Lily walked up between the tables in front of Nissa who still was
wrapped up because she was freezing, James had asked her loads of questions
about her hair as they walked in; well that was until he saw his two best
mates and went straight over to them closely followed by Peter.
"Finally." Nissa said as James walked off.
"He can go on a bit though can't he?" Lily said smiling.
"That's an under statement." Nissa said.
They walked up and took their seats at the table, Nissa got a few looks, because she had changed her look again, though was easy for her because she was a Metamorphmagus.
"Blue, nice look for her isn't it?" Michael called down to them. "It'll go with her cold heart."
Nissa ignored him, but it took all that Sirius had to control the urge to throw himself at him and beat the crap out if him, because he had no idea.
Nissa pulled the gloves which Sirius had given her out of her pocket and put them on because she was freezing, and didn't seem to be getting any warmer being inside.
"Still cold?" Lily asked her concerned.
"Yeah, I'll warm up in a bit." Nissa reassured her, though she wasn't sure herself when she was going to be warm again.
"Was it that thing which he hit you with?" Sirius lead over and whispered.
Nissa turned round so fast that he never had time to move back, so their faces were almost touching; if one of them would have move just a little they would have kissed. Sirius could feel the coldness coming off of her, and knew that was why she had blue hair. Well hair was dark brown almost black with a lot of blue shrikes.
Nissa moved slightly away from him, a little uncomfortable at how close they were because how she felt, normal his presence would have warmed her; but tonight it only cause more pain because she couldn't heal herself and the potion Severus was making for her wasn't working as well as it should be. (Though she knew why it wasn't working, but she couldn't tell him, she couldn't tell anyone.)
"Yes." Nissa answered him.
***
By lunch time the next day it had gotten around more then half the school, that Nissa had stayed over with Severus and that they were now going out with one another. Most thought that it was just a rumour because a Slytherin and a Gryffindor could never go out with one another, never. Though those who knew them thought that it was true; some, mainly Michael and his friends thought that it was about time and that she should also be placed in Slytherin as well for breaking his nose.
Herbology didn't go so well either with Hufflepuff. Sirius was fuming, because Nissa still hadn't told everyone that it was true, that she wasn't going out with Severus.
"Why doesn't she say anything?" Sirius asked for the hundredth time that day.
"Maybe because it is true, and she doesn't care what people think of her?" Liam suggested on the next table.
"That's just stupid." Sirius told him firmly.
The bell rang finally, Lily walked in front with Liam and out of reach of James though he was still going out with his Ravenclaw girlfriend from the year above. Sirius pushed past Natalie and Polly and stopped Nissa.
"Are you going out with Snape?" Sirius demanded unable to control himself any longer.
"What if I am?" Nissa answered with a question.
Everyone started to whisper among themselves, this was it, they were going find out if it was true.
"So are you or aren't you?" Sirius shot at her. "Have you lost your mind?"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Nissa asked him.
"You know." Sirius said.
Nissa smiled slightly. "If your that bored about me, or who I'm going out with why don't you do something about it!"
Sirius just looked at her, he didn't know what to say; his mind had gone blank part from something shout 'Now!' 'Now!' But he didn't do anything he just stood there looking at her as she turned and walked off with her friends.
"That went well." James said patted his friend on the shoulder.
"Is she going out with him then?" Peter asked.
"Technically she never said." James answered.
"But she did give you the chance Sirius, to ask her out." Remus informed him.
Sirius suddenly came back, and shouted at Remus. "I know that!" He looked at him and then after Nissa then back to his friends. "Sorry. I should have asked her out, the worst what could have happened, is she says no and that she really was going out with Snape."
"Right. So why didn't you?" James asked him.
"You seem to get on, well most of the time." Peter said.
"Why don't you go after her?" Remus suggested.
Sirius smiled. "That's great, I'll do that."
Sirius ran off after Nissa, they all looked at one another and then ran after him, thinking that it was best if they were there just encase he said something stupid.
