Twisted Fate Of Strange... chapter 3.
(A/N) Disclaimer: Ummm, the usual, I don't own the people in the published books, but i do own everyone else.
The next two days went pretty quickly, Sirius learned how to play many sports including, football, baseball, hockey, badminton, tennis, golf and various card games which he had forgotten over his Hogwarts Quidditch years.
When school started up again, Sirius was started in grade 10. His first class was Geography, in which he made his first friend.
"Hey, is anyone sitting here?" Said a boy with brown hair who was standing beside the desk next to Sirius.
"Nah, go right ahead." Said Sirius, moving his binder off the desktop to make room for the boy. "What's your name?"
"Scott Pasco." The boy replied, sitting down. (A/N Yeah Lexa, I know.) "You're new aren't you?"
"Yup. Sirius Black. How'd you know?"
"Well I'm on student council, so I make a point of noticing people. Say! Black! Are you in any way related to Pandora and Angora Black?"
"Yeah they're my cousins. I umm.. just moved here."
"Really? I always thought that their Aunt and Uncle lived with them, and their two cousins." Stated Scott in a puzzled tone.
"Ummm, well I meant that I just moved here, I was going to boarding school before, and now I've come back to stay with my family for a while." Said Sirius, sighing with relief at the plausible excuse he had come up with.
"Oh. I understand." Said Scott, opening his notebook and showing Sirius a picture of Angora and Scott sitting together on a winter day. It would have been lovely, with Angora's hair lightly catching the snow, and Scott's happy smile, but Sirius thought that Scott didn't know what he was getting into.
"Is she you're girlfriend?" Asked Sirius, opening his own notebook as the teacher came in.
"Yeah, for two weeks now!" Whispered Scott happily as the teacher began talking and they both had to stop talking in order to take notes.
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At lunch, Sirius had an eighty minute break, so he went to find Pandora or Lexa, so he could figure out what to do. He rounded a corner of the school building, only to see a thin alleyway between the school and a portable. He heard a noise inside and decided to see what it was. Sirius hadn't got six steps down the alley when he tripped over something on the ground and sprawled on his face.
"Ow!" The something exclaimed, then, "Oh my gosh! Sirius! Are you okay?"
It was Lexa. She had some strange objects in her hands that he didn't recognize. And why was she inside this alley? Damn! He couldn't even see his arms in here!
"What are you in here for?" He asked Lexa, flipping out his pocket flashlight. "And what're those?"
"Oh. Ummm, well I'll tell you later." She blushed. "What are you doing here?"
"Well I was looking for someone i know, when i heard noises coming from this alley so I decided to check it out." He said.
She got up and brushed herself off. "Well let's go find Pandora. She's probably looking for one, or both of us right now. Have you had lunch?"
"Nah." He replied, wondering why he hadn't remembered lunch. He was usually a big eater.
"Okay. We'll find Pandora and then go and get pizza, there's a good place near here. Good?"
"Fine to me." He agreed, and they set off to look for his cousin.
Pandora was sitting on a bench, talking to some guy with red hair when Sirius and Lexa found her.
"Hey guys!" She said, "This is Joseph Weasley, his dad is our family accountant."
"Weasley?" Asked Sirius curiously, "Any relation to Arthur?"
"Yeah. He's my cousin." Said Joseph, looking kind of uncomfortable. "Are you...?"
"Yeah. Said Sirius, presuming he meant magical.
Lexa was giving them both funny looks, so Sirius said, "Okay! I'm really hungry, let's go get some of that pizza!"
Pandora laughed, remembering his huge appetite, and they all walked off to get lunch, busily talking about classes, friends, teachers and other things teens talk about on sunny march days.
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In music class, in the afternoon, they were assigned seats. The teacher calmly informed him that since she was having trouble separating two students, he would be sitting between them. Great. Now he would have people leaning over him all class, and plus, he discovered he was the worst music-oriented person he had ever come across.
'Well for starters, I believe that the mouth-piece goes facing the back, not the front.' Jeremy put in, pretending to be helpful, but Sirius could swear he was trying to keep from laughing.
'You believe, muggle-boy? Ha! I'd like to see you play the clarinet! It's not as easy as it looks you know!' Sirius retorted, trying to comprehend what the teacher was saying about reed vibrations, and clear notes.
'Well, a) I no longer have a physical body, so you can't see me, and b) When I did have a body, I played in national concerts on the bass clarinet. So don't you be complaining Sirius sweetie.' Said Jeremy in return, and Sirius could almost see a face smiling sweetly at him from his mind.
'Stupid smart kid. C'mon I'm having a really bad day here! Stop making it worse!'
'I don't....' Jeremy's reply was cut off by the sound of a girl speaking.
