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Sunday had been a nightmare. Lana wanted to go sit in the common room, but Sirius was there and she do did not want to even look at him. So she made her way past Sirius and the gang, ignoring Remus shouts to come over. Lana sat in the library all day, looking for something, anything that would explain the weird things that shed been able to do over the past few days.

Lana sat in the corner, on a pile of about 4 bean bags, surrounded by about 10 books, all open at certain pages. As she flicked through the last book, Lana slammed it down and sighed. She ran her hands through her hair, pushing it back from her face. "Dammit".

Meanwhile, Sirius had *the* map out, and was looking for Lana on it. He saw that she was in the far corner of the library, and he wanted to go and talk to her, but Moony had told him to give her some time, and Sirius thought that he was probably right. And, he had all Mondays detention to talk to her. If they werent just writing lines, and hed had so many detentions with Mcgonagall to know that they wouldnt be writing lines.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ==========MONDAY MORNING========== ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Lana fastened her skirt at the side, pulled the zip up. Lana shifted it down, so it sat on her hips. She hated anything that came within an inch of her belly button, cos of the bar, and its just damn uncomfortable anyway. Lana loosened her tie, and then set about parting her hair along the right hand side, then down the back, then seperated the two chunks into three, and plaited each side to about halfway down, leaving them half-plaits, half- bunches. Tied them with red elastic bobbles. Lana rubbed at her eyes, still half asleep. The dream had disturbed her. Flashes of green light, nd people screaming. And then silence. Lana shook herself, and grabbed her red robe, pulling it around her and leaning forward to pull her black socks up to just abover her knees. Cute, she thought. She grabbed her clear lipgloss and slicked it on quickly, already late for breakfast, her rooms mates already gone.

Lana fell down the last two steps of the stairs, and she was grabbed by someone.

"Might hurt yourself" came Remus voice from behind her. She straightened herself up, turned to look at him. He looked terrible. Sandy blonde hair messier than James', is that was possible. He was pale and had dark circles around his eyes. Remus obviously noticed the concerned look on her face.

"Fucking hell, you look like I feel....Are you okay?" Lana asked, putting a hand just below his blackened eyes. He shifted uncomfortably. "Get in a fight or something?"

"Yes. Yes. Got in a fight with some guy in the Three Broomsticks." Remus said, grateful that she had unwillingly given him the excuse that he was looking for and not being able to find. "You think Im bad, you should see him." he said with a wink and a grin.

Lana shook her head. "Wheres the rest of the gang?" she asked, looking around.

"Sirius has already gone down, Lana..I think were later than we thought." Remus said with another grin.

"Sod off Remus, like I meant Sirius..." she trailed off, sniffing and biting at her nails.

"Okay..." he said, not believing her.

Lana linked arms with Remus as they walked across the common room.

As they walked into the Great Hall, the sky above was overcast and cloudy. Lana let go of Remus and joined the girls from her year. Sirius saw them and looked over at Lana, and she gave him a small smile. He was a little thrown by this, as the last time he tried to make eye contact with her, as she left the common room, she had given him the finger and a look that could kill.

Lana smiled to herself even more as she turned her back, glad that she had smiled at him, maybe they could...never mind. At least the atmosphere in the detention wouldnt be as icy...Still icy, but less so...She sighed, knowing that she wanted him back so bad....But knowing that she had over- reacted the other day, and then in Hogsmeade..shed blown it.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ========MONDAYS DETENTION========== ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Lana was sat in the Common Room, at a table, parchment and potions text books laid out in front of her. Lana pushed loose strands of her hair from her face. She set her quill down, and sighed. Its a good job Im actually good at Potions, she thought, as she shut the first of three text books. Typical. Get loaded with Potions homework on the day that a weeks worth of detentions with Mcgonagall starts.

Sirius sat on the chair nearest the fire, just staring blankly into it. He was being unusually quiet, and they all knew it was mainly because of the detentions hes going to have with Lana. Still, not like him to sit and brood over a girl. His dark hair that came just above his ears hung in his face, his short sleeved white shirt showing his slightly tanned, muscular arms. His tie was loose and hanging down a lot lower than it should be. James and Lily sat together on the sofa, Remus was in the dorm, and Peter was sat next to Sirius. He ruffled his hair and looked up as a shadow fell over him.

"Hey." Lana said quietly.

