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Chapter 5

Sirius Black was not one easily amaze, or even surprised actually. But now he found himself staring at the cave with wide eyes; the cave walls were not the same hard rock as outside, but sparkled with thousands of blue crystal fragments, causing shades of blue light to flicker all over the room. At the center of the room was a sapphire blue lake and in the middle of that, a large island with a giant crystal piece on it. There was a hole in the ceiling and moonlight shone down to bounce off that crystal to reflect off the crystal pieces in the walls.

"Well?" Sirius finally jerked his eyes away from the room and found him staring at what he would have thought to be a mermaid. Persephone was standing waist deep in the lake with soft purple hued hair. Her ivory skin was highlighted by the light that played across it tauntingly and her copper eyes stood out against the single colored room.

"I can see why the god of hell fell for you…" he mumbled and Persephone blinked,

"Pardon? Speak up. And hurry up."

Sirius was snapped out of his daze, "no-nothing. Anyways, is that giant rock the rock we want?" he asked, waving at the crystal on the island. A foreign sound met his ears and he blinked in surprise; it was Persephone. And she was laughing. Sirius's eyes widened in surprise as he heard the sound, like the sound of a brook going over stones mixed with the slight musical sound of chimes.

Persephone realized she was being stared at and stopped abruptly, looking embarrassed for the first time. "What?" she growled defensively.

Sirius just smirked and stepped into the water, "nothing, I just realized," he turned and gestured for her to follow, "I've never heard you laugh before."

"…" Persephone touched a soft hand to her lips, now that he'd mentioned it…that was the first time she'd laughed in ages…

"It's a nice sound. Better then your Slytherin sneer anyways." He flashed her that cocky grin and was graced with the sound of her laughter again.

"Whatever Black." Persephone walked past him, "and no, that's not the rock were after. If it were, do you think we'd be able to make this potion at least 10 times a year?" she reached down and pulled a ugly black rock from under the crystal, "this. Is a moon rock." And for the first time in ages, Persephone smiled. 'Hm…I'm doing a lot of 'first time in ages' things...must be something coming up or something.' The sensation of being disbelieved snapped Persephone from her thoughts, "what?"

Sirius raised an eyebrow, "that little ugly hunk of junk is a moon rock?" he asked and drew yet another laugh from Persephone. 'Damn…I really need to stop this. What am I? On laughing gas or something?' Persephone rolled her eyes, 'Muggle studies are getting to my head again.'

"Forget it Black. We should be getting back; I'll see you tomorrow in potions."

Sirius deflated slightly, and here he was thinking they were getting along. When the entire time she really wanted was to leave.

Persephone frowned slightly; she'd seen this expression before, the expression of rejection. She'd seen it a thousand times on the faces of the other guys that asked her out, but for some reason…she couldn't stand seeing it on his face. "Oh and Black?" she turned slightly as she walked by the male, "call me Persephone." Sure it wasn't like she was going to let the man start calling her Fawks; that was a name only to be used by the people closest to her, but hells it was better then nothing.

"R-right." She almost laughed again at the confused look on his face and smiled.

"It's customary to offer your own name in return." She smiled, pocketing the rock as she exited the cave.

"I did offer it! When I sat down next to you today! And you answered 'no shit Sherlock.' Who the hell is Sherlock anyways!" Sirius did a fine imitation of her sneer. Amazing.

"Whatever Black."