"I suppose…" Slughorn said, I'm sure he was looking forward to another period with me. Hahaha.
"You two, go work at that back desk." He pointed to a desk that was in a far corner, away from them rest of the class. "And don't mess this potion up." Slughorn said seriously. Telling me not to mess a potion up is like telling a unicorn to be evil. It's completely pointless and a waste of breath.
"Well you heard him Reggie, he doesn't want us to mess this one up. I better not do anything." I said, grinning.
"Oh no you don't. You're going to help, but you're only going to do the super simple stuff, while I closely supervise, because your tiny brain can't handle complicated tasks." Reg sounded irritated. Oh well, what did he expect from me? I'm bloody awful at potions.
"I think he's got a class this period," I said as some seventh years came into the classroom. Just my luck, seventh years. I'll probably get to deal with my brother. Ew.
"Why did you want to come now anyway?"
"Because, I'm going to practice my violin while you're all stuffing your face with food."
"You could have practiced now!" Regulus hissed.
"Yeah, but lunch period is longer you dolt. And I've got detention this week, so I can't practice when I usually do."
"Uhg, you're impossible!" Regulus threw his hands up in the air and rolled his eyes. All of a sudden the room instantly became louder. I looked and saw the marauders had walked in. Joy.
"Great, we get to spend the class with them." Regulus lowered his voice.
"I'm not happy about it either. Let's get this potion done with." I said.
"Oh my god!" Regulus almost shouted, causing some people to look at us. "That's the first time I've ever heard you say that about a potion!" True. Very true. Usually I try to procrastinate when it comes to potions. I'm pretty good at procrastinating.
"Why are you here?" Sirius and James said in unison, James looking at me, Sirius looking at Reg. They were standing in front of our table, and they did not look happy.
"Redoing a potion." I said to them.
"Why not during lunch?" James pretty much growled.
"Because Jade is a wanker." Regulus answered for me. I knew he was irked about missing his free period. He usually napped during free period. Regulus needs his naps to function, I'll be on his shit list for awhile for interfering with them.
"Shh! I don't want them to know!" I loudly whispered to Regulus, laughing.
"Really though, why are you here?" Sirius asked, growing impateint.
"I have a prior arrangement," I said.
"Class! Sit down! Black, Potter, that means you!" Slughorn yelled.
"Come on Reg, let's get this done with." I started getting the cauldron ready
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-x-
"Could you not practice that thing now!" Scarlet whined. I was practicing my new Bach concerto, but Scarlet was making it difficult.
"I have no other time to practice. And besides, this is not a thing, it is a violin. Go read you precious magazine down in the common room." I said coldly. I didn't really get along with my room mates.
"Don't you have to be at detention?" Scarlet said haughtily.
"What?" I looked at the time. Had I been practicing that long? Holy crap, I had about three minutes to get to Slughorn's. "Shit." I muttered. I carefully put my violin back in its case and booked it out of there. I got to his classroom with about thirty seconds to spare. See, I can get to places on time…sometimes.
"Thank you for joining us." Slughorn said as I walked in.
"It's my pleasure." I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes.
"You will be scrubbing my classroom floor with Mr. Black, without magic." Slughorn handed me a bucket of soapy water.
"What did I tell you? It wasn't Reg's fault, it was my fault, I wasn't paying att-" I started scolding Slughorn, but got cut off.
"Regulus has a brother," Sirius said. I turned and saw him leaning back in a stool.
"Obviously," I rolled my eyes and picked up my sponge and dunked it in the soapy water.
"I'll be back in an hour or so," Slughorn left. Hour or so? Damn you Slughorn. Black and I worked in silence for a while. I was surprised he hadn't made any snide remarks, I was almost disappointed, it was nice flipping out on him. Good stress relief. I just realized how many times I've flipped out this school year already. It's definitely the most I've ever freaked out on my brother, ever. It felt good. Ha.
"Why are you in detention?" Black asked, trying to make conversation.
"I came to class late, set someone's bag on fire, and my potion attacked Slughorn. Typical day, really," I explained. He looked like he was struggling to not laugh.
"Your potion attacked Slughorn?" He asked, a small grin on his face.
"It was an accident I swear. I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and then it grew teeth and jumped out of the cauldron," I detailed. He let out a small laugh. I noticed his pink hair, it was a little less bright, maybe just neon pink, instead of fluro-pink. Aww, I hope it doesn't fade away too fast.
"Pink is not your color," I said laughing. His face darkened a little bit. Haha.
"How did you do it?" He asked. "You didn't charm it, because you couldn't of got all four of us."
"I do not reveal my secrets." I grinned and went back to scrubbing the bloody floor. Seriously, there was blood on it. I don't even want to know how it got on there.
