Chapter 26 - Fun at Diagon Alley
Finally, Tuesday, August 21, had arrived! And any moment, everybody would be meeting up in the Leaky Cauldron for a drink before going shopping.
Lily arrived first, wearing black jeans, to fit into the English climate, a white scoop neck sweater, and a black wizards robe, and found a large booth for them all to sit at. Next to arrive was Aria, who was wearing white pants and a dark blue turtle neck sweater and was sporting a navy blue robe to match, and she spotted Lily within a second, and with a cry of joy ran for her and enveloped her in a giant hug. "I missed you Hunter!" she cried out. Lily chuckled and eased out of the embrace.
"I missed you too, Aradriana," she said with a smile.
Just then, a scream. "Lily! Aria! James! Sirius! Remus! Any of you here yet?"
Lily and Aria turned towards the noise with a grin. "Pouncy!" Lily yelled out, causing everyone in the room to look at the three girls with glowering glances for being so loud. They didn't see or feel them though, they were used to being looked at weirdly for being so loud.
Kayla skipped over to her friends and sat on Lily's lap, hugged her, then dragged Aria down by the neck to hug her.
Lily looked at Kayla's outfit of red pants, black shirt, and a black robe and smiled. She always did like those colors for some reason.
"So, how was your summer?" Kayla asked as she scooted off Lily's lap into the space besides her.
"Boring!" Lily and Aria cried out together.
Kayla looked at them and muttered, "Damn!" Lily looked at her friend, then looked around to see if there was anyone who would evoke such a comment out of her mouth. After finding no one, she turned back to her friend with a raised eyebrow.
Kayla blushed a pretty pink and said, "I was hoping that someone could tell me something exciting that they did this summer, as mine was colossally boring."
"Nope, can't say that I've had any better luck than you," a male voice sounded from behind the three girls who were sitting on the same bench.
They turned around to see James standing there with a grin, and Peter looking grumpily on.
"James!" Lily cried in excitement upon seeing her boyfriend standing there looking as handsome as ever in dark blue pants and a simple white shirt with a black robe thrown carelessly over his big, strong shoulders. She put her knees on the bench and turned fully around to face him. She leaned over the backing of the booth and kissed him quickly, not wanting the elders to see. Lily pulled back and grinned.
"What, no girls?" she asked. James stuck his tongue out at her, made his way to the other side, and sat down.
Peter pulled a chair over to the table and sat down at the corner, not wanting to be across from any of the girls. They would probably just end up kicking him the whole time if he did.
Aria, always being the nice one, asked Peter, "And how was your summer?" Peter shrugged and looked at the wall.
Sirius and Remus made their way over to the table and surprised their girlfriends by bending over the sides and kissing their cheeks. Both girls jumped a mile high into the air.
"Don't do that! What are you trying to do, kill me, Black!" Kayla screamed at him.
Sirius grinned then made his way over to the long leather seat that James and Remus were sitting on. "But of course not. I wouldn't want to kill you until you gave me at least 2.5 children." Kayla glared very sharp daggers at him and gave him the finger.
"Any time my dear, any time. Just give me the place," Sirius said slyly.
Kayla looked Sirius over the best that she could considering he was sitting down, and took in his dark green sweater, the black pants that she saw on him and the green robe, and inwardly grinning to herself, said out loud. "Nah, I think that I'll pass." Sirius just opened his mouth to speak when Kayla continued.
"I think that I'll go with Remus if you don't mind. He looks so sexy in his black pants and gray sweater and robe," she said, making Remus blush. Aria, Lily, and James laughed. Sirius was surrendered speechless - for once in his life. Just then -
"What can I get ya's?" the waiter came by and asked, holding up a notebook looking thing and a quill.
"Umm," Lily said, "I'll have a glass of water."
A response of, "Same," went around, since all the Leaky Cauldron had in the middle of the morning to serve was liquor or disgusting gruel. The waiter raised his eyebrows, but neverless, summoned seven waters.
"Hey, look," Peter said after he took a gulp of his water. "I'm meeting some other friends, so I'm going to go okay?" he said and stood up and left without even letting them say goodbye.
Lily looked at the three remaining Marauders and asked, "What was that about?"
