AN: Well hello again. I'm sorry for taking so long. But here it is, all beta-ed and beautiful. Um...don't hate me because of the end. But again I own nothing but the characters you don't recognize. I know I don't deserve to ask, but could you all please review.

Chapter 16—Them's Fighting Words

Two Months Later

Jessica's powers had been growing steadily the past few months and now she had a real grasp of them. She was extremely proud of herself, as was Sirius.

The two lay in quietly in each others arms, Sirius with his eyes closed and Jessica with her eyes glued to a photograph on his nightstand. The picture had been puzzling her for some time. It was of a tall man with messy black hair and hazel eyes with his arms around a beautiful redhead with brilliant green eyes, which reminded her of Sirius' godson Harry.

The photograph had been nagging at her for about a month, and every time she questioned Sirius about it he'd shut down coldly. Jessica had thought about asking Remus or Harry about the photograph, but she knew it would upset Sirius and she wanted the answers from him.

Jessica couldn't understand why he was being so tight lipped about this picture. Sirius had always expressed that he wanted an open and honest relationship with her; however, it seemed that that notion fled his mind whenever the topic of said photo came up.

Jessica thought of herself as a patient woman. But her patience had been waning thin for the past month. She wanted answers and she wanted them now.

"Sirius, are you up?" she asked strongly, readying herself for a fight.

"Hmm, yeah love," he said placing a tender kiss to her temple.

Jessica smiled at this gesture. The kiss almost made her will crumble, but she would not let him deter her so easily, even if he didn't know he was doing it.

"Sirius, we need to talk…," she said lifting her body from his arms.

Sirius opened his eyes and looked at her back with a confused and fearful look on his face. 'We need to talk,' had always been words that led in disaster.

"…about that picture," she said turning towards him. She felt his mood change instantly from fear to anger to coldness in an instant.

"No we don't, Jessica I've already told you I don't want to talk about that picture."

"But I want to talk about it. You're keeping things from me, things about your life, I know it, I can feel it, and I don't think it's fair to me or to our relationship."

"Well I think you need to mind your own business."

"But you are my business. You're my boyfriend and it's important for us to know about each other's lives. You know everything about me, but yet I'm only allowed to know a select few things about you. It's not fair."

"Yeah well life isn't fair," he said bitterly.

"Is that all you can say to me? Life's not fair? Because I think—"

"Well you know what I think?" he asked angrily. "I think it's time that you go. Get out," he said with blazing gray eyes.

Jessica stared at him with wide eyes. "What?"

"You heard me! Get!" he said flinging his arm towards the door.

Jessica stared at him with her mouth open.

"Why are you still here?" he questioned nastily.

"Don't worry, I won't be back here again," she said jumping off the bed in a huff.

Jessica left Sirius' room in a livid tizzy. She couldn't believe how Sirius had just treated her. But she did know one thing, she wasn't staying anywhere she was not wanted.

Sirius lay on his bed brooding. He couldn't understand why Jessica couldn't let go of that picture. Why couldn't she understand that that was something he didn't want to share with her?

But she has every right to want to know, his conscience told him.

Not if it's going to make her look at me differently.

She already does look at you differently now, because of the whole yelling and kicking her out.

Shit.

Sirius jumped from his bed, her last words ringing in his ear, I won't be here again.

Shit, he thought again.

"Jessica," Sirius called walking down the hallway.

"Jessica, come on love. I know you're mad, and I'm really sorry," he said as he continued to walk around the house.

Sirius felt panic begin to grip his heart and he once again heard her words ring in his head, I won't be here again.

"Jessica!"

"Sirius, what's wrong?"

Sirius turned to see Remus looking at him with concerned eyes.

"I can't find her," Sirius said looking terrified.

"Look, calm down, I'm sure she's somewhere here. We just need to look."

"No, we had a fight and I told her to leave, and I…sigh…I think she took me literally," he said running his hand through his hair.

Remus frowned. "Well, let's look through the house more and then we can go out and look for her."

"No, you all stay here and look for her. I'm going to her apartment," Sirius said grabbing his coat from the rack in the hallway.

"I'll come with you. Harry and Ron can search the house," he said shrugging on his coat.

Sirius didn't say a word, instead looked at the door with intense eyes, as if willing Jessica to walk through it.

"Let's go, I've told Harry and Ron."

Sirius and Remus Apparated from Twelve Grimmauld Place and landed in the small apartment of Jessica's.

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