Things Revealed

That night I was sitting in the common room as the others were down at dinner. I wasn't really hungry and had been doing a lot of thinking after we were dismissed from detention.

"Sickle for your thoughts?"

I looked over to see Remus sitting on a chair.

"How long have you been here?" I asked.

"Just arrived. What are you thinking about?"

I shrugged. "Everything".

I noticed that Remus was looking troubled.

"What about you?"

He bit his lip and ran his hand through his hair. "I did something today that I shouldn't have done".

I chuckled. "You're not the only one. We all got a detention today".

"So I heard. I would rather have had a detention instead of what I was doing".

I was shocked. Remus John Lupin would rather have a detention. He must have done something really bad.

"What did you do?" I leaned forward intently.

"You can't tell anyone!" he whispered leaning forward.

"I won't" I whispered back leaning even closer until our faces were inches apart.

"Well I, well me and Cassie, we..."

"You…"

"Well we were intimate" and his face went red and he quickly looked into the fire.

"Whoa" and I leaned back into the couch. "She was that bad?"

Remus turned and looked at me. "No it was nothing like that Sirius" he stressed the Sirius part.

I giggled. I guess it was something Sirius would say.

"Than what's the problem?"

"The problem is I shouldn't have done it. I like Cassie but not that much. What I really wanted to do was break up with her and I guess she could feel it so she did that as a last resort and I guess I kind of just went along with it. I swear my intentions were to break up with her. I left the game right after so I could tell her".

I could tell Remus was upset about it but I was slightly angry. What he did was low; I expected Sirius to do something like that but not Remus.

And I told him that.

"Jeez Abby you really made me feel much better" he said sarcastically.

"Well did you break up with her?" I asked ignoring his little comment.

"No. How could I do that? I mean she was a virgin. How awful would that be if I broke up with her after? She would think it was something she did".

I smiled. I had to give it to Remus. He was a real gentleman. But I was in no position to give him advice about what to do. After all, look at my love life.

Luckily for me Remus was a smart guy and knew that he had to go and talk to her.

"I'll talk to you later Abby" and he hurried out of the room.

I than went back to thinking but was interrupted a few minutes later by someone else.

"Abs can we talk?"

I looked up to see Sirius standing there. My heart skipped a beat as his gray eyes held mine. I couldn't deny it anymore; I think I was falling in love with him.

"Sure" I whispered.

To make things worse he sat beside me. We sat in silence for a minute.

"So um, what do you want to talk about?" I broke it.

"Oh damn I forgot".

I rolled my eyes. "Than let me ask you something".

"Alrighty" he grinned.

"Why were you acting like a big git?"

His eyes widened and he cracked his knuckles and looked into the fire. I couldn't help but notice the way his eyes glowed as the flames shadows danced in them.

I crossed my arms and pouted. Obviously he wasn't going to answer me.

"Because of what people were saying" he spoke a few seconds later.

I glanced over at him and frowned. "What were they saying?"

"That I was losing it".

"Losing what?" I was perplexed.

"My touch. You know, what makes me, me. I mean, I'm Sirius Black. I have a new girlfriend every week, no one can tie me down and all that" his gaze fell on me. "The guys were laughing at me because I was with you for 3 months".

I bit my lip and folded my hands in my lap.

"So you broke up with me because everyone was making fun of you?"

He shook his head. "Well that and I was afraid".

Sirius Black was afraid of something? He was the bravest guy I knew. And now I was afraid.

I licked my lips, "What were you afraid of?"

He chuckled, looked down at his hands than back at me. I was startled. I could feel that he was going to reveal some kind of secret or something. Something that could possibly change everything between us- and I was right.

"I'm afraid of my feelings for you".

I blinked. His feelings for me? What did he mean? That he hated me and he was afraid of feeling that way or something?

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I've never felt this way for any one before. And it scared me at first. So that's why I was being a git because I didn't want you to know how I felt and that's why I broke up with you".

"So what are you trying to say?" I was intrigued now and not afraid.

"I guess what I'm trying to say Abs, is that I love you".

I imagine I looked like a stunned owl. My eyes widened so much that I thought they were going to pop out of my head. No way did Sirius just say he loved me.

"Abs are you alright?" he poked me and I snapped out of my stupor.

"I, er, well when did you realize this?" I stammered.

"I've liked you for awhile but when I finally admitted it we were already too good of friends. And I guess I didn't want you to turn me down like Lily turned down James. It wasn't good for my pride you know" He winked and I hit him playfully. "I guess I was also afraid of losing you all together. I didn't want to break up with you, especially after Aaron but I was selfish and only cared about how I looked to the others. Will you forgive me for that Abs?"

I never seen Sirius so, well serious. I knew that he wasn't lying and he really wanted me to forgive him. But truth was even if he ripped my heart out and stomped on it, I'd still forgive him.

"Yes" I whispered.

He grinned and stood up than grabbed my hand and yanked me off the couch and into a hug. He buried his face into my hair and kissed my neck. I clung to him afraid to let go. But there was a nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach. Deep down inside I knew that Sirius and I would never last.

A few minutes later we pulled apart. "Well I have a letter to write" Sirius told me.

