Thirty minutes after Snape had left the pair they found themselves on the second floor standing outside a broom closet. Sirius moved his hand to the handle and turned it. The door didn't budge and whipping out his wand he said the spell to unlock it.
Inside everything was dark but on the floor towards the back sat two girls curled up asleep. Sirius looked back at Amanda who smiled as she moved into the cupboard and shook the closest girl.
"Gin I'm trying to sleep quite shaking me."
"I'm not touching you!"
With that the two sprung up and looked into the dimly light corridor. Amanda just grinned and stepped back towards Sirius as the pair stood up.
"Bout time somebody found us we've been here all day!"
"Yeah and I'm hungry"
At that point Ginny's stomach did a massive lurch. They stretched as they stood outside and Amanda was quick to speak up.
"What happened to you, and what are you wearing?"
The pair looked sheepishly at themselves; they wore cloaks over their underwear all their outer clothes having been taken. Ginny was quick to speak up.
"Bellatrix and Narcissa cornered us and knocked us out. When we woke up we were in the cupboard with only cloaks."
Sirius raised an eyebrow at the pair of them before looking back at Amanda.
"Think we should leave them in there and send Pete and Joe down to find them."
The looks the two girls shot were enough to answer that question. Amanda though was quickly looking around.
"We have to get back to the tower Bella and Narcissa could still be there and who knows what else they're doing."
"What do you mean by else."
So as they ran through the corridors Amanda explained everything the pair had done that day, or at least what their doubles had done. They reached the corridor that held the portrait of the fat lady quickly and Sirius barked the password.
He entered first followed by Amanda, the two other's were quickly pushed into a corner that was hidden by darkness. They could see the fake Branwen sitting with Peter she had one hand running through his hair while they were talking quietly.
Over on one of the chairs though they saw Joseph with the fake Ginny on his lap they were unaware of the attention they were getting as they made out for the entire world to see.
From the corner a grunt was heard but with a wave from Sirius Ginny held her breath. He moved forward towards Peter and took the seat opposite.
"Good evening Pettigrew, Black!"
Peter looked up confused but the madness in the girl's eyes was easy to see she was mad at being found out.
"Sirius what you talking about its Branwen?"
At that moment Branwen stepped forward from the shadows followed by Ginny. Peter screamed which caused Joseph to pull away from the girl he was kissing. His eyes grew as he saw what stood in front of him.
"What's happening?"
He was on his feet and the fake Ginny hit the floor hard. He moved over to stand next to Peter and the pair just looked between the four girls. Amanda moved closer to the two that were fully dressed.
"How long before you need to take some more of the potion then Bella, Narcissa?"
The Ginny look alike shrugged her shoulders.
"Have no idea what you're taking about little bitch."
"Don't call her that you impostor."
"You're the impostor!"
"SHUT UP!"
They all turned to look at Sirius he just shrugged and indicated for everyone to sit down. The two who were fully dressed didn't seem impressed by this but they did as they were told.
They sat in silence for a few moments before the fake Branwen spoke up.
"What makes you think we're impostors anyway, maybe they are"
Amanda looked at the girl
"Because we found them locked in a cupboard on the second floor."
This drew Peter's attention to the pair
"Why were you looking in cupboards?"
Sirius looked at Amanda with a questioning eye, he didn't know what to say if they said Snape had told them there would be problems but then again they wouldn't be his. He opened his mouth to answer when Amanda beat him to it.
"It's nobody's business but our own."
"I'd like to know actually."
Amanda turned to look at Ginny.
"I'm not telling you, I'm not in a good mood with people that look like you two today."
She put on a pout and stared at her friend.
"Look I promise I'll explain things after this is sorted out."
"Won't be long then."
Branwen's voice drew everyone's attention as they looked at the two other's. They were changing; they both became taller one more than the other. Ginny's red hair darkened becoming black while Branwen's naturally dark became light.
Within seconds they were looking at Bellatrix and Narcissa Black. Both girls scowled at the small group gathered around them and Sirius barked a laugh.
"You'll have to try harder next time girls, like not locking up the originals in an easy to find place. Now way don't you go back to Slytherin HQ and leave us to clean up your mess."
The two girls looked ready to attack but Narcissa stood up and left the room straight away while Bellatrix looked at them.
"You made a mistake Dixon you should have just left it and joined us, you wait the worse is yet to come."
She stormed off out of the room and the group looked around. Branwen looked at Ginny as Joseph spoke up.
"Wonder what she meant?"
Sirius and Peter exchanged a look before sharing it with Amanda, Ginny looked confused between the three of them.
"What are we missing?"
Sighing Peter answered.
"Simple if we don't join them they're going to kill Mand."
"Yep, I'll end up dead, wow who would have thought it. Bet I out live their plans!"
She started laughing but nobody else did.
"This is serious Amanda."
"Wow it must be you didn't call me Mandy."
The look in his eye caused her laughter to stop; she looked closely at him and saw that he was panicking no matter how much he was trying to keep calm for appearances he wasn't able to hide it from her.
"It's okay they're not going to kill me."
"You can't know that."
The room around them had again fallen into silence and Amanda couldn't help but wonder if silence was something that had been picked for her and Sirius. It seemed whenever they had something to say nothing else could be heard.
Looking over her shoulder she could see the other four were still standing there but they didn't seem all that important in that moment. Moving forward she took hold of Sirius' hand and pulled him down onto the sofa.
"Si I promise you nothing's going to happen to me."
"You don't know that though Mand, I thought I'd lost you back in the summer I can't go through that again."
She grinned at him as she moved closer; taking her hand she ran her fingers gently through his hair.
"If they think they can kill me, they've got no idea who they're dealing with."
He looked at her and opened his mouth to answer but she quickly placed a finger against his lips.
"I'll be careful okay I promise."
Without thinking she leaned in close taking his lips with hers as if to reassure him she was still there, she allowed his arms to wrap around her and they completely forgot about their four watching friends.
First thing I must say is that I'm really sorry but I'm not sure when the next post will be, you see I've kind of put off my summer reading of Herodotus. The Histories and I must read it by the time I go back to Uni so I shall be absent for about two weeks now.
Just want to say thanks to Karen, Firewalker, None and Taylin for the reviews and explain quickly some things.
Sirius and Amanda, well everyone seems to like them as a couple but some of the best couples don't get together when they should. These are actually kind of based on two of my friends who knew each other since we were thirteen but didn't start dating until we were 18, so there'll be a lot of are they on and off in this story and plus other relationships will build.
As for Snape well although he is evil he is still Amanda's cousin and although they are in different houses they grew up together and are close friends, and because of that Snape isn't as mean to her as he could be, you'll see more of this later on.
Well I have to go finish painting my room
Kris