A/N: Okeydokey. Ummmm, I got a review a couple of chapters ago from someone that they liked the story, but that I used too much profanity. I have tried to work on it, and I hope I have succeeded. I would just like to apologise for anyone that may take offence to this chapter, but I do think that for some characters, and some situations, swearing is sort of necessary, so I apologise in advance.

Anywho, I really hope you like this chapter, I took I bit of a chance with it, and I just hope the gamble pays off, and that you like it. Sooooo... Enjoy. Hopefully :S

Chapter 25 ~ Even More Breakfast Drama

I jumped as he landed in front of me, having leaped over the banister off the stairs.

'Snivillus' Black growled menacingly at Snape, his wand pointed directly at Snape's overly large nose, so that he went cross-eyed to keep his eyes on it. 'I'd lower your wand if I was you, and apologise to Evans, before I do something that could get me into trouble.'

Even with his back to me, and the anger directed at someone else, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck raise in fear as Sirius spoke. Sometimes you become so used to him, that you forgot that he was raised by one of the darkest wizarding families in the world, and that even though he may not agree with their choice of living, he still had their famous temper, and logical and merciless way of dealing with enemies.

I heard the clatter as Snape dropped his wand onto the stone floor.

'Good boy.' Sirius mocked Snape, talking to him like he was a dog. Keeping, his wand fixed on Snape, Sirius bent down to retrieve his wand, then smiling cruelly, tossed it over Snape's head. 'Go on.' Sirius urged, pointing after the wand. 'Fetch.' Sirius laughed nastily. Snape glared at the floor, too smart to look up at Sirius.

'I. Said. Fetch.' Sirius repeated, getting angry. Sirius took a step forward, his own personal black cloud of anger following him, causing Snape to take off at a sprint to retrieve the wand.

'Uhuh.' Sirius sang, wagging his finger at Snape as he picked it up off the floor. He snapped his teeth together a few times, making it clear that he expected Snape to retrieve the wand with his mouth. Slowly, Snape began to bend down.

'ALRIGHT!' I shouted, ashamed that I had let this kind of bullying carry on this far. 'Snape, stand up! Sirius, put you wand down' I ordered.

He turned slowly on his heel and toe to face me, a small smirk spreading across his face. 'Excuse me?' He asked slowly.

'Put your wand away' I said slowly, standing up straighter, more confidently. 'Or I'll take points.' I added as an afterthought.' Hey, I'm head girl, what can I say?

'Do you know what he was going to do you if I hadn't come to your rescue?' He asked coldly.

I just stared at him, watching his anger mounting now he had had his favourite pastime torn away from him.

'Severus, go away.' I instructed, not quite calm enough to be any more polite to him, even though Sirius's cruel tormenting had sobered me up a bit from my rage.

Sirius chuckled cruelly, and waved at Snape as he yanked on his robes to straighten them and stalked of, mouthing 'go away Severus' like a three year old.

I turned towards Sirius. 'Don't even think of telling me what to do, Evans' he warned me, his dark mood returning, and now directed at the person who had stolen his moment of pleasure. 'The only reason I got involved is because that's what James would have wanted.'

'I wasn't going to' I admitted truthfully. 'But, I do want to ask you something.' I'd wanted to ask Sirius this for a while, but I hadn't had the chance to talk to him in private since Halloween, and even asking now had me a little scared. This could really backfire. He may actually go psycho.

He didn't stalk off so I took that as permission to continue. 'Why are you and James fighting?' I asked.

He stood deathly still, just staring at me with his cool, black, assessing eyes.

'He hasn't told you yet.' He said. I stared at him in confusion.

'What? Look, it doesn't matter anyway. What I want to know is why you're ignoring James. He misses you. I don't know why you're fighting, but seriously, you gotta get over it and make up with him.

I was going fine until I said the last bit. I couldn't keep my mouth shut could I? Constantly putting my foot in it.

