A/N: OOOOOH! This is going to be an exciting chapter! Well, I think it is
and all, so it's all good. There's a fight. And that's all I'm gonna say.
Except it took me a long time to write this because I'm pretty sure I
sprained my thumb. Ow. You should give me lots of pity... Like in a review
maybe!!! (Aren't I so subtle?)
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Disclaimer: Don't own it... wish I did, but sadly no...
Summary: Wow, Sirius is no longer a brainless git. Go figure. In his seventh year he falls for a girl named Mia. Problem is, Sirius' novelty has worn off for most girls and they have come to realise that he's really just an insecure boy. Mia can't trust him, so Sirius sets out on a journey to get her! (A/N: Sounds very much like a soap opera, no?) But can a worn down, emotionally distraught boy with an evil family constantly on his back win back the heart of his woman?
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"Sirius. Stop," Ordered Lily. The command in her voice was so great he actually did stop. "You can't just keep running away. You've got to face it and get it over with," she said more gently.
He slowly rotated around on his heel. "What? You say that sounding all high and mighty... Why don't you follow your own damn advice? (A/N: you'll understand later in this chapter what he's talking about.)" He growled as Lily flushed pink. "I'm not walking away from my problems. It's just I'm pretty sure I don't need to stand around here all night watching t- that."
Sirius tried to ignore the rising heat in his cheeks. Hopefully the dimly lit room concealed it. But what was with him? Sirius Black did not blush. Especially when it came to girl situations. Unless it involved their "time of the month". That was just weird. But he supposed he should have known by now that he got all goofy and weird when he was around Mia.
Well, more than usual.
James looked as if he wanted nothing better than to run away instead of being caught between his friend and the love of his life. He looked to Lily for support, but she only smiled sweetly, which didn't calm James down any. "Um, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation. If you just go talk to-"
"Look, the last thing I want to do is to talk to her," snarled Sirius as he sent death glares toward his best friend. He also glared at Remus for good measure. Even though Remus was the quiet one, he often was sensible too.
Sirius didn't want him doing anything sensible tonight about this situation.
"Sirius, you need to calm down. I mean, she doesn't even look all that happy," Lily said calmly, once again the voice of reason.
"Yeah. Look, if you're too chicken, I'll go ask." Remus didn't even bother listening to the indignant stutters of his handsome friend as he walked over to the corner. "Hey Mia," he said conversationally, "everything okay over here."
"Sod off, Lupin." Amos Diggory was currently sitting in the corner with Mia getting help with his potions. Well, he HAD been getting help with his potions. Now one of his large arms was encircled around Mia's thin waist. His other hand was casually massaging her leg. Every once and a while Mia would squirm around, but Amos was too strong.
"I think not," Remus said coolly, "And I was talking to Mia. Is everything okay?"
Mia looked at him, her hazel eyes gleaming with barely concealed tears. "I'll be fine Remus," she said guardedly. "I was just helping him with his potions. Why don't you guys go upstairs while we finish."
Remus looked at her, astounded. "Please tell me you're not enjoying this lugs company?"
Amos jerked her tighter and Mia let out a soft moan of fear. Behind him, Remus could hear the anxious whisperings of his friends.
"Let her go; she doesn't want to be here." Lupin fumbled around inside of his robes and felt the reassuring feel of the wood of his wand.
"I'm fine," insisted Mia. She was definitely getting panicky, her breaths coming out quicker and more choked. She struggled to suppress her urge to scream as loud as possible and bite the hand that was massaging her leg.
Was that supposed to feel good or something? Amos obviously didn't have much experience with female contact. Unlike Sirius...
"Yeah, she's fine!" The smug look on Diggory's face almost made Sirius kill him outright.
"You know, this is what muggles call sexual abuse, Amos." Sirius stepped forward as he spoke, never taking his eyes off of Mia as he came to stand next to Remus.
Inexplicably, Mia felt calmer and safer after she looked into Sirius' eyes.
"Shut up Black," Diggory said dangerously.
"Bite me," snarled Remus with barely restrained hate in his voice.
"Yeah, just because you can't get a girl doesn't mean you have to resort to force. They have prostitutes for that." As Sirius spoke, Amos' beefy face grew beet red and he looked as if he could kill Sirius right there.
