DISCLAIMER: THE WORLD OF HARRY POTTER BELONGS TO JK. ROWLING.
"Laura … Laura...wake up…" whispered Stephanie. It was 2 AM and the girls were supposed to meet up with Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Common Room, because apparently someone was trying to kill Harry through the Triwizard tournament, and so they were trying to figure out who. Laura and Stephanie, still in their pajamas tip toed downstairs to the Common Room where the trio was waiting for them.
" Where is he?" said Harry anxiously.
" Where's who?" asked Stephanie.
" I asked you to come down here because Sirius is supposed to talk to us."
At the mention of Sirius's name Laura's heart started beating faster. It was so loud she thought everyone would be able to hear it, although in truth no one paid it any attention. What's the matter with me, why am I so nervous?
Upon seeing Laura's confused expression, Stephanie glanced her a questioned look, but before she could inquire further, a head popped in the fireplace.
" Harry are you there!"
" Yeah I'm here, and so is everyone else. Listen you need to answer me a few questions, because i..."
" Everyone's here? Oh so I see. Hello Hermione, Ron, Stephanie… Hello Laura." When he said Laura's name he look rite at her with a certain longing only Laura was able to see, before Harry resumed with his conversation.
In a half hour Sirius had to go, and he had answered all of Harry's questions about his father, while the rest of the gang watched apprehensively in silence. Before disappearing from the fire, Sirius gave Laura one last look as everyone had turned around to go to bed.
The next morning, well into the month of June, with the second task having gone by pretty well, the girls were in the Great Hall eating breakfast on a Friday morning.
" Annam who are you writing to?" asked Stephanie.
" No one…no one…hold on let me finish my letter. "
"Laura! Come on tell me!" whined Stephanie.
" Ok ok, you big baby, if you must know I am writing to Oliver, because he is supposed to come with us to Hogesmeade tomorrow, and since I know you are bubbling with questions, me and Oliver hit it off pretty well at the Ball, all thanks to your dear boyfriend, and so we have been writing back and forth ever since. "
Stephanie sighed and hugged Laura with a quirky little voice saying, " HOW ROMANTIC!"
Laura couldn't help let a small giggle escape from her mouth before Fred and George made their grand entrance as usual. Laura looked up from her parchment to see the twins, but instead saw a handsome blond haired boy smirking a sexy smirk in her general direction. Ok the whole Malfoy thing is getting weird. Note to self: must find out what's going on.
" Hello hello, Oh fairest princess of them all." Swooped down Fred encircling Stephanie in a very affectionate hug.
" And good morrow to thee my dear sir." Replied Stephanie smiling a soft kind smile only reserved to Fred. Every time she looked at him with that certain smile he couldn't help but grin really big and hold her in his arms. That smile, his smile, was what made him get up in the morning.
Laura couldn't voice her questions about Malfoy in front of Fred, but she had to ask someone, so she decided to ask George, because after all they were best friends.
" George, I need to talk to you… we need to escape the two love birds." Whispered Laura at the table.
" Umm…ok …follow me. " and with that George stood up and simple ran out the door of the Great Hall screaming " WE'RE GOING STREAKING!"
Laura laughed so hard; she could hardly breathe, and got up, but simply walked out of the hall with the excuse that she had forgotten something in her room.
" That was beautiful George, as always..."
" Why thank you, thank you very much. Now then, what's on your mind my little midget?" George always loved to tease Laura because he knew how much it annoyed her, but today all Laura did was elbow him in the ribs and say," It's about Malfoy."
" What…about…him..!"
" Well you have to promise not to tell Fred first."
" That's a very tough thing to ask of me…well ok… because you are like family, so it would be the same as if I was promising something to Fred. Ok ok now spill."
" Well I just have been noticing him looking at us a lot, especially…" Laura gave George a worried look unsure of his reaction if he found out," …Stephanie."
"…" George just looked a bit dumbfounded and then laughed.
" What! Its not funny." Said Laura obviously irritated.
" Well it's just that he always looks at the Gryffindors with discontent and the fact that she is not a pure blood, the fact that he hates my family, and the fact that she is pretty is probably angering him. But don't worry about it, he probably is just angry at the fact that I am so damn sexy!"
Since George wasn't worry, then Laura was not going to worry either, and relieved she and George went to their class.
