Ok, last chapter of this story, yahoo! Thanks for all your wonderful reviews and your support. I hope you'll like the ending.
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One day later, the three "conspirators" were sitting in the library the whole afternoon, discussing their plan for one last time.
James joked around as always: "Today's the day, gentlemen. We will either have a new couple by the end of this day or two corpses! Whatever it will be, at least we can say that our plan was good afterwards."
After some other jokes, Peter became thoughtful and asked: "But what if they really hate each other? I don't want to lose their friendship! And you know that they will know that we did it."
Remus who was really looking tired that day (full moon – woo!) ran through his hair with the grey streaks and answered slowly: "We have to take this risk. I mean you have seen Sirius, haven't you? If we don't help him, he'll become a stick-in-the-mud or something like that and we'll lose him anyway. And Elena has not really been Elena, too, since their meeting in the corridor."
"Yeah, she behaves in a strange way." Added the black-haired James. "You know that she's usually one of our biggest eager beavers – next to Lils – and writes down everything, which our teachers say, but now, she only stares out of the window. You've also realized that, Wormtail, haven't you?"
Peter with the mousy-brown hair nodded exaggeratedly. "Yah, and if you talk to her, she doesn't seem present, she's also somewhere else with her thoughts."
The third boy with the brown eyes looked seriously into Peter's and then into James's eyes and declared: "I know I am not an expert in this field, but Elena's behaviour tells me that she's also got a crush on Padfoot and that she's shocked because of it. And by the way, if I was a girl, I would also react like that!"
Remus had to smirk a bit and James grinned, but Peter remained seriously.
"Ok, we'll do it, although it doesn't feel right to me, strange behaviour or not. I think that you should force nobody to do something that he or she doesn't want to do!"
Hearing that, the other two boys stopped laughing and James answered: "We don't really force them, we just help them to find together!" he winked at Remus. "And at least, Sirius will be happy about it and if Rem is really right about En, she will also be and they both will embrace us for helping them." He rubbed his hands. "So, let's go and play Cupid!"
Even Peter had to laugh about this joke and the three boys left the library.
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About two hours later, Elena was sitting in their empty Potions classroom and was really on edge.
A few minutes ago, Remus had sat next to her in the Gryffindor Common Room and asked her to meet him in the dungeons at four o'clock because he wanted to ask her something. He hadn't wanted to say about what he wanted to talk to her, but she had assumed that it could have something to do with a girl. She didn't really know which girl as she had never seen Remus with one outside of their circle of friends, but she didn't know what else he could want to ask her in silence, without the others.
Now, it was quarter past four and the beautiful girl thought that her friend may have forgotten her, which was not really very pleasant. She wouldn't have said anything against any other classroom, but as their Potions classroom was located in the dungeons, it was really cold there and she only wore a light t-shirt together with the skirt of her uniform.
The girl shivered slightly and walked through the room, looking from one grey and depressing wall to the other.
She was glad that Professor Gingerus wasn't there – he had gone out with Professor Sprout, or at least, that was what she had heard. If it turned out to not be true, she would have great problems. But on the other hand, not really because she could just ask something about their last lesson and that would be the explanation for her presence in the Potions classroom. It wasn't unusual that she asked questions, no, she did that after almost every lesson and so, nobody would suspect anything.
But a real problem for her was her friend. How could Remus have forgotten her when he had told her that this conversation would be really important to him?
Elena promised herself to go back to their tower if he should not turn up in five minutes.
But suddenly, she heard voices in the corridor that lead to the Potions classroom. She couldn't really understand what they said, but she realized that there was more than one person.
In a split second, the girl thought of three questions that she could ask her Potions teacher when she suddenly noticed that the voices were familiar!
She knew that she was right and she was hearing the voices of Remus, Peter, James and Sirius!
"What is this supposed to be?" she wondered, now very angry.
Elena walked to the door and was about to leave the room when somebody was pushed against her.
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The handsome Sirius has also been in the Gryffindor Common Room, again observing the girl of his dreams, about two hours beforehand.
