It's just you're Subconscious
Chapter Six: He's one of the Girls
Ana trudged up the steps to the Dorm room, she wanted to kick herself for just leaving Sirius like that; but she hadn't expected him to compliment her. Ana usually had trouble taking compliments from guys, her tongue usually felt paralyzed and she had no clue what to say. She wasn't sure what got into Sirius, she couldn't remember him ever complimenting her. To him complimenting her meant nagging her to go out on a date with her, or say, she was the 'lucky one' that he chose to fancy. She rolled her eyes, "Idiot." She mumbled, smiling a bit.
She came to the door and opened it up, seeing Sienna sitting on the ledge near the window working hard on her homework, it was only when Ana closed the door that Sienna looked up she smiled, "Thought you were going to study in the Common Room?" She asked setting her quill down.
Ana shrugged, "Eh, you know how it is, with Sirius. He never takes anything serious." She lied.
Sienna sniggered, "Name Pun." She muttered, giggling again, "But Siriusly, Sirius is not Sirius at all." Sienna burst into a fit of giggles as Ana stood there staring at her friend; shaking her head.
"Enough with the name pun." She said, sitting down next to Sienna near the window, they looked out and saw that it look like a pretty clear night out, clouds were seemingly going away, and a full moon appeared, "Pretty…" Ana muttered getting her books, to start her Potions essay.
Sienna sighed, she was zoning out, there was so much homework she was sure she was going to be there for the next ten years, "I hate this," She muttered, "No more food fights, because it ends up in a shit load of homework." She said drawing squiggles on a half blank sheet of paper. It was supposed to be used to do her Defense Against the Dark Arts essay, she had so far written:
The difference between an Animagus and a Werewolf, something we learned in Third Year, an Animagus is a Wizard who elects to turn into an Animal; however a Werewolf has no choice. At each full moon the person makes the painful transformation to a Werewolf. There are different ways to become a Werewolf; one of the main ones is being bit by one, so far there has been no cure found. The name most likely came from the Old English "wer" or (were); meaning man, or human. Being bit by a Werewolf gives you, "Lycanthropy" a very painful thing to have. There are different legends on how to become a Werewolf, one being that one must remove their clothing and put a belt on made of wolfs skin. There was also rubbing the body in a magic salve. There was also drinking from enchanted streams or to drink water out of the footprint of said animal. There were also ways to remove the beast shape form, one included was removing the belt or skin of the wolf; or to be struck three blows on the forehead by a knife. One European folk tale included throwing an iron object over the Werewolf to make it reveal its human form. Of course these are only folk tales, and even if they believe it's real, they don't know the extent of being a Werewolf. I myself do not know it. It's a painful process, and most likely very painful to endure. Once it turns from Human to Werewolf, it no longer knows who he is; he would attack his own friend.
Sienna sighed she would never be able to capture the essence of what it was like, unless she herself was a Werewolf. She read it over and over again, something was bothering her. She just didn't like how she had written it, and it looked like poor workmanship to her.
Ana was working hard on her Potions essay, Sienna sighed and looked back outside, and saw figures running out onto the Hogwarts grounds, they came into the moonlight a little and she realized it was the Marauders, she furrowed her brow, "Ana…" she said nudging her, "Ana, look!" She said again.
Ana sighed, "No, I'm busy." She stated, continuing to write away, every now and then stopping to make sure she had the facts right.
Sienna rolled her eyes she grabbed Ana and pushed her towards the window, "Marauders." She stated, Ana's eyes got large for a moment, then she narrowed and she rolled her eyes.
She pulled away from Sienna and continued to look out the window, "What the hell are they doing out?" She asked queer of the Marauder's intentions. They continued to watch, Sirius, turned into a dog, James turned into a Stag, and Peter turned into a rat they were all surrounding Remus, who seemed to have a look of pain on his face.
He looked sickly, he looked up towards the moon and got this dazed and pained look on his face, it was then when he started to transform… it was then Sienna realized why Remus got testy when Sirius told her he was an Animagus, she also realized why he never told her if he was.
