For Me This Is Heaven

Chapter 12

Hey again!

Well I'm thinking that the vacation is going to last another 2 or 3 chapters. So it's finally Christmas and the group will be going back to school in one week! And guess what? It's the birth of Susie, aka her birthday! It's on January 3rd, I think, so this chapter will cover Christmas, the last of their holidays, and her birthday, I think. Hopefully it fits. Well maybe just Christmas and their holidays. Yeah! Okay and her birthday's gonna be the next chapter. I think I've set myself straight. Also this is a note to everyone, the California thing, it makes it interesting! LIke it's a whole new twist when you totally throw them into another country. And this is a romance!

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No one really knew exactly what had occurred between Vicky and Remus. All they knew was that something had happened and now the two acted different towards each other. They were civil to each other, but not the same. Sirius was all healed up and Susie had stopped fussing over him. With Christmas on it's way, the group was starting to get more cheery. Cherie and Dylan had helped them decorate the beach house for Christmas with a bunch of decorations they had.

Sirius was sitting in the room with Susie, talking. They were just talking about the year to come, New Year's resolutions, stuff like that.

"Sirius, do you think me and you have a future together?" Susie asked suddenly. Sirius looked kind of surprised about her question.

"You don't have to answer," she said, looking slightly crestfallen. He tipped her face up so that she was looking into his eyes.

"Of course I do, Susie. I love you with all my heart and I hope nothing ever separates us. I'll do anything just to keep you." Susie smiled.

"You really mean that Sirius? Or are you just saying that?"

"Of course I do! I think we should start planning for the future," he said. Susie started to giggle.

"I'm not joking. Now I think we should have one girl and one boy. One will be named Sirius Jr, the boy of course, and we'll name the girl, um"

"We'll name the girl Abigail, I've always liked that name," she said. "But Sirius Jr., are you joking? The world isn't ready to face another Sirius!"

"Hey! I'll have you know that that is a very important name!"

"Yeah Sirius, sure hon. we'll name the boy Kyle, or David."

"Kyle Black? That sounds so boring! We'll name him Samuel or something. It's gotta be a fancy name to string along with the Black name!"

"Yeah but what about me? I'll be Susie Black."

"Nuh-uh dear, you'll be Susannah Black. That's good." He grinned.

"I'll have you know that I hate when people call me Susannah!" She wrinkled her nose up. He leaned over her.

"Well I love you Susannah McFasley," he said, kissing her. She smiled.

"Well, when you put it like that," she kissed him again and then smiling against his lips, she started to giggle.

"I love you too Sirius Black," she told him.

"Stop giggling so I can properly kiss you," he growled. She started to giggle again and he pulled back, exasperated.

"This is impossible! How am I supposed to kiss my girl when that girl keeps on giggling??"

"Like this," she said, laughing still. Leaning over, she roughly kissed him, shoving her tongue in between his lips. He groaned and pulled back.

"That's always an option," he said.

"I say I have my little fun. We've never had kinky sex before, have we?" Sirius shook his head vigorously.

Lily was sitting out on the porch with Vicky. She sighed.

"I miss James," she said absentmindedly, then clapped her hand over her mouth. Vicky looked at her.

"Did you just say that you miss James?" she asked, a smile forming on her face. Lily opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out.

"Um..."

"I knew it!" Vicky grinned. "You like James Potter!" Susie came outside to hear Vicky shouting that.

"You do??" She looked at Lily in amazement.

"No I do not! I hate James." She stood up. "Did you have a reason for coming out here Susie?" she asked, rather harshly. Susie looked a little hurt, but then grinned.

"Actually I wanted you guys to come with me somewhere..."

20 minutes later, the 3 girls walked up to a shop called "Aphrodisiac". They went in, and Lily gaped at everything.

"What is this place?" she asked.

"Well I thought you'd figure it out," she said, picking up a pair of handcuffs and putting them in the basket she had picked up. Vicky giggled.

"You're gonna buy those?" she asked. Susie nodded, picking up a few more items. She picked up a can of whipped cream and went to the register. The cashier grinned at her.

