3
"Padfoot! Woh there what's going on mate?" James said jogging to keep up with his friend's brisk walk.
"Lily shouldn't have brought her" Sirius said trying to regain composure slamming his fists against the wall in defeat.
"Honestly mate I don't see what you have against her she seems nice enough and gets along really well with the girls, plus she is bloody gorgeous."
"You don't know her like I do if only you knew..." Sirius cut himself short, "Just give me a moment, I will come back in and be civil for you and Lily just start the movie I'm coming."
James looked at his friend slightly confused as far as James knew Sirius never kept secrets from him, but he knew that Sirius' hatred goes further than her just being a Slytherin it wasn't like him to get so riled up especially not about a girl. "Ok mate I will see you back in there."
James walked into a very cheerful atmosphere back in the dorms room, it was as if the fight never happened, Lizzy was telling them another joke that she heard and everyone was roaring with laughter. Lily saw James come in and stood up offering everyone more drinks and wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes. James grabbed her hands and kissed her forehead affectionately
"Is Sirius ok?" Lily whispered James nodded and Lily smiled at her friends, "She is a really great girl James, She fits in so well, I really like her, but you don't have to choose sides, you don't have to bruise your friendship with Sirius I can take care of it."
James smiled at Lily; one thing he had always loved about her is her big heart and talent for seeing into people for who they really are. James is pretty sure that's the only reason he got the girl, because he finally let her see into his heart.
"Its ok love he's coming back in once he cools down, don't worry you can keep your friend." He whispered to her, "Alright now who's ready for some James Bond!"
"BOOOOO!" all the girls shouted except Lizzy who said, "What's James Bond?"
Everyone laughed, "You my girl have so much to learn, too bad for the boys it's Cinderella then the notebook tonight!"
This was met by cheers from the girls and groans from all the guys except Peter. "Wow Pete, we have to find you a girl and fast!" Remus joked when he heard his friend shriek yay like all the girls.
"Just because he is more sensitive unlike you prats! Doesn't mean he's less of a man, some girls even find that sexy! Don't listen to them Pete your awesome!" Lizzy said winking at him causing him to turn burgundy with a blush.
"Wow I think you just made his life there Liz" James said nudging his friend as he sat down next to Lily on the sofa along with Remus and Maddy. Alice and Frank cuddled on the floor and Peter sat in the arm chair, leaving the love seat to Lizzy all by herself. She conjured up a blanket and snuggled stretching across the seat and let loose a big yawn.
"Don't fall asleep yet Lizzy! You just get ready for the best movies of your life!" Maddy said handing her a mug of hot chocolate and dimming the lights.
About ten minutes into the movie a sheepish Sirius made his way back into the room and looked for a place to sit, the only room being on the couch occupied by Lizzy, seeing this she sat up and shuffled over, he looked at James who gave him an encouraging look and Sirius went and sat next to her.
Lizzy gave him a smile and offered some blanket, he figured she was going to be sticking around a while and might as well make the best of it and accepted the blanket. "Thanks" he muttered and they watched the movie.
At the end of the movie the girls were all crying, James even shed a small tear. The credits rolled and Lily turned on the lights to find Maddy leaning on Remus both of them sleeping peacefully. Alice and Frank had left half way through the movie, muttering something about getting up early for quidditch practice before the tryouts.
Lily checked James's wristwatch and it read 12:30 "Oh my we must have talked later than we thought, good thing tomorrows Saturday!" Lily yawned, "I'm off to bed thou, here Lizzy I will get you some pyjamas and you can wash up. And they left the boys.
"See it wasn't that bad" James said to his friend who conjured another blanket up and stretched out on the couch changing into his boxers.
"Ok fine it wasn't bad but she didn't open her big mouth" Sirius said stubbornly taking up the rest of the couch.
"Whatever mate, just promise you won't murder her in her sleep please for the sake of me and Lily's relationship! Good night mate" James said patting his shoulder and rolling his eyes as Peter led out a loud snore in his chair.
There Sirius lay staring at the ceiling thinking about the interesting day back at school, how unexpected some of the events were.
"I'm sorry that's the best I could do, it turns out I forgot my other pair of pyjamas"
"Don't worry about it Lily, it serves its purpose thank you so much for everything it's been the most wonderful evening." Lizzy said closing the door quietly behind her. And tiptoed into the common room and saw Sirius looking at her.
She looked gorgeous as usual, her hair was braided in one messy braid down tossed over her shoulder, and she had an overlarge white t-shirt on with small shorts that you could barely see under her t-shirt.
