A/N: Thank you to everyone who is reading this. This chapter is the fluff chapter, nothing really important happens, just a lot of romantic fluffy goodness :)

But once again I need to know which ending I should post here. Should Serena stay or go back? Which one does everyone think would play better?

And of course as always, please review.

Chapter 7

The morning blossomed early for Serena, who woke the instant the light hit her bed. And she spent a good few hours sitting there, silently trying to prepare herself for what she was going to do. She wasn't going to deny Sirius anymore, she had promised him that last night, but even more so she couldn't deny herself him anymore. But that didn't mean she didn't dread seeing him, dread the feelings that grew with each day. She got dressed and tapped her foot testily even thinking about it. By the time she just chose to ignore her feelings on the matter and just enjoy herself, it was already 2pm and she had managed to miss both breakfast and lunch. And of course the second she realized this, her stomach started to growl. She sighed, and went down the stairs, deciding to try and con some food out of the house elves in the kitchen.

When she entered the common room though, Sirius was sitting at the table, a pile of food next to him. He jumped up when she entered, looking thoroughly worried.

"I was almost ready to call McGonagall to go look in on you. The damn protections won't let a boy up into the girl's dorm. I brought food back from both breakfast and lunch, expecting to see you right after each. Are you okay?"

Serena smiled and basically threw herself onto Sirius, kissing him repeatedly.

"I'm fine. I just overslept."

"I was going to ask if things were still good from last night, but I guess I don't have to..." Sirius smirked.

"Thank you for the food." At the mention of food, her stomach rumbled loud enough for him to hear, and Sirius laughed softly, and pushed Serena to the table to eat. Sirius regarded her with interest as she ate. "Happy Christmas Eve by the way..."

"I had almost forgotten." Serena laughed softly. "I've had other things on my mind." Sirius rose an eyebrow at this, but she ignored that.

"Does that mean I don't get a present?" He asked, pretending to be hurt.

"I bought presents for everyone." Serena huffed. "Though maybe yours isn't really suitable anymore..." She smirked thinking about the book she had gotten him about creating your own girlfriend. It was a joke book she had picked up at Zonko's the last Hogsmeade visit. Even not talking to him, she had thought it was the perfect joke gift to give him. "I'll think of something a bit better." She beamed a smile at him.

"Ooh..." He wiggled his eyebrows at her for that comment. "My present was always suitable on the other hand." She looked at him curiously, but he just tapped her nose and shook his head. "You can get it tomorrow. But you can have this now." He leant in and gave her a quick kiss on the tip of her nose. Her nose wrinkled in response.

"That tickled."

"You're so cute though." Sirius shook his head in amazement, Serena though snorted in disbelief. She pushed back her hair, which was falling into her face again.

"Everyone says I'm cute." She muttered this, since for all her life that had been the only thing people had ever said about her. That and she had strange eyes.

"Would you prefer you're drop dead gorgeous and I would like to jump you right now, tear off your clothes and ravish you on this very table?" Sirius asked seriously.

Brad chose that exact moment to walk into the common room, but he stopped in midstep. "Um... I have... work to do. Bye..." He turned around and left immediately.

"Oh god, more gossip..." Serena buried her face into her hands, her face bright red.

"Well I didn't actually DO that, mores the pity." Sirius sighed, sounding really sad, that Serena peeked through her fingers to look at him, only to see a big smile on his face

"Honestly..."

"I was being honest actually. Want to see?" He leaned forward and kissed her softly, not the ravishment he had threatened. "I do think you're gorgeous though... whatever you might think about yourself."

"Th- Thank you." Serena swallowed hard after that kiss, her blush deepening from the compliment.

"Being your first official day as my girlfriend, I think we need to go do something." He pulled her out of her seat, and holding her hand started to pull her out of the room. Her heart warmed at being called his girlfriend.

"I'm not sure I want to be called your girlfriend." Serena joked. This caused the man in front of her to stop suddenly and look at her strangely. "Well all your other girlfriends only last a week or two. I think the term is cursed for you." He grinned at that.

"Okay. How about emotional sex toy?" At her withering look he shook his head. "I suppose not then. Then how about I don't call you anything?" She grinned at him. "But you ARE my girlfriend." He grinned and pulled her out of the room. He was certainly showing a boyish enthusiasm that she couldn't really argue with.

