WHO CAN SAY NO TO SIRIUS BLACK?

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character recognizable from Harry Potter's books, they're J. K.'s . Although, she could have given me Sirius... So I could have kept him alive and all for me! *sigh*

Thanks to:

ANNE( v )79 – Your reviews and e-mails encouraged me to find some time to write and actually post this chapter.

06_For lack of a title, here comes chapter six!

If I don't lose my mind

How will I say no to what my heart wants

My stare met yours

And I'm not going to try to explain

Time has stopped

My world has changed

Hands which want to touch you

If I go away forever from your chest

The taste of the kiss will still remain

I close my eyes and after some time

I feel you so close to me

I open my arms for a embrace and a kiss

Then I found myself in an endless dream

Natalie woke up sweating. She had dreamed about him... Again. Three months ago, when she had left Sirius standing on his garden with no apparent reason, she had also left her peace of mind.

It's not like Sirius had been pursuing her around – actually he hadn't showed up, and Natalie didn't know if she was either happy or sad with that – but he had been everywhere for her. In every book she read, in every movie she watched. As terrible as it may sound, Natalie was starting to feel like her life was becoming some mushy soap-opera and she wasn't liking that, not at all

She had transferred the project of Sirius' house to some other architect from the firm in which she worked, but had secretly worked on it. She had even been there once, after the house was finished, to see the final result, but apparently no one lived there yet.

Sighing deeply, she decided to leave the warm safety of her bed and do something. Carla was right, if she kept insisting in burying herself in her home she would most likely die of self-induced cabin fever. Ignoring the fact that it was only six am and she hadn't had a good night of sleep, Natalie took a bath (cold water to help her to wake up and wash away dangerous thoughts about a certain black haired man) and dressed her jogging clothes and trainers. Tying up her long chestnut brown hair on a tight ponytail, she left.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Several miles away, at a small but cozy cottage on the countryside of England, two men were engaged on a heated talk.

"I definitively do not understand! You were never one of giving up so easily." Remus Lupin stared at his best friend waiting, for the hundredth time, a good explanation of what was happening.

"I haven't gave up! I'm just... lying low, that's it." Sirius was sat at the table at Remus' kitchen, watching him fuss around the kitchen arranging their breakfast. But when he said that, Remus turned around and faced him, arched eyebrows, his expression clearly saying he wasn't buying it. "Please, Remus, don't look at me liked that. If I see her now I'll probably kill her." Sirius took a big sip of coffee from the cup Remus had just put in front of him. "What's the problem with her? One moment she's all warm and lovely and then... puft!, she becomes this cold, distant woman."

Remus sat on the chair opposite to his. "The last fifteen years weren't easy on no one."

"Well, it wasn't she who spent twelve damn years in Azkaban."

Remus sighed. "You know, I saw her a couple of times after... after everything. Unfortunately we grew apart from each other, I guess it just hurt too much. A constant reminder of what lasted of us." He played with the beacon and scrambled eggs on his plate, recollecting the words to explain to Sirius. "She was there, at the Ministry, when they took you away, I know you saw her. I thought... I thought she wouldn't make it. But once more she surprised us all." He looked at Sirius. "You remember about her past, don't you?"

"Her parents died when she was eight. As she hadn't any close relatives, they took her to a muggle orphanage. No one knew she was a witch, so a muggle family adopted her. She told me once that they were nice but couldn't handle too well the whole magic thing." He smiled at some old memory.

"And yet she never complained. She was always smiling and cheering us up. She would appreciate the Marauder's pranks and even join us in some of them. I can't count how many times she saved your arse." He gave Sirius one of those odd glances that made him think he Remus could read his mind. "At the beginning I thought you only dated her because, you know, she was there and wasn't worshipping the ground you walked and all that stuff."

Sirius half-laughed half-snorted. "I can't tell exactly when I fell in love with her. I guess... When I heard her laugh, the way her eyes sparkled while her laugh filled the room with joy, I just knew I'd do anything to be with her and make her happy enough so that she would always be smiling." He shook his head, smiling. "It took me a life to convince her to go out with me!"

Remus' face lighten up. "I remember that! Right after graduation we saw you drag Natalie away and when we went to search for you, you both were gone, only to reappear a week after and you had that silly smile on your face... If you had written 'I'm in love' all over your face, it wouldn't have been more clear."

"Quite a week that was...!"

Remus sobered and his face became serious again. "Don't let all thin go away, my friend."

Sirius sighed and buried his head in his hands. "I tried everything I could think of, I'm starting to lose hope. I simply don't understand why she's doing it to me, to us! I can see she's affected as well but she won't let go..."

