EEP! Oh, my gosh! Did that just happen? That didn't happen! That can't have happened. This is Sirius, for goodness' sakes! He's a fictional character. He came out of J K Rowling's head! He gets old! Back in my time, he's, like, thirty! But he kissed me. I mean, he did kiss me. Didn't he? Am I imagining this? Is any of this happening? Am I having one hell of a dream? Did I dream all of this? Have I woken up? Ok, calm down. I'm getting too deep now. Even if this is a dream, I haven't woken up yet. That means I have to decide what to do. Do I push him off me? Do I kiss him back? No way! HELP! Ok, ok, calm down, Wyverna. Calm. Breathe. Don't hyperventilate. Not again. Not that I have a habit of hyperventilating. Not like that girl at school that got taken away in an ambulance. No! Back to the subject. Sirius kissed me. What do I do? Why don't they have little guides that tell people what to do when they're in this situation? Oh no! He's kissing me again! HELP! AGAIN! Dammit, what do I do? I don't know what to do! Ok – objective one – get out of here! I can't stay here, just thinking!

"Let's give them something to look at, then," replied Sirius casually, and pulling her closer, he kissed her. Wyverna went tense for a minute, not moving, almost as if she was in shock, before roughly pushing him off her, and running upstairs to her dormitory. Sirius looked confused for a moment, before he casually got up, and went over to where Dolphin and Remus were sat next to each other.

He came up behind them, leaning on their chairs. He was so close that Remus could have turned and kissed his cheek, right there... No! Sirius likes girls. He'd just proved that by kissing that Wyverna girl, hadn't he?

"So," said Sirius, "what was up with her?" Remus could feel Sirius's breath on his ear. This was all too much for him. He stood up nervously. Was this it? Was he finally going to tell him?

"Sirius..." he started.

"Yeah, Remus? What's up?" Sirius grinned. "Girl problems? I'm sure the expert here can give you some help!" he added, winking. Even Sirius was shocked when Remus looked at him with a face from which all the colour had drained away. The boy's mouth opened and shut a few times.

Then he folded up, very gently, and collapsed to his knees and started to sob. It was the most shocking sound they'd ever heard. Remus sighed, questioned and argued. Hearing him cry was wrong, as though the whole world had turned upside down.

"I'll take that as a yes, then?" asked Sirius, trying to make a joke of it. All Remus did was sob harder. "Oh-kay, then. I'll just be over here." He went over to a different corner of the common room, glancing over at Remus every now and then. Dol went over to Remus, and knelt down beside him. James and Peter leant over them.

"Stop crowding," Dol snapped, putting her arm around Remus. "Give the poor boy some space!" James and Peter just stood still, open-mouthed. They'd heard Remus be described as a lot of things, but never a 'poor boy'.

"Are you deaf? Go! Shoo!" James and Peter slowly moved away, until Dol looked back at Remus. "Ok. What's wrong?" she asked, quietly.

"I-I-I, then, he, and her, and... they, b-but then -" He broke off and started crying again. Dolphin looked around at everyone.

"Yes? Something interesting, is there?" she said, icily. "It's late. Go. Go to bed." Everyone started moving slowly, as though they weren't sure why. Finally the common room was clear of everyone, and Remus was left curled up in the middle of the room, with Dol knelt beside him with her arm around him.

"Ok. It's ok," she murmured, comfortingly. "It's alright now. Ok. Calm down." She repeated this until Remus had stopped crying, and sat up. "Ok. Ready to tell me what's up now?" Remus nodded quietly. "And you're not going to start crying again? No? Good. Now, start from the beginning. Just like you started to doin The Three Broomsticks."

"I was fine until I came to this school. True, I was a werewolf, but when the wolf howled inside me, it was always calling for girls. Then I-I met Sirius. I knew straight away he was the one, the wolf inside called out for him. Wolves mate for life, you know." He paused, taking a breath. "I managed to hide it, until lately. It's all too much. I love him, but I know he'll never feel the same way."

"Ok," said Dol, frowning. Remus looked up at her.

"What is it? Is it because I'm g-gay?" He looked down at his feet. "Don't you want to know me anymore?" Dol instinctively hugged him.

"Of course I still want to know you! Don't you ever even THINK that, ok?" she said fiercely. Remus managed a watery smile, as they sat down. "Now what we need," she continued, "is a plan... Let me think." They sat in silence for a while.

"Aha! I got it!" Remus looked at her eagerly.

"What? What is it?" he asked.

"I got the idea from a fan fiction I read," Dol answered. "Leave it all to me."

"So that's why I think Gryffindor should present The Snow Queen for the school," finished Dolphin. Professors McGongall, Dumbledore, Sprout and Yorlick (Head of Gryffindor, Headmaster, Head of Hufflepuff and Head of Ravenclaw, ok?) all clapped admiringly, and even Snape looked grudgingly impressed.

