( Hope you like this chapter, I dunno when the fourth one will be up since I'm stuck and not done with it. Hope you like this one, rate, review.)
Chapter Two. Home, sweet Home, Draco.
Cleo and Sirius explained what happened at Dumbledore's office and Johnny the Joker. Everyone laughed except Draco, who just had a bored look on his face and annoyed he had to be Gryffindor for a year. "You mean I'm stuck with you Gryffindorks for a YEAR?" He said annoyed.
"Hey!" The group said in unison. "And were not all that bad." Remus said.
"The only weird one here is Sirius." James added confidently and grinning at his friend.
"That's not funny. You wound me Prongs." Sirius said pretending to look hurt, but failed miserably.
"Well, I guess we should head back to the common room, shouldn't we?" Remus suggested getting off a desk.
The four Marauders and three others agreed and walked out of the classroom. Peeves was chasing a few second years down the hall so they hurried a bit to the Gryffindor Common Room. The Fat Lady looked at them and waited for the password. James said it (Roaring Lions) and they were in.
"Welcome to home, sweet home, Draco." Cleo said flopping onto the couch. She could tell it was the same old couch she used to lie on because it was bouncy in just the right places. Cleo looked around. Everything looked exactly the same, except different people and books, just like the halls. "Obviously they don't change things a lot." she thought and got a book from the book shelf to read. She sat back down on the couch, her feet dangling over the armrest and her ankles crossed, making herself right at home.
"I want to make an announcement." James said loudly so everyone got his attention. A few older people groaned, most looked at him, the rest of the Marauders seem used to this and ignored him. "We have three new-well...old... well- Gryffindors today. Cleo, Astra, and Draco!" James said enthusiastically. Yep. People are going to wonder.
Astra blushed as everyone looked at her and looked into a book, sadly, it was upside down. She didn't seem to notice that, though. Draco was in a corner scowling at all of them and James the most. His arms were folded and he was staring at the window. Cleo grinned and sat up over the couch.
"I, Cleo, would also like to make an announcement. Stay away from Drakie, since he is mean and annoying, but remember to give him lots of kind and caring love and-" Is knocked over by a pillow tossed in her direction by a very annoyed Draco. "I told you had a bad-" But she was thrown another pillow and she threw it back. "He just seems cold hearted and evil but really- WOULD YOU STOP THAT!!" she said tossing the two pillows back at him. Everyone was now laughing and even Draco was chuckling. Sirius laughed sitting on an armchair and grinned, James was still standing in the center of everything, Remus was grinning at another couch and Peter was smiling in the corner.
Cleo went back to her regular position, and opened up the book, Quidditch Through the Ages. She was a pureblood, and more then anything, she loved Quidditch. She flipped through a few pages and started reading some of the Fouls. Sirius looked up and walked over to her, seating himself on the end of the armrest.
Sirius cranked his head to look over her shoulder at what she was reading. "What'cha reading?" he asked her finally, not being able to figure it out. Cleo looked up at him through her glasses and then looked back at her book.
"Quidditch Through the Ages. If I finish it this time, it will be my fifteenth time exactly." She said flipping to the next page. (Starts wondering if theres a world record on that. WHEEE I could end up in the Guinness World book of records YEY ^.^)
"You play Quidditch?" Sirius asked, cocking an eyebrow at her. He was a beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, lean, mean- well not mean or anything but he had broad shoulders and some muscles.
"Yeah, for the Gryffindor team in my time, I'm the beater. I'm pretty good but I can get a little rough." Cleo said remembering the time when she gave Malfoy a bloody nose. Aww. Those where the days. She smiled a bit thinking over it.
Sirius saw her smiling and lifted an eyebrow. "Rough? And good? Hmm...we DO need a new beater. The last one socked me in the eye with a bludger once...and I didn't do anything." Sirius grinned innocently.
