Addy's POV:

I was sent scurrying after Remus again, who was at least a foot taller then me, and seemed to move his legs so fast they were a blur. He walked onto the train, down the hall and to a compartment door. I heard laughing from outside the door. Lupin knocked. "No Sirius doesn't want to make hot steamy love to you! Now go away Trish!" James' voice rang from inside the compartment and was followed by another uproar of laughter.

"Uh? Mate?" Lupin asked, humor expressed clearly on his face. And the compartment slid open to reveal a red faced Sirius, still clutching his stomach.

"Sorry Moony… Thought you were Trish… I mean honestly, that girl can't get enough of me! Good to see you again Addy!" I smiled. Before I could say anything Lupin cut in.

"Hey do you think Addy could sit with you guys for the trip? Lilly and I will join you later, she just doesn't know anyone else." I heard a loud clunk, and Sirius looked back chuckling. I looked around him to see James had fallen on the floor off the bench where he had been sitting. I giggled at his surprised face.

"Lilly's coming?" he said messing his hair up. "She can stay, defiantly." James answered for the three of them. I remembered what Lupin had said about James being in love with Lilly. It certainly looked that way, and it was too cute. I laughed.

"C'mon in, I guess," Sirius said eyeing me again, moving the door and gesturing me into the small room. I sat right next to James who had picked himself up off the floor and brushed the dirt off of himself. Peter had his nose in a 'How to pass 5th year potions' book. I gazed at him questioningly. He seemed to have felt my gaze, and glanced nervously at me. I dropped my gaze and James leaned over to whisper in my ear,

"You'll have to excuse Wormtail. He's a little shy around strangers." I felt for the poor boy, he did seem to have an awkward set of social skills.

"Wormtail?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "Oh! The nicknames." I understood now. James just nodded, "What's with the 5th year book?" I asked nodding my head towards 'wormtail.'

"I was held back in 3rd year because I was having issues with my classes" he mumbled so I could barely hear.

"Geez, that's harsh!" I said, and James nodded. "So tell me more about these nicknames." I said turning and fixing my gaze back on James.

"Well, I'm Prongs, Peter's Wormtail, Lupin's Moony, and Sirius over there, he's Padfoot." I looked at Sirius who's long dark hair was falling into his face, masking his perfectly chiseled features. He was reading a book called, "Pranks prankage, prankers, and any other form of the word you can think of" when I asked him:

"Hey Sirius?" his head snapped up as his eyes met mine, "Can I see your foot?" he gave me a quizzical look, but lifted his foot anyway, clad in his socks and shoe. I took off his tennis shoe, and his sock. "Huh." I said,

"What?" he said looking worriedly at his foot.

"Well its just, you're feet don't seem to be more padded then anyone else's." I said breaking into a grin. The entire compartment, including Wormtail started laughing.

"What made you think to ask that?" James said between chuckles.

"Well… I wanted to see, and no offense Peter, but I didn't want to see if your tail was any more wormy…" Everyone laughed again and Sirius seemed to loosen up, he stuck his foot in my lap and wiggled his toes.

"Ah… foot freedom. Nothing like it in the world." He said stretching out, taking the entire width of the compartment and closing his eyes.

"Uh… Sirius?" I asked warily eyeing his foot still sitting in my lap.

"Yeah love?" he asked flashing me a brilliant smile. It took some effort to keep my breathing normal, but then I remembered what Lupin had said about flirting. I glared at him.

"For one, you're smelly foot is causing my eyes to water. And second, since when am I love?" I asked with a little humor in my glowering eyes.

"For one, you're love from now on… second, I'm extremely comfortable, so you better get used to my 'smelly foot.'" I tried to hold back my laughter. He wasn't very threatening with his head back, eyes closed, and his foot in my lap, but I managed to enthuse my voice with the right amount of outrage.

"What were you planning on doing about it?" I challenged.

