Everybody Needs Somebody
By: Jess
Summary: Katie Potter, James's twin, has been in love with Sirius Black for as long as she could remember. But she's never had the courage to say anything to him. Sirius feels the same about Katie, but figuring this out for themselves will be harder than they both thought. SIRIUSOC.
Author's Note: Wow, people REVIEWED! Thanks, you guys! Luv ya:D Sooo sorry it took so dang long! How was everyone's Valentine's/ S.A.D. (Singles Awareness Day) Day?
I woke up before Lily and our other roomies, Judy Cassidy and Rose Boyd, so I took a shower and got dressed into my uniform. Lily was ready to shower, Rose was just waking up, and Jude was still sleeping soundly.
"Morning, you two," I smiled as I put my shoes on and kissed Gandalf good morning.
"Hey. You wanna wake Jude up?" Rose asked. Jane was always a heavy sleeper and required special waking-up skills that only I possessed out of the four of us. Therefore, it has been my job since the beginning of first year to wake that girl up. Every bloody morning.
I smiled and walked over to Judy's bed. She let out a little snore. What's this girl going to do without me?
I cleared my throat and smiled evilly. No matter how many times I did this, it never got old...
"HEY JUUUUDE! DON'T MAKE IT BAAADDD! TAKE A SAD SOOONG AND MAKE IT BETTERRRRR!" I sang at the top of my lungs, very off key. Soon Rose joined me. "REMEMBER, TO LET HER INTO YOUR HEART! THEN YOU CAN STAART TO MAKE IT BETTER! NAAAA NAA NAA NA NA NA NAAA! NA NA NA NA! HEYY JUUUDE!"
"Katie! Shut up, I'm awake!" Jude shot up from her sleeping position and shouted at Rose and me.
We ceased our tortuous duet and smiled. "It's your parents' fault," I told her as I walked over to my trunk. "They shouldn't have given you the same name as that song."
Jude just rolled her eyes at my silly antics, while Rose went to brush her teeth. I took out the earrings Sirius gave me for my birthday and put them on.
"Ooh, are those the earrings Sirius gave you?" Jude asked me suggestively. "They look pretty expensive. Like something a boyfriend would give his girlfriend."
I rolled my eyes. Jude has been hinting for me to go out with Sirius since we were fifteen. I had a crush on him then of course, but seeing as Jude was the Gossip Queen here at Hogwarts, it didn't seem too wise to tell her. Even if she was one of my dear, dear, dear friends.
"For my birthday, Jude," I corrected her. "Sirius got me these for my birthday. You got me a pretty expensive gift too." I was referring to the amazing gown Jude bought me in Spain. Her card said, 'When I saw it, the first thing I thought of was you. Naturally I had to buy it!'.
"Yes, well, that's different." She climbed out of her bed and walked over to me. "We're girlfriends."
"And Sirius and I are best friends," I said as I put on the matching necklace.
"Oh, I'm not your best friend?" she teased.
"No," I smiled back at her.
"That hurts, Kat," Jude pouted.
I rolled my eyes. "Pouting never solved anything, Judith."
"When we were young it did," Rose protested.
"Very true, my dear. But we're nearly adults. Therefore, no more pouting unless for a boy."
"Like Sirius!" Jude smiled.
"Or Remus?" I raised an eyebrow.
Jude blushed. She'd had a monster crush on Remus all last year. She said that he had gotten "just so fit!" over the summer, even though he'd been that way for quite a while. They had been friends, but I think ever since sixth year, she's been talking with Remmie more often. They would make a cute couple if Remus got his head out of his fat a-
"I'm done!" Lily said, emerging from the bathroom in her school uniform. "Who's next?"
"Me!" Jude yelled, rushing into the bathroom, uniform in hand. I rolled my eyes and clasped the necklace on.
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After Lily came out of the bathroom, the two of us walked down, knowing how insanely long Rose and Jude would take showering, pampering, etc. Lily and I were very low-key, except for my usual eye shadow and lip gloss. We saw Remus and James waiting in the Common Room for everyone else to come down. James was instantly by Lily's side, trying to get her to speak to him. However, Lily didn't seem like she wanted to hear it. Rolling my eyes, I walked over to Remus to tell him about this amazing book I'd read over the summer.
"It's called The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe," I said. "These four children somehow find this fantasy world called Narnia in a wardrobe and then they have to help save it from this evil witch whose had control over it for a long time and makes it winter and never Christmas- isn't that awful- and it's really really good, Remmie, you'd love love love it!" I shook his shoulders and stared him the eyes. "LOVE IT!"
"Do you have it here?" he asked when I finally calmed down. We would usually trade books to read in History of Magic, aka the Hardest Class to Stay Awake In.
"Yea, it's in my bag. I'll give it to you at breakfast. By the way, where's Sirius?"
Remus pointed to the steps. "He's upstairs, pampering. He takes more time to get dressed than a girl!"
"I heard that!" called a deep, masculine voice from upstairs.