It was because he wasn't…he was Werewolf. Sienna found she wasn't scared more like surprised, yet she felt in some sick way inspired. She would be able to describe the transformation because she had seen it. Ana was just staring, "Wow, can you say, 'Ahwoo'?"
Sienna sniggered and then slapped her hand over her mouth, "We need to be nice." She replied, appalled she had laughed, "I mean I'm sure it's painful." Sienna said staring as they ran off into the shadows.
Ana sighed, "First off, aren't you afraid that the person you fancy is a Werewolf? Secondly, we're just teasing. Thirdly I can't believe I like a DOG." Ana said gagging a little at the thought of it.
Sienna sighed, "I don't know, I guess…it's only once a month… and as long as I stay away from him during his Transformation it would be okay. I don't know. If I think about it logically, I'm safe as long as I stay away from him once a month. I like Remus; I'm not a prejudice person." Sienna stated, "I mean yeah, let's say we do get together, let's say we marry and have kids, there's probably a huge chance they could have Werewolf in them…" She finished.
Ana shrugged, "Which is okay, because you've made it clear to every guy in school, you don't want kids. So hey, it works out." She said grinning, "Admit it you still like him." She grinned cheekily.
Sienna rolled her eyes, "Yeah, yeah, I like him. Though it is dangerous…" Sienna said looking out.
Ana rolled her eyes, "Oh shut up are you really dumb enough to hang around during that time?" She asked.
Sienna shrugged, "No…" She trailed off.
"So what are you complaining about? You like him, you don't want kids, and it's obvious he likes you." Ana finished.
There was no more talk about it, Sienna quickly finished her Defense Against the Dark Arts essay, with a great description of how Werewolves transform and she had Remus to thank.
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The next morning Sienna woke up early, Ana was in bed snoring away. Sienna had gotten most of her work done, and went to bed before Ana did, so she got more sleep. She smirked at Ana; Sienna finished putting her robes on and snuck over to Ana who was snoring softly.
"Ana…" Sienna whispered, barely able to contain her laughter, "Ana Sirius is here, and he wants to make out with you." She giggled to herself.
Ana opened her eyes and smirked, "Liar." She rolled back over and sighed, "Can't you tell Flitwick that I've got, "Too-Much-studying illness"?" She asked groaning.
Sienna raised an eyebrow and sat down on her bed, "Nope, 'sides, he'd never buy it; you'd get extra homework and detention." Sienna commented, slipping on her shoes.
Ana sat up, her hair looked like a rats nest, she rolled her eyes and got out of bed, "Thank God it's almost Friday." She muttered walking to the bathroom, Sienna heard the shower turn on.
Sienna stood up, she walked over to the bathroom, over Ana's mess of essay's, potion bottles, cauldron's, cauldron cakes, and chocolate frogs and their cards, she walked in and looked through her case of earrings. She hadn't worn any in a while so she thought she would put some on.
She grabbed two hoop earrings that were swirly in the middle, they were bright purple, she put them on, they were big and dangly, and even if Lily thought they were wild and a little gaudy the were Sienna's favorite.
Sienna roamed around the room in boredom, Lily had left early due to the fact she needed a book from the Library, so Sienna sat there looking around, she hated entertaining herself or being alone. Finally to what seemed like ages to Sienna, Ana came out dressed and ready to go.
"Let's go get some breakfast." Ana commented yawning loudly, her eyes had dark bags under them, and she looked like one hex would do her in.
Sienna nodded and smiled, they linked arms and walked down the Hall near the Great Hall were people were thronging around, Sirius and James approached them quickly looking a little sullen.
"Hey, guys." Sienna said in a chipper mood however neither James nor Sirius smiled like they normally did.
"Hey, can we uh… talk privately?" James asked, looking around at all the kids, who were thronging around, from where they were standing.
Ana and Sienna looked at each other, they both thought the guys were acting weird, the girls shrugged, but it was Ana who answered, "Sure, I guess." She said.
