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2

Evelyn soon realized that Sirius was nothing if not persistent, though, because he came to find her three days later, and this time she was really surprised to see him. It was after classes, and she was in the clock tower court yard. It wasn't that common place for her to be or a place were people usually hung out at all.

"How did you find me?" she asked when she saw him coming towards her.

"I have my ways," he said with a smile and sat down next to her. "So there's no use to try to hide. If that's what you're doing here."

"No. I was just trying to get some privacy. Having people around me the entire time... it tends to get to me sometimes. I'm not used to it."

"Didn't grow up in a big family then?"

"No. It was just me and my dad. His parents are dead, and... I never even met my mother's family. They didn't like Dad much."

"Because he was a muggler?"

"Yes." She had no idea why she was telling him these things. She was usually a pretty private person, but she'd gotten a disturbing letter from her dad earlier that day and that was one of the main reasons that she'd wanted to be alone.

"So your mom is... is she dead?"

"No."

Her mom'd had a depression, ran away from home, met her dad, got pregnant, had Evelyn. and named her after the most beautiful suicide before going back to her family—saying she didn't want anything to do with a half-blood. Evelyn's father hadn't met or heard from her since.

He'd told Evelyn about her, always in a respectful matter, but it was hard to hide the truth; she didn't want Evelyn. She was ashamed of her half-blood daughter.

"I ran away from home this summer," Sirius blurted out. "Or... I left them and they, sort of, decided I wasn't a part of the family anymore. They consider me a blood traitor."

She looked at Sirius, rather stunned by that confession. There had been rumors, of course, that he was living with the Potters. That he was on ends with his family had been pretty clear since the very beginning, it had been even more obvious when his brother had started at the school, being sorted into Slytherin. His mom's howlers were hard to miss as well. That was the point with howlers, after all.

"I guess we both are somewhat of a disappointment to our pureblood parents," she said and tried to look anywhere but at him. "Although, I only have one of those."

"Which lovely crazy pureblood family is your mom from?"

"Greengrass."

"Oh. We are distant relatives then."

"Wouldn't we be no matter what pureblood family she was from?"

"True," he agreed. "But with Greengrass it's actually more distant than with a lot of the others."

"In general you're probably related to most people here then?"

"A lot of them, at least."

"Nasty," she mumbled, and Sirius started to laugh.

"I try not to think about it too much."

"I bet. Could be disturbing to find out you've banged your aunt."

He laughed again and looked at her when she stood up. "Since I've said I was going to keep asking, think you'd agree to see me?"

"I'd say we just saw each other," she said with a smile and left him sitting on the ground.

Sirius was sitting on his bed, looking at the Marauder's Map, following the marker for Evelyn Saunders. She was currently walking towards the Ravenclaw tower, probably for the night. He'd left her alone the last two days, but was still keeping an eye on her now and then.

"Again?" James said when he walked into the room and flopped onto his bed. "That's a bit creepy, you know."

"Like you haven't done this with Lily," he muttered and kept looking as she walked through the common room to the dormitories. He assumed she was going to bed and closed the map. "Besides, you should be glad. This is what you wanted."

"No. I didn't want my best friend to get all lost in a girl. You're starting to look rather miserable."

"Oh," Remus said with a smile when he came into the room. "I expected to find you hunched over that map."

"He just put it away," James answered in his place. "Starting to think I did him a huge disservice when I suggested him snogging that girl a little. He's really obsessing."

"Yeah, I know," Remus sighed. "So I'm now sharing room with two guys obsessing about a girl. Guess I have to count myself lucky since it's not the same girl."

"I'm not obsessing. She's just... different. And..."

"She's not swooning whenever you're around," Remus said and took off his clothes.

That wasn't it. Or maybe that was a little the reason, but it was also... he wanted to know more about her. Her comment about her pureblood mom not wanting her, why on earth she'd been named after that woman, and what it was like to grow up with a muggler dad while knowing you were a witch. That must've been strange.

And... he wanted to taste those lips, because bloody hell, they were amazing. So full, pink and they looked so soft. Her black, curly hair was created to be fisted when making out. Then there was those eyes. So pretty. He had no idea how he could've been at Hogwarts for more than five years, into his sixth, without noticing her before.

"It's strange that I've missed her," he mumbled.

"Yeah... especially since we ended up waiting for her for a really long time that first day," Remus muttered.

"What?"

"Don't you remember? The hatstall. The hat could decided what house to put her in. Took seven minutes which apparently was almost a record."