She was subsequently pulled over the castle and shown all of Sirius' favorite spots to escape from teachers. Serena's face though stayed a bright red. Mainly due to the fact that every time they met anyone, ghost, student or teacher, Sirius would proudly declare that Serena was his girlfriend, but then in a stage whisper tell the person she didn't like that term... but that she was anyway. McGonagall's reaction had been amusement at Sirius' behaviour.

"Mr. Black. I'm really thrilled that you managed to find a girlfriend with a brain between her ears."

"You know, all my past ones were students. You just insulted students." Sirius proclaimed proudly, grinning at his favourite teacher. Her face stayed calm though, except for the slightest twitch at her lips.

"Anyway... Your grades had improved over the last few months of not having a relationship. Try not to go back to disappointing us all again."

"Don't worry Professor. I'll make sure he does even better now." Serena smiled at her teacher who nodded happy at that. Sirius though looked worried.

"God, she controls me already. Next thing you know and I might even be in the library." Sirius moaned theatrically, and this time it was Serena who pulled, smiling at Professor McGonagall as they went past.

When they met Headmaster though, Serena tensed at Sirius' proclamation. She wasn't sure how he would react to this news. After all he was the one who knew that she was from the future. How would he like her dating someone from this time period, knowing she was going back home? Dumbledore looked at Serena carefully, before patting Sirius on the shoulder.

"Good luck. Happy Christmas." He smiled and moved past them.

"Good luck?" Sirius looked confused. "Does no one think I can actually keep you as a girlfriend?"

Serena smirked slightly at that, since she was pretty sure that was the common opinion among most of the students who had witnessed her behaviour toward him the last two months. Even though she knew well enough that hadn't been what Dumbledore had really meant.

"Don't worry hun. I'm sure you'll do fine. You're just going to have to change your entire way of dealing with women." She shrugged, like this would be absolutely no problem for him.

"I suppose that's true." He stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I guess, technically speaking this is my first real relationship. All the others were just for sex."

Serena narrowed her eyes at him, and released his hand. "There's no need to mention your vast sexual experience."

He grabbed her hand again though and grinned. "Just saying is all. And believe me, you'll be thankful for the experience." He pulled her closer, breathing those last words against her mouth. She pushed him away, laughing softly.

"That was such a cheesy line..." She shook her head. "Like you're going to get a chance to show me anytime soon, anyway." She started to walk off, with Sirius following after, whining about that last statement.

The next morning, Serena woke up early and this time bounded down the stairs without even changing out of her pajamas. She found Sirius and Brad, sitting in chairs by the fire. Sirius grinned at her as she entered.

"Well there went all my fantasies about what you wore to bed." Sirius sighed dramatically, gesturing at her cotton plaid pants, and the loose shirt with 'Chudley Cannons' across the front of it. She stuck out her tongue at him, and dropped onto the floor by the fire.

"Good morning Brad. Happy Christmas." She ignored the mutters behind her from Sirius, something about not showing it if you weren't going to use it.

"Morning." He yawned then but she thought he had said, "I like the shirt." He then grinned at her. "We waited for you to come down before we opened our Christmas presents. Make it more homey to do it all together."

Serena blinked at him, not expecting any presents. Sirius nudged her with his foot and pointed to the pile on one side of his armchair.

"Did you think your friends weren't going to get you anything?" Sirius smiled, shaking his head. He grabbed his own presents and started to open them. Brad it seemed was doing the same, Serena reached for her small pile, happy though to have any at all. The first was surprisingly from Peter, and was a box of every flavour jelly beans. She felt a bit bitter about getting a present from someone she knew was going to betray her friends, but she shook it off knowing that at this moment he hadn't done anything wrong. The idea floated into her head that maybe she could help change him before he made the mistake.

The next present was from James, and had a box of filibuster fireworks, and a pair of joke glasses that made the person's eyes seem ten times the size they were. Sirius laughed at her as she put them on, so she took them off quickly enough.

"Your friends certainly like useless gifts." The thought made her smile, useless presents were still presents her friends had taken the time to get her.

"To James, jokes are never useless." Sirius grinned and showed her his present from James, a complete set of realistic looking puke that did nothing for her empty stomach.

"Delightful..."

She opened her next present from Remus, and was pleased to find something that she could finally use. It was a good set of ink and quills, with charmed paper that wouldn't get wet. Trust Remus to give her something she would actually use.

Her last present was from Lily. It was a beautiful off the shoulder sweater in black. Sirius whistled when he saw it. She stuffed it back in it's box, and scooted back to rest her back against the chair Sirius was sitting in. He leaned down.

"Can you wear that tonight?" He grinned at the blush that immediately appeared.

