A/N: First of all, I have a huge thank you to make. To my wonderful, awesome and amazing editor……..drum roll …….RACHNA! Thanks so much for helping me with ideas, reviews (lol), and, of course, editing. I don't think Rachna understood what was going on when she edited so I'm guessing you might not as well so I have explained it. I know this is a bit confusing but basically it's meant to be like all the parts of chapter 5 follow on from Chapter 4. So Part 1 continued from the Lily and James bit in Chapter 4. And now Part 2 follows on from Sirius's bit. Get it? And the next part will continue from Remus's part. I hope you're not too confused and enjoy. You're probably also tired of hearing (well, technically reading) this but please please review, I want to know what you thought and don't hesitate to tell me if there's anything I could improve. Ok, I'll shut up now. Read, enjoy, review.
Chapter 5- part 2: Trust Me
Sirius dived after Kaytlin trying to catch her before she hit the ground but he was too late. He kneeled beside her motionless body and called out her name desperately.
"Kayt! Kayt! KAYTLIN!" he shouted and accidentally jabbed his wand in her eye.
"Oops. I'm sorry. I was just trying to do that thing that Dumbledore does you know. I think its something like-", he jabbed her in the chest this time, "I'm sorry. It just doesn't-.Oh! I forgot. He says something as well doesn't he." Sirius babbled uncontrollably. "Oh yeah! I know it. Ok then…umm…here we go." he mumbled. "Rennervate" he said but nothing happened. He slapped himself on the head and picked up his wand which lay forgotten by his side. "Rennervate" he said again, this time pointing his wand at her. Slowly, Kaytlin emitted a groan and opened her eyes, with a lot of effort. Sirius let out a sigh of relief and asked Kaytlin how she was.
"I think I've broken my leg" she said gradually and her guess was evident when she tried moving it. "And I feel a bit…..fuzzy and disorientated. And I feel bloody wet and cold" she added as she took in her surroundings.
"Oh yeah. I totally forgot about this" he laughed gesturing up at the sky, which answered him with a huge rumble.
Sirius waved his wand to create some sort of protective shelter, which was invisible, to stop them from getting wet, and then he put a drying charm on Kayt and himself.
"Don't worry Kayt your going to be fine ok. I'll take you to the hospital wing and Madame Pomfrey will sort you out in no time." comforted Sirius as he took her into his arms and carried her back to school.
"Sirius." said Kayt abruptly, "I feel like I'm going to-" she leaned over his shoulder and retched.
"Oh Merlin. Kayt we're nearly there ok. You'll be fine" he shouted as he ran towards the hospital wing.
Silent tears formed in Kayt's eyes as unexpectedly her father's last words to her echoed in her ears.
'You make everyone unhappy. You've ruined everything for me. It's all your fault you useless little cow.' Her father had shouted when he had lost his job. She had just been playing in his office. Kayt hadn't meant to set fire to all his work; she had no idea how it happened. Soon her parents divorced and she was sent to live with her grand-parents until 'things settled down'. But she knew the real reason. No one wanted her around because she was bad luck. See, even now the lightning bolt had been so close to striking Sirius.
Sirius charged into the hospital wing, shouting like a madman for Madame Pomfrey. "Kayt got hit by lightning and she's broken her leg" he panted breathlessly.
"Ok, young man. Calm down, I'll sort her out." she replied bustling of to her office to gather what she needed.
Sirius bent down towards Kaytlin who was now lying in a bed and whispered in her ear, although she seemed unconscious. "You'll be fine. Trust me".
"Ok now Mr. Black. Give her some space. Clear off for now, come back later." huffed Madame Pomfrey.
"Alright Poppy, but take good care of her" replied Sirius playfully taking one last look at Kayt before leaving.
"He'll break more than enough hearts, mark my words" muttered Madame Pomfrey to no one in particular. However, Kayt, who had somehow managed to cling onto consciousness, said so quietly that no one heard her, "I trust him".