James and Sirius walked ahead, both Sienna and Ana wondered what it was about, Sienna kept going back to what they had seen the night before. Finally they came upon a deserted hall, near the Hospital Wing, "What's this about?" Ana asked James.
Sirius sighed, "Well, last night," He began making Sienna suck in a breath, had they seen the girls watching? "We saw you two looking out the Window, Remus is pretty…upset." He finished.
Sienna frowned, "Why would he be upset?" She asked stupidly.
James rolled his eyes, "Don't act stupid, because you're not. You know his condition," He began, earning a surprised look from Sienna, "You can't tell anyone, not even Lily." He said.
Ana frowned, "Why can't we tell Lily? She's our friend." She replied.
Sirius sighed, "Because, she's headgirl, as nice as Lily is, she might believe that Remus would need to leave the school because of his…condition." Sirius stated a little sharply.
Ana sighed, he did have a point; they didn't know how Lily would react to it, "Fine, fine. I just don't see the problem, he's still Remus, it's not like we're going to avoid him like the plague."
Sienna nodded, "Yeah, he in there, in the Hospital Wing?" She asked, looking at the closed doors.
Sirius nodded, "He's resting right now, but yes. Why don't you come visit him later? Make him feel better." Sirius asked looking between, Ana and Sienna.
Ana shrugged, "Sure," She said turning to Sienna, "Be sure to bring a checker board, Black." She replied remembering Remus and Sienna hadn't had their match yet.
Sirius nodded and grinned, "Sure." He said. They all made their way to the Great Hall, where they had a relatively good breakfast, the owls came fluttering in dropping mail.
Sienna got a letter from her Mother and the Daily Prophet.
Dear Sienna,
How are things going? I still hate these owls they peck you if you don't pay them! Anyway, I miss you already, send best wishes to you're friends, and tell Remus at Christmas I'm sending some of my homemade fudge!
Love,
Mom
Sienna laughed a little, Remus, Sirius, James, Ana and Lily had visited her house during the summer and last Christmas her Mother had sent fudge and Remus just loved it. Of course, Sienna's Mom liked Remus, Sirius and James; well… she thought they were most likely class clowns; which they are.
She then picked up the Daily Prophet she opened it up as Ana looked over to see if there was anything interesting.
YOU-KNOW-WHO RISING
Muggle Killings are getting worse, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is surely behind it. Yet the question remains, "Can we Catch him?" A lot of people are scared; Muggles are confused as to why people are dropping dead for no apparent reason. Even Muggles are starting to wonder beyond their metal wands, that maybe something else is going on. Fudge the Minister of Magic insists that he will be caught and sent to Azkaban in an interview last week we were told he was to have said, "We will catch him, he can't escape the law. We must all remain calm at a time like this he will be taken care of. In the mean time, all Wizarding families will get a list on how to prepare." Even with the list some question whether or not you can prepare, the killings are getting worse, last week no less then 5 Muggles were found dead, hopefully He will be caught.
Sienna sighed, the dream flashing through her mind again, "He's stupid to think we can prepare." Sienna muttered.
Ana raised an eyebrow, "Why? I think we should." She said sipping her orange juice.
Sienna turned around, "Living in fear, that's a prescription for a relaxed life. Really, we can't live the rest of our lives afraid to go out because he might attack. There are things you just can't prepare for, no matter how much you try. And if you spend you're life preparing for something to happen, you're just wasting you're time. As far as preparing, we need to be ready strength wise." She replied.
Ana shrugged, "True, but he meant strength wise," She said taking a bite of her bacon.
"Ana, have you ever gotten one of those lists?" Sienna asked, "It's how to secure you're house, something like that isn't going to stop him, or just because you're in you're house by 9 he's not going to attack. Fudge is stupid that way." Sienna muttered rolling her eyes.
Sirius nodded, "True Sienna, but his job is to calm the people down, and do you honestly think or even see Fudge fighting? No! He'd send out the Auror's." Sirius said rolling his eyes.
James nodded, "Fudge in my eyes isn't a good Minister, he'd want to send everyone else out, and have them die before he finally had to fight. He's the Minister, he directs people. I think the Ministry could have picked a better one, that's just me." He replied, actually making sense for once.
