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Let's Not Fight Anymore

Celia launched herself down the stairs in pursuit of an infuriated Sirius. She had really been hoping he and Fabian had moved past all this violence. When she got to the common room everything looked quiet; the three remaining Marauders were still playing exploding snap by the fire.

Not good.

All of a sudden she heard a commotion coming from back upstairs in the boys dorms. There was a huge explosion, and then the entire tower was shaking. Celia gave a worried glance towards the stairs, then towards James who was walking over to investigate.

"You better go get him" She motioned to the dorms.

"What happened now?" Potter moved Celia aside to go find his mate, with Remus shaking his head in exasperation and Peter following them both mindlessly.

Celia was not even going to get involved this time. Their fights were getting old truth be told. If they wanted to murder each other then that was their problem; she was going to sit quietly in the common room and wait for this situation to blow over.

Her plan failed though because most of girls in the tower came to the common room to find out what all the ruckus was about. The shouting and dueling only seemed to get louder and more violent as the minutes went by.

Marlene and Lily found Celia trying to ignore everyone.

"What in Merlin's name is going on?" Marlene demanded.

She might as well tell them, Lily was going to find out someway or another anyway.

"Fabian kissed me, I told Sirius, Sirius is now trying to decapitate Fabian from the sound of it. " She explained shortly.

"How did I know you were in the middle of this?" Lily asked jovially shaking out her long red hair.

Because she was always in the middle of these things; she had a penchant for dating the most violent Gryffindors in the school. Celia wondered what this said about her, but deducted not much because they also happened to be the best- looking Gryffindors as well.

"Why are we sitting here, when there is a battle happening upstairs? Come on." Marlene exclaimed grabbing Celia's arms and pulling her up and towards the boys dorms.

Thank Merlin they hadn't made it onto the stairs because all of a sudden a group of blokes came tumbling down the steps. They seemed to have ditched their wands and were now dueling muggle style. She could tell Sirius and Fabian were in there somewhere but it also seemed like Lupin and Gideon had mixed themselves up in the pile up.

James, Peter and most of the dorm's occupiers came running down after them.

Celia, against her better judgment moved towards the fight to attempt to pull Sirius and Fabian apart.

Peter grabbed her arm and pulled her back. "Remember what happened last time you tried to stop them?"

Celia remembered it vividly, she had been elbowed in the chest and got the wind knocked out of her. Pettigrew was right; she would just let them fight it out. They were bound to get tired eventually.

"Remus! You are a Prefect!" Lily was shouting all in a fluster. "Potter, Potter do something!" She demanded.

Lily made her laugh sometimes; she wasn't particularly well behaved herself, but she was furious that there was a fist fight involving a prefect in the middle of the common room. Did she not remember that a few short weeks ago they had been in jail?

James threw up his hands and shook his head no.

"This needed to happen" he explained to Lily "It was only a matter of time. Mooney can get very territorial" He said throwing a wink to Marlene.

Marlene seemed elated that Remus was fighting for her.

Lily huffed in frustration and stomped her foot at him. Potter just smiled slyly at her and shrugged. 'Exactly what had gone on between them yesterday?' Celia wondered to herself. Lily was being rather tight lipped about it and offered up nothing. She would have to dig for information later. She was brought from her pondering by the sound of bones crunching.

Celia smiled and elbowed Marlene when she saw Lupin had given Gideon a particularly impressive right hook to the jaw.

Her excitement over Marlene's situation quickly dissipated when she heard Sirius and Fabian in an argument in addition to the fight; an argument about her.

If she graduated Hogwarts without the reputation of a whore, Merlin must really be watching out for her.

"If you ever even look at Celia again I will fucking kill you" Sirius roared at Gideon in between blows.

Fabian was doing a fairly good job blocking Sirius' punches but still looked like he had taken a few hits, Sirius looked like he had too. She wasn't surprised; they were similar in size and strength, with Sirius being maybe an inch or two taller.

"I'll do what I please with Celia, Black!" Fabian shouted back as he threw Sirius off of him.