"Don't I get a present from you? I gave you one?"

Sirius held up the joke book, and Serena smiled innocently at him.

"Well at the time I bought it, you didn't have a girlfriend… I said it was suitable at the time."

"Of course." Sirius snorted, but flipped through the pages looking almost interested. Serena smacked his leg.

"Don't even think about trying it!"

"Just looking. You did give it to me after all." Sirius said innocently. "As for your gift, you get that tonight."

Serena eyed Sirius suspiciously but decided it was likely best to just ignore him.

After finishing with the presents, the three Gryffindors sallied down to the great hall for Christmas breakfast. Dumbledore had set up one large table for everyone since there were only a handful of students left in the school. The meal consisted of eggs, bacon, toast, christmas pudding, and porridge.

After that, the three of them played some card games, until Brad went off to spend sometime with a friend of his from Ravenclaw. This left Sirius and Serena sitting at the table in their common room alone.

Sirius was shuffling the cards, whistling to himself, trying very hard to act nonchalant. Serena on the other hand was tapping her fingers on the table, trying to think of a way of suggesting that they go to the Room of Requirement without sounding too desperate or eager... Just at the point that she thought she could actually say something, Sirius stood up suddenly.

"It's about time for dinner." Sirius tilted his head to look at Serena strangely, the look of disappointment on her face must have looked odd indeed.

"Right... of course." She stood up, barely able to control the pout that was on her face. Sirius laughed, seeming to understand what was going on in her head. He reached out and took her hand.

"After dinner I'll give you your present." He said that with such delicious anticipation, that Serena shivered and nodded, her disappointment gone in a flash.

In the great hall, once again there was only one large table for the staff and students who were staying in the school. Other then Dumbledore, most of the staff was there for the holidays, except Slughorn. Serena didn't doubt that he was probably spending the vacation with an old student of his that was head of the ministry, or a rock star or something. The two Gryffindors came in together pretty much after everyone else had been seated. Brad though waved for them to come over to where he was sitting next to a rather pretty girl from Ravenclaw, it was not surprising that he had gone to spend time with her. He had saved them both seats next to him. Serena watched, rather amused as Sirius immediately made a beeline for the seat next to Brad. She doubted it was due to his friendship with the younger student, probably instead due to the looks even she had noticed from him.

On everyone's plate were Christmas crackers, and before dinner was even started everyone pulled their crackers. Sitting next to Serena was Professor McGonagall who pulled on her cracker and got the good half, but was nice enough to let Serena have the contents. The younger girl wasn't surprised, since out popped a large clown's hat and a very gaudy set of purple jewelry. The idea of seeing her teacher in that would have caused fits of laughter. Having no such compunctions herself though, Serena quickly put the hat and jewelry on. She turned to Sirius and nearly fell out of her seat from laughing. He was wearing a large cowboy hat, bright pink in colour, and a pair of ridiculous comedy sunglasses shaped like rainbows.

"I don't know..." Serena breathed out, trying to control her laughter. "If I can... date you anymore..." The laughter was getting harder since now Sirius was looking confused. "I'm never going to get this image out of my head." He huffed audibly, and tugged on a lock of her hair from under her clown hat.

"But you're so much more attractive with that hat on..." He smirked as she stuck her tongue out at him. "Though I think you might need some new jewelry."

Dumbledore clapped his hands, and everyone turned to him, tittering quietly since their Headmaster was wearing a woman's large brimmed hat. "Now that everyone is festively dressed..." He eyed Professor McGonagall and flipped his wand in her direction, causing the sudden appearance of a police man's hat on her head. She didn't look too amused, but Dumbledore ignored her fierce look and smiled. "Right, now that everyone is festively dressed, Time to eat!" He clapped his hands, and suddenly there was a feast in front of everyone.

Serena grinned and as eagerly as everyone else put herself to the task of eating as much food on Christmas as was possible. By the end of the night everyone was thoroughly stuffed, and red in the face from laughing as much as they did. It was probably the best Christmas she had ever had. That thought caused a slight twinge of guilt in her though, shouldn't her best Christmas have been with her family, in her time? Or the Christmas she had spent with Harry, Hermione and Ron before things were bad? She sighed softly, but Sirius still turned to look at her concerned. She smiled at him, perhaps a bit weakly, but enough to cover the sigh, and leaned in to him.

"Time for my present?"

He looked at her for a moment, judging her mood from that sigh, but a small grin twitched at his lips, and he nodded. Everyone else was already excusing themselves from the dinner, so they didn't look too strange getting up together, practically running from the room together.

