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The heart to heart
"Is life still a slut?" Sirius asked as Ellie stumbled into the room, she grimaced and stomped over to the table full of rags and polish. She grabbed a handful of old cloth and stormed over to the filthy cages. "Don't ignore me Elladora! Cheer up, it's not that bad." Sirius slithered over to Ellie and grinned down at her
"Don't look at me like that!" Ellie spat, she was here because of Sirius. It was his fault, again.
"Hey, you have detention, with me, on valentines day. Elladora, this will be the best date of your life" Sirius drawled as he edged away from her disappointed.
"Sirius, you got me another detention! Another one!" Ellie moaned as she pulled the tiny animals from the cage and placed them in the bucket. She threw the cage at Sirius – it was foul smelling and disgusting, he could clean it. "And besides, this isn't how I wanted to spend my day, cleaning up crap!"
"It is a pretty sucky date" he stated as he unenthusiastically cleaned the cage
"This isn't a date"
"Oh Ellie, must you break my heart!" he winked, he pulled the rubber gloves off and sat on the floor
"Hey get up, we need to finish these" she gestured to the room of animals and cages and inwardly cried. There were so many.
"Ellie, chill, sit down and give me a snog." He patted the floor beside him
"Sirius, how many time must I tell you, I'd rather kiss-"
"…the giant squid than kiss me, yes, yes, I know, it's like your catchphrase" he laughed and she, in turn, smiled triumphantly. She kicked the cages to the side and sat down beside him.
He flung an arm around her shoulder and pulled her towards him
"Admit it, that prank was beyond brilliance" Sirius laughed
"No, no, I refuse to divulge in your stupidity. I was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time" She cried
"Well, it would've been amazing if we didn't get caught"
"We?!" she protested glaring at him. His shaggy hair fell into his grey eyes as he chuckled roughly; he pulled her closer and squeezed her briefly
"I thought you don't hug" she drawled
"It's not really a hug, but, I don't know Elladora, if you want a hug…" he chuckled wrapping his other arm around her also
"Yeah, yeah, get off now!" she snarled struggling from his embrace
He let out his hearty laugh and pulled out a pumpkin pasty, broke it in half and handed her some
"Why do you always have food? And why is it always pumpkin pasties?"
"Hey, I'm a growing boy! And besides, they're delicious. I'm also thinking of avoiding dinner tonight. I don't fancy eating pink food." He grimaced, she thought back to last years February 14th, the mashed potato was dyed an unattractive cherry colour.
"Valentines sucks" she sighed before biting into her food
"I disagree, it doesn't suck when you have someone, and it only sucks when your company is Peter moaning and James crying over Lily. That, Elladora, is when it sucks." They sat in silence for a while, chewing quietly on their food. Ellie glanced around the room frowning at the detention punishment. Really, she didn't do anything! Professor Rayners was just sadistic and hated Gryffindors. Ellie had literally emerged from the library when he pounced; he assumed she was an accomplice to a puffed out, red faced Sirius, which of course she wasn't. She was busy pouring her soul into transfiguration.
"How's the studying?" Sirius asked uninterested. Was he reading her mind?
"Depressing and painful, but what you going to do?" she shrugged
"I could always try out this spell I found, it helps people concentrate and-"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Like I'd trust you to put any sort of spell on me!"
"Oh but I already have Elladora, my charm makes your knees weak, admit it!" he roared proudly
"Not really. I'm only here for the food. You always seem to be busting out the pasties."
"Ah yes, I forget, the way to Elladora Aldern's heart is through her stomach." Sirius joked prodding Ellie's stomach. She batted away his hand laughing. She liked this, she felt she talk to him about anything, so she decided to do it. Take a leap of faith and ask him something which she had pondered on for months, something rather personal and something she knew he wouldn't answer.
"Sirius, you know how we're friends" she started cautiously
"Oh Elladora, I see us more than that, I see us as two beautiful dark haired beauties who will inevitably-"
"Shut up Sirius!" she laughed "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure!" he smiled welcomingly
"What…what happened over summer…?"
He puffed out air from his cheeks and brought his hand to his hair his running his fingers through the long locks. Clearing his throat tensely then sighing. It's quite odd how someone's emotions can change in a split second.
"Not much really, I ran away." He shrugged
"SO not what I meant."
"I know what you meant," he growled softly "but nothing…really happened."
"Sirius, at the Potter's, your…your face." She whispered, the image of what seemed like a pretty broken Sirius flooded into her mind and she shuddered beside him
He patted her leg gently and smiled, "nothing, Ellie, really."
"Well that's obviously a lie, Sirius!" her voice shot out bitter "I was there. At the beginning anyway."
He sighed again, it wasn't angry or annoyed, it just sounded defeated
"Ellie, really, please. It's nothing to dwell on. I've told you before, the Blacks aren't very nice people. Trying to understand them is like trying to understand ancient runes when drunk – near impossible"
"You're difficult to understand" she stated wearily. She shyly looked at him and was surprised to see him smiling. And it was true. He was. He was mysterious and moody and moaning and groaning constantly. He grinned then scowled, he laughed then shouted. Sirius was odd.
