A Merry Interesting Christmas
It was coming up to the Christmas holidays, and most had decided to go home for the holidays; but there was a few who wanted to stay.
James cornered Sirius and Remus as they were coming out of Charms on Thursday lunch, to tell them that it would be great if they stayed over Christmas because they would have the castle to themselves and could really explore.
"Fine with me, didn't want to go home anyway." Sirius told them, as a pretty Ravenclaw walked pass talking with Nissa and Lily.
"Why not?" James asked distracted by his statement.
"It doesn't matter." Sirius told him quickly, not wanting to get into the whole thing.
"Yeah, it sounds like fun." Remus said.
"Can I stay with you as well?" Peter asked stood slightly behind Remus who moved for him.
"No Peter you have to go home." Sirius told him sarcastically. "Of course you can stupid, that's the whole point of us all staying."
Peter smiled shyly at him going quit red in the face.
Sirius written home that day telling his mother that he was staying at Hogwarts for Christmas, and by the next morning she had sent him one back, which he ripped up as soon as he had finished reading surprising everyone at how violently he had done it.
"You ok mate?" James asked him.
"Yeah, just a letter from home." Sirius answered dully.
Which at that they were even more interested.
Nearly everyone was going home for Christmas; there was only a couple from each house staying.
It was Saturday afternoon, everyone who was going home had gone, and they had the castle to themselves for two whole weeks, which was more then they could have dreamed for. They set out to explore using some of the hided passes they had already found, which they had found a couple by accident but all the same they had found them.
They were wondering about on the fourth floor corridor, when they heard McGonagall talking to someone, not really wanting to run into her they ran off in the other direction for a couple of minutes. When they finally stop, Peter leads back on a tapestry and falls right through it grabbing hold of Sirius making him fall on top of him as they came out on the other side. James and Remus were laughing their heads off as they came to find out where it leads to.
"Hey, nice find Peter." James said as he looked around, they seemed to be on the other side of the castle where they had only been once because they had gotten lost.
"Yeah, though I can think of a better looking person to be on top of." Sirius said as he got to his feet.
"And one of them wouldn't be in our class by any chance, and friends with Snivellus?" James asked smirking at him.
Sirius just smiled back at him not answering him, but helped Peter to his feet as to distract them, though of course it didn't work.
"What the hell does she see in that stupid greasy haired git?" Sirius said suddenly as they were walking down the new corridor.
"Well, she won't tell you unless you ask." Remus told him.
They all stopped dead at the sight of him, they hadn't even heard him coming as though he was gilding over the floor or something.
"And what are four first years doing here?" Jevidah asked them coldly.
"Well, we're..." James started but couldn't think of anything to say.
"Up to no good I suspect as always." Jevidah told them eyeing them as though to try and read their minds to what they were doing.
"No we weren't, we were just having a walk." Sirius shot at him.
"Really Mr Black?" Jevidah said smiling slightly at him. "Well, if you don't mind but I don't think I will believe that. Your cousins and your whole family have been in my house, so I think I know what your type gets up to."
Sirius glared at him, as his friends looked from him to Jevidah surprised by this new information. Sirius stormed off, because he knew that if he stayed it was worth more then him graining about a hundred detentions for what he wanted to shout back at him.
Sirius walked all the way back to the common alone his argue building every second that he walked, as he thought about what Jevidah had said to him. Later that night James tried to talk him but couldn't get a signal word out of him, and thought that he should leave it.
Sirius had finally gotten out of his bad mood by Tuesday, and they had all decided not to mention it unless he brought it up. That night they decided to go out for a walk, though they still weren't really aloud so they would take the cloak; which it just fitted over them all, which was a very tight fit; and they had to walk really slowly so that they would trip up.
They were walking along and Sirius had stopped them again because Peter kept standing on the back on his heal.
"Stop it will you?" Sirius hissed at him. "Switch with Remus."
They were just about to take the cloak off, when the door opened to the girl's bathroom and they all just stood there like statues, well trying too anyway.
Nissa stepped out of the bathroom with a towel in one hand and her bush in the other. She had her hair tied back in plaits, and was wearing different colour pinstripe red and pink pyjamas. She stopped suddenly and looked up the corridor.
They were all holding their breaths as Nissa look straight at them; she smiled slightly either to herself or to them though of course they didn't know which.
"She can't see us can she?" Sirius whispered.
"No... of course not." James whispered back.
