Chapter 16
Kayla was grinning as she stepped into Hogwarts again. She was home. And seeing the looks on the Slytherins faces as they were framed as pictures along the Great Hall. Not even getting in trouble by McGonagall could spoil her mood!
Which was good, considering that she had in fact gotten in trouble with McGonagall, and was on her way to Dumbledore's office along with Lily, James, Sirius, Aria and Remus.
"I think we did it this time," Lily whispered to Kayla as they walked behind a fuming McGonagall towards the Headmaster's office. Kayla looked at Lily and nodded her head vigorously. They had never seen Professor McGonagall this mad at them before.
"Inexcusable!" Professor yelled, then proceeded to mutter her opinions to herself.
Lily looked at Kayla, who looked at her, and both were visibly trying not to laugh at the ticked off teacher. Being the two directly behind McGonagall, if they strained their ears, they could hear what she was saying about them. But on silent, mutual agreement, they decided to leave the vile words that McGonagall was muttering to be left unheard by them. It was most likely best not to hear what was being said anyways.
James, Remus, Sirius, Aria, Kayla, and Lily silently followed Professor McGonagall through many corridors, up many steps, to finally stop in front of a statue of a gargoyle.
"Lemon Drop Lollipop," Professor McGonagall told the statue.
The gargoyle made a hideous grinding noise that made the six students shudder as it revealed a long twirling set of stairs that led to Headmaster Dumbledore's office.
Filing up the stairs in pairs, the group made their way up to his office.
Kayla looked around the room and smiled. The room was constantly changing. Last year, Dumbledore's office had a dark scheme to it, but this year… this year there was dark, gleaming mahogany wood everywhere; plush, deep maroon and gold carpet; and eight wide cushioned chairs were scattered around the room simultaneously. The chairs had dark teal cushions, and armrests that were like everything else that had wood on it, a startling mahogany color. The bookcases were lined with books, funny looking frog knickknacks, and shinny silver pots filled with silver liquid. Upon a closer look, the pots were placed to be Pensieve's.
There were small cabinets in between the past Headmasters of the school, filled with God knows what, and on a perch behind the door stood Fawkes, Professor Dumbledore's pet Phoenix.
Kayla smiled to herself. "He took my advice," she told Sirius with a grin.
Last year, she had told him that his room was dull and boring. Which you really wouldn't expect, coming from Dumbledore. He had to be the single most eccentric person that Kayla had the pleasure to meet, yet his own personal rooms were dull! That just had made no sense what so ever to Kayla.
Just then, Dumbledore walked into the room. "Why thank you Miss Evans," Dumbledore said, commenting on what Lily had said, which Kayla had not caught.
"Professor Dumbledore. I'm sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect what so ever," Lily gushed, trying to hide her embarrassment as best as she could as the aging Professor walked past her.
Professor Dumbledore chuckled. "None taken. Now, I believe that you six are here to receive your punishments. Professor McGonagall, that will be all," he dismissed the Headmistress as he sat behind his desk and looked over his half moon spectacles with twinkling blue eyes.
Professor McGonagall looked at Dumbledore with a frown, and answered, "Very well, Albus."
McGonagall walked over towards the door and looked back at the Headmaster. He was going to go easy on them, was all that she could think as she opened the door and walked out of the room.
As soon as the door shut, Dumbledore let his amusement show. "Now, no matter how funny a prank may be, you must receive the punishment, so lets see," he mused as he thought of something for the six students in front of him to do as punishment. Just then, his eyes brightened as if a light bulb just clicked on behind his eyes as he thought of a duty for them. "You six are to take care of the Quidditch preparations next week."
"Now," he said merrily, with a clap of his weathering hands, "How in Merlin's name did you pull that prank off? I suppose that one of you," an amused glance at Lily told them just whom he was talking of, "did some kind of Mage magic to pull some of that off."
Lily flushed and nodded her head. "Yes, sir, I did."
Dumbledore nodded his head, and his eyes were bright with amusement. "Yes, but how did you do it?" Dumbledore pushed.
"Well you see," Sirius started with a gleeful look on his face. "Lily here did a reflecting charm so that no one could see what was going on as we were doing it, and she also used a memory bubble, which is used to display memories that someone might have." Sirius grew quiet and thought about the spell that Lily had used on Snape, then started to laugh. He couldn't believe that Snape was having sex. With a girl! That was just too funny to pass up.
"Then," Kayla started to finish, seeing that her boyfriend was a little preoccupied with his thoughts about Snape on the train. "James made the Slytherins look dimensional so that they would look like actual paintings. Remus changed their clothes, Aria made the frames for the pictures – which I might add was rather well done-" she interjected with a smile towards Aria.
"Now I'd like to finish my story," Sirius grinned, neatly cutting his girlfriend off.
Kayla rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her uniform before leaning back into the comfortable backing of the chair that she was sitting in. "Finish away, Sirius," she waved.