Suddenly, he smiled (quite calmly, in fact, which was very frightening in itself).
Lily looked on in horror.
She knew nothing good would come out of this. The only other time she had seen Amos uses that evil grin was back in third year when he told a girl off who liked him. They never saw her again.
Amos' smile continued to grow until he could no longer contain himself. "Well, at least I'm close to her and getting something from her. She rejected you, you Slytherin loving, slimy scumbag of a Death Eater."
Sirius threw himself at Diggory, not even seeming to notice the table between them, vaulting it easily. The long forgotten potions book was thrown off the table and slammed into the wall. A quill also pierced Sirius' hand, but he didn't notice. All he saw was the evil face of Amos in front of him.
As soon as he was on the other side of the table, he quickly wrenched Mia away from the fat boy's grasp and pushed her tenderly out of the way. Then he threw himself onto Diggory, his fist making contact with his fat face before he could even react.
"I AM NOT A DEATH EATER!" Screamed Sirius in a sort of primal rage. Everyone else just stood on the sidelines in shock watching helplessly as the two boys rolled around.
Sirius managed to land a hard punch on the boy's stomach while Amos quickly retaliated with a square punch to the jaw. Sirius grunted in pain and let his guard down. Amos took that opportunity to punch Sirius in the eye. That seemed to have been the final straw however and Sirius went berserk.
Suddenly, Sirius got the upper hand. He was straddling Amos with his hands around Diggory's throat, throttling him as if there's no tomorrow.
"Sirius!" Lily cried. Her plea falls on deaf ears.
Meanwhile, James had hurried over to Mia and had pulled her over to one of the overstuffed crimson couches where he sat her down before returning to watch the fight with a horrible fascination.
Amos' hands were clawing the floor as he struggled to draw in a breath.
Suddenly everyone seemed to understand that Sirius was not going to leave Amos with just a few bruises. Remus leapt forward and with almost superhuman strength dragged Sirius off of Amos.
Sirius stood panting over the whimpering boy, his face contorted into something almost evil.
"Sirius?" Lily pleaded, frightened by this side of Sirius that she had never seen.
His face twitched as he heard her voice but he didn't turn around. Instead his eyes followed Amos as he hurried up to his common room to the threat of, "Don't say anything about this to anyone," from James.
It barely registered in Sirius' ears as he reveled in the sight of the sniveling fat boy wipe away the blood that was running down his face.
"Sirius?" She tried again. That time it reached him.
He turned around dazedly, one of his beautiful eyes swollen shut. His handsome face was bruised and he looked like a little boy.
He looked at the stunned group and murmured, "I- I'm not a death eater. I- I"
He didn't finish his sentence. Instead, he threw a glance at Mia and rushed out of the common room, ignoring the squawks of the Fat Lady.
Mia was right on his heels, oblivious to the shouts of her fellow Gryffindors who were left to deal with the onslaught of awoken people coming from their dorms.
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Mia raced down the halls trying to keep up with Sirius and trying to arrange all the thoughts in her head. Of course she was furious with him, but he had done it in her honour. But it was an unprovoked attack.
And she doubted that it was because of her. He had been hexing everyone in sight for the last few weeks. She decided that Amos was just an outlet for all of his fury. Just because he hadn't been able to get her in bed didn't mean that he had to hex anyone that looked like they had a chance with her.
Not that Amos had stood any chance anyway. He was loud and obnoxious; not at all a refined gentleman. And he certainly wasn't at all attractive, in body or mind. Most importantly he wasn't... Sirius.
Suddenly she saw Sirius lurch through a doorway. He seemed unsteady on his feet as he stumbled down the steps, his broken body illuminated in the moonlight. She recognized it as the entrance to the gardens.
She hurried outside, settling on being angry with Sirius. After all she had put him through he was still just some pompous jerk.
"Sirius Black," she shouted. She was fully prepared to continue on a ranting fit, but then she caught sight of Sirius. He was doubled over on the ground, hair falling in front of his eyes ungracefully, clutching his stomach.
"Are you?"
Suddenly, he retched and emptied the contents of his stomach onto the dew laden grass. "Please... Go," he said weakly, but was quickly overcome by another heave.
