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CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
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JAMES POTTER DIDN'T THINK THAT ANY other birthday he had was going to top his seventeenth.
It would be the day he'd talk about to his grandchildren when he was over seventy, the smile never once leaving his face as he thought about that day.
James didn't think that he had ever laughed as hard as he did when the other three marauders had danced in the Great Hall, and there would definitely never be another plot twist as good as Dumbledore standing up and singing.
Nearly all of Hogwarts had talked about it for the rest of the morning - and they all assumed they would talk about it for years to come.
Now it was mid-afternoon, the sun was very slowly making its way down from the from the highest point in the sky. Its golden rays were peeking out from behind the scattered clouds that blew in the chilling breeze.
The grass on the Hogwarts lawn danced subtly in the wind, each green strand different from the rest. Small waves on the surface of the lake began to become slightly larger as the wind increased.
Hogwarts students were sprawled out on the lawn, there were a lot of them, but they were all spread rather far apart. All over you could see different students sitting around with their friends as they laughed and chatted about anything they could think of. A few students were sat alone, reading or just admiring the reflection of the sun on the lake.
The Marauders, Cassie, Lily, Marlene and Alice were amongst the students who were sitting on the lawn.
They were all sitting in a small circle; Cassie sitting in James' lap while the others either sat on their coats or just straight on the grass.
James head was resting on Cassie's shoulder and his arms were wrapped tightly around her waist, their hands entwined on her lap.
"You know what we should do?" Cassie asked Sirius with a small, yet hesitant smile.
Sirius shrugged, running a hand through his hair, the marauders were now changed out of their glittery outfits but Sirius had kept his eyeshadow on.
"Give James his gifts?" He asked with a raised eyebrow, Cassie shook her head, moving one of her hands so that she patted his cheek.
"In due time though, Bambi." She said with a smile. James shook his head slightly and pressed a kiss to the back of Cassie's head.
"No, we should put on a play."
Sirius let out a small laugh and furrowed his eyebrows together as the others all stared at Cassie, rather confused.
"What? Why. . ?"
"Because our childhood was so full of drama and fucked up, it would make a great play. Imagine it being a musical."
Sirius barked out a loud laugh, grabbing the attention of a few people sitting nearby. James rubbed his eye and shook his head slowly as the others all nervously chuckled.
"Sounds like a plan, Moony, you can be out dad."
Remus was quick to put both his hands up and shake his head vigorously.
"I don't want to be your dad."
Cassie grinned at him, clapping her hands together.
"That's great, you already know your lines!"
Cassie and Sirius simultaneously burst out into laughter, not stopping until Sirius was wiping the tears from his eyes and Cassie was clutching her sides because they hurt so much.
"The way you two joke about your trauma scares me." Lily said once the twins had finally
stopped laughing. There was a slight look of worry in her eyes and an unsure smile on her face.
"It scares me too." Cassie admitted, nodding with her eyes widened ever so slightly.
Lily didn't know if the Slytherin was being truthful or not.
Cassie then sat up and she once again clapped her hands together, a large and very genuine smile on her face.
"Time for gifts." She exclaimed and the atmosphere around the group changed from a mixture of worry and awkwardness to excitement as they all shuffled around so that they could finally show James' the gifts they had for him.
Lily had given him a bar of Treacle flavoured chocolate from Honeydukes; Marlene and Alice had put some money together to buy him a broom cleaning kit that he had had his eyes on for a while.
"The dance on the great hall was was your gift, if anything, you should be giving us something as we let you watch it for free."
James blinked.
"Give me a gift you cheap fucker." James said with a small smirk as he gave Cassie's hand a quick squeeze.
"Now you get absolutely nothing." Sirius replied, turning his nose up at the other boy.
"You may be an adult now James Fleamont Potter, but that gives you no right to talk to your elders like that."
James blinked again.
Remus pushed Sirius' shoulder and then passed James his gift, which was wrapped very neatly, with a smile.
"It's from all of us, but if Sirius doesn't want to contribute-"
"Nu uh, I had the idea for the gift. I'm fucking contributing."
James nodded slightly as he took the gift from Remus, muttering a 'Thank you.' as he began to unwrap it.
Cassie, who was now sitting next to James rather than on his lap, smiled at Remus as he caught her eye.
James eyes widened slightly as he caught sight of the gift in the wrapping and he let out a breathless laugh.
"Mum's going to kill me, I swear to Merlin." James almost whispered as he pulled the book out of the wrapping and showed it to Cassie.
The cover of the book was a pitch black and it was decorated in different pictures of what Cassie realised were tattoos, she remembered them from one of her Muggle Studies lessons.
