The Gower Ball
Sirius was sat with Matt, Davis and Harvey on the train home for Christmas, he wasn't in a very good mood, when the door opened and a girl walked in.
"You know what I've heard?" Bertha Jenkins asked.
"I don't really want to know." Sirius told her.
"Well I'm going to tell you anyway." Bertha informed him.
"Then what was the point in asking us?" Sirius said.
Bertha smiled at him and then went on. "Well Michael, you know captain of our Quidditch very handsome, who all the girls like. Well some think that your quit handsome as well."
"What? What are you talking about?" Sirius asked. "Who thinks that?"
"Well, Nissa Tiania the new Chaser which going out with him. Some are saying that the two of you are really going out." Bertha went on.
"Their not going out." Davis told her. "Their normally at each others throats, and then the next minute their friends, not going out."
"Well if you say so." Bertha said as she walked out.
"What the hell was that all about?" Harvey asked them.
"No idea." Sirius answered. "She's always in everyone's business."
Nothing eventful happened for the rest of the journey back to platform 9 ¾. They all got off on the other side and made their way though to meet their parents.
"Bye." Nissa said quickly as she spotted Infidus and didn't want anyone seeing her with him. She quickly walked off without waiting for a reply and disappeared in to the crowd.
Sirius also didn't want to be seen with his parents; well he didn't want his friends hearing what they would say about them.
"Hoped I've forgotten about you?" His mother said of way of greeting. "If it was anything else then this I would have. Look at you, associating with these mud-bloods."
"Can we go?" Sirius said through gritted teeth and started to walk off before she even answered him.
She followed him not because she wanted to but because she couldn't stand being around all of the muggles, and half breads.
Sirius spent most of the time up in his room out of the way; Keacher brought him his food up because he wouldn't go downstairs and sit with his family while they insulted everyone he knew. The day before Christmas Eve he received an owl, and this time he knew who it belonged.
Dear Sirius,
I'm just writing to make sure that you're still coming, to make sure there's going to be a friendly face. See you tomorrow, can't wait to see what you look like in the new robes.
From Nissa.
Sirius smiled slightly to himself as he finished the letter, she was looking forward to seeing him, that made him feel better and knowing she that there was going to be a friendly face as well.
Sirius dressed the next night and went downstairs in his new robes, long midnight blue which simmered in the light changing into different shades; and embroidered with silver with the Gryffindor lion in silver on his lapel. He walked down the stairs' taking his time.
"Sirius hurry up!" His mother shouted up the stairs' at him.
"Come along now." His father said as he came in sight.
Sirius stopped at the bottom step as they all looked at him, his mother was disgusted when she saw the Gryffindor lion, she wouldn't have been bored if he hadn't had that.
"Ready to go?" Sirius asked.
"What is that?" His father asked him.
Sirius looked down at where he was pointing, even though he already knew and smiled.
"It's a lion." Sirius answered. "A very noble creature wouldn't you say."
"Why can't you be more like your brother?" His mother spat at him.
Regulus straighten at his name being mentioned and followed his father into the living. Mr Black took one last look at his eldest son and then went into the living. Sirius took a deep breath and then followed them. They all stood in front of the grand fire place and one by one they went to the Ball, to his doom.
Sirius stumbled out of the fire place on the other side, his mother clean Regulus from the ash but didn't even bother with Sirius. There were a couple of people dotted around in dress robes, and two man on either side of the door as though there for security.
"We enter together and we leave together, that's all." Mr Black told him. "Now come along."
Sirius bushed himself off and followed his father as they enter the ball room, the door's opened magical inwards and they all walked in as a family on the outside.
There were dozen's of people already here, and most looked as though they were his families type of people, he wondered how Nissa could be apart of something like this, and didn't blame Mr and Mrs Potter for not wanting to come.
Sirius separated from his family as soon as he could, he knew that they didn't to introduce him to anyone, and he didn't want to be either. He wanted to find Nissa.
Severus stepped out of the fire and Nissa. He was dressed in long black layered robes, all in black. Nissa though didn't have any black, she wore sapphire and topaz coloured robes and her hair down, tonight long above her waste and red.
