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Yay! Chapter sixteen, I'm really happy! Okay, maybe not, but I promise to try my best to make this chapter worth while! We're getting our scanner hooked up here soon and then we'll have to get a new printer because ours is broken. Well, anyways, here comes chapter 16.
All out the Window
Sirius smiled as Drusella came down the stairs. She held a small tote bag with her.
"Ready to go to the noble house of Black?" he asked sarcastically. She smiled lightly and shrugged.
"You sure you want us to come?" Drusella asked softly feeling a bit nervous. She didn't mind being discriminated, but she had never gone to a house of a boy whose whole family was against the thought of muggle parented children to be allowed in magical places.
"Yeah. I mean, sure going back to that place isn't exactly my heaven on Earth, I want you to go through Hell with me." He laughed. She laughed too.
"Besides, I don't consider myself as family with my so called father and brother." She said looking a bit angry. Sirius sighed. Dru and he had so much in common. Both didn't fit in their families and both felt it better to be on their own. Both shared the hard, horrible pasts of being alone and they seemed to reach each other in a cool sense of reassurance.
"That's alright, as far as I know, I'm not an actual Black." He muttered. She smiled lightly.
"Hey, peoples!" A loud voice called. Sirius and Drusella turned and smiled to see James, Lily, Remus, Sapphira and Peter coming down the stairs.
"Yay! We get to stay at the Black institute of horrors!" Peter cried. Sirius laughed.
"Yeah, and if you don't hurry mom will yell at you for missing the train!" a voice said from behind them. They saw Regulus Black standing with his cousins Narcissa, Andromeda and Bellatrix standing with their suitcases too.
"Oh, cry me a river." Sirius muttered. Narcissa glared.
"It's bad enough Aunt Lissa let the blood traitor come, but did she HAVE to let you invite your stupid little friends?" she asked haughtily. Drusella poked from around Sirius and stared at Narcissa.
"Narcissa?" she asked. The blonde shot her cold eyes to Drusella and they instantly lit up.
"Dru?! You're coming?" she asked excitedly. Drusella nodded. Even if Dru was a mudblood, she never considered herself as one and turned Narcissa's hate for her with ignorance into friendship.
"Why on Earth are you coming?" she asked. Sirius put a protective arm around her and Narcissa's jaw dropped.
"You're dating Sirius?" she asked unbelievably. Dru nodded and Narcissa turned to her older sister, Bellatrix.
"Can you believe it?" she asked. Bella looked appalled.
"Come on, Drusella. You can do better then that." She said sourly. Drusella shot her a look that said 'watch it' and Bellatrix shut up.
"Well it's about time he dated someone worth while." Regulus said snickering. Andromeda sighed.
"I think it's lovely that you're dating. Drusella is a very nice girl." She said. With out further a due, the seven of them headed for the front of the school to board the train to the Black's house. On the train, they shared a compartment. While Remus, Sirius, James, Peter and Regulus talked about Quidditch, the girls decided to chat about the wedding.
"Yes, our aunt has made a very good choice marrying that man. She sent me his picture, he's bloody gorgeous." Bellatrix said dreamily, not even caring if she was in the presence of blood traitors and mud bloods.
"I have the perfect dress picked out. I got it in Hogsmeade during Christmas Hols. It's absolutely gorgeous. Long and pink with roses." She squealed. Lily explained her dress and in a matter of seconds all the girls were explaining their choice of attire.
"A silvery dress made of silk-"
"A lovely blue satin dress with lace-"
"Adorable red little dress-''
"An absolute plain purple and black dress-"
It wasn't until the trolley wheeled by that the students stopped chatting. The boys chose to purchase the snacks; chocolate frogs, Ice Mice and Ginger Crabs.
When the train came to a complete stop, they unloaded their belongings and waited in front of the station for Mr. and Mrs. Black. When a couple came walking toward them, Regulus shouted,
"Mum! Dad!" and the brown haired man and raven haired woman walked to them. Mrs. Black eyed James, Lily, and Remus and Peter coldly and shifted her attention onto Sirius, in which they shared a long cold look.
