briseisknitewrites

barty: well, evan and i-

evan: *elbows barty*

Evan: Hi, I’m here for Barty.

Police officer: Who’s Barty?

“She’s right!” I hear someone yell from the back.

James, thinking: oh thank the lord he's finally realized he's gay

Sirius, breaking into tears: I'm HOMOPHOBIC

James: I did it-

Regulus: no, no you didn't

Regulus: Remus?

Remus: don't look at me, look at your brother

Sirius: what?! I didn't teach him that!

Remus: hm, that's weird. How'd you even know he said it?

Sirius: bc he shouted it at dinner! In front of all of us!

Remus: suspicious.

Sirius: NO-

Lily: if it matters, probably not but, Marlene was the last one to babysit

Marlene: liar! It was Peter!

Peter: hey!

James: alright let's not fight, it was me, let me take care of it-

Regulus: no! Who did it??

[Silence]

Evan: reg...barty has been awfully quie-

Barty: OH REALLY ROSIER?!

[Arguments break out]

the priest's son and daughter evan and pandora.

they're weird, and most of the time by each other's side.

evan goes to the woods on a daily basis and comes back with some type of dead animal.

pandora dissects bugs and the other kids make fun of her for it.

evan chases them with his dead animals while pandora screams at them

pandora's screams used to be so fucking loud they genuenly could damage your hearing and she used that to her advantage every single day.

and she was blind in her left eye.

and evan had hearing problems.

and pandora wore those like creepy little girl white dresses and she used to sing and hum creepy melodies because she and her brother LOVED scaring the other kids. evan wore like 1880s clothes for little boys and he used to get nosebleeds often.

they meet by complete accident on the streets of london while sirius is there on a school trip. sirius spots remus smoking outside a corner shop and, without knowing a single word of english, decides he’s going to bum a cigarette off him anyway. it takes an embarrassing amount of pointing, miming, fake smoking motions and increasingly dramatic hand gestures before remus finally figures out what this very animated french boy wants. he starts off trying not to laugh, but sirius looks so painfully determined to get his point across that remus caves and hands him a cigarette.

they end up standing there together for the next twenty minutes.

sirius talks the entire time in rapid-fire french, complaining about his teacher who only gave them thirty minutes of free time around carnaby street, about how impossible it is to keep up with his class, about london, about anything that comes to mind. he knows remus doesn’t understand a single sentence, but remus keeps nodding anyway, smiling whenever sirius gets especially dramatic with his hands, replying with the occasional “yeah?” like he’s somehow following along

neither of them understands the other, but somehow they’re still having a conversation.

eventually sirius’s classmates start calling for him from down the street. remus pats his pockets, finds a pen, gently takes sirius’s hand and writes his address across the back of it. then he taps the ink with his finger, mimes writing on paper, and points in the vague direction of france.

“send me a letter.”

sirius doesn’t understand the words but he understands everything else.

he spends the entire train ride back to france staring at the ink on his hand, terrified it’ll wash off before he gets home.

you can check out sirius’s first letter here :)