Infidus was stood next to his wife and Mr and Mrs Snape who were glaring at one another, Infitus walked over to them and started talking to Severus pulling him away from Nissa. They all enter the Ball together, with Nissa right at the back of them all.
"I'll introduce you to a couple of people I know." Infitus was saying to Severus as Nissa stayed by the door looking around the room.
Nissa stood there for a couple of minutes looking through the sea of people before her, a couple of young men had come over to ask her to dance but she had said no to them all. Then she spotted him, she walked pass the next man coming over to ask her to dance and walked straight over to Sirius.
She stopped behind him smiling knowing that he didn't know she was there.
"You look better then even I could have imaged." Nissa said softly.
Sirius spun around at the sound of her voice, hoping against hope that it was really her, that she had come to save him and him her from this tortured nightmare.
Nissa smiled at him, but it wasn't her normal blinding smile, it still made him want to do anything she asked of him, but this this was much softer. He couldn't do anything but stare at her; with her long red hair and those dream like eyes, eyes burning even brighter then the fire which reflected in them. And who she was dressed, she looked like a Queen a Goddess, he didn't deserve someone like her.
Nissa stopped smiling when he never returned the smile, and looked at him questioningly as though wondering if she had done something wrong.
"If you're not going to dance with the beautiful lady then I will." Regulus said walking up behind her and grabbed hold of her hand and pulled her onto the dance floor.
Sirius was still in shock, but he wasn't for long as he grabbed hold of his brother and pulled him off of Nissa.
"Sirius, what do you think you're doing?" Mrs Black demanded through gritted teeth, and then she looked at Nissa. "If Regulus wants to dance with this witch then he can, stay away from her. Why don't you stick with your little half-bread mud-blood friends?"
Nissa looked at Sirius as his pledging him to do something, he just stared at her.
"Sirius." Nissa said. She took hold of his hand enraging Regulus and walked off with him, through the crowd of people and out onto one of the empty balconies.
Sirius pulled away from her and stood with his back to her looking moodily over the city below them.
"Sirius." Nissa said as if pledging him to turn round and look at her.
"I shouldn't have come; they wouldn't have care if I didn't." Sirius said suddenly.
"I would have." Nissa said quietly.
Sirius still didn't look at her; he couldn't bring himself to face her after what his mother had said in front of her. But Nissa took a deep breath and then stepped forward to stand by his side.
"I'm not going to say that I'm sorry that you have a family like that, because I know that would upset you even more." Nissa told him. "Though I will say this. It doesn't matter what their like, as long as your yourself, you can't help the family you're chosen into. We can only make ourselves who we want to be."
Nissa raped her arm around his and then rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. Sirius rested his head on her shoulder and closed his eyes listening to her words play over and over again in his head.
They stood there for about five minutes without saying a word not really needing too, as though everything which had needed to be said was.
"Can you dance?" Nissa asked him, she didn't open her eyes or even take her head off his shoulder, but he did.
"What?" Sirius said startled. "I don't, I don't dance."
Nissa let go of him and looked up into his eyes and smiled at him.
"You don't or you don't know how?" Nissa asked. "we don't have to dance in there."
The music floated outside through the open doors, as Nissa put his left hand on her waste and took his right hand in hers. She smiled softly up at him as he started to blush, as she begun to lead them. They moved across the balcony to the music that was playing inside as though it was only playing for them. He let her lead until her had gotten the hang of it and then he lead as though he had been dancing his whole life, he spun her out and then caught her in his arms as she came back to him.
They seemed to have been dancing for hours, they danced slowly in one another arms as the music changed. Nissa rested her head on his chest as though she was finally at peace and was safe from the world around her, and he also felt it as he softly rested his head on hers.
The doors' slung back hitting the walls making both Sirius and Nissa jumped and turn around stood in the door was Infidus with his wand out pointed at them both.
"What are you doing?" Nissa asked him.
Infidus never took his eyes of either of them, as he walked over and grabbed Nissa by the arm and grigged her away as she pulled against him.
"What the hell do you think your doing? Let go of her." Sirius shouted at him pulling out his own wand.