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Kaytlin was fine and was allowed to go that night. She left at 1 in the morning so that she wouldn't run into Sirius. Kaytlin trekked up to the Common Room and found Sirius sleeping in one of the chairs. She allowed herself a small smile at the surprisingly innocent look on his face. A lock of his dark chocolate coloured hair fell gracefully on to his face. His handsome face had hardly changed since when they'd first met, apart from the way his jaw line was stronger and his similarly dark chocolate coloured eyes were more serious lately.
Kayt would never forget that train journey in their first year. She had been sitting with Lily in a compartment. They had met when Kayt had accidentally dropped her trunk on Lily's foot. Kayt had been really scared, because she had heard all about the infamous red head temper, but Lily turned out to be fantastic. The pair of them were getting along great, when suddenly a girl with soft blonde hair and stormy pale green eyes ran in. It was Alyssa. She was being chased by her trunk, apparently, because she had told a random boy that his head was so fat it defied gravity. Kayt and Lily couldn't stop laughing about that because they found the thought of a trunk chasing someone mad, and they loved Alyss's attitude. However, when a huge trunk got stuck in the doorway, they stopped laughing. They were all staring at it in awe and slightly terrified, when a messy black haired boy skidded to a stop behind the trunk. It was James Potter.
"Er, sorry about that ladies. Sirius got a bit offended but don't worry." he panted, before countering the spell. He was just about to leave when Lily stepped forwards and thanked him, with a lame crack about him being their knight in shining armour. As soon as he saw her he seemed to be entranced and he even went into hysterics over her sad joke. After taking his time, he had some trouble turning around and leaving. James only left after the other two girls started blatantly nudging each other, and giving false high-pitched giggles for which Lily told them off afterwards. Kayt and Alyssa knew straight away that those two were made for each other; little did they know that it wasn't all that simple.
And then when we were talking, Lily and Alyssa found out that they were cousins. Lily was completely taken by surprise, but Alyssa wasn't that surprised. Lily had no idea that she even had any cousins. Whereas Alyss said she knew she had cousins but she had never met them. Kaytlin felt a bit left out then, because they were catching up with each other after so long. But not for long because they realised how she felt and the three of them soon started talking about what Hogwarts would be like instead.
As Kayt thought back to how close they had all been, she was sad. The three girls hardly spent time together anymore. Whilst Kayt was lost in thought, Sirius had woken up.
He looked at her. She was frowning and he put his hand up to her face to turn her frown into a smile jokingly. But the second he touched her face, she snapped out of her daze and looked deep into his eyes. Sirius had no idea what made him feel like this every time she did looked into his eyes fireworks would go off in his mind and every particle in his body would be buzzing. She made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside. He pulled her down into his lap and said, "I think we'll take it from where we left it yesterday."
She smiled at him kindly before leaning forwards and kissing him softly on the cheek. "You'll have to contend yourself with that, because I've got stuff to sort out before this" she whispered apologetically before leaving for the Dormitories. She had some confrontations to make even if it was nearly 2 in the morning.
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Sirius sighed as he watched Kayt walk off. He admired the curve of her body and the sway of her hips before she disappeared into the Girls' Dormitories. For a moment he considered charging into there and reclaiming her, but soon dismissed the idea after a little fantasy because he was tired and he respected her choice. Sirius pushed himself up and drudged up to the Boy's Dorms when he heard quiet voices outside the 7th Year Dorm door. He pulled out his wand, suddenly alert now and sneaked forwards trying to catch snippets of the conversation, though he felt a bit like Snivellus. However Sirius didn't need to bother creeping around because a few seconds later he could've heard every single word from the other side of the Forbidden Forest. The taller figure stepped back out of the shadows, and Sirius immediately recognized the familiar figure of his best friend James. But before he could open his mouth the second, slightly shorter figure stepped out of the shadows as well. Sirius had to stifle a gasp as he saw blazing red hair which could only be Lily Evan's. What were Lily and James doing here at this time? But he soon found out, or more like got a basic gist of
"James. What? What's wrong?" said Lily gently.