Sirius came to a holt in then entrance hall, Nissa was there with him. She had her back to him, but he could see him, he smirked at him and then took Nissa in his and they walked off together; he led in and from where Sirius was stood it looked as though he had kissed her.
"So where is she?" James asked as he stopped.
"With him, and he kissed her." Sirius told them.
"Oh." James said as he looked at Remus behind Sirius.
***
Nissa's hair seemed to have gone even bluer, though she wasn't doing it herself. She wasn't herself, and seemed to be drained of energy but she still managed to get to every class and do all her homework even when others couldn't.
"How the hell can she get to every class?" Sirius asked, as they were out of Charm's and she was in front talking about a lesson she couldn't have possibly been in because it had been at the same time that she had been in a class with them.
Nissa broke off from the group without anyone realising part from Sirius and his friends because they had been watching her. One minute she was there and the next she was gone, all four of them stopped to look around for her, they looked up and down the corridor. Then out of a corridor they saw her at the other end of the corridor making her way back up to them.
"How did she do that?" James asked.
"Got me." Sirius said.
Nissa smiled slightly at them as she walked past and caught back up with Lily and the others.
"Maybe we should find out." James suggested.
"Follow her?" Remus asked a little unsure. "People already think that Sirius' behaviour towards her is weird if we start following her..."
"They think I'm weird?" Sirius interrupted.
"Not like that." James told him. "It's just that, your mood switches when ever you're around her. One minute it looks as though the two of you are going out or something and then the next it's as though you hate each other. Its just weird; but your not."
"Oh right." Sirius said taking in what his friend had just said.
They started right away, even though they thought to start with that it was a bad idea, but they still wanted to know if there was something going on. But Nissa somehow always seemed to get past them, they didn't know how though; not yet anyway.
***
Sirius and James were pushing past a couple of first years so that they could keep Nissa in view but they weren't having much look, then suddenly she just disappeared completely.
Both Sirius and James stopped making Peter walk into the back of Sirius, and smiled shyly at him.
"Why are you following me?" Nissa asked from behind Remus making them all jump.
Nissa smiled at them all by their reaction, she couldn't help herself.
"We weren't following you." James told her.
"Why would we want to follow you?" Sirius asked her trying to sound off handed.
Nissa looked at then all, they had somewhat guilty faces, part from Peter who looked confused which was quit normal.
"Really so its just been my imagination, that you lot have been following me for the past week?" Nissa asked. "What your trying to catch me doing something? I don't get it."
"We're not following you." Sirius told her again.
"I don't believe you." Nissa told him and added a little quieter. "And I don't understand you?"
"What? What was that?" Sirius asked leading forward.
Nissa just looked at him. "Stop following me." And then walked round them and up the corridor.
"Of she would notice." Sirius said sarcastically.
"She seems to pick up on a lot of things." Remus said.
"So what now?" James asked.
"Keep at it until we find something." Sirius told them.
***
Nissa had finished her homework before anyone else again, even though she had twice as much as anyone else had to do. She started flipping through books as if to find something to interest her but couldn't.
"If you're bored you can do my homework." Sirius suggested leading back on his chair.
Nissa smiled at him and waved her hand, the chair legs gave way. He grabbed for the table but couldn't reach as he fell, Nissa though had moved like lightening and caught him; she smiled down at him as he looked up at her amazed.
"Maybe another time." Nissa told him and restored the legs to his chair.
She left the common room Sirius had to fight the urge to jump up and go straight after her, and then wondered if that was what she wanted.
Nissa walked down the deserted corridor's as if she was looking for something, or part of herself. She stopped at the open window as she past, the night was slowly coming upon them and it was a full moon tonight. She wondered if Remus had gone already, part of her wanted to find him to go with him, maybe he could help her; but would he?
