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Chapter Twenty-Five

The next couple of days at school were quite entertaining, apparently, mine and Sirius dating was the only thing that people could talk about. Everywhere I went, I was stared at. At first it was incredibly annoying, but by our sixth day back, I had just taken it upon myself to hex anyone who as so much glanced my way, flipped their hair my way, or motioned to whisper one thing to one of their snot-nosed friends.

One afternoon in the Great Hall during lunch, I walked in with Lily after Ancient Runes and the whispers immediately began to sound through the Hall like a banshee. Well, maybe I was the only one tuned to hearing the insults or whatever else was said about me because it was about me.

"That's his new girlfriend? She's pretty!"

"Ugh, she's so disgusting."

"She's got a really nice arse!"

"Look at her, she looks like a troll threw up on her."

"Look at those tits!"

"She's much too short."

"I like that she's shorter than him, it's rather cute!"

"Her hair is such a hideous color!"

"Her eyes are beautiful!"

I groaned when I sat down and rest my head on Sirius's shoulder.

He kissed the top of my head. "How was Ancient Runes?"

I sat up and looked at him. "Boring. You haven't heard anything today?"

He raised an eyebrow. "Like?"

I sighed. "Oh, I don't know, maybe that you're dating a disgustingly-pretty-big-arsed-short-ugly haired-pretty-eyed-looks-like-a-troll-threw-up-on-her girl?"

He made a face and then kissed me. "There were definitely some compliments in there."

I rolled my eyes. "Not the point! I feel like I'm a bloody pariah. Boys keep talking about my arse and chest while girls want to gauge my eyes out! Who knew that dating you was going to be such a social catastrophe."

He chuckled while setting up a plate of food for me. "Eat, you'll feel better. Screw all those other people, Prescott."

I grinned. "Screw?"

He sighed. "Mind out of the gutter please-unless you're talking about me, thank you."

Then of course, there was the fact that since he and I were dating people liked to spread vicious rumors that spread like wild fire. On our fourth day back, Sirius had heard from some boy in his Muggle Studies class that I had slept with Crispe. So when he met up with me to go to Care for Magical Creatures, he walked silently at my side and didn't say a word to me the entire class.

For a whole afternoon I was panicking because I thought he was going to dump me.

When we arrived to the common room after our day, I finally asked him what had been bothering him. "What is going on, Sirius? You've been giving me the cold shoulder all afternoon."

He sat down on the sofa and sighed. "Forget it. I'm just being stupid."

That made no sense. "What are you talking about?"

He pat the seat next to him which I happily took because it meant he was actually acknowledging me. "I heard today in Muggle Studies that you and Crispe had sex. That's why all the Hufflepuff boys are in to you, he told everyone that you and him did it. He said you were easy. I shouldn't be mad though, you guys were together for a while, and I've got no right to be-"

I cut him off immediately. "Sirius Orion Black, you really think that I had sex with that blithering imbecile? You pulled him off of me, remember? I was struggling! Not only that, you would believe the fact that I was easy? Wouldn't I of thrown myself at you already? You're right, you are a prat."

He let out a long breath of relief and hugged me. "You're right! I'm so stupid! I just got so mad and then I felt dumb for being mad because well, I have had sex. And I just-I'm sorry, Elaine, I'm an idiot."

I frowned. "Please don't remind me that you've had sex I'd like to think that you're as pure as I am."

He chuckled and kissed me. "You're amazing, you know that? And can I just say, I am so happy that you never gave yourself to that git, or anyone for that matter you wonderful, wonderful girl."

I rolled my eyes but smiled anyways. "You're only happy because you think I'm going to give myself to you."

"Naturally."

"You're gross."

"And yet, I'm your boyfriend."

I sighed. "I know."

He kissed me again. "So, you wouldn't mind if I set those idiot Hufflepuff boys straight?"

I grinned. "Only if you didn't let me help!"

"Of course, m'lady! Your jinxes will be much more entertaining because they won't know where it's coming from."

I laughed. "You're using my gifts to put your plans in to action. I feel used."

