DrarryTLA: Hi! This is the first non-Drarry story I've ever written for Harry Potter. But I have a good idea and I'm just gonna see how this turns out...

Disclaimer: I own Harry Potter not.

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Business and Pleasure

"Hey, Sirius!" James Potter yelled as he nearly knocked his best friend to the ground. Sirius yelped at the surprise attack.

"James! What'd you do that for?" Sirius yelled as he pushed James away from him. He looked around frantically to see if James's attack had scared away the group of people he had been watching... They were gone. "Grrr! Damnit!" he growled.

"What's wrong with you, mate?" James asked as he adjusted his glasses on his nose. They had a way of always going crooked. Very annoying if you asked James.

"You scared them off, idiot!" Sirius exclaimed as he glared at his best friend.

"Scared who off?" James asked running a hand through his trade-mark, messy black hair. No brushes on earth could tame the wild beast that was James Potter's hair. Many had tried and failed... Such noble warriors they had been!

"I was watching the Slytherins and you scared them off!" Sirius answered as he turned away and angrily made his way back inside the castle. Any students who got in his way were growled at or forcefully pushed away. Most of them though, could tell that Sirius Black was in no mood for people getting in his way and kept their distance. But to the unsuspecting first years who didn't know James followed behind Sirius to calm the up-roar of those left in his angry wake.

"Don't mind him," James smiled as he helped a Hufflepuff first year to her feet and gave her a handkerchief to dry her tears. "He's just a bit angry." He heard another student crying and ran ahead. It was a Ravenclaw first year this time. "Don't mind him, he's just upset with me."

"H-he made m-me d-drop my essay a-and then someone s-spilt i-ink on it," the Ravenclaw cried. Being a Ravenclaw the kid must have felt like his world had just ended. They prided themselves on being the smartest house at Hogwarts.

James reached forward and pulled the black parchment from the crying boy's hands. "Gomma," he whispered. The ink that had covered the boy's essay disappeared and he handed the parchment back to the boy before rushing off to find Sirius. The boy stared after James in a daze. He smiled and skipped off to his common room trying to think of something really special he could do to repay the Gryffindor who had helped him... but first he would need to know his savior's name...

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"Sirius! Bloody hell! You just made ten people cry!" James yelled as he finally found Sirius up in Gryffindor Tower. They were in their third year dorms.

"I did? That's a new record, yeah?" Sirius asked with a chuckle.

"Yeah, it is," James laughed. It amazed him how he could never stay mad at his best friend. They had been friends since birth and knew everything there was to know about each other. Well, except why his best mate was staring at Slytherins, their sworn enemies. "And why were you staring at Slytherins?" James yelled once again angry. "Slytherins!"

Sirius dropped down onto his four-poster bed and let out a deep breath. "I can't help it," he said in annoyance. "I don't know what's come over me." He jumped up and pulled at his shoulder-length brunette hair in frustration. "Someone in that house just smells so good, but I can't pick out which one of them it is. I was so close until you came and scared them off!" He fell back onto the gold and red blanket.

James smirked at his best friend even though said friend was too busy wallowing in his misery to notice. "Oh, I see," he said.

"See what?" Sirius asked as he continued to lay back on his bed.

"You like a Slytherin," James said as if he said it all the time. He took a step back.

"What did you say?" Sirius yelled as he sprang from the bed hoping to hit James where he had been a moment ago, but since the raven-haired teen had moved back, Sirius just landed on the floor with an undignified grace. "Ow!" he exclaimed as James burst out laughing.

"So quick to act... but so slow to think," James managed to get out between fits of laughter.

"Oh, shut up, you git! I don't like a bloody Slytherin!" Sirius growled as he stood up and rubbed his sore bum.

"That's not what it sounded like to me," James said as his laughter finally ceased. "They smell so good. I don't know what's come over me. Honestly, mate! You're in love with one of those snakes!" He tapped his chin in thought. "But which one?"

"I don't like any of them!" Sirius exclaimed more to prove it to himself than to James. He couldn't like a Slytherin, not after he had sworn to hate that house forever. His entire family had been in Slytherin and he was proud to be the only Gryffindor on the whole Black Family Tree. There was no way he liked a Slytherin.

"Face it, Sirius, you like a Slytherin," James said as he came forward and patted his taller friend on the shoulder. "Now we need to figure out which one... We'll need Peter and Remus to help on this one." Peter Pettigrew was sometimes annoying but they allowed him to hang around with them. He was great at sneaking around to get information and he would jump at the chance to help James since he pratically worshipped the ground James walked on. Remus was just a genius and could help them think up a fail-proof plan. But they had no idea where to find him. He had been disappearing a lot recently...

"Fine," Sirius grumbled. "But I don't like a Slytherin, one of them just smells good."

"Whatever you say," James laughed as he and Sirius went to go find the last two members of their team.

Later that day...

