"Get away from me."
"Emma just listen to me!"
Emma walked hurriedly down the hallway, trying to ignore Sirius's pleas. Sirius jogged to keep up with her.
"No. Just leave me alone and snog some other poor girl." She hissed as she went up the changing stairs.
Sirius was left as she leaped off the stairs to a nearby platform and watched as they continued on the path, with Sirius watching her with a sad stare. She turned and stalked off.
"Emma!" she heard him shout as he disappeared from view.
She turned left and found herself face-to-face to a boy with long sleek platinum blonde hair and a pale face.
"Lucius Malfoy…" she said coolly.
"Well well well… Emmaline Brooks. What are you doing so near the Slytherin part of school?"
"Why are you so keen to know?" she shot back.
"Why are you being so secretive? Did you fancy a walk? Or maybe a Slytherin?" he drawled.
"Yeah. I came to confess my undying love for you." She said sarcastically.
"Who've you got there Malfoy?"
Emma did a double take. At first look, she thought it was Sirius, but looking closer he was slightly shorter and wearing Slytherin robes.
"Emmaline Brooks. Fancied a walk close to the prowling Slytherins." Lucius drawled.
They both rounded on her, leering. She started feeling a bit scared now. They started advancing on her and she started backing away. They sneered at her in a frightful way. She felt her back hit the wall. They started closing in on her, evil sneers on their faces. She flinched away from them, waiting for a curse or hit. After a few moments and a scuffling noise, she opened her eyes and saw double. Malfoy was lying unmoving, slumped against the other wall, and Regulus was dueling with Sirius.
"Stupefy!" Sirius shouted.
A burst of red light shot from Sirius's wand and hit Regulus in the chest. Regulus fell backwards and there was a eerie thud and then silence. Emma looked up from Regulus to Sirius, then promptly turned and started walking away.
"Emmaline…" Sirius said quietly.
She froze. Slowly, she turned to face him.
"Emma, I might have just saved your life… you have to listen to me now…" he said, unnaturally quiet.
She didn't respond.
"I'm sorry if I offended you or whatever when I- er… in Hogsmeade… and you're not like all those other girls that I 'snog for the hell of it'… you make me feel like no girl has ever made me feel before… I fancy you, Emma. Can you forgive me? And maybe we can try again…"
"well… yes." She hesitantly replied.
Sirius grinned so broadly that Emma couldn't help but smile back. They walked back to the common room together, hand in hand, Malfoy and Regulus long forgotten.