They, just as confused, shrugged their shoulders. "Now, how are we going about with all of this shopping?" Remus asked.
Everyone looked at each other, expecting someone to come up with an idea. Finally, after much silence, Lily rolled her eyes and said, "We can either break up into groups for a while then meet up some place and begin school shopping, or we can all herd around together."
As if upon previous agreement, they all said, "Couple splits!"
Lily chuckled and looked at James. "Ready?" she asked. He nodded his head, and Lily looked at the others.
"Okay, it's 11:20 now, so how about we meet up at 12:30 at the book store?" Lily asked. After receiving nods of agreement, Lily elbowed Kayla off the bench so that she could get up and grinned at her. Kayla in return stuck her tongue out at her and laughed. Lily shook her head and linked hands with James. The rest of the group soon followed suit, and they were all walking into the back of the Leaky Cauldron and tapping the bricks so that they could get inside of Diagon Alley.
James and Lily made a beeline for Quality Quidditch, Remus and Aria went for the Ice Cream parlor, and Kayla and Sirius headed for wherever candy was sold.
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James and Lily walked into the Quidditch store hand in hand, and looked as if they were in heaven.
They emerged thirty minutes later, each with two bags to themselves, and many things to make their quidditch season easier next year.
"Where do you want to go next, honey?" James asked as he slid free arm around Lily's waist.
Lily's brows furrowed in thought. "Food. Anywhere with edible food," she replied. "And actual meals," she added, remembering the time when she had complained to Sirius and James that she was hungry and they brought her to the nearest candy store.
James nodded his head and steered her towards a little restaurant that was settled in between a store called, 'Magical Day Jewelers' and a very small shop called 'Knickknacks For All Occasions'. They picked a table outside, facing away from the hustle and bustle of Diagon Alley and picked up the forest green menus.
"What are you going to have?" Lily asked James after she quickly scanned the menu.
James lifted his head from looking at his suggestions and said, "I think that I'm going to order the Shepard's Pie. What about you?" he asked.
Lily frowned at her selections with consideration. "Hmmm." She said. "I think that I'll have the . . . Chicken and Herb," she said. James nodded distractedly.
"Lils, could you order for me? I need to go do something really quick," James asked suddenly.
Lily arched a brow and looked at him, agreeing to nothing. "And just what is this something?" she asked while she leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms over her chest, all the while keeping her eyes on James.
"I need to go and get someone who I don't want to know a present for something, but I don't want to get it at Hogsmeade. They probably wouldn't even sell what I want there anyways," he said, looking Lily straight in the eye.
Lily sighed and nodded. " Do you want any side orders?" she asked as he sprung up from his chair.
James grinned cheekily and nodded. "Some trees, please, with cheese on them." (A/N: trees is my opinion of broccoli. Yuck.) he said as he leaned over and gave Lily a chaste kiss on the lips.
Lily sighed again and called out, "Just be back before the meal comes!" James waved a hand over his shoulder in acknowledgement and made his way towards the front of the restaurant.
Lily sighed for the third time since she had entered the restaurant. 'What is that man up to?' she wondered as the waitress sauntered her way over, looking a little disappointed about something as she looked at the chair that James had vacated moments ago. 'Try and die.' She thought to herself as she glared at the waitress and placed their orders.
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James walked into 'Magical Day Jewelers' and started to look around. He had gotten everything except the ring. Even there he knew what he wanted.
James heard the bell that was situated above the door jingle and looked over. And there stood Sirius. James grinned. "Hey Padfoot."
Sirius jumped at the sound of his nickname, looked in James' direction, and grinned. "Looks like both of us are doomed for hell at such an early age," Sirius said as he walked over to James.
James chuckled. "Looks like it. I really can't imagine not living my life without her, and I figure the only way to keep her close is marriage, so here I am." Sirius looked at him with understanding.
"I know what you mean. You know," Sirius said as they began to brose the rings. "I never figured that all those years of secretly loving Kayla would pay off. Hell, I thought that I'd get married and still be hitting on her. Sad as that is. And look at where I am now. You'd think that I was dead and in heaven. Picking out a ring with the right girl's face attached." Sirius ended with a dreamy smile and his eyes starting to get that far away, dreamy look in them.
