Finally, their exams were over. They were on their way home, the prefects had a carriage to themselves and of course this meant Bellatrix and Sirius were forced to share one. Bellatrix left the carriage with Lucius Malfoy, her fellow Slytherin prefect to go and get dressed out of their robes. Both cousins hadn't so much as taken a sideways glance at one another. Bellatrix had remained deep in a quiet conversation with Lucius Malfoy that no one else could hear being so close to the front of the train and the noise just about loud enough to conceal their extremely quiet conversations until both of them stood suddenly and left the carriage. Not only this, but Bellatrix and Lucius were on one side of the carriage and two more pairs of prefects were in Sirius's way of hearing anything else.

Almost breathing a sigh of relief, James –Sirius's fellow prefect and best friend, looked at his friend and furrowed his eyebrows, "You ok?" he asked, stopping in the middle of his sentence and his stuffing down another few of Bertie Bot's every flavoured beans.
"Yeah I'm fine." Sirius answered distractedly, watching his cousin leave.
"Yeah? So what was the last thing I said?" James said, raising an eyebrow.
"Uhh..." Sirius cleared his throat and sat up properly, looking at James now, "You asked if I was ok."
"Before that."
"Uhh..." Sirius didn't know what to say.
"Sirius," James said, rolling his eyes, "Seriously, what's gotten into you?"
"Nothing," He answered flatly, "I'm just tired."
James shrugged, "fine. My mum and dad said they'd meet us at the station."
"Yeah..." Sirius said.
"But listen. I'm sorry about the last month of summer. Will you be ok with Remus or Peter?" he asked.
"Yeah I'll figure something out with them. It's fine." He said honestly, looking at his friend for a moment more before he was distracted by the sight of his cousin walking back in.

She was in a tight, body con black dress that came to just above her mid-thigh and she had applied red lipstick to her full lips, not to mention open toed black stilettos. Lucius Malfoy was wearing a black suit and had combed back his white blonde hair, making his angular features and his white blue eyes look even more prominent. Sirius always thought he looked like an old fashion pompous asshole who'd kill someone for asking for the time.

"Damn Black," James couldn't help but grin as he leant back and eyed Bellatrix up, "Why so dressed up?"
Bellatrix pressed her lips together as she looked into a small compact mirror before getting a pair of earrings out and putting them into her ears while Lucius couldn't help but snarl at James in disgust as he watched him eye up Bellatrix.
"I don't believe that's any of your business, Potter." She said calmly, smiling innocently at him.
"Oh come on, I'm dying to know why on earth Bellatrix Black has gotten all dressed up. Surely you don't have to look like that at home." He continued, knowing he was pushing his luck but hoping she would snap. Bellatrix's temperament however, was unusually calm.
"You really want to know?" she said, putting the compact down and finally looking at the two boys. Sirius was also watching her, though he said nothing. He wasn't stopping his friend, which meant that he was probably curious too. The train was nearing the station –they wouldn't be more than five minutes away.
James nodded, faking a smile and hoping he could ridicule her for whatever reason she gave for being so dressed up.

"Now see, Lucius and I are going to a party," she started, looking at him completely innocently, "but it's a very exclusive party and very different to the type you are no doubt used to going to –if of course, you've ever been to one. Now see, this event is very special because every guest has to bring their own guest. That's what Lucius and I were just discussing see? We were thinking of who to bring. I wasn't sure if I wanted to bring my incredibly handsome cousin here," she said gesturing to Sirius who didn't bother reacting, "As he looks divine in a suit, or if I wanted to bring that absolutely darling girlfriend of yours. I know that fiery red hair of hers would attract so much attention," both Sirius and James looked absolutely confused and lost for words, so Bellatrix continued as she seemed to have the attention of the other two sets of prefects also, and all eyes were on her, "See. It's very special because whenever the guest brings his or her guest, by the end of the night, Lucius and I? Well our guests will be gone. In fact, they will be so far gone because their blood will be painting the walls and their heads on spikes outside of my father's manor for everyone else to see exactly what we do with blood filth like you," she said looking at her cousin, her eyes dark and her teeth almost grit in anger. James stood, furious and about ready to strike her with a curse as she spat out the last few words, "and your darling mudblood girlfriend."

"HOW DARE YOU! You and your bloody purebred, ignorant, incestuous family can all go and burn in hell!" James bellowed, the other prefects looking absolutely terrified and having moved as far away from Bellatrix as they could, except Lucius who had the happiest grin on his thin lips.
Bellatrix said nothing though the slightest glimmer of a purely hateful smirk was playing on her lips. Sirius stopped him as they drew into the station, "Don't. She wants you to get angry." He said as he held back his friend who was by now fuming.

Bellatrix and Lucius stood hardly bothered by what had just happened. Lucius took both his bag and her bag for her before they walked towards the end of the carriage and Bellatrix opened the door.
"Bellatrix-" Sirius growled but was surprised when his cousin swiftly turned around.
"You were right about two of those things James, but where on earth did you get the idea that we're ignorant?" She said innocently as Sirius pushed James back down onto the seats.

Bellatrix smiled, eyeing her cousin for a moment before she winked at James, hopefully giving him the right idea while her cousin stood beside her. She was sudden and harsh in pressing her mouth to her cousins in front of everyone. Sirius was extremely shocked, so shocked in fact that he couldn't even pull away from her –as was apparently everyone else in the carriage who watched in complete shock, especially James. She pressed her body into Sirius's and her hand gripped the back of his hair for a few moments before she pulled away and licked her lips, leaving a red print on her cousin's mouth, "always so good."

Little had everyone else seen, but Bellatrix had pushed a piece of crumpled parchment into Sirius's hand while she had pressed into him. He was quick to stuff the piece of parchment into his pocket and he gulped as he looked at his cousin.
Bellatrix tilted her head slightly and pursed her lips, hardly glancing back at the rest in the carriage, "have a nice summer everyone."

Without another word, Bellatrix and Lucius left the carriage. James had a look of complete shock on his face but the other two boys in the carriage looked rather impressed and extremely jealous. One of them was nudged hard by who Sirius knew was his girlfriend.
"You two-" James started but Sirius quickly stopped him talking by cutting in.
"Let's get out of here." He said quickly as he grabbed his bag and left in the opposite way Bellatrix and Lucius had left, not wanting to risk a chance of running into them again.

Walking out of the train, Sirius and James said nothing to one another except for the murmur of James telling Sirius to wipe his mouth which had her lipstick on it. Catching a glance of his cousin as he was leaving the station with James's parents who he knew only too well by now, he saw as she had hugged her father and pressed a kiss to his cheek who had obviously come to get both her and Andromeda, and watched as he picked up her large leather trunk with the Black family's crest on it. Catching Bellatrix's eye, he saw her eyes flicker to his pocket in which the note was before suddenly, Cygnus had disapparated with his two daughters.