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Sandy! The Rainbow Sunflowers are also a little something I came up with.
A/N: Thanks for all the great reviews! I was quite surprised at the response actually. There are heaps of great Lily/James stories out there and I didn't think mine would be any competition. I'm glad you all think it's worthy.
I thought I should name the Herbology teacher after my own Ancient History teacher considering I write most of this story during her classes. Thanks to Ms. Taseer for having such boring lessons.
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Chapter 5
By lunchtime that day, Lily was feeling much better. She was walking to the Great Hall with Aurora, Faith and the Marauders.
"They're actually being civilised," Aurora whispered to Lily. They both glanced back at the boys. There hadn't been so much as a whisper of a prank from them.
"Makes a nice change," Lily noted.
"See, I told you they're not that bad," Faith said.
"Of course you're gonna say that, you're going out with one of them."
"Yes, Ms. Matheson, that reminds me, what's going on with you and Sirius?" Faith smiled like she already knew anyway.
"Sirius and I? Nothing's going on," Aurora pulled at a strand of her long black hair.
"You touch your hair a lot when you lie," Lily observed keenly.
"I do not!" Aurora forced her hands behind her back.
"Uh-oh," Faith said quietly and stopped walking abruptly.
"What is it?" Lily asked.
Before Faith could answer, Lily had spotted them. Standing in the entrance to the Great Hall was Andrew and Laetitia. They were holding hands.
The group stopped in front of the grinning pair. Lily put her hands on her hips and glared at Andrew.
"You move quickly don't you."
"He wanted a real woman," Laetitia pushed out her chest.
"Lily is more woman than you'll ever be. She doesn't need to go whoring herself to every guy in the school," Aurora leered.
Laetitia shrugged, "I don't hear them complaining."
"How can you be angry at me?" Andrew demanded. "You cheated on me."
"I didn't cheat on you! Snape kissed me!"
"I heard you moaning and groaning like you were having the time of your life."
"It was because he was pushing me up against the wall, not because I was enjoying it!"
"Give him a break, Lily, I doubt he's ever heard a girl make 'those' noises," Sirius said.
Everyone laughed and Andrew turned bright red. Lily thought he resembled a traffic light.
"Let's go to lunch," Faith suggested airily. She'd never been one for confrontation.
"See you all in Herbology," Laetitia smirked.
She walked away with Andrew and a shiver ran down Lily's spine.
"Perhaps insulting Andrew wasn't a good thing to do considering our next class is full of Hufflepuffs," Lily said as they headed for the Gryffindor table.
"They won't try anything while the Marauders are around," Faith said, more to assure herself than Lily.
"Yeah, we'll protect you," Sirius said.
"That's reassuring," Aurora said sarcastically.
After a pleasant (Hufflepuff free) lunch, the Gryffindors headed for the greenhouse. Lily was feeling anxious, Herbology never had been her best subject, plants seemed to hate her and the prospect of facing a group of disgruntled Hufflepuffs wasn't helping either.
Hufflepuffs weren't mean by nature but if one of their housemates is wronged you can expect them to stick by him or her. Andrew, being the most popular boy at Hogwarts, also gained the support of the Ravenclaws. The Slytherins were simply delighted with the revolt against the Gryffindors and were happy enough to sit back and watch.
Lily knew no one believed her story. It wasn't so much that they all believed Snape, more so they believed Andrew. A Prefect and future Head Boy wouldn't lie. Would he?
"Don't let them get to you," James whispered to Lily as they entered the stifling greenhouse.
Lily ignored the glares from the Hufflepuffs and sat at a table with James and Peter. The other four sat at the one behind them.
"Today we'll be repotting the Rainbow Sunflowers!" the Herbology teacher, Professor Taseer, announced enthusiastically.
The class groaned as one, repotting things was always messy and tiring.
"Come and collect your pots, dirt and fertiliser while I go hand out the flowers!"
