The Forgotten One
Sirius's POV
Tomorrow night is the last full moon of the school year. Unfortunately that means Remus will have to go through three full moons alone. James, Peter and I walked him to Dumbledore's office. When we left the common room I saw Eli wink at Remus, I am pretty sure that she knows he's a werewolf. I know that Eli knows about werewolves because she has an uncle that is one. Anyway we drop Remus off at Dumbledore's door and left.
"Sirius, I need to talk to you." Eli said when I walked into the common room.
"Okay."
"Let's go to your dormitory." She said, sounding determined.
"Why so when I scream no one will hear me?" I asked.
"Something like that." She turned and walked and I followed.
I may love the girl but I will never understand her. She motioned for me to go in first. When she followed I heard the door close with a click. I didn't even act like I wasn't confused, she would see through it anyway.
"What did you need to tell me?" I asked.
"It's more of a show than tell, sit down." I did it quickly, you'd think I was a trained dog. She smiled at me, then I jumped back in surprise. Eli was the mysterious creature that guarded us when we played with Remus. Se reminded me of a dream.
I recovered quickly and went to her. I petted her fur. She purred happily. I smirked at her, but quickly faded when two more cats appeared. She looked up at me very smugly, then changed back.
Suddenly she was kissing me, and kissed her back. She had us so that she was on top, and I was totally ok with that.
Personally I've kissed half the girls in Hogwarts and dated a fourth of them, and none of them compared to her. She broke the kiss first, and I pouted. She giggled, kissed my lips once more, and got up. I got up too.
"Will you be my girlfriend?" I asked.
"I might have to think about it." She said seriously, I growled lowly. She then kissed me quickly. "Thought about, and yes I will."
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?"
"Only Remus knew."
"How long have you known?"
"About Remus? Since second year. I've been with him since fourth year. I spent most of third year learning." I kissed her.
"You are incredible, you know that?" She kissed me.
"Thank you."
"So do we tell James and Peter? Does Lily know?"
"Yes we tell them. And I haven't a clue. She might suspect. She might know everything."
"Padfoot!" I heard James shout as she pounded the door. "If you and Eli have finished snogging, Peter and I would like to go to bed." I rolled my eyes.
"Open it." Eli said before she transformed and went behind James's curtain. I opened the door. James came in with a suspicious look.
"Where's Eli?"
"She didn't say." I said, it wasn't a lie.
"Well I'm beat, tomorrow's going to be a long night, we'd better get some sleep." James said going to his bed. Peter intended to go to his but I stopped him. He looked up at me confused. I only pointed at James. "Bloody Hell!"
As soon as James opened the curtains, Eli jumped out and tackled him to the ground. I only chuckled, it was just an Eli thing to do. Peter looked like he was going to faint.
"Ok, that's enough." I said. James looked pale. Eli didn't move. So I went to them and pulled Eli by the gruff. She rolled her eyes at me and went back to her human form.
"Eli?" Peter squeaked and then fainted.
"Was this really the best way to show them?" I asked levitating Peter to his bed.
"No but it was the most fun." She said helping James up.
"So Eli is one of the mystery creatures?" James asked dusting himself off.
"She is the mystery creature." I said.
"Does Remus know?"
"For a year."
"Eli how were you able to control him?" James asked.
"I can make multiples of myself." She said, I assumed he knew.
"Nice to know you love me." James said, confusing me.
"In James's and my mind tell someone a secret you have, that they already know, shows that you love them." Eli explained.
"Eli!" Lily and Alice burst into the room, like it was theirs.
"Come on." Lily said to Eli.
"Sorry to take her, but we have some business to discuss." Alice said as she and Lily dragged Eli out of the room.
"So, you and Eli?" James asked.
"Give me your best shot." I said, spreading my arms. James looked at me confused. "You said, and I quote 'Eli is off limits, you got it? Or it will be pain for you' end quote." James only laughed.
"So you do listen, but I'm not going to do anything. And you are way better than Bueno."
"Almost everyone is better than him."
"Even Peter is better." James said. We both turned and he was snoring.
"We should follow his lead, we do have a long day tomorrow." I said going to my bed.
The next morning James, Peter, and I went to the Great Hall. Yesterday was the best day ever. Eli is now my girlfriend, and nothing can dampen my mood. I even wished Snape a good day.
"Morning, Sirius." Lily said as I sat next to Eli.
"Morning, Lily." I said happily. James sat down next to me and Peter sat down next to him. "So what was the business that made you drag Eli out of the room?"
"She had to give us details." Alice said. She was such a girl.
"Good thing you did, I wouldn't have liked to clean up after James's and Peter's vomit."
"They would have too." Eli said laughing.
"No, I would have made it to the loo. Peter wouldn't have." James said defensively.
"He has a point, and if the situation were reversed, I would have too. Hell we all almost vomited when we caught Frank and Alice in the dormitory snogging the life out of each other." I said making Alice blush.
"I thought you lot could do with some pointers." Frank said sitting next to Alice and kissing her still red cheek.
"Pointers? Funny, Peter and Remus were the only one's that needed pointers at the time." James said.
