AN: I hope this chapter's longer. I stayed up all night finishing it. I'm still not sure about my POV in this story so bear with me. I'm also really glad that I've already got reviews and none of them are flames! YAY! D OK, I hope you like this chapter and I hope you review. wink wink O YA! THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS!
READ PLEASE: This story might take a new turn. It'll still be SiriusGinny, but I think it may be a little more serious. I'll still put some jokes. Hmm. I'm not sure, so again, bear with me. It might not go that way.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter has never and will never belong to me. Grumbles about hostile takeover not working.
Sexy grins and Explosions
This year Ginny was determined to do excellent in all her classes. Surprisingly, potions was her best subject and she enjoyed it all too much. So this is where Sirius found her. Sitting with a potions text in her lap, quietly murmuring to herself about potion ingredients, Snape, and explosions. When Sirius made his presence known she was startled to find she wasn't alone.
"You know, if I didn't know any better I would say you were planning on exploding Snape with a bezoar. Although, I don't know what a bezoar has to do with explosions, I'd say you've got the right mindset.
Ginny's POV
He threw me one of his sexy grins and- Wait a second, when did I start thinking of his grins as sexy?
Since you started liking him.
What! Sirius and me? Yeah, right.
Ginny and Sirius sittin' in a tree. K-I-S---
Why don't you just-
I was interrupted from my argument by Sirius' hand waving in front of my face and a very silky voic- Ha! –a very nothing-out-of-the-ordinary voice talking to me.
"Ginny? Earth to Gin! Anyone- Hey! That hurt! No need to get hostile." I had slapped Sirius' hand away. I mean really, how long can you take a hand two inches from your face before you get violent?
"Oh, stop being such a baby!"
"Well, it hurt." Sirius, clutching his hand, sulked and pouted all the way to his favorite chair.
Although I do have to admit his pout is very, very sexy.
See, you do like him!
Oh Merlin! You again. Before today I never had to deal with you, ya know.
"Hello!" Sirius looked slightly worried. "This spacing out thing has got to stop, Gin. It's getting kind of scary!"
Regular POV
Sirius had known Gin a long time, more specifically since she was 14. She had told Sirius about the chamber and he had told her about his past. They shared a strong bond and it was probably because they were so similar. Even so, Sirius thought she was acting a bit odd that day, even for her.
"Oh, I'm fine Sirius. Just a little… preoccupied." She was weary and at the same time a little wary of Sirius.
"Are you sure? I mean how are you taking the trio's… abandonment?" Sirius didn't really want to go into that because that could take years to let all out, but she still needed comfort.
"I don't know. I wish they took me, but at the same time I'm glad. I want to go back to school and graduate. I just want normalcy. Am I being too selfish?"
She looked at Sirius with unshed tears in her eyes and for a second he saw the girl who was trapped inside Tom Riddle's web of lies. Sirius enveloped her in a hug and even though this was hardly the appropriate time he couldn't help but notice how she fit perfectly in his arms. Sirius told himself to contemplate this later and comfort her now.
"Ginny that's not selfish. That's your right, to have a life and it seems this war is taking that away from everyone."
"I know. It's just that… never mind." She sat up and wiped her face. "Well, thanks for comforting me, Sirius." Ginny stood and stretched making her look slightly like a cat, and Sirius marveled at how much older she seemed than her 17 years.
Sirius sat pondering Ginny as she walked downstairs to talk to Fred and George.
Ginny saw the twins in the kitchen and made her way over to them.
"Hey Fred, George."
"Ginny! Our favorite sister!" the twins cried in unison.
"I'm your only sister," she said while rolling her eyes.
"You should be happy. Less competition!"
"Well, can't argue with that logic." She plopped down in the untaken seat next to them. "So, what are you two planning? This summer better not be boring. I am going to die if it is," she finished, sighing dramatically.
The twins looked slightly offended of the mention of a boring summer. A boring summer with them around, they thought, was impossible, and they told Ginny just that. "A boring summer? With us around?" Fred questioned
"Are you on something, dear sister?" George asked with a serious face. Ginny, seeing George's face, cracked a grin wondering when the last time George was actually serious.
"Well, there was that powder in your room…," she trailed off in mock timidness. George looked at Fred in terror and they both ran up the stairs. Well, Fred tried to run but only succeeded in falling flat on his face a record six times. This could have been because of George's flailing arms, but we'll never know.
Ginny called after them, "Fred, George! I was just joking! Don't leave me!" She grumbled to herself about stupid twins and then looked back at the stairs in curiosity. "Hey! Wait for me. I want to know just what you twins are doing up there!" she hollered while bounding around all the assorted chairs and dishes the twins had left in their wake.
A few seconds of running up the stairs and Ginny was rewarded with a "BANG!" echoing in the corridor surrounding Fred and George's room. She stopped; looking confused and saw Sirius coming down the stairs looking much like her.