"Hello Auntie Lissa." Bellatrix said smiling. Mrs. Black smiled kindly down at her and Mr. Black stepped foreword.
"Sirius, who are these two girls?" he asked. Sirius stayed silent for a moment but answered shortly,
"This is my girlfriend Drusella Cammolie and Remus' girl, Sapphira Higgs." This made Mrs. Black smile again.
"Ah, Arvard and Cecilia's daughter, I presume?" she said. Sapphira twitched a little but nodded.
"Good parents you have." She whispered. Mr. Black took over.
"Sirius, I am surprised you didn't bring a flashy girl over this time." He said gravely. Sirius sucked his teeth.
"Drusella is anything but a flashy girl." He said angrily. Mr. Black nodded slowly.
"A mudblood?" he asked her. Sirius felt his fits shake, but sighed when he saw how well Dru took it.
"Sir, the answer would be yes, but I would hardly call the muggles who brought me into this world and tried to raise me, family." She said in a cool tone. Mr. and Mrs. Black stared at her.
"You resent your family then?" Lissa Black asked. Drusella stared hard at them. She hated her family and had no hard feelings admitting it.
"My father killed my sister, my mother died a year later, my so called brother left his family and I ran away from home because I wanted to be away. Besides, they would never understand the meaning of me being a witch." She said. Sirius gleamed. Mrs. Black raised a brow.
"Still, once a mudblood, always a mudblood." She said.
"I agree. Once a mudblood, always a mudblood." Drusella answered. Mr. and Mrs. Black's eyes widened. Never had they seen someone call themselves a mudblood willingly.
"You are far much stranger then the girls our son has brought to us before." Mr. Black said.
"It would be a pity if I weren't, now wouldn't it?" she said shortly.
"Come now. We only have a little while before the gate closes." Mrs. Black said. The children nodded and followed her and her husband to the gate where they would floo powder home.
The Black mansion was beautiful. Tall and dark, with a mysterious look against it. Although the family didn't seem too emended into it, Sapphira and Drusella stared at it in awe.
"Now, your room is still unoccupied. You'll just have to make due with sharing it with your friends Sirius-"
"What the fuck?" he asked, astounded.
"It's bad enough I'm allowing mudbloods under my roof, you learn to deal with it." Mrs. Black said with a final tone.
Sirius rolled his eyes and gave his friends that 'this is why I left' look.
They ramped up the stairs and Sirius lead them to his room. Even though he was the 'bad seed' in his family, his room was much nicer then Remus, James, Lily, Sapphira, Peter or Drusella had. Well, maybe not as much as Sapphira as the rest.
Sapphira came from a pure blood family. The infamous Higgs'. She lived in a gorgeous mansion and had a real beautiful bedroom, but usually sat in her walk in closet where it was plastered with muggle posters and pictures.
But Sirius' room was large, vibrant reds and gold decorated his bed, true Gryffindor colors. He had three Quidditch posters hanging up, with the men and women waving graciously down at them, and a large merrier. Besides that, it was quite bare, since Sirius took most of his things to James' place and his new flat.
"Nice room." Drusella commented flatly. Sirius laughed and put and arm around her.
"Alright then. How about we share the bed?" he asked. She raised a brow, completely uninterested.
"How 'bout not." She said in a fake enthusiastic voice. Sirius laughed at his girlfriend's sarcasm and punched her playfully. She growled as in saying 'touch me again Black, and suffer the consequences'.
"Yeah, okay. So, what's on the agenda for now?" James asked, breaking the silence. Sirius shrugged.
"It'd be best to hang out in here. That's what I usually did." He said bitterly.
"Why don't you show us around?" Sapphira asked, trying to lighten the moment. Sirius raised a brow at her.
"You truly don't want to be around some of these people." He said with a lemon twist in his dark voice. Drusella placed a hand on his shoulder.
"The people here are rude." He added to her. He looked deep in her eyes. He knew right then and there that THIS was the girl. All other girls we're scared shitless of the other Black's, but this girl was quite headstrong and didn't seem to mind it in the least.
