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Chapter ten- A Quiet Sirius.
The next day was the first quidditch practice (It kept getting postponed because of the stupid slytherins) , I wasn't sure if I was feeling up to it, but after Lily sprayed me with water and dressed me in quidditch robes I basically had no choice. I also had no say in that matter seeing as Lily and Alice both walked me down to the quiddtich pitch. I knew today was going to bed bad, I could just feel it. Not only did I have to see Sirius but I had to work with him as well seeing as we played the same postion, beater. When we reached the pitch Lily and Alice walked into the stands and sat with Peter, while I walked into the locker room where the rest of the team was.
"You're five minutes late Brooks." James says with a teasing smile, I stiffen at my last name.
"O-over slept." I say nervously when everyone looks at me. I can't believe I just stuttered, God Luella Brooks never stuttered! I thought to myself. Sirius, Remus and James eye me curiously but didn't say anything.
"Listen, I know that our practices kept getting blown off but we have a good team. That's an understatement we actually have a great team. The first game is a week before Christmas holiday, but it's only Hufflepuff which means we are definitely taking the win. The chasers, Myself, Lupin, and Bell will be working with Longbottom today. The seeker," he says grinning at the youngest member of the team a fifth year boy named Michael Roberts. "Will be just getting the feel of the snitch again." I feel myself getting nervous. If they're all working together than that means, "Black and Brooks, you'll be hitting bludgers back and forth. And later on the chasers and seeker will work with the beaters." We nod. "Alright then get started!" He bellows. I get up slowly and grab my broom. James and Remus appear by my side.
"Hey, you alright?" James asks touching my elbow.
"I'm fine." I assure him.
"You don't look fine." I glare at Remus
"Well I am." I say walking over to where Sirius was standing, when I reach him we avoid each others gazes and mound our brooms flying into the air, both clutching our beaters bats. We stay a good distance away from each other, waiting. Finally James calls out,
"I'm letting it out!" The bludger come flying straight up, I move a few inches to the left aim and send it flying towards Sirius. He hits it back harder than he normally would because when I send it back to him again it vibrates my hand. This goes on for a while, while we just stare at each other, our eyes completely locked at we hit the bludger back and forth between each other. It felt like he was hitting it harder each time. After about twenty minutes, a bludger gets passed my guard and hits me in the nose with a crack and sends me flipping backwards of my broom. Suddenly hands grip around waist tightly.
"You alright?" A voice I recognize as Alex Bell asks me.
"M' fine." I say holding a hand to my nose that was bleeding. He flies me back over to my broom where James was yelling at Sirius.
"Dammit Sirius, you did that on purpose and you know it! I was watching you; you were hitting it extra hard in hopes of hitting her! I'm not an-"
"James!" I call out as Bell steadies me on my broom before flying away. He looks towards me his anger deflating. "It was my fault; it shouldn't have got passed me. He didn't do anything wrong."
"Yeah but-"
"No harm done." I say holding up my hands. His anger spikes again.
"No harm done, your nose is gushing blood; you have two black eyes and a large bump on your nose!" I grimace at the way he makes it sounds. I point my wand at my nose and mutter then charm to stop the bleeding, and the mutter another spell to clean the blood of my face.
"I'm fine. James go run practice." He glares heavily at Sirius before speedy away furiously. Without a word to Sirius, I fly over to where the bludger was now flying freely and whack it back towards him. This time when our eyes met, he wasn't glaring he was simply looking. He didn't hit as hard this time around and he didn't try and get passed me. It was the same practice as always, us hating each other but not trying to kill one another. It worked out in my favor.
But I was distracted, especially when we were brought over with the chasers so they could dodge the bludgers we sent at them. I kept hearing his words ringing through my head. I tried to concentrate I really did, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. After 15 minutes of being over here, I smack a bludger unconsciously and hit Bell in the arm. I widen my eyes and fly towards him.
