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𝟏 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 – Maybe you zigged when you should have zagged, but either way, you don’t know where you are, or how to get back to where you’re supposed to be. Alternately, you’re part of the search party sent to go find the missing person, careful you don’t end up lost yourself!

𝟐 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 – Whatever you did you’ve ended up out in the forest after dark following after The Groundskeeper (or maybe you are the Groundskeeper). Careful, don’t hang too far back from the rest of the group, it’s dangerous out there.

𝟑 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 – Sure there might be spiders and centaurs, along with who knows what else, but you can’t deny how private the forest is, and how easy it is to steal away behind a tree with that certain somebody.

𝟒 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅/𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 – Maybe you’re after some extra credit, or just trying to suck up to a professor, heck, maybe you’re a professor trying to date a professor, or maybe it’s a full moon and you’re after some Fluxweed, either way, better be quick about it!

𝟓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔! – Death Eaters in the castle! Drama in Ravenclaw Tower! A Professor turned evil! An emotional exit and storming off turned cataclysmic! Dragons! Something serious has happened to bring you to the forest today!

𝟔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 – A Rite of Passage? Or maybe you lost a bet or ran your mouth too much for too long. Whatever happened it’s time to put up or shut up and gain bragging rights for the rest of the term.

𝟕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒆! – Whatever it was you were just doing, it’s time to get away, and what better way to make sure your retreat is covered than to cut a path through the Forbidden Forest?

𝟖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒌𝒆 – You don’t get why everyone thinks this place is dangerous, you love coming to the forest for some fresh air and creature spotting/hiking/bird watching.

𝟗 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒍𝒇/𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 – Exactly what it says on the tin.

𝟏𝟎 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅! – Go wild! Live your life!

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Her smile grew wider when he kissed her, first on her cheek and then on the top of her head, and Lily tilted her head some to better hide behind her hair.

"Catch you? You're the one who's trying to catch me I think. Not that I could blame you."

Lily meant to go on, but when he touched her cheek and kissed her he derailed her train of thought completely, dimly aware that she'd been on the verge of carrying on about being uncatchable, before getting herself - however temporarily - caught.

Holding that kiss for a long moment Lily sat up enough to wrap her arms around him, leaning into him as she gave very serious consideration to pulling him down into the grass with her.

He would have gone on to agree that he was absolutely attempting to catch her but once his mouth was on hers, nothing else really mattered. Sirius smiled against her mouth and brought her in a bit closer, deepening the kiss slowly. His hand slid from her cheek to the back of her neck.

It might've started as something fun and finding Lily beautiful. The more they talked, the more they spent time together and especially during the Ball, the more Sirius realized he enjoyed those times as much as he enjoyed talking to her. Sirius found himself thinking of her more often and wanting to do things with her, show her things... share experiences with her. It was a new feeling honestly but one he didn't want to let go of.

"I was disappointed when that couple came barging into that classroom," he murmured against her mouth, his voice huskier and lower in volume. "I knew I should have locked that door."

Laughing quietly against his lips when he mentioned locking the classroom door Lily pulled away just enough to look around them before turning her focus back onto Sirius. "Lock the door?" Her mind lingered on all the things that might have happened in the classroom had they been locked in and left undisturbed. "What are you trying to do to my reputation?"

It was a rhetorical question, and any opportunity he might have had to answer it was cut off quickly as she kissed him again, shifting her weight enough to pull him down into the grass along with her, loosely hooking one of her legs around his middle in an effort to draw him nearer.

Sirius grinned and would most certainly have responded to that cheeky rhetorical question with an equally cheeky response but then her lips were on his. Besides, he enjoyed this new position much more than exchanging playful barbs. He deepened the kiss slowly, holding himself above her.

"Now I should wonder what you're doing to my reputation," he murmured against her mouth before slowly kissing along her jaw, nipping playfully.

Her hands ran along his arms, the question making her laugh as she shook her head at him. "Nothing that wasn't done when I got here I suspect, but," Lily turned her head enough to press a kiss to the side of his neck. "Hopefully as enjoyably, if not more so, if I might be so bold," gently nipping at his skin she nudged his hip with her thigh.

"We're never going to find that poor spider, are we?"

"I would be offended if it were not true," Sirius agreed with a chuckle and leaned down to nuzzle at her neck. "It's much more enjoyable though, I admit." He nipped playfully at her neck before pressing a soft kiss to it. Although he thoroughly enjoyed leaving marks, he wasn't quite sure her feelings on the subject just yet. Though, with that nip to his neck, perhaps she was more open to it than he'd have imagined.

"Mm, eventually... I would hate for you to disappoint dear Professor Slughorn," he murmured while pressing a series of kisses along her jaw before lifting his head and looking at her with a warm smile.

Shivering some as she felt his breath against her jaw while he spoke, she brought a hand up to brush over his cheek as she laughed quietly. "Eventually? When you're done trying to ruin my reputation?"

Her other hand snuck beneath the bottom of his shirt to rest against his side, turning her head to catch his earlobe in her teeth before tugging lightly. "Though, given the alternative, I'm very tempted to let you try," she murmured affectionately against his ear, shifting slightly beneath him. This was definitely preferable to hunting down a large spider's corpse, and she was very tempted to abandon the idea entirely.

"I think you'll see that I can do wonders for your reputation," he teased with an amused smirk.

He hummed when he felt her hand on his bare skin and the way she tugged on his earlobe with her teeth. "Merlin, woman," he murmured before shifting against her and leaned down to press another deep kiss to her mouth. There was no harm in indulging in the peace and quiet of this moment, right? It was likely the one place where they weren't likely to be intruded on by another person.

Laughing against his lips her hand ran up his side, traveling lightly over the skin beneath his shirt. She couldn't help but feel slightly smug, fairly certain she had caught him off-guard to some extent and rather pleased to have gotten a reaction like that out of him because of it.

"Aren't you concerned with what I'll do to yours?" Lily loosened her arm from around him, allowing her to catch one of his hands to guide it past the hem of her skirt, leaving it resting on her thigh.

"Concerned? Oh no, concern is not the word I would use," Sirius said after pulling back, sliding his thumb over the smooth skin of her thigh. "Excited? Curious? Those are more apt descriptions."

He wasn't sure what being with Lily Evans would do to his reputation but he was most definitely curious. Sirius leaned in and bit down playfully on her bottom lip.

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