Ana sat there, "Wow, you two actually said something intelligent, are you feeling well?" She asked smirking a little. She reached over and felt both James and Sirius' heads, "You feel okay…" She laughed.
James rolled his eyes and pushed her hand off, "Oh come off it; we can be serious, right Padfoot?" He asked, turning to Sirius.
Sienna sniggered, "How the hell can you be serious with names like that?" She asked laughing.
Sirius scowled, "Hey, my… you-know-what is a dog and they have padded feet. Thus, Padfoot." He said as if he was explaining this to a child.
Ana sniggered, "Nice one," She said, actually laughing at Sirius, making him grin a little.
Sienna pouted, "Hey! Be nice!" She said sniffing a little, acting as if she was about to burst into tears.
"Aw!" James cooed, leaning over and hugging Sienna really hard, "I'll be nice to you."
Sienna looked up and saw Lily sitting down and glaring giving her the, "He's mine" look, "Get off me Potter." She said grinning a little.
"Aw, I knew you cared." James said laughing Sienna rolled her eyes and messed up his hair, "Oooh, thanks." He said happily.
Sienna sighed, "That's right, you like the ruffled hair look." She said smirking a little.
A while later, they headed to Charms, which went quickly, classes that day went quickly, Sienna was pleased when she found she got a top score on her Defense Against the Dark Arts essay on Werewolves, she had did the Transformation good and she really did good on the Theory of Origin and old Folk tales that people believed. The last class that day was Transfiguration, which was difficult, she found this Saturday at Nine P.M she had to take another Animagi class, the first one was hard, she often wondered how Sirius and James did it she made a mental note to ask them later.
Sienna found that in 7th year, they learned some new things, but most of it was a review of what they had learned in previous years, which was fine with Sienna, she found 1st through 5th was her best years, 6th; was a little harder but she managed.
She was pleased to find out so far, she was doing well on making her way to be an Auror, although the prospect of three year training didn't thrill her; she was willing to work for what she wanted. She sighed as they walked out of the last class, they had all decided to eat, and then go visit Remus down at the Hospital Wing.
Dinner was pretty uneventful, save for Sirius talking about his family, since Ana had asked, "I don't get along with them," He said, "I'm pretty much disowned, James' family is like my second home, I usually either spend Christmas here or with him." He said.
Ana kind of sat there, "Sorry, I didn't know…" She said softly.
Sirius shrugged unfazed, "You didn't know, I really can't stand Bellatrix Black, god, I hate her." He said heatedly, "I however do like my Cousin Andromeda she's disowned as well; she married Ted Tonks a Muggle, she also had a daughter Nymphadora Tonks." He said smiling, "She's five right now, and awesome, I like to spend time with her." He said happily.
Ana smiled somewhat, "Cute, you like kids." She said quietly so only Sienna could hear, Sienna laughed as they finished up, they all walked to their Common Room to put their books away before visiting Remus, but found he was sitting on the couch.
He looked up and looked somewhat upset, Sirius came over and grinned, "Aw, Remus don't feel down-" Sirius went to continue on when Remus glared at him obviously knowing what was coming.
He cut him off, "Don't even start with the Werewolf jokes, it's annoying!" He snapped.
Sienna came around and grinned, she couldn't contain it, "So this is probably a bad time to say, "Ahwoo!"?" She laughed, earning a grin from Ana who joined in the laughter.
He glared, "Yes it is a bad time." He snapped, crossing his arms.
Ana grinned, "Sounds like it's someone's time of month." She laughed, standing in front of the couch with Sienna who was sniggering, but covering it up with her arm; it will was obvious she was laughing.
She grinned, "You're like us women, Remus. You have that time of month, with pain, moodiness and I supposed occasionally bleeding." Sienna said referring to his cuts.
James snorted, and turned around quickly at Remus' glare, "She has a point Moony." Sirius said grinning.
"You people and you're annotations, and werewolf jokes!" He protested throwing his arms up in the air, in annoyance, it seemed like everyone was against him.