"I am so sorry!" I say almost in tears. Great there I go wanting to cry again! What the hell is wrong with me?
"Honestly, it's okay. It happens." He assures me.
"No, it's all my fault! I'm a horrible person! I wasn't paying attention and I wasn't aiming I just-" I stop and put my head in my hands.
"Really it's okay." I look up at him. I whip out my wand and point it at his arm; I use the cooling charm hoping to take the pain away just so he can practice.
"It's the best I can do." I say sheepishly.
"Honestly, I'm fine." He says. I nod and turn back to my position. I could feel someone staring at me, and I turn my eyes and met theirs. The grey stared at me in confusion, but I didn't want to see anymore so I quickly turned my head hoping practice would end soon. A few hours later, I find myself in the locker rooms with the rest of the team not knowing how I got there. James was talking about something or other but I wasn't exactly listening.
I can't believe what Sirius said about me was true, well no I mean I can believe it but I almost don't want too. How could I have been such a horrible person and not noticed it before. Why didn't Remus say anything? Or Lily? Or Alice? I can't believe-
"Lu?" I shake my head of my thoughts and look to see Frank in front of me.
"Hey Frank."
"Looked like you were zoning out there. You alright?" He asks me, smiling. I manage a smile back.
"I'm alright, thanks for asking." I say getting up and heading towards the door to go back to the castle.
"You sure?"
"I'm fine Frank." Then I remember something, I whip back around.
"Did you have a good time with Alice?" He blushes slightly.
"I think I love her."
"I think she loves you too." I say before walking out.
XxX
I walk into my dorm dragging my feet. Lily and Alice both sit up on their beds.
"Merlin, you've been gone for almost five hours and you look- Did you break your nose?!" She asks as I collapse on my bed. I close my eyes and breathe in deeply. I feel the bed creak under new weight and I open my eyes to see Lily and Alice also now laying on my bed.
"Yeah, Black hit a bludger at me."
"What?!"
"Well we were hitting it back and forth like we normally do except he was hitting it really hard and my arm got tired and it got past me and hit my nose, sent me flipping backwards off my broom but Alex Bell caught me." I watch as Alice sits up angrily.
"You know he did that on purpose right?!"
"Yeah…James yelled at him but I told him not too, I told him it was my fault."
"Why would you do that Lucie?" Lily asks looking oddly confused. "Why not let your boyfriend stick up for you?"
"Because I shouldn't have hit Jenna in the first place, it was wrong of me." Both girls looked as if they saw a ghost. "What?"
"N-nothing." Lily stutters. A loud laugh makes me bring my head around and towards the door. Jenna was standing in the middle of doorway. That's where the laughing came from.
"Did I just hear right?" I nod my head, before turning the other direction and closing my eyes. "What no rude comment, no muggle fights?" She asks.
"Nope."
"Well isn't this just wonder."
"I'm trying to sleep if you don't mind." I say politely.
"Oh I mind alright!" I hear a loud thump followed by another one that I could tell was the dorm slamming. I open my eyes to see Lily with her wand put pointing at the door.
"What did you just do?" She grins.
"Stunned her, and locked her out." I grin at my best friend who is supposed to be head girl. "You look like you could use some sleep." I nod. "We'll wake you up for dinner and instead of going to the great hall we'll go to the kitchen okay?" I nod gratefully. Alice, ruffles my hair. Before they both get off my bed and close the door, not before I hear them locking it.
Lily, Alice what would I do without you?
XxX
I feel someone shaking me, but I don't want to move from the warm spot I'm in.
"Go away." I mumble.
"No." I open my eyes in surprise at the voice, I had excepted it to be Lily but instead Remus stood in front of me.
"Remus? What are you doing here?" He motion for me to scoot over so I do so and he sits down next to me.
"Visiting my bestfriend is that a crime." I shake my head no. "Are you alright Lucie?"