I turned around and smiled Sirius walking down the steps. "Why hellooo! Ça va?"
Siri yawned and plopped next to me on the couch. "Didn't sleep too much," he told me. I leaned my head on his shoulder and sighed.
"And why is that?" I asked. "Someone as hideous as you certainly needs their beauty sleep!"
"Because, dearest friend," he ignored my ugly comment, "I was wondering how I would tell you."
I giggled as Siri put an arm around me. "And what might you be telling me?"
"Well, I was going to tell you..." he kissed me on the cheek and began walking out of the Common Room. "But your comment about me needing beauty sleep- which i don't- I don't think you deserve to know."
I jumped up and followed him. "Siri- babyyyyy! (one of his many nicknames from moi) You gotta tell me! Oh, please tell me!" I begged.
But Sirius just kept smirking and refused to acknowledge my presence. He wouldn't answer me or even look at me. I tried everything to make him tell me! I pretended to cry, I begged some more, I threatened, I even said I would be his friend anymore! Not even that worked! (Hm, maybe after we hit ten we finally realized we're not being serious about it...) He's such a stubborn ass! Then I stopped walking and let Sirius get a good distance away from me before I yelled at the top of my lungs, "SIRIUS, DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL SNAPE YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO AFFORD HIM OR WOULD YOU RATHER BORROW SOME OF MY MONEY? I HAVE A FEW GALLEONS I COULD SPARE!"
Sirius literally stopped in mid-stride when he heard that. He turned around and gave me the most horrified look, before running after me.
"KATIE POTTER!" he shouted. "GET OVER HERE, NOW!"
I was laughing so hard as he caught up with me. He grabbed me by the waist and flung me over his shoulders. I could see all these girls (mainly Sirius's fan club/ stalker girls), glaring daggers in my direction. Even after I told them, "Jealousy only leads to zits!" Honestly, I was only giving them some advice!
When Sirius and I finally made our way to the Great Hall, everyone was already receiving the post and class schedules. My owl, Gordy, came flying straight at me with a letter from Mum and my schedule.
"Ooh, ooh! I don't have Potions until Thursday!" I shouted and threw a fist in the air. I hated Potions. What a dumb class. Like Ancient Runes.
"What do you have first?" Sirius asked me.
"Uh, Transfiguration," I told him.
"As do I, Kat." He smirked as we made our way to the Gryffindor Table.
"Muffin!" I grabbed about four muffins and started stuffing my face.
"Well, good morning, sis," James rolled his eyes.
"Hi!" I said through a mouthful of muffin-y goodness, giving them their first display of "see food" for the year.
"Kate, eat your muffin slowly," Lily told me and handed me a napkin.
"But they're so gooood, Lils!" I complained. "I live for eating muffins! Eating muffins, writing, and of course, Jim Morrison." I sighed dramatically as I imagined The Doors sex god front man.
"But you said you'd take Steven Tyler!" Rose complained. "I wanted Jim!"
"No, remember? You get Mick Jagger," Jude reminded. "Lily got Steven, Kat got Jim, and I have... wait, who did I get?"
"Joe Perry?" I suggested after taking a swig of orange juice.
"No, no, that was my neighbor..." Jude pondered for a few seconds. "I remember! Keith Richards!"
"Ooooh, what a hunk," Lily giggled.
"Who are all these people you're going on about?" Sirius asked.
The girls and I simply stared at the oh-so-confused Siri as if he'd grown eighty bajillion heads. "What?" we all shrieked together.
"You've never heard of The Rolling Stones?" Jude gasped.
"Or Aerosmith?" Rose added.
"Not even Mick Jagger?" Lily said.
"You've had to have heard of The Doors, Sirius!" I screamed.
He just shook his head no. "Are they like, clothing brands or something?"
"Oh my god, Siri!" I shrieked. "Pureblood or not, you've still had to have heard of Aerosmith!" Actually, I hadn't heard of most of them either, but Rose brought over her records when we were at Jude's last summer. I actually started buying records that summer and already I have a pretty impressive collection.
He shook his head.
I just slumped back in my chair and sighed. "Sometimes I really wonder about you, Sirius Black."
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The entire day was simply "Blah blah blah blah blah...". Aaalll our professors droned on and on and on about the importance of really paying attention in our classes this year for the N.E.W.T.S. Unfortunately for Professor Binns, the entire class (even the Ravenclaws!) fell asleep in his speech. It had been our last class of the day, and frankly, we had gotten sick and tired of hearing about the ruddy N.E.W.T.S. We knew how important they were. We just liked to pretend they didn't exist. By dinner, we were all exhausted!
"Ugh, can we just go to the Kitchens instead?" I groaned as I fell on the couch in exhaustion.
"No, stop being lazy," Lily scolded me as she polished her Head Girl Badge.
"Then can you get something for me in the Great Hall?" I begged.
