Beware The Billowy Cape of Doom

BEWARE THE BILLOWY CAPE OF DOOM- Chapter 6-
Music of the Night.

The kiss between Krystall and Remus was kept between them only and soon were finding it hard to sneak away to be together. Notes were secretly passed from one and other, as it was the only way they could communicate for the time being. They had to be careful as to when and where they passed their little love notes to each other- so most of the time, they resorted to owls. Their love had to be hidden just like that of Christine and Raoul in the musical.
“Why should we hide how we feel Remus?.” asked Krystall during one of their hidden away meetings, this time in an unused classroom.
“I don’t want you to get hurt because of what I am,” explained Remus, wishing to his-self that he wasn’t what he was.
“I’m not a child Remus. I know what I want, and that’s to be with you, regardless of any little furry problems like yours,” Krystall said, before gently kissing him on the lips, knowing that he would not be able to resist. Hands entwined along with locked lips and they stayed that way for sometime before Remus untangled one of his hands to brush away a stray piece of hair that had fallen in front of Krystall’s face, which moved to push back the polo neck collar to expose her soft neck and collarbone.
He let out a sigh as he lowered his head and kissed the skin, making Krystall moan with delight and her skin flush with the heat of passion. She had thrown back her head, revealing more of her neck and the sweet dip of her throat. Remus could not resist the newly revealed flesh.
‘Oh God, I’m so glad we’re no where near a full moon,’ he thought as he kissed the very flushed skin of his sweetheart. Just as he moved to the other side of her neck, Krystall lowered her head so it was resting on his shoulder and slowly began to nibble the lobe of his ear, which led to her trailing soft kisses down his neck and back again to his waiting lips. The pair of them were extremely flushed now with desire, but knew they must leave things as they were.
As the sky darkened, they left the room one by one, so that nobody would suspect anything. Unfortunately for Remus, he was stopped by his friends, who had been searching for him all day.
“Oi, Moony! Where have you been hiding yourself? It’s not even close to a full moon yet!,” shouted Sirius, anger burning in his dark eyes.
“Padfoot, please do not shout my friend. I don’t wish people to hear about that!.”
“Well, where have you been then?”
“Studying,” Remus answered simply.
“You weren’t in the library. So just where were you doing your studying?,” James asked.
“I needed some peace and quiet, so I sort out an unused classroom. I had all the books and parchment with me that I needed,” Remus said, silently blessing the fact that he did have his bag with him.
“What were you working on then Moony old pal?,” Sirius asked, taking his friends work for it.
“I was researching my condition, seeing if there had been any new revelations to how to cure or treat it. I do want a life you know!,” he invented, hoping it was a good enough cover up for his pals.
“Moony mate, we’re here to help you, if you’ll only just ask us,” James told his friend softly. Peter was just quiet through this conversation, but that was no surprise or change. Peter was just a tag-a-long, but the other humoured his willingness to want to belong. But sometimes it was just plain creepy. They soon made there way from where they had met to the Common Room where there was a party in progress.
“Hey, whose birthday is it?.” yelled Sirius as he entered the room, strolling over to the table laden with food and piled with drink, although none of it was alcoholic. He had also spotted the banner that was strung up across the large bay windows. As it was a Saturday, the school had retaliated to the beck and call of the birthday girl; a pretty looking 5th year, who called out that it was her birthday when asked. She had her back to the group of friends who had just walked in.
‘Mmmm, tasty,’ thought Sirius, heading over to her, grabbing her, turning her round to face him and planted a kiss on her surprise parted lips. The embrace lasted for a few more seconds before Sirius lifted his head and grinned.
“Happy Birthday Sandy,” he said as she flushed a deep crimson and whispered a hushed ‘Thank You’.
“Oh Padfoot, when will you ever learn?,” cried Remus, laughing at his doggedly handsome friend. Everyone knew that Sirius was just like a dog on heat when it came to the ladies.
It was this subject that the boys were talking about in their dorm room later that night.
“So, got your eye on anyone Sirius?”
“Half the year Prongs mate! As always!,” barked Sirius, playfully punching his friend in the arm. James playfully rubbed it, laughing at his best friend’s answer.
