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Chapter 14: A Mud Blood for Christmas?
Sirius and Lily were sat in the common room eating their dinner, well Lily wasn't very hungry, so Sirius had volunteered to eat her food for her,
"But Sirius, the plates refill!" she laughed, Sirius had stopped her crying by now with his bad jokes,
"Ahh but Lil's what you don't realise is that if I eat of both plates at once like this," he demonstrated by using two forks to scoop the food off the two plates and stuffing them in his mouth, "Icun eatore iness time cuni!!" he finished spraying bits of potato as he spoke,
"SIRIUS! What on earth, don't you know not to eat with your mouth full! I can't understand a word you're saying!" Sirius swallowed his food as quickly as he could,
"I said, I can eat more in less time can't I!" he grinned,
"Thank you for cheering me up Sirius," Lily gave him a hug which, as he as not expecting it, sent him flying back onto the sofa. They both lay on the sofa looking up at the ceiling for a while, reading the graffiti that previous generations of Griffindors had written up there.
"Lil's," Sirius whispered,
"Why are you whispering?" she whispered back,
"I dunno," he whispered, "What I was going to ask is, and don't get upset now, with only a week and a bit to go, what are you going to do for Christmas?" Lily sat bolt upright and spoke at her normal volume,
"I don't know, I really hadn't thought…" she trailed off, a single tear rolled down her cheek and that was it, she had run out of tears, Sirius sat up and put his arm around her,
"I'm sure we will find something," Lily put her head on his shoulder, "can't you go to Chloe's?"
"No, she's going hiking with her parents," lily sighed, "hiking isn't really my thing!"
"Hmm, Lily Evans, intrepid explorer of the world," he smiled at her, "nope, I don't see it, sorry!" Lily hit him playfully round the head,
"I guess I'll just have to stay here over Christmas,"
"No way, you could go stay with James," Lily had a sour expression on her face at the thought of it, "Or maybe not,"
"Well couldn't I come and stay with you?" Lily looked at him pleadingly, Sirius scratched his head,
"Well you see, my mum and dad have this whole pure blood thing going on," Lily frowned, "so with you only having one magic parent, and the fact that both his parents were non-magic, I can't se them letting you,"
"Oh great, so you don't like me then!" Lily looked hurt,
"No, I don't have a problem with it, James' family doesn't either, it's just the rest of my family, they were all Slytherins I reckon, well my family aren't very pleased with me being in Gryffindor anyway,"
"Getting off track Si," Lily's face suddenly lit up, "What if I pretend to be pure blood, can I come and stay then?"
"Well, pure bloods can trace their family back through generations of wizards, no doubt you will be asked about it,"
"Oh, right," they sat there in silence for about five minutes,
"Oh who cares," Sirius laughed, "You can come and stay anyway, no pretending or anything, it's time my family changed anyway!" Lily flung her arms around Sirius' neck,
"THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!" They both lay back on the sofa, Lily still hugging Sirius, and started laughing.
"SIRIUS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" James yelled as he came into the common room, he was the first Gryffindor up from the great hall as no other people followed him.
Lily and Sirius stopped laughing and sat up, both of them grinning,
"We just sorted out Lil's little problems that's all!"
"What little problem?" James looked worried, "She only bumped her head," their smiles faded.
"Sirius," Lily whispered in a strangled tone as she stood up, "Please can you tell him, I can't go through it again,"
"Yeah sure," Sirius tried to smile,
"Thankyou," she bent down and gave him a hug, "I'm going to bed," as she started for the staircase and James came to sit next to Sirius she turned back and spat,
"You see James, I've given Sirius permission to tell you about my private life," then continued up the stairs.
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Lily lay in bed, watching the curtain of tiny white snowflakes that were floating past her window, it was Saturday, term had ended, and she was lying in,
"Lily!" Chloe shouted as she burst through the door of the dormitory, "Sirius wants to know where you are, but he can't get past the barrier on the stairs,"
"Sirius?" Lily was confused, "shouldn't he have left for the train by now?"
"Duh! And you should be with him shouldn't you," Lily's face paled,
"Oh my gawd! I'm going to make him late!" she jumped up and running around the room threw on he cloak and stuffed some muggle clothes into a bag, he trunk was already packed as Lily never really unpacked it in the first place,
"Calm down girl!" Chloe laughed at the sight of Lily hopping up and down on one foot whilst trying to put a sock on the other, "You don't want to twist an ankle now do you!"
"Bye!" Lily waved breathlessly as she ran out the door; Chloe rolled her eyes as Lily came back into the bedroom,
"Forgot my trunk," she grinned sheepishly grabbing the large trunk and dragging it out the room,
"Lily hurry!" Sirius shouted up the stairs, and then hurried away into the common room, Lily running behind, "Wait wait!" he shouted at the two house elves who had come to collect their trunks, one stopped but the other kept on skipping out the door regardless, "KREACHER I SAID STOP!" Sirius bellowed, this time the elf quickly scooted back beside Sirius,
"Sorry I took s long," Lily smiled, "I kind of forgot, my dad would never have come this early you know," Sirius nodded,
"I know," then he turned back to the elves, "Trunk, fetch, now," Kreacher hurried over to the trunk yanked the handle out of Lily's hand and muttered something that Lily couldn't quite make out,
"We are going to have a great time," laughed Sirius, putting his arm round Lily in a sort of half hug, we can play pranks, fly on broomsticks, and play some more pranks!"
"Sounds good so far," Lily grinned, "Thanks for this Si,"
"No problem" he said before he continued, "Of course at some point Remus, Peter, and James will come round but…"
"Potter!" Lily scoffed,
"Yes," Sirius smiled, "James, he is my best friend you know, and he has promised to apologise!"
"Really?"
"Yes," Sirius beamed, "Let's just say I convinced him to!"
Kreacher left the common room, dragging Lily's trunk and bumping it against the walls as he went, through the portrait hole followed by the other elf which was neatly navigating Sirius' levitating trunk through the gap, being careful not to scratch the leather finish,
"Sorry," Sirius blushed, "Kreacher must have heard about you not being pure-blood,"
"Never mind! I was planning on getting a new one soon any way!" as they turned to follow the elves Lily gasped, "Herby! Hang on a second I have to get Herby!"
Sirius groaned, "Hurry up then!"
Once Lily had fetched Herby they started out the portrait hole,
"Bye Si," called James from the common room, he had been sat in the corner all along,
"Oh, bye mate!" called Sirius,
"Sorry Lily!" he shouted,
Lily laughed, "Bye Potter!"
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