"No." Lana said, pulling her hand away from Sirius'.

Sirius blinked. "Huh?"

"Youre only asking because you think were all going to die and you wont have to go through with it!" she said, only half-believing her words.

Smiling, Sirius stood up and grabbed Lanas hands in his, looking down at her, his long dark hair falling in his eyes and Lana brushed it away lightly. "Ive never been more serious about anything. I mean it. I love you, more than youll ever know, and I want us to be together forever, bound in eternity..."

Lanas eyes filled up with tears and she curled her hand around Sirius', and her other was lost in his hair, "Yes." she grinned, the first true smile in a long time, "Yes Ill marry you."

Kissing her, Sirius slid the diamond ring onto the third finger of her left hand. Sighing with happiness and satisfaction, Lana pushed her body against Sirius, and he stepped backwards and sat down onto the bed, Lana in front of him.

"What are you sighing at?" he asked raising an eyebrow, pushing his hair from his eyes.

"Cos Im happy, happy happy!" Lana said, kissing Sirius between the happies.

"Wow are you ill? You just admitted that you're happy!" he said, tracing lines with his hands on Lanas waist.

"Well, its just that everytime I think Im happy, something comes and smacks me around the face, and then Im not happy...Its like...The whole world is tuned into my life and just when Im starting to feel happy, they decide to throw something in to fuck it all up for me, like its entertainment for them." said Lana, but Sirius had heard it before.

"Yeah, it does seem like that sometimes..." he agreed, because it did sound true. He wrapped his arms around Lanas waist and fell back onto the bed, pulling her on top of him.

"I love you so so much" Lana said, looking down at his deep brown eyes, seeing herself reflected in them.

"Listen baby," Sirius said, rolling Lana off of him and laying at the side of her. "I found this spell. Because I dont think were going to have the time to have a proper wedding, I thought maybe we could use this spell..." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of parchment, with the words and a few items scrawled on it.

"What does it do?" she asked, taking it off of him.

"Binds our souls. Together as one, forever. Goes above and beyond marriage." Sirius said, looking into Lanas eyes.

Her eyebrows raised. "So why arent more people doing it?"

"Well," he said, looking uncomfortable, "I found it in a book in the Restriced Section of the Library at Hogwarts...I think its forbidden."

Lanas eyebrows went down, and she shrugged. "Oh well, I dont care, as long as it does what it says."

"What about the consequences?" Sirius asked

"Sirius Black bothered about the consequences of his actions?! Now theres a first!" Lana said, mocking him and he tickled her stomach.

"Hey, I just meant for you baby thats all."

Lana sat up. "Red ribbon...That all we need?" she scanned the parchment..."And our blood. No wands? Weird..."

She crossed the room and opened a drawer, pulled out some red ribbon and a small knife, similar to the one Sirius would give his Godson.

They sat down on the bed, opposite each other. Lana cut two lengths of red ribbon and laid them down on the bed.

"Ready?" Sirius asked Lana as he held the knife in his right hand, and Lanas right hand in his left.

Taking a deep breath, Lana nodded and he cut the knife deeply and swiftly, and Lana winced as the blood swelled over the silver blade.

"You okay?" he asked as the blood dripped onto the white sheets, and she nodded.

Lana took the knife from Sirius and did the same, and they clasped their hands together, intertwining their fingers and felt the blood flow from one to the other as together they tied the red ribbon around their interlocked hands.

They chanted :

Bind these souls against the dark, against the evil!

The power flows through one.
Bind these souls forever together
The love flows through one
Bind these souls against the forces of nature
The life flows through one Necto sua animae contra acerbus, contra, malum!

Imperium iussu una!

Contra malum, Imperium iussu una!

Lana and Sirius felt a shudder of energy flow between them, going from one to the other and back again, the ribbon had a hazy red aura flowing around it, and they started to feel like someone had a pin and was stabbing it in their fingers and palms as the blood flowed between them.

They repeated the words over and over, and a wind swept up around them, pushing their hair up so it flowed around their heads, making them float off the bed, both shut their eyes on instinct, so they didnt see what happened next.

A shadow came out from each of them, replicating what they looked like, but it was fuzzy, like when your TV breaks, and transparent, they came together and mixed, in a bright white light, then they came apart and each went back its respective owner.

Floating back down onto the bed with red and white lights lowering them gently, the wind died down and they opened their eyes.

"That....Was....Intense..." Sirius said, a little breathless.

"Uhuh..." Lana said, breathing heavily.

The red ribbon around them had snaked up their hands and was now twirled around their wrists. Seperating their hands slowly, they each had a scar on their right palms.

"Feel....Different?" Sirius asked, gently stroking Lanas hand.

"A...Little..." she gasped, smiling slightly at him.