LILY'S COUSIN
By DaisyChain
(A/N this is my first fanfic and I have no idea where it's heading so if you have any ideas
for me then please review and tell me, even if you have no ideas then please review anyway
coz I would really like to know what you think.)
Disclaimer: none of this belongs to me, it is all the wonderful J.K. Rowling's, (except Fey
who lives in my head and tells me what to write). I am writing this for my own amusement
(however much it has been driving me mad!).
Chapter One: A New Term
It was the first of September and James Potter was at Kings Cross Station waiting to go
back to school. This year was going to be very different to the last one, that was for sure.
For starters he was a prefect, along with his friends Remus Lupin and Sirius Black,
although none of them knew how Sirius had got be a prefect, it wasn't as though he was
the sort of person to set a good example to young impressionable students!
He looked around, having got onto platform 9¾ his friends should be somewhere around.
He made his way down to a carrage near the back where he and his friends had sat for the
last four years, he knew he could sit in the prefects area but he would far rather be with his
friends. He had just settled his trunk in the corner when he heard familiar voices heading
his way, and within a few seconds Fey and Kat were hugging him, then giggling as he
tried to get their trunks on the train without breaking his back.
"Boo!" yelled another girl who had crept uo behind him, it was Lily his (sort of) girlfriend
"Almost made you drop it then didn't I!"
"Where's Sirius and Remus, I can't stand being outnumbered by you girls, what hope
have I got for surviving more than five minutes with you three giggling around me..."
although he had missed them over the summer, James was not very comfortable
around so many girls, they always knew everything about each other and when he said
the most innocent things they would go into more giggles and not calm down for hours!
He was in luck, at that very moment Sirius and Remus appeared...
"Never fear-"
"Your 'Oh-so-wonderful-friends' are here-"
"To relieve you from the-"
"Horrors of girlkind!"
"Horrors? Nah, they're all gorgeous but I'll take one out of your way," and Sirius tried to
pick up Fey, then with an air of exhaustion collapsed on a seat, "Nope, too heavy!"
Sirius got through girlfriends quicker than anyone could count and it seemed that his
latest target was Fey who was just as much of a flirt as he was!
"You just aren't fit enough Sirius," said Fey "Someone'll have to make sure you get lots
of exercise before the Quidditch season starts..."
Sirius' eyes lit up, "And you are just the girl to help me aren't you..."
James left them to flirt and turned to Lily, "Did you miss me?" he asked quietly.
Lily just smiled and said "I spent my summer with another guy, who filled your place
very easily," she wanted to see how he would react, would he be jealous? She was
pleased to see that although he didn't say anything a flicker of worry flashed in his eyes.
"Sam!" she called sticking her head out of the train window "Come in this carrage, you
can sit with me and my friends."
Moments later a tall redhead appeared, grinning from ear to ear, "Let me get my luggage
on first, then you can introduce us-"
Just then the last whistle blew for everyone to get on.
Sam shoved his trunk in and slammed the door shut just as the train began to move off.
He looked around as Lily introduced him to her friends. "I've heard a lot about you all, and
most of its been good!" He noticed the boy with messy black hair and glasses was looking
a bit jealous that Lily was hanging onto his arm. He smiled at him, "You must be James,
Lily hasn't stopped talking about you all summer, did you know she-"
"Sam, will you shut up!" Lily said going red.
"It's alright Lil, you go and gossip with your girlfriends and let me find out the best way to
embarrass you!" Sam was actually looking forward to telling James just how much Lily had
talked about him over the summer.
Once her friends had dragged Lily away the boy introduced as Remus sat down next to
Sam.
"Exactly how many thousend times did she mention his name over the summer? I think
every owl I had from James had her name in it at least twice!"
Sam grinned, "About a hundred! Did you know she has a photo of him in that locket she
always wears!" Judging by Remus' reaction he didn't know, so Sam continued, "And she
has a picture of him by her bed...You have no idea how cross she got with me for spending
the whole summer teasing her! My lil cousin-"
"She's your cousin?!?" Remus was startled then he wondered why he hadn't noticed it
before, they did look very similar.
"Yeah, I know, hard luck for me to have such a babe for a cousin, but even if I had tried to
chat her up then I wouldn't have got anywhere...She's fallen for James in a big way."