Sienna cooed, "Aw, Remus, we women understand!" She said smiling sweetly at him.
Ana nodded, "That's right we got to stick together in our times of need." She said with a sympathetic smile, walking over and patting him on the shoulder; however this was not making Remus any happier.
At this point Sirius and James were laughing their asses off, nearly wetting themselves, "Remus! You're one of the girls!" They choked out.
He turned and glared at Ana, who smiled innocently, "The Mood swings are the worst aren't they Remus?" She asked grinning, Sienna sniggered.
Sienna walked over and threw an arm around him, "Maybe a Midol would help huh?" She asked, laughing really hard.
Ana rolled her eyes, "Midol never works for me, my best bet is Tylenol, and Advil is the only other thing besides Tylenol that works for me." She said joining Sienna in the laughter.
He scowled at Sienna, "So does this mean I can't copy from you're Astronomy homework?" Sienna asked seriously.
Ana fell off the couch laughing in hysterics, Remus glared, "You people are hopeless." He said shaking his head walking up to the dorms.
Ana and Sienna straightened up and turned to Sirius, their next Victim, Sienna grinned, "So Sirius how's the fleas been lately? Maybe you ought to ask for Flea Spray this Christmas." She said laughing.
Ana sniggered, "Yeah, Sirius have you been out in the rain lately? You smell like wet dog." Sienna lost it again at this comment.
"Say, you're hair's getting a little long, is it time for a trip to the groomers?" Sienna asked smirking, Sirius was scowling at this point, James was laughing his ass off, and you'd swear he would explode with laughter.
"Oy! Padfoot, their a hoot." He said through laughter.
Ana stood up, "Oy! Leave the hair alone, I like guys with long hair." She said, she realized what she had said, and tried not to blush.
Sirius grinned, "I always knew you fancied me, Travers." He said laughing this time, which sounded like a bark.
"Watch it Ana, dogs usually have bad halitosis, not to mention they drool when their around something they like." Sienna said grinning.
Ana laughed, "You're not the only one in school with long hair Black, you better think about that." She said after recovering.
He pouted and whined which made Sienna go at it again, "Aw, Sirius do you want a doggy treat?" Sienna asked, "Perhaps we can take you for a walk if we find a doggy leash." She cooed.
James stopped laughing, he transfigured a Leash and walked over to the door and patted his legs as if he was calling a dog, "Come here boy, come on, be a good doggy, come on!" He said, and then lost it again, slumping against the wall.
Sirius chose to ignore this, he flipped him off and turned to Sienna grinning, "Aren't you training to be an Animagus?" He asked. "You going into Auror training and all, what are you turning into?" He asked.
Sienna stood up and straightened out with a raised eyebrow, "Er, a black cat… what's wrong with that?" She asked queerly.
James and Ana silently watched the exchange, seeing as if they looked at each other or the dog leash Ana held in her hand they'd lose it again, "Well Dogs don't like cats." He said grinning evilly.
Sienna pouted, "Aw! Come on Sirius! It was a JOKE!" Sienna whined, Sirius only grinned wider, yet as Sienna thought about it she grinned, "Yet cats have claws," She began, "they are more agile," she continued, "AND!" Sienna said grinning, "They can jump on the backs of dogs…ALL CLAWS OUT." Sienna said sticking her tongue out at him.
By this time Lily had walked in from the portal and stood there with a raised eyebrow looking at Ana and James, "They fight like cats and dogs don't they?" She asked, causing James and Ana to lose it again, "Maybe we should set them up?" She asked.
Ana stopped laughing right away, "Nah, she likes Remus." She replied, smirking as James continued to laugh.
James finally composed himself, "They're just close friends, and they always fight. Last year some guy was giving Ana and Sienna a hard time and he went and attacked the guy like a bulldog." He paused for a moment before screaming, "NO PUN INTENDED!"
Sirius grinned, "You're a Stag you know Prongs." Sirius began Lily looked over at Ana who shook her head "you don't want to know!"