'Me make up with him? What do you think I've been trying to do? Fine, I fucked up. I admitted to that, but he's the one who wants to carry it on! He acts likes he's never made a mistake before in his fucking life! This holier than thou shit is really pissing me off.' Sirius raged, his normally composed features rearranging themselves into a mask of terror. If I thought I had seen Sirius Black angry before than I was mistaken. This was like nothing I had ever seen. His whole face had turned puce, and his normally assessing black eyes were wide and blazing with pure, fiery anger.

I took a step back, and watched him clenching his fists. 'You tell your boyfriend that whenever he is feeling ready to talk to me again I am more than willing. You know, if he can find thetime between combing his hair, doing his homework and stalking you around the castle' he spat, spinning on his heel and storming off up grand staircase. I was in no doubt that he would be searching for Snape already, and I feared for what he would do to him in the state he was in. I just hoped that I had bought him enough time to build up a significant lead on Sirius.

'JAMES!' I yelled, running down the middle of the emptying great hall.

'What?' he asked, turning around and looking extremely guilty with his fingers fondling his oddly neat hair, and his hazel eyes wide behind his circular glasses.

'It's Sirius! I've never seen him that angry before...' I rushed out, my words all tripping over each other.

'What?' James shouted, exploding straight out of his chair.

'I think he's going to hurt Snape. You've got to find him. You've got to stop him! I don't know what he's going to do. He was so angry.' I felt my voice tremor at the memory of his rage as I pushed my damp hair off my face from where it had fallen from my bun.

James took one look at me, and saw just how serious I was, and took off sprinting form the great hall. I chased after him, and caught up in the entrance hall where he had stopped and was looking wildly around at each of the different directions Sirius could have gone in.

'Where would he go? Where would Snape go?' He asked, whirling around to face me.

'I don't know. Maybe the astronomy tower.' I said between ragged breaths. Definitely need to start exercising I told myself. Next week, I promised.

'Right' James said, turning towards one of the entrances to the dungeons. Once I would have called him stupid for going the wrong way, but I had long since learned that Potter was much more knowledgeable about this castle than I was, and if he was running that way, it would definitely be quicker than the route I would have taken.

I took off at a sprint behind him, but soon was lagging seriously behind. I could just make out James in front of me, and was extremely lucky that there were no corners up the passageways where I could lose him, and consequently lose myself in the endless maze of corridors he took us through.

Finally, I saw Potter stop abruptly ahead of me and I managed to catch up. My breathing was ragged, my heart beating frantically and my chest felt like it had all been squeezed into an area the size of a Galleon, as I wheezed over bended knees behind James. I didn't have a mirror, but I had a good idea that my face, neck, and any skin covered area of me right now would be roughly the same colour as my hair. This is why I do not do sport. I told myself.

'James turned to look at me, worried, but once he realised that I was just tired, I could see the laughter in his eyes, and the must-not-laugh smirk on his face. If I had had any energy at all I would have hit him, but as it was I was having enough trouble staying upright as I felt my legs slowly turning to jelly beneath me.

'Where's Sirius? And Snape?' I asked once I could breathe again.

James's brow creased. Snape's down there by the lake, James said, pointing to a lone black haired boy stalking around the edge of the frozen lake.

'And Sirius?'

'Not near him' James said, as if this was a respectable enough answer.

'So?' I asked. Pretty sure that James was not taking this seriously enough. 'I don't think you realise just how angry he was. I've never seen anything like it.

'I'm not saying that he wasn't. And I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear about this, but if he didn't chase after Sniv- Snape' James corrected himself quickly 'then he'll be cooling off by himself somewhere.' I must have looked sceptical because James pulled me up from the floor and into his arms. 'Trust me.'

'I do' I answered simply.

A/N: Wow! Such drama!

Ummmm, yeah so I hated writing the start of this chapter, it was just so terrible, but I want you guys to see the cruel, nasty side of Sirius. Rowling showed us in the series that he wasn't always the happy laughing Sirius that he is with his friends. He does have a cruel streak and I wanted show that, and also show what kind of treatment Snape got at Hogwarts. What would have happened if Lily hadn't been there? It would have been a really humiliating experience. One that never really leaves a person, and even though it doesn't condone Snape's behaviour or personality in the books, it does go some way towards explaining it. Sorry, monologue.

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Anna-Cate xxx