Chapter 5:

Good Dreams, Bad Dreams and a not so lazy Sunday

Elle groaned. The sunlight was pouring in through the window right into her eyes. She rolled over, but it was no use, she was awake now and could not go back to sleep. She sat up. It seemed the other girls in her dorm were still asleep. 'Yes!' Elle thought 'Hot shower'

The hot water in the Gryffindor girls dorm was due for a tune up. It kept cutting out after about the 2rd shower in each dorm, so getting in first was a big deal for the girls, especially when some people in your dorm spent nearly an hour in the shower.

Elle grabbed a pair of jeans and a long sleeved black top out of her trunk and headed into the bathroom.

She threw her clothes onto the floor, and stepped into the shower, letting the hot water pound down on her back. As the water flowed over her, she thought about last night.

They didn't hate her. They were her friends. She was happy.

Elle thought about the dream she had had last night. She had been flying on a broom, with a man. A man who looked surprisingly like Sirius. She wasn't sure, because she had had her back against his chest, and it was dark, but she was pretty sure it was Sirius. They had been flying over the lake, and had watched the sun rise. Then he had flown towards the castle, and stopped at a window. He had let her off; she had stepped through the window, which had led to her dormitory, she turned around, and they had kissed, then Elle had woken up.

Elle sighed, that had been a good dream. Elle turned the water off and stepped out of the shower, drying her self off then wrapping herself in a big, white, fluffy towel. She walked over to the mirror and grabbed her wand off the sink.

She performed a drying spell on her hair and decided to leave it out. She picked her clothes up off the floor and pulled them on.

Someone banged on the door "Elle are you in there?" they called

"Yeah" Elle yelled back as she moved towards the door, her things under her arm.

"Well can you hurry-"Elle opened the door coming face to face with Jess "up" she finished

"All yours" Elle said.

Elle threw her pajamas into her trunk and threw herself onto her bed, burying her face into her pillow. She moaned as she felt a weight place itself on her bed.

"What are you doing there?" Someone asked.

Elle rolled onto her side and looked at the person sitting next to her, Lily. "Trying to go back to sleep and relive the dream I had" Elle told her friend. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you still be asleep?"

"Nah I'm a early riser, and I thought I'd come and see you"

"I had the best dream last night" Monica called out as she jumped off her bed and ran at Elle's. She jumped onto the bed, almost landing on top of Elle.

"I'm glad you two did, I had a rather disturbing dream" Lily said.

"Oh can I tell you my dream first?" Monica asked

Both Lily and Elle nodded.

"It was sooooooo wonderful!" Monica started "You know the Hufflepuff boy I have a crush on, David? Yeah well he and I were walking around the lake, just talking about this and that, and then he stopped and I stopped and turned around and he was just looking at me. So I asked him why he'd stopped, and he just looked at me and said "You know you're beautiful". And I just stared at him. And then he stepped towards me, and said "I love you Monica" and then he kissed me. Then when he pulled away, he hugged me and I leant against his chest, and then I woke up" monica sighed.

"Yeah well at least you had a good dream" Lily said

"What happened in your dream Lils?" Elle asked

"Well, see I went for a walk outside, because I was tired of doing homework-"

"What, no way, the great Lily Evens, tired of homework!" Jess yelled as she walked out of the shower.

"Shut up. Anyway, there I was walking, minding my own business when who should come along, but Potter. And he was flying on his broom, being a bloody prat. And then he stops beside me and jumps off the broom and starts walking with me. So I asked him what he wanted. And then he goes 'Do you wanna go for a fly?'. I just stared at him like he was crazy, because he knows full well how I'm scared of heights. Then he just grabbed me around the waist and pulls me onto his broom and pushes off from the ground. So there I am, 100's of meters above the ground, clutching at Potter for dear life, because I HATE to fly. And then he go's 'Go out with my Evens'. Then I woke up. I swear that has got to be on my top ten list of nightmares." Lily finished.

