Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or another people from his world.

Author Notes: Sorry about making it seem like Snape and Harry were going to be a couple, and sorry if you wanted them too, but this is going to be Harry/Sirius till the end! I just wanted Snape and Harry to be good friends.

P.S. I AM SO SORRY! My computer died and then my mused died and…just lots of death…

P.P.S. Thank you for your patience and thank you for your reviews!

Time Slip

Chapter Nineteen

Blast in Potions

It was in the middle October and the Slytherin's and the Gryffindor's had double period of potions together which isn't a very pleasant experience since they don't get along…though it is worse for a certain black hair, blue eyed boy who wasn't getting along to well with the boy of his dreams, which to make it worse is now hanging out with his arch nemesis. Those two had decided to be potion partners and were working together on the other side of the classroom. He had been watching those two since the beginning of the period, much to the annoyance of his own potion partner. His partner had stop asking him to hand him things about half an hour ago when he had 'accidentally' handed him the wrong ingredient and managed to turned there noses purple.

His partner sighed. "Sirius, will you please pay attention?"

Sirius turned from his staring and muttering to his partner. "I'm sorry Remus, did you say something?"

Remus rolled his eyes. "Sirius if Harry hanging out with Snape bothers you so much, then why don't you just tell him?"

Sirius shook his head. "Why would I do that? He doesn't want to talk to me…or even look at me…" he muttered the last part.

Remus sighed again. "Padfoot…"

"Don't patronize me Moony."

"I'm not patronizing you."

Sirius finally looked directly at him. "Sorry…"

"It's alright…but you really should get over your pride and talk to him."

"Nope."

"You're a stupid git you know that?"

"Of course I do. And besides," he said, rubbing his right ear. "Ever since I tried to talk to him last, I haven't been able to hear right out of this ear."

Remus hid the smirk that threatened to over take his face. Yes, he remembered that well. Sirius had walked up to Harry and he turned his ear into something that made them all lose their appetites before he even opened his mouth. Remus decided that Harry got the long grudge holding trait from his mother, because Lily sure could hold a grudge and the only grudge that lasted more then a day for James was against Snape and that was no surprised.

Sirius suddenly turned to Remus. "I think I'm going to have to do something drastic."

Remus eyebrow rose as he put in the next ingredient. "Drastic? Like what?"

Sirius shook his head. "No, I'm going to have to figure this out."

"Okay, but before you do it, I have to ask you this, because if you give me the wrong answer I'm not going to allow you to do whatever you are thinking."

"Fine, what is it?"

Remus looked him in the eyes. "If you are going to get Harry to forgive you, are you going to be his boyfriend?"

Sirius opened his mouth then closed it. He put his chin in his hand and thought for a moment. "Yes, I will." He finally said. "I do love him and I really didn't mean to hurt him."

"So you expected him to be not hurt by what you said about not loving him?"

"Okay, I admit it, I am an idiot. Will you please stop bringing it up?"

"No."

His eyes narrowed. "Now who's the stupid git?"

"Still you."

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Harry was watching Sirius and Remus out of the corners of his eyes, much to the annoyance of his potion partner. Snape growled low in his throat and threw a piece of willow root at the other boys head. Harry turned around and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry."

Snape rolled his eyes and went back to chopping. Harry really liked working with Snape since he knew that he was actually the Half Blood Prince and he was learning a lot from him, not he would tell the future Snape that he could teach well. "Why don't you just talk to him?" Snape said, shaking Harry out of his thoughts.

"What?"

Once again, something was thrown at him but he caught it this time. "I said that you should talk to him." Snape answered.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because he is a stupid git."

"Just like you?"

Harry opened his mouth but nothing came out. Finally, after opening and closing his mouth a few times, he said, "I'm not a stupid git."

"Yes you are."

Emerald green eyes glared at him. "Why do you say that?"

"I may not like him but you obviously do and you are just idiotic enough not to get over whatever he said and go talk to him. He is just stupid and probably didn't know what he was saying." Snape turned back to chopping and mixing the potion.

Harry hated to admit it but Snape was right…though he still wasn't going to forgive Sirius and James till the proved themselves forgiveness worthy. But why did Snape want him to talk to him? They were getting along pretty well and Severus like he said didn't like them, so why? Suddenly a slow smile crept on his face. "You like me." Harry said with an evil smile at his potion partner.

Without looking up, Snape replied, "No I don't, I just hate people moping, so get that idiotic smile off your face right now before I shove some of this down your throat."

Harry started to snort. "Oh come on, you know you like me. You want me to be happy." He said in a sing-songy voice while poking the other boy in the ribs.

Snape turned to him, his eyes narrowed dangerously and slightly pink on the cheeks. "No I don't." he said in a low growl and slowly an evil smile appeared on his lips. Harry's eyes went wide with the look he was getting from his friend.

Suddenly something came flying at Harry's head and he just barely ducked his head in time. Harry looked up and around in time to see the thing fly into the cauldron on the next table.