Instead of following his orders, Mia walked over to him. She knelt down carefully and drew the hair out of his face. She began stroking his sweaty forehead, but he retched again. She muttered nonsensical soothing words to him as she rubbed his back lightly.
After a few more heaves, he seemed to be finished.
"Better?" She asked quietly.
He nodded, not seeming to trust himself to speak. Carefully, she laid him down on the cool marble walkway.
'What made you do that? I mean, fight him like that?"
"Not... death eater," he mumbled, not seeming to hear her question, "but just as bad. I'm... no better."
Mia understood. "You are much better than your family. I- I just have never seen that side of you. It was frightening."
Sirius' face darkened. "You don't know a lot about me."
Mia looked pained. "I know."
"I'm bad," moaned Sirius.
"No you're not. Not at all!"
"Yes. I hit him... very bad. You... hate?"
"I could never hate you."
Sirius opened his one good eye. "Good impression of it before."
Mia looked at his forlorn expression with pity (and was that longing, Sirius thought to himself) but ordered herself to stop. She simply could not fall for Sirius Black.
"I don't hate you. We just got off to a bad start... Could we be friends?"
"Friends?" Sirius muttered sleepily.
"Yes," she whispered, realising he was almost asleep. "And thank you for protecting me."
Sirius smiled dreamily. "Love you," he mumbled. Mia blushed, figuring that he was already off in dream world. Sirius Black was incapable of actually loving anyone.
Wasn't he?
With those confusing thoughts, Mia laid down next to her new friend, enjoying the warm night air and looking up at the velvet sky dotted with stars.
"You're my little dog star, Siri." Mia smiled as she gave the shivering Sirius a hug.
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Many hours later James and Lily found the two curled up together.
"Aww, it's so cute," cooed Lily.
James smiled at her. "Thank god it's a weekend. We'd never be able to get then back upstairs for classes in the morning."
"Do you smell vomit?" Lily asked.
"Nope," said James, not really paying attention. But who could be with this angel in such close proximity? "Now why don't we join them?" He winced in preparation for the slap that was surely headed for him.
Instead, Lily just smiled genially. "If she puts up with him, then I can put up with you."
James grinned. "Good enough for me."
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Sirius' eyes snapped open. He looked around wildly, trying to figure out where he was-- definitely not his dorm room. When he finally placed himself in the Gardens, he let out a sigh of confusion. How had he gotten here?
All the while he had dimly noted the warm entity wrapped around him on his left, but he was too busy puzzling out why he was here.
Suddenly in a flash of brilliance all of last night's events came rushing back to him. "Shit," he muttered under his breath, "Mia's going to kill me."
"Sirius..." Sirius' head snapped to look down at the girl wrapped around him who was muttering in her sleep. It made him very dizzy, but he ignored that feeling, it being overridden by surprise.
"Mia?" He said softly, almost afraid that it was a dream. But then he remembered them making up. And becoming... friends.
Nothing more.
But she looked so sweet. Her lips were slightly parted and her hair cascaded down over his shoulder as her head rested on his chest.
The rest of her, he realised with a blush, was lying on top of him.
Carefully he tried to move her off of him, but she moaned in protest and flailed her arms a bit. She laid them to rest a moment later, one on his abdomen, the other on a very... sensitive spot.
He blushed even redder. Never had he been embarrassed to have a girl... down there. But this was Mia, and she was asleep. But he couldn't stop the feeling rising in him.
Gently, almost as if he was frightened, Sirius impulsively leaned forward and kissed her. He sucked in his breath as he waited for a response. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open.
"Sirius Black! Did you just kiss me?" Her voice sounded fairly neutral and Sirius couldn't decide if he should run away or stay there and risk pain.
He decided to take the diplomatic approach since her hand was, well, there. "Erm, sorry?"
He didn't have to get any farther than that, because Mia placed her hand under his neck and leaned down to kiss him. No, not kissing, make that full frontal snogging.
Before he knew what was happening her tongue was in his mouth. He responded hungrily, never having had a girl initiate a kiss in such a way.
As quickly and suddenly as it started, she pulled away, a look of horror crossing her face.
"What?" Sirius asked in concern staring deep into her eyes.