"Oh." Eli said suddenly. Then she pulled my head towards her and kissed me quickly. "Morning." She said smiling.
"What did I miss?" Frank asked.
"Eli and I started going out yesterday." I said.
"Damn Herbology club." Frank mumbled.
"I told you that club was a bad idea." I said.
"No one ever listens to you." Frank said.
"Good point. So Lily how are things with Petunia?" Eli asked.
"Way better." We all stopped and looked at her. "She moved out with that bull Dursley."
"Bull?" I asked.
"He is a big bloke." Alice said motioning with her hands how big he was. "The wedding was very traditional, I mean to the max. It was so boring."
"It really was. I almost fell asleep." Lily said laughing. "I would have been in detention with Filch."
"I am sorry." I said patting her hand.
"The best part of the wedding was when Dursley's sister decided to introduce herself." Lily said making Alice laugh.
"What happened?" I asked.
"So Alice and I were talking and this girl a little older than us came up to us out of nowhere. 'Excuse me are you Petunia's sister?'." Lily's impressions are legendary. "Then I said, yes. And she was like, 'Your sister is lucky to have found my brother. He is a very desirable person, you know?'. I wanted to hit her."
"I stepped in to stop any unintentional magic." Alice said.
"So she warns me by putting a hand on my shoulder, right? And then his sister zooms in on the movement. Then I had an idea. She asked who Alice was so I took Alice's hand off my shoulder and held it like couples do." I so knew where this was going, so did everyone else, but we just smiled and kept quiet. "Then I said, this my partner Alice Prewett. Her eyes nearly fell out of their socket." We all thought that the story was done and we started to laugh.
"Oh, Lily don't forget our show." Alice sang. We all stopped immediately, and stared between them.
"How could I forget? So after I said that she said, 'I know Petunia said you were abnormal, but that is just disgusting.'."
"She was a real bitch. So I took the hand that Lily wasn't hold and turned Lily towards me. She nodded and I kissed her lips quickly. The hag screamed like a banshee and ran from us." Alice said finishing the story. I found a new form of respect for Lily.
"I didn't know you had it in you." Frank said, chuckling.
"I could see Alice doing it, but not you." I said.
"I would have snogged Alice to get away from that wench." Lily said.
"Lily, I'm hurt. I thought we had something special." Alice said frowning.
"I'm sorry, Alice, it would have never worked. You have Frank and I, I am a free spirit." Lily said grandly.
"Your dad must be proud. One daughter married and the other bent." I said. Lily reached around Eli and slapped my arm. "No think about it, that banshee probably told Pentunia, who probably told your parents." Lily thought about it and laughed.
"That explains the 15 blind dates over the last break. They even tried to set me up with Snape."
"Your parents are nuts." I said chucking.
"They might never look at Alice the same."
"I guess that means no more sleepovers." Alice said.
I wish Remus were here, he would have loved this. Eli seemed to know what I was thinking, she placed a hand on my knee. I smiled at her. I know that I will never get away with anything ever again.
Later that night, we went through our full moon ritual. As we waited in our animagi form, that was always the worst part. Hearing him transform was so hard. Remus is a good guy and doesn't deserve this life.
We grabbed Remus from the Shack and met Eli in the forest. This was going to be the first time that Eli played with us. She looked so mystical when the moon hit her fur. I watched her play with Remus and she looked so at ease.
Soon James started to play with Remus and Eli walked over to me. She then tackled me. I growled and we started to play fight. I managed to tackle her to the ground. Then something really hard hit me and I was knocked back and hit a tree. My head slammed against the trunk. I felt scratched on my back from the tree.
Remus advanced towards me, menacingly. I understood, in this form, Eli was his. Wolf-Remus accepted us as his playmates but not his pack. He felt I threatened her so he was protecting her. Remus growled at me and hit me again. I fell to the ground. I felt bruises forming that I would have to hide tomorrow.
I saw Eli standing behind Remus. She nudged his side. He growled warningly at her. She went into playing position and even purred rubbing against him. He didn't listen, unfortunately. Am I going to die? The irony, I finally get the girl of my dreams and I'm going to die. Life was not on my side.
I heard Eli make a sound like a mix between a meow and a roar. Remus finally looked at her and she looked up. The moon was setting. She herded Remus back to the Shack. Once Remus was away she ran back to us.
All of us transformed back into human form. James, Eli, and I went under the invisibility cloak and Peter went ahead in his rat form to be point. I really hope that Remus doesn't remember this in the morning. He would never forgive himself.
We reached the common room with out incident. Peter and James laid me on the couch.
"Sirius are you alright?" Lily asked appearing out of nowhere. She ran down the stairs and stopped in front of me. She looked wide-eyed at my wound. I had about eight scratches on my chest and a big bruise starting on my back. My robes were soaked with my blood. "I knew that this would happen. I mean seriously what do you expect, to go run off and play with a werewolf and come back without a scratch every time?" Lily said going back upstairs mumbling. I caught some words like 'Bloody idiots', 'I mean really', 'No brains'. We all looked at each other. And Lily came back to us. She stopped in front of me, not even looking at everyone else. She took out her wand and pointed it at my robes. They fell off and left me in my trousers.
