Never Been Forgiven

Chapter Two

I forgot this in the last chapter, so: Disclaimer: Doesn't belong to me, Unfortunately, All J.K.Rowling and Warner Bros. And whomever else. (Except Anne, I made her so Peter wouldn't be lonely, even though I hate Peter with a passion!)

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*Four years later, lhevon, The Marauders last year *

Sirius lay on his back, gazing at the constellations on the sky above him. His mind wandered back to his time at Hogwarts, of course that was bound to happen. Seeing James and Remus and Peter and Lily and Anne (Peter's girlfriend) was bound to bring back the memories. He hadn't known they were coming. Of course he knew about the fire at Hogwarts, and how a bunch of Hogwarts students were coming to stay at his school, five in each year to be precise, but he never even considered that he would know them. Or that they would be his ex-best friends.

*Flashback*

Sirius entered the Great Hall laughing at a joke his Best friend, a girl he met when he started lhevon, had just made. Something about the Head Girl and Boy dating. Though that was never going to happen as Sirius was the Head Boy and Karen, his best friend, was the Head girl.

"......the school was named by an ancient race of elves, which are of course long extinct. The school's name means left behind in the ancient language of Sindarin. Oh..." Professor Montoya looked up to see Sirius and Karen walking towards the small group, laughing, "Sirius, Karen do come over. You can take the seventh years up to the dormitories, okay?"

"Er...of course Professor." Karen replied.

"Yep!" Sirius was in very good mood, could almost be described as hyper, until "well, come along..." He beamed toward the backs of the Hogwarts students. But his smile disappeared as the five turned around; Remus, Sirius, James, Lily and Anne looked towards him with wide eyes and open mouths.

In that second Sirius new world and life collapsed around him. He turned and barrelled from the room, shoving past startled prefects and teacher in an escape bid. In the back of his mind he heard Karen call his name, she sounded confused, but Sirius didn't stop, he scrambled out onto the grounds.

*End Flashback*

"Sirius..............Sirius I know your out here. Please come out!" It was Karen, she would be able to find him in mere seconds if she wanted to, and without calling out. But she knew him too well for that. He had changed a lot in the last four years, since he left Hogwarts. Sirius had become very studious, quiet and extremely smart, in a way. He hated when people annoyed him when he was reading and he needed his privacy. Karen knew this better than anyone.

Sirius pulled himself off the ground and into sitting position, looking in the direction of Karen's voice. "I'm right here." He called out.

A couple of seconds later a tall, pale girl with long, dark hair stepped through the bushes surrounding the clearing by the lake in which Sirius sat.

"Sirius, Are you ok?"

"I....well.....er.....I guess I am." Sirius stuttered.

Karen crossed her arms and raised her left eyebrow, "Oh Really?"

"Don't give me that look! I'm not some hopelessly confused first year coming to the Head Girl for help." For a couple of seconds his pride rose up over his slightly depressed self.

Karen looked alarmed and slowly sat down reaching her arm out to touch Sirius' shoulder, "I know. I'm just worried about you, okay? You just ran out of the hall like that and I didn't know why." She smiled, "And I know you're not a hopelessly confused first year."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. I just didn't expect to see them, here, just when I was getting used to my new life."

"Them...Who's them?"

"Oh, didn't they tell you their names?"

Karen stared at him for a couple of seconds, confusion written across her face. "Oh my god......Remus, James, Lily.....They're the ones from your last school aren't they?"

Sirius sighed and nodded. "You saw the looks on their faces. They probably don't even want to see me again......let alone share a dormitory." He let his head droop downwards.

"Well....it's not like it will be just you and them." Karen stated, trying to make him feel better, "Darren and Danny will still be there, and you can just pretend that nothing is any different."

"I don't think I can. Look, Karen.....you've been my best friend since I got here, and I really love you, as a friend. But I've been best friends with James all my life, and if I have the chance I wanna make it up to them."

"I know you do Sirius," smiled Karen, putting a comforting arm around him, "I know."

They sat there, looking out on the lake, for another 30 minutes or so til Karen looked at her watch.

"Oh god, Sirius, We have to go. We should be in our dormitories in like 3 minutes. Come on, unless you want to mar your unblemished record with a detention." She winked at him, stood up, stretched and held out her hand to help him up. "Don't worry about it, everything will work out fine."

"I hope so." He looked out to the lake, took a deep breath and turned toward the castle, "Now come on, we don't want to get into trouble, do we?" With that he took off at a run leaving Karen staring after him. She laughed and rushed after him yelling, "I'll catch you Sirius Black, I will."

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Okay, chapter two is up. I hope you like it, and this is only the start. If I get enough reviews I will continue this story, actually I probably will anyway.

Next Chapter Sirius will see his ex-best friends.

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