Disclaimer: Okay this is for the whole story. I own nothing except for Natasha, Ruby, Cassie and Eluned. Everything else belongs to J.K.Rowling and I am not making any profit from this whatsoever. There you go, I basically own nothing…except Remus….and Sirius P (only kidding, I really don't own them)
Summary: Natasha Regan is a quiet girl, used to being picked on and teased. She has a hidden sanctuary that no one knows about and it's her only form of escape. What happens when one of her tormentors finds her hideaway and no matter what she does, Fate seems to have developed the annoying habit of throwing them together?
A/N: Helw everyone this is Yavanna speaking. I really hope you like this story and the characters in it. It is indeed a Sirius/OFC story and hopefully I will be alternating between Natasha and Sirius' point of view between every chapter. (Although Sirius' pov is very hard to write from) This story isn't all that angsty and there isn't that much romance in it (that will be saved for the sequels I hope) but I didn't know how else to describe it.
Your comments would be much appreciated and I'd love to hear what you think of my story, and if there are any typing or spelling errors then I am very sorry.
Chapter 1 – First day back
Natasha sighed heavily and sat back in her seat, gazing mournfully out of the carriage window. She was on her way to start her fifth year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but with each year it seemed to get harder for her to say goodbye to her father. He was all she had left now, except of course her two good friends Lily Evans and Ruby Lamington. She wouldn't go so far as calling them her best friends, she didn't see them or talk to them enough for that, but they were there when she needed them and vice versa.
"Tash, you okay?" a clear voice rang out laced with concern.
Natasha looked up to be met with the worried face of Lily Evans. She had wavy red hair that reached mid-back and sparkling emerald eyes that were set in a face of porcelain. There was no doubt that Lily was beautiful, not that she saw it that way mind you. She was fairly shy and quiet, very modest and always willing to help. She was the cleverest girl in the year and much to the amazement of Natasha, she liked to study. Ruby Lamington however was like the complete opposite. She had short choppy brown hair and blue eyes and a golden complexion. She was loud and bubbly but disliked work greatly, and yet when paired with Lily, they balanced each other out perfectly. Tasha blinked back to reality when she saw that her friends were still waiting for an answer.
"Yeah I'm fine thanks Lily, just a bit sad you know, I hate leaving my dad on his own", she gave her two friends a small smile as she looked back out of the window and let them carry on with their conversation.
She glared slightly at the faint reflection she could see of herself in the window. It had forever been the bane of her existence. When she was very small her mother had died, leaving her with her muggle father and witch grandmother. Then one day after an accident with some shampoo had occurred, Tasha had been stuck with bright metallic blue hair for the rest of her life. It wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't have been for the fact that her eyes were azure, and the combined affect of her hair and eyes were annoyingly creepy. All of her life people had shied away from her gaze because it was just too weird for someone to have their eyes almost the same colour as their hair. In fact a lot of people were frightened of her because of it and avoided her, but the only two people who didn't were Lily and Ruby, and she'd be eternally grateful to them for it.
Yet even with their combined efforts she felt like an outcast and often secluded herself, even from them. She had her own little secret hideaway that not even Lily and Ruby knew about. It was her sanctuary, her own private place to think and escape all of the stares she received. You'd have thought people would have gotten used to her by now what with her going to a magical school but no, they still thought of her as some kind of freak.
A hand on her shoulder made her jump slightly and she looked up into the smiling face of Ruby.
"C'mon Dreamer, we've arrived and I for one don't want to share a carriage with a bunch of slimy Slytherins".
Tasha smiled at her nickname as she quickly got up and gathered her things. It was true she loved to dream, anything was better than reality sometimes.
They quickly got off of the train and got inside one of the horseless carriages, with Ruby and Lily sitting on one side and Natasha on the other.
'Well okay so maybe not horseless, seeing as they are pulled by Thestrals', Natasha thought and shuddered slightly as she remembered when she'd first seen them. Needless to say fleshless horses that were just skin and bones, with wings and white eyes were very frightening to an eleven year old. It wasn't until she'd managed to ask Hagrid, the giant of a gamekeeper and the keeper of the keys at Hogwarts what they were that her fear was removed.
They were about to drive off when there were shouts from outside and four boys scrambled into the carriage and sat down, none of them noticing that the girls were there which was proven as all three of them had a boy sitting on them.
