Disclaimer: I don't own any characters that you don't recognize from the Harry Potter Series.
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews last chapter! And, er, the Russian letter isn't really pertinent to the whole story, its more of a side thing that I'm doing, but if you'd really like to see the translation just tell me.
Yes, I did say that I wasn't going to update as frequently anymore...but- the library doesn't open until..er negative two minutes. Alright I'm slacking, but I was in the library for a two hours, then I realized that I didn't know how to use the copying machine. The t.A.T.u song I feature here will fit the next chapter better, but since it does somewhat relate to the chapter, I was like whatever.
Slavery is Illegal
Chapter 11:
You Agree
You're afraid of darkness,
But you can't sleep with the light,
You agree to sleep with anyone,
Who answers,
You dream about love,
But you're the one who dreams dangerously,
You agree to sleep with anyone
-Ty Soglasna (You Agree) by t.A.T.u
OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod.
James Potter has just kissed me.
Well we are kissing right now.
I'm too shocked to move.
OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod.
He suddenly stopped kissing me and said sounding like the was quite drunk, "Wow you're a great snogger," and he promptly passed out.
The common room was silent, too shocked to say or do anything. I could feel my cheeks burning, as I tried to make the events that just happened sink in.
Suddenly, Sirius stood up and we all looked at him. He had a deep cut on his eyebrow and his mouth was dripping blood mixed with saliva.
He looked at me with the strange look that he had before he attacked Regulus. It wasn't anger, was it? It looked like something else, something painful, and the pain was so strong that even I could feel it. I... felt sorry for him.
He started walking towards me, but he stopped and turned away, and went up into his dormitory instead.
The students in the common room started to talk, their voices were a buzz around me.
"Lena," I looked up to see Remus, "Come on, lets take him to the Hospital Wing,"
--
Madam Pomfrey looked at me as if wondering why I always showed up with a beaten boy, but she took James anyways.
I sat beside Remus for a while, waiting.
"Er... Lena?" he asked.
"Yea?"
"Do..you have someone back in Russia?" he asked looking anxious.
"Have someone? What do you mean?"
"Like... a boyfriend or something..." he muttered looking embarrassed.
Where did that come from?
"Uh, what makes you think that?"
"Well...you go back to Russia every weekend and all,"
"Oh, I visit my dad every weekend," I answered automatically, "I... er... don't have a boyfriend.."
"Really?" he asked looking surprised.
"What were James and Sirius fighting about?"
"Erm..." Remus said quickly, "Lily, you know how James is obsessed with her.."
"...yea," I muttered thinking about the kiss.
"I think he mistook you for Lily actually, you both have red hair and your eyes are green right now-"
"Oh," I felt disappointment welling up in me, but shrugged it off.
"There's one thing Sirius and James agree about," Remus said with a laugh, "they both think you're a really good snogger,"
"Sirius said that?" I muttered.
"Yea... er he thought that maybe you had a boyfriend and that's why-"
"Why would Sirius care whether I have a boyfriend, he hates me as much as I hate him,"
Remus looked at me, again in surprise.
"What?" I asked looking at him curiously, but I stopped when I heard James stir.
We walked up to his bed and bent over to look at him. We heard Madam Pomfrey mutter something about him being overly dramatic about a few bruises.
"Mrmph! Lilykins!" He yelled and sat up his lips banged into mine.
OW, I think he chipped my tooth!
"Oh, sorry," James muttered sheepishly, "I thought I saw Evans..."
"er... no, she's not here.." I muttered.
"Remus! Did you see me snog Evans?" he asked Remus proudly.
"...no, James, I didn't," Remus said looking like he was trying to restrain his laughter.
"It was the best moment of my life, she's amazing at it-" James said with a happy sigh.
"James," Remus said, "you didn't snog Lily,"
"What are you talking about, Moony, of course I snogged her, now Sirius can't say that I didn't-"
"You didn't snog Lily Prongs, you snogged Lena,"
James laughed disbelievingly, until he saw my face.
"What? No, I saw her eyes, they were beautiful and GREEN," he said looking at my eyes that had returned to its normal gray.
"Prongs, Lena's eyes turn green did you know that?"
"She had red hair, I saw lots of RED hair!"