James and Peter went to collect the dirt and fertiliser so Lily went to get a pot. She grabbed the cleanest one she could but Laetitia snatched it from her. Lily kept her cool and simply grabbed another pot and took it back to the table.
"I know they're planning something," Lily said to James.
Professor Taseer placed a bright blue sunflower in front of them. Peter began to pack dirt into the pot. James turned around to see a few Hufflepuffs huddled around a table, heads bent in whispered conversation.
"Don't worry too much, Hufflepuffs aren't renowned for their intelligence, I doubt they'll be able to come up with an effective plan," James said absently as he peered at the sunflower.
"Remember that you mustn't touch the flower while it is blue!" Professor Taseer yelled and Peter withdrew his hand from the petals quickly.
"When can we touch it again?" James asked Lily.
"While the flower is pink it is safe to touch," she recited from her textbook.
"What about when it's green?" Peter asked.
"When it's green it needs watering and when it's black it's dying," Lily answered.
The students sat and waited patiently for their flowers to turn pink. Lily was calmly reading her textbook when a Hufflepuff girl named Sandy approached Professor Taseer.
"Miss, I'm not feeling very well."
"I give you permission to go see Madam Pomfrey then."
"I don't think I'll make it all the way up there, I'm feeling awfully faint," Sandy fanned herself for dramatic effect.
She was a real drama queen. In fact, she hardly ever shut up. Widely known as the most gullible teacher in Hogwarts, Professor Taseer fell for her act.
"I shall escort Sandy to the hospital wing then. While I am gone I ask that none of you start repotting, even if the colour changes."
Everyone nodded and mumbled. The two of them left and Lily noticed that Sandy had a real spring in her step for someone who was feeling faint. Then Lily had a really bad feeling, she grabbed James urgently.
"What's wrong?" he looked up from the parchment he was scribbling Quidditch plays on.
Before Lily could even speak a clump of manure hit her on the back of the head. She turned around to see the Hufflepuff students laughing hysterically. Laetitia grabbed another handful and walked towards Lily.
"Time to teach you a lesson, Evans," Laetitia hurled the manure at her face.
No sooner had it hit Lily's face than Aurora had come up behind Laetitia and dumped a whole pot full of dirt and manure over her head.
Soon the air was thick with flying manure, dirt, pots, books and pretty much anything the students could grab. A shoe flew past Peter's head and he decided it would be safer to hide under his table.
Sirius threw a stool at Andrew after he'd hit Aurora with a pot. Even Faith and Remus were throwing stuff around.
The fight reached an end when Laetitia, having run out of things to throw, grabbed hold of her sunflower. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on which house you belonged to, the flower was still blue.
As soon as she touched it the whole flower exploded and showered Laetitia and her fellow Hufflepuffs with rainbow powder. Suddenly, they were all multi coloured.
Andrew looked down at his bright pink hand and screamed. Laetitia was tugging at her hair, horrified that her once blonde locks were now a fluro shade of green.
The Gryffindors were in hysterics as the Hufflepuffs tried in vain to rub the colour from themselves.
"It won't wear off for at least 24 hours," Remus informed everyone.
At that moment, Professor Taseer returned. The Gryffindor's immediately stopped laughing and tried to look as innocent as possible.
"My God! What on earth happened?" she shrieked.
Everyone started yelling at the same time. Each group was blaming the other.
"Silence! That's enough!"
It took half an hour to sort everything out. As it was difficult to ascertain who had actually done the most damage it was decided that the whole class would have to clean up the mess. Laetitia would also have to write a thousand word essay on Rainbow Sunflowers.
When everything was finally returned to normal, the group headed back up to Gryffindor Tower to shower before dinner.
"It's going to take ages to get all this dirt out of my hair," Faith complained.
"I'm going to smell like crap for a week now," Lily sighed.
"I think I got some in my mouth," Sirius spat.
"Well, I guess Rory won't be kissing you tonight," James grinned.
"Excuse me?" Aurora exclaimed.
"You two have been sneaking around," he said matter-of-factly.
"Lily May Evans!"