"Prongs that was awesome! Did you see the look on Snivellus' face? It was hysterical!"
The voice of the boy sitting on Tasha rang out loud and clear and a feeling of dread settled in her stomach as she realised who it was. There was no doubting it. A lean frame, broad shoulders, almost shoulder length straight black hair and a barking manic laugh. Yep, it was Sirius Black.
All of a sudden Tasha could hear a low growl of discomfort and closed her eyes in the anticipation of the hell that was about to break loose.
"What on earth do you think you are doing?!" Lily shrieked and an unfortunate James Potter jumped off of her blushing furiously. Tasha smirked slightly. It was so obvious to everyone but Lily that James liked her.
"L-lily I-" James' stuttered answer was broken off by a furious Lily. True she was shy but she had one hell of a temper.
"The world does not revolve around you and your stupid pranks and you should at least have the decency to notice another's presence!" she took a deep breath. "And Remus and Sirius will you please get up off of Ruby and Natasha!" she sat back down forcefully, her nostrils flaring.
Remus Lupin immediately leapt up, apologising to Ruby who was looking disgruntled. Both James and Remus were stooped down slightly because James' 6'1 frame and Remus' 6 foot frame were too tall to stand in the carriage. Tasha studied them both carefully and noticed how they'd both matured and grown over the summer. Remus had definitely filled out, he'd been very skinny before, his light brown hair was neat as usual and his blue-grey eyes had a twinkle of mischief in them. James had also filled out, probably because of endless quidditch practice, and his jet black hair was still sticking up all over the place even though he was now sub-consciously messing it up even more to make his appearance seem even more wild and untamed. His bright hazel eyes behind his round spectacles kept darting towards Lily, before looking quickly away.
There was an awkward silence and Tasha took the advantage of it to study the remaining boy who had been fortunate not to sit on anyone. He was Peter Pettigrew, and if standing he would have reached the height of 5'9, and Tasha suspected that was as tall as he'd get. He was slightly podgy and had blonde hair and watery blue eyes that were usually full of admiration that was generally pointed at James.
Tasha was quickly brought back from her thoughts when she felt something move on her lap, and it was only then that she realised that Sirius was still sitting on her. He had swivelled around until he was facing her and he looked down at her with amusement clear in his steely grey eyes.
"Well if it isn't our local bluebottle" he said, arching an eyebrow at her.
'Great, I'm being compared to a fly, what a privilege', she thought sarcastically and rolled her eyes.
"Are you going to get off me now?" Tasha asked in a bored tone and looked out of the window.
"Unfortunately, in case you hadn't noticed, James and Remus here are having trouble standing up, and I'm taller than them so it would be far too uncomfortable for me to do so sorry".
Tasha frowned up at him and tried to catch his eye, knowing that this usually un-nerved people.
"Yes well you're awfully heavy and you are hurting my legs so can you stand up please", her eyes widened in shock slightly as he met her gaze head on and didn't flinch away.
"Well if the Lady insists……" he smiled gallantly and almost quicker than she could blink he had stood up, pulling her with him and sat back down on the seat with her sitting on his lap and his hands on either side of her waist.
"There now that's much better" he smiled cheerfully at her shocked expression as James and Peter laughed loudly and Remus had a slightly amused smile on his lips. She merely shrugged, leant her head against the window and started to stare out of it with the same mournful expression she had been wearing earlier.
The rest of the trip passes as a bit of a blur for Tasha as she was incredibly un-nerved by what had happened and her thoughts were in complete turmoil.
'How did he do that?! Only Lily and Ruby are supposed to and now one of my tormentors can? This is so unbelievably unfair!' she willed herself to calm down slightly before her mental tirade got out of hand.
'Besides who does he think he is making me sit on him, he's just a stupid feminine jerk with girly hair, I mean it's the same length as mine!' she absentmindedly ran her hand through her own shoulder length hair and she rolled her eyes at her own childish stream of thoughts.
'Oh well, this will probably be the most I'll see of him, he's probably got a lot more important things to do with his precious time than to annoy me'.
She was jolted rudely out of her thoughts when Sirius Black stood up, forcing her to as well, and she stood there for a moment in confusion.
