"Baby, come a little closer

Come and get to know me

And what I got?"

-Flaunt (Girls Love shoes)


"You got them all right!" I said excitedly and handed Regulus back a practice quiz that he just taken. It was Friday and a couple days after the incident as I referred to it now. At least his lip was healing nicely as he broke into a smile.

"Really?" He asked sounding surprised and examining the paper closely.

"Yep!" I said proudly. Maybe I wasn't such a bad tutor. We had only been working together for a few weeks now and it was really starting to pay off.

"I think we can call it quits for the day." I began packing my things up.

"Are you sure? We have another hour here before McGonagall comes to check on us." He said giving me a quick wink. Ah yes we were now being checked on by dear Minnie. Sense we began dating and her walking in on the fight between Regulus and Sirius she lost pretty much all trust in us. The only reason she hadn't canceled the tutoring sessions altogether were, because of how much improvement Regulus had been showing.

"What did you have in mind?" I asked with a smirk and hopped up on the desk. Regulus put his hands on either side of me and leaned towards me.

"Oh I was hoping you could help me with my essay for potions." He said his forehead touching mine with a slight smile. I slapped his arm playfully, knowing he was teasing me. I had exploded our cauldron earlier that morning. It was a complete accident though. Anybody could mistake salamander blood with snake venom. Well, anyone that had an ounce of common sense wouldn't as the Walrus kindly informed me while wiping gunk out of his moustache. Sometimes ruining potions can have its benefits.

"Hush you." I told him and I could feel his smile as he pressed his lips to mine. I wrapped my arms around him and he leaned closer. I could feel him trying to enter my mouth with his tongue, when we were so rudely interrupted.

"Sorry to disturb you." A tall blonde said from the door. Why didn't we think to lock that? Regulus seemed to be thinking along the same lines as he turned to face his cousin.

"What do you want Narcissa?" He asked irritated. I attempted to get off the desk discreetly. Whenever I was around Narcissa I felt the need to act extremely proper and sitting on the desk didn't seem very lady like. I mean I did want someone in his family to at least not hate my existence. Unfortunately discreet didn't really work for me as I tumbled forward.

"Shit I mean shoot." I said awkwardly. Narcissa just stared, but Regulus kneeled down beside me and offered me hand to help me up. The blonde rolled her eyes as he quickly examined me to make sure I wasn't cut. Thankfully, I at least saved myself from that. "I'm fine, just incredibly clumsy." I told him quietly.

"Are you sure?" He asked sounding concerned. Narcissa I noticed was examining us carefully and I nodded my head quickly.

"She's fine." Narcissa said. "Now your dearest mum just sent me this letter that I thought you might want to take a look at?" She said and thrust a piece of paper on him that had a family crest, which I assumed to be the Black's, on it. Regulus quickly ripped it out of her hands and his eyes scanned the paper fast. I didn't want to seem nosy so I just busied myself gathering up my books.

"She knows about the will, and the house." He said angrily and slammed the paper down on the table.

Flashback

"What is taking them so long? Do you think everything is alright?" I asked impatiently to Remus who was pacing as I sat on the ground outside the gargoyles that apparently guarded Dumbledore's office.

"They should be out any…" He didn't get to finish his sentence as the Gargoyles sprang open and out walked both of the Black brothers. Regulus tall as ever was looking like he was deep in thought, while Sirius was touching his eye swollen eye gently. Both of them looked worse for the wear though.

"What are you two doing here?" Sirius asked as he looked up first and saw us. Regulus followed his gaze and walked towards me slowly.

"We didn't want to leave you two alone after the uh incident." Remus responded to Sirius with a look that said I'm going to give you a long lecture on the consequences of fighting as soon as we get back to dormitory.

"Are you okay?" I asked Regulus gently and took in his appearance. There was dried blood surrounding the corner of his mouth and his short hair was messier then I had ever seen it. He even had a slight rip in the front of his robes. That fight was not something I ever wanted to witness again.

"My Uncle," Regulus began before a cough from an angry looking Sirius made him correct himself sounding rather irritated. "Our Uncle passed away." He finished his grey eyes filled with confusion looking down at my blue ones which were filled with worry.

"I'm so sorry." I said and I took his hand gently. He squeezed it back and out of the corner of my eye I saw Sirius roll his eyes and Remus just looked like he was at a loss for words. I ignored them both.