Like hell he would. She was honestly so sick of them fighting now that she knew what they were actually fighting about.

Finally professor McGonagall came barging into the common room to see why the Tower felt like an earthquake.

"Black, Lupin , Gideon, Fabin! Enough!" She shouted in shrill voice that possibly broke the sound barrier. All 4 of them picked themselves up off the ground and tried their best to look shameful at what they had done.

"I'm at a loss! Lupin you are a prefect, what were you thinking? I expect this behavior from the others but from you?" Lupin really did look shameful but Celia still noticed an undercurrent of hatred directed towards Gideon.

"You 3 have detention every night with me, for the next month." She said pointing at everyone but Remus. "You have it for one week, being that it was your 1st offense and you have to continue your prefect duties. I expect better from now on. Now everyone up to bed." She finished and then shooed everyone back into their dorms.

After it was all over Celia was sitting cross- legged on Sirius' bed holding a dittany soaked rag against his lip. He was refusing to speak to her, which she accepted although it annoyed her. Still she did notice little goosebumps whenever her fingers brushed up against his chin. So he couldn't hate her too much.

He wasn't very badly injured but still needed some tending to, and since technically the whole fight had been her fault anyway she might as well help him out.

She looked over to Lupin' s bed when she heard noises from behind the curtains, which he and Marlene had disappeared behind a few minutes prior. She hoped her friend was not losing her virginity with Celia and Sirius a mere three feet over.

After a particularly loud moan, Celia gave Sirius a rather horrified facial expression. He gave a small laugh, winced from his split lip and then remembered he wasn't acknowledging her so put a straight face back on.

"Oi, Moony! Put a silencing charm on the bed. Celia and I don't need to hear what ever the hell you two are doing in there." Sirius shouted to his friend and threw a rolled up sock at Lupin's bed.

There was a giggle from Marlene and then they didn't hear anything else.

"I hope they're being safe" Celia shot a worried glance towards Remus's bed.

Sirius rolled his eyes at her.

"Are you planning on speaking to me ever again?" Celia inquired and removed the rag away from Sirius' face again to inspect the injury.

Sirius sighed "Of course, but not today."

He was so bloody vexing but she let it go. She knew that sometimes anger made no sense, hell she hadn't talked to him for days when he kissed her. So she supposed she could handle him not speaking with her, even if the kiss with Fabian wasn't really her fault. Maybe they just needed a little time apart.

"Fine." She said curtly " Your lips all right now. I love you, you tosser" she kissed his cheek quickly and left the room.

She was halfway back to her room when Sirius called after her.

"Celia come back." He demanded more than asked.

Hekate only knew what he wanted, but she obliged and and went back to his room.

"Did you kiss him back?" Sirius asked her in earnest as soon as she was in the doorway.

She shook her head "No, I didn't. I already told you I didn't."

His facial expression didn't change. "Celia if you're lying to me..." he said in a low and threatening tone.

Fabian must have kicked him in the head if he thought he could act like this towards her.

"You'll do what Sirius? You'll do what if I'm lying?" She antagonized him, they both knew full well he wouldn't do anything to her. He simply glared at her.

"You're acting just like him Sirius!" She shouted. Sirius might as well be Fabian. "This male territorial bullshit has got to stop!"

It was honestly just a role reversal, it used to be Fabian attacking Sirius for flirting now it was the other way around. She couldn't wait until Fabian Prewitt graduated and she never had to deal with him again. It was just awkward.

"He kissed you Celia. What do you want me to do? Just let him run his bloody hands all over you and say nothing?"

"No, I know you can't do that but I shouldn't have told you. I knew it would just end in some kind of fight." She sat down exhausted and rubbed her temples.

"You shouldn't have met him in the room of requirement in the first place Celia! What did you think was going to happen? That he was just going to inquire about that stupid bloody cat?"

"Sort of" she replied with a shrug. She was expecting Fabian to try to get her back, but she didn't think he would kiss her. She never thought it would be something she couldn't deal with on her own.