"I might have mentioned it on the way to Transfiguration but I didn't know it was such a big secret," Lily shrugged.
"Well, there is no secret because nothing is going on between us," Aurora said adamantly.
"But I saw the two of you snogging."
"That was nothing. A moment of weakness," she said dismissively.
Sirius was looking on in confusion. He was about to speak but was quickly silenced by Aurora's famous 'shut up or die' look.
"You two would make such a nice couple," Faith said earnestly.
"Can we just drop it?" Aurora snapped at them then stormed up the stairs to her room.
"She's in one of her moods," Peter observed astutely.
"You'll have fun during your detention tonight," Remus said.
Sirius groaned. What was supposed to be an easy detention was now going to be the longest night of his life.
After dinner (which the sixth year Hufflepuffs did not attend) the group went their separate ways. Lily and Faith went back to the Tower to do some study while Peter headed for the fourth floor. James went to the Prefect's Bathroom and Remus went to the Trophy Room.
Sirius and Aurora were marching across the grounds to the storage greenhouse they were to clean out. Aurora was refusing to acknowledge Sirius at all.
"Here you are," Professor Taseer handed them some lamps and candles. "I'll be coming back to check on you every hour or so. Just do as much as you can before eleven. I seriously doubt you'll get it all done tonight so we'll have to arrange another time."
Professor Taseer opened the door for them then went to go make herself a cup of tea.
"Why are you ignoring me?" Sirius asked as they went around lighting lamps and candles.
"I'm not ignoring you, I just think we'll get this done faster if we don't talk."
"Don't give me that crap, you're just ignoring me and I want to know why."
"I'm not in the mood so don't push me," Aurora warned.
"You're never in the mood!" Sirius exclaimed.
"What's that supposed to mean?" she demanded.
"You're so temperamental!"
"Look, it's obvious we're not going to be able to work together so you can just go back and I'll tell Taseer that you're sick."
"There's no way you can do all of this by yourself," Sirius gestured to the mess surrounding them.
"Well, I don't want to fight," Aurora said as she lit the last lamp.
"Neither do I. In fact, I can think of many things I'd rather be doing," Sirius made a grab for her but she slapped him away.
"You touch me and I swear I'll castrate you."
"Castrate me? With what?"
"With my teeth if I have to. Now, help me stack these pots," Aurora began to pick up the scattered pots.
"You're not like other girls," Sirius chuckled.
"You just realised that?"
"Of course not. You're just different. I like different, different is good. You know, I can have any girl in the school."
"Is that so?"
"Well, I'm smart, gorgeous, funny, charming, a Quidditch champion-"
"Don't forget modest," Aurora added.
"And modest of course. What's not to like?"
"A few things spring to mind…" she mumbled.
"That was rhetorical. But out of all the girls here I picked you. Want to know why?"
"Please, Mr. God's-gift-to-the-world, do enlighten me."
"You're special."
"I'm special?" she laughed. Abandoning her pots, she sat on a table in the middle of the room with him.
"Sure. You have this mysteriousness about you that is pretty sexy."
Aurora felt herself blush slightly, "I'm mysterious too?"
"Oh yeah. You're like a pineapple."
"Excuse me? Did you just say pineapple?"
"You have this tough exterior and few people can penetrate it to get to the sweetness inside."
"A pineapple?" she giggled.
"Would you prefer a coconut?"
"You always seem to make me laugh even when I'm in a horrible mood," Aurora smiled.
"So you're not angry at me anymore?"
"I was never angry at you," she rolled her eyes.
"What's wrong then?" Sirius asked.
"You're not exactly known for your long relationships."
"My record is two months and four days," he grinned proudly.
"But I've had enough flings and meaningless relationships. I'm looking for something a little more long term now."
"Long term? I can do long term."
"Don't play with me, Sirius," she sighed.
"I'm not playing. I think it's about time I tried something a little more meaningful. Let's go for it," Sirius grabbed her hand enthusiastically.
