Beware The Billowy Cape of Doom

BEWARE THE BILLOWY CAPE OF DOOM- Chapter 9-
All I Ask (reprise)

With both Remus and Krystall looking tired and their brains not engaging in their work in lessons, their friends were soon talking among themselves about the relationship. During on Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, Kiki planted herself next to Sirius, who looked quite surprised at the fact one of his crushes was now sat with him.
“So ‘Kinky’, to what do I owe this pleasure,” Sirius drooled. Kiki rolled her eyes at her nickname given to her by the Marauders.
“I sat here to talk to you about our friends, the love-birds!”
“Well, well. I suppose that is a shared subject. I wondered where old Moony got to last night. He came in just before breakfast still in yesterday’s clothes! What on earth were our two friends up to lat night that kept them so late from their beds?”
“Oh I know! Krys was found curled up in the window seat fast asleep this morning. I had to shake her awake,” Kiki whispered to Sirius as the Professor walked in. The rest of their conversation was conducted in whispers and only when they thought the Professor wasn’t looking.
“I can’t wait to see you in your costume tonight Kiki,” growled Sirius as the lesson ended.
“I can’t wait to try it on!,” Kiki replied, watching her friend and Remus walk out of the room together. Lessons seemed to drag once more before rehearsals, which made the entire cast wish that time could be sped up but instead it seemed to go at half speed. At last the costumes were ready to be tried on for the first time and all of the girls were extremely giggly and were standing in groups waiting to be called for the final fitting. The dancers were the first called in, as was Kiki, and were soon stepping out of the classroom next door in their first costumes- ballerinas dressed in tutus. The boys whooped and whistled at the sight which caused many of the girls to start giggling. Kiki tip-toed her way, lie a ballerina to Sirius and whispered in his ear, bending down to do so, giving him a very nice view if her chest.
“Freddie and I are finished. He didn’t have enough time to spend with me,” she sulked, pouting her lips which Sirius couldn’t resist. He pulled her onto his knee and proceeded to kiss her with a passion.
‘Finally I get the girl I’ve dreamt of!,’ he thought as the room erupted into yet more cheers and once again someone in the background was making retching noises. Krystall saw this as she walked into the room in her ‘Think of Me’ dress, stunning the entire room into silence. One by one hands started clapping and Krystall gave her captive audience a twirl. At that moment Severus walked in and was mesmerized by the spectacle that was his leading lady. She had spotted him and walked right up to him, face to face.
“I want you to remember what you had promised to me. There’s no going back now Sev,” Krystall said clearly so the whole room could hear.
“I believe that you mean my return to this musical,” Severus whispered back.
“No, that you said you were only doing this for my sake Sev. You only took this role because I asked you to,” Krystall whispered back, leaning close to him, giving him an eyeful. Remus had just walked through the door, dressed as Raoul in his finery and saw the cozy pair as well as the look Severus was giving Krystall. He marched over and separated the pair by stepping between them. He took a deep breath.
“Krys, will you do me the honour of being my date for the ball?” Silence fell on the room again, all eyes on the couple. Everyone waited with bated breath for her answer.
“Remus, I would love to,” she shouted as her reply, whilst throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him passionately.
“OK my dears, I think that is enough of that kind of behavior,” shouted Flitwick.
Many of the remaining cast whom had not yet been fitted for their costumes now left the room as Flitwick asked Krystall and Remus to go through their duets, followed by Krystall and Severus and finally Sirius, James and Lily, who was looking every inch the Prima Donna Carlotta. James couldn’t take his eyes off her and Lily had noticed this fact so decided to stand very close to him whilst singing. She could feel the heat rise from his body and it gave her a lot of pleasure knowing that she was the reason for his current condition. Once the rest of the group had returned, now dressed in various costumes, Flitwick had decided to end the rehearsals there and then and that they could all take the costumes they were wearing with them.
Lily was the first out of the door, with James in tow looking like a cat that had got the cream. Sirius was far too busy with Kiki to have noticed his friend being dragged away by his crush and the same was to be said for Krystall and Remus. Only Peter and Severus had noticed the couples and much to Severus’ dismay. He found that he wanted to do nothing more than to drag Krystall from the embraces of Remus and show her how he felt. But he was too much of a gentleman to do that. He would just have to bide his time and wait for the right moment.
The following day Dumbledore announced at breakfast that the rumoured ball would indeed take place in two weeks time. Cheers and moans filled the hall and lessons were filled with furious whispers of what to wear, who would take who, what it would be like and just what would happen. Rehearsals were taken place ever night, thankfully all Quidditch matches had now finished and the only other thing on the minds of years 5 and 7 was the impending exams. During rehearsals they all mainly concentrated on the ‘Masquerade’ scene and very soon they all knew their parts perfectly. Severus was glad that during this scene his character only had to appear at the very end, all dark and mysterious. But he couldn’t hide his dismay at Krystall and Remus’ relationship, something that she had noticed. With just two days to go before the ball, Krystall pulled Severus to one side after rehearsal and found it hard to say what she wanted to.
“Sev, I know how hard you might find all of this…,”
“Hard? You have no idea of how I feel at this very moment,” Severus snapped, but stayed facing her because he wanted to hear what she had to say. He owed he that much.
‘Whatever she says, it doesn’t matter because she’s talking to ME,” he thought just before she carried on.
“As I was saying, I want you, for me and for the sake of yourself, to put on a brave face over the fact that me and Remus are together, but only in public. You can resent us in private.”
“If this is what you want Krys, then I will do so. But I can never resent you. You’re my friend and I will never forget the kindness both you and Lily have shown me this year,” Severus said, finishing by taking her hand, bowing over it and placing a kiss upon it. He left Krystall standing, dumbfounded at his small, but perfect gesture of friendship.
‘This is one memory that I shall never get, I shall remember it for the rest of my life,’ she thought as she made her way to her dorm.