Potterverse is not mine. Thank you everyone for reading, alerting, favoriting and reviewing. There has been a few guesses as to how Cummings has succeeded so brilliantly at finding the chess piece (and on one occasion pieces) and this, my gentle readers, is where you find out how amazing she really is. I'm also posting this earlier because this week is finals week, I don't know if I'd have the time to post it later (I should be studying right now, actually), so here it is and I hope you all enjoy.

It was a blustery day and along with a light jacket Cummings had her old house scarf of bumblebee yellow and black wrapped around her neck to keep her warm. Her coppery chestnut hair was pulled back in a French braid to keep it from flying in her face. Sirius of course looked fabulous standing next to her and not just because Cummings wasn't a looker like Lily Evans. Sirius somehow always managed to look good despite whatever Mother Nature decided to throw his way.

Except for the third Hogsmeade trip of the year in sixth year, Sirius had hid his shame under James' invisibility cloak. That was also the weekend he decided that James was only allowed to practice new charms on Peter or Remus.

"I assume you're familiar with Hogsmeade Cummings." Sirius said glancing down at his newbie that stood next to him, her eyes sparkling as she looked around the streets with a smile on her face.

"I am Captain." She nodded glancing at Honeydukes and the Three Broomsticks.

Grinning slyly Sirius continued talking. "The chess piece is hidden in this town."

Cummings looked up at Sirius' handsome face as the wind blew about his shaggy black hair. Somewhere Baxter was probably sitting in front of a Muggle fan trying to get the same look, Cummings would swear to it. Especially when it came down to it, when the wind blew Baxter's hair about he looked like had stuck his finger in a Muggle electrical socket. "The entire town," inquired Cummings.

"Just the main part really," amended Sirius. The village was actually quite large if you included all the houses. Those parts of Hogsmeade weren't really ever allowed to be explored. Besides, the main part was gigantic anyway. Cummings was sure to fail. The thought made Sirius smile, he wouldn't be thwarted this time and balance would be restored! "You've got twenty minutes."

"You increased the time again Captain." Cummings pointed out.

"I know." Sirius nodded. Even if he gave her an hour she wouldn't find it – he had hidden it good!

"Are you sure you want to do that?" She asked raising her eyebrows as she lightly tightened the scarf around her neck.

"Yes."

"Is that your final answer?" Cummings asked one more time. She was trying to help Sirius out here by making it more difficult for her but he obviously wasn't taking the bait.

"Shut up Cummings and go find Remus' piece." Sirius told her. Cummings giggled immaturely at his words.

"Whatever you say Captain."

"I say go," said Sirius as he started the small hourglass timer. With one last smile in Sirius' direction Cummings starting walking off down the street. Staring down at the timer in his hand Sirius figured he had enough time for a drink at the Three Broomsticks.

The door to the Three Broomsticks opened letting a gust of wind into the cozy, loud pub. But no voice was as loud as or more noticeable than that of Sirius Black who was in the middle of telling Madame Rosemerta a particularly embarrassing story about James. Cummings grinned, unwinding her scarf from around her neck as she walked over to Sirius. "So there James is, practically starkers with this purple…" Sirius trailed off as he noticed Cummings walk up next to him.

Without a word about it Cummings set the chess piece on the counter next to Sirius as she sat on the empty stool next to him, while she set her scarf down on her other side. Sirius stared at the small white marble king. "Can I get a Butterbeer please?" Cummings asked with a smile. Sirius was still staring at the king. Madame Rosemerta nodded at the girl before leaving to get her, her drink.

Sirius' stormy grey eyes finally pulled away from the chess piece and looked at the little hourglass timer. "It's only been nine and a half minutes."