She looked at the sky one last time and then carried on walking, she felt nothing, she normally felt magic that surged through the school but of a late she hadn't and it made her even colder inside.
Remus wasn't looking where he was going as he walked along the corridor, he heard the footsteps of someone coming towards him but it didn't seem to interest him; until he walked head long into them and fell on top of them.
Remus closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them again, knowing who it was. Nissa smiled at him as she lay on the cold hard floor with him on top of her, she could feel him; she could feel everything about him. His very presence seemed to wake her up from some sort of dream.
Remus suddenly became very aware of her everything about her as he lay on top of her, her smell which was intoxicating, and her heartbeat, which was beating just as fast as his was.
It was as though the moon was shining down upon him and he was being taken over though it wasn't painful as it normal was, more like a urge a powerful urge to want to take her where they lay.
Nissa suddenly pushed him off of her and climbed on top of him, near part of him kind as long as she was with him now. She was leading down towards him getting closer as every second past, his hand had seemed to have turned into claws and he held and pulled her tightly towards him, wanting her more and more. But she stopped and moved back, Remus couldn't take it, so he just let the breast take him over and pounced on her.
Remus lead to kiss her but she moved away, fighting her own battle of wills as he had done. He kissed her neck making her moan as she pushed him away as hard as she could, he landed on the floor and looked up at her as though he was going to pounce once more.
Nissa held out her hand and touched his face, sending through the connection all of her cold energy, which would calm him until he could get under the Whooping Willow and to the house. But she would have to get out of the castle as well.
"Go quickly." She whispered to him.
Remus looked up at her as he calmed inside, though knowing that it had cost her a lot to do. He nodded and quickly got to his feet, he started to walk off and then stopped he held of his hand for her to take. She looked at him and then his hand and then back him; and he knew that she wouldn't take it and left her.
She waited for about ten minutes after he had left until she went down to the entrance hall herself without anyone seeing her; or so she thought. She quietly opened the oak door and slipped through, she ran as quickly as she over to the greenhouses so that Madam Pomfery wouldn't see her as she came back to the castle; though her followers had an even harder time running after her.
She waited until it was all clear and then ran into the Forbidden Forest, they followed after her; but she had disappeared before they entered after her.
"I don't think we need this on in here." Sirius said as he pulled the cloak off, and all three of them appeared from underneath.
"Where do you think she went?" James asked.
"Do we really have to go in there?" Peter asked holding onto the edge of James robes.
"Yes." Sirius answered firmly.
They started to walk forward James and Sirius pulled out their wands and lit them so that they could see a little better. They walked for about fifteen minutes farer into the forest without even a trace of her anywhere, until they heard something, a howl; a pricing cold howl as though it was in pain. They all hoped that it wasn't Remus.
"Do you think that it's that female werewolf what Remus said?" James asked.
"I don't know." Sirius answered, with something tugging at the back of his mind.
"Maybe we should go back if they're werewolves in here." Peter moaned pulling at James' sleeve, but neither of them answered and carried on.
And then they heard another howl even louder then before, it was getting closer, and they all knew that it couldn't be Remus. Peter started to pull at both of their sleeves trying to get them to go back not wanting to go any farer, even if there wasn't a werewolf getting closer. Sirius swung round to get Peter off of him, but slipped on a broken branch and then fell down a hole covered with leaves.
He tried to stop himself as he fell down the slippery, wet and slimy slope. He put his wrist out in front of him as he was reaching the bottom and couldn't see what was down there because he had dropped his wand, he heard and felt the pain as it broke; he bit down on his lip so hard that it started to bleed as he came to a stop at the bottom.
He sat there for a moment holding his wrist a sucking his now bleeding lip, when he heard something walking towards him, it was like soft feet upon the ground; he thought it was the werewolf. He didn't know what to do; he couldn't attack because it would betray everything which he had ever said to Remus.
