Chapter 14 – The Ball, Part Two!

All original spells in this chapter are based on Latin languages, so be proud of me:)

Ignoring Sirius' voice behind me I headed determinately for the spot on the dance floor where James and Lily were dancing slowly, her red haired head on his broad shoulder.

She saw me before James did and stepped away from him immediately, like a little girl who's been busted while digging her hand into the cookie jar.

Surprised by his dance partner's actions, James glanced around himself, spotting me quickly where I stood in the middle of the dance floor, cutting myself out of the crowd being the only person there who was not dancing.

"Crys." His voice was raspy and obviously affected by fear of me standing there like I was going to preach over them right there, about how they had done something horrible.

"Yeah, that's me." I said warmly, causing confusion to add up in the weird mixture of expressions on his face. "Could you step outside with me for a second James? He'll be back soon Lily, real soon I promise you."

"Oh…allright." James said and took a quick gaze at Lily before he followed me out of the crowded dance floor, past the dinner tables and out a white terrace wing door which lead to a beautiful garden of butterfly bushes and humongous flowerpots with all sorts of colourful plants.

"Okay. What is this about? I'm sorry if you think I was dancing too close to Lily but you know that she and I are just friends and will always be just-" Before he could finish his stupid and horribly untrue sentence, I placed my index finger on his lips, ssh-ing at him.

"Can I talk first James? Please?"

He nodded gingerly, giving me the silence I needed to start.

"Look. I'm just going to spit it out. I'm breaking up with you." He opened his mouth to speak, but in the exact same way as before, I silenced him with my finger and continued. "But it's not because of what you and Lily did tonight. Well, not directly. The thing is that the relationship that we have is not very deep. You're a great guy and I'm a nice girl, and we're meant to be friends, since we don't really love each other in a couple-y manner. On the other hand, what you and Lily have is so much more. And I wouldn't forgive myself if I would make you two give that up for something as immature as us."

The expression on James' face was by far the cutest, yet the stupidest thing I had ever seen. His eyebrows were stuck somewhere far upon his forehead, his mouth was slightly open, forming a small o between his upper and lower lip.

"And," I continued, "It's all thanks to Sirius that I realized that you guys are in love. And it's great!"

"Sirius?" James' voice was dark. "Looks like I have a conversation to have with him."

"No, no, no! Sirius has just made sure that you don't miss out on love."

"Would you stop saying love?" His voice had taken on a slight hint of joking.

"Love love love love love…" I teased and turned his head towards mine with my hand for the last time in my life. "Now you go in there, and you make sure that you snog her before midnight okay?"

James grinned a bit before nodding and hugging me close.

"Thanks Crystal. Wait till I tell Lily what you did."

"I'll be holding my breath. Good luck." He smiled and offered me his arm, which I accepted and we walked together back into the Great Hall and towards the bar where Sirius sat and waited for me to return with news.

James let go of me there, winked slightly to Sirius before he got back into the dance floor where Lily stood with her friends, the same worried look on her face as before.

Sirius offered me my old barstool and a new glass of punch before he started talking, "So, I see you didn't break up with him after all. That's nice because you breaking up with him would've ruined his whole evening." He looked at me smartly before he took a big swig of his punch.

"Oh, we broke up allright." I gave a small smile.

Sirius choked on his punch and coughed loudly.

"Well isn't he…why is he…?"

"I merely explained the situation. He's a rational young man."

Sirius grinned. "Okie dokie. Well, may I offer you another glass of punch before we head to the dance floor again?" He chimed and I passed him my goblet.

"Are you trying to get me drunk, Black?"

"Well I'm drunk and it looks like we're stuck with each other. You might as well drink a few glasses; you might see me as much more funny and attractive. Not that I aren't already funny and attractive." I slapped his arm playfully.

"You don't have any self confidence problems do you?"

"Not at all." He got down of his chair and reached out to help me down of mine. When we got to the floor the band was starting a new song, this time it was a bit Latino style.

