A/N: Hey, hey, hey! I love everyone who reviewed and I'm sorry this kinda took me awhile. But the juices weren't flowing as good as usual, so….yea. But then I got more reviews and Vicky H. gave me an idea and my thoughts just took off! I hope you enjoy! REVIEW! Have a heart and click the button! Love always, padfootqueen!

"Alright, five minutes….."

"Damn, this takes forever!"

"Relax, Padfoot, Merlin."

"Down to four…."

"This better end soon.."

"I know, we all want to go."

"Three…."

"Merlin, when is he going to stop lecturing.."

"When you guys start playing attention."

"Shit, we'll be here for eternity."

"Yes, two…."

"Fuckkkkkk."

"If he doesn't hurry, I'm going to pull my hair out and scream at the top of my lungs."

"Me two."

"Me three."

"Not me."

"ONE!"

"Forty…."

"Thirty…."

"Twenty…"

"Ten…nine…eight….seven….six…five…four……three….two…one!"

"You may go now."

"YESSSSSSSSSSS!"

"BREAK! WAHOOO!"

"FINALLY!"

"Let's go!"

The end of term had finally ended and the Marauders literally sprinted out of their History of Magic class. All over the place, people were yelling and cheering. The four best friends started making their way down the hall to Griffindor Tower. Past the Great Hall they made their way up the stairs talking and laughing about different things. As they were moved down the corridor, they all heard familiar laughs coming up one of the moving staircases just ahead of them. Coming up the stairs, were Bethany, Lily, Cory and Emma, all laughing over something Lily was saying. They were about five steps to the top, when Lily stopped telling her story causing all the girls to look up from the ground where they had been looking towards Lily. Lily saw James and giggled then ran over to him. They both met halfway and James picked up Lily and swung her around then kissed her.

It was the mood of the place, everyone was happy! Break was finally here! The other girls had come up the stairs and Sirius and Cory started to walk to each other. By now many people knew that they were together, but many did not believe it. The hallways were crowded and many people noticed that two certain people were heading towards each other. They stood in front of each other and decided to have a little fun with the people watching them.

Fake anger showed on Sirius' face and he said menacingly to Cory, "What do you want, Ash?"

"Nothing, Black. Move." Cory said pretending to get annoyed.

"You can go around," Sirius said sensing that he might start laughing at the faces people were making. Some were saying to others that they knew Cory and Sirius weren't together. While others were confused as to why they were acting like this.

"Merlin, you are so irritable, Black."

"Really? Ash, you don't want to know what I think of you." Sirius said.

"Want to know what else I think of you?" Cory said.

"Sure."

"Well…..I think your sexy, incredible, kick ass at Quidditch, got an amazing body and you have the most astonishing way of kissing a girl." People's mouths dropped open and many smiled triumphantly while others laughed. A smile spread across Cory's face. (A/N: This part is for Vicky H., she gave me this idea in her review. If you have any ideas send them to me, I am not saying I'll use them right away but I might!) "Get over here, Black."

With that, she pulled his loose tie towards her bringing Sirius along with it. She kissed him eagerly as they both started to laugh.

"Ahhh, I missed you." Sirius said once they had stopped laughing and kissing each other. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she draped her arms around his neck.

"And I you." Cory replied as made their way towards the common room. The rest of their friends had already left and gone to the common room and were inside already when Sirius and Cory entered.

Upon entering, Cory felt like she didn't want to be there. It's not like she didn't like the company, it was just she felt like being somewhere else. She felt like being outside in the snow. After sitting in classes, stretching her legs would feel good. Also the fresh air would be good for her. She looked up at Sirius. He was walking over to the couch when he noticed that his girlfriend was not following. His brow furrowed in confusion.

"I'm gonna go for a walk." Cory said to him and the group.

"Okay."

"See ya."

"Bring a scarf."

"Yea it's cold."

"Might want to bring gloves too."

"Bye."

Her friends all chorused back to her. Sirius looked at her still puzzled. She went up stairs and grabbed her cloak, gloves and scarf. Descending the stairs, she made her way out.

Cory was outside and walking around the lake when someone tapped her on her shoulder. She turned and no one was there. She turned the other way and then heard a familiar voice.

"Looking for me?"

Cory looked in front for her. There was Sirius. (A/N; In all honesty, didn't you think I'd make it Lucius?) He had a big smile displayed on his face and Cory smiled as well.

"Exactly what I was looking for." Cory replied and Sirius grinned.

Sirius held out his hand and Cory took it without question. They walked silently around the lake for a while, both of them caught in their own thoughts. Cory was thinking of how she could get a spare moment to talk to James. She needed to know Sirius' address so she could send him his Christmas gift. Sirius on the other hand was thinking about how he was going to survive two weeks at his house. The thought of going home tortured him. Cory noticed his hard and serious expression and broke the silence.

"Sirius? What's wrong?"

Cory stopped walking and looked at her boyfriend, who apparently didn't even notice they had stopped he was in such deep thought. Cory lifted her hand and touched Sirius' cheek. Sirius then did something that Cory did not expect. When she touched him, he jerked back from her touch and got a very angry with a disturbed looked in his eyes. Through all their fighting, starring and in their relationship over all, Cory had never felt scared of Sirius. Now she was. He never looked at her like that. She instinctively took a step back. Her eyes were wide and she was ready to run if needed.

Sirius blinked and looked at Cory. He had been thinking about his family and naturally, he got depressed and angry about it. Thoughts of his father's reaction to his coming home plagued his mind. Last year his Christmas arrival had been awful. Hitting started early instead of present giving like it did in other homes. While his mind was watching that scene of his homecoming from last year, blow-by-blow replayed in his mind and then the real world had touched him. Cory had touched him, but because he was thinking of his past, he thought it was a bad kind of touch. Sirius looked at Cory and he wondered why she was looking like a deer caught in the headlights. He thought, Oh no, I must have scared her.

