Starting now Caitlin will be called Cate unless someone's talking to her/
Chapter 1 What to do with Cate?
©Love Will ALWAYS Find a Way©
By Allie-2003
1971 5th year
Caitlin was made Prefect. She was thrilled. Her parents didn't give a rat's ass. They were more worried about their fights, and her brother Conner. He was 11 years older then she was, and a total jerk like her parents.
In the past 4 years she hadn't made friends and had become overly annoyed with the 'Maurders' as they called themselves these days. Mostly Sirius. Last year he had repeatedly bumped into her and made her books fall out of her bag. He'd also tripped her constantly during the years. At the top of her class she tutored Peter who was at the bottom of the class every once in a blue moon. Severus and his gang weren't any better than Sirius but as she was related to one of them it was worse. Back to the Maurders. Over the years she had watched them grow in to teenagers and had become fixated with Remus. He had grown in to a good-looking boy. His green eyes sparkled but he was frequently pale but she looked over that. After that moment during their first year he stopped asking her for help.
"Caitlin! Time to leave! Her mother said at 8:45 as usual. She had gotten used to the waiting on the platform until the train arrived.
"Coming Mother!" she called running down the stairs. Her bag and trunk were already down there.
"Come on, come on let's go! I have to apparate to work after I drop you off. Come on out the door!" Mother said. They left the house Cate despised.
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Platform 9¾
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Sirius was early for once. He left the house an hour ago all because of his parents. He detested the house and all living in it. His dad was pestering him to do better in school and to talk to the new Dark Wizard Voldemort. Sirius refused to go. His hair was still as long as it was during his 1st year at school and his mother hated it.
"Cut your hair!" she kept telling him every day.
"No I like it this way. Why can't you understand that Mother? I'm 15 and you can't force me to cut my hair and change my appearance. " He kept saying. Today was no different, the people that he called his parents were going after him to improve himself and he for once actually told them to "shove your wand up your ass!" and then he grabbed his trunk and left. He smiled for the first time in 2 months. Just then someone else came on to the platform. It was Caitlin Wilding. She hadn't changed much over the summer. She had grown some but not much. Her hair had gone from bushy to curly. Her cat, which hated him as much as he hated it, hissed at him. It wasn't until then Caitlin saw him. He growled back at the cat… Muffin she called it.
"Oh! It's you Black. What are you doing here so early?" she snapped at him.
"Why don't you go stuff your head in a toilet, Wilding." He answered. She bristled at the statement. She also looked a little hurt.
"OK I'm sorry I snapped at you. I also have a question for you. Why do you hate me? What have I EVER done to you?" she asked sarcastically.
"That's two questions. However I'll answer them. " He said pausing to think about it. Then said "You were born." But whom were you born for? Me?
"OH! Well I never! First my family. Who mind you has no respect for me. None. For almost 5 years I've tried to prove to them I was worth something. My ENTIRE family treats me just like you do. They wish I was never born, my parents always tell me I was a mistake. And my cousin worse then that. Furthermore there you are. Mister High and Mighty Sirius Black, I mean who are you King of Hogwarts? I do nothing to you and you make my life worse then the hell it already is. Let me tell you something, Sirius Black, no more, I'm Prefect this year. So I will no longer put up with your shit. If you put a single wrong foot in my path…I swear to you that I will give you detention for a month faster then you can say "Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans." She said fuming. It was the Scot in her that went and blew up on him.
"Really Wilding this year is going to be the best. I can't wait to see you try." Sirius said sneering. The spunk she had. He was starting to like this Scottish fireball even more.
"Go jump up your own ass and suffocate!" she countered as James, and Peter came onto the platform. The train had arrived as she was informing Sirius about her new status as Prefect. She went onto the train muttering in Gaelic, mostly about his lack of manners and there was something about him being a sheep's butt or was it bladder? They couldn't tell.
"Ok Padfoot what did you do to her now?" James asked laughing at the scene that had just unfolded. Sirius was staring at the empty train doorway.
"Huh? I just told her what a pleasure it will be to see her give me detention for a month if I… let's see how did she put it? Oh if I "put a wrong foot in her path". She's a Prefect this year so we better watch out." He said rolling his eyes.
"Yea we'd better watch out. She's not the only one we know whose a Prefect. Moony is too." Peter said.
"What am I?" Remus asked just coming onto the platform. The others jumped a little startled.
"Moony my main amigo. You should have been here 4 minutes ago. Caitlin just lit into Padfoot here. She is also a Prefect. It seems you have something in common." James said.
"That and she is super smart so you better watch out. I'll bet you 100 galleons that she at this very moment looking up hexes to use on us, so what else happened? What did he do this time?" Remus said. James laughed as did Peter. Then the other boys recalled the whole story as they entered the train. Peter could be heard telling Remus that Caitlin told Sirius to "Jump up his own ass and suffocate" there was laughter heard through the train.
