Many thanks for the reviews, PintoNess (God, I know the feeling of four hour rehearsals… o.O Best of luck!), SuperNovaWriter, Masterofbugs123, Sarah Liz B, and Madmad237!

Alrighty, so a little better detail on "Deleted Scenes" - it'd be from the perspectives of characters such as Jenny, Oliver, Fred and George, Sirius, Harry, Remus, etc. I've got a few ideas, I need to write them out one day and see where it goes from there. :]

Kickin' it up a notch, things are going to be pretty interesting in the next few chapters… review? ;]

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THIS, EXCEPT FOR ANY CHARACTERS YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE. JK ROWLING IS JESUS!

CHAPTER 22

Audrey was set to floo to James' house with her trunk and whatever she needed for school.

The floo network wasn't my favorite way to travel…

She rolled out of the fireplace and tumbled onto her feet. There was a smattering of applause as Audrey dusted herself off, coughing.

She looked up to see James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus around the Potter's kitchen table, they were giving her a standing ovation.

"Score cards, gents?" James said, as he held up a napkin with the number ten written on it.

Peter followed, also a 10, Remus followed with a 9.5. Sirius held up his which was a scratched out 7, changed to an 11.

James mock scowled at his friend and said. "It's a scale of 0 -10, Sirius."

"I'm sorry, James." Sirius replied. "But you see, I was going to give her a seven, I didn't like that tumble much. But I gave her an additional four points for staying pretty. You know, it's terribly hard to keep up such a beautiful appearance after traveling floo."

Peter smirked, Remus rolled his eyes, and James snorted. While that banter was going on Audrey situated herself by sitting on her trunk in the middle of the kitchen.

"Are you girls done fussing over there?" Audrey asked.

"Yes, Russia. We're done." James said, coming over and sitting next to her on her trunk. He put his arm around her shoulders in a friendly manner. Sirius gave him a deadly look but quickly changed his expression.

"Why are you so friendly all of a sudden, James Potter?" Audrey poked him square in the chest.

"Well, this is my house. I'm hosting you lot, I figured I should be friendly." James replied.

"Plus he figures if he's nice to you, you'll tell Lily, and Lily will come." Remus said, sitting at the table and reading the Daily Prophet.

"Oh shut it, Moony." James said, throwing an orange across the room at him.

Remus caught it easily, and looked up from his paper with a smirk. "Thanks James, how'd you know I was hungry?"

James groaned in frustration, and then turned to Audrey. "So is Lils coming?"

Audrey laughed, elbowing James. "Honestly, I don't know, James. I sent her an owl over a week ago and she didn't get back to me. She's been a bit busy this summer, and so have I so we haven't written as often as we usually do."

It was the truth, she hadn't written to Lily and Marlene much. All of them were busy, she heard from Severus often but he seemed detached and depressed. She knew why of course, only her and Lily knew. For that reason, Lily stayed home often, making sure Severus was okay. Audrey had snuck out of her house a few times and flown to Spinner's End, when it was pitch black no one could see her in the sky.

"Oh…" James replied, disappointed. Audrey gave him a consoling pat on the back.

"I'm sure she'll show up, James. I mean, I'm here. Why wouldn't she?" Audrey smirked. "And I heard Marlene is coming?"

"Yes." James replied. "Marlene's coming sometime tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Audrey whined. "I have to spend the whole day with you four?"

"You act like that's a bad thing." Remus grinned, putting the Prophet down.

"Well it's not bad if you're here, Remus." Audrey said.

"You're the only one that gets her, Remus. She's special, remember?" Sirius snorted.

Audrey shook her head and replied. "Sirius, don't be jealous that I can fly without a broom and you can't."

"I'm not jealous." Sirius sputtered incredulous.

"Uh huh, sure." Audrey laughed.

"So Audrey, how was Russia?" said Remus, deciding to steer the conversation in a different direction. Otherwise, Sirius would sputter on like an idiot.

"It was nice, Remus. Just what I needed." Audrey beamed.

"It looks like someone has pictures." James said, he was rummaging through one of Audrey's bags.

"You know nothing of privacy, do you?" Audrey laughed. "Yes, that stack right there contains all of the pictures from Russia this past month."

James had unraveled a piece of string that was around the stack, he spread out all of the photos onto his kitchen table, the four boys gathered around for a look.