Serena wasn't surprised when she was brought straight to the room of requirement. Sirius looked at her sternly though.

"Now keep the fantasies out of your head. I want this to be my requirement now." Serena blushed slightly nodding her head, trying to empty her mind of all the fantasies that were always floating in there whenever she was with Sirius.

He grinned at her determined look and took her hand, opening the door to what Serena could only describe as a mini jungle.

"It's an atrium!" Sirius announced proudly. "I wasn't sure if the room would be able to handle an odd requirement like mine, but surprisingly when I opened the door this was here. It was perfect too." He grinned and pulled Serena into his arms, hugging her tightly. "Look..." He pulled her after him, she was laughing at his behavior. He pulled her to a mini waterfall and pond, where a blanket was set up next to it. She was immediately pulled down to sit next to it. She looked up and was amazed to see there was no ceiling at all, but the clear sky was showing the stars glittering above them.

"Isn't it great?" Sirius looked proud of himself but he still looked at Serena eagerly. She grinned and crawled into his lap, kissing his cheek fondly.

"Best Christmas present ever."

Sirius looked even more overjoyed with himself, and hugged her tightly. But Serena found herself feeling depressed once again, and was horrified to feel tears coming to her eyes. She couldn't help but remember her last Christmas with her old friends, they had all gone to stay at the Burrows, the Weasley family home. Ron, Ginny and the twins had taken everyone to a special spot they had located only recently back behind a waterfall, near a lake. Together everyone had a party by that lake. She had thought that was the best Christmas ever. Now here she was, twenty years in the past, to save all her friends, and instead she was falling in love with Harry's godfather, on Christmas, and thinking this was the best Christmas ever.

"What's wrong?"

Serena shook her head. "I was just thinking about my last Christmas with Harry..." She didn't imagine the cold glint that entered Sirius' eyes. She shook her head even more emphatically now, reaching up to touch Sirius' cheek. "He was my friend, one of my best friends."

Sirius, wiped the tears of her cheek that had escaped her eyes, and looked concern. "Was?"

She laughed, almost bitterly, well he hadn't been born yet so he wasn't her friend at this period.

"Never mind all this depressing talk." She kissed Sirius' softly. "I'm ruining your Christmas present."

"This isn't my present." Sirius shook his head. He pulled a small box out of his robes and handed it to Serena, looking doubtful as she opened it, and looking even more worried when she looked quizzically at the small ring box in her hand. When she opened it, it showed a very simple silver band. Picking it out of the box, Serena looked closely at it, seeing the fine vines embedded in the surface, and on the inside saw the inscription 'Wherever, I follow'.

She looked up at him in question. Sirius held up his own right hand, which had a slightly larger band which matched hers. "They're a set... You'll always be able to find the person who's wearing the pair... No matter where they are. Do you like it?"

Serena slipped the ring on, which fit perfectly, and then promptly burst into tears, throwing herself on Sirius.

"None of the times I practiced giving you that, did I think about you crying..." Sirius said, half amused and concerned.

"Sorry..." Serena sniffed. "I'm just thinking about... things." In truth she was thinking that by the end of the year she wouldn't even be here anymore, and when she returned to her time there was no guarantee that Sirius would even still be alive, not to mention he would be Harry's Godfather, and not to mention over 20 years older then her. What good was the ring going to be then?

"About Harry...?" Sirius tried to hide the jealousy out of his voice, but he couldn't get rid of it completely. "I'm sure wherever he is, he's doing fine."

Serena smiled slightly, still clinging to him. "I love you." She felt him tense at this declaration. She pulled back to look at him, and grinned at the incredibly stupid looking smile that was on his face.

"That was your Christmas present... and this." She smiled and kissed him softly.

"Definitely the best Christmas present." Sirius breathed once the kiss had ended.

"I thought you'd like it." She grinned and nuzzled his neck. "So..."

"So...?" Sirius grinned at her, nudging her in the side.

"Just wondering... Do you give all your girlfriends matching rings? If I go into your room, I'm not going to find a drawer filled with old rings...?" She asked jokingly. He snorted in reply.

"If you must know... I've never spent Christmas with a girlfriend, never even had one over the holidays. So no... I don't have a drawer of old rings. I've never given a girl a Christmas present before. Except Lily of course, but she's my mate's girl..."

Sirius squeaked (much like a girl Serena couldn't help noticing) when she jumped on him again, toppling him to the ground this time.