Prior illness:

Dear Mother,

How are Father and Regulus? Sirius is well, I however believe that I am beginning to fall ill with a cold again. I will not let this deter me from my education though, nothing is more important than obtaining the best grades and showing everyone that even an unwell Black can do better in Hogwarts than everyone else.

As I have mentioned before, Sirius has become friends with Gryffindor James Potter. I believe this friendship could be used to our advantage.

The Potter's have requested for Sirius, Regulus and myself to attend the Yule holidays with them. If you and Father would permit us to accept this invitation, we may be able over time to sway the Potter's views back our traditional ones and not that of a Blood Traitors.

From your daughter,

Shaula Black

During illness:

Dearest Shaula,

We are all well. Do be better with your health, we do not want a dead Black so soon. I am aware of how you strive to do your best due to your illnesses, but do not push yourself into an early grave. You would devastate your Father and younger brother.

I do not understand why you were not placed into Slytherin sometimes, you do try so hard. But then I remember your nights sneaking into the family library to read all the books we own. I still do not understand your fascination with history, it will not get you far in life. I do so wish you would come to realize that you are far more suited as a Pureblood wife.

I understand your reasonings as to attempt to sway the Potter's, but I highly doubt you will be able to. I will not permit Regulus to go to the Blood Traitors manor, but you and Sirius may. You both would not stop pestering me otherwise. Sirius would only ruin the Yuletide by spouting awful mudblood nonsense.

From,

Your Mother, Walburga Black

Post illness:

Dear Mother,

I am glad you are all well. In the end my health decided to fail me and I resulted in spending a total of three days in the Hospital Wing. I did however catch up on all my classwork and homework I missed fairly quickly. It would do no well if I fell behind everyone else. I have already promised Father that I will not work so hard that I end up in an early grave. Father claimed that he would perform the darkest spell he could find to resurrect me if only to put me back into said grave himself.

Mother, I had promised Regulus that I would see him Yuletide, along with Sirius. Sirius and I implore you to allow Regulus to come to the Potter's with us. I have already mentioned to Regulus that he has been invited to the Potters. Can you find it inside yourself to allow my dearest brother to attend Yule with Sirius and I at the Potters?

From your daughter,

Shaula Black

Dearest Shaula,

I have told you no, Regulus will not be going to a Blood Traitor's manor. He is too young and impressionable. They may twist his mind like Sirius's mind is already twisted. If you wish to keep your promise than you will both return home.

I will be at Kings Cross with Regulus when the train arrives, whether you come back to Grimmauld Place is up to you.

From,

Your Mother, Walburga Black

Shaula sighed as she read the newest letter from her Mother at the Ravenclaw table. Shaula had been out of the Hospital Wing for four days now, and when she had saw the letter from her Mother, had practically raced to read it. Pandora turns to Shaula, a spoonful of porridge and honey about to be placed in her mouth.

"Not allowed to go?"

Shaula shook her head and stood up and made her way over to Sirius. She had a feeling she knew where this conversation was going to go when she told him the response from their Mother.

James surprisingly noticed Shaula first, which shocked her considering he had been staring at Evans beforehand. He gave Sirius a nudge, distracting him from the conversation he was having with Peter and Remus. He grinned, but upon noticing the dejected look on her face, he smile began to melt away, only to quickly turn into a scowl.

"Come to give the bad news then?" He scoffed at her. Shaula narrowed her eyes at him, it wasn't like she was the one that said no. In fact, she was lucky enough to even be allowed to go in the first place.

"Yes and no actually. We are allowed to go, Mother gave us permission." Sirius brightened up at that, shock clearly written across his face. Shaula continued, "Regulus though isn't allowed to come. Only us two. I'm not leaving Regulus behind however, I made a promise to spend Yule with him and I'm sticking to it."

Sirius was taken back by this, confused. "Why would you want to spend another Christmas with them? They're horrible parents!"

"Because of Regulus! I'm not leaving him alone, did you not listen to what I just said?" She fired back, frustration building up inside her now. The letter was crumpled in her fist, arms hanging by her side. The people nearby were beginning to turn to watch their interaction now. Sirius's scowl deepened as he began to glare at her. She rolled her eyes at his childishness.

"So you're going to leave me alone? At Christmas?" He ignored her question. Shaula crosses her arms and took a step back, the fight was pointless. She already knew that Sirius was not going to be spending Yule with her or Regulus this year, so why she bothered arguing she didn't know.

"If you are going to be spending it as the Potters than you aren't alone, you'll be with James and his parents. I'm going to stay with Regulus though, because he's family and I promised him first that I would come to him," she replied, she knew that saying Regulus was more family than James was a harsh call but she needed Sirius to know that they had a younger brother waiting for them outside of Hogwarts, one that hasn't seen them in months.

