"𝕸elody, your children are here" Lily grumbled from her bed, after we all listened to the repetitive knocking on the door, trying to drown out of the noise. I groaned, creating a messy bun on top of my head with my wand, putting my glasses on and trudging over to the door, opening it to reveal the four boys grinning at me.
"What do you want?" I mumbled sleepily, getting hit by a pillow and Marlene telling my to go outside to talk to them. I walked out, closing the door behind me, "Its like one am, what are you doing?"
"For starters, it's two am, second of all Wormy's done with the map of Hogwarts, we're ready to do it" Sirius informed me. They really came at two am to wake me up and tell me the map is ready? They could have waited till tomorrow or morning.
"Fabulous" I murmured, turning around to open the door again when I got yanked back, being carried down the girls stairs towards the boys dorms by James. "Oh joy"
"We'll let you sleep in a bit, Lunes. This can't wait" James whispered, glancing down to me as we entered their dorm.
"No, it could wait and I could go to sleep now...." I muttered closing my eyes again.
"I've got chocolate" Peter piped up, making my eyes snap open, jumping out of James' arms, hitting him in the face in the process.
"Why didn't you start with that?" I quizzed, taking the chocolate from him and began tucking in whilst the other three just stared at me, James holding his face where I accidentally hit him, "Sorry, Prongs" I apologised, pecking his cheek.
"It's alright, Lunes" He uttered, scrunching his face up before sending me a smile. I sat on his bed, crossing my legs over each other, them continuing to look at me.
"You brought me here, let's get this done then" I declared, gesturing with my hands to tell them to get on with it. We had class in the morning and I need my sleep.
"Right" They all muttered, creating a circle around, the five of us squishing onto James' bed, the outlays of the map in between us.
"You're lucky I happened to have brought my wand" I voiced, taking it out of my hair, allowing the soft waves of blonde to fall down, framing my face.
"So how do we do it?"
"We'll do the charm and then we'll need some sort of password to use than only we know and then one to make it vanish again" Remus explained, grabbing his wand from his socks. Don't ask me why he kept it in his socks- I do not know, nor do I wish to ask.
Clearly, Peter did, "Why is your wand in your sock?"
"Where else would you put it?"
"In your pocket"
"In your hair"
"Up your sleeve"
"In your hand?"
"Well I chose my sock, alright?" He mumbled, rubbing his forehead, "Password?"
"What about something like 'The Marauders mischief makers'?" Sirius chirped. I frowned faintly, not feeling it, he was on the right lines, just not perfect.
"What about 'We swear that we are up to mischief'?" James shrugged, my brain pinging with an idea.
"I solemnly swear that I, am up to no good" I spoke, all of them beaming and nodding their heads in approval, repeating my words to hear themselves saying it.
"And when were done?"
"Mischief Managed" James decided. I reached over giving him a high five, applauding him for his idea.
"So 'I solemnly swear that I, am up to no good' to open it and 'mischief managed' to close it" Remus recalled, making sure we were all on board with it.
"We should add something in case it gets into the wrong hands like Snivellus, one where it insults whoever tries to open it" Sirius declared, Remus and I exchanging an uncertain look.
"I suppose it's only if it gets into the wrong hands... we'll be taking really good care of it" I trailed off, pondering for a few moments, "Not really bad insults, just harmless ones"
"Okay, fine"
Remus and I pointed our wands to the parchment, ready to say the incantation of the homonculus charm we had been practicing together. We paused, raising our heads to the messy haired boy,
"Prongs stop bouncing up and down, its distracting" Remus commented, stopping James from continuing to bounce his knee up and down in anticipation.
"Remember Prongs, sit back and look pretty" Sirius reminded him, flipping his hair over his shoulder.
We ignored them, beginning the charm we had perfected. After around five minutes of working on it, we retreated our wands done, leaning back and raising our heads to the other three boys.
"Is it done?"
"Check"
Everyone looked to James, him looking perplexed for a few moments before realising and pulling his wand out of his sleeve to point it at the parchment.
"See, that's were normal people keep their wands" I pointed out to my twin, having him shove me backwards so I fell on my back, my head reaching the pillow, "Oh thanks, Rem"
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" I heard James speak, the four boys gasping, causing me to sit back up again to gain a view of the map.
'Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs and Mses Luna, are proud to present the Marauders Map'
I stood up from the bed to test it out, walking around their dorm in random directions. I spotted one of James' sweatshirts hanging on a chair, pulling off my one and shrugging on his instead, his scent instantly filling up my lungs.
"Shit- it actually works! Look, Melody Lupin in the Gryffindor boys dorms" Peter exclaimed, pointing to the map.
