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Chapter Thirteen

The Hufflepuff Slut

'Moony!' he whined, grabbing the book out of the werewolf's hands and glaring at him. 'I am Sirius Black, love god, and I am asking you - YOU - for advice about a girl. The least you can do is look at me.'

Remus sighed and pushed himself up more comfortably on the bed, shoving Sirius off his legs a little harder than necessary and the boy landed on the floor.

'Serves you right, bloody mutt,' he grumbled, but there was no heat in his words. He watched Sirius scrambled off the ground and settle himself on his bed. 'Alright, Pads. What is it I can help you with?'

Sirius frowned and suddenly seemed quite reluctant to talk.

'Oh for the love of God, Sirius,' Remus said impatiently. 'I suck at Occlumency. I can't read your mind or your palm or anything. Just tell me what you want or I'm going to try that new curse I found that makes…things…shrink.'

He raised an eyebrow and Sirius held up his hands. 'Alright, alright,' he said quickly. He flicked his wand at the curtains, closing them tight, and casting a Silencing Spell.

'While I'm flattered, Pads, you're really not my type…' Remus teased but stopped when Sirius didn't bite back. 'Alright, what is it? What's wrong?'

'Fuck it all, Moony. I think I like her,' he moaned, throwing himself back onto the bed and putting an arm over his eyes dramatically.

Remus tried not to laugh at the flamboyant gesture. 'I assume you mean Sarah?' he asked, trying not to look smug. He knew it.

'Yes I bloody well mean Sarah,' he snapped irritably, not moving. 'And I can feel you smirking, so cut it out. How do I stop this? How do I…turn this off?'

'You can't,' Remus said gently, tugging Sirius' arm away from his face. 'You can't control who you love…'

'LIKE!' Sirius almost roared, sitting up like a bullet from a gun. 'Who said anything about love? Love!' He snorted in disgust and lay back down.

'Alright, well, you can't control who you like then,' Remus said soothingly. 'It'd be a lot easier if you could but…where's the fun in that?'

'There's no fun in this,' Sirius muttered then sat up again. 'Well, apart from the snogging. That's fun.'

Remus smiled. 'I seem to recall that Sarah was a very good kisser,' he said with a reminiscent gleam in his eye then he caught sight of the expression on Sirius' face. 'God, Pads! Are you jealous?'

'No,' he muttered, glaring at Remus, his face as dark as thunder and eyes stormy. 'I just don't need to hear you talking about how much you enjoyed snogging my girlfr…'

His mouth clamped shut but it was too late.

'Girlfriend?' Remus asked, sitting up straighter with a grin stretched across his face. 'Oh, has my little Padsy Wadsy grown up? Is he in loooovvvveeeee! OW!'

Sirius had thumped him hard in the arm and he rubbed the sore spot that was sure to bruise and frowned at Sirius. 'No need for violence,' he grumbled.

Sirius sighed heavily and Remus decided to stop teasing him. 'Look, Pads,' he said. 'James would call the bet off if you asked…'

'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not going to lose this bet, Moony. Sarah doesn't need to know about it…'

'You're obviously worried about it…'

Sirius' forehead creased but he shook his head with finality. 'It's just lust,' he decided, falling back into the familiar arrogance that hid his insecurity and fear. 'She…intrigues me because she said no at first but once I put the charm on, she gave in and soon she'll be jumping my bones just like the other girls and I'll be a rich man. It's just lust.'

Remus stared at him. 'Are you trying to convince me or yourself?' he asked and Sirius stood up.

'I do like her, Moony,' he admitted. 'She's a nice girl. But nice girls don't do it for me for long. I'll shag her, get the money, then I'll get bored of her - just like the others.'

He stood up and flicked his wand, opening the curtains. 'Thanks, Remus.'


But a couple of weeks later, with just a month to go until the deadline, they not only hadn't progressed beyond a goodnight kiss at the Ravenclaw common room door but Sirius was far from bored. Well, right now he was bored but that was because Sarah was ignoring him in favour of Slughorn's potions essay. It was the full moon the following night, and he wanted to spend some time with her before he went with Moony to the Shrieking Shack.

'Come on, Sar,' he mumbled, leaning over her shoulder. 'You've got a week before this is due and I've got that thing with the boys tomorrow night. Can't you leave it till then and come and talk to me?'

'No,' she said distractedly, pushing him away. 'I, unlike you, don't believe in leaving things to the last minute.'

Sirius growled a little then decided a more direct approach was required. 'Sarah,' he whispered, pushing her hair aside and kissing the back of her neck.

She twitched a bit and tried to shrug him off. 'Bugger off, Black,' she muttered, then tried not lean into the kiss he pressed to her neck just below her pulse point.

'Sarah,' he said again, his lips moving lightly over her cheek. 'Come and play with me. You know you want to.'

'You are such a pain in the ass,' she said but her words held no venom and her eyes were getting hard to keep open as his lips sent heat undulating through her body.

