Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character(s) I place in here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. This is a Sirius Black/OC Fanfiction, or at least it will get to that point. I do have terrible spelling sometimes, but I do my best. However, if I misspell something that I have not caught I do appreciate having a correction mentioned. But I love reading Fanfiction's from here, and I hope I can bring others the same joys they have brought me, I figured it was time I give it a shot.

This WAS, my FIRST Fanfiction that I had the courage enough to put up for all to read. I started small and did my best to update as soon, and as much, as I could. I know tend to forget things so try to have some patience, even though I sometimes fail at having some myself. *cough, cough*Please Enjoy the story, for the pages have yet to turn for new, or returning, readers of journeys untold. Also, please be aware that this story is 100% mine. This is a work of mine that I did under a different account of fanfiction under the username Nattie8516 and now shares the same username under this Fanfiction site as well. So rest assured, I am the same person and same owner of this work and other's I shall be posting on this new site as well.

Chapter 7

The silent treatment between Gabrielle, Sirius and Emma had lasted four months, four miserable months that the two had not only avoided her, but ignored her. And to make it worse, they had lost both Quidditch matches before winter break, this only set Emma deeper in her loneliness and disappointment. She was borderline depressed.

Klay had promised to try to bring Gabby around, and even he was having issues with the topic. But it had just made things worse. Klay and Gabby had gotten into a shouting match in the halls after classes, "You are taking this way too far Gabrielle. A few weeks, fine, I get it, a month, again I can understand... But three- no, I'm sorry, four months tomorrow! She is miserable, and you have become unbelievable and miserable yourself! What the in the name of Hades Hell fire is wrong with you? She's supposed to be your best friend! You punched her- okay, now I will admit she deserved it and I give you major credit for even going through with it, I mean even I probably wouldn't have had the guts to do that to my best friend, but she apologized and told you the reason why she did it andshe told you the truth. If she was really your best friend, Gabby, you wouldn't be doing this to either of you. You're just as miserable as she is, I'm not blind... And the person you are right now is not the girl I fell in love with, nor the girl I am dating. You've become someone that's not you after this has continued on, you're a bully. So, until you both get your heads cleared up and out of your miserable asses, we, Gabrielle, are done." Klay had walked away with a huff to go sulk somewhere, there was no skip in his step anymore, he had just made himself just as miserable as Gabrielle and Emma.

"Wh-what... Why-why, would you do that, Klay? What the heck were you thinking!?"

Huffing again over the past situation Klay shrugged with irritation. He'd thought she'd have thanked him for at least trying to help! "I'm sorry. I just- you're both miserable without the other and if you're both miserable so am I. I figured if she had a good scold she'd grow up and get her head out of the clouds." He huffed, he had become unbelievably jerkish lately, and that had happened three days ago, their breakup.

Emma could now say, she only had three friends, James, Remus and Klay. Peter was stalking Sirius around and even when Sirius was with a new girl every week, who he would be snogging to oblivion. Emma refused to show her irritation.

However, she had not entirely been delivered the last blow that would shatter her to pieces.

Shock came to her when she had gone to the Quidditch game, Gryffindor versus Slytherin, she had made Seeker. She hoped she did alright this game, it was the third game of the year and she hadn't done so well the first two games. She blamed it on everything that was happening, but maybe it was because she just wasn't as good as her and James had thought she was. This made her heart sink to her stomach instantly and it was definitely not helping her nerves one bit.

Thud, thud... clank, thud.

'Was that the Quidditch Broom cupboard?' She had just finished getting armored up when she heard the strange and suspicious noises coming from one of the broom cupboards around the corner from the bench she'd been using to lace up her shoes. So she decided to investigate. Emma had her hand wrapped around one of the two handles when she was suddenly interrupted.

"Emma,"

Shocked, she quickly turned on her heels and found Gabrielle. "Uh, hi?" Emma wished she'd known what to say to her, but after being ignored and avoided her like the plague for four months she really didn't know what to say to her. And that stung deeply. It was silently awkward for several minutes until, "I'm sorry I punched you and screamed at you… And ignored you for months... The screaming and the punch should have been where I left it... Forgive me?" Gabby had looked embarrassed and near tears as she brought up the incident.

Emma had to shake her head clear, was this really happening? Had Gabby really come to her, of her own free will, and asked for her forgiveness? However, an instant thought hit her, Klay broke up with her because of this ongoing ignoring, was she only doing this in the hope he would go back to dating her? "Are you really sorry? Or are you just doing this because you want Klay back?"

