A/N: I'm so so so so so sorry that I haven't updated in ages. I had writers block, then a lot of things seemed to happen all at once and it kind of knocked me down. I am really really sorry :( I was half exspecting some PM's telling me to get a move on with this chapter. But here it is. Finally. Thank you for all your reviews and sorry I haven't replyed back to them. They all are appreciated immensly. Chapter 10 :) Wow that really is an acheivement :) Just a note for Joise. Yes I know the end it more dialogue based so don't say I need more description because I know I didn't put it in there. Right okay got that sorted haha. Anyway enjoy xx
Remus had finally been let out of the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey had decided to keep him in all of yesterday, not that he had minded. He still ached a lot from the full moon and he still had a bit of trouble breathing. The matron had wanted to keep him in longer, but Remus had persuaded her to let him go to breakfast. He had had a rather good sleep and felt in a rather good mood, considering that the full moon had been two days ago.
As he walked into the Great Hall he located James and Peter sitting at the Gryffindor table alone, filling their faces with the delicious breakfast which was spread out along the table. Seeing no Sirius or Lizzie, Remus frowned slightly and walked to where his two remaining friends sat and took a seat opposite them. Taking a slice of toast, Remus took a bite out of a corner and waited until one of his two friends noticed he was there. After about have a minute, Remus saw James look at him and give him a big grin.
''Welcome back Remus. How you feeling?'' James asked, stuffing more egg into his mouth waiting for his friends reply. He also was wondering where Sirius was this morning. It wasn't like him to miss breakfast. Unless he was tangled up in some girl, which James thought, was probably the case. But then it must be some girl if Sirius was dedicated to miss all of breakfast just to snog her. After what he had seen last night however, James was sure he would do anything just to forget about it.
''Not to bad thanks.'' Remus said pouring himself some pumpkin juice. Taking a sip out of his goblet, Remus went off into deep thought about nothing in particular. His aching body keep disturbing his trail of thought and so Remus turned his attention on the two boys sitting across the table from him. ''Where's Sirius?'' He asked. His other best friend would never miss breakfast unless it was for an extremely important reason.
''Merlin knows. He was up early this morning, said something about seeing someone I think. I was still half asleep so I wasn't really playing attention to what he was saying. '' James said gazing over at Lily who was talking to Beth and Zoe. They seemed to be having a very hushed conversation and James had an idea of what they were talking about.
Remus frowned at this piece of news, but didn't really think anything of it. It was usually like Sirius to meet up with some girl early in the morning. After looking around the Great Hall again, he noticed that his sister still hadn't come for breakfast. Frowning again slightly he turned back to James who seemed to be watching him instead of Lily now. Peter was still stuffing his face with food as always. ''Where's Lizzie?'' He asked James, watching the door from the Entrance Hall, just in case she came in. Remus noticed that his friend seemed to hesitate for a moment before answering his question.
''I don't know. She should be here soon I expect.'' James said running a hand through his hair, feeling somewhat nervous. He couldn't tell Remus what had happened last night. He would have to leave that to Lizzie. Although, James suspected that she would have a hard job trying to explain why she hadn't gone to see him in the hospital wing and that she had kissed Snape. He knew that Remus was very protective over his sister and would probably not be happy that she had kissed someone let alone someone like Snape! Moments later he saw Lizzie enter the Great Hall. She seemed to have spotted Remus and didn't look very happy. Their eyes met and James looked away quickly. He wasn't sure what he would say to her after what Sirius had told him. He didn't want to seem rude, but what had been said had shocked him a lot.
He saw her sit down next to Remus and watched her for a moment or too. She seemed to be trying to waste as much time as possible. James knew however that Remus would soon want answers. And sure enough, only moments later he asked the first question of many.
''Hey Lele. You alright?'' He asked. Remus saw his sister nod, but that was all the communication he got out of her. ''Why didn't you come and see me yesterday?'' There was a hint of sadness in his voice. His sister had never failed to come and see him after a transformation before and so he had been very surprised when she hadn't turned up all day. He saw Lizzie tense up for a second before talking. However she didn't make eye contact with him.
''I...I'm sorry Rem. I was going to, but I got sort of held up. I really am sorry...'' She said trailing off still not looking at her brother. Maybe if she had gone and seen him this conversation wouldn't be as hard as it was now, but then...she still had that other subject she needed to tell him. However, Lizzie couldn't bring herself to say anything. She didn't know how. Her eyes travelled over to the Slytherin table where Severus sat. He glanced up and saw her watching him. Lizzie gave him a look which clearly meant 'we need to talk'. And they did indeed need to talk. So much was going through her mind at the moment that she really needed to let it all out.
