he'd missed in the world of Quidditch over the years.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-29 03:50 am UTC (link)

"Jamie's probably got some catalogues," Lily offered. "He could probably talk your ear off about brooms. I mean, he is a quidditch player." Well, a reserve quidditch player, but still. He was definitely up to date on all of that, right?

"I don't really follow all that much," she admitted before she shrugged.

She was pleased that he seemed pleased though, and she happily crunched a bit of her bacon, swinging her legs slightly. "Be weird, having you in my commons," she mused. "On the team. Think they'd let you? I mean... don't see why they wouldn't, since ... you'd be a student, same as anyone else."

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 05:05 am UTC (link)

"I'll have a row with the first bloke who says I can't play," Sirius boasted, sliding off his chair and holding the remains of his sandwich in his mouth as he brushed himself free of crumbs.

Quidditch. In all the avalanche of information that'd come his way, Sirius hadn't thought about what a relief Quidditch would be. But would it be the same without his best mate egging him on?

Sirius shook himself free of that thought dog-like before beginning to wander around the kitchen.

He just couldn't sit still. Things seemed to catch up to him if he did.

"We've still got Nick, haven't we?" Sirius asked, eyeing the cabinets speculatively. "'s there anything off the wall odd that's happened since I've been out of the loop?"

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-29 05:27 am UTC (link)

She watched him pacing around, brows lifting slightly. "Be interesting to see. Should probably brush up on your hexes then. Jamie and I have..."

Lily cocked her head, her lips pursing slightly as a moderately disturbing thought crossed her mind. "Suppose you'll be wanting your map then? If you're headed back to school?"

She was highly, highly disinclined to give it up. She had plans for that map, dammit. But it only seemed fair to offer it back to its creators. Well, one of its creators.

"Right, we've still got Nick. 'less he's come back to life." Which made her wonder what would happen if the phenomenon spread to the castle ghosts.

Huh.

"Anyway, like I was saying. Jamie's invented tons of hexes I bet he could share with you."

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 06:38 am UTC (link)

Brush up...

Sirius nearly laughed. He doubted there would be few enough new ones that just 'brushing up' would do it for him, but he wouldn't fuss to Lily over details.

Disregarding that this wasn't his house or James', Sirius opened a cabinet, feeling rather let down when all the greeted him was Tupperware. He'd been hoping for firewhiskey. At this rate, he was going to need to wander out of the house and head for the nearest pub.

"Map?" he said, startled out of rifling through what was, essentially, a stranger's cabinet. "My map?"

The map?

"You've got it?" Sirius didn't know how... he supposed James might have left it to his kid and then LilyLu had somehow got it. Good to know they'd all made something that lasted. "Y... es? I'd rather if I could have it back, yeah."

It'd be nice to have something of his own back. Even if it was aged half a century.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-29 06:41 am UTC (link)

She watched him prowl through the cabinets and shook her head. "Over the icebox," she offered, reasoning he was after the alcohol again.

"And yes, your map. My uncles nicked it from Filch's office back when my dad was still in school, gave it to him. Jamie swiped it his second year, and apparently gave it back 'cause I swiped it from dad's office just the other day.

"I'm also going to pretend I never told you I had it so you'll have to go see if you can find it yourself."

She quirked a brow, daring him to challenge her before she grinned impishly, kind of hoping he did.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 10:13 pm UTC (link)

Sirius crowed in triumph as her directions finally led him to his prize. He closed the cabinet again without retrieving anything, though. He'd come back when no one was around and he really needed it.

Moving back to where Lily was sitting, Sirius propped his elbows on the counter and nicked some of her food if there was any left.

"You sure you want to do that?" Sirius inquired innocently. "I mean... I'd hate for you to not give it back and have a series of unfortunate things happen to you at Hogwarts."

Sirius wouldn't mind going out of his way to make LilyLu's life a little more interesting 'til he got the map back.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-29 10:44 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, my darling Sirius. Jamie has trained me well. So very well. If you attempt to procure the map by force, I'll start off by telling all the girls in school you have undead cooties and no one will date you. Then, things will get much, much worse from there."

Really, if she was going to engage him in warfare, she'd need to get Jamie to give her a few pointers, but she still had a few days.

Besides, she'd likely end up giving him the map if they could work out some sort of timeshare.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-30 12:15 am UTC (link)

"What lump of a git didn't properly pass down through the hallowed halls of Hogwarts the brilliance of the Marauders?" Sirius wondered, aghast. He tapped a finger on the counter, giving LilyLu his Serious Business look.

Obvious some horrible failing had happened on the part of the Hogwarts student body if tales of his exploits weren't still told around the common room fires.

Sirius was distressed.

Putting on a careful, patronizing smile, Sirius attempted to pat LilyLu on the head. "You poor, poor girl. You're obviously a sweet kid. So I'll give you the chance to slide the map under my door before midnight tomorrow. That's generous, yeah?"

