"Jade, we have to talk," Regulus said seriously. We were walking around somewhere in the dungeons. I think we were near the kitchens.
"Yeah, what's up?" I asked casually, though I already knew what was coming.
"Explain what's going on with Pacheco." I looked down to the floor and then back at Reg.
"What's there to tell?" I asked. His face darkened.
"Jade," He said, and I knew I had to get to the point. Luckily, I had already thought of my lie. Which actually wasn't a lie, it just wasn't all of the truth.
"Okay. I'm dating him because I just…need someone to distract me." It wasn't a total lie...I'm not really dating Derek, but I do need a distraction. A distraction from Sirius.
"Distract you from what?" Regulus asked suspiciously.
"Everything! Potions, my bitchy roommates, and learning occlumency…" I rambled off a bunch of things.
"But why him? You could date anyone else! But noooooooooooo you have to go and date that tosser."
"I choose Derek because well, I went on a date with him before and he wasn't that bad. Yes a little clingy, but I can change that."
"You at least need to name your future children after me," Regulus laughed, breaking the seriousness.
"Prongs I told you, the kitchen is this way." We stopped laughing and listened closely.
"This wouldn't of been a problem if you would of brought the map!" I heard my brother say crossly.
"It's James and Sirius." Regulus said.
"Thank you Captain Obvious." I replied.
"You're welcome, Lieutenant Sarcasm." Came his reply. Our brothers' voices were getting closer. No no no no no. I can't see Sirius. Not now. I haven't talked to him since we kissed in that classroom. I've happily been avoiding him. Well, you couldn't really say happily, I've been pretty miserable since the whole ordeal.
"Jade!" I heard my brother yell from behind me. I rolled my eyes and kept walking forward. James sounded angry, per usual.
"I don't want to talk to them." I muttered to Reg. He nodded and we kept walking.
"Hey! Jade!" James yelled once more. Once again, I ignored him. "Jaiden Opal Po-" I whirled around before he could finish.
WHAM!
"Awww shit," I heard Reg say in the background. My fist connected with my brother's jaw. I don't know if it was broken or not, but honestly, I could care less.
"What...the...bloody...hell?" He gasped out, holding his face in his hand.
"I am one hundred percent sure I have said to never, ever call me that! Who do you think you are, thinking you can call by that name? I have made it clear since I was six years old I hate that name! No one in their right mind would call me that wretched name. No one! Not even Voldemort himself would even dare say it!" I yelled at him, my face full of outrage. Silence fell over all four of us, well minus Regulus, who was trying not to laugh.
"I'm your brother, I think if anyone can call you by your actual name, then I believe it should be me." James said. Stupid, stupid stupid! If he was smart, he would of apologized by now and left me alone.
"Let's go." I said irritably, starting to turn toward Reg.
"Wait!" James cried. I rolled my eyes and looked at him.
"What."
"Why are you dating…him?" I wanted to laugh about how James didn't use his name, but I didn't. Awkwardness settled over the conversation. I stole a glance at Sirius, who hadn't said a word this entire time.
"Because I like him James. Why are you dating Evans? Because you like her. It's kind of obvious." Sarcasm oozed off of every word. I looked at Sirius, the hurt was present in his eyes.
"But what do you see in him!" James pushed further.
"I have to say Jade, I agree with Potter. What do you see in him?" Regulus agreed with James. The world is ending, Reg just agreed with James.
"Well I don't care what you two think." Reg looked taken back. I gave him a look saying we can talk later.
I looked at Sirius once more and I swear, I could have melted. No, not because I fancied the bloke (just because I snogged doesn't mean I like him). I felt as though I was going to melt because of the guilt. Pretending it never happened isn't going to work; I'll have to talk to him. Sirius' eyes bore into mine, the hurt transferring from him to me. I can't take it. I need to get out of here.