The girl at the table looked at her cauldron in time to see the thing drop in and the next thing she knew she was hearing a big boom and was covered in soot. Everyone looked at her and Harry asked, "Alice, are you alright?"

Alice wrinkled her nose and started to brush her shirt. "Bloody hell, I knew that damn fortune cookie meant something was going to blow up on me!"

Harry hid a smile. "I'm sorry Alice." He suddenly remembered something from that day that they all ate Chinese food…he remembered that Sirius had lied about what his fortune was. Harry still wanted to know what it was.

Alice turned to him and smiled too. "Nah, that's alright. I was starting to get worried because nothing was happening. Now I don't have too."

Everyone had gotten up from their seats and walked over to her. "You sure you are alright?" the potion teacher, who was Horace Slughorn, asked.

"I think so…" Alice replied.

"Well, I think you should go to Madam Pomphey anyways just to make sure." Professor Slughorn said.

"Okay Professor." She said, stood up and tripped. "Damn." She muttered as she rubbed her ankle. "I think I sprained it."

Slughorn sighed. "That's alright dear. I'll bring you." He turned to the class as he helped her up. "You all are seventh years so I expect you to act like them while I am gone." The classes replied with 'Yes Professor'. He smiled and walked out of the classroom with Alice in tow.

As soon as they were out of the classroom, everybody went into groups and started talking. Harry turned to Snape and mocked scowled. "That was very rude Severus. You were trying to hit me but instead you got an innocent bystander!"

Snape opened his mouth to reply but suddenly he ducked and a spell went flying over his head and hit the wall with sparks. Harry whipped his head around and glared at the person who threw the spell. His eyes widened briefly but then went back to glaring after he saw Sirius with his wand pointing in his general direction, with Remus glaring at him and James giving him a look that read 'how stupid can you get?'. Peter looked like he would love to smack Sirius. Snape got back up and pulled out his wand. Harry turned to Snape and he lowered his wand at the look he was getting from his Gryffindor friend. He turned his eyes back to Sirius and took a step towards him. "What the bloody hell was for Black?" Harry asked coldly.

Sirius took a step forward also. "I don't like his face." He stated.

Harry raised an eyebrow, took a step again and pulled out his wand. "He's a lot better looking then you."

Everyone in the classroom turned to them and made a circle. This was going to get interesting. Sirius eyes widened and took a step. "Well, at least it doesn't look like yours."

James turned to Peter and whispered. "Should I be insulted?"

Peter shook his head. "They're just being…"

"Hormonal?" Remus asked as he stepped towards them.

"I have the face of one of your best friends. Are you saying he's ugly?" Harry asked, stepping forward. They were getting really close.

"No." he replied getting even closer.

"Then I can't be ugly you numb skulled, thick headed idiot."

"Actually, he's a lot better looking then you and much more shagable." They were practically touching now.

James shuddered. "I somehow feel violated…"

Peter patted him on the shoulder. "I would to mate."

Harry's eyes went wide and hurt briefly flashed across his eyes before it went back to angry. Everyone moved back a stepped, feeling intense magic coming from those two. "I rather shag Professor McGonagall then ever kiss you." He said in a cold voice. By now their feet were touching and Sirius was glaring down at Harry and Harry glaring up at him.

Everyone backed up another step when the magic in the room intensified. Sirius' eyes narrowed. "Let's see about that…" he said quietly and grabbed either side of Harry's head, much to his and everyone else's surprise, and brought his lips to his. When their lips met, magic that seems to have been building around those two suddenly exploded in a brilliant flash of light, momentarily blinding all and knocking over some.

When the light faded and the blindness receded, you could see that Sirius and Harry were still kissing and that an after glow was surrounding them. Remus and Snape happened to glance at each other at the same time. Snape grinned and Remus couldn't help but grin back. This was going well.

Finally the two pulled away from each other and looked into each other eyes, the after glow fading. Sirius grinned cockily. "See, I told you." Snape, Remus, James and Peter groaned.

The glow around Harry's face vanished and a hand came out of nowhere and slapped him. Sirius grabbed his cheek and looked at Harry wide eyed. Harry turned and started heading out the door. When he opened it, he turned back around to Sirius and said coldly, "I still rather snog McGonagall." and shut the door.

Sirius stared at the door. He felt someone come up behind him and wasn't to shock to feel his head being smacked. He turned to see Remus glaring at him, with James and Peter right behind him. "That was completely stupid." Remus said. "For a moment there, just for the briefest moments, it looked like he was going to forgive you but you have to go and ruin it, didn't you?"

Sirius couldn't even bring himself to glare at him. Suddenly the door started to open and he thought that it was Harry coming back. His face fell when it wasn't Harry walking through the door, but Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, Slughorn, and Alice. Everyone went back to their seats and the teachers came to the front of the class. They were quiet for a moment till McGonagall spoke, "I want to know what that magical disturbance was and I want to know the truth." She turned to Remus. "Tell me." Remus described what had happened. The teachers looked at each other. "Alright. I'm going to go find Mr. Potter and I want Mr. Black to go to Dumbledore's office." She said and walked out of the classroom just as the bell rung. Everyone got up and headed out the door, except for Sirius and his friends, but when Dumbledore walked up to them, they all left but for Sirius. "Mr. Black, I'll see you in my office in a bit. I have something else to attend to at the moment so you can come in about half an hour." With that said, he walked out the door.

