Whispers
James and Sirius pushed their trolleys along the Hogwarts Express looking for an empty compartment; Sirius had stayed the night at James' so that they could get the train together; Sirius not really wanting to spend the last night at home alone with his parents and all.
James and Sirius pulled their heavy trucks onto the train and stored them in the over head luggage compartment and then went back out to say goodbye to his parent's and to find Remus and Peter.
"We'll just stay until the train leaves, you don't mind do you?" Mrs Potter told James.
"Even if I said yes you would still stay wouldn't you?" James asked smiling, he didn't mind really but he couldn't say that in front of his friend.
They went looking for their other friends, they found Remus first with his parents who looked over the moon, to see a couple of his friends eager to see him, even though it had only been a couple of days really since the last time they had all met up in Diagon Ally when they were buying their school supplies.
"I want you to take good care of our Remus." Mrs Lupin told them.
"Mum, please." Remus said going all red, and picked up his truck and nudged Sirius next to him to help; though he was still laughing at him which didn't help.
Remus let go of his end to the truck which made Sirius also let go because it was too heavy for him and dropped on his foot.
"What did you do that for?" Sirius said jumping up and down rubbing his foot, with James laughing beside of him. He just hoped that Nissa didn't arrive now; this wasn't how he had wanted her to see him.
James stopped laughing and was looking up at the train horrified at what he saw; Remus looked at him and then where he was looking and couldn't believe it either himself. Sirius though hadn't noticed anything, but not for long.
"Thanks Severus, see ya later." Nissa said pleasantly behind them all.
Sirius turned around at the sound of her voice, but he was still holding his sore foot and started to fall because he was unbalanced. But he never hit the ground, and when he looked up he saw two lovely red brown eyes looking down at him like no one had ever done before.
"Am I dreaming?" Sirius asked those eyes.
James and Remus both laughed and then he saw who those eyes belonged too; the smiling Nissa. He quickly let go of his foot and put it on the ground and straighten up blushing slightly.
"Well I do hope I'm real." Nissa answered him pleasantly. "Though sometimes I do wonder if all of this is one big dream." And with that she turned still smiling at them all and walked off to find her own friends.
"Well that was smooth." James said still laughing.
"Oh shut up." Sirius told him, but thinking the same thing, she thought I was an idiot.
They finally managed to get Remus' truck into their compartment and then they went out to find Peter who was stood with his parents who didn't want to let him go, they had to pull him away from them, reassuring them over and over that they would take good care of him. When they got back inside and sat down Sirius couldn't help him but to laugh, even Peter laughed though he didn't really know why.
"I never thought I would say this about school, though that was before I came to Hogwarts." Ella Larson was saying outside their compartment. "But I am glad to be going back."
"So am I." Nissa agreed. "Oh, and I know that your not going to like this, but I've made it up with Severus."
"What why?" Ella asked shocked. "What about Sirius?"
And with that the door shot open and there was Sirius fuming, with James and Remus still getting up.
"You're friends with him again?" Sirius demanded. "With that, that bastard?"
"Sirius!" Mrs Potter shouted at him through the open window.
He slowly looked around at them. "I'm sorry."
"Oh, Nissa love." Mrs Potter said brightly spotting Nissa stood in the corridor. "Those were lovely, thank you."
Nissa smiled at her ignoring Sirius who was still fuming stood in front of the window. "It was no trouble, I'm glad you liked them."
Ella looked at her and then at the people who she was talking to wondering who they were and how they knew her and Sirius, but before she could ask someone knocked into her from behind; they all turned round to see who it was.
"Sorry Ella." Natalie Halbert said very red in the face from the effect of pulling her truck on her own.
"I'll give you a hand." Nissa told her, stepping around Ella who had turned back looking dreamily at Sirius which was annoying Nissa.
"I haven't finished." Sirius told her.
Natalie looked at Nissa cursorily wondering what she had missed already.
"Well I have." Nissa said picking up the other side of Natalie's truck and helped her carry it through, but Sirius hadn't finished and followed them. "If you're going to follow us, you could have offered to help." And with that Natalie and Nissa had finished.
"Why? How can you be friends with that greasy haired git?" Sirius asked her in disbelief.
Nissa turned around slowly to answer him. "I've known him since I was four years old, yes he can be an annoying git at times, but he isn't that bad?"
Sirius opened his mouth to say something and then changed his mind, and James backed in carrying a truck with Remus' help.
"James' mum and dad told him that he had to help me." Lily Evans told them stood at the door, because there was no room for her to get in.