He looked hard into the darkness that was surrounding him and seemed to be closing in on him; he couldn't hear the creature anymore. He looked behind him wondering if James would come down for him or if he had to get back up there somehow, when something or someone jumped down and landed right in front of him.
He quickly turned back round to see what it was. It wasn't what he was expecting. Nissa sat there in front of him like a cat and eyeing him up as if was wondering what to do with him. She slowly crawled over to him; she reached out for his broken hand, which he let her take.
They looked at each not taking their eyes off the other encase they would disappear. Sirius looked into her eyes, he had seen them before but this time they were much softer; they were still that of a wild creature but there was something else in them looking at him.
She lifted his hand in hers, they were still ice cold, she crested her face against his hand; both started to become warmer from each others touch. She kissed his hand and then his wrist, her lips felt like fire against his skin after the coldness of her touch; but he couldn't feel the pain anymore.
He touched her face with his other hand she moved her face to meet his touch and purred quietly as he crested her face, she closed her eyes and purred louder with each touch and made to kiss his hand as it came near to her lips.
Sirius moved closer into her, she sat in-between his legs crawling softly at his robes as she lent her head of his shoulder and curled into his body at which he wrapped his arms closely around her.
Sirius laid there with her sleeping peacefully in his arms, her hair had changed back to its normal red during the night, which Sirius thought it suited her much better then the blue; and made her feel so much warmer.
Nissa woke with a start and Sirius let go of her start away, she looked at him and the position they had been in and then jumped to her feet, as if she had no idea what had happened.
"Nissa..." Sirius said getting to his feet but she didn't answer. "Nis, are you alright?"
Nissa looked around trying to remember what happened but she couldn't remember anything after Remus, and she hoped that he was alright. Sirius stepped forward as it started to rain, he reached out to touch her but she stepped away him; she hadn't even seen him because he was behind but she had known.
2Nis, come on we need to get back inside." Sirius told her. "Its staring to rain, and everyone will be wondering where we are."
She nodded and they started to make their way up the slop he had fallen down the night before. Nissa saw something on the ground; she bent down and picked it up. She looked or at Sirius and smiled slightly.
"I think you dropped something." Nissa told him handing him his wand back.
"Thanks." Sirius said. He had a million or so questions buzzing around that he wanted to ask her, but he didn't want too frighten her off as he normally did.
When they reached the top Nissa stopped and looked back down and then at Sirius who had already started to walk.
"Were you lot following me again?" Nissa asked as she followed.
"Well kind of." Sirius admitted.
"Maybe it was a good thing last night." Nissa admitted as well, and then stopped him. "Sirius what... I mean... well... Did I do anything?"
Sirius at her for a moment realising that she really didn't remember, he smiled at her reassuringly.
"Nothing. I found you after I fell, and we couldn't get back up, we just fell asleep down there; that's all." Sirius told her.
Nissa looked at him for a moment, and then smiled at him; they carried on walking for a while.
2I'm not going out with him." Nissa suddenly told him.
Sirius smiled brightly to himself but didn't say after anything, but he didn't really need to break the silence because that was done for him.
"There you are!" Roared Hagrid, almost running over to the two of them both. "What do you think you were doing, spending the whole night in there?"
Sirius and Nissa just stood there; neither of them really knew what to say. Hagrid lectured them all the way back to the castle and up to Professor McGonagall's office and then left them to her.
"What do you think you were doing?" McGonagall said. "Being out of bed is one thing, but in the school grounds and the Forbidden Forest of all places; the whole night."
They just looked at her.
"I expected better of you Miss Tiania, and I didn't think that even you would do something that dangerous Mister Black." McGonagall went on for another ten minutes until finally; she took twenty points from both of them and gave them both detentions.
They didn't talk as they walked down to the great hall, until Nissa stopped just before they went in.
"I'm sorry." Nissa told him, she suddenly got cold stubbing pains in her chest and clutch it tightly.
Sirius looked at her worried as blue tints started to grow through the red; he reached out to support as she swayed on her feet.