"Come on Reg." I started walking towards the common room, and even though I wanted to turn around and say to Sirius:
"Let's pretend that never happened. It was a mistake. A lovely one, but still a mistake. I never meant to hurt you, understand that. How about we go back to hating each other, like in the beginning of the year? Yeah? Sounds good I think. Oh, and I don't really like Derek. I'm dating him because I'm being blackmailed."
I wanted to, but I didn't.
It was late; probably past curfew. I walked into the common room with Regulus, we had just finished studying in the library. Well, he was studying, I was still trying to find that book about unicorn rabies. I'm going to find that book again. The Slytherin common room is creepy in general, but when it's empty, it's even creepier. It's so incredibly cliché too. Black leather, skulls, green flames. How does anyone take us seriously?
"Jade." Derek said stepping out of the shadows. It was really creepy. In fact, it was so creepy it made me scream and jump onto Reg.
My scream probably woke up half of Slytherin house. Of course, no one comes down to the common room when there could be possibly murder happening. That's Slytherin for you. I started to laugh. This was ridiculous. Here I was, Reg holding me bridal style because Derek freaking Pacheco. All I could do was laugh at the absurdity.
"Is she drunk?" Derek asked Regulus. You know…I could go for a drink right now. I thought to myself, which just made me laugh harder.
"No, she was with me, she's not drunk." Reg assured Derek. I buried my face into Regulus' shoulder, but you could still hear my muffled giggles. Reg dropped me and my feet landed on the floor with a thud. I continued to cling to Regulus as I shook with laughter.
"Where were you two?" Derek narrowed his eyes, glaring at us. Did he really not trust Regulus, his very own quidditch team captain?
"It's not a question of where we were, you should be asking what we were doing. Alas, I have the answer. We were having a super sexy threesome with Snape." Reg busted up laughing and I just completely lost it. I sat on the ground and laughed. It felt good to laugh like this again. Derek's face burned bright red. I remember last year, Slytherin house had a poll, and Snape got voted most likely to be the 40 year old virgin. Wait…
"SNAPE HAS A GIRLFRIEND!" I cried, and I erupted into more giggles.
"What?" Reg and Derek said in unison, their jaws hitting the floor.
"Yeah!" I nodded, wiping the tears of laughter from my face. I can't believe I forgot to tell Regulus. I took a deep breath and began to explain.
"Okay so a few days ago I was looking for Jaws, because I haven't seen her in forever. So while on the hunt for that little fluffy monster, I heard a crash come from a broom closet. Knowing my cat's history, I thought there was chance she was in there, so I opened the door. What I am about to tell you might make you cry blood and your ears might fall off." I took a dramatic pause
"I looked in the broom closet and to my horror I see Snape and this little third year. I believe her name is Jasmine. Umm…Bielec I think it is. She has really curly blonde hair. Anyway! So I walk in and she's on her knees and his pants are dropped-" I gagged at the memory while looks of horror crossed over the boys' faces.
"And I think you get the picture. I. Am. Scarred. For. Life." I shuttered and swallowed the vomit that had come up during the recollection of the event.
"Merlin, that's revolting..." Regulus said, disgust filling his voice. "I guess he realized he couldn't get any action with anyone around his age…"
"Bielec, yeah I know her. Well not her, but I know the family. Her older brother is a seventh year," Derek said.
"Sooo…" I said, silence settling over us awkwardly.
"Oh, Jade, you're going to Hogsmeade with me tomorrow, right?" Derek asked. Well, more like threatened. I'm pretty sure Reg noticed too. I don't want to go with him, I couldn't handle another trip to Madame Pudifoot's. To think I kissed this guy by my own choice, what was wrong with me?
"Umm no, I already have plans to go with Regulus." I lied. Well actually, it wasn't a total lie, Reg and I had talked about going tomorrow, do some last minute Christmas shopping.
"But I'm sure Reg would understand." Derek said, a small smirk forming on his mouth. I stood up, ready to tell him.
"Listen." I grabbed his collar and dragged him down to my eye level. I kept my voice low, so I was sure Regulus couldn't hear me.
