"Sirius fuck off!"
That name called my best friend Piper to snap to attention. She had an unreturned crush on one named Sirius Black. I'll admit: He's a fine specimen. But he is not relationship material.
"But baby…"
"You fucking slept with her!! She's my best friend, what the hell were you thinking?!" yelled Marissa.
Marissa is a year younger than us and Sirius had slept with her best friend Amelia. Amelia is a fairly pretty fifth year Hufflepuff. Sirius was probably her first time. Note to underclassmen: Never give your virginity to one named Sirius Black.
My name you ask? I'm Jack. Oh, okay Jacqueleen. Yes, I am French. I have black hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and I'm tall for a girl, I guess. If ya' know 5'8" is tall. I hate myself a lot of the time. I hate being tall, it's so easy for people to find me and sometimes I just don't want to be found. Also my features are kind of… striking? So I get a lot of male attention, including loads from said playboy Sirius Black.
In fact I can see him walking this way right now.
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"Jack! C'mon love you're the only one I haven't slept with."
Jack sighed heavily, "Black-"
"Yes love?" he asked taking this as an invitation to sit next to her on the couch she was occupying.
"Honestly!" she exclaimed. She pulled her raven colored hair back so that no pieces were in her face except her side bangs. Jack decided to take a different course of action, "You need to learn that after you sleep with me, you are ruined for life. You will never want to sleep with another woman again. I'm doing you a favor. Can't you just thank me and go about with your philanthropy?"
For a moment she could see the surprise on the faces of all of the people in the common room who knew her. Sirius was momentarily struck speechless.
Jack's next door neighbor and Sirius's closest mate started guffawing, "Oh damn Padfoot! She got you, mate!"
Sirius turned bright red as he could not think of anyway to convince Jack otherwise without "insulting" her.
Jack smiled triumphantly as she excused herself and stood to leave. Piper was hurrying over to smooth over Sirius's ego. Lily too had stood to walk out of the common room with Jack.
When the two girls closed the portrait behind them they started rolling with laughter.
"Did you see his face?" Lily choked holding her sides and red in the face.
"Oh my god! I know! I thought he would have a comeback. I'm so glad he didn't though because now I'm free!" Jack cried throwing her arms up in the air in celebration.
Lily sighed, "Lucky! Potter'll still be after me in the morning."
"Think about it this way," Jack offered. "Summer vacation starts in like two weeks, and the Quidditch cup final is in one, so all this week we'll be practicing like mad."
"Why is the cup so late this year?" Lily asked sobering slightly but she still had a wide grin gracing her features.
"It was an experiment, or at least that's what Dumbledore told us. It was to see if having Quidditch after all the exams would bring the grades up," Jack explained. "So as a result all the Quidditch players are stressing all the way up until the end of school."
Lily frowned, "So this all means that you're going to turn into the star beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team again, and I'm gonna have to hang with Piper and listen to drabbling about Black all week?"
Jack grimaced sympathetically, "Uh, yeah kinda. You know that as the Co-Captain of the Gryffindor team I have to spend all my time with the team. You could come to the team meetings probably, but I dunno why you would want to."
"Wouldn't James get distracted?" Lily asked grimacing again at the thought of the Quidditch captain getting distracted a week before the last Quidditch match of the year.
"No." Jack continued when she saw Lily's skeptical face. "Nothing can distract him during Quidditch finals. He can be so single minded sometimes. This next week'll all be about Quidditch. You'll be taking a backseat Lils."
"Wow!" Lily said as if weighing the opportunities. "I could live a normal life."
"Yeah so think about coming to a Quidditch meeting. I'm sure you'll end up at some of the practices because of Piper."
Lily's face lost its hopeful light, "Oh. Right."
Jack laughed as she led Lily down to the kitchen for some food.
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I think that Black finally caught on! He hasn't treated me like a piece of meat yet today! This is such an improvement! I am so happy!
I'm currently on my way to Quidditch practice. We have the pitch from after dinner until after breakfast and you can bet that James'll make us utilize all of that time. All the way through breakfast we'll be flying out on the pitch practicing. We'll eat a team breakfast by the lake after everyone else has eaten and then we'll all go sleep.
Thank the Good Lord Above that we've already had finals and so classes are practically over. So I can just drag my sorry self up to the dorm and sleep till two hours before dinner. Two hours before dinner me and James'll meet in the library and talk about strategy.
And, yeah, this'll be my schedule all week.
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The Gryffindor team waited patiently for its last members to straggle onto the field. James and Jack were flanking a chest that was marked with the Gryffindor crest. This chest contained the set of balls that belonged to the Gryffindor team.
Sirius was the last one on the field and it was already starting to get dark so James made Sirius do an extra lap to light the floating lights.
Practice began.
Sirius and Jack smacked a bludger back and forth each trying to beat the brains out of the other. The key to this was that you had to hit the bludger hard and fast so that it wouldn't have time to change directions.
This occupied the two beaters until, that is, James yelled at them because he almost got hit in the back of the head by a "stray" bludger hit by Sirius.