"Lena has red hair, I don't know how you didn't notice that until this point,"
"I.." James muttered looking taken aback at this information, "I snogged you?"
I nodded, I was too afraid of what I might say if I opened my mouth.
"I... no, no I didn't, I.." James looked bewildered by his own actions, "I couldn't have, God... did... did Pads see?"
I never really got their nicknames, but I'm pretty sure he's talking about Sirius...what does it matter that he saw?
"Er... yea, he did.." Remus muttered reluctantly.
"Bugger," James sighed.
I wonder... is there something that they know that I don't?
Probably.
Oh well, James thinks that I'm a good snogger!
Hehe, I'm a good snogger.
He's a good snogger too, but he doesn't do lip nibbly like Sirius-
Not that I care, I mean, lip nibbly isn't everything when it comes to snogging.
At least I don't think so.
I thought that it was the tongue factor actually-
Not that I think about it at a regular basis.
Because I really don't.
But I did feel a bit of tongue coming on between James and me.
I snogged James Potter! My life is complete!
--
"I heard that my brother hit you," Regulus told me when we walked around during dinner.
Yes, we were walking around together. I'm not sure why, but after the whole bludger incident, he seems a bit friendlier. We would skip dinner and walk outside Hogwarts and just talk like we did when we were trapped in the closet.
When people are around we pretend to not know each other, it's difficult being friends with a Slytherin when you're a Gryffindor. I'm sure its the same way for him, and we just decided that its much safer for the two of us to be friends when no one is looking.
I wouldn't want anymore rumors now would I?
Though I know that people are still talking about us, just not as much as the whole lesbian rumor. Because that was annoying.
The lesbian rumor that is. I still get these looks from girls when I get too close to them.
What was I talking about?
Oh yea.
"Yea, he elbowed me in the gut," I muttered.
Regulus frowned at this and asked, "Why was he fighting Potter?"
"Erm, I'm not too sure, something about Lily?" I added because he didn't seem to know, "Evans, she's my friend, and he... he fancies her, and I think that Sirius got annoyed by it..."
"So he attacked his friend because he was annoyed?"
"Er, I think that there is something more to it.." I said thinking about it.
I mean, James has been obsessing about Lily since fifth year, its bit strange for Sirius to suddenly lash out now.
"Oh," he then asked, "Do you fancy him?"
"What?" I snapped back into attention, "fancy who?"
"Er... Sirius," he said looking at me suspiciously.
Oh thank God, I thought he was talking about James, "No, I don't fancy Sirius, I hate him, I'm not sure why everyone keeps asking me if I fancy him.."
"He fancies you," Regulus said suddenly.
"Hahaha right, and the Vicar of Dibley is on crack," I said sarcastically, but Regulus just looked at me confused.
"Er... well, there are actually rumors that he is on crack so maybe that isn't the best thing-"
"Sounds like dinner ended, I'll see you tomorrow then?" He asked, "You're staying at Hogwarts this weekend right, because of your birthday?"
"Yea... that and Hogsmeade," I said and waved him off. I stood outside for a while, but I got this strange feeling that someone was looking at me, so I walked inside.
--
"Happy Seventeen Lena!" Lily shouted early in the morning. I woke up with a jolt and rolled off my bed in fright. Really, Lily can be scary sometimes.
"Er... "
"Here's your presents!" Lily said indicating a pile of packages, "an owl came with a whole bunch of stuff, but you have to open mine first,"
"Right," I decided that it was best to agree and I unwrapped her package which turned out to be a book, "How to Fend off any Twit that tries to Grope You... you... uh shouldn't have Lily, I ..er..love it,"
Laura gave me a couple of more bottles of the hair potion and Livia gave me...
"A butterfly knife? What would I do with a butterfly knife?" I asked incredulously.
"It's fun, I've got a couple of my own, but I thought you'd like this one..."
"Why would I want a butterfly knife..?"
She shrugged, but Lily looked at it approvingly.
I noticed a small leather bag and opened it. A small golden snitch came out and started bouncing around the room.
"ARGH!" Lily shouted, "who gave you that? Potter? God, I started hating snitches when he-"
I pulled out a leather glove and a note that read:
I'm sure you can learn how to catch a snitch, Happy Birthday.
-R.A.B.
"Who's R.A.B.?" Lucy asked a smile played on her lips.
