I Own Nothing But Lizzie.

Chapter four- The Bet.

I rolled over onto my back, and opened my eyes. I saw people leaning over me. Why did I feel a strange sense of Déjà vu?

"Poppy!" I heard James call out. "She's finally awake!" Poppy? I looked around noticing I was in the hospital wing. Sirius was standing at the foot of my bed. James and Lily were sitting on one side of me, while Remus and Peter had the other. I turned my head and saw that behind Lily and James were Frank and Alice sitting on the bed. It was also getting dark outside. What happened?

As if Lily read my thoughts she said "You fainted." I tried thinking back. I remember getting a detention with Sirius, and then walking down the hallway, and everything spinning, then I remember grey eyes. And well that's about it. I stuck my hand to my forehead looking for a bump, there is no way he caught me. I'm sure he just laughed as I fell. I was still searching but didn't find one. They all stared at me curiously.

"What are you doing?" Frank asked me.

"Looking for a bump." I told him. If they looked curious before, they looked confused now.

"A bump?" Remus asked.

"Well yeah, from when I fainted."

"You didn't fall." I turned to Sirius, our eyes met as they did before I fainted.

"If I didn't fall then that would mean you.." I trailed off.

"I wasn't going to let you fall. I'm not that cruel." He said, and then added on, "I would have done it for anyone besides, I'd rather torture you when you're conscious." He could just never just do anything nice for me, he always had to turn it around and make it into a big joke. Did he really hate me that much? I answered my own question, he did hate me that much.

"104 fever, exhaustion, chills, headaches. Oh I'm not sick." I broke the glaze of Sirius' eyes and turned to look at Madam Pomfrey. I smiled sheepishly at her.

"Oops." I shrugged. Everyone burst out into laughter. Even she cracked a smile.

"Yes, well I gave you a potion while you were sleeping. You should be good to go by tomorrow morning. Oh, and I also healed your nose. Did you know it had to bones broken in it, I could have sworn it was only one before." She said with a curious look on her face. James, Remus, Peter, and I all turned and glared at Sirius. Who looked away. "Anyway, I think it's time for you all to leave. Say good bye and be off." She said sharply. She spun on her heel and walked away from us.

"Thank you!" I called after her. She waved of my thanks and walked into her office.

"What's with the glare at Sirius?" Lils asked.

"I'll tell you later, Flower." James told her. Alice and Frank stood up first,

"See you tomorrow Lizzie." They said in unison, then blushed. I smiled at them.

Lily stepped forward and hugged me goodbye. "Good night Lils. Keep the water warm for me yeah?" I asked.

"I'll try, you know how Alice gets with her showers." She laughed walking away.

"See you guys later, Potions tomorrow." I said grinning.

"Lizzie, try not to land yourself back into the hospital wing tomorrow. No fights?" Remus asked.

"Yes dad, no fights." I mocked him. He bent down and kissed my forehead. Peter also kissed me goodbye, and James.

Sirius just nodded his head in my direction. "Elizabeth."

"Black." I said curtly. They all turned and walked towards the door, just before they walked out I yelled out, "Oh and Sirius?" All the boys suddenly froze in their tracks; they've never heard me use his name before. He turned towards me looking appalled. "Thanks." He nodded. I closed my eyes as I heard the door close. To say I was surprised that he actually caught me and carried me to the hospital wing was an understatement. He's never done anything even remotely nice to me before. Then I remembered detention. Oh damn I missed it. With a jolt I realized that this was going to be a very long year.

-Remus' POV-

I was sitting in the common room during dinner(seeing as we ate in the kitchens earlier) with Pete, James, and Sirius when the portrait swung open. I turned my head and watched as Lizzie danced over to us. I wondered to myself if she ever walked normal. She bent down as she reached me laughing, and kissed my cheek. James grabbed her hand, laughing softly and twirled her around before she swooped down and kissed his cheek. Her hunny sweet laughter was bouncing off the common room walls. She then sat down between James and Peter and leaned over leaving a soft kiss on Peter's cheek. I smiled at her usual light attitude. She must have really been in a good mood because she looked at Sirius still laughing laughing and said sweetly. "Hello Black!" His eyes widened but they quickly recovered.

"Hey freckles. I told you, that you were sick but no you can never listen to me.." As Sirius went off on this long explanation, she didn't lose her smile once. She raised her wand interrupting him

"Silencio!" Sirius was still trying to talk his mouth moving a mile a minute with no words coming out. Her forest green eyes twinkled.