"What Sirius did yesterday was harsh, especially in front of all those people. James and I really chewed him out last night. Even Peter yelled at him a bit." The thought of shy peter actually sticking up for me against Sirius brought a smile to my face. "There's that smile, I've been dying to see." I smile again and place my head on his shoulder.
"Thanks." I mutter into his neck.
"That's what I'm here for."
"What time is it?" I ask after a moment of silence.
"Um 5:30, dinner should be starting soon. Lily and Alice told me that they were taking you to the kitchens instead. But I offered to wake you up for them."
"oh."
"Well you should probably go get showered, and maybe get your nosed fixed?" I shake my head.
"Shower yes, hospital wing? I don't think so." He shrugs and hugs me tightly before leaving. I get my sore body up from the bed and slowly make my way towards the bathroom. I know I only had about ten minutes to get down stairs so I took the faster shower of my life, and wand dried my hair before shoving on a pair of sweat pants and one of Remus' large tee shirts. I bounce down stairs to the common room, where Lily and Alice were sitting in their pajamas, well at least I wasn't the only one dressed like a bum.
"I told James that we were taking you to the kitchens, he said that was fine but he wanted to see you later."
"Alright, well let's get going shall we?" They smile as they get up from the couch and we walk down the quiet corridors in silence. I tickle the pair as we reach it and slip through.
"Mistress Luella!" The house elf Mia squeaks when I enter. I smile down at her. "Oh Mistress Lily and Mistress Alice! What can Mia do for you?"
"A plate for each of us of tonight's dinner." She nods and scurries away quickly as we all take seats at the table.
"Lu-"
"Lily, how was your date?" She smiles widely.
"Amos asked me to be his girlfriend!" Despite James being a good friend to me and despite the plan we're doing I am excited for Lily only because she's happy.
"That's great Lils! How did he do it? Spontaneously? Or did you know it was coming."
"He sort of just asked. It wasn't spectacular but I was still happy. He's a great snogger."
"Don't I know it." I tell her with a smile. She rolls her eyes. "Oh and Alice?" I ask as the house elves give us our dinner.
"Hmm?"
"Frank said he thinks he's in love with you." She smiles widely. "I told him I thought you loved him too. I take it the date went well?" I ask.
"It was wonderful." She replies with a smile.
XxX
Monday in potions Sirius doesn't say a word to me except a couple of grunts when I ask him about the potion we're making. In fact he doesn't say anything the next Monday or the Monday after that. It now leaves us at the beginning of December and we still have yet to say two words to each other. I still 'date' James, and I can tell Lily is getting even more jealous than before. But I'm happy to say her and James became friends and that she even calls him James now! Alice and Frank, well they're basically in their own little world right now. I've barely seen Alice lately either has Lily. Even though Lily and I have boyfriends, well in my case a fake boyfriend we still have time to hang out with each other. For some strange reason Avery has been interested in me, talking to me whenever he can, but trust me it isn't in the good way. He's always making comments about my boobs or how sexy I am. It's disgusting and I'm actually a little creeped about it but I try not to let it bother me. Quidditch practice has gone smoothly and I'm positive we'll win the game coming up in two weeks. Other than that, nothing to interesting has been going on. Though tonight something interesting was bound to happen. Tonight was my first full moon with the boys. Sure I was nervous but I couldn't have been happier to know I was going to be there to help them.
"Are you sure you're up for it?" James asks pointing to my nose that was still slightly broken. My black eyes have faded greatly and now I look like I just need sleep.
"Of course I'm up for it! Don't be thick!" I retort.
"James, don't pester Lucie." Remus scolds from where he was laying weakly on his bed. Peter backs Remus up and Sirius, he doesn't say anything but only for the simple that he's not even here. He refuses to be in the same room with me like this, or maybe he just wants to spend time with Jenna. I don't really know. But I do know that Jenna has been trying to get a rise out of me and it's takes all I have to walk away.
