The Marauders Year Five Part 2 #Wattys2017

To The Top of The Tower

To The Top of The Tower

"EVANS!!! ... YOOHOOO... LILITH JENNIFER EVANS!!!!"

The voice was magnified, echoing off the walls of the girl's dormitories.

"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLY MY LOVE, COME DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!"

Lily blinked awake, her eyes struggling to adjust to the darkness of the night, the pale moon coming through her window. She wondered for a moment what it was that had woken her.

"LIE-LILY-LIE-LILLY-LIE-LI!!!!"

She rolled out of bed and pulled on a soft blue dressing gown, tying the sash about her waist, covering up her pyjamas, and pushing her feet into fluffy pink slippers. In the hall, several doors were opened, Annalee and Ali both sticking their heads out, "Is that Sirius Black?" Ali asked. "Is he alright?"

"LILLLLLLLLITH DARLING, MY PET!! MY LOVE!! I HATH NEED OF THEE EVAAAANNS!!!!"

"I don't know... he sounds drunk; don't worry, I'm taking care of it," Lily said, hurrying toward the stairs, tucking her wand into her pocket.

"Make him shut up," Annalee snipped.

"I said I'm taking care of it, Annalee!" Lily snapped and she glowered back over her shoulder as she reached the top of the stairs and muttered under her breath, "Your highness, so sorry your precious slumber was disturbed, Merlin knows you need all the damned beauty sleep you can get with a face like that..."

She came 'round the bend and stood at the top of the stair well. Below, dangerously close to the bottom most step, was Sirius Black, holding his wand to his throat with one hand, a bottle of firewhiskey in the other, his hair an absolute mess, wearing nothing but his undershorts and his leather jacket, his eyes closed as he laughed and stumbled a bit, sloshing the firewhiskey, "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! LOVE!!!!!!! I'LL THROW MYSELF FROM THE ASTRONOMY TOWER IF YOU DON'T COME TO ME!!!!!"

"You imbecile," she hissed, running down the stairs and smacking his wand away from his throat, "What the bloody hell are you doing?" She nearly choked on the smell of alcohol on his breath. "Merlin's beard," she gasped. "How much of that have you drank? You reek of it!"

"NOT YET ENOUGH, MY LOVE!" Sirius cried, and he grabbed onto her hand, spinning her about, "DANCE WITH ME, LILLITH JONES EVANS."

"Sirius!" she cried as he whipped them about, laughing loudly and manically. "Sirius, stop!" He stumbled to a halt at this and took another pull from the neck of the firewhiskey bottle.

Lily only just kept her balance. "What are you drinking for? Where's James? Or Remus or Peter?"

"Left me, haven't they? GONE... Gone... all gone, they've all gone, like leaves in autumn, falling from the branches of a pathetic dead tree... Evans, I am the tree, they are the leaves... on to... to better things... like... like sheep on a grassy hill, migrating to the next grassy hill, they've... all left me..."

"What?"

"THE FULL MOON EVANS, IT'S THE FULL MOON! They've gone... SHHH. Big secret, you know. I told it last month and I've fucked everything up for it!"

"They all went to the Shack without you?"

"ARROOOOOO!!!" Sirius howled loudly.

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" came the shrieking voice of Annalee McKinnon from upstairs.

"YOU SHUT UP, ANNALEE BITCHFACE!" yelled Sirius back, "I'LL BLOODY SHUT UP WHEN I'M DEAD AND NOT UNTIL!"

"Sirius, shhh," begged Lily.