"RENEGADE"
A/N: I'VE BEEN HAVING COMPUTER PROBLEMS, SO I'M SORRY THIS HASN'T BEEN OUT SOONER. NOW MY COMPUTER'S BACK, BUT FOR SOME REASON I CAN'T GET ON AOL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I CAN STILL GET MY REVIEWS FROM MY REVIEW PAGE, SO KEEP THEM COMING. IF YOU GET AN EMAIL FROM "PADFOOTRAVEN@YAHOO" (I TRY TO RESPOND TO REVIEWS THAT ASK QUESTIONS OR THAT I REALLY LIKE) IT'S ME. I HAD TO MAKE A YAHOO ACCOUNT BECAUSE AOL'S BEING WEIRD OR SOMETHING. I CAN'T EVEN CHECK IT FROM THE AOL WEBSITE. ANYWAYS, HOPE YOU LIKE THE CHAPTER. I'M GLAD IT'S FINALLY DONE.
Disclaimer: Sad to say, I don't own Sirius Black. If I did, I would NOT have killed off the closest thing Harry had to a father because poor Harry's been through enough bullshit already in his life!
Random Thoughts: These are just like my little bit of inspiration or humor that I put at the beginning of every chapter I write. I don't know why, I just like to do it. They have nothing to do with the actual chapter.
This chapter's random thought: "Ya might be a redneck if...ya think 'loadin the dishwasher' means gettin yer wife drunk."
Chapter 5 - Mr. Black and Mrs. White?
Although he hadn't seen Raven in two days, he was still thinking about her. Sirius mostly slept, something he'd not done well in a long time. He'd lie in bed thinking about what he said to her. 'Maybe I shouldn't have told her all that,' he thought. 'I thought maybe she'd understand.' He smiled as he thought of her singing along to "Back In Black." 'We have a lot in common, I think. Other than the fact that I'm an escaped convict, and she's not. Well, and I'm a wizard, and she's not. And what's up with her? I swear, she doesn't look twenty-five. Does she want me to think she's older cuz she likes me? Or maybe she's hiding something, too. She said most people come here to hide from things. What if she meant herself?'
Raven had been the same way. She went over to Jordan's and tried to pretend Sirius wasn't next door. But she couldn't do it. 'There's something about him I just can't understand. If he's on the run, why would he tell me all that stuff? ...Gotta tell somebody I guess. But still, he trusted me with it, and now I'm leaving him all alone in it. I just don't know what to say. I know he doesn't want to tell me anything more. I don't want to ask the wrong questions. Besides, if I ask him questions, he'll think he can ask me questions. Of course, I know what to say, but I feel bad lying to him now.' She laughed inwardly. 'Nineteen. Of course I look nineteen, that's how old I am, right? Not technically. God, I hate this!'
She glanced at the clock on the TV and walked into the kitchen to take her medicine. She hesitated, but slipped on her shoes and stepped out the door. Bounding up to the door and pressing his nose against the screen, Rio gave a loud bark.
Raven turned around and stepped back in the house. "Oh, alright, you can come." Rio jumped up on the wall next to the door and pulled down his leash that was hanging on a hook. Raven smiled and clipped the leash to his collar. She followed Rio onto Sirius' front porch and knocked. Her eyes widened as she peered through the screen and saw Sirius coming towards her without his shirt on. She took a deep breath as he opened the door and smiled at her.
"Miss me?"
Raven couldn't help smiling back. "Not really. Rio dragged me over here. Care to go for a walk with us?"
"Sure." He stepped out the door and started walking down the steps.
"Um..."
He turned back around.
"Aren't you gonna put something on first?" she asked, holding back the blush that was threatening to creep up on her cheeks.
Sirius looked down at himself. "Oh shit." He went back into the house and came out a few seconds later with a t-shirt on.
'Honestly, how could you not know that you're not wearing a shirt?' thought Raven to herself. "Isn't Padfoot coming?"
Sirius' eyes widened. "Uh...no, he's out somewhere."