Sirius grinned and turned back to Dumbledore, who was trying his best not to look too impatient to know it all. "Then, I hung them up on the walls, so that everyone could see them, while my darling Kayla here, created the image of fire in the pictures themselves, making the Slytherins believe that they were incased by a fire," he finished with a dreamy smile. That had been a good prank. Not one of the best, but certainly one of the most inventive that they had come up with yet.
Dumbledore couldn't help himself, he laughed.
"You six are truly talented," he smiled as he calmed down. "Now, you five are dismissed. Lily, I'd like for you to stay so that I may have a word with you," Dumbledore told them, and looked at Lily with a serious look.
"We'll wait for you outside, Lily," Kayla said as she and the rest got out of their chairs and walked out the door.
"Something is going on," she sighed as she reached the bottom of the steps, and slid her hand in Sirius' as they leaned against the stone wall to wait.
"I wonder what it is," Aria yawned. She was starting to get sleepy. Four a.m. was just not the time to wake up. Ever.
"We'll find out in due time," Kayla commented.
Just then, the gargoyle started to grind, symbolizing that someone was coming down the steps. The group looked over to see Lily walking down the stairs with a frown marring her usually bright face. Now, it just looked confused.
'Now all I have to do is find someway to tell everyone that they might be in danger. Great,' Lily thought as she walked up to her friends.
Kayla looked at Sirius and frowned. What the hell was Lily's problem? It looked like she was just told that she was in charge of the worlds safety or something.
Sirius mean while was trying to figure out how he was going to propose to Kayla. And when. He was going to do it that night, but then it just didn't feel right at the moment. And he wanted it to be something that Kayla would always remember, and sigh over. Something out of the blue. Not that it wouldn't be right now.
"Sirius," Kayla questioned.
"Hmm?"
"What are you thinking about? You look serious," she said softly as they walked pass the Ravenclaw common room entrance, leaving Lily and James to say their goodbyes, and continued on walking to places unknown.
"Nothing baby. Just thinking, that's all," Sirius told her with a smile.
Somehow, they had ended up in a dark corridor with what looked like one window along its expanse, and sleeping pictures of warlocks and magical creatures lined the stone walls, with candles flickering on and off as the draft flew through the hallway. Kayla shivered and pulled her cloak tighter around her.
"Here," Sirius smiled as he stopped, shrugged out of his cloak and laid it across her shoulders, and drew it closed underneath her chin.
"I love you," Kayla smiled back, snuggled into the warmth of the overly large cloak, stopped walking, and turned towards Sirius to look him in the eyes. "I really do. I mean, I never expected that I'd love you – or anyone, as much as I do. I don't know what I did to deserve you, or why you want me, but whatever it is, I'm grateful."
The words stuck in Sirius's throat as he gazed down into Kayla's face, seeing the features even in the darkness of the corridor. "I love you too, angel. And you're the only one who I could ever even imagine wanting," he told her softly, and lifted a hand to brush away a strand of her black hair that was brushing across her cheek.
Kayla shivered as she felt the rough pads of Sirius's hands brush her cheeks, and lowered her gaze to his lips.
Sirius swallowed hard as he saw her eyes lock on his lips, and bent his head slowly.
Just as he was about to lay his lips on hers, they heard a soft 'meow' coming from the other end of the corridor, and they jumped apart.
"Shit!" Sirius cursed as he grabbed Kayla's hand and started running in the opposite direction of the cat.
By the time they reached the Ravenclaw common room entrance, the two were out of breath and panting heavily. "Summer dreams!" Kayla shouted to the statue and jumped into the Ravenclaw common room with Sirius.
"That was close," Sirius sighed as he leaned heavily on the wall next to the exit. He looked around and mentally shook his head. The Ravenclaw common room area was so dark. Done in a sky blue and black theme, it was dark but cheery at the same time. The couches were a deep black color, while the chairs were a bright sky blue. There were bookcases all over the place, the rugs were done in black, and the curtains were done in the same shade of blue.
"I know," Kayla huffed as she flopped onto the couch.
"So . . .," Sirius grinned as he pushed himself off of the wall and sauntered over to the couch and sat on the edge of it, next to Kayla's arm. "Where were we before we got interrupted?" he asked with a sparkle in his brown eyes.
Kayla, who had levered herself on to her elbows, looked at him, and fell back on to the couch with a laugh.
"What?" Sirius demanded with a smile on his face. She was so beautiful. He loved watching her. In any mood.
"Nothing," Kayla smiled as she pulled him down to her and kissed him lightly.
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Authors Note:
Okay, I just finished reading OotP, and I have to say that I cried so bad! Poor Harry is all I have to say. And for those of you who have not yet read the book, I must say that you are in for a surprise.
And on to other things, I'm sorry that it took me a million a five years to get this chapter up. But I promise that I'll be updating more often. I'm off for the summer, and I need to get this story done by the 9th of July, so you'll be getting like daily updates, so I hope that you'll all review bunches!!!
Well, hope you liked!
Oh, and one more thing. I found that it is really hard to make the scenes exactly like Entranced, so they will vary, alright?
Well, review~!!
Mistress del Mare