James, upon seeing this laughed. "Sirius, my friend. If you're anything like me, and how I left Lily you better snap out of it before Kayla comes looking for you and finds you." James said, and Sirius' eyes automatically cleared. James hid his smile.
"Hello sirs. Do you know what you are looking for?" asked a clear, strong, male voice from behind the duo.
James turned first and said, "Yes. Or, I do at least." He cleared up, letting the clerk know that they were both shopping for something.
The young man with the shaggy brown hair and dark brown eyes nodded his head and started towards them.
"You don't mind waiting while I deal with him first, do you sir?" the clerk asked Sirius as he slid behind the glass counters by the rings that they were looking at.
Sirius shook his head and continued looking.
"I wanted two diamonds, princess cut, and then two sapphires on the outsides of the diamonds, same cut, and on a white gold band." James said to the clerk, who in turn nodded his head and said, "I have just the thing," and disappeared into the back room.
Sirius turned towards James. "You know, I'm getting almost the same exact thing for Kay, except it'll be rubies instead. What made you think of sapphires?" he asked.
James smiled. "She's my other half. Magically, physically, mentally, and in every other way," he replied. "I take it, that it's the same thing with you and Kay's?" James asked and shot a sly look towards Sirius, who just nodded. James laughed.
"It's creepy you know." James said after he stopped. "We fall for almost two of a kind. Not in personalities necessarily, but in . . . I don't know, spirit, I guess. They are almost freakingly alike. Just like we are." Sirius looked at him, and just laughed.
"Oh, my God, you're right!" Sirius gasped out, just as the clerk came back out.
The clerk raised his hand to show a light blue box and lifted the lid. Inside laid a ring just the way James had wanted it. The stones caught the light that shone through the windows and colorful lights flashed everywhere. James was caught in awe by the ring. It seemed as if it held some kind of power. Magical kind of power.
As if he was reading his thoughts, the clerk said, "This ring connects the giver to the givee. It creates a magical bond between the two, and as long as one is wearing the ring, the can communicate to each other somehow. But, I think there's a catch to this ring or something. I don't know though."
James looked at the ring and said, "I need it in size 4 please."
The clerk nodded his head and held out the box. "That is this size sir." James nodded and asked, "How much."
The clerk then smiled, he was just about to make the deal of a lifetime off of some foolish little boy who was obviously a rich foolish little boy, and very much blinded by some pampered money digger. But oh well, that wasn't his problem. "950 Galleons." (a/n: Lets just say that that equals to about 2,000 English pounds.) James nodded and pulled out a bank draft, (Lets just say that these are sort of like credit cards and are connected directly to Gringotts.) filled it out, signed it, took the ring, stuffed it in his pocket, then handed the slip over. The clerk in return smiled gratefully at him as he strolled out with a quick goodbye to Sirius.
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Kayla and Sirius were sitting down on a stone bench on the side of the nearly deserted cobbled street, necking. He had came back from the Jewelers in the best of moods, and quickly whisked Kayla off to be . . . kissed senseless.
Sirius slid his hands down from their position in Kayla's hair, and landed on her butt. They then, of their own will - yeah, right! - shifted under her shirt, and slowly traveled up - up- ah, they reached their destination. Her breasts.
Kayla gasped into the kiss, then moaned when his brilliant hands began to knead. She broke the kiss and leaned her head back. "Sirius," she gasped out as he began to nibble, lick, and suckle on her pulse point. "We're in public."
All of a sudden, the beautiful, wonderful hands, stopped. And the wickedly pleasurable mouth, it also stopped.
Kayla groaned. "I really need to learn how to keep my mouth shut." She muttered. She stood up - abet a little shakily, and linked her hand with Sirius' as they began to walk towards Flourish and Blotts to meet with the rest. The only thing that Kayla didn't notice, besides her own two feet and everything else around her, was her disheveled state, and the stars and moons in her eyes.
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An hour and ten minutes later after emerging from the Leaky Cauldron, James and Lily were standing outside of Flourish and Bolts, having stars in their eyes from the Quidditch store - which they had re-entered moments ago to look around again, and a little disheveled from the quick snog session they had moments ago.
Sirius stopped in front of them with a wide smile on his face, and a completely wrecked looking Kayla, that left it up to no imagination just what brought that slightly dazed, starry look into her eyes.