"How is everyone today?" She asked us.

"I'm good, you didn't miss anything in class, I'm sure you already knew how to do it." I told her smiling. The aura in the common room lightened by just having her in it. She was like our own personal sun.

"Good, you know how I hate to miss work!" She said laughing softly.

"We know." James said smiling. "Feeling better?"

"Much better." The door opened and everyone was just starting to come back from dinner. In walked Sirius' new flavor of the week. When she noticed he couldn't talk she cooed "All Sirius baby, want me to fix it." He smiled that smile, he only used when he was trying to charm one of his "girls". She muttered the counter-curse.

"Thank you darling, come here." She sat herself on his lap. I looked at Lizzie's face and saw her looking at the common room door, where Michael Lucas just entered. Oh boy, she was starting already with her dating.

"Hey, I think I'm going to go talk to Mike over there." She said smiling.

"Not him Lizzie, he's actually a nice guy. Why don't you try someone a little less nicer." Her brow furrowed a bit.

"What do you mean, do you want me to date a prat?" She didn't change her tone of voice.

"No, of course we don't want you to." Peter said giving her a smile.

"I just meant well, you're almost as bad as Padfoot. You guys never stay with one person to long." I said this not caring that he had one of those girls on his lap. "You've broken too many hearts, try not to make Mike one of them." She frowned at this, which made myself, James and Peter frown in return. I hated seeing her upset.

"Am I really like Black?" she asked horror filling her face. I couldn't tell her she was, I just couldn't. When Sirius opened his mouth I cut him off.

"No not at all, I was just joking." Her smile was back on her face.

"Merlin Remus, don't scare me like that. At least laugh a little next time so I know you're joking." She kissed my cheek, and stood up. "I'm going over to talk to Mike, do I look okay? I mean I just got out of the hospital wing." I looked her over, she was beautiful, like always. With her extremely curly strawberry blonde hair, to her angelic features.

"Beautiful, always beautiful." She blushed at my comment. Always doubting herself. With a smile at the other boys she turned around. I watched her dance up to Mike.

"Why did you lie to her Remus, you know as well I as do that she dates one guys and drops him and picks up another the next day." Sirius said.

"She doesn't mean it Padfoot." James told him. She did do that, of course I knew. But I don't think it was for the reason Sirius did. Sirius' girl kissed him goodbye and left towards the dormitory.

"She doesn't do it purposely Pads. I think she's just afraid." I told him.

"Afraid? Of what?"

"Of Love. She doesn't really trust people." Sirius stared blankly at me.

"She trusts you, and James, and Peter and Lily, Frank, and Alice."

"Of course she trusts us. We're here best friends. Other people it takes her a long time to trust because she thinks that they'll hurt her. And well she knows we won't ever do anything to hurt her." James said. I wonder if that's why she doesn't trust Sirius, because she thinks he'll hurt her. Maybe that's the real reason why she doesn't like him.

I looked over at her talking to Mike. His face was lit up, and I could her laughter. She was always smiling and laughing. She carried with her this aura of sunlight. Ever since that day James and I rescued her from Malfoy she's always been our friend. It took her a few days to open up and talk to us and when she did we both fell in love with her, even Peter. We fell in love with her charm, her sense of humor, and her way of making everyone happy. It wasn't just us either, once we got her talking everyone fell in love with her. It was hard not to. She even made a few slytherin's smile. She got in fights(Only with the slytherins who picked on her and taunted her) and loved playing pranks but everyone over looked that. Her smile, her voice and her laughter was sweet. Just listening to her and watching her smile made you smile. It was the kind of person she was. She talked to everyone. Always helping them if they needed it. We sometimes called her angel. Don't get me wrong, she wasn't exactly pure. She cursed and got mad just like the rest of us. She had James, Peter, and I wrapped around her little finger. We treated her with gentleness and we always looked out for her. We could never say no to her, or hurt her in anyway. It was like hurting yourself. She was so fragile looking that if someone ever said anything(which people rarely did) we would automatically come to her rescue.

The only person that didn't fall in love with her, or maybe should I say admit that he fell in love with her, was Sirius. He acted so cruel to her sometimes, always picking on her, hexing her, playing pranks on her. We all tried to control they're fighting as much as we could seeing as we were together all the time. But it was hard when she treated him back that way too. I was pulled out of my thoughts buy someone's little arms wrapping around my neck and dropping themselves into my lap. I looked up into the smiling face of Lizzie.