His tongue flicked at the corner of her mouth, sending a shiver down her spine, and she caved. 'Alright,' she said, a little too loudly as she stood up.

'I'll put my things back and then I'm all yours,' she said, then glared at him when he grinned in delight. 'Get your mind out of the gutter…and go wait outside for me. No!'

She smacked his hand off her books. 'You'll shove them back anywhere. Just go and wait outside, please. You're distracting.'

He grinned again and Sarah groaned. 'God, what on earth am I doing?' she muttered, then watched him leave, eyes drifting down to his ass.She frowned.

She'd hit a snag in her revenge plans. She liked the idiot. When he wasn't being an arrogant berk, he was actually a good guy - funny, sweet, gentle, and patient with her many refusals to allow him into her room.

And I don't know how long I'm going to be able to hold out.

She bit her lip. The revenge idea was getting tired and so was she - tired of saying no to something she really wanted. She shoved the last book back and gathered her belongings. As she swung her book bag over her shoulder she smiled a little.

I will not let him win. That man needs taking down a peg or two.


She walked out of the library and looked around for Sirius, her face freezing a little when she saw him near the stairs with Hufflepuff slut Gabby Green's lips bearing down on him. A stab of pain made her stomach clench and she felt fury burst to life inside her as the girl kissed him.

He saw her almost instantly and his face went pale. 'No, Sarah,' he said, shaking his head as he came towards her. 'It's not what you think.'

She knew that but it didn't stop her feeling furious with the both of them. Her eyes moved to the other girl, who had a triumphant look on the face that Sarah had an almost irresistable urge to smash into a pulp.

Oh, I'm not letting a cow like you get the best of me.

She surprised both of them by smiling then walking up to Sirius. 'Glad you found something to do while you were waiting,' she said, then looked at Gaby, dismissively. 'Thanks for warming him up for me. You can go now.'

She turned back to Sirius and grasped his flabbergasted face and kissed him hard.


Sirius was startled but didn't waste any time fighting her. He wasn't sure why she was kissing him instead of hitting him, but he soon stopped caring as she snogged him senseless. They staggered and his back hit the wall behind them, Sarah pressing herself against him hard. Forgetting all about the fact they were in public and at least one person might still be watching, she stood on her tip toes and rubbed herself over his hardening erection, making him moan loudly and spin them around so he was pushing her into the stone wall now.

Their tongues duelled for control of the kiss and, for the first time, their hands wandered away from the 'safe' zones. Sarah slipped hers under his shirt, sliding up over his firm stomach and ribs to brush over his nipples. He groaned and decided what was good for Sarah was good for Sirius as well. His hands moved to cup her ass, squeezing it as he pulled her hips closer to his. He left one hand there, the other creeping under her shirt to cup a breast, his body starting to throb when he heard her moan into his mouth.

'Mr Black! Miss Patterson!' came a shocked voice and they quickly pulled apart, hands falling out from underneath each others clothing.

Sirius tugged on his shirt, trying to make it longer to cover the very obvious evidence of his arousal then settled for shoving his hands in his pockets. Sarah ran her hands over her head and wiped her mouth with a shaky hand as they faced an angry Professor McGonagall.

'Ten points from both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw,' she said. 'Such activities are NOT appropriate anywhere in this school, let alone the halls. Mr Black, this is not your first warning and Miss Patterson, I am very disappointed in you.'

Sarah looked down at her feet. This was the first time she'd ever been spoken to harshly by a teacher and the first time she'd ever cost her house points. It felt awful.

Sirius saw her trembling lip and took her hand. 'It was my fault. I'm sorry, Professor,' he said softly and Sarah echoed his words.

'Back to your dorms now,' she said, somewhat mollified by the fact that Sirius Black, for the first time ever, had issued a sincere sounding apology.

She watched as they nodded and turned to walk to their respective towers. 'Sarah,' he said urgently as they got a safe distance from her. 'She kissed me. I didn't kiss her back and I pushed her off me as soon as she started.'

Sarah shrugged, feigning indifference. 'It's none of my business who you kiss, Black,' she mumbled then turned to walk up the stairs to Ravenclaw Tower. 'Night.'

'I'll walk you,' he said but she shook her head, wanting to be alone with her confusion. She'd never kissed anyone like that before; never made a spectacle of herself like that before, and she'd never felt jealousy like that before. And it was seriously messing up her head.

'Don't bother,' she told him but he followed her anyway.

'Sar, are you really upset?' he asked and looked at him.

'I'm aware of your reputation, Black…'

'I didn't want her to kiss me,' he interrupted hotly. 'And if I was everything my reputation said I was, wouldn't I have kissed her back? But I didn't. I didn't want to.'

He frowned, looking as if he'd said more than he wanted to, and turned to leave.

Fuck it! No bird's worth this.

'And stop calling me, "Black"!' he snapped over his shoulder as he stormed off.