"Hello! You're the new guy, aren't you? It figures that stupid Mrs. Cann would separate me and darling Vernon! He's my boyfriend you see? And well, we would.. distract each other a bit in class, and so she put a seat in between us, but that didn't work so now there's a person in between us! And that's you. My name is Petunia by the way, what's yours?" The girl said this extremely fast, and he didn't catch quite all of it, but he did here the last part and so he replied:
"Sirius, Sirius Black." He was a bit overwhelmed by her vocal speed, and wasn't quite prepared for the next statement.
"Sirius, huh? My sister Lily is dating someone called Sirius!" Petunia said casually, bringing her flute back up to her mouth.
*CRASH*! Sirius hit the floor. 'Lily! Jeremy! Help me! I forgot all about Lily!'
'Oops, bad, bad Sirius. And how awful, especially with those thoughts about the Lexa girl... tsk tsk!" Jeremy said, obviously very pleased with the uncomfortable position Sirius was in.
"Sirius?" Petunia was saying, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm just fine, chair must be faulty. Lily? Does she go to this school?" He said, trying to act like he had no idea who Lily was.
"Oh no! Of course not, well I don't tell this to most people.." Petunia leaned close to his ear, and he froze, wondering if she had been telling people Hogwarts' secret, and praying she hadn't. "She's kind of the disappointment of the family, you see, we had to send her to a special school because she's mentally retarded!"
"You don't say!" Said Sirius, pretending to be shocked, but secretly relieved, "Well I would never have guessed! Not with the amazing intelligence of her sister!"
Petunia grinned happily, flipping her strawberry-blond hair over her shoulder, "Well most people are surprised that way I guess, I think we'll be good friends Sirius."
"I hope so!" He said, forcing himself to smile, but inwardly thinking, 'Dammit! She can never ever find out that I'm Lily's Sirius! What if she tells Lily I've been flirting behind her back! I'll never live it down! I know! I'll owl James the second I get home, and ask him if Lily is playing as well!'
'Nice decision Einstein.' Said Jeremy sarcastically, 'You know, you could have just asked me, I probably would have come up with that solution or a better one much faster than you did.'
'Yeah yeah. But what it really comes down to is would you have told me?' Said Sirius pointedly.
'Now that is the most intelligent deduction you've made today Watson.' Said Jeremy, with a failure of a British accent.
'Thank you! Thank you very much!' Said Sirius, leaning back to untangle his clarinet from his chair and falling over again. 'Yes, I am good.'
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A/N Yeah yeah, I know it's Molly's cousin who is the accountant, but I couldn't figure out how to make the names match up any other way.
(A/N) Disclaimer: Ummm, the usual, I don't own the people in the published books, but i do own everyone else.
The next two days went pretty quickly, Sirius learned how to play many sports including, football, baseball, hockey, badminton, tennis, golf and various card games which he had forgotten over his Hogwarts Quidditch years.
When school started up again, Sirius was started in grade 10. His first class was Geography, in which he made his first friend.
"Hey, is anyone sitting here?" Said a boy with brown hair who was standing beside the desk next to Sirius.
"Nah, go right ahead." Said Sirius, moving his binder off the desktop to make room for the boy. "What's your name?"
"Scott Pasco." The boy replied, sitting down. (A/N Yeah Lexa, I know.) "You're new aren't you?"
"Yup. Sirius Black. How'd you know?"
"Well I'm on student council, so I make a point of noticing people. Say! Black! Are you in any way related to Pandora and Angora Black?"
"Yeah they're my cousins. I umm.. just moved here."
"Really? I always thought that their Aunt and Uncle lived with them, and their two cousins." Stated Scott in a puzzled tone.
"Ummm, well I meant that I just moved here, I was going to boarding school before, and now I've come back to stay with my family for a while." Said Sirius, sighing with relief at the plausible excuse he had come up with.
"Oh. I understand." Said Scott, opening his notebook and showing Sirius a picture of Angora and Scott sitting together on a winter day. It would have been lovely, with Angora's hair lightly catching the snow, and Scott's happy smile, but Sirius thought that Scott didn't know what he was getting into.
"Is she you're girlfriend?" Asked Sirius, opening his own notebook as the teacher came in.
"Yeah, for two weeks now!" Whispered Scott happily as the teacher began talking and they both had to stop talking in order to take notes.
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At lunch, Sirius had an eighty minute break, so he went to find Pandora or Lexa, so he could figure out what to do. He rounded a corner of the school building, only to see a thin alleyway between the school and a portable. He heard a noise inside and decided to see what it was. Sirius hadn't got six steps down the alley when he tripped over something on the ground and sprawled on his face.
"Ow!" The something exclaimed, then, "Oh my gosh! Sirius! Are you okay?"
It was Lexa. She had some strange objects in her hands that he didn't recognize. And why was she inside this alley? Damn! He couldn't even see his arms in here!
"What are you in here for?" He asked Lexa, flipping out his pocket flashlight. "And what're those?"