He pulled me on to his lap, kissing my neck. "Don't be ridiculous. You enjoy using your little hidden talent to play pranks as well. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I saw some fifth year Slytherin take quite the spill today down the corridor, books flying everywhere, and then her hair was a ghastly shade of yellow, no wands were out, that only means that you my spectacular girlfriend, were the culprit. I am so proud."

I smirked and kissed him full on the lips. "Guilty."

He chuckled. "You're perfect, absolutely perfect."

I rolled my eyes like I had before. "Look who's talking when the entire female population of Hogwarts, minus Zoe, Lily, Charlie, and Kendra are trying to write me off. Honestly, Sirius, I fear for my life. Even the owls are looking at me differently. Is it possible that the owls could fancy you as well?"

He snorted. "Too bad I only want one girl from Hogwarts...and no owls, that's plain weird."

"Mmm, who might that be?"

"Let's see: she's of average height, long light brown hair, gorgeous blue eyes, big arse. She's kind of scary though, she's got this like, magical glitch, she can do stuff without a wand and sometimes can make people hear things in their mind-total weirdo."

I shoved him.

He laughed. "And don't get me started on her name-Elaine? Ugh! Where did that even come from?"

I giggled and kissed him. These were the times that I loved most.

Things with Sirius were honestly, better than I could have ever imagined. I truly enjoyed every single moment that I got to spend with him. And, I couldn't lie, things were moving in a very heated direction. Kissing Sirius was truthfully, the most amazing, most incredible, most mind-blowing pleasure that I had ever experienced, and the scary thing was-I actually thought about going that next step with him all the time-I couldn't even think properly in class any more! It was so frustrating trying to pay attention in Potions when the object you were lusting over was mere inches away from you. And that was the case for all of the classes I had with him! I was going nuts.

After being back at Hogwarts for over two weeks, I got a letter from Dumbledore saying that I was going to be working on my wandless magic every Wednesday night in his office. Since returning I hadn't seen much of Dumbledore so I hadn't gotten the chance to tell him about my recently discovered mind tricks. The truth was though, I was finding it much easier to send my thoughts, but not only that, I could actually implant ideas in other's minds. It was like I could do the Imperius Curse, but differently. I found myself often wondering if my mother could ever do these things and she just never told anyone for fear of her being more of an outcast than she already was at the time.

One night, he and I were lying about near the Beech tree by the Black Lake, when he asked me to try it out on him. I was able to successfully force him to dip his foot in the water. Although an interesting power, it was exhausting, and often left me feeling tired and slightly nauseous.

Sirius didn't let me do it all that often.

As scary as my powers were, I was really starting to embrace them. It also helped that Sirius was ridiculously supportive of them, honestly, I just think he enjoyed the fact that there was suddenly a loophole because I could never get caught.

I walked in to Dumbledore's office the first Wednesday night, butterflies zooming in my stomach and a headache that could have rivaled the pain of any Cruciatus Curse. I guess this was my way of being nervous, which was odd, because I wasn't one to panic about things.

"Ah! Elaine, how are you?" Professor Dumbledore asked while he sat at his usual chair, his blue eyes twinkling like always.

I tried to smile but it turned in to a grimace. "I'm really nervous, Professor. There's some other stuff going on with me as well."

He blinked. "What's going on, Elaine? Is it something to worry about?"

I bit my lip. "Uh, you're probably going to have to answer that one, sir."

He sighed. "Okay, go ahead."

"Okay, so the day we left to go home for the holidays we were on the train and I said something in my mind, but I was hoping that Lily would hear it, and, well, she did. She heard it but no one else did. And then I practiced it on Sirius and it worked," I explained in a rush, blabbering out words quickly.

"Like a Legilimens in a way, then?"

I nodded. "That's the only comparison I can think of. And, there's something else, sir."

"Well, you're just full of surprises tonight, aren't you."

I gave a nervous chuckle. "This one is a little stranger-well, no, I guess everything about me is strange these days. Anyways, I kind of realized that I can force people in to doing something that I want them to do. It's like I can implant the command in their mind and then they just do it, like an Imperio Curse."

This surprised him more. "You can force someone in to doing something? Can you try it on me? Send me a thought as well."