Lily grinned knowingly and stepped behind Kayla as she took her own hair out of her ponytail. She gently pulled out Kayla's hair tie, and smoothed out all the bumps on Kayla's hair and deftly pulled it all into a tight pony, then did so to herself, and stepped in front of Kayla to see if she looked better.
She did a quick search; 'no make up anywhere, clothes on straight, yep, she's fine,' she said mentally.
Aria and Remus came walking up to them; Both had grins on their faces, but no signs of dishevelment.
Lily frowned. They had to have done something! She then narrowed her eyes. They already fixed themselves up! Lily quietly huffed out a breath, and then said, "You want to start here, or do any of you need to go pay a visit to the goblins?"
"We can start here." Kayla said, finally falling from her cloud. Lily looked at the rest, and after getting nods from them all turned for the door to the shop, and had it opened for her by James. She smiled at him and walked through, and felt him at her back.
Lily smiled to herself. She loved the way that he was so protective of her; it made her feel loved, and cherished. She unconsciously reached back and twined her fingers with his. "I love you," she whispered so that he could hear.
James stepped closer and whispered in her ear, "And I love you, beautiful."
Lily smiled as they walked up to the aging wizard situated behind the counter. "Hi Mr. Crowdy!" Lily said. The old man smiled a crooked smile at Lily and said, "Hello to you too, Miss. Evans. I hope that you are doing well at the moment."
Lily smiled, knowing that he was trying to see how she was coping with her father's death.
"We're all doing okay. It's hard, but we're living." She said. The old man smiled and held out a weathered hand. Lily handed him her book sheet. "I'm going to look around for other books too, so could you take care of them first," she said, indicating her friends. Mr. Crowdy smiled and did as she suggested, taking James' list next and went in search of the school books that were kept behind the counter while Lily headed towards the Myth section.
By the time that the rest of her friends had gotten their books, Lily had already picked out twelve additional books. She walked back to the counter and plopped them all on the counter with a loud, BAM!, and looked around sheepishly. She really didn't mean to put them down that loud.
"Sorry," she said.
Mr. Crowdy smiled. "That's alright. I could never be mad at my favorite, and best customer, now could I?" Lily grinned at the man, and he proceeded to blush.
"Hopefully not," Lily said.
"That'll be 103 Galleons, and 4 Sickles young lady," he said after he rung her up.
Lily dug in her pockets, sorted out the right amount of money, gave it to him, and accepted her package with a smile. She turned around and joined the group, only to find them looking at her weirdly. "What?" she asked, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
"How are you going to read all of those books?" Sirius cried in astonishment.
Lily looked at them all weirdly and said, "I've always gotten at least five books before the start of school to read. What's the big deal?"
Her friends and boyfriend shook their heads and muttered, "Never mind." Lily looked at them as if they had lost their minds, but said nothing else as they walked out of the store towards the Apothecary for their potion ingredients.
Before anyone knew it, it was starting to get dark, and they were all expected to be getting home. They all said their goodbyes near the fireplaces, and kissed their respectful partners one last time before they screamed out their destination.
And through all of the goodbyes, no one saw - nor even felt him, her, it, stare at them Wearing a black cloak, it stepped from the shadows of the Leaky Cauldron and left, casting the fireplace one more glance before disappearing into thin air, or maybe apperating.
And no one heard him quietly say, "I'll get those Mages for my Master, and I'll prove my loyalty, and I'll get my payback."
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IMPORTANT!!
PLEASE READ!!
A/N: Okay, I've been thinking of doing a Kayla and Sirius fanfiction so that I could explain their relationship and Kayla's past a little better since I don't know where I'd place any of that sort of stuff, at least in depth in this fanfiction, and I was wondering,
What do you think?
Should I do it, or shouldn't I?
It'd sort of be based on this fic though, just more . . .Sirius and Kayla. And it'd go back further since I'd be centered on them and I want to get Kayla's past involved.
If that made no sense, blame it on the caffeine. If you have any questions, email me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com, and I'll answer. But PLEASE, TELL ME YOUR OPINION!!! DO I HAVE TO BEG HERE??? PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME BEG!!! PLEASE!!
Thank you for Reading!
