A/N: If I promise you give you two updates a week minimum will you not hate me for how late this is? Good :) I messed my whole plan up for the next 8 Chapters i think it is, so I'm just filling in the time with random stuff :) Hope you like it. The end if rushed because I may have another powercut at any moment and so I'm trying to get this done quickly. I keep beginning to write the sequal to this, then I tell myself I can't do that as I haven't even got to the bit where they get together. Oh well. Enjoy :D xx

October crept upon them and the Quidditch season had started at Hogwarts; so that meant try-outs were taking place for each team to find new adequate players. Many students who adored the flying sport were training themselves up before the try-outs began. Most of the old players hoped they would be picked again. In this very short period of time, all that could be heard was the talk of Quidditch. It seemed that every single student had something to say about the sport even if they didn't like it!

On one cold October morning, Gryffindor try-outs had started and standing on the grass covered pitch was many Gryffindor student ranging for second to seventh years. Included in this huddle were James and Sirius who had both been on the team last year. Seeing as their old captain had left, they would all have to try out once more. Although James had been a Chaser since second year, he would try for the position of Seeker this year which he was extremely excited about. Everyone who knew James, knew that if he got the part he would never shut up about it. His ego seemed to get bigger everyday and although Remus, Sirius and Peter could handle it, some people like Lily couldn't. She had resulted to ignoring James unless it was some matter of life and death like he was hexing first years or playing a prank which she had to stop. Lily tried talking to Remus about it, asking him as he was also a prefect if he could control his friends a little more. But as Remus said, how was anyone ever going to control them?

Remus was sitting in the stands of the Quidditch pitch. He and Peter had been dragged down here by James and Sirius because they had wanted to be watched and cheered for when it was their go. Remus had given in, but had brought a book with him so he wouldn't get too bored. Remus wasn't one to exactly enjoy Quidditch. He had always come down to watch his friends play, but it wasn't like he was mad about the sport like James was. Flicking through the pages of one of his muggle novels, Remus looked around and saw that the stands were quite full. He was right in his expectations that most of the watchers were from Sirius' 'fan club'. He saw his friend turn in their direction every now and then and send them a wink which would set them off in a fit of giggles. Remus wondered how Sirius could put up with them practically stalking him for most hours of the day, but then this was Sirius Remus had to remind himself, and a lot of what the boy went through seem to amaze him.

He was sure that he would never be able to go through what Sirius was going through at home. His parents had always loved him and cared for him; although it was a little less than it had been, though Remus usually dismissed this and he could never think how it felt to have practically your whole family hate you and act like you were the scum of the Earth. Remus knew his best friend was hurting, even if he did hide it most of the time. Everyone thought that Sirius was just a player, a womanizer and a prankster, but Remus felt it was much more than that. It was like Sirius wanted all the attention so he could forget about what happened at home. Remus didn't really blame him either.

Soon the try-outs started and Remus watched both his friends' whiz around in the sky doing whatever they were meant to be doing. Although he knew how both boys would be like if they got on the team, he would like it better than if they didn't get on the team. He could deal with the two of them boasting and being big-headed like they usually were, but he could not deal with them moping around feeling sorry for themselves.

About forty-five minutes later, all the hopeful Quidditch players filed off the pitch and Remus was glad that the try-outs were over. He and Peter made their way out of the stands to meet Sirius and James after they changed out of their Quidditch robes. Finally Remus could go and study in peace. The teachers were coming down fast on the fact that this year was their OWL year and that they would have to work hard if they were going to do any good. Out of the four friends, Remus was probably the only one who was taking his studies seriously.

Peter, who had always struggled with his studies also tried to work hard. Yet he seemed to lack the preservation and confidence that was needed for any of their work. This being so, he would always go to Remus for help, something the young werewolf didn't mind to some extent, but after a time it did get slightly annoying, especially near the full moon when Remus' bad moods were on a high.

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About half an hour later, the four friends had ended up in the Gryffindor common room, lounging about in their favourite spot by the fire; although the grate was black and empty as this point in the day. Remus had his Transfiguration text book open, trying to finish his essay that was in for Monday; however this was extremely hard to do when Sirius and James were talking and laughing extremely loudly.

''Will you guys just tone it down please, I'm trying to concentrate.'' Remus said sighing at looking at his two best friends. They both looked at him with apologetic looks. Although it was about another two weeks till the full moon, Remus seemed to be on the edge and irritated at the moment, but seeing as they both knew what it was probably about, they talking quieter for his sake. A grumpy Remus wasn't a very nice Remus to be around sometimes and they didn't want to push the boundaries.

