Neither she nor Remus said a word. They stared at the upset wizard who shook with anger. Had Sirius not been so infuriated with her, Ginny would have found the whole situation more than enjoyable. She was stuck between two of the most powerful wizards she knew, one still touched her fingertips, the other held her neck in a vice like grip. Heat radiated in waves from their strong and hard bodies that were so close, almost touching. She looked up to their faces that towered over her and saw how different they were, yet so alike in their intensity . Passion surrounded all of them like a cloud.
" Moony."
Sirius placed emphasis on every syllable.
" Moony." He said it again.
Remus eyes flickered.
" Moony. You didn´t take your Wolfsbane."
Sirius voice was seducing now. He nearly singsonged, very calm, very slow.
" Let.Her.Go."
Remus blinked and his slitted pupils changed back to normal.
" I don´t want to.", he murmured," Luna calls me and she smells of fire and.."
Sirius pulled Ginny out of their middle with caution and shoved her behind him.
Remus closed his eyes and massaged his front with his slender fingers.
Ginny could hear Sirius murmuring old protection spells, his fingers worked incessantly, moved, flittered and wove patterns of magic while he chanted under his breath. Shesaw that he was quite good. She knew the incatations since she was eleven of course but had to admit that Sirius produced them with long practiced grace.
Remus became calmer and calmer.
Finally, Sirius stopped his mesmerising whisper and took Remus hand.
"Come, friend," he said mildly," go and retreat now. Take the Bane. Sleep."
Remus nodded tired and she soon heard him padding sofly down the corridor.
She sighed.
Sirus spun around and slammed the door shut behind him. He was in front of her before she could move.
He grabbed her hair and jerked her head backwards as he had done before. Bur this time, he was facing her and his expressive face stared down on her, livid.
"ARE YOU MAD!", he hissed and nothing in his voice contained the slightest trace of the love and friendship it had had for Remus.
His eyes looked like quicksilver and he closed them annoyed when he caught himself looking at her delicate throat.
He pushed her away.
" ARE YOU MAD!", he shouted again, " Provoking a werewolf like that! It´s close to the full moon and you should know that he´s oversensitive! Or did you think he would have wanted you otherwise, even if you were looking like this tonight!"
He was so upset now, he seized her by the shoulders and shook her. Her hairpins flew all over the room and her painful arranged hair cascaded wildly over her back.
She gasped for air.
" And why shouldn´t he want me!", she shouted back," At least someone here ought to have taste, right?
" Taste yes! More like developing an appetite! He´s a dark creature, dont you get it, silly bitch? What would you have done if I hadn´t been there!"
Ginny laughed at him sourly.
She smoothed her hair and her dress with shaking fingers.
" First, I wouldn´t have done nothing that you didn´t do at your age, too." Her gaze fell on the pensive that lay to her feet.
"Secondly, I could cope with three werewolves without even starting to sweat, you blockhead!"
He teared enraged at his hair: " NO , of course you COULDNT ,you simpering, bigheaded SCHOOLGIRL!"
" AAh!" she screamed," you wanted to fuck this schoolgirl in your study not so long ago, didn´t you!"
He slapped her.
Ginnys hand flew upwards to cover her face and she felt helplessly how the power that she kept in check constantly started to ooze out. She felt it rising inside her like a song and knew that her eyes had started to gleam emerald, unreal.
Her hair crackled and sparked.
The voice that came out of her mouth was hers, but it was dark and the cold command lashed through the room:
" DOWN, DOG!"
Sirius tumbled and hit the floor with a surprised scream.
" YOU WONT HIT ME!"
She pointed at the pensive with lightening speed and hissed aloud in Parseltongue.
The silver snakes that had decorated the pensive as the embossed Black-crest came to life, disentangled and flitted over to Sirius. The curled around his wrist and drilled their metallic tails into the floor. He frantically tried to pull them out, in vain. He was completely under her willpower, could not even speak.
She approached him, eyes blazing , her wand pointing at his throat.
" I told you, I could cope with three werewolves, Circe, I even could when I was eleven!". Her laughter was hollow and he involuntary shuddered.
"Afraid now, Siri !", she hissed, " You should be. Did it never occur to you that Voldemort put a HORCRUX on me! What it means? It means for example that he was not only my ghostly lover or that I knew in an instant everything and every dark curse that he learned till his seventh year,- and believe me, he learned a lot.
No dear, the real trouble is, that my body harboured that part of his soul for so long and that I will be stained by his darkness forever. Forever! Do you understand! The temptation to use it is always there!"
Her shouting had become completely hysterical and she stepped back, wavering.
Sirius polished leather shoe kicked against her shin hard as iron and like a shot.
Ginny screamed and convulsed on the floor with pain. Her concentration dwindeled and he took the opportunity to curse the metalic snakes to water.
He sprang up and pinned her small, fragile form under him. Tears streamed over her face and she tried to clutch her shin.
But she did not struggle against him. He decided to hold her down nevertheless.
" You may be tainted by a dark lord and I APOLOGISE for underestimating you!" he said a bit out of breath," But you don´t know a single thing about growing up with dark wizards and you obviously didn´t learn CONSTANT VIGILANCE at school!"
She sobbed.
" Oh come on ", he said annoyed," I know how it feels when things want to steal your soul, believe me, the thing is just to keep on struggling! There is no dark curses, only dark intentions, don´t you know? Just accept the darkness as a part of you, it doesn´t make you a bad girl!"
" And you want me to be a good girl?" she said helplessly.
He looked at her with mistrust. When had his thumb started to caress her underlip?
"Umm.", he started, when she sucked at it with this lush mouth of hers. He hissed.
"Maybe not, then?"