Mistress del Mare
Finally, Tuesday, August 21, had arrived! And any moment, everybody would be meeting up in the Leaky Cauldron for a drink before going shopping.
Lily arrived first, wearing black jeans, to fit into the English climate, a white scoop neck sweater, and a black wizards robe, and found a large booth for them all to sit at. Next to arrive was Aria, who was wearing white pants and a dark blue turtle neck sweater and was sporting a navy blue robe to match, and she spotted Lily within a second, and with a cry of joy ran for her and enveloped her in a giant hug. "I missed you Hunter!" she cried out. Lily chuckled and eased out of the embrace.
"I missed you too, Aradriana," she said with a smile.
Just then, a scream. "Lily! Aria! James! Sirius! Remus! Any of you here yet?"
Lily and Aria turned towards the noise with a grin. "Pouncy!" Lily yelled out, causing everyone in the room to look at the three girls with glowering glances for being so loud. They didn't see or feel them though, they were used to being looked at weirdly for being so loud.
Kayla skipped over to her friends and sat on Lily's lap, hugged her, then dragged Aria down by the neck to hug her.
Lily looked at Kayla's outfit of red pants, black shirt, and a black robe and smiled. She always did like those colors for some reason.
"So, how was your summer?" Kayla asked as she scooted off Lily's lap into the space besides her.
"Boring!" Lily and Aria cried out together.
Kayla looked at them and muttered, "Damn!" Lily looked at her friend, then looked around to see if there was anyone who would evoke such a comment out of her mouth. After finding no one, she turned back to her friend with a raised eyebrow.
Kayla blushed a pretty pink and said, "I was hoping that someone could tell me something exciting that they did this summer, as mine was colossally boring."
"Nope, can't say that I've had any better luck than you," a male voice sounded from behind the three girls who were sitting on the same bench.
They turned around to see James standing there with a grin, and Peter looking grumpily on.
"James!" Lily cried in excitement upon seeing her boyfriend standing there looking as handsome as ever in dark blue pants and a simple white shirt with a black robe thrown carelessly over his big, strong shoulders. She put her knees on the bench and turned fully around to face him. She leaned over the backing of the booth and kissed him quickly, not wanting the elders to see. Lily pulled back and grinned.
"What, no girls?" she asked. James stuck his tongue out at her, made his way to the other side, and sat down.
Peter pulled a chair over to the table and sat down at the corner, not wanting to be across from any of the girls. They would probably just end up kicking him the whole time if he did.
Aria, always being the nice one, asked Peter, "And how was your summer?" Peter shrugged and looked at the wall.
Sirius and Remus made their way over to the table and surprised their girlfriends by bending over the sides and kissing their cheeks. Both girls jumped a mile high into the air.
"Don't do that! What are you trying to do, kill me, Black!" Kayla screamed at him.
Sirius grinned then made his way over to the long leather seat that James and Remus were sitting on. "But of course not. I wouldn't want to kill you until you gave me at least 2.5 children." Kayla glared very sharp daggers at him and gave him the finger.
"Any time my dear, any time. Just give me the place," Sirius said slyly.
Kayla looked Sirius over the best that she could considering he was sitting down, and took in his dark green sweater, the black pants that she saw on him and the green robe, and inwardly grinning to herself, said out loud. "Nah, I think that I'll pass." Sirius just opened his mouth to speak when Kayla continued.
"I think that I'll go with Remus if you don't mind. He looks so sexy in his black pants and gray sweater and robe," she said, making Remus blush. Aria, Lily, and James laughed. Sirius was surrendered speechless - for once in his life. Just then -
"What can I get ya's?" the waiter came by and asked, holding up a notebook looking thing and a quill.
"Umm," Lily said, "I'll have a glass of water."
A response of, "Same," went around, since all the Leaky Cauldron had in the middle of the morning to serve was liquor or disgusting gruel. The waiter raised his eyebrows, but neverless, summoned seven waters.
"Hey, look," Peter said after he took a gulp of his water. "I'm meeting some other friends, so I'm going to go okay?" he said and stood up and left without even letting them say goodbye.
Lily looked at the three remaining Marauders and asked, "What was that about?"
They, just as confused, shrugged their shoulders. "Now, how are we going about with all of this shopping?" Remus asked.