“What about you Wormtail? You chasing any skirt?,” inquired James, looking quite serious, trying not to laugh at his friend’s beetroot red face.
“We’ll take that as a No then! Are you sure you like girls Wormtail?”
“Yesss......., I like....... girls..... guys,” stammered poor Peter, looking down at his clasped hands.
“Tell us who you like then Peter. Come on, don’t hold out on us mate!,” Remus asked, joining in the camaraderie.
“Well, there is that girl in Hufflepuff who helps me in Herbology. She’s kind of nice. Heather, I think her name is,” Peter replied rapidly, before falling silent again.
“How about you Moony? Has the delectable Krystall tugged at your heart strings yet?.” quizzed James, knowing that if Remus didn’t answer then he could possibly try to ask Lily about it, if she was talking to any of them!
“She’s a wonderful girl, I like her as a friend, that’s all. Really!!”
“Ok, ok, let’s not get angry. Gee man, chill ok,” laughed Sirius. He decided to try later to dig into the possibility of working out about getting the pair together. A quiet word with Lily and Kiki would soon sort out that problem.
“Right, Prongs, you’re turn! Are you any closer to getting it on with the lovely Miss Evans? She’s pretty pally with Krystall. I’m sure Moony here will put a good word in for you to her!,” teased Sirius, wondering just when his best mate would get even close enough to the red- head for a kiss, let alone anything else!
“I’m bidding my time Padfoot. Patience is a virtue, my friend. I’m sure I can get close to her during the rehearsals for this musical. I can’t wait to see her in the costumes that have been made to fit her,” drooled James, in a world of his own until a pillow hit the side of his face. Very soon the chat about girls was forgotten and lost in a very boisterous pillow fight.
Krystall had left the unused classroom 10 minutes after Remus had done, leaving herself time to compose and calm herself down before making her way back to her house. She managed to slip into the Common Room unnoticed and made her way silently to the dorm. The dorm was empty when she entered it, which she was thankful for as she wanted to writ in her diary. Ever since she had been given the role of Christine, her mind had been swirling and so she decided to write down her thoughts and feelings in the form of a diary. She reached beneath her bed and pulled out a shoe boxed sized box, in which was a blue leather bound note book- her diary- a pebble from the rocky beach by the lake where she and Remus had shared their first kiss and all of the notes that he had sent her secretly, tied with a pale yellow ribbon. She pulled out the note book and placed the lid back onto the box before putting it back under her bed. She then rummaged in her bag for a quill so she could start jotting down her current thoughts and feelings, which included the hours spent with Remus in that empty classroom.
Diary,
Oh. My. God. It got a little steamy with Remus today! I have never flushed so much in my life. Nor have I ever wanted to do things with someone like him so much either. And such dirty thoughts ran though my mind too!! I know he’s feeling the same, but I daren’t ask him! Oh we’re so much like the couple in the musical, Christine and Raoul- meant to be but tormented by the Phantom. Oh Diary, how can I tell Severus about us? What will he say?
Krystall had to stop writing as she heard footsteps on the stairs leading to where she was. Quickly she stuffed the note book back into the box and pulled out her Herbology book and some parchment, trying to look as if she was working on some school work or research of her own. The door opened and someone entered the room. Krystall kept her head down and ignored the person who had just come in. It was Talitha Quilico, another girl that shared the dorm with Krystall and Kiki.
“Hey, Kiki wanted to come up and see you but she has been detained by Freddie Clay. If you know what I mean!,” she hinted, laughing as she pulled the curtains that surrounded Krystall’s bed back, to reveal a studious looking Krystall but didn’t believe it. She could see the tracks of old tears still streaked down her fellow Ravenclaw’s face. No words said as Talitha climbed onto the bed and enveloped Krystall in a friendly and comforting hug, which made her cry once more.
“Oh Krys,” her dorm mate muttered as she held her tight until the tears had finally dried up and through a blown nose, Talitha heard a faint ’Thank You’.
“Cheers Tally, now what were you saying about Kiki and Freddie Clay?,” Krystall said with a wide grin on her face, glad that they both had stopped dancing round each other, as they had been doing all year and finally got together.