"As much as I loved our little personal moment, everyone else has gotten out of the carriage, but if you want me alone so much than I'm sure I can arrange a time to see you later", he smirked at her and she eyed him in distaste.
She quickly jumped down from the carriage, ignoring the egotistical being that got out behind her and went to stand next to Lily and Ruby, once more cursing her oddities. It appeared that her body over the summer had disliked being at the height of 5'5 and she now towered above the 5'6 Lily and Ruby at her new height of 5'10.
'I was just made to be different' and she sighed resignedly at the thought.
Tasha turned around and arched a perfectly shaped blue eyebrow at Sirius Black (Yes the shampoo of doom had gotten her eyebrows as well). He was right when he had said he was too tall to stand in the carriage and he had at least three inches over James' height and was about 6'4 or 6'5. He was stretching after being contained in the cramped carriage and Tasha noticed he had a very athletic build.
'Well whatever, he can go about his business and I'll go about mine, someone with an ego as big as his isn't worth my time', and with that thought she followed Lily and Ruby up the steps and into the castle, an amused smirk on her face as she heard Lily grumble about how much she disliked James. For Tasha and Ruby it was so obvious that Lily was in denial about her feelings, but neither of them was stupid enough to risk her temper by telling her that.
Natasha sighed quietly to herself as she lay in bed, listening to the sound of her dorm mates' breathing whilst in the throws of sleep that still eluded her. Apart from Ruby and Lily she also shared a room with two girls called Cassie Mostyn and Eluned Jones. They were both beautiful, blonde and were bitches. How they had ended up in Gryffindor was a complete mystery to her. They had a cruel and vindictive nature in them and Natasha couldn't help but recall what had happened in the Great Hall earlier that evening.
Everyone was starting to traipse out of the room after a wonderful feast and Dumbledore's speech. It had been the same as always. Everyone was to stay out of the Forbidden Forest and more items had been placed on the new caretakers, Argus Filch, list of what was not allowed in the corridors. The Headmaster had also announced the prefects for that year.
Lily had blushed to the roots of her hair when her name had been announced but Natasha could tell that she was really happy. What had surprised her was that Remus Lupin was made a prefect. What on earth the Headmaster had been thinking she'd never know.
'I mean it presents the perfect opportunity for the Marauders to do their pranks and for Remus to get them out of trouble' Tasha had thought moodily wondering what pranks were in store for her this year. 'Or maybe this will be able to help Remus control them better', Tasha had given a mental snort at that thought. Who was she kidding? James and Sirius were uncontrollable.
It was after that thought that she heard her name. She glanced behind her and saw Cassie point at her and whisper something to Eluned. Then both the blonde girls looked at her again and, catching her looking, burst out laughing.
Natasha rolled on to her side as her cheeks burned at the memory. She'd blushed then from embarrassment and her cheeks had gotten redder due to the fact that she was angry with herself for getting embarrassed so easily. You would think after four years she's be used to it but she wasn't.
She buried her face into her pillow as unwanted tears sprang to her eyes as the cruel echoing laughter of Cassie and Eluned resounded in her head. There was no way that they could be in the right house by the way they acted; they just had to be Slytherins.
'But who am I to judge the way they act when I don't even know them? I mean even people from Hufflepuff treat me like that, and there's no way I can say the sorting hat got it wrong just because I don't like the way people treat me'.
The thought was slightly depressing but true. People weren't made to get along with everyone and if some people didn't like her then she'd just have to deal with it.
'But it isn't some people, it's everyone' she thought miserably as her eyes filled once more and tears spilled unchecked down her cheeks. She cried quietly to herself, missing her father now more than ever. Just a small hug from him would make her feel better but she knew she had to get used to being without him. Eventually, sometime in the early morning, she was lulled to sleep by the deep breathing coming from the girls around her, although her cheeks were still stained with tears.
A/N: Tada! There was the first chapter of a story I've written all by myself. I don't know when the next chapter will be up, I guess it depends on the encouragement I get from my reviews hint hint Oooo look what's this? It's a pretty purple button that looks like it wants to be clicked……. Yeah okay I'm shutting up, but I would really like to know what you think so far, and constructive criticism is very much welcomed!!!!! Well that's all for now, hopefully the next chapter won't be too far away )
Yavanna