They met up outside a club called "The Crossed Wands" in a huge wizarding community not to far from Lily's place. She never had been there before, but she remembered James writing to her and telling her about how Sirius would drag him there on the weekends. Somehow she didn't think that Sirius had to do any dragging to get James to go anywhere. They were two peas in a pod. Even back in school they caused problems, they were so much fun to hang out with. The headmaster of Hogwarts made Reums a prefect to see if he would have a more positive effect on them. She could remember the train ride to school when Remus told them he was a prefect as if it were yesterday.

"Hey, is there anymore room in here?" Holly asked sliding open the door of the compartment.

"For you? Of course." Sirius said moving over to create room for her in between him and Remus. Holly began to store her luggage in the rack above, when Remus stood up to help her. He was always a gentlemen.

"Thanks." she said sitting down. "So how was your guy's summers?" she asked. James was the first to speak.

"Wonderful. We were bashing around Paris for a few weeks. Played some Quiddtich, and did some other stuff." he said proudly. "How's you cousin?" Holly knew this question was coming. James was head over heels in love with Lily. And despite how she acted around him, she loved him too. It was just a matter of time.

"She's fine." Was all Holly said.

"How was your summer lovely?" Sirius asked. Holly blushed. Sirius always told her she was pretty, but she never believed him. He told that to a lot of girls.

"It was just fine. I pretty much…stayed home…" she said kind of lazily.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Remus said pulling a book out of his bag. Something shiny fell out. Holly reached for it.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here Mr. Lupin?" Remus reached for the badge, but Holly pulled away, she was practically on top of Sirius. "You're a prefect!" she exclaimed, as he took the badge from her and shoved it back into his bag.

"That's wonderful mate!" James exclaimed.

"Just think of what we can get away with now!" Sirius exclaimed, equally excided as James.

"No. Dumbledore specifically said that this was to try and straighten you two out. But I don't think that's going to be happening is it?"

"I've always said you were a smart one Moony." Sirius said patting him on the back.

"Holly. HOLLY." a voice said to her breaking her concentration.

"Yeah, sorry. I was just thinking."

"About what?" Remus asked.

"The day these two found out you were a prefect."

"Ah…that was an interesting day." the three boys gave each other a weird look. Lily grabbed Holly and they headed into the club. "I'm freezing. You three can freeze out here. We're going inside." The boys followed quickly behind them into the club.

The five of them found a table in the back of the club. Somehow it didn't seem like the type of club Sirius would hang out in. The candle lights were low and had a red and blue tint to them. Jazz and swing music blared in the back ground from the band on the other end of the club. In front of them was a huge wooden dance floor filled with couples dancing and twirling. She had pictured Sirius and James bashing around a more, modern club. It was so artsy here, the tables and booths had red checker table cloths on them, and a few low candles on the table tops. Even the paintings seemed to be moving to the music. Remus pulled out a chair for Holly and she sat down.

"Thank you Mr. Lupin."

"My pleasure Miss Evans." He said sitting next to Sirius who had taken the seat next to her. James ordered a round for the entire table. "James, thanks but you know I don't…"

"Ah, common Moony. Why not? Holly's back, your in great health and should be so for awhile, and this is your first night out for fun in how long? Common, at least one."

"Fine, just one."

"That's our Remus!" Sirius said handing everyone drinks. "To friends!" He toasted. They all drank deeply.

"Mmmm…I forgot how nice alcohol tastes…" Holly said sitting back in her chair enjoying her drink.

"You weren't aloud to drink with your old job were you?" Lily asked.

"No. Had to stay sober 24 hours a day. It sucked. Once in awhile when I got a few hours off, Avrik and I would sneak down to the nearest bar and have a few beers. We never got caught, so no big deal."

"Now, Avrik, why does that sound familiar?" Sirius piped in. Holly looked down at the table. She had mentioned Avrik several times to Lily and even Reums and James a few times. But she stopped writing to Sirius and Peter when they stopped answering her letters. So she never told him how involved Avrik was in her life.

