Sirius started awake. He had just been catching some sleep in History of Magic, not that Professor Binns would have noticed anyway. He gathered his books together and left the classroom with Peter trailing behind him.

"Did you take notes Wormy?" he asked, yawning.

"Yup!" Peter squeaked.

"I'm gonna need them."

"Ok!" Peter was always eager to please.

They met with Remus and James at the entrance to the dungeons.

"Potions! Fun!" James rolled his eyes sarcastically and they entered the classroom and sat at the back, flicking balls of paper at the back of Snape's head (he was sitting infront of them).

The Potions Master breezed in; he was a tall, thin, bird-like man with thinning grey hair and watery eyes. He sat at his desk and unrolled a piece of parchment.

"Black?" he called

"Yup!"

"Bones?"

"Yes Sir"

"Bullstrode?"

"Yes Sir"

"Crabbe?"

"Yes Sir"

"Evans?"

"Yes Sir"

"Goyle?"

"Yes Sir"

"Jay?"

"Yes Sir"

"Lupin?"

"Yes Sir"

"Malfoy?"

"Yes Sir"

"Parkinson?"

"Yes Sir"

"Pettigrew?"

"Yes Sir"

"Potter?"

"Yup!"

"Snape?"

"Yes Sir"

"Zabini?"

"Yes Sir"

The parchment rolled itself up and disappeared.

"Today I will be assigning new lab partners."

The class groaned.

"Black and Lupin" Sirius punched the air. He was so happy he hadn't been partnered with Snape.

"Bones and Crabbe"

"Bullstrode and Pettigrew." Peter visibly cringed and made his way over to where Mandy Bullstrode was sitting. The huge girl towered over him. James laughed.

"Evans and Potter." James stopped laughing. He gathered his books and made his way to Lily's desk. She smiled at him.

"Hello," she whispered.

"Hi," he smiled back.

"Goyle and Parkinson."

"Jay and Snape." Rachel's eyes widened. Sirius's face fell. Reluctantly she picked up her books and moved to Snape's desk.

"Mudblood," he nodded.

"Toad." She hissed back.

"Such a pity," he whispered, "That someone so beautiful has such a foul tongue." He stroked a lock of her blue hair. She flinched away.

"Keep your slimy hands off me Snape!" she moved further away from him along the desk.

He reached for her again but she slapped his hands away.

Remus and Sirius had been collecting the equipment for the potion- well, Sirius had walked up to the store cupboard and back and Remus was carrying all the apparatus- when they passed by Snape's desk. Snape was stroking Rachel's hair and whispering in her ear. They watched as Rachel slapped Snape's hands away.

"You're going to wish you hadn't done that mudblood." Snape growled.

"What are you gonna do Snape? Scare me away with your underwear? Mmm, great one there!" Rachel's voice was covered in sarcasm.

Sirius chuckled. Rachel was good.

Snape grabbed Rachel roughly by the shoulders and pulled her close to him. She felt his hot sticky breath on her neck close to her ear.

"I dunno, I've always wanted to know if the rumours are true about mudbloods." He hissed.

Rachel forced herself to look him in the eye. "What's that?" she asked, she was not about to show him how afraid she really was.

"Whether you scream or not."

Rachel's eyes widened in fear, then darkened in anger. Without any warning she punched Snape square in the mouth. The whole class was silent. He staggered back, knocking apparatus over and finally falling to the floor. Blood poured down his face for the second time that day. He smiled at Rachel as he got to his feet, licking the blood from his lips.

"I like it when they're feisty Jay." He hissed at her.

Sirius was in shock, as was the rest of the class. The teacher just stood there, mouth open. It was like they had all been frozen. They watched as Rachel gathered her books and stormed out. Remus poked him.

"Go after her Padfoot." He whispered.

But Lily had already hurried after her friend; nobody had even tried to stop her. Sirius advanced on Snape.

"You bastard," he snarled. "What did you say to her?"

Snape began to laugh. "I only told the little slut that I wanted her after you were finished."

Sirius pinned him to the wall.

"Detention!" a voice rang out, breaking the tension in the room.

Three names appeared on the board.

Rachel Jay

Severus Snape

Sirius Black

Sirius released Snape and he dropped to the floor and scuttled away.

"Why the hell is my name up there?" he shouted at the professor.

"Do not question my judgement Mister Black. Detention, tomorrow night, here, eight o'clock sharp."

Sirius walked to the back, picked up his bag and headed for the door.

