Hogwarts, 1977
Sirius Black stepped of the Hogwarts express with his trunk in his left hand and his wand in his right.
He looked up at his school, his home.
"Good to be back Prongs." He said to his best friend James who was standing next to him, also gazing up at the awesome castle.
"Last year Padfoot. Last year to make our final mark on this place." James sighed.
"Any particular goals?" Asked Sirius, "For example: creating mayhem anywhere specific?"
James hesitated, "No, nothing like that."
"Then what?"
"This is going to be the year that Lily Evans finally agrees to go out with me." Said James confidently.
"Okay." Sirius snorted; Lily would never go for him in a million years. I mean she called him an insolent toerag for Merlin's sake.
"I mean it Padfoot, this is going to be the year."
"Whatever you say Prongs. Now c'mon or we'll miss the carriages. Moony and Wormtail must have found us one by now."
Up at the school, Auden Kingston and Lily Evans were already taking their seats at the Gryffindoor house table for the welcome-back feast.
"Final year Lily, can you believe it?" Auden sighed resting her head in her palms looking solemnly around at all her peers. "Last year…"
"Stop it! Stop saying that!" Cried Lily looking almost tearful, "I don't want to think about that! I just don't!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
"I can't imagine not being at Hogwarts every year, it terrifies me…"
"Why does it terrify you?" Asked Auden, confused.
Lily blinked, "I don't know, I guess it'll mean that I have nothing constant in my life anymore, nothing that—no matter what—will always be there to welcome me home."
Auden grimaced, "I never thought about it like that before—" she paused, "But be we'll always have each other right Lily? You'll always be a constant in my life?"
Lily smiled kindly, "Of course." The next things she knew Lily had groaned and narrowed her eyes, looking over Auden's shoulder. "Oh God, I almost forgot about them… them I'm not going to miss."
Auden turned to look over her shoulder, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew had strutted into the hall.
"Hello blasted school! Did you miss us!?" Shouted Black a devilish grin on his face; James was laughing and Remus was looking amused.
Auden didn't particularly like the group, then again she didn't really know them. She knew Lily couldn't stand them and she was often around when Potter hit on Lily but she had never really spoken a word to them.
But they were constantly rude to professors, breaking the rules and—on more then one occasion—Black and Potter had stumbled through the portrait hole on late nights completely hammered.
She watched as James tapped Sirius on the shoulder and gestured towards where Lily and Auden were sitting.
"They're going to come over here." Auden commented flatly.
"No!" Lily whined, "I can't deal with them… Auden scare them away!"
"Excuse me?!"
"Hello ladies, may we join you this evening?" Both girls turned to quick to look at James and Sirius looking at them expectantly.
"We promise you we'll be perfect gentlemen." James promised his hazel eyes on Lily.
"When have you ever been a gentlemen Potter?" Lily asked icily, James opened his mouth to answer but Lily interrupted him, "Never mind, I'll answer that, never. So if you don't mind I'm going to ask you to leave so I can enjoy my meal without being sick to my stomach from looking at you!"
"Evans!" James protested.
Sirius scowled, "C'mon Lily stop having a stick up you're a—"
"Excuse me!" Auden snapped. "You don't talk to her like that!"
Sirius looked surprised for a second but then grinned, "Oh, and who are you?" he wiggled his eyebrows flirtatiously.
"That's none of your business!"
"Oh but it is—you see when I see a beautiful girl, who I don't know. I feel the need to introduce myself…" He said silkily.
"Well I already know who you are. So please, leave us the hell alone." She turned away.
"Lily I just want to sit next—" James was saying.
"Well I don't want you to sit by me, and I believe that is a factor? Now leave before I call a Professor over here, I'm head girl now and I—"
"James is head boy!" Sirius butted in.
"What?!" Asked Lily incredulously.
"I am… so I guess I'll be seeing you, Lily." He winked, and he and Sirius marched down the table to sit with Remus and Peter.
Auden glanced at Lily who was looking positively in shock. "You alright there?"
"He's—head BOY?" Lily hissed and put her head on the table.
"I guess…"
"How? He was never a prefect!" Her voice was muffled from the contact with the table.
"I don't know. But I can't lie and say I didn't notice the badge…"
"He has a badge?! Damn, I was hoping he was just lying as usual."
Auden sat in silence running a hand through her curly honey colored hair, she looked back down the house table at the boys.
They were all laughing, their faces alight with happiness. Sirius was beaming, but his grin faltered and he turned to look at her curiously.
Auden quickly snapped her head back to look at Professor Dumbledore who was just striding on to the podium to introduce the first-years who had to be sorted.
"Auden?" Lily asked, concerned.
"Hmm..? I mean—yes?"
"Why are you blushing?"
"Oh, am I?" Auden asked, flustered touching her cheeks; they were indeed hot. "I wouldn't know why that would be…"
Had Sirius Black done this to her? Why would that be? She wasn't blind, she knew he was awfully fit, but she wasn't stupid. She heard the groans and moans and giggles coming from his dormitory in the middle of the day, and she listened to the cautionary stories of other girls,
"He is so powerful… and strong. He's intoxicating… I just wish he would talk to me...he hasn't since-"
No, Auden would never be one of those idiotic girls. The ones he slept with and never said a word to afterward. So she let herself get pulled into the sorting of the first years; It was a delightful process. Little did she know that Sirius Black's eyes were on her and at precisely at that moment.
She wasn't aware that he was leaning over to his best friend to hiss, "Hey James!"
"Yeah?"
"Do you know who that girl is, the one sitting next to Lily?"
"Which one? Oh yes—that's Auden Kingston… why?"
"Oh nothing—just…. 'target acquired' if you know what I know what I mean."
James sniggered and Sirius smirked, thinking to himself, "Auden Kingston… you have no idea what you're in for."
A/N: I couldn't help myself, I had to update. I hoped you liked the first part of the story. It'll pick up really quick! :) Remember: review, favorite and follow.
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