Raven rolled her eyes as they started to walk along the beach. "If I let Rio out for more than a half hour by himself, he gets lost."
Sirius laughed. "Well, Padfoot's very independent."
Raven nodded. "So...where are we?"
"Um, what?"
"Are we friends?"
"You tell me."
"Well...if we set up a kind of 'no questions' rule between us, can we be friends?" asked Raven.
"Does that mean you have something to hide, too?"
Raven stopped walking and gave him a questioning stare. "Was that a question?"
Sirius opened his mouth and then closed it again. "...No. I'll rephrase: I think you're hiding something from me, too."
"What am I hiding then?"
"I don't know!"
"Good." She smiled at him.
"Raven is your real name, though, right?"
Raven laughed. "Yes."
"Good, I like Raven."
"Well thanks, Sirius."
Sirius nodded in response. "No questions? I find it hard not to ask questions. How can you not ask questions?"
"Well, no questions about...the past?" explained Raven.
"Oh, I see. But how are we going to get to know each other if we can't ask any questions?"
"Well..." Raven thought for a minute, "there's plenty of questions we can ask each other."
"Like...what's your favorite AC/DC song of all time?" Sirius turned sideways to look at Raven as they walked along.
Raven smiled. "'Night Prowler'."
"Really?"
"It cracks me up. What's yours?"
"Big Balls," said Sirius, almost too quickly.
(A/N: IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD "BIG BALLS" BY AC/DC, DOWNLOAD IT OR SOMETHING. IT'S HILARIOUS! IT'S ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT BALLS LIKE THE ONE CINDERELLA GOES TO, BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO FUNNY.)
Raven groaned and rolled her eyes.
"I'm kidding. Definitely 'Back In Black'."
"How come?"
Sirius shrugged. "It's got my name in it."
Raven froze. "Black?"
Sirius realized he'd just told her his last name. "God dammit!"
Raven laughed. "Is this you not telling me anything about yourself? Because you suck at it."
"I think I need to work on my mystique," said Sirius monotonously, shaking his head at himself.
"Maybe just a little bit."
"So...ring any bells?" asked Sirius, cringing a bit at the thought of her suddenly screaming at him, 'Sirius Black?! The escaped convict, Sirius Black?!' He knew very well they'd even given his picture to the muggle policemen when he first escaped because they thought he was so dangerous.
"Black? Sirius Black..." Raven looked upward, as though manually searching through her brain for something. "Nope. Sorry."
Sirius furrowed his brows as he watched her. "No? You've gotta be shittin me!"
Raven shook her head. "I shit you not. I don't get a paper and I don't even have TV channels. I just watch movies. Once in awhile I'll get a letter from Josh telling me basic things, but it's been about five years since I've heard anything big."
"But still, how can you not know anything that's happened recently in the world?"
"I don't want to know. I have my reasons."
"Is that your way of telling me that's from your past and you're not going to say anything?"
"Yup," Raven smiled innocently. "So, Sirius Black...you're not like a rock star or anything, are you?"
Sirius smiled widely. "Maybe..." he thought about it for a minute. "Nah, nothing like that."
"Too bad."
"So, what's your last name?"
Raven shook her head. "No, no, no. No one forced it out of you. You told me of your own free will. I don't hafta tell you mine just because you let yours slip."
"Alright then, I guess we can't be friends," tempted Sirius.
Raven rose her eyebrows. "Oh, so that's how it's gonna be, huh? Fine, if that's the way you want it." She started to walk away and Sirius hurried after her, taking her arm and spinning her to face him.
"Tell me your middle name and we'll call it even," he said. Raven surveyed him skeptically. "I'll even tell you my middle name: Lee."
Raven tried not to smile. "Sirius Lee? Seriously?"
"Afraid so," said Sirius.
"I like it." She smiled, kicked off her sandals and took a few steps onto the wet sand. A wave crashed onto the beach and the water ran across her feet.