Everyone looked at each other, expecting someone to come up with an idea. Finally, after much silence, Lily rolled her eyes and said, "We can either break up into groups for a while then meet up some place and begin school shopping, or we can all herd around together."
As if upon previous agreement, they all said, "Couple splits!"
Lily chuckled and looked at James. "Ready?" she asked. He nodded his head, and Lily looked at the others.
"Okay, it's 11:20 now, so how about we meet up at 12:30 at the book store?" Lily asked. After receiving nods of agreement, Lily elbowed Kayla off the bench so that she could get up and grinned at her. Kayla in return stuck her tongue out at her and laughed. Lily shook her head and linked hands with James. The rest of the group soon followed suit, and they were all walking into the back of the Leaky Cauldron and tapping the bricks so that they could get inside of Diagon Alley.
James and Lily made a beeline for Quality Quidditch, Remus and Aria went for the Ice Cream parlor, and Kayla and Sirius headed for wherever candy was sold.
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James and Lily walked into the Quidditch store hand in hand, and looked as if they were in heaven.
They emerged thirty minutes later, each with two bags to themselves, and many things to make their quidditch season easier next year.
"Where do you want to go next, honey?" James asked as he slid free arm around Lily's waist.
Lily's brows furrowed in thought. "Food. Anywhere with edible food," she replied. "And actual meals," she added, remembering the time when she had complained to Sirius and James that she was hungry and they brought her to the nearest candy store.
James nodded his head and steered her towards a little restaurant that was settled in between a store called, 'Magical Day Jewelers' and a very small shop called 'Knickknacks For All Occasions'. They picked a table outside, facing away from the hustle and bustle of Diagon Alley and picked up the forest green menus.
"What are you going to have?" Lily asked James after she quickly scanned the menu.
James lifted his head from looking at his suggestions and said, "I think that I'm going to order the Shepard's Pie. What about you?" he asked.
Lily frowned at her selections with consideration. "Hmmm." She said. "I think that I'll have the . . . Chicken and Herb," she said. James nodded distractedly.
"Lils, could you order for me? I need to go do something really quick," James asked suddenly.
Lily arched a brow and looked at him, agreeing to nothing. "And just what is this something?" she asked while she leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms over her chest, all the while keeping her eyes on James.
"I need to go and get someone who I don't want to know a present for something, but I don't want to get it at Hogsmeade. They probably wouldn't even sell what I want there anyways," he said, looking Lily straight in the eye.
Lily sighed and nodded. " Do you want any side orders?" she asked as he sprung up from his chair.
James grinned cheekily and nodded. "Some trees, please, with cheese on them." (A/N: trees is my opinion of broccoli. Yuck.) he said as he leaned over and gave Lily a chaste kiss on the lips.
Lily sighed again and called out, "Just be back before the meal comes!" James waved a hand over his shoulder in acknowledgement and made his way towards the front of the restaurant.
Lily sighed for the third time since she had entered the restaurant. 'What is that man up to?' she wondered as the waitress sauntered her way over, looking a little disappointed about something as she looked at the chair that James had vacated moments ago. 'Try and die.' She thought to herself as she glared at the waitress and placed their orders.
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James walked into 'Magical Day Jewelers' and started to look around. He had gotten everything except the ring. Even there he knew what he wanted.
James heard the bell that was situated above the door jingle and looked over. And there stood Sirius. James grinned. "Hey Padfoot."
Sirius jumped at the sound of his nickname, looked in James' direction, and grinned. "Looks like both of us are doomed for hell at such an early age," Sirius said as he walked over to James.
James chuckled. "Looks like it. I really can't imagine not living my life without her, and I figure the only way to keep her close is marriage, so here I am." Sirius looked at him with understanding.
"I know what you mean. You know," Sirius said as they began to brose the rings. "I never figured that all those years of secretly loving Kayla would pay off. Hell, I thought that I'd get married and still be hitting on her. Sad as that is. And look at where I am now. You'd think that I was dead and in heaven. Picking out a ring with the right girl's face attached." Sirius ended with a dreamy smile and his eyes starting to get that far away, dreamy look in them.