"Maybe I do need someone to warm me up after all." Nissa said before she fainted in his arms.
"Finally." Nissa said as James walked off.
"He can go on a bit though can't he?" Lily said smiling.
"That's an under statement." Nissa said.
They walked up and took their seats at the table, Nissa got a few looks, because she had changed her look again, though was easy for her because she was a Metamorphmagus.
"Blue, nice look for her isn't it?" Michael called down to them. "It'll go with her cold heart."
Nissa ignored him, but it took all that Sirius had to control the urge to throw himself at him and beat the crap out if him, because he had no idea.
Nissa pulled the gloves which Sirius had given her out of her pocket and put them on because she was freezing, and didn't seem to be getting any warmer being inside.
"Still cold?" Lily asked her concerned.
"Yeah, I'll warm up in a bit." Nissa reassured her, though she wasn't sure herself when she was going to be warm again.
"Was it that thing which he hit you with?" Sirius lead over and whispered.
Nissa turned round so fast that he never had time to move back, so their faces were almost touching; if one of them would have move just a little they would have kissed. Sirius could feel the coldness coming off of her, and knew that was why she had blue hair. Well hair was dark brown almost black with a lot of blue shrikes.
Nissa moved slightly away from him, a little uncomfortable at how close they were because how she felt, normal his presence would have warmed her; but tonight it only cause more pain because she couldn't heal herself and the potion Severus was making for her wasn't working as well as it should be. (Though she knew why it wasn't working, but she couldn't tell him, she couldn't tell anyone.)
"Yes." Nissa answered him.
***
By lunch time the next day it had gotten around more then half the school, that Nissa had stayed over with Severus and that they were now going out with one another. Most thought that it was just a rumour because a Slytherin and a Gryffindor could never go out with one another, never. Though those who knew them thought that it was true; some, mainly Michael and his friends thought that it was about time and that she should also be placed in Slytherin as well for breaking his nose.
Herbology didn't go so well either with Hufflepuff. Sirius was fuming, because Nissa still hadn't told everyone that it was true, that she wasn't going out with Severus.
"Why doesn't she say anything?" Sirius asked for the hundredth time that day.
"Maybe because it is true, and she doesn't care what people think of her?" Liam suggested on the next table.
"That's just stupid." Sirius told him firmly.
The bell rang finally, Lily walked in front with Liam and out of reach of James though he was still going out with his Ravenclaw girlfriend from the year above. Sirius pushed past Natalie and Polly and stopped Nissa.
"Are you going out with Snape?" Sirius demanded unable to control himself any longer.
"What if I am?" Nissa answered with a question.
Everyone started to whisper among themselves, this was it, they were going find out if it was true.
"So are you or aren't you?" Sirius shot at her. "Have you lost your mind?"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Nissa asked him.
"You know." Sirius said.
Nissa smiled slightly. "If your that bored about me, or who I'm going out with why don't you do something about it!"
Sirius just looked at her, he didn't know what to say; his mind had gone blank part from something shout 'Now!' 'Now!' But he didn't do anything he just stood there looking at her as she turned and walked off with her friends.
"That went well." James said patted his friend on the shoulder.
"Is she going out with him then?" Peter asked.
"Technically she never said." James answered.
"But she did give you the chance Sirius, to ask her out." Remus informed him.
Sirius suddenly came back, and shouted at Remus. "I know that!" He looked at him and then after Nissa then back to his friends. "Sorry. I should have asked her out, the worst what could have happened, is she says no and that she really was going out with Snape."
"Right. So why didn't you?" James asked him.
"You seem to get on, well most of the time." Peter said.
"Why don't you go after her?" Remus suggested.
Sirius smiled. "That's great, I'll do that."
Sirius ran off after Nissa, they all looked at one another and then ran after him, thinking that it was best if they were there just encase he said something stupid.