Sirius was already barefoot and hurried out after her. "And where do you think you're going? You haven't told me your middle name yet. Come back here. Raven..."
"Elizabeth."
"Raven Elizabeth...It just doesn't sound right without your last name."
"So make one up," she said, continuing to walk along the wet sand.
"Okay," responded Sirius. "White."
"White?" asked Raven, looking at Sirius incredulously.
"Yeah, I'm Black, you can be White."
"Are you saying we're opposites?"
"No. Fine, what's your favorite color?"
Raven laughed. "You know, not all people's last name's are colors."
"You're joking!" screeched Sirius in mock surprize.
"Well, I guess I don't really know about *everyone* else, but mine isn't."
"Oh now we're getting somewhere!" said Sirius, slyly, turning in front of her, walking backwards, and looking into her eyes. "Guessing your last name will be easy now that I know it's not a color."
"Just don't call me White. It's too much like Clue."
"Clue?"
"Mrs. White, ya know, from the board game, Clue."
"Ohhhhh, right. Wait, are you married?"
Raven snorted. "Me? Oh no."
"Well what's that supposed to mean? You could be married, I don't know."
"No, I'm not married. Who could I possibly be married to around here?"
"Good point. I guess you just haven't found Mr. *White* yet," teased Sirius.
Raven giggled. "Mr. Right, or Mr. White?"
"Well, in your case it would be Mr. White."
"You do know that the woman changes her name to the man's last name when she gets married, right?"
"I wouldn't know," shrugged Sirius. "I've never been married."
She started to giggle again. "Are you always this funny, Sirius Black?"
"Not lately with all the shit that's happened to me. Maybe it's just you."
Raven smiled at him.
Friends?" Sirius held out his hand to her for the second time.
She shook it. "Friends."
A/N: I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHAPTER SO FAR AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY. THEY'RE GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER, AT LEAST, RIGHT? I LIKE HOW IT TURNED OUT. HOPE YOU LIKE IT, TOO. PLEASE SEND ME SOME REVIEWS!
A/N: I'VE BEEN HAVING COMPUTER PROBLEMS, SO I'M SORRY THIS HASN'T BEEN OUT SOONER. NOW MY COMPUTER'S BACK, BUT FOR SOME REASON I CAN'T GET ON AOL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I CAN STILL GET MY REVIEWS FROM MY REVIEW PAGE, SO KEEP THEM COMING. IF YOU GET AN EMAIL FROM "PADFOOTRAVEN@YAHOO" (I TRY TO RESPOND TO REVIEWS THAT ASK QUESTIONS OR THAT I REALLY LIKE) IT'S ME. I HAD TO MAKE A YAHOO ACCOUNT BECAUSE AOL'S BEING WEIRD OR SOMETHING. I CAN'T EVEN CHECK IT FROM THE AOL WEBSITE. ANYWAYS, HOPE YOU LIKE THE CHAPTER. I'M GLAD IT'S FINALLY DONE.
Disclaimer: Sad to say, I don't own Sirius Black. If I did, I would NOT have killed off the closest thing Harry had to a father because poor Harry's been through enough bullshit already in his life!
Random Thoughts: These are just like my little bit of inspiration or humor that I put at the beginning of every chapter I write. I don't know why, I just like to do it. They have nothing to do with the actual chapter.
This chapter's random thought: "Ya might be a redneck if...ya think 'loadin the dishwasher' means gettin yer wife drunk."
Chapter 5 - Mr. Black and Mrs. White?
Although he hadn't seen Raven in two days, he was still thinking about her. Sirius mostly slept, something he'd not done well in a long time. He'd lie in bed thinking about what he said to her. 'Maybe I shouldn't have told her all that,' he thought. 'I thought maybe she'd understand.' He smiled as he thought of her singing along to "Back In Black." 'We have a lot in common, I think. Other than the fact that I'm an escaped convict, and she's not. Well, and I'm a wizard, and she's not. And what's up with her? I swear, she doesn't look twenty-five. Does she want me to think she's older cuz she likes me? Or maybe she's hiding something, too. She said most people come here to hide from things. What if she meant herself?'