Sirius tried not to look as pleased as he felt that Lana had come over to him. "Hi Lana"

Lana folded her arms over her black v-neck sweater, the collar showing. Her black skirt was short, but not too short. Her hair was still neatly in the plaits, after she had done them for the 5th time that day.

"Well?" Lana asked.

"Well what?"

She rolled her eyes. "Are you coming?"

"Oooo does Lana and Sirius have a datey?" James asked, in that same stupid annoying voice.

"Yeah" Lana replied. Sirius looked at her.

"We both do. With Mcgonagall. Detention. Remember?"

"Oh, yeah" Sirius stood up.

"Are you okay Lana? From yesterday, with that Malfoy creep?" Lily asked.

Lana raised her eyebrows. "Well, you know what men are like. They think no means yes, and get lost means - " Lana fluttered her eyelashes "Take me in yours." Peter sniggered, and Lana didnt like him anyway, and this just irritated her. She pointed at him as she said "Ask little Peter here. He should know all about that."

James burst out laughing, and Sirius laughed too. Lily smirked, amused, and Lana nodded at her, and mouthed "im fine" as Peter got up and walked off to the dorm. Lana turned to Sirius.

"Guess someones gotta be rejected for all the times youre not" she said, and walked across the common room, and out of the portrait hole. Sirius ran after her, caught up quickly.

"Why do you always do that?" he asked, looking at her from the side as they walked.

"Do what?" Lana replied, putting on an innocent tone.

Sirius moved and stood in front of her, blocking her way. "You know what."

Lana looked up at him. "Am I gonna have to give you a black eye too, Sirius? Cos really dont wanna spoil that pretty face of yours"

"Malfoy has a black eye?"

"Yeah..." and then they both started laughing, and Sirius moved to the side and they carried on walking.

"You think Ive got a pretty face? What happened to 'ruggedly handsome'?" he said with a grin. Lana looked up at him and smiled, secretly happy that they were talking and not trading insults.

"Well, that too." she said, and winked as she turned right and knocked on Mcgonagalls door, and walked in.

"Lana, Sirius....sit down." Mcgonagall said, indicating the chairs in front of her desk.

They avoided each others eyes as they sat down in front of Mcgonagall.

"I am aware that, at your age, you have hormones running all over the place, especially you, Sirius, I seem to find you in the common room with a different girl each week."

Sirius rubbed his forhead with his right hand, cringing at what Mcgonagall had just said.

"That, I can just about tolerate.But fighting with Lucius Malfoy over Lana, in a public place, on a school trip, I will not. And Lana, as for you,you gave Lucius a black eye. and that, I wont, and shouldnt have to tolerate from anyone, especially with someone of your talents and intelligence. And Do you have anything to say?"

Sirius looked at Lana, who looked at Mcgonagall, with a bored expression on her face.

"Shouldve hit him harder...and more." Lana said, and shrugged and sighed.

"My point, Lana Madison, is that if you do not change your attitude, I will have to write a letter home, maybe followed by suspension. And I would hate to do this very much, because you are - I mean, could be, a very powerful witch. I would hate you to waste your talent."

Lana crossed her legs and pushed a loose strand of hair from her face.

"Whatever. Do whatever."

Sirius stared at Lana, half in awe, half wondering what the hell she was doing. He and the Maurders had always pushed the line, but had never gone as far as to get suspended, but some, most, of the things they had done, or had possesion of, was enough to get them expelled, easily.

Mcgonagall studied Lana for a few minutes, and Lana didnt flinch under Mcgonagalls gaze. She did look away from her a few times, but other than that.

"For your detentions, all of them, you will go upto the fourth floor corridor - "

"Thats out of bounds" Sirius pointed out.

"That never stopped you before" Lana said.

"You will go to the fourth floor corridor," Mcgonagall continued, "and you will clean every suit of armour that there is."

Lana made a noise of mild indignation, and Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Dont you have like, house elves for that kind of thing?" Lana asked.

"Not if theyre like Kreacher" Sirius said. Lana looked at him, confused. "My parents' house elf."

"Oh..."

"Well, off you go then." Mcgonagall waved her wand and buckets of water, other clenaing things, appeard and floated beside the chairs where Lana and Sirius were sat. Lana sighed, loudly, stood up and walked out of the door, slamming it open and Sirius looked at Mcgonagall and shrugged.

