A/N- This chapter starts off at the beginning of the guys sixth year. Why? I don't know, but the story wont work any other way. (I think). Yah… anywayz, Sirius and Anya are still together, James and Lily are on civil terms, and Snape's still a dickhead. Enjoy.

What Just Happened?

"How's things going with Lily?" said Anya not looking up from her parchment. In history of magic, there really was nothing better to do than discuss James' situation.

"Weird. She's stopped talking to me. I think we're going back to how we were."

"Damn." Said Sirius. "How come?"

"I have no idea."

"She was great after Hogsmeade though!" said Anya bewildered. "And you were fine at the end of last year!"

"Yeah." Said James, looking downcast. "But at breakfast today, she was just… weird."

"How do you mean?" said Anya.

"Really cold. Not friendly. She's been weird since we've got back really." Said James.

"Have you spoken to her Prongs?" asked Remus.

"Will you four be quiet!" hissed Lily. Sirius gave her a mock salute, and then turned back to the conversation. "Keep your voice down." Said Anya. "She's probably listening."

"It's either another guy, or PMT." Said Sirius with the air of one who has

Experience in these matters. Anya sighed.

"Padfoot, just because a girl is upset, it does not mean she has PMT!"

Sirius looked annoyed, and shot a furtive glance at Lily before replying in a whisper. "Well then, why else would she be acting like such a B-I-T-C-H?"

"Padfoot, don't you think we're a little old to be spelling things out?"

Peter looked up bewildered. "A Bitca?"

Anya gave Peter a withering look before turning to James. "What are you gonna do James?"

"Well, you know, I have a choice. I can spend my life waiting for Lily to go out with every other guy in the world until she notices me. Or I can just get on with my life."

"Good for you!"

"Well I didn't choose yet."

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"Hey, I'm just gonna go to the loo. Meet you in class." Said Anya, as they passed the girls toilets.

"K." said Sirius, planting a kiss on her cheek, before heading to Charms with the others.

Anya slipped into the room, and after coming out of the cubicle, stood in front of the mirror washing her hands. She dried them on the towel, and straightened out her hair, which had been mussed up during her and James' wrestling match at the end of History Of Magic. As she twirled a lock round her finger, she heard an odd retching noise from behind her. She turned round, puzzled, at stared at the cubicle from which the sounds were emanating.

"Hello?" she called. "Are you ok?"

There was no answer except for another retching sound, and Anya moved forward, now slightly worried. She stopped, unsure whether to knock on the cubicle, but after another particularly violent retch, her mind was made up. She walked forward purposefully, and knocked softly. "Hey, are you alright?"

No answer. Just something that sounded suspiciously like soft sobs. Anya was now extremely worried.

"Hey! Ok, come on, open up… come on, it's ok, open the door darling, you're scaring me."

"Who…who is it?"

Anya started, and stared at the door in shock, she recognised that voice.

"Lily is that you?"

The door swung open, and Anya's eyes widened. Lily was crouching over the toilet; hair swept back, damp with sweat. She looked like she was crying. Anya sank onto the floor next to her, and pulled Lily's hair back for her.

"Thanks." Whispered Lily.

"Lily what's the matter?" Asked Anya worried.

Lily shook her head. "Nothing. Nothing, it doesn't matter."

"Have you seen Madam Pomfrey?"

Lily shook her head again violently. "No! No, Anya, there's nothing wrong with me!"

"Well do you blame me for thinking there is?"

"Anya it's fine!"

"Why were you puking?"

Lily shivered slightly, and looked up at Anya.

"Doesn't matter."

"Lily, are you sick?"

"No."

Anya stared, realization setting in. "Oh my god, are you-"

"No! no for crying out loud, I'm not pregnant!"

Anya stared, her brain working furiously. A thought occurred to her all of a sudden. But no…surely not, it wasn't like Lily, it didn't fit…

"Did you make yourself…?" Anya left the sentence hanging, unfinished, waiting for an answer.

Lily said nothing for a while, but then slowly nodded.

"Shit."

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"Where's Anya?" hissed Sirius. Half an hour of Charms, and she still hadn't turned up yet.

James shrugged. "Lily's not here either."

Sirius snorted. "Yeah, they're really gonna be together aren't they? They're hardly the best of friends!"

