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Chapter Twenty-One

After Lily had finished packing, I did some of my own and made each of our beds. Antigone hooted in her cage happily as Schuyler replied. I smiled. I was shortly interrupted by Sirius who came over to me and kissed my cheek, lying himself down on one of the beds.

"Will this bed be yours?" He asked, crossing his arms over his head.

"Maybe. Why do you ask?"

He shrugged. "Well my bed is the one connected to this wall." He motioned towards the wall the bed he was lying on was connected to.

I made a face. "Uh-oh. In that case." I walked over to the other bed and lied down there, laughing at his grouchy expression.

"You are so terrible," he grumbled and then walked over to my bed, lying himself down on top of me, propping himself up on his elbows to keep his weight off of me.

I tried to suppress the grin that was threatening to make an appearance. "I'll sleep on the other one, don't worry."

He smiled. "Good, but I have a question. Are you really going to abide by Mr. Evans' rule?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Are you trying to seduce me, Black?"

A wicked grin spread across his glorious face. "It depends. How far am I going to get?"

I shook my head, barely skimming his lips with my own. "Not very."

He sighed. "I figured you'd say that. Maybe I can convince you to at least stay the night with me."

I kissed him for real this time. "That sounds a little better. By the way, I loved my Christmas gifts."

He kissed me back. "Mmm, that's good. I loved mine as well."

I kissed his jaw up then up to his ear. "I've been meaning to ask you, why did you get me a key charm for my necklace?"

He grinned and began to place feather light kisses along my jawline. "One day, I'll tell you."

I rolled my eyes. "You've got a flair for the dramatic, you know that, right?"

He chuckled, then nipped my ear. "If it keeps you on your toes than that's fine with me."

I held his face in between my hands so I could kiss him properly. His lips against mine were quite honestly, the most exquisite feeling in the whole wide world. His mouth tasted strongly of liquorice, a habit which I hoped never would break, with a slight hint of peppermint. That taste was so incredibly intoxicating that I was surprised that I was able to ever form normal sentences around him.

A low, barely audible moan escaped from my lips and he smiled against my mouth, obviously proud of the effect he was having on me. I wanted to toy with him just as he was toying with me, so, with all my strength, I flipped us over so that I was now on top and ground my hips slowly in to his.

He groaned. "You're such a tease."

I continued kissing him as he let me pull his ugly sweater off of him, leaving him in a thin white, cotton t-shirt. He then slid his hands down my sides and then around my back, leaving them on my arse, gripping it tightly.

I laughed against his lips. "You're such a boy."

He chuckled as well. "Everyone's always talking about your arse and now it's mine. Figured I might as well cop a feel."

I laughed again, sliding my hands up his shirt. He shuddered at my touch because his bare skin was so warm and my hands were still a little cold. I lifted up his shirt and he pulled it up over his head. I couldn't help but stare at his body for just a moment. He was tan, warm, and incredibly fit. His quidditch days had obviously paid off. His shoulders were broad and his arms toned and strong. His chest was strong and perfect and if I looked at him any longer I was going to start drooling.

"Like what you see?" He asked cheekily.

I rolled my eyes. "Shut up and kiss me." He obliged. I'm not sure how long Sirius and I stayed up in mine and Lily's room while kissing. At the least an hour. We had to unfortunately pull apart because there was a loud knocking on the door.

Sirius growled.

I laughed and handed him his t-shirt. "Yes?"

"Oi! You two better get your bloody bums outside in five minutes. We're going to have a snowball fight! Don't be late!" James shouted from behind the door.

Sirius sighed, throwing his head back on to the pillow. "He's my best mate and all but he really knows how to kill a good thing."

I kissed him and then hopped off of him. "Get dressed. I'm going to murder you in a snowball fight!"

His eyes widened. "That's what you think? Alright, it's on, Prescott."

I grinned and went over to the door as he slipped on his sweater. "Bring it on, Black."

He went to grab me and I squeaked, running away from him. As I ran outside I passed Mr. and Mrs. Potter in the kitchen and gave a quick wave before dashing outside. Sirius caught up to me and hugged me from behind and kissed the back of my neck.

