A/N: Eh! I forgot to Disclaim music in the last chappie!

Ehm!

1: Lifehouse - You and Me

2: Ingram Hill - Will I Ever Make it Home

-slaps Mia-

I'll make you kiss him however I think fan-fic Mia would!

I'm not writing this thing for my health ya know!

I don't HAVE to right this!

I can end it at ANY time.

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I could!

Chapter Seven: From: Tainted Blood

I looked at the place where he'd left the room, my mouth hanging open. He did not just do what I think he did.

I waited for about three minutes before standing up, completely furious. He did!

Marching out of the room, I pushed past Lily who was standing in the hall, her mouth open and pointer finger in the air, obviously trying to make a point. As I shoved her out of my way, I heard her gasp indignantly. "Hey!"

Ignoring her, I ran down the stairs to go into the kitchen. Black was sitting on ther counter again, talking with James. His face was set, his eyes sharp as they scanned the room. When they landed on me, they widened and he cleared his throat. James turned to look at her. His eyes, already wide, widened even further. Soon though, they returned to normal. Black scratched the back of his head, his careless face back into position, while James had a sneer on his face that caused me to raise my eyebrows.

I pointed out into the hallway. "James. Out."

He bowed deeply and walked out of the kitchen. "As you wish, your Blood-Sucker-ness."

I galred at him, and turned back to Black.

"Now, Maria, I--"

I punched him as hard as i could in the gut. He groaned. "It's Azure."

He looked up at me, his eyes hurt.

Smirking, I said, "Black, you are the most inconsiderate, insensitive, egotistical, self-centered brat that I ever had the misfortune to--"

"Snog!" came a sing-song voice from out in the hall.

"UP YOUR ASS JAMES!"

There was silence outside the hall. I turned back to Black. "You...you can burn in Hell, Black. That's what you can do. It's what you can, and if I have any sayso in where you go, will do."

He opened his mouth, and said clearly. "I'm sorry."

Hearing that, I scoffed. "Do you know how absolutely pointless those words are? 'I'm sorry I killed you dog.' 'I'm sorry that you can't end worl hunger.' 'I'm sorry that your a member of this living dead.'" Sighing, I looked at him. " 'Sorry' means nothing." I shook my head. " 'Sorry's...nothing but a word."

Black was still clutching his stomache as I walked out of the room. As I made it to the steps, I saw James holding his head back. "J-James? W-What't wrong?" A fimiliar sent rose into my nostrils. "Ah, crap." I felt lightheaded and my world swam in and out of my site. I grabbed onto the hand-rail and heard James yell.

"Sirius! Sirius! Get your arse in here! Azure's fainted!"

I tried to open my mouth, tried to tell all where tehy could go and to get there real quick. But only a gurgling sound came out of me. I felt a heavy hand on my forehead, and, I blacked out.

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I sighed contently and snuggled in closer to the warmth beneath me. The heat was added in a line across the middle of my back. I felt a slight pressure in my left hand and assumed that I had slept on it funny, thus resulting in that Pins-and-Needles feeling. Though, when that same pressure was applied to the top of my head, I started felling suspisious. Ignoring the nagging in the back of my head, I only thought one understandable thought. Warmth.

I felt myself smile into the blanket underneath me, but stopped. I felt movement beneath the blanket. A rise-and-fall aciton. I felt ripples all along it as I moved my hand in somewhat of a circle. My hand moved up and down and the rise and fall became slower, but with a little hitch every so often.

As I felt warm air on the bridge of my nose and the top of my cheeks I opened my eyes, and saw steel eyes staring at me.

I gasped and struggled to get up, adn fell off the bed in the prosess. "Black!"

He smiled sleepily at me. "Sleep well, Love?"

"I slept WONDERFULLY until you came in here and gave me a heart-attack!" i was struggling to get up and looked down and saw that there were chains wrapped around my legs and my waist. When I looked at my wists, I saw red imptints around them. Apparently, I'd squeezed my hands out. "So, what? I'm a freaking monster now?"

Black shrugged lazily. "Only when you're either with the Blood Lust or fighting it."

I raised an eyebrow. "Fighting it?"

He nodded. "Yeah. You saw Prongs' nose bleed after Evans punched his lights out, and you went mad. Fell to the bloody floor, and when I tried to pick you up, you kicked me in the ribs! Even when Mauvais tried talking to you, you just--"

I stopped fiddeling with the chains around my ankels and my head shot up to look at him. "Mauvais?"

"Yeah! Even when she--"

"Black! You get these chains offa me right now!"

"Hey!" He shouted, obviously offended, "I'm in the middle of telling a story!"

"JUST DO IT!"

He sighed and flicked his black wand. As soon as the chains were gone, I ran out of the door, and into the hall. I looked down at the end of the hall and saw Lily hugging Lupin tightly as she yelled at James who was standing behinde Lupin. "--leaving them out in the rain! That was completely inconsiderate! And with in Ashley her condition!"

"I didn't know Lils!" James said, defending himself. "How was I to know whether they were Death Eaters or--"

"Common SENSE James!"

"I--"

"Maria!" Lily cut James off and released Remus, running to me. "Thank GOD you're awake!" James looked offended that she had cut off his words again.

"Hey I'm not fin--" he stopped with a look at Lily.

Lily hurridley turned to me. "They're here! They're here!!"

I nodded, becoming somewhat impatient. "Yeah, I know! Now, if you don't mind..."

She gasped. "Did Sirius tell you they were here?"

"More or less."

Sighing, I prayed for her to just tell me where she was. "Lily?"

"Yes?"

"Point?"

"Well, you see...uhm...you...uhh...you can't exactly see Ashley."

I blinked at her. "What?"

"Well...you better not be angry with me for this! It was all James' fault! He didn't let her in in time and--"

"LILY!"

"Yes?"

"POINT!"

"She's a bloody werewolf."