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-Chapter Fourteen-

James and Lily decided to relieve Mrs. Potter of the duty of collecting Sirius from St. Mungo's the next morning. He was lying in his street clothes, on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.

'Took you long enough,' he said, not taking his eyes off the ceiling. 'They told me you were coming, and I had to wait, otherwise I could have been home already… with my presents!'

'Yeah, yeah, let's go,' said James rolling his eyes.

'My face is alright!' he said, mood lightening considerably. 'No scars at all!'

'We noticed,' said Lily, rolling her eyes.

'Ah, James, she's finally seen the light. I am sorry in advance, because you know I can't say no to a beautiful lady,' he said, winking at Lily.

Lily sighed and turned to leave the room. As soon as she turned into the hallway, though, she ran smack into someone who had been turning into the room.

Lily reached out to grab anything, trying to prevent her fall, but rather mistakenly, she grabbed the person she ran into, causing them both to fall to the floor unceremoniously.

'I'm so sorry! Are you ok?' Lily said, helping the other girl up. 'Oh! Audrey?'

'Hi, uh, Lily,' she said looking rather embarrassed. 'What're you doing here?'

'Oh, well Sirius had an… accident,' she said motioning towards the door she'd just exited. 'We just came to pick him-'

'Audrey, Babe!' Sirius had just exited his room as well. 'It's only been a day, Love. Just can't get enough, eh?'

Sirius walked over, as she continued dusting herself off, and put his arm around her shoulders. Audrey went momentarily stiff under his arm, before wriggling out from under it.

'Hello, Sirius,' she said sighing. 'I… heard you had an accident?'

'Lily! You blabber mouth, you weren't supposed to tell anyone!' he whispered furiously, as Lily smirked evilly.

'Oops,' she said as Sirius glared.

'Uh, yes actually, I was doing something very top secret, and er... dangerous,' he said, turning back to Audrey. 'If I told you, you know I'd have to kill you,' he said dramatically.

'So Audrey, what brings you here?' James asked from beside Sirius.

'Oh, well, I'm interning here, actually,' she informed them.

'Oh! I forgot about that,' she said smacking James' arm. 'You were supposed to remind me!'

'Uh, well… I- You know you shouldn't ask me to remember things!'

Sirius chuckled, 'Bickering like an old married couple. Let's give them some room, shall we? The tea room's on the next floor.'

'Oh, I don't think I sh-'

'Nonsense. I insist,' he said, pulling her slyly towards the stairs.

'So… Are you really interning or did you just come here to see me?' He asked with a smirk, as he watched Audrey sip her coffee. She nearly choked at the question.

'I'm interning!' she said, pointing at her name tag; Sirius looked slightly downtrodden. 'But, when I saw your name on the patient check in, I thought I'd come see if it was you.'

Sirius grinned, 'Naturally.'

Audrey smacked his shoulder playfully as someone walked in. He looked to be about their age, he was tall and muscular, with dark wavy blonde hair and deep blue eyes.

'There you are, I've been looking all over for you,' he said showing off his white sparkling teeth.

'Oh, hi Ayden. What… Uh, why were you looking for me?' she asked, forcing a smile.

'You said you'd come out to lunch with me, remember?' He said flashing Audrey another smile, and ignoring Sirius completely.

'Oh, yeah, I'm sorry I forgot,' she said, remembering their earlier conversation. She turned to Sirius, apologetically. 'Sorry, I did say I'd have lunch with him.'

Sirius looked to Ayden, eying him wearily; he slipped his hand into his pocket. He then turned to Audrey, grabbed her wrist and pulled her to him. She was taken by surprise, and came easily; he reached his hand up behind her head and pulled her lips to his, before kissing her meaningfully. He pulled back, and said huskily, 'I'll see you later.'

He turned and nodded curtly to Ayden before leaving the room, Audrey was left awestruck.

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When Sirius finally found James and Lily, it was obvious that they had been snogging. They tried to hide it, but he knew better and didn't care.

'Where's… uh, where's Audrey?' Lily asked desperately.

'She's going out to lunch with some git,' he replied coolly.

'…And you're ok with that?' James asked, confused.

'No,' he said, before starting towards the exit. James and Lily hurried to catch up with him.

'But-,' Lily started, and James hushed her.

'What are we doing now then, mate?'

'Going home,' he said. 'And waiting.'

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'So, you want to be a Healer?' Ayden asked Audrey as they sat in a booth at a dingy pub near St. Mungo's.

'Yes,' she said only half paying attention. She just couldn't get her mind off of Sirius, and how he had acted earlier.