James was building snow walls for each of us to have with Lily and she was laughing beside him. Remus was eying them skeptically.

"Remus, what's the deal with the lovebirds?" I asked him.

He walked over to where Sirius and I were and smiled. "They're getting along very well. It's rather frightening."

Sirius laughed. "I can't believe Evans has finally given in."

I snorted. "You can't imagine how I feel."

Remus chuckled.

"Hey, Remus, what about Zoe?"

His ears turned red. "What about her?"

"Are you two together?"

He smiled again. "Yes. I like her a lot. Elaine, you and Lily should make friends with her! She speaks well of you, says that you have always been nice to her."

I nodded. "She's very nice, Remus. I like her for you."

"I like her for me too."

I looked up at Sirius who was smiling as well. "Who would have thought that three of the Marauders would have been scooped up in the matter of a couple of weeks?"

They both laughed.

"I'm serious!"

"No, I am," Sirius replied, a grin in his voice.

I groaned. "You are so ridiculous."

Remus laughed. "I'm glad you two finally came to your senses. If I had to hear both of you drone on about the other for much longer I was going to cry."

Sirius chuckled. "You told Moony you liked me?"

I nodded. "Only once or twice. I didn't drone on about you."

Remus snorted. "Sure."

"Remus!"

Then a snowball hit me right in the stomach.

I sighed. "Lily, you are going down!"

She shrieked and then ran to hide behind one of their forts.

I motioned to make a snowball when James freaked out.

"Wait! This is important. Every man for himself, alright? Elaine, you can't partner up with Sirius, okay? You are out when your fort collapses. Magic can be used for throwing snow but that's it."

I frowned. "Fine, but you can't partner up with Lily!"

Lily scoffed from behind her fort.

James grinned. "Deal. Everyone to their forts and we'll begin!"

I ran to the fort closest to Lily and began to send her some thoughts. You and I are in cahoots, do you understand? First we take down Remus, he'll be the weakest because he's so nice, than the other two because they're evil and are going to take this way to seriously.

She looked at me and gave me a curt nod.

I grinned. This was time for some real fun.

The snowball war began. I ducked behind my fort as snowballs began soaring my way. Obviously the boys had decided to gang up on me because the amount of flying ice that came my way was absolutely insane.

"Ugh! I hate all of you!" I shouted over the boys' laughter.

Lily laughed beside me while charming some snowballs to be thrown towards Remus.

I began to make as many snowballs as I could and began to charm them just like Lily had. Suddenly, I had created a snowball catapult as hundreds of snowballs began to pelt themselves towards each of the boys. I also managed to form a sort of assembly line that was making the snowballs for me. I was loving this wandless stuff.

I sat down behind my wall as my snow worked all of its magic.

"This is not fair-OW!" James shouted.

I laughed. "You said I couldn't partner up with Sirius, not that I couldn't partner up with Lily!"

"Stupid loopholes! Moony! How are you doing?" James asked him as another snowball landed on his head.

This was way to easy.

"I'm out! My forts done for," he called out to James.

James groaned. "Padfoot, take your girlfriend out!"

I could hear Sirius's laughter.

"Prongs, she's pretty hardcore, there's not much I can do!"

James groaned again.

I screamed just then because a wad of snow hit me right in the face. "Sirius, you are in SO much trouble when this is over!"

Then Lily squeaked beside me. "I'm out. Damn you, Black!"

"I said get your girlfriend out, not mine!"

"What?" Lily asked while standing up, a goofy grin spreading across her face.

Sirius and I both laughed.

"Uh yeah. Lily, you're the most beautiful girl in the entire world, will you go out with me?" James asked while tossing a snowball at Sirius.

Lily's grin grew twice its side. "Yes! Yes, of course."

I began to cheer enthusiastically.

"FINALLY!" Sirius shouted from behind his fort.

"Damn it! I'm out!" James said in reply and then went over to Lily, scooping her up for a kiss.

I smiled at their display of affection and then peeked over my fort only to be hit in the face again with another snowball. "ARGH!"