Sirius came to a holt in then entrance hall, Nissa was there with him. She had her back to him, but he could see him, he smirked at him and then took Nissa in his and they walked off together; he led in and from where Sirius was stood it looked as though he had kissed her.
"So where is she?" James asked as he stopped.
"With him, and he kissed her." Sirius told them.
"Oh." James said as he looked at Remus behind Sirius.
***
Nissa's hair seemed to have gone even bluer, though she wasn't doing it herself. She wasn't herself, and seemed to be drained of energy but she still managed to get to every class and do all her homework even when others couldn't.
"How the hell can she get to every class?" Sirius asked, as they were out of Charm's and she was in front talking about a lesson she couldn't have possibly been in because it had been at the same time that she had been in a class with them.
Nissa broke off from the group without anyone realising part from Sirius and his friends because they had been watching her. One minute she was there and the next she was gone, all four of them stopped to look around for her, they looked up and down the corridor. Then out of a corridor they saw her at the other end of the corridor making her way back up to them.
"How did she do that?" James asked.
"Got me." Sirius said.
Nissa smiled slightly at them as she walked past and caught back up with Lily and the others.
"Maybe we should find out." James suggested.
"Follow her?" Remus asked a little unsure. "People already think that Sirius' behaviour towards her is weird if we start following her..."
"They think I'm weird?" Sirius interrupted.
"Not like that." James told him. "It's just that, your mood switches when ever you're around her. One minute it looks as though the two of you are going out or something and then the next it's as though you hate each other. Its just weird; but your not."
"Oh right." Sirius said taking in what his friend had just said.
They started right away, even though they thought to start with that it was a bad idea, but they still wanted to know if there was something going on. But Nissa somehow always seemed to get past them, they didn't know how though; not yet anyway.
***
Sirius and James were pushing past a couple of first years so that they could keep Nissa in view but they weren't having much look, then suddenly she just disappeared completely.
Both Sirius and James stopped making Peter walk into the back of Sirius, and smiled shyly at him.
"Why are you following me?" Nissa asked from behind Remus making them all jump.
Nissa smiled at them all by their reaction, she couldn't help herself.
"We weren't following you." James told her.
"Why would we want to follow you?" Sirius asked her trying to sound off handed.
Nissa looked at then all, they had somewhat guilty faces, part from Peter who looked confused which was quit normal.
"Really so its just been my imagination, that you lot have been following me for the past week?" Nissa asked. "What your trying to catch me doing something? I don't get it."
"We're not following you." Sirius told her again.
"I don't believe you." Nissa told him and added a little quieter. "And I don't understand you?"
"What? What was that?" Sirius asked leading forward.
Nissa just looked at him. "Stop following me." And then walked round them and up the corridor.
"Of she would notice." Sirius said sarcastically.
"She seems to pick up on a lot of things." Remus said.
"So what now?" James asked.
"Keep at it until we find something." Sirius told them.
***
Nissa had finished her homework before anyone else again, even though she had twice as much as anyone else had to do. She started flipping through books as if to find something to interest her but couldn't.
"If you're bored you can do my homework." Sirius suggested leading back on his chair.
Nissa smiled at him and waved her hand, the chair legs gave way. He grabbed for the table but couldn't reach as he fell, Nissa though had moved like lightening and caught him; she smiled down at him as he looked up at her amazed.
"Maybe another time." Nissa told him and restored the legs to his chair.
She left the common room Sirius had to fight the urge to jump up and go straight after her, and then wondered if that was what she wanted.
Nissa walked down the deserted corridor's as if she was looking for something, or part of herself. She stopped at the open window as she past, the night was slowly coming upon them and it was a full moon tonight. She wondered if Remus had gone already, part of her wanted to find him to go with him, maybe he could help her; but would he?
She looked at the sky one last time and then carried on walking, she felt nothing, she normally felt magic that surged through the school but of a late she hadn't and it made her even colder inside.
