A/N: well I decided not to be lazy so here's chapter seven. Hope you like.

Chapter 7: Charms and Tonight

Sirius walked into History of Magic with mixed feelings. He was feeling content about the successful bout of abuse he'd just put Snape through (he was now walking around with a garden gnome dancing on his head, not that he was aware of it of course), and slightly mutinous because professor Mcgonagall had seen him do it and put him in detention (she hadn't gotten rid of the gnome though, which was surprising). Sophilia had laughed so hard at his prank that she almost fell down the stairs, which resulted in his having to catch her. He grinned to himself. He had become rather fond of Sophilia since the werewolf incident. She didn't know it of course and he wasn't going to tell her. He definitely wasn't going to tell her that he was the dog she'd kissed on the head. He sat down behind Lily and James, or L.J as Sophilia called them. Alantra, Sophilia, Remus and Adielle came in a few minutes later. Remus and Adielle took their usual spot across from L.J. Alantra (much to Sirius' annoyance) sat next to him, and Sophilia sat alone across from Sirius and behind Remus and Adielle. Sirius was aware of Alantra staring at him, and pointedly ignored her. She was so annoying, fawning over him like some moonstruck idiot. But then, he thought, she is a moonstruck idiot. He quickly reprimanded himself. After all, it wasn't her fault he was irresistibly attractive. I wish Sophilia thought so, he thought glancing at her. She was talking to Adielle and Remus in earnest. Sirius wondered what they were talking about. Alantra tapped him on the shoulder.

"Yeah?" he asked distractedly.

Alantra looked a bit flushed as she asked, "Can I borrow your quill? I can't find mine."

"Sure." He said giving her his, and fishing another one out of his bag.

"Thanks."

This wasn't the first time she'd done that. She was constantly forgetting things and asking Sirius to borrow whatever it was she'd forgotten. He knew she did it on purpose, just to talk to him. He reminded himself that she only acted like an idiot when she was talking to him. She would act normal around James or Peter, not so much around Remus but at least she could get a coherent sentence out around him, but when she was anywhere near Sirius she turned into a blithering idiot. It was unbearably annoying, not to mention tiring, for Sirius. If she would just be normal, he might even be able to tolerate her. He only put up with her in History because all of her friends, including Sophilia, were there.

He turned his attention back to Sophilia, as professor Binns started to drone. She saw him looking, and smiled.

"We're just wondering where Peter got to, again." She said softly. He frowned, where was Peter? He was disappearing more and more often. Of course, he wasn't in this class because he'd failed his O.W.L but Sirius hadn't seen him at breakfast.

"It's really weird," whispered Remus "Because he never skives off or does anything wrong without one of us. I just wonder where he's going and why?"

The others nodded. Remus returned to his note taking and Sirius sat back in his chair. He was so preoccupied with Peter's where abouts that he didn't notice Alantra staring at him.

He went on to charms with everyone but Adielle and Alantra. Remus gazed wistfully as Adielle left, but Sirius was glad to be rid of Alantra. A panting Peter joined them, but before they could question him, Professor Flitwick told them to get into pairs and try to make the frog they were given tap dance across the desk. L.J of course worked together. Remus regarded Sirius and Sophilia for a moment, then went to work with Peter.

"Want to work with me?" Sirius asked, somewhat surprised by Remus. He wondered if Remus had guessed that he liked Sophilia.

"It would appear that you're the only person left without a partner, so I don't have much of a choice, do I?" she replied haughtily. Sirius smiled and sat next to her.

The only downside to being her partner was that she distracted him. His frog refused to move, instead stared balefully around the room, croaking.

"Come on," snapped Sophilia, "If you can make a garden gnome dance on Snivellus' head, you can make a frog dance on a desk. It's really not that difficult."

"Yeah, well, you're distracting me!" retorted Sirius indignantly. Sophilia gave him a withering look.

"By doing what? Breathing too loudly?"

"No," he pouted mockingly, "You're presence is clouding my concentration."

"Uh-huh," she raised an eyebrow, "I see you have a dilemma. Amazing, though, how my presence wasn't clouding you're—what did you say? —concentration an hour ago in the corridor."

Sirius returned her raised eyebrow and said nothing. Instead he flicked his wand and the frog did an elaborate jig across, and off the desk. It continued to dance all the way across the room. He grinned; she scowled.

Remus smiled lightly as he watched Sirius and Sophilia. He'd have rather worked with Sirius, but he'd noticed Sirius staring at Sophilia during History of Magic, and decided to let them work together. It seemed like both were enjoying themselves, but didn't want the other to know it.

"This is hard!" whined Peter. Remus, who had already been able to do this charm since fifth year, sighed exasperatedly. Peter really was a lamentable wizard.

"You have to flick your wand, not jab it at the frog. If you do it might explode."

"The frog or my wand?" Peter asked fearfully. Remus snatched his frog as it began to hop away.

"If you do it right you won't have the pleasure of finding out."

They practiced in silence for a few minutes. Remus broke it by asking, "Where have you been going? We missed you at breakfast."

Peter began sweating, though from struggling with the charm or from his question, Remus couldn't tell.

"Oh, I felt slightly ill this morning." He said easily. Remus glanced at him incredulously.

"This isn't the first time you've been 'ill' is it? You weren't there the whole day Sophilia was missing. And I doubt that's the only time you've not been there. So what's up?"

"Nothing," denied Peter "The day Sophilia was gone, I was skiving off in the library so I could finish my Transfiguration homework. It took me all day."

Remus couldn't tell if he was lying or not. He decided not to push it further, in case Peter got nasty, as he had a habit of getting when he was under pressure. Instead he glanced over at Sirius and Sophilia. They were now having a dance war with their frogs. Sophilia's appeared to be winning. It was doing a complicated routine; a mix between River Dance and break-dancing.

"Do you think they should hook up?" James said, he'd come over to retrieve his frog, which had been attempting a gallant escape.

"Alantra would be crushed." Lily came up behind him. She sat down across from Remus, nonchalantly and began making his frog do ballet.

"True," commented Remus slowly, he doubted Sirius gave a damn about Alantra.

"You should ask Adielle out. I bet she'd say yes in a heart beat." Continued Lily, glancing up expectantly. Remus pretended to be very interested in his frog.

Lily sighed as though exhausted, but did not press the subject. She knew why he wasn't going ask her out, but she didn't agree to it.

"Okay, I'm through being out done by a girl!" said Sirius in mock misery, and through down his wand. Sophilia laughed and did the same.

"So," she said with a business like tone "I haven't breathed a word to anyone about our little incident that night. I would like to know what you were doing out there?"

He regarded her slowly, but thinking fast, "Oh, you know, wandering around. Exploring the edge of the forest. Amazing what comes out at night, you know."

She scowled at him, "No, I wouldn't know. That was the first time I'd been out at night, and I'm never doing it again."

"Why? It's only a full moon once a month. You can go out on other nights."

"But you just said 'it's amazing what comes out at night'. What sort of things were you referring to?"

He leaned forward, smiling "I could show you. If you wanted." He whispered.

She stared at him for a long time, and for a moment he thought she was going to refuse, but then she nodded slowly.

"Alright, Black. But if this is one of your misdirected pranks, our little 'agreement' is toast."

"Tonight, then?"

"Fine."

Just then class ended and the class filed out and headed for lunch.

A/N: ooo, Sirius and Sophilia! Scandal. Not really. Anyway, review!