The tattoos on the cover started off looking like regular muggle tattoos, but once you looked at them for a while they soon changed shape, colour or into an entirely different tattoo.
"That- I'm not going to lie, I have no fuckin' clue what I'm supposed to be looking at." Cassie admitted, looking back up from the book and at James who let out a chuckle.
Marlene let out an excited squeal as she caught sight of the cover of the book and she began to
bounce on the grass slightly.
"I wanted that book for Christmas! But Lily told me no."
Cassie let out a small snort at the look on Lily's face as Marlene continued to speak.
"It's a book, Cass-"
"I can see that, thanks."
"Shut up and let me explain bitch." Marlene said with a small grin making its way onto her face.
"Alright, keep your knickers on." Cassie murmured as James pressed a small kiss to her head, opening the book as Marlene explained to Cassie.
"Basically, it's a book that teaches you how to both get tattoos and how to enchant them so that they can change how they look - for example you can have a flower that opens up over the course of the day, or a cloud that changes due to the actual weather."
Cassie's mouth made a small 'o' shape as she looked back over at James, who was grinning mysteriously at her.
"No." She said before he could say a word.
"Absolutely not." Cassie began to vigorously shake her head and James stuck his bottom
lip out in a pout and widened his eyes.
"Please?"
"No- fucking hell, stop looking at me like that!" Cassie scolded, though the smile on her face gave away that she was actually considering it.
". . . fine, but only one."
James fist-pumped the air and pressed another kiss to Cassie's head, grinning even more.
"I knew there was a reason I loved you."
Sirius let out a fake gagging noise and Cassie stuck up her middle finger in his direction with a false smile.
"What did you just agree too, and should we be worried?" Alice questioned as James put the book to the side and Cassie reached into her bag to get her gifts for James.
"He's going to give me a tattoo, but only when he's read up on it more."
James nodded vigorously, grinning like an idiot.
"But before that, time for my gifts." Cassie spoke as she passed James a simple card. It had his name on the front and a small heart in the corner.
He ran his finger under the was seal on the back of it and opened it. When he pulled the card out and read it, he let out a loud laugh and looked over at Cassie with a raised eyebrow.
"Really?" He laughed and Cassie nodded.
"Really."
"All of your prayers have been answered guys," James addressed the group of Gryffindors as he waved the card around in the air.
"Cassie got me a new personality, it says here. Isn't that sweet of her?"
The Gryffindors all let out small snickers of laughter at James' expression - which was a mix between amusement and worry.
Cassie kissed his cheek as she pulled another gift out of her bag and passed it to him.
"You need a new personality when it comes to your narcism, but other than that you're perfectly fine, Bambi. No need to worry."
Cassie then passed James the other gift, and he hesitantly opened it.
He looked up confused once he had done so, pulling out another quidditch jumper from the wrappings.
"I already have one. . ?" He questioned but the smile on Cassie's face caused one to appear on his own.
"I know, but, I wear it so often it's stopped smelling like you. So, I thought, you can wear this one-" She pointed at the one in his hands "- and I can wear the other one, and when it stops smelling of you we can swap, and then it would smell like me."
James couldn't help but let his smile grow at the goofy grin that was on Cassie's face, she looked so pleased with her idea that James couldn't help but love it.
"That's the best idea I've ever heard."
"You two make me want to gauge my eyes out with a fork and then eat them." Sirius spoke
up through muffled gagging noises.
"You and Remus make me want to do the same thing." Cassie replied before she could stop herself. Her hand quickly went to her mouth as both Sirius and Remus turned to look at her with wide eyes.
"I'm so sorry, that just slipped out-"
"It's fine Cass," Remus interrupted the Slytherin while his hand went up to run the back of his neck sheepishly.
"It was bound to come out soon." He added, smiling at Sirius who just looked rather relived that their secret was finally out.
Sirius was quick to move so that he was resting between the taller boy's legs with his head resting against his chest.
"It was about time too." James added with a chuckle. "You've only been hiding it for about six months."
Remus and Sirius both shared a quick look before they looked back at James.
"You knew. ?" Sirius asked with the ghost of a smile on his face.
"I think we all knew. You're hardly secretive, when one of you is gone so is the other and then you both come back looking like you had mad sex."
Cassie blinked a few times.
"I didn't need that mental picture, thanks Marlene."
Marlene grinned over at Cassie and nodded.
"Anytime!"
James chuckled at the look on Cassie's face as he grabbed her hand and quickly began to run his thumb over the back of it.
"Okay, anyone else got anymore secrets that they want to come out before we're all smashed later?" Lily asked with a raised eyebrow as she looked around at all her friends.
Marlene looked around at the others too interested, before she put her hand up with a small shrug of her shoulders.
"I like tits and not dicks."
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