"But she can hear us." Remus whispered.
Nissa started to walk towards them making them step back, but she seemed to be walking a little closer to the suit of armour as though she knew they were there and didn't want to walk into them.
Sirius moved to quickly backwards and Peter didn't move fast enough, making them trip over each other's feet. Peter put his hand up which shot out through the gap in the cloak, and hit the wall stopping him from falling. But Sirius knocked into James, and sent him flying forwards into Nissa.
Sirius fell right into Nissa making her drop her things and fall back into the suit of armour which clang to down ground with a defending racket; but it also created a large black hole in the ground which they couldn't stop themselves from falling down.
James pushed the cloak off of himself and rushed over to the black hole with Remus at his side who was rubbing his side, they could hear them as though banging against something. Peter came rushing up behind them both and tripped over the hem of the cloak which he had picked up for them; but as he fell forward he pushed both James and Remus down the hole. Though James managed to grab hold of his cloak, and Peter came along for the ride as well.
Sirius and Nissa came zooming out at the bottom after sliding miles under the school. Nissa looked up after she felt as though a heavy weight was on top of her; lovely brown caring and mischievous eyes were looking back down at her, which she couldn't help but smile at. He smiled brightly at her, until they both heard the other three coming down behind them. Nissa was still trying to push Sirius off of her when James came zooming out of the tunnel, with Remus and Peter right behind them.
James looked around excitedly. "Right who wants to do that again?"
Nissa got out from under Sirius and got to her feet, but not for long as Sirius pulled her back down into his arms, now she was on top of him.
"Not me." Peter said as he tried to stand up.
Sirius smiled at her and then helped her up but keeping her locked in his arms.
"Well we enjoyed it, didn't we?" Sirius said smiling brightly at her.
Nissa couldn't help but laugh, it had been rather exciting, but she just wished that Sirius wasn't so touchy; though she wondered if it was her, because she had never been around people who were like that.
Sirius let go of her as he stepped over to help Remus to his feet, because he seemed too had hurt himself. Nissa stepped out of the way, but was almost dragged back down because Peter had grabbed hold of her to help himself up. But both Remus and Sirius grabbed hold of her to stop her from falling back onto the dirty and damp stone floor.
"Now that wasn't very nice was it?" Sirius told him. "You could have at less given her some warning."
James helped Peter to his feet. They all stood there looking around in the dimly lit chamber they were in.
"I thought you went home for Christmas?" Remus asked suddenly looking at Nissa.
They all looked at her realising this for the first time as well.
"I came back." Nissa answered simple.
"We can see that." James told her.
"Not that we're not happy to see you and all." Sirius told her quickly, and then added as an after thought. "Well, we wouldn't have found this place without you."
"Come on then let's have a look around and find out what's down here." James said as he started to walk off into the darkness.
"Do we have too? Its all dark and we don't know what's waiting for us." Peter wined.
"Lumos." Nissa said as she pulled out her wand and followed James, also wanting to have a look around.
"Good idea." James said, and they all followed suit.
"There's nothing wrong with a bit of exploring." Nissa told Remus beside of her.
James was ahead with Sirius, but Peter still hadn't moved and he was starting to look really worried.
"Come on Peter!" James shouted.
"Or we could always leave you behind, and come back for you later." Sirius shouted over his shoulder smiling at James.
Peter looked around himself in the darkening chamber and then after his friends, he ran after them pushing Nissa out of the way so that he wouldn't be at the back and would be safe in the middle of them all.
It had started off quit exciting exploring the maze of tunnels in the dark; not knowing what was around every corner, but after about ten minutes and not finding anything. Even Peter had calmed down a little, though still preferred to stay in the middle of them all. Nissa had taken up looking at them all in time, inspecting what they were wearing.
"I do hope that all your pyjamas aren't like that." Nissa said suddenly making them all stop and look at her, before they looked at themselves and back at her.
"Of course there not normally this dirty." James shot at her.
"I didn't mean that, what I meant was that there a bit boring and old fashioned." Nissa told them.
Sirius looked down at himself, he was quit a mess just like the others though he hadn't really noticed until now, and he couldn't see what was wrong with his pyjamas' part from them being dirty.
"What about yours then?" Sirius asked, and then realised that she was wearing pyjamas' just like them. "Don't girls wear night dresses or something?"
"There's nothing wrong with what I'm wearing part from the fact that I now need another bath." Nissa told him.
