It was quiet around the house as Rebecca glanced around the kitchen before staring at the glass of water in her hand. The house felt so cold with Remus gone. Remus... She sighed to herself. She could hardly believe what had happened between her and Sirius, it seemed to just happen so fast and it came as a surprise to herself that she didn't even mind, she wanted it. The day they had spent together had been nice, really nice and the whole time she felt like she was floating on clouds. She couldn't help but make notes between how different Remus and Sirius were. Remus was sweet and kind, always waiting on her hand and foot and made her feel loved. He always made sure she was happy, always putting her before himself and even in their lovemaking he always made it about her, always making sure she was satisfied before himself. Wasn't it supposed to be satisfying for both of them? With Sirius she felt like she was on some sort of roller coaster, never quite sure what to expect, it was exciting. Sometimes Sirius could be sweet, sometimes he was arrogant, sometimes he was just downright annoying and he certainly wasn't half the gentleman that Remus was but there was passion between them. Just Sirius' touch alone sent shivers down her spine and as much as she hated to admit, he was… ahem…very gifted. She got up and set the empty glass in the sink and stared outside at the brown leaves falling from the trees. Where could Remus have gone? She shook her head to herself as she turned on the water to wash the dishes and paused as she looked around. If anyone knew where Remus was it would be Dumbledore. She dried off her hands and threw the towel on the counter before walking to the living room and starting up the fire. She needed to have a word with Albus and she wasn't leaving until she got some answers.

Rebecca knocked on the large door and waited a moment before the door clicked open and she peered inside. She saw Albus sitting at his desk writing something and he smiled up at her.

"Hello Rebecca, how are you?" He asked with a bright smile and she walked in and closed the door behind her.

"Where is Remus?" She asked and his smile faded slightly. "I mean he meets with you one might and the next day he is gone." She said and leaned up against the desk as he looked at him. "So chances are he didn't just get up and go, what did you say to him?"

"Miss Walcott-."

"I asked you to call me Rebecca; I'm not in school any more." She snapped and started to pace. "Why would he just leave?" She asked and stopped at the window before looking back at him.

"I tried to discourage him from leaving-."

"Where did he go? I need to talk to him."

"You can't."

"What do you mean I can't?"

"He is staying with a werewolf colony right now. We received a tip that Voldemort has been in contact with the werewolves and the only way to find out was to…get on the inside."

"He is at a werewolf colony?" She asked and he nodded.

"I mentioned it a few weeks ago and he respectfully declined but after…" He said and paused.

"After what happened he changed his mind right?" She asked and he nodded. She walked over to the chair in front of the desk and sat down with her face in her hands.

"Rebecca I did ask him to reconsider."

"No I understand." She said with a sigh. This was just like Remus to do something like this. No matter how much she insisted she loved him and that she didn't care what happened he still left.

"How are you doing?" He asked and she looked up and wiped her tears away.

"I'm doing fine." She said and took a deep breath. "Uh, when am I allowed to go back to work?"

"Very soon, I promise. Do you think you will be ready for it?"

"Yeah, it will be nice getting back out there. I mean I will have to watch my back more but its better than being cooped up all day long." She said and got up.

"I'll see you later sir." She said and headed to the door.

"Rebecca." He said and she looked back at him. "Have a good day."

"Yeah, you too." She said and walked out and headed out of the office.

She walked down the silent familiar halls of the school, remembering her time at Hogwarts when everything had been so simple. She smiled to herself as she remembered the first train ride, meeting Remus and Sirius. She sighed to herself as she thought of Remus, wanting him back desperately. The halls were eerily silent with the lack of students for the summer and suddenly a loud crash of metal echoed down the hall with a cackle from Peeves and she smiled to herself. What she would give for everything to be so simple again.

The next few days Rebecca found it nearly impossible to speak to Sirius, every time she went to talk to him he would disappear and at first she thought it was coincidence but after a while it just got ridiculous, he was avoiding her.

Rebecca sat with Lily in the living room at Headquarters talking as Lily knitted booties and Rebecca flipped through one of the magazines she had found on quidditch on one of the tables, she figured it was James'. She spotted Sirius walking past the living room and he looked at her before continuing down the hall.

"Lily please excuse me." Rebecca said and followed after Sirius. She saw him disappear in to one of the rooms and she hurried after him hoping he wouldn't disappear in to thin air again. She rounded the corner and saw him closing the door to the file room. She rolled her eyes and opened the door and saw him leaning over the desk.

"You have been avoiding me." She said and he stopped and looked around at her.

"No I haven't." He said and she closed the door behind her.

"Yes you have. Why?" She asked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I haven't been avoi-."

