"You old dog!" James Potter laughed as Sirius Black slid into the seat at the table, shrugging his shoulders. He had just broken it off with his girlfriend-of-five-days, the Hufflepuff Alyssa, and already four girls had flirted with him and a dozen more had winked at him.
"I bloody swear you've slipped something into their dinners." Lilly Evans drawled from her place beside an amused looking Remus Lupin.
"Oh, shove off Evans." Frank Longbottom said, recieving the evil eye from Alice Jones, the girl seated beside Lilly.
"Quite honestly, though, why is it you always have girls all over you?" Remus asked good-naturedly.
"His bum." Alice lackadaisically responded, spooning jam onto her toast as the males gaped at her. She looked up and smiled, "Just kidding."
"Just the luck of the Bla-- I mean, just my charm," Sirius said, leaning back in his chair.
Students from every house were milling into the Great Hall when the seventh- year Slytherin, Bellatrix Black, overhead two Ravenclaw girls giggling.
"And, oh Mauve, he winked back!" A dark-haired girl gushed as the other gasped.
"Oh, Lav, I wish I'd have had the courage to wink at him! Sirius Black, what a dreamboat!"
Bellatrix's silver-gray eyes shone with anger as she slid through the mob to enter. She was passing the Gryffindor table on her way to the Slytherin at the far end of the Hall and noted her cousin with the rest of scummy friends, leaning back in his chair.
She made sure no one noticed, but kicked one of the two legs his chair was balancing on and he toppled to the ground as his friends laughed aloud. That should lower his pedestal, she smirked, sliding into the Slytherin table.
"Look, Bellatrix." The slimy git named Rudolphus said, smiling softly toward the girl. "I was wondering... maybe you and I could go to Hogsmeade."
With one faraway glance across the Hall left her eyes locked on a pair that matched hers in intensity and color and shining with resentment, she shuddered.
"Sure, Lestrange, sure."
Author's note: very short, I know! Eep. Murphy's Law ficlet -- all things are relative. Only Blackcest if you want it to be. Haha. Inspiration... ::thinks:: I dunno what inspired this. Rudolphus sucks. I've been doing lots of Sirius work... hm. ::thinks:: Well, he is a Black, so its all good.