"Hold up, cowboy. I haven't agreed to give anything a go," Aurora pulled back slightly.
"Yes you have."
Without another word he leant towards her and captured her lips with his own. Aurora struggled for a second but soon gave in to him. If she had been standing she was certain her knees would have buckled. As it was, her head was spinning relentlessly.
Sirius pushed her back on the table and let his hand slide down to rest on her hip. Aurora ran her fingers through his thick brown hair. With her other hand she pulled him down on top of herself…
Suddenly there was a loud squeal and the sound of breaking ceramic. Sirius rolled off Aurora and they both sat up.
Professor Taseer was standing in the doorway with her mouth hanging open. A broken coffee mug was at her feet.
"Whoops," Sirius murmured.
"What is the meaning of this?" the teacher shrieked.
"We weren't doing anything," Aurora said lamely.
"I was feeling particularly generous and I came back to tell you to forget about the detention and I find you fornicating on my table!"
"We weren't fornicating on anything!"
"Whatever you call it these days, it is not appropriate! Especially on my table!" Professor Taseer was literally shaking with rage.
"Calm down," Sirius said with wide eyes. He was a little alarmed at her reaction.
"Calm down?" she screeched so loudly that the whole castle probably heard. "Shoo! Get off my table, both of you!"
"All right, keep your hair on," both students slid off the table.
"The Headmaster is going to hear about this! The nerve of young people today!"
"We weren't doing anything wrong," Aurora reasoned.
"Of course you were! I saw it clearly with my own two eyes! Never in my life!"
"Let's get out of here," Sirius grabbed Aurora's hand and dragged her past the apoplectic teacher.
They ran across the dew covered grass then finally collapsed on the front steps of the castle. Both out of breath and exhilarated they began to laugh.
"Fornicating," Aurora giggled.
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A/N: Aargh! I can't write kissing scenes! Oh well, I hope the rest of it was all right. I decided I would concentrate on some other couples while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with Lily and James. Expect some Remus/Faith next chapter.
I gave you the longer chapter like I promised so please review! Let's see if we can break 100!
A/N: Thanks for all the great reviews! I was quite surprised at the response actually. There are heaps of great Lily/James stories out there and I didn't think mine would be any competition. I'm glad you all think it's worthy.
I thought I should name the Herbology teacher after my own Ancient History teacher considering I write most of this story during her classes. Thanks to Ms. Taseer for having such boring lessons.
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Chapter 5
By lunchtime that day, Lily was feeling much better. She was walking to the Great Hall with Aurora, Faith and the Marauders.
"They're actually being civilised," Aurora whispered to Lily. They both glanced back at the boys. There hadn't been so much as a whisper of a prank from them.
"Makes a nice change," Lily noted.
"See, I told you they're not that bad," Faith said.
"Of course you're gonna say that, you're going out with one of them."
"Yes, Ms. Matheson, that reminds me, what's going on with you and Sirius?" Faith smiled like she already knew anyway.
"Sirius and I? Nothing's going on," Aurora pulled at a strand of her long black hair.
"You touch your hair a lot when you lie," Lily observed keenly.
"I do not!" Aurora forced her hands behind her back.
"Uh-oh," Faith said quietly and stopped walking abruptly.
"What is it?" Lily asked.
Before Faith could answer, Lily had spotted them. Standing in the entrance to the Great Hall was Andrew and Laetitia. They were holding hands.
The group stopped in front of the grinning pair. Lily put her hands on her hips and glared at Andrew.
"You move quickly don't you."
"He wanted a real woman," Laetitia pushed out her chest.
"Lily is more woman than you'll ever be. She doesn't need to go whoring herself to every guy in the school," Aurora leered.
Laetitia shrugged, "I don't hear them complaining."
"How can you be angry at me?" Andrew demanded. "You cheated on me."
"I didn't cheat on you! Snape kissed me!"
"I heard you moaning and groaning like you were having the time of your life."
"It was because he was pushing me up against the wall, not because I was enjoying it!"