Remus wasn't looking where he was going as he walked along the corridor, he heard the footsteps of someone coming towards him but it didn't seem to interest him; until he walked head long into them and fell on top of them.
Remus closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them again, knowing who it was. Nissa smiled at him as she lay on the cold hard floor with him on top of her, she could feel him; she could feel everything about him. His very presence seemed to wake her up from some sort of dream.
Remus suddenly became very aware of her everything about her as he lay on top of her, her smell which was intoxicating, and her heartbeat, which was beating just as fast as his was.
It was as though the moon was shining down upon him and he was being taken over though it wasn't painful as it normal was, more like a urge a powerful urge to want to take her where they lay.
Nissa suddenly pushed him off of her and climbed on top of him, near part of him kind as long as she was with him now. She was leading down towards him getting closer as every second past, his hand had seemed to have turned into claws and he held and pulled her tightly towards him, wanting her more and more. But she stopped and moved back, Remus couldn't take it, so he just let the breast take him over and pounced on her.
Remus lead to kiss her but she moved away, fighting her own battle of wills as he had done. He kissed her neck making her moan as she pushed him away as hard as she could, he landed on the floor and looked up at her as though he was going to pounce once more.
Nissa held out her hand and touched his face, sending through the connection all of her cold energy, which would calm him until he could get under the Whooping Willow and to the house. But she would have to get out of the castle as well.
"Go quickly." She whispered to him.
Remus looked up at her as he calmed inside, though knowing that it had cost her a lot to do. He nodded and quickly got to his feet, he started to walk off and then stopped he held of his hand for her to take. She looked at him and then his hand and then back him; and he knew that she wouldn't take it and left her.
She waited for about ten minutes after he had left until she went down to the entrance hall herself without anyone seeing her; or so she thought. She quietly opened the oak door and slipped through, she ran as quickly as she over to the greenhouses so that Madam Pomfery wouldn't see her as she came back to the castle; though her followers had an even harder time running after her.
She waited until it was all clear and then ran into the Forbidden Forest, they followed after her; but she had disappeared before they entered after her.
"I don't think we need this on in here." Sirius said as he pulled the cloak off, and all three of them appeared from underneath.
"Where do you think she went?" James asked.
"Do we really have to go in there?" Peter asked holding onto the edge of James robes.
"Yes." Sirius answered firmly.
They started to walk forward James and Sirius pulled out their wands and lit them so that they could see a little better. They walked for about fifteen minutes farer into the forest without even a trace of her anywhere, until they heard something, a howl; a pricing cold howl as though it was in pain. They all hoped that it wasn't Remus.
"Do you think that it's that female werewolf what Remus said?" James asked.
"I don't know." Sirius answered, with something tugging at the back of his mind.
"Maybe we should go back if they're werewolves in here." Peter moaned pulling at James' sleeve, but neither of them answered and carried on.
And then they heard another howl even louder then before, it was getting closer, and they all knew that it couldn't be Remus. Peter started to pull at both of their sleeves trying to get them to go back not wanting to go any farer, even if there wasn't a werewolf getting closer. Sirius swung round to get Peter off of him, but slipped on a broken branch and then fell down a hole covered with leaves.
He tried to stop himself as he fell down the slippery, wet and slimy slope. He put his wrist out in front of him as he was reaching the bottom and couldn't see what was down there because he had dropped his wand, he heard and felt the pain as it broke; he bit down on his lip so hard that it started to bleed as he came to a stop at the bottom.
He sat there for a moment holding his wrist a sucking his now bleeding lip, when he heard something walking towards him, it was like soft feet upon the ground; he thought it was the werewolf. He didn't know what to do; he couldn't attack because it would betray everything which he had ever said to Remus.
He looked hard into the darkness that was surrounding him and seemed to be closing in on him; he couldn't hear the creature anymore. He looked behind him wondering if James would come down for him or if he had to get back up there somehow, when something or someone jumped down and landed right in front of him.