I frowned. "The thought thing is simple, the other one is a little drowning. I'll do it though."

He nodded.

I focused my mind on Professor Dumbledore, his entire purple-robed-blue-eyed self. Hi, Professor! This is totally weird, right? Please tell me that my mother could do this as well.

His eyes widened behind his half-moon spectacles. "That is impressive, but I'm sorry, I don't think that Ella could do that, Elaine. Her power was was strictly based on wandless magic, that I know of at least. Go on with the other power, if you will."

I nodded. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and once more, set my mind to only Professor Dumbledore. With a final push, I made him stand up, walk across the room, and then back so that he could sit down in his chair.

He was gaping at me. "Elaine, that is-that is-wow. I'm speechless, you have no idea when the last time was that someone has left me completely befuddled. Do you have any idea how useful that ability is?"

I was panting, at least I wasn't feeling nauseous like usual. "Sir, do you think that this feeling I get after it will go away?"

"I honestly don't know. I suppose that the ability takes a lot out of you and that is why you are left feeling so tired," he answered.

"My mother couldn't do that then either?"

He shook his head. "I'm afraid not. Ella was powerful, Elaine, let no one tell you otherwise, but those powers you possess, those are talents that wizards can only dream of in their dizziest of day dreams. It's spectacular what you are doing."

"I spoke to the Potters about my Mum. They told me a lot about her."

He nodded. "The Potters are a very good wizarding family. They were good friends with your father and Ella during the beginnings of the war, when Ella passed away your father closed himself off from all of his old friends and did his best to keep you safe, you have lived a relatively quiet life the past sixteen years, have you not?"

"Yes. I didn't even know that my Dad was friends with the Potters. He just spoke about people at the Ministry in his department. I thought I knew him so well," I mumbled.

"Elaine, no one knows Malcolm better than you. He kept a big part of his life secret because Ella asked him too and he knew that it would protect you. The father you knew was the father before the war. He loved his Quidditch and his news on the Chudley Cannons, and he ate Chocolate Frogs like they were going extinct," he explained to me in a soft tone. "And when you were born, I had never seen anyone happier than him, except maybe your mother."

I gave a small smile. "I really like hearing about them, especially Ella, it makes her seem more real. I saw a picture of her as well, she was beautiful."

He smiled. "A trait she has no doubt passed on to you. Mr. Black seems to be quite smitten with you. I think you and him are quite right for each other, I've never seen such a perfect match, in fact."

I blushed. "I'm smitten with him as well, sir."

He gave me a knowing smile. "I know that as well."

I sighed.

"Shall we practice for a bit, then? Not too long, I daresay. You seem exhausted after your bout with the mind control," he suggested.

"It's weird the feeling I have after. I hope that it just goes away or something."

He nodded. "I hope so too, dear one."

For the next hour, Professor Dumbledore and I worked on trying to perfect my wandless magic. Although I was quite good at silly little trip jinxes and setting things on fire, I found it incredibly difficult to do other spells with it. Levitation charms were simple, that much I had mastered, and disarming my opponent seemed fairly simple as well, but other things were harder.

By the end of the hour, I had successfully conjured a patronous charm without my wand but after that I felt like passing out. It was much too exhausting. So, I bid Professor Dumbledore a good night and he promised that for the next lesson he was going to show me how to properly duel without my wand.

He also wanted me to practice more on my sort of mind control-that much I wasn't too excited about.

On my way up to Gryffindor tower, I ran in to Zoe Hurley, Remus's girlfriend, who was returning some books to the library.

"Hey, Zoe! How are you?"

She saw that it was me and gave me a wide smile. "Elaine! Hi! I'm great, yourself?"

I smiled. "Exhausted, but pretty good. How are things with Remus?"

Her cheeks turned slightly pink, but she smiled all the same. "Perfect! I really like him, Elaine. He speaks very highly of you, by the way."

I shrugged. "Remus was one of my first friends here. We met on the train when we were eleven. He's great."

She nodded happily. "He really is! Elaine, you and Lily and I should hang out more! We should do a girls' day in Hogsmeade one weekend, if you're up for it?"

