A/N: Hey kiddies! Hope you enjoy this one!

Fool and Stories

Izzy put her forehead in her hands. She was supposed to know when things like this happened. To be honest, if she was going to backslide into sleeping with Sirius, she had kind of wanted to be there to see it happen. And now …

"Let's just go see Lily," Sirius suggested.

"Brilliant plan!" Izzy said, thinking of the omnipotent Lily. She had to know if she and Sirius had time travelled back to six months ago when the two of them had been sleeping together on a very regular basis.

They barged into Lily's flat with no regard for courtesy. "Lily!" Izzy called frantically.

"Jeez, Iz."

"What?" Izzy whirled to see a smirking Sirius.

"No panic," Sirius chuckled. "I mean, really, would sleeping with me again be so bad? I was, if you recall, fairly amazing at it."

"Sirius," Izzy groaned. "Remember the conversation we had?"

Sirius did. It had not been one of his finer moments. In fact, he felt that at that moment, he had rather resembled Izzy' sappy fifth year boyfriend, who simply panted after her like a little puppy until she let him off the hook.

Sirius had gone to Paris. He had woken up, a week after Izzy had left, and decided that, you know what? France is not that far away from England. And given that he was a wizard, he could just Apparate there for a quick little catch-up with Izzy. And, you know, maybe sex. He was, to be honest, hoping for a little bit of sex.

So, having found the address of her flat after harassing Dumbledore for it, he stood in the street where Izzy's flat was located and took in a deep breath. "Man up," he whispered. "You can do this."

The knock on the door surprised Izzy. No-one even knew who she was here yet. Yet, opening the door to find Sirius was even more of a shock. "Hey," he grinned. "Just dropped in to see how you were doing."

Izzy kissed him on the cheek and stepped back. "Sirius," she sighed. "Come on in."

Sirius stepped in, feeling an overwhelming sense of doom, like this was the worst thing he could have done in this risky situation – this tightrope they were treading. Still, he handed her the tulips he had bought in the spur of the moment, smiling. "So," the blanket of awkwardness had settled over the room. "How are you?"

Izzy perched on the edge of her floral print couch, motioning for Sirius to sit too. "Sirius," she took a deep breath, "I think we should break up."

"Okaaaay," Sirius felt the realization settle over him. He had suspected it a week ago, when she had left, yet now the blow hit him: Izzy was no longer his.

"Sirius?"

"Yes, I understand, Izzy. You don't want to be with me anymore."

"I just …" Izzy sighed. "I just think we'll be more unhappy a couple a country apart than two single friends who can always get back together later on."

"So, you want a hiatus?" Sirius felt numb inside. But, if this was what she wanted, then nothing was going to stop Izzy from getting it.

"No. We'll break up now," Izzy said, tears leaking from the corners of her eyes. "I don't want you to stop having fun and being Sirius, just for me. And then, when I come back …"

"If you still want me?"

"Look", Izzy said; "We'll be friends."

"Okay." Sirius said tightly.

"Ground rule," Izzy stated. "No sex."

"Ground rule: no handholding." Sirius said.

"Ground rule: no kissing."

"Ground rule: no crying."

"Deal," the two of them said, spitting on their palm and then shaking hands.

"Yeah." Sirius said. "No sex."

"Exactly. I can't go back on one of my own ground rules!" Izzy explained. "Lily!"

"What?" The body belonging to the throaty voice struggled around the corner, red hair tangled, princess tiara lodged in a giant bird's nest knot, dress on backwards and inside out, mascara streaked darkly down one freckled cheek, a coating of glitter over her entire body.

"Merlin," Sirius said, almost impressed. "Who knew the former Head Girl could party hard enough to look like that the morning after?"

"You're a dick," Lily said pointedly. "Yes, my dearest Iz?"

"Did I sleep with Sirius last night?" Izzy asked quickly.

Lily put her head in her hands. "Do you know what, children? I am so hungover right now I forgot how to breathe this morning, and today is the day of my wedding. My wedding. Just – too much drama for me right now."

Lily shuffled into the kitchen and began making coffee. "But, seeing as I am the nicest bitch around town, I'll treat you two to a little story."

"Hungover Lily is harsh," Sirius whispered.

"Sh," Izzy snapped. She wanted to hear the story.

Lily sat at the bench top and sipped her coffee. "May I see, you two were completely smashed last night. And may I also say, Sirius, I never wanted to see you naked. So, after getting completely drunk at the Bloody Banshee we all went dancing. And then we got chucked out. And then Sirius did his strip show when we sat down to rest in the park. And then, you two and James and Mary headed off while Alice, Remus and I went to an all-night service station to get coffee in order to sober up."

"Oh."

Lily sighed. "And that is where my story ends. You have to get James to tell you the rest."

Sirius sighed, standing up. "Well, we'll just head over to his place."

"Actually …" Lily's cheeks coloured.

"Oh," Izzy made fun. "You have the groom secreted away in here somewhere do you?"

"Come on out, Prongs!" Sirius yelled.

"Not so loud, man," James winced as we walked into the sun dappled living room, shirtless, black pants covered in dirt or … something, and a suspiciously familiar pair of underwear on his head.

"Wha -?" Sirius yanked James's "head-dress" off his head. "Hey! Those are mine!"

"I so don't want to know," Izzy and Lily said simultaneously.

James poured a cup of coffee and stretched out. "So," he chuckled. "I hear you two fools want a story from me."

"Please." Izzy said desperately.

"Well," James sat next to Lily and began. "After we left my future bride and the rest of the idiots we headed to the Galleon Pub where you, Izzy won two games of pool despite your inebriation."

"Whoo!" Izzy cheered.

"Then, you and Sirius were getting quite messy, and I wanted to see my girl, so Mary booked all of you into a hotel because you should never Apparate drunk."

"So …."

"Go and see Mary!" James spelled out for them. "I don't know if you two weirdos slept together again, and frankly, given I'm getting married today, I don't care."

"Well," Izzy began to run towards the door. "Off we go. Congrats you two!"

"Izzy, I swear to god, if you're late today I will –"

"We know!" Sirius placated Lily as he followed Izzy quick smart out the door.

"Off to see Mary then," Izzy determined, feeling a gnawing at the pit of her stomach.

Reviews! I know, another cliffy. My bad! I just love them. (Probably because I KNOW what's going to happen next.)