He quickly turned back round to see what it was. It wasn't what he was expecting. Nissa sat there in front of him like a cat and eyeing him up as if was wondering what to do with him. She slowly crawled over to him; she reached out for his broken hand, which he let her take.
They looked at each not taking their eyes off the other encase they would disappear. Sirius looked into her eyes, he had seen them before but this time they were much softer; they were still that of a wild creature but there was something else in them looking at him.
She lifted his hand in hers, they were still ice cold, she crested her face against his hand; both started to become warmer from each others touch. She kissed his hand and then his wrist, her lips felt like fire against his skin after the coldness of her touch; but he couldn't feel the pain anymore.
He touched her face with his other hand she moved her face to meet his touch and purred quietly as he crested her face, she closed her eyes and purred louder with each touch and made to kiss his hand as it came near to her lips.
Sirius moved closer into her, she sat in-between his legs crawling softly at his robes as she lent her head of his shoulder and curled into his body at which he wrapped his arms closely around her.
Sirius laid there with her sleeping peacefully in his arms, her hair had changed back to its normal red during the night, which Sirius thought it suited her much better then the blue; and made her feel so much warmer.
Nissa woke with a start and Sirius let go of her start away, she looked at him and the position they had been in and then jumped to her feet, as if she had no idea what had happened.
"Nissa..." Sirius said getting to his feet but she didn't answer. "Nis, are you alright?"
Nissa looked around trying to remember what happened but she couldn't remember anything after Remus, and she hoped that he was alright. Sirius stepped forward as it started to rain, he reached out to touch her but she stepped away him; she hadn't even seen him because he was behind but she had known.
2Nis, come on we need to get back inside." Sirius told her. "Its staring to rain, and everyone will be wondering where we are."
She nodded and they started to make their way up the slop he had fallen down the night before. Nissa saw something on the ground; she bent down and picked it up. She looked or at Sirius and smiled slightly.
"I think you dropped something." Nissa told him handing him his wand back.
"Thanks." Sirius said. He had a million or so questions buzzing around that he wanted to ask her, but he didn't want too frighten her off as he normally did.
When they reached the top Nissa stopped and looked back down and then at Sirius who had already started to walk.
"Were you lot following me again?" Nissa asked as she followed.
"Well kind of." Sirius admitted.
"Maybe it was a good thing last night." Nissa admitted as well, and then stopped him. "Sirius what... I mean... well... Did I do anything?"
Sirius at her for a moment realising that she really didn't remember, he smiled at her reassuringly.
"Nothing. I found you after I fell, and we couldn't get back up, we just fell asleep down there; that's all." Sirius told her.
Nissa looked at him for a moment, and then smiled at him; they carried on walking for a while.
2I'm not going out with him." Nissa suddenly told him.
Sirius smiled brightly to himself but didn't say after anything, but he didn't really need to break the silence because that was done for him.
"There you are!" Roared Hagrid, almost running over to the two of them both. "What do you think you were doing, spending the whole night in there?"
Sirius and Nissa just stood there; neither of them really knew what to say. Hagrid lectured them all the way back to the castle and up to Professor McGonagall's office and then left them to her.
"What do you think you were doing?" McGonagall said. "Being out of bed is one thing, but in the school grounds and the Forbidden Forest of all places; the whole night."
They just looked at her.
"I expected better of you Miss Tiania, and I didn't think that even you would do something that dangerous Mister Black." McGonagall went on for another ten minutes until finally; she took twenty points from both of them and gave them both detentions.
They didn't talk as they walked down to the great hall, until Nissa stopped just before they went in.
"I'm sorry." Nissa told him, she suddenly got cold stubbing pains in her chest and clutch it tightly.
Sirius looked at her worried as blue tints started to grow through the red; he reached out to support as she swayed on her feet.
"Maybe I do need someone to warm me up after all." Nissa said before she fainted in his arms.