Suddenly Elizabeth whipped her head around in search of a certain boy she had been waiting to see for months. Her eyes scanned the tables quickly trying to catch a glimpse of his sandy blonde hair. There he was, sandwiched between two raven heads. Elizabeth didn't take the time to identify the others as she took off in a dead sprint. In seconds she was upon the boy.
"REMMIE!" she screeched while attempting a very targeted flying tackle at his thin frame. His head turned just in time and with very animal like reflexes captured her in a great big embrace right before she flew into him. "Lizzie." He smiled swinging her gently. "How long as it been Rem? You look taller." She beamed looking up the eight inches that separated the two siblings. "A long time, Christmas? And sorry pip-squeak but you look the same."
Elizabeth scrunched her face in a frown and rapidly jumped off her brother. "I've been trying." She sighed, crossing her arms poutily over her chest and giving him her patented 'you pissed me off and so you'd better look intimidated or else I'll whip your ass' glare.
Remus chuckled lightly at her then sat back at the table, pointedly looking at the two boys currently staring at them with wide eyes. The first to snap out of it was a boy with shaggy black hair, deep blue eyes, and a satisfied smirk.
"Moony my mate! You finally got yourself a girl. Nice going, I was worried for a while you might have been a poof!" Remus and his sister looked at the boy to one another with a mixed expression of disgust and shock which soon turned into fits of laughter, before long they had to lean against each other to support themselves.
The boy gawked at them for a few seconds then looked around for some kind of assurance what just happened…actually…happened. He looked at the boy next to him with tousled black hair and a pair of wire rimmed crooked glasses who simply shrugged and gazed at them with one eyebrow cocked. The first boy continued to look around until he found the vivid green eyes of a red head sitting a few seats away from them. She had been looking on at the scene with a blank stare, when the boy looked at her questioningly she just rolled her eyes and stated
"That's Remus's sister you dim wit."
The boy jerked back to the siblings who were currently finishing up their laughing and wiping the tears from their eyes.
His eyes squinted in confusion then swiftly widened in comprehension.
He frowned slightly and seemed to think of something. The boy pivoted backwards towards the red head again and inquired lazily,
"How'd you know that Lils?" The girl shook her head lightly with a tight frown, much like Minerva's, sighing she answered him "Honestly Sirius, first of all they look a lot alike. The hair, the eyes, how could you miss that? Also Remus has been sending Elizabeth letters since first year, he's had a picture of them on his night stand for years." the last word she drew out for several seconds trying to get the point through his thick skull.
Sirius thought a few moments then it seemed as though he had remembered something. "Hey now that I think about it, you know your right."
"Of course I am, Neanderthal."
"I resent that."
"You don't even know what it means!"
"Yeah I do! It means I think your wrong!"
"NOT RESENT, YOU DAFT PRAT! NEANDERTHAL!"
"Oh, well you don't know what I'm thinking!"
"ARG! You're almost as bad as Potter and that snitch!"
"Now now Padfoot, Lilykins, let us just relax for a while before someone looses an eye, Speaking of eyes yours look quite stunning today Lily dear. You know this weekend I have nothing to do if you know; you might like to get together. Astronomy tower, midnight." The boy with glasses cut in winking flirtingly at the redhead. The girl's cheeks went a fiery red; out of embarrassment or anger it was difficult to tell…well that is until she spoke again.
"POTTER! YOU ARE INSUFFERABLE! HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU, NO, NO, NO! I WOULD NOT DATE YOU IF YOU WERE THE LAST JERK ON EARTH!" Lily's voice rose with each word. At the end she quickly stomped from her seat, threw down her napkin and turned to the girl sitting next to her. "Minnie, I am getting ready for Charms. I suddenly don't have much of an appetite." Lily snarled turning back to James, turning on her heel and gracefully stamping out.
Try to think about that.
Graceful.
Stamping.
She could accomplish almost anything.
Sirius looked around to see that many sets of eyes in the great hall were currently focused on the small group of people who had just made a scene. So he stood up and barked, "The lot of you bloody ogglers should get back to your meals! Nothing to see here!" Everyone instantly turned back to his or her previous activities, chatting merrily about first week gossip.
Sirius smiled broadly to himself then sat back down patting his friend shoulder. "Tis alright Prongsy, she'll come around." He declared cheerily. James just grinned toothily, and ran his hand threw his hair making it stick up at odd angles. "I know Padfoot, I just can't wait until then." Sirius nodded brightly then turned back to the forgotten Remus and Elizabeth.
"So we haven't been properly introduced. I'm Sirius." The boy smirked taking Elizabeth's hand and kissing it lightly, keeping eye contact the whole time.
Remus looked slightly disheveled as he watched this. "And you will not be properly introduced. Not now, not at all. You hear?" Remus told him giving him a look which clearly said 'Mess with my sister and I will practice that castration charm in Lily's self defense book on you.'
Sirius hastily let go of the girl's hand and put his up in the air. "Terribly sorry Moony, reflex."
"Forgiven." Moony said in a still slightly warning manner.
Meanwhile Elizabeth had been wiping her hand on her shirt staring at Sirius with horror-struck expression. This happened to catch a Mr. Potter's attention as he took a drink of pumpkin juice and was forced to spit it back into his goblet when he choked from laughter.
"Looks like you don't need to worry anyways Moony." James snickered. "Sirius has finally found a girl who didn't immediately join the fan club." He added jabbing a thumb in the direction of a very large group of girls looking dreamily at Sirius giggling to each other about their various stories of when the alleged boy ever spoke to them.
Sirius's only answer was a playful glare at James, and a wink to the girls who all sighed in contentment.
Remus looked back at his sister and smiled. "Padfoots a dog. Don't get mixed up with the likes of him."
Sirius grunted faintly to himself. Not really wanted to find out what would happen if he answered.
"Well I can see that. Friggen nasty it is too, you and Tom would really get along." Elizabeth nodded glancing back at the group of Quidditch players who she just noticed had been sitting in a group a few feet away from her, talking quietly with each other at a table decorated in a glittery silver and bright blue.
Elizabeth seemed to recall something and hastily excused herself from her brother and his friends. Then jogged over to her teammates and began to speak with them.
"She's something Moony." Stated James taking a fifth bite of toast. "I get a good feeling about her." He added.
"You'll be surprised." Remus smiled, staring back at his sister with a sheer look of something only described as love and admiration.
Sirius frowned puzzled than spoke up once again, "So Moony. Does that mean you're still a poof?"