"Thinking of having a kinky night huh?" he asked as he held up an outfit she had picked up. Lily looked utterly embarrassed but Susie didn't care.

"You know it," she said with a grin. Setting down her money, she picked up the bag and walked out of the store.

"Oh my god, Susie, you have to let me borrow some of that stuff," Vicky said with a giggle.

"Of course you can," she said. Back at the house, Sirius was sitting in the kitchen with Remus.

"Where did the girls go? I'm hungry," Sirius complained. They walked in at that moment, Susie clutching a bag, Vicky kept eyeing Sirius and Susie and Lily just kept shaking her head.

"Where did you girls go?" Remus asked.

"No where," all three girls answered at the same time. Sirius raised an eyebrow and followed Susie back into their bedroom where she was stuffing the bag into the closet.

"What's in there?" he asked, trying to look over her shoulder.

"Wait till tonight," she said with a grin, pushing him towards the bed.

"Getting a little feisty huh? You weren't like this in England, must be this California sun."

"Nah it's not," she answered back, managing to get Sirius onto the bed. Climbing on top of him, she leaned over, kissing him. Lily appeared in the door.

"C'mon you two, you'll have plenty of time for that later. It's a perfect day for swimming actually. This is weird having no snow." She disappeared out of the door way and Susie went to the closet.

Not wanting to risk Sirius looking in the closet, she tossed him his swimming trunks and pulled out a blue bikini, and shutting it shut. Making Sirius turn around, she pulled the bikini on and pulled a pair of board shorts on to cover up the bottom. Heading outside with a towel and sunscreen, she looked up. It was the strangest weather for a December day, but she didn't want to miss the opportunity.

Vicky came out a few moments later in a black bikini, her brown hair tousled up by the breeze that was blowing. Lily was behind her, tying her red hair back, dressed in an emerald green bikini that matched her eyes.

Sirius and Remus came out shortly after, towels over their shoulders. Susie hadn't realized how buff Remus really was. Pulling a pair of sunglasses over her eyes, she flipped over on her towel.

"Sirius," she called. He came over to her and kneeled down next to her.

"What is it?"

She motioned at the sunscreen bottle. "Put some on my back please," she said with a smile. He poured some into his hand and began rubbing her back. When he finished, he began to apply some to his body. Susie looked up.

"Want some help?" Sirius nodded and she poured some into her hand. Rubbing it on his shoulders and down his back, she rubbed a finger down his spine. He shuddered and she stopped.

"Are you okay?" she asked him with a smile.

"I'm fine, just don't touch my spine, it ya know,-"

"Ah, your hot spot," she said with a grin.

"Yeah, but it's all gonna be different tonight," he said, a smirk gracing his features. She finished and he got up, walking to the water's edge where Lily, Remus and Vicky were already swimming.

Susie was laid out on her towel, her eyes closed. She hadn't realized she would be the target of getting thrown into the water until it was too late. She screamed as Sirius picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. She tossed her sunglasses onto the sand before it was too late. Sirius was already up to his knees in the water, when he threw Susie into the water. She came back up, her hair dripping.

"Sirius," she said dangerously. If looks could kill, Sirius would've been dead. He grinned and made his way away from Susie. She recovered and ran after him until she finally had him tackled on the sand under her.

"Finally, I'll get my revenge," she said, an evil smile on her face. Sirius looked a little scared. She leaned down and whispered in his ear, "You wanted something tonight? You're not getting any." She smiled and stood up. Sirius stood up immediately.

"Susie, you promised," he whined. She just smiled and went back to the towel.

Remus had already finished swimming. He was sitting on the sand, drying his hair when a shadow fell across him. It was Vicky.

"Mind if I sit here?" she asked. Remus shrugged. He spotted Susie lying on her towel and Sirius on his knees, begging for something. It was probably something he didn't want to know about. They sat in silence, both feeling awkward around each other.

"Remus, can we be friends?" she finally asked.

"I thought you didn't want to be."

"I do Remus. This is weird, this awkwardness around us. I just want to be friends."

"That's all?" Vicky blinked her eyes several times, trying to hold back tears.

