Hangovers and Cleaning Trophies {Remus}

[maihart]

Mai groaned as she rubbed her temples. Why did every single part of her hurt so much. Especially her head...Oh yeah, she was severely hung over."Bloody Paddy's day." She grumbled to herself as she made her way to the Trophy Room."Bloody Hangover. Why did I have to be bloody Irish, I wouldn't have half as drunk if I was English." She ran a hand through her messy curls in an attempt to calm herself slightly. Ah, Paddy's day, the day everyone used as an excuse to get abso-bloody-lutely pissed off their heads. Especially young Irish brunettes who were challenged to drinking contests by their irritating older brothers.

Paddy's day had fallen upon a Saturday that year, and it had been a Hogsmeade weekend, so Mai's older brother Lucas, who was home from Romania had come up to Hogsmeade to visit her, bringing his newest girlfriend, a Romanian girl named Natasha, with him. They had gone to the Hogs Head, where Mai knew she would be served, despite the less than friendly atmosphere there, and proceeded in getting completely hammered as Mai and Lucas caught up and she got to know Natasha, who she was surprised to find herself liking, she normally loathed all of her brothers bimbo girlfriends, but Natasha was nothing like any of the others.

As they were doing this, they had played several drinking games and Lucas had challenged Mai to a drinking contest. She had won of course, as she always did, her brother simply could not hold his drink as well as she could, but all of this had resulted in Mai waking up the next morning feeling like she had been hit by a truck. She then remembered that she had a detention that day, cleaning trophies , because she had punched some asshole from Slytherin in the face, during a Herbology lesson on Friday, and felt like she had been hit by another one.

It wasn't HER fault, she had punched that guy in the face, she had clearly been provoked, and she had given him fair warning, she had very clearly said 'If you say one more bloody word to me, I swear to God, I will punch you right in the face.', but the idiot hadn't listened, and now he had black eye and a broken nose that he was too embarrassed to go to Madam Pomfrey about. Not that Mai could blame him, a lot of guys would be embarrassed that a girl who was at least half a foot shorter than him had managed to break his nose without the use of any magic whatsoever.

It was worth the Detention though, that Bastard had been bad mouthing her family, calling them all sorts of names, names Mai wouldn't even repeat, simply because they were the kinds of names those wizards in the alleyway had called them before they had tortured and killed her parents. So Mai didn't regret slugging that guy, he had deserved it anyways. "Bloody Slytherins." She grumbled as she stepped into the Trophy Room.

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Notes: None!
Tags: Remus!

[Remus John Lupin]

[Sorry it took a bit - voilà! ]


Remus was already in the trophy room when Mai stepped in. He had always been a punctual person and had made sure he was a little early for detention - teachers seemed to be more lenient when a student did that. Oh, did I confuse you? No, Remus was not here to monitor Mai during her detention - he was in detention himself.
How he got himself there? Well.. partly St. Paddy's fault, but most of all Sirius' and James' fault. And his own fault, of course.

It had, indeed, been a Hogsmeade weekend, but students had to return before night fell. Of course, Sirius and James had insisted on celebrating St. Paddy's in a the proper way and as they would be recognised in Hogsmeade, they'd left somewhere during the afternoon to go to the nearest Muggle pub and get drunk there.
Okay, so Remus had had a baaaad feeling about it, but his friends had been very convincing and it had been either a matter of going back alone and being a called a boring sod for the rest of the year, or going along and at least being able to monitor his friends a little bit. Remus had made the promise to himself not to drink so he could get his friends home safe.

Remus had broken that promise within about five minutes.

MacGonagall had found them walking back over the Hogwards' grounds at four o'clock in the morning, all completely legless, and she had practically exploded. Remus couldn't remember much of the lecture she'd given them, but he was sure it was something with 'disrupting a muggle village', 'underage drinking', and 'should know better at your age'. And then there had been a special part just for him: 'no example to set as a prefect'! Admittedly, that last bit had stung a little.