"You'd be surprised," He grinned maliciously, tapping the cover of his book to make his point. I took my pointer finger and thumb of one hand, and picked up his foot by the big toe. His eyes opened at my touch and he raised an eyebrow at me, challenging me. I just smiled sweetly and threw his foot out of my lap and allowed it to crash to the ground with a thump. Sirius' face was absolutely shocked. Like no one had ever disobeyed him before now. I just smiled and hugged my knees to my chest. I watched the scenery roll by the window and turned back to James.

"How long does this trip usually take?" I asked sure my stomach would be growling any moment now.

"It usually lasts about 5 hours. A trolley should be coming around with food in about a half an hour." James said checking his watch. So I sat back and leaned my head against the soft seats as Sirius was doing across from me. I closed my eyes and rested, that is until I felt the train jerk to a stop, and I was thrown directly into Sirius's lap. I looked up into his eyes, that were wide with surprise.

"Sorry!" A loud booming voice came through the compartment door through some amplification spell of some sort. I looked down, blushing red when I realized I was very conventionally sitting in his lap, with my hands on either side of his face, and blushed even worse. Did I mention that my mother is a redhead? She was a very traditional redhead, not like dark-haired Lilly. I blame her for all of the freckles that scattered my face, and my tendency to blush tomato red. I clamored out of Sirius' lap.

"Sorry," I said meeting his eyes, cheeks still warm with embarrassment.

"No problem, if you wanted me that bad, all you had to do is ask." Sirius said with an impish grin plastered on his face.

"Shove a sock in it Sirius." I fake scowled at him. It was so hard, too hard, to be cross with Sirius Black. Just then a knock came on the door and

"Anything from the Trolley dearies?" was heard through the thickly paneled door.

"Yes!" Sirius, James, and I jumped up at the same time, digging through our pants as Wormtail rolled his eyes. I sat down with a few chocolate frogs and a box of "Charlie's Crunchy Crackers. Sure to give you that crunch in every munch." And dug in. I noticed the guys watching me as I stuffed a few crackers into my mouth.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing…" Sirius mumbled, "Its just nice seeing a girl who actually eats."

"What kind of girl doesn't eat?" I asked. He just shrugged. "Anyway… I was too nervous for breakfast this morning so I guess I'll have to make up for that now." And I continued to eat. We were around an hour from school and James sighed,

"So what's bringing you to Hogwarts Addy?" James asked as we sat munching our snacks.

"My dad got a new job, and I needed to be an accessible distance from where he works Getting up to Durmstang would have been around a day to two day trip, even after I learn to apparate just because of the time it takes to get out of the snow and ice where the school is. So, I transferred!"

"And aren't you lucky?" Sirius snickered, "Hogwarts is the best of them all, good old Dumbley makes sure of that."

"Yeah" I sighed thinking about my old school and the friends I had left behind, "I do remember hearing that Professor Dumbledore is quite the headmaster." I mumbled as I flipped the chocolate frog card over and saw a picture of Dumbledore smiling up at me.

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"I guess we better change into our robes." Sirius sighed after about two more hours of muggle games like "I spy" and a few stories being passed around the compartment. "You don't mind do you Addy?" He said as he and James pulled of their shirts to reveal two perfectly formed six packs. I had brothers, yes, but GOD, I nearly swooned on the spot. They pulled on their white shirts, and gray sweaters. Then they both put their ties on over their sweaters in a very rockish way, not tucked in like they were supposed to be. They pulled off their pants and I was disappointed with the lack of funny boxers, I would have appreciated a good joke to make to get me off the hook for clearly staring at the two handsome boys that had just stripped before me.

I gathered my stuff to go change but sirius held up an arm to block me, "I do believe its your turn Addy love," he mumbled letting his eyes travel down me. He better be kidding cause otherwise he was the biggest jackass I'd ever known.

