It was the first time Holly had been over Sirius's house. He told her to come over EXACTLY at 8:35pm. And yet when she rang his bell at EXACTLY at 8:35pm he didn't answer. Nor did he answer at 8:40, or 8:45. Holly was wondering if she miss read the note he had sent here that morning. Holly was just about to leave when the door opened.

"No wonder I thought you were late lovely, you've been standing out here all this time"

"Of course I have. Where else would I be"

"Inside"

"Well I couldn't very well just walk in"

"Holl, it's me. And I do it to you all the time." "So I've noticed." she joked. He took her light weight cloak and hung it up. The late summer day had dramatically cooled down as the fall was approaching.
Sirius took her hand and walked her down the hall to a small living room.

"Sirius, this house is beautiful, how can you afford it on your salary"

"Inheritance" he grumbled. Holly didn't say anything more on the subject. Sense Regulas had been freed, Sirius harbored a deeper resentment towards his family, if that was possible.

"So, what fun activities do we have planned or tonight?" She looked around, it didn't look like Sirius cleaned for anyone. The couch was made up like a bed, and there was a pair of pants thrown over a chair. Holly thought she spotted a loan sock next to the couch. "Good to see you cleaned up the place." she said picking up the sock with her thumb and her pointer holding it out towards him.
Grinning like an idiot Sirius grabbed the sock and threw it behind him.

"Oh Lovely, it's just you. It's not like the Minister is coming over for tea. Even then I wouldn't bother"

"I hope you don't intend on me cleaning tonight"

"Nope. Wouldn't think of it." Sirius then taking her by complete surprise, he tackled her on to the couch.

"Sirius what the…" her sentence was cut off when her crashed his mouth against hers.

"Mr. Black, is that what you had planned for tonight?" she managed to get out.

"More or less." his mischievous grin lit up his face.

"Not sure what to say to that"

"Just playing Lovely." he laughed and sat up slowly. "Though I wouldn't object"

"Maybe later. If you good." Sirius made really big puppy eyes. "So what are we going to do oh Messer of messes"

"We're going to watch a movie"

"A movie? Like a muggle movie?" she wasn't sure if she heard him right.

"Yeah." he answered like it was no big deal.

"You? Sirius Black, purest of purebloods, have access to a muggle TV, VCR and video tape?" It was hard to tell what surprised her more, that he jumped on top of her or that he had a TV.

"Yeah, got a problem with it?" Because if you do I'm not objecting to what were were doing earlier." he moved closer and kissed her gently on the neck.

"Actually that sounds like a wonderful idea. A nice relaxing evening is just what I need"
Sirius got up and moved across the room. He pulled some clothing off of an object to reveal a TV and a VCR.

"I can't believe you set this all up. I'm impressed"

"Well, I….we…Remus…James…and…uh…Peter…um…" Sirius mumbled as he turned on the TV, put in the tape and summoned some pop corn, then sitting himself next to Holly, one arm draped around her shoulders.

"Meaning Remus and James set this up"

"Not exactly. Remus did it, I tried to help, but he said I was getting in the way. It was for James' party"

"So Lily was right"

"About what"

"Oh, nothing. What are we watching? If anything to do with busty witches comes on, I'm leaving." Sirius laughed, mostly because he didn't know what else to do. "I think you'll like it." was what he finally came up with.

It was a horror movie. Holly could remember during the summer when she was a kid, she would spend the night over Lily's and they would stay up late watching old horror movies, much to the disapproval to Lily's sister. This movie, however, wasn't like the old-cheesy movies she had seen before. This one was really freaky. It was about a killer who escaped from prison, and everyone was after him, but nobody could find him. He was after one target, and everyone around the targeted guy was super cautious with him. There were constant flashbacks to the murders, and they were really graphic and it kind of freaked Holly out. So she did the only thing she could, moved closer to Sirius. At the end of the movie, where the targeted guy corners the killer in an old ramshackle building, it was revealed that it wasn't the killer who committed the murders, but in all actuality it was his best friend, and his friend framed him. And out of no where the friend appears, ax in hand, and lunges at the hero of the story.

Holly let out a yelp and burred her head in Sirius' chest, eyes closed as tightly as possible. Sirius just rubbed her back, and smiled. "

It's ok. See, look the real killer is dead." she slowly moved her head to look at the screen, he was right, and Holly laughed a bit.

"You'd think with all that I've been though, this wouldn't bother me"

"It's ok, this movie freaked out Peter the first time he saw it"

"And I suppose you put you arm around him and told him it was ok"

"No, actually James, Remus and I thought it was terribly funny." he kissed the top of her head. "But then again, we weren't exactly in the right state of mind." He added as an after thought.

"What am I going to do with you?"

"I've got a few ideas." a wicked smile spread across his face, as he leaned in and kissed her.

Sirius grumbled as his alarm went off way too soon. He probably got a total of three hours of sleep, if that. But it had been worth it, he decided as he hit the snooze button. He looked over to Holly who was sleeping peacefully next to him. They had an amazing night together. Everything about her just seemed to excite him. He couldn't wait to have more of what they had last night, but unfortunately he had to go to work. So did she.

It's not like he didn't enjoy his work. Matter of fact, he loved his job. Working with his hands, and being able to see that he got something accomplished made him happy. He didn't exactly have to work with all the damn inheritance, but he'd rather work for it then take their money, not that he had much of a choice.

He rolled over on his side and looked at her once again, just before he had to wake her up. She looked gorgeous laying in his bed, his blanket partly covering her. He couldn't help but smile, and wonder what he did to deserve this. "Holly." Sirius whispered shaking her slightly. "Holly. Lovely, it's time to get up." she grumbled and pulled the blanket closer to her. "We've got to go to work. You know I would love to stay here all day with you, but we can't." Once again, inaudible mumbles came from Holly. "And I don't think the big Auror should be late for work." Holly sat up, pulling the blanket up to cover herself.

"How do you know about that?" her eyes were wide and she felt like she should panic.

"Relax, James told me everything." He kissed her bare shoulder. Holly completely forgot that James was going to talk to Sirius about this.

"And your ok with all of this?" she said in disbelief.

"Of course. Why wouldn't I be"

"Because what I did was murderous, and horrible." she said glumly.

"It's not like we all haven't had those kinds of thoughts before, come on, I almost had Snape, but then James went all heroic on me, and look at Remus. And it's not like you were hurting innocent people, you were doing your job." He smiled and kissed her again, she somehow knew that everything would be ok, as long as she had him. "Sirius. If this is the way your going to wake me up from now on, I'm not sleeping over anymore"

"Don't say that. I'd die." he fell back into his pillow, and draped his arm across his for head for dramatic effect.

"No you wouldn't." A beeping sound filled the air. Sitting up he swung his arm around and shut off the snooze alarm.

"As much as I want to continue arguing with you wither I would die without you, we really have to get ready for work." He kissed her gently, and fought the urge to keep going, and got out of bed. She watched him get dressed, and soon she did the same. "I can't believe you actually want to go to work." she said as they walked to his front door, hand in hand.

"I like my job. It took awhile, but I found one I actually like"

"I hate mine. But unless I want to go back and work as a bar tender at the Leaky Cauldron, I don't have much of a choice." "Don't worry, things will get better"

"So I'll see you tonight at Lily's"

"Naturally. James has been grinning like an idiot non-stop for the past week. And I have no idea why"

"I have a few."

"You think it's the sex too?" he grinned.

"Something like that."