Marauder Mayhem
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. you all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
Songs: Sometimes I have songs that a character is singing or dancing to. In this chapter there is "Poison" by Alice Cooper.
Chapter 14 - October 5th
"When do we leave?" Sirius leaned over and whispered to Raven at the breakfast table. "Right after breakfast."
"What? Leave? Where are you going?" asked James.
"Oh, didn't I tell ya, Jay? We're goin away together for the weekend," teased Sirius.
"Can I come?" he asked.
"Nah, three's a crowd. Especially for what we're gonna be doin," said Sirius, suggestively.
Raven rolled her eyes. "God, why did I tell Dumbledore it was okay for him to come?"
"Cuz you want me so bad you can taste it," he said.
She was ignoring him. "Oh, that's right, so I could turn him down in front of all his old girlfriends!"
"What? Girlfriends? At Durmstrang? Who says I had girlfriends at Durmstrang?" asked Sirius, eyeing James, Remus, and Peter.
"Peter," Raven replied, calmly.
"Dammit, Pete! James, why'd ya tell him?"
"Cuz I thought it was funny. Honestly, Padfoot. We're there for two months and you're with half the school!" conveyed James.
"I was not!" argued Sirius. "And Raven, don't you even think about it, I got a rep to protect! Sirius Black has never been turned down!"
"Well, he's about to be in front of everyone in the school if he doesn't keep his hands off me the entire way," threatened Raven.
"But can you at least pretend you're in love with me when we get there?"
"No way!"
"Oh, come on! It's not that hard!"
"That's not the point."
"Ahem." It was Dumbledore standing behind them. "Here are the documents you'll need Headmaster Plutana to sign. The Hogwarts Express is waiting for you now. I suggest you work on getting the papers signed right away first and then you'll have the remainder of the evening to explore the grounds. The Express will pick you up again at 8."
"Thank you, Headmaster," said Raven as Sirius grabbed the papers he was holding out.
"See you tonight, guys," said Sirius as they made their way out of the Great Hall and out the front doors of the castle. They boarded the Hogwarts Express and set off for Durmstrang.
"So, you think you brought enough protection?" asked Raven as they sat back in their seats.
"Protection?"
"Well, all your old girlfriends are gonna wanna have another go before you leave tonight, right?"
"Fuck you!" he said.
"Oh, I don't think you'll have enough time," she replied. "So you and Jay went to Durmstrang for Quiddich camp?"
"Yeah. It was pretty cool. We met this one guy who had just moved there from some school in the U.S."
"Really? Maybe I knew him. What was his name?" asked Raven.
The radio turned on and Alice Cooper's "Poison" was playing. Sirius froze, listening to the song and then laughed. "Rave, I hafta tell you something."
"What?"
He started to sing along to the song, "Your cruel device. Your blood, like ice."
Raven let out a laugh. "Oh god, not this song!"
Sirius continued singing, "One look could kill. My pain, your thrill!" He stood up and pulled out his wand, using it as a microphone and sang louder. "I wanna love you but I better not touch. I wanna hold you but my senses tell me to stop. I wanna kiss you but I want it to much." He got on his knees in front of Raven and held out his hands in front of her. "I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison! You're poison runnin through my veins. You're poison, I don't wanna break these chains!"
"Okay, that's enough. You can get up now."
But he continued with the song, "Your mouth, so hot! Your web, I'm caught! Your skin, so wet! Black lace on sweat-" Raven clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Would you stop?"
Sirius snapped out of it. "Alright, sorry."
They rode in silence the rest of the way, although a few other good songs came on that Sirius desperately wanted to sing to. Every time a new song came on, Sirius would gasp and sit up in his chair, but Raven would give him an uncompromising look. When they had pulled up to the front gates of Durmstrang and both gotten out of the Hogwarts Express, the conductor came around to their side and told them he would be back at 8 to take them home. Raven and Sirius continued up the steps to the entrance. Sirius knocked six times on the door. The door opened and immediately closed again.
A voice spoke through the door, "Oh no, not you, Black! No way, man! Haven't you caused enough trouble at this school?"
