HOGSMEADE IS PROBABLY NARCISSA'S favourite place. It was the exact definition of magical, she loved going there with her friends. However, Lucius was some silly perfect duties, Briare had her stupid date, Regulus had detention because of a prank he got dragged into by his brother (The Marauders managed not to get caught so no detention for them!!). So she was stuck with Florence, not that she is complaining.

"Look there they are!" Florence exclaimed grabbing her arm and pulling her behind a building. 

"Remind me why we are stalking them? Why can't we just do something together?" She groaned as the two watched from their hiding spot, their friend was walking close to Alexander, and inside Three Broomsticks Inn.

"Because I think something odd is up." Her friend whispered back, she looked at her confused face before gesturing her head towards a group of boys.

Avery, Yaxley, Lestrange, Snape, Rosier, and Greyback all watched and talked quietly amongst themselves, snickering when the couple walked past them.

"They keep following Parkinson," Florence told her, she grabbed her hand and dragged her out of their hiding spot before ducking behind another building. They could now see their friend sitting down, Alexander opposite of her, ordering something.

"I absolutely love these  new pranks!" A very familiar voice exclaimed opening the door where they were hiding, it whacked her hard on the arm causing her to yelp. A pair of grey eyes looked at them, a raven-haired boy popped his head out from behind of him.

"Dude you are a bad brother and cousin."

"No I am not,  you are."

"At least I don't go around hitting people with doors."

" Well, at least Evans likes me and not you."

Potter gasped starting a heated argument between the two boys before the Moony guy cleared his throat. "You both are equally bad."

"No." Potter disagreed

"For starters, if you were a nice guy Lily would've said yes to a date years ago," Moony said ignoring the gasping sounds coming from  Potter. 

"Remus!"

Oh, his name is Remus.

"James!"

"Are you and your girlfriend alright Narcissa?" Sirius asked while glancing at Remus out of the corner of his eyes, he nodded satisfied.

"Yes, the girlfriend is alright."  Florence told him, "But if you'd like  to talk to us leave  the building and close the door because we're stuck." 

The four boys hopped out of the building, each holding a bag of items they just bought. 

"Why are you two acting sneaky?"  Pettigrew asks, Sirius placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.

"It's their jobs, they're Slytherins, sneaky Slytherins."

Narcissa glared at her cousin, "Bet you felt very powerful when making that alliteration." 

"Very."

"We're spying on Briare," Florence answered the original question.

"Doesn't she want some privacy?" Remus questioned, the girl waved a hand in dismissal.

"She has a date with Parkinson."

That seemed to peak interest in Sirius, "Parkinson you say? He's a funny little guy, friends with a Gryffindor. Slytherins are never friends with Gryffindors."

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," Florence said, before pointing at the group of Slytherins that had entered Three Broomsticks. "It's suspicious, Avery and his sheep keep following them." 

"What if it's just all a coincidence?" Pettigrew squeaked, Narcissa shook her head.

"I saw the sudden change of emotions when I mentioned not wanting to marry Avery or Lestrange on his face, I think  they have  to do something with Parkinson." She ignored the surprised look on Florence's face, she hadn't told her about this.

"We were just about to go to Three Broomsticks, do you want us to eavesdrop on them?" Potter asked the two girls,  they nodded happily.

"Alright then, look after our stuff," Sirius told them dropping the bags down in front of them. "Let's go do some spying Marauders!" He exclaimed hooking arms with Potter, as soon as they took a step the two boys managed to faceplant onto the ground.

"We're ok." They stuck their thumbs out, Narcissa frowned in concern glancing at Remus who was shaking his head in disapproval. He grabbed the Potter and Sirius and pulled them up, "Come on Wormtail, let's go." The mousy boy scurried past them and followed the boys.

"Do you think they're going to mess this up?" She asked facing Florence who was twirling a strand of dark chocolate hair in deep thought. 

"Nah,"

***

"WE'RE BACK!!" Sirius sang as he glided towards the girls, his leather jacket shining under the shop lights.

