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Chapter 1

September 1992

Aries Black was heading into her fourth year at Hogwarts and she couldn't believe just how intense her third year was and she just hoped her fourth year was a little calmer and she would be able to have fun before OWLs were constantly forced upon by their professors.

"Aries…" Aries looked over at the sound of her brother whining and frowned, this was always the worst part about her leaving for the new school year, it was leaving her younger brother behind.

Aries had a younger brother named Perseus, it was a family tradition in both of their families to have Astronomy related names. They unfortunately had no idea if their names meant anything to their parents as their parents weren't around.

Their mother Vega Black nee Monroe was permanently living in St Mungo's due to an attack that she was in during the War, in fact it was the same attack that put the Longbottom's in St Mungo's as well. While their father Sirius Black was currently in Azkaban for the death of 13 people.

Aries regularly visited her mother while she was staying in St Mungo's but Perseus refused and it was something he wouldn't budge on no matter how much Aries tried.

Aries and Perseus were now under the care of their aunt and uncle Andromeda and Ted Tonks, in theory they should have been placed with Aries' godfather but he had taken off after the attack and no one has heard from him since, well except for Aries. Aries has heard from him on two occasions, the summer before her second year where he had sent her a broom for Quidditch try outs and the second was on her birthday when he wished her a happy birthday and said congratulations on making the team.

"Pers don't be like this, next year you get to join me"

"I want to join you this year but" Perseus continued to complain but Aries just shook her head with a small smile.

"You enjoy your last year of muggle school, spend as much time as you can with your friends before you join me" Aries got up and walked over to hug him.

Aries was incredibly protective of her brother, she always worried about him when she left for Hogwarts but there was nothing she could do about it.

There weren't many people in the wizarding world that knew Perseus existed, Vega was barely pregnant when she was attacked and hadn't gotten around to telling many people about the pregnancy and she was lucky the pregnancy made it through the attack.

When he was born Aries was already in Andromeda and Ted's home and Andromeda assumed it would be better that way but the reason for the secrecy was to try and keep peace between the current living Black family members that also weren't in Azkaban.

If everyone knew Perseus existed they would be constantly arguing over who had the right to care for him since he wasn't technically in Vega and Sirius' will, Andromeda knew what would happen if Perseus ended up in one of the other households and she also didn't want to spilt the two siblings up.

"Can I at least come to the station this year" Perseus tried to beg but Aries' face instantly hardened.

"No, and you know why Pers" Aries pulled away and grabbed her trunk leaving the room not even wanting to hear another world on the subject from her brother.

When Perseus was younger he was allowed to see Aries off at the station or even be there when she comes back home but the older he got the more obvious it became that he was a Black the less frequent the trips became.

Aries was the first one of her friends to arrive at Platform 9 and ¾ she had said goodbye to Andromeda and looked for an empty compartment. She had been sitting alone for about 5 minutes when the door opened and revealed Oliver Wood. Oliver was in Gryffindor with Aries and also the captain of the Quidditch team.

They both stared at each other for a moment before Oliver reluctantly sat down across from Aries, normally these two got along incredibly well but last December Oliver had gotten himself a girlfriend, a girlfriend that couldn't stand Aries and the two of them were regularly arguing in the Gryffindor common room over various things, the arguments had even turned physical once or twice.

"Why aren't you with Kelso Wood?" Aries couldn't help but notice the emotion flash through his eyes before they harden over but Aries just put it down to the fact that she had called him Wood instead of Oliver.

Kelso happened to be Amelia Kelso, Oliver's girlfriend who would be going into her seventh year this year.

Oliver just ignored Aries question and focused his attention on what was going on outside the window. Aries didn't even get much of a chance to bug him again because the door opened revealing two girls, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet.

Angelina and Alicia were both in Gryffindor with Aries and the three of them were incredibly close with Angelina being on the Quidditch team with Aries and as much as Alicia wishes she was as well she wasn't to keep her parents happy. Alicia's parents believe that Quidditch will ruin her chances at whatever future she wanted, they believed Quidditch will distract her from studying and her grades will drop.

Aries spent a couple of minutes catching up with both of the girls about what had happened during their summers since they all last saw each other, they all kept trying to get Oliver to engage in the conversation but he just ignored them and it was then that Aries released that something was actually going on with him.

Aries had gotten up and moved to sit next to Oliver in hopes of getting out of him about what was going on but he didn't even budge when she sat down.

"Oliver if this has anything to do with what happened last term, I am sorry…"

"It's not Aries" Oliver cut Aries off before she had the chance to finish her apology.

Before the end of last term Aries and Oliver had gotten into an argument, it was a combination of Amelia, Gryffindor losing the match to Ravenclaw and any of tension that had built throughout the year and it had all come out in the Gryffindor team room after the Ravenclaw match. Since then the two of them barely spoke, they both figured it was easy that way.