"I'm not here to terrorize the school, I'm here on business, okay?" he said to the voice.
"Yeah Sirius, business, uh-huh. I know what that means. You know, all the girls you left behind came runnin to me, and if they see you again, who knows what'll happen! You can't do that to me, man!" the voice replied.
"Willem, I don't care about the girls! You can have em all, now will you please let us in!" pleaded Sirius.
"Us?" the door quickly opened again and Willem looked out at Raven. "Oh, wow. Nice, Sirius! I guess that's why you don't need the other girls, huh?"
"Will you let us in already, Willem!" he snapped.
"Oh yeah, sure. Come right this way, Miss," said Willem. He took Raven's hand and led her across the threshold, almost closing the door on Sirius, who quickly stuck his foot in and kicked it open.
"Save your breath, Will. This one's not like the girls here," he said, steering Raven away from him.
"I can see that, Black, that's why I insist," he said, taking her hand again. "Now, what is a beautiful thing like yourself doing here?"
"I'm not a thing and I'm here to see the Headmaster," replied Raven, pulling her hand away from him.
"Well, I can escort you directly to his office, if you'll-"
Sirius grabbed onto Raven and pulled her down the hallway. "Better shut the door, Willem."
Willem looked behind him and gasped. Sirius had jinxed the door so that it had grown a mouth right where the doorknob was. "You'll wanna watch out for him," said Sirius to Raven, "he's a little pervert."
"I could tell," she said. A loud bong sounded above them and suddenly all the doors running down the corridor opened, and students started filing out. Most of them continued walking past Sirius staring at him with their eyes wide open. A few of the girls gasped and smiled or winked at him.
An especially ditsy looking girl flitted her eyelashes at him and said, "Hi, Sirius."
"Hi, Heather," he replied, still steering Raven down the hallway.
"Oh god, Sirius, your I.Q. just dropped ten points!" Raven exclaimed, looking back at the girl, who continued to stare after them.
"I know, I know." he said. "I told you, didn't I?"
"I'm surprised you remember their names! You warned me, you didn't tell me everything."
"You wouldn't want me to, believe me," he said as another blonde actually stopped dead in her tracks in front of them and walked straight up to Sirius.
"Er. hi, Jenna," he said, nervously.
She slapped him right across the face. Raven and Sirius' mouths both dropped wide open as she turned on her heel, threw her hair over her shoulder, and stalked off. "I'm not sure I deserved that," he said, rubbing his cheek.
"Are you okay?" Raven asked, putting her hand to his cheek and trying desperately to suppress a laugh.
"You're laughing about this?" he exclaimed.
"I'm not." she couldn't hold it anymore and covered her mouth, giggling uncontrollably, ".laughing."
Sirius rolled his eyes and started walking again. Raven caught up to him. "Please don't leave me alone. The guys are all looking at me like I'm a piece of chocolate!"
Now it was Sirius' turn to laugh. "Raven, take a look around. I told you, you're not like all the girls here."
Raven looked around and noticed that more than half of the girls were blonde. The remainders were brunettes with an occasional redhead thrown in. Almost all of them had small turned up noses and dark brown eyes. Most of them had pasty-white skin and looked like they had never been exposed to the sunshine. Compared to Raven's caramel skin, bright blue almond-shaped eyes, and long, shiny, jet-black hair, they could have been a completely different species.
"So, if you hadn't met me at Hogwarts, you'd be doing the exact same thing right now?" she asked as a boy with a long hooked nose gaped at her.
"No, I'd already be to second base with you by now," he said.
She stopped and stared at him. "I think it's my turn to slap you!"
"I'm just saying! That's how I used to be! You changed me!"
"I changed you?" she asked, bewildered.
"Raven, you were the first girl that I ever made a move on that didn't give into me!"
"EVER?" she screeched.
"Ever. You made me realize how shitty it is to do that to someone."
"Ever, wow. Sorry, I didn't realize I was making history here," she teased.
