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Chapter 5: Pairing Up.

As James took his seat beside Sirius he tried to hide his excitement. This was something that he had been dreaming of since he was a child. He remembered when he was six years old how his father had explained to him what his job was and James could vaguely remember living in awe of his father from that day forward.

"Hey Prongs look." He said gesturing towards the girl that he had spilt coffee all over.

"I see she got the coffee off of herself then."

"Yeah shame. She looked good wet."

James' reply was cut off when Williamson walked into the room, commanding attention, just like he had earlier in the day.

"Well let's see just how many of you where brave enough to come back." He surveyed the room, an annoying habit in Sirius' opinion.

He seemed to mentally count them before saying, "Well sixteen new recruits. If 8 of you become Aurors I will be thankful."

"I am sure that you are aware, for if you were so stupid that you were not I would ask you to leave right now, that the Wizarding World is in a more dangerous state than it has been for years. We were at peace but now we are at war. From this day forward you will be trained in the most elite ways, in order to join the most elite profession."

His eyes swept the room and then said. "Let us train."

"Stupefy!"

"Protego!"

"Impedimenta!"

"Petrificus Totalus!"

"STOP!"

The shouting of different spells ceased immediately.

"OK. That could have gone worse I suppose. I guess I had too much faith in your abilities to perform simple magic." He stopped talking and shook his head for a moment as though scolding a child but soon resumed talking.

"All of you take five, I think after having observed your pitiful attempts at magic that a first year Hogwarts student could do this past hour that I need to take a new approach, call me crazy but I assumed that standard magic would have been easy to you."

His eyes scanned the trainees yet again and he smiled at the same girl he had earlier, the girl who James and Sirius now knew as 'Coffee Soaked Sweetheart', then as his eyes reached Sirius he scowled slightly, it would appear Sirius hadn't made a good impression.

Sirius and James made their way to a corner of the room, while Williamson walked out of the room muttering "Bloody newbies, all pathetic."

"That bloke doesn't like me too much does he?"

"Ofcourse he does."

Sirius raised an eyebrow at him.

"Ok, well no he doesn't but if it makes you feel better, I don't think he likes anyone."

"I dunno, he seems to like 'Coffee' over there."

"Maybe he knows her from somewhere."

"Yeah, either that or he is appreciative of the female form."

"What?"

"She's hot." Sirius stated wiggling his eyebrows.

"What? Hot like coffee?"

"Hot like coffee."

James paused a moment before speaking again, "You have to admit though mate,Williamson does seem dedicated. Seems to me as though he loves training-"

Sirius cut across him, "More like he loves the authority and superiority buzz that he gets out of it."

They looked around the room at the other 'recruits' as Williamson kept referring to them. Some looked exhausted from the three rounds of duels that Williamson put them through, others merely chatted with the people near them.

Williamson walked briskly back into the room before announcing that they were moving into another room downstairs.

"This," he said as they arrived, "is a physical training area, I wasn't planning on using this for another week or so yet but as it is…" he trailed off and waited while the 'recruits' took in the room they were standing in.

James looked around the room, it reminded him a bit of a muggle gym, he had seen photographs of during his muggle studies classes in third year.

The room was at least three times the size of the classroom they had just left. It had mats grouped together in different areas on the floor a punch bag next to each set of mats.

'This was clearly where the physical strength was going to be built.' James thought.

James was knocked out of his thoughts by Williamson hard voice.

"You will be partnered with someone of my choosing. There will be neither negotiations nor any argument. Now form a line against that wall."

Everyone did as they where told and waited while Williamson looked over the list of names on his clipboard.

"Jefferson and Doge. You two over there." He said gesturing to the left corner of the room.

"McMillan and Perry. Over there," gesturing to the equipment to the right of the first two.

He continued calling pairs while Sirius and James quietly wondered who they would be paired with, hoping it was each other.

Soon there was only four left, James, Sirius, and slightly chubby young man, and the girl they had come to know as the 'Coffee Soaked Sweetheart'.

"Potter, you and Morrison stay where you are." Williamson said before turning slightly to Black and said, "You Black are very lucky, you get Lawson." Sirius turned his head slightly to look at her, to say she looked unhappy at this was an understatement.

Williamson gestured to a training area on the other side of the room but before they could move Williamson was telling them what to do.

"Take the book 'The Physical Demands of an Auror' out of you bags and begin with the exercises from page three through to page ten. There are changing rooms to my right," His hand gestured to the block of cubicles at the far right hand side of the room, "where you can change into the appropriate attire for the exercise." He paused, surveyed the room then spoke again.

"Begin."

