I'm SO sorry about the delay with chapters.

My connection was down and I couldn't get it fixed, now, however, everythings back and running.

Please forgive me for the uncontrolable circumstances...

So here's the next few chapies!

Sisterhood

"Morning!" Lily called to the dorm.

I pulled a pillow over my head and moaned.

"Noooo."

"Come on lazy bones!" Yelled Molly.

Alice grinned at me from under her duvet,

"What time you get in?" She asked.

"About four hours ago."

Alice gave a piteous look; the other two gave a mild gape.

"Why so late?" said Lily.

"That bloody prick." I said sharply.

"Sirius?"

All of them knew that we were quarrelling.

"Well, I never did agree with the marauders anyhow." Lily stated.

"Their fine, only Sirius is driving me mad!"

"Why is he even fighting with you?" Molly brushed a curl of bright red from her face.

"I wouldn't let them pick on Snape, it was four to one."

"And now they're mad at you?!"

"No, just Sirius."

"Well I always said he was an idiot!" Lily declared.

"Not that often, but at the moment..."

We eventually all went down to breakfast, today was Saturday: Girl day. With the way Sirius was behaving at the moment I wouldn't mind if every day was girl day, and not just once a week.

"So, what happened last-"Alice began, her sentence cut abruptly short when the marauders appeared.

"Morning Shad." Remus said gently.

"Hi." I replied and nodded in return to Peter, who didn't want to bear the brunt of Sirius' temper.

"Morning ladies," James chirped happily, "Lily, Shad, Alice, Molly!"

"What are you doing here?" Lily demanded of James.

"Why, dear lady, eating breakfast, what else?"

"Aah!" Lily exclaimed. "Can't you just leave?!"

"Absolutely not." James beamed.

Sirius appeared from the hall, his face immediately turned into a grimace.

"Why are you sitting here?" He asked James, his tone indicating up-most displeasure.

"Why, to converse with these lovely ladies of course!" James looked completely too sure of himself.

"You know what, I think I lost my appetite." I said quickly.

"But Shad, you've hardly eaten!" Molly cried.

"I've had enough, really." I said rising from the table.

"Nonsense," Alice exclaimed, "you can't leave without breakfast."

"I can and I certainly will." With that, I turned, and left.

"Shad?"

"Hey Nikki."

"What's up at the moment?"

"Nothing much, or important."

"No, something's wrong."

"Like I said, nothing important."

"Oh, ok then."

"So, what you been doing lately?"

"Hmm... Work, mostly."

"Besides that?"

"Well," Nikki started to look very shy. "Um, sorta seeing this girl, Rita."

"What?!" I yelled, "How long?" I grinned as Nikki squirmed and flushed red, he looked very funny.

"Er, about three weeks." His face was going redder.

I laughed and hugged him.

"Congrats!" I exclaimed, "So, what's she like?"

"So, which do you think? Green, or blue?"

"Definitely blue. Don't you girls think so?"

"Yeah, blue suits you Alice."

Alice did a twirl in the blue dress.

"I don't know. Terry didn't say where we're going."

"I still say blue." Lily said.

"The green is nice but blue suits you best." Molly said smiling.

"Why don't we ask Shad, she hasn't said anything yet." Alice nodded in agreement to Lily's suggestion.

"Shad?"

"What?"

"Can you come help me decide?"

"Take the blue, Lily and Molly are right."

"Oh, ok then." She sighed

The three of them shook their heads, I'd been very aloof lately, and extremely quiet. Whenever me and Sirius entered a room there were sure to be fireworks, and to avoid this we would each leave the moment we saw one another. The first one to leave gained a small victory over the other by beating them to an exit.

The Marauders sat in silence. None of them knew quite what to say, normally they could laugh and joke freely, but now, one single mention of Shadow changed the entire mood. Shadow had always been the one to break the silence, and now, there was none who would.

"Sirius, don't you think you're taking this a little-"James was cut short.

"No. Change the subject." Sirius said, cutting the conversation short.

They sat quietly for a few minutes.

"Did you see the Cannons versus Wasps game on Friday?" Peter tried to brighten the mood; Quidditch had always been a good topic.

"Yeah, we already discussed that three times this week." Sirius growled.

The Marauders sat in silence.

Robin Wood came into the common room, just as Sirius and I entered.

"No!" He caught us before we could escape.

"We have to practice before the start of the season," He glanced at Sirius and I before he spoke again, "no matter what the differences between team members."

Sirius openly snarled, I started to leave, but then Wood grabbed my arm.

"I don't care what's with you two, but all quarrels will be left at the edge of the Quidditch pitch."

I opened my mouth to point out that we weren't anywhere near the pitch when Sirius spoke up.

"Fine."

I stared at him, this wasn't right, something was going through his mind, if only I could find out what it was...

Our first practice, I knew it would be bad, but that bad?

The team assembled, everyone was shivering. Partly from cold, partly from excitement, and partly out of nervousness, every single person in the school knew about the current situation between the marauders. Sirius and I hadn't been in the same room for more than twenty seconds for weeks, let alone having to work together as a team...

We mounted, James on his Nimbus Six (state of the art at that time), Wood on his Cleansweep Eight (Fairly modern and good enough for a keeper), the rest of the team (Frank Longbottom and Amanda Jordan as my fellow chasers, and Sarah Bell as the one reliable beater that day) on decent Nimbus Fives, Sirius and I both on our own handmade-fine-tuned brooms.

The bludgers were circling the pitch, the snitch was no-where to be seen, and I had the quaffle. We began.

I passed back to Amanda, who passed up to Frank.

A bludger was hit out the chasers field and went straight through one of the unprotected hoops on the other side.

Frank passed up to Amanda, she passed to me.

James stopped hovering and went into a dive.

I aimed, shot and scored, Wood almost falling off his broom to try and catch the twist shot.

Amanda got the quaffle.

James pulled up from the steep dive and returned to circling the pitch.

Sarah smashed a bludger away from Frank who was readying to receive the quaffle.

Frank passed back to me, I shot forwards to Amanda.

A bludger knocked me from the air.

"Sirius" Wood was pissed, in fact pissed was an understatement, "Why the hell didn't you block that bludger?!"

"I didn't see it!"

"Like hell you didn't! You only hovered there and stared at it!"

"It's not like she's dead or anything anyway!"

"Shut up! You're giving me a headache!" I yelled.

"Shad? Are you OK?" Wood was checking me over in an instant.

"Do you think I'm OK?!" I screamed, "I just fell lord knows how many hundred feet, after being crushed by a fucking bludger, and you're asking if I'm OK?!"

Wood cringed, "I think we should take her to the hospital wing..."

Written by ArbDreamer

Most of these characters and places belong to JK rowling, though I'm sure I would have been nicer to them if they were mine.

Well, maybe...