"Come on, Sarin. Everyone knows that Sirius outed you as a little girl. You aren't so tough," Leon Feindreik teased Amber in the common room. He snatched the book she was reading out of her hands and hid it behind his back, his blue eyes sparkling with amusement. Leon was a blond haired, blue eyed burly boy who wore shirts that looked as though they were two sizes too small, most likely to show off his muscles. Amber looked up at Leon with an bored expression, holding her hand out for her book.
"Give me my book, Feindreik, the only little one here is you, aren't half the 3rd years taller than you?"
"Try and get it back yourself, bitch," Leon sniggered. They were the only current occupants of the common room, considering that it was only 6:30 in the morning, and Leon was clearly taking advantage of it. Standing up, Amber soon realized that at her full height she stood at just under his chin.
"You really want to give me my book, Leon," She said, her voice low and dangerous. "Did you also see that nice bruise I gave Black?"
"Knowing Black, it was probably just a hicky," Leon scoffed. "You don't scare me, honey. I'll give you the book back, but you have to beg for it first." The girl let out a dry laugh, shaking her head.
"Me? Beg? You've got to be out of your wits. Now give me my book back, now," Amber lowered her voice dangerously. "And don't ever call me honey again." Leon shoved her, a bit roughly.
"Beg, honey," he said his eyes gleaming with glee.
"No," Amber growled, shoving him back once she had steadied herself. Her eyes flickered to his protruding muscles. Gulping quietly, she stood her ground. Leon grinned viciously.
Sirius entered the common room from the boys dormitory, his eyes puffy from sleep. He was wearing a plain gray tee and a pair of black and red plaid pajama pants. His black hair hung messy over his grey eyes. He looked up just in time to see Leon shove Amber to the floor. "OI!" He barked, his eyes widening. Hitting her head hard on the floor, Amber carefully sat then stood up, a hand holding her head and another on a table.
"Leon. Give me my book then leave. If you know what's good for you," She managed to command, squinting slightly at the sharp pain shooting through her head.
"You seriously just shoved her?" Sirius snarled at Leon. He walked menacingly towards him. Leon sneered.
"I see you've been saved, Sarin. Just in time, eh?" Leon spat. Amber glanced at Sirius, unsure how she felt about him coming to the rescue. She wasn't a damsel in distress.
"If I have to tell you to give me my book one more time things won't be pretty," said Amber as she turned her attention back to the bully.
"Fuck you." Leon smirked. Amber let go of her head and the table, grabbing Leon by the collar and shoving him up against the wall behind him.
"Don't test me," she snarled. Her gold eyes were darkening with fury and hatred. Leon chuckled and gripped Amber's wrists, wrenching them off of his collar. He flipped so that she was the one against the wall.
"At least try," He whispered, his breath reeked of what Amber assumed to be cheap beer. Who the hell drinks at 6:00 am? Amber wrinkled her nose. Sirius came up behind Leon and spun him around.
"Piss off," He punched Leon square in the nose. Leon yelped and held his bloody nose, sinking to the floor in pain. Blinking a few times in surprise, she glanced between Sirius and Leon who was now on the floor, blood pouring from his nose. Picking up her book she looked to Sirius.
"Uh, thank you," she said, rather uncomfortably. She watched Leon scurry out of the room and out the portrait hole, his face burning with embarrassment as he clutched his nose.
"No problem... that guy is a jerk. How he is in this house is beyond me," Sirius shook his head in disbelief. "You ok?"
She nodded, gingerly touching the part of her head that hit the floor hard, "yeah, fine."
"Do you need to go to the infirmary? You hit your head pretty hard," Sirius knit his eyebrows together in concern.
"No, no, no." She chuckled, shaking her head. "I'm alright, nothing to worry about, I think."
"All right..." Sirius said reluctantly. "Who the hell beats up a GIRL?" He muttered to himself.
"Who lies and crushes her aspirations of making it big in Quidditch and makes her cry, then proceeds to tell the whole Quidditch team about it so it then ruins her reputation and makes asshole like this one challenge her and put her down even more? Hmm?" She said, glancing at him.
"Woah, wait," Sirius narrowed his eyes at her. "You think that I put that prick up to that?!"
"His words exactly. 'Everyone knows that Sirius outed you as a little girl. You aren't so tough.' I never said you put him up to it. I'm just saying you're not one to be talking about whose a prick when we take into consideration what you did." She said in a bored tone, walking back to where she had been sitting before with her book.
"I thought that we already settled this!" Sirius said, exhausperated. "You were actually being acting like a normal, sane person last night!"
"Me? Sane?" She scoffed, smirking.
"Yeah, I should have known better," Sirius said in a tired tone. "You're always picking fights. I bet Leon was the actual victim."
"Out of the past two fights, including this one. Neither were my starting." Opening her book again, she propped her feet on the table in front of the chair she was sitting in.
"Unbelievable," Sirius muttered. "You save a girl's life and this is the thanks you get."
"I said thank you!" She said, looking up from her book, her lips in a small pout.
"Right. And then you proceeded to call me a prick," Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Fair enough, but I still thanked you."
"Your insult cancelled it out," Sirius said, holding back a grin.
"Then the crushing my aspirations cancelled out saving me." Amber teased, chuckling softly.
"Then I guess we're on neutral ground," Sirius flopped down on the couch next to her.
"I guess so." The girl nodded, running a hand through her hair. Suddenly, she was interrupted by someone stumbling through the portrait hole.
James Potter walked into the Common room, hair disheveled and a large grin set upon his face. "Aren't we cozy," He cooed at the two of them. Chuckling, he sat down in the armchair. "Did you see what happened to Leon? Prat's bleeding out. Someone really did a number on his face."
"Is that so?" Sirius smirked, raising an amused eyebrow. Amber rolled her eyes at James' first comment before looking to Sirius.
"Yeah, that someone is Black," She said bluntly. James laughed.
"Didn't know you could punch," He teased his friend. Sirius scoffed.
"He had it coming for a long time, if you ask me," Sirius shrugged. Nodding in agreement, Amber shut her book and set it on the table her legs were propped up on. Silently thankful James didn't ask the reason.
"So what'd he do exactly?" James leaned forward, interested. Shit! She mentally cursed herself for speaking too soon. Not about to say anything, she glanced to Sirius. Sirius glanced at Amber and mouthed "You tell him". He wasn't too keen on lying to his best mate, but then again, he didn't want to upset Amber...again.
"He just fucked with the wrong person." Amber shrugged, hoping James would take the vague answer.
"He fucked with you?" James looked questionably at Sirius. Sirius shot Amber an annoyed look.
"There you guys are!" Remus walked into the room, a look of irritability shown on his face. He leaned against wall by the portrait hole, crossing his arms. "Peter is having hunger pangs. We better get down to breakfast."
"Right! Let me get ready," Sirius jumped up, relieved that Remus entered at the best time. He rushed back into his room. Amber sighed softly in relief as Remus walked in and interrupted, not knowing how she would have responded.
"I got homework to do. Catch you guys later." Getting up and heading in the direction of her dorm.