Cummings thanked Madame Rosemerta before taking a long sip of her drink. "It took that long?" She asked frowning as turned her attention towards her mentor. Cummings was disappointed in herself. She had been sure that she had found the chess piece quicker than that. She was a disgrace to the name of Hufflepuff. Though Sirius didn't remark, he just stared at Cummings still unable to accept the fact that she had succeeded again. "Is there something on my face Captain?" Cummings asked wiping her entire face with the sleeve of her jacket.

"How do you keep doing that?" Sirius inquired earnestly.

"Doing what exactly Captain?"

"Finding this so easily? It should be practically impossible!" Sirius voice rose as he finally spoke out about what was bugging him so much. "And here you are, every single bloody time all 'la-de-da here you go Captain.' How does that even work?" He asked his breathing a bit erratic from his diatribe. Sirius sat there waiting for an explanation while Cummings secretly hoped that Sirius' impression of her wasn't really how she sounded. Honestly, it made her sound like a teenage boy going through puberty. It wasn't flattering at all.

Cummings' patented smile spread across her face as she decided to put Sirius' mind at ease. "I'm going to let you in on a secret, Captain." Sirius leaned in slightly as Cummings took another sip of her Butterbeer – just to keep him in suspense a moment longer. "Hufflepuffs, are particularly good finders." Cummings tipped her drink in his direction after revealing her secret and took another sip. Sirius continued to stare, his stormy grey eyes boring into her. "What?"

"That's your explanation?" Sirius asked incredulously. "'Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders'?" Not seeing the problem Cummings nodded her head. Sirius stared then shook his head. Obviously he was trying to find some deeper meaning in her succeeding than there really was. Come to think of it, the Hogwarts Lost and Found was run by Hufflepuffs… Sirius cleared his throat. "Well I've got to say, that was pretty anticlimactic," he told Cummings before sipping his own drink.

"I'll say." Cummings agreed before looking over at him out of the corner of her eye. "What do we do now Captain?"

It was silent for a moment, the voices of the other patrons in the bar mingling into one loud murmur of background noise, as Sirius contemplated what to do next. "Want to pull a prank on Baxter?"

Cummings' grin widened showing off the faint dimple in her left cheek and lighting up her sparkling apple green eyes at Sirius' offer. "Oh Captain, I thought you'd never ask!"

Forty-seven minutes later Sirius and Cummings were sitting on a couch at Headquarters while Lily paced back and forth in front of them using extravagant hand gestures as she furiously scolded the pair. The mentor and mentee sat there quietly only half-listening to the redhead's explanation of why making it that any time Baxter tried to cast a spell butterflies would shoot out of the end of his wand was a bad thing. They thought it was hilarious. So did James. James though had enough sense to stop laughing once Lily found out, as did Remus. Cummings and Sirius wished they had been that bright. Sirius was getting bored and Cummings' left bum cheek was becoming numb.

"I don't think I've ever been scolded this long before." Cummings whispered to Sirius as she kept her eyes on Lily to make sure that she wasn't heard. She didn't want another scolding. Sirius' stormy grey eyes followed Lily as well as he replied in the same low whisper.

"If she goes on for another twenty minutes she'll have beaten McGonagall in my sixth year." It was a glorious scolding if there ever was one. He had never seen McGonagall that angry before, some of her hair had even fallen out of place! Silence fell between the two of them as Lily now rounded onto her sixth point of why the prank that they pulled was 'not only stupid and immature but dangerous'.

"Want to place bets?" Cummings inquired quietly leaning a little closer to Sirius so he could hear her over Lily whose voice rose to an even higher volume. Cummings had no doubt that she could make a great mother…or teacher. Lily Evans could give Minerva McGonagall a run for her money when it came to scolding.

Sirius shrugged. "Sure."

"Two Galleons says she doesn't make it past ten minutes." Cummings was sure that Lily would run out of steam by then.

"Three says she does. James has been unusually good lately so Lily hasn't been able to scold anyone lately."

"It's on." Cummings said as they shook hands and continued to sit there, only this time both of them silently counting the time passing until Lily finally just shut her gob.