She definitely shouldn't have told him.

His steel colored eyes bore into her causing her to shift uncomfortably under his glare.

"I don't even know what to do with you, Celia" he finally spoke in a frustrated tone.

"You don't need to do anything with me Sirius! I didn't know what was going to happen and I sure as hell did not expect him to kiss me so what you can do is get over it!" She yelled at him before storming out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

She passed James and Peter on the way out.

"Trouble in paradise?" Potter asked smartly as she stomped by. She didn't dignify him with an answer, just kept walking.

She was so angry and annoyed at the entire situation. Marlene was right she should have never gone to the room of requirement, because the more she thought about it the more she realized that she did know what was going to happen, and that a small part of her wanted it to happen. There was something enticing about having the best looking blokes in the school fighting over her.

She was overwhelmed with guilt and a sick feeling in her stomach. What kind of person was she? Who does this? Even more annoying was that she had no one she could talk to about it. She loved her friends but Celia couldn't face them once they found out what a horrible person she could be.

She relaxed a little with the thought that she only had to make it to the end of the year, then Fabian would be long gone from Hogwarts and her life, and until then she would do her best to ignore them.

She and Sirius certainly had a tumultuous relationship; she was beginning to wonder if he was worth the effort.

"We need a girls night." Celia declared once she was back in the dorm room.

Marlene had followed soon after, quite red in the face, she might add.

"Technically we have a girls night every night." Lily said

"No, I mean a real one, with makeup, gossip and most importantly liquor" Celia explained.

Celia's friends agreed this was a good idea. An half hour later their faces were covered in mud masks, and the stash of firewhiskey, which was kept hidden in the false bottom of Marlene's trunk , was open and flowing.

They had taken pictures of themselves with Lily's Polaroid and hung the photo up right next to the one of them at the Christmas ball. One where they looked their best and one for their worst.

"So what happened with you and Potter?" Marlene asked Lily while painting her toenails a vibrant orange.

"Yes Lily, give us the details. All of them." Celia encouraged. Hearing all about her friend's sort of love life would be an excellent distraction from her own.

Lily took a shot of firewhiskey before agreeing.

"Well I went up to his room and asked if I could speak with him in private. He looked confused and sort of worried but agreed, so we went down to the kitchens. Which by the way I know how to get into the kitchens now." She added rather proud of herself.

That was a good thing to know, in case they ever got peckish before dinner, or after. She wondered how The Marauders found the things they did.

"So we got to the kitchen and were bombarded with house elves trying to give us food. Then he asked me what I wanted to talk about, and I told him I wanted to talk about the way he treats me. So I just explained to him how it makes me feel when no one is willing to take me on a date because they're scared of him. And I told him that if he likes me the way he says he does then he will stop acting like a complete prat because I'm the one that gets hurt in the end." Lily explained.

Celia hoped that would work and James would calm himself down.

"What did he say?" Marlene prodded.

"Well he was quiet the whole time I was talking and it felt like he was listening. Then he apologized for hurting me, said he didn't know that's how I felt and told me he really did like me, and it was just hard for him to see me with other blokes and he didn't know how to handle it" Lily shrugged.

"That's kind of adorable" Celia thought aloud "So what then?"

"I said I was sorry for hurting him, but I reminded him of the way he treated Sev and I asked him if he could ever date someone who constantly humiliated and hated Sirius. Of course he said no and that he had never thought about it like that."

Celia had never thought of it like that either. She would never date anyone who tormented Lily or Marlene and that was exactly what Potter and Sirius did to Snape. They could be bullies she knew, but Celia personally had never liked Snape, so she really never thought about how hurtful it was for Lily when Severus was being attacked.

"So once again he apologized and promised to lay off of Severus, unless he started it. Then he asked if he thought I would ever give him a chance."

"For the love of Merlin Lily tell me you said he had a chance!" Celia pleaded.

If not Potter was probably contemplating the most effective forms of suicide. Celia hadn't notice James to be in a foul mood so she assumed Lily had given him a dash of hope.