"You must of got into our shampoo. That's the only way you could of got all of us,." He said. Oh, he's not as dumb as he looks.
"Possibly. There is a method to my madness," I love Shakespeare. For a muggle, he was a genius.
"No, we're not quoting Macbeth right now. How did you get in our dorm?" Oh he definitely isn't as dumb as he looks.
"I have my ways," I laughed.
"Will it come out? The dye I mean," He looked truly concerned about his hair. Vain bastard.
"Eventually. In a week or so," I said calmly.
"A week!" He looked outraged.
"Have you tried washing it out?" I asked.
"Yeah, it just made it brighter," He grumbled.
"Excellent," I grinned. I have great taste in prank products.
"You're evil, you know that?" He said, smiling a little. It's sad, it's really sad, this is the most civil conversation I've ever had with Black. I haven't had a chat like this with James in years. If his best mate can somewhat accept me, why can't James?
"I've been told. Why are you in detention?"
"Oh I melted my cauldron, didn't you see? You were in class with us."
"No? I was probably too busy making Reg do all the work while I pretended to do something so he wouldn't scold me," I had to laugh at that, because that was the honest truth.
"Regulus does all the work?" He seemed genuinely interested in his little brother. Maybe even a little concerned. Is James like this when he hears about me?
"Well technically yes. I sometimes try to help, but I usually end up messing something up, and making our potion explode or have it grow teeth. I'm horrid at potions. So me and Regulus find it best if I just do nothing, because then I'm less likely to screw things up," I explained. Sirius laughed at this.
"I don't know why James thinks you're so awful," Sirius blurted.
"I don't know why either." I said sadly. Well at least someone doesn't think I'm that bad.
-x-
I sat at the table eating my pancakes, (note how I am not eating waffles. Because only tosspots eat waffles) listening to Regulus tell me about quidditch tryouts next week.
"Come on Jade! You're great at flying! Please, try out," Regulus begged.
"No, Reggie, we go through this every year. I'm not trying out for quidditch," I answered bitterly. I should probably explain. I am a fair flyer. Ok so I am a great flyer, not that I'm bragging, but I am pretty good. When we were little, me and James would fly around our garden on our toy brooms. Anyway, when I got sorted into Slytherin and my brother decided that I wasn't good enough for him, I stopped flying. It hurt too much, bringing back memories of when I was little, when me and James were friends. Plus, it would just be another thing James is better at. So I'm not even going to give him a chance.
"Please Jade! You're a good flyer! And with you on the team we can beat those Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, and jigglypuffs…I mean Hufflepuffs. Please!" He was begging now, really loudly too.
"I will consider trying out if you get down on one knee, proclaim your undying love for me, ask for my hand in marriage, and say am I the best quidditch player ever," I laughed at my ridiculous request. I knew Regulus would never do it, he had too much pride.
"Jade Opal Potter. You are the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world and you are kick ass at quidditch, which is why I have been in love with ever since I laid eyes on you. My heart beats for you and I hope you feel the same way for me because I love you and want to take your dainty hand in marriage so I can forever call you mine," Regulus was proclaiming loudly, down on one knee. Too much pride my ass.
"Get up, you're causing a scene," I smacked him upside the head.
"Now you better go to those damn quidditch try outs, because I just embarrassed myself in front of the whole great hall for you." Regulus said to me, seriousness in his eyes.
"Fine, fine. I didn't know you were willing to make a complete fool of yourself for little old me," I laughed.
"I want you on the damn quidditch team!" Regulus said, pounding his fist on the table for effect.
-x-
It was my last night of detention (for now that is…I'll piss Slughorn off in the future, I can guarantee it) and I have to say I was a little sad. Sirius also had detention all this week, and we had become almost friends in that time. Well I don't know if you could call us friends, I'm pretty wary of calling people friends, because I have mass trust issues for obvious reasons. The only person I could ever really trust is Reg. I guess Sirius and I are friendly acquaintances? I have no idea.
"You will be organizing my supply cupboard in alphabetical order." Slughorn said leaving the classroom. Lazy ass, he probably unorganized them, just so we would have to reorganize them.
"What was up with Regulus in the great hall this morning?" Sirius asked almost immediately. A smile came to my lips at the memory of that.
"Well me and Reg are going to get married at the end of the school year, run away to America, grow marijuana and have little Jade and Regulus babies running around our trailer park home," I said to him, trying to keep a serious face, and failing at it. Sirius let out a bark-like laugh. That was weird, bark-like laugh? I don't think I've ever described a laugh as bark like…
"Really though. What was all of that about?" He asked.
