AN: Hello there! Here we are again. Another chapter earlier than I thought. It is also fairly short since I am still not sure where I am going with this. Anyway, I hope you like it!


"What in Merlin's..." Elayne stared at the slip of paper in front of her.

"What is it?" Florence asked. Instead of saying anything, Elayne handed her the paper slip from the anonymous sender.

I know it was you

It was written in a squiggly hand writing that looked as if it might have once been proper but almost forced into something unintelligible. She immediately searched the Great Hall for anyone watching their reaction. Florence, after her initial gasp, quickly joined her. No one was looking their way. Who could it be? She was just about to give up when Florence nudged her in the ribs. She turned to her friend to see where she was looking. She was looking at Sirius Black and Sirius Black was looking back at them. Rather, not looking at them, but glaring at them. Rather, not them, but at her. Elayne had no idea why he was radiating off so much hate, unless he was the one who wrote that note. Then again, James seemed completely unaffected.

Carefully, never letting her eyes drift towards him again, she made her way out of the Great Hall towards her first class.

"Oomph!" She collapsed on her butt after bumping into someone. A hand from the human wall offered to help her up. "Tha..." She stopped herself when she saw it was Sirius Black that she had walked into. He still wore that same glare. She dusted off her robes before rising to her fullest height which, unfortunately only reached to his chin. "Thank you for your assistance, scion Black." She said with her nose in the air while using all her focus to keep her face straight. Merlin, there sure were times when she was thankful for those gruelling Occlumency lessons. "If you'll excuse me." She said, expecting him to move away with the same grimace he usually wore whenever she addressed him like that.

He didn't. In fact, he still hadn't let go of her hand and as she tried to remove it, she found that she couldn't. Instead of the grimace, he wore a scowl. As she gazed at him, trying to figure out how much he knew, she couldn't help but notice his perfect wavy hair. Oh, how she wanted to run her hand through it!

"I don't like you." He said bluntly. She caught the breath in her throat. He pulled her in closer and looked down on her so that his nose was only an inch from hers. She could get lost in those eyes. Why would such an obnoxious person be such a, in lack of a better worse, babe? A perfect specimen in every way... until you got to know him. Even then girls flocked to him! "I don't know what kind of game you are playing with James but it needs to stop!" He hissed through those beautiful lips.

In one swift motion, she could enclose the space between them and kiss him. She knew he had fancied her at one point and perhaps there still was something there. Was this jealousy, perhaps? Before doing anything else, however, she took her time to remember Sirius the personality. Namely, a bully. She hated bullies. With that, her expression warped into a disgusted grimace, effectively making Sirius flinch backwards in surprise. Once he was the appropriate few feet away, she smoothed her features.

"There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding and I have no idea what this game is that you are implying I play with Potter. I can assure you, however, that your dislike is reciprocated. Excuse me!" And with a sniff of her nose, she turned around to find another way to Ancient Runes. A class that she, luckily, didn't share with Sirius Black.

As they filed into the classroom, she whispered to Florence, "Let's do it tonight."

Florence waited until they sat down before replying with a nod. "Let's."

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Elayne was busily studying the Marauder's Map while Florence went collecting money from their housemates. This party in honour of their Head of House, Filius Flitwick, birthday would be the greatest ever and, since there wouldn't be a Hogsmeade weekend for some time, they needed someone to sneak out to Hogsmeade to get all the props. That's where Elayne and Florence came in. They had for a long time wondered how Potter and his gang got around Hogwarts so smoothly at night and after carefully observing them and catching the occasional mistake from them, they had been able to learn their secret, or at least one of their secrets. Elayne did not doubt that they had many more. With that Elayne soon realized that Potter often had the map with him during prefect rounds and hitting two flies with one spell, they managed to conjure up a plan where Florence got the try snogging her long-time crush and Elayne managed to sneak the map right out of Potter's back pocket.

That was three days ago. Since then, they had studied the map thoroughly and followed the patterns each prefect and teacher took while doing their rounds. Since the schedule for rounds began anew every three days, they had them all covered now and Elayne had just returned from her own rounds with Potter and from what she could tell, he had been bothered by something but there seemed to be no suspicion aimed at her. Tonight would be the night and all the arrangements had been made.

After what seemed an hour, Florence burst into the room with her bottomless bag, hopefully filled with galleons.

"That Dick Cresswell was being difficult. He tried giving me fake galleons!" Florence vented and Elayne grimaced. She'd never liked Dirk Cresswell either, hence the nickname they had aptly given him. He was one of those Ravenclaws who thought their grades gave them liberties. That attitude along with his slightly too searching hands had ended with him being sent to the infirmary more than once. A wolfish took over Florence smooth face. "I took care of it, though."

Elayne couldn't help but return the grin and together, they marched down to the Ravenclaw common room and out beyond the eagle knocker that was the entrance to their tower. The map help tightly between their four hands, they managed to stay well away of any prefects and teachers until they reached a mirror on the fourth floor.

"How do you think we get behind it?" Elayne whispered to Florence. Her heart was beating rapidly and despite them taking a very roundabout route, she was out of breath. There were a few other passageways but those were either too dangerous or repeatedly guarded by either professors or Filch. It seemed, however, like they didn't know about this one yet. The problem with this one, however, was that they didn't know how to enter it and every time they had gone there to try it out, there had always been someone walking by, making it too suspicious for them to stay there for too long. In the end, they had decided to wing it.

"No idea." Florence admitted and brought out her wand. "Alohomora." Nothing happened. Florence grimaced. "I guess that would have been too easy."

Elayne chuckled slightly. "Let me try." She brought her own wand out and tapped the mirror twice. "O...pen." She gaped. Before she had even managed to finish, the mirror had swung open.

Florence quickly covered her mouth to stifle the laughter attempting to escape her. Only after closing the mirror behind them and walking for a few minutes did she calm down. "Too easy, right?" Elayne didn't answer. Instead she was busy looking at the map. "What is it?"

"Potter." Elayne said and pointed to the map where she saw not only a dot named James Potter but three more belonging to Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. They were right above them according to the map. Florence squinted with her eyes as she looked upon their moving dots.

"They're moving towards the Whomping Willow." She said as she watched Peter Pettigrew basically walk into the Whomping Willow and then the rest followed after. "How'd they get into it?"

"More importantly, why do you think they went there?" Elayne looked to her friend to see the same curious glint mirrored in her eyes.

"Hogsmeade is small, maybe we'll find out." Florence said while wiggling her eyebrows.

"Aberforth can wait." Elayne wiggled back.

With that, they hurried through the long tunnel.


AN: There we go! Hope you liked it! I know I am starting to enjoy it more and more. Review if you want or don't, one is going to make me happy, the other, meh. I'm out!

Btw, if you didn't know, I do not own Harry Potter and all that stuff that goes along with a proper disclaimer. I now jinx this disclaimer to apply to all future and past chapters of this story.