"Cory….." Sirius said uncertainly. "I'm sorry I just…was thinking about something and you caught me off guard. That's all. I'm sorry."

Cory looked at him. Was he serious? Is he really good? Yes. She reassured herself.

Sirius took a cautious step towards Cory. He looked at her almost for permission to come closer and Cory got what he meant and nodded tensely, scared if she had made a mistake. He continued towards her and said, "I'm sorry I scared you."

She nodded. His voice was so pure. How could she have thought that he would hurt her as anyone in her past had? Sirius hugged her close to him. She was so scared when he looked at her it was as if her past was in the present. She pulled back and looked him in the eye.

"You scared me, Sirius. Don't ever look at me like that again. Please, don't Sirius."

She looked at him pleadingly and he said softly, "I promise."

They started to walk again and Sirius kept Cory close to him realizing that he would be without her and her love for two weeks. He didn't want to ever let go of her again. But, he knew he'd have to. Damn.

The two had made their way back to the school by now and when Sirius asked if they should go in, Cory said she didn't want to, so they kept walking. After some time had passed, they reached a courtyard and they sat on a bench together, Cory still in Sirius' arms.

"I don't want you to go, Sirius." Cory said after five minutes of silence that involved more thinking from both of them. She looked at him. "Even though we just got together, I still wish you could stay here….I'm going to miss you so much."

Sirius looked at Cory and decided he had to know the thing that was tormenting him so badly. He said, "Cory, did I scare you that bad before?"

"Yes."

"Oh, Merlin…."He said and put his head in his hands. This is what he didn't want. He didn't want to scare her. He wanted her to always feel safe around him, not frightened.

"You've just never looked at me like that and it just…….scared me."

He looked at her and said, "I'm so sorry. You know, I'll miss you too, right?"

"Yea." And she smiled softly.

Snow started to fall around them as they both leaned towards each other and kissed tenderly. They both realized that this was it. They would apart for two weeks and it plagued them both. At the same time, they pulled back and smiled at each other.

"What am I going to do without you?" Sirius said in all honestly to Cory, which caused her to smile even more.

As they were about to lean in for another kiss, a snowball flew towards them and hit Sirius in the head. They both shot up off the bench and looked around. There, in front of them, stood their friends laughing at them. Clad in hats, gloves, scarves and heavy cloaks, their friends stood there waiting for a response and trying to hold back their laughter. They were failing. Awfully.

"Hey, what was that!" Sirius yelled at them as he started laughing along with them. Cory started laughing as well.

Lily came forward and said counting out what she said on her fingers, "Alright, here are the teams; Remus, Quinn, Sirius and James, versus the best team of all time; Me, Cory, Bethany and Emma."

"Hey!" Quinn yelled at not being called the best.

"That's trash talk, Evans. Do you think you really want to go there?" Sirius said raising his eyebrows to her.

"Let's just start already!" Emma yelled and at that moment, they all bent down and grabbed as much snow as they could. As quickly as possibly, the snowball fight had begun.

About, eight pairs of wet robes, an order of twelve hot chocolates made and a treaty later, the friends found themselves back in the common room in front of the fire again. It really couldn't be decided who won the snowball fight because McGonagual came by and made them go in. After that, they made The Treaty of Griffindor. In the treaty, it said that the war would resume when both sides were ready and prepared. Drafts were not allowed. Each team had to use its original players.

It was around 12:30 when people started yawning. People took their leaves and soon it was just Sirius, Cory, Lily and James left in the common room. Lily was nearly dead asleep on James' shoulder and Cory lying across Sirius' chest in the same state as her best friend.

"Well…" James started to say and get up but Lily interrupted.

"Noooooo, you're ending the night! No, this is it." She said and sat up. "We won't see each other for two weeks!"

"Yea, your right." James said and looked around at the small group of people with him with sadness in his eyes.

"Merlin, we're going home tomorrow." Sirius said out loud as he looked at James. It was always hard for James and Sirius to leave each other because James was the only person Sirius could talk and tell anything to. He was the only one that knew about Sirius' family. It was also hard for Cory and Lily. They had been forced to be apart for so long and now to leave each other again wasn't fair. Only this time it was only two weeks not 10 months.

"I'm staying here. Whoopee." Cory said unenthusiastically.

Sirius looked down at her and said, "I wish I could stay with you…."

"I know." Cory replied and kissed him.

The next morning came too quickly for Cory's liking. She woke and went down to breakfast with Lily. They, apparently, were the last to come down from Griffindor. It made sense really; they stayed up to about three talking about anything and everything. But, to be honest, they really talked about James and Sirius. Little did they know that their boyfriends were doing the same thing at that time in their own dorm room. At breakfast, they sat in their usual spots and joined the conversation that was already in full swing.

An hour later Cory found herself at the Hogsmeade Station saying 'goodbye' to her friends. Sirius was the last person to board the train. Cory wasn't going to lie, she was sad. A whole two weeks without her friends. This was going to be awful. Luckily, she had caught James in the common room while Lily and Sirius were both still upstairs and got Sirius' address. James was a little shaky about giving it to her, but in the end, he gave it anyway.

On the tracks, Sirius took Cory's face in his hands and said, "Merry Christmas, Cory. I'll miss you more then you'll know."

With that, he kissed her and slowly lent back and walked away. She held on to his hand not wanting it let go and in the end had to. He got on the train and Cory felt a part of her get on the train as well. Sadness spread through as she headed back to the castle to nobody.