"You can force me to be your girlfriend, you can make me hug and kiss you. You can take away my freedom, but the one thing you can't take from me is Regulus. Do you understand? I will do anything else for you, but you will not take him away from me." I let go of his collar, and glared at him. His face was dark, his lips pressed tightly together.
"Okay babe, whatever you want. Now give me a goodnight kiss." I rolled my eyes. I've got to have a talk with two certain people. I have to end this.
I woke up late, cursing myself for missing the sunrise. I've got to stop staying up so late. I pulled open my bed's drawings and so all my roommates buzzing around, getting ready.
I padded over to the bathroom and showered quickly and brushed my teeth. What to do with my hair? I ran a brush through the knotty curls. The green highlights were faded, but still visible. I pulled my hair into two floppy pigtails. I got dressed in jeans and a sweater, nothing special. It was just Regulus after all.
"Ugh! Where is it?" I muttered angrily to myself. I was digging through my trunk, looking for my necklace. "Screw it! Accio owl necklace!" I pointed my wand at the trunk. The necklace zoomed out and landed in my hand. It was the necklace Reg bought me in third year. It was either silver or nickel; I couldn't tell. It had an owl on it and a small envelope that had an even smaller red gem in the middle.
"It's your Hogwarts letter, 'cause if you hadn't gotten that letter then you wouldn't of met me, and if you hadn't of met me, your life would of have no purpose! Happy birthday Jade!"
I remember when Reg gave me this. He thought it was sooo clever. I can't disagree, it was spectacular. My best friend loves to buy jewelry. He's a jewelry kind of guy. He likes to go shopping for it. You know…he does like to go shoe shopping too. I wonder about that boy's sexuality sometimes, he hasn't had a girlfriend since Rosie Clearwater. But he doesn't even count her. I guess they didn't really date. Maybe more like, friends with benefits? I'll ask him about it sometime. I put on my necklace and headed down to the great hall.
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I was walking alone when he snuck up on me. I have to remember to not walk alone anymore.
"Jade! Wait, Jade! Please, can we just talk!" Sirius pleaded from behind me. I turned around slowly to face him. I knew I had to talk to him, but I didn't want to do it now.
"I'd really rather not…" I bit my lip, avoiding eye contact. I don't want that melting sensation again. It was gross.
"Jade! No, we're talking now." His demeanor changed quickly from pleading puppy to angry pit bull.
"Fine. But where?" I was not going into an empty classroom with him again. Not after what happened last time.
"Follow me." I obeyed, though I don't know why. I followed him until I found myself right near the room of requirement. I'm wasting my breakfast for this?
"This isn't much better than an empty classroom…" I muttered.
"I'm doing my best okay?" He snapped, his face distraught.
"Jeez, okay..sorry." I've only ever seen Sirius like this once before. That was when he ran away from home two years ago. He was a mess that day. Regulus was a bigger mess though, he owled me that day, and you could tell he was hurting just through his writing. We walked past the room three times, and the door appeared. I walked in and sat down in one of the two arm chairs.
"So…" I looked around, the room filling with silence.
"You've been avoiding me." Sirius broke the silence.
"Yeah. I would have been worried if you hadn't noticed." I said sarcastically.
"But why? You said that day…that you said you liked it." He looked defeated. What happened to the confident, arrogant, Slytherin hating, Sirius I've known my whole life?
"Well…I mean at the time, I guess I did like it. Sirius you have to understand, it was a mistake." I said quietly.
"A mistake?" He repeated dumbly, blinking.
"Yes." I sighed. "I didn't mean for things to happen the way they did. I don't know why I kissed you. Hormones? I don't know. I think I did it to shut you up…" No that wasn't it. It's because I wanted to. But I won't admit to that.
"So it meant nothing to you? Nothing at all?" Sirius ran a hand frustratedly through his hair. Did it mean nothing to me?
"No." The answer spilled out of my mouth before I could lie and say yes.
"Then why are you avoiding me!"