Infidus stopped and smiled cruelly at them both, as Nissa looked up at him.
"Don't be stupid, she isn't worth all that you think." Infidus said softly and pulled her away.
Sirius was pulled back by his father, he pulled against him as hard as he could but his father was much stronger then he was and pulled him back outside.
"Do one thing I ask of you, and that is to stay away from her." He told him.
"What? No." Sirius shouted at him, trying to pull his arm away from his father.
"Do you even know who she is?" He asked Sirius.
"She is too good for you." His mother told him as she walked out onto the balcony. "For to good for the likes of you, but if we're lucky Regulus who up holds the family name would be much more suited."
"She isn't like you, she doesn't care for purebloods and all that crap!" Sirius shot at them before he realised what he was saying.
"Of course, you just keep telling yourself that." His mother told him as she led in and looked as though she knew so much more about her then he did.
"You're wrong!" Sirius shouted and ran back into the Ball and out to the fire place and back home again. He finally stopped when he was back in his living room, which was pitch black part from the fire.
Sirius wondered if his mother was right, he didn't know anything about her, what did he really know about her. Part from the fact that she had made him fall for the very moment they had met. Then he started to think hard tried to think what he knew about her. Yes he knew she was a Pureblood and was brought up by the Manus family a family not unlike his own, she was Metamorphmagus, she had a beautiful smile, and she was affected by the full moon.
"Stupid! Damn it!" Sirius shouted as kicked the table over and stormed out of the room pushing Keacher out of his way as he went up to his room.
He slammed the door shut and slung himself down on his bed.
"I don't care!" Sirius shouted into the night.
'Can you hear me?' a voice asked inside of his head.
Sirius sat bolt up right, thinking that well he wasn't sure what he was thinking.
"Can you hear me?' the voice asked again.
Sirius knew the voice and answered it, but not out loud but with his thoughts, 'yes'.
'Can you hear me?'
'Can you feel me in your arms?'
Sirius wondered only for a moment what she meant, when he felt her as though she was there with him. He lay back on his back with her in his arms, all his thoughts and anger dieing away as he fell asleep with her safely in his arms.
Sirius was sat with Matt, Davis and Harvey on the train home for Christmas, he wasn't in a very good mood, when the door opened and a girl walked in.
"You know what I've heard?" Bertha Jenkins asked.
"I don't really want to know." Sirius told her.
"Well I'm going to tell you anyway." Bertha informed him.
"Then what was the point in asking us?" Sirius said.
Bertha smiled at him and then went on. "Well Michael, you know captain of our Quidditch very handsome, who all the girls like. Well some think that your quit handsome as well."
"What? What are you talking about?" Sirius asked. "Who thinks that?"
"Well, Nissa Tiania the new Chaser which going out with him. Some are saying that the two of you are really going out." Bertha went on.
"Their not going out." Davis told her. "Their normally at each others throats, and then the next minute their friends, not going out."
"Well if you say so." Bertha said as she walked out.
"What the hell was that all about?" Harvey asked them.
"No idea." Sirius answered. "She's always in everyone's business."
Nothing eventful happened for the rest of the journey back to platform 9 ¾. They all got off on the other side and made their way though to meet their parents.
"Bye." Nissa said quickly as she spotted Infidus and didn't want anyone seeing her with him. She quickly walked off without waiting for a reply and disappeared in to the crowd.
Sirius also didn't want to be seen with his parents; well he didn't want his friends hearing what they would say about them.
"Hoped I've forgotten about you?" His mother said of way of greeting. "If it was anything else then this I would have. Look at you, associating with these mud-bloods."
"Can we go?" Sirius said through gritted teeth and started to walk off before she even answered him.
She followed him not because she wanted to but because she couldn't stand being around all of the muggles, and half breads.
Sirius spent most of the time up in his room out of the way; Keacher brought him his food up because he wouldn't go downstairs and sit with his family while they insulted everyone he knew. The day before Christmas Eve he received an owl, and this time he knew who it belonged.
Dear Sirius,
I'm just writing to make sure that you're still coming, to make sure there's going to be a friendly face. See you tomorrow, can't wait to see what you look like in the new robes.
From Nissa.