Raven had been the same way. She went over to Jordan's and tried to pretend Sirius wasn't next door. But she couldn't do it. 'There's something about him I just can't understand. If he's on the run, why would he tell me all that stuff? ...Gotta tell somebody I guess. But still, he trusted me with it, and now I'm leaving him all alone in it. I just don't know what to say. I know he doesn't want to tell me anything more. I don't want to ask the wrong questions. Besides, if I ask him questions, he'll think he can ask me questions. Of course, I know what to say, but I feel bad lying to him now.' She laughed inwardly. 'Nineteen. Of course I look nineteen, that's how old I am, right? Not technically. God, I hate this!'
She glanced at the clock on the TV and walked into the kitchen to take her medicine. She hesitated, but slipped on her shoes and stepped out the door. Bounding up to the door and pressing his nose against the screen, Rio gave a loud bark.
Raven turned around and stepped back in the house. "Oh, alright, you can come." Rio jumped up on the wall next to the door and pulled down his leash that was hanging on a hook. Raven smiled and clipped the leash to his collar. She followed Rio onto Sirius' front porch and knocked. Her eyes widened as she peered through the screen and saw Sirius coming towards her without his shirt on. She took a deep breath as he opened the door and smiled at her.
"Miss me?"
Raven couldn't help smiling back. "Not really. Rio dragged me over here. Care to go for a walk with us?"
"Sure." He stepped out the door and started walking down the steps.
"Um..."
He turned back around.
"Aren't you gonna put something on first?" she asked, holding back the blush that was threatening to creep up on her cheeks.
Sirius looked down at himself. "Oh shit." He went back into the house and came out a few seconds later with a t-shirt on.
'Honestly, how could you not know that you're not wearing a shirt?' thought Raven to herself. "Isn't Padfoot coming?"
Sirius' eyes widened. "Uh...no, he's out somewhere."
Raven rolled her eyes as they started to walk along the beach. "If I let Rio out for more than a half hour by himself, he gets lost."
Sirius laughed. "Well, Padfoot's very independent."
Raven nodded. "So...where are we?"
"Um, what?"
"Are we friends?"
"You tell me."
"Well...if we set up a kind of 'no questions' rule between us, can we be friends?" asked Raven.
"Does that mean you have something to hide, too?"
Raven stopped walking and gave him a questioning stare. "Was that a question?"
Sirius opened his mouth and then closed it again. "...No. I'll rephrase: I think you're hiding something from me, too."
"What am I hiding then?"
"I don't know!"
"Good." She smiled at him.
"Raven is your real name, though, right?"
Raven laughed. "Yes."
"Good, I like Raven."
"Well thanks, Sirius."
Sirius nodded in response. "No questions? I find it hard not to ask questions. How can you not ask questions?"
"Well, no questions about...the past?" explained Raven.
"Oh, I see. But how are we going to get to know each other if we can't ask any questions?"
"Well..." Raven thought for a minute, "there's plenty of questions we can ask each other."
"Like...what's your favorite AC/DC song of all time?" Sirius turned sideways to look at Raven as they walked along.
Raven smiled. "'Night Prowler'."
"Really?"
"It cracks me up. What's yours?"
"Big Balls," said Sirius, almost too quickly.
(A/N: IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD "BIG BALLS" BY AC/DC, DOWNLOAD IT OR SOMETHING. IT'S HILARIOUS! IT'S ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT BALLS LIKE THE ONE CINDERELLA GOES TO, BUT THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO FUNNY.)
Raven groaned and rolled her eyes.
"I'm kidding. Definitely 'Back In Black'."
"How come?"
Sirius shrugged. "It's got my name in it."
Raven froze. "Black?"
Sirius realized he'd just told her his last name. "God dammit!"
Raven laughed. "Is this you not telling me anything about yourself? Because you suck at it."