"Because if anyone ever found out then I would die. James and Regulus would try and murder both of us. But they would kind of cancel each other out, because even though Reg would be pissed beyond belief at me, he would still love me and he wouldn't let James curse the living shit out of me, and same for James and you…I'm rambling sorry." I blushed a little bit.
"But Jade…you…so, you want to pretend that never happened?"
"Well…yeah a little bit. Okay so a lot of bit." Sirius' eyes filled with that same hurt and I swear I just melted again. I should get this checked out by a healer, no one should have melting sensations this often.
"Oh…okay." He sounded almost disappointed. He just looked so pathetic. I had to do something...no do NOT kiss him again, Jade. Don't make this mistake again.
"Sirius, we need to figure out what...this...is."
"So let's talk."
"Jade Opal! You better not be blowing me off!" My pocket screamed. Shit, Regulus. I completely forgot about him and our trip to Hogsmeade. I held a finger up to my lips and went "shhhh!" to Sirius. I whipped out my mirror and looked at my best friend.
"I'm not! I'm sorry Reggie, I'm a little preoccupied." I pleaded with him. His face had a frown, but his eyes were smiling. I knew I was off the hook.
"Where are you anyway?" He questioned. Crap…lying time.
"I'm making love to Filtch's cat. Harder, Mrs. Norris! HARDER!" I cried, grinning. Sirius choked back a laugh and buried his face in his hands. The smile in Reg's eyes disappeared.
"Who are you with?" He asked seriously.
"Derek.." I said lamely, knowing he wouldn't believe me.
"Lies. Tell me later and get your arse down here." He said and all I saw was my own reflection in the mirror. He's pissed at me now. I can tell.
"I've got to go Sirius…" I started to stand up.
"Wait. Just answer one question?" He asked.
"Yeah, go ahead."
"Why are you dating Derek?"
"I…reasons." I mumbled and booked it out of there. I've got to stop running away from my problems.
"So where were you?" Regulus demanded as we walked around Hogsmeade.
"Room of requirement." It wasn't a lie. It just wasn't the whole truth.
"What's going on with you Jade? You're so distant lately. Tell me what's going on. Talk to me." He spoke gently and it was right then that I realized I have to tell Reg what happened…
But first I want to eat.
"Can we eat lunch first? I didn't have breakfast." I asked. He rolled his eyes at me and we started heading towards The Three Broomsticks.
"You and your stomach," Reg complained, but smiling. We entered the crowded pub and fought our way to a table near the middle of the bar.
"I can't even hear myself think in here!" I shouted to Regulus.
"What?" He shouted back. "I'll go get drinks." He disappeared off into the crowd. I sat at the table alone, thinking. Yes a dangerous pastime I know, but I have to do it from time to time. I heard singing coming from a table that was a few down from mine. I looked over and of course it would be my brother and his friends. Sirius looked so different around them. He was arrogant, cocky, confident, and charming. But that wasn't the Sirius I saw this morning. No, I saw the mushy, pathetic, sad little boy, Sirius this morning.
BOOM! POW! CRASH! WHAP! THUMP! SHATTER! KAPOW!
A Death Eater attack while Hogwarts students are at Hogsmeade. How cliché. Maybe I should take this seriously.
"Everyone down! If we see any of you stand up, we will curse on the spot." His voice boomed over everything. The pub was dead silent. Some spells flew at first, but eventually everything settled, except a quiet, panicked murmur through the crowd. Where was Reg?
"Jade…Jade!" My pocket whispered. I pulled out the mirror.
"Where are you?" I whispered back.
"Don't talk. Disillusion yourself and wait until you see me, okay?" I pulled out my wand and muttered the spell. I watched myself disappear and I'm sure some people around me did too. If they blow my cover, I'll castrate each and everyone of them. Even if they are female. I waited for Reg to appear. It's kind of surprising. You would think the great, courageous, Gryffindors would be retaliating right now. Nope. Just sitting there like the cowards they are. Regulus appeared out of no where.
"Jade?" He whispered so it was barely audible.