"Of course it worked, we are amazing" Sirius proclaimed.
"You didn't do anything, you sat there and looked pretty" Remus stated in an obvious tone, mimicking his words from earlier.
"Oh, you think he looked pretty?" I inquired, a smirk on my face as I exchanged a glance with James and Peter. The both of them averted their eyes away, a small blush on their cheeks. Even though it was dark and only faint- I could tell it was still there.
"I thought you wanted to sleep" Remus changed the subject, aiming the statement towards me.
"I do, very much so" I nodded, rubbing my eyes.
"Hold on, when did you put my sweatshirt on?" James queried, knitting his eyebrows together, "You weren't wearing that before"
"Yes I was, i've been wearing it all this time"
"No you haven't, you were wearing a grey sweatshirt before one of your own, the one with the permanent ink stain on the cuff of the sleeve. Now you're wearing my red one" He observed, narrowing his eyes at me, "Elody, you can't lie to me"
"I would never lie to you, James" I murmured, laying down on his bed as the other three moved to get into their own beds whilst James placed the map in one of his drawers. "Just maybe fib a little"
"I can see right through your little fibs" He mumbled, walking back over to his bed as I shuffled over, allowing him his own room, "And you decided to sleep with me tonight?"
"Well if I'm wearing your sweatshirt, and if I got into bed with any of the other three the scents would all mix together and that wouldn't be right, so it's you tonight" I explained, yawning afterwards, "Why? Do you want me to go?"
"No" He muttered, drawing the curtains around his bed, "I don't have a problem with it, you know I don't Lunes"
"Mhm" I hummed, closing my eyes, "Night, James"
"Night Elody"
"Night Moony" Peter called out.
"Night Wormy" Remus called back to him.
"Night Padfoot, the best Marauder to exist" Sirius called to himself, the five of us grumbling incoherent words or sniggering at him. I snuggled my head into his warm chest, allowing the much needed sleep to finally take me over.
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"What did the idiots want last night then?" Lily questioned when I arrived back in my dorm the following morning to get ready for the day.
"They just wanted to show me something they had out together like a dance, I just fell asleep there" I mumbled tiredly, pulling on my uniform and tying my hair back into a low ponytail, putting my glasses on my face. Overall, I had only slept five hours in total, meaning I was incredibly tired and had no effort in my appearance.
"Of course they did, because why wouldn't you do that at two o'clock in the morning when we have classes the next day" She said sarcastically, combing through her red hair gently.
"I love my boys" I grumbled, yawning, "So so much"
"I can see that" She hummed, packing up her bag, as I did mine. Marlene, Mary and Alice also finishing up getting ready. I met the boys in the common room, James taking my bag off my shoulder to carry it for me before I jumped on to Remus' back.
"Come on, Rem" I commented, wrapping my arms around his neck while he placed his hands on the bottom of my legs to keep me up on him.
"No matter how many times you spontaneously jump on my back, I will never be prepared" He murmured, walking out of the common room with the boys towards the great hall, the girls in front of us.
"Lupin, put Lupin down" Minnie ordered as we walked into the great hall, brushing past the professor.
"I can't put him down, Minnie!" I cried, ruffling the top of my brother's hair, "He's my Pig"
"Did you just say pig?" He grumbled, "I'm not your pig, El"
"Then why else is it called a piggyback ride?" I quizzed, jumping down and sliding into my seat at the table, between Sirius and James.
"It actually has no relation to pigs the phrase originally meant 'pick-a-back', meaning to put something on you back, over time the phrase started to sound like piggyback, which is now why we refer to it as such" Lily informed us all, my nose wrinkling up.
"He's my pig"
"I'm not your pig, I'm your brother"
"I'd rather have a pig"
"Charming, that can be arranged, El. I'm sure there's plenty if pigs that will give you a piggyback in Hogwarts"
"Did you really just tell me to go and get piggybacks from the disgusting people in school? Because pretty boy Diggory-"
"I'll be your pig" He cut me off sharply, giving me a pointed look. I cheered in success, throwing my hands up in triumph.
"If it's a piggy back ride, doesn't that make you the pig?" Sirius questioned, making me ponder for a few moments.
"I don't know" I hummed, pouring myself a cup of coffee and adding in my small dash of milk and sugar.
"Are you going to eat?" James whispered in my ear, taking a spoonful of his own porridge, a sprinkle of cinnamon on the top.
"I don't-"
"Please eat for me, just something small like a few strawberries or grapes" He cut me off, sending me pleading eyes. I nodded my head, taking the bowl off him when he placed some fruit in it, muttering a 'thanks'.
"Thank you" He nodded, a goofy grin on his face. I couldn't help but return the expression, before eating just for him.
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