A/N: Evening/Morning/Afternoon all :)

sorry, took me a while to update this time, not the six months it used to take me but still . . . Thank you to: paramore1351, Mercy'sFoundaWayforMe and of course, the amazing Siriusly luvs Harry Potter!

Anyway, enjoy the chapter. Quite pleased with this, got some snape action in here, mcgonagall makes an appearance and there's a lovely bit of Sirius/Billie at the end!

11th Oct

It was him!

9:00am

Things between Lily and I are bad. I shared with Sirius last night, an increasing habit I should probably try to break out of before tongues start wagging. James offered but after Remus disclosed that his little night-time fart habit (they STINK) has gotten worse, much to James' embarrassment and Padfoot's amusement, I decided to stay away. I woke up first this morning and decided that I'd try and sneak up to the girls dorm and be changed and out before Lily awoke, plus, being sat around whilst my brother and his friends got dressed was hardly appropriate. Unfortunately, it seems Lily and I had exactly the same idea, she froze like a rabbit caught in the headlights as I walked through. After staring at me for a few seconds as I grabbed a handful of my clothes and started to pull them on she departed into the bathroom – wordlessly. I suddenly felt very uncomfortable getting changed in the same room, for six years we've gotten changed together and now I felt the need to shy away and find my own little corner. It's like there was something itchy in the air, I wonder if she felt it too?

I decided in the early hours of the morning, (curled up with Sirius) that I wasn't going to write back to my parents, was it worth it? Just to get another slightly snotty reply? No. If they needed me or I needed them then we would communicate through James. I'd just have to find another reason to visit Ethelbert so he didn't bite me again. In the half light I could just make out the slither of a scar where his beak had slit the skin. Yeah, that owl needed regular appeasement.

5:30pm

Darling James and I have just been granted our very first detention of the year and it's all Diggory's fault. Merlin's nipples I hate him. In fact, I hate him more than I hate Snape and he's the person we have supposedly hexed.

James and I were on our way up from Herbology, late as James had requested we stay behind to help clear up the mess Sirius was planning on leaving, there was compost and leaves EVERYWHERE, when we were cornered by Professor McGonagall. I think James was just about to raise a hand to greet her when her murderous voice rang out.

"POTTERS!"

I think we both soiled ourselves. I definitely did. My eyes flicked to James' automatically, his expression of utter befuddlement did nothing to make me feel any better.

"Good evening professor?" James dared.

"My office now! I am disgraced at you both!" We followed her tentatively, keeping just out of earshot so I could ask James:

"What have you done?" I breathed. He looked affronted.

"What have YOU done?"

With a nasty look from McGonagall we entered her office. Sometimes the cosy tartan affair she was going for, other times a place of hell. I have to admit my first instinct was to laugh; it did look extremely hilarious, I remember knowing it wasn't us but thinking that whoever did it was a god. Severus Snape's nose . . . had been enlarged. Instead of the usually abnormal greasy hook that usually graces his pallid face half an anchor hung there, white and shiny. I could see him straining to keep his head upright against the weight of it. It was only after that shock and the intense biting of the tongue that followed that I noticed Amos – Diggory standing in the corner of the room, an intense smirk on his face. I met James' eye again and caught a glimpse of the awful realisation that I was experiencing.

"I am furious with you both." Professor McGonagall began, taking a seat behind her scarcely organised desk, "You, Mr Potter, are Head Boy and to be exercising activities like this on other students is action worthy enough for you to lose your badge and you captaincy." I felt James gulp. "And you too Billie. Do not expect to be let of the hook, your record is highly worthy of a place on my house team." I blushed but my embarrassment soon turned to anger as Amos stepped forward a little, reminding Minnie of why he was here. "Mr Diggory here came and made me aware that he saw you both hexing poor Mr Snape as you left Herbology now this-"

"Sorry, what?" James asked, looking between Diggory and Professor McGonagall shocked and confused.

"Mr Snape, James! Both of you causing his nose to . . . swell." I turned to look at Snape again he flushed horribly and I thought I heard Diggory snicker and I glanced quickly at him if only Professor McGonagall would've looked at his face then, she would have seen the way his eyes glimmered an known it wasn't us!

"Professor! We've only just come out of Herbology! We stayed behind to clear up all Padfo- Sirius' mess. How could've it been us?" Against my natural instinct to let James do all the talking I spoke up and Minnie's face flattened momentarily before she frowned again.

"Can anybody prove you were there?"

Damn.