Cleo snorted. Innocent, yeah right. "Mmhmm, I'm sure you didn't do anything." she said sarcastically. Cleo looked around. James and Peter were flicking pieces of paper at Frank Longbottom, and Remus and Astra were chatting on the couch. "So, who's your coach?" Cleo looked up to him.
"James is the coach. He's a chaser and has been since second year. Me and him rule the Quidditch field." Sirius grinned boastfully, throwing his hair back a bit. "We haven't lost a game yet." he added in a proud sort of way.
"Uh Hugh. Got that." she said nodding. Now...how to get onto the team.. "I'll remember to kiss up to him." she said and pretended to make a mental note. She loved Quidditch more then anything- accept swimming. Swimming was a muggle sport she loved more then any other sport you could think of.
"Well... I bet I could talk to him for you, to have a try out. James is my best friend after all. We've been through so much together...but it'll come for a price." Sirius teased leaning in a bit.
"Well..." Cleo lifted an eyebrow. "What's the price?" she asked looking at him.
He leaned in and all of a sudden- there was a crash. Peter knocked into Sirius and ran into a corner. "Sirius! Help me! He's going to kill me!" Peter yelped as Frank was gaining on him with a thick Transfiguration book.
"I TOLD YOU TO STOP FLICKING PAPERS AT ME!" Frank roared, chasing the small boy. Peter was huddling in a corner scared with Frank raising a book high over his head. Cleo jumped off the couch and Sirius leaned back looking at the two in confusion. Cleo pulled the book out of Frank's hands and, glaring at him, told him off.
"Frank, knock it off! You know one good swipe with that thing would finish him off." She snapped at him. Peter was still in the corner. Frank was backing away from her and Peter very slowly. "It was just a piece of paper, so you don't have to get hysterical over it." She said and threw him the book. He grabbed it and walked off quickly not looking back.
"Th-thank you." Peter stuttered from his corner. Cleo turned around when he said it and shrugged. Cleo looked around. Sirius, James, and Remus were giving Frank dirty looks and talking to him, she walked back over to the couch and sat in her same position again. Cleo reopened her book, found her old place, and began to read as if nothing happened.
Sirius went back to Peter and talked with him for a moment, then went back over to Cleo. He sat back down on the armrest and she moved her feet regretfully to give him more room. She liked the couch, a lot. Nice and big and bouncy and soft... "You have heads turning you know..." Sirius said grinning at her.
Cleo shrugged. "Frank was getting annoying with the yelling and same with Peter. Besides, their in the same house, their not supposed to kill each other." She muttered and Sirius chuckled. "And I'm glad you find it so funny." she said rolling her eyes and lowering them back to the book.
"No, it's just- you had to see Frank's face. He, nor did anyone else, expect a girl who they never saw before to tell someone bigger, older, and been there longer then them, off. You were very brave, or out of your mind." Sirius said smirking at her.
"Some would pick the latter." Cleo muttered under her breath. "Well then, I guess I surprised you?" she said lifting an eyebrow and leaning back a bit. She looked over at Frank who looked annoyed, now sitting at a table, alone.
"He deserved it though. Peter is a small...scared kid." Sirius said motioning to Peter at a table now. "So I guess you can say it's one for you, zip for Frank." he said chuckling. "Why are you so quiet?" He asked with a hint of worry in his voice when she didn't look that thrilled.
"I dunno, it's just that I'm going to be gone for a year- even though it's a day my time. I'll miss my friends...and family and stuff, you know?" Cleo shrugged looking at her book and sighed.
"Aww don't worry Cleo, we'll make you feel right at home." Sirius said grinning cheekily and put his arms out for a hug. Now Cleo was scared. She looked at him with nervous eyes and mouthed to no one in particular, "Help." He leaned in on her and fell right on top of her.
"Klutz." A girl muffled from under Sirius. "God your heavy." She breathed.
"And your comfy. I might just stay here." Sirius grinned from atop of her.
