::I do not own any of the charachters of this story (other than Anastasia). They all belong to J.K.Rowling. Otherwise someone else would've fallen through the veil in the Order of the Pheonix.::

Chapter 3: The Aftermath

As the next day was Saturday, Anastasia slept until about twelve. She went down to the Great Hall just in time for lunch. When she got there, she met Lily who ran to her and jumped up and down with excitement.

"Oh my God! I stayed up until like two o' clock waiting for you! What happened?" And so Anastasia gave Lily the details about last night. She sighed contently when all the romantic parts happened. "So," Lily asked with anticipation, "did you kiss?"

Anastasia just laughed, "What do you think?" She smirked at Lily's shocked face.

"Oh my gawd! I can only imagine!" she squealed, "When do you think you'll meet again?"

"I don't know." Anastasia said, "I hope it's soon. What homework do we have."

"We have a two foot long report for Defense Against the Dark Arts on counter curses."

"Damn Professor Forderhase. I swear to Merlin she's pure evil." Anastasia said with a scowl. "I better go to the library and start this crap."

"Okay, check ya later." Lily said. So, Anastasia made her way to the library. But she wasn't alone, when she got there, she saw Sirius was there.

"Hey Sirius." Anastasia waved to him.

Sirius looked up and said "Hi. James told me about your little adventure last night." he said with a grin. "How'd it go?"

"It was the best night of my life." Anastasia said sinking into a chair next to him.

"Oh really?" Sirius said, interestingly, "what might've happened that made it the best night of your life?" He then did a fake cough that clearly sounded like "fuck." Anastasia pushed him so hard he almost fell of his chair but she didn't need to since he fell of himself from laughing. Madam Rosalie kicked them out before Anastasia could even get started on her report.

"That's okay, I start it tonight and finish it tomorrow." she said. Sirius was still doubled over with laughter. "All right, all right. It wasn't that funny." But he didn't care, he was still laughing. Anastasia scoffed and then next moment, she found that she had been tripped by none other than Peeves the poltergeist. Sirius grabbed her before she fell and pulled her up.

"Awwwww," Peeves shouted with remorse "so close!"

"Get out of here Peeves!" Sirius shouted angrily. Peeves whooshed out of site. "Are you okay?" he said asking Anastasia.

"Yeah, I'm…"

"BLACK!!!!!!" Anastasia and Sirius turned on the spot to see Snape with a ugly, angry look on his face. "What do you think you're doing?" he spat at Sirius as he pushed him away from Anastasia.

"What the hell are you talking about? Have you gone mad?" Sirius shouted angrily at Snape.

"Shut up, you stupid fuck!" Snape screamed back at Sirius and then knocked him to the ground.

"Stop it!" Anastasia yelled at Snape but he wasn't listening. He started kicking Sirius. Sirius' anguished cries filled the corridor. "Snape, no! Get off of him!" Anastasia ran to him and grabbed his arm but Snape just pushed off and kept kicking the shit out of Sirius.

"YOU-BETTER-STAY-AWAY-FROM-HER!!!" Snape snarled as every blow hit Sirius in the stomach. Anastasia could see his shaking hands covering his bloody face.

"Damn it! Why the hell did I leave my wand upstairs?" she thought with much remorse. She then thought of the one thing that might be able to get Snape out of outrageous mood. Anastasia ran up to Snape again, grabbed his arm, and tongued him before Snape could push her away again.

Anastasia kissed him quickly and discreetly and as soon as she separated her lips from his, she turned away from Snape. She couldn't face him after that. Snape however just stared at Anastasia curiously. He decided to play it to his advantage. Snape turned Anastasia around, ran her up against the wall and started kissing her again.

Anastasia couldn't get Snape off of her, he had pinned her arms to the wall. Snape was so aggressively dominant, unlike The Phantom. Snape had slipped his hand under Anastasia's blouse and started feeling on her breasts. That was it! Anastasia managed to free her arm and punched Snape in the stomach. He backed up off of her and bent over in pain, but he looked up and smirked at Anastasia in a triumphant way. When the pain seemed to have passed, he walked toward a walked toward a gasping Sirius and picked him up by the front of his robes.

He held Sirius about an inch away from his face. "Listen closely, Black." Snape said in a threateningly calm voice, "If you ever touch her again, I'm going to have to kill you. As you can obviously see, I don't need a wand to kill you, understand?" Sirius only responded by coughing up more blood. "Good." Snape said with a smile. He set off walking down the corridor, when he stopped. He turned around and walked back toward Anastasia. He stood in front of her and whispered in her ear, "If you ever tell anybody about what just happened, I'll have to kill you too." Snape pecked her quickly on the lips and swept off toward the Great Hall.

As soon as Snape was gone, Anastasia ran to where Sirius lay shaking violently.

"Sirius?" Anastasia said gently, "Come on, we have to take you to the hospital wing. Come on, get up. There you go." Anastasia helped Sirius up but she almost had to drag him to the hospital wing.

"Oh my goodness!" cried Madame Aurora, the school nurse, "What happened to him?" she said rushing to Sirius before he collapsed to the ground.

"Uh…" Anastasia said blankly, "uh, we went down to Hagrid's and he showed us the hippogriffs and one of them went berserk." Madame Aurora looked strangely at Anastasia.

"You better watch it next time you go near such dangerous creatures" she scolded at Sirius. She walked him to a bed and began bandaging him up and mixing potions.

"He'll be okay, right?" Anastasia asked cautiously.

"Oh yes," Madame Aurora responded matter-of-factly, "he should be back to normal by tonight. You can go, dear. I'm sure he'll meet you later."

Anastasia went back to her dormitory, running over the last hour through her head. What the hell was going on with Snape? He's acting like they were going out or something. Something was definitely up with Snape, but what?