At Gabby's pale face Emma thought she had her final answer, "Gabby, we both need to apologize to one another, I already did mine, and it was whole hardheartedly-" "Emma Rose! I'm officially hurt! You really think I'd be apologizing to you just for a boy?" She really did sound offended, and who would blame her? But was she really sorry? Emma didn't know. Was Gabby just trying to play it off? One way to find out. Provoke it. "Well, kind of... I heard what happened and I did yell at him for it. I'm sorry he felt the need to do that. Trust me, I had absolutely nothing to do with that-"

Disbelieving this, Gabby huffed with anger, "Stop... Just stop, please... Emma... I hit you because I was so angry and screamed at you because I was frightened about losing you again, but when I ignored you the first few weeks it was because I was just swimming in the gloom of what had happened, the months... Now that was because I didn't know how to say I was sorry instead of just saying. I miss my best friend, terribly. Klay doing what he did only set it in stone for me to actually see what I was doing was only making things worse and hopefully to stop it before it went far too late. I just want my best friend back... I really am sorry, but I just was so scared you'd tell me to never speak to you again. We've never-"

Thud, thunk, thud... Both girls' brows curled in utter confusion. "Was that-"

"The broom cupboard? Yes. I think something is in there, but I'm frightened I'll find a large rat." Emma admitted dryly.

Gabby smiled and puffed up playfully, she hated rats, but she wasn't going to let Emma be the only squealing girl, "Well, then we'll open it together then, that way you're not the only one screaming." Gabby smiled and walked next to Emma, both nodded and each grabbed a handle to the two doors of the cupboard then swung the doors open. Both of their jaws dropped at the scene they uncovered.

A discombobulated Sirius Black and a Ravenclaw blond, snogging and very much out of sorts. "Oh, uh... Sorry." The blond said, a bright blush covering her face running all the way down her unbuttoned collar, the upper part of her white bra visible to anyone's eyes that were present.

'She better be embarrassed!' Gabby thought. Her face burning red with anger at the sight. "Sirius Black, the Quidditch game is starting in ten minutes why are you here snogging some girl?" Gabby gaped out in disbelief. Honestly, she was stunned Emma hadn't said something, but her friend was silent and verbally incapacitated from full disbelief. This worried Gabby dearly. Emma always had something to say.

At this, Sirius laughed loudly with an egoistic air about him, "I can do whatever I please, McKinnon...Do you mind, Evans?" He sneered with glared daggers towards the redhead. Time stood still the moment the words left him, Sirius felt sick as he watched her emerald green eyes water, her breath almost hitching with pain. Sirius could practically see her soul shattering. Noticing that she seemed to have trouble breathing as she looked at him with shock and disbelief but what nearly killed him was the look of utter betrayal that clearly screamed through her, piercing him through his heart. His grinning sneer had faded quickly. Instantly he began to feel his skin grow clammy, his own heart-breaking piece by piece.

Gabby's jaw nearly hit the ground, "Sirius B- Emma!" Glaring at the sixth-year, Gabby slammed the doors shut and dashed after her, "Emma, wait... Damn it, Rosie!"

"Ah, there she is- What's wrong?"

"Let's just start this game... please?"

"Rose-"

"We can't, not until Black gets here, and it'll start in six minutes, calm yourself. Are you that eager to win there, Evans?... Wait, have you seen that crazy playboy round?" James had been interrupted by one of their chasers. James sent the Chaser who had spoken to Emma a bit of a glare for interrupting him. Something was obviously wrong, and he wanted to find out.

Huffing with slight exhaustion from having to run after the fleeing girl, Gabby marched up to them with irritation. For a moment James thought he knew why she was so upset, until the blond spoke to them, "He's in the broom cupboard." Gabby pipped up, knowing full well that Emma was not going to say much after that, but when she'd informed them of Sirius' whereabouts her tone had come out with a bit of a growl, which had the Gryffindor players backing away a few steps from her.

'Thank you, Gabby.' Emma thought with a sigh.

This news actually stunned the team, but it hit James like a cinder block, 'That's why she's upset. Well this is just great! At least the girl drama seems to be over.'

"Can we finish talking later?" Emma didn't sound excited, in fact, Gabby and the rest of the players saw how pale and greenish she looked.

A bit shocked she even wanted to finish their interrupted talk, Gabby nodded with shocked joy, "Uh, yeah... yeah, tomorrow, how's that?"

Nodding, Emma moved to the group to head out to the field.

Gabby felt she should at least try to wish the poor girl luck, especially after that incident. "Good luck, Rose,"

"Thanks, I think I'll need it." Emma sighed with slight dread as Gabby headed off.

Gabby climbed the stairs of the stadiums to find Marlene, Alice, Klay and Lily. "There you are, did you talk- Gabby, what's wrong?" Marlene asked.

Lily and the others saw the burning anger in the girl's eyes easily and feared the worst, the three older girls looked at one another with concern and asked in unison, "What happened?"