You're my lover, undercover

You're my sacred passion and I have no other

You're delicious, so capricious

If I find out you don't want me I'll be vicious

Sirius appeared to be a lot better dancer than James was and we danced to a few songs before he finger-locked his hand with mine.

"Crys, it's so hot in here. Want to take a walk?"

"Sure."

We walked together out of the Great hall and into the Entrance hall.

"Why did we end up here?" I asked airily and giggled.

"I seriously don't know." He grinned sexily before he leaned towards a column and pushed a lock of black hair out of his enchanting eyes.

"Let's go somewhere." I suggested and pulled him towards the dungeons.

"Whatever you say, love." He let me pull him down the staircases and into the damp, dark dungeons

"Wow," he joked, "such a great place for evening walks, with all the beautiful scenery," He pointed at the mouldering walls, "Such wonderful aroma." The 'aroma' in the dungeons was anything but wonderful.

I laughed.

"Yeah it's lovely." I leaned up against the moss grown brick wall. "I feel like I'm going to my common room."

"I feel like I'm going to a potions class." He stepped a bit closer to me, his dark blue eyes relaxed and loving. "I hate potions. And our potions teacher."

"Professor Slughorn?"

"Yes him. He is so full of favouritism that he sometimes doesn't even look in people's cauldrons except they're in his stupid Slug club."

His nose was now only an inch or so away from mine.

We were now standing in front of an empty classroom, its wooden doors half open.

I looked into his ravishing sparkling, blue irises for a moment, and without any further comments about our potions teacher I just couldn't stand it anymore.

Before Sirius even got in the hang of the situation, I pushed him into the classroom and slammed my lips on his.

For a split second I felt his lips hesitate, then he gave in and licked my upper lip hungrily, pleading to get more.

His tongue entered my eager mouth and he kissed me with such passion I had never felt with James.

"Crys." He muttered into my hair.

"Um?" I responded into his neck.

"Is this wrong?"

"If it would be wrong it wouldn't feel this good. Besides, James in the Great hall as we speak, snogging Lily. Stop talking." I traced kisses down his jaw line, onto his neck, and down to the collar of his robes.

He moaned in pleasure and I unbuttoned the front of them, revealing a tight, black T-shirt, and some black pants.

I leaned in once again and licked his bottom lip softly as he sucked on my upper one, his hands searching for the zipper on the back of my dress. After two minutes of fumbling I finally stood up and grinned at him. I found the zipper myself and slowly but surely I slid it down my spine, causing the dress to slide down my body, revealing the sexy underwear from Hogsmeade, a lacy blue bra and some hipsters to match.

He gasped a bit before smiling at me.

"Has James ever seen what I'm seeing now?"

I bit my bottom lip, grinning, before I shook my head.

"Of course he hasn't." Sirius continued, "He would've never looked at Lily again."

"Stop thinking about James." I whispered in his ear, pushing a few soft, black locks away behind his ear. "There's just you and me."

I started sliding the shirt up his washboard stomach, which had a clear six-pack. "Whoa, where did you get this stomach? You steal it somewhere?"

He grinned before he leaned in and kissed my collar bone.

"There's much you don't know about me."

I tilted my head back when he continued to trace kisses, lower, lower until he reached the bra.

He took off his black shirt, in the flickering of the candles in his eyes, and the alcohol in my blood, there was no doubt in my mind that this was the right thing to do.

Half an hour later my toes curled in ecstasy.


Sirius and I were cuddling up to each other against the cold classroom wall with our clothes back on when I heard a feint sound of angry voices.

I stood up, causing Sirius to furrow his eyebrows.

"Crys, where are you going?"

I made a sign, gesturing him to stand up and come with me out of the classroom.

"What is the-" He stopped in mid sentence when I put my hand up to my ear, showing him that he should listen.

When he heard the voices, he got curious too and we snuck further and further into the damp brick tunnels, towards the oldest and deepest part of the castle, the prison cells.

"Well, I'm not leaving this place until we get this clear!" I heard a young man's voice say.

"There is nothing to get clear!" I heard an upset girl's voice hiss.