"Hi Lily." Nissa said and then turned back to Sirius. "Have you finished now?"
"No, no I haven't." Sirius told her, though really he couldn't think of anything else to say but he wasn't ready to just walk out without a fight.
Everyone was looking at them wondering what was going on, James and Remus knew partly why he was so annoyed.
"Are the two of you going out?" Ella asked sounding surprised and disappointed as well.
"No we're not." Nissa shot at her. "Why would I go out with someone who was so close minded?"
"I'm not closed minded!" Sirius shouted back at her. "I just can't see why the hell you would want to be friends with that evil bastard."
"He... he..." Nissa stuttered.
"See even you know it; you just can't bring yourself to face the fact that he's evil." Sirius shot at her.
"Get out!" Nissa shouted at him, and then started to push him out of their over cowered compartment.
Outside in the corridor Polly and Adorabella were giggle as they watched the screen of their once calm friend pushing the handsome Sirius Black out into the corridor. James and Remus walked out after Nissa had moved for them and dragged Sirius into the next compartment still fuming about what had happened.
Polly and Adorabella walked in still giggle about what they had seen and then sat down with their friends, though Nissa didn't sit down with but took up pacing up and down in front of them in the very small space.
After ten minutes of watching Nissa pace in front of them they were getting quite annoyed them selves, and finally Lily dragged her in the seat next to her.
"I can't believe he said that." Nissa said.
"Well he's a guy isn't he?" Natalie told her.
"Yes so?" Nissa asked completely annoyed by this statement as though she thought that she should let him off because he's a guy and their suppose to act like that.
"Maybe he's jealous?" Natalie suggested.
"Of what, that I'm friends with Severus?" Nissa asked, though she did think this over but only for a moment. And she told herself that he wasn't jealous just annoyed because she was friends with someone from Slytherin, and that he didn't think they should be and that they shouldn't mix.
"Hey have any of you been reading the Daily Prophet?" Adorabella asked changing the subject.
"I don't need to." Nissa said dully looking out of the window.
"Why? I don't get it." Lily asked.
"Well lots of mysteries things have been happening over the summer, and no one knows who or what is behind it." Adorabella told them.
"What sort of things?" Lily and Ella asked, both being Muggles they haven't heard anything.
"Well just little thing's really." Adorabella told them. "But quit a few that's why their in the paper. Someone broke into the Ministry of Magic, and sole something. Well they didn't say what it was but it must have been important mustn't it?"
They talked about what had been in the paper's all summer and then moved on to what they had gotten up over the summer, all them stayed cleared of any mention of Sirius and his friends, they didn't really want to start Nissa off again.
They finally arrived at Hogsmende Train Station; they left their things on the train and followed the rest of the school, because they didn't have to travel across the lake this year. They followed the rest of the school and found hundreds of horseless carriages.
"Oh wow." Ella said.
"How are they supposed to move?" Adorabella asked.
Nissa looked over at them and thought that she saw something move, she shock her head and then looked again, and there was nothing.
"I just don't get her." Sirius was saying for the hundredth time that day.
"I know mate you said already." Remus was telling him. "Maybe that's the thing, you always start off by being nice and then you end up arguing by upsetting her."
"He doesn't upset me, for him to upset me I had to care about him in the first place wouldn't I?" Nissa shot at Remus and then stormed off, she hadn't meant to take it out on Remus.
She walked straight into the back of someone not looking where she was going, the guy turned around ready to shout at who ever it was and then didn't. He looked at her and then smiled at her; she smiled back at him, ignoring his glaring friends.
"Can I ride with you? I can't stand him!" Nissa asked and without an answer she got into his carriage with his friends.
Severus smiled to himself and then looked over his shoulder to look for Potter and Black, he spotted them they were shooting draggers at him and fuming. He smiled at them and then got in behind Nissa.
They road up to the school together; Sirius stood there frozen on the spot with James gapping next to him.
"What's wrong with the two of you?" Remus asked who hadn't seen where Nissa had gone.
"She's gone with that git." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
"Oh." Remus said looking at the two of them. "Well maybe if you're not so hard on her, she wouldn't have."
Sirius ignored him and walked up to the first empty carriage and got inside, James, Remus and Peter followed. Once everyone was inside and the door closed it set off as through there was a large horse pulling them along and up the great path towards the school, through the gates and then they saw Hogwarts raising fast in front of them as they raced up towards it.
