Chapter Five

It had been two weeks since Elliot had kissed her Professor. Two weeks of missing DADA so she didn't have to embarrass herself. She thought about the kiss every single day. Asking herself why she kissed him, what on Earth came over her to kiss him, why she told him about her family problems and why she felt like she could trust him.

It was a Saturday afternoon and Elliot was in the Common Room with the twins. She kept on sighing to herself, in which Fred and George would look over her.

"C'mon, what's up? You've been off for a few weeks now." George said as Elliot sighed for the hundredth time.

"I...Fuck this. I'm going for a smoke." she grumbled as she got up from where she was sitting.

She started to make her way to the door and Fred and George looked at each other, not knowing what to do with their best friend. Before she reached the door, it opened.

"Elliot! Just who I was looking for. Professor Lupin wants to see you in his classroom." Harry said as he passed her with Ron and Hermione.

"Fucking brilliant!" She whispered to herself.

Elliot made her way to the Professors classroom, thinking of the worst of what could happen. She was mumbling under her breath as she got closer and closer to the classroom. After a few minutes she found herself at the door.

"Why? Fucking why?" She mumbled to herself as she knocked on the door.

It opened and there he was. The man that she had been avoiding for two weeks.

"Come on in," he said with a small smile on his face.

He stepped aside to let the teen in. As he closed the door Elliot found herself sitting on one of the front rows desk. It was quiet as he walked up to his desk and Elliot couldn't stand the suspense. Elliot couldn't stand the fact that he was just looking at her, as if he was studying her.

"You know why you're here, don't you?" he finally asked after a while.

Elliot just nodded her head and looked out of the window. Not really wanting the conversation she looked at the Great Lake.

"And you know that we need to speak about it, Elliot. You've missed two weeks worth of classes."

"I know," she said softly.

"So come on, let's talk about it."

"What's the point?" she asked. "You're my Professor. I'm the student. It was a mistake."

Remus sighed. He got up from the edge of his desk and walked over to her. He left a gap, just in case.

"Elliot," he whispered as he turned her face to look towards him. "You're a smart girl. But missing classes through a kiss? I...I enjoyed the kiss, don't get me wrong, but it was out of the blue, out of the ordinary. I'm eighteen years older. I'm thirty three, Elliot. And you're only fifteen."

"What matter does age have? Like seriously?" she questioned him looking into his amber eyes.

"People don't accept it. Like they don't accept me." Remus has some hatred in his voice.

Elliot sighed and looked away again. She didn't know what to do. Did she fancy her professor?

"It's fine," she said after a while. "I'll catch up what I've missed of Fred and George and I'll come back to classes."

"That's all I'm asking for, Elliot."

"I've got to go...I have a thing I need to do." Elliot said as she got off the desk.

She didn't look at him as she left his classroom. All she wanted to do was go to the lake and have a smoke. She just wanted to disappear. She felt so small and helpless.

As she got closer to the lake, Elliot pulled out her cigarettes and lighter from her jacket pocket. She slumped down on the ground, resting her back against a near by tree. She inhaled the toxic carbon monoxide and held it for a moment. Slowly, she exhaled. She couldn't bare the thoughts of going back to his classes but she knew that she had to.

"Why does this have to be so difficult?" she asked herself.

"Because life is never easy, Miss Smith."

Elliot jumped and looked at the direction of the voice. It was Sirius. She relaxed as she saw him and put her cigarette back between her lips.

"What's going on?" he asked the troubled teenager.

"It's just...I don't know."

Sirius pulled out his own cigarettes and sat down next to the girl.

"It's just that you've missed a lot of DADA lessons and something might have gone on?" Sirius asked, a small smirk on his face.

"He told you didn't he?" she asked, embarrassment hitting her all over again.

"And Professor Potter," Sirius chuckled.

Elliot groaned and put her head in her hands. Sirius laughed and looked at how embarrassed she was.

"Surely it can't be that bad, Elliot."

"Oh trust me, it is. I've just come out of his classroom now."

"And what happened?" the man asked, interested to know.

"Nothing, he just said it's too big of an age gap if we did and that he's older."

"He's like that...with his furry little problem, he thinks no one will accept him or that he'll be a burden."

"If anything, I'm the burden. I was the one stupid enough to tell him all of my problems."

"He does care, Elliot. He just doesn't...How do I say it? He feels..." Sirius sighed. "To put it in plain terms he thinks that once he gets attached to a person, the said person will leave him due to the fact that he's a werewolf...Remus, he's a good guy but he has insecurities about his problem."

