A/N: Ok a few big thanks before I start, Alex, Maddi, Clare, Brittany, Brittany, Turee, Terry and Dearne thanks guys you've given my inspiration and this is your reward for putting up with me being completely nuts. Aimee a special thanks. I don't know what's going to happen to you but thanks for letting me take you on the ride.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Music Tames the Savage Beast.

Things continued on as normal for the next few weeks, James and Lily continued to grow closer and everyone was beginning to look forward to the holiday season. Then three weeks before the Christmas break Professor Healy called Sirius into her office. Professor Alexandria Healy was the schools Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and very good at what she did considering that she was only twenty years old. She also happened to be Sirius's favourite cousin being the oldest daughter of Sirius's mother's sister Clara. Alex, Sirius and Alex's older sister Andromeda had grown up together and if Sirius considered James to be as close as a brother then Alex and Andromeda was defiantly as close as sisters. Partly because they were all so close in age but also because unlike most Black relatives Alex and Andromeda, like Sirius had a deep seated hatred of all thing to do with dark magic and it's uses against people.

Sirius strolled into Alex's office and gave her a grin.

"Hey Professor Cous'. How's Andie? What can I do for you?"

"Well first of all you can stop calling me Professor Cous'. Second Andie's fine she just started dating this nice Muggle called Ted Tonks mother is having kittens of course and third I have a really big favour to ask."

"Sure what do you want?"

"Well Siri, I've got a student in my sixth year class. Very talented in most areas but can't seem to dual for the life of her. I need you to tutor her. Pretty please."

"Ok what's she like?"

"Well she's very nice, her names Aimee, she's a Hufflepuff and she'll meet you in the library at 7.30 tomorrow night. She's got long mousy hair, or at least she usually does and you'll know her 'cos she'll be the one singing."

"Singing. In the Library? And what do you mean by usually does?"

"I don't mean full on belting it out. Probably just humming but her mother's a muse so she's very good at music and art and she's a Metamorphmagus, so if the moods taken her she may not look anything like what I've just described."

"Oh great so I'm tutoring a singing shape shifter."

"Yes and don't be so negative she's really nice. Now get out of here."

"Righteo bye."

The next evening Sirius walked into the Library somewhere he usually avoided if he could help it. Despite his reservations Sirius found Aimee easy to spot. Long mousy hair and a faint humming. He tapped her on the shoulder and she spun around.

"Hi you're Sirius Black, I'm Aimee Weir and you're supposed to be tutoring me right!"

It was a statement not a question.

"Yeah so let's get out of here unless you want to start duelling right here and blow half the books to smithereens."

"Ok let's go. Where to?"

"Well the DADA class room I guess."

"Fine."

Two hours later Sirius was exhausted and Aimee was still trying to recover from the Jelly Legs hex that she had been unable to block.

"So why on earth are you taking this subject."

"I want to be an Auror and so I have to have it. It's my one weak subject. I've tops at Potions and Charms, and I'm not bad at Transfiguration or even dark creatures I just can't dual. I mean give me a standing target who's not fighting back and I'll launch fifty million hexes and jinxes at them but once I've got to hex, block and move at the same time I seem to fall apart."

"Well that's just a matter of practice. Do you play any sports?"

"No"

"Then there's your first problem. Your hand-eye co-ordination is stuffed and you have no concept of how to multi-task. What you need to do is come out and play Quidditch with me some time and once we've got you good at that maybe we can get your duelling up to scratch."

"Oh cool that would be so awesome."

"Aimee let me ask you something, are you intimidated by me?"

"No should I be?"

"Well you know who I am right; I'm Sirius Black best looking guy in school most girls would kill to be in your position right now."

"You're very arrogant aren't you? What have you got that others don't, good looks? So what I could be one of the prettiest girls in school if I chose, watch."

Aimee closed her eyes and concentrated. With in seconds her hair had turned the color of honey, her eyes a deep blue and her face into a picture of classic beauty.

"See I guess this is the type of girl you usually go for, blonde, leggy and brainless?"

"Well yeah actually."

"You're shallow Mr Black, do you like being that shallow and conceited?"