"Well don't we all, we could have one together." Sirius suggested.
"Aren't you worried about what people would say?" Nissa said smiling at him. "You know, you four in a bath together, they might think that your gay."
James and Remus laughed, though Peter didn't understand what she was talking about, and Sirius glared at her because he knew that she knew what he had meant.
But before Sirius could say so, they all looked up at the ceiling as the dirt shock off with the loud and heavy banging over head of them. The noise echoed throughout the empty maze bouncing off the walls, until it faded out.
Peter grabbed hold of Nissa's arm and pushed her in front of himself, while Nissa tried to break his tight grip. James, Sirius and Remus all looked at each other the excitement coming back showing on each of their faces; they all looked up and saw that there was a hole in the ceiling and what appeared to be ladders as well.
"Get off of me." Nissa told him trying to pull her arm free. Sirius looked over at them.
"Hey Peter get your own girl." Sirius told him, Peter only loosen his grip but didn't let her go.
"We should be able to climb that, and have a look around." James suggested.
"I think we might just need a leg up." Sirius added.
"Let go of me." Nissa said, and pulled her arm out of his grip with such force that she almost fell straight into Sirius who smiled at her, as she straighten herself and glaring back at Peter. "Can I go up first, so I don't have him crying all over me?"
They all laughed at her knowing what she meant, but then Sirius looked over at her very seriously which took her by surprise.
"I'll go first, and then you." Sirius told her. "Just encase anything's up there, we don't want you getting hurt."
Peter started to moan again and grabbed hold of Remus' arm this time him being the closest now. Nissa smiled at Sirius without even realising she was doing so, she was starting to like him more and more, though she wasn't going to tell him to give him an even bigger head then that of his own.
"What?" Sirius said going slightly red.
"What?" Nissa said confused, and then quickly looked away from him realising what she was doing.
Sirius went up first like he said, though he did need some help from both James and Remus, Peter let go of him long enough to give him a peg up. Nissa though didn't need any help surprising everyone, she bent down slightly and then jumped up like a cat and grabbed hold of the bars and pulled herself up.
"Very impressive." Sirius told her.
"Well I'm just full of surprises." Nissa said.
James went up next with a little help from Remus, and then it was Peter who didn't go up willingly and didn't help himself up at all; and then Remus finally went up James grabbed hold of him and pulled him up and then went back in front of Peter.
They climbed up and up as if making their way back up to the school level they had left behind. It was very dark and the passage seemed to be getting smaller as they neared the top; they didn't have any light from their wands because they couldn't really hold them and climb at the same time, though if need be they would have had them out in a second.
"Stop!" Sirius shouted down to them, as he reached the top and there was no where else to go.
It seemed as though there was some sort of trap door with a small crick of light coming through it, so Sirius pushed against it as hard as he could.
"Put some muscle in it Sirius!" James shouted up to him. "Unless you want to be here all night?"
Sirius mumbled something to him self and carried on pushing as hard as he could, but it just didn't seem to want to move for him, though of course he wasn't going to give up.
"Do you need a hand?" Nissa asked him looking up at him.
"I'm fine." Sirius said through gritted teeth as he carried on pushing.
"Maybe I..." Nissa started but was cut off by him.
"Nissa this is a man's job." Sirius told her.
"Yeah you could break a nail or something." James said laughing and then added. "It's quit a good thing really isn't it? That you wore pyjamas' and all."
Nissa ignored James and said. "Your not a man yet Sirius, your still just a boy. And it's going to be quit a while before you become a man if you can't except help when someone offer's it to you."
"Now, now you two anyone would think that you were an old married couple the way you argue sometimes." James said smirking in the darkness so that they couldn't see him.
"What? Don't be so stupid, I'm not old." Sirius shouted down at him completely missing the point.
There was another loud bang, as though something really heavy had just been dropped just over head of them.
"Maybe, maybe we shouldn't go that way." Peter said. "What if there's monster through that door."
"I'm sure that you would be able to get away fats enough." Remus told him. "Awe that's my hand, we're going up not down."
Nissa snorted with disgust, she was disliking him even more by the second. She then started to climb up to Sirius while shouting down to Peter. "It can't be a monster because we're almost or should be back up at the school." And then added quietly to Sirius who was now next to her. "It won't hurt to have a little bit of help."