"What, you don't believe me?" I asked in fake shock. "You must see through my lies. Reg just wanted me to try out for quidditch," I said.
"You play?" Sirius said, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm might be a failure of one, but I am a Potter. I grew up with quidditch. I'm a fair flyer," I said modestly.
"What position?"
"Well I like to play as seeker, but Regulus is seeker. I'm awful at keeping. Jade plus keeping equals disaster. I wouldn't want to be chaser," I wouldn't want to be chaser because James is chaser, I thought to myself. "So I guess I want to be beater. Besides, hitting lethal balls at people that are hundreds of feet in the air sounds good to me," I laughed.
"You're not supposed to directly hit them," Sirius pointed out, but chuckling nonetheless.
"Yeah, but I'm a Slytherin. We're expected to play dirty. You know quidditch matches wouldn't be the same without the Slytherin arse holes being total jerks out there. Us snakes put on an entertaining yet infuriating show. Besides, I've got nothing to lose if I play dirty, pretty much the whole school hates me already," I said, putting a jar of frog eggs on the shelf.
"The whole school doesn't hate you," Sirius tried to reason with me.
"Ha. No. The whole school pretty much hates me. Everyone not in Slytherin hates me because I am a Slytherin. But then everyone, excluding Reg of course, in Slytherin hates me because I'm a Potter. It's a lose-lose situation," I explained.
"I don't hate you. James doesn't hate you either," Sirius said, looking me in the eyes.
"Well thank you then. But I'm pretty sure James hates me, he likes to remind me all the time," I said gritting my teeth.
"He could never really hate you though. It's hard to hate your brother or sister."
"Tell me about it," I muttered under my breath.
"What was that?" Damn, he has good hearing.
"Well you're right, it's hard to hate your siblings. No matter how many times James can tell me he hates me, I could never bring myself to tell him I hate him. I never could hate him, he's my family. Me and him, we used to be best friends," I said quietly. When did I get so emotional?
"I don't think he hates you, I think he's just frustrated by how you could be from the same family but so different. I think he misses you too. Sometimes he talks about you, he tells me how how close you two were when you were little, but then everything changed when you got sorted."
"I don't know…I don't know if I could trust him again. I tried to be a good little sister to him when I first got sorted. I tried to apologize, I begged my parents to send me to Beauxbatons so I wouldn't be in Slytherin. But I guess I wasn't good enough for him, because he just ignored me and told me I was a failure and an embarrassment," I concluded. Holy shit, I never have these heart felt conversations with anyone but Reg. Why the hell am I getting all mushy emotional with Sirius?
"I think you should talk to him."
"Ha, no. I've tried that before, and I just get yelled at," I turned and put away some more potions ingredients. "Me and you are a lot alike." I thought out loud. Shit.
"Hmm?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Well, I mean, we both have dysfunctional families, and we both don't get along with our brothers. Your best friends with my brother, and I'm best friends with yours. But we're different too. You have a second family, my family, that loves you like there own child, and ¾'s of Hogwarts loves you. I have nothing but Reg, but I don't know if I'd have it any other way, because I guess if wouldn't of disappointed everyone, I would of never met Regulus, and me and him, we need each other, because we're all that each other have." The words flowed out of my mouth like a broken water fountain. I couldn't stop myself. It was disgusting. Merlin's shiny beard, I've never said anything like that to anyone. Not even Reggie.
"I…never thought about it like that," Sirius said, staring at me in awe.
"A lot of people don't. Hell, sometimes even I don't. But that might just be because I don't think a lot to begin with…" Sirius laughed that bark like laugh.
"Thanks for listening. You're the first person, besides Reg, to listen to me. It's nice being heard."
"Thanks for opening my eyes," He whispered. I looked him in the eyes, and wow I just noticed what a pretty shade of grey they are. I watched as he leaned in towards me, and I leaned in towards him, my thoughts blurred.
"Mr. Black, Miss. Potter, you can go back to your common rooms." Slughorn's voice cut into my hazy thoughts. Damn him, he has the worst timing. I mean, what? I pulled away quickly.
"Well…umm bye Sirius," I said as I tried to keep from hyperventilating. I got out of there as fast as I could. Damn Slughorn and his bad timing, and damn Sirius and his pretty eyes.
Author's Note!(:
OOOOOOO Jade/Sirius are heating up(; So I love you reviewers, I really do And I would like to give an extra special shout out to lcd619, because she give's me lots of ideas for my chapters, and she is great at reviewing(: Happy new year loves! 2011(:
Author's Note 2.0
Jesus tapdancing Christ. I am sorry I left this story. The reboot is for real this time, I've been editing all day. I have to clean up past chapters before I write anything, I need to remember where I left off. I am sorry for everything.