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-30 12:51 am UTC (link)

"No dice. I'll share it with you. Let you have it long enough to make a proper copy. But I'm not just going to hand it over. I nicked it fair and square, and it only seems fair that I get to keep it, yeah?"

She smiled. "And you can get all sorts of new stories circulating. There's a whole crowd of people that don't know you that you can convince of your amazing talents. And whatnot." She waved a dismissive hand.

This was actually kind of fun, and she bet he and Jamie would get along pretty well. Too bad Jamie was out of school.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-30 02:45 am UTC (link)

Sirius stared. A proper... A copy? No, really he thought not.

"All or nothing," Sirius decided, smirking. "Afraid that map wasn't meant to go out of Marauder hands. You'll have to figure it out on your own if you want to make a copy."

As for amazing talents... Sirius grinned a little. It was true -- he was amazing. With as much talent as he had, it couldn't be that hard to be kicking back and passing without trying again at Hogwarts.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-30 03:20 am UTC (link)

"Nothing, then. I'll hang onto it 'til I figure out how to remake it, and then maybe I'll give you back the original. If you're nice." She grinned wickedly before taking another nibble of her toast, wondering what sort of protest he'd come up with to that.

Come to think of it, having him in the commons wouldn't be so unlike having Jamie there. Except without the overprotective big brother aspect. Which meant pranking and snogging without worry of Jamie butting in.

Lily was very inclined to experiment with snogging this year.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-30 05:10 am UTC (link)

Sirius pondered for a moment which tactic to go with, then decided that the direct approach to getting the map back was the best one. It'd be easier when he could spell all her stuff upside down, but there was no harm getting a muggle start early on.

"Which one did you say your room was again?" Sirius asked, picture of innocence. "And would you say you're more apt to keep valuables in your trunk or in the closet?"

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-30 05:22 am UTC (link)

Lily grinned. "I am more inclined to say I'm not apt to tell you where I hide my valuables, nor am I inclined to share which room is mine. I am not as silly or vapid as you apparently think I am, Sirius."

She tilted her head before she slipped out of the chair to start gathering the breakfast dishes. "Besides, if you can't remember which room's mine, or reason it out by process of elimination, I have to question all the tales my dad told us about you and your brilliance."

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-30 05:26 am UTC (link)

"Everything was vastly exaggerated," Sirius assured her with a flourish and a bow. "You should underestimate me at every turn while I nip upstairs to go through your things 'til your parents catch me."

Sirius tapped a finger to his chin, then shrugged.

"I suppose I'll make my excuse that we were snogging and I lost my tie in your trunk."

It seemed plausible enough to Sirius. And a great way to start his first long conversation with the Potter parents.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-30 05:31 am UTC (link)

"Wouldn't go that route if I were you. Mum tends to hex first and ask questions later. Jamie's the same way and he's very protective of me. If he hears you've been snogging me, he might not let you live long enough to explain yourself."

She looked thoughtful. "Though really, if you are going to die for snogging me, you may as well do the crime, yeah?" She winked over her shoulder as she settled the dishes in the dishwasher after scraping them off.

"Besides, the map's not in my room. I reasoned you'd go after it after I told you about it," she fibbed.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-31 03:28 am UTC (link)

Sirius lifted one eyebrow, then pulled his wand out from where he'd stuffed it in the back pocket of his school trousers. He twirled it casually between his fingers for a moment (mostly to show off), then pointed it in the vague direction of the upstairs bedrooms.

"Well, that means I should just accio the map, yeah?" Sirius asked, holding off from actually casting the spell in case the Ministry didn't like his puppy dog face enough to cut him that much slack.

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the_lily_luna
2010-03-31 03:36 am UTC (link)

"Doesn't work. Jamie rigged it so people can't accio it." Lie, lie, lie. "Besides, you're not of age either, even if you're technically like, sixty something years old," she pointed out.

Which was weird.

And kind of disturbing. So she decided not to go any further in that direction. She glanced around the kitchen to make sure it was clean enough before she spun on a heel and darted for the stairs. If necessary, she'd tackle the map to keep it in her room and her possession.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-31 07:17 am UTC (link)

"Oi!" Sirius yelled, momentarily surprised before starting off at a dead run after her.

He slowed when he'd gone up only a few steps, though, then finally ground to a halt. What was the point of trying to take the Map back now? He'd have it soon enough. And the world needed a little bit of a reminder that Sirius was around again, didn't it?

"You'll wish you'd just handed it over," Sirius called smugly, heading up to go back to his room. "Don't forget that you've still got til midnight~."

He wouldn't wait that long to put a plan into action. Sirius liked giving false hope, though.

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	the_lily_luna 2010-03-31 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Lily laughed as she ducked into her room, closing the door behind herself. That had been entertaining, and amusing, and it made her realize she needed to find a really, really good hiding place for the map. Though she supposed eventually she would hand it over. Just ... not quite yet. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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