"Well," said Dumbledore, "I think that sounds like a good idea, don't you?" He looked around at the other teachers, who nodded. "In that case, we'll all look forward to it. Are you sure you can pull it all off yourself?"

Dolphin nodded confidently. "I'm the producer slash director. I'll make sure it all goes ok."

"Well, if you are sure. There's only one condition, though. I, myself, would like to be given the honour of casting the parts. Is that ok?" No, it's not ok, Dolphin thought. That will totally ruin my plan! But of course she couldn't say that.

"Yes, sir," she said. "That will be fine."

"Good. Tell all of Gryffindor that I would like to see them at two o'clock in the Great Hall tomorrow. It's a Sunday, so there will therefore be no lessons, correct?" Dol nodded.

"Correct, sir."

"Good. Well, if that is all...?"

"Yes, sir."

"Goodbye then, Dolphin. Two o'clock tomorrow."

"Two o'clock, sir."

At two o'clock the next day in the Great Hall, all of Gryffindor were lined up.

"Let me see," said Dumbledore, consulting a long roll of parchment.

"Aiken, Wyverna!" Wyverna walked over.

"Yes?"

"Take the part of... the grandma." The students laughed, and Wyverna grinned good-naturedly. Dumbledore handed her the script.

"Those are the white bees swarming around outside."

"Have they a Queen Bee?" said Dumbledore, with no emotion.

"They have," said Wyverna. She was very convincing, and by far one of the best actors or actresses so far. "She flies about over there where they swarm so thickly. She is the largest of them all and she never stays on the earth, but flies up again into the black cloud. Sometimes – "

"Enough," said Dumbledore, and Wyverna handed him the script before going back to where she was leaning against the wall.

"Atkins, John!" It went on in a boring sort of way, until;

"Black, Sirius!" Sirius looked up from where he'd been talking to Wyverna, and bounded forward.

"Yes, sir?"

"I would like you to perform for me the part of... Kay. Now, this scene, if you will." Sirius adopted the Power Stance, and letting his hair hang over his eyes he read,

"Why are you crying? You look so ugly when you cry. There is nothing the matter with me. Oh!" he exclaimed, "this rose has an insect in it. And just look at this! They are ugly roses after all, and it is an ugly box they grow in!"

Dumbledore nodded, and Sirius bowed with a flourish, winking at Wyverna, who rolled her eyes. The two continued to talk in low voices, until Sirius smiled, and took her hand. The list continued, until;

"Evans, Lily!" which made James take notice,

"Lupin, Remus!"

then later,

"Pettigrew, Peter!"

closely followed by,

"Potter, James!"

That was the last of 'their' friends, so they were free to go. They were actually free to go when they had each finished their go, but they'd all waited. Dolphin had to stay behind to see them all, however, so Remus chose to wait for her. Peter also waited, for some reason. James was following Lily around and bugging her, so it was just Wyverna and Sirius.

"So, now that you're my girlfriend, wanna make out?" asked Sirius, smirking. Wyverna pulled her hand away in outrage.

"I do not!"

"Come on, you know you do."

"Even if I do, you don't just ask! It should be a natural thing."

"Aha! So you do!"

"No, I said even if I do. If, Sirius, if!"

"Ah, come on Aiken, don't make me hex you," Sirius said earnestly.

"You hex me? I'd like to see you try!"

"Come on, just one kiss!"

"NO! Look, there's Remus. Hey, Remus! Tell Sirius to quit bugging me!"

"Why, what's he saying?" asked Remus. Wyverna opened her mouth, but shut it when she caught the look on Remus' face. It was the same one that he'd had last night, just before he fainted.

"Nothing. He's just being his normal annoying self," she replied, playfully pushing Sirius. "Now, it's -" she checked her watch, "six o'clock, and I'm going to bed!"

"Ooh, can I come?" asked Sirius cheekily. She pushed him a bit harder this time, and he looked at her in amazement.

"That actually hurt," he complained.

"Good! It'll teach you not to go around making smutty comments!"

"That's not being smutty," he argued. "Smutty is when -"

"I don't want to know what smut is, thank you very much!"

"Who? Who's being smutty?" asked Dol, coming up.

"Just Sirius," replied Wyverna, giving him a dark look. "Now I'm going to bed on my own. We got a big day ahead of us tomorrow – we're finding out who's got what parts! Now, goodnight."

"Don't I get a good night kiss?" asked Sirius. Wyverna rolled her eyes.

"Fine. Come here."

They went round a corner, and Dolphin and Remus could just hear Sirius say faintly, "That's not a proper kiss!"

"Are you going to be ok with this?" asked Dol, seriously.

"I'm going to have to be, aren't I," said Remus, sighing.

"Don't worry," said Dol, "if all goes well, then soon you'll be the one giving Sirius the goodnight kiss."