"Sirius, you better move your arm or you're not going to have one." I smiled sweetly at him. But he left his arm there. I saw my wand on the seat next to James. It must've fallen out of my pocket. Oh well.. I had perfected the use of silent magic the year before and silently called 'Accio Wand' and my wand flew to my hand. "One more chance Sirius!" I challenged. He just smiled at me. Fine! If he was going to be like that. I wouldn't hurt him, I would just have some fun. I silently said a spell, and his arm up to his shoulder disappeared.

"Bloody Hell!" He screamed when he saw his sleeve move with out an arm in it. I think we were even, a jerky move for an arm, seemed fair right?

"Don't worry Sirry-bear. I'll reverse it as soon as I'm done changing." I called and ran out of the compartment, robes in hand. I went to the bathroom and literally ran into Lilly getting changed. "Geez, what is it with me and ending up flat on my back in public places?" I grumbled, Lilly and I laughed when the we realized how that phrase could be taken.

"Sorry. Didn't see you there." She said and gave me a hand up, I accepted but said,

"No, that was totally my fault. I was just trying to get away from crazy lunatic who was trying to get me to change in front of him." She laughed,

"Oh, so you've met Sirius have you?" I laughed harder. I can't believe he had that bad of a reputation.

"Yup… I guess. Lupin introduced us, I'm sitting in their compartment." I said and pulled on my robes.

"I was on my way to find you, so I guess I might as well come and say hi to those four. Lupin should be back in the compartment by now. By the way , how'd you get away from Sirius?" I just grinned.

"I have a feeling you'll find out the second we walk out of these doors."

"Lets go then." She said grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the door. I picked up my clothes and followed her. I was right, Sirius was standing directly outside the girls Lou. Invisible arm hidden under his jacket.

"Adleena 'I don't know your middle name' Eldridge!!! You reverse this right now! I happen to need my arm." He said and his sleeve waved towards my face. My best guess was that he was waving his finger at me. "Evans." He acknowledged Lilly, "Now lets go Eldridge." He said growling and grabbing me with his invisible hand and pulling me back to the compartment, Lilly right behind. Honestly, what was it with people today and towing me around places? People here sure were pushy. I sighed, pulled my wand out from the pocket in my robe and waved it over Sirius's arm three times, mumbling under my breath. His arm slowly reappeared, faintly at first, but clearer and clearer until it was as good as new.

"Man Addy, that's some really advanced magic." Lilly said to me.

"Uh… I guess." Shrugging my shoulders and sitting back down on the compartment seat. Stretching out to occupy the entire space next to Sirius. Lilly looked around wildly, I'm sure for an extra seat, before sighing and sitting down next to James. James scooted closer to Lilly, and Lilly scooted down the seat. This went on four times until Lilly was trapped right up against the wall. I laughed, but neither of them seemed to notice. Lilly was blushing, and James was staring intently at her face. I turned to Sirius and he was studying his arm. Flexing his fingers as if making sure it was all still working.

"Two words…" He said to me, not even looking at me, "Teach me." He said finally meeting my face.

"Maybe… Once we get to Hogwarts." I allowed and pulled out my potions book. I had been ok at potions, but I heard that it was a lot harder at Hogwarts so I wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing. Lupin walked in and my legs were still sitting on the only open seat.

"MOONY!!!" Sirius yelled, but didn't get up from his seat.

"Sorry… ran into the Rudolph twins… and they were wreaking havoc." I felt his eyes land on me. "Addy, do you mind?" he asked referring to the seat my legs were occupying.

"Well… actually. You see. I'm tired!" I leaned against Sirius's shoulder and pretended to sleep. I heard Lupin sigh and he lifted my legs, sitting down and putting then back down in his lap. Lily gave him a dark look. I conjured up a pillow and put it in Sirius's lap, lying my head down. He poked my forehead.

"Who made you queen of the compartment?" He asked and kept poking my face. I conjured a crown and set it on my head.

"Happy now?" I asked, closing my eyes, and falling asleep.