Sirius leant over, "Hey I hate to break up the discussion of the delectable Lily but did you
see where James went? One minute he's here, then he's not!" Sirius had missed most of
the conversation, "I think he was jealous of how much attention Lily was giving you!"
Sam didn't want James to be cross with him for no good reason so he set off down the
train to look for James before Lily noticed he was gone.
He found him in the prefects carrage talking to a boy with a squeaky voice.
"Uh...James can I have a word?" Sam said.
James didn't really want to talk to Sam but he looked so worried that he agreed. What did it
matter if Lily had got herself a boyfriend. He wasn't her keeper. Although sending him down
to talk to him was a bit mean to say the least, last time he had seen Lily he thought she felt
the same but-
"James," Sam was saying, "I don't want you to have the wrong idea about Lily, I like her and
I-"
"I'm not her keeper, I don't care if she has a boyfriend-"
Sam cut across him "Remus and Sirius think you do, but that isn't the point, I'm Lily's cousin
not her boyfriend and if her behavior this summer is anyhting to go by then its you who she's
in love with anyway!"
James was stunned. And he felt more than a bit stupid. "I thought that you and her were-"
"Forget it. Can we go back to the others? By the way, did you know that she hasn't stopped
talking about you all summer..."
Chapter Two: The First Night
At the feast that evening Sirius noticed that James and Lily were almost totally oblivious to
all that was going on around them and took no more than about three seconds to point this
out to his friends. Then he turned his attention to more important matters, like Fey who was
taking up most of his concentration as he fought to get her attention with Kat who he thought
must be constantly interrupting them to get his attention, after all the girls had spent the who
le day gossiping they couldn't possibly have anyhting left to say to each other.
That night as the Gryffindor girls were settling down to go to sleep they talked mostly about
the boys and who they liked better and why...
"Of course there's no neaed to ask Lily who her favourite is," said Kat, "We all noticed how
she couldn't take her eyes off of him didn't we Fey,"
"Actually I think our dear friend Fey was too busy flirting with the not-so-serious-Sirius to
notice anything going on around her!" said Lily, eager to turn the attention away from herself,
"She wouldn't have even noticed if I'd kissed James!"
"Don't you three ever sleep?" at the other end of the dormitary the other two occipants, Ria
and Jess were trying to get to sleep but for the last hour Kat, Fey and Lily had been
gossiping so loudly that it was impossible for them to do anything.
"Do you really like him as a boyfriend Fey?" Lily asked.
"Who, James?" said Fey a bit too innocently.
"SIRIUS!!" yelled Lily. "Oops was that a bit loud?" and they all dissolved into giggles which
came to halt as they heard someone come up the stairs.
Sirius stuck his head into the room. "You called?"
All the girls shrieked and threw pillows at him, trying to get him out.
He ran downstairs and back up the other staircase to his room.
"You took a long time just to find your wand, I thought you knew where it was?" said James.
"Ah but I heard my name and couldn't resist going to see what the lovely girls were saying
about me!"
"You didn't go into-"
"Yup, their room!" Sirius grinned. "I think they'd been having a nice chat about us poor boys
and just how much they love us!"
"You aren't setting me a very good example are you?" said Sam, "I mean leaving it til nearly
midnight before breaking any rules on my first night here!"
"What do you suggest then. We can't get caught any more, we're prefects now," said Sirius
trying to be serious but failing miserably.
"Well," said Sam sitting up on the end of his bed, "You said my lil cousin and her friends
were talking about us..."
Back in the girls room Lily was trying to figure out why the door had opened by itself.
"It couldn't have been a ghost could it, even Peeves isn't stupid enough to sneak into a girls
dormitary at night."
"So it must be a person who is still alive." said Kat.
"That really narrows it down a lot," said Fey sarcastically.
Then Ria had an idea, "Whoever it is must still be in here, unless they came in with Sirius
and they just left, so if we go and find Sirius-"
"He can tell us who it is!" finished Jess.
"Off you go Fey," said Lily.
"Why me?" said Fey, apart from anything else she did not want Sirius to see her in her
teddy bear pyjamas.
"He'll talk to you. And if he doesn't then say you'll give him a kiss if he tells you!" Lily
dissolved into laughter.