I smiled. "I think the next Hogsmeade weekend is Valentine's Day, but, there are two in March, the second one would be absolutely perfect! The first is Sirius's birthday, but the second for sure. It's time you get better acquainted with our little circle!"

She grinned. "That would be great! I don't think I could blow off Remus on Valentine's Day! He'd kill me!"

I laughed. "Remus would kill you? Sirius would probably throw me in to the Black Lake and feed me to the Giant Squid!"

She laughed as well. "Oh, our Marauders, can't live with them-"

I cut her off. "And we definitely can't live without them!"

She nodded and then we reached the crossing where I would have to continue up to the Gryffindor tower and she would go off to the other side of the castle for her tower. "It was great talking to you, Elaine! I can't wait till our Hogsmeade date!"

I smiled and took the first step up. "I can't wait either! See you later!" And with that I skipped off to the Gryffindor common room, anxiously anticipating a kiss from my adorable boyfriend and a cushion-y seat on the couch in front of the fire place.

When I walked in through the portrait hole, I was more than pleasantly surprised to find it completely empty except for Sirius who was lying down on the couch.

I smirked and walked over to him lied myself down on him, hugging myself as closely to him as I possibly could.

He grinned and kissed me. "How was your little session with Dumbledore?"

I felt myself shrugging around him. "It was okay, he made me do the mind control thingamajig, it wasn't so terrible this time."

He made a face.

"It's fine, I feel fine. I'm just a little tired. He also had me do my thought power thing, and then we talked about my parents, and then we worked on my wandless stuff."

He chuckled. "We should give each of your powers a special name."

I laughed. "Okay, you're definitely the clever one in this relationship, what should we name them?"

He scratched his chin in thought. "Okay, the wandless stuff should be called 'L' because of your whole 'E-L' female empowerment, family deal."

I giggled and kissed his jaw. "That sounds pretty good. Okay, what about the sending thoughts thing?"

He scrunched his nose up like I occasionally did. "We'll just call it 'Wolf'. How does that sound?"

I smiled. "Not bad, not bad. Last but not least, my mind control."

He grinned. "We'll call that one 'Grim'."

I laughed again. "That word seems to terrify anyone who believes in Divination and all that inner-eye rubbish, but I find it oddly comforting. I wonder why."

He scoffed. "Maybe it's because your boyfriend can transfigure in to some massive dog."

I made a face. "No..."

He chuckled and kissed me. "Are you going to go back up to your dorm?"

I sighed. "I don't know. What are my other options?"

He kissed me again. "Well, you can either go up to your dorm, or you can stay down here with me? Just an offer."

I kissed his nose. "Convince me to stay."

He smirked and placed his lips on mine, holding me tightly to him. With each caress and each movement, the kiss grew to be more and more heated. I could feel my body flaming up beneath his rough touch, and every time I got a taste of liquorice it sent chills up and down my spine like clockwork. I had to admit that I was rather proud of myself because he was exceptionally in to the kiss, and every time he whispered my name, I wanted to just ravish him in the middle of the common room.

When I pulled away because the lack of oxygen was becoming too much, he kissed along my neck really lightly.

"Okay, I am totally convinced now."

He laughed. "Lets change real quick and I'll bring down some pillows and some blankets."

I smiled and then ran to my dormitory as I heard him laughing while he ran to his.

I snuck in quietly and saw that everyone except Lily was asleep.

She raised an eyebrow while I changed. "What's going on? How was your practice with Dumbledore?"

"It was fine. I'm going to stay the night in the common room with Sirius."

She laughed. "You two are ridiculous."

I scowled. "Lilypop, I saw you and Potter snogging in that empty classroom, who's the scandalous one now?"

She gasped. "You're wicked!"

I laughed and then went over to her and kissed the top of her head. "I love you! Goodnight!" And with that, I ran downstairs and saw that Sirius was already lying back down on the sofa under a blanket.

I grinned and climbed under the covers, lying myself on top of him once more.

"What took you so long?"

I rolled my eyes. "Goodnight, Black."

He chuckled. "Night, Prescott."

With a final kiss, I shut my eyes and let myself wander off in to a comfortable sleep as Sirius rubbed my back. I could definitely get used to this.

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