Emotions

Disclaimer: I do NOT own harry potter or anything to do with it (except the DVDs and books I have on my shelf of Corse ^. ^)

Memo: set in marauders ere. I'm not going to explain every last detail of the magical world in this fic because if your reading it you SHOULD have some knowledge of the goings on in the harry potter world (or as I like to call it, the potterverse!)."..." means speech and italic is thoughts.

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This chapter is in 3rd person and Sirius' point of view in thought.

Chapter 1: first meetings?

A red flash illuminated a dark corridor in the dungeons of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, shouts where herd bouncing off the cold stone walls. A green light soon followed the red. Spells were being sent in both directions along with shouts of various incantations. Everything stopped abruptly as muffled footsteps could be heard coming down the stone steps towards the two dualists. The torches on the walls ignited as they entered the corridor. The young woman walked right past the two acknowledging them only by name. "Black, Snape". The two known as Black and Snape looked on in awe. They were speechless. How did this girl know who they were? She emerged from a portrait of fruit a few minutes later, nodded her head to the pair as she passed and went out of sight.

Sirius Black starred at the girl as she left in amazement, not just at her unimaginable beauty, but also at the carefree air that surrounded her. He shook his head to get the image of the girl out of his head and turned back to his nemesis snivilus to finish their duel only to find that he had disappeared, most likely retreated back to the slytherin common room, the slimy git.

Sirius returned to the Gryffindor common room to meet his friends less than ten minutes later only to find the same girl as before sitting on the sofa with his friends as well as the one and only Lily Evans, object of his best friends' affections. is she eating a sandwich?. As he walked closer he could see that they were all talking and eating. He called out to them all "hey guys!"
"Hey Pad foot"
"How's it going pad"
"good evening Sirius" ah, a good old marauder welcome, moony needs to loosen up a bit though.
" Black" Evens is as cold as ever I see.

The girl that had grabbed his attention in the dungeons earlier only nodded in his direction before returning to her sandwich and staring into the fire with a bored expression. The light from the fire shone from the girls deep red hair that cascaded down her back and framed her porcelain face with elegant bangs.

"Hey pad?" Sirius snapped out of his stupor as he noticed James calling him and waving a hand in front of his face. He turned his back to the goddess by the fire as not to get distracted by her and gave his attention to his best friend. "You all right pads?" James looked concerned. Great now what do I say? 'Yeah I'm fine mate just wonderin who that fine piece of ass is by the fire?' No.

"Yeah I'm fine, um who's that?" Sirius said, momentary looking at the girl by the fire to indicate that she was who he was talking about. James peeked round Sirius to see who he was talking about and when he looked back he had a Cheshire grin on his face.
"Why do ya want to know paddy ol' boy?" this could get old fast
"just wonderin s'all" James' grin just got bigger, if that where possible.

James chuckled and patted him on the shoulder. "She's my cousin, her names Elizabeth but everyone calls her Liz or Mel." Mel? Why Mel?
"Why Mel?" James laughed again.
" 'cause she's always Mellow," that's ...odd.
"How come I've never noticed her before?" again James laughed at this.
"'Cause she used to be home schooled before this year, I reckon that if she wasn't you definitely would have noticed her. You seem to have now." Oh ha ha very funny wise guy.

Their conversation came to an end as the girl in question came and sat with us on the sofa. "Lily's coming down the stairs in a second, I heard her coming." she seems so... calm. At that exact moment lily appeared at the bottom of the stair case. Mel waved her over while subtle holding James' wrists to stop him messing with his hair. "Hey Lily, how are you?" her voice flowed elegantly with a laded back rhythm to it.
"Not bad I guess, all things considering" that's right, her parents died this summer didn't they?. Liz elbowed James discretely in the gut, he seemed to get the message as he choked out a reply.
"How you holing up Lils?"
"I'm doing OK thank you potter" He winced at the use of his surname.
"I heard you were staying at the leaky caldron since your sister got married, where are you staying during break?" she seemed momentarily shocked that he asked a sensible question without confessing his undying love for her.
"Um, here I guess" for a split second James seemed angry at this answer but as Liz put a small amount of pressure on his wrist he nodded, accepting this. Lily was taken aback by this, expecting him to offer her his residence. "Um, yeah...I...I'll just...um, go t-to bed" she all but sprinted to the stair case and took them two at a time. Wow was Evans impressed? Was James being normal around Evans? Is Liz smirking?
"Thanks Mel, I owe you one"
"No problem James. Now what is there to do for fun around here?"