Sirius's bark laugh decided to make a debut that afternoon and I frowned. This was war and I needed to come up with a new strategy and fast. I decided to increase my snowball amount so that he would have no chance.

I heard him groan. "Elaine! This isn't fair!"

I giggled quietly so he wouldn't hear me, but, as I was laughing I was tackled to the snow playfully, blowing all of my concentration and completely stopping my snowball catapult. Sirius put a leg on either side of me and began to tickle me mercilessly. My peals of laughter could probably heard all the way back to Hogwarts while my so-called friends just stood there laughing at Sirius and I.

"Sirius-please-stop!" I squealed between breaths.

He just laughed and continued to torture me.

Finally, he stopped so that I could breathe. He reached down and kissed me which only further made it hard for me to breathe simply because it was him but I didn't mind that much. I kissed him back, not caring who was watching when I heard James making gagging noises. Sirius pulled away, his nose touching mine. "I think I won."

I rolled my eyes as he stood and then helped me up. "I definitely won. Look at your fort!"

He shook his head and then grabbed a wad of snow and hit me in the arse.

I sighed. "This was a terrible idea, James."

But James didn't hear me because he was suddenly snogging Lily again.

"I don't know why I decided to come here while the four of you are just going to shack up with one another," Remus mumbled.

I giggled and reached to Sirius, kissing his cheek which was chilly because of the snow.

"Kids, time for dinner!" Mrs. Potter said to us from the door that led to the backyard. Sirius grabbed my hand, leading me into the house behind the others. We took our seats at the dinner table, me in between Sirius and Remus and across from Lily and James, while Mr. and Mrs. Potter sat at opposite ends.

The five of us dug in to the food, starving from our little war.

"So, who won the snowball fight?" Mr. Potter asked us, a grin on his face. "Someone had charmed them to fly at an alarming rate, that was quite impressive."

I blushed.

Sirius spoke for us. "Mr. P, it's safe to say that I won, but the little magic extraordinaire that sent the snowballs flying was Elaine."

I scowled at him. "I definitely won, and yes, that was me."

"You're very good at charms, Elaine. Is that your favorite subject in school?" Mr. Potter questioned me.

I shook my head. "Actually, no. I'm rather partial to Transfiguration."

Mr. Potter nodded. "Just like Sirius here."

I smiled. "He'll never admit that I'm better at it than him, though."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "She's in denial, sir."

James and Remus laughed.

Mrs. Potter decided to interject before I said something else to Sirius. "So, Lily, Elaine, what do you two plan on doing after school?"

I looked at Lily so that she would speak first.

"I'm not so sure, yet, actually. I think either a healer or an auror," she answered easily.

Mrs. Potter smiled. "I must say that my husband and I are a little biased. We've been aurors for ages now. How about you, Elaine?"

"I'm pretty much banking on becoming an auror, but I suppose if I couldn't for any reason, healing would be interesting," I answered, taking a bite in to my dinner. Mrs. Potter was quite the cook.

Sirius grinned beside me. "Elaine would be one heck of an auror. She's scary good at magic."

I couldn't help but smile, it was nice to hear him speak so highly of me. I took his hand beneath the table.

Mrs. Potter looked at her husband for a moment and then back at me. "Elaine, your father was quite good at magic as well, and your mother-well, she was inherently gifted."

"I've heard," I replied as easily as I could. I knew that she was talking about Ella.

The conversation turned to something else while the boys spoke to Mr. Potter about becoming aurors. I sat there, listening to their conversation, itching to hear more about Ella. The Potters had actually known her. It made her seem more real to me.

When dinner ended, Mrs. Potter told us to go to the living room to relax since Lily and I had had a long day.

Sirius gave me a curious look when I didn't leave the dinner table but I motioned for him to go on. I just wanted to ask the Potters about my parents.

"Mr. and Mrs. Potter, can you tell me about my Mum and Dad? Before everything happened?" I asked, my voice quiet.

Mrs. Potter sat down next to me, placing a hand on top of mine. "What do you know, dearie?"

I shrugged. "Just what Dumbledore told me. I only found out a few weeks ago. I inherited her wandless powers, so that's why he told me. He wasn't sure if I was going to get them or not."

