Chapter 11
Who would have guessed that an idiot like Sirius Black could be the worlds best boyfriend? Certainly not me. Then again, I also thought that my brother was a good person, and that was definitely no longer true.
Ah! I need to explain, don't I? Alright, well you may recall how I found that blonde haired brown eyed pile of hippogriff dung hanging out with the blokes who were terrorizing Mary McDonald. Well, as it turns out, that was not the first, nor the last time he had a rendezvoused with those shifty tossers...
"Benny!" I called out, excited to tell my brother the joyous news. "Benny! I have something to... tell.. you..." I ended awkwardly realizing whom he was with...
He sighed exasperatedly, "Make it quick Elizabeth." He said rolling his eyes. Rude much?
"Erm.." I was feeling a tad uncomfortable with the amount of Slytherins currently glaring at me, one being Sirius's brother Regulus. "It's about Sirius..." I said. I may have been imagining it, but I swore I could see Regulus's eyes flash with interest for a moment. "Um I gave him the motorbike-"
Benny scoffed, "You mean that waste of time you and father have been tinkering with for ages?" He said with a callous laugh. Why was he being such a prat? He thought the bike was, and I quote "brilliant!" when we first started fixing it.
"Okay, that was rude... Anyways, I gave it to him for his birthday this morning and.." I paused for a moment, taking in Benny's compete and utter indifference toward what I was saying. I was so excited to tell him this earlier, but now I felt like an unwanted bug crawling on someone's sandwich. "And now he's my boyfriend... yayyy..." I say awkwardly with mock enthusiasm, doing an awkward jazz hands gesture to go along.
"I thought he already was?" Benny said uninterestedly.
"No! Ugh! Why do you have to be such a wet blanket Benny!" I said stomping my foot in annoyance, crossing my arms and pouting. For a moment I saw the faintest smirk on Regulus's lips... but a second later his idiot of a big brother joined our oh so happy conversation.
"Ellie, why do you look like someone stole all your cat treats?" Sirius whispered in my ear as he came up hugging me from behind, wrapping his arms around my waist. I smiled up at him, then remembered I was mad at benny and pouted grumpily.
"I'll tell you later, let's just go." I told my gorgeous stupid handsome new boyfriend. "Bye Benny." I said to the prat. He ignored me.
Me and Mr. stupid handsome were walking back to Gryffindor tower, hand in hand.
"Okay, wanna tell me why your brother was hanging out in the snake pit?" Sirius inquired.
"I have no idea. I just wanted to tell him how we were together now. I thought he would be happy for me! But he just acted like he didn't care..." I said sadly. "Also, he called the bike a waste of time. I think we need to prank him for that comment alone." I said causing Sirius to chuckle.
"Well we should get to planning shouldn't we!" He said happily. "Oh! Speaking of planning... there's something I wanted to ask you," he said, looking down at me lovingly. I waited for a long while for him to go on, but he just kept silent, smirking when he saw how impatient I was getting.
"Well ask me already!" More silence. " Come on! The anticipation is killing me!" I said dramatically, pulling my hand away from his and clutching it to my heart. He smirked wider, but still didn't say anything. "Please Sir Snuffles! Asketh the question..eth or I may perish!" I said wallowing on the floor of the crowded corridor, the back of my hand to my forehead. Some people stopped to watch, most looked rather amused, but some others looked like they smelled a dung bomb or something.
"Oh my love! My one truest love! Will you accompany me to the village of Hogsmead this fine weeks end?" Sirius pleaded, playing along. He was on his knees next to me, hands clutched together. "Please Lady Greengrass! Please say you will join me my love!" He begged dramatically.
"Yes Sir Snuffles! Nothing would make me happier!" I giggled. He stood up and then reached down to give me a hand up as well.
"Nothing?" he said grinning mischievously. As I stood up he pulled my hand hard and I stumbled into his chest. "Not even this?" he said before kissing me passionately, one hand around my waist and the other gently resting on the side of my face. I completely forgot that we had an audience until someone wolf whistled... I later found out it was Moony who was passing through trying to get to the library.
"Ugh! Is this a joke?!" Said a sour Hufflepuff named Kelli? Katie? Carly? I don't know.. anyway, she had been trying to flirt with Sirius for ages.
"Can't you two go be annoying someplace else?" Said Marlene McKinnon disgustedly. HA! SEE! I TOLD YOU HE WAS MINE!
Sirius pulled away smiling to address our concerned audience members. "No, definitely not a joke. Lady Greengrass is the love of my life and she's also my date this weekend... unless she was joking about going with me..." he trailed off looking at me.
"Nope." I grinned.
"Ah, well just checking." He said happily. "and I think that this is as good a place as any to kiss my remarkable girlfriend!" he said to Marlene who subsequently stormed off.
I bit my lip trying not to smile at her displeasure. "Come on! Let's go get to plotting!" I said dragging Sirius through the crowd.