"I got a date!" she said excitedly.

"Of course you did, any guy would be stupid if they turned you down." She scrunched up her nose.

"Now, Remus that isn't true. Some people may just not like me." She said. I sighed loudly.

"You're beautiful Angel, anyone would date you." Peter told her. She blushed wildly. She was horrible at taking comments, she was extremely humble.

"That's not true. I could name people that won't date me and besides, Lily and Alice are beautiful, I'm just average." James frowned at her.

"You are too beautiful, as are Lily and Alice."

"Well thank you. But I was surprised he agreed though." She opened her mouth to speak again when Sirius interrupted.

"You act like you haven't gone out with plenty of guys before. I bet I could get more dates then you could." Oh no, this is really bad. Lizzie never backs down from bets. In second year, her bet with Sirius ended up with her in the hospital wing with a set of broken ribs and a broken leg. He bet her that she wouldn't swim in the black lake at midnight. She did, and also won herself five galleons.

"Really? You think so?" She asked him. "10 galleons says that I go on more dates in a month than you do." She said sticking out her hand. He shook it firmly.

"deal." Then he remembered something. "Don't we alright have a bet going on? One about Lily and James." She grinned wickedly.

"Another one I am going to win. Excellent. Well if you'll excuse me." She said standing up, and looking about the common room.

"Where are you going?" Pete asked her, at the same time James said "Wait you guys made a bet about me and Lily?"

"To get started on getting dates obviously." She told Peter, ignoring James. With that being said she walked away. I watched as she approached a tall sixth year. I shook my head. Sirius stood up and walked away not wanting to be stood up by her, walking over to the first good looking girl he saw.

"When is he going to admit, he's in love with her." I asked them.

"Mate, were all in love with her." Peter said.

"No I don't mean the way we love her, but as in loooovees her." James smiled.

"I hope soon, them dancing around each other is making me dizzy. She loves him, he loves her. I wish they'd just admit it!" He said loudly. Honestly I thought to myself. They wouldn't find a person better for themselves, than each other.

-Lizzie's POV-

I was just entering the common room after my fourth date this week. It's been about two weeks since I made the bet with Black and ever since then I've been son so many dates that I couldn't possibly remember what I did on them. I've had dates at lunch then later that day around dinner time. Some were sweet guys, while other's like tonight were huge prats, and I wasn't sure who I hated the most after tonight Sirius or Joe.

"Uh!" I said loudly dropping into the seat next to Remus on the couch. Sirius' head popped up from where he was looking at the fire and turned to smirk at me.

"What's wrong?" Remus asked with a frown on his face, probably matching my own. "You just left for your date 10 minutes ago."

"DATE!" I yelled. I looked around the common room and when I noticed it was empty besides me, him and Sirius, I continued on. "You call what I just did a date! I've never been treated that way in my life!" I yelled in frustration.

"Treated like what?" Remus said who looked taken aback by my yelling.

"Like a bloody WHORE!" Remus' face turned to one of anger, even Sirius who I knew doesn't give a damn about me had his eyes brows raised in surprise, and was it anger?

"What do you mean treated you like a whore?" Rem, asked anger present in his voice.

"Hmm, well for starters he didn't even say hi. The second I walked towards him, he started kissing me! Not just kissing but well you know snogging. He hands were, uh! I need a shower!" I said looking down embarrassed for being treated that way. "I had to hex him off of me. It was disgusting!"

"HE WHAT?!" Remus roared. He stood up quickly heading towards the portrait with the map in his hand.

"Remus! Where are you going?" He turned around before walking though the whole.

"If I commit murder, visit me in Azkaban alright?" I stared at him in shock, however Sirius answered.

"Alright mate I will." When I didn't say anything Sirius added on, "Don't worry I'll take her with me!" He laughed as Remus stalked his way out of the portrait. I stood up attempting the follow him.

"You aren't going to go stop him after what the guy did are you?" I looked at him.

"No of course not." He looked confused, I grinned. "I'm going to watch!" I said. He smiled at me, a true genuine smile. One I've never seen him wear directed at me. To say I was shocked wasn't covering it. What I was more worried about was how it made me feel. Shaking my head to remove myself of what I was about to think next. I felt someone tugging on my arm and looked up to see Sirius wearing the expression of an anxious child.

