#quick hide

@wolfstarmicrofic November 30, word count 422

Sirius burst through the door of the girl's bathroom as he fled from the scene of the crime and Filch, who was hot on his tail. The old git would never think to look in here. The door flew open behind him and Sirius nearly cried out. But it was only Remus. 

“Damn it Pads, I thought I was being clever coming in here,” Remus pouted as he realised that Sirius had had the same idea he had. Sirius didn’t have time to gloat, however, as they could hear footsteps closing in on them. 

Quickly, they ran into a stall, only realising after they’d locked the door that there was no reason they needed to be in the same stall. The bathroom door opened again, and Filch walked in.

They both froze. They were crushed so close to each other that Sirius could feel Remus’s warm breath on his cheek as it lightly blew the curls that framed his face. He had the sudden urge to kiss those plump lips of Remus’s. But he stopped himself as Filch wandered around. Silently, Remus threw the invisibility cloak around them as Filch began opening all the stall doors. 

They moved as far back as possible as the door swung at them. It caught Sirius’s side, and he shoved his fist into his mouth to stop him from yelping in pain. Filch didn’t notice anything wrong with their stall, so he moved on. It was only when he was at the final stall that Sirius realised whose bathroom they were in. 

“HOW DARE YOU!!!” Moaning Myrtle screamed at the caretaker. 

“Now see here!” Filch tried to argue, but Myrtle was having none of it. 

“All I want to do is enjoy my afterlife, but you won’t leave me alone!” She wailed loudly and then, with a splash, her words couldn’t be heard any more, but water began to spill across the ties and made its way to where Sirius and Remus were hiding and beyond.  

“Oversensitive spirit,” Filch grumbled as he left the bathroom. 

“Let’s get out of here,” Remus said, pulling Sirius out of the stall still under the cloak. “He’ll be back with his mop any second,” 

@jegulus-microfic July 10, Word count 346

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Regulus had been placing his gobstones and keeping an eye on the map at the same time. So, that was how he saw Filch approaching James on the fifth floor. He checked on the others and, seeing that they were in no danger of being caught, ran. 

He dropped his last few gobstones as he went, checking the map every few seconds. James had gone into one of the classrooms, but Filch wasn’t far away. 

He got to the door and opened it. “James?” He hissed to the empty room. James was standing right in front of him, according to the map. James pulled the cloak down off his head. It would be funny, James’s disembodied head floating there, if it hadn’t been quite so urgent that they hide. 

“Reg, quick, Filch!” 

“I know that’s why I came, he’s right— Oh, Salazar’s balls!” Regulus threw the map towards James and transformed into Midnight just as the door handle turned. 

“I swear I heard voices coming from in here, my sweet,” Filch said to his cat, Mrs Norris. The door opened, and Midnight meowed from his spot on the floor. “How did you get in here?” Filch wheezed. Midnight chirped and walked out of the door, rubbing himself up against Filch’s trousers, much to the annoyance of Mrs Norris, who watched him closely with her lamp-like eyes. He trotted off down the corridor and hid in the shadows behind a suit of armour, watching Filch search around a bit more before he finally left. That had been close. 

He went back to collect James and checked the map again. Barty, Evan, Dorcas and Pandora were either in or almost in the Slytherin Dormitories. His brother and Remus were in the Gryffindor common room, and Peter was in the bathroom. 

“Sirius made sure one of his was primed as payback for earlier,” James whispered, and Regulus had to suck his lips into his mouth and bite down to stop himself from bursting into laughter. He couldn’t wait until the morning to see how well their planning had gone. 

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