Sirius sat there, laying his head in his arms and trying hard not to cry. When had he made his life so bloody complicated? And what the bloody hell happened? He didn't know what the bright light was for, but it never happened before. "Black…" someone said and Sirius brought his head up to look at the one he tried to hex early.

"What do you want Snape?"

Snape seemed really uncomfortable but he apparently had something to say. "I just want to tell you I think you're a bloody git."

"I know that. I don't need you to tell me that." he replied turning his head back toward the desk.

"Yes but you seem even more so lately since Harry got here."

"Yeah well, he brings the worse out in me."

"And the best."

Sirius moved his head so fast to look at him that something cracked. He didn't care. He was busy looking at Snape to see how truthful he was being. Which was probably really truthful, seeing as he looked like he ate something foul. "Huh?"

Snape growled and looked about ready to do murder. "You're a bloody idiot! He loves you, I don't know why, but you're just being plain stupid. If you weren't such a damn horny Gryffindor, I bet you could get him to forgive you. You just need to prove to him that you're worth it. And don't give me that look! I don't like you and I never will, but I do like Harry as a friend and I want him to be happy. And if it takes him being with you to be happy, then I want that." He glared at the stunned boy. "This never leaves the room or I'm willing to have Harry hex me into the next dimension when I get through with you." With that, he walked out the door, leaving Sirius to think.

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Sirius walked into Dumbledore's office. He was sitting at his desk, looking at the student arrive. "Mr. Black, please sit down." He sat down and glanced at the chair next to him. Harry was sitting in there, not looking at him. "Would you like a lemon drop?" he asked and Sirius shook his head as did Harry. "No, well, now I know that this is serious." He put away the tin and looked at the two boys. "Now, I know you two haven't been getting along so I'm going to make this brief. I'm going to tell you what you did today and then I want you two to think about it." The boys looked at him, intrigued. "You two are very powerful wizards and apparently your feeling for each other mixed in with your magic and when you kissed, the magic exploded. I won't say what I think, because that might influence what you think, but I will tell you this…that never happens when people who dislike each other kiss." He stood up and left the room, leaving the two Gryffindor's to think.

They sat in silence and not a very comfortable one at that. "Harry…"

"Don't talk to me." He growled.

Sirius bit his lip. "I'm sorry."

"I thought I told you not to talk to me."

"I'm going to talk to you. If you listen or ignore me is your decision." Sirius took a strand of his dark hair and started twirling it around his pointer finger. "I'm sorry Harry. I'm a jerk and I know it but you have to understand, I never felt this way about another human being. I never even felt like this around Remus. I…I never thought I would find someone like you who would make me feel what I felt. I guess I was scared of what would happen to my heart if you ever left or if you ever started to hate me, so I guess I just used everything that James told me as an excuse for you to stop it now so I wouldn't get hurt later. I didn't realize that it would hurt so much…I didn't think anyone would ever have this kind of control over me, but apparently you do. I guess I was just being selfish…"

It was quiet for a moment. "You think?" he asked and Sirius winced.

"I really screwed up, didn't I?"

"Yes you did. Did you even realize that I was going through exactly the same thing? I was more the willing to work through it all as long as I got you in the end."

Sirius bit his lip and wrapped his arms around his legs. "I've been told that I'm a cold hearted bastard, remember?"

It was quiet again but then he heard the other chair squeak and Harry get up. He heard Harry start to walk and a tear slip down his face when he heard the footsteps disappear. Sirius buried his face in his knees as tears started to flow down his face. He bit his lip hard, realizing that he screwed it up beyond repair and there was no one to blame but himself.

Suddenly he felt someone petting his hair and he looked up to see a blurry Harry kneeling in front of him, at eye level. "Harry?"

Harry wiped away the tears staining his cheeks. "Yes Sirius?"

"What…"

Harry smiled and wiped away all the tears with his thumbs and his hands on his cheeks. "I know I can be a bloody idiot but I'm not about to lose something as important as you over something that happened because we were just not ready." Sirius smiled. Harry leaned up and kissed him. If you were a bystander, or a portrait, you would've seen a faint glow surrounding those two as they kissed.

When they broke the kiss, Harry smiled at Sirius and pulled him out of the chair. As they walked towards the door, hand-and-hand, Harry turned to Sirius said very seriously, "I still need to get those bloody jerks who said that you were a cold hearted bastard." Sirius laugh faded as they walked down the stairs.

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Dumbledore smiled as he watched them walk out the door. He turned to one of the portraits, who said, "I've never seen such strong love."

The Headmaster smiled. "Neither have I."