Elliot nodded her head. She understood. But she couldn't help but feel rejected, in a sense of a way. She didn't want to screw around with guys any more, as she has been for the past two years. She loved it there in the moment, but afterwards it made her feel like shit. She was only doing it to occupy herself from what her family are like to her.

"He also said you had some family issues..."

"I do, I shouldn't have told him. I hate speaking about them."

"I've had my fair share of that too," Sirius said as he place his hand over hers.

"I can imagine. A Black being put into Gryffindor, that must have been hard."

"I got used to it, eventually. But I knew that I wasn't like them...it was all about my younger brother."

"Tell me about it," Elliot laughed dryly as she looked at the older man.

"What happened?" Sirius asked.

"My father...he's not a good man. He does things that fathers shouldn't do. But like you've just said, you get used to it after a while."

Sirius moved closer to the girl and wrapped his arm around her. She sighed and rested her head against his shoulder, feeling comfortable around him.

"What does her do, Elliot?"

She thought about it for a second. Could she trust him like she trusted Remus?

"He...he abuses me. Physically, emotionally, mentally and...and sexually. My mother doesn't help, she's useless about it. She doesn't comfort me when it happens, doesn't tell my father to stop. My sister, she doesn't have a clue what goes on behind closed doors. But luckily she goes away for the day or night, which means that she doesn't have to see me afterwards."

Sirius squeezed her closer to him. He knows how it's like to be abused by family, he had many years of it himself after he was sorted. Elliot was crying softly. She felt so weak. She just wanted a normal family that loves her.

"If we can help it, we'll make sure that you don't need to go back."

"Thank you," she whispered.

Sirius sighed and continued to sit with the girl, his arm still around her, as they looked around the scenery around them.

Elliot was walking to the Great Hall for dinner. She had sat with her professor for a few hours. After her heart to heart with him they lightened the mood, asking each other different questions.

"Where the heck have you been?!" George shouted as he hugged the girl.

"I had to go to Lupin's class and then I went to the lake," Elliot said as she looked over at the teachers table.

"What did he want?" Fred asked as he made some room for her to sit down.

"Asked why I've been missing classes, stuff like that." she said as she looked back at her friends.

"You were with Elliot for a while," James stated as he walked into Sirius' living quarters.

"As was he," Sirius pointed to Remus.

"Can we not? It's been a long day," Remus said as he flopped on to Sirius' armchair.

"You and me both, my friend." Sirius grumbled as he went to get a whiskey.

"What did you two speak about?" Remus asked, curiosity getting the best of him.

"What happened with you two, her family and then just light conversation after that."

"She was upset wasn't she?"

"Of course she was,"

"Upset about what?" James asked as he sat down next to Sirius.

"Well, Remus told Harry to tell Elliot to see him in his classroom to speak about the kiss and why she wasn't in class and hasn't been for the past two weeks, bare in mind it's just his classes she's been missing."

"Understandable, go on."

"So Remus being him," Sirius and James looked over at Remus. "Needed to get to the bottom of it, like he always does."

"Guys, you don't understand. It's wrong." Remus sighed as he closed his eyes.

"What about her family, Pads?"

"They sound like horrible pricks, if I'm honest."

"It seems that way," added Remus.

"Why?"

Sirius and Remus looked over at each other. Both of them sighed, deciding who was going to tell James.

"They abuse her. In different ways." Remus said as he looked away from both of his best friends.

"WHAT?! THAT'S NOT RIGHT!" James shouted as he felt sorry for the girl.

"Tell us about it," Sirius said as he took a sip from his glass.

"You sound like you're getting fond of the girl, Sirius." Remus said.

Sirius laughed. Was he? Maybe? The stories that he had heard from people were impressive.

"I have a wife and children, Remus."

"Hasn't stopped you before,"

"That was different, and both of you know that."

"He is right though, mate." said James as he patted his friends knee.

Sirius sighed and got up from where he was sitting. Was he growing to like the girl? No...he couldn't. He didn't mind the age gap, like Remus did, but he couldn't fall for a school girl. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

"The girl is trouble. She has it written all over her." Sirius said, his back turned.

"Which makes it harder," James said, a knowing look on his face as he looked over at Sirius.

The black haired man sighed. He poured another whiskey for himself and took it all down in one. Like he just told the two of them. He had a wife and three kids. He couldn't let anything else turn his marriage sour again. He couldn't do that to his kids again.

Soooo... that happened. As I said a few chapters ago, I know the middle and ending of this story but I'm finding it difficult to get there, hence why you get chapters like these. Hope you enjoyed it! Leave a review and tell me what you think so far!