The carriages stopped spaced out in front of the entrance they all started to pile out and make their way inside and up to the Great Hall for the sorting and then the feast. Severus got out of the carriage first, with several other students from his year walking pass, and then Nissa got out making then all look twice and then start whispering between themselves.
Nissa walked up with Severus and his friend's right behind them, they enter the Great Hall together before they parted and went to their separate tables. Nissa sat next to Lily as normal with Polly, Ella and Natalie facing them, she could see that they all wanted to start asking her questions but somehow managed to restrain themselves.
Remus walked up and sat down next to Nissa and then Peter next to him. Sirius sat down facing him and then James next to him, Sirius glared at Nissa, who looked the other way, but not before she said something.
"I'm sorry Remus; I shouldn't have bitten your head off like I did." Nissa said, making Sirius glare even more. "It wasn't you."
Sirius sat there waiting for her to apologies to him but it never happened.
"What? What about me?" Sirius demanded.
But Nissa didn't get to answer his questions because just then the doors opened and Professor McGonagall was leading the new first years up to the front of the hall.
Sirius wanted the sorting to be over so that he could talk to Nissa, though Remus was shocking his head at him as though he could read his mind knowing exactly what he wanted to do. The sorting was over and Dumbledore stood up everyone looked at him not talking waiting for him to speak because no one even spoke over him.
"Welcome, welcome to your first year at Hogwarts and those who have returned, welcome back." Dumbledore said smiling down at everyone. "Now, there is a time but words but this isn't, eat." He waved his hands and their tables filled with food of every kind you could think of.
Sirius started to fill his plate though his heart wasn't really in it as eat through everything and then went back for seconds, all the time listening to people whisper around them and looking over at their table.
"Is she really?"
"A Gryffindor and a Slytherin."
"She's quite pretty, what does she see in that Slytherin?"
They lasted all the way through the meal and then desert and all the way up to their common room, Sirius' temper not calming down once but getting worst; which showed when he kicked the stone wall as he waited to enter the common room, which didn't really help his already sore foot because it had been the same which Remus had dropped his truck on hours before.
No one dared talk to him while he was in a bad mood, so they just gave him a wide birth.
(A/N: what do you think hoped you enjoyed tell me what you thought about it, good or bad it all helps. More to come soon promise, just watch this space.)
James and Sirius pushed their trolleys along the Hogwarts Express looking for an empty compartment; Sirius had stayed the night at James' so that they could get the train together; Sirius not really wanting to spend the last night at home alone with his parents and all.
James and Sirius pulled their heavy trucks onto the train and stored them in the over head luggage compartment and then went back out to say goodbye to his parent's and to find Remus and Peter.
"We'll just stay until the train leaves, you don't mind do you?" Mrs Potter told James.
"Even if I said yes you would still stay wouldn't you?" James asked smiling, he didn't mind really but he couldn't say that in front of his friend.
They went looking for their other friends, they found Remus first with his parents who looked over the moon, to see a couple of his friends eager to see him, even though it had only been a couple of days really since the last time they had all met up in Diagon Ally when they were buying their school supplies.
"I want you to take good care of our Remus." Mrs Lupin told them.
"Mum, please." Remus said going all red, and picked up his truck and nudged Sirius next to him to help; though he was still laughing at him which didn't help.
Remus let go of his end to the truck which made Sirius also let go because it was too heavy for him and dropped on his foot.
"What did you do that for?" Sirius said jumping up and down rubbing his foot, with James laughing beside of him. He just hoped that Nissa didn't arrive now; this wasn't how he had wanted her to see him.
James stopped laughing and was looking up at the train horrified at what he saw; Remus looked at him and then where he was looking and couldn't believe it either himself. Sirius though hadn't noticed anything, but not for long.
"Thanks Severus, see ya later." Nissa said pleasantly behind them all.
Sirius turned around at the sound of her voice, but he was still holding his sore foot and started to fall because he was unbalanced. But he never hit the ground, and when he looked up he saw two lovely red brown eyes looking down at him like no one had ever done before.
"Am I dreaming?" Sirius asked those eyes.
James and Remus both laughed and then he saw who those eyes belonged too; the smiling Nissa. He quickly let go of his foot and put it on the ground and straighten up blushing slightly.
"Well I do hope I'm real." Nissa answered him pleasantly. "Though sometimes I do wonder if all of this is one big dream." And with that she turned still smiling at them all and walked off to find her own friends.
"Well that was smooth." James said still laughing.
"Oh shut up." Sirius told him, but thinking the same thing, she thought I was an idiot.