"Must...get...air.." Cleo whimpered from under and pushed Sirius off her and he landed on the floor with a thud. Cleo started giggling as she looked down on the Sirius looking up at her.
"Oh, I'm glad your so amused." He smirked and stood up, wiping his robes and looked at her. She was stronger then she seemed. Sirius couldn't help but glance at her lean arms. "Probably from Quidditch" He thought. "I think it's time for dinner." Sirius said finally looking at the clock.
The Marauders, Cleo, Astra, and finally an annoyed Draco headed down the halls for supper. Astra and Remus seemed to be getting along pretty well, and James and Peter were talking about something that sounded like suspiciously like 'Frank' and 'Potion.' Sirius and Cleo walked down stairs talking of pranks one another pulled throughout the years.
"Once in Second year, we snuck into the Slytherin Dorms and put dungbombs in the boy's dorm. It was so funny. They were so mad." Sirius said grinning. "Once we dyed their hair pink and in the morning they were so mad-" But Cleo cut him off.
"You dyed their hair pink? I gotta write that down... Hehe..." Cleo let out a bit of an evil like giggle as she wrote it down in a note book that appeared from nowhere. "Once me and Astra changed all the Slytherin colors to Gryffindor. And we had a Slytherin/Gryffindor match that day to. So we changed their colors to our colors and it looked like they were cheering for us. It was hilarious." Cleo said remembering it with a laugh.
"Did you see the look on Dumbledore's face when you told him how often you were in his office. He had a face of horror. Why did you get into a fight with 'Malfoy?'" Sirius asked looking at her with awe and respect again.
"Because Draco was insulting muggleborns and muggles, then insulted me for being a muggle lover and all. I just got very irritated and when I accidentally knocked him over he thought I pushed him." She said the 'accidentally' part with a bit of an accent.
"Draco is Malfoy? He's probably Lucy's son! Oh I can get dirt on this." Sirius said with a grin but Cleo gave him a look that made him back off on it. "What? I-" Cleo cut him off.
"No." She said.
"But-"
"No." She said firmly and they went to the Great Hall for dinner.
Chapter Two. Home, sweet Home, Draco.
Cleo and Sirius explained what happened at Dumbledore's office and Johnny the Joker. Everyone laughed except Draco, who just had a bored look on his face and annoyed he had to be Gryffindor for a year. "You mean I'm stuck with you Gryffindorks for a YEAR?" He said annoyed.
"Hey!" The group said in unison. "And were not all that bad." Remus said.
"The only weird one here is Sirius." James added confidently and grinning at his friend.
"That's not funny. You wound me Prongs." Sirius said pretending to look hurt, but failed miserably.
"Well, I guess we should head back to the common room, shouldn't we?" Remus suggested getting off a desk.
The four Marauders and three others agreed and walked out of the classroom. Peeves was chasing a few second years down the hall so they hurried a bit to the Gryffindor Common Room. The Fat Lady looked at them and waited for the password. James said it (Roaring Lions) and they were in.
"Welcome to home, sweet home, Draco." Cleo said flopping onto the couch. She could tell it was the same old couch she used to lie on because it was bouncy in just the right places. Cleo looked around. Everything looked exactly the same, except different people and books, just like the halls. "Obviously they don't change things a lot." she thought and got a book from the book shelf to read. She sat back down on the couch, her feet dangling over the armrest and her ankles crossed, making herself right at home.
"I want to make an announcement." James said loudly so everyone got his attention. A few older people groaned, most looked at him, the rest of the Marauders seem used to this and ignored him. "We have three new-well...old... well- Gryffindors today. Cleo, Astra, and Draco!" James said enthusiastically. Yep. People are going to wonder.
Astra blushed as everyone looked at her and looked into a book, sadly, it was upside down. She didn't seem to notice that, though. Draco was in a corner scowling at all of them and James the most. His arms were folded and he was staring at the window. Cleo grinned and sat up over the couch.