A little dark haired girl made her way over to his bed the tears were falling down her face and her teddy bear was hanging limply by her side. She didn't have to say anything, Sirius knew what she had witnessed and been forced to do; he himself had gone through the same punishment.
She moved to the side of his bed and grabbed his hand, "Siri" she sobbed causing his heart to break, he moved over making room for her in his bed, she lay next to him, he wrapped his arms around her tiny body and together they dreamed of a better life.
"Don't worry izzy" then 10 year old boy said, "Soon we will be at Hogwarts and escape this place, just remember the plan stick to the plan!"
"Hey" she whispered making way to the couch slowly, "Mind if I sit with you?"
Sirius shrugged his shoulders and moved his feet out of the way; she sat next to him and curled up under the blanket shivering slightly. He offered her more blanket and moved slightly closer hoping that his body heat would warm her up.
"Hey izzy, I'm sorry about what I said" He mumbled she looked up at him, her big brown eyes widened with shock of his apology and hearing her childhood nickname. He laughed quietly, "don't look so shocked it was a genuine apology, I'm sorry I was out of line."
"It's ok Sirius I deserve it, it wasn't right of me to just waltz in here and expect you to be like the old times." Lizzy said shaking her head, "It's just I've regretted my choice so long, and I see you happy with all your great friends, you stuck to the plan you changed your stars one thing I was always scared of. When Lily found me in the hallway when I was hiding like the coward I am, from the Slytherin common room, she was so nice and I thought here's a chance, the chance I've been waiting for to follow Sirius and change my stars, give myself hope and away out of the life that I chose."
They were silent for a minute both reflecting on what she just said until Sirius moved closer to her and lifted her chin until she looked in her eyes, "Well then don't let anyone stop you not even an arrogant prat like myself."
She smiled a small smile that made him melt inside still after all these years. She grabbed his hand over the blanket, "Thanks Sirius" she gave it a tight squeeze and let go.
"Why may I ask were you hiding from your own house, your Malfoy's girl they probly worship you."
"ha-ha funny story, I'm not Malfoy's girl, ya sure I've been with him a couple of times, not out of choice, trust me if I had it my way he would have fallen off the end of the earth, and I avoided him all summer saying I was sick and staying out at parties late or faking be grounded, well he found out yesterday that I was lying to him, and that didn't fly well. So basically he said tonight was to makeup for the whole summer. I was hoping that he would get drunk and pass out before I got in, that's why I was trying to avoid going in as long as I could."
"Why don't you break it off with him?" Sirius asked genuinely.
"You try breaking up with a guy who is practically the most terrifying, powerful Slytherin around, who has connections that you could hardly imagine, besides you cant break up with someone when they make all the rules and decisions."
"Well you deserve much better izzy much, much better"
Lizzy looked up at him and smiled; their eyes met silver vs. dark brown both haunted from their pasts. And he got lost in the dark pools, flashbacks to a laughing girl by the lake, secret hide outs in the woods, and star gazing on his roof. They had been neighbours, captives, and friends; they had been through so much. Before he could stop himself he lowered his head and their lips met.
The kiss was soft at first, caring, sweet, and loving then as she responded it grew more passionate, his tongue begging for entry and her mouth opening to his plea. How long the kiss lasted no one would know, the two tangled souls, were lost in each others frantic embrace.
When they finally pulled apart, they smiled and got lost once again in each others eyes, he pulled her closer to him and wrapped his arms around there and they stayed up till all hours giggling and remembering the past until they fell into a happy slumber.
Lily heard a light tap on her door shortly after Lizzy had left she opened it and saw James sneaking in a weird grin on his face. Lily let him in and kissed him briskly, "What did you do?"
"Me nothing but take a good look at your new friend on the couch in the living room." James said snickering and opening the door a crack so Lily could peer out. She gasped and back away.
"But I thought they hated each other!" Lily said closing the door and pondering what she just witnessed not exactly sure what to think.
"The way they are snogging it doesn't seem like it!" James laughed wrapping his arms around her waist form behind. She smacked his arm playfully.
"Well I think there are some things they aren't telling us" Lily thought out loud.
"Duh, and they say your the smart one" James said kissing her neck.
"James, James please" she whispered not really wanting him to stop. "What are you doing in here I'm tired and I want to go to bed."
"OK love climb in" he said jumping on the bed as well giving her a mischievous grin.
"What are you doing?" she asked unsure, "Remember what I told you?"