Sirius didn't say anything to her or even look at her, thinking that this isn't how it should be. They both pushed together as hard as they could, then finally it shot off. Sirius pushed it aside onto the floor as the light flooded down on them. Sirius smiled at her before climbing out and holding out his hand for her, though he polled her with a little to much strength or maybe that was what he had meant to do because she landed right on top of him again.
Nissa went bright red but not for the first time that night; though this was the first time he was able to see her face clearly. She smiled shyly at him as she got to her feet, though he stayed on the floor as James climbed out.
"What are you doing on the floor?" James asked standing up straight and looking over his shoulder to see Sirius sat on the floor as though taking a break.
"Oh nothing." Sirius said innocently smiling at Nissa who was still very red.
James helped Peter out who almost rushed at him to get out, he was very glad being out of there and in the school corridor's even if they weren't lit very brightly. Remus came up last and helped James put the trap door back over the opening, just as they finished they heard someone coming towards them; not wanting to explain why they were all out of bed and looking very dirty they all ran for it.
They ran the whole way back to the common room where Nissa left them almost straight away well after saying 'good night' of course, and then they went up to their own room and recounted everything what had happened, finally falling asleep a couple of hours later.
***
James and Sirius had gone back to the suit of armour on their own the next morning, so they were once again outside the girl's bathroom when Nissa came out of it again. But at the same time McGonagall walked around the corner, and saw everything.
"Detention both of you." She shot at James and Sirius. "I heard that last night, I didn't think that who ever it was would be stupid enough to come back to it this morning after though."
Nissa tried to say something in their defence but it didn't really help.
"And I hope that you haven't been spying here either." McGonagall told them. "Or that would be another detention and points lost."
"No, no they haven't." Nissa said quickly.
"Yes well." McGonagall said eyeing her, as though she though she was only covering for them. "I want you both to tidy this mess at once."
McGonagall walked off leaving them to tidy up the suit of armour, they reluctantly started to pick up the pieces and Nissa went over to help them.
Later that afternoon they all went outside into the snow covered grounds, and joined in flowing snowballs at the Whooping Willow, which they had all learnt had only arrived that year.
The Whooping Willow swung its arms trying to stop the snowballs, only missing a couple and trying to swung at them as well; they dotted in and out of the tree daring each other to get as close as possible.
It was Christmas Eve night; Remus was looking pale again and had told them that he might have to go home because his mother wasn't at all well. His friends didn't want him to go home right now that it was finally Christmas, but they also understood if he did.
Christmas Day morning, James woke up first and flew his pillow at Sirius' head to wake him up who swung at the pillow trying to push it away but couldn't.
"Come on get up, presents." James shouted as he crawled to the end of his bed and grabbed the nearest present to open.
Sirius sat bolt up right knocking the pillow to the ground and crawled to the end of his own bed as well, just as Remus woke up and was looking a lot brighter though that had something to do with the fact that he had a knee high pile of presents to open. Peter dived out of bed and sat on the floor opening his.
About five minutes into opening their presents, which were now half open there was a knock at their door, making them all look up; but it opened before any of them could answer.
"Nissa!" Sirius said shocked to see her this early and in his dorm, in their dorm he reminded himself.
"What are them?" James asked smiling at her eyeing the four presents in her arm's, which were very nicely wrapped.
"Just a little something." Nissa said smiling as she handed them out between them, giving Sirius his last and sitting down on the end on his bed. "I thought you could do with new ones, and considering the other night you need them."
"You didn't have to do that." Remus told her.
"Hey thanks." James said as he ripped open his present first, and found a handsome pair of pyjamas in a lovely fabric. He thought she was right these were so much nicer then the ones that he had on.
They all opened their presents, and all had a different pair and colours which suited them best.
"These must have cost you a fortune." Sirius said looking over at her.
"He means thanks." Remus told her, and then added. "We haven't got you anything though."
"They didn't cost me anything only time." Nissa told them and could see that they didn't understand. "And I don't need anything in return."
"How about a Christmas kiss." Sirius suggested.
Nissa smiled at him playfully. "What just from you or from all of you." And then she stood up smiled at them all in turn and then left to leave them to finish opening their presents. Though leaving Sirius very disappointed, and the other's surprised at her comment.
(A/N:- Sirius still didn't get what he wanted maybe another time, there's still the rest of the year; and their years at Hogwarts and before he gets sent to Azkaban. Well I might do the whole series it depends on the reviews, so you know what to do then; but no pressure because as you know I love to write anyway.)