"I, Cleo, would also like to make an announcement. Stay away from Drakie, since he is mean and annoying, but remember to give him lots of kind and caring love and-" Is knocked over by a pillow tossed in her direction by a very annoyed Draco. "I told you had a bad-" But she was thrown another pillow and she threw it back. "He just seems cold hearted and evil but really- WOULD YOU STOP THAT!!" she said tossing the two pillows back at him. Everyone was now laughing and even Draco was chuckling. Sirius laughed sitting on an armchair and grinned, James was still standing in the center of everything, Remus was grinning at another couch and Peter was smiling in the corner.
Cleo went back to her regular position, and opened up the book, Quidditch Through the Ages. She was a pureblood, and more then anything, she loved Quidditch. She flipped through a few pages and started reading some of the Fouls. Sirius looked up and walked over to her, seating himself on the end of the armrest.
Sirius cranked his head to look over her shoulder at what she was reading. "What'cha reading?" he asked her finally, not being able to figure it out. Cleo looked up at him through her glasses and then looked back at her book.
"Quidditch Through the Ages. If I finish it this time, it will be my fifteenth time exactly." She said flipping to the next page. (Starts wondering if theres a world record on that. WHEEE I could end up in the Guinness World book of records YEY ^.^)
"You play Quidditch?" Sirius asked, cocking an eyebrow at her. He was a beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, lean, mean- well not mean or anything but he had broad shoulders and some muscles.
"Yeah, for the Gryffindor team in my time, I'm the beater. I'm pretty good but I can get a little rough." Cleo said remembering the time when she gave Malfoy a bloody nose. Aww. Those where the days. She smiled a bit thinking over it.
Sirius saw her smiling and lifted an eyebrow. "Rough? And good? Hmm...we DO need a new beater. The last one socked me in the eye with a bludger once...and I didn't do anything." Sirius grinned innocently.
Cleo snorted. Innocent, yeah right. "Mmhmm, I'm sure you didn't do anything." she said sarcastically. Cleo looked around. James and Peter were flicking pieces of paper at Frank Longbottom, and Remus and Astra were chatting on the couch. "So, who's your coach?" Cleo looked up to him.
"James is the coach. He's a chaser and has been since second year. Me and him rule the Quidditch field." Sirius grinned boastfully, throwing his hair back a bit. "We haven't lost a game yet." he added in a proud sort of way.
"Uh Hugh. Got that." she said nodding. Now...how to get onto the team.. "I'll remember to kiss up to him." she said and pretended to make a mental note. She loved Quidditch more then anything- accept swimming. Swimming was a muggle sport she loved more then any other sport you could think of.
"Well... I bet I could talk to him for you, to have a try out. James is my best friend after all. We've been through so much together...but it'll come for a price." Sirius teased leaning in a bit.
"Well..." Cleo lifted an eyebrow. "What's the price?" she asked looking at him.
He leaned in and all of a sudden- there was a crash. Peter knocked into Sirius and ran into a corner. "Sirius! Help me! He's going to kill me!" Peter yelped as Frank was gaining on him with a thick Transfiguration book.
"I TOLD YOU TO STOP FLICKING PAPERS AT ME!" Frank roared, chasing the small boy. Peter was huddling in a corner scared with Frank raising a book high over his head. Cleo jumped off the couch and Sirius leaned back looking at the two in confusion. Cleo pulled the book out of Frank's hands and, glaring at him, told him off.
"Frank, knock it off! You know one good swipe with that thing would finish him off." She snapped at him. Peter was still in the corner. Frank was backing away from her and Peter very slowly. "It was just a piece of paper, so you don't have to get hysterical over it." She said and threw him the book. He grabbed it and walked off quickly not looking back.
"Th-thank you." Peter stuttered from his corner. Cleo turned around when he said it and shrugged. Cleo looked around. Sirius, James, and Remus were giving Frank dirty looks and talking to him, she walked back over to the couch and sat in her same position again. Cleo reopened her book, found her old place, and began to read as if nothing happened.