They continued walking for a while, down hallways and turning corners, with girls still winking and smiling at Sirius. Then Raven looked up and gasped. A boy was walking towards her with his head down. He looked up at her and gasped, too. As they passed each other in the corridor, they slowly turned their heads to look at each other. Sirius looked back and realized Raven had stopped in the middle of the hallway and then realized who she was looking at.
"Oh, hey, Vin! Raven, this is Vinny, he was a good friend of me and James when we were here." he trailed off when he realized they were staring at each other and ignoring his words.
"Lizzie?" Vinny said to Raven, not taking his eyes from her.
A huge smile spread across her face as she grabbed him and hugged him, "Vinny Krum? God, I thought I'd never see you again!" Sirius just stared.
"What are you doing here?" he asked her.
"Wait, time out!" Sirius waved his hands in front of their faces. "You know each other? Who the hell is Lizz-" he stopped and turned to Raven, "Raven Elizabeth McKinnon. You're Lizzie?"
"Sirius, hi!" said Vinny, hugging him, too. "I didn't even see you!"
"Yeah, I think that's cuz you were lookin at her!" he said.
"So, I see you've met my Lizzie!"
"Wait, wait. explain. All this time Raven was Lizzie?" Sirius was really confused.
"Yes. He left America without a word after our fifth year, Sirius. We used to go out," Raven explained.
"All he talked about was Lizzie when James and I got here for Quiddich camp last year and Vinny had just transferred here! Raven, how could you not tell me you knew Vinny!" said Sirius.
"I didn't know you knew him!" she justified.
"So, you guys are together now?" asked Vinny.
"No!" they both said in unison. "We're friends," added Raven.
"This is so weird. Okay, why do you call her Lizzie?" asked Sirius.
"I went out with her for like a year when I was in America. My sister's name is Raveena, and I didn't want to call my girlfriend and my sister the same thing, I guess," he explained. "So, how's James?"
"He's good. I can't believe you're here!"
"I can't believe you're here! What are you doing here?" asked Vinny.
Another loud gong sounded above them. "You're late?" Raven asked.
"Screw it, I don't care! Tell me everything!" said Vinny.
"Pluto's expecting us, Vin. We'll tell you after class. Meet us in the REC room, okay?" said Sirius.
"Okay! Great! See you later!" Vinny ran into the next classroom.
As Raven and Sirius continued down the hall, they heard a door open again and turned around to see Vinny running out of it and into another.
"Wrong one!" he yelled down the hall at them. Raven and Sirius chuckled.
"So." started Sirius. "Did y'all."
"What?"
"Nothin," he said quickly as they turned to a corridor that only lead to one door. "Let's just get this over with," said Sirius.
"Er, okay." Sirius led her to Headmaster Plutana's office and knocked on the door.
The door was opened by a large, bald-headed man. "What are you doing here, Black?" he snapped.
"I brought Raven. Raven McKinnon, sir?"
"You're Gordon McKinnon's daughter?" he asked, abruptly.
"Niece. He would have come himself, but he's in Germany right now," she answered.
"Yes, I know. Albus has already informed me of everything. I appreciate your uncle not just sending someone who knows nothing on the subject," he said, taking the documents from her.
"Yes, I helped him write them, sir."
"Mister Black, you can see yourself out if you please. I will need Ms. McKinnon to explain a few things to me before I sign."
"Yes, sir. Lovely to have seen you again, sir." Raven seemed to be the only one who noticed the sarcasm in his voice. Sirius winked at Raven, gave her a thumbs up, and ambled slowly out of the office.
He walked back the way he came, found the door Vinny had gone in, and looked through the window. Vinny was there, staring at the door. He perked up as Sirius waved at him. Raising his hand, he pretended to cough violently and asked the professor if he could get a drink of water.
"Hey, where's Lizzie?" he asked Sirius as he came out the door.
"Raven. She's still talkin to Pluto. Wanna just walk around for a bit?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah." They started walking, slowly, in silence.
"So, is that what you were always talkin to James about?" asked Sirius.
"Lizzie? Yeah, when I mentioned that I missed Lizzie, he knew I meant Raven. And then we both figured out that we knew the same person, because she had talked about me in her owls to him and she had told me stories about her and James all the time."