"Maybe Annie's got held up." Said Remus quietly, as he tried to charm some bubbles out of his wand.

"Hmm."

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"How long's it been going on for?" asked Anya gently. Lily shrugged.

"Since the holidays."

Anya didn't know what to say. She just stared at the floor of the cubicle. Lily gave a small, mirthless snort of laughter. "You must think I'm so stupid."

Anya shook her head. "No!" she said at once. "No, of course not! I just… don't really get it, that's all. Why did you just… suddenly start?"

"Petunia."

Anya had to think for a moment, before she realized who Lily meant.

"Oh right."

"I don't really know what happened." Said Lily tearfully. "I did it one day, after a row… and then again, and now…"

"…You can't stop." Finished Anya in a hollow voice.

 Lily nodded slightly.

"You need to see Madam Pomfrey." Said Anya firmly. "You need to do something Lily. You can't carry on like this."

"I know." Whispered Lily. "I know."

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"I want you to stay here for a few days Miss Evans." Said Madam Pomfrey, about half an hour later.

Lily nodded. She turned to Anya. "Can you not-"

"I wont say a word." Said Anya smiling. "I didn't see you, don't have a clue. Promise."

Lily smiled. "Thank you."

Anya gave her a quick hug, before leaving the Hospital Wing quickly, feeling odd. Who'd have thought it? Lily the Prefect, and Anya the Marauder, sharing a secret?

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"Where were you?" said Sirius, the second Anya came through the portrait hole.

"I got held up by someone." Said Anya, flinging herself on the armchair opposite.

"Who?" asked Sirius.

James and Peter looked up, noting the irritable tone in Sirius' voice. Remus noticed it too, but didn't look up from his book. Anya looked slightly annoyed.

"Just someone!" she said.

"Why wont you say who?"

"Because… I promised I wouldn't say!" she snapped back.

"Padfoot…" began James, but Sirius spoke over him.

"Anya!"

"Sirius, I'm sorry, but I gave my word! Why are you so pissed off anyway?"

Sirius opened his mouth to answer, but stopped, seeing Andrew Wood coming through the portrait hole. He turned back to Anya, and his face said it all.

"Oh for fuck's sake Sirius!" said Anya. "Do you honestly think…?"

"Why won't you just say where you were?" said Sirius.

"Because you seem to have made up your mind already!" snapped Anya, her voice rising slightly.

Sirius was looking more and more pissed off by the second. "Well, do you blame me?"

"Sirius!"

"Well it's true!"

"Yeah, that's right!" said Anya, practically shouting now. "I'm having a wild passionate affair with Andrew! Dammit Sirius, you've caught me out!"

She turned on her heel, and marched up to the girl's dormitory furious.

"That was a bit heavy Padfoot." Said James.

"Why's she being so secretive though?" said Sirius.

"She's got her reasons Sirius." Said Remus. "She's just not sharing them."

"Well…"

"You can't expect her to tell you everything!"

"You can't tell me it doesn't look a bit suss!" snapped Sirius, looking annoyed.

"And you honestly think she'd do something like that?" said James disbelievingly.

"Since when have we kept secrets from each other?" demanded Sirius. "All of us! We tell each other everything!"

"But if she's given her word…" began Remus, in a pacifying voice.

 Sirius looked ready to murder.

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Anya threw herself onto her bed, looking mutinous. Arabella watched her dreamily from her bed.

"Is something wrong?"

"Yes."

"What's happened Anya?" asked Katarina.

"Is it Sirius?" asked Tonks.

Anya nodded, her head buried in her pillow.

Selma sighed theatrically. "You know your problem Anya?"

"I only have one?"

"You have a controlling problem. You can't be the passive one in the relationship. You have to be the dominant one. And Sirius is like that too. It's a recipe for disaster." Selma twirled a lock of her ebony hair around her finger, and pursed her lips. Anya raised her tousled head from her pillow, looking irritable.

"For your information Patil, we rowed because he doesn't trust me. He thinks I'm cheating on him. So once again, you're completely and utterly wrong."

"Anya!" said Katarina. "What on earth is wrong with you? He's mad about you! You should be downstairs, having some make- out session with him to say sorry!"

Anya looked slightly disgusted. "But I've not done anything wrong!"

