So here's the next chapter. I'll try to make the moments in the present as short as possible but with me things seem to go on longer than normal. Sorry about that.
Chapter 4: Faults?
Present Day
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny all instantly looked at Hestia who was taking deep breaths to control her emotions. None of them said anything for the longest time.
"Sirius and Marlene were in a secret relationship?" Hermione asked shocked.
"Yes they were," Hestia nodded, not liking the fact that she never even knew until Marlene told her way after they were out of Hogwarts.
"Is this the part that you meant the their plans never work out the way they want them too?" Ginny asked curious.
"Yes," Hestia nodded slowly. "That and many other things. They never seem to work out. Just like Lily and James never really could stop from arguing at school."
"Even when they were together?" Harry asked surprised.
"Yes even then," She laughed.
"Can we go eat?" Ron asked suddenly, the growling of his stomach filled the quiet room making them all chuckle. "I'm starving."
"When are you not?" Ginny asked making the others laugh along with her as they headed toward the table that was ladled with food.
Dinner went by quickly with loud conversations. Harry wasn't into it much, his thoughts were on his parents and godfather. He found himself eating even more hurriedly than normal just so that he would be able to see them all again. Harry squirmed in his seat, tapping his fingers against the table as he waiting for his friends to finish eating.
"Excited Harry?" Hestia asked amused.
"Yeah, sorry," Harry blushed having been caught looking over toward the sitting room where his parents memories sat.
"Don't worry about it," Hestia laughed. "You should be happy and excited. Come on I'll go set it up for you while you wait for your friends."
Hestia didn't wait for him to agree before she walked out of the dinning room thanking Molly dearly. Hestia quickly replaced all of the memories before taking out the third one in the group, noting that this memory would be longer than the others. Harry and the others walked toward the sitting room just in time to see Hestia pull out her own memory before adding it to the Pensieve.
"There its all set," Hestia smiled softly at them. "This memory might be a little longer since it has all of the characters in it, and their conversations of the first night there."
"That's okay," Harry told her glad that he would be able to watch his parents for longer than normal.
Without saying anything else, they dipped their fingers into the Pensieve.
Dinner had ended and they were in an empty corridor. Looking around they noticed Lily and Marlene walking toward them. Toward the painting of a lion that was clearly the guard for the Heads Dorm.
"I'm so jealous that you get to have your own dorm!" Marlene laughed looking at the horrified expression on Lily's face.
"Damn, I didn't even think about that." Lily sighed. "Now I have to deal with Potter for the whole day and night!"
"What are you planning on doing with him in the night?" Marlene raised an innocent eyebrow as she held a smirk on her face.
"Oh you know what I mean!" Lily groaned. "I will never be able to get away from his pestering. Merlin just kill me right now, that will be much more better than having to deal with that arrogant jerk."
"I thought you said that you would give him a second chance," Marlene pointed out. Quickly adjusting herself when Lily turned her heated glare on her. "Not that I agree with that slimy deal that he made. But I have to agree with him on the fact that he could have changed over the summer. Plus being enemies with the Head Boy wouldn't be the best thing considering you do have to talk to him every day."
"I could ignore him," Lily muttered uselessly.
"Then you wouldn't be able to get any work done," Marlene reminded her. "You don't want to be known as one of the worst Head Girls do you?"
"No," Lily sighed in agreement. "But still I have to deal with Potter."
"Lily it will get better," Marlene told her best friend. "He said he has changed. So he has to be better than he was before. Just give him a chance okay?"
Lily raised an eyebrow curious. "Why are you telling me to give him a chance. You hate him as much as I do."
"Lily you don't hate him," Marlene sighed. "And neither do I."
"I do too hate him!" Lily declared.
"Uh-huh sure you do," Marlene nodded hardly paying attention to that statement.
"I do too!" Lily called out childishly stomping her foot on the floor in front of the painting.
"Lily you hate that he makes you react this way," Marlene smiled gesturing at her.