"What I don't get is why you guys didn't just tell me about her," said Sirius.
"James said that you would bug him about her."
"Bug him?"
"He said you'd ask him if she was hot, and if he did anything with her, and blah blah blah. He said he didn't wanna hafta explain that they were just friends," said Vinny.
Sirius opened his mouth to object but then laughed. "He's probably right."
They continued walking for awhile and then Vinny asked, "So, just friends, huh?"
"That's right, Krum."
"When have you ever been 'just friends' with a girl?"
"Since her," he answered shortly.
Vinny smiled and looked sideways at his friend. "You got it bad, Sirius."
"What?"
"You like her," stated Vinny.
"I think I'm in love with her," he replied, glumly.
"And she has no idea, does she?" asked Vinny, wisely.
"Of course she doesn't. What should I do?"
"Make a move. That's all you can do. It's what I did. We were friends ever since our first year, and I finally told her I liked her at the beginning of our fifth."
"I don't wanna lose her though. I'd rather have her as just a friend, than not have her at all."
"Of course you would. But she's not the type to let you liking her get in the way of your friendship. It might be weird for you, but she's around guys that like her all the time. You'll just hafta get over it if she doesn't like you back."
"I don't know if I could stand it."
"C'mon! We're talkin about the legendary Sirius Black here! Sirius Black has never been turned down by a girl!"
"Raven turned me down the first day I met her, actually."
"Oh. then you're in trouble," teased Vinny.
"Oh, thanks a lot!" Sirius laughed. "Oh, I better get back down there and wait for her. She doesn't know where she's going." Raven got the papers signed and the rest of the day they spent with Vinny in the REC room, stopping only to eat lunch and dinner.
"Ready to defend your title?" asked Vinny as he walked over to a speed hockey game and picked up the flat puck, twirling it around his fingers.
"You ready to lose?" asked Sirius, winking at Raven out of the corner of his eye. He got up and pulled Raven along with him, striding over to the air hockey table. "Watch this, Ray, I am the king."
Raven looked at him skeptically. "You can cheer," he said.
Raven shrugged. "Kick his ass, Vin!"
Sirius scowled. "Traitor. Watch and see me win."
"Now, Sirius, you should know me better than that by now. I was never and watch and see kinda girl. I'm playing winner," Raven stated.
"You don't know what you're getting yourself into," warned Sirius.
Sirius ended up beating Vinny of course, 10 to 6. "Haven't lost my touch, have I Vinchenso?"
"Yeah, yeah. I never was much good at it. Raven'll get ya for me, " he said, rubbing Raven's shoulders and giving her a little pep talk, lowering his voice so Sirius couldn't hear. "Okay, all you gotta do is psych him out. You stuff him once and he'll lose his thunder, got it? Now, he always hits the puck way to his right side, so if you can volley it back right away, go for his left side and it should be wide open. You're faster than me, you can do it."
"Thanks, coach," said Raven, eyeing Sirius and smiling at him.
"You sure you wanna do this?" he asked.
"Don't hold back," she said as he hit the puck and she blocked it. He hit towards her again, hard from his right, so she sent it back on his left and into the slot. "Are you sure you wanna do this?"
"I let you have that one," he said.
"No! You don't get to say that! I'm not playing you unless you give me your word right now that you're gonna bring it. That way when I beat you, I'll know it's because I'm better," said Raven.
"I'll bring it."
"Good."
Raven beat the crap out of Sirius. She won 10 to 2. Sirius said it was because whenever she hit the puck he could see down her shirt and it was distracting him, but she won fair and square. The Hogwarts Express came at 8 to take them back home and they were almost sad to leave.
Vinny pulled Raven into a hug. "You can't leave now! You just came back into my life!"
"Come with us," she begged.
"I can't. See ya, Sirius," he said, hugging him.
Sirius was silent on the way back, thinking about what Vinny told him to do.
"You okay?" asked Raven.
"Fine. Just tired."
"Me too," said Raven, yawning. Sirius took her head and laid it on his shoulder, putting his arm around her. After a few minutes she was asleep.
