Title – The Day Had Come

Chapter – Four - Producing Patronus

Pairing – Sirius/Oc1 Remus/Oc2 James/Lily

Rating – M

Warnings – Character Romance, Spoilers for the books and films.

Quick Intro – Melissa used to be an Auror, she had many secrets, she had one prophecy in her name, she used to apart of the wizard world but that was along time ago, she would never go back, would she? She has been asked to rejoin the fight against the Dark Wizards one of whom is her father.

Disclaimer – I don't own any of the character from Harry Potter alas they belong to J.K. Rowling, there is no financial gain here just a love of fanfiction.

Chapter Four - Producing Patornus.

The week had gone fast enough and although Sirius had played two tricks on her she had only put a sticking charm on his seat, she didn't know if her pranks would risk her training. That Sunday morning she received two letters one from her Dad ordering her home for the Christmas holidays and one from Mad-Eye informing her to be at the top floor room in the east wing at seven that night. Feeling excited and slightly scared she destroyed the letter and put her fathers' letter in her bag, she would deal with him later.

The day had dragged on and on, looking at the time every five minutes had not helped, she spent the day with Remus who was trying to take her mind off her lesson, eventually the time had arrived and she left with Remus wishing her luck. The room was an old classroom that had been cleared of chairs and desks, drapes hung at the windows and the candle lights were lit. Stood in the middle of the room was Mad-Eye, she gripped her wand a bit tighter as she approached "Auror Moody, I thought someone else would be teaching me."

"No one free so I'm stuck teaching you, get your wand out I need to know what you can do so I can gage you ability."

She didn't believe there was no one else free to teach her and the thought the fact she had put her wand to his throat was the real reason he was here, she did as she was told and after three hours of rapid fire questions, her performing almost every spell she knew and some she didn't, Mad-Eye finally put his wand away and took a swig from his flask.

"Now girl, produce a patronus" she hesitated before replying "I don't know if I can, the other night was the first time I managed to do it." He looked at her but she dropped the stare first "You produced a full patronus for the first time while under pressure means you can do it whenever you want, now try." She tried and on the second attempt to her amazement a creature appeared before her, the other night she had been so on edge that she did not realise what form her patronus had taken, now it was standing there before her she was amazed, it was a centaur, she stared at it before moving it across the room and back again. She had never met a real centaur before but knew what they looked like, slowly he faded and she faced Mad-Eye.

He did not seemed bothered one way or the other just mentally ticked off patronus on his check list "That's enough for today, we will meet again after Christmas in two weeks time and I will send you some reading material before then."

She heard the clock tower chime as she entered the common room, the only people left were Remus, Peter, James, Lily and Rose, but behind she felt him bump in to her, she turned and found herself two inches from the face of Sirius Black, he frowned. "Watch it Issa and stop dawdling" he pushed past her and she realised he had his hands full with food, he had obviously just raided the kitchens. He headed over and the group looked up, Remus instantly got up and come over to her, they had a whispered conversation, she noticed Sirius was glaring at them.

"How did it go?" he asked "It was very intense and I am wiped, he made me perform practically every spell I know while quizzing me about everything, he ended by making me do a patronus and I managed it, it was the form of a centaur, I am going to the library tomorrow to research what that means." Remus sounded concerned "Sounds like he really pushed you again, making you perform so much magic is not good, you will be tired in lessons tomorrow" she placed her hand on his arm and kissed his cheek "I am fine Rem, it was kinda fun, thought I did expect him to hex me so was on edge a little bit."

At that moment she yawned and stretched "I think I am going to head up to bed, night" he smiled and said good night, as she walked past the group she grabbed a piece of chocolate cake before Sirius could stop her. "Thanks Black, Night guys" she winked at Sirius when she said it and had no idea why, she was asleep within moments and didn't hear the others come up. In her dreams she was watching her patronus again but this time when she turned to look at Mad-Eye, Sirius was there instead, leaning forward to kiss her and once again she did not slap him away but kissed him back, she woke up startled and knew she would have to sort the kiss out the next day.

It was the last week before Christmas so lessons were more homework based as students were to excited to study in class, kids were packing to go home the last Saturday was a Hogsmade trip, unfortunately a fire cracker bewitched to resemble Santa mooning was released in the Great Hall and traced back to Sirius, this meant his Hogsmade privileges were revoked. Melissa decided that talking with him while the castle was empty was better the having it full so she stayed behind also excusing herself to Remus saying she wanted to finish reading the mass amounts of material Mad-Eye had sent her.

Waiting in the empty common room for Sirius to return from his detention was agonising, the kiss she felt was wrong, there was something about it that needed to be work out, before she could think about it Sirius entered and almost ignored her heading towards the boys dorm room, she stepped in front of him. "Sirius I wanted to ask you something." He raised an eye brow and pulled his wand out of his pocket ready for the hex he thought was going to come his way. "Its just when you…the other night….you know kissed me...do you think it felt…well strange?"

He had tensed and still felt this was in some way a prank "Well getting slapped felt strange yeah." She rolled her eyes "No I meant, maybe it's just me I ….I just need to know." Before he could move she leaned forward and kissed him, she was just going to pull away when his hand moved up her arm on to her shoulder and his fingers slipped through her hair and pulled her harder on to his lips, she felt him kiss her back before they both broke away, she was the one who spoke after a few moments of silence.

"Is it weird that this isn't weird."

Sirius replied sounding just as breathless and unsure as her "Kind of, I mean we hate each other." She nodded "Right, you annoy the hell out of me, it must be hormones, right?" They stepped away from each other before Sirius spoke again "We can't do this, I mean it would be wrong because it's just hormones nothing else." Standing a bit taller she replied "I agree, at least we can now go back to out mutual hatred of each other."

They both agreed and she left the common room heading towards the library, after hours of studying Mad-Eyes books for over five hours she still found herself absently touching her lips or running her hand through her hair where Sirius had touched her 'Bloody hormones' she thought.

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