"You just gestured at all of me," Lily growled lowly.
"Exactly!" Marlene clapped her hands. "He is the only one who can make you go to pieces, lose your temper and your cool by just being around you. I believe this is the way you react when the person you love is around you."
"I don't love Potter!" Lily screeched at the top of her lungs.
"Maybe you just don't realize it," Marlene smiled sadly at her friend before giving her a quick hug. "Well I better be off. I don't want to be late for class tomorrow. I'll see you at breakfast right?"
Lily nodded, decided not to argue with her right now. "See you then."
"Don't worry Lily," Marlene comforted knowing how depressed she was feeling right now. "Everything will be fine. Just turn down your temper reading for a little bit."
"That's easier said than done," Lily muttered making Marlene chuckle as she walked away. Lily sighed turning her attention to the painting. "Go, go Gryffindor."
The painting swung open to reveal a small dark brick hallway. There was a bright warm light shining at the end so Lily hurried down the cold hallway wanting to warm up near the fireplace, if there was one. What greeted her at the end of the hallway made her pause in shock. There in front of her was a beautiful common room.
The common room was huge and warm, just like the Gryffindor common room. Everything was red and gold making her feel right at home. There were two large plush red couches facing each other before the beautiful brick fireplace. All along the tall dark red walls were dark mahogany bookshelves that housed hundreds of different books all of which were leather bound. Two doors sat on the opposite sides of the room, that Lily presumed was their rooms. Soft yellow light was bouncing around the room from the candles hovering all over the place, making everything look warm and cozy.
There was a large mahogany table in the corner of the room that had a bunch of chairs around it in case they invited some people over. The carpet was a soft light yellow color that could be almost considered white. Lily instantly took off her shoes and socks and placed her feet onto the soft carpet loving the feel of it on her sensitive feet.
"Mate, have you noticed that your mom is a little weird?" Ron asked Harry as they watched the teenage Lily walk around the room.
Her favorite part of the whole room was the window seat. It sat underneath a huge arch window giving her a clear view of the Hogwarts grounds. The cushions were soft and fluffy, inviting. Lily thought happily about spending her time there with a lovely book.
At that time her fantasies crashed down when she heard the painting open once again to let in her worst nightmare. Lily groaned unable to keep her displeasure inside. Damn him, Lily growled, How dare he come when I was having a wonder time…by myself.
James Potter entered the room looking around widely at the sight in front of him. That's when he spotted Lily looking out the window, obvious trying to ignore him and focus on the dark starry sky. Not that ignoring me would do her any good, James thought chuckling to himself.
"There is my beautiful Head Girl!" James declared coming toward her.
Lily groaned turning around to face him with her hands on her curvy hips. "I am not yours Potter."
"You are the Head Girl and I'm the Head Boy so we belong to each other," James winked at her. "Anything that you want to do with me then you can my dear Lily Flower."
Lily smiled acidly sweet. "So you mean I can push you off the Astronomy tower?"
"Not that," James chuckled loving how she wasn't like the normal girls who would have fallen over him right away. "Then you would be alone without your dashingly handsome Head Boy."
"That's what I want," Lily muttered.
"I don't think you mean that Lily," James shook his head at her.
"Oh yes I do," Lily nodded with confidence.
"Even if you do that doesn't change the fact that I still like you," James softly told her. "Nothing will ever change the fact that I like you, nothing. Not even with you hating me."
"I don't hate you, I-I…I," Lily trailed off biting her lower lip in confusion.
"You what?" James asked, his hazel eyes hopeful.
"I don't know," Lily sighed. "I know I don't hate you that's all."
"I'll take that," James smiled brightly looking immensely proud at not being hated by her.
"I will give you a chance but that doesn't mean that I like you or will ever like you. Do you understand that?" Lily demanded her bright green eyes narrowing at him. "Just because I don't hate you doesn't mean I'll like you."
"We'll see about that," James smiled cutely at her. "Now should we decide when the first meeting will be?"