It was coming up to the Christmas holidays, and most had decided to go home for the holidays; but there was a few who wanted to stay.
James cornered Sirius and Remus as they were coming out of Charms on Thursday lunch, to tell them that it would be great if they stayed over Christmas because they would have the castle to themselves and could really explore.
"Fine with me, didn't want to go home anyway." Sirius told them, as a pretty Ravenclaw walked pass talking with Nissa and Lily.
"Why not?" James asked distracted by his statement.
"It doesn't matter." Sirius told him quickly, not wanting to get into the whole thing.
"Yeah, it sounds like fun." Remus said.
"Can I stay with you as well?" Peter asked stood slightly behind Remus who moved for him.
"No Peter you have to go home." Sirius told him sarcastically. "Of course you can stupid, that's the whole point of us all staying."
Peter smiled shyly at him going quit red in the face.
Sirius written home that day telling his mother that he was staying at Hogwarts for Christmas, and by the next morning she had sent him one back, which he ripped up as soon as he had finished reading surprising everyone at how violently he had done it.
"You ok mate?" James asked him.
"Yeah, just a letter from home." Sirius answered dully.
Which at that they were even more interested.
Nearly everyone was going home for Christmas; there was only a couple from each house staying.
It was Saturday afternoon, everyone who was going home had gone, and they had the castle to themselves for two whole weeks, which was more then they could have dreamed for. They set out to explore using some of the hided passes they had already found, which they had found a couple by accident but all the same they had found them.
They were wondering about on the fourth floor corridor, when they heard McGonagall talking to someone, not really wanting to run into her they ran off in the other direction for a couple of minutes. When they finally stop, Peter leads back on a tapestry and falls right through it grabbing hold of Sirius making him fall on top of him as they came out on the other side. James and Remus were laughing their heads off as they came to find out where it leads to.
"Hey, nice find Peter." James said as he looked around, they seemed to be on the other side of the castle where they had only been once because they had gotten lost.
"Yeah, though I can think of a better looking person to be on top of." Sirius said as he got to his feet.
"And one of them wouldn't be in our class by any chance, and friends with Snivellus?" James asked smirking at him.
Sirius just smiled back at him not answering him, but helped Peter to his feet as to distract them, though of course it didn't work.
"What the hell does she see in that stupid greasy haired git?" Sirius said suddenly as they were walking down the new corridor.
"Well, she won't tell you unless you ask." Remus told him.
They all stopped dead at the sight of him, they hadn't even heard him coming as though he was gilding over the floor or something.
"And what are four first years doing here?" Jevidah asked them coldly.
"Well, we're..." James started but couldn't think of anything to say.
"Up to no good I suspect as always." Jevidah told them eyeing them as though to try and read their minds to what they were doing.
"No we weren't, we were just having a walk." Sirius shot at him.
"Really Mr Black?" Jevidah said smiling slightly at him. "Well, if you don't mind but I don't think I will believe that. Your cousins and your whole family have been in my house, so I think I know what your type gets up to."
Sirius glared at him, as his friends looked from him to Jevidah surprised by this new information. Sirius stormed off, because he knew that if he stayed it was worth more then him graining about a hundred detentions for what he wanted to shout back at him.
Sirius walked all the way back to the common alone his argue building every second that he walked, as he thought about what Jevidah had said to him. Later that night James tried to talk him but couldn't get a signal word out of him, and thought that he should leave it.
Sirius had finally gotten out of his bad mood by Tuesday, and they had all decided not to mention it unless he brought it up. That night they decided to go out for a walk, though they still weren't really aloud so they would take the cloak; which it just fitted over them all, which was a very tight fit; and they had to walk really slowly so that they would trip up.
They were walking along and Sirius had stopped them again because Peter kept standing on the back on his heal.
"Stop it will you?" Sirius hissed at him. "Switch with Remus."
They were just about to take the cloak off, when the door opened to the girl's bathroom and they all just stood there like statues, well trying too anyway.
Nissa stepped out of the bathroom with a towel in one hand and her bush in the other. She had her hair tied back in plaits, and was wearing different colour pinstripe red and pink pyjamas. She stopped suddenly and looked up the corridor.
They were all holding their breaths as Nissa look straight at them; she smiled slightly either to herself or to them though of course they didn't know which.
"She can't see us can she?" Sirius whispered.
"No... of course not." James whispered back.