Remus decided he'd never go out drinking like that again. He hated disappointing people he held in high esteem, and he held MacGonagall in very high esteem..
The only plus side, was that he had a werewolf's metabolism, so there was no hangover for Remus in the morning (which doubly annoyed his dorm-mates and friends), so at least he wouldn't feel nauseous or terrible during his detention. They'd all gotten separate detention and Remus didn't know what the others would be doing, but for him it would be trophy cleaning - which was terrible, actually, as he could not touch the silver plus the chemicals used for cleaning smelled even worse when you had a wolfy sense of smell. He hoped he'd be able to ask for a pair of gloves.. or maybe he could only polish the ones that wouldn't burn his skin right off.
He was a little surprised to see Mai there (well, not really, actually - everyone knew she had a hell of a temper), as he hadn't been told that he'd share his detention with anyone. He deduced she must've done something during the day and perhaps the teachers had decided to pair her up with him, as Remus was the least of the four troublemakers also in detention. No, putting someone in with Sirius or James usually warranted disaster.

"Evening," he muttered, waiting for the monitoring teacher to show up - they still had a few minutes. "So.." He half sighed. "What're you in for, hm?" Remus didn't mind his detention so much - he knew he deserved it.

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Mai was a little surprised to see Remus. She didn't know she would be having detention with someone else, oh well, at least that meant she'd have less trophies to clean. "Hey Remus." She said giving him a friendly nod. She couldn't help but smirk at his question. "Punched some idiot from Slytherin in the face for bad mouthing my family." Mai said with a shrug, then inspected the slight bruising on her knuckles from hitting him. "Hurt my hand doing it but it was worth it." A small smile appeared on her face. "The look on his face was bloody hilarious."

Okay, so maybe it was kind of mean of her to enjoy the fact that the idiot had ended up very badly hurt, but really could you blame her, he had been heckling her for the entire lesson, calling her mud blood, slut, dirty whore, all of which she could handle, but when he had brought her family into it, Mai had simply snapped. Nobody talked about her family that way, nobody. Especially not some moronic, discriminative, pure blood Slytherin asshole with greasy hair, a horse like face and bad breath.

"What'd you do, actually, you know what, let me guess, you and your friends... snuck out and got hammered?" Mai could easily guess that was what had happened, it seemed like such a Marauder thing to do. Mai winced as her headache hit again. "Dear God, I hate hangovers, this is all my brother's fault, I wouldn't have drunk have as much if he didn't keep trying to outdrink me."

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Notes: Sorry it's kinda short.

[Remus John Lupin]

The Prefect chuckled at the surprise on Mai's face, but not in jest. Remus wasn't the mocking type. "Evening," he replied and gesticulated as a greeting.
"Punched some idiot from Slytherin in the face for bad mouthing my family." Remus laughed wholeheartedly. "How could I have expected any different," he muttered, more to himself, but probably loud enough for Mai to hear. Mai, herself, seemed rather indifferent, if not pleased with herself. He smiled mildly, but shrugged a little. "Still, maybe you should try not to settle your quarrels by means of violence - it's a difficult image to get rid of." Of course, Remus hadn't the slightest that Mai was actually being counseled for, among other things, just that.
Remus could understand her anger, though. He had been called names in the past and was used to not being accepted by others, and it still took him a lot of willpower not to jump his bullies throats from time to time. He could understand her, although he still advised her to do otherwise.

"What'd you do, actually, you know what, let me guess, you and your friends... snuck out and got hammered?" Remus looked up at the question. "Hm?" His face split into a grin. "Oh, yes - we went to a muggle pub, quite against regulations, but I'd say it was rather worth the detention, to be honest - but don't tell a soul." He chuckled to himself as he remembered his friends that morning. "I suppose it helps that I don't really get hangovers, I'd say my friends are being punished twice. Then again: it was their idea." He grinned a little and glanced at the door, wondering what was keeping the teacher. Whoever it was, teachers tended to be extra punctual when it came to detentions.
"Dear God, I hate hangovers, this is all my brother's fault, I wouldn't have drunk have as much if he didn't keep trying to outdrink me." Remus smiled a little in sympathy, but didn't comment. In all honesty, he wasn't sure what to say about it, really. He knew he could tease James and Sirius about this sort of thing, but he didn't really know Mai that well, and as he knew how good she was in fist fights, he had decided he would never ever get on her bad side. If he was beaten to a bloody pulp by a girl, he was sure Sirius would never let him live it down!




[Sorry for the wait, Remus is being a terrible emo as of late! >.<
I'll have the teacher walk in in my next post?]