A/N: This is a spin off of Again I go Unnoticed. It can still be read without reading the other story though. Please Enjoy and tell me what you think :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the world or any of the characters. At all!

So I got noticed…but I never got the boy!

Short spin off from "Again I go Unnoticed".

SUMMARY:

I, Emmeline Vance dated Sirius Black. For over four months. And after Hogwarts, we spent a good portion of time together in the Order, but no, he never fell for me. At least not the way he did for Mary MacDonald. I still have a story though and it's worth hearing.

Of Our First Interaction

I think what drew me to Sirius at first was the way he held himself. Alright, you saw right through me…it was probably his shaggy, dark hair, defined chest and alluring grey eyes. But all of those things are common observations. What was really most attractive to me was his charming indifference to everything around him. I found that I wanted desperately for him to care about something! And if that happened to be me, all the better.

I'd only known him to date one girl at Hogwarts. Kerry someone, I think she was a Hufflepuff. So the only time I'd experienced watching him pursuing a girl was with her. They only dated a couple of months because despite her older brother's permission, apparently Sirius Black wasn't interested in having to deal with an overprotective sibling. Well, there was a plus…I was an only child! Now I'm clever enough to realize that the boy did not respond to girls throwing themselves at him. In fact, that would've never been my style anyway. I have a remarkably cool head in most situations and so, I deciphered that being too enthusiastic would not only be uncomfortable for me, but just wouldn't work. We'd been in Fifth Year for a whole term already when the first interaction happened. We were in Transfiguration, History of Magic and Arithmancy together, so that gave me plenty of opportunities to speak to him. However, he was constantly distracted by his friends. The four of them were inseparable and I wondered very much if they could live without one another. It was late January when we first spoke.

Now, there's a few things you need to know about me before I explain our first interactions. My mother was voted most beautiful Auror of the year, four times by Witch Weekly. My father is a dashing, famous Muggle celebrity. So, I am very blessed to have long light brown hair, which curls just right at the ends and dark blue eyes. I also am naturally bright because of my mother's genes. I am a lucky girl and because of it, everyone in Ravenclaw House knew who I was and I had my share of admirers. I went out on a few dates but none of the boys held my interest for very long. I'm rather picky and a little eccentric, so it's very important that I have someone accepting of that. So from what I'd seen of Sirius Black in the four years we'd been in school together was: he had an endearing yet confusing sense of humour, he was intelligent and proudly so and he was undeniably attractive. So, most of my primary requirements were fulfilled and now I just needed to wait for him to talk to me so I could dazzle him.

So, despite the fact that we were in three classes together, our first interaction came by chance, upon entering the Great Hall for dinner. I suppose he must've had to stay behind class or something because normally, while I am a late arriver at dinner, he and his friends are there first, eating all the best food. So after stopping at my dormitory to drop off my school books and pick up an enthralling vampire novel to read at supper, I headed down to the Great Hall. As luck would have it, Sirius Black was entering at precisely the same time.

"Hello," I said as we walked down the long corridor towards dinner.

"Oh hey," he said looking surprised at my friendliness.

"Are you late to dinner? I was under the impression you'd hex people out of the way if it got you eating faster," I said in a light, calm voice. I was making reference to a joke he'd made in Transfiguration earlier that day. He smiled crookedly at me, looking again surprised at my attentiveness. He chuckled with amusement.

"Well I would've, but apparently Sprout expects me to behave in class from now on and decided to give me a detention to prove her point," he muttered with a twinge of annoyance.

"How awful of her," I joked, maintaining my calmness. He really wasn't all that intimidating. Everyone always says he's so hard to talk to but I found that I was unruffled.

He laughed again pleasantly and rubbed his stomach. We had paused outside the Hall without me noticing.

"Well, I'm starving, so maybe we can carry on this conversation another time?" he said with a slight smile. He didn't seem committed to the idea but despite resolving not to blush, I think I did.

"Ah well, ladies first," I said with a grin and moving in front of him.

"Oh no you don't," he said laughing and taking my elbow lightly to pull me back. "Don't make me hex you…" he whispered with a slight smirk as he went ahead of me and walked briskly to his usual spot at the Gryffindor Table.

I could tell…it had gone well.

Being the rather observant girl I am, I pretended to read while I ate but was actually keeping an eye on Sirius and his conversation with his friends. He had the usual look of indifference on his face but was looking over at my table. I smiled to myself thinking how easy it seemed. His friends were looking over their shoulders in what they seemed to think was a discreet manner. It really was amusing, boys were so simple. After eating my pudding, I stood and walked purposely past the Gryffindor table without a glance at Sirius.

"Hey Vance," Potter called.

I spun around with a little flip of my hair and had the grace to look surprised that they were there.

"Oh hello Potter," I said with a smile.

"Sirius had a question for you…" Potter said with a smirk. Sirius looked amused but I took note of the swift kick he gave his friend under the table. Lupin chuckled in amusement, shaking his head while Peter Pettigrew stared at me, his mouth slightly open.

"Oh really and what's that Sirius?" I said turning to him.

He looked at me, his eyes mischievous before he said in a husky, heart stopping voice,

"Well I was wondering when we'd continue our conversation…" he said his eyebrow slightly raised. I felt my heart flutter but remained composed.