He did remember that. Or he remembered that the professors had started looking a bit stressed when some girl sat on the chair with the sorting hat on for a really long time. How the silence in the room turned into a small buzz and how Minerva had talked to the girl afterwards. He'd heard that she was one of those who'd gotten stuck in a hatstall as well.

"That was her?" James asked.

"Yeah," Remus said in a yawn.

"How do you even remember those things?" James again.

"I didn't remember that it was her, Lily mentioned it the other day."

Sirius listened to his friends falling asleep and then reached for the map again. When he opened it he cursed once again about them not having thought about how names could overlap. When there were four girls in one room it was damn hard to see who they were and they hadn't added anything that allowed them to move names around when they're on top of each other. Then he noticed that there were only three names there and he had a feeling it was Evelyn's that was missing. He started to search the map, and considering it was late at night with not a lot of people walking about, it didn't take him long to find her, walking through the hallways and towards the astronomy tower. Since it wasn't wednesday, it should be empty now and he quickly got dressed, took the map, James' invisibility cloak and went towards the tower.

She stared at him when she saw him.

"How do you do that?"

"Told you," he chuckled when he sat down next to her, "I have my ways."

"Your 'ways' are starting to freak me out a little."

It was dark and he couldn't see her all that well, but she didn't sound freaked out. She sounded amused.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I couldn't sleep. Thought some air would make it better."

"You know that it's not allowed to sneak around in the middle of the night."

"I'm sure you know all about the rules. It's always best to know them so you know when you're breaking them."

"Precisely," he said and since his eyes were getting used to the dark, he could see her more clearly now. "And it allows me to blackmail girls into seeing me."

"How would seeing you be different to what we're doing now?"

"I wouldn't have to stalk you to see you."

"Will you keep stalking me if I say no?"

"For a while longer." He smiled at her. "But I'll stop if you agree and only meet you when you want to."

"Hmmm... I kind of like being surprised, so I'll keep saying no."

Oh, he liked that answer. A lot! "I'll make you a deal, I'll keep stalking you, but if you tell me you want to be alone, I'll leave you."

"Will you ever tell me how you find me?"

"Probably not." He got up and held out a hand for her. "But, I'll make sure you get back unnoticed every time."

"How?"

He held up James cloak and smiled. "With this." He stepped closer and enclosed them both under the cloak. "Now you just need to stay quiet and no one'll see us."

It was exhilarating having her so close when they silently walked towards the Ravenclaw rooms. He could smell her. Since becoming and animagus, he'd noticed that his sense of smell, even when not a dog, had become enhanced and being this close to her was intoxicating. It actually distracted him to the point where he almost missed Filtch and the only thing rescuing them was that she obviously wasn't as distracted as him and pulled them towards the wall, pinning him to it. With her back towards him, she held them there, and he could feel her holding her breath. He decided it was best if he did the same, since he had her hair just underneath his nose. It didn't help, though. He could still feel himself stiffen, and he just hoped she didn't notice.

Once Filch had turned the corner, she grabbed his hand and they carefully started walking again.

"This cloak is amazing," she whispered. "Is it yours?"

"No. It's James'. He doesn't mind me borrowing it." She was still holding his hand, but he didn't think she thought about it. "I hope you don't get the riddle wrong. You could be standing there waiting for a long time if you do."

The Ravenclaw tower didn't have a password, you had to get the riddle right and if you didn't, you were forced to wait until someone else came to let you in. He'd be more than happy to wait with her.

"It hasn't happened so far. I'm in that house for a reason."

They were at the top of the stairs, in front of the door leading to the tower and he wished it would've taken longer to get there.

"The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?" the bronze eagle said.

Sirius had no damn idea and for a second his hope got up, thinking he'd get to spend the full night with her, but those wishes were crushed quickly.

"Steps," Evelyn answered and then turned to him. "Until next time you do your creepy finding me thing."

"Yes. Until then," he smiled and then pointed towards the open door. "Are the riddles always like that?"

"Pretty much. Night," she smiled and disappeared through the door.

He went back to the Gryffindor room and put the map and the cloak into James' chest and laid down on his bed. She'd pretty much given him permission to stalk her, and he was going to do that until she told him to back off. Definitely.

-o0o-

"Wanna tell me where you disappeared last night?" Remus said with a smile.

It was just the two of them. James was at Quiddish practice and they hadn't seen Peter in a while. They were lying underneath the tree with their eyes closed.

"Noticed she wasn't in her bed," Sirius said with a smile.

"She's gonna freak out if you keep showing up no matter where she is. I might not know as much as you and James does about girls, but they tend to get uncomfortable if you keep showing up."

