"Woah!"

Aly was sitting the Gryffindor common room, working on the bloodline assignment for her and Sirius' project.

"Do you feel that?" Sirius asked no one in particular.

"I don't feel anything," Peter told him as he and the other Marauders walked past him.

"Well, I feel it. It's nippy in here. Hell just froze over." He sent a mocking smile at Aly.

"Ha. Ha. Very funny," Aly said bitterly.

"What brings you to our neck of the woods?" Sirius asked making his way over to her.

She chose to ignore him and keep working.

"What? I'm just saying, it's not everyday you grace us with your presence, Miss Dumbledore."

"You would if you were ever in here," Aly snapped, still not looking at him even though he was standing right in front of her. "I suppose your tramps have taken to classier places than the Gryffindor tower, like maybe a random broom closet."

Sirius said nothing but hovered over her.

She looked up at him and the look on his face seemed to be one that suggested that he was torn on something.

"If you have something to say, just say it," Aly barked.

He simply shrugged and walked away.

Lily came scrambling in not much later and quickly made her way over to Aly.

"You have to go."

Aly looked up at her.

"Aly, you have to go."

"Why? I'm working," Aly stated.

"Logan's on his way here, and he will come in here," Lily informed her.

"Dammit," Aly scooped her things up and followed a frantically Lily out the portrait hole. There they found Logan, red in the face and obviously mad.

"Hi, Logan. Bye, Logan," Lily said quickly and scurried away, sending a quick glance back at Aly.

Aly merely rolled her eyes. "What?" she asked rather harshly.

Logan narrowed his eyes at her and stood staring.

"What is wrong with you?" Aly moved past him and he made a grab for her.

Aly jumped back and Logan was knocked to the floor by the portrait hole swinging open rather quickly. The Marauders appeared out of it and looked down at the sprawled out Logan.

"Oh, sorry, Trentecost," Sirius said without one ounce of remorse.

Remus and James exchanged an odd glance.

"Black, just you wait--" Logan started.

"Let's go," James said trying to move them along.

Sirius looked back over his shoulder as they left, "Aly, come sit with us tonight at dinner. I got my half of the project done. We can compare and calculate." He winked as he held up a notebook.

"Okay," Aly said surprised. She had been working on his half and never guessed he'd have finished it himself.

Logan pulled himself as Aly watched them walk away.

"You are not eating with --"

Aly cut him off, "Yes I am." She turned to face him "This is about homework, Logan. Get over yourself." With that she followed after the Marauders, trying to catch up.

XxXxX

"I feel like I never see you anymore, Aly," Logan complained.

Aly was diligently trying to finish up her half of the assignment they had been given that day, knowing that Sirius was more than likely already done. She could never figure out how he did it all so fast.

"We need to spend more time together," Logan pressed. They were sitting on his bed up in his room. He had been tossing a ball into the air, but once he had dropped it and it rolled out of reach, he decided that he needed Aly's attention.

"Come'on, Aly," he kissed her neck. It was an awkward kiss because of the angle Aly was sitting at it. He pressed his lips into her throat and she coughed out of discomfort.

"Aly," he said in frustration. He grabbed her book and flung it across the room. "Logan!" she exclaimed.

With his distraction from the book working, Logan took a hold of Aly and pushed her down on the bed. He began to kiss her roughly. She squirmed out of chagrin.

"Logan, stop," she said as his hand moved down her side to her hip.

He was breathing heavy over her. They had been in this situation before and every time it ended the same way.

"Come'on, Aly," he complained and kissed her collarbone. Aly suddenly remembered when Sirius had done a much similar thing almost two years before and blushed.

"See," Logan said, kissing her mouth again.

"Log-gan," Aly whined, trying to push him off of her.

"Lighten up, Aly," he said as he slipped his hand inside her shirt and started heading north. "Lily lets Amos go this far."

With that, Aly yelled, "STOP!" and pushed him off of her onto the floor.

She sat up and forcefully pushed her shirt back down. "I don't care what Lily and Amos do. God, Logan."

She got up and grabbed her book off the floor. He lunged for her ankles, and she fell face first into the dusty carpet. He hovered over her, smiling. He apparently thought the whole thing was funny.

"Aly, your not really mad at me, are you?"

"Yes." She pulled herself up into a sitting position.

His eyebrows furrowed, "Why?"

"Why do you insist upon doing that?" she asked.

"Cause that's what boyfriends and girlfriends are suppose to do." He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well, I don't." She stood up and waited for him to stand as well.

He didn't stand though.

"Why?" he asked, studying her.

"Why what?" Aly asked impatiently.

"Why don't you like to do that? It can't be because you don't like to. You never have."

"How do you know what I have and haven't done?" Aly asked, hurt for some reason.

"Oh, come'on, Aly."

"No, you come on!"

"Well, who then?" Logan asked, looking humored. "There wasn't anyone before me was there? I figured I was your first kiss."

"Well, you weren't."

"Who then?"

Ay answered before she could stop herself, "Sirius Black. 2nd year. By the lake."

Logan didn't find this conversation funny anymore. He was up and next to her, holding onto her arm. "Black?"

"Yea," she said as she tried to pull her arm away from him.

His hand grasped her so tight she felt her breathe leave her body.

"Why does everything come back to Black?" Logan asked, bearing down upon her.

Aly said nothing, the fog starting to move forward to take over her mind.

"He is trash, Aly. How many times do I have to tell you? He is trash. His family is trash. All of them are trash." He shook her. "You better change your story. Your first kiss was with me. I don't want people thinking you are filth by association. I won't have it." He shook her so hard her ponytail fell out on its own.

Something inside Aly snapped. "Get the hell off of me!" She clawed him across the eyes. He gasped and let go of her. "We are through, Logan. Hear me? Over and done with." She stormed out of the room and down the stairs. She prayed he wouldn't follow her, but sure enough he did.

Aly ran as fast as she could and nearly fell over with relief when she found her father strolling along the hallway towards the Gryffindor common room. "Dad!" she gasped, coming up next to him, pausing to catch her breathe.

"What's wrong?" he asked in concern.

"I broke up with Logan," she gasped.

He looked shocked, but said, "Oh, don't worry, Alycat. Everything will be fine."

"No, it won't. He's chasing me. Don't let him take me away from you. Please," she pleaded.

Logan appeared next to them, "Hello, sir," he greeted the headmaster politely. "May I borrow your lovely daughter for but a moment."

Aly forcefully replied, "No, you may not."

Dumbledore looked down at Aly's look of determination and told Logan, "I've seen that look before. She's not gonna budge on this. You best go back to your own house, Logan."

He turned, looking very disappointed that he didn't have as much pull with the headmaster as he thought. "Thank you," Aly whispered to her dad, before running towards her own common room.

XxXxX

The days that followed were not easy for Aly. Logan tried to pounce on her any chance he got. She hadn't told anyone but her father that she had broke up with him, and apparently, he hadn't either. He tried to keep up a charade of a happy couple whenever he was near her. Aly made it a point to always be near a teacher whenever possible.

She threw herself into her school work. She began getting top grades in all of her classes, as apposed to the mediocre ones she received when she wasn't dedicating herself to her work. This caused Lily to become upset because it was usually her, and not Aly, receiving compliments from all of their teachers.

Aly spent all of November alone. She was never seen in a public place around the castle, except for class, or even the Gryffindor common room. Logan was still working with Lily and any chance Lily saw to reconcile them, she tried. Logan had access to the common room as Head Boy, and he wasn't afraid to use it.

Aly spent a lot of time in her own room, in Hagrid's cottage, or with her father. Aly became a missing person among the Hogwarts students, and she was quite okay with that.