"That's all," she said quietly.

Remus was silent for a few minutes. "Okay," he said finally.

"Good," she looked relieved.

Later that day, Susie was sitting in the kitchen talking to Lily.

"Tomorrow is Christmas Eve," she said gleefully, drying her long hair with a towel. Lily's was up in a bun and Vicky just left hers down. Sirius came into the kitchen, still shirtless. Remus was taking a shower.

"Christmas in two days," he said with a grin.

"We were just talking about that Sirius," Lily pointed out.

"So what'd you guys get me?" he asked.

"I got you a pile of dirt," Vicky told him.

"And I got you a few pieces of coal," Lily said.

"Oh goody," he looked at Susie. "And what did my lovely girlfriend get me? Surely not, a pile of bricks?"

"How'd you guess?" Sirius just grinned and picked her up, bridal style.

"Don't bother us tonight," he said with a wink. Lily rolled her eyes. He carried Susie into the room, shutting the door behind him.

"Well they're gonna be busy for the rest of the night," Vicky stated, looking at her watch. "Wanna get Remus and try and go see a movie?"

Lily shrugged. "Sure." Vicky went and knocked on Remus' door.

"Remus," she called through the door. Remus opened it up, his hair still dripping wet. He was still shirtless, dressed in only a pair of shorts. Vicky's breath caught in her throat. She mentally slapped herself and came to her senses.

"Wanna go to the movies with me and Lily?" she asked. Remus shrugged.

"What about Sirius and Susie?"

"Oh, they'll be busy for the rest of the night," she motioned at the closed door.

"Okay, I'll go." He went back into his room to find a shirt. He had seen the way Vicky had been looking at him, even it was only for a split second. It had made his heart speed up in his chest. Pulling a shirt on, he knocked on Sirius and Susie's door.

"We're leaving, we'll see you later." He received a grunt in response. Chuckling, he went to the front to meet Lily and Vicky.

Susie grinned and took the bag she had stuffed in the closet. Sirius' jaw dropped when she pulled out a pair of handcuffs and a whip. Pushing him on the bed, she managed to handcuff him to the bed. Taking out a Swiss army knife, she ran it down the front of Sirius' shirt, cutting it off.

"Hey!" he exclaimed as she ripped it off. "I liked that shirt."

"I'll buy you a new one," she said, leaning down and unleashing her tongue all over his upper torso. He moaned as her tongue went all over him. She bit and sucked his flesh, determined to mark him up.

"Susie," he groaned, squirming at his restraints. She sat down on top of him, straddling his waist. She could feel him hardening underneath her. She grinned and pulled herself closer to him, him getting more turned on as she pressed her body onto him. He looked over at the key, which was sitting on the edge of the bed.

Susie noticed him looking at it and she picked it up.

"Hmmm, now what should I do with this?" With a giggle, she dropped it down her top. Sirius' mouth went dry. She didn't know how bad he wanted to get that key. He was desperate to de clothe her and run his hands all over her body.

At the movies, Vicky was sitting in between Lily and Remus. Lily was so immersed in the movie that she didn't even realize that Vicky had left and moved on to the other side of Remus.

"Remus," she whispered. He looked at her. Her face was lit up by the screen, her eyes glinting.

"Remus," she looked nervous. "Would you kiss me like you kissed me the other night?" Remus' mouth went dry.

"Vicky, I-,"

"No, never mind." She turned to watch the movie. Remus moved up the arm rest and leaned over, wrapping an arm around Vicky. She looked at him and he kissed her, with all the vented up passion that had been in him for so long. He knew that nothing would come out of this, but it felt so good to at least kiss one of the girls he wanted.

Later that night, Remus, Vicky, and Lily came back. Lily hadn't noticed Remus and Vicky in the movie theatre and Vicky and Remus didn't want to mention it. Vicky stopped at Sirius and Susie's door. She heard some kind of noise in there. Not really wanting to know what was going on in there, she just decided to go to bed.