Sienna laughed, "Yeah, Stags frolic around and leave droppings on the side of the road, bwuahahaha." Sienna laughed.
Ana grabbed a pillow from the couch and threw it at Sienna hitting her in the head, "Ow," Sienna said pouting, "What was that for?" She asked.
Ana grinned, "For bwuahahaha-ing." She commented, picking her nails as if she had nothing better to do.
Sienna pouted, "What? Can't someone 'bwuahahaha' once in a while?" She whined, something Sienna was really good for.
Ana shook her head, "No, someone, especially you; cannot 'bwuahahaha' once in a while, never for that matter."
Sienna raised an eyebrow, "What is there a Wizarding law against it?" She asked placing her hands on her hips.
Ana leaned against the couch continuing to pick her nails, "Nope," She said feeling it was a good explanation; however she felt Sienna staring and continued. "Comic book villains 'bwuahahaha' or 'Muahaha', therefore you can't say it." She replied.
Sienna shrugged, "I was a comic book villain in my past life." She said randomly, sniggering at it.
Ana raised an eyebrow, "How the hell did you go from Comic Book villain to real person?" She asked, Sienna only shrugged at this, she didn't care she liked to 'bwuahahaha'.
About this time Remus came back down, "Ahwoo!" James called as he walked down the steps James fell back into laughing again.
Ana tried not to laugh from her position on the couch, she waved Remus over and tried to kick James in the shin but he was too far away, so she hit him in the face with a pillow. Sienna was sitting across from Ana on the couch; Remus came over and sat between them. Sienna giggled, "How's it going Remus?" She asked grinning madly.
Ana summoned the pillow back and pushed Remus far enough back and hit Sienna with it, she laid back on the arm rest, ignoring the shocked protests and laid her feet on Remus' lap, Sienna glared, "Get you're feet off him!" She said jealously, she blushed realizing she said it out-loud, and quickly said, "What to do you want to do?" Changing the subject.
Remus looked confused and Ana spoke up, "I don't know, if I knew I wouldn't be hanging around with these losers," she said gesturing towards Sirius and James, smirking at them.
James scowled and then said, "I know what we can do! We can play, 'How long it takes to annoy Remus'!" He yelled happily.
Remus glared, "Why is everyone out to get me today?" He asked in annoyance.
"Aw," Sienna and Ana cooed, hugging him from both sides, "Aw, Remmy…" Sienna said laughing.
"Don't ever call me that." He said smirking a little.
Ana grinned, "It's okay Remmy-Dear, Sienna still loves you." She then turned to James ignoring both Remus' and Sienna's spluttering, "I don't want to annoy Remus. Us girls have to stick together…" She trailed off, "I think we should…" She said trying to think of an idea, Sienna could almost see the light go off over her head, "GIVE BLACK A MAKEOVER!" She yelled.
Sienna brightened up, she jumped up on the couch, "YEAH LETS DO IT!" She cheered jumping up and down on the couch.
Lily looked up from her book interested now, Sienna, Lily and Ana huddled together and started talking, and giggling, Remus and James looked amused, Sirius looked scared.
They looked up and smirked at him, he tried to slowly back away, "Ladies," He laughed nervously.
Sienna smirked at him, "Aw come on Sirius; seriously it will be fun!" She said happily, getting closer and closer, she laughed at the name pun.
Sirius looked over at Remus, giving him a pleading look, Remus laughed, "Sorry mate, us girls got to stick together." He replied laughing.
Ana snorted and pouted at Sirius, sticking out her lower lip, Lily and Sienna surrounded him and grabbed him, "Come on," Lily said, "It's you're chance to be in the girls dormitory!" She said as they drug him along.
Sirius groaned, "The ONE time I get to be in the girls dorm room and it has to have MAKEUP involved." He said really loud making all the girls in the Gryffindor common room look at him oddly.
Sirius sighed as the guys below laughed it was going to be a long night.
A/n: LOL! Sorry, about the Annie thing, every time I hear Annie I think of the movie, Annie the little Orphan! Lol.