"I knew all that you want to do is get me in bed," she said, tears streaming down her face.
"B- But I swear it's not like that," he pleaded.
Too late. She pushed her self off of him and stormed away from him.
"You were the one who started it!" His shout finally woke Lily and James, who had been sleeping a few metres away and had not been noticed.
"What?" Lily muttered sleepily.
"Well... well..." Mia stuttered as her face flushed. She had started it. Really, she had no reason to blame Sirius. "Well damn you for making me fall for you!"
Sirius looked at her in shock. "You liked me?"
"Of course." Mia looked at him curiously. Hadn't he known? Wasn't that why he had asked her out? Wasn't she just another easy target?
Sirius looked at her, his mouth hanging open. "I- I never knew."
This time it was Mia's turn to look shocked. But the "sensible" part of her knew he must have been lying. "But that would mean... you liked me?"
"Of course. I mean you're totally sexy-" He cursed himself as soon as that came out of his mouth.
"I knew it!" Mia stormed out of the gardens and into the school.
"Why can't I ever say it right?" He murmured to himself, obviously distraught.
"Good move Padfoot," laughed James and quickly received a smack from Lily.
"Shut up James," Sirius shouted. "I've heard you ramble on about Lily and about how much you love her and how much you'd do for her, but after seven years of infatuation I've never once seen you do anything but tease her and get her pissed off at you. I'd say you're much more of a failure than I am."
James looked at Sirius in fury. "How dare you? You promised me that you wouldn't say anything to her!"
"Oh, since it's not obvious at all," Sirius retaliated sarcastically, "I mean, the constant staring, the repeated pleas-"
"Sirius, please!" James was halfway between begging and fury.
"Eep," said Lily her face crimson as she stared at James.
"And don't even get me started on you, little miss!" Sirius roared as Lily shook her head frantically. "With your little half ass attempts at hating him. Why can't you just bloody say you fancy him? He obviously likes you! Bloody hell!"
James gestured rudely towards Sirius; with that he followed in Mia's footsteps and stormed from the garden with Lily close on his heels, crying furiously.
Sirius sunk down on a nearby bench. "Sirius Black the Magnificent, once again left alone in the cold."
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A/N: AWW! So review darn it! Lol. I'm just too nice and excited once I get something done to not post it. So review!!!!!
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Disclaimer: Don't own it... wish I did, but sadly no...
Summary: Wow, Sirius is no longer a brainless git. Go figure. In his seventh year he falls for a girl named Mia. Problem is, Sirius' novelty has worn off for most girls and they have come to realise that he's really just an insecure boy. Mia can't trust him, so Sirius sets out on a journey to get her! (A/N: Sounds very much like a soap opera, no?) But can a worn down, emotionally distraught boy with an evil family constantly on his back win back the heart of his woman?
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"Sirius. Stop," Ordered Lily. The command in her voice was so great he actually did stop. "You can't just keep running away. You've got to face it and get it over with," she said more gently.
He slowly rotated around on his heel. "What? You say that sounding all high and mighty... Why don't you follow your own damn advice? (A/N: you'll understand later in this chapter what he's talking about.)" He growled as Lily flushed pink. "I'm not walking away from my problems. It's just I'm pretty sure I don't need to stand around here all night watching t- that."
Sirius tried to ignore the rising heat in his cheeks. Hopefully the dimly lit room concealed it. But what was with him? Sirius Black did not blush. Especially when it came to girl situations. Unless it involved their "time of the month". That was just weird. But he supposed he should have known by now that he got all goofy and weird when he was around Mia.
Well, more than usual.
James looked as if he wanted nothing better than to run away instead of being caught between his friend and the love of his life. He looked to Lily for support, but she only smiled sweetly, which didn't calm James down any. "Um, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation. If you just go talk to-"
"Look, the last thing I want to do is to talk to her," snarled Sirius as he sent death glares toward his best friend. He also glared at Remus for good measure. Even though Remus was the quiet one, he often was sensible too.
Sirius didn't want him doing anything sensible tonight about this situation.
"Sirius, you need to calm down. I mean, she doesn't even look all that happy," Lily said calmly, once again the voice of reason.
