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Sorry for the belated update, I have mid-term exams.
I have the What Is This Feeling? song from Wicked stuck in my head while writing this so it's short because I can't concentrate!
Copyright disclaimer: I don't make any money from writing this, sadly enough. So if you're gonna sue, go sue someone who isn't 40,600 bucks in debt for student loans so far.
Cat giggled as she finished another shot to an applause of cheers and whistles. Squirming slightly in the lap of a very attractive and muscular Slytherin's lap, a fleeting thought touched her mind for half a second – What would Abbey think? – before being distracted by someone nibbling on her ear.
"So Rosier," Her voice dipped seductively, "Do you like blondes or brunettes?"
Tingling shivers ran up her spine as Evan Rosier whispered hotly into her ear explicitly exactly what he liked to do with blondes, namely the one sitting on top of him.
One thing led to another and before she knew it, they were stumbling around making out like crazy. Sure Cat had previous boyfriends before but she'd never really let herself go. Her sister was always there, watching, disapproving, judging. How free she felt to be away from the constant scrutiny of her sister.
'I don't know why I didn't do this earlier! This is the most fun I've had in years!' She thought and then moaned as Evan's hand crept below her dress, tracing tantalizing circles up her inner thigh.
'You dirty whore,' She giggled at herself, proud of what she was doing – experimenting with the opposite sex.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the school, somewhere in the Ravenclaw Tower's sixth year girl's dormitory, acting purely on an irrational, overwhelming, inexplicable and sudden impulse, a highly amused and horny Sirius Black kissed a stuttering Mina Campbell.
'Finally!' He thought, as he nibbled on her bottom lip, 'She shuts up.'
'OH MY FREAKIN –' Mina started to think… then melted into the kiss.
It wasn't anything like she'd expected. She always thought it would be embarrassing being sixteen and never been kissed. She imagined that it would be awkward, the first time, and whoever the unlucky boy that was double-dared to kiss her would walk away laughing at how pathetic she was. But instead of self-conscious thoughts and lucidity, she simply closed her eyes and her hands automatically latched themselves onto his robes, clutching a fistful of black cotton tightly, like she never wanted to let –
"Holy crap!"
Mina's senses reignited. Reality crashed down hard. They both turned, simultaneously, to see a stunned Abbey standing at the doorway. Sirius and Mina stood, like deer caught in headlights, his arms around her possessively and her hands still clenching two handfuls of his robes. Sirius looked merely annoyed at her entrance but Mina looked mortified.
'Uh, make a snappy exit, you're intruding you loser!' Abbey berated herself.
"Um, I'll leave you guys to it then, spare condoms under Cat's pillow!" Abbey hightailed it out of there, leaving a shaky Mina trying to come to terms that Sirius Black just kissed her.
"You stole my first kiss, you… you jerk!" Mina finally found her voice. It started off hoarse and wavering but ended high with hurt and fury.
"How could you… You… It's not funny okay!" Humiliation started to clog her throat, "Just because you and your moronic friends have too much money and think it's funny to make stupid bets doesn't not make it okay to –"
'Girls,' Sirius thought, 'Deep down inside, they're all programmed the same. They talk too much. Oh well,' He smirked to himself, 'I know how to shut her up very nicely.
And he proceeded to do so, finding it oddly disconcerting how good the mousy little Ravenclaw tasted. He didn't experience the usual rush of hormones to tear off her clothes and touch her in all the inappropriate places. He didn't try to pry open her mouth with his tongue to eagerly explore the moist pockets of her mouth. Warmth washed over him, not lusty fire that usually overtook him whenever he kissed a girl. Or then again, Mina wasn't the sort of girl to incite lust.
"Fuck!" Sirius shouted, startling Mina badly. She tried to back away and curl into a ball but Sirius kept his arms around her, forcing her to tremble.
'Déjà vu,' Mina thought, 'Different guy, same old situation.'