"You have been acting all weird since we slept together." She said and he sighed as he rubbed his face.

"Look I think it was a mistake…" He said and she walked up to him.

"A mistake?"

"Yeah." He said slowly trying to read her expression as she stared at him.

"You think it was a mistake?"

"Rebecca you and Moony-."

"Let's not bring Remus in to this." She sighed.

"Let's not bring him in to this? Its has everything to do with Moony, for Merlin's sake you guys just barely broke up and here we are…" He said and paused as he looked at her as she stared back at him. "It's just not right Walcott."

"Oh now Sirius Black has morals, who would have thought?" She muttered sarcastically.

"I'm just saying it was wrong of me to…you know take advantage of you like that." He said and she scoffed as she walked up to him and poked him in the chest.

"How dare you."

"Come on you were upset-."

"So were you."

"Why didn't you stop me?"

"Are you saying it's all my fault that we slept together?" She hissed as she poked him again and they looked at each other for a moment before she looked away. "Maybe I wanted to." She mumbled and looked back at him. They were so close now she barely had to reach out to touch him, her fingers brushing against his hand as she stared in to his dark eyes. Their fingers slowly entwined themselves as she took a deep breath.

"I mean it was nice…you know, that whole day."

"Yeah it was." He sighed as he looked at her. There was a small gap between them as the stared at each other. Her stomach fluttered as she took a deep breath before closing the gap between them. His kisses were like fireworks and she could hardly keep a single thought straight as his tongue slid past her barely parted lips. He picked her up and turned her around so she was sitting on the desk and he was standing between her legs. He kissed her with a hunger which she gave back full force and she found herself laying back on the table as he leaned over her before he paused for a moment. He looked at her with a sort of dazed look for a moment before blinking it away and staring at her.

"I can't do this." He whispered and pulled back from her. She sat up and looked at him as he stepped and turned away from her.

"What's wrong?"

"I just…" He said and looked back at her.

"I mean you have slept with plenty of girls haven't you? Do you always react this way?"

"Yes I've been with plenty of girls but…you're not just any girl Rebecca." He sighed as he rubbed his face and walked to the window and leaned against it. She got off the desk and walked over to him.

"And you aren't mine to have." He sighed. "You're Moony's girl."

"I don't belong to any one and if you remember, Remus broke up with me."

"Yeah a week ago." He said as he turned around and looked at her. "And look at us. It isn't right."

"You're right." She sighed.

"But believe me…its not like I don't think about it…"

"I know." She said and leaned her head against his chest.

"What if…and it's just a thought." He said and she looked up at him. "We tried you know…being friends?"

"You mean where we don't bicker all the time?"

"Yeah." He said and she laughed in to his chest.

"Yeah like that would ever happen."

"You know you're right." He said with a smile and rubbed her back lightly.

"I suppose we could put an effort to get along a little better, what do you think?" She asked and he shrugged.

"How long do you think it would last?"

"I'm going to make a guess and say not very long." She laughed and looked around the room

"So where does this leave us?"

"Pretty much where we started."

"Alright so what do we do?"

"Well we can try and be friends and hopefully not jump each other's bones." She said dryly.

"Sounds good." He smiled.

"Did you maybe want to go get dinner later on maybe?"

"I'll have to check my schedule but I think I will be able to fit you in." He said and she smacked his chest lightly. "Dinner sounds lovely."

"Great. Why don't you stop by around 8 or so?"

"Sounds good."

"Imagine if we had done it in here." She said as she looked around the room with a smile.

"Yeah, that would have been rather awkward if Moody or someone walked in."

"Kind of daring huh?"

"A little." He smiled.

"Alright well Lily is waiting for me so I think I will go back and see her. You keep doing whatever you were doing." She said and stepped back from him.

"I'll see you tonight." He said and she smiled and nodded before walking out of the room, glancing once more at him before closing the door behind her.

"I am not sure I have ever seen a girl eat as much as you did." Sirius humorously as he walked her up to the front door of the cottage.

"I'm sure."

"Well you know, most girls are worried about their girlish figure and get a glass of water or if they're daring…a salad." He said and she looked back at him with a smile.

"I'm kind of expensive huh?"

"A little, next time you cover dinner."

"Fine by me. Want to come in for a drink or something?" She asked and he took a deep breath and looked around for a moment before shrugging.

"Yeah sure." He said and they walked inside.

"I have pie too if you want some, I made a peach one yesterday."

"Oh you're going to give me some pie now?" He asked as he shrugged off his jacket and hung it up.

"No, I'm just messing with you." She said sarcastically as she opened up the fridge. "I wouldn't have offered if I wasn't planning on giving you some."

"Yeah sure, I'll take some pie." He said and she cut him a slice and slid a plate over to him.

