Hey everybody: I wanted to say thanks for reading this and for reviewing, you are all wonderful and too kind. Here is Chapter 11!
Monogamy isn't Natural
Celia awoke the next morning groggy and tired, she had barely slept and when she did she was plagued with dreams of Sirius and Fabian. She knew she really shouldn't be complaining, how many girls had to choose between some of the most attractive guys in school.
But she knew in her choosing, someone would inevitably be hurt, and she really hated to hurt anyone. So she rolled out of bed, took a quick shower, threw on some clothes and makeup and went down to breakfast. She was early but there were still a number of students sitting at the table. Marlene and Lily were looking bright and chipper as she went to sit by them.
"You look like hell" Marlene said bluntly.
Celia laughed at her."Thanks for your honesty Marlene."
Marlene just shrugged and shoved some toast into her mouth. Celia did feel like crazy hell.
"Are you alright?" Lily her more sympathetic friend asked.
"Mmhmm, I'm just sleepy." She reassured her and loaded up her plate with French toast. Lily and Marlene were busy chatting away about something, but Celia wasn't paying them any mind as she was lost in her thoughts about what to do about two certain Gryffindors pining for her affections.
She was in a daze and didn't hear Gideon join them or Fabian come up behind her and so when he sat down and pecked her on the cheek she gasped and jumped out of her skin.
Fabian laughed at her "Why so jumpy today?" he asked as he grabbed a bowl of oatmeal.
She hated oatmeal, it was bland and had the weirdest texture and it annoyed her when he ate it. She doubted Sirius would eat oatmeal; he seemed more like a bacon and eggs, or at least beans and toast kind of guy.
"I just didn't get much sleep last night." she told him. He just nodded and continued to eat.
Gideon was sitting next to Marlene and was looking nervous "Marlene?" Gideon asked, and she turned to look at him. "Do you want to go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?" he asked.
Celia bit her lip hard trying not to giggle like the schoolgirl she was. Marlene's cheeks grew red but her smile was from ear to ear.
"Sure, Gideon, I'll go with you." She tried to say as calmly as possible though it was obvious to her friends just how excited she was.
Celia was excited for her but she would have to give Marlene "the talk" before the date. After all Gideon had been one of the potential baby daddies for Michelle's kid. And she was kind of disappointed Lupin hadn't asked Marlene first, she had been rooting for him.
She looked over at Lily to gage her reaction to the situation, but saw that she was not looking at Celia but staring intently at the door to the great hall. Celia followed her line of sight and saw Black and Potter plus Remus and Peter causing a commotion as they walked in for breakfast. Her stomach did a flip flop and the room grew hot and tense as they strode over to the Gryffindor table and sat down a few feet from the girls. Sirius winked at her as he took his seat and she glared at him for daring to do so.
She was hoping Fabian had not seen that move, but luck was never on her side. Fabian threw his arm around Celia possessively and glared at Sirius in distaste "Find your own girl, Black." He growled. Celia looked over at Lily for help but she was just staring at the scene waiting to see what would go down. They had fought over much smaller things than Sirius throwing her a wink.
"I prefer yours, actually" Sirius said arrogantly.
Oh shit, that'll do it.
And it did.
"Outside Black, now." Fabian demanded standing up. Fabian was a very structured and proper person, this continued over in his dealings with fights and arguments.
"Why not right here Prewitt? Sirius asked gesturing to the great hall "Afraid of detention? Or that your girlfriend will see you lose?"
Fabian's eyes burned with anger and he picked up the heavy gold goblet full of Pumpkin juice and threw it directly at Sirius' head. It was kind of a bitch move in Celia's opinion. Sirius had played far too much Quidditch to actually be hit by the goblet, but as he knocked it away his robes were soaked in sticky orange pumpkin juice.
All the chattering and clanging in the great hall ceased; everyone loved to watch Sirius and Fabian go at it and they waited with baited breath to see who would make the first move.
Sirius stood livid, glaring at Fabian for a moment as if wondering whether to use wands or fists. Fists won and he lunged at Fabian knocking him to the floor, punching him in the face once they were down. Sirius got a few good punches in before Fabian was able to throw Sirius off of him and begin to hit back. All the students from the other houses crowded around the Gryffindor table trying to get a glimpse of the action before a teacher or prefect broke it up.
Gideon started hurling insults at Potter about Sirius and unfortunately Potter, if nothing else was an extremely loyal friend. The bespectacled boy drew his wand and threw a conjunctivitis curse at Fabian's red haired twin causing his eyes to swell up pink and oozing. As Gideon could no longer see, he just began shooting hexes any which way he could hoping to hit James Potter although he only did once, the rest hit the crowd of onlookers.
Marlene was just watching and egging them on, as was Peter. Lily and Celia were yelling at them both to knock it off, and Remus the other house prefect was looking unsure of what to do.
"Remus, do something!" Celia screeched pointing to the two boys wrestling on the ground "You're his friend!"