"I think I need to work on my mystique," said Sirius monotonously, shaking his head at himself.
"Maybe just a little bit."
"So...ring any bells?" asked Sirius, cringing a bit at the thought of her suddenly screaming at him, 'Sirius Black?! The escaped convict, Sirius Black?!' He knew very well they'd even given his picture to the muggle policemen when he first escaped because they thought he was so dangerous.
"Black? Sirius Black..." Raven looked upward, as though manually searching through her brain for something. "Nope. Sorry."
Sirius furrowed his brows as he watched her. "No? You've gotta be shittin me!"
Raven shook her head. "I shit you not. I don't get a paper and I don't even have TV channels. I just watch movies. Once in awhile I'll get a letter from Josh telling me basic things, but it's been about five years since I've heard anything big."
"But still, how can you not know anything that's happened recently in the world?"
"I don't want to know. I have my reasons."
"Is that your way of telling me that's from your past and you're not going to say anything?"
"Yup," Raven smiled innocently. "So, Sirius Black...you're not like a rock star or anything, are you?"
Sirius smiled widely. "Maybe..." he thought about it for a minute. "Nah, nothing like that."
"Too bad."
"So, what's your last name?"
Raven shook her head. "No, no, no. No one forced it out of you. You told me of your own free will. I don't hafta tell you mine just because you let yours slip."
"Alright then, I guess we can't be friends," tempted Sirius.
Raven rose her eyebrows. "Oh, so that's how it's gonna be, huh? Fine, if that's the way you want it." She started to walk away and Sirius hurried after her, taking her arm and spinning her to face him.
"Tell me your middle name and we'll call it even," he said. Raven surveyed him skeptically. "I'll even tell you my middle name: Lee."
Raven tried not to smile. "Sirius Lee? Seriously?"
"Afraid so," said Sirius.
"I like it." She smiled, kicked off her sandals and took a few steps onto the wet sand. A wave crashed onto the beach and the water ran across her feet.
Sirius was already barefoot and hurried out after her. "And where do you think you're going? You haven't told me your middle name yet. Come back here. Raven..."
"Elizabeth."
"Raven Elizabeth...It just doesn't sound right without your last name."
"So make one up," she said, continuing to walk along the wet sand.
"Okay," responded Sirius. "White."
"White?" asked Raven, looking at Sirius incredulously.
"Yeah, I'm Black, you can be White."
"Are you saying we're opposites?"
"No. Fine, what's your favorite color?"
Raven laughed. "You know, not all people's last name's are colors."
"You're joking!" screeched Sirius in mock surprize.
"Well, I guess I don't really know about *everyone* else, but mine isn't."
"Oh now we're getting somewhere!" said Sirius, slyly, turning in front of her, walking backwards, and looking into her eyes. "Guessing your last name will be easy now that I know it's not a color."
"Just don't call me White. It's too much like Clue."
"Clue?"
"Mrs. White, ya know, from the board game, Clue."
"Ohhhhh, right. Wait, are you married?"
Raven snorted. "Me? Oh no."
"Well what's that supposed to mean? You could be married, I don't know."
"No, I'm not married. Who could I possibly be married to around here?"
"Good point. I guess you just haven't found Mr. *White* yet," teased Sirius.
Raven giggled. "Mr. Right, or Mr. White?"
"Well, in your case it would be Mr. White."
"You do know that the woman changes her name to the man's last name when she gets married, right?"
"I wouldn't know," shrugged Sirius. "I've never been married."
She started to giggle again. "Are you always this funny, Sirius Black?"
"Not lately with all the shit that's happened to me. Maybe it's just you."
Raven smiled at him.
Friends?" Sirius held out his hand to her for the second time.
She shook it. "Friends."
A/N: I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHAPTER SO FAR AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY. THEY'RE GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER, AT LEAST, RIGHT? I LIKE HOW IT TURNED OUT. HOPE YOU LIKE IT, TOO. PLEASE SEND ME SOME REVIEWS!