"We'll take them on." She said softly, smiling to him in reassurance. He sighed, giving up, and placed a hand on her shoulder, like she had.
"Hey-hey, enough romance." Came Peter's voice. Remus laughed and hung an arm around Peter's neck.
"Aw, Wormtail- don't act this way just because you don't have a girlfriend." He said grinning immensely. Peter shot him a look.
"I do too have a girlfriend! She just couldn't come, that's all. For Merlin's sake, what parent would allow their twelve years old to go to a house alone with her seventeen year old boyfriend and his mates?" he asked, quite flushed. Sirius' bark-like laughter erupted from his trail of words.
"What parent would allow their twelve years old daughter date seventeen years old?" This made Peter blush even more, and he scoffed the floor with his muggle style tennis shoes.
"So...then, how about we all have some butter beer and talk about the rest of our lives?" Sapphira proposed. Remus, who truly didn't care for long sessions about the future, would never give up the offer on butter beer, whether it is alcoholic or not.
"I'm in! How about the rest of you?" he asked smiling. Lily bit her lip and shrugged. James nodded and sent Sirius a wide grin. Sirius grinned back, nodded and plopped on his bed. The rest of the group slowly climbed into Sirius' large bed, sitting cress cross and breathing heavily.
"Better yet, let's play another muggle game." Lily said, remembering the late summer nights back oh, eight years ago, when she and her muggle friends would sit on her cushiony bed and play a game in which one would ask two questions.
"Alright Lily. What do you have in mind?" Remus asked. Lily grinned devilishly, causing shivers to run down James' spine.
"No. Don't tell me..." Drusella whimpered, shaking her head furiously.
"Aw-come one, Dru! It's real fun-"
"Fun? Fun? It's not fun, it's bloody evil!" she cried in an outrageous tone. Sirius laughed and rubbed his girlfriend's back.
"I didn't know muggle games were evil." He said smirking. "And you're beginning to sound like my mum and dad with all this anti-muggle stuff." She ignored his comment and stared fearfully at the smirk on Lily's defiant face.
"The name of the game is truth or dare. It's really quite simple, when it's your turn; you ask anyone in the group this simple question, 'truth or dare'. If they pick truth then you ask them something such as 'Is it true you still wet the bed?' and if they pick dare, you shall dare them anything you wish. Now, you MUST answer the truth, but if the dare seems to strong you can have consequence which can vary from being better or worse." Lily said. James nodded and stared at his friend's bemused faces.
Drusella shook her head and groaned. Why did everybody want to torture her? Was it some measly game in which she was 'it'? This wasn't fair. Even if she found being a muggle no true issue, muggle games unnerved her. Especially ones such as this.
"Okay. I'll start out." Lily said happily, ignoring Drusella's groan for mercy. She eased herself more onto Sirius' bed and cleared her throat.
"Remus, truth or dare?" she asked with a slight giggle on her lips. Remus, who automatically flushed, bit his lip. Being the skeptical one of the group he chose the safest he could think of.
"Truth." He said softly. Lily smirked, making Remus even more nervous.
"Hum...let's see. Is it true that...the furthest your relationship has ever gone with a girl is just kissing?" she asked. Remus went red as roses and covered his face with his hands.
"Yeah..." he muttered. Lily smiled, this time sweetly, and clapped.
"Your turn." Remus peeked from between his fingers and sighed with relief. His eyes scanned the room, everyone was nervous of whom he would pick to be his victim. He grinned evilly, seeing how Drusella squirmed at even the thought of the game.
"Drusella, truth or dare?" Drusella almost felt like jumping Remus. That little insufferable twit! Why couldn't they just leave her out of the game? But then again, this was Remus. She was sure his dares couldn't be that bad. Or, more or less, she hoped.
"Dare." She said coldly. Remus shifted under her icy stare and gulped. He really didn't want to make her too angry. You didn't make someone who was a very skilled witch at Dark Arts and of whom had a stare cold enough to kill, angry.