Aries looked over at the girls and she could tell they were both confused but Aries didn't know what was going on with Oliver and had no idea how to respond.

The door opened again not giving Aries the chance to even try and ask Oliver more questions but Aries couldn't help but grin at the sight of her best friends, Fred and George Weasley.

A month earlier Fred and George decided it would be a good idea to steal their parents' car and go and break Harry Potter out of his house with their younger brother Ron, this then resulted in them being grounded for the remainder of the summer break not allowing Aries to visit them.

"You two" Aries pointed her wand at them and threatened but all they did was grin at her before laughing.

"You love us" Fred spoke while George ran over and gave her a bear hug and unfortunately for Aries she was tiny compared to the twins.

"Gah I hate you" Aries complained while trying to swat away George but neither of them replied, they just ignored her and joined the girls on the bench mentioning something about Lee and his whereabouts.

"Ol talk to me" Aries whispered hoping not to get the attention of the twins, she loved them both dearly but sometimes they pushed issues too far when someone didn't want to talk about them.

Once again the door opened not letting Aries ask her questions and she dropped her shoulders in defeat.

"Hey Ollie..." They all looked up and noticed Amelia standing there.

Aries instantly shut up at the sound of that voice, this was the last thing Aries wanted to deal with today but she guessed it would have happed eventually with Oliver in here.

"What do you want Kelso?" Aries glared at her

"I wanted to talk to Ollie, but I see he found you instead" Amelia spat the words out

There was something about the way she had spoken to Aries that didn't sit right with her but when Oliver didn't say anything she couldn't help but speak up.

"Too bad he doesn't want to talk to you, so how about you just leave?"

"I will if Ollie wants me too" Amelia was looking at Oliver

"Too bad he doesn't want to talk to you, I would have thought you realised that when he was in here?" Aries had no idea what was going on but there heaps more hatred coming from Amelia then in the past.

"Aries..." Oliver placed a hand on Aries back in hopes of calming her down

"Yeah Aries, maybe you should listen to him. Maybe he does want to talk to me?"

"No, Amelia you can leave. You gave me an ultimatum and I made a choice" Oliver finally spoke and when he did it shocked everyone.

Amelia just huffed before leaving the compartment causing everyone to look at Oliver.

"What?" Oliver was confused as to why everyone went quiet and stared at him

"What did you mean by an ultimatum?" Angelina was the one to break the silence

"She asked me to choose between her and Aries"

"Why?" Oliver ignored Angelina's questions by leaning back in his seat and pulling Aries closer completely shocking her.

Angelina looked at Aries as if asking her to explain but all she did was shrug her shoulders. Aries had no idea what was going on with him and why he was being overly quiet, it did worry her by the looks of the rest of her friends they were worried as well.

Aries ignored the weird moment and just let Oliver be and pulled her feet up onto the seat and Oliver had put his arm around her so he was more comfortable. It looked like they were cuddling to everyone else but to either of them they didn't think anything of it.

"So Oliver how did you go on your OWLs?" Alicia pulled Oliver out of his thoughts, everyone hoped this change of topic will change the mood in the compartment.

"I got 7 OWLS"

"What did you fail?"

"Astronomy and History of Magic" Aries looked up at Oliver shocked

"What Aries?"

"I'm sorry Wood, but we can't be friends anymore" Aries just stuck her tongue out at him

"Just because I failed History of Magic?"

"I wouldn't be surprised if I fail History of Magic next year"

"I can't be friends with people who fail their OWLs"

"You're an idiot and you failed Astronomy, why didn't you ask me for help?" Aries leaned back against Oliver

"Didn't think of it"

"I would have been more than happy to help you with it"

"I know, you have helped me in the past I guess I just more focused on Charms, DADA and transfiguration"

"Why don't you two just kiss already" Alicia, Angelina and Katie started laughing while Oliver and Aries were glaring at them but it wasn't long before Fred and George starting gagging completely shifting the mood causing everyone to laugh.

The rest of the ride to Hogwarts passed by without mention of the incident between Oliver and Amelia and the ultimatum that he was given, they all knew Oliver well enough to know that he could only be pushed so far before he completely closed off and ignored them entirely.

The group of friends were all worried about Oliver but there was nothing they could and they just hoped that eventually Aries will get through to him.

It wasn't until after the feast that Aries and Oliver were finally alone, in fact they were a few steps ahead of Fred and George.

"Do you think with Kelso gone Oliver and Aries can get back to normal?" Fred questioned but George didn't look at him, he continued to look ahead at the two in front of them.