"Yes, there is. I have a problem with him taking you to the dance. And I thought we were mates. Consider yourself off my friends list now Severus." The young man's voice snarled, causing me to get stuck between the two states of laughing and being scared. These persons were obviously Cissa, Severus and of course, 'the young man'; Lucius.

"It is totally up to me, with whom I go to the dance."

"And ignore everything that we have?" Lucius' voice was desperate; Sirius and I were standing only a few feet from the two-roomed cell in which they were.

"We had Luce. Had, not have."

"Stop denying it Cissa. We're meant to be. And I know that your parents demand that you marry me because of what happened…" I choked; they were talking about Cissa's pregnancy.

Sirius cocked an eyebrow at me; he obviously had no idea about his cousin's 'condition'.

"They think it'd be appropriate, and I couldn't agree more." Lucius finished.

"I don't give a rat's ass what my parents think. And I care even less about yourm opinions. You can't force me to love you."

"What do you think Sev? Should she marry me?"

I suddenly realized that Severus hadn't said a word the entire time.

"Well…" He drawled, "I don't know what it is that 'happened' and is so important in this perspective. I don't want to make a statement without further knowledge."

"Well, I'm very sorry Severus but neither of us is going to tell you. It's a secret." I heard Cissa say, her voice trembling a bit.

"Allright. Then I'm guessing that you two did something embarrassing. That or something illegal."

"Don't go around making statements like that about something that you have no idea about." Lucius said, his voice threatening.

"I can go around and make statements like that if I want, thank you." Severus hissed, slightly louder.

"Well, well. Who's getting all big and mighty?" Lucius said, his voice icy.

Sirius had started moving again and was now standing in front of the prison cell next to the one where Cissa, Lucius and Severus were arguing. I tiptoed over the dusty dungeon floor, to join him, the voices now clear and loud.

Suddenly Cissa spoke in a very fast and frightened manner, as if something had happened in there.

"Do not draw your wand Lucius. Oh Sev, you too. This is just bloody fantastic.

Are you going to have a one-on-one duel here in a dark dungeon? That's fine by me. You two enjoy yourselves; I'm going back to the dance."

"Don't you dare move Cissa! This is not solved yet!" Lucius bellowed, and I could only guess that he was pointing his wand at her, and that thought made me so angry I almost stormed into the cell. Sirius grabbed my dress quickly, holding me back.

"This guy is capable of anything." He whispered to me and got his wand from his robe pocket. "Do you have your wand?"

I couldn't help but grin at his question. I had noticed, just before I walked out of the dormitories at eight o' clock previously that same night, that my dress had a wand pocket inside the curvy skirt.

I took it out smiling and he grinned back.

"Clever, Crystal. Very clever."

We stood outside the cell still, as the conversation inside it continued.

"Are you threatening her?" Snape asked Lucius, his voice shaky.

"I most certainly am, and I would not hesitate to hex you too if you moved just one inch. Sit down, both of you." We could hear Snape snort and Cissa sigh and

I guessed that meant they had followed his orders.

"Snape, do you swear that you will never attempt to put hands on her?" Lucius asked, his baritone voice now determinated.

"What is this Lucius? Have you gone mad?" I heard Cissa squeak.

"No, I'm very rational. Say yes now, Sev."

There was silence and we heard a person take two steps, it was definitely

Lucius, taking two steps towards Severus.

"Say it."

There was some more silence and we heard Lucius' voice hiss, "Imperio." The

imperius curse, Lucius was forcing Severus to say it.

"Yes." The later one whimpered.

I couldn't control myself now, and stepped into the cell, followed closely by

Sirius, both of our wands pointing straight at Lucius' throat.

"You used an unforgivable! And quite professionally, like you've done it before!" I said, "Do you realize that? You could go to Azkaban for life."

"Not if the ministry doesn't find out. And nobody in here is going to tell anybody what I just did."

"We might just do that. What is the good in making him say 'yes' anyway?" Sirius asked, his voice cold and controlled.