"yes I remember every word, and I meant every word that I said, but you know I love you so much, I can't bare the thought of you being only a door away and me not being able to hold you, please Lily can we literally just sleep together."
Lily laughed relieved and climbed into bed beside him, "I would like nothing more"
He smiled and with his arms wrapped tightly around her they fell into a deep sleep.
4
The morning came all too quickly according to James; he had been in heaven holding Lily close to him all night. He laid there watching her sleeping, the rise and fall of her chest; he had a piece of her long ruby hair and was twirling it in his fingers. She opened one eye and saw him looking at her and mumbled groggily, "that's really creepy you know"
He laughed and lent down and kissed her on the lips, "Can I help it if I can't take my eyes off you even while you are sleeping and drooling everywhere"
She kissed him sweetly again until the impact of his words hit her, so she smacked his shoulder "I do not drool!"
"Whatever you say love." He said sitting up cocking one eye brow at her. She glared and threw a pillow at his face, James got an evil glint in his eye and picked up his pillow and whacked her.
"Oh you didn't!" She said eyeing him dangerously.
"I believe I did" he laughed
"That does it! Its war!"
Ten minutes later, after 2 broken pillow cases and plenty of laughter James and Lily exited the room just in time to find Remus about to poke Sirius who was sleeping comfortably with Lizzy snuggled in his arms. Remembering the scene they had witnessed last night Lily darted over to stop him from waking them.
"Remus no!" Lily whispered loudly.
"What why not do you know how mad he will be to find her sleeping on him?" Remus said wide eyed.
"Not after what we witnessed last night he won't be" James laughed.
"Why what happened?" Peter asked leaning into the group begging to be included.
"Come to breakfast and we will tell you" Lily said coaxing them out of the room, she figured Lizzy and Sirius would probly want their privacy when they woke up to discuss certain events from the previous night.
He smiled as her eyes fluttered open, and closed again she clearly didn't want to wake up yet, her brown eyes opened once again and she looked over at him shocked, they were snuggled on the couch in the heads dormitory and it seems, when she looked around, everyone had gone and not woken them she didn't know if she should be annoyed embarrassed or all of the above.
The light was peaking through the curtains and Lizzy rubbed her eyes one last time and sat up running her fingers through her messy hair which had some how come out of its braid.
"Good morning. " Sirius said kissing her cheek. She smiled but quickly stopped when she remembered her morning breath.
"Good morning!" she said raising the blanket to cover her mouth; Sirius chuckled remembering how she hated talking in the morning or anything until she brushed her teeth.
"Did you want to go brush your teeth?" he asked she smiled and nodded removing the blanket and jumped up, "you know I really don't think your breath is so bad in the morning" he whispered in her ear as he stood to join her.
She smiled slightly and said, "I'll be right back!"
He watched her skip over to Lily's room and disappeared. He looked around the room and saw that his friends must have left a while ago he saw on James' head boy desk there was basket of muffins, and a note that read,
We weren't sure how long you two were going to sleep
So we didn't risk anything hot!
Have a good morning maybe we will see you at supper.
-the marauders plus Lily and Maddy
Sirius laughed and grabbed what looked like a blueberry muffin and turned around just in time to see Lizzy re-enter the room. She smiled sheepishly at Sirius pulling down Lil's short night shirt self consciously, until she saw the muffins.
"FOOD!" she cried out rushing over to help herself to a muffin. "Mmm chocolate chip my favourite!"
"Aw that was my next one!" Sirius pouted trying to snatch it from her but she held it close shaking her head and took a large bite.
"So what time is it?" Lizzy asked her mouth slightly full.
"It's 11; 15" Sirius said looking at his wrist watch his eyes went wide as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"What?" Lizzy looked at him curiously.
"Quidditch! I missed it! I'm captain I was supposed to conduct a pre-tryouts practice to warm everyone up!" Sirius said running a hand through his hair in panicked.
"What time was this supposed to be at?" Lizzy asked grabbing his hand to try and calm him down.
"At 6:30 this morning! So it's long over by now!"
"Well like you said you are team captain so I'm sure you can reschedule, plus with all the partying last night the players were probly glad to have another couple of hours sleep." Lizzy explained kissing his neck again and again.
With every kiss his panic slowly faded until he couldn't handle the sweet torture any longer and his lips crashed down on hers. He stumbled as he tried to lead her to the couch where she laid down and beckoned him along; she bit her lip sexily torturing him even further. He lowered himself on top of her and allowed his hands to roam her body and her lips teased him mercilessly.