"I'll get you a few dinner rolls and chicken, alright, baby sis?" James said, giving me a quick peck on the cheek.
"Mm hmm," I nodded and yawned. "Except for one little bitty thing, Jamie."
"Yeah?"
"I'm older than you by twenty-six minutes."
"She's got your number, Prongs," Remus laughed.
"Well, I'm much better looking that she is!" James declared.
"You're identical!" Jude groaned.
"Yeah, but the glasses are sexy," James argued.
I looked up at him for about thirty seconds, then burst into fit of laughter. "Glasses? Sexy? Are-are you... oh god, that's rich! Are you serious?"
"No, that would be him," Jude said, pointing to Sirius. I fell off the couch and started rolling around on the floor.
"Hahahaaa, Jude, that never gets old does it?" I cackled. "Coz his name is Sirius, and it sounds like serious! Hahahahaaa!"
"Okay, har har, very funny, Kat," Sirius rolled his eyes. "Get up! Seriously."
That little comment kept us from eating for another ten minutes.
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After we finished eating and Remus kept me from burning Rose at the stake, as she's a witch and turned me into a newt (I got better..), we went back to the Common Room and chatted.
"Ooh, so what have our lovely Head Girl and Boy planned for us this year?" Jude asked Lily and Remus.
"Well, I was thinking about a Halloween Ball," Lily said. "Wouldn't that be cool?"
"Definitely!" Rose said. "We can go with a date and buy the same outfits, like Cleopatra and Caesar or something! Ooh, I have to do that! Wouldn't it be soo groovy?" (a/n: it's the 70s, y'all!)
"And what about the Yule Ball?" Peter asked.
Remus nodded. "Yeah, Lily was kind of against it, but Dumbledore and McGonagall said it's a part of our tradition."
"Ha, I know why Lily doesn't wanna have it!" I said in a sing-song voice, which earned me a glare from the redhead. "Don't deny it, we were destined to be in-laws!"
James's eyes brightened and he ruffled his hair, making it even messier than it usually is.
"Jamie, if you keep pulling on your hair like that, it'll fall out," Jude warned him.
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September went by rather quickly, with James and Sirius only getting five detentions (from each teacher...). All the girls were now going gaga over the Halloween Ball, who their dates were, what they were going to wear... blah blah blah. Rose was going with an extremely cute Ravenclaw, Robert Cunningham, while the rest of us were date-less.
"Lily, just go with James!" Jude groaned after we went up to our dorm. "It's not like it's the end of the world! At least you've even been asked!"
"Jude, about half the male population has asked you to go with them!" Lily said. "Why not go with one of them?"
Jude shrugged. "Well, none of them really know me. They're just looking for something I'm obviously not willing to give!"
"What, sex?" I asked.
Rose coughed and it oddly sounded like, "You know you want to!"
"Are you daft, Rose? I'm saving myself till I find someone I love," Jude told us very firmly.
"Put the claws away, hun, no cat fights up here," I laughed.
"Oh, you're one to talk, Kat, emphasis on cat," Jude shot back.
"Besides, you don't have a date either, Katie!" Rose added. "Who're you going with?"
I shrugged. "Dunno. Can Robert give me a friend or something?"
"They're all taken," Rose said. "Most of them are going with sixth years in Ravenclaw."
"Ooh, trying to take it while they're young, eh?" I joked.
"Please, most of the Ravenclaws are sluts anyway," Lily rolled her eyes.
"Anyways, back to the topic of dates..." Jude said.
"What about Remus or Peter?" I said.
"Peter? No," Jude responded. "It's not that I don't like him, he's too much of a little brother figure for me to go with him."
"And Remmie-kinssss?" I teased.
Jude blushed. "He doesn't look to interested..."
"Judith!" I scolded. "Are you blind? Oh, wait. Forgot, you're blonde... but it doesn't take rocket science to figure out Remus has a thing for you! Am I right, girls?"
Lily and Rose nodded eagerly. "He's constantly blushing and getting really shy whenever he's with you," Lily told her.
Jude's eyes lit up brighter than the Christmas tree in Rockafeller Plaza, NY. "Really?"
"Duuuhhhh."
"But Katie doesn't have a date!" Jude said. "Let's focus on you right now, okay?"
"Whatever."
"Now, how about that nice Hufflepuff? What's his name? Greg?"
"Too short," I said. "I like 'em tall, dark and handsome." I giggled.
"Then, Ben Matthews in Ravenclaw? He's a sixth year, yeah. But he's gorgeous."
"No, he's going with Amy Biggins," Rose told us, "She's Robert's cousin."
We went through a long, long list of eligible boys for dates. But there was something wrong with almost them. "Too pervy, too young, too stupid, too nerdy, too weird, he smells funny..." Jude finally ran out of boys, but Lily said she forgotten one.
"Who?" Jude asked, obviously frustrated with how picky I was with boys.
Lily smiled. "Sirius Black."
A/N: Done! Cookies to anyone who knows what song the title is from!
Jess