"What, in the name of Salazar Slytherin's great nephew twice removed on his mother's side's best friend's lover, was that!" Sirius looked out of breath and Ginny still looked confused although her reasons may have changed.
"Nephew, mother, best friend's lover?" Ginny looked at Sirius questioningly seriously doubting his sanity at the moment.
"Oh, that? Everyone says it!"
"Of course. Well now, don't we have better things to do then contemplate Salazar Slytherin's great… whatever?" Ginny looked slightly scared of Sirius at the moment, but she couldn't help but admire his face and how aristocratic it looked. Both of his cheekbones were high and gave him a very refined, sophisticated look, which drove Ginny mad. Not that she would admit that.
Sirius, instead of replying, ran through the corridor to the lone door at the end. Ginny quickly joined him and together they vowed to face whatever lay beyond with each other.
When Ginny opened the door she saw exactly what she expected, two fried twins, over-easy.
The twins looked at them in alarm. "Ginny, Sirius! It's not what-"
"-it looks like. We definitely-"
"-did not have explosives and we obviously-"
"-didn't set them off!"
"Why would you even suggest something like that?" they finished in unison. And with those parting words, they slammed the door.
"Well, that was interesting. I wonder what mum will say when I tell her about this." Ginny cackled to herself and went down stairs, smirking in a very Malfoy-ish fashion.
Sirius then continued to admire Ginny, while at the same time telling himself off for thinking of her like that. Sirius didn't stop watching until she turned down the stairs, much to his consciences annoyance.
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Ginny sat next to Sirius at the kitchen table doing the rest of her potions homework. She kept feeling Sirius' knee knocking into hers and it really was annoying. She could only hope that he wouldn't notice her crush on him, for that's what it was. A crush, nothing more. She had convinced herself of this.
Her concentration, if you could call it that, was shattered when she heard Molly's famous screams reverberating down the stairs.
"EXPLOSIVES! What were you two thinking? What if anyone saw the explosions? What would happen then, huh?" It was silent for a few moments as Molly was surely scolding her sons, who, of course, were slyly sliding away, inch by inch. Ginny could just picture it. Of course she could picture, she thought to herself, she'd seen it enough to know just how it would happen.
She mouthed along silently as Fred replied, "But mother we were only trying to continue our education."
"Yes, mother. Potions is a big part of any wizard's life and how would we be able to make any potion complete without a little… explosion!"
Ginny sighed in an exact replica of her mother, as she was no doubt doing at the moment. "Well, you two had better shape up. I won't be so forgiving next time." And with an indignant huff, that Ginny had mirrored perfectly, Molly slammed the door and stormed to her room.
Sirius chuckled to himself and Ginny turned to look at him.
"And what, may I ask, do you find so funny, Mr. Black?"
"Well, Miss Weasley," Sirius humored with a grin, " did you know you mouthed that whole conversation?" By the end of his sentence, he ended up looking quite incredulous.
"Oh, really? I've just seen that fight so many times it's gotten quite old." She sighed and wondered how Fred and George managed to get off so easily. It must be because her mother secretly likes all of the chaos, she thought silently. Ginny then looked around, already bored with her essay, and noticed Sirius' lips. They looked quite kissable, she decided, for a man twenty years older than her. She was wondering what it would feel like to kiss him when she detected someone watching her. She looked up to Sirius' eyes in surprise at being caught watching him.
Sirius had felt Ginny's eyes on him and wondered why she was watching him. He saw that her eyes had a sort of glazed over look in them and had to ask himself if she felt the same attraction to him as he did her. He shook his head slightly as she noticed him.
"So…what are you doing today?" Ginny realized how stupid this question was. He was locked up here until the war was over. What was he going to do anyway, she asked herself.
Sirius saw Ginny mentally hitting herself in the head and decided to save her head from any imaginary pain. "Why, I'm working out of course. My nightly routine. It's how I stay so," he had a knowing grin on his face as he finished, "sexy." After recalling this moment he wondered how he saved her any imaginary pain, as she was beet red and looked about to faint. This phase luckily, for Ginny, only lasted a second. Soon Ginny had recovered and was about to make a smart remark when Sirius cut in. "Would you like to join me?"
Ginny, looking very flustered, replied, "Sure."
Sirius hopped out of his chair triumphantly. "Well then, it's settled. My room at eight tonight. Wear something… fit for the activity." Satisfied with himself, he practically bounded out of the room.
Sirius, Sirius Black, working out? Now that was something she wanted to see. Ginny wondered why he invited her. She wondered if his feelings ran deeper than he let on.
AN: So I think that I'll stay on my original course but with some added plot thickeners… yup sounds about right. Ok, well thanks for reading! I promise that my next chapter will be even longer although it may take a tad longer as I had this chapter half-written when I posted the prologue. Not too much of a wait though. No worries! Please REVIEW!
Next chapter: Sexy Sirius working out, Ginny flabbergasted, and a very confused pair of twins.