"Your father is a ghastly bully. He hit you and, and-" she couldn't finish, she didn't know what to say
"I got over it. It's fine, Elladora, really. Don't look so frightened, all is well" he smiled weakly before letting the fake emotion melt from his face
"You didn't deserve that"
"Well what can I say Elladora, I'm a pretty damaged person…but we all have baggage, we all have skeletons. It's fine really." He fiddled with his belt buckle. She didn't know how to reply, he was right after all. We all were damaged, but she didn't really know anyone who was nearly as damaged as Sirius Black. She linked her arm with his and shuffled closer, she laid her head on his shoulder and sighed. It was comforting. For both of them.
"Now can I tell you something?"
"If you must" she dramatically sighed
Ellie raised her head allowing Sirius to shuffle his bum to his bag and pull out a large book, it was wrapped in thick velvet and Ellie involuntarily laughed "Ah, the book" he shuffled back and sat snugly next to her
"Yup! The book, just listen okay?"
"Sure" she shrugged
"Page 457, Marius Aldern, born…" he calmly spoke, Ellie tensed beside him; she laughed slightly shocked then stared at him
"What?"
"Listen."
She swiped at the book but he leant away "What are you doing?" her voice was uneasy, she didn't like this.
"Helping, so Marius…"
"Stop." She snapped, her eyes darting from his face to the dusty book, he looked at her blankly
"Elladora, you can't keep running from your past! It's obviously playing on your mind all the time. That's why your grades are slipping, you're concentrating on your family past and I want to help!" he looked back to the book and turned the page, he ran his finger across the smooth page as if looking for something he knew was there.
"I am not upset!" she argued
"Oh okay then!" he scoffed, this only infuriated her even more
"I don't need to know about them. Jesus Christ." she muttered beside him
He ignored her and continued searching for a line
"I know it's here someone, aha! Marius Aldern born September 3rd 1934 in Kent, he-" Ellie ignored his statement and silently clambered up, she scuttled towards the door and fumbled with the handle for a good minute before Sirius exclaimed
"I don't need this right now, I'm tired and I have revision and" she didn't finished, it suddenly dawned on her – she turned fast and fled towards Sirius, looming over him dangerously she waggled her finger at him "hey! So that's why you were being all secretive, hiding the book, refusing to let me see it, you were going behind my back-"
"Behind you back? I wouldn't go that far." He closed the book gently, placed it to his side carefully and climbed up standing face to face with Ellie
"I don't want to know about them" …just yet anyway
"You said you did"
"I said maybe. Maybe I might research them. Maybe I'm a little curious. But like this? No" she waved her arms around, as if the movement would help her convey her message
"Stop being babyish" he grinned
She scowled "I'm not."
"Ellie" he put his hands on her shoulder and shook her gently
"No. I have my family"
He dropped his hands and raised them to the back of his head, he growled and staggered away from the girl "See, this is where you are contradicting yourself!" he wasn't mean or rude, just exasperated "You say you don't need the Alderns, that you have your parents. But then I find you in the library getting flustered over your past and then at the Christmas party. You find out vital names and you don't even act upon them? Mental!" he shook his head and ruffled his hand through his hair yet again.
He was right of course; she had been contradicting herself ever since she found out about the Alderns. But she couldn't help it, it was a scary idea! She glared at him mockingly, hoping this wouldn't turn into a full blown argument like it had done so many times beforehand. She shrugged and smiled weakly at him
"Let's just forget about it, so, erm, tell me about this prank"
"No! You need to make up your mind!" he shot back
"Yeah, you're right. So how about you don't try and make it up for me, okay?" she shouted "forget about the Alderns, okay. Just forget."
"I don't see how that's possible, seeing as I know nearly everything about them! I've read books upon-"
"I never asked you to do that!"
"Okay so now you're freaking out over nothing?" he asked bewildered.
Fed up of the whole confrontation, Ellie darted to the door, yanked open it and fled into the hall way. She stormed to nowhere in particular and sulked on the way. No way was she going to get upset about nothing in front of Sirius Black.
"Ellie! Come on! Ell!" Sirius' called from the room. Ellie sped up and without turning back, yelled:
"You're an arsehole and you infuriate me every time. I hope the giant squid eats your face!" without stopping she turned the corner and skulked off away from the unmistakable rough chuckle of Sirius.
A/N: Okay so the ending isn't as cool/sweet/funny/whatever as I wanted it to be but oh well :) I enjoyed writing this, I needed a sweet Ellie and Sirius conversation which would obviously lead to an argument :'). I haven't started the next chapter yet as I have exams…*cries self to sleep* but I hope to update as soon as possible. Thank you for reading, and let me know what you think of the chapter! ^-^
