Author Notes: I swear it gets better…
Chapter 2: Hidden to Hear
"Password?" The Fat Lady asked politely.
"Balderdash." Vanora huffed.
The painting swung open and Vanora walked through the portal and she stopped inside and saw all the Gryffindors sitting around. She walked over to the library section of the Commons Room, and turned on a lamp that was on a table and sat down. She placed her large book on the table, she took off her cloak and placed it on the back of her chair, sat down, and flipped a couple of pages till she was on the page she had left off.
"Is this spot taken?" A voice whispered, as they pulled the chair, across from Vanora, out.
"No," Vanora waved her hand, not taking her eyes off of her book, "go ahead."
There was an awkward silence between Vanora and the stranger, but Vanora didn't mind, she was to caught up in her book.
"I understand you probably don't want to talk to me," the stranger whispered, "I understand that, because of how I acted."
Vanora stopped reading and slowly lowered her book, and saw Sirius sitting across from her. "What are you doing here?" Vanora whispered, as she set her book down on the table and closed it.
"Um…I'm a Gryffindor and this is the Gryffindor Commons Room." Sirius laughed.
"I meant, why are you sitting here talking to me?"
"Because I'm apologizing," Sirius smirked, "do you always take apologies this well?"
"There's only one way to truly apologize to me." Vanora smiled, slyly.
"And that would be?" Sirius asked nervously.
"Tell me why you're jealous of James Potter." Vanora smirked.
"How'd I know that, that was what you'd want?" Sirius huffed under his breath. "Ok I'll tell you," Vanora's eyes lit up with joy, "but not here."
"Then where?" Vanora asked nervously.
Sirius laid his hand on the cold wooden table, "Take my hand and I'll show you."
Vanora stared at Sirius palm, and stared at every ridge and crack in his palm, as if she was reading it; reading to see if he could be trusted. She slowly slid her hand across the table, and into his palm, "Alright."
Sirius curled his fingers in Vanora's and stood up, making Vanora stand too. He quickly led her out of the portal and down the Gryffindor hallway, till they came upon the rotating stairs, "Where are you taking me?" Vanora snapped.
"You'll see." Sirius flashed a quick smiled to Vanora and then led her down the rotating stairs, passed the Great Hall, and into the dungeons.
Sirius whipped his head from side-to-side reading each door, as if he was trying to find a certain door. Sirius ran down to the end of the hallway and stopped in the middle. "What are you…"
"Shhh!" Sirius hissed, "I hear something."
Vanora listened herself, and heard footsteps and muttering, "Someone's coming." Vanora whispered.
Sirius nodded his head an pulled Vanora down a long hallway and then they came to a dead end, "Oh great," Vanora whispered loudly, as she threw her hands in the air, "a dead end…that's all we need."
"Shhh, calm down." Sirius pulled Vanora closer to his muscular body, "just stay quiet."
Vanora looked up at Sirius, as if he was crazy but she saw the determination in his eyes, He's up to something. Vanora thought.
Sirius backed up against the wall and quickly turned Vanora and himself around. He let go of Vanora and pulled out his wand. He tapped the cold stonewall in five spots, making the shape of a pentagon. Vanora watched in amazement as the stone slowly blurred and then went back to normal. "Quickly go through." Sirius whispered.
"What?!" Vanora looked up at Sirius in fear.
"Trust me."
"I've trusted you, and you've led me to get caught." Vanora gasped.
"Sorry Vanora," Sirius held his head low, and placed his hand on her back.
"It's ok Sirius it was a good…" Sirius pushed Vanora's back, and pushed her threw the stonewall, and then he followed behind her.
Vanora fell onto the ground, and then looked up at the Sirius, who was towering over her, "What the hell was that for?" Vanora barked, as she slowly stood up.
"I wasn't expecting you to fall," Sirius bent down and helped her up, "James, Remus, Peter, and I discovered this room, when we were running from the Caretaker."
Vanora looked around the room, and it was all stone everywhere except for one wall; the wall she passed through. That wall was a slightly burred image of the outside hallway she had just run down. She watched as two Slytherin boys walked down the hallway and stood in front of the wall. They both were wearing long black robes with the Slytherin crest printed on their chest. One had long white-blonde hair, and the other one had long greasy black hair.
"Can they see us?" Vanora asked as she waved her hands at the two boys.
"No." Sirius said coldly.
"What's up your shorts?" Vanora laughed.
"Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape." He hissed as he stared at the two boys.
"Oh." Vanora laughed, as she stared back at the boys who soon walked away from the wall.
Vanora heard a strike of a match, and she turned around to find Sirius cupping a match inside his hands, and carefully moving towards a hanging lantern, on the wall. He started to try to lift the glass up by himself, but Vanora quickly ran over, "Let me help you." She smiled, as she picked the glass up and watched Sirius placed the flame to the wick, and set it on fire, and she set he glass back down.
"Thank you." Sirius smiled, as he looked around the room, which was slightly lighter.
"The least I could do." Vanora smiled back.
"It's not much," Sirius nodded, as he looked around the room, "but it's a good meeting place." He chuckled.
"Well all you need is some…"
"Please Vanora…I thought you were different then the other girls." Sirius begged.
"What do you mean?"
"Please don't tell me you were going to say some "homey touches"?" Sirius asked nervously.
"Oh Merlin no!" Vanora gasped, and then began to laugh, "I was actually going to say some chairs, and maybe a table," Vanora smiled, as she looked around the room and pictured some chairs and a table in the middle, "but defiantly chairs." She smiled.
"Well," Sirius turned around and then turned back around holding two crates, "we do have crates to sit on."
"Better then nothing." Vanora laughed, as she took a crate and set it down by the wall by the hanging lantern. Sirius followed Vanora's lead and set his crate down across from her, but by the same cold wall.
They both sat down and looked at each other, "So can you now tell me why you're jealous of James Potter?"
"I can tell you," Sirius took in a deep breath…