As she was looking upon the Severus she could see him return to what seemed to be a conversation with Avery and Mulciber. Lizzie frowned at this. What was he doing talking to them again? That was another thing she would have to talk to him about. With Voldemort growing in power and him slowly winning, he was said to be recruiting more followers. Rumours had spread saying that he was slowly reaching out to the younger generation.
Whilst Lizzie mulled over these facts, she didn't realise Sirius had entered the Great Hall. She only noticed he was in the same room as her when he slumped out next to James. His hair was messy, tie was loose and the first two buttons on his shirt were undone. Lizzie ignored him, looking down at the table now. There was an awkward silence in which she knew James and Remus were exchanging glances. Lizzie prayed Sirius would keep his mouth shut about last night, but knew he probably wouldn't. She couldn't ask him to either because that would make Remus suspicious and plus she didn't want to sound needy or anything like that. However the silence didn't last long as Sirius began to speak. As he did, Lizzie felt her stomach drop.
''You told him?'' Sirius spat, not looking at Lizzie. He was angry. He had come to the conclusion that his feelings towards Lizzie were anger and nothing else. He seemed to attack the bacon on his plate with his fork as he waited for her answer.
Lizzie glared at Sirius although he couldn't see. She clenched her fists to calm herself down. ''No I haven't and it's really none of his business. Or yours for that matter.'' She glanced over at James who could tell that either one was going too exploded in a moment. Lizzie felt a hand on her arm and looked over to see her brother with a confused look on his face.
''What's none of my business? '' He asked. He was waiting for his sister to answer, but instead it was Sirius who replied.
''She kissed Snivillus last night.'' He said a small growl in the base of his throat.
Remus' hand fell to his side. Had he just heard correctly? ''Wh...what?'' He stuttered. He saw Lizzie glare daggers at Sirius. ''Really Lizzie?'' He turned to his sister, who he saw looked like she would erupt with anger at any possible moment.
''Yes really Remus! There's nothing wrong with me kissing him. I have free reign to kiss anyone I want to! It's none of your business of who I go out with you know.'' She got up from the table and slung her bag over her shoulder. Not looking back at the four friends, Lizzie sped out of the Great Hall, but before she had gotten half way along the Gryffindor table, Sirius shouted out after her:
''For the record, it is my business of who you kiss and go out with. Don't come running to me when he breaks your heart Lupin.'' He then turned back to his breakfast, ready to ignore everyone around him when he heard Lizzie call back at him; 'Don't worry I won't.' He could feel Remus glaring at him, but Sirius didn't care. All he did care about was keeping his emotions caged up so he wouldn't shout aimlessly at his friends.
Lizzie stopped just within the Entrance Hall. That hadn't gone very well, but it had been better than she had expected it to be. After a moment or two, Lizzie realised two things. One, Sirius had called her by her last name only, something he had never done before and two he had said when he breaks your heart, not if he breaks your heart. This made her think and it made her realise that Sirius was wrong. Severus would never hurt her on purpose, she was sure of that. He didn't know what he was talking about. 'Prick' she thought to herself. Lizzie suddenly heard footsteps coming out of the Great Hall and for a moment thought they would be Remus', but no, it was Severus.
The first thing Snape did was pull her into a hug. He had no idea what had happened at the Gryffindor table, but after seeing her walk out, he knew it would probably have something to do with Black. He held her in his arms for a moment of two, not wanting to let go. Severus knew Lizzie was angry. He had seen it in her facial expression and he knew the best thing to do was not to talk to her until she talked to him.
''He's such an idiot Sev!'' Lizzie muttered hugging him tighter. She knew he would understand that she was talking about Sirius. It was always Sirius who acted like an idiot. ''Why did he have to see us last night? It would have been so different if he hadn't.''
Severus felt perplexed for a moment. Black had seen them? Well that was new on him. ''You didn't tell me that last night.'' He said. He felt her pull away from him and saw her bite her lip.
''Opps sorry. Must have slipped my mind. Anyway I need to talk to you about something...what you said last night. Did you mean it, or was it a...heat of the moment sort of thing?'' She asked. It had been bugging her all night. If he had meant it then...what was meant to happen now? If it had just been a one off thing then why had he said it?