Without saying anything Lawson picked up her bag and moved over to the changing cubicles, Sirius was more than slightly irked by her blatant rudeness and sent a despairing look at James.

"We're gonna need a bigger mat."

James laughed at his friends' comment before turning and addressing his partner.

"Hello, James Potter." He said as an introduction.

He frowned slightly at James, "I know. We had Herbology together for seven years at school."

"Ah, yes well obviously I know that but I… erm," Truthfully James couldn't remember ever once talking to, or even meeting, Morrison but he didn't want to say that. "I know we had classes together but we never properly met."

"We were partnered together for most of fifth year." Morrison replied swiftly.

"Oh." James was slightly stuck for what to say, he was about to respond with a fake "oh yeah I remember now" but he figured that his partner would see right through that so he merely sighed, very aware of the awkwardness.

"It's alright, I mean it's not like I was a big part of your life or anything. It's ok that you don't remember me. I mean why would you? You and your friends ruled the school, I was just some Hufflepuff that you got stuck with for a few months."

Morrison sounded so dejected that James felt compelled to apologise.

"I'm sorry. Back then I only took notice if three things, my friends, Quidditch and Lily. If you weren't part of the three it's unlikely I would have given you the time of day. So I'm really sorry." James finished sincerely.

Morrison seemed to accept his apology because he said "Don't worry about it. I'll tell you what, we start over." He stuck his hand out. "Hi I'm Boris Morrison and you are?"

James chuckled for a second but then shook his hand.

"James Potter. Pleasure to meet you Boris."

"You as well James." They both laughed.

"Well Boris, before we get changed into our training gear why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?"

"My name is Boris Morrison……

Meanwhile on the other side of the room Sirius came out of a cubicle to find that Lawson had already began setting up the mats according to page three of the book.

"Ok clumsy here's how it goes," she spoke without even looking at him but instead was looking at the book, "the first one is an upright exercise, you can start off. I'll hold the red mat up against my body and you try to find a way past it."

He didn't say anything so she finally looked up at him. He was just looking at her as though expecting her to say something else.

Growing bored of the way he was staring she snapped.

"Would you like to take a picture? It'll last longer."

"As a matter of fact I would like to take a picture, you do look photogenic but… that's not my problem right now." He spoke in a very casual tone quite enjoying the way her eyes narrowed at him.

"Well?" She questioned.

"Well what?"

"Well, what the hell is your problem and how can you hurry up and solve it so that we can get to work?"

"You haven't got much patience have you?" He paused and looked her up and down 'nice body' he thought to himself before continuing. "You're so busy wanting to be teachers pet that you, inadvertently I am sure, have neglected to ask me my name."

She looked annoyed but spoke in a tone so sweet he was quite surprised it was coming from her.

"Oh but I know your name, when good ol' Eddie Williamson made you stand up like a circus freak you announced your name to the class. Sirius Black." She smiled sweetly but wasn't finished, "I know all I need to about you, I know your name and I know that you're a clumsy idiot who shouldn't be allowed near hot beverages. Now if you don't mind I would really like to get to work," her sweet tone only faltering during her last sentence.

Sirius watched as she picked up the red mat and put it close to her body but didn't even get into position before realising that their talk wasn't finished.

"What now?"

"Well, you may know all you know about me but…I don't know all I need to about you. For instance; what's your name?"

Sirius was rather enjoying the glare that she was giving him. She sighed, clearly realising that he wasn't going to let this go.

"Piper Lawson."

"That's pretty."

She just looked at him for a moment before raising the mat again and looking at him expectantly.

"I hadn't finished with my questions."

"Yes, you had."

"No, I still had a few more." He contradicted her.

"Ok clumsy make it quick."

"Look coffee there is no need to be rude." Sirius said in a playful manner.

"Coffee?"

"Yeah, it's my nickname for you."

"You have a nickname for me?"

"Absolutely. Originally it was 'Coffee Soaked Sweetheart' but that takes a bit too long to say so I shortened it."

"Coffee Soaked Sweetheart? Listen clumsy I am not your sweetheart."

"No. Your just coffee now. I hereby christen you..." he paused, smiled at her and then finished, "coffee."

He continued to smile at her but she just looked annoyed.

"If you don't start the workout within 10 seconds I'm gonna fucking castrate you." Sirius paled as she spoke. As she picked up the red mat she mumbled. "That's assuming that there's something there to begin with."

Needless to say Sirius began the workout.

Okay guys. This chapter didn't really do what I wanted it to, I can't write action so it was a bit difficult but it could have gone worse. I just started writing the next chapter, should be up soon. Review and let me know what you think.

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