"Professor Sprout was taking Peter Pettigrew up to the Hospital Wing, a coincidence their friend would need a trip up there and would have to be accompanied by the teacher, leaving them free to-"

"That's quite enough Mr Diggory!" Professor McGonagall cut him of irate. Her distaste for him almost made me smile, the feeling was intensified as her looked down at the floor embarrassed. "I'm sorry James and Billie-" We both cried out in outrage, "-No buts! The evidence is stacking up against you both and I can hardly pardon you on your track record against Mr Snape can I?"

"Check our wands!" James exclaimed holding his out firmly, "And then check his, lying scum!"

"Mr Potter!" Professor McGonagall stood up sharply, "Your detention will be on Monday and I will be informing Dumbledore of this!" With a flurry of her hands we ushered ourselves out of the little tartan office and out into the contrastingly stone corridor. As soon as the door shut behind us James turned on Diggory.

"What the hell is your problem?" He spat, as loudly as he dared. We were squared up against each other, Snape looking disinterested, shrinking his nose back to its original behemoth size. I nearly leant forward and smacked Diggory's lights out as he began to laugh.

"Just wanted to bring you back down a bit Potter, let you know, theirs a new king of the school now – me and I plan on taking every little thing from you. You might've noticed that your little girlfriend Lily is now, how to say this? Mine. I don't plan on stopping until I've got that shiny little badge on our chest." He reached out to touch James' Head Boy badge but James stepped put of his reach with all the speed of a seeker.

"What does Billie have to do with all this?" He asked, eyes mad but calculating.

"She upset my Lily." Diggory said simply, smirking at the effects the words had on James.

"Just leave us alone." I said coldly, "You too Snape." I turned my glare to him and he gave a little nod, my hand found James' elbow and I led him away silently, steadying him as he shook with anger.

"Oh and Billie!" Diggory's humourless voice called as we were halfway down the corridor, getting away from them. "Lily thinks you're spending far too much time with one Sirius Black." It was James' turn to grab me as I went for my wand, intending on hexing the daylights out of both of them.

The walk up to the Dorm was clouded with curses. I couldn't understand why Amos Diggory wanted us in detention so bad, we hadn't done ANYTHING to him, if it had been Snape I'd have got it but Diggory just decided to plonk himself into our lives and take away the little normality we upheld. I hate him.

"Whoa! What's happened?" Was Sirius' eloquent remark as we burst through the door, steam flowing from our ears.

"We've just been given detention!" James cried dramatically, throwing his arms up in the air.

"Why?" Remus asked, putting down a book for the first time in his life to listen to us.

"Well!" I began hotly.

"We tidied up after Herbology-"

"-Because you made such a pigging mess-"

"-And then we were heading on up here when Minnie came flying down the corridor with her pantaloons in a paddy-"

"-And we were like, ooh who's the loser that has to deal with that? Which turned into Merlin what have we done-"

"-Because we didn't do anything, honest-"

"-So she calls us into her office and there's Snape and Diggory in there-"

"-Snape had been hexed, Pads his nose-"

"-And starts saying that WE hexed Snape, how could we have hexed Snape when-"

"-Hilarious Pads, hil-ar-ious-"

"-We were down in Herbology, turns out Diggory had gotten Snape to Hex himself to get us into trouble-"

"-Bloody did as well!-"

"-And was saying he saw us do it because he wants James' badge and Lily and all that crap-"

"-Told us after, nearly smacked him one-"

"-Me too, told him to leave us alone, don't think he's gonna though. Do you James?"

"Nah."

We both flopped down on Sirius' bed, exhausted.

"Get your own bed!" He exclaimed to deaf ears.

"He was after James' badge?" Remus asked carefully, he'd managed to prise that from our babble. We nodded.

"Or so he told us. Wants to be Head Boy, can't imagine why." James sighed, rubbing his face tiredly. He looked even worse than Moony and it was only three days since the full moon!

"What are you going to do about it?" Peter asked, his head, still a little blue from the plant venom, poked out from behind the toilet door.

"Nothing." James stated quietly, Sirius frowned but I saw Remus' quirk up the other way.

"What do you mean?" He questioned.

"Nothing I can do." My twin replied, heaving himself off the bed as if he weighed eighty stone not a measly eight. He moved over to his bed and pulled the curtains shut effectively ending that conversation, I expect him to do something, he was probably planning in the confines of his bed right now. After forbidding Sirius to annoy my brother, to which I received really rather cute puppy dog eyes, I made my way up to the girls' dorm, relieved at finding it empty, I think we stormed past Lily on our way up to the dorms, I remember James giving somebody a dirty look.

I just think I need some Weird Sisters in me.

Might get some work done.

Or I might just sit and enjoy.

The peace.