Lily smiled "I told him I would never say never, but he would certainly have to prove himself a changed man. I suggested we should just try to be friendly towards each other in the meantime."

"It seems like it was a pretty productive meeting then. I thought he was acting uncharacteristically mature during the fight tonight. I'm glad you talked to him." Celia told Lily.

"It was, I feel much better about it." Lily sighed happily and then turned to Marlene with a mischievous look. "So now, what's this I hear about you and Lupin disappearing behind a bed curtain?"

Marlene blushed a furious shade of red and buried her face in her hands.

"Did you shag him?" Celia asked her bouncing on the bed in excitement.

Lupin was usually reserved and she knew they were taking their relationship slowly but he had shagged someone before and he did seem rather territorial of Marlene after the fight. So who knew what could have happened.

"No, we just messed around." Marlene admitted.

"Messed around meaning what?" Celia asked, desperate for every juicy detail.

"Celia! This is so embarrassing." She cringed.

"If it's so embarrassing then you should've been more discreet about it. Now tell us everything." Lily demanded.

Marlene conceded in defeat, she knew Lily would find out somehow. It's not like the Marauders wouldn't be hounding Lupin for info too. Perhaps they wouldn't go into quite as much detail, but they would certainly want to know if their friend got laid or not.

"Ugh, well he was just so alpha male after the fight" Marlene gushed in a very un-Marlene like way. "So we went up to his dorm and just started snogging on his bed and then one thing led to another and suddenly his hands were down my knickers."

Celia and Lily gasped. "Did you like it? "Did you do anything to him?"

She thought back to the first time anything like that had happened to her. She had just turned 15,and was with Fabian of course, but she was so nervous she could barely feel anything at all. Truth be told she hadn't been ready for him to go that far but she had been worried that he would break up with her if she stopped him.

It was neither here nor there now, but sometimes she wondered what would have happened if she had told Fabian no. She probably would have got with Sirius long before this year, and she probably wouldn't be fighting with him now.

So she was happy that Marlene really wanted this with Remus.

"You two are so nosy, but yes, of course I liked it, and well, I started to rub it over his trousers but then Potter and Pettigrew came into the room and started banging on the bed curtains saying that they needed to have an emergency Marauders meeting." Marlene finished frustrated.

"I'm surprised Lupin didn't murder them." Celia said.

"I thought he was going to." Marlene answered truthfully with a laugh.

The next morning Celia woke up with a killer hangover. She managed to roll of her bed without vomiting and chugged down the last of her anti hangover potion. Physically she felt worlds better, but her emotions were still in chaos. She would have to talk to Sirius.

It always felt like they were either shagging each other or attacking each other, and it needed to stop. They loved each other, but clearly there were trust issues on both ends. Maybe he was right and she was trying to sabotage them, but then maybe this was passion. Hers and Sirius's relationship had always been filled with drama. She was never bored with Sirius , and hadn't bordem been the main reason she'd broken up with Fabian? Whatever it was she sure it wasn't healthy.

She showered quickly and then went down to lunch, leaving her friends sleeping. Sirius and Peter were downstairs when she got to the Great Hall.

"You weren't at breakfast" Sirius stated the obvious as Celia sat down on the bench behind him.

"Hangover" she replied simply as she grabbed a sandwich.

They ate in a tense silence. Pettigrew finished in a hurry so he could scamper off to avoid them.

"Celia, I'm sorry alright, I'm sorry" Sirius finally spoke "I thought you were going to go back to him and I lost it."

She wasn't sure why Sirius would think she was leaving him for Fabian. That would explain his crazy anger towards both her and Fabian though.

"Of course I'm not going back to him." She promised and leaned her head on his shoulder."I want to be with you."

Sirius, I'm not cheating on you, you're not cheating on me, so lets just get over these trust issues okay?" She suggested looking up at him. Sirius gave her his side smile.

"Alright Celia" He agreed "let's not fight anymore. It's exhausting, and I always wake up with a hangover."

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