Sirius found Willow in the library after an hour of searching; Peter had gotten the Marauders map confiscated by Filch. Will was sitting under a window, reading and taking notes. There was a slight frown on her face and she was chewing on her bottom lip a little.
"Bloody Binns," she hissed as he sat opposite her, she didn't even glance up at him; she already knew who it was.
"Will you go to Hogsmeade with me next trip?" he asked and her head snapped up. She blinked at him.
"I will if James isn't holding Quidditch practice."
"You wouldn't skip training?"
"No, the trip is the weekend before our match against Slytherin. I really want to pound that brother of yours into the mud," she grinned evilly at him. And if he didn't dislike his brother so much at that moment he would have felt sorry for the boy.
"Ah, I really do like watching you dirty up my little brother," Sirius said with a grin. She laughed and turned back to her assignment.
"What's he got you doing?"
"The same thing that you are meant to be doing."
"But I don't want to do it. It isn't worth my time when it is impossible to listen to the dead sod," she looked at him. "What?"
"You may have just saved my perfect grade," she quickly wrote another paragraph and signed her name at the bottom. She put the book that she had been ready from away with a flick of her wand and packed up the rest of her stuff. She stood and he stood with her. He took her bag and she kissed his cheek.
"Thank you for that," she said, ignoring the looks that the Sirius Black fan girls were giving her. He put his arm around her waist and they walked out of the library.
"You're welcome, but I'm not entirely sure what I did."
"You don't need to be," she said with a laugh. He grinned down at her and gave the password to the fat lady who was grinning at them like she was the happiest person on earth. They received quite a few stares from their fellow Gryffindors and she blushed.
"See you in the morning," Willow murmured as she took her bag from him. He followed her to the stairs and stopped her as she made to go up.
"What?" she asked, confused.
"This," he kissed her. She was bright red when he released her.
"Goodnight," she mumbled and went up the stairs. Sirius turned to the common room, it was dead silent.
"What?" he demanded and everyone went back to what they were doing. Sirius went over to James and Remus.
"So, you and Will are together then?" James asked.
"She's agreed to go to Hogsmeade with me on the next trip if you aren't being Captain Blood and having another practice before the match against Slytherin."
"I won't be," a silly grin spread across James' face and Sirius' eyes widened.
"Evens finally agreed?"
"Actually, she asked me, I said no."
"What?"
"Relax, I then asked her the today, and she said yes."
"Yeah, then punched him in the arm for making her believe that she had stuffed everything up," Remus murmured with a grin. Sirius laughed hard. None of the boys saw the two girls sneak out of the girls' dorms and out of the common room.
Willow jerked upright as someone poked her in the ribs.
"Waz-a-mada?" She slurred and James laughed as he sat on her left, Sirius sat on her other side and Remus sat opposite them.
"You need to eat your breakfast, not sleep in it," Remus said with a laugh.
"Easy for ye ta say, ye dinnae have yer friends talkin' ta all hours of the nigh' talkin' abou' the other sex," her Irish accent was showing itself in her half-asleep state. She ate her food all the same, then dropped her head onto James' shoulder.
"Get off, I ain't your pillow," he said, so she lifted her head and let it drop onto the shoulder on her right.
"Are you going to be able to play at all?" Sirius asked, looking down at the top of her head.
"Yes," she said defensively. "I would be fine if I had remembered to go ask Greta for my special coffee. I usually have it before I compete in a surf comp." her eyes were closed so she didn't see the large cup appear on the table, with her name written on the side of it.
"Ah, Willow?"
"What Jamesie-poo?"
"Stop calling me that, and open your eyes," she did and saw the beverage, a smile split her lips.
"Greta rocks," she said and down half the hot liquid. "Ah, perfect. You won't like it." Sirius was sniffing at the drink, he took a sip and Willow barely managed to save her drink as he started choking.
"I told you so," she smirked at him and drank some more of her drink.
"What's in that?" James asked as his friends started chugging pumpkin juice from the jug.
"Coffee, water, milk, sugar and a potion that my father used to put in my drink so that you had to deal with me being all hyper. It is a great pick-me-up, but it is an acquired taste," she shrugged and finished the drink. "Are you okay Sirius?"
"Never, ever, under any circumstance give me that bloody drink," the team laughed and Willow kissed his cheek.
"You'll live," she said and he glared at her, the look was spoiled a bit by the tears in his eyes. She laughed and James sighed.
"Let's go," he said. The seven scarlet clad players grabbed their brooms and walked out of the hall.
Will belted the Bludger at the Slytherin Seeker, she hadn't been joking when she told Sirius that she wanted to pound his brother into the mud. Mother Nature seemed to be on her side, it had been raining for the past week, so the pitch was nice and muddy.
"Willow, aim for the other bloody players!" James yelled at her as he came closer and dodged a Bludger.
"But I wanna dirty his pretty face, and hair and robes and, well, everything," she pouted and he sighed.
"I know you do, but Padfoot is the only one watching over our chasers, and keeper and me."
"Oops, my bad. I should really know this by now. Sorry Jamesie-poo."
"Stop calling me that!" he yelled at her, she laughed and flew off to help Sirius.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!" Remus shouted over the speaker and a huge roar erupted from all but the Slytherins. Willow saw James land and Lily run up to him. It didn't surprise her when the pair kissed, and she wolf-whistled with the rest of the team, then laughed as Lily flipped her off. Someone stepped before her and she looked up at Sirius. She grinned at him as he put his arms around her, hers went around his neck.
"We won, we won the Quidditch Cup and hopefully if you lot don't pull any pranks, the House Cup," she grinned up at him and he grinned back, then kissed her. She ignored the whistles and catcalls and kissed him back. They pulled apart and followed the crowd back to the castle.