A/N: HOPE YOU LIKED IT. PLEASE REVIEW!
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. you all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
Songs: Sometimes I have songs that a character is singing or dancing to. In this chapter there is "Poison" by Alice Cooper.
Chapter 14 - October 5th
"When do we leave?" Sirius leaned over and whispered to Raven at the breakfast table. "Right after breakfast."
"What? Leave? Where are you going?" asked James.
"Oh, didn't I tell ya, Jay? We're goin away together for the weekend," teased Sirius.
"Can I come?" he asked.
"Nah, three's a crowd. Especially for what we're gonna be doin," said Sirius, suggestively.
Raven rolled her eyes. "God, why did I tell Dumbledore it was okay for him to come?"
"Cuz you want me so bad you can taste it," he said.
She was ignoring him. "Oh, that's right, so I could turn him down in front of all his old girlfriends!"
"What? Girlfriends? At Durmstrang? Who says I had girlfriends at Durmstrang?" asked Sirius, eyeing James, Remus, and Peter.
"Peter," Raven replied, calmly.
"Dammit, Pete! James, why'd ya tell him?"
"Cuz I thought it was funny. Honestly, Padfoot. We're there for two months and you're with half the school!" conveyed James.
"I was not!" argued Sirius. "And Raven, don't you even think about it, I got a rep to protect! Sirius Black has never been turned down!"
"Well, he's about to be in front of everyone in the school if he doesn't keep his hands off me the entire way," threatened Raven.
"But can you at least pretend you're in love with me when we get there?"
"No way!"
"Oh, come on! It's not that hard!"
"That's not the point."
"Ahem." It was Dumbledore standing behind them. "Here are the documents you'll need Headmaster Plutana to sign. The Hogwarts Express is waiting for you now. I suggest you work on getting the papers signed right away first and then you'll have the remainder of the evening to explore the grounds. The Express will pick you up again at 8."
"Thank you, Headmaster," said Raven as Sirius grabbed the papers he was holding out.
"See you tonight, guys," said Sirius as they made their way out of the Great Hall and out the front doors of the castle. They boarded the Hogwarts Express and set off for Durmstrang.
"So, you think you brought enough protection?" asked Raven as they sat back in their seats.
"Protection?"
"Well, all your old girlfriends are gonna wanna have another go before you leave tonight, right?"
"Fuck you!" he said.
"Oh, I don't think you'll have enough time," she replied. "So you and Jay went to Durmstrang for Quiddich camp?"
"Yeah. It was pretty cool. We met this one guy who had just moved there from some school in the U.S."
"Really? Maybe I knew him. What was his name?" asked Raven.
The radio turned on and Alice Cooper's "Poison" was playing. Sirius froze, listening to the song and then laughed. "Rave, I hafta tell you something."
"What?"
He started to sing along to the song, "Your cruel device. Your blood, like ice."
Raven let out a laugh. "Oh god, not this song!"
Sirius continued singing, "One look could kill. My pain, your thrill!" He stood up and pulled out his wand, using it as a microphone and sang louder. "I wanna love you but I better not touch. I wanna hold you but my senses tell me to stop. I wanna kiss you but I want it to much." He got on his knees in front of Raven and held out his hands in front of her. "I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison! You're poison runnin through my veins. You're poison, I don't wanna break these chains!"
"Okay, that's enough. You can get up now."
But he continued with the song, "Your mouth, so hot! Your web, I'm caught! Your skin, so wet! Black lace on sweat-" Raven clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Would you stop?"
Sirius snapped out of it. "Alright, sorry."
They rode in silence the rest of the way, although a few other good songs came on that Sirius desperately wanted to sing to. Every time a new song came on, Sirius would gasp and sit up in his chair, but Raven would give him an uncompromising look. When they had pulled up to the front gates of Durmstrang and both gotten out of the Hogwarts Express, the conductor came around to their side and told them he would be back at 8 to take them home. Raven and Sirius continued up the steps to the entrance. Sirius knocked six times on the door. The door opened and immediately closed again.
A voice spoke through the door, "Oh no, not you, Black! No way, man! Haven't you caused enough trouble at this school?"
