Disclaimer: I own nothing except for Catherine. JK Rowling owns everything else.

Warning: As usual my sexuality warnings.

Chapter 14

The next morning, the girls all showered, dressed and then made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast. They received their timetables and made their way to their first class. Lily, James, Cat and Sirius had all been cleared to do the same courses. They made their way down to the dungeons for double potions and saw that only there were only half a dozen others who had secured the Exceeds Expectations grade. Severus was there and Cat noticed, happily, that none of his other dumb friends seemed to have made the grade. She gave him a small smile as she made her way into the class and sat with Sirius at the back. Just as she had sat down and took out her books, a small first year had run into the class. Professor Slughorn looked up at him,

"Can I help you young man?"

"Professor Slughorn, sir, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need Catherine Delacour and James Potter to come with me sir, and they need to bring their books and bags." He finished quickly, looking nervous.

"Very well, Ms. Delacour, Mr. Potter." Professor Slughorn said, nodding to each of them. Catherine caught Sirius' eye, who was grinning, as she gathered her things and made her way out of the classroom with James.

"Professor Dumbledore wants to see you two." The first years said. Catherine just nodded as she felt butterflies in her stomach. James grinned at her. They got to the office and knocked on the door.

"Enter." Professor Dumbledore called out to them. They walked in and sat down on the two chairs in front of his desk.

"Now, I'm sure you have an idea why you have called in here. You have both been chosen to skip ahead and begin your advanced training. I received written permission from Mrs. Potter for the both of you this morning. Does this interest you?" The both nodded.

"Good, now, your courses are not going to be what the school courses usually are. You will have the normal courses you will usually take, but you also be trained in combat. You will learn how be skilled swordsman and archers. You will also learn the proper use of daggers. You will be taught defensive and offensive combat as well as magic. You will have regular classes five days a week and combat training in the evenings. You will still have the weekends to do your homework. This is going to be a lot of work, are you certain you are up to the challenge?"

"Yes, sir." They said in unison.

"Excellent, I will need you to sign these papers, along side your mother and guardian. You will take these books and return to your common rooms. You will not be returning to your usual classes. Until I have received the rest of the signed permission papers, you will study these books very hard. They are straightforward so you will have no problem understanding them. Any questions?" he asked smiling as he handed them the papers to sign.

"If we no longer weesh to do eet…?" Catherine started

"You are under no further obligation. You will return to your sixth grade studies." Dumbledore said. Catherine nodded as she signed the papers. James signed his name and looked up at Dumbledore,

"Who else have you chosen sir?" he asked.

"I cannot tell you that Mr. Potter." Dumbledore replied with a smile, "Now off to your common room, study hard and have an excellent day." He said as they made their way out of the office. Once in the common room they put their bags down and fell into chairs in front of the fireplace.

"Can you believe it!" James said excitedly, jumping up and pulling Catherine up. "We've been chosen! I can't believe I've been chosen!" Catherine laughed out loud at his excitement.

"I know, eets incredible!" Catherine said just as excited as James.

James laughed out loud and lifted Catherine up into a hug. She laughed with him and hugged him back.

"Okay, put me down!" she said through her laughter, "Let's look at ze books." She said sitting back down and opening the books.

"I can't fucking believe this!" James continued. Catherine smiled as she was reading the book. She was surprised at the contents.

"Wow, zis ees some advanced stuff." She said. She tried a spell in it, but didn't succeed. "Eets not easy."

"Oh look at that Ms. Catherine can't do a spell." James said teasing her, as he attempted and got a small result.

"I already told you guys zat I am not amazing at magic, eets only because I study 'ard and I did eet already. Ze first time I did my O.W.L's I got ten, four were Outstanding, four were Exceeds Expectations and two were Acceptable. I'm not more brilliant zen you guys, and I really weesh you would stop saying I am." She said.

James grinned, "Ok, ok, didn't mean to offend you."

"You didn't." she said with a smile.