Sirius smiled slightly to himself as he finished the letter, she was looking forward to seeing him, that made him feel better and knowing she that there was going to be a friendly face as well.
Sirius dressed the next night and went downstairs in his new robes, long midnight blue which simmered in the light changing into different shades; and embroidered with silver with the Gryffindor lion in silver on his lapel. He walked down the stairs' taking his time.
"Sirius hurry up!" His mother shouted up the stairs' at him.
"Come along now." His father said as he came in sight.
Sirius stopped at the bottom step as they all looked at him, his mother was disgusted when she saw the Gryffindor lion, she wouldn't have been bored if he hadn't had that.
"Ready to go?" Sirius asked.
"What is that?" His father asked him.
Sirius looked down at where he was pointing, even though he already knew and smiled.
"It's a lion." Sirius answered. "A very noble creature wouldn't you say."
"Why can't you be more like your brother?" His mother spat at him.
Regulus straighten at his name being mentioned and followed his father into the living. Mr Black took one last look at his eldest son and then went into the living. Sirius took a deep breath and then followed them. They all stood in front of the grand fire place and one by one they went to the Ball, to his doom.
Sirius stumbled out of the fire place on the other side, his mother clean Regulus from the ash but didn't even bother with Sirius. There were a couple of people dotted around in dress robes, and two man on either side of the door as though there for security.
"We enter together and we leave together, that's all." Mr Black told him. "Now come along."
Sirius bushed himself off and followed his father as they enter the ball room, the door's opened magical inwards and they all walked in as a family on the outside.
There were dozen's of people already here, and most looked as though they were his families type of people, he wondered how Nissa could be apart of something like this, and didn't blame Mr and Mrs Potter for not wanting to come.
Sirius separated from his family as soon as he could, he knew that they didn't to introduce him to anyone, and he didn't want to be either. He wanted to find Nissa.
Severus stepped out of the fire and Nissa. He was dressed in long black layered robes, all in black. Nissa though didn't have any black, she wore sapphire and topaz coloured robes and her hair down, tonight long above her waste and red.
Infidus was stood next to his wife and Mr and Mrs Snape who were glaring at one another, Infitus walked over to them and started talking to Severus pulling him away from Nissa. They all enter the Ball together, with Nissa right at the back of them all.
"I'll introduce you to a couple of people I know." Infitus was saying to Severus as Nissa stayed by the door looking around the room.
Nissa stood there for a couple of minutes looking through the sea of people before her, a couple of young men had come over to ask her to dance but she had said no to them all. Then she spotted him, she walked pass the next man coming over to ask her to dance and walked straight over to Sirius.
She stopped behind him smiling knowing that he didn't know she was there.
"You look better then even I could have imaged." Nissa said softly.
Sirius spun around at the sound of her voice, hoping against hope that it was really her, that she had come to save him and him her from this tortured nightmare.
Nissa smiled at him, but it wasn't her normal blinding smile, it still made him want to do anything she asked of him, but this this was much softer. He couldn't do anything but stare at her; with her long red hair and those dream like eyes, eyes burning even brighter then the fire which reflected in them. And who she was dressed, she looked like a Queen a Goddess, he didn't deserve someone like her.
Nissa stopped smiling when he never returned the smile, and looked at him questioningly as though wondering if she had done something wrong.
"If you're not going to dance with the beautiful lady then I will." Regulus said walking up behind her and grabbed hold of her hand and pulled her onto the dance floor.
Sirius was still in shock, but he wasn't for long as he grabbed hold of his brother and pulled him off of Nissa.
"Sirius, what do you think you're doing?" Mrs Black demanded through gritted teeth, and then she looked at Nissa. "If Regulus wants to dance with this witch then he can, stay away from her. Why don't you stick with your little half-bread mud-blood friends?"
Nissa looked at Sirius as his pledging him to do something, he just stared at her.
"Sirius." Nissa said. She took hold of his hand enraging Regulus and walked off with him, through the crowd of people and out onto one of the empty balconies.
Sirius pulled away from her and stood with his back to her looking moodily over the city below them.
"Sirius." Nissa said as if pledging him to turn round and look at her.