"It doesn't matter! You do not throw away your chance with Sirius Black!"

"Even if he's acting like he has his head shoved up his arse?" snapped Anya.

"He's a Marauder!" said Tonks. "He's allowed to be a bit big- headed." Tonks quelled under Anya's furious gaze. "Present company excluded."

"I'm not gonna apologize for something I haven't done!" said Anya indignantly.

"God, Anya, you're so stubborn." Said Selma, in an annoyingly superior voice.

"And proud of it."

"Anya." Said Katarina, with the air of one trying to explain an extremely hard theory to a young child. "This is Sirius Black. You do not do this when going out with Sirius Black. You just don't. Most girls would kill to be in you're position."

"Oh god, don't start this again." Groaned Anya. "You don't know how lucky you are, you should be kissing his ass, you should be his slave, blah, blah, blah."

"Anya he's the most gorgeous guy in the school! Except for James!" said Katarina.

"Oh, no, Sirius is much nicer than James." Said Selma.

"Oh, no, Remus beats them both!"

"No way! James has that adorable grin!"

"But Sirius has that wink!"

"HEY!" yelled Anya. "Stop it! Enough already with the drooling!"

"That's easy for you to say!" snapped Selma. "You just happen to be going out with one of them!"

Anya groaned, and slammed her head into her pillow. "This conversation is pointless."

"Do you actually realize how gorgeous your boyfriend is?" said Katarina.

Anya sighed. "I suppose some girls might find him good-looking… If they have eyes… Okay, he's a honey!"

"Well then!"

"But I am not going to apologize just to feed his ego!"

"Anya you're being unreasonable!"

"Oh why don't you just marry the guy?!" snapped Anya.

"Because you're-"

"YES I KNOW I'M GOING OUT WITH HIM!"          

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Sirius, don't you think you're overreacting a bit?"

"No James, I don't."

"Padfoot, I'm pretty sure Anya-" Remus was cut off mid- sentence as Anya came down the stairs, looking furious. She walked over to the corner where they always sat, and flung herself on an armchair.

"Well?" said Sirius. James and Remus winced. 'Bad move Padfoot.'

"Well what?" said Anya, her voice unusually even.

"Have you decided to tell us where you were?"

"Tell us? I didn't realize the others were all that bothered."

"Fine, are you gonna tell me where you were?"

"No." said Anya coldly. "No, I'm not, because I am not going to break my promise. You're just gonna have to trust me."

Sirius snorted, and Anya's temper flared up.

"Right, that's it, I see the problem now!" she said, her voice rising. "You don't trust me! That's what it is!"

"Anya-"

"You don't, do you?" said Anya, her voice barley above a whisper. James looked at Remus, the resident peace- maker, pleading with him to do something, but the situation didn't seem salvageable.

"Well, you don't turn up 'til after dinner, you wont say where you've been, and then a minute later, Andrew Wood comes back! What do you want me to think?"

"That it was a coincidence, and nothing more, and I would never do anything like that!"

"Since when have you ever kept anything from me?"

Anya stood up. "Fuck this! I thought if I came downstairs, it'd give you a chance to apologize, but-"

"Apologize?" said Sirius loudly, leaving his chair too. "For what?"

"For not trusting me!"

"I do trust you!"

"So what's the problem?"

"I just don't see why you're being so secretive!"

"You don't trust me at all!" yelled Anya. "Why the fuck are we going out if you don't trust me!"

"Why don't you tell me?" Sirius yelled back.

"Sirius…" said James quietly, but Anya drowned him out.

"Quite frankly, I don't know!"

"Well then!" said Sirius, not too sure what he was saying.

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

"That's it then!" said Anya furiously.

"Yeah, fine!"

"Fuck you!"

Anya stormed off to the dormitory again, as the eyes of every Gryffindor followed her. The second she was out of sight, they all turned to Sirius.

"Ok guys, shows over!" snapped James suddenly, causing several second- years nearby to jump. Everyone immediately averted their eyes. James, Remus and Peter all turned to Sirius, who had sunk back into his armchair. He looked in shock- as though someone had force-fed him a brick.

"What…what- what just happened?" he said in a hollow voice.

James and Remus exchanged a look. Remus cleared his throat.

"Erm…I…I think you just broke up."

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