"Well no, but that's how I've always been."

"Then change. I'll make a deal with you, you make me a master dueler and I'll show you that there's more to life than just pretty girls, pranks and broom sticks."

"Ok fine. When do we start?"

"For you teaching me that's your decision as for your education in being a real person as apposed to a poser that starts tomorrow night. I'm in a concert in Hogsmeade and you are to attend."

"Um ok."

"Good I'll meet you at quarter to eight tomorrow evening in the Great Hall. See ya then." Aimee got up and shook her head, instantly she looked like herself again. Then she left.

Sirius sat on the floor utterly confused, in the space of an hour he'd not only been accused of being shallow and arrogant and not gone off his nut at the person saying those things to him, but he's agreed with her and agreed to go to a concert with her. There was something about Aimee that intrigued him and he just had to know more.

Inside her office Professor Alex Healy punched the air with glee. It was working. She'd finally found the one girl to throw her cousin off balance. Maybe this would be the start of a new more sensitive Sirius. She could only hope.

"So you're going to a concert huh. You must really like this chick if you're willing to give up your Saturday night to go to a concert."

"Don't you give me a hard time Prongs. I don't know why but it really got to me when Aimee called me shallow. I mean I never really cared before but the way she said it she wasn't having a go at me she was just pointing out a fact and that made it important."

"So basically you're going to a boring concert because some random girl told you, you were shallow and even though you already knew that now you want to change?"

"Yes."

"Fair enough. Have fun."

Sirius had no idea why he was so nervous. He passed up and down the dorm and then checked his reflection for the hundredth time and gave his hair a tweak.

"Give it up Padfoot you're driving us all nuts. You look fine, your hair is perfect as usual. Your clothes look spiffy and if you don't sit down you'll either wear a hole in the floor or I'll hex the living day lights out of you I can't guarantee which will occur first."

"Ok James but I can't help it. For some reason I'm really, really nervous. I've never felt like this before a date. And this isn't even a date. Oh James what am I doing? Why am I do damn nervous?"

"Maybe you actually like this girl Sirius. Maybe you want to make a good impression and prove to her that you're not the shallow self centred pretty boy git that everyone thinks you are."

"Ease up you're supposed to be on my side. Ok time to go how do I look?"

"AAHHHH Leave now before I really do hex you into next week."

Sirius descend the stares into the Great Hall and saw a group of seven girls four of which were dressed in identical robes. Two he knew quite well, one he recognised another as being in Gryffindor, three he had never seen before and one was Aimee.

Sirius grinned at the two girls he knew Maddi and Brittany they were James and Remus's baby sisters respectively and had been dubbed the Mini Maraudetts. Both well on their ways to taking over from their brothers as the schools biggest trouble makers, both were in fifth year and both had been the target of many a prank over the years until they learned to fight back. Maddi was small with blonde hair cut to her shoulders and braces, the spitting image of her mother a side from the orthodontic wear of course. Brittany has Remus's eyes, long brown hair and refused to answer to the name Brittany as she considered it too normal when compared to Remus's exotic name. She had spat the dummy at the age of four and insisted that everyone should call her Romy, short for Romulus from then on.

"So how are my apprentices this fine evening" Sirius asked the two girls who he treated as if they were his own baby sisters.

"Fine Sirius." They chorused

"So you're coming to watch us sing huh. Good you can sit with Romy, Clare and Brittany, keep them company" Maddi giggled.

Aimee introduced the others in turn.

"Sirius this is Clare McKechnie, she's in Gryffindor like you but she's in my year." Sirius nodded to the red haired girl. He knew that she had to be the cousin of Molly Prewett who had been a prefect in Gryffindor house the first two years he was at school, and her brother had to be Terry McKechnie a fourth year who played on the Gryffindor house team as no two families could produce children with that colored hair, it was almost luminous.

"Over there is Brittany. She's in Ravenclaw with me." Brittany was a cute girl with brown hair and grey-green eyes. Sirius gave her a smile.

"And these two are Tauree and Dearne their both in the choir with me and Maddi." Sirius briefly took in the Honey haired girl and the dark haired one who he knew was the Ravenclaw seventh year prefect.