Lily blinked in surprise. "Um, yeah, sure."
"I think it should be next Saturday," James volunteered going to lounge on the soft plump couch. "Give the students a week of freedom before all the laws, that I'm sure you already came up, with are set in."
Lily flushed at having been found out. "You only want to be able to do a prank without getting into trouble."
"So what if I do?" James raised an eyebrow.
"I wont allow that," Lily told him sharply. "You're the Head Boy you are an example to all of the Hogwarts students. You should actually act your age and not like you are in first year again. You should try to act more serious."
"You want me to act like Sirius?" James asked with a stupid grin plastered on his face. "I think that will be a little hard since I'm a one woman type of guy."
"Oh Merlin," Lily moaned.
"You sound cute when you moan," James teased. "I only wish that you were moaning my name."
"James," Lily gritted angrily.
"That's a start," James shrugged standing up and heading toward the left dorm. "I'm heading to bed. Its already 11. Good night my dearest Head Girl."
Lily grounded her teeth together keeping in her retort. James passed by slowly as he headed toward his dorm. James leaned toward her ear pausing to whisper lowly into it. "I will make you moan my name Lily. You can count on that."
Before Lily could stop it a slow blush crept onto her pale face. James smirked when he saw it walking back toward his dorm loving that he left her speechless. Lily was able to regain her senses as soon as the door closed.
With her face on fire she grabbed the pillow that was sitting happily on the couch. Lily screamed into it loudly, taking out most of her frustration. Then throwing it back down she stomped to her room, opening the door angrily before slamming it shut as soon as she was inside.
The old Hogwarts students were pulled like elastic bands as they were pulled to another scene. Now they were in another corridor leading toward the Gryffindor common room. There was a group of people walking loudly toward them.
"We'll have to visit Lily in her Head dorm tomorrow," Hestia said to Dorcas as they walked behind the group of Gryffindor students all heading up toward their rooms.
"I cant wait to see how cute it is!" Hestia giggled with happiness, then pouted slightly. "Mar gets to see it early lucky her!"
"Huh? What about Mckinnon?" James asked from behind them curiously making the girls jump in surprise. Turning around they were faced with the whole Marauder group. All of them were looking at the two girls curiously.
"Marlene and Lily already headed out," Dorcas explained pushing down her blush when she saw Remus slightly behind Sirius and James. "So we believe that Mar has already seen the Head dorm while we have not."
"Lily's in the Head dorm?" James' eyes seemed to glow with happiness at the thought.
Hestia snorted. "That's the only thing you took in from with Dory said, isn't it?"
"Of course, its Prongs," Sirius grinned.
"Which means that he has a Lily-track mind," Remus explained.
"Yeah anything that doesn't have to do with Lily and he will forget it right away," Peter added in, blushing when the girls turned their attention to the small boy next to the much handsome taller men.
"I do not," James' huffed glaring at his friends who were trying to hide their snickers under their breaths.
"Sure you don't Prongsy," Sirius smirked at his friend. "All you do is talk about Lily Flower. Oh Lily has the softest hair! Oh Evans must be the smartest girl in the whole school, did you see what she gets on her essays? All Os! Lily has the sweetest voice compared to any other girl! You forgot to mention that she was hexing you when you hear 'her sweet voice'."
"I do not sound like that," James pouted as the rest of the group laughed and began walking down the hallway again.
"Well James I for one had no idea that you were obsessed with Lily," Hestia snorted instantly ruining her serious tone.
"You didn't?" Remus furrowed his brow in shock. "I thought him confessing over and over to her would be a dead give away."
"Then again it is Hestia we're talking about," Sirius added in teasingly as he shoved his hands in the pockets of his black robes.
"Hey!" Hestia cried objecting as the others laughed at her.
"Know you know what it feels like," James stuck his tongue out at her in a childish manner.
"Oh real mature," Dorcas snorted.