"Peter!" James whispered as he motioned at the small, ratty boy from the back corner of the library where they had decided to meet. Sirius sat with his arms crossed over his chest looking bored. Peter heard his name and turned his beady eyes to where James and Sirius sat. He made his way over to them.

"Hi, James!" the small boy exclaimed quietly as he sat next to James. "Hello, Sirius," he added with a little less enthusiasm.

"Did you get the information?" James asked excitedly.

"I did," Peter said proudly. James looked at him expectantly and Sirius sat up with a bit more interest. "The group Sirius had been looking at consisted of two second year girls, four third year girls, a seventh year girl, two sixth year girls, and a second year boy."

"Did you find any names?" James asked. Peter nodded his head.

"Victoria Bishop: second year, Amelia Charmers: second year, Isabella Ward: third year, Des'ree Falso: third year, Valda Weathers: third year, Cassondra Helsing: third year, Dakota Blacksmith: seventh year, Daphne and Marie Walters: sixth years, and Lucius Malfoy: second year," Peter answered. He had a great memory and it had barely taken any time to gather up the names of the Slytherin group. Sirius hadn't been the only one watching them...

"This will be easy!" James exclaimed loudly.

"Shhh!" Madam Pince, the librarian, said sternly hitting the table with her wand as she walked by.

"Sorry," James whispered but after Pince was out of sight he stuck his tongue out at her. "Hag," he mumbled. Suddenly something hit the top of his head. He turned to shout but then shrank back in his chair. It was Pince. Sirius and Peter fell from their chairs from laughing. Pince had ears everywhere in her library and always popped up out of nowhere when their was any sort of trouble, or if James and friends were having another one of their 'secret meetings.'

"Madam Pince," James said as he regained his confident composure. Peter and Sirius stopped laughing and got back in thier chairs. James grabbed Pince's hand and got on one knee. "What I ment to say was, will you marry me?" he asked seriously as he kissed the back of the librarian's hand. Peter and Sirius were stunned into silence with their mouths hanging open.

Pince stuttered, her mouth open too. James jumped up. "I'll wait for you, my love," he said with a bad attempt at a Spanish accent. He turned and bolted for the exit. Peter and Sirius snapped out of their shock and quickly followed.

"James, you sly dog!" Sirius yelled as they finally slowed to a walk just outside the castle doors and onto the front lawn. "Asking Pince to marry you! Did you see her face?"

"Did you see your face?!" James laughed as he shoved Sirius playfully. Peter laughed as well but quickly jumped out of the way when James and Sirius ended up on the ground. Sirius had James pinned beneath him. But then James did a complicated hand motion and then had Sirius in a head lock. It took a moment for Peter to realize he wasn't the wrestling pair's only audience. He coughed to get thier attention. "James! Sirius!" he whispered. The two fighting teens stopped and looked up, Sirius pinned beneath James this time with James pinning his arms above his head. They froze when they saw the group behind Peter...

It was the Slytherins Sirius had been watching earlier.

Sirius quickly threw James off of him and shot up into a standing position. He straightened his clothes as best he could and then stood as if he ruled the world and hadn't just been found in a comprosing position with his best guy friend. "Hello," he said cooly. "What are you staring at?"

The older girls in the group just scoffed and turned to walk away. Their robes robes seemed to float behind them as they walked away, well all but one walked away. The second year boy had stayed behind with a smile tugging at his beautifully angled features. His silver eyes swirled like melted mercury as he approached Sirius. He had long platinum blonde hair pulled back away from his face. He reached long pale fingers into a pocket on his robe and pulled out an embroidered handkerchief. And as he moved closer Sirius's senses were invaded by the sweetest smell he had ever smelled. It was the smell he kept smelling from the Slytherins. This boy was the one he had been looking for.

"Here," the boy said as he handed Sirius the handkerchief with the initials L. M. on it in silver. "You've got dirt, here... and here," he said as he gently touched Sirius's nose and cheek. Sirius was in a daze and stared after the boy as he walked away without a backwards glance. His robes billowed behind him as if they were magically supposed to do so. He looked like an angel walking away and Sirius noticed that the boy's hair was braided and tied at the end, was a Slytherin green ribbon.

"Sirius," James said as he stood next to his dazed friend. He felt slightly dazed himself. He shook his head to clear it. "Oh, lover boy!" he said waving his hand in front of Sirius's face.

"What?" Sirius sighed dreamily as he turned slowly to look at James.

"I think we found your Slytherin," James laughed as he gently slapped Sirius.

"What the hell was that for?" Sirius yelled as he rubbed his cheek.

"Now that you're back to normal," James said as he began walking back up to the castle, "we can think of our next course of action. Come, Peter, Sirius, we must find Remus."

Peter followed behind James obediently while Sirius looked in the direction the Slytherins had just disappeared to see if he could see the boy. He was gone. Sirius followed behind his two friends, putting the white handkerchief into the pocket of his trousers and wiping his face with the ends of his robes.

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