The boy finally came to his senses and decided it was probably better that he keep Sirius and James out of detention. Just as Remus was making his way over to Sirius to pull him off Fabian; McGonagall burst into the Great Hall.
"What in Merlin's name is going on?" She yelled in her thick Scottish accent.
The crowd parted so she could see what all the commotion was about, and as soon as she realized that four of her star pupils were in another brawl she took out her wand and shot a separating spell at them.
Sirius, Potter, Gideon and Fabian both flung back away from each other and into the crowd, knocking some of them down in the process.
"I have never seen such a display of disrespect in the Great Hall!" McGonagall shouted.
Although everyone knew she had, the last time Sirius and Fabian had fought in the Great Hall. However that duel had been during dinner; maybe fighting during breakfast was doubly as disrespectful?
"What am I going to do with you four? Can't you at least be civil? I am so disappointed in you. 50 points from Gryffindor!" She finished and the Gryffindors groaned while the Slytherins looked quite content. "You all have detention every night for the rest of the week. My office 7 o'clock. Everyone who was hit with a jinx go see Madam LeFroy in the Hospital wing." McGonagall turned with her Emerald robes flowing behind her and took her place at the head table.
Celia went over to help and yell at Fabian. "Was this really necessary?" She asked her boyfriend as she fixed his broken nose.
She looked over to see Potter helping Black to his feet and handing him a napkin to stop his bleeding lip. Marlene went over to Gideon and muttered the counter curse for Conjunctivitis.
"He disrespected you and me, Celia. I couldn't just let him get away with it." Fabian explained as if it was the most necessary thing in the world.
"He didn't disrespect me; he winked at me just to get a rise out of you and you know it." Celia argued in retort. This really had to end.
"Why don't you care that he winked at you, did you like it?" Fabian almost shouted. Celia rolled her eyes at her over jealous boyfriend.
"No Fabian, It just wasn't worth you getting detention over." She assured him.
But he had a point, she did like the fact that he winked at her. After all that had happened the previous night, she couldn't help but smile at the fact that he still wanted her.
"It was worth it, trust me. I don't know how I'm going to leave you here next year knowing you'll have to deal with him every day on your own." Fabian said and kissed her on the head.
At one time it would have been a comforting and appreciated gesture, but now it was just patronizing. She was almost 17 for Merlin's sake, she could handle herself. Fabian was so overprotective, it bordered on Fabian kissed her she looked over at Sirius who was holding a wet napkin to his mouth and shooting daggers at Fabian with his eyes.
After all the chaos at breakfast, Celia had almost forgotten that she had potions at 8:30 and she would be late if she didn't run. She kissed Fabian on the cheek then grabbed Lily and Marlene and dragged them down to the dungeons.
"What the hell was that all about?" Marlene asked with a huge grin on her face. "You are so lucky; you have two of the most attractive blokes in the school fighting over you."
Lily gave Celia a knowing look.
"Marlene I'm not lucky, I'm cursed." Celia told her friend dramatically. "They're not really fighting over me anyway, they were fighting about me."
Marlene shrugged "same difference. And I have a sneaking suspicion that they were fighting over you."
The three girls entered the potions classroom and took their assigned seats. It then dawned on Celia that Sirius was her potions partner. She wasn't sure how she was going to face working with him after all that had transpired last night and that morning. Not to mention, their potion had exploded and now they would have to start completely over, which meant working together much more frequently.
She hoped Sirius had been injured badly enough to have endured a visit to the hospital wing, but as always she had no luck and the man came strutting into the classroom as if he had just won a war. He slid into the seat next to her and she tensed up at feeling him so close.
"Hello love." He whispered into her ear, his warm breath playing on her skin as Slughorn toddled into the room. Celia refused to talk to him or even look at him. He had caused her nothing but problems since taking an interest in her. She had thought she made herself clear that she didn't want him.
"Damn him!" She thought to herself, "how can he be so bloody…enticing?" Her thoughts wandered back to the night before and the feel of his hands roaming across her skin in the room of requirement. The memory of his lips on her mouth and neck had her breathless and perspiring in the middle of potions class.
"Ms. Kennedy. Ms. Kennedy" Slughorn called her name and drew her out of her daze. The class began to giggle somewhat at her lack of attention.
"Sorry Professor, what was the question?" Celia asked growing slightly pink. She could see Sirius smirking next to her. "I asked if you could tell me what the antidote for most poisons is." Slughorn asked again impatiently. Luckily Celia knew the answer "A bezoar, sir." She replied.
Slughorn nodded and turned back to the blackboard. Sirius slid her a note he had written on a spare piece of parchment.
What were you thinking about? Last night maybe?
Celia glared at him, of course she was thinking about last night, but she wasn't going to let him know that. She was going to play the ice queen. As long as he wasn't secretly an accomplished legilimens he would never know.
In a way. I was thinking about how the hell we are going to get our potion in on time.