"Have it ever occurred to you that she might be afraid?"

"Nonsense! Ever during the time Voldemort was on the top of his reign she was never afraid, she..."

"Was never showing she was afraid. She was never causing any more worries than she already knew you had, even if you never told her. She was never letting you see how much it hurt her not to know what was going on. She was never complaining because you didn't told her what you was doing every night you vanished. " Remus finished for him.

"And how would YOU know all that?" Sirius was almost losing his temper.

"Because that, my friend, is almost what I felt when you wouldn't tell me where were the Potters. Except that she must have felt it on a so much higher level."

~*~*~*~*~*~

"Are you going?" Carla asked for the hundredth time. Finally Natalie was snapped out her daydreams.

"What?" she looked up, suddenly noticing how she should have been looking like a lunatic, her eyes glazed over and all.

Carla rolled her eyes and repeated. "I was asking you about the Ministry's End of Year Party. Are you going? Please, say yes. I'd hate it to go alone."

"Oh, I don't know..."

"Please...! If you're saying that for the reason I believe you are, don't worry. I don't think your Sirius will be there. At least I wouldn't, after all the things the Ministry made him go through." She shrugged.

"Who said he's the reason I'm not going?" Natalie avoided her friend's eyes, 'cause she knew Carla would sense she was right. "And there's no thing such as 'my Sirius'!"

"Yeah, whatever." But the expression on her face clearly said: 'As if I would believe you...'.

Natalie breathed in deeply. "Ok, I'm going."

It took Carla all her strength to hide her triumphant grin.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Carla impatiently drummed her fingers on Natalie's table. "Hurry up, Boss! We're going to be late!"

Natalie poked her head around the door of her room, still wrapped in a fluffy towel but already wearing pantyhose and high heel shoes, her make up was half-done and her hair was tied up on a lose bun.

"I'm almost ready!" she mock-scowled. "And don't call me boss! You know just how much I hate it." With that she went back to her room. Carla smiled briefly and stood up from the sofa, deciding to spend some time admiring Natalie's Post-Modern paintings.

Carla was – for lack of better words to describe her – gorgeous. She had curly brown hair that reached her shoulders, although today it was pinned on the top of her head, with some curls falling erratic around her face. She had brown skin, its color always intensified by her permanent tan, matching perfectly with her long red dress which had gap that reached her knee and left her backs nude. She had hazel honey-color eyes, but she always wore green contacts anyway. Her body was so curvy that could easily be compared with a violin and she rarely wore heel shoes because she was very tall, for a woman at least.

She and Natalie had met at the firm in which they worked, when she was assigned to be her assistant. Soon, they became very good friends.

Speaking of Natalie...

"Carla, are you sure I should wear this? I mean, it's all clinging and I feel like my breasts are going to jump out at any moment." Natalie reinforced what she was saying rearranging her breasts inside the strapless forest green dress.

"Rubbish! You look wonderful." And she meant it. The dress was long, but not too long, just enough to reach her heels. The top was embroidered with small stones matching its color. And her eyes seemed to change colors to match the forest green of the dress.

Natalie hurried once more to the mirror. Wow!, she thought.

"Don't forget your earrings, dear." The mirror told her.

"I won't." Natalie opened her jewelry box and picked a pair of tear-shaped diamonds earring and the matching ring that had belonged to her mother. She barely had time to rearrange her breasts again when Carla pulled her by the hand.

"Wait!" she yelled. "I still have to do my hair."

Carla stopped mid-way and turned to look at her, her long, straight hair falling graciously on her shoulder and framing her face. "Don't even think about it."

~*~*~*~*~*~

Sirius took another sip of his whiskey and glanced around the ballroom. "I'm bored."

Remus chuckled. "Rare are the times when you're not."

Both men were wearing black-tie, and even though Remus was very handsome, Sirius was more than that. He was dashing.

Sirius sighed and looked up at the enchanted ceiling, just like the one at Hogwarts. It was Remus' turn to look around the room.

"I guess I just found something that will cheer you up." Remus said. Pointing at the entrance door from where Natalie and Carla had just came in.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Yes! * makes a jig*. Took me quite a while but finally! Here's chapter six! And I even ended on a cliffhanger (is it a cliffhanger when most of people knew what was coming?). Whatever, I'll be happy enough if I receive lots of nice, encouraging reviews.

P.S. – I overhead somewhere that is possible that Sirius come back to life on the book 6. Does anyone know anything about it?