James, upon seeing this laughed. "Sirius, my friend. If you're anything like me, and how I left Lily you better snap out of it before Kayla comes looking for you and finds you." James said, and Sirius' eyes automatically cleared. James hid his smile.
"Hello sirs. Do you know what you are looking for?" asked a clear, strong, male voice from behind the duo.
James turned first and said, "Yes. Or, I do at least." He cleared up, letting the clerk know that they were both shopping for something.
The young man with the shaggy brown hair and dark brown eyes nodded his head and started towards them.
"You don't mind waiting while I deal with him first, do you sir?" the clerk asked Sirius as he slid behind the glass counters by the rings that they were looking at.
Sirius shook his head and continued looking.
"I wanted two diamonds, princess cut, and then two sapphires on the outsides of the diamonds, same cut, and on a white gold band." James said to the clerk, who in turn nodded his head and said, "I have just the thing," and disappeared into the back room.
Sirius turned towards James. "You know, I'm getting almost the same exact thing for Kay, except it'll be rubies instead. What made you think of sapphires?" he asked.
James smiled. "She's my other half. Magically, physically, mentally, and in every other way," he replied. "I take it, that it's the same thing with you and Kay's?" James asked and shot a sly look towards Sirius, who just nodded. James laughed.
"It's creepy you know." James said after he stopped. "We fall for almost two of a kind. Not in personalities necessarily, but in . . . I don't know, spirit, I guess. They are almost freakingly alike. Just like we are." Sirius looked at him, and just laughed.
"Oh, my God, you're right!" Sirius gasped out, just as the clerk came back out.
The clerk raised his hand to show a light blue box and lifted the lid. Inside laid a ring just the way James had wanted it. The stones caught the light that shone through the windows and colorful lights flashed everywhere. James was caught in awe by the ring. It seemed as if it held some kind of power. Magical kind of power.
As if he was reading his thoughts, the clerk said, "This ring connects the giver to the givee. It creates a magical bond between the two, and as long as one is wearing the ring, the can communicate to each other somehow. But, I think there's a catch to this ring or something. I don't know though."
James looked at the ring and said, "I need it in size 4 please."
The clerk nodded his head and held out the box. "That is this size sir." James nodded and asked, "How much."
The clerk then smiled, he was just about to make the deal of a lifetime off of some foolish little boy who was obviously a rich foolish little boy, and very much blinded by some pampered money digger. But oh well, that wasn't his problem. "950 Galleons." (a/n: Lets just say that that equals to about 2,000 English pounds.) James nodded and pulled out a bank draft, (Lets just say that these are sort of like credit cards and are connected directly to Gringotts.) filled it out, signed it, took the ring, stuffed it in his pocket, then handed the slip over. The clerk in return smiled gratefully at him as he strolled out with a quick goodbye to Sirius.
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Kayla and Sirius were sitting down on a stone bench on the side of the nearly deserted cobbled street, necking. He had came back from the Jewelers in the best of moods, and quickly whisked Kayla off to be . . . kissed senseless.
Sirius slid his hands down from their position in Kayla's hair, and landed on her butt. They then, of their own will - yeah, right! - shifted under her shirt, and slowly traveled up - up- ah, they reached their destination. Her breasts.
Kayla gasped into the kiss, then moaned when his brilliant hands began to knead. She broke the kiss and leaned her head back. "Sirius," she gasped out as he began to nibble, lick, and suckle on her pulse point. "We're in public."
All of a sudden, the beautiful, wonderful hands, stopped. And the wickedly pleasurable mouth, it also stopped.
Kayla groaned. "I really need to learn how to keep my mouth shut." She muttered. She stood up - abet a little shakily, and linked her hand with Sirius' as they began to walk towards Flourish and Blotts to meet with the rest. The only thing that Kayla didn't notice, besides her own two feet and everything else around her, was her disheveled state, and the stars and moons in her eyes.
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An hour and ten minutes later after emerging from the Leaky Cauldron, James and Lily were standing outside of Flourish and Bolts, having stars in their eyes from the Quidditch store - which they had re-entered moments ago to look around again, and a little disheveled from the quick snog session they had moments ago.
Sirius stopped in front of them with a wide smile on his face, and a completely wrecked looking Kayla, that left it up to no imagination just what brought that slightly dazed, starry look into her eyes.
