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Sirius stretched, as he did so he slipped one arm around Narcissa's shoulders. The blonde smirked into her Butterbeer, she had to give the boy credit, even if he wasn't original, it was cute. Narcissa looked up and smiled at him, Sirius winked cheekily and grinned. Leaning down he caught his lips with hers. It wasn't their first kiss, far from it, but the kisses had always sent a delightful shock through Narcissa's system.

Sirius broke away and looked at Narcissa, his eyes staring at her face. Suddenly worried, Narcissa's hands went to her face.

"What? What's wrong?" She inquired. "Is there something on my face?" Sirius smiled pleasantly at her.

"No, nothing on your face. I - I just think you're beautiful." Narcissa felt the heat rush to her face, turning away she concentrated on a spot of the far wall. Willing herself not to look at Sirius, willing herself to believe she was just another girl. Just another notch in his tally of girls dated and shagged. But she didn't want to be * just another * girl. She wanted to be * the * girl. The one he woke up in the morning to, the only one he kissed. The last girl he would take to bed.

"Sirius," Narcissa turned to him, her eyes filled with determination, "I don't want to be a fling. I don't want to be added to your list of easy girls."

"Fine, I'll make sure not to write you down on that list when I get back to the dorm."

"Surely you can't be serious."

"I'm always serious, and don't call me Shirley." Narcissa raised an eyebrow at him. "You know what I mean." Sirius answered, waving one hand around vaguely. "And I don't want you to be a fling either."

"Well, now that that's settled - " Narcissa grabbed the front of Sirius' robes and pulled him into a fierce kiss. She didn't seem to have any desire of letting go at that point and that really didn't bother him.

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Victoria didn't bother knocking on the trap door, she just walked right in. Professor Wynne was hunched over a collection of stones. Her dark brown hair was hanging limply around her thin form, green skin looked pale and strained, while black eyes were hidden under thick bangs. Victoria knew Wynne never slept, it was an odd side effect of her seeing abilities and her nymph background.

"Hello, dear. I was expecting you earlier, it's rather late now." Victoria glanced at the clock on the mantel, 2 in the morning. "Or early, however you want to look at it."

"I need help." Victoria blurted out; she didn't have the time to bother to pleasantries. She needed help, and she needed it now. "I know the sessions have been helping me * use * my ability, but I want to suppress it, I want to control it."

"Whatever for, dear?" Wynne asked, looking up for the first time. Her black eyes were rather glossy and rather red and puffy, while her cheeks appeared tear stained. Victoria passed that by for the moment, this wasn't the time to worry about it.

"Because - because - " her mind flashed back to the way Remus' lips at felt pressed against her own and she shivered. "Because when I touch people, when I feel strong emotion, I see things. And they're almost never happy. I want to be able to kiss a boy without seeing his future!" Wynne smiled sadly at her.

"I shouldn't teach you this, it won't help in the end."

"I don't care! I want this!"

"Are you sure? Teaching you this could effect things. It could change your future."

"I DON'T CARE!" Victoria yelled, throwing up her hands in frustration. "I don't want to live in the future, I don't want to live in the past, I want to live now! I want to live in the present!" Alexia Wynne sighed, she glanced back down at her collection of stones, they were shifting, and things were changing.

"That stone you wear," Victoria's hands went to her neck, the jewel tumbled out, it was totally transparent. "That should help you. You should be able to concentrate your ability into it, the stone should be able to hold any visions you see, I suggest you set aside a time each week to clean out the stone. Yes, to clean it out. It will only be able to hold so much. But with your power, I'm not sure the stone will be able to help you.

"Now, if you just sit down, we'll work on this together." Victoria sank back into a large over stuffed armchair. "Now, close you eyes and concentrate on that stone." She closed her eyes and concentrated, Victoria could see the stone clearly in her mind. Wynne watched, the girl's whole body shimmered a light blue while the stone went a florescent purple. Everything was over in a flash, a very literal flash.

Victoria gasped slightly, she felt - odd. Something felt off, 'of course it does, stupid.' She scolded herself. The gem around her neck was buzzing pleasantly against her skin. It was an odd tickling sensation, the kind one gets with very small electric shocks.

"Thank you."

