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Sirius looked up just in enough time to see someone fall, and then of course the yell. Ah, someone who didn’t care for the joy of fun. Since he was struggling too much to stand up, he instead slid along on his stomach over to her, recognizing Allison almost immediately. He couldn’t help but laugh. He didn’t know her very well, but had heard James complaining about her a few times. Sirius tended to judge people based on what his friend said, but outside of a few complaints, there was nothing more. 

Sirius somewhat looked like a seal sliding around like that. He slid up to her and asked, “Is anything broken?” he highly doubted it, unless she something fell on her really hard. “I would help you up, but I’m struggling to get up on my own. My advice is if you don’t want to partake in the fun is to slide yourself off into the direction of the stone floor and then, well, fall off the goo. There are other paths that you can take back to Gryffindor tower. However, you are completely welcome to join in on this.” He grinned at her, but had no idea what she was going to say. She was either going to jinx his face off, leave, continue cursing him out, or actually live a little. Sure, she looked a little hurt at the moment, but he was sure it was nothing she couldn’t get over.

He was somewhat worried that she might tattle on him, but that wasn’t Gryffindor style. At least for him it wasn’t. Besides, he didn’t even know how to clean the stuff up, and the green stain on his clothes would be sure giveaway of who the perpetrator of the goo was. 

Sirius was somewhat relieved that Allison hadn’t broken anything. That would mean he’d have to bring her to the Hospital Wing – as he would insist – and therefore abandon this strange goo. Not that his goo was more important than tending to an injured girl who was in pain because of his invention, but still. 

“Good,” he said simply. Sometimes Sirius didn’t know what to make of Allison. He didn’t know her well, but sometimes she seemed like a perfectly normal girl and other times he felt a strange vibe from her that he couldn’t explain. He didn’t talk about it to anyone because he figured it wasn’t important. He watched her struggle to her feet, and he was impressed with her balance.

The direction Allison took him in was unexpected, but he was delighted. His own smile appeared on his face as he watched her fly around in the middle of the hallway. Just right there she was already breaking the rules. A true Gryffindor, then. Sirius grabbed the Quaffle as he laid on his back, which only caused him to go spinning on his back for a short distance.

“What, so I’m supposed to be just stuck down here, flailing about, while you get to gracefully be on your broom?” he asked as he sat up. He could still feel the goo moving about beneath him like the current of an ocean. Sirius used as much strength as he could from a wobbly sitting position and whipped the Quaffle back at her. 

Sirius couldn’t imagine how easy it would be to fly in a corridor. If she made a wrong move too quickly, Allison could easily bump into the walls or ceiling. Perhaps being broomless could come to his advantage, but being on slick goo didn’t seem to have an upside yet.

“You remind me of a rubber ball,” Sirius said as he tried to follow her darting around the small area. He was relatively surprised that Allison had caught the Quaffle. He had a quite a bit of upper arm strength, but then again, she was a trained athlete. All Sirius had was his own personal work-outs, which weren’t nearly as disciplined. Sirius watched with curiousity as Allison did a trick move. He worried for a moment that he was about to get knocked out. However, he bounced gently out of the way. The Quaffle hit the goo and bounced off. He was just lucky the thing didn’t bounce into the ceiling. Sirius crouched and then jumped, grabbing the Quaffle out of the air on its rebound jump. He fell back to the goo, wrapping his body around the ball. 

“Old man?” he repeated. “We’re the same age!” he exclaimed. They were in the same year after all, so their birthdays had to be within the same year as each other. He took out his wand, turned it to the ball, and then put a spell on it that made it track Allison. He threw the ball in the opposite direction of her and then watched as it whizzed back as if it were a boomerang. 

Sirius was surprised by her ability to hang upside down on her broom. It took a lot of strength to do that. “Do I even want to know how you know exactly how old I am?” he teased her. Sirius grinned when he saw that she was surprised by his action. His ability to use non-verbal spells definitely aided in his surprise factor. He watched as girl and Quaffle flew around the area. He merely sat there, looking up as if he were watching the stars. No matter what she did, the Quaffle seemed to be one step ahead – that was, before she jumped off of her broom and landed on top of him. It happened so quickly that he didn’t even realize what was going on until she flipped them around so that she was underneath. The ball came at them quickly, but Sirius managed to pull out his wand and stop it. His mind had quickly considered blowing it up, but he didn’t need that kind of attention going to them. Instead, it dropped to the goo lamely and rolled away.

With Allison beneath him, Sirius decided to squirm and dig his elbows and shoulder blades into her, “So how do you like being beneath me now?” he asked as he squirmed. His intention wasn’t to hurt her, just to make her uncomfortable. What she did was admittedly clever, but if anyone came into the corridor now they would be met with an even stranger sight than just the goo. 

“Hmm, I wonder if this stuff will bleach blonde hair,” he added as if thoughtfully. He doubted it, but he was simply saying things to annoy Allison. She was turning out to be quite fun, which he wasn’t actually expecting. 

Sirius smiled, even though Allison couldn’t see it. “I am so clever,” he corrected her quickly. It was his go-to answer whenever someone tried to make a jab at his intelligence. “It just so happens that you’re good competition!” He laughed loudly at her giggles and frustration as she couldn’t push him off of her. “Why should I stop?” he asked her. “What do I get out of stopping? You’re not actually going to pee yourself, and if you think you are, then I have amazing leverage right now.” 

He could feel the strength in her arms as she struggled, but he put more weight down on her. He felt the goo sort of moving them around slightly, so he wasn’t worried that he was pushing her into the floor or something. Sirius contemplated just dead-weighting on top of her, but figured she could slide out from under him if he did that, so he continued his tickling rampage. Now that he knew that she was ticklish, though, he decided to go from another angle.

Sirius turned quickly and then straddled her. “You should never admit that you’re ticklish to me,” he told her in a mock-dangerous tone. He took out his wand and produced something that resembled a feather duster, but the feathers were able to move on their own. He put one hand on her shoulder to keep her down, and then proceeded to tickle her even more. 

Sirius began to wonder whether or not Allison was actually kidding around anymore considering he saw tears form at the corner of her eyes. However, she was still giggling, so it wasn’t that bad was it? Sirius was actually not ticklish, so he didn’t understand the sensation. He watched as the goo got into her hair and seemingly dyed it green and he couldn’t help but laugh. She hadn’t seemed concerned at his words earlier, but he wondered how calm she would be when she actually saw the damage.

After a while he finally stopped. “Fine! Fine, I don’t want to be peed on.” He replied as he made the feather duster disappear into thin air. He looked down at the girl beneath him and he realized that he found the position to be strangely arousing. Before he could think more on it, he pushed himself off of her and slipped away. It wasn’t as if the sensation came from Allison herself, but just the position they had been in. Sirius wasn’t as concerned about being a virgin as most people he knew, but it didn’t mean that he literally never had urges. He rolled around on his stomach and turned to face her again, stomach-down with his head in his hands. “So how close was I to getting a golden shower?” he joked. “Just so you know, you’re now pretty much in my debt for like, ever.” 

Sirius felt like Allison was a genuinely good person. She just seemed so fun, and he was surprised that they had never hung out before. Despite the fact that he hadn’t really moved much, the goo still rippled around him as if it had its own current. It was actually really calming, and he almost felt like he could fall asleep on it. Then again, Sirius felt like he could fall asleep about literally anywhere.