"What are you telling Lily?" I say looking at James from where I'm sitting on the floor.
"That I have detention."
"Doesn't she check that?" He just shrugs. I roll my eyes. Remus stands up shakily.
"I have to go. See you down there?" We nod as he heads slowly down the stairs.
"We'll give him at least ten minutes to get there." I nod.
Ten minutes later I find myself walking down through the castle under the invisibility cloak with James and Sirius, Peter in rat form. We make our way down the the whomping willow, and Peter hops down from James' shoulder and runs to the tree and taps the knot which causes the tree to freeze. We move faster and once we're in the tunnel we take the cloak off. I take my time, looking around at all the scratch marks and bite marks running along the hall way. Finally we make it to the room Remus was in and opened the door. Remus looked even worse then before. He was paler than usual and shaking madly. He looked so frail that I felt like if I touched him he would crumple to dust in my hands. The moon rose up and shined brightly in the window. Remus shook more and stood up. Then he started the transformation right in front of my eyes. I watched as he screamed in pain, as fur burst out, and his legs grew in the length, torso hunched over, and a snout grew in place of his nose and mouth. I felt someone tap me from behind and saw that it was Prongs' antler. I will myself to change and find myself shrinking down until I too was in my animagus form. Then Moony was standing in front of me, and I found that I wasn't scared. I noticed Peter, Sirius, and James were staring at me waiting for my reaction, so since I couldn't talk I'd show them. I ran up to Moony and pushed him playfully. He looked at me curiously for a second before pushing me back in the same tone. Soon all of us were wrestling around making sounds of laughter from our throats. Prongs and Padfoot looked towards the door and nodded. I followed the curiously as they pushed moony out the door, Wormy hopped on my shoulder as well as we made our way through the shack and out towards the forest. We ran playfully through the trees and finding new spots, just simply exploring. Things only got back sometimes, like when Moony would spell a human and then me, pads, and prongs would have to hold him back. Which resulted in small injuries. When the moon started to fade we hurriedly pushed him back into the shack and watched as the first sunlight soaked through the room. I sigh in relief when I notice changing back looked less painful. Once Remus was laying in front of me, did I allow myself to change back.
"Remmie?" I ask softly, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Lucie?" He croaks out.
"Hey there kid, how ya doing?" I ask.
"I didn't repulse you?" I shake my head at him, and push the hair back that was falling into his eyes.
"No honey, no. Of course you didn't. You could never repulse me. After the things I've seen in my life." I say and then whisper "My family, they repulse me." He gave a soft chuckle.
"Good, I was worried." I put a finger to his lips.
"Stop talking, get some rest okay?" He nods and takes in a shaky breath and closes his eyes.
I reach for my wand which I head in the corner, when Sirius says (not to me but to everyone) "I've got him." He carefully picked Moony up in his arms and started his way out of the shack. I grabbed his wand that he left behind along with mine and followed the boys out.
"Madam Pomfrey." I say as we walk in.
"Hello, bring him on the back bed there Sirius dear." She says. Sirius lays him down and we all crowd around his bed.
"Good night?" He asks with a smile.
"Yeah, Moony it was." Sirius says smiling back. I watched the smile wishing, he could just smile at me like. You never really see that smile on his face because it's always covered with a smirk. That's one thing about Sirius, you know he likes you if you see his true smile. I've only seen it a few times and none of them were directed at me.
"-Anyway we'll see you later mate." James says patting Remus' arm. I shake my head of my thought. And lean forward to kiss his forehead.
"Remember, get some sleep."
"I've got it covered." Said Madam Pomfrey with the sleeping draught in her hands. We exit the hospital wing, all of us holding a certain body part that was bothering us. For me it was my neck. I could feel a deep cut and bruise forming there from when Moony through me into a tree. It was one of not pleasant moments. I took a look around, Sirius was cradling his hand tightly, James was rubbing a spot on his back, and Peter was- well he seemed to look alright. I kept a hand on my neck the whole way back and didn't remove it even when we made it to the dorms.