Sirius went back to Peter and talked with him for a moment, then went back over to Cleo. He sat back down on the armrest and she moved her feet regretfully to give him more room. She liked the couch, a lot. Nice and big and bouncy and soft... "You have heads turning you know..." Sirius said grinning at her.
Cleo shrugged. "Frank was getting annoying with the yelling and same with Peter. Besides, their in the same house, their not supposed to kill each other." She muttered and Sirius chuckled. "And I'm glad you find it so funny." she said rolling her eyes and lowering them back to the book.
"No, it's just- you had to see Frank's face. He, nor did anyone else, expect a girl who they never saw before to tell someone bigger, older, and been there longer then them, off. You were very brave, or out of your mind." Sirius said smirking at her.
"Some would pick the latter." Cleo muttered under her breath. "Well then, I guess I surprised you?" she said lifting an eyebrow and leaning back a bit. She looked over at Frank who looked annoyed, now sitting at a table, alone.
"He deserved it though. Peter is a small...scared kid." Sirius said motioning to Peter at a table now. "So I guess you can say it's one for you, zip for Frank." he said chuckling. "Why are you so quiet?" He asked with a hint of worry in his voice when she didn't look that thrilled.
"I dunno, it's just that I'm going to be gone for a year- even though it's a day my time. I'll miss my friends...and family and stuff, you know?" Cleo shrugged looking at her book and sighed.
"Aww don't worry Cleo, we'll make you feel right at home." Sirius said grinning cheekily and put his arms out for a hug. Now Cleo was scared. She looked at him with nervous eyes and mouthed to no one in particular, "Help." He leaned in on her and fell right on top of her.
"Klutz." A girl muffled from under Sirius. "God your heavy." She breathed.
"And your comfy. I might just stay here." Sirius grinned from atop of her.
"Must...get...air.." Cleo whimpered from under and pushed Sirius off her and he landed on the floor with a thud. Cleo started giggling as she looked down on the Sirius looking up at her.
"Oh, I'm glad your so amused." He smirked and stood up, wiping his robes and looked at her. She was stronger then she seemed. Sirius couldn't help but glance at her lean arms. "Probably from Quidditch" He thought. "I think it's time for dinner." Sirius said finally looking at the clock.
The Marauders, Cleo, Astra, and finally an annoyed Draco headed down the halls for supper. Astra and Remus seemed to be getting along pretty well, and James and Peter were talking about something that sounded like suspiciously like 'Frank' and 'Potion.' Sirius and Cleo walked down stairs talking of pranks one another pulled throughout the years.
"Once in Second year, we snuck into the Slytherin Dorms and put dungbombs in the boy's dorm. It was so funny. They were so mad." Sirius said grinning. "Once we dyed their hair pink and in the morning they were so mad-" But Cleo cut him off.
"You dyed their hair pink? I gotta write that down... Hehe..." Cleo let out a bit of an evil like giggle as she wrote it down in a note book that appeared from nowhere. "Once me and Astra changed all the Slytherin colors to Gryffindor. And we had a Slytherin/Gryffindor match that day to. So we changed their colors to our colors and it looked like they were cheering for us. It was hilarious." Cleo said remembering it with a laugh.
"Did you see the look on Dumbledore's face when you told him how often you were in his office. He had a face of horror. Why did you get into a fight with 'Malfoy?'" Sirius asked looking at her with awe and respect again.
"Because Draco was insulting muggleborns and muggles, then insulted me for being a muggle lover and all. I just got very irritated and when I accidentally knocked him over he thought I pushed him." She said the 'accidentally' part with a bit of an accent.
"Draco is Malfoy? He's probably Lucy's son! Oh I can get dirt on this." Sirius said with a grin but Cleo gave him a look that made him back off on it. "What? I-" Cleo cut him off.
"No." She said.
"But-"
"No." She said firmly and they went to the Great Hall for dinner.
