Disclaimer: still don't own Harry Potter, wish I did though, and no, I don't make money from this.
Kat woke suddenly, as if she heard a loud noise of something like that, but when she looked around the dorm, she saw that everything was just fine, so she sank back down in her bed and tried to go to sleep again, she just wasn't a morning person. But about a minute later she was jerked back to reality by her alarm clock, which she grabbed and threw at a wall, good thing she had unbreakable charms on it, or it would have broken a loong time ago. She grudgingly got out of bed and got ready for the day, it was Sunday, why she had set her alarm clock she didn't know.
She headed down to the common room, today wearing her combat boots with blue jeans and a Black Sabbath concert T-shirt on. She realized everyone was probably at breakfast, so, still drowsy, she headed for the great hall. She entered to see that indeed, she had been right, everyone was at breakfast, and looked to the Slytherin table to see how Sev was doing, yes, she had already given him a nick name, so? She gave everyone a nick name… or called them by their last names, in this case it was nick name.
She saw him, there were at least eight seats on either side of him, separating him from the other Slytherins, who were snobbishly ignoring him. She got a few stares as she walked in the aisle between the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables to go sit with him, she still felt really bad about being the reason he didn't have friends in his own house.
"Morning" She said to him quietly, sitting down beside him. "Find a safe place to stay?" she asked, trying to be as pleasant as possible for her this time in the morning. Severus looked up, surprised, he figured he'd just be sitting alone and he'd see Kat after breakfast was over, apparently she had different plans, he gave her a smirk, it was too early for smiling when he was so out of practice with it.
He nodded and said "Yeah, you know where the room of requirement is?" It cheered him up to know that she cared about that.
"Yeah, good choice" She said, joking, good lord, she was joking this early in the morning, there was something really special about this guy if he was able to make her joke before noon. Then an awkward silence descended upon them, neither sure what to say next, both chose a different knot in the wood of the table to stare at.
Severus finally broke the silence after about five minute, he looked up at her again and said "Look, I'm really sorry about just blurting that out last night, I-" but he was cut off by Kat before he could babble that much of an apology.
"Don't be, I was just surprised by it, and I just can't say it back yet" She said to him, this seemed to ease his nerves and he relaxed. Kat looked around them and realized half of the great hall was staring at her, those in Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor in shock, but those in Slytherin with disgust and hate. She looked at the Slytherins again, they seemed murderous, the message was very clear 'leave… NOW!' They didn't like her sitting at their table apparently.
"I'm gunna go sit at the Gryffindor table, your house mates look like their going to kill me…" She said quietly to Severus, he looked up at her again.
"Yeah, okay…" he said as she got up and turned to leave the Slytherin table. He then suddenly stood up too "I'll come with you" he said affectionately, he glared back at his house mates as they headed for the Gryffindor table, still being stared at by half the hall. They chatted a bit through breakfast and then Severus went off to go finish a transfiguration essay he had neglected to do. So Kat was left alone and she headed to the quiddich pitch to get in some flying time.
But as she walked toward the quiddich pitch a wall of fire rose up in front of her, and all she could do was chuckle, knowing what had done that. "DIABLO!" she yelled, humor apparent in her voice. A tiny coal black kitten ran up to her mewing, this was her pet. Diablo controlled fire, she realized she'd be neglecting him a bit lately.
"Come on you manic cat, let's go flying" she said, dropping him in her pocket, yes, he was so small he could ride in her pocket. She continued on her way to the quiddich pitch, the latest broom on the market, the ghost-rider, over her shoulder. It had been a gift from her father, trying to make up for not being around because of work. She reached the pitch and didn't notice someone sitting in the stands, staring off into space, so she just mounted her broom, Diablo crawling out of her pocked to perch on the broom tail, and took off.
About ten minutes later she heard what seemed like someone shouting over the whoosh of air past her ears, so she stopped and rotated her broom so she could see who it was. Ah, him, Sirius, in the stands, perfect, bloody wonderful. She rolled her eyes and lowered her broom and flew down to him. She purposely flew a little too low and he had to duck so his head wouldn't be taken off… he didn't seem to mind.
Kat dismounted and asked bluntly "What do you want?" She was showing him that she still hadn't forgiven him, and that he better make this good or their friend ship would most likely be non existent.
"I wanted to say sorry and to tell you why I acted the way I did" Sirius answered her, looking away, she hated him right now, and he could swallow his pride and admit that he was an idiot. He waited for her to yell or something, or be all cold toward him… but she didn't.
"Then shoot" Kat said simply, in a voice that showed she'd listen but she was getting a bit impatient with him. She was eyeing him wearily, as if she expected him to take out his wand and start hexing her like he did to Severus or something.
"Look" Sirius said, still not looking at her "I really really like you, I've liked you as more than a friend for a long time now… I guess I just sort of got… jealous" He explained, finally looking up at her with his last word. To his surprise Kat started chuckling quietly, as if she found something immensely funny.
"You know, if you had asked me out even a week ago, you might have had a chance" She explained, seeing the bewildered look on his face. "I've had a crush on you since first year Sirius, problem is, that it doesn't exactly exist anymore, if you had acted I probably would have been in Hogsmead with you in stead of Severus yesterday, I stopped waiting for you, and I'm not going to break Severus' heart just because a guy I used to have a school girl crush on likes me, because Severus loves me, and I've moved on, sorry Sirius, hope we can still be friends." With that she mounted her broom and took off again, leaving behind a very crushed and confused looking Sirius.
She practiced her flying for a few more minutes before landing and heading back toward the school, Diablo now running along beside her in stead of getting a ride, she was still trying to figure out exactly where she was with her feelings for Severus, she knew it wasn't love yet, she just didn't know what it WAS that she had for him… so it was a tad confusing. She went up to Gryffindor tower and spent the rest of the day hanging around with Jules, they hadn't hung out much lately.