Infuriated at being forced to talk, Gabby huffed, "Sirius Black is what happened! Emma and I caught him and some Ravenclaw blond in the Broom cupboard snogging and very much out of sorts," The third year then proceeded to tell them how it had gone, "He said it as if she were nothing but a vile little thing that was scuffing his polished shoes with his nose high up in the air... I can't believe he went that far, 'Do you mind, Evans.'" She terribly mimicked Sirius viciously, "He must be going mental- oh, the games starting... I'll finish later." And she would stick to that.

They all began cheering on the Gryffindor's as the teams flew out and the game began.

The match had carried on for nearly three hours, both her and the Slytherin Seeker had lost the Snitch several times and it was proving to be difficult to find. Finally, a sharp whizzing noise zipped past her, a smile grew on her face as she saw a glimmer from the sun's rays hit the Snitch just a little and zoomed after it herself, proceeding on with the chase, smacking shoulders with the Slytherin Seeker as she went, trying to dislodge either or from their brooms.

It wasn't until the two Seekers were high up in the air that they finally noticed a Bludger had gotten on their tails. "Forget about it, we need to get this thing off our tails!" Emma shouted. "No way, Evans! I'm not pulling off only for you to grab the trophy!"

A gasp left her as something caught her eye coming right at them, but the Slytherin would more likely take the full hit, and with his head turned away from it. He had no way of seeing it coming, "TOM!"

Too late.

SNAP!

"Aughurgh!" Tom was taken out by the second Bludger, it had clipped him in his right arm, a nasty snap came from his body, probably his elbow, ulnar bone and radius breaking and a dislocated shoulder. She herself had narrowly escaped from it as the boy had slammed into her when it had first made contact with Tom. In a blink it had swung back around and hit him a second time. Emma figured if it had made contact a second time, he may have fractured, or broken, his collar bone as well from the sudden impact. Either way, Emma knew that damage had been delivered. Diving for him, Emma caught the front of his jacket and shirt as firmly as she could and flew him toward the stadium with the teachers.

"Oh! Miss. Evans!" McGonagall screamed and pointed behind her, again, one of the Bludgers' were heading right for her.

Having enough of those damned things flying after her Emma dove again, leading it away from the stadium, "Oh, come on!" She tried flying towards her Beaters. Thankfully, she had enough time to drop Tom with the Teachers and Pomfrey before she headed back out to the field.

"Emma!

"FOX!"

"EVANS!"

SNAP!

"AHHH!" Her broom handle had been turned into splinters, and Emma was once again free falling from her broom, screaming as she went. A painful grunt left her as an arm wrapped around her, catching her suddenly, she may have bruised ribs, maybe one cracked when she had been caught, but she sure didn't care, she wasn't currently a human pancake.

Emma was pulled back, flush against the person's chest, her chest rising and falling with fear from the fall as she held onto the arms like a life-line, "Nice one, Evans... Seems you have a talent for getting nearly everyone's eye. Or if not, a few certain people." His voice whispered playfully into her ear.

Looking over her shoulder she saw he resembled none other than Sirius Black, far too closely, and she didn't like it... He was already on her mind nearly all the time as it was, now she had to play and look at two members of the infamous family of the House of Black. 'Great, will I ever catch a damn break!'

"Ah, of course," he started, a grin plastered to his pale face with an air of ego, something she was finding rather common in Sirius's family since he had such a big ego.

'Do I really have to deal with two of them now?' She thought with dry sarcasm and over all irritation.

"Regulus Black," he grinned with pride as he introduced himself, and he should, everyone should feel prideful for their family, good or bad.

However, her mind was still screaming, 'Go figures, I couldn't have guessed. You're so bright. You sound just like him.' she thought dryly, but he'd saved her, the least she could do was listen to his none-since.

"Yes, I am Sirius Black's little brother... Though, he does like to say he and I are nothing to one another." He admitted dryly.

'Gee, I wonder why?' she thought to herself and an eye roll, "I could care less who you are... You saved me. So, thank you." She told him.

"Hand her over, Black!"

Sighing with a grin "Ah, how wonderful... Come to rescue the little Foxy now have you? Well, you can gladly have her." He chuckled wickedly.

Sirius took a breath of relief at her being safe and held out a hand for her only to be rejected when Emma happily went with James.

This had all the boys' head's spinning but shrugged it off for later. Though, they could see Regulus had enjoyed it gleefully. However, and sadly, James could see the pain clear in Sirius's eyes at her rejection, and watched as it was turned to utter rage at his brother's comment, "Thank you James, Sirius... I think I've gotten the stench of her mud-blood self on me enough as it is... Though, I couldn't help but notice, brother," Regulus sneered, "that you seem to care an awfully lot. Maybe, a bit too much." He lightly chuckled as he flew off to the group where Madam Hooch waited for the rest of the two teams' players to join them.

Sighing back her humiliation and anger, Emma decided to stop a fight before it even began, "Leave him, Sirius. He isn't worth it." Emma told him, clearly annoyed.