The next day was another Hogesmeade weekend, well only for the girls and the Weasley twins, because they were planning to sneak out of the school to meet Oliver even though the actual Hogesmeade trip wasn't scheduled for another 2 weeks. The girls awoke bright and early much to their displeasure and went in the common room to meet the boys, but they were surprised that they had awoken earlier then the guys. When Fred finally came down with bed hair that made him look even more damn hott, Stephanie blushed, and so did Laura, but only because Laura upon seeing Fredhad imagined what Sirius would look like climbing out of her bed.
They checked that Filch was nowhere around, and made their way through the passage way and onto the village.
" Hey there, I have been waiting for like half an hour." Greeted Oliver happily while encircling Laura in a great big hug…and Laura was sure he smelled her hair…
" Yeah well mate, we still got to escape that evil cat of Mrs. Norris." Exclaimed George while patting Oliver on the back in a manly way.
" So what do you say we get something to eat, cuz we had to skip breakfast to sneak out and I for one am starved." Said Lee.
The five of them made their way to the pub for something to eat, laughed and talked about the good old days when Oliver was at Hogwarts. Under the table Oliver would give Laura's hand a little squeeze which made her smile a little embarrassed smile every time at this show of affection. All of a sudden outside the pub she heard. " Get away you filthy dog, stop rummaging around the garbage!" the owner of the pub tried to shoo away a great big black dog. Laura looked up at Stephanie in alert, but all Stephanie could do was stare right back, because they hadn't told they boys about their new dangerous liaisons and didn't know how they would take the fact that the girls had been sneaking out without them, and pretty much lied to them. That would have to be a bridge they crossed when they came to it.
" I'll be right back, I have to go to the bathroom." Said Laura to try and go outside. The gang thought that was a normal request and said nothing of it.
She made her way outside through the back door, and went down the street to catch a glimpse of the black dog the owner was yelling at before. She saw it turn the corner and ran to catch up to it. " Hey wait!" the dog stopped, tilted it's head and opened it's eyes in wonder. It mentioned to Laura to follow it as it went down an alleyway, and transformed into SIRIUS BLACK.
Laura's heart started beating faster. Whether it was because she had ran a little or because he looked so incredibly sexy who knows.
" Sirius, what are you doing here?"
He cleared his throat, unsure of what to say. He clearly hadn't planned on seeing her again, because he hadn't decided what he felt for her yet. They were both standing opposite each other, unsure of what to do, when after what seemed like forever but was only 5 seconds he replied,
" How have you been Laura? I was supposed to meet Dumbledore at the school tonight so I made a head start and was looking for food. "
He was a bit too skinny Laura thought as she took a good look at him, and looked very tired, but he still managed to look good. She didn't want to look into his eyes although the was trying to get her to look into his, because she knew if she did her stomach would get butterflies and her cheeks would her embarrassingly warm.
" Well, I am here with Stephanie, Fred, George, Lee and…Oliver…we decided to take a fun day."
Sirius clenched his fists and only said, "oh"
He took an tentative step towards her, but at that precise moment she turned to leave, saying " I better get back, they might start getting worried about me. Probably thinking I fell in the toilet. " Before she was around the corner, he took the courage to grab her shoulder, and as his touch sent shivers down her arm she turned around to look in his stormy eyes. He looked down at her with warmth and affection, his hand still on her shoulder as his thumb made small circles on her arm, making Laura all warm and tingly.
" Take care of yourself. " that was all he said and they looked at each other, as Laura bit her lip, both out of nervousness and to not let a small moan escape as his hand made her go weak with desires for his touch. As she bit her lip, his eyes looked down at them, and he quickly removed his hand, because if he left it there longer he didn't know if he would be able to control his want for her sensuous lips.
" You too." Laura replied in a soft whisper, and went back to the pub.
"What happened to you Laura, was the public bathroom scary?" teased George.
Laura, still flushed with emotion tried to appear normal and therefore replied with " you know I hate public restrooms, they are soo disgusting. " they all laughed and then took advantage of their day in town. All day they laughed, went to the joke shop, and all the time, Oliver would casually put his arm around Laura, of whisper how beautiful she looked in her ear. She would respond with happiness, but all the while she was with Oliver, she kept imagining herself with Sirius.
