AN: I know I haven't updated this in ages but I have re read it through and found to my astonishment that there were particular little things that now make more sense with the recent publication of Book Six. Read and Review and most importantly enjoy reading. I do not own anyone. Ad I am writing a new story with a whole new set of characters for Lily and James very shortly. Tell me what you think.

Willow

Lily flew down to the grounds and had a dubious feeling that this could all go terribly wrong if she or James said anything in the wrong way. But for Lily this all felt very surreal and as she wandered through the halls of Hogwarts she wasn't entirely sure she was doing the right thing.

Erin Jackson sat up in the common room poring over some documents for history of magic and was thoroughly annoyed to be disturbed by none other than Sirius Black.

'What do you want Black?' she demanded as he took occupancy in the vacant seat opposite her.

'Erin, about Rose-'

'Which one,' Erin replied coldly 'Rain or Potter?'

'Rose Rain, Rose Potter and I have nothing left to say to each other as she made clear the other day when she refused to come and live with me after I've left Hogwarts,'

Erin looked thoughtful for a moment and placed her quill down carefully before she answered an expectant Sirius. Erin was on the verge of telling Sirius to sod off before she leant her hand over her freshly inked parchment. The ink smudged all across her arm and she stared huffily down at her arm that looked like it had been tattooed by a drunken artist.

'Bollocks,' she mumbled angrily, looking now distractedly at her ink stained arm but Sirius was laughing

'Well you always mentioned you wanted a tattoo,'

Erin then placed her hand quickly on his cheek, transferring the ink to Sirius' face and he gawped at her stupidly.

'Hey,' Sirius said grumbling 'don't you put ink on me,'

'Don't think I'm not appreciative of your friendship Sirius but you are starting to annoy me with this Rose thing,' Erin replied curtly, wiping the ink away with a flick of her wand. 'And the Soho thing-'

'If someone mention that one more time-'

'You'll what,' Erin began ', have another girl come and chat me up,'

'That was an accident' Sirius protested 'and you know it was, I didn't know she was a girl and-'

'And you seriously thought I'd be interested in her,' Erin finished, flourishing the last sentence of a particular difficult documentary analysis.

'No, I happen to know who you like,' Sirius quipped 'and I know it isn't a girl,'

Erin froze, she hoped beyond hope that her secret had not been discovered and most of all by Sirius Black. Erin glared at him sharply and had a fleeting instinct to grab her wand but it passed and she smiled at Sirius instead. Sirius was busily removing the ink from his cheek when she began to laugh.

'Smartest wizard in our year and you can't get ink of!' Erin chuckled and removed the ink magically which Sirius was thankful for but found himself staring at the portrait hole where Rose Rain was wandering in with some other 6th year friends. Erin tracked his line of sight and said

'She is just a person, why don't you go talk to her,'

'You don't know how difficult it is to chat up a girl,' Sirius paused, a grin began slowly appearing on his face 'or then again, maybe you do know what its like,'

Erin glared at him menacingly and wandered instantly over to Rose Rain, blocking her path to the sixth years girl form rooms and knew Sirius would be gaping after her.

'Rose, may I have a word with you,' Erin said, Rose's friends giggled uncontrollably and Erin knew that most likely they knew about the incident in Soho and most likely suspected Erin to be wanting to chat Rose up alone.

'Sure, what is it?' Rose replied curtly pulling her books closer to her chest, her long ebony brown hair floating over her shoulders

'Sirius Black, he wants to go on a date with you,' Erin said boldly, grinning as she looked back at a furious Sirius

Rose blushed and looked over at Sirius who blushed back deeply too. She then turned her attention back to Erin and became a little awkward with her words, s much so that Erin didn't quite understand her.

'Tell Sirius he is an okay guy but I'm not really interested,' she said sweetly 'there is someone else I have my eye on,'

'Oh,' Erin said, hardly surprised and added 'just to put Sirius out of his misery, who is it you have your eye on,'

'You,' she said smiling 'tell Sirius I'm sorry and I will talk to you some other time, Erin,' and Rose skipped of up the girls dorm room. Erin was slightly speechless as she returned to Sirius.

Authors Note: Sorry this is so short, I have a ton of university work I need to be getting on with and I need to update my profile too! Read and review.