"Your one to talk Dorcas," Peter quietly pointed out walking somewhat behind the group, not used to the presence of girls so willingly close to him.
"What do you mean?" Dorcas asked innocently her eyes were shining with happiness.
"Werent you the one that set off the dung bombs during Potions to get out early last year?" Peter questioned knowing that he was right when the tall girl started to blush furiously.
"W-What? I-I-I have no idea what you are talking about," Dorcas stammered looking around at the group hoping someone would believe her.
"You were the one who did that?" Remus blinked in surprised, having a difficult time picturing sweet innocent Dorcas doing anything bad and that included pranking.
"No!" Dorcas gasped loudly not wanting Remus to think that she was as bad as his immature friends, that would be the death of her.
"Yes she did," Hestia sang as she skipped down the corridor, slowly so that the others could keep up with her. "Thought of it all by herself too! Thank Merlin she did, that was one of the most boring lessons on earth."
"Hestia helped me!" Dorcas gritted angrily. "If I'm doing down then so are you."
"What are you talking about?" Hestia blinked confused as she grinned softly. "You were the one with the dung bombs in your bag-"
"Why would you have dung bombs in your bag?" James raised an eyebrow.
"Prongs you have dung bombs in your bag," Sirius pointed out laughing.
James thought about that for a moment. "Touché."
"-plus you were the one who made us want to get out of the classroom," Hestia continued on as if the boys never interrupted her, looking triumphant. "You were the one who cam up with the plan. Then last but not least you were the one who set them off."
"You cant pin me for this!" Dorcas angrily stomped on the floor. "You will never get to blame this on me! NEVER! I will never be taken alive! Plus you don't have any real proof besides your word, and lets face it no one will believe you, HA!"
The Marauders stared at Dorcas surprised. They would never have imagined this sweet shy girl to in fact be a prankster at heart. Also that her mood would be able to change to quickly. The only one not surprise was Hestia. Hestia paused, turned around on the tip of her toes and raised an eyebrow to her friend.
"You wanna bet?" Hestia demanded narrowing her eyes at her.
"No one will believe you," Dorcas shot at her, confidently. "Who would believe that I have such cunning evil mind?"
Hestia frowned. "Shite, you have perfected that innocent look as well. There is no winning against you is there?"
"Nope," Cried Dorcas happily. "I thought you would have learned that by now!"
"Unfortunately I haven't," Hestia sighed then turned to the utterly shocked faces of the Gryffindor boys. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"
Peter shuttered at that thought making the girls raise their eyebrows curiously. James was the one who broke the silence, looking oddly at Dorcas. "What's wrong with you?"
"James," Remus scolded James' bluntness.
"What are you talking about?" Hestia demanded angrily, not liking when one of her friends were picked on.
"He means why did Dorcas' attitude changed so suddenly?" Sirius supplied looking at Dorcas like she would suddenly yell at him…which she did.
"What's wrong with me?" Dorcas eyes got huge as she examined the boys who stood there frozen in the middle of the corridor. "What have I done to make you guys hate me? Oh Hest! They hate me! THEY HATE ME!"
"Oh way to go guys," Hestia hissed taking her friend into her arms to slowly rock her back and forth, trying to comfort the upset seventh year. "You just had to go and make her cry! How dare you!"
"He was only asking why Dorcas' mood changed so fast," Sirius instantly stood up for James taking a threatening steps towards them before remembering that this two were his girlfriend's friends.
"Sirius-" Remus started to warn knowing it was useless.
Sirius shook his head sighing. "It's just a question. There's no need to get all emotional."
"Well you would be emotional too if you weren't allowed to show emotion as a kid," Hestia snapped before turning her attention to gently rubbing Dorcas' back comforting her. Soon the crying stopped, leaving the corridor in absolute silence. "Are you better Dory?"
"Y-Yeah," Dorcas pulled back rubbing at her tear soaked cheeks before turning to the stunned Marauders. "Sorry about that. As you can see I can get a little bit out of control when it comes to me emotions-"
"A little bit?" James snorted lightly, flinching as Hestia turned a heated glare on to him.
