Four To The End (prev Shifting Lines) Book Three (Marauders Era)

Chapter One Hundred-Twenty - They Both Need Love, Really

"Three hundred points?" Miss Fawley raised her eyebrows high, mouth hanging a little open. "Now that is impressive. What did you do?"

Remus settled on the sofa, the only Marauder who was able to show up for Occlumency due to all the others being in detention. "We got caught sneaking into Hogsmeade. Well, two hundred and forty were for sneaking into Hogsmeade. The rest were from lining the Prefects' bath with whizzing worms and causing a lot of issues from that."

Miss Fawley made a 'pffft' sound and began laughing. "That sounds hilarious!"

"Other than worms clogging the drains for days, it was," he admitted with a giggle. "Myrtle's furious and has been threatening to find a way to murder us all since apparently she was lamenting in a bend and then was suddenly filled with worms."

"Did you get detention?"

"Yes, which is why James and Peter won't be here tonight." He made a face. "I'll have to clean the locker rooms which is completely unfair in my opinion."

"You were caught breaking a pretty serious rule," she said, shifting her position a bit so she could wrap her hands around one of her knees. "What about the others?"

"James has to do dishes, Pete's helping out in the owlery, and stupid Sirius gets to serve his detention out in the library." He couldn't help but give a little sniffle at that, trying to imagine what Sirius was doing just then. Probably making Farrow want to murder McGonagall for putting him there. "Was that a giggle?"

Fawley pressed her lips together. "No. Yes, all right, a small one. The punishments are very fitting, it seems."

Remus shook his head. "No they're not. Not mine. I have a sensitive nose and I'll be scrubbing out smelly locker rooms!" He sank back, crossing his arms tight over his chest. "Disgusting."

"Punishments—"

"Aren't meant to be fair, yes, I know," he sighed. "It's something I tell the others many times over. I know. I just... ugh, it's going to be awful."

"You'll probably mostly only be able to smell the potions used for cleaning," she said helpfully.

"One can hope."

She smiled. "Did you want to start on Occlumency?"

Remus began chewing the inside of his cheek. "In a minute. I—there's something else I needed to talk to you about. Actually, Sirius wanted to talk to you about it but he isn't here... and since you won't be here next week because of the moon..." He hadn't really asked Sirius if he should talk to Fawley or not, however he didn't really know what to do since he suspected it would come up in his memories. It was so much part of his mind right now, it would be very difficult to avoid the topic completely.

"Oh? What's—"

Just then someone began knocking at the door rather furiously. Fawley tilted her head and Remus got up to open the door. Before he could ask who it was, the door burst open and Sirius tumbled in.

"Hey Rems."

"What are you doing here?" Remus hissed out. "You're supposed to be—"

"It seems there was an accident in the library," Sirius replied smoothly. "Several shelves got knocked over and knocked into the restricted section causing some of the books to, er, run away. I happily offered to help hunt them down but Farrow seemed to think I shouldn't look at restricted books for some reason. Library's closed until the stray books can be found. Hi Miss Fawley."

"What did you do?!" Remus asked in horror.

Sirius shrugged. "Why do you think it was me?"

"Because I know damn well it was you."