"Come on!" I let him pull me out of the common room and towards the yelling somewhere on the 7th floor. We reached them then. Joe looked scared and Remus looked murderous. Since everyone else was at dinner, the corridor was empty.

"Are you thick Mal? Did you honestly think you could just do that to someone? To Lizzie? You must have been stupid to think one of us weren't going to come after you. Let's just say you're lucky It's me. I'll make it fast and easy for you." With that being said Remus launched himself at Joe and punched him hard in the face. Blood was pouring from his lip. He put his hand to his lip. And then with the other hand reached forward and hit Remus in the eyes. I gasped and looked towards Sirius, he looked like he was about to jump in but, sorry too late. I walked up to Joe and punched him square in the nose. The blood from his nose was mixed with the blood in from his lip.

"You little bitch!" He yelled and raised his hand to smack me. He wouldn't hit a girl would he? I guess I was wrong as his hand came down on my cheek. I didn't react, I just stared at him. After a few seconds, I took a step back and raised my hand to touch my stinging cheek. I felt Sirius grip my arm. Remus then recovered from the punch and after seeing that proceeded to well let's say kick his arse. Hard. He was on top of him punching every spot he could reach. I was surprised when Sirius bent down and whispered,

"Are you okay?" In my ear. The way he said it was filled with concern. Something I've never heard before in his voice while talking to me. I turned and looked at him our eyes locking. He reached his hand up and brushed it along my reddened cheek. I still didn't say anything. "Damn prat, I hope Remus kicks his arse." He said. I swallowed thickly and just finally managed a nod.

The fight continued on and finally Remus came and took me from Sirius' grip. Blood was coming from his mouth and he had a blackened eye.

I reached up with the sleeve of my cloak and wiped the blood from his mouth. He cringed when I touched it.

"You okay?" We asked each other at the same time. We both laughed. I was about to say something else when I heard,

"Damn Moony, you really gave it to him, didn't you?" I turned and looked at the bloody mess of Joe laying on the ground. He was bruised, bleeding and unconscious.

"Well, he deserved it." He took my arm and started walking me back to the common room. Sirius on my other side. Leaving the knocked out Joe behind. Without stopping he walked me right up the dorm.

"Really are you okay?" He asked me again. I smiled at his concern.

"I'm fine Remus, really." He smiled back at me. "I've just never been treated that way by a boy in my whole life." I looked at Sirius as I said this and I knew he was thinking the same thing, about how Avery kissed me in third year but he didn't say anything.

"Of course you haven't." He told me. I raised my eye brow at Sirius. "Everyone is in love with you. Surely you know the affect you have on people?"

"What is he talking about Rem?" I asked him. He just looked uneasy.

Sirius continued on, "Like I said, everyone loves you. Even most of the Slytherins, how you've managed to make them smile is beyond me. And besides, you got Remus, Peter, and James treating you like a princess, and you wonder why you've never been treated that way before." He then realized what he just said because he added on, "Ha! Princess! That's a good one, I've been meaning to make a new nickname for you. I think that one suits you." I frowned at him.

"Remus that's not true is it?" I looked at him and I could tell he was debating with himself.

"Everyone does love you, Lizzie. The teachers, the students and even the headmaster." He told me.

"But why, I'm nothing special. I don't understand." Remus just shook his head, with a small smile playing on his lips.

"And you probably never will. Not everyone loves you, well okay besides the select few Slytherins that you don't like each other so they don't count." I laughed a little as he said this.

"It's not true I refuse to believe everyone loves me. That's ludicrous." I said firmly.

"No really," Sirius began. "They all do. I'm not quite sure why. I guess it's that charm you have going on. I wouldn't know." I glared at him.

"So what you're trying to say is that everyone loves me but those few slytherins, and you?" I asked.

"Yes." I didn't care about the slytherins or the fact that everyone else loved me which was completely stupid as it was but I cared that Sirius hated me. If what he said was true then why did he hate me? Without looking at either of them, I walked towards the door and opened it.

"Thank you Remus." Then I walked through and slammed it shut. And right when I think yet again that Sirius and I could maybe become friends after how nice he was to me tonight, I was yet again disappointed. I heard the door open behind me. I turned around and saw him.

"By the way, the date you had tonight doesn't count in the bet." I just groaned.

I know Lizzie seems like a child, but really she's just naïve. And the boys just love her to much to upset her, but she won't be that way forever give her some time.

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