"As long as we don't find Aries crying in the Quidditch Pitch anymore, I will be happy." Fred nodded in agreement with George.

They both hated the moment they entered the Quidditch Pitch and found Aries crying.

It wasn't long after they had returned from Christmas Break that Amelia had cornered Aries in the common and they had another argument but this one ended with Amelia saying she couldn't understand how Oliver was friends with her, Aries didn't say anything in reply she just stormed off.

Fred and George had witnessed the whole thing and took the opportunity to sneak out and go after Aries when Oliver entered the common room grabbing Amelia's attention. They did end up checking the Quidditch Pitch first and found her sitting in one of the hoops with her broom floating in front of her, they both headed towards the storage room and grabbed their brooms before flying up and floating in front of her.

"You alright Aries?"

"Fine, why wouldn't I be?"

"Because you're sitting up here with a sour look on your face" Aries flashed them both a smile

"Right and we would believe that why?" they both raised an eyebrow each in response and Aries shrugged.

"No I idea, Kelso just gets on my nerves and it's getting worse. She's constantly trying to be our friend and come on she is 16, why would she want to be friends with us?"

"I've overheard her say she doesn't understand why Oliver is friends with us"

"Quidditch is that reason, which she is starting to crash as well" Aries pouted at the twins but they laughed at her

"She isn't that bad"

"You can't stand her either"

"That is true but we aren't the ones she is constantly annoying, she leaves us alone most of the time"

"Is he at least happy with her?"

"The only thing he hates is her calling him Ollie and that she is constantly butting heads with you"

Aries didn't say anything in response, she just climbed back on broom and flew down to the ground. As strange as it was Aries had missed Oliver, the only time they really spent time together was during Quidditch practise or their runs if they were both down there. He had been spending more with Kelso instead of the third years, it felt weird to Aries to not have Oliver around as much as he used to be.

Aries landed on the ground and placed her broom in the middle of the pitch before beginning her laps. The twins shared a look before they let out a sigh.

"Do you think she has a crush on him George?" Fred spoke when they both looked down at the ground and watched Aries run her laps.

"Like she would tell us if she did anyway but it does seem that way"

"Do you think she would have told the girls?"

"It's Oliver, Aries is smart enough to know what will happen if she had a crush on him"

"Which means she won't tell anyone"

"Exactly, come on we did the right thing and checked on her. She obviously doesn't want us here" George spoke and they both jumped on their brooms and headed down.

Once they had put their brooms away and went to leave the Quidditch Aries gave them both a smile and they returned it but they knew it was fake. They knew something was bothering her but she wouldn't let it up.

"We don't even know what happened between Oliver and Kelso though"

"I know Fred but as I said, I don't want Aries in tears anymore"

After that Fred and George quietened down and picked up their pace in hopes of getting closer to Aries and Oliver and finding out what they were talking about.

"Ol what did you mean by an ultimatum? What happened between you and Kelso?" Aries questioned and Oliver was silent at first and Aries just hoped she hadn't bugged him too much about it.

"We got in to an argument one day after she called me Ollie"

"Hah, I knew that would happen from the first time I heard her call you that, I saw that anger that wash across your face before you glared at me" Aries grinned at him

"Not funny"

"Right sorry. Why did you fight about that?"

"It was simple enough, me saying I didn't like it and then she dragged you into the conversation. In the end she made me chose between you and her"

"But why then? How did it take you that long to snap about it, it had been going on all year?" Aries was confused she didn't understand how Oliver would have snapped like that, yes the two of them have argued in the past but aside from what happened at the end of the term the only time they've argued in the past was about Quidditch.

"I don't know why I was in such a bad mood the day everything happened. Normally I just kept my mouth shut when she called me Ollie, but that day I just snapped saying how I didn't like that name and no one was allowed to call me Ollie. She started complaining saying how you were allowed to call me Ollie. I just told her no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get you to stop which is kind of true but at least you don't use it every time you address me. In the end she ended up complaining that I always put Quidditch and you before her and what not, I said it wasn't true. She asked me to prove it by making me choose between the two of you. I chose you Aries"

"Why did you choose me Oliver?"

"One of the reasons was that you are on the Quidditch team, I couldn't ignore you. The other being I didn't want to choose her over you because she asked me too. I didn't know what would happen between me and her, what would have happened if I chose her and then we broke up and I started being friendly to you again?"

"I would have said, what now your girlfriend has ditched you, you have come crawling back?"

"Exactly, your friendship means more to me Aries"

"Awe, I'm glad to know you care Ol" Aries grinned at him

Fred and George stood there and watched as Aries grinned at Oliver and Oliver instantly returned the smile while wrapping his arm around her and pulling her close. They both took this as a sign that things are slowly returning to normal.