The reason Remus had been on edge and grumpy was because of the whole Lizzie and Snape thing. Even though he had told her he was alright with it she had been right. He disliked the whole thing. The whole dynamic of the situation didn't seem right to him. Firstly she was a Gryffindor, he was a Slytherin. They were two rival houses and no relationship could work between the two. Okay Sirius had gone out with a few Slytherins, but no longer than about three days. He had said that they seemed a different being all together and that the only people who should date Slytherins were their fellow house mates. Secondly he was her older brother (even if it was by mere minutes) and he didn't like it when she went out with anyone anyway. Thirdly, it seemed Snape had greater intentions then just dating her. Lizzie had told him that Snape kept hanging around with people who seemed interested in serving Voldemort. He hadn't believed her then, but now he wasn't too sure. He had seen Snape hang around with them a lot and hoped that was all he was doing.

All in all he wished his sister would be smart enough to get as far away from him as possible. Remus had almost got involved in the sabotage plan that Sirius had made up. It seemed a pretty good one as well and seeing as he had sabotaged one of her relationships before, Remus was sure his friend could do the same to this one.

It seemed Lily, Beth and Zoe was having the same worries, just across the common room. They had all noticed a rather bad atmosphere in the air whenever the 'couple' was around. It was like all the closeness was fake and being made for show, but Lily knew Sev would never hurt Lizzie like that. He had been the one who had kissed her first apparently. He had been the one who had made the first move. So why did it seem he no longer wanted her? It had been about a week and a half and already Lily was wondering if it would be better if they were just friends. She didn't want her best friend to get hurt after all.

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Far away from all the worry and uncertainties, Lizzie was sat by the lake underneath a tall tree reading a book. Her back was leant up against the rough bark, her chocolate brown hair falling in front of her face, hiding the midnight blue eyes and her relaxed complexion as she read the muggle novel that lay on her lap.

The water from the lake lapped against the side, causing small waves to form as a breeze swept over the surface and make the branches of the tree sway, rustling the now falling leaves loudly. Autumn had begun and not many people were out on the grounds today, for fear of getting too cold. To Lizzie however, the weather was just right to read, but then she had to remind herself that she thought every kind of weather was the right weather to read.

Turning the page she heard faint voices drift towards her. They seemed to be coming closer and closer, but Lizzie didn't look up from the black ink marked page. If she ignored them then maybe they would ignore her. That's how she had always thought when she had been younger. However now-a-days it was more of 'if I ignore them, maybe they won't bother saying anything to me', but alas, that had never really worked out for her. Soon enough she felt someone sit down beside her and looking up from the book she saw that it was Severus. She smiled at him before looking around to see his fellow Slytherins; Avery, Roiser, Mulciber and...Sirius' younger brother, Regulas. Lizzie frowned slightly. So they had managed to persuade Regulas to come apart of their gang had they? 'Well good luck to him.' Lizzie thought. He looked somewhat out of place with the other, older Slytherins.

''You gained a fine girl there Snape.'' Avery said chuckling to himself.

''Yeah what a real stunner. How did you pick this one up then?''

Lizzie just ignored them and went back to her book. She would love to hex all of them, but thought better of it. She wasn't like James or Sirius who just hexed people for the fun of it, but if they kept carrying on she would think this would be a pretty good reason to make them all end up in the Hospital Wing for at least a week. What really bugged her though was that Severus hadn't said anything to defend her.

''I would appreciate it if you all shut your mouths and get out of my sight.'' Lizzie said calmly, putting her book down.

''Ooo not very friendly I see. Although I like feistiness in a girl. Could I borrow her after you Snape? I could really get a piec-''

''There is no way I'm going to let you lay your filthy hands on me, now fuck off before I hex you into next century.'' Lizzie said, the tone in her voice telling them that they were seriously pissing her off now. Severus still didn't say anything, but after a few moments Regulas spoke.

''Ma...maybe we should go...''

''Shut up Black, we're not going anywhere until we teach this filthy half-blood a lesson.'' Avery growled, pulling his wand out of his pocket.

In an instant Lizzie had stood up and had her wand out ready. ''Like I just said. Fuck off.''

Spells started flying quickly from Avery, Roiser and Mulciber to Lizzie who seemed to be duelling all three on her own. 'Thanks for helping Sev' She thought, seeing the Slytherin out of the corner of her eye do nothing to help. Several jinxes were cast from Lizzie's wand, at least two hitting each boy. They all fell to their feet, scrambling trying to get away. Lizzie grinned at them and then turned to Regulas who was staring at her in awe. ''What?'' She said him, amused by his expression.

''No...nothing, that was just...wow.'' He said thankful that he hadn't gotten on the wrong side of her. He hoped he would never get on the wrong side of her either.

