Thank you all for your reviews for the last chapter! I'm glad you all liked it. Thanks to everyone who read and put this story on their alerts and favourites lists too! I got lots of alerts last time, I'm hoping for some more reviews this time too!

In this chapter, Sirius tells the story of Filch and Pince so the part with Sirius is in bold and the actual story of the pair is in normal font. I had to bring Sirius in, I just missed the Marauders too much!

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Fred and George sat with Remus and Sirius in the kitchen of Number 12, Grimmauld Place, enjoying glasses of butterbeer. The two Marauders were regaling the twins with stories of their exploits at school. They had all been abusing Filch for the last ten minutes.

"Do you think Filch and Madam Pince are going out?" Fred asked George. "They have been acting very suspicious for a while."

"You've only noticed that now?" asked Sirius. "Of course they're going out. They have been for years now! They go on breaks occasionally but they are together."

"How would you know?" George asked. Even Remus looked skeptical.

Sirius looked around importantly. "James and I found out in first year. Everyone knows that Argus filch hates Peeves. Most people think that it was just because of the mess the poltergeist makes. But there was a deeper story behind it. There was an incident many years ago, when they both started working at Hogwarts…"

Argus Filch and Irma Pince were the newest staff members at Hogwarts. Naturally, they spent more time together, being new and around the same age too, and soon, they were seeing each other in secret. It was a relationship that students and teachers only guessed at, but it was very real. It was easy for them to hide it since no one really cared about them – they were only the support staff after all.

One romantic night, after all the students went to bed, Argus and Irma met up in the Library. Surrounded by Irma's favourite books and some of Argus' confiscated candles, they looked like any other happy couple.

"You really don't mind that I'm a Squib?" Argus asked worriedly.

"Of course not. I never even took my NEWTs and I'm not that good at magic myself," said Irma soothingly. She put a bowl under one of the candles to catch the dripping wax before it ruined the table.

Argus clasped her hand. "You're so tidy and organized. You're marvelous."

"You so good at getting students to follow the rules, you're amazing," Irma breathed.

"You're both so nauseatingly sweet, you're creepy!" cackled Peeves from the ceiling where he'd been lurking unnoticed. He swooped down. "Using the Library for your own purposes after hours? That's an abuse of authority. You should be reported," he tutted.

"Go away Peeves," hissed Argus. That was a mistake.

Peeves took offence and started throwing books at the couple.

"PEEVES!" roared Filch, dodging books. That seemed to aggravate Peeves even further. He dived, grabbed Irma before she could find her wand and set her on top of the high bookshelf.

"Argus! I'm going to fall!" she screamed.

"I'll get you down, Irma," Argus yelled, looking around for the ladder.

Peeves let out a wild giggle and dropped one of the candles on Argus' head.

"ARGH!" The caretaker screamed and grabbed the nearest book and began beating out the flames on his head.

"Let me help you with that!" said Peeves gleefully, emptying a whole shelf of books onto Argus. The caretaker disappeared under a sea of books, clearly knocked out.

"NO!" screamed Irma. She spotted the ladder a little way away, resting against the shelf. She carefully started inching towards it.

"It's not going to be so easy," sang Peeves, throwing more books at her. It looked like he had half the library in his hands. She dodged the books, managing to keep her balance and not fall off. The wicked poltergeist found a feather duster and attacked her with it. Irma tried not to squirm as the feathers tickled her.

"Peeves, stop it! I'll fall!" she begged.

"That's the idea, dearie! We'll make it a game. Every time you fall, I get a point!" shouted Peeves, happily.

"Argus, please, help me!" Irma shouted.

At the sound of her distressed cry, Argus' eyes shot open under the mountain of books. He pushed the books aside, bursting out of the heap like a superhero from a Muggle movie, ignoring the various cuts and bruises the books gave him. He knocked into a pile of screaming books and was nearly deafened. Peeves left Irma alone and started throwing books at Argus instead.

Argus swatted away at the fanged books with a broom he'd managed to find. Some of the books snapped at him or spit acid when they soared through the air at him. He managed to move around them all, trying to get closer to Peeves, distracting him while Irma reached the ladder. He began to scramble down the ladder.

"Oh no you don't!" screeched Peeves, going in for another attack on her.

"Oh no you don't, you big numpty!" Argus yelled, charging at Peeves with the broom. He rammed the handle at Peeves, somehow managing to stick it up his nose. Peeves howled and angled away, crashing into a shelf and causing books to rain down on him. He yowled and zoomed out of the Library quickly as the caretaker swung another broom at him.

Irma reached the end of the ladder. "Oh Argus, that was so brave!" she sobbed, jumping into his arms.

"I wish I could do magic! Then I could have got Peeves to go away faster," mumbled Argus.

"I can do magic but I couldn't get rid of Peeves. You did that. You have a magic of your own. You're courageous and strong-willed and you'll come to help me no matter what! I don't care about anything else," she answered. They kissed each other happily.

Outside, two first year boys hidden under an Invisibility Cloak ran for it, trying to erase the image of the two people kissing that mentally scarred them for life.

"Oh, so that's why you two refused to prank anyone for fear of getting caught for a whole week in first year. You didn't want to have to face Filch again!" said Remus.

"Prongs and I could never forget it. We couldn't walk past either Filch or Pince for a whole month without blushing furiously," said Sirius shuddering.

"Why were you in front of the Library at that time of night anyway?" asked George, laughing at Sirius' expression.

"We were actually trying to find the kitchens and accidentally ran into those two. We were hoping to get some dirt to blackmail Filch later so that we could get out of a few detentions," explained Sirius.

"Did you use the incident?" Fred asked, grinning.

"Nah, we felt it was kind of sweet and tried to help them out a bit actually. I sent Filch a Valentine's day card every year with instructions on the inside to give it to his sweetheart," replied Sirius.

Remus looked mischievous. "Oh, that's what those cards were all about. Merlin, here I was thinking all sorts of things about the two of you! What a relief!"

Sirius glared at him.

I meant this to be a funny chapter, but I'm not sure it turned out right...Anyway, review and let me know what you thought. As always, ideas for any couples that haven't been done yet are welcome!

I want at least five reviews again! :)