"Yeah. Look, if you're too chicken, I'll go ask." Remus didn't even bother listening to the indignant stutters of his handsome friend as he walked over to the corner. "Hey Mia," he said conversationally, "everything okay over here."
"Sod off, Lupin." Amos Diggory was currently sitting in the corner with Mia getting help with his potions. Well, he HAD been getting help with his potions. Now one of his large arms was encircled around Mia's thin waist. His other hand was casually massaging her leg. Every once and a while Mia would squirm around, but Amos was too strong.
"I think not," Remus said coolly, "And I was talking to Mia. Is everything okay?"
Mia looked at him, her hazel eyes gleaming with barely concealed tears. "I'll be fine Remus," she said guardedly. "I was just helping him with his potions. Why don't you guys go upstairs while we finish."
Remus looked at her, astounded. "Please tell me you're not enjoying this lugs company?"
Amos jerked her tighter and Mia let out a soft moan of fear. Behind him, Remus could hear the anxious whisperings of his friends.
"Let her go; she doesn't want to be here." Lupin fumbled around inside of his robes and felt the reassuring feel of the wood of his wand.
"I'm fine," insisted Mia. She was definitely getting panicky, her breaths coming out quicker and more choked. She struggled to suppress her urge to scream as loud as possible and bite the hand that was massaging her leg.
Was that supposed to feel good or something? Amos obviously didn't have much experience with female contact. Unlike Sirius...
"Yeah, she's fine!" The smug look on Diggory's face almost made Sirius kill him outright.
"You know, this is what muggles call sexual abuse, Amos." Sirius stepped forward as he spoke, never taking his eyes off of Mia as he came to stand next to Remus.
Inexplicably, Mia felt calmer and safer after she looked into Sirius' eyes.
"Shut up Black," Diggory said dangerously.
"Bite me," snarled Remus with barely restrained hate in his voice.
"Yeah, just because you can't get a girl doesn't mean you have to resort to force. They have prostitutes for that." As Sirius spoke, Amos' beefy face grew beet red and he looked as if he could kill Sirius right there.
Suddenly, he smiled (quite calmly, in fact, which was very frightening in itself).
Lily looked on in horror.
She knew nothing good would come out of this. The only other time she had seen Amos uses that evil grin was back in third year when he told a girl off who liked him. They never saw her again.
Amos' smile continued to grow until he could no longer contain himself. "Well, at least I'm close to her and getting something from her. She rejected you, you Slytherin loving, slimy scumbag of a Death Eater."
Sirius threw himself at Diggory, not even seeming to notice the table between them, vaulting it easily. The long forgotten potions book was thrown off the table and slammed into the wall. A quill also pierced Sirius' hand, but he didn't notice. All he saw was the evil face of Amos in front of him.
As soon as he was on the other side of the table, he quickly wrenched Mia away from the fat boy's grasp and pushed her tenderly out of the way. Then he threw himself onto Diggory, his fist making contact with his fat face before he could even react.
"I AM NOT A DEATH EATER!" Screamed Sirius in a sort of primal rage. Everyone else just stood on the sidelines in shock watching helplessly as the two boys rolled around.
Sirius managed to land a hard punch on the boy's stomach while Amos quickly retaliated with a square punch to the jaw. Sirius grunted in pain and let his guard down. Amos took that opportunity to punch Sirius in the eye. That seemed to have been the final straw however and Sirius went berserk.
Suddenly, Sirius got the upper hand. He was straddling Amos with his hands around Diggory's throat, throttling him as if there's no tomorrow.
"Sirius!" Lily cried. Her plea falls on deaf ears.
Meanwhile, James had hurried over to Mia and had pulled her over to one of the overstuffed crimson couches where he sat her down before returning to watch the fight with a horrible fascination.
Amos' hands were clawing the floor as he struggled to draw in a breath.
Suddenly everyone seemed to understand that Sirius was not going to leave Amos with just a few bruises. Remus leapt forward and with almost superhuman strength dragged Sirius off of Amos.
Sirius stood panting over the whimpering boy, his face contorted into something almost evil.
"Sirius?" Lily pleaded, frightened by this side of Sirius that she had never seen.