They finally managed to get Remus' truck into their compartment and then they went out to find Peter who was stood with his parents who didn't want to let him go, they had to pull him away from them, reassuring them over and over that they would take good care of him. When they got back inside and sat down Sirius couldn't help him but to laugh, even Peter laughed though he didn't really know why.
"I never thought I would say this about school, though that was before I came to Hogwarts." Ella Larson was saying outside their compartment. "But I am glad to be going back."
"So am I." Nissa agreed. "Oh, and I know that your not going to like this, but I've made it up with Severus."
"What why?" Ella asked shocked. "What about Sirius?"
And with that the door shot open and there was Sirius fuming, with James and Remus still getting up.
"You're friends with him again?" Sirius demanded. "With that, that bastard?"
"Sirius!" Mrs Potter shouted at him through the open window.
He slowly looked around at them. "I'm sorry."
"Oh, Nissa love." Mrs Potter said brightly spotting Nissa stood in the corridor. "Those were lovely, thank you."
Nissa smiled at her ignoring Sirius who was still fuming stood in front of the window. "It was no trouble, I'm glad you liked them."
Ella looked at her and then at the people who she was talking to wondering who they were and how they knew her and Sirius, but before she could ask someone knocked into her from behind; they all turned round to see who it was.
"Sorry Ella." Natalie Halbert said very red in the face from the effect of pulling her truck on her own.
"I'll give you a hand." Nissa told her, stepping around Ella who had turned back looking dreamily at Sirius which was annoying Nissa.
"I haven't finished." Sirius told her.
Natalie looked at Nissa cursorily wondering what she had missed already.
"Well I have." Nissa said picking up the other side of Natalie's truck and helped her carry it through, but Sirius hadn't finished and followed them. "If you're going to follow us, you could have offered to help." And with that Natalie and Nissa had finished.
"Why? How can you be friends with that greasy haired git?" Sirius asked her in disbelief.
Nissa turned around slowly to answer him. "I've known him since I was four years old, yes he can be an annoying git at times, but he isn't that bad?"
Sirius opened his mouth to say something and then changed his mind, and James backed in carrying a truck with Remus' help.
"James' mum and dad told him that he had to help me." Lily Evans told them stood at the door, because there was no room for her to get in.
"Hi Lily." Nissa said and then turned back to Sirius. "Have you finished now?"
"No, no I haven't." Sirius told her, though really he couldn't think of anything else to say but he wasn't ready to just walk out without a fight.
Everyone was looking at them wondering what was going on, James and Remus knew partly why he was so annoyed.
"Are the two of you going out?" Ella asked sounding surprised and disappointed as well.
"No we're not." Nissa shot at her. "Why would I go out with someone who was so close minded?"
"I'm not closed minded!" Sirius shouted back at her. "I just can't see why the hell you would want to be friends with that evil bastard."
"He... he..." Nissa stuttered.
"See even you know it; you just can't bring yourself to face the fact that he's evil." Sirius shot at her.
"Get out!" Nissa shouted at him, and then started to push him out of their over cowered compartment.
Outside in the corridor Polly and Adorabella were giggle as they watched the screen of their once calm friend pushing the handsome Sirius Black out into the corridor. James and Remus walked out after Nissa had moved for them and dragged Sirius into the next compartment still fuming about what had happened.
Polly and Adorabella walked in still giggle about what they had seen and then sat down with their friends, though Nissa didn't sit down with but took up pacing up and down in front of them in the very small space.
After ten minutes of watching Nissa pace in front of them they were getting quite annoyed them selves, and finally Lily dragged her in the seat next to her.
"I can't believe he said that." Nissa said.
"Well he's a guy isn't he?" Natalie told her.
"Yes so?" Nissa asked completely annoyed by this statement as though she thought that she should let him off because he's a guy and their suppose to act like that.
"Maybe he's jealous?" Natalie suggested.
"Of what, that I'm friends with Severus?" Nissa asked, though she did think this over but only for a moment. And she told herself that he wasn't jealous just annoyed because she was friends with someone from Slytherin, and that he didn't think they should be and that they shouldn't mix.
"Hey have any of you been reading the Daily Prophet?" Adorabella asked changing the subject.
"I don't need to." Nissa said dully looking out of the window.
"Why? I don't get it." Lily asked.
"Well lots of mysteries things have been happening over the summer, and no one knows who or what is behind it." Adorabella told them.
"What sort of things?" Lily and Ella asked, both being Muggles they haven't heard anything.
