Chapter 3: The Wedding Reception

"Are you all right?" Sirius asked as he walked over and sat down with Viktoria. Viktoria looked up at Sirius with her amber eyes that always reminded Sirius of Remus' eyes. He smiled as he looked at her. She looked beautiful with her hair curled. She was wearing a very nice black dress, which made Sirius realize that she'd grown into a woman, something he'd failed to notice in the eight years that he'd known her.

Viktoria merely looked back down at her bouquet. Lily has asked her to be her maid of honor due to the fact that her sister would be nowhere near the wedding ceremony. "I know that you and I have never really been friends, I guess I never stopped thinking of you as my best friend's younger sister, but I am very sorry that you're still heartbroken about Snape. The guy is a git and he always will be," Sirius said. He saw a faint smile grace her lips. "You see."

Viktoria reached out and grabbed Sirius' right hand and turned it palm up. 'Very strange how a man can be the biggest git in the world and a girl would still love him,' the words magically appeared on his hand in black ink. This was the way she communicated when she wanted to have a private conversation with someone and didn't want everyone to read the bright green letters that would usually appear in thin air. She was still mute, and Sirius imagined she always would be. There was only one person she'd ever spoken to and that was Severus, though he did not know why that was.

"Yes, well what can I say? You women are marvelous creatures. If you weren't, no man would have a woman because all men are gits," he said as he stared at her with that charming smile of his. She smiled as this as she looked around. Lily and James looked so happy. As for Remus, he seemed very busy with his new girl to notice.

'She's going to break his heart,' the words appeared in the palm of Sirius hand, replacing the last statement as she grabbed his hand for him to look at it; she never tore her eyes away from her brother and the blonde haired girl that he was calling the love of his life. He was so happy with her, but Viktoria knew that she was no good for her brother. She knew that she would break his heart, just as the others have all done. Remus' was far too nice. Viktoria feared he would never meet a nice girl.

"Yes, James and I have tried to tell him so a million times, but he won't listen to us," Sirius said as he looked at her. She turned around slowly and looked into Sirius' eyes. "Maybe he'll listen to you."

Viktoria sighed as she grasped his hand and shook her head. 'He'd never listen to me, just as I never listened to him when he warned me of Severus,' she responded to Sirius said as he stared down into his hand.

"May I ask why only Severus has the privilege to hear your voice?" Sirius suddenly asked as he stared into her eyes. He longed to hear her voice. She looked down at her hands sadly. She'd never spoken of the year she'd been lost, she'd only told Severus. He was the only one she'd spoken to and he was the only one she would ever speak to.

'It's a curse,' the black ink said in his hand before it disappeared. 'Only Severus, because he fell in love with me when I was mute. '

Sirius merely looked around, knowing not to press the matter, even it if still remained a mystery to him. He stared at the new couple and wondered if Lily and James had married because of the war against He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Many people were marrying earlier then they planned to, Sirius guessed that they were afraid that they might die before they'd ever gotten the chance. Love made one do crazy things. "Do you think that they will live happily ever after?"

Viktoria turned to look at Lily and James. They were so happy together, just as she remembered once being with Severus, but nothing good ever lasted. She sighed and tried to smile as she looked over at Sirius. She once more grabbed his hand. 'They are right now and that's really what matters.' Sirius stared at Viktoria as she turned away.

"Well Miss Lupin, may I have the pleasure of a dance? As the maid of honor and the best man I believe it is our duty to dance in the least once dance," Sirius said as he stood up and reached out his hand to her. She smiled as she looked at him and finished the drink that had been set before her hours ago, before taking his hand and allowing him to lead her to the dance floor.

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Viktoria sat up in bed and clutched the sheet to her nude body as she realized who it was that she was sleeping next to. Her mind reeled at the evens of the previous night. Viktoria laughed as she lay back, she couldn't believe she'd gotten so smashed that the hot guy she thought that she was going to sleep with turned out to be Sirius, the guy she'd always seen as something completely out of reach.

"What?" Sirius said as he drowsily raised his head from beneath the pillow. His eyes shot open and he nearly fell out of the bed as he realized who he was laying next to. Viktoria merely smiled as she looked at him. The sparkle in her eyes was something mischievous and made her seem impish.

'Quite a surprise isn't it?' the green words suddenly appeared in front of him as he stared at her. He merely nodded as he looked at her. Her hair was wild, the curls had already straightened out, but she looked gorgeous in the morning. Not to mention the fact that she was laying in his bed with only a white, linen sheet covering her body. It was then that the horrific feeling of what he'd done slipped away and the thought of the angry werewolf floated far away.

"Do you... err... remember what happened?" he asked as he stared at her. She shook her head.

'It's a bit of a blur, would you like to refresh my memory?' the green letters glowed in front of him and he grinned at her, hardly believing an eighteen year old would be what he'd want.

TBC…