Sirius was furious with himself and his own shallowness. Sure Mina may not be pretty and her body resembled a poorly cushioned skeleton but something about her, something about her vulnerability attracted him, attracted his possessive and protective nature. His past girlfriends didn't really need his protection, sure, they liked having him act all macho and giggle when he played the role of the bodyguard 'don't touch my girl or you die' boyfriend, but the girls themselves, they were well taught in the art of combat and quite sneaky and cunning when plotting with their companions. Somehow, he just couldn't see Mina raise a wand and utter, "Expelliarmus!" or anything of that nature. Yes, she knew how to use the spell but should the occasion arise, he very much doubted that she could, and would, defend herself.
'You are one sadistic son of a bitch,' He thought ruefully to himself. How sick is it to be attracted to a girl simply because she was weak and powerless? It's like his bloody ego wanted to play cops and robbers or something.
Mina felt a flood of emotions wash through her, so fast and so potent, she could barely breathe.
Disbelief that Sirius had kissed her, anger and hurt that he probably did because of a bet or dare by his friends, shame and embarrassment that he probably knew that he was the only person to ever kiss her, in her entire life most likely, and pain. She didn't know why she felt pain. But it stabbed her heart steadily, with each pounding beat of her heart. Absent was the sheer terror and urge to run. That was new. Whenever a boy normally stood within half a feet of her, she would start panicking. Still thinking and feeling all too much in such a short space of time, eventually, she collapsed, exhausted, and stared up at a pair of hazy grey eyes.
"You know," He told her quietly, "I'm not stupid enough to play Truth or Dare with my friends."
Then Sirius did something he'd never done. He bent down, kissed her forehead softly and wished her goodnight. Strolling calmly out her door as if he did it every night, the entire occupants of the Ravenclaw Common Room watched a very jolly Sirius Black walk out of their Tower, then as if they were puppets all dancing to the same string, swivelled their heads towards the door that embossed a plaque reading Sixth Year Girls Dormitory. They'd all seen the Reynold twins leave. And it was a common fact that Jenny Lin almost never slept in their Tower. So that left…
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Mina slumped on the floor, too confused and overwhelmed to feel.
He had been so… gentle. She'd never felt kindness at the hands of a boy. And he didn't… paw her. He just… held her. Was this a trick? How much was he being paid to do this? Pain crept back through the cracks of her heart as she sat on the floor for a very long time, just staring at her hands.
Outside Mina's room, someone finally voiced a question they were all wondering.
"Who on Earth brewed the Amortentia and why, in Merlin's name, did the person choose Mina to be the object of Sirius Black's affections.
Of course, everyone immediately dismissed the idea that Mina herself did it. Firstly, she wasn't that good at Potions. True, she was a Ravenclaw and naturally brilliant but Mina was so petrified by authority, she probably wouldn't even dare to think about pulling off something like this. Also, she never walked by herself around the Castle or Grounds, unless when she had to, like during lessons. It was as if she was afraid of her own ghost, many concluded. Mina Campbell was strange, a little quiet but nothing that made her stand out as a Freak. Besides, she had the Reynold twins for friends and got on quite well with younger students, so she technically, wasn't a Loner.
As some very confused Ravenclaws whispered to each other that night, glancing often at the door of Mina's dormitory, Sirius Black walked towards Gryffindor Tower with a huge grin on his face.
Somewhere in his office, Albus Dumbledore chuckled to himself quietly, merry blue eyes twinkling in amusement.
"This," He said to a sleeping Fawkes, "Is going to be quite a year."
Amortentia - the most powerful love potion in the world, recognizable by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen and by the fact that its steam rises in characteristic spirals; this potion smells differently to different people according to what attracts them.
The narration jumps around a bit and doesn't carry on from the end of the last chapter, I don't exactly want to write down everything Mina and co gets up to, I'm not into stalking my characters, I don't need my sanity questioned just yet.
Short chapter, I know, sorry, I have exams on Mon and Tues.
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