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This next chapter is all about Sirius's crush on Lily. I just want to make something clear, the crush that the Marauders had on Lily didn't become an issue. It didn't progress to love, at least not that kind of love, and neither were any of the Marauders resentful because they didn't get the girl. They were genuinely happy for James and by the time Lily and James got together their crush had long past.

And on that note, Read on!

"Stop it! Stop it right now!"

Sirius Black got his wand snatched away from him before he even had a chance to blink. He attempted to reach for it reflexively, but found another wand pointing at him, directly between his eyes. Through his peripheral vision he could see the first year wiping blood from his lip. However, he couldn't see much of anything else, as he became cross-eyed trying to keep the wand point in view. There was a horrible, expectant hush in the whole corridor, the crowd of people also frozen. From arms length, Sirius could see a blur of red.

The girl, and yes it was a girl, who disarmed Sirius, pushed her red hair back from her face with one hand. It was then that Sirius recognized the girl. It was Lily Evans, the girl that Prongs had a crush on since forever. Her face showed nothing but an anger that could rival his own. The first year sat up, dazed and disoriented.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't hex you to four days in the hospital wing, right now?" She said her voice deep and menacing.

Sirius was somehow brave and stupid enough to answer. "-The brat had it coming." Then he yelped as the wand tip glowed red, the same color as her hair, blood red. There was a ripple in the crowd, as people whispered.

"Lily, please don't do anything stupid!" Another girl piped. Alice Prewitt, he thought, by her short brown locks.

Evans, however, was not to be deterred. "Do you remember being a first year, Alice?" She asked, still not taking her eyes off Sirius.

Alice didn't say anything as she waited for Lily to go on.

Lily took a deep breath attempting to control herself. "You're scared and you feel alone, very alone. But one day, maybe you'll see your brother in the corridors." She glared at Sirius again. "And you'll want to be acknowledged by your fifth year brother so you say hello."

Sirius felt anger well up in his chest at her words, but he kept silent, still aware of the wand being pointed at him.

"And then you know what happened, Alice?" Lily said laughing humourlessly, making her seem even more menacing. "Instead of a return greeting he got an OWL level spell hit on him that sent him flying! What's worse is that his friends and a whole corridor were laughing at him." Evans said angrily. Sirius's wand in her other hand started to shoot out sparks.

In the crowd, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew remained hidden, watching the scene with a mix of amusement and conflict. In short, they could not come to their mate's rescue. Especially not with what he did a couple days ago.

But despite not interfering, James silently willed Sirius not to say anything.

"Listen, Evans, he's a two-faced brat who insulted—"

"He did not!" She yelled. "He merely wanted to know why you weren't hanging out with Potter anymore! If that's an insult then please let me know, I'll be ready to apologize." Her emerald eyes gauged his grey ones, but Sirius said nothing.

Lily suddenly dropped both her arms, and Sirius' wand, and he and James both shivered in relief. She gently poked Regulas with her foot.

"Get up."

He shot up, red with embarrassment, and glared at Lily.

"I didn't ask for your help! I didn't-"

She patted his head absently. Lily twirled her wand through her fingers, like she wasn't quite sure what to do next, and James realised that all her anger had been burned up. Finally, she glanced down at Regulas, Sirius's younger brother.

"You alright?" When he didn't answer, she shrugged. "Fine. Get out of here before I kick your shin."

For some reason, that managed to send Regulas scurrying into the crowd with a slightly shell-shocked expression, where, to his and James' surprise, several people patted his shoulder or stopped him to check for bleeding head wounds. Lily sighed and ran a hand through her red hair, messing it up.

"Right then."

The crowd immediately dispersed when she turned around and walked away, leaving Sirius standing there with a sullen expression.

The next day, Sirius's mood hadn't changed. He sat alone during breakfast, lunch and dinner and even during classes. His friends abandoned sitting next to him. It was clear that he was utterly alone.

Lily, like many other students, took notice of this, but didn't comment. She had heard about fight between the Marauders. She knew that Sirius had lured Snape down to the Shrieking Shack. She knew that James Potter had been the one to save Snape. She had guessed that what Sirius did had crossed an invisible line with the other Marauders and thus the friendship had ended.

Lily didn't really care about it though. Obviously she was worried about Snape, Potter and most of all, lycanthropic Remus, who looked especially worse for wear. In the beginning, she was angry and shocked at Sirius for what he did. However, it wasn't any of her business. She wasn't supposed to know so she didn't interfere.

What she wanted to do had nothing to do with Sirius's homicidal tendencies.

And so at breakfast, Lily noticed Sirius sitting alone. She took a deep breath before approaching him.

"Is this seat taken?" She asked tentatively.

Sirius's face didn't betray a hint of emotion. "I'm sure you've noticed that the area in and around me has been vacant as of late." He said grimly. "You can sit down if you want to."

Lily sat down awkwardly. She placed her book bag next to her on the bench and rested her forearms on the table.

"Sorry about yesterday, I got a little carried away." She said with a shrug.

Sirius chuckled. "Sorry, didn't catch that?"

She glared at him. "I apologize for taking things too far yesterday."

He smirked. "You mean disarming me, threatening to hex me, humiliating me in front of my evil little brother not to mention a whole corridor of people."

She didn't look fazed by his words, she just smiled. "Yep, not that you didn't deserve any of it." She amended quickly which earned her a chuckle. "I should've just given you detention or taken points."

"It's not a problem, Evans." He said waving away her apology.

She visibly relaxed. "Great." Then, she did something that surprised Sirius as well as herself.

She grabbed a plate from the table and started filling it with scrambled eggs and toast.

Sirius watched her put the eggs on her toast and take a bite.

"What?" She asked, her mouth slightly full that her cheeks popped out.

Sirius laughed. "Nothing, Evans. You just look like a stuffed squirrel."

She made a face at him before going back to her breakfast.

"Hey Black, found someone new to shag?" Nott called from the Slytherin table

Before Sirius could form a witty retort, Lily spoke up.

"Jealous that he can actually get some, Nott?" She called nonchalantly.

The Slytherins started snickering as Nott turned the color of Lily's hair.

Sirius watched Lily chuckle at her own joke before shaking her head.

"I'm an idiot." She muttered under her breath as she collected her books and her bag.

She stood up and then caught Sirius's eye.

"Well, aren't you coming?" She said putting her hands on her hips.

Sirius smiled a grim smile. "I don't need your pity, Evans." He said, but stood up nonetheless.

The redhead's face softened. "It's not pity." She mumbled.

Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"I happened to think that you and I would get on." She said with a shrug.

Sirius snorted. "Was that before or after you almost killed me?"

Lily laughed a tinkering laugh. It brightened her whole face, making e eyes sparkling and her lips quirk up.

She didn't reply though and he didn't expect her to.

She was witty, cute and down-right impossible to deal with. Maybe that's why he had a slight crush on her.

And it would stay a crush until after another month of being in each other's company when she fixed the rift between Sirius and his friends. Then she was just a good friend. And then shortly after, she became something of a sister and the crush would just be a memory of when he was young and stupid.

Because Sirius Black may have been a little bit of a rebel, but he wasn't stupid enough to act on his feelings.

So, what'd you think? Is it good, bad, ok, not serious, too serious, Sirius, not so Sirius? Sound of with your comments, dear ones!

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