He had seen his friend Remus walk over to where Elena was sitting and talk to her.
Jealousy had hit Sirius then. Why could Remus be Elena's friend and not he? Why didn't she like him? Why did he have to play the macho when she was around and couldn't just tell her about his feelings?
These thoughts made him angry and he was about to walk over to her table and punch his friend (his head told him that this was wrong, of course, but he wanted to follow his heart) when Peter and James had come to his table and had sat down opposite him.
"What's going on with you, Pad?" James had asked. "You look like you would explode any minute!"
At first, Sirius hadn't wanted to talk to them, but after some encouraging words, he had told them about his feelings, even though it had happened very grudgingly – he had problems with talking about his feelings.
But afterwards, he really felt better. It hadn't seemed that difficult. So, why couldn't he talk to Elena like that? It really was a puzzle for him.
After some time, Remus had also joined them and by this time, the black-haired boy had already forgotten his stupid thoughts and calmed down.
Then, his friends had made some strange hints and when he had asked them for the 10th time what they had been talking about, they had finally told them: they had been planning another mischief all afternoon, they wanted to bewitch the ingredients of Professor Gingerus, so that they would attack him in their next lesson.
As Sirius had been very sad and thoughtful since the coincidence in the corridor, he had saluted this possibility to distract himself from Elena a bit and had agreed.
At four o'clock, Remus, Peter and James had told their friend that it was time to leave and realize their plan and so, they had walked down to the dungeons.
When Sirius had seen the half-open door of the classroom, he had suspected that there was already somebody inside, but his friends hadn't listened to him and pushed him into the room.
He crashed into somebody and that somebody fell to the floor. He looked down at that somebody and realized that it was Elena!
The handsome guy wanted to help her to get up, but again she ignored his hand and did it without help.
Behind them, the door of the classroom was suddenly banged shut and they heard three voices outside yell something simultaneously: "Claude!" – the closing spell.
Then, they heard the boys at the other side of the door sniggering and running away.
Sirius could only shout through the keyhole: "Wait till I get you, you lying pack!"
He tried an "Alohomora" to open the door, but Elena just shook her head: "We can't open that door. Don't you realize what they have done? They have used the Power of Trinity – the magical spell strengthener. We could only break this spell if we also were three people here, but we are obviously not."
"You are really one of the greatest know-it-alls that I know!" the boy said angrily. Elena looked hurt.
He was angry because his friends had lied to him and because he had again been so stupid in the presence of the girl of his dreams.
After some seconds, he calmed down and added: "So you mean that we can't get out of here?"
The beautiful girl didn't know what exactly she should think of all this. She had thought that Sirius and his friends had made a bet about her, but now his friends had locked him into the dungeons with her. And he seemed to be very angry at them.
All this confused her very much.
"Can you see another person here?" he had insulted her, so she could also be ironical. "No, we can't get out till our nice friends come back and do it."
Now, she wanted to know it: "But you already know that, don't you? It was another one of your 'clever' plans, wasn't it? You didn't see another way to be alone with me and so, the others locked us into this room to help you! Am I right or am I right?"
The short hesitation of the boy made Elena feel that she was right with everything that she had just said, but then –
"You've never been that wrong, Fuego!"
Elena stemmed her hand to her hips and frowned.
"Ok, one little part of what you have said is true: I really wanted to be alone with you very badly, but the other things are really invented. The others have also lied to me, they have said that they wanted to hex Gingerus's ingredients and that's how they've gotten me down here. I swear that I am not involved in this plan, whatever it is about!"
The girl looked at him suspiciously, but Sirius showed her his two hands to prove that he hadn't crossed his fingers behind his back.
A very embarrassing silence fell between them. Nobody knew what to say now because they were again preoccupied by their own thoughts.
The young man thought about the reasons why his friends would want to torture him by locking him into this room with the girl of his dreams.