"I'm not here to terrorize the school, I'm here on business, okay?" he said to the voice.
"Yeah Sirius, business, uh-huh. I know what that means. You know, all the girls you left behind came runnin to me, and if they see you again, who knows what'll happen! You can't do that to me, man!" the voice replied.
"Willem, I don't care about the girls! You can have em all, now will you please let us in!" pleaded Sirius.
"Us?" the door quickly opened again and Willem looked out at Raven. "Oh, wow. Nice, Sirius! I guess that's why you don't need the other girls, huh?"
"Will you let us in already, Willem!" he snapped.
"Oh yeah, sure. Come right this way, Miss," said Willem. He took Raven's hand and led her across the threshold, almost closing the door on Sirius, who quickly stuck his foot in and kicked it open.
"Save your breath, Will. This one's not like the girls here," he said, steering Raven away from him.
"I can see that, Black, that's why I insist," he said, taking her hand again. "Now, what is a beautiful thing like yourself doing here?"
"I'm not a thing and I'm here to see the Headmaster," replied Raven, pulling her hand away from him.
"Well, I can escort you directly to his office, if you'll-"
Sirius grabbed onto Raven and pulled her down the hallway. "Better shut the door, Willem."
Willem looked behind him and gasped. Sirius had jinxed the door so that it had grown a mouth right where the doorknob was. "You'll wanna watch out for him," said Sirius to Raven, "he's a little pervert."
"I could tell," she said. A loud bong sounded above them and suddenly all the doors running down the corridor opened, and students started filing out. Most of them continued walking past Sirius staring at him with their eyes wide open. A few of the girls gasped and smiled or winked at him.
An especially ditsy looking girl flitted her eyelashes at him and said, "Hi, Sirius."
"Hi, Heather," he replied, still steering Raven down the hallway.
"Oh god, Sirius, your I.Q. just dropped ten points!" Raven exclaimed, looking back at the girl, who continued to stare after them.
"I know, I know." he said. "I told you, didn't I?"
"I'm surprised you remember their names! You warned me, you didn't tell me everything."
"You wouldn't want me to, believe me," he said as another blonde actually stopped dead in her tracks in front of them and walked straight up to Sirius.
"Er. hi, Jenna," he said, nervously.
She slapped him right across the face. Raven and Sirius' mouths both dropped wide open as she turned on her heel, threw her hair over her shoulder, and stalked off. "I'm not sure I deserved that," he said, rubbing his cheek.
"Are you okay?" Raven asked, putting her hand to his cheek and trying desperately to suppress a laugh.
"You're laughing about this?" he exclaimed.
"I'm not." she couldn't hold it anymore and covered her mouth, giggling uncontrollably, ".laughing."
Sirius rolled his eyes and started walking again. Raven caught up to him. "Please don't leave me alone. The guys are all looking at me like I'm a piece of chocolate!"
Now it was Sirius' turn to laugh. "Raven, take a look around. I told you, you're not like all the girls here."
Raven looked around and noticed that more than half of the girls were blonde. The remainders were brunettes with an occasional redhead thrown in. Almost all of them had small turned up noses and dark brown eyes. Most of them had pasty-white skin and looked like they had never been exposed to the sunshine. Compared to Raven's caramel skin, bright blue almond-shaped eyes, and long, shiny, jet-black hair, they could have been a completely different species.
"So, if you hadn't met me at Hogwarts, you'd be doing the exact same thing right now?" she asked as a boy with a long hooked nose gaped at her.
"No, I'd already be to second base with you by now," he said.
She stopped and stared at him. "I think it's my turn to slap you!"
"I'm just saying! That's how I used to be! You changed me!"
"I changed you?" she asked, bewildered.
"Raven, you were the first girl that I ever made a move on that didn't give into me!"
"EVER?" she screeched.
"Ever. You made me realize how shitty it is to do that to someone."
"Ever, wow. Sorry, I didn't realize I was making history here," she teased.
