The Show
'She what!' Sirius exclaimed in the common room surrounded by his friends. James and Chloe were laughing hysterically.
'She dumped the butterbeer all over her hair!' Chloe repeated still laughing. 'You should have seen it Sirius it was bloody brilliant!'
'Did she say anything when she did it?' Sirius asked them.
'She went, "Sirius told me to give this to you"!' James told him holding a stitch in his side. Sirius's eyes went wide and then he went speechless. Lily and Lupin were both laughing.
'Serves her right the dirty cow,' Chloe exclaimed, 'nobody gets away with calling my best friend a mudblood!' Lily smiled at Chloe and Chloe gave her a hug.
'I can't believe I missed it,' Mel exclaimed.
'Me neither!' Lily, Lupin an Sirius exclaimed.
They all exited through the portrait of the Fat Lady and headed down for dinner. They all sat down and began to eat when they heard applause from the Hufflepuff table. Sirius looked over to the doorway and saw that Katie had just entered. He quickly stood up and ran over to her.
'I heard what you did,' Sirius told her. She kept on walking and Sirius walked along side of her.
'You mad at me?' she asked while keeping her straight face.
'Curious,' he told her, 'Why did you do it?'
'She called Lily a mudblood, we can't have that now can we?'
'I think there may have been another reason,' Sirius told her his smirk spreading on his lips. She stopped and looked at him with a smirk of her own,
'Oh you do now do you?' Sirius nodded. She tried to get a seat on the Hufflepuff bench which was directly across from the Gryffindor bench but Sirius blocked it. She cocked her head to one side and looked impatient as she tapped one of her feet on the floor.
'Even if that was true,' Katie told him. 'Even if it was true that I still liked you it doesn't mean that I could just go back to being with you.'
'You don't trust me,' Sirius told her.
'And why should I?' Katie asked her, 'You haven't shown me any reason to trust you.'
'I know,' Sirius told her, 'but just hear me out right now.' Katie looked up at him and nodded. The whole Hall had gone quiet and were listening to their conversation but to them, they were alone. 'Katie,' Sirius started again, 'I like you. I really do. When you left during the ball and Kaycee came up,' Katie bit her lip at the sound of her name, 'I wanted to see if what I felt with you was real. If what I felt with you is what I wanted to feel because I wasn't used to feeling like that.'
'Like what?' Katie asked him.
'Like you were perfect for me. Like I could potentially fall in love with you.' Katie looked like she was going to cry. 'And when I danced with Kaycee it didn't feel like anything like the feeling I had with you which made me realize that I wanted to be with you.' This time Katie remained speechless and Sirius was the one who couldn't stop talking. He was afraid that if he stopped talking then she would leave. 'When I went after you and I had nothing to say…it was because I was scared of chasing you away and saying the wrong thing.'
'Saying nothing was the wrong thing,' she told him. Sirius knew that now because he could see that Katie was listening and was edging towards giving him that second chance. Sirius nodded,
'I know that now Kate. Please just give me that second chance. Just tell me that I'm not too late.' Sirius stared into her brown eyes. His own eyes showed worry and begging and love. The whole school was watching Katie, wondering what she was going to say next
Without saying a word Katie kissed him . This kiss which was brewing inside of them for sometime lasted longer than the one at the dance but was just as sweet. The applauding grew again much louder then one Katie first walked in. Once it died down they broke apart both of them smiling.
'Your not too late,' she told him and he grinned as he leaned down and kissed her once more. 'You smell,' she whispered. The applause grew louder, everybody was clapping except for the Slytherin table.
'What a show!' somebody yelled out.
A/N…for the James/Lily/Chloe lovers, the next few chapters will be devoted to them and a bit of Lupin. Sirius/Katie will still make regular appearances but chapters will not be centered around them.