"-so sorry if I ever scream at you for nothing," Dorcas continued on smiling shyly at them all. "I'm not perfect, far from it in fact. My emotions tend to react more exaggerated than most peoples'. Its just like Hestia said. I wasn't allowed to show any emotions when I was a child so it all built up into my teenage years. Now it seems that all the time I'm either crying or yelling."
"Its like she's on her period all year round," Hestia and the Marauders shuttered at the thought.
"Why weren't you allowed to show any feelings?" Peter asked tilting his head in confusion.
"Peter," Remus sighed loudly, getting angry with his friends for being so blunt and curious about Dorcas' personal life. "You shouldn't be asking something like that."
"Why not?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow. "She obviously wants us to know if she told all that to us."
"Yeah," James nodded in agreement. "Its only fitting for us to ask questions. I mean, come on, we are human."
"Thank you Prongsy for agreeing with me," Sirius shot him a grin before casually draping his arm around his best friends shoulder.
"Anytime old Padfoot old pal," James grinned right back at him.
"You two are human?" Hestia blinked in shock. "Here I thought you had to have a heart to be human, I guess its not necessary. Huh you learn something new everyday."
"Hey!" The boys cried.
"They are right," Dorcas cut in smiling. "They should be able to ask me questions. My parents were very strict on those kinds of things, in fact they still are. Anything that would show some kind of weakness was not allowed at our house. No crying, no laughing, no music, no toys, nothing that brought any pleasure into our lives." Sirius nodded, understanding since he came from a similar home.
"I'm sorry," Remus looked at her with his deep warm brown eyes filled with sadness.
"Don't worry about it," Dorcas smiled crookedly, not liking that she was the fact that his beautiful eyes were so sad. "So when I came here and noticed that it wasn't right not showing emotions it just kind of hit me like a sack of bricks, you know?"
"Yeah I know," Sirius nodded seriously, so unlike his name. "Its surprising how some things are so different."
Dorcas nodded in agreement, knowing how awkward it had been for her to open up with her dorm mates the first couple of weeks. "That's when my emotions started to go crazy. Believe it or not I'm actually getting better."
"You were worse before?" James blinked shocked, stunned that he somehow managed to miss Dorcas ever being so overly emotional.
"Yes," Her eyes were dancing with laughter. "I'm talking more about my feelings. Communication really helps."
"Why didn't we know about this early?" Pete asked curiously while Remus understood how difficult it was to open up to people about certain secrets.
"I hid it very well," Dorcas laughed while Hestia snorted in the background. "Okay so maybe my friends were able to drag me to safety every time I was about to have a break down, but it's the same thing. I never really told anyone because I knew they would treat me different, even if they didn't realize they were doing it. But I guess I open up about it with people I feel safe with."
"I guessing Lily, Marlene, and Hestia knew right away?" Remus asked her politely, but still plenty curious. Sirius eyes snapped over to them at the mention of his girlfriends name.
"Yes," Dorcas smiled widely. "They know all my faults like I know theirs."
"The Gryffindor girls have faults?" Peter blinked shocked as the group once again continued to walk down the corridor.
"You're kidding right?" Hestia snorted once again walking a bit a head of them, leading the way. When she noticed Peter's serious face she busted out laughing. "Of course we have faults! We're blooding not perfect!"
"Could have fooled us," Sirius flirted feeling instantly wrong.
"Whatever," Hestia snorted rolling her eyes at his pathetic attempts of flirting with her. "Yes we all have major faults."
"What are they?" The boys leaned in eagerly dying to know how the Gryffindor girls who could look at you and made you groan could have any faults what so ever.
"Should we tell them?" Hestia turned to Dorcas raising a black eyebrow.
"Sure," She shrugged not at all minding since her fault was already out in the open. "You'll have to deal with Lily's wrath and Mar's ignorance."