“Ha, thought that might have cheered you up some. You looked so glum and sad when you practically ran through the Common Room earlier. Anyway, your best friend and your Quidditch Captain are get it on in the snug!”
“How and when did this happen?,” Krystall wondered, knowing that her friend would have sort her out and was pained that she had hidden away all day from it all.
“Why don’t you come down and ask then yourself?,” Talitha said as she exited the dorm and headed down the stairs. Krystall followed her.
Sure enough, her Quidditch Captain and her best friend were cosied up together in the snug that was the Ravenclaw’s reading corner as it was surrounded with shelves full of books, containing every subject under the sun.
“Finally, my favourite Chaser graces us with her presence!,” shouted Freddie as soon as he saw Krystall.
“I would have graced it earlier if I had known!,” she teased as she walked over.
“Krys, I spent most of the day looking for you. I searched all of your usual haunts, but you were no where to be found!,” her friend Kiki said as she slipped from Freddie’s knee to meet her once lost friend. Krystall ignored hr now loved up friend and walked over to Freddie.
“So El Capitan, when did the impetuous Kiki manage to get her manicured talons into you?”
Kiki flashed her perfect French polished nails at everyone in the room, grinning, which set everyone off laughing.
“Well, it was actually myself whom made the move on the desirable Miss MacArthur when I joined in the hunt to find you, my elusive team mate! You defiantly know the meaning of ‘Chaser’!,” Freddie finished jokingly, patting Krystall on the arm as he walked past her to swoop Kiki into an embrace. There was an uproar of cheers, woops, laughter and somewhere in the room someone was making retching noises. Krystall shook her head and giggled to herself as she lowered her body into the seat Freddie had vacated just moments before. She pulled down a very worn and well read book from the many shelves near the snug and opened it at the page she knew she had left it at. She soon lost herself in the wonderfulness that was The Tales of Beedle the Bard and only was dragged back to reality when she heard a tapping right next to her leg against the window. It was an owl with a note in its beak. Krystall recognised the owl as a school one, so she know the note was from Remus. She carefully opened the window enough to allow the owl inside. She looked around her to make sure no one was looking her way. She took the carefully folded note from the screech owl willing it not to make any noise. As the owl hopped back out of the window and flew away, Krystall silently closed the window, got up with the note carefully secreted in the book she was reading and headed back up to the dorm. Rushing to the girl’s dorm bathroom and quickly closing the door, Krystall was anguish to read the newest of notes from her beau. She snatched the note from the marked page in the volume she had brought up with her and allowed the book to fall to the floor. Her eyes were only on the neat and flowing script that she had began to love looking forward to reading. She loved the way his dots over his i’s and j’s were perfectly over the letter, how his y’s curled back up to meet the letters in the word as much as he missed her.
Krys,
I’m trying not to shout from the buttresses of this hallowed castle about the two of us. Padfoot and Prongs are probing too much for my liking and I don’t know how much longer this can be kept secret. Padfoot asks after Kiki, I think there’s a soft spot there for her! Any chance of getting then together and getting them both off our backs of the time being? Write back as soon as you can Christine.
Yours faithfully forever
Vicomte de Chagny, Raoul (Remus).
She sighed and bent down to retrieve the fallen book that she had forgotten about. It was split in two, right down the spine.
‘Oh no, what have I done?,’ worried Krystall, as she picked up the separate halves and held them together, attempting to cast the re-binding charm, only for it to fail and not work.
‘Oh just great!! I’ll have to fix it the Muggle way!,’ she thought as she exited out of the bathroom, eager to write back an answer to Remus’ note and also to mend the beloved book of many the non- magical way- with Muggle Sellotape!
She fished in one of the desk drawers to find a roll of tape, just what she needed and some spare parchment as well as a forgotten quill, pre-sharpened. Krystall set to work taping up the precious book back together and once finished and happy with the end result, set it to one side before dragging the parchment and quill towards her so she could start to write a return note to Remus.
Remus,
Trust me when I say I know how you are feeling and I also know that Kiki and a few others have been nosing and asking the same kind of questions I really want to answer but can’t at the moment! It’s so frustrating! Oh tell Padfoot that his ‘Kinky’ has been swept off her feet and away by the dashing Captain Clay! So no chance of a coming together between those two! How about Prongs and his doe-eyed lady? Any change there? I’ll send an owl when I can escape once more.