Lizzie smiled at him. ''Thanks; now you'd better get out of here before I feel the erg to hex every Slytherin in sight.'' She said jokingly and watched the ebony-haired boy run off after the others. She then turned to face Severus who seemed to be also watching her in awe. Anger came blubbering to the surface and Lizzie didn't bother trying to hide it. ''Thanks for helping Severus, I really appreciated it and thanks for defending me as well. Don't know what I would have done if you hadn't of been here.'' She snapped, sounding sarcastic at the end. Then she picked up her book and her bag which lay next to the tree and stormed off up to the castle.

'Sirius would have defended me' she thought as she made her way to the Gryffindor common room. 'He would have hexed them all in three seconds flat.' 'But...' The voice in her head reasoned. 'You hate him so it wouldn't make any difference.' 'I don't hate him I just...extremely dislike him.' 'Well that's a big step. Just the other day you hated him.' 'I've never hated him...' 'That's what I've always been trying to tell you dear'

Why did her conscience have to be so smart? She asked herself as she arrived outside the portrait hole. She told the Fat Lady the password and stepped into the common room. To her left was her brother, Sirius, James and Peter and straight in front of her were Lily, Beth and Zoe. She contemplated for a moment on where to go before she headed straight toward her best friend. Sitting on the table they were all sat at she sighed.

''I hate Slytherins.'' She said crossing her legs and disrupting any work the three girls were doing. ''Like really hate them.'' She added looking over at where Sirius and James where having a play fight as they were directly in her view.

''We all hate Slytherins it's a well known fact, but what did he do?'' Zoe asked, immediately thinking Snape had done something. She seemed happy that someone had interrupted her from her homework.

''I was reading outside and along comes Severus and several idiotic friends of his. Avery starts trying to flirt, or what he calls flirting anyway. Severus doesn't do anything so I decided to hex them all crazy. He still doesn't help so I have a go at him.'' Lizzie said sighing again.

''Listen honey, he's not worth your time he really isn't. Maybe you'd be better finding someone else. Like we've always said, Slytherins are a bunch of idiots and they always will be.'' Beth said looking up at her friend. ''I mean there are loads of guys that would take you, Sirius for starters, I mean he would do anything for you...'' She said grinning at Lizzie. Zoe laughed next to her, but Lizzie scowled at both of them.

''Sev is better than all the other Slyt-'' Lily started, but was cut off by Sirius.

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Sirius Orion Black was a womanizer. Everyone knew it and everyone seemed to like it, well almost everyone. The one girl he wanted above the rest wouldn't even give him a chance and then she had started to go out with Snivillus and he had hated that. Lizzie was his, not that slimy gits! James had told him not to give up on Lizzie and he had tried his best not to, but since he had seen the two kiss it was like something had stopped him trying to fight for her.

He had snogged six girls in four days, desperately trying to make her feel jealous, but it hadn't worked. It seemed she knew what he was trying to do and had told every girl that he had made out with why he was doing it. After those four days he seemed to give up on making her jealous and went back to his routine of trying to flirt with her.

However like always, that wasn't working either and so Sirius had resulted to one of his master break up plans. He was quite surprised when Remus had shown interest in joining. The more the merrier he thought. But that hadn't gone into action yet and so he had gone onto the 'protective friend' strategy. He however hadn't managed to test that out until now.

He had seen Lizzie walk past him not moments ago and between James tackling him to the floor he had heard a conversation about hating Slytherins and how Snape had annoyed Lizzie. Then he had heard his name and he had come extremely interested in what the girls were saying. So telling his best mate they would resume in a moment, he walked over to where Lizzie and her friends were sitting.

He heard Evans speak, but cleared his throat, interrupting her. ''I couldn't help but listen-''

''Bet you could.'' He heard Lizzie mutter.

''But it seems like you've had trouble with Snivillus. I will volunteer to hex him to oblivion if you want me to.'' He said giving her a winning smile. To his surprise he saw the corners or her mouth twitch into a small smile.

''No you just leave him alone. Although...if you could hex Avery, Mulciber and Roiser for me that would be excellent and I would really appreciate it.''

These words seemed to stun Sirius. Was Lizzie actually asking him to hex someone for her? Well that was new. He smiled again and gave her a small bow. ''Anything for you Lizzie dearest.'' He said before walking off. Before he got back to his friends he heard Beth say ''didn't I tell you he'd do anything for you?''

He heard Lizzie agree with her. That made Sirius extremely happy for the rest of the day.

Finally we have the first step to Lizzie liking Sirius. It's a tiny one, but it's the first. Afriad we wont be there yet. Another 7 chapters to go before the one you will all love. Only 7 chapters until the one you've all been waiting for ehe :D I love writing Lizzie's conscience :D Review please, it would make my day :D