"Give him a break, Lily, I doubt he's ever heard a girl make 'those' noises," Sirius said.
Everyone laughed and Andrew turned bright red. Lily thought he resembled a traffic light.
"Let's go to lunch," Faith suggested airily. She'd never been one for confrontation.
"See you all in Herbology," Laetitia smirked.
She walked away with Andrew and a shiver ran down Lily's spine.
"Perhaps insulting Andrew wasn't a good thing to do considering our next class is full of Hufflepuffs," Lily said as they headed for the Gryffindor table.
"They won't try anything while the Marauders are around," Faith said, more to assure herself than Lily.
"Yeah, we'll protect you," Sirius said.
"That's reassuring," Aurora said sarcastically.
After a pleasant (Hufflepuff free) lunch, the Gryffindors headed for the greenhouse. Lily was feeling anxious, Herbology never had been her best subject, plants seemed to hate her and the prospect of facing a group of disgruntled Hufflepuffs wasn't helping either.
Hufflepuffs weren't mean by nature but if one of their housemates is wronged you can expect them to stick by him or her. Andrew, being the most popular boy at Hogwarts, also gained the support of the Ravenclaws. The Slytherins were simply delighted with the revolt against the Gryffindors and were happy enough to sit back and watch.
Lily knew no one believed her story. It wasn't so much that they all believed Snape, more so they believed Andrew. A Prefect and future Head Boy wouldn't lie. Would he?
"Don't let them get to you," James whispered to Lily as they entered the stifling greenhouse.
Lily ignored the glares from the Hufflepuffs and sat at a table with James and Peter. The other four sat at the one behind them.
"Today we'll be repotting the Rainbow Sunflowers!" the Herbology teacher, Professor Taseer, announced enthusiastically.
The class groaned as one, repotting things was always messy and tiring.
"Come and collect your pots, dirt and fertiliser while I go hand out the flowers!"
James and Peter went to collect the dirt and fertiliser so Lily went to get a pot. She grabbed the cleanest one she could but Laetitia snatched it from her. Lily kept her cool and simply grabbed another pot and took it back to the table.
"I know they're planning something," Lily said to James.
Professor Taseer placed a bright blue sunflower in front of them. Peter began to pack dirt into the pot. James turned around to see a few Hufflepuffs huddled around a table, heads bent in whispered conversation.
"Don't worry too much, Hufflepuffs aren't renowned for their intelligence, I doubt they'll be able to come up with an effective plan," James said absently as he peered at the sunflower.
"Remember that you mustn't touch the flower while it is blue!" Professor Taseer yelled and Peter withdrew his hand from the petals quickly.
"When can we touch it again?" James asked Lily.
"While the flower is pink it is safe to touch," she recited from her textbook.
"What about when it's green?" Peter asked.
"When it's green it needs watering and when it's black it's dying," Lily answered.
The students sat and waited patiently for their flowers to turn pink. Lily was calmly reading her textbook when a Hufflepuff girl named Sandy approached Professor Taseer.
"Miss, I'm not feeling very well."
"I give you permission to go see Madam Pomfrey then."
"I don't think I'll make it all the way up there, I'm feeling awfully faint," Sandy fanned herself for dramatic effect.
She was a real drama queen. In fact, she hardly ever shut up. Widely known as the most gullible teacher in Hogwarts, Professor Taseer fell for her act.
"I shall escort Sandy to the hospital wing then. While I am gone I ask that none of you start repotting, even if the colour changes."
Everyone nodded and mumbled. The two of them left and Lily noticed that Sandy had a real spring in her step for someone who was feeling faint. Then Lily had a really bad feeling, she grabbed James urgently.
"What's wrong?" he looked up from the parchment he was scribbling Quidditch plays on.
Before Lily could even speak a clump of manure hit her on the back of the head. She turned around to see the Hufflepuff students laughing hysterically. Laetitia grabbed another handful and walked towards Lily.
"Time to teach you a lesson, Evans," Laetitia hurled the manure at her face.