Yours forever faithfully
Christine Daae (Krystall) XX
She would have to wait till morning to use a school owl to send the note. Krystall looked forlornly at the very tatty book and tried once more to repair it by using magic. Nothing happened, again. Sighing she got up from the desk’s chair, picking up the book and her now carefully rolled note and placed them both into her bag. Luckily nobody had come into the dorm as she was writing her note and was changing into her night things when the door to the dorm finally opened to allow the rest of the 6th yeah girls through. Kiki was the last into the room as she was backing into the room, blowing kisses down the stairs to her new boyfriend Freddie.
“Kiki, come on! You’ll see him in the morning,” moaned Caroline, who threw a pillow at Kiki who had now completely entered the room and felt the full force of the pillow in her face.
“Oi!,” she yelled, laughing as she threw the pillow back at Caroline, which started a very giddy, girly pillow fight which ended with all of them out of breath, laying flat on their backs, hair and beds covered in feathers and soon all of the girls drifted off to a deep sleep.

The next day, all of the girls woke very refreshed and full of energy, which made none but Krystall know the reason why. She was the first one up and she quickly dressed and headed to the Owlery only to meet Remus there. They both looked around, making sure nobody else was around before they met in the middle of the room practically falling into each others arms, lips locking into a quite demanding and passionate kiss. As they held each other, Krystall had the opportunity to slip the note into his pocket before detangling themselves and leaving once more separately for breakfast. Remus had no chance to read the note he knew now resided in his pocket because at breakfast, there was an announcement made regarding the musical.
“Students and teachers alike. Please note that rehearsals for the up and coming musical will begin tonight in the Charms classroom with Professor Flitwick. Please those of you that are cast members, be there for 7pm. Curfew for these few will not stand, but be sure that you all return to your houses with fellow housemates once the rehearsal is over. Now enjoy your breakfast. I’m sure that you will all need it today,” Dumbledore said, before sitting down and started to pile sausages and eggs onto his plate. The entire room soon began eating and were talking about what would go on in the rehearsal. Lessons that day seemed to drag, leaving the cast members feelings very despondent and lethargic. Krystall and Remus had no time to get together again as Professor Flitwick started with vocal warm-ups straight away. He pulled his solo’s to one side first, then the pairs and finally the entire group. Once he was happy with the ranges and timbre of the voices he made an announcement that shocked them all.
“My dears, I have decided that Piangi needs a ‘little’ friend, a mime and ‘mini Piangi’ to follow him on the stage. I have considered this role from the moment I read the script and wondered who would fill such a role? But then in a flash of inspiration, it came to me my dears! Who else but myself would be the perfect person to fill this role!” The whole room filled with laughter and Krystall and Severus’ eyes met, both full of unshed tears though laughing so hard. Flitwick was laughing too and soon managed to calm down the students. He paired them all off and soon was teaching them the dance that would be the ‘Masquerade’ dance. Flitwick let it slip that they needed to perfect this part of the musical first as it was the teaser that would be used and shown to the rest of the school whom attended the planned Masquerade Ball, set for just before the Easter holidays and the start of the O.W.L’s and N.E.W.T’s.
Soon the news of the Ball and the fact that Flitwick had managed to give his-self a role sent the school all chuckling in the corridors about it. Mr. Filch had applied to Professor Dumbledore to ban laughing of any sort in the corridors.
It was declined.
Once the hysterics over the Ball had calmed down, rumours of a relationship between Krystall and Remus were circulating the castle. They both denied the rumours, but both strongly wanted to shout out loud that it was true. In the next rehearsal, Remus had purposely sat close to Krystall, trying to whisper a meeting place for later, using the noise of the on going rehearsal of the Prima Donna song to cover what he was doing. Krystall turned her head to whisper something to Remus, but their lips met and this action shocked everyone in the room, especially Severus. He stood stock still, mouth open, not able to say anything until the initial shock wore off.
“What the hell?!! How could you not tell me? I thought you were a friend Krystall?”
Both of the now caught lovers sat in silence.