On Wednesday Holly was relaxing after a tedious day filling out paper work on a newly caught fugitive. She was in the middle of her book when she heard the door unlock.

"Reums! Your back." she said happily. He looked thin and sickly. He must of gotten sick while at his grandmothers. He gave her a faint smile. He stumbled at bit, Holly got up and helped him stand. "You don't look so good, common let's get you to bed." He didn't protest. She lead him to his room and helped him remove his clothes and got him into a pair of sweatpants. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Remus had slept for over twenty-four hours and she began to get worried. She would stick her head in every now and then just to make sure he was still breathing, which he was. Despite how pale and nauseated he looked, he seemed to be in a peaceful sleep.

All though that night she could hear him tossing and turning and once he yelled out in his sleep. She awoke and found it impossible to go back to sleep. She looked over at her clock, 5:30am it read. She got dressed and went to work early, not before she looked into his room. He was sweating, but he looked calm.

All day she worked at breakneck speed. She finished her work in record time and left as soon as the pile in the "Out Box" disappeared.

The first thing she did when she got home was make some chicken noodle soup for Remus. She remember her mom used to make it for her when she was feeling sick. She put a bowl of it on a try, along with a glass of milk and a glass of water and took it into his room. Still sleeping. She placed it on his bedside table and began to leave.

"What smells so good?" a mumbled voice asked. He opened his eyes and slowly sat up.

"I thought you might be hungry." she blushed.

"Your sweet. Wait, shouldn't you be at work?" It was three in the afternoon.

"I went in early so I could come home sooner and take care of you."

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend, and you look awfully sick. Well you did. I guess all you needed was a good forty-eight hour sleep?" he chuckled at this.

They spent the rest of they day just lounging in his room talking.

"How's your grandmother?"

"Huh?" he said finishing his glass of water.

"Sirius said your grandmother was sick, so you went to visit her."

"Is that what he said? Oh, she's fine. Just a nasty cold that kept her in bed I suppose." He seemed uneasy. There was a comfortable silence in the air, it was suddenly broken by a loud humming sound outside.

"What's that?" Holly asked.

"What ever it is, it's loud and obnoxious." Remus said covering his ears. It stopped suddenly. "Well at least that's over." This was followed by a popping noise in Holly's living room.

"Holly I've got to show you…Remus, you back. Your looking good. I suppose you should see this too." Sirius looked like a child on Christmas morning, all full of excitement. He was weaning his faded black leather jacket and was holding a black helmet under his arm. Holly thought she heard Remus mutter under his breath "should have known it was you making that noise", but shrugged it off.

"What's going on?" she said looking at Remus, he shrugged.

"Come on. Let's go." He said pulling Holly up to her feet then moving to get Remus out of bed.

"Can I put a shirt on?" Remus ask sarcastically.

"Fine, hurry up." As soon as Remus put the sweater over his head Sirius grabbed Holly by the wrist and dragged them outside.

"What is so important that you drug me out of my nice warm bed and…" Remus started but stopped when his eyes caught glimpse of why Sirius was so excited.

"Sirius…is that what I think it is?" Holly whispered.

"Yeah. I got her this morning. I had to show you guys. James was out and Lily told me she thought I was an idiot and to leave her alone because she was in the middle of something, so I had to come show you guys." It was a beautiful motorcycle. It had a smooth and shiny black finish.

"Siri, why are you driving a this muggle contraption." Holly said. "They're really dangerous."

"That's the beauty of it. It looks like a regular motorcycle, but it does something that no muggle one could do."

"And what would that be exactly?" Remus looked like he had fallen in love. Holly suspected that it was some guy thing.

"It can fly mate."

"Fly? Sirius I swear you've got a death wish. Every time I see you, you have some crazy way to get yourself killed." Holly felt nervous. It looked really scary.

"I do not lovely. Besides Remus seems to like it so it can't be all bad can it? You want to ride it Remy?"

"Yeah I do." Sirius tossed him the helmet and started up the bike. Remus took off with a huge grin on his face.

"You two are idiots. Fine, go ahead and get killed, but I'm not explaining to James how you two got killed." Holly said to Sirius as they watched Remus drive the bike around. She wrapped her arms around her body nervously.

"He knows, he's the one who helped me find it. I can't wait to see his face when I show up with it."

"Peas in a pod." she muttered. "Well, I like the color." she said trying to say something nice about it. He just laughed. His eyes were all lit up and his black hair fell in his face. "Just be careful ok?"

"I promise lovely." he said hugging her and kissing the top of her head.

"I must say though Mr. Black I've always liked that jacket on you."

"I thought you might."

"You jerk." she said hitting him. "You ruin all my fun."

"Ok, I never said that, please go on flirting with me."

"I don't think I will, I don't feel like it now." she said teasingly moving away from him.

"Do you want to ride on it?" He asked as Remus came back and proceed to tell Sirius all about how cool it was.

"Do I look like want to die?" she was scared of it. Lily and her had seen some bad accidents growing up on muggle TV and Holly had no desire to join the long list of victims.

"It's not that bad Holl." Remus said.

"No."

"How about I drive and you sit behind me and hold on to me while I drive." Sirius proposed. He looked so bent on doing this that she couldn't back down.

"Fine. But just a quick one. I'm still uneasy about all this."

"Alright, have fun you two, I'm going back inside, I'm freezing." Remus said going back inside.

"Climb on." Sirius said sitting down on the bike. Holly walked over carefully as if she was afraid the thing would blow up if she touched it. She sat behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist lightly. "Ready lovely?"

"I suppose." she said scared. He started up the bike and took off with a jolt. With the jolt Holly jumped and grabbed her arms tightly around Sirius. Her face pressed against his back and shutting her eyes tight. She could feel him laugh at her.

"It's ok, nothing's going to happen to you while I'm around. You can open your eyes." How did he know? But she opened them. They were soaring in the sky, feeling the breeze in her face, she began to relax a bit and enjoyed the ride.

It was an hour later Holly walked back into the apartment to find Remus sitting reading the paper.

"I can tell by the smile on your face you had a good time?"

"Eh, it wasn't that bad." she said lightly.

"This came for you while you were out." he said handing her a letter.

"Great. It's probably from work telling me they're taking away my Sunday's off." she said darkly. She sat down and read it. "It's worse than that." Remus looked at her at a shocked expression.

"You didn't get fired, did you?"

"No. They're having a charity ball and I'm expected to go."

"A ball?"

"Yeah, the Ministry's Annual Fall Ball Fundraiser thingy. I didn't think people like me were invited."

"People like you?"

"I just started. And I thought only the important people went. Oh no." she paused as an ice block dropped into her stomach making her feel cold all over, and rather uncomfortable. "I bet this has to do with my boss saying how I'm only getting a break before they move me back to field work. Shit. Oh, great, the news get's better." She said reading on. "I have to bring a date, if I go."

"That's not so bad. I'd take that over being fried any day." she knew she shouldn't complain about this in front of him.

"Your right. Because I'm not going." she said putting the letter down.

"What! You have to."

"No. I don't."

"You like these things back in school."

"They were ok."

"What about that last Halloween dance? You and Lily had a great time."

"Exactly. Lily and I had a great time. If memory serves me right, that was the one that I went with Sirius and we barely made it to the Great Hall before the three of you ditched us, and then later finding out that he was making out with some other girl? Thank you for convincing me to go, and bringing back that wonderful memory." she said painfully. She walked down the hall to her room and locked the door.

"Good job Remus." he said in frustration running his hand though his hair.