"Honestly Lily if you would just go out with him, I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad. I mean even if you think he's a prick, he is good looking and I've heard he's a pretty good kisser" Monica said.

"Ewww. Monica I cant believe you said that, you know I hate him." Lily protested.

"I'm hungry. Does anyone wanna come to breakfast with me?" Elle interrupted.

"Yeah I'll come" Lily said and the two walked down the stairs together, out of the Gryffindor common room, and into the hall.

"You still didn't tell me about your dream" Lily said slyly.

"Ah well…" Elle blushed

"Ahh come on, its not like I'd tell anyone"

"I went flying, on a broom"

"Obviously"

"And watched the sunrise, then went back to my dorm"

"I get the feeling you're leaving something out"

"There was someone else on the broom" Elle whispered

"Who?" Lily asked

"I dunno, he looked Sirius"

"So you like him!"

"I what, I…I mean, no!"

The two walked into the great hall, and sat down at the Gryffindor table. "Admit it Elle, you do. I've seen the way you look at him."

Elle blushed, and looked away from Lily, only to discover that there were choc-chip pancakes on the table. "Oooo Pancakes" she cried out in glee. She grabbed one, cut off a piece and bit into it.

She sighed.

"What don't you like pancakes?" Lily asked as she smiled at her friend.

"No I love pancakes; it's just that Dylan loves pancakes too" Elle said sadly

"Dylan?"

"Dylan" she nodded, "my brother" and her eyes began to well with tears.

"Elle what's wrong?" Lily asked gently, wrapping an arm around her friend.

"Lily, it's just that I feel so guilty that I'm here and he's there. And I don't know whether he's ok, it takes so long to get a letter to him, and I worry that something will happen to him, and I don't think I could deal with that. I don't know what I'd do if he, if he…" At this a tear slipped out of her "Lily I love him"

"Sounds like you've found your prince charming" a sarcastic voice snarled from behind them "Typical Mudbloods, believing those stories that those disgusting muggles created"

The two girls spun around to face Narcrissa Black.

"What do you want Black?" Lily said sharply

"None of your buissness Mudblood" Narcrissa spat. "I'm here to speak to the lovesick one"

"Don't you dare call Lily that!" Elle exclaimed.

"I'll call her what I want"

"Not if its horrible names like that you wont" Elle said angrily

"Look, Smith, I need to talk to you, and were already attracting far too much attention, lets take this outside."

"Fine"

"Didn't you say you wanted to take this outside?" Elle asked. She and Narcrissa Black were in a dark hallway, a little way toward the dungeons from the entrance hall.

"Outside the hall"

"Whatever, what do you want?"

"Well…" Narcrissa trailed off

"I wasn't aware that Slytherins were indecisive, I thought they left that to the Hufflepuffs"

"I'm not indecisive!" Narcrissa snapped. "Look I wanted to know if Lucius spoke to you the other day?"

"He did, why?"

"What did he talk to you about?"

"Some crap about darkness, and a powerful person bringing the ultimate darkness,"

Narcrissa looked thoughtful for a moment, "So he didn't mention anything else?"

"No"

"Nothing at all?"

"He didn't say anything else ok. What do you expect me to tell you he asked me out?"

"He didn't did he?"

"No, he certainly did not, and even if he did, I don't think I'd go out with a slime ball like that"

"He isn't always like that you know"

"Pardon?"

"Nothing" Narcrissa said, as she turned and walked into the shadows of the corridor.

"Righto then" Elle said to herself and walked back into the Great Hall.

"Hey Lily?" Elle said as she sat back down.

"Mmm…" Lily said, swallowing a bite of pancake

"Is Narcrissa Black like infatuated with Lucius Malfoy?"

"Sorta, she loves him, he's a cold hearted bastard, and their parents are making them get married."

"Oh"

Both girls had just finished their breakfast when Sirius, Peter, Remus and Peter, came over to them. Sirius was practically bouncing, as James spoke to them. "We're gonna go play quidditch, you two wanna come?"

Lily glanced at Elle, then agreed to come and watch them.