"That's not all." He said and looked over towards Sirius for a quick second. "He left Sirius and me a great deal of money to split and a house." My jaw dropped. Him and Sirius had their own house now? It wouldn't be left standing after a day of those two being in it with the way they behaved towards each other.

"Well, um that's good." I said uncertainly. Remus gave me a look like did you really just say that. "I mean it's good that he left you money not that he's dead I mean that he passed away." I buried my face in my hands. Regulus let out a soft laugh and even Sirius had a flicker of a smile flash across his features.

"Yes, well I don't understand why he left it to me. He always respected the way Sirius tried to differ himself from the family." Sirius snorted at his brother's statement. I narrowed my eyes in his direction.

"Oh please you're not that stupid Regulus." Sirius said as though the answer was the most obvious thing in the world. "You're going to be disowned just like me, because of McEwen over there." He said happily. At that point I knew for a fact that Sirius Black was bloody crazy.

End of flashback

"Yes she does." Narcissa replied in a clipped tone. "Plus she wants information on your girlfriend she knows you ignored her howler." She continued. What?

"Of course I did dammit." Regulus yelled back at his cousin. I was surprised that she didn't even flinch, but she was probably used to outburst like this. I was starting to learn that when pushed far enough Regulus could have quite the bad temper.

"According to Bella she blasted you off the family tree just like dear Sirius. She's apparently going with the story that she was poisoned during both of her pregnancies and it somehow addled with your and Sirius' brains." Narcissa said nonchalantly as she examined her nails. I'm sure I was doing a great impression of a fish at this point, because I had no idea what to say or to think.

"What does Bellatrix know?" Regulus asked carefully with his eyes narrowed. Her blue eyes zeroed in on me.

"She knows everything about your girlfriend. Evan Rosier was more than happy to fill her in as soon as he arrived home." She finished. Rosier, had been expelled. Guess having your dad on the school board didn't do you so much good when you threaten to kill someone in front of the Headmaster. Pity, I was really going to miss seeing him around.

"Have you told either of them anything?" He demanded. Narcissa's cool eyes focused on her cousin.

"Do you really think I would do that?" Narcissa asked. "I saw what my parents did to my sister when she was caught with that man Tonks and I know what your parents did to Sirius. I wouldn't put someone else I cared about through that kind of torture. The way you act around McEwen is different from the way I've seen you behave around everyone else. I've been watching you around her and the way you look at her and constantly watch over her is very unlike you. I've known for a while you've been having your doubts about the beliefs our families have, and McEwen just gave you another reason to abandon them." She finished carefully. I hadn't really noticed anything about the way Regulus acted around me; I just thought he was incredibly considerate. What Narcissa said did kind of make sense though.

"Do you know what my father has said about all of this?" Regulus asked after glancing at me, but completely ignoring his cousin's speech. It surprised me greatly at how rationally he was dealing with the fact that his family was a bunch of psychopaths.

"I wouldn't worry about your parents. Like I said there stance is to pretend that they don't have children anymore. I'd be more concerned about people that wouldn't take to kindly to you abandoning the Dark Lord's regime before you ever started. Mainly Bella you know how she is about betrayal. Lucius won't do anything to you out of fear of angering me. Your former friends are already not taking too kindly to your decision. "

Narcissa turned to me once again. "You need to be careful. Oh, I really do love your shoes by the way." I looked down at my red sparkly flats and back up. She was gone and my mind was completely blown.

"I can't believe I dragged you into this." He said angrily and slammed his fist against the stone wall.

"I can't believe how much trouble I've caused for you." I said sadly. He looked at me like I was insane.

"You didn't cause anything. I knew this pureblood mania was complete shit, like Narcissa already said, and meeting you just gave me the push to finally walk away from it for good." He said looking me in the eyes. I could tell the subject was troubling him and I for one didn't want to dwell on it anymore then I needed too, but I needed to say one last thing.

"I really think you need to talk to Sirius about this though. He's been through this, and well now you two share a house so this needs to get sorted out." I said firmly. Regulus looked like he just Snape naked.

"I will not talk to him unless it's absolutely necessary." He replied nastily.

"Well guess what it's absolutely necessary." I said trying to sound intimidating and stood up as tall as I could with my eyes narrowed. The look on his face told me I looked pretty ridiculous. He was smirking.

"Whatever you say Katherine." He said and shrugged his shoulders.