"And we got information!!" Pettigrew added. Potter had his arms around her cousin, Remus followed looking embarrassed while the mousy boy was skipping along with them.

"Yes?" She said eagerly.

"But first... You have to pinky swear that you will do something for us." 

"Anything." Florence rushed, Remus, made a face. 

"I suggest you don't say that, trust me it could literally be anything."

"Alright then, depends on what it is," Narcissa said, the Marauders shared glances with a smile.

" Pinky promise?" her cousin asked, she glanced concerned as she saw everyone holding out their pinkies. 

"Is that some sort of unbreakable  vow?" 

They laughed, Florence placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, "It's a muggle way of making promises where we intertwine our pinkies together to signify that a promise has been made."

Blinking she stuck out her pinkie and locked it with her friend and her cousin, they stood in a circle, fingers connected to each other. This situation would be highly embarrassing if anyone caught them doing this.

" Do you Narcissa Black and Florence Giles Grimrose promise that once we tell you the information we found out you will do something for us in return that is in your capabilities?" Remus asked, unsure of what to say to the weird unbreakable vow she copied her brunette friend.

"So formal Moony." Sirius started looking at him in a weird way she couldn't explain. "Parkinson and Seong have their butterbeer and she's explaining to him about her ethnicity and stuff,"  he told them, she raised an eyebrow. 

"And stuff?"

"Those really good desserts. Anyway nothing interesting was happening so we tried to eavesdrop on the stuck-ups." Potter added, this peaked interest of Narcissa's. "They were looking at Parkinson weirdly, we heard some snippets of the conversation."

"Something about money and a pay rise." Pettigrew finished.

"It's probably just  to do with their jobs." Narcissa shrugged, Florence narrowed her eyes suspiciously before giving in. 

'I  hope they have nothing to do with Briare.'

"Oh, and she kissed him," Sirius added.

"WAIT WHAT???!" The two girls exclaimed simultaneously.

"He kissed her back don't worry, I think he actually likes her," Potter told them ignorant to their shocked faces.

"You mentioned this last why?" She asked causing the two boys to shrug, 

"It didn't seem important."  

Rolling her eyes she looked at her friend who had her lips pressed together in a fine line, she caught her looking and smiled. "Well, if Jamie here thinks he likes her then I guess we have to believe it... For now."

"That's the spirit!" Sirius clapped his hand on Florence's back.

For now.

***

ALEXANDER GAVE UP ON THE MONEY.  He truly liked Briare, perhaps one day he'll tell her how he got to ask her out. Today he just wanted to lie on his bed and stare at the ceiling, not worrying about the twenty-five galleons Avery owed him and telling Briare about the bet.

He'll get his money, tell Briare and she'll understand, hopefully, just not today. Obviously, they didn't aren't giving up, Avery, Lestrange, and Yaxley managed to corner him in an empty classroom.

"Did you really think you won't be getting your money? We like to stick  to our words, and we saw you kissed her so here." Lestrange sneered, he threw the bag of galleons at him, or at least was going to but stopped. "We'll raise the amount if you manage to hook up with her."

Alexander blinked unaware of the sudden rage that filled his body, "I am not using Briare like that, I'm not like you lot."

Avery surprisingly let the insult slide, "Oh, do you actually like the chink?"

He tackled Avery to the ground hitting him over and over again, annoyed that he wasn't fighting back. Yaxley grabbed him from the hips and swung him off the pureblood, Alexander then went for him punching him in the ribs upwards, hearing a satisfying crack. Lestrange punched his jaw, the taste of metal filled his mouth. He spat out blood before kicking him in the place where it hurts most, the crooked teethed boy fell to ground-hugging himself in pain. He then kicked him repeatedly, bruising the three boys badly.

"Don't fucking mess with me and the people I love." He hissed under his breath, spitting blood onto Avery's face before stepping over the groaning boys and leaving the room.

authors note
this is a hella long chapter and a really bad one.