The One - Sirius Black & James Potter x reader

The One Part 2

Time heals all wounds. That's what they say. You knew it had to be true, but you also knew that it would need a lot of time, to heal yours.

One week had passed, since James asked Lily out on a date. Still, every time you saw them together - talking, skin touching, whispering sweet nothings to each other during class - you felt like a new part of your soul was cut open, the flesh still sore from the moment earlier.
It made you wonder if time could heal a wound, that's constantly being teared up again.

You retracted yourself from the group for a while, not wanting to be exposed to their sickening aura of joy, for every minute of the day.
You usually spent your free time in the Gryffindor common room, with the boys, but you preferred staying at the Ravenclaw dorm, since the unfortunate incident had happened.
Knowing that the Marauders couldn't be bothered to solve the riddle asked at the entrance, you felt safe there and enjoyed not getting regularly reminded of things you wouldn't like to know.

The place you felt the best, was the library. Thousands of books to learn from, to distract yourself, by letting their stories take you to other places, waited for you to be read.
You were sitting between two aisles of bookshelves, your back to the window, so the sunlight would shine onto the pages of your newest achievement.
Letting your knee rest on the table's edge in front of you, you turned over page after page, diligently reading its text.

A small object hitting your forehead lightly, followed by someone cursing a muffled "Shit!" caused you to flinch.
When it fell down onto your open book, you frowned and took the mysterious Snitch-sized thing, which was covered with paper. You picked it up and unwrapped it to see, that inside was a piece of chocolate.

You couldn't help but smile, knowing who was behind this joke, as you put the delicious treat into your mouth. When you looked up, you saw another item floating your way.

"Remus!", you laughed, catching the second treat.

"And Sirius", Remus said quietly, when they both left their hiding place, behind the bookshelf and walked towards you.

"Yeah, how could you forget about me? It was my idea!", Sirius growled, obviously playing offended, as they took a seat at your table.

You giggled, swallowing the melting chunk of candy and answered: "I'm sorry, I wasn't aware of you knowing, this school had a library. Remus yes, but I haven't seen you in here before."

"She's got her sass back", he commented, looking at Remus, before taking the second piece of chocolate from your hands.
"You don't need that then", he said, chuckling, before eating it himself.

"Too kind. What are you doing here anyway?", you asked them.

Remus, amused by your banter, folded his hands and explained: "We're here to sort of... Look after you. Check if you're okay."

You would have lied, if you said that the fact they worried about you, didn't warm you heart.
"Oh guys. I'm okay, sort of. As okay as I can be", you told them and forced a smile.

One corner of Sirius' mouth pulled upwards.
"You'll feel even better, when we're going to tell you, what lies ahead this Friday."
He cleared his throat excessively.
"We're more than happy to inform you, that the Marauders are, again, hosting their infamous social gathering in the Gryffindor common room!"

You raised one eyebrow, asking: "For what reason this time?"

Remus snorted: "This time only, we're allowing it to happen just for fun."

"So a party for everyone to get drunk, just for the sake of it?", you chuckled. "I think I'll have to politely decline, Mister Moony and Mister Padfoot."