No sooner had it hit Lily's face than Aurora had come up behind Laetitia and dumped a whole pot full of dirt and manure over her head.
Soon the air was thick with flying manure, dirt, pots, books and pretty much anything the students could grab. A shoe flew past Peter's head and he decided it would be safer to hide under his table.
Sirius threw a stool at Andrew after he'd hit Aurora with a pot. Even Faith and Remus were throwing stuff around.
The fight reached an end when Laetitia, having run out of things to throw, grabbed hold of her sunflower. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on which house you belonged to, the flower was still blue.
As soon as she touched it the whole flower exploded and showered Laetitia and her fellow Hufflepuffs with rainbow powder. Suddenly, they were all multi coloured.
Andrew looked down at his bright pink hand and screamed. Laetitia was tugging at her hair, horrified that her once blonde locks were now a fluro shade of green.
The Gryffindors were in hysterics as the Hufflepuffs tried in vain to rub the colour from themselves.
"It won't wear off for at least 24 hours," Remus informed everyone.
At that moment, Professor Taseer returned. The Gryffindor's immediately stopped laughing and tried to look as innocent as possible.
"My God! What on earth happened?" she shrieked.
Everyone started yelling at the same time. Each group was blaming the other.
"Silence! That's enough!"
It took half an hour to sort everything out. As it was difficult to ascertain who had actually done the most damage it was decided that the whole class would have to clean up the mess. Laetitia would also have to write a thousand word essay on Rainbow Sunflowers.
When everything was finally returned to normal, the group headed back up to Gryffindor Tower to shower before dinner.
"It's going to take ages to get all this dirt out of my hair," Faith complained.
"I'm going to smell like crap for a week now," Lily sighed.
"I think I got some in my mouth," Sirius spat.
"Well, I guess Rory won't be kissing you tonight," James grinned.
"Excuse me?" Aurora exclaimed.
"You two have been sneaking around," he said matter-of-factly.
"Lily May Evans!"
"I might have mentioned it on the way to Transfiguration but I didn't know it was such a big secret," Lily shrugged.
"Well, there is no secret because nothing is going on between us," Aurora said adamantly.
"But I saw the two of you snogging."
"That was nothing. A moment of weakness," she said dismissively.
Sirius was looking on in confusion. He was about to speak but was quickly silenced by Aurora's famous 'shut up or die' look.
"You two would make such a nice couple," Faith said earnestly.
"Can we just drop it?" Aurora snapped at them then stormed up the stairs to her room.
"She's in one of her moods," Peter observed astutely.
"You'll have fun during your detention tonight," Remus said.
Sirius groaned. What was supposed to be an easy detention was now going to be the longest night of his life.
After dinner (which the sixth year Hufflepuffs did not attend) the group went their separate ways. Lily and Faith went back to the Tower to do some study while Peter headed for the fourth floor. James went to the Prefect's Bathroom and Remus went to the Trophy Room.
Sirius and Aurora were marching across the grounds to the storage greenhouse they were to clean out. Aurora was refusing to acknowledge Sirius at all.
"Here you are," Professor Taseer handed them some lamps and candles. "I'll be coming back to check on you every hour or so. Just do as much as you can before eleven. I seriously doubt you'll get it all done tonight so we'll have to arrange another time."
Professor Taseer opened the door for them then went to go make herself a cup of tea.
"Why are you ignoring me?" Sirius asked as they went around lighting lamps and candles.
"I'm not ignoring you, I just think we'll get this done faster if we don't talk."
"Don't give me that crap, you're just ignoring me and I want to know why."
"I'm not in the mood so don't push me," Aurora warned.
"You're never in the mood!" Sirius exclaimed.
"What's that supposed to mean?" she demanded.
"You're so temperamental!"
"Look, it's obvious we're not going to be able to work together so you can just go back and I'll tell Taseer that you're sick."
"There's no way you can do all of this by yourself," Sirius gestured to the mess surrounding them.
"Well, I don't want to fight," Aurora said as she lit the last lamp.