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Cate met Remus in the Prefect car of the train. She was sitting with her back to the door when he entered.
"Hey Caitlin, so it seems we're Prefects together. I also heard from the victim that you lashed out at him." He told her sitting next to her.
"Hi Remus, yeah after fifteen years of pent up anger I finally cracked, not to mention he deserved it, after the hell he has put me through for the since we started school. I feel good." She said laughing.
"He likes you that's why he does it. It's the only way he knows how to admit his feelings."
"Ha! Ok! Remus. Whatever. It will be a cold day in hell when Sirius Black asks me out."
"One question, what DID you say in Gaelic?"
"Oh all I said was that Sirius Black needed an attitude adjustment and I went on about his manners then called him a sheep's butt. Well it was more like a sheep's ass." She said seriously and Remus laughed. Just then the Head Boy called the meeting in order.
"Ok Prefects. Let's get this over with." He said. The meeting consisted on the plans of the Christmas dance that was to be held this year. Also about what the Prefects could or couldn't do. After the end of the meeting Cate asked Remus to carry on a message to his friends.
"Please tell them that if I ever catch them trying to screw with me…this includes you too. Anyways if I ever catch you guys trying to screw with me in any way you will get a detention. If it is serious it will be for a month. Be forewarned!" she told him.
"Yes ma'am right away ma'am!" Remus said and left the car to return to his friends as she laughed. Cate followed him to her stuff and kept her door open. Just then Lily Evans and Beth Davenport knocked and came in and sat down.
"We heard about what you told Sirius Black. And as your roommates we would like to be the first to say: 'Bravo' Caitlin. He deserved it. 'Jump up your ass and suffocate' Brilliant! Couldn't say anything better." Beth said and Lily nodded. The girls stayed there the rest of the trip. Halfway through the trip however, James came in and started trying to ask Lily out…It didn't work. Laughing Cate was torn between whom to give her sympathy to James or Lily, she decided on giving it to James. He was so pathetic. He left let down and the rest of the trip was uneventful. Except the fact that the first time in almost 11 years Cate had made friends. This time for life. Or theirs anyway.
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The Great Hall
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After the sorting, the school ate, and then Dumbledore introduced the new teachers, head boy and girl, and then he told the students about the dance that was coming up in four months.
"Every seven years the school has a Christmas Ball for third year and above. The Prefects will host this dance. They are to answer any question you have. Now to bed you go."
"First years this way! First year Gryffindors this was please." Cate and Remus herded the new students out of the Great Hall. As they walked along the hallways Cate kept looking at Remus and he was looking back. Unbeknownst to either Prefect they were being followed by Sirius. The rest of the Maurders had planned on finding a way to get Cate back for they way she had treated him, the boy in question was the one who thought of it. He thought of the perfect way to get Caitlin Wilding back, and hopefully to win her heart. He doubted it would make her like him. The students had gotten to the entrance to the common room.
"Girls to the right boys to the left." Cate told the students. To Remus she said, "Don't forget Remus we have to plan our activities for the dance. When would you like to do it?"
"After the full…how about two weeks from now?" he almost revealed his greatest secret. The fact that he was a werewolf. She paused before saying,
"Alright I'll start brainstorming and we can talk then. Good…"
"Moony! What's going on? Are we having a party?" Sirius came down the boy's stairway. Cate glared at him.
"NO we are not having a party, Black. We were discussing Prefect business." She said frowning. This guy actually liked her? The nerve of him.
"Was I talking you, Wilding? I think not. Anyway, you coming Moony?" Sirius said glaring back at her.
"Sure. Just a minute Padfoot." Remus winked at Cate. After Sirius left and went back upstairs. He said, "So what do you think now, Caitlin?"
"I think… I think that Sirius Black is the biggest git on this side of the universe." She replied frowning. But the frown turned into a smile for the boy she liked. "But as for you Remus and the rest of your friends I think that you guys are a thousand times better then him. Just a small gittlings. Puny. Minor. Trivial." Remus laughed out loud.
"Goodnight Caitlin."
"Call me Cate. Goodnight." She said then went upstairs.
"Call me Cate." Well Padfoot my friend I think you have a little competition. She likes me. But what to do with Cate? I can't date her. She'll find out that I'm a werewolf and then dump me. Remus thought going upstairs.
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A/n Well?????? What did you think what are the Maurders going to do to Cate? We've got a little love triangle here. Sirius likes Cate she likes Remus. James asking Lily out (which will happen a lot). Where were Snape and her… I mean his friends? What was Voldemort planning? Till next time ~Allie~