Seasons
~ Chapter 2 ~
Of Werewolves and Witches
"Wee, Cam nyoo paff me duh chikin?" Sirius asked through a mouth full of bread, while motioning towards the drumsticks.
"Huh?" Lily asked, as she looked at him sideways.
"Duh chicken!" He said, pointing feverishly at the poultry.
Lily winked at Remus and went on to say, "Oh, yeah, it was delicious! I think I might have some more!" She then put three pieces on her plate, but left Sirius empty handed.
His eyebrow shot up as he swallowed, "never kid a kidder, Lee." As he said this, he winked and emptied her plate onto his and started in on her chicken.
"Hey!" She squealed and flirtatiously hit his arm. She then scooted a little closer to him.
Noticing this, Sirius looked up at James. James just shrugged, and went on talking to Roxanne. Sirius looked at Lily, who smiled back at him.
"You like me, don't you Lee?" Sirius asked, nodding his head.
"What?" Lily breathed, "No I do not like you, Sirius."
"Yes you do! You want to kiss me, don't you?"
"I want to kill you!" Lily said, becoming embarrassed.
"Never knock on deaths door. Ring the door bell and run," he winked at her and started to get up, "he hates that."
As Sirius walked away, Lily called after him, "You need to come back down to reality, Sirius."
"No, my dear Lillian, reality is just a crutch for people who cannot handle drugs!" And with that, Sirius left the Great Hall, leaving a dumbfounded Lily and laughing Gryffindor table behind.
After the last of the food had been devoured, and the friends had made their way to the tower, Arianna figured that this might be the only opportunity for her to break up with Remus.
Once she had her things situated in her dorm, she went downstairs to find Remus. She found him by the fire with the rest of the boys. Sirius and James were having an exciting wizard chess tourney, which Peter and Remus and a few other kids had come out to watch.
What if maybe she wasn't doing the right thing? What if Remus actually had a good reason for being gone? But what if Remus has been cheating on her, and she's been strung along like a fool the whole time. She had to do this. And if he weren't cheating, surely he would say something to refute her accusations. She hoped.
"Remus?" Arianna said as she stepped up behind him.
"Hey, baby!" He got off the couch and went to give her a hug. She didn't hug back.
"We need to talk. Is there some where we can go that's private?"
"Yeah," he said as he looked at her, "is everything ok?"
"Sure." She lied. He led her up to the boy's dormitories, seeing as though everyone was watching James and Sirius.
He sat on his bed and motioned for her to sit next to him, but she opted to stand directly in front of him, her arms folded across her.
"What is it that you need to talk about?" He asked, growing more nervous by the second.
"It's about us." She began, as he opened his mouth to question her. She put her finger to his lips, "Remus, if you interrupt me, I will never get this out." He nodded and she continued.
"I, I think that we should take a break. A permanent one." Tears started falling down her face when she saw the hurt in his eyes.
"Why?" He croaked, not fully able to speak right.
"I think you know why. I, I just found some things out, which made me rethink our whole relationship."
Remus sat in disbelief for a second. She knows. He couldn't believe that she would break up with him because he was a werewolf.
"Hmm." He said, looking down.
"What?"
"I guess I just misjudged you as a person. I thought you were better than this. I thought you were more understanding. I guess I was wrong."
"You thought," Arianna became angry with this, "that I would understand this? I guess you don't know me as a person, because if you did, you would know that I would never in a million years want to be a part of this!"
"How can you say that? I thought you loved me!"
"I still do love you Remus, but this is sick!"
"Arianna, its who I am! It's in my blood! I can't help it! I have no control over it!"
"What?! Remus, I never want to speak to you again. If this is what you choose to be, fine. But I do not now, or ever, want to be a part of it!" She walked out the door and slammed it, and then ran into the girl's dormitories and collapsed onto her bed. She couldn't believe that he thought that cheating on her was not a big deal and that she would be fine with it.