"You weren't intimated by me?" I asked shoulders slumped and doing my best puppy dog face. He walked towards me and put his hands on my shoulders.

"Not in the least." He said stilling smiling. I stomped my foot out of frustration. His grin grew wider. Ah I was the master of getting people's minds off things that were troubling them.

"What do you want to do tonight?" I asked suddenly.

"Not sure." He responded. "Why did you have something in mind?" Regulus asked wiggling his eyebrows suggestively. I rolled my eyes. It was moments like these that I could see the similarities between Regulus and Sirius. They were both flirts, but Regulus was a lot more reserved then Sirius; which made me feel a little bit better. I was plain with boring brown hair and Regulus was the tall very handsome mysterious guy. I was very surprised he didn't have more girls lined up practically begging to date him.

"Nothing like that you moron." I said playfully. He clutched his heart in mock pain. I laughed and soon Regulus was too. He brushed a piece of my hair back behind my ear.

"Your laugh is contagious." He said and I started blushing.

"Oh please." I said waving off what he said. He was about ready to argue when I heard his stomach growl. I raised my eyebrows and he grinned sheepishly.

"I can't help it I'm still growing. Want to head down to the kitchens and grab something to eat?" He asked. My eyes lit up.

"Ice cream!" I said and began dragging him out of the classroom.

"Ice cream? It's freezing out!" He exclaimed, but I could tell he was intrigued by the idea.

"Then it's a perfect time for ice cream!" I said excitedly.

"You're very strange." He told me his eyes sparkling.

"In a good way though right?" I asked smiling. He looked down at me and grinned.

"In the best way."


"I tried to tell Sirius to talk to Regulus." Remus said a few days later while we were in the common room playing exploding snap. Well, we were actually building a card house. I raised my eyebrow at this. Remus and I knew how ridiculous it was for the brothers to not be speaking when they had something huge they needed to figure out.

"How did that work out for you?" I asked curiously as I added another card to the level we were working on. Remus pointed to a small red welt he had on his forehead.

"He threw his book at me." He replied.

"Sirius has some serious anger issues." I said. The card house was on its fourth level. The farthest I had ever managed without it the cards exploding.

"Must run in the family." Remus mumbled under his breath and added another card. I chose to ignore his snide remarks as I had been putting up with comments like this all week. See the thing was I knew Remus wasn't okay with me dating Regulus; he just didn't want to tell me to my face and cause another fight.

"Well, they need to suck it up and talk." I replied and studied our card house carefully. These things took time and concentration. "Where are the rest of your friends anyways?" I asked. It was kind of unusual to only see one of them at a time. They were pretty much a package deal.

"James is with Lily, Peter's off following around someone who's probably way too young for him, and I have no idea where Sirius wandered off to. Why?" He said giving me a funny luck. I rarely inquired about the other Marauders.

"Just curious is all." I told him shrugging my shoulders.

"I'll have to tell my brother you've taken to asking around about me." A voice said from behind me. I jumped and knocked the cards down. That's when they decided to explode of course. I felt ash cover my face.

"Dammit Black!" I shrieked and tried wiping it out of my eyes. It seemed I had gotten the worst of it, because all Remus had to do was wipe if off his shoulder. I let a small growl when Sirius started to laugh.

"That's a good look for you McEwen!" He replied sarcastically. Godric he could really get underneath my skin. I whipped out my wand and thought of the spell that would remove the ash. I felt it disappear instantly. Well, there's one problem taken care of. Now for the other one…

"Get lost you wanker." I said angrily and stood up. This caused him to smirk.

"Only if you come with me." He said giving me a small wink. Remus rolled his eyes.

"You disgust me." I snapped. "I'm sorry Remus, but I have to go. I'm not sure what disease I'll pick up from standing around Black for too long. I'll see you at dinner. "

"Oh come on McEwen, it was a joke. Don't leave on my account." He said sounding a little bit apologetic.

"Sorry Black, but I have to go meet Regulus he should be done with Quidditch practice by now." I said checking the clock that hung over the fireplace in the common room. It was a little after six so he should be on his way back to the castle by now.

"I needed to talk to you about him actually." Sirius said sounding well serious. Remus raised an eyebrow.

"When I tried to talk to you, you threw a book at me." He said annoyed.