Elena on the other hand, thought about what Black had just said. It had sounded logical and she was prepared to believe him now, but that wouldn't help them. They were captured in the dungeons till the others or their teacher would come back and she preferred the first option – on the one hand to punish them, on the other to avoid trouble.
Now that she was thinking about everything again, she felt the cold again and stared to shiver.
Sirius realized that the beautiful girl was feeling cold and so, gave the white shirt that he wore over his dark t-shirt to her.
She took it gladly and thought that he wasn't such a bad guy after all. Especially now, in this stupid situation, he could play the idiot again and use it for his purposes, but he didn't.
Suddenly, the boy started to laugh loudly.
"What is so funny, Black?" Elena asked a bit confused.
"Well, would you have thought that we two of all people in this school would ever be alone in one room without killing or getting on the other's nerves?"
Now, the girl had to also laugh. "Well, you are right, I would never have thought something like that!"
Then, they both could hear a clear sign of Sirius's stomach that he was really hungry.
"I would give everything to get a chocolate frog now. What about you? Do you also want some?"
Elena's eyes were shining: "I love them, they are my favourite sweets!"
"Mine too!" Sirius felt a prickle in his stomach. He had dreamed about this moment, but he had never thought that it would become reality.
He conjured some chocolate frogs and they began to eat them. "Ok, and what is your favourite drink?" The girl became curious. She had never thought that she could have something in common with Black!
"Melon-water and yours?"
"That can't be true, mine too!"
After that, they discovered that they were listening to the same type of music and both hated romantic films.
They talked and talked and when they had finished one topic, they moved on to another one.
Elena had never before talked to a "stranger" (for she had obviously not known Black) like that before. It seemed as if they knew each other since their births and were best friends. It was amazing and now, she didn't even feel bad about having a crush on Black.
After two hours in the dungeons, which had flown by like seconds, Elena became very curious again and had to ask one question. She simply had to ask or she would burst: "Sirius, why did you always go out with me and be alone with me?"
She had wanted to know the answer, but as the boy hesitated now, she half dreaded the answer. She expected the usual story: "Because you are so beautiful."
But this answer didn't come: "Because I am in love with you, Elena. With you and nobody else!"
She hadn't seen this coming. Could she trust her ears? Had he really said it?
Sirius felt proud because he had finally said it and he wouldn't stop now or he would never tell her these things.
"I am in love with you! You are the smartest, nicest, wittiest and prettiest girl I know. Well, ok I haven't really known you so far, but now, I am even more in love with you than before because you are amazing!"
Elena had problems holding back her tears. What he had said was so touching. Never in her life had somebody told her something like that.
When the young man saw the tears in her eyes, he expected the worst. She would hat him! He had ruined everything that they had just built up between them!
But when Elena looked into his eyes, he could see that these tears were tears of joy because she was also laughing.
She got up from her chair (they had been sitting on two chairs opposite each other) and hugged him, hugged him like nobody had done before.
At this very moment, he could tell that she was also in love with him.
When they broke away from each other, they both looked very happy and this happiness was flowing through their bodies like waves in the sea.
"Can I take this as sign that you will go out with me?"
Elena's face now looked angry again: "You know what, Black?" The happiness left Sirius at once and he shook his head. "Shut your mouth and kiss me!"
The happiness was back and when their lips met, they became one, not knowing where one ended and where the other one started.
It was a passionate and long kiss and even though Sirius had kissed many girls before, it was his first real kiss.
Suddenly, somebody knocked on the door and the new couple parted, both beaming.
A voice from outside shouted: "Are you still alive? Both of you?" It was James.
"Shall we free you?" added Peter.
Sirius looked down at his girlfriend and they both agreed with each other silently. Then, the young man shouted: "No, don't free us yet. We are just about to kill each other."
Elena giggled and said: "Yeah, Black, I will really kill you!" More giggling followed, which made the other three boys outside smile at each other.
"You will kill me?" Sirius asked playfully. "How?"
"Like this!" And the girl threw her arms around Sirius's neck and they went on with their kissing.
The End
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