"Well just little thing's really." Adorabella told them. "But quit a few that's why their in the paper. Someone broke into the Ministry of Magic, and sole something. Well they didn't say what it was but it must have been important mustn't it?"
They talked about what had been in the paper's all summer and then moved on to what they had gotten up over the summer, all them stayed cleared of any mention of Sirius and his friends, they didn't really want to start Nissa off again.
They finally arrived at Hogsmende Train Station; they left their things on the train and followed the rest of the school, because they didn't have to travel across the lake this year. They followed the rest of the school and found hundreds of horseless carriages.
"Oh wow." Ella said.
"How are they supposed to move?" Adorabella asked.
Nissa looked over at them and thought that she saw something move, she shock her head and then looked again, and there was nothing.
"I just don't get her." Sirius was saying for the hundredth time that day.
"I know mate you said already." Remus was telling him. "Maybe that's the thing, you always start off by being nice and then you end up arguing by upsetting her."
"He doesn't upset me, for him to upset me I had to care about him in the first place wouldn't I?" Nissa shot at Remus and then stormed off, she hadn't meant to take it out on Remus.
She walked straight into the back of someone not looking where she was going, the guy turned around ready to shout at who ever it was and then didn't. He looked at her and then smiled at her; she smiled back at him, ignoring his glaring friends.
"Can I ride with you? I can't stand him!" Nissa asked and without an answer she got into his carriage with his friends.
Severus smiled to himself and then looked over his shoulder to look for Potter and Black, he spotted them they were shooting draggers at him and fuming. He smiled at them and then got in behind Nissa.
They road up to the school together; Sirius stood there frozen on the spot with James gapping next to him.
"What's wrong with the two of you?" Remus asked who hadn't seen where Nissa had gone.
"She's gone with that git." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
"Oh." Remus said looking at the two of them. "Well maybe if you're not so hard on her, she wouldn't have."
Sirius ignored him and walked up to the first empty carriage and got inside, James, Remus and Peter followed. Once everyone was inside and the door closed it set off as through there was a large horse pulling them along and up the great path towards the school, through the gates and then they saw Hogwarts raising fast in front of them as they raced up towards it.
The carriages stopped spaced out in front of the entrance they all started to pile out and make their way inside and up to the Great Hall for the sorting and then the feast. Severus got out of the carriage first, with several other students from his year walking pass, and then Nissa got out making then all look twice and then start whispering between themselves.
Nissa walked up with Severus and his friend's right behind them, they enter the Great Hall together before they parted and went to their separate tables. Nissa sat next to Lily as normal with Polly, Ella and Natalie facing them, she could see that they all wanted to start asking her questions but somehow managed to restrain themselves.
Remus walked up and sat down next to Nissa and then Peter next to him. Sirius sat down facing him and then James next to him, Sirius glared at Nissa, who looked the other way, but not before she said something.
"I'm sorry Remus; I shouldn't have bitten your head off like I did." Nissa said, making Sirius glare even more. "It wasn't you."
Sirius sat there waiting for her to apologies to him but it never happened.
"What? What about me?" Sirius demanded.
But Nissa didn't get to answer his questions because just then the doors opened and Professor McGonagall was leading the new first years up to the front of the hall.
Sirius wanted the sorting to be over so that he could talk to Nissa, though Remus was shocking his head at him as though he could read his mind knowing exactly what he wanted to do. The sorting was over and Dumbledore stood up everyone looked at him not talking waiting for him to speak because no one even spoke over him.
"Welcome, welcome to your first year at Hogwarts and those who have returned, welcome back." Dumbledore said smiling down at everyone. "Now, there is a time but words but this isn't, eat." He waved his hands and their tables filled with food of every kind you could think of.
Sirius started to fill his plate though his heart wasn't really in it as eat through everything and then went back for seconds, all the time listening to people whisper around them and looking over at their table.
"Is she really?"
"A Gryffindor and a Slytherin."
"She's quite pretty, what does she see in that Slytherin?"
They lasted all the way through the meal and then desert and all the way up to their common room, Sirius' temper not calming down once but getting worst; which showed when he kicked the stone wall as he waited to enter the common room, which didn't really help his already sore foot because it had been the same which Remus had dropped his truck on hours before.
No one dared talk to him while he was in a bad mood, so they just gave him a wide birth.
(A/N: what do you think hoped you enjoyed tell me what you thought about it, good or bad it all helps. More to come soon promise, just watch this space.)