James walked to the window and gripped the window sill tightly, so tight that his knuckles went white. Lily followed him and put an arm around his shoulder, which he shrugged off.
"James?" she repeated.
"Why? Why are you doing this Lily? Why are you messing me up like this? First you…go and make out with Darren after I thought we'd sorted things out. And then you get all upset, make a drama and run out the second I come into the Common Room. Why?" shouted James angrily.
"What do you mean why? How unreceptive can you be? You know perfectly well why. " retorted Lily heatedly.
"Actually I don't. I'm not perfect, I'm only human. I'm not psychic. I've done everything I can and now I can't just go on. How much rejection do you think I can take? Every night I wonder why you treat me like this. I can't take this; I can't go on giving my life away. " he vented.
"Bad move Prongs" muttered Sirius but his comment went unnoticed and he winced as he saw the look of rage on Lily's face despite the darkness.
"What! You! Don't try and blame me. Every time I've opened up to you, you've just gone and…..shat all over me. That time in first year when you took the piss out of my Valentine's Day card right in front of me. I'm not done" she yelled as James opened his mouth, "Remember the time I congratulated you after you were awarded highest scorer of the year, you laughed with Sirius about how I was apparently gagging for it." Sirius recoiled at the memory, "And how about when-".
Regardless of Lily's warning James interrupted, "Don't you dare. That was different. I was different! Enough about me! how about you-" but before he could finish he found out exactly what happened when you interrupted Lily Evans.
"Densaugeo" cried Lily, pointing her wand at James. As James teeth grew at an alarming rate, Sirius guessed this was about when he should intervene but he didn't feel up to getting caught in cross-fire so he stayed crouching behind the plant pot..
"I don't remember asking for a teeth enlargement" panted James before returning the favour. "Tantallegra" he shouted with some trouble because his teeth had passed his chin by now, "Though a cheering charm is what you need." Lily made an outraged noise as her feet began to move wildly. She managed to kick James's teeth many times and break a couple of ornamental plants which had been placed on the windowsill.
At this point Sirius couldn't help but let out a whoop. The sight was just too much to bear, Sirius was on all fours crying from laughter.
"Phadphfoot" grunted James unintelligibly with difficulty.
"Prongs mate, you make a better rabbit than human" snorted Sirius. "And Lily, you'd make an excellent dancer, once you get in control of your feet of course. More of a free-styler are you?".
"Sirius, you arse. Help us." shrieked Lily.
"Lily, lily. Tut tut. That's not the way to ask for help now is it?" wheezed Sirius with tears of laughter still pouring down his face. But not for long, as he heard a familiar stern voice behind him.
"Mr. Black, please stop flooding the school." said McGonagall firmly.
"Ah! Minnie, I see you've decided to join us. Isn't this just the perfect midnight feast." said Sirius in a conversational tone as he snaked an arm around McGonagall's waist and flashed his famous smile.
"Of course, and I'll just have to return the favour by asking you to join me next Saturday for detention." replied McGonagall smoothly, whilst removing his arm from her waist. "Finite" she said irately before adding, "I shall expect you three to see me next Saturday for detention. And I do not care what happened, or who. Detention is for waking me up at this time in the morning." With that McGonagall marched off, deaf to Sirius's desperate pleads.
"Prongs, what the hell-"started Sirius as he turned towards James, but Prongs had already gone into the Dorms. "Hey, mate." said Sirius as he followed James. However before closing the door behind him, Sirius stuck his head out and caught Lily disappearing down the stairs. Since when did these two just take detention without trying to wheedle their way out? By the time Sirius got to his bed James was in bed and he was snoring a bit too loud. The pretence would maybe have worked apart from the fact that James didn't snore. But Sirius understood that Prongs didn't want to talk about it so he climbed into his bed and went to sleep.
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A/N: I know that was a weird chapter. I hope you got the gist. Please review even if to tell me how bad it was. Don't worry there's only one more chapter like this. Then they'll be normal. And tell me how you think the whole continuation thing works. I would like to thank my editor once more. THANKS SO MUCH RACHNA!