"Arianna?" Lily called out quietly as she cautiously stepped towards Ariannas' four-poster bed.
"Are you ok?" Roxie asked as she sat down on the edge of the bed.
"No," Arianna said quietly. Nothing would ever be ok again.
"How did it go?" Lily asked, while kneeling next to Arianna's head.
"Terribly! He started going on about how I should accept him for who he is, and that its in his blood and he can't change that! I just can't see how he thinks that cheating on me is ok. I thought he really cared about me? How could he do this to me?" She started to cry again, as Roxie and Lily exchanged glances.
"Arianna, do you want to be alone right now?" Roxie asked.
"Yeah, I think I should be by myself for a little while."
"Ok, Lee and I will be in the common room. Come down there, once you feel ready." Roxie and Lily left their room in silence.
Meanwhile, Sirius and James were just finishing putting away their wizards chessboard, and were heading back to their room. They opened the door to find the room a total and complete disaster, with little bits of paper flying through the air and covering the floor like snow.
"Remus!" Sirius shouted over the blaring music as James turned off the stereo. "What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm learning the Macarena." He said calmly, and then began shouting, "What does it look like I'm doing?"
"It looks to me like you're getting ready for Mardi Gras three months early…" James said, catching some flying bits of paper and trying to decipher what they used to say.
"Yeah man, what's gotten into you?" Sirius asked, sitting down on his bed.
"Arianna dumped me." Remus said quietly as he leaned on the wall and slid to the floor.
"What?!" James and Sirius asked at once.
"Yeah." Remus put his head in his hands.
"Did she say why?" James asked, while clearing away most of the paper bits, which he found to be letters from Arianna. He was placing them in a large garbage sack. Never know if Remus might want them someday.
"I wish she wouldn't have told me why."
"What are you on about?" Sirius asked, while trying to piece together one of the letters.
"She doesn't want to be with me because I'm a werewolf."
"Are you serious?" James asked. Sirius looked up to comment on that one, but James glared at him. He went back to putting together the letter.
"She said that she didn't want to be a part of something that sick. She said that she never wants to talk to me or see me again." Remus looked up at his friends. They had a look of sheer disbelief upon their faces.
James dropped his garbage sack of letter pieces next to Sirius' work in progress, the commotion making the little pieces flutter into chaos, ruining the work Sirius had just done. Sirius didn't seem to notice.
"What a bitch." At this, Remus looked at Sirius with hurt in his eyes. An hour ago, he would have punched him into next week, but now he couldn't even speak.
"Can you guys, just, leave me alone for awhile?" Sirius and James nodded and vacated the room, leaving Remus to wallow in his misery.
When James and Sirius got down to the common room, Lily and Roxie greeted them, in a not so warm way.
"How's your friend? Or is he off with some one else already?" Roxie asked, not even looking up from the necklace she was fiddling with.
"We should be asking you the same thing about Arianna." James replied, sitting in an armchair across from the two girls.
"Wait," Sirius said, "why are you mad at Remus? He's the one who got shafted."
"How so?" Lily asked, "He was the one cheating on Arianna!"
"Remus never cheated on Arianna!? He should have though, maybe he could have found someone a little more compassionate!" James reasoned.
"Ok, guys hold on a second." Roxanne said, putting two and two together. "I think that they think they broke up for different reasons."
The confused look on Sirius' face compelled her to explain herself.
"You say that Remus never messed around on Arianna, right?"
"Right." Sirius nodded.
"But that is the only reason she broke up with him. And while she was breaking up with him, he obviously gave her some indications that what she was saying was true." Roxie shrugged, she didn't know what else to say.
"I think they need to figure this out on their own." Sirius knew that Remus might not want everyone knowing his 'situation.' James followed his lead. At least now though, the friends knew that Remus didn't cheat on Arianna, and the boys knew that Arianna didn't break it off because of Remus being a werewolf.