''What that I love you?'' He saw her hesitate and then nod. He should have known this would be on her mind. He had said it at the last moment after all. ''I meant it Lizzie. Every little bit of it. I love you okay?'' He said smiling at her and kissing her on the forehead.
I love you. Lizzie had had those words said to her by boys more times then she could count, but somehow the words seemed to sound different coming from Sev. She could tell he meant what he had said. That had really only been known on one other occasion. Sam Riley was a seventh year Hufflepuff who Lizzie had dated for about eight months last year. He had been the only other person she knew who had told her he loved her and had truly seemed to mean it (for a period of time anyway). Now here was Severus saying it to her in that same way Sam had done and Lizzie had no idea how to react to that.
So she just kissed him, because it was the only thing she could think of doing at the present time. She wasn't sure if she liked Severus as much as he seemed to like her and so wasn't that comfortable of saying it back to him.
The bell rang for the start of lessons and they broke apart. They both had Defence Against the Dark Arts next and so Severus took Lizzie's hand and they walked together towards their classroom. Seeing that the teacher was already in the room, they walked in and took their seats next to each other. Lily soon came in and sat in the seat in front of them. She seemed to be all happy and smiley at seeing the pair together. She and Lizzie were talking when Remus and the others came in. Her brother, James and Peter seemed to ignore her, but Sirius glared daggers at the three friends. Lizzie shot a glare back at him wanting to ask him what the hell was his problem. Severus however, seeing Black, took Lizzie's hand in his and gave it a gentle squeeze.
''Just leave him to me okay?'' He whispered to her as the professor told them to quieten down. Lizzie nodded at him and started to take down notes, extremely conscious that Sev was still holding her hand.
The lesson whizzed by and so did the ones after that. There were several moments when Remus seemed to have wanted to talk to her, but had changed his mind at the last minute. Lizzie wished he'd make his mind up however as it was slightly awkward standing in the middle of a corridor for about two minutes whilst Remus struggled to find the words he wanted to say to her. By lunch time there were a few whispered rumours that Lizzie and Severus were together. By dinner however the whole school seemed to be talking about it. Nothing stayed secret within the walls of Hogwarts for too long, and Lizzie was surprised that it had taken the whole school to know by dinner. She hadn't stayed long in the Great Hall. All the whisperings and looks were getting on her nervous and so she had set off back to the common room which she knew would be close to empty. There she found herself a corner and started on the homework she had got that day.
Time sped by and soon the common room started to fill up. Around ten to ten, Remus went over to the table in which Lizzie was sitting by herself and sat in the chair opposite her. He was glad that she seemed to be ignoring him as he took his time to get out what he wanted to say.
''Lizzie?'' She nodded to show that she was listening. ''About this morning. I just want to say that...'' He hesitated for a moment before carrying on. ''...I don't mind you g...going out with Snape.'' The last part was rather rushed and he waited for his sister's answer, knowing it probably wouldn't be a good one.
Lizzie looked up for her piece of parchment and stared at her brother. He had a new scar which she hadn't noticed this morning and he looked rather tired. She felt a pang of guilt for not going to see him in the hospital wing yesterday. ''If you were alright with it you wouldn't have hesitated Rem.'' She said giving him a small smile to show that she wasn't angry at him in any way, shape or form. ''I understand if you don't like it, just don't try and get me to change my mind about it, or his for that matter.'' She said nodding over to the sofa where Sirius was tangled up in another girl. She went back to her essay whilst a comfortable silence surrounded the siblings.
''I'm always here for you if you need me. Remember that. You seem to have drifted away Lele...''
''Yeah I know. I'm sorry Rem, I just...I've had a lot on my plate. And I am really sorry for not coming to visit you...''
''I know you are. Don't worry I forgive you. Just don't forget I'm here alright.'' He said smiling at her before getting up out of the chair. ''Don't be up all night finishing that essay. You hear me?'' He said trying to sound serious, but failing.
''Yeah yeah whatever Remus.'' Lizzie said smiling back at her brother. She watched him go over to James and Peter and sit down with them. She didn't know what she would do without her brother. He was always there for her and as he kept reminding her, always would be and Lizzie hoped with all her might that she could always be there for him as well.
A/N: To all of those who thought correctly about what Severus said to Lizzie well done! I like this chapter. It has its mix of angst and awhh moments :) On one review it said they felt sorry for Sirius, well I do now as well. And I really want him to get with Lizzie already haha. Review please :) I know you love to.