Holly couldn't remember so busy in her life. This included studying for the three NEWT classes she took back in school. The dark mark showed up over twenty times all over the country with in two months. Just when her body got used to one sleep schedule, she'd have to change it the next week. She had to constantly ignore Remus' comments about how if she kept this up any longer she'd work herself to death. He was right though. She had hardly any time to eat, if she wasn't working she was sleeping off a 48 hour shift, or nursing a wound, or fussing over Remus himself, and even playing the "Avoid Avrik game" seemed to take a toll on her. Sirius began to worry when she began to lose weight, it wasn't very much, but he didn't want it to get any worse. It was bad enough he didn't get to see her when he wanted, but her getting sick over this, just made him even madder.

"I'm going to talk to your boss." he said an early December morning. "Sirius don't. I can handle this. We think he's in hiding for a while. We got a bunch of Death Eaters last night. Mr. Crouch keeps saying we're getting closer to getting all of them"

"Barty Crouch can kiss my big white ass. Wait, I thought your boss was Rogers"

"Exactly. Was, Crouch took over two weeks ago. And your ass isn't that big." Holly said lightly pulling the covers up to get a look at his bum. He pushed the quilt down.

"Don't try and change the subject Lovely"

"I wasn't. I was just saying your ass, as nice as it is, isn't that big." She got out of bed, not knowing how to handle this. She grabbed some clothes off of the floor, hoping they were somewhat clean, and quickly walked to the bathroom, hoping Remus was still asleep, so he wouldn't catch her naked.

"Holly…"Sirius said frustrated. He just wanted to make sure she was ok. "Why do women have to be so goddamned complicated?" He muttered, pulling on his pair of jeans, and following her. He didn't bother knocking, he just walked in. The shower was turned on, so he knew it was safe.

"Sirius, if you don't mind, I would like to shower by myself." she said trying to keep the hurt from her voice.

"Not until you tell me what I did to make you mad"

"I'm not mad." she said sticking her head out of the shower, her hair was all soapy.

"Yes you are." he leaned against the counter.

"I will be in a moment. Now get out. This conversation is over"

"Fine, you won't come out, I'm coming in"

"Don't you dare. I'll hex you." her words were kind of drowned out as she rinsed the shampoo out of her hair.

"You can't"

"Why not?" she asked putting the conditioner in.

"Because your wand is lying on the floor of your room, where you dropped it last night." Sirius grinned at the thought of her performing a silencing spell on the room, so they wouldn't wake up Remus. He took off his jeans and stepped into the shower with her.

"If you give me five more minutes"

"Just listen to me." He wasn't going anywhere. There barely enough room for the both of them in the shower.

"Fine."

"Holly, your wasting away." He put a hand on her stomach.

"No I'm not. I still got fat there, don't worry." she squeezed his hand.

"I didn't mean like that. You know I don't care about that. You've gotten so pale"

"I've always been like this"

"Paler. Lily said you passed out the other day, and you've got dark circles under your eyes, it looks like you got into a fight"

"I did. This one's from your cousin." she said pointing to her left eye. He just looked at her. His eyes were so sincerer under the raven hair that fell in front on one side. He was really worried. For the first time she saw it, and she broke.

"It's not like I want to be like this. I want to eat. I miss eating huge meals with you, and cooking with Remus. I want a normal life Sirius." The water was beating down on top of her, so that he couldn't tell if she was crying or not. "Look, Christmas is in a few weeks. And you said, he's probably in hiding, and that means you get a bit of a break"

"Your right. Your always right." They stood in the shower for a while. Just letting the hot water pour down on them. Eventually she shut off the water, and climbed out. There was a comfortable silence between them.

"Do you really think my ass isn't big?" He asked.

"You are so weird." she said pulling on her jeans.

"Oh good morning Remus." Sirius said, still standing completely naked in the shower, Holly was completely dressed, as Remus opened the door.

"Uh…sorry, I just assumed that you were fully dressed…sorry"

"Nonsense old friend! You've seen me like this before! Your acting like we didn't live together for 7 years at school."

"Yeah…about that…"Remus looked uncomfortable.

"Well, I'll leave you two to talk about Sirius being naked, I'm hungry." Holly laughed brushing past Remus and went and had a giant breakfast.