Their kissing got more and more intense neither could deny the passion and the need in their kiss. Lizzy knew that kissing a boy had never felt this good; he aroused every part of her and put her on the brink of insanity. She knew that there was something behind his kiss; she figured that it was just the hate and frustration they felt of being separated for so long. Besides kissing Lucius she had never gotten any feeling out of it. Wait Malfoy! She was a Slytherin Sirius a Gryffindor it would never work!
She pulled away and rolled him off her, Sirius saw panic in her eyes as he hit the ground with a humph.
"Oh-my-god! Sirius I'm so sorry!" She said bending down to help him up. He sat next to where she was lying on the couch.
He went to kiss her again with a sly smile but she turned her head wishing she didn't have to, "Sirius" she whispered.
"What is it love?" he asked kissing her neck gently causing her to shiver with desire.
"Please Sirius I think we have to talk about this" she said wishing she didn't have to say it wishing she could lay in this fantasy world forever.
"What about it! There's nothing to say about it I've missed you all these years, seeing you with Malfoy knowing you were near but I couldn't confide in you it was killing me!" Sirius said passionately grabbing her hand and kissing it.
"I've missed you too! But face it Sirius it just wouldn't work!" Lizzy said sadly unconsciously rubbing his hand not noticing the single tear roll down her cheek.
"Why not please tell me why this wouldn't work?" he said lifting her chin so she looked him in the eye.
"First off you are practically the king of Gryffindor, everyone loves you, then there's me the ice princess of Slytherin." Lizzy pointed out staring him dead in the eye, he knew it was true.
"Who cares about them, they are all bloody idiots and I don't care what they think as long as we are true to who we are and our friends know our hearts who cares about the rest of the world!" he said kissing her hand more fiercely this time.
"Ok but there is more Sirius, Malfoy for one, and the fact that all the girls flock you."
"Oh please you can't tell me that you have feelings for that git!"
"Of course I don't Sirius he's a slimy death eater that makes my skin crawl, and kissing him is like kissing a toad a smelly bad kissing toad" she said looking disgusted at the thought causing him to let out a chuckle.
"And those other girls the millions of girls don't mean anything to me, but you do, if we just pull through this together I know this feeling and I felt it only once before along time ago with a pretty little girl with the most beautiful dark hair and dark eyes." He said making her smile and he kissed her lightly once again.
She responded after a brief hesitation after a minute she pulled away, "Sirius do you think we could just keep it a secret until I'm ready, I have some stuff I have to deal with before it will be possible to stand up to everyone!" she whispered avoiding his eyes.
"Alright love, take your time, we will make this room our haven. Outside here it will be the same as always like we are complete enemies." He gave into those big worried eyes knowing he would do anything to make her happy.
They spent the rest of the afternoon, in a pleasant fantasy dreading when they would have to leave the room and return to the real world. They were only interrupted once when James came in to get Lily's scarf only to return five minutes later muttering something about the wrong scarf and how it shouldn't matter if it matched her mittens.
All to soon it was time to face the world and go to dinner, with one last long kiss the two exited the heads dorm, immediately dropping hands Lizzy's face turned once again into a cold stare that haunted her face in the previous years. Almost like a mask to hide her true emotions.
"Bye izzy" he said using his childhood nickname for her. He was the only one who was allowed to use it with out getting their butt kicked in a duel; she was faster at wand man ship that any man Sirius had ever met. She turned and winked at him seductively and walked her head high down towards the dungeons, they figured it would be suspicious if they both entered the great hall at the same time considering they were sworn enemies or so everyone thought.
Lizzy walked away from him reluctantly but without a backward glance, even if it almost killed her, and went back into the character she had played for years, she could still feel his lips on hers and their brief moments together seemed like a dream, she smiled a small smile in memory and then caught herself, the ice princess as she was frequently called was not allowed to feel these things, therefore was never allowed to smile unless it was at one of Malfoy's lame attempt at a joke. She shuddered to thinking of the torture of sitting with him at the Slytherin table and watching her new friends, her true friends, across the hall laughing and joking around.
She entered the great hall and paused and looked quickly at the marauders who were glancing between her and Sirius confused she smirked at them, did a subtle wink, however, when she felt hands around her waist she rolled her eyes and fought the temptation not to gag when she heard a cold voice from behind her, "looking for me baby?"