Catherine suddenly jumped onto the seat next to James and hugged him again. He laughed and hugged her back,

"Are you really that excited?" he asked, pulling away and looking at her. She nodded as she looked into his eyes. He smiled at her noticing the twinkle in her eyes. He suddenly ran his hand through her hair and grasped unto the back of her head and started leaning towards her, pulling her towards him at the same time. She closed her eyes and parted her lips as she allowed herself to be pulled towards him. Suddenly they heard a huge bang and jumped apart as the portrait hole had opened hard and Sirius and Lily came through.

"So, let me guess, you guys have been chosen to join Dumbledore's special training camp." Sirius said, sitting down next to Catherine and putting his arm around her. She nodded and smiled uncomfortably and refused to meet anyone's eye. She could not believe what just happened, or almost happened. She was with Sirius, and Lily was her best friend. She never cheated on a boyfriend before (unless they deserved it) and she had never betrayed a friend like that. What was it about James that made her nearly betray two people she loved? She glanced at James and noticed him looking at her with a guilty look on his face as well.

"What's the matter with you two? You look like you ate a bucket of Doxy eggs."

Catherine and James both forced a smile on their faces, "Nothing." They both said at the same time, not sounding very convincing.

Sirius eyed them suspiciously,

"Why do I get the feeling I'm being lied to?" he asked. Catherine looked down, but didn't answer.

"Seriously, what's going on? What's wrong?" Sirius demanded as he stood up.

Catherine looked at James with tears in her eyes and he looked very uncomfortable. Sirius pointed his wand at James and before James could react, he yelled out,

"Legilimens!"

After a couple of seconds Sirius broke the spell and looked at James,

"How could you?" he asked, his hurt showing very clearly in his tone.

Lily was looking from Catherine, to James and to Sirius and back to Catherine.

"Do I want to know?" she asked.

"Maybe you should ask your best friend," he said emphasizing the words. Tears were falling down Catherine's face as she refused to meet anyone's eye. Sirius was looking at James with a look of absolute loathing.

"You're supposed to be my best friend, my brother." Sirius said his voice cracking a bit. James wouldn't meet his eye,

"I'm sorry." James said quietly. "Just caught up in the moment."

"Caught up in the moment!" Sirius yelled. "Caught in the fucking moment? And you're sorry? You're fucking sorry? You think that's enough? YOU NEARLY KISSED MY GIRLFRIEND!!! If I hadn't walked in when I did, you would of, then Merlin knows what would have happened after that." Sirius shouted at James as he was shaking with rage. Lily was looking at Catherine, but Cat wouldn't meet her eye.

"Is this true Cat?" she said quietly. Catherine put her face in her hands and nodded. Lily didn't say anything, but just stormed off towards the girl's dormitories. Catherine dared to look up at Sirius, but regretted it the second she did. He was looking at her with a very hurt look on his face. She couldn't stand to look at him, and she opted for her hands instead.

"And I have nothing to say to you Catherine, absolutely nothing at all. Just stay the fuck away from me. Oh, and Lily and I have also been chosen, I thought we could celebrate." He finished bitterly, before storming out of the common room. Catherine started sobbing on the couch. James went to sit next to her and try and comfort her.

"It's ok Cat. Everything will be all right. He's just angry he'll come around. He loves you." James said rubbing her back.

"What ze fuck just 'appened James? Why did we almost kiss? Eet was never supposed to 'appen again." She said looking at him.

He shrugged, "I have absolutely no explanation. I'm very fond of you, but I can't say that I have those kind of feelings for you, I think you're quite nice looking, but I could never be romantically involved with you. No offence." He said.

"None taken. And I quite agree wit' you. I t'ink we might kill eachother should we ever be romantically involved. We are bot' Aries, zey are not supposed to be involved." She sighed. "I'm going to bed." She continued getting up as James nodded. She said goodnight and disappeared into the dorm.

A/N: Yes some silly drama! I thought it would be fun! Yes I decided to make Sirius know Legilimency. I know he doesn't, but this is an Alternate Universe fic!