Fey glared at her then stormed out.
However theonly person in the boys dormitary was Peter who was fast asleep.
She went back into the girls room looking shocked.
"Has the door been opened since I went out?" she asked. When Kat confirmed that it
hadn't, Fey looked looked as though she was going to kill someone. Instead she said "I will
kill you for this, if you ever do this to any of us again any of you I swear that I will not let you
live to remember what you've seen! Get out now! And Sirius wait down in the common room
for me or I will never speak to you again!"
The door opened and shut itself.
Once she was sure they'd gone she collapsed onto the floor and couldn't get up for five
minutes she was laughing so much.
Once she had calmed down enoughh to explain what the boys had done the others were
ready to go and make the boys suffer, but Fey had areason for wanting Sirius to be nice
to her.
Sirius sat down waiting for Fey to come and kill him. Remus, James and Sam had run back
up to their room laughing and had called back at Sirius that they would listen to the
conversation from the safety of their room but were not gonna help him at all!
Sirius actually felt quite bad at sneaking into the girls room and eavesdropping, not that it
had been his idea or even that they'd heard anything. More than anyhting else he was afraid
that Fey was gonna want nothing more to do with him, so he was relieved when she came
down and didn't start yelling at him.
"Why did you do it?" She put on a stern face but was desperately trying not to laugh at his
expression.
Sirius just looked at the floor, then remembering that James and the others were probably
watching he said
"You look very pretty when you are angry."
She glared at him.
"Sorry. You aren't mad at me are you? Only I'd hate to upset such a pretty-" he stopped at
the look on her face. "What can I do to make it up to you?"
"Did you say you'll do anything to make it up to us?" When he nodded she smiled and said
"Good."
"Uh...what am I gonna do?"
"You'll see."
Chapter Three: Revenge Is Sweet
For the next few weeks Sirius, Sam, James and Remus kept out of the girls way as much
as they could. But this was not easy as James and Remus had been conned into doing Lily
and Kats homework and anything else they wanted, which amused everyone else in
Gryffindor for hours.
Sam had been embarrassed by Lily who took it upon herself to tell all their friends just as
much about him as he had about her and James. This also included why he had come to
Hogwarts, which he hadn't told anyone. It turned out that his headmaster at his previous
school had got a liitle bit fed up of Sams practical jokes, mainly because they were played
on him, but it was a potions lesson which got him expelled. He had managed to blow up his
classroom and turn everyone in it a violent shade of pink and they could only go 'normal
coloured' again with a potion that took three weeks to make!
Sam had left at the end of that year and had gone to live with Lily for the summer. It had
been decided that he should attend Hogwarts with her as a good influence over him,
hopfully to calm him down.
This had not worked at all!
By Hallowe'en it seemed that all was back to normal.
Until Hallowe'en morning. It was the weekend of their first Hogsmeade visit and it had
started snowing.
An owl came for Sirius at breakfast time. The message read
Sirius
meet me round the back of the shrieking shack at midnight
don't think you are getting off lightly
Fey
Up until then he'd thought he'd got off quite lightly but now he wasn' so sure.
After the feast the girls had gone to the library which was the only place quiet enough to talk.
"Aren't you going to tell us what you are going to do?" Lily asked.
"No, just go back to the others and I'll see you later." Fey was hoping that this was going to
work. She only wanted Sirius to be shocked into admitting he liked her. She had decided to
make the most of getting him alone.
Sirius walked up to the Shrieking Shack on his own. He had used the passage from the
Whomping Willow to get there, but he hadn't told the others that he was going or even that
he'd got the note.
He really liked Fey and wanted to tell her, but he was afraid that she'd laugh at him or think
he was joking.
He walked round the back of the Shack, but Fey wasn't to be seen.
"Fey?" He called out but there was no reply. "Fey? Is this a joke? Yeah, very good, you
got me worried."
Then the moon came out from behind a cloud and lit up the shadowy walls of the Shrieking
Shack.
He saw her in a crumpled heap at the foot of the house. He ran over to her, she was out
cold. He took off his cloak and wrapped it round her. He was really worried, what had she
done?
"Fey? It's Sirius. Wake up. Fey?"