The players practiced doggedly even as the light from the lamps dimmed making it hard to see. As the sun rose the team took their third break of the night to watch the sun rise.
Jack lay in the middle of the pitch and looked into the sky. She was so involved in her thoughts that she didn't notice Sirius sneaking up on her.
"Watcha doin'?" he asked.
"Nothing."
"Well practice is starting back up and need you to hit the bludger with me again. I wanna see if I can really get Prongs this time." Black muttered the last sentence.
Jack grinned and started to haul herself up off the ground and was surprised when a large strong hand was offered so surprised that she actually took it. This left her shell-shocked when she felt a jolt through her tired arm when her hand was clasped in his.
"STOP HOLDING HANDS BLACK AND MARQUETTE!" James yelled
Jack blushed, "I'm going to murder him in his sleep tonight!"
Sirius grinned, "Or you could take a whack at him," he offered her, her beater's bat.
"Good enough," Jack said taking the offered bat and mounting her broom she flew over to where the bludgers were being stored. Sirius followed her on foot, his broom over his shoulder.
Having secured a bludger, Jack and Sirius took to the sky and began batting the hard black ball back and forth. After a few moments of this Jack positioned herself perfectly and after she made contact with the bludger she let her bat fly towards him. As it reached inches from his body Jack yelled, "Oh my god! James watch out!"
The bat smacked hard into his back sending him forward and smashing his nose into the handle of his broomstick. When he looked up his nose was bleeding profusely.
Jack flew over, "Are you alright? I just lost my grip on the bat."
James glared at her accusingly, "Just lost your grip?"
Jack nodded her head earnestly fighting a triumphant smile.
Noticing that the whole team had stopped practicing to come over and see the spectacle James bellowed, "DID I CALL A TIME OUT?" There was a silent pause, "THEN GET BACK TO PRACTICE!"
The team grumbled a little but they turned their brooms wearily and took back to their drills. "Shouldn't you go the Hospital Wing?" asked a second year chaser.
Jack and Sirius immediately swooped in front of her shielding her from James's wrath.
"Prongs, mate, take a deep breath," Sirius urged encouragingly.
"She's only twelve James, she doesn't know!" Jack offered insistently. "It's her first season!"
"Prongs, why don't you go yell at someone else? I'll explain to this girl everything, okay?" Sirius offered still hovering in front of the second year.
James took a deep breath, "Fine! BELL YOU HAVE TO COVER ALL OF THE HOOPS NOT JUST ONE!" he yelled flying off towards the keeper.
Sirius looked pityingly at the young girl, "Now, what's your name?"
The girl muttered feebly, "Jessica Johnson."
"Now Miss. Johnson, listen closely okay?" Jack said kindly. "Our captain is not really himself during the week before the Cup match."
"He will probably break three more bones in his body before the week is out," Sirius explained.
"It is never, under any circumstances, okay to ask if he should leave practice," Jack told her sternly.
"We can't protect you again, so you will just have to remember. Never mention the hospital wing, you'll probably end up having to go," Sirius warned.
"Do you understand?" Jack asked kindly.
The little girl nodded.
Sirius grinned at her, "Good! Now go back to practice."
The young chaser fled them on her broomstick.
"Poor thing, she didn't know," Jack said sadly.
"Bloody good hit on your part, though!" Sirius exclaimed.
Jack grinned, "It made me feel so much better!"
"Brilliant!" Sirius said enthusiastically.
They flew apart and went back to hitting the bludger to each other until the Slytherin's came to claim the pitch.
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I'm so dog tired I can hardly even think. I don't know how im going to get through tonight!
No, I just won't think about that. I'll just think about sleep. Glorious sleep. I've told Lily to wake me up for Lunch if she can. And if she can't then to assume I've died of overwork and to leave me in peace.
She did not find that terribly funny so I must look a mess. I feel as though I look a mess. I have in fact just said as much to Sirius who is making the climb up the stairs to the dorm and he insisted that I had never looked more beautiful.
I, however, know he is lying. I tell him so and he begins to insist that he has never seen a more beautiful woman in all his life. I am beginning to think he's gone mad. When I mention this I accompany it by pointing out that he must not have seen many beautiful women, he surprises me:
"It wouldn't matter how many other beautiful women I had ever seen. You would still surpass them."
And he said it earnestly and accompanied it with a short and sweet kiss on my lips. So I am convinced that he means it. We part in the common room me to my stairs and him to his own.
My whole body is on fire with pain as I peel off my dirty clothes, to tired to shower I using Scourgify on my muddy body and climb beneath the sheets in my underwear.
The last thing on my mind is Sirius, and how he called me beautiful, and he kissed me.
Lily ran up the stairs to grab her wand from her bed and found Jack asleep in her bed with a smile on her face.
Lily grinned as she silently grabbed her wand off her own bed and closed the curtains around Jack's before shutting the door softly behind her.
A/N: please review! I'll love you soooo much if you do!