"But she can hear us." Remus whispered.
Nissa started to walk towards them making them step back, but she seemed to be walking a little closer to the suit of armour as though she knew they were there and didn't want to walk into them.
Sirius moved to quickly backwards and Peter didn't move fast enough, making them trip over each other's feet. Peter put his hand up which shot out through the gap in the cloak, and hit the wall stopping him from falling. But Sirius knocked into James, and sent him flying forwards into Nissa.
Sirius fell right into Nissa making her drop her things and fall back into the suit of armour which clang to down ground with a defending racket; but it also created a large black hole in the ground which they couldn't stop themselves from falling down.
James pushed the cloak off of himself and rushed over to the black hole with Remus at his side who was rubbing his side, they could hear them as though banging against something. Peter came rushing up behind them both and tripped over the hem of the cloak which he had picked up for them; but as he fell forward he pushed both James and Remus down the hole. Though James managed to grab hold of his cloak, and Peter came along for the ride as well.
Sirius and Nissa came zooming out at the bottom after sliding miles under the school. Nissa looked up after she felt as though a heavy weight was on top of her; lovely brown caring and mischievous eyes were looking back down at her, which she couldn't help but smile at. He smiled brightly at her, until they both heard the other three coming down behind them. Nissa was still trying to push Sirius off of her when James came zooming out of the tunnel, with Remus and Peter right behind them.
James looked around excitedly. "Right who wants to do that again?"
Nissa got out from under Sirius and got to her feet, but not for long as Sirius pulled her back down into his arms, now she was on top of him.
"Not me." Peter said as he tried to stand up.
Sirius smiled at her and then helped her up but keeping her locked in his arms.
"Well we enjoyed it, didn't we?" Sirius said smiling brightly at her.
Nissa couldn't help but laugh, it had been rather exciting, but she just wished that Sirius wasn't so touchy; though she wondered if it was her, because she had never been around people who were like that.
Sirius let go of her as he stepped over to help Remus to his feet, because he seemed too had hurt himself. Nissa stepped out of the way, but was almost dragged back down because Peter had grabbed hold of her to help himself up. But both Remus and Sirius grabbed hold of her to stop her from falling back onto the dirty and damp stone floor.
"Now that wasn't very nice was it?" Sirius told him. "You could have at less given her some warning."
James helped Peter to his feet. They all stood there looking around in the dimly lit chamber they were in.
"I thought you went home for Christmas?" Remus asked suddenly looking at Nissa.
They all looked at her realising this for the first time as well.
"I came back." Nissa answered simple.
"We can see that." James told her.
"Not that we're not happy to see you and all." Sirius told her quickly, and then added as an after thought. "Well, we wouldn't have found this place without you."
"Come on then let's have a look around and find out what's down here." James said as he started to walk off into the darkness.
"Do we have too? Its all dark and we don't know what's waiting for us." Peter wined.
"Lumos." Nissa said as she pulled out her wand and followed James, also wanting to have a look around.
"Good idea." James said, and they all followed suit.
"There's nothing wrong with a bit of exploring." Nissa told Remus beside of her.
James was ahead with Sirius, but Peter still hadn't moved and he was starting to look really worried.
"Come on Peter!" James shouted.
"Or we could always leave you behind, and come back for you later." Sirius shouted over his shoulder smiling at James.
Peter looked around himself in the darkening chamber and then after his friends, he ran after them pushing Nissa out of the way so that he wouldn't be at the back and would be safe in the middle of them all.
It had started off quit exciting exploring the maze of tunnels in the dark; not knowing what was around every corner, but after about ten minutes and not finding anything. Even Peter had calmed down a little, though still preferred to stay in the middle of them all. Nissa had taken up looking at them all in time, inspecting what they were wearing.
"I do hope that all your pyjamas aren't like that." Nissa said suddenly making them all stop and look at her, before they looked at themselves and back at her.
"Of course there not normally this dirty." James shot at her.
"I didn't mean that, what I meant was that there a bit boring and old fashioned." Nissa told them.
Sirius looked down at himself, he was quit a mess just like the others though he hadn't really noticed until now, and he couldn't see what was wrong with his pyjamas' part from them being dirty.
"What about yours then?" Sirius asked, and then realised that she was wearing pyjamas' just like them. "Don't girls wear night dresses or something?"
"There's nothing wrong with what I'm wearing part from the fact that I now need another bath." Nissa told him.