Susie woke up early on Christmas morning. Sirius was fast asleep. She pulled his arm off her waist and slipped on some sandals. Dressed in one of Sirius' old quidditch shirts and a pair of board shorts, she went out into the kitchen. The tree that Cherie and Dylan had brought over glinted in the light. Presents were under the tree; everyone had put theirs there the night before. Cherie and Dylan had promised to stop over when they had gotten their presents.

Later in the morning, everyone awoke to the smell of chocolate chip pancakes. Susie was flipping pancakes when Lily came floating into the kitchen.

"That smells absolutely delicious," she told Susie. She spotted the shirt Susie was wearing.

"Ah, showing your quidditch pride eh?" she asked. Susie smiled.

"Actually, I heard this year they might be having a Quidditch Championship at our school."

"Who do you think would be on the school team?"

"Well I know Sirius will be, he's an excellent Seeker, James will probably be the Keeper, he's actually one of the best. Umm, Chase DeSantos as a Chaser, he's good. Actually, I was thinking you should try out this year," she said with a sly smile. Susie started to protest.

"No way, I couldn't play," she told Lily.

"But c'mon, Quidditch is practically in your blood, you've gotta play it sometime. Plus their having tryouts in the Spring. Frank Longbottom requested that the 3rd Chaser on the Gryffindor team be taken off cause he's not that good, so their holding tryouts when we get back to school."

"Well, I guess I could try out, maybe." Sirius came shuffling in, catching the last bit of their conversation.

"Try out for what?" he asked sleepily.

"Quidditch," Lily told him. He snapped awake.

"Sus, you're trying out for Quidditch?" Susie shrugged.

"Maybe, I don't know."

"You should, I'd love playing with you on our team!"

"Yeah, he's already obsessed, now he's probably gonna find ways so that you're exceptionally close so that he can publicly grope you," Lily said, rolling her eyes.

"Lily! Stop telling people my secret plans!" Susie laughed and ladled some pancakes onto some plates. She handed them to the two.

"Stop fighting and eat," she said, setting down the maple syrup and butter. Sirius dug in, eating like a madman.

"These are delicious," he exclaimed, his mouth full of food. Lily frowned and scooted away from Sirius.

"Ew Sirius, eat with your mouth closed and don't talk while you're eating. They should put a caution sign next to you that says 'Beware of Flying Food particles," Sirius just grinned and scooted closer next to Lily.

"I sure love food," he said, food still in his mouth. Vicky and Remus had already woken and were working on their pancakes. Susie was cutting hers up in pieces, carefully drenching the pieces in syrup and slowly eating them.

"Susie, you have syrup on your lips," Sirius told her. She leaned over the counter.

"Take it off for me." He leaned forward, kissing her. Smacking his lips, he pulled off of her.

"There, clean," he said with a grin.

Dylan and Cherie came in, laden with presents. Stuffing them under the tree, they joined the group for breakfast.

"Susie, give me some of your famous chocolate chip pancakes," Dylan called to her as he sat down. He smiled at Vicky, who nervously smiled back. He wasn't bitter about her ending their fling a few days ago, but Vicky was afraid Remus would tell someone about their snog in the theatre.

Later, everyone sat at the tree.

"How are we gonna do this?" Susie asked.

"How about we just do it one person at a time and give them all their presents at one time." She looked at who was first in the semi circle they had made around the front of the tree. Remus was first. Susie and Sirius were the first to give him his presents.

Remus opened up Susie's present, the second book of a series of books he had been trying to finish.

"Thanks Susie," he said as he put the book down. The present from Sirius was a fountain pen that squirted ink at people who tried to use it. Chuckling, Remus put that away. Next was Lily's present, the third book of the volume and Vicky's was the fourth.

"Wow guys, thanks," he said. He knew those books were kind of expensive. The present from Cherie was a leather bound journal, with a picture of an overcast ocean day on it. She had written a note in it, which Remus decided to, read later.

Next were the presents for Vicky. Dylan had only gotten her and Susie presents, not really knowing the rest of the people, while Cherie had gotten Vicky, Lily, Susie and Remus presents. Sirius didn't really care, just as long as he got to spend Christmas with Susie, he had everything he wanted. Dylan had gotten Vicky a small vanity mirror that lit up and paid her mechanical compliments. Laughing, she put that down.

