bruises - james potter

eighty-four

( chapter eighty-four )

"NO, I HAVE TO DISAGREE. QUEEN JUST isn't better than the Beatles."

"You're wrong, I'd rather listen to Queen over the Beatles any day."

"I'm sorry, but Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Hey Jude and so many more songs by the Beatles back up my point."

"You're still wrong."

"Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has been."

"You're making my ears bleed."

"Lives in a dream."

"Go die in a ditch."

"I want the Beatles at my funeral then, I want to go to hell in style and not with Queen playing."

Sirius gasped as he looked at his sister, his eyes wide and his mouth open so wide you could see right down the back of his throat.

Cassie just smirked at him, crossing her arms smugly over her chest.

"How long has this been going on?" James asked Remus in a hushed whisper, not taking his eyes off the siblings that were sitting across from him, who were still arguing back and forth.

Remus and James both had matching looks of amusement and confusion etched on their faces.

"They were like this when I came down for breakfast," He stopped to look at the watch that was wrapped around his wrist, "so around half-an-hour now."

James let out a short laugh as Cassie dodged a spoon that Sirius had thrown her way, Remus only shaking his head with a small smile on his face.

They both became still as statues as Cassie dumped her bowl of cereal over Sirius' hair, leaving her bowl on his head.

"Maybe we should intervene now. . ?"

"I think that is the best idea you've ever had Prongs."

Even though the two were only sitting across the table from the siblings, they still stood up and walked their way around so that they could hold one of the two back if they needed too.

They never knew when it came to Cassie and Sirius.

"Queen is so much better you nincompoop."

"You sound like a child."

"You are a child."

"We're both legal adults now."

"You are a child."

"You have a bowl of cereal on your head."

It took Remus and James everything they had not to laugh.

James just felt relief to see Cassie acting like herself again, seeing as she hadn't been acting right for the past days since they came back to Hogwarts. He didn't know if it was that she still wasn't getting enough sleep. despite the fact that he had offered for her to stay in his dorm a few times now, or if she had something more on her mind.

She hadn't yet called him Potter again, but he didn't think the reason she had called him by his last name in the first place was gone yet. In lessons they had together, he would often see her staring into space or looking confused when she seemed stressed out with the work that was in front of her. But it only seemed to last for a split second before she shook her head and she was okay again.

While he was worried, he wasn't going to do anything about the situation until he saw it happen again, he didn't want to seem as if he was over-reacting, or being too worried, when he knew that was the last thing Cassie would want.