"Well don't we all, we could have one together." Sirius suggested.
"Aren't you worried about what people would say?" Nissa said smiling at him. "You know, you four in a bath together, they might think that your gay."
James and Remus laughed, though Peter didn't understand what she was talking about, and Sirius glared at her because he knew that she knew what he had meant.
But before Sirius could say so, they all looked up at the ceiling as the dirt shock off with the loud and heavy banging over head of them. The noise echoed throughout the empty maze bouncing off the walls, until it faded out.
Peter grabbed hold of Nissa's arm and pushed her in front of himself, while Nissa tried to break his tight grip. James, Sirius and Remus all looked at each other the excitement coming back showing on each of their faces; they all looked up and saw that there was a hole in the ceiling and what appeared to be ladders as well.
"Get off of me." Nissa told him trying to pull her arm free. Sirius looked over at them.
"Hey Peter get your own girl." Sirius told him, Peter only loosen his grip but didn't let her go.
"We should be able to climb that, and have a look around." James suggested.
"I think we might just need a leg up." Sirius added.
"Let go of me." Nissa said, and pulled her arm out of his grip with such force that she almost fell straight into Sirius who smiled at her, as she straighten herself and glaring back at Peter. "Can I go up first, so I don't have him crying all over me?"
They all laughed at her knowing what she meant, but then Sirius looked over at her very seriously which took her by surprise.
"I'll go first, and then you." Sirius told her. "Just encase anything's up there, we don't want you getting hurt."
Peter started to moan again and grabbed hold of Remus' arm this time him being the closest now. Nissa smiled at Sirius without even realising she was doing so, she was starting to like him more and more, though she wasn't going to tell him to give him an even bigger head then that of his own.
"What?" Sirius said going slightly red.
"What?" Nissa said confused, and then quickly looked away from him realising what she was doing.
Sirius went up first like he said, though he did need some help from both James and Remus, Peter let go of him long enough to give him a peg up. Nissa though didn't need any help surprising everyone, she bent down slightly and then jumped up like a cat and grabbed hold of the bars and pulled herself up.
"Very impressive." Sirius told her.
"Well I'm just full of surprises." Nissa said.
James went up next with a little help from Remus, and then it was Peter who didn't go up willingly and didn't help himself up at all; and then Remus finally went up James grabbed hold of him and pulled him up and then went back in front of Peter.
They climbed up and up as if making their way back up to the school level they had left behind. It was very dark and the passage seemed to be getting smaller as they neared the top; they didn't have any light from their wands because they couldn't really hold them and climb at the same time, though if need be they would have had them out in a second.
"Stop!" Sirius shouted down to them, as he reached the top and there was no where else to go.
It seemed as though there was some sort of trap door with a small crick of light coming through it, so Sirius pushed against it as hard as he could.
"Put some muscle in it Sirius!" James shouted up to him. "Unless you want to be here all night?"
Sirius mumbled something to him self and carried on pushing as hard as he could, but it just didn't seem to want to move for him, though of course he wasn't going to give up.
"Do you need a hand?" Nissa asked him looking up at him.
"I'm fine." Sirius said through gritted teeth as he carried on pushing.
"Maybe I..." Nissa started but was cut off by him.
"Nissa this is a man's job." Sirius told her.
"Yeah you could break a nail or something." James said laughing and then added. "It's quit a good thing really isn't it? That you wore pyjamas' and all."
Nissa ignored James and said. "Your not a man yet Sirius, your still just a boy. And it's going to be quit a while before you become a man if you can't except help when someone offer's it to you."
"Now, now you two anyone would think that you were an old married couple the way you argue sometimes." James said smirking in the darkness so that they couldn't see him.
"What? Don't be so stupid, I'm not old." Sirius shouted down at him completely missing the point.
There was another loud bang, as though something really heavy had just been dropped just over head of them.
"Maybe, maybe we shouldn't go that way." Peter said. "What if there's monster through that door."
"I'm sure that you would be able to get away fats enough." Remus told him. "Awe that's my hand, we're going up not down."
Nissa snorted with disgust, she was disliking him even more by the second. She then started to climb up to Sirius while shouting down to Peter. "It can't be a monster because we're almost or should be back up at the school." And then added quietly to Sirius who was now next to her. "It won't hurt to have a little bit of help."