"Ok shall we go?"

Aimee led the way out the door and into a pair of waiting carriages which trundled down the drive towards Hogsmeade.

"So Sirius is this your first concert?" Aimee enquired

"Yeah it is he's never even come and watched me before." Maddi was giggling again. She and Romy had boarded the same carriage as Sirius and Aimee and were both sharing whispers and giggles at the sight of Sirius. They had never seen him look so nervous or flushed.

Within fifteen minutes the carriages slowed to a halt and their occupants alighted.

"Ok Maddi follow me. Sirius will you take the other girls inside. I'll see you after the show. Have fun"

"See ya Aimee. Break a leg Maddi" Romy called.

"That's a horrible thing to say Britt." Sirius burst out.

"It means good luck in show business speak silly."

"Oh, yeah, right"

The three girls and Sirius took their seats and waited for the show to start.

Two hours later Sirius was in shock. No one who could sing like that could be human.

"Wow, I mean wow."

The Romy, Brittany and Clare burst into fits of laughter.

"What did you expect Siri, her mum is a muse." Asked Romy.

"Yeah I know but..... Wow."

Aimee had been lead vocalist in the majority of the song sung during the concert and she had an exquisite voice. Her range was second to none, and as far as Sirius could workout she was constantly note perfect. He been enraptured from the moment she opened her mouth. She had even made him cry on more than one occasion, her singing being so emotive.

Sirius recovered enough to walk with the girls outside and meet up with the singers.

"So what did you think?" Aimee beamed at Sirius.

"He can't talk right now he's in shock."

"Good shock or bad shock" Aimee asked Romy.

"Oh good shock, defiantly good shock."

"Wonderful. So shall we grab a drink before we head home?"

The eight teenagers retired to the Three Broomsticks for Butterbeers and hot chips. While the girls all chattered on about this and that Sirius sat staring at Aimee. Aimee was fully aware of the attentions being directed at her but tactfully ignored them for the time being. As the clock struck midnight the girls made a move towards the two carriages that had brought them into town.

"You all go a head. Sirius and I will walk back I think we need to have a talk. I'll see you in the morning or at practice for the Christmas concert on Wednesday Ok?" Aimee said as her friends boarded the carriages.

"Yeah fine see ya later" The doors of the carriages slammed shut and Sirius and Aimee began to walk along in their wake.

"So what did you think?" Aimee enquired of the still shell shocked young man beside her.

"It was amazing, you were amazing."

"Yes well I wouldn't go that far. I did see you in tears a few times Mr Black, something I'm sure you never usually do."

"No but it was so beautiful, you were beautiful."

"Exactly. Sirius you just sat through a concert and it made you cry and feel joy and a whole heap of other emotions and it was all the work of a group girls who are not stunningly beautiful, weren't dressed in tight fitting robes cut up to here and down to there" She said indicating the top of her thigh and her cleavage. "And not one of us is a blonde bimbo and you said it was beautiful. That I was beautiful, and it wasn't 'cos you could see up my skirt, it was because I shared a little of my sole with you and the rest of the audience tonight. Do you understand what I'm talking about?"

"Yeah it was so moving because it was you, all of you with no restrictions and what's inside you is beautiful."

"Finally we have some depth!" Aimee laughed.

"Yes I suppose we do. Aimee I want to ask you something. Will you go out with me, be my girlfriend?"

"No, not yet. You've got a long way to go before I consider you worthy of my affections. I will however be your friend."

"Ok I can settle with that for now. Well we're here so I guess this is goodnight."

"Yes night Sirius." And with that Aimee stood on her tip toes and planted a kiss on Sirius's cheek.

Sirius shivered as though an electric shock had passes through his body. He had never felt that way before. He'd snogged heaps of girls and none had made him feel like that one little peck on the cheek had. Well that settled it, he had to have her and if that meant plumbing the unknown depths of his sole then that's what he'd do. He'd become so deep the Mariana Trench looked like kiddies wading pool. He bounced up the steps and into bed blissfully happy.