"I shouldn't have come; they wouldn't have care if I didn't." Sirius said suddenly.
"I would have." Nissa said quietly.
Sirius still didn't look at her; he couldn't bring himself to face her after what his mother had said in front of her. But Nissa took a deep breath and then stepped forward to stand by his side.
"I'm not going to say that I'm sorry that you have a family like that, because I know that would upset you even more." Nissa told him. "Though I will say this. It doesn't matter what their like, as long as your yourself, you can't help the family you're chosen into. We can only make ourselves who we want to be."
Nissa raped her arm around his and then rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. Sirius rested his head on her shoulder and closed his eyes listening to her words play over and over again in his head.
They stood there for about five minutes without saying a word not really needing too, as though everything which had needed to be said was.
"Can you dance?" Nissa asked him, she didn't open her eyes or even take her head off his shoulder, but he did.
"What?" Sirius said startled. "I don't, I don't dance."
Nissa let go of him and looked up into his eyes and smiled at him.
"You don't or you don't know how?" Nissa asked. "we don't have to dance in there."
The music floated outside through the open doors, as Nissa put his left hand on her waste and took his right hand in hers. She smiled softly up at him as he started to blush, as she begun to lead them. They moved across the balcony to the music that was playing inside as though it was only playing for them. He let her lead until her had gotten the hang of it and then he lead as though he had been dancing his whole life, he spun her out and then caught her in his arms as she came back to him.
They seemed to have been dancing for hours, they danced slowly in one another arms as the music changed. Nissa rested her head on his chest as though she was finally at peace and was safe from the world around her, and he also felt it as he softly rested his head on hers.
The doors' slung back hitting the walls making both Sirius and Nissa jumped and turn around stood in the door was Infidus with his wand out pointed at them both.
"What are you doing?" Nissa asked him.
Infidus never took his eyes of either of them, as he walked over and grabbed Nissa by the arm and grigged her away as she pulled against him.
"What the hell do you think your doing? Let go of her." Sirius shouted at him pulling out his own wand.
Infidus stopped and smiled cruelly at them both, as Nissa looked up at him.
"Don't be stupid, she isn't worth all that you think." Infidus said softly and pulled her away.
Sirius was pulled back by his father, he pulled against him as hard as he could but his father was much stronger then he was and pulled him back outside.
"Do one thing I ask of you, and that is to stay away from her." He told him.
"What? No." Sirius shouted at him, trying to pull his arm away from his father.
"Do you even know who she is?" He asked Sirius.
"She is too good for you." His mother told him as she walked out onto the balcony. "For to good for the likes of you, but if we're lucky Regulus who up holds the family name would be much more suited."
"She isn't like you, she doesn't care for purebloods and all that crap!" Sirius shot at them before he realised what he was saying.
"Of course, you just keep telling yourself that." His mother told him as she led in and looked as though she knew so much more about her then he did.
"You're wrong!" Sirius shouted and ran back into the Ball and out to the fire place and back home again. He finally stopped when he was back in his living room, which was pitch black part from the fire.
Sirius wondered if his mother was right, he didn't know anything about her, what did he really know about her. Part from the fact that she had made him fall for the very moment they had met. Then he started to think hard tried to think what he knew about her. Yes he knew she was a Pureblood and was brought up by the Manus family a family not unlike his own, she was Metamorphmagus, she had a beautiful smile, and she was affected by the full moon.
"Stupid! Damn it!" Sirius shouted as kicked the table over and stormed out of the room pushing Keacher out of his way as he went up to his room.
He slammed the door shut and slung himself down on his bed.
"I don't care!" Sirius shouted into the night.
'Can you hear me?' a voice asked inside of his head.
Sirius sat bolt up right, thinking that well he wasn't sure what he was thinking.
"Can you hear me?' the voice asked again.
Sirius knew the voice and answered it, but not out loud but with his thoughts, 'yes'.
'Can you hear me?'
'Can you feel me in your arms?'
Sirius wondered only for a moment what she meant, when he felt her as though she was there with him. He lay back on his back with her in his arms, all his thoughts and anger dieing away as he fell asleep with her safely in his arms.