"Oh yeah, to a girl?" I smiled hoping that it actually wasn't.

"Actually yeah"

My smile faltered and Sirius just grinned and brushed the pad of his thumb across my lower lip.

"Relax. It's to Andromeda my cousin. She was the one that told me to tell you my feelings".

"Than tell her I said thank you".

"Will do. See you later Abs" and he kissed me on the forehead and than left.

I yawned and decided to head to bed early. I was tired from the emotional day.

I frowned as I appeared in front of my house. It was freezing out and a thick fog rolled in. I hurried inside.

"Nice of you to join us Abigail"

I spun around to see Aaron. Aaron was alive!

"Aaron!"

I rushed over but stopped dead as he stepped further out of the shadow. It wasn't Aaron but Alex and he was grinning wickedly.

"No. Not your precious Aaron. Aaron is dead. I killed him".

"No!" I cried and was about to step back but he grabbed me by my arms and dug his nails in painfully.

"Oh yes. I did it for him. He is gaining power; you're foolish if you don't join us".

I knew who he was talking about and I began to struggle. "Let go of me! I will never join the likes of you!"

"That's exactly what Aaron said before I killed him".

"I'm going to tell dad!"

He laughed, it echoed in the house. "Father knows. He knows I killed Aaron. But he is not foolish like you and Aaron. He won't tell a soul, he won't report me. I'm his son"

"Let go!" I screamed.

"Shut up!" and he hit me across the face.

Tears welled up in my eyes and anger in my blood. I hocked a loogey in his face. He yelled and threw me to the floor.

"How dare you, you blood traitor" he roared and whipped out his wand.

"You're going to rot in hell!" I screamed.

He smirked. "I look forward to it. AVARA KEDAVRA!"

I shot up. I was soaked in a cold sweat. The moon was shining in casting an eerie shadow on the floor. Alice and Lily were snoring from their beds.

"It was just a dream" I whispered. But something told me that the information revealed in that dream was nothing but the truth. Alex killed Aaron, and dad knew.

I had to write a letter to him right away.

I snuck out of the dorm on shaky legs and made my way up to the boy's dorms. I needed James' invisibility cloak.

I snuck into the room. The cloak was sitting on James' trunk and I grabbed it and turned about to make my way out of the room when someone grabbed my arm. I froze and looked over to see Sirius.

"That's called stealing you know?" he grunted his eyes half closed.

"According to you and James it's called borrowing".

He chuckled. "What do you need it for?"

I didn't know if I should tell him or not. My brother was a Death Eater, it wasn't something I wanted everyone to know, but Sirius' family was also followers of the Dark Lord.

"Alex killed Aaron and my dad knows. I need to write him a letter, I need to know if it's true" I told him.

Sirius let go of my arm and sat up now wide awake. "How do you know?"

"This may sound stupid, but I had a dream. And I haven't told anyone this before but I had a feeling that Alex would do something like that. Aaron and I both knew he was evil"

Sirius than scrambled out of bed. "What are you doing?" I asked trying to ignore the fact that he was wearing nothing but a pair of black boxers with naked ladies on them. I tried to ignore the way the moon shorn behind him casting light through his hair and making his gray eyes shine. I also tried to ignore the fact that he had the nicest body I ever seen. With broad shoulders, pecks and a rippling 6 pack it was no wonder why Sirius was so sought after. If I wasn't on a mission there would be no stopping me from attacking him in a fit of lust. But I quickly shook that thought out of my head. Sirius was my friend, and even if he did love me I wouldn't be able to do that with him.

"I'm coming with you" he whispered slipping on a pair of pants.

We both turned as James moaned and called Lily's name. Sirius and I both snorted and he put his hand on the small of my back and pushed me out of the room.

We ran down the stairs and out of the portrait hole.

"Here" Sirius said grabbing the cloak and throwing it over us. We than hurried through the halls and up to the owlery.

I took out a piece of parchment and began to scribble furiously.

How could you! I know Alex was the one that killed Aaron and I know you knew. You also know that Alex is a Death Eater. I suppose that's why Alex killed Aaron because he knew. And you didn't want me to leave Hogwarts because you're afraid that Alex will come after me.

Well I'm writing this to let you know that I am going to go to the Ministry as soon as school ends and I'm reporting Alex to the Aurors if it's the last thing I do; I'm making him pay!

-Abby

Sirius read it over my shoulder and after agreeing that it was good we sent it off. I stood watching the owl disappear into the night sky and shivered at the thought of Alex out there waiting for me.

Sirius wrapped his arms around my waist and put his head on my shoulder. "Are you serious about going to the authorities?"

I nodded. "He has to pay for what he did".

"What if your father tries to stop you?"

I closed my eyes and took a breath. "Than I'll report him as well".

Sirius squeezed me than threw the cloak on. "Let's go".

The next day I waited with bated breath for a letter, and than the day after that. After 2 weeks I stopped waiting. Obviously my father had made his choice. I was going to go and report them both.

"Do you think that's the best idea?" Sirius asked me one night as we were sitting together on the couch.

I nodded. "It is".

"Than I'll be there with you every step of the way".

I smiled and placed my head on his shoulder. "Thank you".

Dun dun dun. Chapter 9.

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