Under normal circumstances I would have been embarrassed, but I was in too much pain.
"I think you have a broken rib or two. Accio book." A book flew down the stairs and into her hands. She pointed her wand at my chest and mumbled something. My cuts started to heal. She cleaned up the dried blood on my chest.
She put her hand on my chest and started to feel around. James watched her hand, I could feel the jealousy. I don't think that this is the time for that. Eli gave him an elbow in the gut. James grunted, serves him good. Lily turned and glared at them. James looked away and Eli looked at me. Lily turned back to me and started to feel about my chest again when I winced. I guess my rib was broken.
Lily looked at the book again and pointed her wand at me again. She mumbled another spell and I felt a tingle in my chest.
"What else is wrong?" Lily asked after she found another broken rib.
"I think that there is a bruise on my back." I said sheepishly.
"Go on turn over." Lily said. I did as I was told. I heard her gasp softly before getting to work. "There you are all better." She said sounding like a healer.
"What no sugar quill?" I asked cheekily, sitting up slowly.
"Hush you. Now the rest of you lot are fine?" Lily asked turning to the rest of them.
"Peachy, how long have you known?" Eli asked her.
"I found out about Remus last year and you lot this year."
"So you were just waiting for one of us to get hurt?"
"Pretty much." Lily said.
"Lily you will make a great healer." I said feeling my ribs. "If Remus doesn't bring up this accident, then no one say anything." I said.
"And what, have him shut himself out from us? Not a chance." James said. Peter and Eli nodded.
"So even after tonight, you are going back next month?" Lily asked angrily.
"Lily." Eli said and Lily faced her. "If we don't go and set him free every month, then he will tear at his body. He is filled with concealed scars. He really hurt himself before I got involved. I wouldn't stop for the life of me. He needs us there and I for one will not let him down. It hurt him to think that I wouldn't even make it to this full moon. Lily we can't, nor do we want to, stop." Eli said passionately. Lily was shocked, she probably thought we were doing this for fun.
"Fine, I won't try to stop you, but what happened tonight?" Lily asked curiously.
"I think we should take this up to our room." James said. We all nodded.
I got off the couch slowly. Eli gathered my soiled robes. When I was on my feet Eli held my hand. I smiled at her. She slowly brought our hands to her mouth and kissed the back of my hand. Once we reached our dorm, Lily sent a silencing charm over the room and Frank's bed.
"So?" She asked looking expectedly at us.
"As a wolf, only I am Remus's pack. He is the alpha, so he has to look over me. James, Peter, and Sirius are just play mates. So Sirius and I were play fighting and Remus thought that it was real. He rescued me. Then I distracted him but not before he had taken a few swings at Sirius." Eli explained. She looked sadly at me. I touched her face to tell her it was ok.
"What were you two doing during all of this?" Lily asked Peter and James.
"Well there wasn't much I could do, Remus is like 20x bigger than me." Peter said.
"I had no idea what I could do. I was too shocked." James said honestly.
"Ok, well I'm going to bed." Lily said after a moment of silence. She then left the room.
"Night." James and Peter said and they went to their beds.
"Mind if I sleep with you tonight?" Eli asked.
"Not at all." I said smirking.
We went over to my bed. I closed the curtain around us. Then out of nowhere Eli starts to take off her clothes. I stared wide-eyed.
"Close your mouth Sirius, I wear my pajamas under my clothes." She said rolling her eyes. Well you can't blame me, she was in a tank top and shorts and she was hot.
"Well, turn around so I can change." I said. She giggled but turned around. I took off my clothes, and put on my pajama bottoms and that's all. "I'm decent." I said. Eli turned around. She looked at my bare chest.
"Not bad, Black." Eli said.
"Not bad yourself, Colbeta." I said making her blush. I got under the covers and lifted it up for her to get in. Without hesitating she got in and snuggled up to me. She tucked her head under my chin, curled her arms into her chest. I put my arm around her.
This felt right to me. She was really making me soft. I can't complain she is worth it.
"Sirius?" Eli whispered.
"Yea?"
"What if Remus remembers?"
"He'll give us an I-told-you-so speech. He's a fan of those. I usually get one once or twice a day." Eli let out a little laugh.
"I hope he doesn't. All of 2nd and 3rd year I cried. I either fell asleep crying as the sun rose or didn't sleep at all. I can't go back to that." She said, I felt tears on my chest. I pulled her closer. "He is really strong, if you didn't know, then you can guess all of the shit he has been through. No kid should have their childhood taken from them like that."
"I know. If Remus hadn't been bitten then who would he be now? Being what his is, made him a Gryffindor. If he wasn't a werewolf then he would have been a Hufflepuff, or worse a Ravenclaw." I shuddered, Eli laughed quietly.
"You goof." She said getting closer. "Don't ever change."
I heard her breaths become slower. She seemed so perfectly at peace when she slept. I fell asleep too.
It did not help that every now and again she would shift and her hands would rub up against my chest. I would swear she was doing it on purpose, but whenever I looked at her she showed no signs of being awake. So I would just groan and go back to sleep, until she did it again.