"Oh. Ummm, well I'll tell you later." She blushed. "What are you doing here?"
"Well I was looking for someone i know, when i heard noises coming from this alley so I decided to check it out." He said.
She got up and brushed herself off. "Well let's go find Pandora. She's probably looking for one, or both of us right now. Have you had lunch?"
"Nah." He replied, wondering why he hadn't remembered lunch. He was usually a big eater.
"Okay. We'll find Pandora and then go and get pizza, there's a good place near here. Good?"
"Fine to me." He agreed, and they set off to look for his cousin.
Pandora was sitting on a bench, talking to some guy with red hair when Sirius and Lexa found her.
"Hey guys!" She said, "This is Joseph Weasley, his dad is our family accountant."
"Weasley?" Asked Sirius curiously, "Any relation to Arthur?"
"Yeah. He's my cousin." Said Joseph, looking kind of uncomfortable. "Are you...?"
"Yeah. Said Sirius, presuming he meant magical.
Lexa was giving them both funny looks, so Sirius said, "Okay! I'm really hungry, let's go get some of that pizza!"
Pandora laughed, remembering his huge appetite, and they all walked off to get lunch, busily talking about classes, friends, teachers and other things teens talk about on sunny march days.
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In music class, in the afternoon, they were assigned seats. The teacher calmly informed him that since she was having trouble separating two students, he would be sitting between them. Great. Now he would have people leaning over him all class, and plus, he discovered he was the worst music-oriented person he had ever come across.
'Well for starters, I believe that the mouth-piece goes facing the back, not the front.' Jeremy put in, pretending to be helpful, but Sirius could swear he was trying to keep from laughing.
'You believe, muggle-boy? Ha! I'd like to see you play the clarinet! It's not as easy as it looks you know!' Sirius retorted, trying to comprehend what the teacher was saying about reed vibrations, and clear notes.
'Well, a) I no longer have a physical body, so you can't see me, and b) When I did have a body, I played in national concerts on the bass clarinet. So don't you be complaining Sirius sweetie.' Said Jeremy in return, and Sirius could almost see a face smiling sweetly at him from his mind.
'Stupid smart kid. C'mon I'm having a really bad day here! Stop making it worse!'
'I don't....' Jeremy's reply was cut off by the sound of a girl speaking.
"Hello! You're the new guy, aren't you? It figures that stupid Mrs. Cann would separate me and darling Vernon! He's my boyfriend you see? And well, we would.. distract each other a bit in class, and so she put a seat in between us, but that didn't work so now there's a person in between us! And that's you. My name is Petunia by the way, what's yours?" The girl said this extremely fast, and he didn't catch quite all of it, but he did here the last part and so he replied:
"Sirius, Sirius Black." He was a bit overwhelmed by her vocal speed, and wasn't quite prepared for the next statement.
"Sirius, huh? My sister Lily is dating someone called Sirius!" Petunia said casually, bringing her flute back up to her mouth.
*CRASH*! Sirius hit the floor. 'Lily! Jeremy! Help me! I forgot all about Lily!'
'Oops, bad, bad Sirius. And how awful, especially with those thoughts about the Lexa girl... tsk tsk!" Jeremy said, obviously very pleased with the uncomfortable position Sirius was in.
"Sirius?" Petunia was saying, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm just fine, chair must be faulty. Lily? Does she go to this school?" He said, trying to act like he had no idea who Lily was.
"Oh no! Of course not, well I don't tell this to most people.." Petunia leaned close to his ear, and he froze, wondering if she had been telling people Hogwarts' secret, and praying she hadn't. "She's kind of the disappointment of the family, you see, we had to send her to a special school because she's mentally retarded!"
"You don't say!" Said Sirius, pretending to be shocked, but secretly relieved, "Well I would never have guessed! Not with the amazing intelligence of her sister!"
Petunia grinned happily, flipping her strawberry-blond hair over her shoulder, "Well most people are surprised that way I guess, I think we'll be good friends Sirius."
"I hope so!" He said, forcing himself to smile, but inwardly thinking, 'Dammit! She can never ever find out that I'm Lily's Sirius! What if she tells Lily I've been flirting behind her back! I'll never live it down! I know! I'll owl James the second I get home, and ask him if Lily is playing as well!'
'Nice decision Einstein.' Said Jeremy sarcastically, 'You know, you could have just asked me, I probably would have come up with that solution or a better one much faster than you did.'
'Yeah yeah. But what it really comes down to is would you have told me?' Said Sirius pointedly.
'Now that is the most intelligent deduction you've made today Watson.' Said Jeremy, with a failure of a British accent.
'Thank you! Thank you very much!' Said Sirius, leaning back to untangle his clarinet from his chair and falling over again. 'Yes, I am good.'
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A/N Yeah yeah, I know it's Molly's cousin who is the accountant, but I couldn't figure out how to make the names match up any other way.