On top of the hill, looking down on the village, Sirius saw Oliver's display of affection and scowled angrily, but when he saw Laura hold his hand too he felt and emotion close to rage. After all, who would ever learn to love an ex-convict?
SIRIUS'S POV:
DAMN HIM! WHAT THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS! I should be down there holding her! ME not him! If only I wasn't wanted by the law. Oh Laura, what affect you have on me, I can't remember ever feeling this way. No power on earth, if I can't love her. No passion could reach me. No lesson could teach me. How I could have love her and made her love me too. If I can't love her, then who?
BACK TO NORMAL:
On their way back to the castle Stephanie whispered to Laura, " so, did you see him?"
" Yeah, it was snuffles. He said he had to meet Dumbledore that's why he was here."
Stephanie thought that was an appropriate answer and didn't ask any more questions. Meanwhile, Laura kept thinking about his hand on her shoulder, his thumb on her skin, his eyes bearing into hers… the more the thought about it, that hard she would blush and try to bite back a smile. Stephanie noticed and said, " Well, I guess someone likes Oliver." All of a sudden, Laura started laughing uncontrollably, to the point that she couldn't breathe until Fred snapped back, " SHHH Laura, we are going to get caught!"
They hung around in the common room till around 11PM and just chatted, and played cards. Stephanie was really good at cards, and very soon, her and Lee were having a full out war, both of them being the best they kept asking of a rematch.
" You know Fred, your woman gets a bit scary sometimes." Said George as he watched Stephanie and Lee almost tickle each other to death.
Stephanie looked up at George's comment and said, " I ain't his woman!"
George just laughed, and since Stephanie was talking, Lee quickly withdrew the ace from the top deck to cheat without her noticing, but Laura noticed and laughed.
Fred simply stated with a mischievous smile on his face, " oh yes you are. You are my woman and no one else's" Stephanie stood up, swayed her hips as she walked over to Fred " oh so I am YOUR woman am I?" she said seductively. She slowly straddled him on the couch, then gave him a very passionate kiss as the rest of the gang made retching noise with the occasional 'get a room'… well actually that was only Laura, because the other two boys were watching mouths open. When Stephanie slowly sucked on is bottom lip and released the kiss, all Fred could say was " ummhmmm" Stephanie then giggled and said, " I think you are MY man."
And then got up to go finish the card game with Lee, as Fred was still in shock. They continued to play until Stephanie found out he was cheating, and they chased each other all around the common room, ending up in a crazy tag game with George, Laura and Fred. By the time they went to bed they had laughed so hard their abs hurt.
" Goodnight guys, I'm going to bed." Said Laura first, followed by Lee, and George who all made their way to their dorms.
Stephanie also got up and walked towards the girls' staircase, but Fred abruptly stopped her, pinning her against the wall, tracing hott kisses in the base of her neck. If Fred hadn't been holding her against he wall her knees might have given away. He continued exciting her until he reached her lips and she roughly grabbed his hair as he gave her a commanding kiss that required all the passion he could muster. He then removed his lips from hers, and with this hot breath against her ear softly said, " I guess we will just have to own each other. Good night my love." He smirked at her dazed expression and went to his dorms. Stephanie's hear was still beating so fast she stumbled up the stairs, thankful that he had stopped when he did, because otherwise she would have completely lost herself. Laura pretended to be asleep when Stephanie came in, which eventually resulted in her really falling asleep.
In the middle of the night, an intruder came into the Gryffindor girl's tower. He had dark black hair, and blazing grey eyes. He went to the sixth years room and watched Laura sleep as her steady breathing made her chest rise and fall, and the moonlight caressed her face. Sirius Black wasn't sure if she would have been asleep, a part of him wished she wasn't because he needed to talk to her, but another part of him was grateful she wasn't awake so he could sort out his feelings. When he had come up to the room, he was furious and angry and although unsure of what to say to her, he felt the need to make her get away from Oliver, and secret part of him wanted to touch her skin again. But upon seeing her sleeping so peacefully, all his jealousy faded away, and his hear felt like it was going to explode. All he wanted to do was lean down and kiss her and hold her forever. But all he did was leave her a single red rose by her pillow with a note that had a single paw print as he departed into the night.