Turning his steel blue eyes leveling a glare on her he leaned over to the two atop James broom stick and with a dangerous growl said, "You are, Rose." And left it at that, flying down to join the rest of the team.

Sighing, James rested his forehead to the back of Emma's, "What is going on between you two?" James asked curiously, looking up from his slightly annoyed placed forehead and back to the air traffic of their game, slowly lowering them.

"I haven't a clue, but if you figure it out, please let me know." Emma grumbled.

"The game is being called off until further notice, unless Slytherin doesn't mind playing without their Seeker." Madam Hooch told them.

Smirking, Regulus stepped away from his comfortable place, leaning against his broom, "I think we can manage, Madam Hooch. I can take Tom's place." Regulus pipped up, again, his wicked smile gracing his face as he eyed his brother, James then finally Emma. A smile she was truly beginning to wish she could smack off his face.

"Very well, bring in your back up player for Beater then. Miss Evans, please find yourself another broom, the game will continue in thirty minutes time."

With that, everyone disbanded to their house tents and other students flooded out to get anything they'd like to drink, eat or find one of the players. Which ended with Gabby throwing herself into Emma's arms with a relieved smile, "So glad you're alright!"

Emma had nearly lost her stomach as Sirius rushed up to the two of them, "Fox, can we-"

"Sirius!" A sweet voice called as she rushed the Sixth year, a happy smile as she threw herself into his arms, forcing him to catch them both from falling. It was the blond they found him lip-locking.

Gabby wanted to vomit as she watched the blonde's lips pout as she looked at him, purposely nibbling at her bottom lip after a moment of Sirius not giving her any attention as the boy glanced between the two of them, unsure what to do, "Julia? h-hi... Uh, I was actually hoping to talk with Emma for a bit, I can-"

"It's fine, Sirius... I don't think I'm much in the mood for talking to much of anyone. Sorry." Emma was gone in seconds with a happy Gabby, her skip back in her steps as they walked off and began their own conversations.

Sirius was left rather irritated and very moody. Hoping to take his mind from the irritation and anger, he and Julia went off somewhere all their own for a little while.

Emma had liked Julia previously. She was a smart girl and had helped her with her potions essay her first year at Hogwarts when she was struggling with it in the library. But Julia had the biggest eyes for Sirius, always scrunching up her nose at another girl who'd make a comment about him, she'd even go on saying she was his girlfriend year-round with a bit of a snobby attitude towards anyone she felt would be a threat in taking Sirius from her attention and her from his.

Julia had recently just begun doing the same towards Emma, who'd just raise her brow and walk away saying absolutely nothing and ignoring her rudeness. Something Julia hated more than anything, being ignored. She had her way of getting the spotlight on herself even when the subject wasn't ever remotely near her. The girl could find a way to make herself loud enough to get their attention. It was like having a female Lockhart, except she had brains for subjects and passed many of her classes.

A strong slap to his back and Remus knew it was James, "He's only doing it because he thinks you and Emma have something going on, you know that, right? ... Julia, ignoring Fox, you... Merlin's beard Remus, I don't know how long I can take this! Really, what are we going to do?" James whined.

At this, Remus couldn't contain his laughter, 'Is he really serious?' "You must be joking, Emma with me? Not only is it entirely impossible, but it'll never happen..."

"So, you're telling me that you don't love her?"

"No, I love Fox, but in my own way... Not romantically. Even if I did, I don't believe it would last." Remus clarified, a grin on his face.

"Why not? Give it a go. Yes, she's young, but not really... The grade difference makes it look wrong, but truthfully Remus, there's nothing wrong with it... Why don't you talk to Lily about it, Emma may be her sister, but even she can see something. I know you two definitely fooled me. Me, of all people." With that James Potter clapped his friend on the back and walked away from a confused Remus Lupin. 'Tricky Prongs, but not good enough, you're losing your touch my friend.'

"You know, Fox said you had a mean streak, but I think this is more trickster territory. However, I will hand it to you... You are a genius, Lily Evans." He grinned widely to the Sixth-year redhead.

A happy and proud grin wide across her face as the two walked side by side, "Where do you think Emma learned some of her little jokes and pranks, Potter."

Sighing with joy at her finally speaking to him, she finally smiled, and her eyes soft as she looked at him. "Go out with me Lily. Just one date, please? I promise you won't regret it." He asked, sounding a bit desperate.

Lily looked him in the eyes and found panic, fear and desperation, but she saw something deeper that made her breath hitch in her chest, love... Lily Evans, saw the look of utmost love in James Potter's eyes, "Maybe next time, James... First let's help Sirius and my sister." Without realizing it, she had lent up on her toes slightly and kissed his cheek gently and walked off to find her friends to re-find their seats.

The game would be starting back up soon.

Thank you all for taking the time for reading, I hope you've all enjoyed so far! Have a wonderful night/day!