"Well considering the conversation was about you getting a detention…I can't say I have much more to say on the topic," I said faking nonchalance as I shrugged. I then smiled and flipped my hair around again, to walk out of the Hall. I heard his friend's laughter and his own low chuckle and fought not to turn around. When I was half way to the exit, I was overcome by curiosity and turned around to glance over my shoulder. His friends were laughing and jabbing at him, but his amused eyes were on me. When he saw I'd turned, he grinned lazily and winked.

Oh really, I shouldn't be so excited! It isn't me at all!!

It was smooth sailing from there of course. You all know that I did end up dating him of course. But before we started dating, he did manage to put me through quite a debacle. Now you're all probably aware that he is rather genius at getting other people in trouble. Shunning the blame, involving innocent parties…he was very good at that. At the time of course, knowing so little about him made it awfully difficult to anticipate what would happen the next day in Transfiguration.

It was our second class of the day and I walked in with confidence. My friend Benjy Fenwick walked with me chatting my ear off about the newest discovery in Potions. He'd read it in the Prophet earlier but I hardly had patience for the Prophet these days. I usually stuck to Potions and Transfiguration journals but they weren't delivered until later in the day. So while his theories were interesting, I found myself thinking of other things. Well really just what my next move with Sirius would be. I was expecting it to be hard work to talk to him again, so you can imagine my surprise when I walked in to see the Marauders had switched their seats around. Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew sat where they usually did but it was the other two who had changed things around. Sirius sat in his usual seat at the back of the room while James Potter sat where Benjy and I usually sat. I glanced at Benjy in confusion but he was as puzzled as I was. We walked slowly to the two tables and stopped looking at the four sets of eyes watching us with amusement. I looked at Sirius with an eyebrow raised but he just smiled serenely at me and looked at James who was speaking.

"Hey Fenwick, I heard you talking about that Potions discovery in the Prophet. My dad worked with Filius Fortuna in the New Developments in All things Magical Department at the Ministry," James said in a calm, mature voice. This confused me even more. Why on earth was James Potter willing to discuss Potions developments with Benjy? James Potter would rather talk about Quidditch. I flung my head around to look at Benjy who looked excited. He idolizes Fortuna so the fact that Potter had met him probably had him over the moon.

"Wow, what was he like?" Benjy said sliding into his seat next to Potter excitedly without looking at me again. Potter chuckled and I noticed him glance at Sirius mischievously. Just what were they up to?

"Well Vance, I guess that means you'll have to sit with me…" Sirius said softly looking at me charmingly.

"How…convenient…" I said with a smirk and sat down. I didn't give it a second thought then, but now I distinctly remember that Mary MacDonald had looked rather depressed from her spot next to Lily Evans. Perhaps it was some sort of ominous sign that I saw only her. Most of the girls in that class were probably sending me evil looks too. As it was, after seeing the look of depression on the plain girl's face, I felt a boost of self confidence and smiled as I took my books from my bag. Sirius was whistling tunelessly next to me, but we ignored each other. It seemed strange that he and his friends went through all the trouble to get us sitting next to each other and he didn't say anything. In any case, I didn't make the first move and just started reading over my homework. I heard him drumming his fingers on the table impatiently and grinned inwardly. I had him right where I wanted him.

"You work a lot," he commented glancing at my essay which was about 6 inches longer than the required length.

"Hmm…I wonder why I'm in Ravenclaw."

"Oh you're funny…" he said sarcastically.

"Thank you," I said in the same tone of voice.

"So what's the deal Vance? Is studying all you do?" he whispered leaning close to my ear. I fought the tremble, which ran through my body and shrugged.

"No, I do other things…"

"Like what?" he asked in a voice so seductive I was surprised he'd only dated one girl.

I found myself getting slightly nervous which was a first for me.

"Umm…I hang out with Benjy, play chess…"

"That's sound invigorating," he teased.

"Well I'm also partial to the Hog's Head," I said with an afterthought.

He raised an eyebrow. "How so?"

"I find the witch with the veil in there quite fascinating…" I replied without explanation.

"Interesting…" he said his forehead creased slightly.

We didn't elaborate because Professor McGonagall had entered and I refused to talk to him when I could be learning.

"This is so boring, I know all of this already," Sirius muttered twenty minutes later.

I was surprised. Even I found this difficult. We were attempting small animal transformations from inanimate objects.

"Well aren't you a genius…" I muttered back sarcastically out of the side of my mouth.

"Oh…speaking in class Miss Vance. That's rather rebellious don't you think?" he whispered through a smile. He was teasing me!

"I can be rebellious," I shot back, my voice falling into more than a whisper.

"Oh really? I suppose sitting at a different table during dinner is your idea of rebellion," he said, still grinning.

"Listen, you! I'll have you know I can be quite daring when I want to be!" I said in a normal volume, my eyes narrowing. He smirked back and then I heard it.

"Well Emmeline, you can join Black in his detention in the Forbidden Forest then…if you are so daring," Professor McGonagall scolded in a cold voice, her arms folded tightly.

"Yes Professor…" I mumbled miserably. "You got me in trouble!" I said to Sirius angrily.

"MISS VANCE…would you rather we listened to your ramblings for the rest of the period instead of learning something?" McGonagall said sharply.

"No Professor, sorry!" I replied and I ducked my head in humiliation.

After a few minutes of uninterrupted lecturing, Sirius leaned close to whisper into my ear. His breath tickled my ear as he said,

"It's alright Emmeline, you can sit at my table for dinner…since you're so daring," he mocked flirtatiously.

That's when I fell for him completely.

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