"That seems like a fair trade," Hestia nodded after a second before turning to the eager boys. "Merlin you are like a hungry school girl waiting for some juicy gossip."
"Tell us the faults woman," Sirius ordered in a teasing voice.
"Merlin help the poor girl you marry Sirius," Hestia rolled her eyes making them all snicker, except for Sirius who pulled off a very good pouting face. "Any who, lets see who should we start off with?"
"Well they already know mine," Dorcas pointed out as they started to walk up some steep stairs. Dorcas held on to the railing tightly as she climbed those hated stairs.
"Yes," Hestia gestured over at her. "Dorcas is very very very very-"
"Have you made your point yet?" She snapped annoyed.
"-very very emotional." Hestia grinned triumphantly at Dorcas scrunched up face. "Let see…well I tend to be forgetful. Very forgetful. I would probably forget my head if it wasn't attached to me."
"You're kidding?" Sirius asked in shock.
"Nope," Dorcas laughed at their shocked expressions. "Haven't you boys notice her digging through her bag trying to find her essay during the beginning of class? Lily or Mar usually are the ones who hold things for her."
"We never knew," Remus shook his head startled.
"You didn't?" Hestia blinked. "I thought you would have. I mean how many times have your guys found me outside the common room door because I forgot the password?"
"We just thought you were a little slow," Peter added in getting a glare of said girl.
"You're one to talk Wormtail," Sirius teased.
"Now Marlene, well you guys have to have noticed that she's nearly late for every single class she has," Dorcas decided to cut in before anything bad happened between Peter and Sirius.
The Marauders nodded.
"Tardiness is her expertise," Hestia laughed. "We have to set her alarm clock for an hour early than normal because we know she would be late to breakfast if it wasn't set early."
"Yet she is still late," Dorcas giggled remembering all the times that Marlene had rushed into the Great Hall, grabbing only a few pieces before it would all disappear, then huffing angrily as she was dragged to class.
"Yeah," Sirius smirked remembering all the times she would only appear in her pajamas for breakfast with her hair all crazy and her eyes still drooping from sleep. Even at those times he thought she was the most beautiful girl out there.
"Now our dear sweet Lily," Hestia smiled. "That girl could get lost if you gave her a map with the path outlined."
"Really?" James blinked in surprise, glad to learn something new about the love of his life.
"Are you kidding, yes!" Hestia laughed. "That's why I'm the one who has to lead since Lily can get lost in her own house."
"Well she just doesnt remember her bearings very well," Dorcas added in trying to make her friend look better.
"Its because she has too many brains," Hestia nodded confidently.
"You're saying that smart people are stupid when it comes to simple things?" Remus asked raising an eyebrow.
"Of course you're not included Remy," Hestia giggled wrapping her arm around his. "Well…maybe just a bit."
"Well I hate to break this wonderful party up but I have to head to the Head dorms," James grinned pausing as they came to a corner. "I know you all will be heart broken but-"
"No Prongs don't leave me!" Sirius sobbed grabbing on to James' robes.
"Don't worry Padfoot," James sobbed patting his friend on his back. "We'll see each other in the morning! We wont be separated for long."
"You promise?" Sirius demanded.
"Of course," James grinned turned evil for a second. "We still have to come up with a good being of term prank."
"Bye," The others waved to James clearly not as 'heart-broken' as Sirius was.
"Wow that's some real enthusiasm," James snorted waving before walking down the corridor.
"Speaking of enthusiasm, I believe there was a cute girl staring at me early at dinner," Sirius face grinned at the thought of his girlfriend. "I'm going to go see if I can find her."
"We've been here for only a couple of hours and he's already found some whore," Dorcas shook her head as they watched Sirius stride down the corridor confidently.
"Yeah, well, that's Sirius," Remus sighed not able to come up with a better excuse.
"I wanna be a butterfly!" Hestia suddenly called out into the quiet night, before letting go of Remus to dance in front of them. "Fly butterfly, fly!"