"Yes, well McEwen here can help get him to talk to me tonight after dinner." He said looking at Remus like it was the most obvious answer in the world. "So will you please? I want to figure out what to do about the house as soon as I can." He continued. It was weird to hear him sounding so grown up. Usually he just sounded like an immature little arse.

"You're not planning on ambushing him for kicking your arse the other night." I asked smirking. Sirius was awfully sensitive about that.

"He did not kick me arse!" He said indignantly. I could see Remus out of the corner of my eye holding back laughter, because he knew I was trying to rile his friend up.

"Of course not Sirius." I said sarcastically. "Now I'll talk to him about it. Be in that abandoned classroom on the second floor at 8." I told him. He relaxed, and nodded his head. I pulled out my wand and pointed it at him though. "If you try anything I will make sure the world will never has to witness any little Sirius' running around. Am I clear?" I asked and was pleased to see he paled visibly, but slowly nodded his head.

"Good then I'll see you at eight." With that I tucked my wand away and made my way out of the portrait hole.

Regulus was waiting for me when I finally made it to the Great Hall a few minutes later. He smiled and pulled me into his arms.

"How was practice?" I asked. His housemates may have been pissed at him, but there was no way they would kick him off the team. He was the best seeker in the school, and they needed him if they wanted the Quidditch Cup.

"Long and stressful. Lestrange makes me catch the snitch at least five times before I'm allowed to call it a day." He said tiredly. I could tell he had already showered, his short black hair was still wet and I could smell his cologne clearly. He was definitely going to need some persuasion in order to talk to Sirius. I hadn't brought up the subject sense that tutoring session.

"Well, maybe you need to relax." I said trying to sound seductive and began running my hands up and down his arms slowly. He seemed a bit suspicious and narrowed his eyes.

"What's going on?" He asked and grabbed my hands lightly. I rolled my eyes, but decided to come clean.

"Sirius wants to talk to you about the house." I said quickly and he let out a small groan of frustration. I took the opportunity to snake my hands out of his and began gently rubbing his side.

"Do I have too?" He asked sounding a little bit childish. I let out a small laugh and gave his side a quick squeeze.

"Yes." I replied simply. I moved my hand to his upper thigh and began gently running it up and down. His breath hitched.

"Okay anything." He replied in a hoarse whisper. I smirked maybe I wasn't too terrible at this seduction thing after all.

"He wants to meet you at the abandoned classroom around eight. We could go there and wait for him if you wanted too?" I asked suggestively and he quickly nodded his head.

"Let's go." He said and practically dragged me up the staircase. The classroom was thankfully empty when we got there. Regulus slammed the door shut and pushed me up against it gently. I let out a small moan as he began to kiss my neck.

"That feels amazing." I sighed and I could feel him smirk against my neck. My hands traveled up and down his chest and he picked me up and carried me over to the desk. I continued to drag my hands slowly across his chest and they began to travel lower and lower. He let out a soft moan as my hand made its way to an extra sensitive area.

"Oh my god Katherine." He groaned. I gently pushed his robes off. His hands began to travel up and down my thigh going higher and higher. I was in my skirt still and my breathing was becoming labored. He continued to let out soft moans as I rubbed my hand up and down his thigh and nipped playfully at his neck.

"Regulus." I moaned. His hand began to play with the band of my underwear. I wasn't quite ready for that and thankfully Regulus without me even saying anything removed his hand and brought it up to my shirt and began to tickle my sides lightly.

"I want you so bad, but I don't want to rush anything." He whispered huskily in my ear. I nodded my head lightly. Trust me I had never wanted anything so badly in my life.

"I'm sorry it's just I've never um gone quite that far with a guy before and I'm just nervous is all." I said embarrassed and put my face in my hands. He uncovered my face lightly and I looked right into his stormy grey eyes.

"I haven't gone that far with anyone either and I want to take everything slow. I want to enjoy every single moment with you and for us to take our time." He said seriously. I couldn't believe how sweet he was being.

"Thank you." I told him and threw my arms around him. When I pulled away he was looking at me like he was studying me.

"What?" I asked self-consciously. Did I still have ash on my face? I rubbed my forehead slightly, and he chuckled.

"There's nothing on your face." He said smiling. I swear to Merlin he was psychic or something.

"How did you know I thought there might be something on my face? It's like you're a mind reader." I said and he looked at me carefully.

"I kind of am." My eyebrows shot up. Say what?

"Explain please." I told him curiously.