"Yeah, they need some time to cool off, and then they can figure things out." Just as James said this, Arianna came wandering down the steps to the girl's dormitories. She looked around at the group, and sat down on the couch between the two girls in silence.
(A/N: WARNING, ADULT LANGUAGE AHEAD!)
"What? It's not like someone died or anything? Come on guys, lighten up! It's just a little puppy love romance, no big deal!"
"No big deal, eh?" Remus said, a few feet from the boys landing.
"Yeah your right, two years, doesn't mean a thing."
"Well when you're dating an asshole for two years, maybe it is no big deal." Sirius and James' eyes widened, along with Roxie's and Lily's, in anticipation for what's coming next.
"Yeah, I guess you are right." The group let out a collective breath. "You would have to be an ass to stick it out with a bitch like you for that long."
Arianna's eyes narrowed towards Remus, brimmed with tears.
"I hate you." She said quietly through clenched teeth as she got up.
"What was that sweetheart? I couldn't hear you clearly."
"I hate you!" She screamed at him, with all the force she could gather.
"Oh believe me babe," he said winking at her, "I hate you so much more." He then blew her a kiss and walked out the portrait hole. She ran up stairs and slammed her door until the walls shuddered.
"I think they may need a little more time to cool off…" James said, shrugging.
"What just happened here?" Sirius asked, eyes wide.
"If I explained it to you," Roxie said, getting up and dusting her self off, "your brain might explode. Come on Lee, let's go to bed."
She looked at James and smiled.
"What?" he asked.
"We are crashing in your guys' room."
"Yes!" Sirius said with a 'ca-ching' motion.
Breakfast was quite a gallant affair the next morning, considering only a few Gryffindor 6th years managed to make an appearance. Peter, was off doing who knows what, who knows where. Remus was out on the quidditch pitch, practicing his aim with bludgers, and Arianna had locked herself in the girls' dormitory the night before, and has failed to come out since.
And then there were four…
"I firmly believe," Sirius stated, while putting holes in his bread by trying to butter it, "that the hardness of the butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread."
"Quite a lot of mathematical logic in that statement, eh Sirius?" James said.
"I have always said, Jamie, that there are 3 types of people in this world. Those that understand math, and those that don't." He said while taking a bite out of the bread.
"What's the other type?" Roxie asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Never mind." She answered, laughing. James put is head down on the table as he shook with silent laughter. Sirius looked around at his laughing friends and shrugged.
"I guess I just don't see what's so funny."
"It's ok Sirius, didn't you once tell me that 7/5th of all people don't understand fractions?" James asked, smiling at Lily and Roxie, who were waiting for Sirius' answer.
"Right-o James, glad to know you were listening! Who knows, maybe you're not as much of a lost cause as Minerva and I thought." Sirius patted James on the back and went back to breakfast.
"Good to know you're looking out for me Sirius," James said, while looking over his new class schedule.
"So, what's the news? Break it to me straight. Come on Jamie, I can handle it." Sirius said, grabbing for his schedule.
"Double potions with…"
"Not Slytherin, not Slytherin, not…" Sirius chanted, fingers crossed.
"Slytherin." James stated, turning to see the look on Sirius' face.
"Dammit! Why do Minerva and Albus keep on doing this to me? They know that I can't sit in a dungeon with Snape, and not do something to him!" As Sirius ranted on, James leaned over the table to Lily and Roxie and said,
"Good thing about egotists," he pointed at Sirius, who was still talking, "is that they don't talk about other people."
The girls smiled as Sirius stopped mid sentence. Peter had just squeezed in between James and him, and was now eating their food.
"Just what do you think you're doing, Wormtail?" Sirius asked, snatching his toast away from the rat.
"I'm eating breakfast." Peter said, as if Sirius was slow.
"Correction," James said, grabbing his pumpkin juice, "you're eating our breakfast."
"Well you were talking to the girls, and Sirius was going on about Minerva, and I"
"Hold it! What makes you think that you have a right to call Minerva by her first name?" Sirius asked, offended by Peter's lack of respect.