He picked her up and carried her into the shack. He knew he couldn't carry her back
through the tunnel, he wasn't supposed to know it was there, it was only because this was
where Remus went at full moon that they knew it existed.
She was waking up.
"Fey?"
She looked up at him. "Must have had too much to drink at the feast."
"What?" Sirius looked at her puzzled, she must have knocked herself on the head.
"This has got to be a dream." she murmered. "Waking up in a nice secluded house all on
our own."
"Are you alright?"
"Mmm. I decided that if you weren't gonna be serious then I'd have to make you be. This
was the only place I could think of." She kissed him, then pulled out her wand and vanished.
"Fey?" said Sirius. He was really confused now. "Where are you?"
She laughed. "You've got to tell me the truth to everything I say or I can't reappear! And I
won't let you leave either!"
"Why do you tease me so much? Answer or I can't come back!"
Sirius groaned. It had just struck him. It was full moon. Remus would be coming up here
any time now. He remembered him saying that he was going to leave at about midnight. He
had to tell the truth. But he didn't really know why he teased her so much.
"Uh...its because I like you." She laughed but didn't reappear. "I really like you. A lot."
"You have to do better than that Sirius."
He could hear voices now. Remus must be coming.
"Ok. I really like you, would like you to be my girlfriend and all that but if we don't get out
of here we'll be attacked by a werewolf!"
Fey reappeared with a pop. "What?"
He grabbed her hand and ran.
They collapsed in the common room half an hour later. It was empty as they had expected.
"Was that really a werewolf? How did you know it was there? Why-"
"I'd rather not talk about that. How about another kiss?" Sirius looked at her with his
'innocent, hopeful' face.
Fey looked at him. She could hardly resist it but now that she'd come this close to knowing
for sure she had to find out.
"It's Remus isn't it?" Sirius looked shocked. "I'm not stupid. Lily, Kat and me had worked it
out ages ago, but if he doesn't want us to know then it can go on like that."
"Promise to keep it a secret?" When she nodded he smiled and said "Good. Now back to
the matter of another kiss?"
They fell asleep in each others arms and when Fey woke up early the next morning she just
smiled and went back to sleep.
And that was how they were found the next morning by James and Lily.
By DaisyChain
(A/N this is my first fanfic and I have no idea where it's heading so if you have any ideas
for me then please review and tell me, even if you have no ideas then please review anyway
coz I would really like to know what you think.)
Disclaimer: none of this belongs to me, it is all the wonderful J.K. Rowling's, (except Fey
who lives in my head and tells me what to write). I am writing this for my own amusement
(however much it has been driving me mad!).
Chapter One: A New Term
It was the first of September and James Potter was at Kings Cross Station waiting to go
back to school. This year was going to be very different to the last one, that was for sure.
For starters he was a prefect, along with his friends Remus Lupin and Sirius Black,
although none of them knew how Sirius had got be a prefect, it wasn't as though he was
the sort of person to set a good example to young impressionable students!
He looked around, having got onto platform 9¾ his friends should be somewhere around.
He made his way down to a carrage near the back where he and his friends had sat for the
last four years, he knew he could sit in the prefects area but he would far rather be with his
friends. He had just settled his trunk in the corner when he heard familiar voices heading
his way, and within a few seconds Fey and Kat were hugging him, then giggling as he
tried to get their trunks on the train without breaking his back.
"Boo!" yelled another girl who had crept uo behind him, it was Lily his (sort of) girlfriend
"Almost made you drop it then didn't I!"
"Where's Sirius and Remus, I can't stand being outnumbered by you girls, what hope
have I got for surviving more than five minutes with you three giggling around me..."
although he had missed them over the summer, James was not very comfortable
around so many girls, they always knew everything about each other and when he said
the most innocent things they would go into more giggles and not calm down for hours!
He was in luck, at that very moment Sirius and Remus appeared...
"Never fear-"
"Your 'Oh-so-wonderful-friends' are here-"
"To relieve you from the-"
"Horrors of girlkind!"
"Horrors? Nah, they're all gorgeous but I'll take one out of your way," and Sirius tried to
pick up Fey, then with an air of exhaustion collapsed on a seat, "Nope, too heavy!"
Sirius got through girlfriends quicker than anyone could count and it seemed that his
latest target was Fey who was just as much of a flirt as he was!