"James is family as well!"

"Yes but Regulus hasn't seen us in months! We'll see James again in what, two weeks time?"

James looked awkward to be the center of their argument. It also seemed that the Professors had taken notice as well of the argument between the twins and were planning to intervene.

"When you're ready to see your little brother, we'll be waiting for you at Kings Cross." With that, Shaula turned and stomped back to her table, grabbed an apple and her books and left the Great Hall. Pandora picked up her bowl of porridge of followed after her, continuing to eat her breakfast and not at all concerned with taking the bowl out of the Great Hall.

The younger twin angrily bites into her apple, the juices dribble down her chin and she messily wipes it away with her sleeve. Pandora slightly jogs to keep up with her friends angry pace, trying not to lose focus on her food and also lose sight of Shaula.

"Are you going to be okay?" Pandora asks. Shaula shrugs as she takes another bite of her green fruit.

They continue making their way to History of Magic, one of Shaula's favourite subjects, but least favourite lesson. If only Professor Binns were better teacher then it would also be her favourite lesson as well. The two girls enter the empty classroom, they were early for their lesson but that gave them time to finish their food. Sitting in their normal seats, to the far end of the classroom, in the corner at the front. Shaula slumps in her chair, dropping her bag onto her desk as Pandora neatly places her on the floor beside her and the half empty bowl on the desk.

"I don't understand, why would he choose James over his own brother? One he hasn't even seen in months and won't until summer if he doesn't come home at Yule." Shaula ranted, throwing her arms up in the air. Pandora stayed quiet, knowing that Shaula just wanted to rant and let off steam.

"I mean, it's like he doesn't have to worry about breaking his sibling bond or anything with Reg," she continued. Shaula fell against the wall, sat on her chair sideways so she faced Pandora and her back rested against the wall behind her. She took another angry bite. Pandora continued eating, nodding along to Shaula's ranting. She brings her legs up, so she was curled up into a ball on her chair.

"I mean, yeah our parents sucked but I did my best in convincing Mother. Whilst I may be a daddy's girl, Father would never allow us to spend the Yuletide in a Blood Traitors house!" she exclaimed, before huffing in annoyance and going quiet. The two girls finish their food and Shaula tosses her apple core into Pandora's empty bowl.

"I think you and Sirius should calm down and give it some time before you both speak to each other again," said Pandora as she pulled out a roll of parchment and ink and quill. Shaula didn't respond straight away, just sat silently and thought over the argument she had with Sirius and what Pandora just said. Pandora flicked through her textbook, waiting as the other students begin to file into the room. Shaula, caught up in her thoughts, unconsciously moves the bowl from Pandora's table onto the floor for her and continues thinking. Her mind replaying what happened in the Great Hall and all the different things she could have said.

"Thank you," Pandora says, smiling at her friend, who only hummed back distractedly. Professor Binns enter the room then and begins the lesson, at which point Shaula realises the lesson had begun and quickly gets out her own parchment and quill.

The lesson drags on slowly, the Hufflepuffs in the class either sleeping, quietly talking to each other making origami swans: the fellow Ravenclaws were either took notes, slept or talked to each other as well. Shaula however ignores Binns, having decided to ignore him from the beginning of the year and teach herself instead as he was an awful teacher. Pandora had decided the same, upon realising the better grades her friend was achieving when she began to teach herself. The two girls were at the top of their year of History of Magic, followed closely by Lily Evans.

The day goes by, Shaula sitting at the Ravenclaw table at lunch with her back to Sirius, refusing to look at him. By the end of the day, Shaula was upset and angry at herself for ignoring her brother all day. She couldn't do this for the last two weeks of school before Christmas. She couldn't let Sirius leave her without them being on good terms at least.

A/N: Hi guys, sorry for the wait again. I'm planning on getting back into my weekly schedule now after this chapter. I feel like this hapter is really bad, but I wanted to get something up for you guys so I hope you enjoy it at least. Ironically, after posting my previous chapter 'Sick Day' I came down with a cold myself. I wrote this with a cold, so if there's any mistakes please point them out and tell me so I can try and change them.

Also, OVER 100 FOLLOWS AND NEARLY 100 FAVOURITES! Thank you guys so much! This means so much to me, I never expected to get this many people to enjoy my story. But since I have this many people following and favouriting, I'm hoping for more reviews, but thank you to everyone who does review anyway. But to my most loyal reviewers merendinoemiliano and paulaa90 I would also like to say a big thank you as well to you guys especially for reviewing every chapter. So thank you guys!