They continued walking for a while, down hallways and turning corners, with girls still winking and smiling at Sirius. Then Raven looked up and gasped. A boy was walking towards her with his head down. He looked up at her and gasped, too. As they passed each other in the corridor, they slowly turned their heads to look at each other. Sirius looked back and realized Raven had stopped in the middle of the hallway and then realized who she was looking at.
"Oh, hey, Vin! Raven, this is Vinny, he was a good friend of me and James when we were here." he trailed off when he realized they were staring at each other and ignoring his words.
"Lizzie?" Vinny said to Raven, not taking his eyes from her.
A huge smile spread across her face as she grabbed him and hugged him, "Vinny Krum? God, I thought I'd never see you again!" Sirius just stared.
"What are you doing here?" he asked her.
"Wait, time out!" Sirius waved his hands in front of their faces. "You know each other? Who the hell is Lizz-" he stopped and turned to Raven, "Raven Elizabeth McKinnon. You're Lizzie?"
"Sirius, hi!" said Vinny, hugging him, too. "I didn't even see you!"
"Yeah, I think that's cuz you were lookin at her!" he said.
"So, I see you've met my Lizzie!"
"Wait, wait. explain. All this time Raven was Lizzie?" Sirius was really confused.
"Yes. He left America without a word after our fifth year, Sirius. We used to go out," Raven explained.
"All he talked about was Lizzie when James and I got here for Quiddich camp last year and Vinny had just transferred here! Raven, how could you not tell me you knew Vinny!" said Sirius.
"I didn't know you knew him!" she justified.
"So, you guys are together now?" asked Vinny.
"No!" they both said in unison. "We're friends," added Raven.
"This is so weird. Okay, why do you call her Lizzie?" asked Sirius.
"I went out with her for like a year when I was in America. My sister's name is Raveena, and I didn't want to call my girlfriend and my sister the same thing, I guess," he explained. "So, how's James?"
"He's good. I can't believe you're here!"
"I can't believe you're here! What are you doing here?" asked Vinny.
Another loud gong sounded above them. "You're late?" Raven asked.
"Screw it, I don't care! Tell me everything!" said Vinny.
"Pluto's expecting us, Vin. We'll tell you after class. Meet us in the REC room, okay?" said Sirius.
"Okay! Great! See you later!" Vinny ran into the next classroom.
As Raven and Sirius continued down the hall, they heard a door open again and turned around to see Vinny running out of it and into another.
"Wrong one!" he yelled down the hall at them. Raven and Sirius chuckled.
"So." started Sirius. "Did y'all."
"What?"
"Nothin," he said quickly as they turned to a corridor that only lead to one door. "Let's just get this over with," said Sirius.
"Er, okay." Sirius led her to Headmaster Plutana's office and knocked on the door.
The door was opened by a large, bald-headed man. "What are you doing here, Black?" he snapped.
"I brought Raven. Raven McKinnon, sir?"
"You're Gordon McKinnon's daughter?" he asked, abruptly.
"Niece. He would have come himself, but he's in Germany right now," she answered.
"Yes, I know. Albus has already informed me of everything. I appreciate your uncle not just sending someone who knows nothing on the subject," he said, taking the documents from her.
"Yes, I helped him write them, sir."
"Mister Black, you can see yourself out if you please. I will need Ms. McKinnon to explain a few things to me before I sign."
"Yes, sir. Lovely to have seen you again, sir." Raven seemed to be the only one who noticed the sarcasm in his voice. Sirius winked at Raven, gave her a thumbs up, and ambled slowly out of the office.
He walked back the way he came, found the door Vinny had gone in, and looked through the window. Vinny was there, staring at the door. He perked up as Sirius waved at him. Raising his hand, he pretended to cough violently and asked the professor if he could get a drink of water.
"Hey, where's Lizzie?" he asked Sirius as he came out the door.
"Raven. She's still talkin to Pluto. Wanna just walk around for a bit?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah." They started walking, slowly, in silence.
"So, is that what you were always talkin to James about?" asked Sirius.
"Lizzie? Yeah, when I mentioned that I missed Lizzie, he knew I meant Raven. And then we both figured out that we knew the same person, because she had talked about me in her owls to him and she had told me stories about her and James all the time."