10:30pm

I have just done something INCREDIBLY Sirius Black. Really. But I'm not ashamed. (And I think the real Sirius Black was quite impressed)

I decided to go for a walk, why not? I did some work, the parchment was whispering evil things to me so I thought I'd better write on it, shut it up, you know? Well, my walk started out ok, I didn't tell any of the boys I was off, didn't fancy anyone's company. Yes, my walk was just dandy until I chose the wrong turning and ended up walking where a group of girls, Hufflepuffs, were talking about something that made me sick.

"Will he be back yet?" One of them preened, unaware of my approach.

"Oh I hope so. That body of his, to. Die. For." I thought they were talking about Sirius, I stopped in an alcove, wanting to hear what they had to say about (my?) Padfoot.

"That Lily Evans is one hell of a lucky girl!"

Ok. Not Padfoot then, Diggory. I nearly threw up.

"He doesn't like her that much!" The first one insisted, "He only wants her because she's Potter's."

The other girls let out a low whistle.

"James Potter, now, that is the definition of fine." Another girl, one that hadn't spoken before, how many of them were there?

"Yeah but don't you think he's become way less attractive since he started fancying that Evans? I think Amos is the new Potter."

"What? No! Potter! His nose is a work of art!"

My hand automatically reached for my nose and I laughed quietly, what were they talking about? James and I both knew we had the characteristic long-ish Potter nose along with the hair, eyes, skin colour, build, well, pretty much everything – I never knew people found it attractive. On James anyway.

"Sirius Black." Another said randomly, a collection of wistful sighs broke out.

"He smiled at me today . . . in Herbology!" One shrieked happily.

"Pah! He was probably smiling at his girlfriend Billie." The first girl bit, I could hear a happy bubble pop. A sudden curiosity to know who this girl was almost overcame me. A frown touched my forehead and I felt glad no-one was there to see this.

"They go out?"

A laughed bounced down the corridor, a cackle.

"No! Have you seen her? Black's got his pick of the girls why would he choose her?"

This really wasn't doing anything for my self esteem so I got up to leave but not before I heard:

"Well Amos has told me that he's got plans for the Marauders, we have a new idol to worship girls and when he gets bored of Evans I want to be the first in there!" That annoying first girl declared as I hurried away. Well that stint of eavesdropping had left my mind reeling. Amos Diggory as the new James Potter? If James was refusing to do anything the Marauders could count themselves lucky that I was.

I caught the little rat as he was giving a long winded and sickly sweet good night to Lily by the Statue of the One Eyed Witch. Blushing furiously, Lily half skipped back off to the common room and Amos strode off in the other direction, hands in his pockets, attempting a James Potter smirk but failing tragically. I daren't breathe as he passed me, dumb enough not to notice I was there and just as he was about to turn the corridor and meet his new fan girls I acted. With a swish of my already drawn wand Amos' nose grew, and grew and grew and grew. I heard the fake but funny screams of the girls waiting for him and his low cries of despair enhanced by his foghorn nostrils.

"Brilliant." The smooth voice made me jump a foot in the air, I spun around heart pounding to find Sirius pulling off the cloak and smirking, but properly. "Did I scare you?"

"Do you want me to have a heart attack?" I retorted playfully angry.

"Only if I could give you the kiss of life to bring you back." His smirk grew more pronounced and Sirius-ish as I aimed a soft punch to his abdominal muscles.

"Quit flirting and tell me why you've been tailing me around!" He looked at me, appalled.

"I have not been following you! I merely went for a walk to come and bring you back before you get another detention that you won't be able to provide an alibi for. I frowned as we started walking back to the Fat Lady.

"You do believe me don't you, about not hexing Snape?" I asked quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping portraits on each side of the wall. His eyes met mine, reassuringly twinkle-less.

"Of course I -!" I a quick sweeping motion brought me and Sirius under the invisibility cloak together, pressed up against the wall chest to chest – far to close for most people's comfort. We seemed to be stuck there for ages as Filch shuffled his way down the corridor, his blasted cat staring at us the whole time. "Of course I believe you." Padfoot smiled as the old caretaker reached the end of the corridor.

"Oh, and by the way, Billie," He whispered quite mischievously into my ear as we reached the sleeping fat lady, "You have a lovely nose."

"Sirius!"

A/N: Hope you enjoyed it! I've been thinking, do you guys have any ideas for the story? i am a few chapters ahead writing it so it might be a while before they appear but please, go ahead, inspire me! Also, the chapter i'm writing at the moment is quite a biggie and i don't want to rush it so update time might be a little longer than usual, maybe.

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