"You just aren't fit enough Sirius," said Fey "Someone'll have to make sure you get lots
of exercise before the Quidditch season starts..."
Sirius' eyes lit up, "And you are just the girl to help me aren't you..."
James left them to flirt and turned to Lily, "Did you miss me?" he asked quietly.
Lily just smiled and said "I spent my summer with another guy, who filled your place
very easily," she wanted to see how he would react, would he be jealous? She was
pleased to see that although he didn't say anything a flicker of worry flashed in his eyes.
"Sam!" she called sticking her head out of the train window "Come in this carrage, you
can sit with me and my friends."
Moments later a tall redhead appeared, grinning from ear to ear, "Let me get my luggage
on first, then you can introduce us-"
Just then the last whistle blew for everyone to get on.
Sam shoved his trunk in and slammed the door shut just as the train began to move off.
He looked around as Lily introduced him to her friends. "I've heard a lot about you all, and
most of its been good!" He noticed the boy with messy black hair and glasses was looking
a bit jealous that Lily was hanging onto his arm. He smiled at him, "You must be James,
Lily hasn't stopped talking about you all summer, did you know she-"
"Sam, will you shut up!" Lily said going red.
"It's alright Lil, you go and gossip with your girlfriends and let me find out the best way to
embarrass you!" Sam was actually looking forward to telling James just how much Lily had
talked about him over the summer.
Once her friends had dragged Lily away the boy introduced as Remus sat down next to
Sam.
"Exactly how many thousend times did she mention his name over the summer? I think
every owl I had from James had her name in it at least twice!"
Sam grinned, "About a hundred! Did you know she has a photo of him in that locket she
always wears!" Judging by Remus' reaction he didn't know, so Sam continued, "And she
has a picture of him by her bed...You have no idea how cross she got with me for spending
the whole summer teasing her! My lil cousin-"
"She's your cousin?!?" Remus was startled then he wondered why he hadn't noticed it
before, they did look very similar.
"Yeah, I know, hard luck for me to have such a babe for a cousin, but even if I had tried to
chat her up then I wouldn't have got anywhere...She's fallen for James in a big way."
Sirius leant over, "Hey I hate to break up the discussion of the delectable Lily but did you
see where James went? One minute he's here, then he's not!" Sirius had missed most of
the conversation, "I think he was jealous of how much attention Lily was giving you!"
Sam didn't want James to be cross with him for no good reason so he set off down the
train to look for James before Lily noticed he was gone.
He found him in the prefects carrage talking to a boy with a squeaky voice.
"Uh...James can I have a word?" Sam said.
James didn't really want to talk to Sam but he looked so worried that he agreed. What did it
matter if Lily had got herself a boyfriend. He wasn't her keeper. Although sending him down
to talk to him was a bit mean to say the least, last time he had seen Lily he thought she felt
the same but-
"James," Sam was saying, "I don't want you to have the wrong idea about Lily, I like her and
I-"
"I'm not her keeper, I don't care if she has a boyfriend-"
Sam cut across him "Remus and Sirius think you do, but that isn't the point, I'm Lily's cousin
not her boyfriend and if her behavior this summer is anyhting to go by then its you who she's
in love with anyway!"
James was stunned. And he felt more than a bit stupid. "I thought that you and her were-"
"Forget it. Can we go back to the others? By the way, did you know that she hasn't stopped
talking about you all summer..."
Chapter Two: The First Night
At the feast that evening Sirius noticed that James and Lily were almost totally oblivious to
all that was going on around them and took no more than about three seconds to point this
out to his friends. Then he turned his attention to more important matters, like Fey who was
taking up most of his concentration as he fought to get her attention with Kat who he thought
must be constantly interrupting them to get his attention, after all the girls had spent the who
le day gossiping they couldn't possibly have anyhting left to say to each other.
That night as the Gryffindor girls were settling down to go to sleep they talked mostly about
the boys and who they liked better and why...
"Of course there's no neaed to ask Lily who her favourite is," said Kat, "We all noticed how
she couldn't take her eyes off of him didn't we Fey,"
"Actually I think our dear friend Fey was too busy flirting with the not-so-serious-Sirius to
notice anything going on around her!" said Lily, eager to turn the attention away from herself,
"She wouldn't have even noticed if I'd kissed James!"
