A/N: FINALLY!!!! It has come!!! The long awaited fourth chapter!!! You may all thank Amobeaqueen for this for she is the one who prompted, correction, threatened me so much that I feared for my life and thus had to write more. So, here it is. Enjoy!
The next day, Sirius, James, Remus, Peter and their Christmas buddies all went to Hogsmeade. It had turned out that James had ended up with Lily as his Buddy (a fact which he was profoundly pleased with and she wasn't). To everyone's dismay, Peter has gotten stuck with Severus Snape and Remus was paired with a shy, third year Ravenclaw girl named June. Tacey clearly hated spending all this time with Sirius and he was not liking the fact that he hadn't even been able to make her chuckle.
They wound up in the Three Broomsticks and ordered a round of butterbeer.
" -seventeen because snakes have no armpits and there are no bones in ice cream." Sirius finished. Their whole table erupted in laughter, even Snape chuckled darkly. And to Sirius' surprise, Tacey chuckled into her butterbeer as if she were trying to hide it.
" Come on, you have to admit that was funny." Sirius beamed, leaning too close.
" I'd heard it before." Shot Tacey before splashing the remains of her butterbeer in his face.
Sirius wheeled backwards, spluttering, as James and Remus laughed. He scowled at them as he grabbed a napkin.
" You're a very negative person." Sirius noted, as he cleaned his face.
" What can I say, it's a gift." Tacey snapped.
Sirius merely shook his head.
Conversation dragged on for about ten more minutes until Sirius said,
" Yeah, only because James fantasizes about snogging Lily so much that he can't pay attention."
James promptly choked on his butterbeer then whipped out his wand with the intention of cursing Sirius. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way. Just as he was about to send the curse Remus sneezed hence lurching forward and hitting James' hand. This knocked his aim off and sent the curse at Lily instead. She was hit full force with the dreadful tap dancing curse so she suddenly rose out of her chair and started wildly tap dancing.
" Oh my god, Evans, I am so sorry!" Said James, jumping up out of his chair and racing over to her.
Her face was livid with rage.
" What the hell have you done, Potter?" She asked.
" God, Evans, I'm sorry." James said, as Lily tap danced herself away from the table and into the wall.
" Ouch!!!" Lily exclaimed, unable to control her feet.
James was at her side trying to help her and she was fending him off most violently.
Remus had jumped over to help James and June had become incredibly terrified so she took off. Remus turned and took a step to follow her then thought better of it and turned back to Lily.
It came down to where James and Remus actually had to pick Lily up (with her feet still tap dancing wildly in mid air) and carry her away. Peter, of course, followed.
Sometime during all of this, Snape had slunk away. This left Sirius and Tacey alone at the table.
" Well, since everyone else is gone, I feel absolutely no obligation to spend time with you." Tacey stated, rising from her chair and starting for the door.
" Aw, come on, Tace, just a little while." Sirius said, desperately, also standing and grabbing her arm.
" What have I told you about the touching?" Tacey asked, coldly, turning to face him. This act put them very close together with very little space between their faces.
" Come on, do you really hate it that much?" Sirius asked, softly, loosening his grip until it his hand slid down her arm in a sort of caress and finally came to her hand.
" Did I say you could hold my hand? Because if I did it seems to have slipped my memory." Tacey said, rudely pulling her hand away.
Just then, Wilbur Longstocking, a small, dweeby, just plain scary Hufflepuff with thick glasses walked up to them. Tacey automatically cringed. This kid had had an obsessive crush on her since first year and Tacey, frankly, found him just plain terrifying.
" Hi...Tacey." Wilbur breathed, smiling psychotically and adjusting his glasses as he looked up at her.
Tacey suppressed a scream then wildly searched for Sirius' hand which she found and crushed in her own. Sirius winced.
" Oh, Wilbur, have you met my boyfriend Sirius?" Tacey asked, trying to sound casual and smiling at Sirius.
" Huh?" Sirius asked, blinking and glancing at Wilbur who's psychotic smile had turned into a dangerous looking frown.
" But, Tace, I'm not-mmmf!" Sirius was cut off by Tacey's sudden and extremely unexpected kiss. Sirius wasn't quite sure why she was kissing him but, after a second or two, he gave in and kissed back.
The kiss lasted for a long moment then Tacey pulled back, leaving Sirius rather dazed, confused but also extremely pleased.
" You see, Wilbur, Sirius gets dangerously jealous of me and might seriously hurt you if you talk to me so, for your own safety, I suggest we don't talk any longer." Tacey said in a fakely sweet voice, snuggling closer to Sirius.
" But...Tacey..." Wilbur rasped, glaring at Sirius with all the fierceness of a thousand suns. Well, he was trying to glare at Sirius with all the fierceness of a thousand suns but the effect was rather diminished because he was very small and extremely dweeby looking.
Tacey sharply elbowed Sirius in the ribs and glared at him quickly as if to say 'Play along or I will severely hurt you later.' Sirius suppressed a cry of pain then frowned and glared at Wilbur. He took a menacing step forward and the dangerous look on Wilbur's face was replaced by one of complete and utter terror and he let out a sort of squeal before running as fast as he could in the other direction.
Once Tacey was completely sure that Wilbur was gone she breathed an immense sigh of relief, released Sirius' now practically mangled hand then made a disgusted face and grabbed a tankard of butterbeer which she began guzzling frantically.
" Now, I know you want me, Tace, but you've gotta learn to control yourself in front of other people." Sirius said, smiling and leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
Tacey finished the butterbeer then put it back down on the table and glared at him.
" Oh grow up, Black. That guy has been stalking me since first year, I was desperate for an excuse not to have to interact with him and you were the best thing I had. And Merlin's beard, Sirius, has anyone ever told you about this miraculous thing called mouthwash?"
Sirius merely shook his head and laughed.
" Make all the excuses you want, Tace, you and I both know the truth."
Tacey growled then launched herself at Sirius, tackling him around the waist. They hit the ground and Tacey sat on his stomach, grabbing for the first thing she could use as a weapon. It happened to be a dirty napkin off the floor. She brandished it as though it were a spiked club then brought it down to his face as though she intended to smother him with it.
" Augh, Tace, come on. That's really disgusting, hey, gah, no." Sirius said as he squirmed trying to keep his face away from the disgusting napkin. After a few more seconds of this, he finally got frustrated and grabbed her wrist, pulling it away from his face. Tacey struggled for a several futile moments then gave up, dropping the napkin.
" Stop touching me!" She commanded.
" You know you want it." Sirius said, his eyes gleaming, beginning to kiss the back of her hand.
" Eww, Black, stop it!" Tacey exclaimed, desperately trying to get her hand away and failing again.
" Oh come on." He whispered, pulling her down to him then kissing her.
She hesitated a moment then pulled back quickly, flushing despite herself. She slapped him harshly, his face smacking into the floor because of the force of her blow. She then quickly got off of him and stomped out of the Three Broomsticks.