That weekend, while at Hogsmead it was a lot like any other trip with Sirius to Hogsmead. The only differences being that now I got to hold his hand while we peruse the nose biting teacups at Zonkos and I got to kiss him whenever I so pleased. We were making our merry way to The Three Broomsticks for a couple of Butterbeers when we saw some shady folk doing some shifty things... worst part was, my brother was one of them.
"Sirius! Sirius!" I whisper shouted whacking his arm for him to look at what I was pointing to. "Look!"
"Is that Benny? What are they doing?" He asked quickly as he looked in the direction my finger was pointing towards the woods. "Hang on... what are they looking at?" He said. There was a whole flock of Slytherins (plus Mr. Ravenclaw Prefect Benjamin) gawking and laughing at something or another.
"I can't really tell from here, maybe we should get closer... do you still have the cloak from earlier?" I asked.
We were a tad late to Hogsmead that day. We had to wait until most people were gone to sneak into Ravenclaw tower (using the cloak) and charm Benny's fancy face cream to make him sprout feathers where a mustache should be the next time he used it.
"Yes!" He said pulling the silvery cloak out of his pocket.
We went behind a bush and pulled on the cloak, then made our way toward the sneaky tossers in the woods. As we sneaked closer, the whole horrible scene came into view. Again, they had hoisted some innocent girl upside down in the air by her ankle.
"Is that Susan?" I hissed to Sirius who nodded in horror. And yes.. I do mean that Susan.
"We have to help her!" I said panicked.
"You're right, but Ellie, please be careful, okay?" He said sincerely. I smiled sadly up at him and nodded.
We pulled off the cloak and made our way toward the scene. When we were about halfway there they must have seen us. Susan fell to the ground with a loud thump and the bullies began to run back toward the village.
Sirius looked conflicted between wanting to help Susan and wanting to beat the crap out of the ones who were messing with her. "I'll stay and check on Susan, you go follow them and try to find James and Remus." I said.
"Ellie are you sure.." he started.
"It's fine! Just go!" I said, literally pushing him in the right direction.
I ran over to Susan who was now sitting curled up in a ball on the ground. I crouched down in front of her. "Hey Susan? Are- are you okay?" I said gently.
Her head snapped up and she looked at me completely confused. "Elizabeth?" She questioned, as if she couldn't really believe it was me.
"Um... yeah. Susan are you okay? Sirius and I saw those tossers messing with you, it looked like you hit your head pretty bad.." I said.
"Sirius?!" She said panicked.
"Yeah, he went to go chase them down." I informed her. I looked down to see her clutching her wrist. It must have been broken or something. "Is your wrist hurt?" I asked.
"Um y-yeah.. I think I may have sprained it or something.." she said distractedly.
"Here. Let me." I said holding out my hand and my wand. "Episkey!" I said pointing my wand to her hand. Between helping Remus at full moons and my own accident prone self, I had a lot of practice with healing spells.
"Thank you..." She said in disbelief. "Elizabeth... why are you being so nice to me?" She asked.
"What are you talking about?" I said. "You were being attacked by a load of junior death eaters, what was I supposed to do!?"
"But I tried to make out with your boyfriend!" She said as if I could forget.
"Well... yes... but technically he wasn't my boyfriend yet, and besides, it's sort of the reason we're together now anyway." I shrugged. "But that doesn't change the fact that you needed help. I wasn't going to leave you here just because you aren't my favorite person."
"Man, you really are sweet..." she said disappointedly. "I kind of hoped that you were some two faced slut or something, but you're actually a really nice person." She continued, looking more disappointed with every word. I wasn't sure if I should be flattered or not. "Now I feel really bad about the whole Sirius thing." She said.
"It's uh... okay." I said awkwardly trying to console the girl who had hoped I was a two faced floozy. "Water under the bridge as they say! Um..." I didn't know what else to say on the matter so I changed the subject. "Uh.. why were those pricks messing with you?"
"Oh... um Evan Rosier asked me to Hogsmead last week and I told him no... he was really put out about it... I don't think he was used to being turned down. He started bugging me when I was with my friends earlier at Scrivenshaft's trying to get some new quills. When we were leaving he told me he wanted to apologize for being so rude and asked if we could go on a walk. I went with him and he lead me here. He wouldn't let me go... and then all of his friends showed up. They thought it was funny that my shirt kept falling when I was upside down... called me a bunch of names... But then I guess they saw you and they ran away." Susan stated.
I was absolutely horrified and disgusted. My brother was one of the disgusting toads that attacked her.
"Susan. I'm so sorry." I said softly.
She was opening her mouth to respond when I heard a loud voice from the direction of the village screaming "ELLIE!"
"You can go. It's okay, I'll be fine." Susan said kindly.
"Are you sur-"
"Yes!" She said loudly causing me to jump slightly.
I left toward the village and saw Sirius, unconscious, being held up between James and Remus.
"What happened.." I said... well tried to say, I was having a hard time getting he words out from the shock of it all. I rushed over to cup his face in my hands with tears welling up in my eyes as I looked at the boy I loved in such a state. "What happened to him!?" I asked desperately.
"Benny." James growled through gritted teeth.