"It's been half an hour. Where is Sirius?" Peter asked the group as he came running back to the table with the 3 others.
"I dunno. We kinda left him to his own devices and he ran off that way." James pointed towards the Ravenclaw tower.
The 4 were stood outside in the quad, trying to find the last marauder. Remus had told the others about his nickname for Lottie and they had all agreed to keep that as her nickname.
"Should we check the Ravenclaw tower?" Lycan asked, mostly to Moony as he was stood directly next to her.
"Let's wait for him to come back by himself. I mean, it isn't like his dog self doesn't do that anyway." James suggested.
They all agreed and headed back off to the Gryffindor Common Room.
———
Meanwhile, in the Ravenclaw Common Room, Sirius was mindlessly flirting with a certain Ravenclaw, who acted clueless and carried on writing letters home.
"Yes Sirius, I know what you mean."
"Do you though? Or do I need to explain it further? Maybe by me moving closer." Sirius moved even closer to Joe before the Ravenclaw was done.
Joe put down his quill, grabbed the Gryffindor by his tie to bring him closer and kissed him softly.
Sirius' eyes widened abruptly before he settled and melted into the kiss.
Joe's hands moved from Padfoot's tie to the back of his neck, pulling them even closer as Joe stood up.
Sirius snaked his arms around the boy's waist, as he deepened the kiss.
Soon enough, Joe's back was against the wall and the Muggleborn Ravenclaw broke the kiss, breathless.
The pair caught their breaths before Joe spoke in a whisper.
"I like you, Sirius. I don't give a damn about blood status and I hope you don't either."
"Don't worry Smith, I don't give two shits about blood status either."
"Okay." He breathed excitedly. "What if we get caught by your parents? Aren't they pureblood supremacists?"
"They won't find out. And besides, what's life without a little risk?"
———
"Where the hell have you been?" Charlotte asked loudly at her twin as he stumbled into the Common Room with a loose tie, swollen lips and a blushing face.
"I got a little.. caught up." He said, straightening his tie.
"Yeah, we can see that Padfoot." James retorted. "Let me guess, that Ravenclaw boy, Joe? Is that is his name?" He grinned while sat on the table.
"Yeah it is Prongs!" Peter shouted from his place on the landing.
"Are we even surprised?" Remus asked from his place on the couch. "We knew Sirius liked men ages ago.
"Yeah!" Charlotte agreed from beside Moony on the couch, his arm around her shoulder. "We already knew he wanted to fuck Joe!"
"Oh piss off you lot!" Sirius scowled as they all laughed loudly.
"That your best insult?" James asked, swinging his legs back and forth.
Sirius shoved James off of the table in annoyance and embarrassment and stormed up to the dorm.
"Guess you don't want to see the map?" Remus laughed loudly.
"The map is ready?" He ran back downstairs as Wormtail followed, laughing.
"It's been ready hours, Pads. You've just been busy."
"We'll come on then! Prongs, pass me my wand, why don't you?"
James through it to him as he casually caught it and held it against the parchment.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
The rest watched in excitement as the words began to show up on the page.
Messrs
Moony, Lycan
Wormtail, Padfoot
and Prongs
Are proud to present you
THE MARAUDER'S MAP
"Holy Shit! I love it!" Charlotte yelled.
"That's perfect!"
"We really are geniuses!"
"Hey assholes!" A Gryffindor yelled down from the landing. "Shut up! We're trying to read."
"Party in the common room! Invite other houses!" Sirius yelled excitedly.
———
A couple hours later, almost all of the 4th years were in the Gryffindor Common Room, drinking and dancing to whatever records were playing.
Sirius took this opportunity to get absolutely wasted and ended up making out with Joe, before asking him to be his boyfriend, to which Joe accepted- the Common Room erupted into applause.
Even Remus drank a little. Not much though as he knew how drunk Charlotte could get on a celebration and wanted to make sure she didn't do something she would regret.
He couldn't have predicted of what happened that night.
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EDITED 19/11/23
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𝒞𝒶𝓇𝒹𝒾𝑔𝒶𝓃- ℛ.𝒥.ℒ ¹
Fantasy"𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓂 𝒷𝓁𝑒𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔." Where Charlotte 'Lottie' Black and Remus Lupin aren't as different as they thought they were. Disclaimer! I own no rights to the Harry Potter Franchise...
