A Tale Of Does And Stags ✨

7 • Shagging Shananigans

Lily frowned a little trying to figure out who to give an extra patrol. Everyone had a fair no. of patrols already, so she couldn't really find anyone.

"James I don't think anyone's really free right now-"

"What? But he needs to rest Lily. We have to do something-" Lily once again cuts him off.

"Will you stop worrying for once?" She asks holding up his face in her hands on instinct in order to calm him down.

James meets her gaze trying and failing miserably to shake the feeling of warmth that ran through his veins by Lily's touch. He gulps his ears now a light shade of crimson, running a hand through his already messy hair trying to silence his nerves. He nodded ever so lightly not trusting his mouth to speak with Lily's hands caressing his face.

"We could take over his patrols if that's okay with you. I don't know about you but I'm quite unoccupied right now and it never hurts to help a friend" she says smiling at him and then clearing her throat before letting her hands drop from his face. James immediately missing the heat. They stand there for a few moments just staring at each other when Lily cleared her throat again to difuse the awkward silence that had now settled between the two.

"So....? Should we go then?" She asks.

"Oh, erm yeah. Sure I mean... Yeah. Why didn't I think of that?"

They chuckle, the tension leaving a little.

After dinner both the heads make their way back to the common room once again having another half hour before their patrol for the night.

Time passes without them knowing and before they know it they're walking through the halls of Hogwarts the patrols almost complete where they were only twice stopped — once for scolding two third years trying to get through a forbidden corridor, and second to free a first year who had managed to lock herself on a trick step and was trying to get her foot out of its death grip.

"Well the rounds are almost over now just one more stop and we're free to go" James said, sleep visible in his voice.

"Mm-hmm."

They had spent most of the rounds chatting about random topics like the most hilarious edition of the Quibbler, Lovegood's weird magazine that he ran though the school which most students considered rubbish, how sirius had fell into a well while trying to get a bee away from him and the ton of homework they were forced to do.

And now the two made their way to their last destination for tonight's rounds — the Astronomy tower. As they walked slowly up the steps of the tall tower their footsteps echoed throws the empty hallways hitting the walls and bouncing back proving that the halls were fully abandoned.

As they neared the entrance of the tower they were no longer alone. A voice could be heard along with their footsteps that they had slowed once they realised that they had company. James moved closer to Lily and got very lightly ahead of her should the worst come. Their breaths hitched as they stopped in front of the doors to the tower, the voices muffled though they were could be heard.

Moving forward they looked at the other in confirmation and nodded. Coming to a silent agreement to enter together their wands raised incase of any danger. Opening the doors were lightly they raised both their wands to the pitch darkness of the room infront of them. The only light coming from the gibbous moon miles away. Lily then cleared her throat ready to announce that whoever was inside shall come out this instant or wait for the worst.

The stars twinkled in the night sky above, the dim reflected light of the moon shining over the two bodies that lay in the tower moving ever so lightly against the other. Their shadows reflecting on the wall behind them. their muffled voices not heard until up-close. Their clothes lay forgotten besides them. Their movement not stopping once for in that moment all that mattered was themselves – against each other, under the gaze of the moonlight shining through the windows of the tower. And that's how neither noticed the interference of the two who stood just outside the entrance to the tower hearing the light noises escaping both their swollen lips.

"You have 1 minute to show yourself whoever it is" Lily says, her voice not meaning to but ending up in coming out as an angry order.

"Aargh!!"

"Fuck"

And the two heads seem to be thinking quick before speaking in pure astonishment.

"Padfoot?!"

"Marls!?"

And the two bodies that belonged to the Heads' best friends finally recognised the other two as well.

"Lily!!"       "James!"

And there follows the silence.......

Broken by Sirius.

"What are you even doing here?!" He says as if the other two were the ones at fault.

"We could ask you the same question! Why are you two out here.. after curfew.. Shagging!!" James replies in a tone that clearly said 'what-the-hell'.

"Just get dressed already! And go... And don't let us find you like this ever again!!" Lily says disgusted by the thought of it.

"Yes ma'am"

And within 5 minutes both lovers were out of their sights heading back to the Gryffindor tower, leaving a very disgust and weirded James Potter and Lily Evans.

"Well, turns out this night didn't prove to be as uneventful as I thought it would..." Said Lily clearing her throat trying to defuse as much tension as she could. James let out an awkward chuckle at that.

"Definitely. I'm not entirely sure if I really want to sleep anymore, after what we just witnessed..."

And both of them start moving back towards their dorms to turn in for the night even though it would definitely be a tough job trying to get the images of their best mates shagging each other out of their minds.

"We're gonna get nightmares, aren't we?" Lily said. James nodded his head. And they both chuckled, the awkwardness gone away by now. It was a wonder how the both of them could get along this well, after all this time...

As they entered the common room getting ready to head to bed they both came to an agreement.

"We're so black mailing them with this"

"We so are"

And they both go to bed smirking. It wasn't an all bad night after all....