"Er... nobody," I muttered pulling on the glove to see that it fitted snugly.
"What's that?" Livia asked pointing at a small rectangular package.
"It must be the cassette..." I murmured and opened up the package to reveal that it was the tape.
"Ooh, what is it? I haven't listened to any decent music at all lately," Lucy said excitedly.
"Er... its Russian... you wouldn't like it..." I muttered and put away the tape, I'll give it a go later, "Off to Hogsmeade then huh?"
--
Ahh, nice Hogsmeade with its nice fresh air, what's there not to like about it?
Other than the raining.
Or rather, downpour.
I'm wet.
Lily's wet.
She isn't happy that some fourth years was goggling us, because our shirts are white and now they were wet. And if you don't get where I'm going at, then you must be slower than a slow thing thats..er..slow.
I left Lily, who was bullying the fourth years, and went off for a walk.
I know that its raining, but I don't mind.
But I was getting cold.
I'm always cold, but now I'm really cold.
It's October you know, and its been getting really cold lately.
I wandered around and then heard something coming from the lightly wooded area at the outskirts of the village. Maybe its a wolf.
Haha, just kidding, but it won't be too smart to get too close.
--
But, I want to know what it is.
Curiosity killed the cat.
But saved the rat.
Where did I hear that expression? God knows, but I'm nothing like a cat, but I'm not rat like either.
Whatever.
Must. Investigate.
--
Egads!
Eurgh!
My eyesss and earsss.
--
It was Sirius...and Lana.
And they were...doing something disgusting.
That's sick, this is a public place.
Ughhh I think I'm going to go throw up now.
I can't believe that he's-
Eeurghhhh!!!
--
Bugger, I think they heard me.
"Do you hear something?"
Bugger. Bugger, must run. Away!
--
"Who's there?"
Run! Run away Lena!
Why can't I move?
I'm in a state of shock.
Blimey, I can't erase the image of Lana out of my mind, that girl is disgusting.
--
Bugger, he's standing up.
Run!
And I turned to run, but a hand grabbed my hand and roughly turned me around.
Sirius.
Topless.
Imagine that.
He might be an egoistical prat, but God, he is fit! I could just feel the heat rising in my cheeks.
We both stood there staring at each other. I'm not sure why he's staring at me, but-
"Who is it Sirius?" Lana came up from behind him and saw me.
"What do you want Katina?" she asked with a scowl, "are you spying on us?"
I was still gaping at Sirius who started to grin crazily, but I managed to mutter, "I wasn't spying on you two,"
"Then what are you doing here?" she snapped.
"I was just walking around, if you didn't want to be seen, don't do it outside," I retorted, she seemed a lot more annoying than usual.
"Why don't you just go away?" Lana sneered.
"I would, if Sirius would let go," I said simply indicating that he had a painful grip on my wrist.
"Huh?" Sirius said hearing his name and quickly let go, "Sorry,"
Blimey, did he just apologize?
Whatever.
"Lena!" I heard someone call me, I barely turned my head around and a person suddenly jumped onto me and knocked me into Sirius who in turn knocked down Lana and we found ourselves sprawled onto the ground, each of us on top of the other.
"GET OFF OF ME!" I heard Lana scream at the bottom.
"Lena!" I heard Regulus yell as he came running towards us.
I felt Sirius shudder and looked at him, "What's wrong?" but he just looked into my eyes and seemed to be unable to speak. Then I realized that my face was about an inch away from his and that my hand was on his- his- his-
"Turn away Lena!!!" my mind screamed.
Trying to look for anything else to focus on I looked up at the person on top of me and saw a very wide grin of a person I hadn't expected to see at all.
A/N: Ooh, who could it possibly be?? I think that it isn't too difficult to guess, but whatever. Disgusting Lana and Sirius D: But, I just had to torture her some more (wait till you read the next chapter :D). So yea, I'm slowly, slowly developing Lena and her realization that Sirius is indeed a hot lurve god. I'm actually starting to like James a lot more ever since I started this fic, I usually think that Remus and Sirius are the best Marauders, because they are the only ones that you really meet that are decent. However, I don't believe that Remus will play an important role, except for making the characters use their common sense.
Right, ok please review ya'll :D!
-StLibee