His face twitched as he heard her voice but he didn't turn around. Instead his eyes followed Amos as he hurried up to his common room to the threat of, "Don't say anything about this to anyone," from James.
It barely registered in Sirius' ears as he reveled in the sight of the sniveling fat boy wipe away the blood that was running down his face.
"Sirius?" She tried again. That time it reached him.
He turned around dazedly, one of his beautiful eyes swollen shut. His handsome face was bruised and he looked like a little boy.
He looked at the stunned group and murmured, "I- I'm not a death eater. I- I"
He didn't finish his sentence. Instead, he threw a glance at Mia and rushed out of the common room, ignoring the squawks of the Fat Lady.
Mia was right on his heels, oblivious to the shouts of her fellow Gryffindors who were left to deal with the onslaught of awoken people coming from their dorms.
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Mia raced down the halls trying to keep up with Sirius and trying to arrange all the thoughts in her head. Of course she was furious with him, but he had done it in her honour. But it was an unprovoked attack.
And she doubted that it was because of her. He had been hexing everyone in sight for the last few weeks. She decided that Amos was just an outlet for all of his fury. Just because he hadn't been able to get her in bed didn't mean that he had to hex anyone that looked like they had a chance with her.
Not that Amos had stood any chance anyway. He was loud and obnoxious; not at all a refined gentleman. And he certainly wasn't at all attractive, in body or mind. Most importantly he wasn't... Sirius.
Suddenly she saw Sirius lurch through a doorway. He seemed unsteady on his feet as he stumbled down the steps, his broken body illuminated in the moonlight. She recognized it as the entrance to the gardens.
She hurried outside, settling on being angry with Sirius. After all she had put him through he was still just some pompous jerk.
"Sirius Black," she shouted. She was fully prepared to continue on a ranting fit, but then she caught sight of Sirius. He was doubled over on the ground, hair falling in front of his eyes ungracefully, clutching his stomach.
"Are you?"
Suddenly, he retched and emptied the contents of his stomach onto the dew laden grass. "Please... Go," he said weakly, but was quickly overcome by another heave.
Instead of following his orders, Mia walked over to him. She knelt down carefully and drew the hair out of his face. She began stroking his sweaty forehead, but he retched again. She muttered nonsensical soothing words to him as she rubbed his back lightly.
After a few more heaves, he seemed to be finished.
"Better?" She asked quietly.
He nodded, not seeming to trust himself to speak. Carefully, she laid him down on the cool marble walkway.
'What made you do that? I mean, fight him like that?"
"Not... death eater," he mumbled, not seeming to hear her question, "but just as bad. I'm... no better."
Mia understood. "You are much better than your family. I- I just have never seen that side of you. It was frightening."
Sirius' face darkened. "You don't know a lot about me."
Mia looked pained. "I know."
"I'm bad," moaned Sirius.
"No you're not. Not at all!"
"Yes. I hit him... very bad. You... hate?"
"I could never hate you."
Sirius opened his one good eye. "Good impression of it before."
Mia looked at his forlorn expression with pity (and was that longing, Sirius thought to himself) but ordered herself to stop. She simply could not fall for Sirius Black.
"I don't hate you. We just got off to a bad start... Could we be friends?"
"Friends?" Sirius muttered sleepily.
"Yes," she whispered, realising he was almost asleep. "And thank you for protecting me."
Sirius smiled dreamily. "Love you," he mumbled. Mia blushed, figuring that he was already off in dream world. Sirius Black was incapable of actually loving anyone.
Wasn't he?
With those confusing thoughts, Mia laid down next to her new friend, enjoying the warm night air and looking up at the velvet sky dotted with stars.
"You're my little dog star, Siri." Mia smiled as she gave the shivering Sirius a hug.
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Many hours later James and Lily found the two curled up together.
"Aww, it's so cute," cooed Lily.
James smiled at her. "Thank god it's a weekend. We'd never be able to get then back upstairs for classes in the morning."
"Do you smell vomit?" Lily asked.
"Nope," said James, not really paying attention. But who could be with this angel in such close proximity? "Now why don't we join them?" He winced in preparation for the slap that was surely headed for him.
Instead, Lily just smiled genially. "If she puts up with him, then I can put up with you."