"Don't you three ever sleep?" at the other end of the dormitary the other two occipants, Ria
and Jess were trying to get to sleep but for the last hour Kat, Fey and Lily had been
gossiping so loudly that it was impossible for them to do anything.
"Do you really like him as a boyfriend Fey?" Lily asked.
"Who, James?" said Fey a bit too innocently.
"SIRIUS!!" yelled Lily. "Oops was that a bit loud?" and they all dissolved into giggles which
came to halt as they heard someone come up the stairs.
Sirius stuck his head into the room. "You called?"
All the girls shrieked and threw pillows at him, trying to get him out.
He ran downstairs and back up the other staircase to his room.
"You took a long time just to find your wand, I thought you knew where it was?" said James.
"Ah but I heard my name and couldn't resist going to see what the lovely girls were saying
about me!"
"You didn't go into-"
"Yup, their room!" Sirius grinned. "I think they'd been having a nice chat about us poor boys
and just how much they love us!"
"You aren't setting me a very good example are you?" said Sam, "I mean leaving it til nearly
midnight before breaking any rules on my first night here!"
"What do you suggest then. We can't get caught any more, we're prefects now," said Sirius
trying to be serious but failing miserably.
"Well," said Sam sitting up on the end of his bed, "You said my lil cousin and her friends
were talking about us..."
Back in the girls room Lily was trying to figure out why the door had opened by itself.
"It couldn't have been a ghost could it, even Peeves isn't stupid enough to sneak into a girls
dormitary at night."
"So it must be a person who is still alive." said Kat.
"That really narrows it down a lot," said Fey sarcastically.
Then Ria had an idea, "Whoever it is must still be in here, unless they came in with Sirius
and they just left, so if we go and find Sirius-"
"He can tell us who it is!" finished Jess.
"Off you go Fey," said Lily.
"Why me?" said Fey, apart from anything else she did not want Sirius to see her in her
teddy bear pyjamas.
"He'll talk to you. And if he doesn't then say you'll give him a kiss if he tells you!" Lily
dissolved into laughter.
Fey glared at her then stormed out.
However theonly person in the boys dormitary was Peter who was fast asleep.
She went back into the girls room looking shocked.
"Has the door been opened since I went out?" she asked. When Kat confirmed that it
hadn't, Fey looked looked as though she was going to kill someone. Instead she said "I will
kill you for this, if you ever do this to any of us again any of you I swear that I will not let you
live to remember what you've seen! Get out now! And Sirius wait down in the common room
for me or I will never speak to you again!"
The door opened and shut itself.
Once she was sure they'd gone she collapsed onto the floor and couldn't get up for five
minutes she was laughing so much.
Once she had calmed down enoughh to explain what the boys had done the others were
ready to go and make the boys suffer, but Fey had areason for wanting Sirius to be nice
to her.
Sirius sat down waiting for Fey to come and kill him. Remus, James and Sam had run back
up to their room laughing and had called back at Sirius that they would listen to the
conversation from the safety of their room but were not gonna help him at all!
Sirius actually felt quite bad at sneaking into the girls room and eavesdropping, not that it
had been his idea or even that they'd heard anything. More than anyhting else he was afraid
that Fey was gonna want nothing more to do with him, so he was relieved when she came
down and didn't start yelling at him.
"Why did you do it?" She put on a stern face but was desperately trying not to laugh at his
expression.
Sirius just looked at the floor, then remembering that James and the others were probably
watching he said
"You look very pretty when you are angry."
She glared at him.
"Sorry. You aren't mad at me are you? Only I'd hate to upset such a pretty-" he stopped at
the look on her face. "What can I do to make it up to you?"
"Did you say you'll do anything to make it up to us?" When he nodded she smiled and said
"Good."
"Uh...what am I gonna do?"
"You'll see."
Chapter Three: Revenge Is Sweet
For the next few weeks Sirius, Sam, James and Remus kept out of the girls way as much
as they could. But this was not easy as James and Remus had been conned into doing Lily
and Kats homework and anything else they wanted, which amused everyone else in
Gryffindor for hours.