"Just for the fun of it." Lucius answered, a smirk upon his pale, sharp face

"Fun of it?" Cissa demanded. "I loathe you."

"We'll discuss that later." Lucius whispered, sounding the tiniest bit hurt.

"We sure will. In the headmaster's office." I nodded and helped Cissa up.

Lucius hesitated before he pointed his wand at me. "Accio wands." Both wands, mine and Sirius' flew out of our hands.

He then turned to me and pointed his wand between my eyes.

"Anybody move, and she will be losing a lot of blood."

Nobody as much as breathed.

"Good job. Now Black and my dear Crystal, join Cissa and Sev there will you? Sit down, that's right."

"What exactly is the plan with this whole fiasco? Can't we just get back to the dance?" Cissa whined.

"No. Severus, stand up. Duel me. Whoever wins gets Cissa."

I felt the blood rush to my face when Severus stood up, drawing his wand and getting ready to duel.

"What is this, the bloody medievals? Is she just a trophy in some stupid contest? Grow up, geez." My voice was sharp.

"This is none of your sodding business Crystal. Shut your stupid mouth."

"Hey!" Sirius snapped. "This is her sodding business for she is Cissa's best friend. And this is my business too because Cissa's my cousin. She likes

Severus. The only one whose matter it isn't, is you Lucius. So get the hell out of here, she hates your sorry ass, get over it."

For a split second it almost looked like Lucius was going to lower his wand.

Then he pointed it at Sirius.

"Stupefy." He snarled, and I felt in great agony, that Sirius got limp beside me.

I eyed Cissa for a single moment, and we clearly had the same thing in mind. We had to get our wands back; they were now lying on a bench behind Lucius.

And before I even knew it, Cissa stood up and slammed her lips on Lucius's, gesturing me to get the wands. Those actions seemed to distract Lucius enough for me to throw myself at the bench, and the feel of the wood in my hand had never been more pleasurable.

I pointed my wand at the back of Lucius' head, throwing Sirius' wand to Cissa.

Lucius turned around, facing me and threw a hex at me. I ducked, and instead of hitting my head, it hit the chain that kept the prison bars up.

And when the chain split into a thousand pieces, the bars slid down, closing the exit out of the cell.

"Argh, Luce I am going to kill you! Expelliarmus." Cissa said and aimed at an

unexpecting Lucius, whose wand flew out of his hands immediately. She threw it out of the cell before she growled and tilted her head back in frustration.

"Those bars are of course spell proof. Anybody got an idea how we'll get out of here?" When nobody said anything, she sat down and sighed.

Lucius silently sat down on a bench, soon followed by Severus, who seemed ready to reapply to the position of 'Lucius' sidekick' as if nothing had happened.

"Enervate." I said, aiming my wand at Sirius who woke up instantly. He smiled weakly when he noticed the wand in my hand, but the smile faded fast when he saw how the bars were blocking our only way out of this dark dingy prison cell.

"Oh Merlin, what happened to those?" He pointed at the black, strong-looking bars.

"Ask the genius over there." I pointed at Lucius, whose cheeks turned to a pale shade of pink.

"It was an accident, okay?" He defended.

"An accident which happened while you were hexing me. Bastard." I added.

Sirius leaned against the moss grown brick wall.

"I guess someone will come down here tomorrow." He said and sighed heavily.

We all stood or sat in silence for about fifteen minutes.

The faint sounds of the band in the Great Hall were a painful reminder of all the fun we could be having right now.

"What were you doing down here anyway?" Cissa asked me. I grinned at her, and it was returned instantly. "Allrighty. I'm glad somebody was having fun." She finished and sat down on the floor.

Sirius blushed a bit.

"Weren't you dating Potter?" Severus snarled. "You don't seem to have a problem with having a 'good time' with your best friend's girlfriend." The question was pointed at Sirius.

"Ex girlfriend." I corrected. "You'll hear about this later Cissa." I added.

"I sure will. So was he any good?"

Both Sirius and I blushed madly when three faces stared at us with great interest.