James grinned. "Good enough for me."
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Sirius' eyes snapped open. He looked around wildly, trying to figure out where he was-- definitely not his dorm room. When he finally placed himself in the Gardens, he let out a sigh of confusion. How had he gotten here?
All the while he had dimly noted the warm entity wrapped around him on his left, but he was too busy puzzling out why he was here.
Suddenly in a flash of brilliance all of last night's events came rushing back to him. "Shit," he muttered under his breath, "Mia's going to kill me."
"Sirius..." Sirius' head snapped to look down at the girl wrapped around him who was muttering in her sleep. It made him very dizzy, but he ignored that feeling, it being overridden by surprise.
"Mia?" He said softly, almost afraid that it was a dream. But then he remembered them making up. And becoming... friends.
Nothing more.
But she looked so sweet. Her lips were slightly parted and her hair cascaded down over his shoulder as her head rested on his chest.
The rest of her, he realised with a blush, was lying on top of him.
Carefully he tried to move her off of him, but she moaned in protest and flailed her arms a bit. She laid them to rest a moment later, one on his abdomen, the other on a very... sensitive spot.
He blushed even redder. Never had he been embarrassed to have a girl... down there. But this was Mia, and she was asleep. But he couldn't stop the feeling rising in him.
Gently, almost as if he was frightened, Sirius impulsively leaned forward and kissed her. He sucked in his breath as he waited for a response. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open.
"Sirius Black! Did you just kiss me?" Her voice sounded fairly neutral and Sirius couldn't decide if he should run away or stay there and risk pain.
He decided to take the diplomatic approach since her hand was, well, there. "Erm, sorry?"
He didn't have to get any farther than that, because Mia placed her hand under his neck and leaned down to kiss him. No, not kissing, make that full frontal snogging.
Before he knew what was happening her tongue was in his mouth. He responded hungrily, never having had a girl initiate a kiss in such a way.
As quickly and suddenly as it started, she pulled away, a look of horror crossing her face.
"What?" Sirius asked in concern staring deep into her eyes.
"I knew all that you want to do is get me in bed," she said, tears streaming down her face.
"B- But I swear it's not like that," he pleaded.
Too late. She pushed her self off of him and stormed away from him.
"You were the one who started it!" His shout finally woke Lily and James, who had been sleeping a few metres away and had not been noticed.
"What?" Lily muttered sleepily.
"Well... well..." Mia stuttered as her face flushed. She had started it. Really, she had no reason to blame Sirius. "Well damn you for making me fall for you!"
Sirius looked at her in shock. "You liked me?"
"Of course." Mia looked at him curiously. Hadn't he known? Wasn't that why he had asked her out? Wasn't she just another easy target?
Sirius looked at her, his mouth hanging open. "I- I never knew."
This time it was Mia's turn to look shocked. But the "sensible" part of her knew he must have been lying. "But that would mean... you liked me?"
"Of course. I mean you're totally sexy-" He cursed himself as soon as that came out of his mouth.
"I knew it!" Mia stormed out of the gardens and into the school.
"Why can't I ever say it right?" He murmured to himself, obviously distraught.
"Good move Padfoot," laughed James and quickly received a smack from Lily.
"Shut up James," Sirius shouted. "I've heard you ramble on about Lily and about how much you love her and how much you'd do for her, but after seven years of infatuation I've never once seen you do anything but tease her and get her pissed off at you. I'd say you're much more of a failure than I am."
James looked at Sirius in fury. "How dare you? You promised me that you wouldn't say anything to her!"
"Oh, since it's not obvious at all," Sirius retaliated sarcastically, "I mean, the constant staring, the repeated pleas-"
"Sirius, please!" James was halfway between begging and fury.
"Eep," said Lily her face crimson as she stared at James.
"And don't even get me started on you, little miss!" Sirius roared as Lily shook her head frantically. "With your little half ass attempts at hating him. Why can't you just bloody say you fancy him? He obviously likes you! Bloody hell!"
James gestured rudely towards Sirius; with that he followed in Mia's footsteps and stormed from the garden with Lily close on his heels, crying furiously.
Sirius sunk down on a nearby bench. "Sirius Black the Magnificent, once again left alone in the cold."
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