Sirius didn't say anything to her or even look at her, thinking that this isn't how it should be. They both pushed together as hard as they could, then finally it shot off. Sirius pushed it aside onto the floor as the light flooded down on them. Sirius smiled at her before climbing out and holding out his hand for her, though he polled her with a little to much strength or maybe that was what he had meant to do because she landed right on top of him again.
Nissa went bright red but not for the first time that night; though this was the first time he was able to see her face clearly. She smiled shyly at him as she got to her feet, though he stayed on the floor as James climbed out.
"What are you doing on the floor?" James asked standing up straight and looking over his shoulder to see Sirius sat on the floor as though taking a break.
"Oh nothing." Sirius said innocently smiling at Nissa who was still very red.
James helped Peter out who almost rushed at him to get out, he was very glad being out of there and in the school corridor's even if they weren't lit very brightly. Remus came up last and helped James put the trap door back over the opening, just as they finished they heard someone coming towards them; not wanting to explain why they were all out of bed and looking very dirty they all ran for it.
They ran the whole way back to the common room where Nissa left them almost straight away well after saying 'good night' of course, and then they went up to their own room and recounted everything what had happened, finally falling asleep a couple of hours later.
***
James and Sirius had gone back to the suit of armour on their own the next morning, so they were once again outside the girl's bathroom when Nissa came out of it again. But at the same time McGonagall walked around the corner, and saw everything.
"Detention both of you." She shot at James and Sirius. "I heard that last night, I didn't think that who ever it was would be stupid enough to come back to it this morning after though."
Nissa tried to say something in their defence but it didn't really help.
"And I hope that you haven't been spying here either." McGonagall told them. "Or that would be another detention and points lost."
"No, no they haven't." Nissa said quickly.
"Yes well." McGonagall said eyeing her, as though she though she was only covering for them. "I want you both to tidy this mess at once."
McGonagall walked off leaving them to tidy up the suit of armour, they reluctantly started to pick up the pieces and Nissa went over to help them.
Later that afternoon they all went outside into the snow covered grounds, and joined in flowing snowballs at the Whooping Willow, which they had all learnt had only arrived that year.
The Whooping Willow swung its arms trying to stop the snowballs, only missing a couple and trying to swung at them as well; they dotted in and out of the tree daring each other to get as close as possible.
It was Christmas Eve night; Remus was looking pale again and had told them that he might have to go home because his mother wasn't at all well. His friends didn't want him to go home right now that it was finally Christmas, but they also understood if he did.
Christmas Day morning, James woke up first and flew his pillow at Sirius' head to wake him up who swung at the pillow trying to push it away but couldn't.
"Come on get up, presents." James shouted as he crawled to the end of his bed and grabbed the nearest present to open.
Sirius sat bolt up right knocking the pillow to the ground and crawled to the end of his own bed as well, just as Remus woke up and was looking a lot brighter though that had something to do with the fact that he had a knee high pile of presents to open. Peter dived out of bed and sat on the floor opening his.
About five minutes into opening their presents, which were now half open there was a knock at their door, making them all look up; but it opened before any of them could answer.
"Nissa!" Sirius said shocked to see her this early and in his dorm, in their dorm he reminded himself.
"What are them?" James asked smiling at her eyeing the four presents in her arm's, which were very nicely wrapped.
"Just a little something." Nissa said smiling as she handed them out between them, giving Sirius his last and sitting down on the end on his bed. "I thought you could do with new ones, and considering the other night you need them."
"You didn't have to do that." Remus told her.
"Hey thanks." James said as he ripped open his present first, and found a handsome pair of pyjamas in a lovely fabric. He thought she was right these were so much nicer then the ones that he had on.
They all opened their presents, and all had a different pair and colours which suited them best.
"These must have cost you a fortune." Sirius said looking over at her.
"He means thanks." Remus told her, and then added. "We haven't got you anything though."
"They didn't cost me anything only time." Nissa told them and could see that they didn't understand. "And I don't need anything in return."
"How about a Christmas kiss." Sirius suggested.
Nissa smiled at him playfully. "What just from you or from all of you." And then she stood up smiled at them all in turn and then left to leave them to finish opening their presents. Though leaving Sirius very disappointed, and the other's surprised at her comment.
(A/N:- Sirius still didn't get what he wanted maybe another time, there's still the rest of the year; and their years at Hogwarts and before he gets sent to Azkaban. Well I might do the whole series it depends on the reviews, so you know what to do then; but no pressure because as you know I love to write anyway.)