"I...uh...Dare you to...um...I dare you to take the bed with Sirius tonight. We'll take the floor." He said, wincing and hoping he hadn't angered her. He glanced at Sirius who had an uneasy smile on his face and then to Drusella, who had raised an annoyed eyebrow.
"Whatever. Sapphira, truth or dare?'' she asked, feeling vomit in her stomach.
"Dare!" the perky little girl cried. Her long brown hair was in two braids and they flew whenever she jumped.
"I uh, dare you to... dance." She said lamely. The others scoffed and she glared at them in a way of saying, 'Hey, at least I'm playing the fucking game!'
Sapphira shrugged, got off the bed and did a happy dance. She twisted her shoulders, raised her hands and waved them in the air and shook her body in a quick, cute manner.
After her happy dance, Sapphira hopped back on the bed and smiled a sickly sweet smile at Sirius.
"Truth or dare?" she asked. He smirked. Being adventurous was part of his 'Black' nature. Besides, dares were boring compared to what he did for fun.
"Dare." He claimed.
"I dare you to kiss one of the guys in this room." She said. His face fell.
"What?!" everyone asked in unison. Sapphira blinked momentarily and shrugged. Sirius sighed, leaned over to James and kissed him lightly. James squeaked and hid behind Lily.
"Urge, Merlin Sirius! That was the worse kiss ever!" he growled. Lily giggled and turned to face her boyfriend.
"I can fix that." She said seductively. She wrapped her arm around his neck and kissed him, quite hard.
Sirius grinned at Drusella who raised a brow and Sapphira squealed.
"Oh, Remy! Isn't it just as sweet as when Mickey o' Donald proposed to the turtle princess of Scandinavia?" she asked in a deep, romantic voice. Sirius turned slowly to look at her, just as Remus did.
"I've learned its best not to ask. Really, it's best not to." He said simply. His white ashened face turned scarlet when he felt Sapphira's hand on his.
"When Romeo and Juliet stop tonguing each other- we can finish the game." Sirius said in a nonchalant voice.
Drusella sighed and hopped off the bed. This really wasn't her thing and it was beginning to unnerve her. She noticed Sirius' eyes trail after her and she turned to face him.
"The loo?" she asked flatly. Sirius pointed to a door the lead from his room to his private bathroom. She nodded in a appreciative way and turned to use the bathroom.
Drusella locked the door and sank to the floor. She held her head in her hands feeling blank emotions rise up inside of her. Looking around her she felt tears well up. No- don't cry.
No way. There is absolutely no way I am doing to cry. I don't cry. Me-Drusella Cammolie will not cry.
She thought, and wondered, why she was here. Just last year- she sat watching these young people in the next room. They were nothing to her. She didn't swoon over the young Mr. Black like her classmates did. But that didn't mean she didn't think her was cute. He was bloody hott, straight up. And to think that he liked her made her laugh in between tears. She thought of Sirius' goofy grin against the stare he gave his mother and father. So cold and... un-Sirius-like. Her kind of stare.
But there was so much about her that he didn't- he wouldn't- understand. Like the real reason why she hated her own folks. The old her- the one who was so keen on life. Her deepest secret- he would never know.
And he tells you all his secrets, jackass. Her mind reclined. She bit her lip, but even she knew that she couldn't tell him all those things.
Don't forget! He wants to live with you. He loves you that much. But Drusella shrugged it off. She stood up and flushed the toilet falsely and turned the water on to wash her hands.
I'm melting! She smiled. But the smile quickly turned to its usual poker-like glare that usually made people at school nervous. A reason no guy would ever even dare ask her on a date- her glare. She just seemed too cold and dead for anyone to even dare try. But Sirius did. Even though his perkiness well outdid hers, it was quite alright.
She opened the door to find Sirius falling asleep on the floor and Remus and Sapphira playing a shy game of touchy feely, while James and Lily continued their make out session. She grinned. She walked over towards the sleeping Sirius and pulled her wand from her muggle-like Goth girl skirt.
"Surprise!" she whispered, holding it over her head. A wicked grin crossed over her soulless face.
K. That's about it, for now. Hope you enjoyed it.