Sam had been embarrassed by Lily who took it upon herself to tell all their friends just as
much about him as he had about her and James. This also included why he had come to
Hogwarts, which he hadn't told anyone. It turned out that his headmaster at his previous
school had got a liitle bit fed up of Sams practical jokes, mainly because they were played
on him, but it was a potions lesson which got him expelled. He had managed to blow up his
classroom and turn everyone in it a violent shade of pink and they could only go 'normal
coloured' again with a potion that took three weeks to make!
Sam had left at the end of that year and had gone to live with Lily for the summer. It had
been decided that he should attend Hogwarts with her as a good influence over him,
hopfully to calm him down.
This had not worked at all!
By Hallowe'en it seemed that all was back to normal.
Until Hallowe'en morning. It was the weekend of their first Hogsmeade visit and it had
started snowing.
An owl came for Sirius at breakfast time. The message read
Sirius
meet me round the back of the shrieking shack at midnight
don't think you are getting off lightly
Fey
Up until then he'd thought he'd got off quite lightly but now he wasn' so sure.
After the feast the girls had gone to the library which was the only place quiet enough to talk.
"Aren't you going to tell us what you are going to do?" Lily asked.
"No, just go back to the others and I'll see you later." Fey was hoping that this was going to
work. She only wanted Sirius to be shocked into admitting he liked her. She had decided to
make the most of getting him alone.
Sirius walked up to the Shrieking Shack on his own. He had used the passage from the
Whomping Willow to get there, but he hadn't told the others that he was going or even that
he'd got the note.
He really liked Fey and wanted to tell her, but he was afraid that she'd laugh at him or think
he was joking.
He walked round the back of the Shack, but Fey wasn't to be seen.
"Fey?" He called out but there was no reply. "Fey? Is this a joke? Yeah, very good, you
got me worried."
Then the moon came out from behind a cloud and lit up the shadowy walls of the Shrieking
Shack.
He saw her in a crumpled heap at the foot of the house. He ran over to her, she was out
cold. He took off his cloak and wrapped it round her. He was really worried, what had she
done?
"Fey? It's Sirius. Wake up. Fey?"
He picked her up and carried her into the shack. He knew he couldn't carry her back
through the tunnel, he wasn't supposed to know it was there, it was only because this was
where Remus went at full moon that they knew it existed.
She was waking up.
"Fey?"
She looked up at him. "Must have had too much to drink at the feast."
"What?" Sirius looked at her puzzled, she must have knocked herself on the head.
"This has got to be a dream." she murmered. "Waking up in a nice secluded house all on
our own."
"Are you alright?"
"Mmm. I decided that if you weren't gonna be serious then I'd have to make you be. This
was the only place I could think of." She kissed him, then pulled out her wand and vanished.
"Fey?" said Sirius. He was really confused now. "Where are you?"
She laughed. "You've got to tell me the truth to everything I say or I can't reappear! And I
won't let you leave either!"
"Why do you tease me so much? Answer or I can't come back!"
Sirius groaned. It had just struck him. It was full moon. Remus would be coming up here
any time now. He remembered him saying that he was going to leave at about midnight. He
had to tell the truth. But he didn't really know why he teased her so much.
"Uh...its because I like you." She laughed but didn't reappear. "I really like you. A lot."
"You have to do better than that Sirius."
He could hear voices now. Remus must be coming.
"Ok. I really like you, would like you to be my girlfriend and all that but if we don't get out
of here we'll be attacked by a werewolf!"
Fey reappeared with a pop. "What?"
He grabbed her hand and ran.
They collapsed in the common room half an hour later. It was empty as they had expected.
"Was that really a werewolf? How did you know it was there? Why-"
"I'd rather not talk about that. How about another kiss?" Sirius looked at her with his
'innocent, hopeful' face.
Fey looked at him. She could hardly resist it but now that she'd come this close to knowing
for sure she had to find out.
"It's Remus isn't it?" Sirius looked shocked. "I'm not stupid. Lily, Kat and me had worked it
out ages ago, but if he doesn't want us to know then it can go on like that."
"Promise to keep it a secret?" When she nodded he smiled and said "Good. Now back to
the matter of another kiss?"
They fell asleep in each others arms and when Fey woke up early the next morning she just
smiled and went back to sleep.
And that was how they were found the next morning by James and Lily.