She slid the paper back towards him and looked up to make sure Slughorn wasn't watching.
All that happened and you're thinking about a bloody potion?
He wrote her back. Clearly he had been thinking about the night before as well.
You should be too; you're the one who ruined it. I really would rather not fail potions.
Sirius kept his parchment after that, sighing loudly and rolling his eyes at her. She couldn't help it if she was trying to focus on her studies, or at least make him think she was. Celia was determined not to let Sirius, or Fabian have the upper hand in this matter. If they both wanted her so badly they would have to work for it.
So, right now Sirius was winning, but that didn't mean Fabian was out of the running. She had a lot of history with that boy, hell he had been her first everything, boyfriend, kiss, shag, everything. But maybe that was why she was so eager for something new, in the form of Sirius Black, two years with the same bloke got boring. Besides she was young shouldn't she take a chance, date around? Once again she was brought out of her thoughts only this time it was by Sirius and his left hand.
She had left her robe open and Sirius was now brushing his fingers up against her thigh. Her head shot towards him but he wasn't paying her any attention, just taking notes on whatever Slughorn happened to be preaching about. She looked around the room to check if anyone else could see that he was violating her under the table, no one seemed to notice.
She saw an arrogant smirk on his perfect face as he changed from fingers to his whole hand and moved towards the inside of her thighs.
Why was she not stopping this?
Her mind told her to stop him but her body screamed for her to let him continue. Celia's breathing was becoming labored and she could tell his was as well. He was having more and more difficulty concentrating on his notes and she could see light perspiration forming on his forehead and a bulge in his pants. Sirius kept moving further and further up her leg until his hand rested on the outside of her lace panties.
He was just beginning to thumb her through the fabric when she gasped slightly and grabbed his hand, stopping him. She moved his hand back down her leg and pushed it back onto his own lap. When she tried to pull her hand away and return to her schoolwork, he refused to let her go.
Sirius held onto her hand rubbed his thumb over her palm and of everything he had done this seemed the most wrong, the most intimate. He entwined his fingers with hers and held her hand on his lap. She was never more thankful that the dungeons were so dimly lit as in that moment. She was still breathing harder than normal from nervous excitement and she glanced back at Lily and Marlene who were sitting behind them Lily was looking at her with her green eyes wide.
"Shit" Celia thought "Lily saw something, hopefully just the handholding." Luckily after a few moments more the bell rang and class had ended. She ripped her hand away from Sirius and tried not to look at him as she packed up her things. Lily was quickly making her way over, but got held up by Slughorn trying to get her join that fucking Slug Club again. 'damn Slughorn' Celia silently cursed the bulbous man.
Sirius stood up; he was so close that his chest was pushed up against her arm. He was considerably taller than her, she only reached his shoulders and this made him slightly intimidating. He grabbed her wrist gently and bent down to whisper in her ear. "Meet me tonight in the room of requirement at 11"
She had no idea why she had agreed but she did. Celia looked him in the eye for the 1st time since the previous night and shook her head yes. He gave her a half smile before letting go of her and running over to catch up with the other Marauders. Lily finally managed to free herself from Slughorn and came bounding over.
"I saw what happened." Lily told her with a concerned look.
"What did you see?" Marlene asked coming up behind the girls.
Celia had really not wanted to get anyone involved in this, she had only told Lily because she couldn't keep it in any longer. But then she knew Marlene was a trustworthy person and wouldn't go running her mouth.
"Sirius fondling Celia under the table" Lily said as if it was nothing, a regular occurrence, as they walked out into the hall. They were the last ones out so they didn't worry about anyone eavesdropping.
"What!" Marlene yelled.
"Shhh" Lily and Celia both shushed her, not wanting to draw any attention to themselves.
"What?" Marlene asked this time more quietly. "Why didn't you stop him? What about Fabian?" Celia explained what had been going on between her and Sirius for the past few weeks.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me!" Marlene screeched.
Celia apologized and was thankfully forgiven by her friend.
"So how far did you let him go up your skirt?" Lily asked her with a smirk on her pale face.
"I didn't let him go too far, Lils. I stopped him and that's when he held onto my hand like it was his bloody life line." Celia assured her.
She wasn't about to tell her friends that she was practically fingered in the middle of potions class. There were some things a girl kept secret and that was one of them.
"I knew he liked you" Marlene said knowingly "I knew all those fights with Fabian had to be about something." Lily still looked troubled by the whole idea of Celia and Sirius.
"What are you going to do about Fabian?" she asked quietly. "You can't keep meeting Black for midnight rendezvous while you're still dating Fabian, Celia"
Celia sighed, knowing Lily was absolutely right. She did not want to play the cheating whore, but she didn't want to hurt Fabian by breaking up with him either. It was such a difficult decision, but Sirius had been right before, she wouldn't keep agreeing to meet him if everything was fine with Fabian. "I don't know" She told them. She really had no idea.
Why was their society mongomous? It wasn't natural. She wanted both.
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