Ch 10 The Detention September- one week later

It was with great frustration that I made my way down to the greenhouses, where we were to meet Professor Sprout for our detention.

"This is ALL your fault." I mumbled to the boys as we stood in the greenhouse.

"Righto. Let's have you three repotting these devil's snares. Make sure you smoke them with this so they won't grab you." She handed us a short, flat rectangle and pointed to a pile of fertilizer and pots in the corner.

"Um... how does this work?" James was holding the "smoker" with a look of severe distrust.

"Just... wave it around a bit. It's harmless to humans. I'll be back at 10." She picked up her marking papers and shut the door behind her.

James was still looking wary of the 'smoker.' I rolled my eyes and grabbed it from him. I waved it over the first Devils' Snare and a green smoke settled on the leaves.

"Touch it, Black." I said.

"Why ME?"

"Because I said so."

He cautiously poked it with his index finger. Nothing happened. I pulled it out of its pot. James had caught on and had filled a new pot with fertilizer. I stuck the plant in the pot and handed it to Sirius who put it on the counter by the window. We did the first few this way, but that got too boring for the boys after a while. I heard them whispering and giggling. I tentatively handed Sirius the next plant, well aware they were up to something. He smiled and took it from me. Then, suddenly, from behind, James dumped a bag of fertilizer over my head. I spun around, angrily.

"POTTER!" I shook my shirt and hair. "LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"

The two were laughing fit to bust.

"See how you like it." I grabbed some soil and stuffed it down his shirt.

"HEY!" James yelled and threw some back at me. I gathered some up from the ground and chucked it at his head, he ducked and it hit Sirius instead.

"OI!"

"You were in on it too!"

Sirius grabbed a bag and fired fistful after fistful of fertilizer. I couldn't see, but managed to make my way over to where the two were now both rapid firing the stuff at me. We spent about 20 minutes just throwing dirt around. Then Sirius snuck up behind me and rubbed it directly into my hair. My reflexes were like lightning as I whipped around and tackled him to the ground

"THIS STUFF WILL NEVER COME OUT OF MY HAIR!" I yelled into his ear.

"OWWW!" He rubbed some dirt off the floor into my face. I pursed my lips and rubbed some back in his. He laughed. I looked around the greenhouse and saw the state the place was in and couldn't help laughing too. I rolled off him and we both sat up. James joined us on the floor.

"Merlin Sirius, look what you've done!" I expected him to deny all charges to starting this war, but instead he just blinked. James blinked too.

"What?" I was confused.

"You called me Sirius?"

"Oh... yeah... I guess I did." It was my turn to blink in shock. I realized I had been thinking about him as Sirius for a while now. I gaped, realizing I didn't really hate him so much anymore. In fact... I didn't really hate him at all.

He grinned. "Doesn't mean I'm going to stop calling you, Goldy." I shoved him hard and he fell back onto the ground. James stood up.

"Guys... this is lovely and all, but it's 9:30. We have half an hour to repot 20 Devils' Snares."

Sirius' eyes widened. And my mouth fell open. We were dead.

"We're dead." James voiced my thoughts.

"Not if we work as fast as... as... uhh... something fast!" Was Sirius' intelligent comment.

I grabbed the smoker and smoked all 20 plants in one go. "Let's all pot. We can move them over when we're done." I looked at the walls and floor of the greenhouse. "Actually, you two pot. I'll clean up the greenhouse."

Professor Sprout arrived at exactly 10. We were exhausted, sweaty, and covered in dirt, but satisfied with how quickly we had finished everything.

"Very good. Very good. My fourth years are going to be over the moon about this. Now we can get on with the syllabus. Right you three-" she suddenly realized just how filthy we were. "What HAVE you been doing?"

We spoke unanimously.

"I tripped and pulled a bag of fertilizer down on us by mistake."

"I didn't smoke one completely and we had a bit of a scuffle getting free."

"The Mandrakes stared chucking stuff at us."

Professor Sprout raised an eyebrow. "Riiiight..." she said, "Why don't you go and get cleaned up."

We said goodbye and I pulled the door shut behind us. As I was turned around I could've sworn I saw the smallest smile on her lips.

V V V V V V V V V V V V

The girls were in pyjamas, all sitting on Lily's bed.

"GOD YOU SMELL AWFUL!"

"Tactful, Mary." I shut the dorm door with a bang, irritated at myself. How could I have let that one slip. I still hated him. Hated him with a passion. What had I been thinking? I would always hate him.

"You know I'm no good at tact." She buried her face in Lily's duvet.

Lily gagged and Alice covered her nose. "Go and shower NOW!" Lily shrieked. Alice nodded dumbly.

I rolled my eyes and walked over to the bathroom. "You guys are such girls..."

"What gave it away?" Mary asked under her breath.

"I heard that!" I shouted from inside the bathroom.

After a nice, long shower and I had changed into my own pyjamas I felt a lot better. Like I had washed away the incident of being nice to that less than human life form. I didn't not hate him. Of course not. He was always going to be Black. Nothing had changed. We would never be friends.

Yes Jaycee is very irritating, but *remembers from the classes we did on Greek tragedy* pride is her hamartia. Revvvvvieeeewwww to make a happy fanfic writer :)