"This might be the best pie I have ever made." She said as she sat down with her own piece.

"So plans for tomorrow?" He asked nonchalantly.

"Not really, I have to do some grocery shopping, clean the house, you know, the boring stuff. What about you?"

"I'm going to go look at some houses."

"Really?"

"Yeah, just looking, nothing is definite."

"You're really thinking of giving up your uncle's house? That's your ticket Sirius, I mean you just show girls the house and they sleep with you."

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't quite work like that." He chuckled. "Wow this is good."

"I know huh? So what is the worst pick up line that has actually worked?" She asked and he paused before a smile came over his face and he laughed.

"Hey baby you must be a broom because you just swept me off my feet."

"You're lying."

"No, it really worked." He said and he took a bite of the pie. "Unfortunately." He muttered.

"I think you're lying, what kind of girl would fall for that?"

"Well she did."

"She didn't really sleep with you did she?"

"No" He said and stared at his pie. "You know we were kissing and uh…I realized she had an Adam's apple." He said quietly and Rebecca paused.

"Wait, girls don't have…Oh my god." She said and started laughing.

"Don't rub it in." He grumbled.

"You went home with a guy?"

"Come on it was traumatic enough."

"You took home a….oh Sirius that's hilarious."

"Lets move on to something else alright?"

"No we're going to keep laughing at this until its lost all meaning of funny. So was he cute?" She asked leaning against her hand as she looked at him with a wide smile and Sirius turned away from her.

"I shouldn't have even told you." He sighed.

"No, it was funny." She said and pat him on the arm.

"Well not for me and in my defense, he was a very convincing girl. Where is that drink?"

"I am never going to let you live this down. What would you like?" She asked as she got up and opened up one of the cabinets.

"What do you have?"

"Well I have firewhiskey, wine, mead, uh sodas and beers in the fridge."

"How about a beer?" He asked and she smiled and opened the fridge and pulled out a beer and got herself a coke.

"Come on lets go sit in the living room." She said and walked out of the kitchen in to the other room. Sirius soon followed and sat down on the couch with her. She crossed her legs underneath her as she opened his beer and handed it to him.

"So what kind of place are you looking for?"

"I'm not sure really. I kind of like this." He said and glanced around.

"A cottage?"

"Maybe not a cottage, something smaller and closer to civilization."

"It is kind of closed off here."

"I mean a mile from the nearest town? I don't think I could do that."

"Well I mean you get used to it, its kind of serene here, it's just you and nature."

"Yeah well I don't really like nature that much."

"Clearly." She said with a roll of her eyes and he got up and walked over to a stack of records.

"Are these yours?"

"Yeah." She said as he browsed through them. "That's my favorite." She said as she motioned to the Beatles album in his hand.

"Alright." He said as he looked at it. "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band it is. That's an awfully long name." He said as he put it on the record player.

"That's not the name of the band silly. It's the Beatles, come on get with the program Sirius." She said and 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band' started to play. Sirius got up and slowly made his way back to the couch as he listened to the music. She hummed along with the music and sipped on her Coke until it went in to the next song.

"What would you think if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me. Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, and I'll try not to sing out of key." She sang along with the music and smiled as Sirius looked at her.

"You know you're not a horrible singer."

"Oh please, it's the alcohol; it makes me sound better than I actually am." She joked and he shrugged as he leaned back in his seat.

"Maybe, but you know these guys aren't too bad, what did you say they were called?"

"The Beatles, come on you're killing me Sirius, how could you not know who the Beatles are?"

"I never much listened to muggle music."

"Still, I am very disappointed in you Sirius."

"Well they aren't half bad." He said and soon the next song came on.

"Do you want another beer?" She asked as she got up.

"Yeah sure." He said and she walked out and returned with the beer and a Coke and saw Sirius looking at the pictures on the mantle and he turned around and looked at her.

"Thanks." He said as he walked over and took the drinks from her and set them down before spinning her and dipping her.

"If you drop me I will kill you." She laughed before he pulled her up and started to dance with her. She hummed along with the music as she laid her head on his shoulder with a sigh as they danced through the rest of the song.

An hour later Sirius found himself watching Rebecca as she slept, having had falling asleep on his lap. He softly played with her hair as he listened to the record they had left playing.

Something in the way she moves,
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

Somewhere in her smile she knows,
That I don't need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know, I don't know.
Stick around, and it may show,
But I don't know, I don't know.

Something in the way she knows,
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me.
I don't want to leave her now.
You know I believe and how.

Sirius watched her, brushing his fingers over her cheek lightly before leaning his head back and closing his eyes, letting the words of George Harrison lull him to sleep.