"I don't know if you heard me when I said later, Cissa…"

"Oh all right. Just trying to entertain myself here. Nothing wrong with that."

I glared at her.

There was about a half an hour passed, my head leaning against Sirius and my hand in his. The alcohol was coming off me and I was getting more and more aware of what I had just done.

The sounds of the music had died out which meant the ball was over.

"Do you think anybody will hear us if we call real loud?" Sirius asked hopefully. Severus sighed and shook his head.

"Haven't you read Hogwarts, A History?" When nobody spoke he continued. "These bars are sound proof. It's an old charm; prisoners could get very loud in the old days."

I sighed heavily when our last hope shattered.

An hour more passed and I was foreseeing a very indeed boring night when I heard a moan of pain. My head shot up and it didn't take me long to find the source.

In the corner of the chamber Cissa was clasping her stomach and I thought the candlelight was playing tricks on me when I noticed her stomach getting bigger every second.

"You allright?" Lucius asked concernedly. Every soul in the chamber, including Cissa, was staring at her stomach, now the size of a soccer ball.

"This is not happening now. This is not happening now…" Cissa muttered to herself.

I understood what was happening, yet I didn't understand.

"Is it…now? I mean does this happen when it's going to…When she's going to...?"

My question was pointed at Lucius who was even paler than normal.

And when he nodded, I almost passed out. This could be fatal to Cissa and her baby girl.

"Ehemm…" Severus cleared his throat loudly. Cissa's stomach had now reached its full size and she was sitting in a pool of pale fluid. "What's happening? Is this your idea of a sick joke?"

"It's not a joke. Narcissa is nine months pregnant and her water just broke. Her contractions are very short apart so I'd say… she is about to have the baby. Does that answer your question?" Realisation dawned up on Severus' face.

"That's why you two are supposed to marry, because of the baby. Are you keeping it?" Cissa shook her head. She was biting her bottom lip in tremendous pain.

I looked over at Sirius who was wide eyed and porcelain white.

"Are you okay Sirius?"

He glanced up at me.

"It's my baby cousin in there?"

I nodded.

He shuddered before he stood up and went into the other part of the two roomed prison cell.

"Then help her." He called over his shoulder as he strolled into the dark unlit side of the cell. "I'm not going to watch this happen. And I suggest Lucius and Severus follow my example."

The two aforementioned boys glanced at each other before they followed Sirius into the dark part of the cell.

I scurried towards Cissa, clasping her sweaty hand.

"I guess it hurts then?" I asked like an idiot.

"Why, thank you for that observation Captain Obvious, it does bloody hurt! The baby has just got to stay in there if it's going to hurt it's mommy that bad!"

Her eyes were watery and her every breath was a moan or a gasp.

Severus came back into the torch lit part of the cell and handed me a vial full of yellow liquid.

"It's Felix Felicis. Nothing will go wrong if you just drink it up and follow your instincts okay? So she'll be okay." For a moment Cissa's purple eyes met Severus' black ones.

I nodded and clasped it in my right hand along with my wand. Then a small amusing thought came up into my mind.

"Why did you carry that around Sev? Hoping to get lucky eh?" I asked.

I heard a very Lucius-y grunt from the dark part of the cell, and both Cissa and Severus turned a funny crimson colour.

"Thought so. Tough luck huh? Well… bottoms up." I gulped down the sunny-yellow liquid. "Now piss of Sev. And thanks."

He disappeared again and I turned my head back at Cissa.

"Let's hope this stuff works Crys... What to do now?"

"To begin with…" My head was completely blank. Then I noticed her ragged breathing. "Breathe slowly Cissa."

Her watery eyes looked up at me and she squeezed my hand.

"I'm just scared."

I choked on my own saliva. This was a very weird situation indeed.

"Well, you're doing well, that's it, breathe, that's it!"

She gave a weak smile but it faded fast when the contractions hit again.

"Damn that stupid…argh! It's happening again! Get it out of there!" She yelled.

I didn't admit it but I was quite scared of her. She was glaring daggers at me…what to do, what to do?

I felt the Felix potion kick in.