She turned around and smiled slightly, wrapping her arms around his neck, "of course Luc baby"
He leant down and kissed her hard, unlike Sirius soft undemanding amazing kisses which shocked every part of her, his were cold and too wet for her liking. He backed away; she tried to pretend like she enjoyed it. But she glanced at the Gryffindor table where she saw Sirius watching jealousy clear in his grey eyes.
Malfoy must have seen this quick exchange because next thing she knew he had grabbed her arm fiercely and squeezed it painfully causing her to cry out, "Ouch Luc stop your hurting me!"
She tried to steal her arm away, but he had a tight hold and the more she struggled the more pressure he applied until she was certain her arm would snap causing her to cry out once more, the great halls attention was now on the Slytherin king and queen.
"Where were you last night?" he whispered too loudly in the silent great hall his face mere inches from hers.
"What are you talking about? Let go of me!" she said louder than she thought her heart racing out of fear she knew Luc had a violent side, since she had been at the end of it once in a while.
"Last night you never came to my room like you said you would?" he said his voice rising to match hers.
"during the party I saw you were drinking and I drank too much fire whiskey myself so I called it a night I'm sorry baby" she said fluttering her eye lashes at him, "trust me I would have been there in an instant otherwise, I missed you so much over the summer."
"Come to think of it though Liz you weren't at the party last night!" he shouted at her he wasn't going to be fooled, "Don't lie to me whore!" she felt a smack hit her across the face.
The tears sprang to her eyes, but no one had seen the ice princess fall before and they certainly weren't going to see it now. She recoiled from the hit and stared him straight in the eye but he continued, the great hall still watching in silence she glanced at Sirius who was getting out of his seat but she gave him a warning glare causing him to sit abruptly.
"...who were you sleeping with last night bitch? Everyone was right you are nothing but a slag!" he said hitting her once again, "funny though you weren't shagging any of the Slytherins so it must of been someone from another house. Passing on your skills are you? What are they paying you better now?"
Lizzy stood there silently knowing there was not much else she could do except wait for him to finish his rant. When his anger had died down and it seemed like he had nothing else to say she began to speak, "Baby don't you trust me?" she smiled up at him.
He slapped her once again this time so hard she fell to the floor, Sirius and all the marauders stood up then as well as all the teachers who had just realized that the students attention was elsewhere than their food.
She took her time standing up and coolly brushed off the dirt and glared at the approaching marauders.
"Get away from her Malfoy!" came Sirius' voice. He was close behind her she was almost grateful for the intervention but knew now wasn't the time for him to cause some trouble.
"Excuse me?" Malfoy said his voice full of venom, "I don't believe this has anything to do with you Black so why don't you and your filthy half-breeds and muggle huggers go back to your meaningless existence"
"It has everything to do wit...." Sirius started but Lizzy turned to him her cold stare once again piercing his grey eyes eyes. She softened her glare a bit and it took everything she had not to hold on to him and cry and make everything and everyone go away.
"He's right Black this has nothing to do with you" her eyes were apologetic and she looked sadly at the other marauders, "Now take your blood traitors and filthy half breeds and go back to your own whores, we have better things to waste our time doing rather than talk to unworthy gits like you"
Her words stung, it took all James had to stop him self from lunging at her there his fury taking over his control and telling her who he thought was unworthy, but Remus knew why she did this as did Sirius so they turned away and went back to the table, not before Sirius said over his shoulder, "You know Foster, there are ways to change for the better and it isn't this difficult, when you decide to grow up you know where to find us."
She almost ran to him right there saying she was sorry and that she cared about him so much. But instead she glared her icy glare and turned back to Malfoy and said in a sweet voice, "Baby, the reason I didn't come to the party was because I feared that after a whole summer of not being with you I wouldn't be good enough to please you, could you forgive me baby?"
Malfoy looked at her once again and smirked, "of course Liz" he kissed her once again. However, Sirius noticed this time she pulled away and when she thought no one was looking she wiped her mouth looking a little lost.
"Ungrateful slag" James muttered biting into his pancake menacingly. Lily glared at him warningly.
"What!" he said revealing the chewed pancake in his mouth.
"Could you be any more disgusting?" Lily asked covering his mouth with her hand and smiling apologetically at the others at the table for his rude behaviour.
"You know why she's doing that don't you?" Maddy said as the group walked down to the lake after breakfast.
Sirius looked at her his eyes hurt she continued, "Do you know what Malfoy would do to her if she left him for you? What her family would do."
Sirius nodded he knew exactly what her family would do to her, that is what kept him from ripping Malfoy into shreds