"Well you call her Minerva." Peter answered smugly.
"Yes, well I am different." Sirius said, standing up.
"Must be nice being better then us commoners, huh Sirius." Roxie said, smiling at him.
"Yes, well, it's lonely at the top," he said as he grabbed two pieces of toast, "but you eat better."
Once the rest of the friends had finished eating, they followed Sirius' lead, and went down to the dungeons, for Potions. The period passed by with relative ease, unless you count the partnering up phase.
Remus and Arianna had both shown up late, and were both devoid of a partner. Needless to say, the pair was not to happy when James pointed out that they had to be partners for the first lesson.
"Advanced Love potions?!" Sirius said, looking at their ingredient list.
"We are making Love potions?" Roxie asked, and then looked over at Remus and Arianna.
"He he, sucks for them…" James said as he walked by with his tray of ingredients.
"The purpose," Professor Carter began, "of the love potion is simple. To make the drinker totally devoted to the maker. It was invented by a witch, and used on her notoriously cheating husband. This witch soon found though, that her husband needed a higher potency potion, to curb his straying ways. So she invented this, Love Potion #9."
"Because she fed this to him so often, she ended up killing him, by making him overdose on the potion,"
The class collectively breathed in a sharp intake of air.
"but, we are confident that your skills will not be near strong enough, so you need not worry about killing your classmate."
Professor Carter decided to leave it up to the students on the matter of who would take the potion.
"I think I should take it," Roxie told Sirius.
"Why?"
"Because you are already obsessed with me."
"Good point!" Sirius said as he dumped the ground up unicorn horn into the cauldron.
"Who do you want to take it?" James asked Lily, full knowing that it would probably have no effect on him.
"Ehmmm… I'll take it. I'm confident about your potion making abilities." Lily answered. "I wonder how Remus and Arianna are doing?"
"I don't even want to know," James said as he stirred the potion.
At the other end of the dungeon, things weren't going so smoothly.
"Can you please pass me the fairy dust," Remus asked curtly, as Arianna obliged.
"The white kind, not blue." He said angrily.
"Well, sorry, you didn't specify what color you needed." She answered back, through clenched teeth.
"I didn't think it was necessary, I figured any half-wit would be able to tell that you cannot put blue fairy dust in a love potion." He looked at her, and saw her eyes turn to fire.
"Wow Remus, you really hurt me there." She said sarcastically, without cracking the slightest smile.
"Just returning the favor." And with that, he walked away.
OOO! Burn!!! Ok, lol. Yeah, it's a little bit of a cliffhanger, but not so much. I vowed to myself, that I wouldn't not start this chapter until I had as many reviews as I did chapters. (so that means I needed 1 review…) And then I saw that I had a review so I started writing! I know you are all very proud. I know that this chapter is really depressing, and I'm sorry for that, but I hope I put some humor in there to balance it out a bit. The next chapter will be pretty funny, it will be mainly about them going thru the day under the love potion. I don't know that Remus and Arianna will figure out their weird break-up yet… I'm not sure… Hmm, email me if you have any ideas or anything. I don't really have any solid ideas about what to do until James and Lily get together, and that is way down the line. So if you have anything that you think I should do, put it in a review, I know I will get back to you. Oh, yea, and if you think Sirius is stupid or something, he's really not. I just realized that I am writing him that way and I am totally not meaning too. I think that's all I have to say…
Babygal~ thank you so much for your review! I'm really glad you like the story; hopefully this chapter didn't disappoint you…
PotterFan18~ I'm glad you like the characters, I'm trying to make them seem as real as possible, but I mean, their magical… so I don't think I have that much control anyway, lol.
Chemically-unbalanced~ Thanks for your review! Well, Sirius is a little bit odd, and he thinks that he is better than most people, so he feels that he is allowed to call Prof. McGonagall, by her first name, Minerva.
