Tireless Immaturity
Title: Tireless Immaturity
Pairing: Sirius/Rosmerta for rarepair_shorts
Prompt: don't you dare
Rating: G
Word Count: 217
Summary: Rosmerta is two years older than Sirius Black.
Author's Notes: Whoo!
Link to Prompt Table: Accio!



Rosmerta is two years older than Sirius Black. Two years. And you would never know it if you watched him, as Rosmerta is doing now. At most, Sirius acts like a third year, even though he’s seventeen.

“Don’t you dare!” she finds herself screeching every other minute; it’s at these times that she has to rush from behind the counter of the Three Broomsticks, attempting to rescue whatever items Sirius and his friends are precariously close to breaking. Once these things are safe, she locks them away and rounds on the boys, hands upon her hips.

“Once more,” she says every time, “and you won’t step one foot in here again. Got it?”

Sirius—Sirius, who is two years younger—just flashes her a grin, and she’s glad that she’s too upset to let it affect her the way it affects other girls.

“I mean it!” she tells him, wagging her finger like an old woman.

Sometimes he arches his dark brows at her, an amused expression upon his handsome face. Other times, he spouts something clever and she can do nothing but turn away, flustered.

Someday, she tells herself, she’ll toss him out in the cold, teach him a lesson. And then she’ll be able to enjoy his company like she sometimes thinks she wants to.