Remus sighed knowing there was no use in arguing with her. "Dorcas have you let her eat any sugar?"
Dorcas nodded. "She managed to eat some dessert during dinner. That's why she's so…Hestia."
"Hestia?" Remus raised an eyebrow.
"You know, someone who is silly, full of life, a little loopy," Dorcas shrugged gesturing at the dancing girl in front of them. "Hestia."
"You know that actually makes a lot of sense," Remus blinked as the four continued down the hall way with the dancing Hestia leading the way while singing about butterflies.
Once again the four teenagers were yanked away from the Gryffindor students landed heavily in another deserted corridor, but before anyone could say something Sirius appeared from around a corner.
Sirius strutted down the corridor looking this way that way trying to catch a glimpse of his new girlfriend. Sirius thought that if she just game from the Heads Dorm that she would walk this way to get back to the common room. Just when he was about to give up hope of hiding her, he saw her. Turning around a corner with her long black hair swishing behind her was Marlene.
Sirius jogged to catch up with her, turning around the corner sharply, before reaching out to wrap his arms around her small waist. Marlene screamed in shock, struggling to be released by her captive. Her heart was beating fast as she thrashed against him but she paused when she her the rumbling of familiar laughter behind her. She turned around sharply glaring at Sirius who had a cute smirk on his face.
"Why did you scare the bloody hell out of me!" Marlene demanded trying to get out of his arms but he wasn't letting that happen.
"Sorry love," Sirius grinned.
"You are not," Marlene rolled her eyes, struggling to be free. "Can you let me go now?"
"Why?" Sirius pouted. "I want to hold you longer."
"Sirius Black," Marlene warned sternly. "Someone will see if you continue to act this way."
"So?" He demanded angrily. "Let them see! I don't care!"
"Will you two please stop yelling?" Demanded an angrily portrait of an old grumpy man. "Young kids today, they never show any respect…"
Sirius released his girlfriend, allowing her to slide back down to the floor. She smiled slightly at him before taking his hand and pulling him down the hallway cautiously.
"I promise that this secret will only have to last a little bit," Marlene reminded him. "We agreed to go slow so that our friends will get used to the idea of us. If we just strung it on them then I'm betting that some how they will tare us apart."
"I want to hold your hand thought," Sirius groaned hating that he had agreed with her earlier. Then again he would have done anything for her to be his girlfriend.
"You are," Marlene held up their intertwined hands.
"I meant in public," Sirius rolled his eyes. "I want to kiss you anytime I want to, I want to sit next to your during class, I want to scream at the top of my lungs that you are mine and all those gits should stop looking at you, I want us to be out in the open."
"Sirius Black are you insinuating that you want to be lovey-dovey with a girl?" Marlene teased, his lavender eyes lighting up.
"With you," He corrected flashing her one of his most charming smiles.
Marlene rolled her eyes laughing. "Its not going to happen for some time. But thanks anyways."
"Damn it didn't work," Sirius sighed bringing her hand up to kiss it as they continued toward the common room slowly. "What are we going to do until we can tell everyone?"
"Meet like this," She gestured around. "It wont take that long, you are just being a Drama Queen."
"When can we tell them?" Sirius sighed.
"When Potter-opps James and Lily get together," Marlene told him calmly.
"No!" Sirius gasped. "That will take forever!"
"No it wont," Marlene shook her head with a small evil smile on her face.
"Why not?" Sirius asked confused.
"We are going to make them get together no matter what," Marlene told the shock Sirius smiling. "What? They are meant to be together. Like soul mates. Don't you dare ever tell anyone, especially Lily, that I told you that."
"I wont," Sirius smiled brightly. "So what are we going to do to get them together?"
"I have a plan," Marlene informed him, grinning widely because her plans never failed. Unfortunately they didn't realize that this was going to be the first time it did.
The memory faded away pulling the silent group out of the Pensieve, leaving them with what they just saw swirling in their heads.