"Actually, we're leaving in an hour," Cherie told them. "So we have to give our presents and get going." Susie breathed a sigh of relief. Most of her presents for her friends were from Hogsmeade and she didn't want questions asked.

Cherie gave Susie a silver box and she gave Vicky a beautiful red flower barrette, with an actual fake flower on it. She presented Lily with a silver pen with a small silver flower sprouting out of the back. Dylan gave Susie a beautiful necklace, with a 3 gems, sitting on top of each other.

"Oh Dylan, this must've cost a fortune," she said as she examined the three jewels. It was her, Dylan, and Cherie's birthstones.

"That way you'll never forget us," he said with a smile. She stood up and gave him an extra long hug.

"Till next year," she said with a smile.

"Yeah." Cherie stood up and joined the hug and Susie could feel tears welling up in her eyes. This would be the last time she would see these two for a while. After everyone's hugs and good-byes and tearful faces, Cherie and Dylan left.

"Um sorry to break everyone's sad moment, but how are we getting home?" Sirius asked.

"Oh, Ronnie's coming in a few days," Susie told him. They spent the rest of the day giving their presents to each other. Susie was touched by Sirius' gift, a silver pendant that glowed.

"Why does it glow?" she asked him.

"Well, it's kind of a mood indicator, but it's for me. And mine's for you." He pulled another necklace out of his pocket. Susie's was engraved with her initials and his was engraved with hers.

"So I know that you're always in my heart and I'm always in yours," he said. She smiled and gave him a hug, wrapping her arms around him. Her eyes were prickling with tears.

"Sirius, what if the person is happy?"

"It glows gold. When I'm sad, yours will glow blue. When I'm angry, it'll glow red. And when I'm horny it'll glow orange." Sirius grinned. "It does the same for mine, so you can't deny anything anymore!" Susie laughed and put the necklace on. The necklaces both glowed gold, well Susie's was starting to turn orange.

"Sirius you horn dog!" she exclaimed. Sirius chuckled.

A few days later, a large black Yukon pulled up in front of the beach house.

"Who's that?" Vicky asked, dragging her bags out to the front. Everyone was in their rooms packing. Well Lily was done already and so was Remus. Now they were just waiting for Sirius and Susie.

"I think it's Ronnie, I'll get Susie and Sirius." She peeked in their room, where their luggage was piled up. Sirius and Susie were on the floor snogging

"Hey you two, we're leaving." Sirius looked up.

"Aw, we're going. That was our last snog at the beach house and last night was the last shag in California." Lily wrinkled her nose.

"I didn't need to know that," she said, walking out of the room. Sirius went to the drawer, pulling out the box of condoms.

"I almost forgot about these," he said with a grin. Opening up his bag, he put those in there and then pulled out one of Susie's thongs. Trying to hide it and stuff it quickly in his bag, he zipped it up. A corner of her thong was sticking out of his luggage and she spotted it.

"Sirius, is that my thong in your luggage?"

"Well, um of course not!"

She yanked on the lace, pulling it out. It was. She laughed and threw it back at him.

"Have it," she told him. Pulling her luggage into the front room, she saw Ronnie pulling luggage into the back of a large Yukon.

"Ronnie!" she called, dropping her luggage. He gave her a tight hug with a grin.

"How was California?" he asked.

"It's great; I didn't know I'd missed the California weather so much."

"How's Sirius been treating you?" he asked quietly.

"Oh Ronnie, don't even bother asking that. He treats me like a princess, how's that? We're in love," she said with a sigh.

"Well, that's good. As long as he's not mistreating you. You're grandfather is on his last nerve that you're dating a Black." Susie knew what he was talking about. Sirius had already explained to her about his family.

"Does Grandfather know that Sirius' family shunned him because he didn't believe in the dark arts that his family is so religiously following?" Ronnie just shrugged.

"Tell him that. Do you wanna stay at my flat or the manor?"

"Can I just stay at your place?"