"What I don't get is why you guys didn't just tell me about her," said Sirius.
"James said that you would bug him about her."
"Bug him?"
"He said you'd ask him if she was hot, and if he did anything with her, and blah blah blah. He said he didn't wanna hafta explain that they were just friends," said Vinny.
Sirius opened his mouth to object but then laughed. "He's probably right."
They continued walking for awhile and then Vinny asked, "So, just friends, huh?"
"That's right, Krum."
"When have you ever been 'just friends' with a girl?"
"Since her," he answered shortly.
Vinny smiled and looked sideways at his friend. "You got it bad, Sirius."
"What?"
"You like her," stated Vinny.
"I think I'm in love with her," he replied, glumly.
"And she has no idea, does she?" asked Vinny, wisely.
"Of course she doesn't. What should I do?"
"Make a move. That's all you can do. It's what I did. We were friends ever since our first year, and I finally told her I liked her at the beginning of our fifth."
"I don't wanna lose her though. I'd rather have her as just a friend, than not have her at all."
"Of course you would. But she's not the type to let you liking her get in the way of your friendship. It might be weird for you, but she's around guys that like her all the time. You'll just hafta get over it if she doesn't like you back."
"I don't know if I could stand it."
"C'mon! We're talkin about the legendary Sirius Black here! Sirius Black has never been turned down by a girl!"
"Raven turned me down the first day I met her, actually."
"Oh. then you're in trouble," teased Vinny.
"Oh, thanks a lot!" Sirius laughed. "Oh, I better get back down there and wait for her. She doesn't know where she's going." Raven got the papers signed and the rest of the day they spent with Vinny in the REC room, stopping only to eat lunch and dinner.
"Ready to defend your title?" asked Vinny as he walked over to a speed hockey game and picked up the flat puck, twirling it around his fingers.
"You ready to lose?" asked Sirius, winking at Raven out of the corner of his eye. He got up and pulled Raven along with him, striding over to the air hockey table. "Watch this, Ray, I am the king."
Raven looked at him skeptically. "You can cheer," he said.
Raven shrugged. "Kick his ass, Vin!"
Sirius scowled. "Traitor. Watch and see me win."
"Now, Sirius, you should know me better than that by now. I was never and watch and see kinda girl. I'm playing winner," Raven stated.
"You don't know what you're getting yourself into," warned Sirius.
Sirius ended up beating Vinny of course, 10 to 6. "Haven't lost my touch, have I Vinchenso?"
"Yeah, yeah. I never was much good at it. Raven'll get ya for me, " he said, rubbing Raven's shoulders and giving her a little pep talk, lowering his voice so Sirius couldn't hear. "Okay, all you gotta do is psych him out. You stuff him once and he'll lose his thunder, got it? Now, he always hits the puck way to his right side, so if you can volley it back right away, go for his left side and it should be wide open. You're faster than me, you can do it."
"Thanks, coach," said Raven, eyeing Sirius and smiling at him.
"You sure you wanna do this?" he asked.
"Don't hold back," she said as he hit the puck and she blocked it. He hit towards her again, hard from his right, so she sent it back on his left and into the slot. "Are you sure you wanna do this?"
"I let you have that one," he said.
"No! You don't get to say that! I'm not playing you unless you give me your word right now that you're gonna bring it. That way when I beat you, I'll know it's because I'm better," said Raven.
"I'll bring it."
"Good."
Raven beat the crap out of Sirius. She won 10 to 2. Sirius said it was because whenever she hit the puck he could see down her shirt and it was distracting him, but she won fair and square. The Hogwarts Express came at 8 to take them back home and they were almost sad to leave.
Vinny pulled Raven into a hug. "You can't leave now! You just came back into my life!"
"Come with us," she begged.
"I can't. See ya, Sirius," he said, hugging him.
Sirius was silent on the way back, thinking about what Vinny told him to do.
"You okay?" asked Raven.
"Fine. Just tired."
"Me too," said Raven, yawning. Sirius took her head and laid it on his shoulder, putting his arm around her. After a few minutes she was asleep.
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