"I offered to only meet her after we'd agreed, but she said she liked surprises."

"You really are a dog," Remus laughed. "No idea how you do it."

He noticed someone standing next to them and opened his eyes. It was Lily and she looked angry. Very angry.

"I'm going to make this very clear," she said, glaring at him. "If you hurt her, I'll introduce you to the instant scalping hex."

"What?" he said and sat up, staring at her.

With a cruel smile she squatted down, leaning towards him. "I know how you value those dark curls. Would be a shame if you lost them. Along with your eyebrows, eyelashes and..." her eyes wandered down to his crotch, "other areas. Although, I've heard that it does make it look bigger."

Remus chuckled next to him, but Sirius stared at her in horror as she stood up, turned around and strode off.

"I like her," Remus laughed and laid back down.

"Think she'd do it?"

"Without a doubt." He was still laughing.

"It wasn't that funny."

"The comment about making it look bigger was."

Sirius chuckled. "It was. Wonder if she's right."

"Give it a try." He was still laughing a little. "Report back to me about the results."

"I will."

-o0o-

He managed to contain himself that night when he noticed her wandering the corridors. And the two night following, but the third, he grabbed James' cloak and held it up, looking at him.

"Have fun," was all James said.

He knew she was in a bathroom on the sixth floor. It wasn't in use, and the Marauders had used it when they read up on becoming an animagus. It was actually in this room he first transformed into a dog. He didn't see her when he first came in, but heard her.

"I must say, you're not much of a stalker." He turned around and noticed her sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall with a book in her lap. "I've been wandering the halls every night lately, and I was starting to think you've given up."

He sat down next to her. "I take it you missed me." It was actually quite thrilling to think that she'd been walking around, hoping that he'd show up.

"I wouldn't say 'missed'," she said with a smile and put the book down on the floor, "but if I have a stalker I expect him to lurk in the shadows when I walk around all unprotected."

"Maybe I did, but under the cloak. I might've followed you every night and you just didn't know about it."

"Ah! Didn't think about that. I'm gonna have to start throwing hexes around randomly. From what I heard, you seemed very interested in certain aspects of the instant scalping hex."

"Oh, yes. I can report that she was right, about... some of those aspects."

Instead of blushing, Evelyn laughed out loud. When he thought about it, he'd never seen her blush.

"She's a clever girl."

"What are you reading?"

"It's a muggler book. My dad sent it to me." She picked it up and held it up. "One hundred years of Solitude."

"Sounds boring," he said and took the book from her.

"It's not. It's... amazing." She took the book back. "Not sure how much sense it would make to you, though. It's... mugglers, after all."

"I'd be willing to give it a try."

"I'll lend it to you when I'm done."

"So..." he started. "There's another Hogsmead weekend coming up, think you'd go with me?"

"Uhhmm..."

"Or I can just keep stalking you," he said cheerfully, but it didn't feel nice at all.

"It's not... that I'm ashamed, or anything." She looked at him and must've noticed his expression. "I was hexed, the other day, by one of your admirers. And Lily caught another one trying to give me some hexed fudge, and... things like that. I wanna make sure it's worth all the fuss before I confirm the crazy bitches' suspicions."

He laughed. "Okay. I'll keep stalking you, but just so I know, you wondering around at night is an invitation to stalk?" He stood up and held out his hand to her, helping her off the floor.

"It might be. I guess asking you how you know if I'm wandering around is still futile?"

"Yes." He picked up the cloak. "Shall we?"

She nodded, and he enclosed them both in the cloak. When he carefully slid his arm around her waist, holding up the other in front of them, she didn't object. Unfortunately, they didn't meet anyone and soon they were by the Ravenclaw door.

"It is yours, but for others to use. What is it?"

"My name," Evelyn answered and the door opened. "Night," she mumbled, but didn't look at him.

She waited a few seconds and then left. It wasn't until he was on his way back that he realized that she'd been waiting for him to kiss her and he cursed his own stupidity. How the hell had he missed that? He never missed opportunities like that!

He was still angry by the time he got back into the dorms.

"All good?" James asked.

"I missed a shot. I can't believe I missed a shot!" All three of the oters chuckled, and he threw himself down on his bed. He held his hands in front of him. "She was waiting for it, and I didn't do it!"

"Sirius Black missed a shot. Ladies and gentlemen, mark this day in your calendar," Remus chuckled.

"Shut up. The lot of you, just shut up!" he grumbled before turning to Remus. "Tomorrow?"

"Yeah," Remus said with a smile. Even he had started to like his transformations these days, simply since he had company.