"Take off your panties." That was my voice speaking.

"What?" She was now staring at me, flabbergasted. I felt myself blush.

"Well, you can't expect the baby to just float through them now can you?"

She looked up at me with an expression that said 'I just wish I could hit you in the face right now' before she took off her underpants, although it didn't show since she still had her purple satin gown on.

I suddenly heard noises from the boys' part of the cell.

"Wait Cissa." I explained to the pregnant blonde who was now gritting her teeth.

I went into the other part of the cell, only to find Lucius, Severus and Sirius in a very physical fight. They didn't notice me at all.

"Boys! What on earth are you doing?" I demanded in a teacher-ish voice.

They drew away from each other and looked up at me, each in his own shameful way.

"Now I have my best friend in there in a fucking life-threatening situation, and you can't resist acting like five-year-olds while she gives birth for heaven's sake! The next time I hear as much as a cough from you I will come in here and hex you all into something unnatural. And this is Cissa we're talking about here so you know that I am perfectly serious about this!" I glared at them all before I turned on my heel and returned to Cissa.

"Do you want me to perform a pain-killing charm or something?" I asked her, her purple eyes blazing.

"That's the first bright thing you've said tonight! Do it, please…"

"Crudelius finite." I whispered, praying that the blue light at the end of my wand meant that the spell was working.

She kept moaning but she was the sides of her mouth went a little upwards.

"The pain is still there but it's a lot better. Thanks."

"No problem. Now, do you think you're ready to push?"

"Well, there's this very weird pressure somewhere. I don't know what I'm supposed to do goddamn it!"

"Oh…" I begged the Felix Felicis to give me some answers. Yep, telling her to push was the thing to do. Best get this over with. "Well, Cissa. Push as hard as you can!"

I placed myself between her wide open legs, and a moment of embarrassment passed, me being between her legs was strange.

But it passed as quickly as it had come, for Cissa was almost breaking my hand with her tight grip, sweating, and screaming.

"I think the dilation is perfect, as far as I can imagine!" I told her reassuringly, smiling into her screwed up face.

She leaned forward and gave a cry, there was something coming out!

"It's coming, I think! I see the top of its head, push!"

She moaned in exhaustion and pushed again, screaming at the top of her lungs.

This time, the head was almost out. The baby's head was weird, almost inhuman, yet very human.

"The head is out! Push just a little more now!"

She gave a final push, I saw the tissues break from the quick stretching and I heard her give a cry when the shoulders came out, the rest of the baby following quickly, tears were streaming down Cissa's pale face. I performed a ripping charm on the fornt of the dress, and her bra, which didn't fit, because her breasts had gone up a few sizes. Now, the messy little creature could lie against the bare skin of her mother.

It was dirty, but Cissa didn't seem to realize it, or that there was anything else in this world except herself and the baby.

I whispered "Taglienti" causing a sharp knife blade to shoot out from the tip of my wand. I cut the umbicial cord easily, and whispered "Paradi", allowing the blade to sink back into my wand.

Narcissa put the baby's mouth against her nipple and the small girl started sucking on it, Cissa stroking her head lovingly.

I decided to go into the dark part of the cell again, where the boys were lying against the stone wall, Sirius asleep, Severus half way into the dreamland, but Lucius was focusing his steel coloured eyes on a spot on the wall in front of him.

"Hey, Luce." I said in a harsh voice. "She's given birth. Don't go in there. They're having a bonding moment of some sort."

"Is she allright?" Severus piped up on my side.

"Yeah she's fine. She might need some stitching up," at this both boys winced, "but it's allright. She doesn't seem able to take her eyes of the baby."

Lucius took off his overrobe and threw it at me.

"Here. They might get cold."

I smiled a little and took the soft robe to Cissa, and tucked it over her snoring self, and the baby that was sleeping on her soft chest.

"G'night…" I whispered and returned to the boys, leaning my head on Sirius' shoulder, reminding myself to take an emergency contraception potion in the morning.

All right, that was a long chapter... So I want long reviews now... ;)

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