Lana waited outside Mcgonagalls office and leaned against the opposite wall. She blew a red bubble of chewing gum as he walked out of the office, closing the door slowly. He looked at her and she looked right back, eyes and face showing no paticular expression or feeling.

"I cant decide whether to go the long away around so I dont have to do as much cleaning, or go the short way so I just get it over with." Lana mused, looking around.

Sirius swept his arms to the left, and she turned and walked with him.

"Whats with you Lana?" Sirius asked, concerned.

"What do you care?" she sneered, and looked away, tears brimming.

They turned left again and started walking up the stairs, which shifted as they walked. The stairs clicked into place at the right door, and they continued up them, Sirius looking at Lana and Lana looking at her feet. Sirius shoved the door open and they walked inside the dark corridor. Lana muttered "lumos" and her wand lit up. Sirius did the same and they looked around the still dark corridor. Lana muttered "lumos magnificos" and her wand sent out sparks, lighting all the candles that hung from the ceiling and the walls. Sirius raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

"What?" she asked, wondering why he was looking at her.

"Thats a nice trick."

"Yeah, I know...My mum showed it me..." Lana trailed off, remembering the huge fight she had had with her mum before she came back to Hogwarts, mainly because of Lanas mothers job, as an Unspeakable. Lana hated it, never knowing what her mother was doing, where she was, and Lana knew that if her mother ever died, it was unlikely that Lana would ever know the truth, or be able to bury her mother in one piece. Lana had gone through her mothers work folder, and had decoded the code easily..too easily, and Lana knew that there was a dark force stirring. The last straw came when her mother attempted to do a weak memory charm on her....

Sirius was clicking his fingers in front of Lanas face.

"Sorry...spaced out..." Lana shook herself and looked at him. He was stood close to her. Closer than he had been in days. Lana could feel herself trembling as she looked at him, she couldnt stop her hands shaking. His dark brown eyes locked on her lighter brown ones. The tension crackled between them, and Lana was glad to have him to herself, away from James, away from Christie, away from her own friends. Lana was all mixed up inside - she desperately wanted him to grab her and kiss her, and she desperately wanted to grab him and kiss him, but she didnt know if he would...

They stared at each other for a moment, before Lana looked at him and said

"Yeah, right, you think Im falling for that look" and turned around, walked slowly down the corridor, looking at the doors and the armor.

Sirius sighed. "Like Id - " he shut up, not wanting to piss her off even more, they were on speaking terms. If you call a tiny bit of flirting and exchanging insults talking...

Lana had set the cleaning equipment down on the floor and picked the suit of armor at the far end of the corridor, in the corner, in the dark, away from him. She leant against the wall, half-heartedly scrubbing the side of the armor.

Sirius decided to hell with it, he wasnt gonna give up on Lana so easily, not when hes used to getting what he wants....and what he wants is Lana. He walked over and stood in front of her. Lana looked at him.

"Yeah?"

He touched her cheek with his fingers lightly, and she kept her eyes locked onto his, and he could tell that she wanted him as much as wanted her...

Lana trembled even more as Sirius' fingers touched her cheek. She bit down on her lip.

He ran his hand down from her face and down her arms, moving his hand onto her waist, and leaning in closer, so that she was now fully pressed against the wall by his body.

"Sirius..." he could feel her breath on him, and he ran a hand over her hair. "Dont..." she whispered.

"Dont what?" he whispered into her ear, making the hair on the back of her neck stand up. He kissed her neck slowly, then looked at her.

Lana could barely breathe, and she was torn between shoving him off, or - The decision was made for her as his left hand slid under her shirt and her placed his hand on the bottom of her back, and she felt his warm hands on her back, she melted. She looked up at him, about 3 inches shorter than him, their bodies touching, him close enough to kiss...Lana ran her hand through his tangled hair, and it came to rest on the back of his neck. The other hand grabbed him by his tie, pulling him closer if possible, and their lips met. Sirius ran his hand down Lanas leg, then he slowly ran his hand up the inside of her thigh, and Lana let out a light moan as thier kisses got more heated by the second. Sirius kissed Lanas neck, and she undid a few buttons on her shirt as he got lower.

Then he stopped.

Stepped back.

Looked at her, then shook his head.

"What?" Lana asked.

"I cant" what the hells wrong with me? he thought.

"Again, what?"

He was saved from answering by Mcgonagall coming in, and Lana scrambling to pull her skirt down and fasten her shirt up.