Title: Let It Die
Rating: T.
Disclaimer: Do you think if I owned Harry Potter that I would be sitting here writing this crap? No. I do, however, own Alba and Charlotte. So you can't have them. Hah.
AN: -puts hands up in defence- okay, if any of my old readers are reading this fic, let me say I'm sorry for deleting 'Twilight: The Next Generation' and all my other stories. The reason for my Twilight fic being deleted is my writing in it sucked, and Anna and Matt were possibly the worst OC's I've ever had the idiocy to invent. Now I think my writing is moderately better, so I'm back with a Sirius Black/OC fic. Yeah, I have a thing for OC's, I realize that. And I love Sirius and the marauders, but there are heaps of Lily/James fics and not enough Sirius ones. Sirius deserves some love, hence, Alba:] I'm not guaranteeing a happy ending; I have a thing for sad, depressing stories. Set it… let's say, 5th year.
So yeah, sorry… would it be wrong of me to ask for reviews? Please? I'll give you Sirius and a cookie if you review:] No? Okay, I'll give you a marauder of your choice and a cookie:] And besides, if you add to favourites or subscribe to it without reviewing, you're just going to end up getting a PM from me telling you to review, so there's really no escape.
Also, this first chapter isn't so much Sirius/OC romance, its more of introductions and some Remus/OC romance. Because he deserves some love. So there.
Behold, my almighty crappy fanfic, dun dun dun.
"So, Evans," James said casually. Probably another one of his attempts to get Lily to go out with him, not that it ever worked, however. He had more of a chance of a slow dance with the sorting hat, "You doing anything on Saturday?"
"Yes, Potter, I am," Lily replied in a bored voice; it was probably the fifth request she'd gotten from him that day, and it was only first lesson; quite sad, really. He reminded her of her neighbour's dog back home; it seemed to have an attachment to her; though, admittedly, the dog probably had better personal hygiene, "If you must know, I'm showing the new girl around Hogsmeade. In fact, she's arriving today, and I'll be spending every moment with her," she added, her voice edging on smug; after weeks of making up excuses- some rather eccentric ones- she finally had a legitimate one.
"Oh," James said, crestfallen, "What time today?"
"Apparently during this lesson, any minute now, in other words," she replied, flicking through her potions book, "Anyway, why the hell am I still talking to you? Go. You're shunned."
Sirius and Remus snorted, and James reluctantly returned to their table, "Oh, shut up you two," he whacked Sirius round the head with his text book, causing Remus to laugh even harder, "And what are you laughing at, Mooney?" the text book collided with the back of Remus' head, causing him to shut up completely.
"Immature idiots," Lily muttered, turning back to her cauldron.
"Oh come on, they're not that bad," Charlotte laughed softly; Lily raised a quizzical eyebrow and gave her a look that said 'you have serious issues my friend', "Well, Remus isn't, at least,"
Lily smiled knowingly at her friend, and lowered her voice, "You still have a thing for him, Charlie?" she said gently.
"Lily, we made a deal not to talk about this when they're in the same room as us." Charlotte said firmly through gritted teeth, she poked her cauldron with her wand and sighed in defeat, "Oh come on, you stupid thing! How hard is it to light a fire? I swear, this wand is defective!"
"Here, let me help," Remus piped up, striding over to their table, causing Charlotte to blush, "Yeah, I think you're right about it being defective, it's an old wand- was your brothers once, right? you should get a new one…"
Lily rolled her eyes, and the two other boys sniggered. It didn't take brains to work out that Remus felt the same way about Charlotte; if only the two love struck morons would admit how they felt and so something about it. "Okay, I think that's sorted out for now. Tell me if you need any more help," Remus smiled warmly, and walked back over to his table, where his friends were still smirking.
Then, there was a sharp knock at the door, and McGonagall strode in, closely followed by a young girl. McGonagall's appearance caused all laughing and sniggering to cease, and they actual got on with their work- if anyone could scare the living shit out of James and Sirius, it was defiantly the prim yet strict deputy head.
"Professor Slughorn, sorry for interrupting, but I have here your new student, Alba Grey." She said with authority, gesturing towards the brunette.
She was pretty, in a subtle way, no great beauty, but she had a dramatic allure. About 5'5 in height, pale skin, bright blue eyes, and long, dark brunette hair.
"Ah!" Slughorn exclaimed exuberantly, "Yes, we've been expecting you, Miss Grey, take a seat next to Miss Evans," he gestured towards Lily and Charlotte's table, "Thank you, Professor McGonagall." McGonagall nodded curtly in response, and swiftly exited the room.
"Hi," Lily said happily; she and Alba had been pen pals for a while, it was something that was set up when Alba first found out she was going to Hogwarts, "It's nice to finally meet you Alba, those letters weren't enough,"
Alba smiled warmly in reply, "Yeah, I agree. You must be Charlotte," she said, eyeing her, "Lily's told me a lot about you,"
"Oh really?" Charlotte said jokingly, looking at her friend in mock suspicious, "Should I be worried?"
Alba laughed, "Not at all," she looked at her cauldron, which thankfully was already set up, and groaned, "I suck at potions," she shook her head and sighed, "Which page are we on?"
"248…" Lily said, then launched into full instructions, handing Alba the right ingredients when needed.
"So how much do we know about this new girl?" Sirius asked Remus in an undertone.
"How am I supposed to know?" Remus retorted, adding something to his potion.
"Oh please, Mooney, you spend a lot of time with Charlotte, and it's obvious she knows," Sirius replied.
Remus sighed in defeat, "She's been home schooled her entire life, but her parents recently decided that she should spend more time with kids her own age, her name is Alba, and I presume Lily has told her about us,"
"What makes you think that?" James frowned.
"Do you see the way she's watching us?" Remus continued working, while James and Sirius looked up at Alba; she was, indeed, watching them, her lips curving into a smirk as she looked at James, and then let her eyes flick back to Lily. Then, only for a second, her eyes met with Sirius', and he swore that he saw something in her ice blue orbs that he couldn't quite place…
"Well she knows that I like Lily, I can tell that much," James said, "Hey, what's up Padfoot?" he added in concern; Sirius was staring at Alba, almost glaring.
"There's something creepy about her," he declared in a dangerous tone, "And I intend to find out what it is,"
Dun dunn dunnnn ;]
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