By Gaz Destiny
"Sirius," Rena said running through the dungeon halls to catch up to Sirius, which she did rather easily.
"What?" Sirius answered somewhat coldly.
"I deserved that, didn't I?" Rena said glancing briefly at her feet before looking Sirius in the eye. "I heard from James that you were having trouble with elemental charms.
"Yeah," Sirius said staring at her as if there were something different (bad) about her, which there probably was.
"I'll help you," Rena said. "I'm really good at them, and well, I kinda wanna be close to friends, and I'm hoping this will make up for me being so mean yesterday. I'm kind of hoping that we could at least be friends."
"Ok," Sirius said a little reluctantly.
"There you are, Rena," Lucas's voice said echoing in the hall as he, Tom, Crabbe, and Goyal walked toward them. "Tom, here says that you were talking about me last night."
"Now why would I be talking about you, when I got my own group of boys to talk about?" Rena said with a mock southern US accent. "You wouldn't be tellin' lies about me, Tom, now would you? You know I don't like it when people say bad things about me."
"Yes," Tom said with a smirk. "Nimrod."
"What was that? I don't think I heard you correctly," Rena said in her normal voice quickly grabbing him by the throat and holding him several feet off the ground against the wall.
"It's happening to you, too," Tom somehow managed to say even though Rena was cutting off air.
Rena suddenly let him go from the death grip, letting him fall to the ground. Rena practically collapsed gripping her head. Tom, immediately got up and backed away from her. Much to Rena's displeasure, Lucas chose that moment to come up to her and pretend to comfort her.
"GO AWAY!" Rena said in a low growl-ish voice.
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"What was that about?" Sirius asked a few minutes later after the Slytherins had finally gone silently.
"It was nothing really, just family things," Rena said pushing what had just happened out of her mind for the time being. "Um, could you do me a little favor?"
"Like what?" Sirius asked prepared to say no.
"Could you keep him away from me?" Rena said as they started walking down the hall again.
"Who, Lucas?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, him, too," Rena said as they entered the entrance hall.
"Alright," Sirius said giving in to his want to help her.
"Thanks," Rena replied as soft smile playing on her lips.
"You're welcome," Sirius said. "We'd better hurry or we'll miss dinner."
"You're right of course," Rena said before they picked up speed and ran to the Great Hall, making it in time to have just a little something to eat and surprise the rest of the Marauders that they were together.
~*~1 Week Later~*~
"I don't get this," Sirius repeted for the hundredth time that day as he and Rena leaned over the elemental charm homework at one of the tables in the library.
"Here for this you're supposed to write something that would get someone out of a cage," Rena said looking up from the parchment. "First find out what element would help with that? Just go right through the list, fire, air, water, and earth."
"Fire, um, we can't use that because it would make the bars to hot and possibly burn the person in the cage or jail," Sirius said. "Air, we could probably use that."
"Good," Rena said nodding her head. "Keep going anyways, there could be a better one."
"Water, we could end up drowning everyone including ourselves," Sirius said. "And earth, we could end up killing ourselves if the right things aren't said. So air is the best one."
"Right," Rena said with a smile. "Now the actual writing of it is hard-."
"I got that part. It was the element part where you have to pick the right one," Sirius interrupted.
"Then write one, you have 30 seconds," Rena said. then, seeing the look Sirius gave her, she added, "Don't argue it or you'll waist your time."
"Power of air, free this prisoner, element of the just and fair, let him stay in jail no more," Sirius recited.
"Good, and 15 seconds to go, too," Rena said picking up a quill and handing it to him. "Now write it down or you won't get credit for it."
"Now what do we do?" Sirius asked after he had written the charm down.
"Nothing, at least for now," Rena said with a smile.
"That's cool," Sirius said gathering the pieces of parchment and quills from the table and shoving them into his bag.
"Uh, I was wondering, if you could teach me how to, um, fly a broom," Rena said in almost a whisper.
"You don't know how?" Sirius asked surprised.
"Shh, and no," Rena whispered. "I never got a chance to learn. What with transfer the only thing I need to get from one place to another."
"You mean Apparating?" Sirius asked to make sure he had heard her right.
"No, I mean transfer. It's just a few seconds quicker than Apparating, and it's all that we of the assembly can do, Apparating is more of a waist of time for us," Rena said scrunching up her face.
"What about using a broom?" Sirius asked.
"That was a thing of the past over a hundred years ago," Rena said softly. "So you see why I haven't learned."
"Yeah," Sirius said slinging his bag over his shoulder. "I'll teach you. What time is it? I have to meet James and the others at four."
"Shoot, it's two already," Rena said looking down at her watch. "I have to go, training. Maybe some other time."
"Yeah, maybe some other time," Sirius said as Rena grabbed her bag. "Bye."
"Bye," she called over her shoulder as she ran at an inhuman speed out of the room.
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Hope you liked that…it took me a while to write.
Gaz Destiny