Lily grinned knowingly and stepped behind Kayla as she took her own hair out of her ponytail. She gently pulled out Kayla's hair tie, and smoothed out all the bumps on Kayla's hair and deftly pulled it all into a tight pony, then did so to herself, and stepped in front of Kayla to see if she looked better.
She did a quick search; 'no make up anywhere, clothes on straight, yep, she's fine,' she said mentally.
Aria and Remus came walking up to them; Both had grins on their faces, but no signs of dishevelment.
Lily frowned. They had to have done something! She then narrowed her eyes. They already fixed themselves up! Lily quietly huffed out a breath, and then said, "You want to start here, or do any of you need to go pay a visit to the goblins?"
"We can start here." Kayla said, finally falling from her cloud. Lily looked at the rest, and after getting nods from them all turned for the door to the shop, and had it opened for her by James. She smiled at him and walked through, and felt him at her back.
Lily smiled to herself. She loved the way that he was so protective of her; it made her feel loved, and cherished. She unconsciously reached back and twined her fingers with his. "I love you," she whispered so that he could hear.
James stepped closer and whispered in her ear, "And I love you, beautiful."
Lily smiled as they walked up to the aging wizard situated behind the counter. "Hi Mr. Crowdy!" Lily said. The old man smiled a crooked smile at Lily and said, "Hello to you too, Miss. Evans. I hope that you are doing well at the moment."
Lily smiled, knowing that he was trying to see how she was coping with her father's death.
"We're all doing okay. It's hard, but we're living." She said. The old man smiled and held out a weathered hand. Lily handed him her book sheet. "I'm going to look around for other books too, so could you take care of them first," she said, indicating her friends. Mr. Crowdy smiled and did as she suggested, taking James' list next and went in search of the school books that were kept behind the counter while Lily headed towards the Myth section.
By the time that the rest of her friends had gotten their books, Lily had already picked out twelve additional books. She walked back to the counter and plopped them all on the counter with a loud, BAM!, and looked around sheepishly. She really didn't mean to put them down that loud.
"Sorry," she said.
Mr. Crowdy smiled. "That's alright. I could never be mad at my favorite, and best customer, now could I?" Lily grinned at the man, and he proceeded to blush.
"Hopefully not," Lily said.
"That'll be 103 Galleons, and 4 Sickles young lady," he said after he rung her up.
Lily dug in her pockets, sorted out the right amount of money, gave it to him, and accepted her package with a smile. She turned around and joined the group, only to find them looking at her weirdly. "What?" she asked, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
"How are you going to read all of those books?" Sirius cried in astonishment.
Lily looked at them all weirdly and said, "I've always gotten at least five books before the start of school to read. What's the big deal?"
Her friends and boyfriend shook their heads and muttered, "Never mind." Lily looked at them as if they had lost their minds, but said nothing else as they walked out of the store towards the Apothecary for their potion ingredients.
Before anyone knew it, it was starting to get dark, and they were all expected to be getting home. They all said their goodbyes near the fireplaces, and kissed their respectful partners one last time before they screamed out their destination.
And through all of the goodbyes, no one saw - nor even felt him, her, it, stare at them Wearing a black cloak, it stepped from the shadows of the Leaky Cauldron and left, casting the fireplace one more glance before disappearing into thin air, or maybe apperating.
And no one heard him quietly say, "I'll get those Mages for my Master, and I'll prove my loyalty, and I'll get my payback."
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IMPORTANT!!
PLEASE READ!!
A/N: Okay, I've been thinking of doing a Kayla and Sirius fanfiction so that I could explain their relationship and Kayla's past a little better since I don't know where I'd place any of that sort of stuff, at least in depth in this fanfiction, and I was wondering,
What do you think?
Should I do it, or shouldn't I?
It'd sort of be based on this fic though, just more . . .Sirius and Kayla. And it'd go back further since I'd be centered on them and I want to get Kayla's past involved.
If that made no sense, blame it on the caffeine. If you have any questions, email me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com, and I'll answer. But PLEASE, TELL ME YOUR OPINION!!! DO I HAVE TO BEG HERE??? PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME BEG!!! PLEASE!!
Thank you for Reading!
Mistress del Mare