"Yeah, since there is a week before school starts. Your grandfather wants to hold this fancy gala for your birthday." Susie sighed. Her birthday was January 3rd, her sweet 16. Ronnie had explained to her that her grandfather wanted her to become a debutant on her 16th birthday.

"I'll tell him I don't want a deb party. I'm not about to become one of those rich society girls. No way."

"Well I only have 3 guest rooms at the flat."

"Well, ummm, Vics and Lily can share, and I guess Sirius and Remus can share. Please Ronnie?" she pouted.

"Well, I guess that's okay."

"Yay," she gave him a tight hug and let go. Ronnie put her luggage in the back of the car.

Finally with all the luggage put in the back, Ronnie drove to the airport. He had already flown home to drop off his luggage.

"Um, Ronnie, how'd you get down here?" Susie asked. He smiled mysteriously.

"Floo network."

Susie gaped at him. "There's a floo network here?"

"Well, of course." As they raced down the freeway, Ronnie got off and soon pulled into a small parking lot. Taking out his wand, he went to the back and transported the luggage back to England with a pop.

"I couldn't do that over at the Beach house, too many people." He beckoned for them to follow. Entering the building, they walked past a security guard.

"Morning Ronnie. I see you got the McFasley girl with you." He nodded to Susie, who gave a slight wave.

Susie and her friends followed Ronnie till her reached a large room. Opening the door, it revealed a large glowing fireplace with a large bowl sitting on top of it.

"One of the few fireplaces in the States connected to the Floo Network. Now you have to announce Ronald Faldo's Flat, London and that'll take you there. See you guys at my flat." Picking up some floo powder, he disappeared into the fire.

That bit, belongs to JolieFillie, I think that's how you spell it! But it's copyrighted and I don't want to get sued cries

REVIEWERS!!!

Lttlered: thanks for your multiple reviews! Hehe. Of course there was bound to be trouble in paradise! Those two aren't perfect. And don't worry!! Remus won't suffer any longer, soon. Just keep reading!! And thanks for your wonderful review(s)!!!!!! )

Nicky Black: Lol yes he got some action! Well Vicky finds out, but things aren't going too great on his end. As I write this, I feel extremely bad for putting Remus through all this, but he'll get through it, don't worry. I have someone else in mind for him ;) (coughmoonlightcough)

Moonlight1111: You're coming! Patience is a virtue my dear reviewer, look for yourself by chapter 15 and if not, you can come to my house and repeatedly slap me with a wet noodle! And I know, I know, I just threw that California thing in there so that Remus and Vicky could get some action, but don't worry, you're coming! HOLD ON (if you feel like letting go) Sorry I'm mega hyper right now, but thanks for your reviews!

Loathe mary sues: I can see what you mean. I'm trying to make her as non mary sueish as possible. I had the same problem when I wrote LOTR fanfic. No with the whole Remus thing, there's a motive for that. I didn't just randomnly do that. I wasn't like "Hey susie's gorgeous, I'll just make Remus fall for her for no reason at all!" Nope, there's something going on there. It'll be in the later chapters that I'm writing at the moment. Dylan is her ex bf and she kinda dumped him, it wasn't vice versa and their always together cause their supposed to be best friends and that's why dylan's finding it slightly hard to get over her. Don't worry, we're probably not even gonna hear from him anymore after they get back. And I appreciate this, I know it's not a flame. I can accept your criticism and do what I can to improve the character cause I understand what you're saying. I'm trying to make her flawed, I really am! Just be patient!! cries No lol but as for the California thing, that's also for a reason. The reason I put that in there was for Remus and Vicky to get close and do stuff and so on and so forth. It's a way to complicate things a ton when you totally throw them in a new country with many people that they don't know...yet. Hmmm as for the spells thing, I don't have the HP books and I write this on a comp that has no internet, so I can't go find any. They do stuff in class, but I just like to concentrate on the main plot line, which is why it's under the romance/drama (I think) category. Haha yeah it was a long review and this is the longest answer I've ever done, but I thank you for your criticism and I shall be trying to improve the character!

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