"Elle, you wanna play?" James asked

"Yeah, why not."

"So we'll meet you on the pitch as soon as you grab your stuff"

"Sure."

Elle and Lily walked up to the girls common room, and Elle grabbed her shrunken broom and put it in her pocket. As they two were walking down to the pitch, they talked about this and that.

"You play much quidditch?" Lily asked

Elle shrugged, "Here and There. On holidays and stuff, but you cant really play with only two people."

"I don't know how you could stand it; so high up, on only a broom."

"You get used to it, I guess. Besides its fun to go so fast you forget about the rest of the world."

"I seriously doubt that I could forget I'm that far off the ground." Lily said, and they entered the pitch.

The boys were standing in a circle a little way off, so they headed towards them.

"Oh hey Elle, and darling Lily love of my life" James said when he saw the two girls."

Lily rolled her eyes at James.

"Were gonna play 2 on 2. Me and Peter verses Sirius and Elle. That way its fair, coz Sirius and I together would beat the English quidditch team"

"So modest James" Remus laughed. "Come on Lily, let's go sit in the stands."

Remus and Lily left for the stands, and James continued explaining about how they would be playing.

"So we'll only be playing with quaffles, and you can have 1 chaser and 1 keeper per team, or you can have 1 selected keeper and they could score if they thought the risk of leaving their goals open was worth it"

"Sounds simple enough" Elle said.

"Ok. So confer with your team, and then we'll start playing"

Sirius turned to Elle "Ok team lets confer" he said.

Elle grinned.

"You wanna go chaser?" Sirius asked

Elle nodded.

"Good coz I want keeper. Let's go win this thing."

The 4 moved toward the centre of the pitch, and kicked off the ground. James flicked his wand at the box in the centre of the grassy oval, and up flew a scarlet red ball. Peter and Elle dove at the ball, and seconds later Elle was flying towards James, body low on the broom and quaffle tucked under her arm. She was flying straight toward James who was hovering in front of the middle ring. She kept flying and flying and it almost looked as though she was going to crash into him, until Elle swerved up and to the left toward the higher ring. James followed, and Elle looped the ball downwards so that it flew gracefully through the middle ring.

"Wow that was good" Lily said.

"10 nil" Remus commented.

"You're scoring?" Lily asked.

"Of course. You know how competitive James and Sirius are. They have a tally of the number of times each has beaten the other"

"You're kidding?"

"I wish I was" Remus said turning back to the game. Peter and Elle flew about the pitch, sometimes trying to score, sometimes trying to steal the quaffle back. About an hour later James called time, and they all flew towards the ground.

Sirius shoved his hair out of his eyes as he spoke "Well I think we won"

"No way, we beat you!" Peter said

"You tied" Remus said coming to join them followed by Lily. "James is the better keeper, but Elle is the better chaser" Remus continued, "No offence to any of you."

"So we're pretty evenly matched" James said

"Yeah" Remus said.

"Whatever" Elle said, "Good game. But I need a shower." And she started towards the castle.

Lily walked with her, and the boys followed them.

"She's not too bad at quidditch is she?" Peter said.

"She is good" James said

"Better than you Padfoot" Remus said, "She'll probably steal your spot if she tries out this year."

"No way Moony! I'm keeping my position as best chaser in the whole school" Sirius exclaimed. "But she can take Lucy's spot, coz she graduated last year."

"Hey I wonder who's captain this year?" James asked

"Yeah…Hope it's someone decent." Sirius replied

They four boys continued talking about quidditch all the way up to the castle. Then they spoke about it at dinner and even a little before they went to bed.

(A.N.: Yay chapter 5. finally got there. You know this thing is 44 pages in word! That pretty long for me.

James or Sirius: I'm sorry? Well I haven't had access to a computer since Christmas Eve, but still no excuse for the like 6 month before that. Your review made me write though, and now I'm halfway through chapter 6.

Andy: point taken, it is distracting but I had to say it coz he's annoying and I don't like him.

Thank you all for reading and I bid you farewell,

The Fairy in Black