"Accio First aid kit!" I say brandishing my wand. I open my hand and catch it. "Alright James, lay on your stomach and shirt off." I order.
"Yes ma'am." He says with a salute. I roll my eyes and walk over to his bed. I peer down on his back and see the large bruise forming, with a claw mark right in the middle of it. I pour some potion on it and he lets out a hiss of pain.
"Sorry."
"S'alright." He answers back. I wipe the blood and stop the bleeding before completing the process of healing it. Finally in its place sits a barely visible scar. I cast a healing charm on his bruise and I hear him sigh.
"Go to sleep." I order, I look at Peter, to see that he is already sleeping. I'm about to walk away when James sits up and takes the hand I'm holding to my neck. He grimaces as he pulls it off.
"Damn." He breathes, and I'm wondering just how back it looks. "You're getting blood in your hair." I shake my head and put it up in a pony tail. "It covers the whole left side!"
"You just said that so you could see the rest of it!" He gives an apologetic smile. "I'll heal it the best I can, go to sleep." He rolls his eyes and kisses my forehead before collapsing on his bed. I walk over to Sirius who was simply staring at me. I didn't smile and I didn't say anything. I took his hand gently, and examined it, 3 claw marks where bleeding from it, and I could see some bones and knuckles standing out in different places. I reach for my healers book on how to mend bones. I knew it was going to be tricky, I've only healed a bone once before and it took quite a while I poured him a glass of skeletal grow and handed it to him, he downed it. Still holding his hand gently I ran my wand back and forth muttering different incantations hoping to merlin it would work. After about five minutes I noticed all the bones were back in shape, still though I put a cooling charm on it. And then proceeded to heal the claw marks. After I finished he looked like he wanted to say something but went against and laid down on his bed. I reached into my robes and pulled out a black wand that wasn't mine.
"I believe this is yours?" He nods and takes it from me, our hands brush and I turn away quickly. He doesn't reply.
I sighed deeply and headed to the bathroom to examine my wound. I had a thick purple bruise so purple that it looked as if someone colored the whole side of my neck with marker. It was extremely sore, I quickly healed the gash and placed a cooling charm on it before walking out into the dorm and stealing a pair of James' sweat pants and a tee shirt. Everyone seemed to be asleep so I changed right there before climbing into Remus' bed exhausted. My head barely hit the pillow before I was out.
XxX
Thankfully that next day was a Sunday so James, Sirius, Peter and I spent most of it the hospital wing with Remus. We didn't get up until 3 so that basically took half the day away from us. When we returned from the hospital wing we sat in the common room with Alice, Frank and Lily playing exploding snap and chess, I was terrible at both. Sirius wasn't there. At around eight Lily and James had patrolling, Peter had fallen asleep and was levitated to his dorm and Alice and Frank became all lovely dovey, so I took my leave and headed back to see Remus.
"Hey there champ." I say as I walk into the wing.
"Hey Speedy, how's it going?" I shrug which causes my neck to hurt. "Sorry about that." I wave off the apology.
"Something you said this morning bothered me, and I didn't want to bring it up in front of the boys."
"What?"
"Why did you ask me if you repulsed me. I thought we established that I didn't." He just turned his head away. "Remus."
"Well it's different when you see me, so I just thought…" He trailed off.
"Never doubt me. I'm always here."
"And now you're leaving." Madam Pomfrey says walking in the room.
"Aw come on Poppy!" I say with a smile.
"Not a chance, say good bye." I frown and kiss Remus' head before walking out. There was no way in hell I was going back to the common, so I turned and headed downstairs walking aimlessly through the halls trying to find Lily and James. Maybe I could walk around with them. I heard laughter around the corner hoping it was them but what I found wasn't Lily and James, it was worse, much worse. It was a large group of slytherins, and I was about to be right in the middle of them.