Mr. Potter sat down across from me and sighed. "Ella was a beautiful young lady and I have never seen someone so in love as your father was with her. They were extraordinary with each other. He was always doting on her, trying to make her laugh, going out of his way to just be the perfect husband he could be to her. When they found out they were having you they were beside themselves with joy, they didn't tell many people though. Even then Ella knew that her powers made her a target and she didn't want that for you."

I smiled a little. "What was she like?"

Mrs. Potter smiled warmly at her husband. "Like my husband said, she was very beautiful, she always turned heads at the Ministry. She was very good at transfiguration, she could always turn a Death Eater in to a tortoise and then send them straight to the Ministry. Her animagus was a beautiful Arctic Wolf. She liked to laugh and your father was always able to put a smile on her face. She was also very intelligent, versed well in any subject you could imagine, she gave my husband quite the run for his money when they spoke about muggles one day. When things began to get worse, though, things changed. She was worried a lot, your father always seemed to be a bit taken aback instead of his normal self. Then, that was it."

I frowned. "She was sought out by Voldemort because of her powers then?"

Mr. Potter nodded. "She was very gifted, Elaine. The things she could do were incredible, and all without a wand. She had battled You-Know-Who a couple of times before finally giving herself up. He was very interested in her because she was so strong. And she was strong, eerily so. It looks like you have gained some of those powers as well."

Mrs. Potter continued for him. "After she had you though, she started staying home more, trying to conceal herself and you because she didn't want anyone to know about you being born. She knew her family ancestry because she was able to grow up with them, there wasn't a Wizarding War when she was a child. You-Know-Who began killing people left and right to get to her and then she decided to give herself up. She left your father a note that night she gave herself up."

That certainly sparked my interest. "I searched my Dad's office at the Ministry but I didn't find anything about her-which makes sense I suppose. He wouldn't want anyone knowing that he had a daughter with her. Do you think that it's at my house?" That also meant that I had seen Ella before, the photo my father had in his drawer at the Ministry was of her, she was the girl waving at the camera, unfortunately, I had left it at the Evans' with a few more things from my father's office.

"You haven't been to your house since Malcolm and Erin's deaths?" Mrs. Potter asked, a slight frown on her face.

I shook my head. "Dumbledore sent me straight to Lily's home. He said when I became of age I could." I blinked. Something began to make some sense. "Maybe, because he wasn't sure if whether or not I was going to get Ella's powers he didn't want me to show up there where Death Eaters had just been. He didn't want any one to recognize me. You think?"

"That would make sense. Professor Dumbledore is always one step ahead of everyone else," Mr. Potter replied.

I wanted that letter and I wanted it badly. I had nothing of Ella's. Nothing at all-minus that picture which I hadn't really paid much attention to-and if I could find her letter than it would be beyond anything else for me. "Mr. and Mrs. Potter, you don't think that maybe we could go to Sissinghurst? To my parents' house?"

Mr. and Mrs. Potter looked at one another and sighed. "Elaine, if you're not supposed to go there until you're seventeen than it probably isn't a good idea."

I looked at the table. "I figured you would sat that."

"But that doesn't mean that I can't," Mr. Potter said, tapping my hand.

I glanced up at him and smiled. "Sir, I can't ask you-"

"Don't worry about it. Do you know where this letter may be?"

I nodded. "My Dad kept a box under his bed. When I was ten I discovered it and tried to open it but he told me it was for another time. I'm willing to bet my life that it's in there."

Mr. Potter nodded. "I'll go tomorrow morning. By the time you wake up, it'll be here."

I stood up and grinned. I hugged Mr. Potter tightly. "Thank you sir. This really means a lot to me."

He ruffled my hair. "You're welcome. Why don't you go join the others? I daresay you must be tired."

I smiled and with one last hug I joined my friends in the living area. I sat down next to Sirius, resting my head on his shoulder. He was talking to James about motorcycles while Lily spoke to Remus about school work-like always. I smiled again, thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Potter, they were so kind and caring, and what he was going to do for me would leave me forever in his debt. If I got to learn more about my Mum though, it was definitely worth it.