"Neither do I. In fact, I can think of many things I'd rather be doing," Sirius made a grab for her but she slapped him away.
"You touch me and I swear I'll castrate you."
"Castrate me? With what?"
"With my teeth if I have to. Now, help me stack these pots," Aurora began to pick up the scattered pots.
"You're not like other girls," Sirius chuckled.
"You just realised that?"
"Of course not. You're just different. I like different, different is good. You know, I can have any girl in the school."
"Is that so?"
"Well, I'm smart, gorgeous, funny, charming, a Quidditch champion-"
"Don't forget modest," Aurora added.
"And modest of course. What's not to like?"
"A few things spring to mind…" she mumbled.
"That was rhetorical. But out of all the girls here I picked you. Want to know why?"
"Please, Mr. God's-gift-to-the-world, do enlighten me."
"You're special."
"I'm special?" she laughed. Abandoning her pots, she sat on a table in the middle of the room with him.
"Sure. You have this mysteriousness about you that is pretty sexy."
Aurora felt herself blush slightly, "I'm mysterious too?"
"Oh yeah. You're like a pineapple."
"Excuse me? Did you just say pineapple?"
"You have this tough exterior and few people can penetrate it to get to the sweetness inside."
"A pineapple?" she giggled.
"Would you prefer a coconut?"
"You always seem to make me laugh even when I'm in a horrible mood," Aurora smiled.
"So you're not angry at me anymore?"
"I was never angry at you," she rolled her eyes.
"What's wrong then?" Sirius asked.
"You're not exactly known for your long relationships."
"My record is two months and four days," he grinned proudly.
"But I've had enough flings and meaningless relationships. I'm looking for something a little more long term now."
"Long term? I can do long term."
"Don't play with me, Sirius," she sighed.
"I'm not playing. I think it's about time I tried something a little more meaningful. Let's go for it," Sirius grabbed her hand enthusiastically.
"Hold up, cowboy. I haven't agreed to give anything a go," Aurora pulled back slightly.
"Yes you have."
Without another word he leant towards her and captured her lips with his own. Aurora struggled for a second but soon gave in to him. If she had been standing she was certain her knees would have buckled. As it was, her head was spinning relentlessly.
Sirius pushed her back on the table and let his hand slide down to rest on her hip. Aurora ran her fingers through his thick brown hair. With her other hand she pulled him down on top of herself…
Suddenly there was a loud squeal and the sound of breaking ceramic. Sirius rolled off Aurora and they both sat up.
Professor Taseer was standing in the doorway with her mouth hanging open. A broken coffee mug was at her feet.
"Whoops," Sirius murmured.
"What is the meaning of this?" the teacher shrieked.
"We weren't doing anything," Aurora said lamely.
"I was feeling particularly generous and I came back to tell you to forget about the detention and I find you fornicating on my table!"
"We weren't fornicating on anything!"
"Whatever you call it these days, it is not appropriate! Especially on my table!" Professor Taseer was literally shaking with rage.
"Calm down," Sirius said with wide eyes. He was a little alarmed at her reaction.
"Calm down?" she screeched so loudly that the whole castle probably heard. "Shoo! Get off my table, both of you!"
"All right, keep your hair on," both students slid off the table.
"The Headmaster is going to hear about this! The nerve of young people today!"
"We weren't doing anything wrong," Aurora reasoned.
"Of course you were! I saw it clearly with my own two eyes! Never in my life!"
"Let's get out of here," Sirius grabbed Aurora's hand and dragged her past the apoplectic teacher.
They ran across the dew covered grass then finally collapsed on the front steps of the castle. Both out of breath and exhilarated they began to laugh.
"Fornicating," Aurora giggled.
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A/N: Aargh! I can't write kissing scenes! Oh well, I hope the rest of it was all right. I decided I would concentrate on some other couples while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with Lily and James. Expect some Remus/Faith next chapter.
I gave you the longer chapter like I promised so please review! Let's see if we can break 100!