"Avrik was a guy who I worked with." She said quietly, she could feel Lilly giving her a look of disappointment. Holly could tell that Lily wanted to her to tell Sirius everything. She took a deep breath and told the boys pretty much everything. "We met on the job and we became fast friends. It gets like that when you work closely with someone. We got along really well, we were without a doubt the best pair in the business. We ended up dating for almost two years, but it just didn't work out. He left the job, needless to say we did not part well, and I was left with a creepy partner named Bram Carlow. I left soon after. But it's no big deal." Sirius' eyes were filled with worry. For her. She had to look away. She changed the subject, and the five of them began to talk of old and new times. A few rounds later James stood up and whisked Lily off to the dance floor. She was left with Remus and Sirius.

"Dance with me?" Sirius said suddenly.

"What? Oh, I couldn't. Besides, I don't want to leave Remus by himself." She said blushing.

"I don't mind Holly. Go, have fun. I like watching better anyway."

"Please don't make me beg." Sirius said brining out the puppy dog eyes.

"Fine." somehow she found it hard to say no to him.

He lead her to the dance floor and began twirling her around. She couldn't remember the last time she had this much fun.

"When did you become such a great dancer?" Holly asked as they moved to the music together in perfect unison.

"I've always been a good dancer, I think you've just forgotten."

"Possibly." He pulled her in close as the music began to slow down. "God, I've missed this."

"Me too." he said looking down at her. If it was at all possible, Sirius had become even more handsome than he was at school. His muscles filled out nicely, and he seemed to grow into his features more. But those eyes, they never changed. They were still filled with mischief and laughter. She couldn't remember seeing him smile like this before either. It was so big, but so serious at the same time. She studied his features, wondering what it would be like to run her fingers through that hair of his. He actually looked like he got a hair cut. It was now just above his ears and some of it fell into his face over his eyes. She wanted to move the strands away just to get a clearer vision of his eyes.

Suddenly someone bumped into them sending them sprawling to the floor Sirius landing on top of Holly. He got up, and looked really angry. Sirius' temper was always shorter when he had been drinking. He found the guy that had bumped into them and began to yell at him. Holly got up and put a hand on his arm.

"It's ok, Sirius it was an accident. He didn't mean to." she said calmly. And for the first time he actually backed down. He looked at her actually embarrassed. This wasn't the Sirius she knew. He would have normally just cracked some joke, most likely to offended the person the was fighting with, and left the guy with an enlarged nose or something. Instead he took her arm and lead her back to the table.

"How about a few more rounds huh?" he said happily.

"No, I'm good." Remus said.

"Holly, common, I know your up for another."

"I should probably stop. I haven't drank like this in a long time. And you know how I get when I drink too much."

"Refresh my memory." He said playfully. She looked to Remus for help, he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Your no help." she teased Remus.

"Sorry, but I don't want to get in the middle of this. Besides I never drank with you guys. I was the responsible one remember? I never snuck away to go on drinking binds with you guys."

"You make it seem as if that's all we did in school…" Remus laughed. She loved it when he laughed. He didn't have too much to laugh about, but when he let go and enjoyed himself, it was like he was two different people. And she loved him even more for it.

"Common Holly, don't you want to remind me of the time that you started to…"

"Stop. Now." she said forcefully.

"Aw, common, Holly. It's a funny story."

"It never happened." she said feeling rather uncomfortable.

"Yes it did. I was right there, I was the one who dragged you out of there, while James and Peter fixed their memories of you…" She just got up and walked out of the club out of embarrassment. She didn't want to think about that night, especially in front of Remus.

"Was it something I said?" Sirius asked.

"Mate, your not the best conversationalist when you've been drinking. She obviously doesn't want to talk about it."

"It was funny though…"

"It wasn't to her. I think you should go talk to her. Bring her back here before Lily kills you for making her leave."

"Alright I'm going." He said walking out after her.