"Reggie…" I said equally as quiet.
"You!" The main Death Eater boomed at Reg, wand pointed.
"Curse me and there will be severe consequences, Mulciber." Reg had his wand out too. Regulus took a step forward, I followed him.
"Watch it, punk." The Death Eater named Mulciber growled. Regulus scoffed.
"Excuse me, do you know who you are talking to? I am Regulus Black. Heir to the ancient and most noble house of Black. You dare threaten me? Do you know who my family is? I'm sure you do. We are one of the Dark Lord's most trusted family's, if not the most trusted one. Now I suggest you let me carry on my way, or I will make sure the Dark Lord will hear about this ordeal." Regulus sounded so prim and proper. His face full of arrogance and an "I'm better than you" look. It was kind of scary how easily he could change from the funny, easy going, Regulus to the, I'm a pureblood and wizarding royalty Regulus.
"What if you go and run off to tell Dumbledore about this?" Mulciber questioned.
"You question where my allegiance is? I am offended. I think you and I both know where I stand in this war. If you are uncertain where my loyalty lays, then you can ask the Dark Lord himself." Regulus glared at him.
"Y-yes Master Black. I apologize for any inconvenience." Mulciber lowered his wand and Reg and I walked out of there.
"Stay disillusioned and walk in my footprints." He said quietly to me. Death Eaters were patrolling the streets. Occasionally they stopped him, and he gave them the same speech he gave Mulciber. But most of them knew who he was. I followed him until we reached a little bar called the Hog's Head.
"Why are we here? Shouldn't we be going back to the castle?" I asked.
"Yeah, this is a shortcut." He shrugged. I swear, he knew more shortcuts and secret passages than the Marauders.
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Author's Note!
Woo! I updated faster than last time! I'm pretty proud of myself! I believe next chapter we might bring back the hair puller, Caitlin Russell (heheh) and possibly Snape's bitch, Jasmine Bielec. Hahaha, so thank you reviewers! And I would like to dedicate this chapter to YellinForRebelling! You were my 100th reviewer and I did not shut up about having 100 reviwes for a week! (: I want to get a shirt that says "I 3 Reviwers!" Well I don't know. Oh and Happy Birthday Gerard Way (4/9/77), incase there is any chance you are reading my fic. If you are than I will probably pass out from shock/joy and my friend would be incredibly JEALOUS! :D So I was thinking about starting another story. It would linked to this story, but it would be more about Jade's fifth year, with her, and my other really awesome OC I dreamed up a while ago(: It would only be a few chapters, not as many as this one. Here's a preview:
"Regulus! No!" I yelled at him as he opened Jaws' cage. The fluffy monster that is Jaws leaped out of her crate and ran out of the compartment. I blame Reg for leaving the door open too.
"Oops?" Regulus smirked. This is him getting revenge on me, I just know it. I knew I shouldn't of set his hand on fire…
"Ugh!" I cried, storming out of the compartment. I spotted Jaws, running down the train corridor (do trains have corridors? I have no idea.) . I whipped out my wand.
"Accio Jaws!" The cat started flying towards me. I didn't think that would actually work! I watched the orange mass of cat came flying towards me. Then I saw him.
It was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on! Uhg! What was his name again? Umm…ummm…come on Jade! I know he's in Slytherin. He was on the quidditch team…
Some people say Sirius Black is the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome. They are wrong. Jonas Hastings is the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome.
FWHAM!
Jaws collided with my face. I peeled her off as she hissed and scratched at me.
"Bad Jaws! Bad! Be nice to momma!" I scolded her, but it was no use. Jaws was a wild beast, that couldn't be tamed. May as well make her Regulus' problem. I threw her into the compartment and slammed the door shut.
"Jade! What the hell!" I heard Regulus complain, along with more hissing from Jaws. I looked back at Jonas…Merlin he was so attractive! He looks like he's getting closer. God his face could have been carved by angels. Shit, he is getting closer!
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Author's Note 2.0
So close to being able to write new chapters.