Your Hidden Past

Pairs of black shoes clicked upon the marble staircase melodiously, taking the owners to places they wanted to be. After all of the shoes had disappeared, the stairs were quiet again. That was, until a pair of black shoes came running upon them.

The portraits looked in sympathy at a young girl, whose bag was overly full as she ran on the stairs, cursing herself.

'I can't believe I overslept! How can this happen?' said the girl loudly.

'I had set my alarm, -' she raised one finger. '- I went to bed early, -' she raised another one. Hesitantly, she put the second one down. '- alright, maybe three in the morning isn't that early,' she reasoned.

One of the portraits laughed and the girl gave the person occupying it a half-smile. She trudged along the stairs in a hurry, remembering she was late for class.

When she reached the last step, she lost her balance and slid down the stairs.

It all happened very fast. The stairs started spinning around wildly and the girl clutched the railing, trying to regain her balance. The stairs started spinning around more wildly, looking like a blur of colours, and detached itself from the platform below and the platform above, so that it was hovering in mid-air.

One of the portraits shrieked loudly, when suddenly, without a warning, the spinning stairs disappeared with a bright flash.

As if nothing had happened, another staircase fell from the ceiling and clicked into place with the platforms. The portraits all had a very far away look on their faces and one of them threw an empty glance at the staircase before muttering 'Odd, I could have sworn there was a girl standing there.'

Meanwhile, the stairs with the girl upon it fell from another ceiling, and clicked into place, connecting itself with two platforms that looked less worn.

The girl was shaking and when she started to get up, she lost her balance and she fell back down.

'Oof!'

'Ow!'

The girl's vision was spinning wildly when the figure pushed her off. She gasped loudly when she saw two angry black eyes look at her.

'Snape?' she questioned.

'How do you know my name? I've never seen you before,' said the black eyed person.

'But, -' said the girl. Then she frowned and looked over the face of the person she was lying upon. She jumped up quickly and felt the beginning of the railing poke in her back.

'Severus Snape?'

Severus Snape sneered and dusted himself off. Then he looked at the girl in front of him and his eyes flared over her body quickly. The girl felt sick.

'I don't know you, -' said Severus silkily, walking over to her. He brushed a strand of hair out of her face.

'-but I'm sure that I wouldn't forget such a pretty face.'

The girl slapped his hand away and was about to open her mouth, when somebody else did it for her.

'Oy, Snivellus! You wouldn't happen to be hitting on the poor girl, would you? I feel sorry for her already!'

Severus stepped away quickly and his lip turned into a familiar scowl. He glared at the black haired boy that came running towards them and he smiled coyly at the girl.

'We'll meet again,' he said, before walking onto the stairs briskly.

The black haired boy stopped in front of the girl, trying to catch his breath.

'Sirius?' gasped the girl.

Two mischievous grey eyes looked up at her. The girl stared at him, and then she fainted.

Sirius Black caught her just before she hit the ground and he grinned.

'I know I'm handsome, but this is ridiculous.'

He scooped the girl up and brought her to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, came rushing out of her office the minute he entered the Hospital Wing.

'Black, what have you done now?'

'I didn't do anything!' wailed Sirius loudly, placing the girl on a bed near him. 'She saw me and she fainted, I swear!'

The nurse huffed and bent herself over the girl. She searched her face and she frowned. Then she took a sharp intake of breath and stumbled away from the bed.

'Fetch Professor Dumbledore, immediately!'

Sirius's smile disappeared and he walked out of the Hospital Wing quickly, his mind set on the strange girl with brilliant brown eyes, that looked like she had seen a ghost when she looked at him.

Author's Note: Is this good or horrible? I came up with it just now and it took me over an hour to type -groans- If I get one review, I'll be adding more!