'Oh, I don't. I only took the internship to get out of school,' he said, apparently proud at his cunning. 'School's a drag, don't you think?'

'Mhm,' she said, not hearing the question.

Ayden slowly slid his way around the table until he was next to Audrey, who hardly noticed. She was staring, but not seeing, at the bar when he lowered his head and began to kiss her neck. She jumped up in surprise and hit her knee hard on the table, she swore loudly.

'What the hell?' she looked at Ayden who looked utterly perplexed, which he probably couldn't even spell.

'What's wrong? I thought we came here to snog,' he said, apparently surprised that any girl didn't want to snog him.

Audrey looked at him a moment before slapping him, and getting up to leave. She walked quickly from the pub, and kept walking until she was a few blocks away. She stopped and sat on a bench, not even caring that it was partially frozen.

She sat there for a while, just watching her breath spiral from her mouth and dissolve to nothing, when it started to snow. She instinctively put her hands in her pocket to keep them warm. She was surprised to find a slip of paper tucked inside of one. She pulled it out and looked down at it questioningly.

When you've ditched the git, come and find me at James'.

She looked at the address scribbled on the paper and wondered where that was. She got up and turned around, looking at all the nearby street names. Of course, none of them were the one she wanted, so she began to walk.

It was a few minutes before she remembered how stupid she was, because she could apparate. She concentrated on the address and with a pop she was in front of a very large manor. She looked up at it, figured this must be it, and began to make her way up the front walk.

She rang the doorbell anxiously. After a moment, the door opened, and at first she thought no one was there, but heard a small cough, and looked down into the green orb eyes of a small house elf.

'How may Dot help you, Miss?' She asked squeakily.

'Uh, I'm looking for Sirius Black,' she replied nervously.

'Ah, yes, Sirius Black, he is expecting you, Miss. Let Dot take you,' she said, pushing the door open the rest of the way, welcoming Audrey inside. She led her into what she figured was the dinning room, where she saw James, Lily, Sirius, and who she assumed was James' mother, sitting down at the table.

'Hello Dear,' the women said, coming over to her. 'You must be Audrey?'

Audrey nodded. 'Ah well, I am James' mother, Radella. I'm happy that you could make it. Since Sirius missed Christmas dinner, we're doing it again,' she explained with a smile.

Audrey looked to Sirius, he was grinning from ear to ear. When he noticed her gaze, he motioned for her to come and sit by him. She smiled at Radella, and went to take the seat on Sirius' right.

She sat and looked up; Lily smiled at her from across the table, as Radella, with the help of Dot, began serving the food.

After dinner, James and Lily decided to go on a walk. So they bundled up and headed out into the chilly December night. Sirius and Audrey decided they liked being warm, and turned them down when they invited them so they were now in the den.

'So, that git you went out with earlier… You like him?' Sirius asked the question he'd been dying to know the answer to all day.

'Hell no,' she said, indignantly. 'He just asked if I wanted to get out of there for lunch, and I was bored and said yes.'

'Oh, I see,' he said, mood visibly lifting. Audrey chuckled.

'You were jealous,' she said matter-of-factly.

'I- Uh, no I wasn't,' he said unconvincingly.

'Yes, you were,' she said, moving slightly closer.

'I… I just thought he was stupid,' he said.

'He was stupid,' she replied getting even closer.

'You're not supposed to do this to me, you know,' he said.

'Do what?' she asked, stopping mid slide.

'Make me nervous,' he replied.

'Oh, well I'm sorry then,' she said, sarcastically. 'Let everyone stop making Sirius uncomfortable, because-'

She was cut off as Sirius covered her mouth with his. His hand moved instinctively to the small of her back, as he pulled her closer to him. His tongue slid into her mouth and explored it hungrily. After a few moments they pulled back, breathing hard.

He kissed her lightly on the lips once more, and lifted his arm around her shoulders. They stayed like that for a while, just sitting in the middle of the floor, in front of the toasty fire, leaning on each other.

'Do me a favor?' he asked her quietly.

'Mhm?' she mumbled, looking up into his stormy grey eyes.

'Don't go out with other guys anymore.'

AN: Ok, my darlings. We should refrain from throwing things at me, because I know it's been a while, but I got it! School just started and I was rather busy with Tennis and homework and whatever, but tennis is over, and I'm hoping to start back up on a mad updating rampage. WOO. And I'm sorry, because I thought it was going to be longer, but this is all I got for now. I redid this chapter a few times, I just wasn't happy, but this I like. I hope you did too. :)

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