"Now go on, it's late. I don't care if it's the weekend - go on." Wynne shooed her toward the trap door. Victoria thanked the professor again and was out the door in a flash. A sudden feeling of hunger over came her, and instead of going back to the tower, she made her way to the kitchen. Opening the portrait, Victoria entered. To her surprise, Severus Snape was standing there, eating what had to be a éclair.

Who would have thought? Severus had a passion for éclairs, it was a rather well kept secret and perhaps the best form of blackmail Victoria was aware of.

"Enjoying that, Severus?" he must have jumped a foot in the air, he let go of the éclair, which landed on his large nose, some cream dripping onto his pants. He would have a rather hard time explaining * that * to his housemates later.

"I'm sorry." The pair blurted out at the same time. Victoria found this extremely odd, because Severus * never * apologized.

"Have a nice time with Lupin the other night?" Snape spat at her. Just because they had ended one fight, didn't mean they weren't going to start another one on the spot.

"What are you talking about?" Victoria asked, attempting to sound innocent. Apparently she wasn't as good an actress as she thought, or Severus had inside information.

"Don't try that with me, Davis." Victoria shuddered; last names were never a good sign. "Hallways are never as empty as you want them." Her eyes widened.

"You - you were there?"

"You've turned into a regular whore, you know that? Willing to indulge a Marauder -. What are you? Another blonde bimbo?"

"It's not your business, Severus."

"What gets me," the black haired boy persisted, "is that you never gave me the time of day. I was your friend for * years *, you hated Lupin for years. And then all of a sudden," he waved his hands and snorted, "you're snogging him in a hallway."

"You're jealous!" Victoria's eyes widened even farther. "I don't believe this! Remus even said-"

"First name terms? Tell me, when you get to him to cry out, what name does he say? Yours? Some random girl's? Black's?" She had had enough, bringing her fist back, Victoria decked him.

"Forget it!" She yelled, grabbing the plate of eclairs. "I don't care anymore - you just stay away!" taking each éclair, she shoved them into his face. One by one. It was a very satisfying experience.

"He doesn't really love you, you know." Severus called as a last insult as she stormed out. He didn't even bother to try and clean himself up. Severus just picked up his things, left the kitchen and gazed sadly down the hall. It was too late; Victoria was already long gone.

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There were various rumors about Severus Snape's large black eye when Lily entered the Great Hall the next morning. Her personal favorite involved Severus making a pass at another guy. Victoria was still sleeping, her face was slightly blotchy and there were dried trails of tears down her face.

Peter was sitting happily eating his pancakes across from Lily. James had been carefully avoiding her eyes for days, Remus was preoccupied, and Sirius split his time between Narcissa and the Marauders.

"Are you going to Hogsmeade this weekend, Lily?" Sirius asked, sitting down.

"I didn't think it was a Hogsmeade weekend."

"They changed it," Remus said, leaning over. "They suddenly remembered we need costumes for Halloween."

"Oh, yeah." Lily said thoughtfully, eating a pear. She needed to talk to Victoria about want she was going to be. Lily already knew what she was doing, but Victoria needed to make Remus drool. "Well, I'll see you later." Lily tossed the core from her pear onto her empty plate, grabbed a few more pieces of fruit and some toast and headed back up to Gryffindor Tower.

"Wake up!" Lily yelled banging open the door to her dorm room. Victoria was sitting on her bed drawing. She was already dressed. "Want to talk about it?"

"No."

"Well, I brought Breakfast, and, we have a Hogsmeade weekend now, they changed it. So we need to go and get our costumes."

"Fine." Victoria answered.

"You know, Severus had a black eyes this morning." Victoria wouldn't meet her sisters' eyes. "It was YOU!"

"Yeah, he - he said things."

"What happened to us all? We were so close. We just kinda drifted apart." Lily sighed as Victoria took a large bite out of an apple.

"Do you miss it?"

"Surprisingly - no." Lily stared out the window, trying to figure out what had gone wrong in their friendship.

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All right - hey guys. So I know I didn't get up to 45 reviews - all right, no big deal. Maybe this time we can reach 45 (its only 10 reviews, I know you can do it).

I started writing more to this chapter, nothing happened - maybe I'll use it to start next chapter.

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