I don't own Potterverse, still. Even in my absence from here I was still unable to attain it. Damn. Which brings me to my apology. I'm so super sorry I haven't updated in what I'm pretty sure it weeks! Things have been a bit odd lately apart from starting my summer job and going on a week trip to California (specifically Disneyland). But here is the update and since I doubt I'll be going out of state again for the rest of the summer I should be able to update more regularly again, also since I actually know my work schedule as well. Once again, I am so sorry for the lack of updates but thank you to all you lovely people that have read, reviewed, favorited and alerted. You are absolutely wonderful and really make my day. So without further ado, here is the update. Enjoy!

Sirius stopped walking as he noticed the copper chestnut hair of his newbie off to the side conversing with a stranger. Instantly, a mischievous smile slowly slide into place on his handsome face with his stormy grey eyes sparkling with a hidden plan. James walked back a few steps when Sirius didn't respond to his amazing joke. The punch line was delivered perfectly and where he should've had laughs there was silence, along with one very offended looking old witch. "What are you doing?" James asked.

"Teaching," answered Sirius smirking. James followed Sirius' line of sight to see Cummings.

"She's talking to someone, Padfoot." James pointed out. He wasn't even aware that they had started a new lesson.

"And she needs to be constantly vigilant." Sirius responded like it was completely logical. James could see his point, sort of…

"You're not even that vigilant."

Sirius shrugged. "I know that, you know that but I highly doubt Cummings knows that and I doubt she'll care." Glancing from his friend to the girl who was talking to some bloke James highly doubted that Sirius was correct.

"I'm not so sure about that."

Sirius smiled at James. "Trust me, Prongs."

Without missing a beat James replied. "I trust you, Padfoot." There was no one he trusted more, except maybe Lily but it was a tossup. "I just think you're wrong." Sirius snorted.

"Me, wrong? Ha!" Realizing that he wouldn't be able to talk Sirius out of his plan of attack James just shrugged as Sirius started sneaking up behind an unsuspecting Cummings. He looked ridiculous to be honest. So James continued to watch highly amused. When Sirius was a good two feet away he crouched down before jumping onto her back.

Cummings stopped midsentence as she felt the sudden weight of someone on her back. Instantly she started flailing her arms, accidentally smacking the bloke she was talking to in the nose. Hard. "WAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!" Cummings yelled trying to get at the beast that was on her back but couldn't really do much. "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" Calmly Sirius jumped off of Cummings' back. As soon as the weight was lifted Cummings spun around to see her mentor standing there unflustered by what just happened. Sirius was the king of cool. "Captain?"

"Constant vigilance, Cummings." Sirius told her with a slight nod.

"You've got be kidding me!" Cummings said throwing her hands in the air realizing that she had her wand in hand the whole time. "I thought we finished that?"

"You can never finish being vigilant and you forgot to use your wand." He lectured on. Sirius was enjoying this. Cummings failed. All was right with the world. And that paranoid feeling he got that something catastrophic was going to happen – like, say, the end of the world – was gone.

"You attacked me! We're not even practicing constant vigilance anymore!" Cummings tried to defend herself. The bloke she had been talking to poked her shoulder with his elbow as he kept his hands over his face where his nose just so happened to be leaking a lot of blood. Cummings and Sirius' attention turned towards the man.

"I'm just going to go."

"What? No! I…did I do that?" Cummings asked sheepishly and he just nodded. "I'm sorry it's just—"

"You don't have to explain, really. I'm just going to leave." Sighing Cummings watched him walk off, leaving her with Sirius.

"Captain!" Cummings turned to him wailing and even flailing her arms a bit for added dramatics. "You ruined everything!"

Sirius smirked at her behavior. "What, were you trying to get a date Cummings?"

"NO!" Cummings bit back instantly.

"No?" His smirk widened. Sirius knew what was up. After spending the majority of his life this attractive, he knew when someone was trying to make a love connection.

"That's what I said Captain."

"Really, what's this then, an address?" Sirius grinned pulling the slip of parchment Cummings has out of her hand waggling his eyebrows before looking down and reading what was written. Instantly his face tinted red as he commented, "Oh, not an address."

"No, not an address Captain," affirmed Cummings snatching the parchment back from Sirius leaving the two in an awkward silence as she pocketed the parchment.

Sirius felt that he should say something, though he wasn't sure what. He could always take the mickey out of her about what he read but one could be sensitive about that type of thing, especially with what he read. "You know St. Mungo's can take of that right? It's nothing to be," Sirius coughed awkwardly, "ashamed of. I mean it's not like it's uncommon. My third year at Hogwarts there was an outbreak; sure the kids who got it were mocked mercilessly …mostly by James and myself but that doesn't mean we'd look at you any differently Cummings. I think—" With her eyebrows furrowed Cummings watched Sirius as he awkwardly stumbled his way through what he was trying to say when she had an epiphany of sorts.

"Sweet Merlin's knickers in a box Captain, the message is on the other side!" Cummings pulled out the parchment and shoved it at Sirius, her own face turning a little red seeing as he thought she needed to be treated for, well, yeah…

Sirius looked down at the other side of the parchment, grey eyes quickly scanning the words. "What is this—is this a shopping list?"

Cummings sighed. "Yes Captain."

"Was it for that bloke with the bloody nose?"

"Yes. I was trying to be helpful." Cummings informed Sirius. It was in fact possible for Cummings to be a sweet and caring girl. You just had to not know her really well.

"And then I jumped you." Sirius gestured between the two of them. Cummings nodded.

"Yes Captain."

"Oh." Sirius nodded lightly as a silence fell between the two of them. "Oops." Sirius shrugged it off like it wasn't a big deal. Cummings on the other hand thought differently and leveled him with a look. Sirius didn't like being on the receiving end of the look. It made him feel like he was a little tyke back at home with his dear mum, or being scolded by Lily. Sirius wasn't a fan of either so he decided to turn the situation around to his advantage. "You still forgot your wand. Constant vigilance Cummings."

Cummings sighed. Of course Sirius would point out her failure, she was used to it by now but it was a bit tiresome. "Of course Captain." Sirius nodded before leaving Cummings who stuck her tongue out at him.

As Sirius made his way back to James he noticed his best mate laughing up a storm. "Shut up."

James tried to sober up but it was futile. He couldn't get the image of what just happened out of his mind. "You looked like a right loon, you know that right?" James asked chuckling and clapping a hand on Sirius' shoulder as they walked off towards the shop they had been heading to in the first place.