"Have you ever heard of legilimency?" He asked. I shook my head no. "My cousin Bellatrix was teaching it to me over the summer." If Bellatrix knew this then it probably isn't good I thought.

"It's not dark magic. It's just when you're able to basically invade someone's mind. You can see people's memories and extract their emotions. " He continued.

"Why were you learning it?" I asked. He looked like he was carefully choosing his words.

"It's a useful tool to have if you were to be involved with the Death Eaters. My cousin thought it would be helpful. She was also teaching me occulmency where you can block someone from invading your mind." I nodded my head slowly processing what he was telling me. It sound very complicated, but at the same time interesting.

"Is it difficult to learn?" I asked.

"Yes, especially occulmency. You have to practice closing your mind while some repeatedly tries to break down your mind's barriers. It's incredibly tiring." He said.

"Will you teach me occulmency?" I asked. Regulus' face lit up with surprise. "It's just I know when we are done with school I want to do something to help end the war. I can hold my own in a duel and I don't really fancy the thought of Death Eater's looking into my mind." I added cautiously. I didn't want to offend him and make him think I didn't want him to read my emotions.

"Is that the only reason?" He asked staring intently at me.

"You being able to read my emotions and see my memories are alright with me, because I know you wouldn't abuse that power. It actually makes things a bit easier and you won't have to worry about how I'm feeling. You'll just know." I said nervously laughing.

"If you really want me too I will. I want you to be able to protect your thoughts from people that might be trying to hurt you." He said his jaw tightening. "Are you absolutely sure this is something you want to do?" I nodded my head.

"Yes." I told him and he let a small sigh.

"Alright." Then his eyes narrowed. "What exactly are you planning on doing with the war?" He asked.

"Remus told me about this group The Order of the Phoenix. Dumbledore started it as anti-Voldemort movement and I want to join once we graduate." I told him seriously. I wasn't sure what I wanted as a career at that point, but I knew that with my whole family being muggles I needed to do something to protect them.

"I've heard of them, and I know they are a direct target for the Death Eaters." He said in a low voice.

"I'm already a target for the Death Eaters. I'm a muggleborn in case you forgot." I said with a small laugh.

"You're just making yourself a bigger target by joining. Just please think about it." He said carefully.

"What is there to think about?" I asked my voice rising.

"Your safety for one thing. Look, I can't tell you what to do and I won't try too. I just want you to be safe. With you being who you are and being connected to someone who is now labeled as a blood traitor will make them come after you even more than any of the other Order Members. All I'm asking is you think about this carefully. The end of the school year is still a few months away. Just please give some thought to what I'm thinking." He asked his grey eyes filled with concern. It was sweet that he wanted to keep me safe, but I wasn't going to sit around and do nothing. However, I didn't want to fight about it.

"I will I promise." He pulled me into a hug. I felt safe and warm when I was with him. It was incredible that one person could make someone feel like this. I pulled away slowly.

"What is it that you want to do after school?" I asked him curiously. He frowned lightly.

"Well I'm not really sure. I had a plan set for me for such a long time that I've never really thought about it." He said slowly. I gave him an encouraging smile.

"Now you can decide for yourself what you want to do." I said jumping off the desk lightly.

"You're right I guess I can." He said thoughtfully. The door to the classroom creaked open. Sirius walked in and pushed his long hair out of his eyes. He gave me a quick wink and smirked at Regulus; who narrowed his eyes at the arrival of his brother.

"So glad you could make it Reggie." Sirius said and clapped his hands together. "You're looking quite ravishing this evening Katherine." He continued and wriggled his eyebrows up and down. My face turned bright red as I realized how high my skirt had risen up when Regulus and I were engaging in uh activities.

"Stop talking to her." Regulus snapped. I knew Sirius was just trying to get a rise out of his brother. "Katherine, why don't I meet you in the library when this is done?" He said and gave me a look like I had better not argue. I really didn't want to leave the two of them alone, but I realized this was a private matter that they needed to discuss on their own. Nodding my head I gave Regulus a swift kiss on the cheek and he squeezed my hand.

"See you soon. Please don't do anything rash." I whispered in his ear and he nodded his head in agreement. I looked at Sirius and tried to remind him of my threat earlier as I idly twirled my wand in my hands. The fact that he visibly paled all over again made me pleased, and I made me way to the library; hoping that they could put aside their differences and not kill each other in the process.


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