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Tweak says, "Farley Flavors for President"

siriuslytrouble (siriuslytrouble) wrote in snark_n_bark,
@ 2008-06-04 19:25:00

Entry tags:

complete, faelan, gaius, harry, hermione, james, leila, lily, ron, sirius

Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Characters: Sirius, anyone at the Leaky Cauldron
Summary: Sirius sings

As he pulled out a leather vest that even James couldn't object to, Sirius smiled to himself. They had all been tired and vague when they woke, and had spent the day lazing about the house together, with James steadfastly pretending that nothing much had been said, and Lily looking alternately amused and anxious. When Gaius had finally come home from Hogwarts, Lily had drawn James off to the guest room -- Sirius thought to give him time alone with Gaius, but by that time it was almost time to go and get started on dressing for the show, and definitely too late to launch into a conversation about death.

The T-shirt and vest left his arms bare, so he cast his usual charm to highlight the tattoos on his right arm. Nothing happened. He didn't even feel a tingle. His mouth suddenly dry, Sirius tried again. It worked. Just a coincidence, he told himself. I was lazy with the wand motion. Nonetheless, he couldn't quite push down a feeling of dread.

He started the show with Bowie's Five Years. They might, perhaps, still be in danger, but their wasn't widespread perception of trouble; people should be able to take it as fiction. The charms, to his relief, all worked.

After that, he scanned the audience to see who was there, and then started into one of his own pieces -- Rumble -- with vigor, letting the guitar crash forward like a ship in a storm. He thought he'd made a change in theme until he got to the second verse

Tell me when the light is failing
I'll be the flame for your heart
Call iron bones from the mountains
When worlds would fall apart

Still doom, he realized, even as he dragged the bold chords down into a minor key and teased out the notes to shiver like unsteady ground.

Tell me when the light is burning
I'll save you from the scald
Give you shelter from the fire's storm
at the burning of the world

Won't you ask me
Won't you call me
Won't you tell me when you need me
Don't you know that I'm the one?
Lost from night to night
but shade shift shielding
at the fury of the sun

Still doom. And he wouldn't always be there, but then, no one was.

He switched into a little bit of teen angst with a bare-bones piece called Add It Up, and then went into Swamp, by the Talking Heads:

Now let me tell you a story
The Devil, he's got a plan
Bag of bones in his pocket
Get anything you want

Definitely in a rut, he thought, unable to keep from smiling around the words.

One time too many
To far to go
I-- We come to take you home

Oh well. He'd call Lily up on stage and make up for it. They had a couple of pieces ready, this week.

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siriuslytrouble
2008-06-05 10:25 pm UTC (link)

Sirius nearly laughed at the obvious body language. Harry had been after Faelan for smoking, had he? Well, Harry was probably right, but he'd never been much for that sort of right. He drew one out himself as he answered the question.

"Eh, just some man that I nearly formed a band with, till he left a friend of mine at the altar." Not wanting to get into it, he grinned. "Can't depend on a bloke like that, you know -- he might not show up for a gig."

With a wink at Faelan, he lit the cigarette, and then slid the nearly empty pack back to Faelan, along the side of the table furthest from Harry. He was looking ruefully at the cognac -- it just wasn't pleasant while smoking -- when Tom caught his eye across the room and pointed down at a beer on the bar. Sirius grinned and summoned it over.

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mussed_hair
2008-06-05 10:37 pm UTC (link)

Harry pressed his lips together and let the smokers have their fags for now. He could discourage Faelan without a fight, but Sirius wasn't going to be threatened out of smoking, even by a wizard who could put a permanent dousing hex on him, and Harry knew it.

"Serenus," Harry murmured to Faelan. "With the twin sons and the Auror down in Hogsmeade." Even the "good" Snape twin might be touchy once in a while; Faelan should know the names to avoid around him.

He let the subject of Sirius' song choice go. If the man wanted to break out all the moody standards he couldn't do without his mum, let him. Harry loved seeing her on stage with Sirius. He looked over his shoulder and gave his parents, who had moved onto necking like teens, an indulgent smile. His mum fluttered her eyelashes at him and Harry laughed out-loud.

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siriuslytrouble
2008-06-05 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Sirius felt a little bit guilty about smoking when Harry didn't rise to the bait -- and that, he knew, meant he was being immature about the whole thing -- but it was pleasant, especially with the beer.

Surreptitiously, he cast a charm to move the smoke up, so at least it wouldn't physically bother Harry, and frowned slightly as it took two attempts. He was jolted out of his worry by Harry's laughter. Looking, he realized that Lily must have set it off, somehow.

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ex_gaius583
2008-06-06 10:32 am UTC (link)

A small black cat hopped up on the table via a spring from the floor, then shifted into his human form, sitting on the table with legs dangling over edge between Harry and Sirius. He wrinkled his nose at the cigarette in Sirius' hand. "Someone is going to need a breath charm before he will be kissed," he warned, then reached for the bottle of cognac and refilled his empty glass. He glanced at Harry and winked. "If these two are going to keep this up at home, we'll have to charm the house to do something dire to them, yes? Or at least put up protections against fire."

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