"I'll see you then." He called over his shoulder, and left the classroom.

The bell rang.

James, Remus and Peter hurried to catch up with Sirius.

"Damn! That was quite a punch Rachel threw!" James exclaimed.

"Snivellus deserved it." Grumbled Sirius.

"Why?" Peter asked.

"Because he threatened to hurt Rachel." The other Mauderers looked at Remus in surprise.

"It's not my fault my hearing becomes really good this time of the month!"

Sirius smiled at his friend, he was glad the day was almost over. All he had left was lunch and a free afternoon where he and James were going to do some Quiddich Practice. The Mauderers headed for the Great Hall.

Lily followed Rachel upstairs to the Gryffindor Common Room. Rachel dumped her bag and cloak on the large red sofa and transfigured her school uniform into a pair of baggy black tracksuit bottoms, a grey, long sleeved, hooded top under a white T-Shirt and a pair of trainers. She tied her long blue hair up into a high ponytail and transfigured the largest sofa cushion she could find into a punching bag.

"Wingadium Leviosa." The punching bag began to hover a few feet off the ground and Rachel attacked it. Lily watched, astounded, as her friend proceeded to beat the stuffing out of the punching bag. She watched for a few minutes, and then intervened.

"Rach." she reached for her friend's shoulder.

Rachel whirled around, a few pieces of hair had come lose from her ponytail and were framing her face and her brown eyes were steadily filling with tears. Lily pulled her into a hug.

"Aww, Rach." She didn't really know what else to say.

Thank Merlin the Mauderers chose that moment to walk through the portrait hole, arms laden with food.

"Evans," James was the first to speak, "I got all the potions notes for you,"

Lily smiled gratefully at him "Thanks James, do you want to meet in the library later to go over them?"

"Are you asking me out Evans?" he replied cheekily.

Lily just rolled her eyes, "You wish Potter!" she laughed.

Peter piped up, "We brought you guys some food, we thought you might be hungry."

Rachel released Lily and ran over to Peter, who could hardly see over the pile of food he had in his arms, and hugged him, before throwing an apple to Lily and grabbing a banana. Sirius glowered.

"Are you ok Rach?" asked Remus, who was helping himself to an orange.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just needed to relieve some stress." She motioned to the punching bag. Remus grinned at her. Rachel smiled back.

"So Jay," Sirius spoke up, "I've got a free afternoon, I was wondering if you wanted to come down to the Quiddich Pitch with Jamsie-Boy and me in a few minutes and practice."

"Yeah, sure, I've got the afternoon off." Rachel looked at him gratefully, how did he know flying helped her to relax?

"Great," Sirius continued, "Maybe then afterwards you and I could hit the showers." He winked at her suggestively.

Rachel's eyes flashed, "Is that all you ever think about Black?!" She rushed upstairs to find her broom.

He ran to the bottom of the stairway leading to the Girl's Dorms. "I'm not hearing a no!" he called up after her.

Rachel threw her banana skin at him. Remus laughed. James snorted. Lily giggled. Peter blushed. Sirius looked so stupid with banana in his hair.

James looked at Lily. She was so beautiful when she laughed. She caught him looking.

"What time did you want to meet in the library?" she asked.

"About five?"

"Sure, no problem." The bell rang in the hallway. "Shit! I've got to get to class!" Lily jumped out of the portrait hole and was away, quickly followed by Remus and Peter.

James glanced at Sirius, who was cleaning banana out of his long black hair.

"I'm just going to go upstairs and grab my broom," he said, "you want me to get yours?"

"If you wouldn't mind Prongs." Replied Sirius, who was now searching for his wand.

Rachel jumped down the stairs holding her broom.

"Ready to go?" she asked.

"Just gotta wait for Prongs." Sirius replied, his hair now void of banana. He looked up at Rachel and for the first time, she noticed a slight bruise that had formed just beneath his right eye.

"What did you do?" she enquired, pointing at it.

"That? Oh, Snape got a lucky hit this morning." He replied.

"Oh."

At that moment, James came down the stairs.

"Right then, let's go."

The two Quiddich Players and their Captain left the Gryffindor Common Room.

(A/N: What did you think? I've got a choice of what to put in the next Chapter. Either: James and Lily- Library Session or Sirius and Rachel- Quiddich Pitch. I can do either one and link the other one in as a further Chapter. Read, Review & tell me which one you prefer! Luv Ya~ Raven x.)