There were photos from all sorts of things, ranging from Audrey's family, impromptu games of Quidditch with her cousins, uncles, and grandfather, Sven trying on strange clothes, Hans, Sven, and Peter dancing at Sailing Week, Afanasi and Sven holding Audrey sideways, several photos of Edik throwing food at Ivan.

"Oh look! Audrey's playing Quidditch!" Peter exclaimed, pointing at one of the photos.

"Why don't you ever play with us, Audweeeey?" James asked, Audrey laughed.

"Because I could outfly your sticks of wood easily." She snorted, holding up a hand.

"Little miss special!" Sirius cooed, bumping hips with Audrey.

Sirius had grown a few more inches over the summer, I remember his shoulders had broadened and his voice had dropped a little further. As Lily would later put it, he had this sultry sound to his voice.

How else would I attract so many females? With my charming smile or good looks? …Don't answer that, it's rhetorical.

"Who's that?" Remus asked, looking at a photo of Sven and Hans doing Barynya, a folk dance.

"That's my best friend Sven, and my cousin Hans." Audrey replied.

"Ooooh so that's Sven." James cooed. "Your best friend…uh huh."

James had been under the impression for the previous three years that Sven and I were romantically involved.

Audrey sighed slapping her palm to her forehead.

"Is this your grandmother?" Sirius asked, pointing to a picture of just Nanna, who was waving excitedly.

Audrey nodded.

"She's so adorable." Sirius laughed.

"She may look adorable, but she could bite your head off and set you on fire." Audrey commented, giggling. She had rarely witnessed her Nanna get angry, but when she did, she transformed into a birdlike creature and could shoot fire from her hands. It was a very rare occurrence though, Anastasia Ivanoff-Dalio was incredibly calm.

James' mouth dropped. "Your grandmother isn't human either?"

"James, there isn't a single living human in my blood family…I have some human in laws, but I don't see them much. They work a lot and I think my grandfather scares them." Audrey grinned, pushing back some hair.

"So then, is your grandmother a veela?" Remus asked, an eyebrow raised.

Audrey nodded. "Yeah, my grandmother is a veela, her mother was a veela and her father was a werewolf."

At that moment, the other three boys looked at Remus.

"Reeeemus! You could marry a veela!" James exclaimed.

"And have hybrid babies!" chimed in Sirius.

Remus and Audrey both began to hit their heads on the wall nearby.

"Alright, alright. We get the point, you think us humans are dumb." Sirius said, walking over to them and pulling them away from the wall.

"Not dumb." Audrey said.

"Just very mislead by folk lore." Remus supplied.

"Well that's why you're here." James grinned. "To enlighten us."

Sirius slid down onto his knees, grabbing both of Audrey's hands and pulling at her. "Enlighten us, great beings!"

She laughed, shaking him off. "You're both so weird."

"Hey Audrey, who's this?" Peter grinned, holding up a photo of Karl and Audrey. Karl was kissing her on the cheek.

"Oooooooooh!" The other three boys said, knocking Audrey out of the way to get a look at the photo.

Before I even knew his name, I hated him. So much.

Audrey blushed slightly, and exchanged a glance with Remus. She knew Remus already had a general idea of who it was.

"Well?" James said crossing his arms.

"Out with it, Audrey. You're blushing." Peter smirked.

"That is my boyfriend, Karl." Audrey said, figuring she might as well just out it. She couldn't take back the photo.

James and Sirius' jaws dropped, Peter grinned, and Remus just wore an expression that said 'Why am I not surprised?'

"A boyfriend?" asked James.

"Dalio, we all know you got super hot last year but we didn't think this would be so soon." Sirius said.

When he said that, I could feel something tiny flaring up inside of me…I chose to ignore it. I told myself over and over that it was nothing. I mean, it wasn't the first time Sirius had rather openly said that to me. I just assumed he said that to every girl he saw. How else would he have conned so many?

James, Peter, and Remus exchanged a quick look.

Audrey put her hands on her hips, staring at the four, mainly Sirius.

"How on earth is this soon? Sirius, you've been dating within the Hogwarts female student body since January of our first year." Audrey said pointedly.

"That's different." Sirius replied, he was now sitting down at the table, his hands folded.

The other boys knew better then to interject as they always would when the two would mock fight. But this wasn't mock fighting…though Sirius didn't state it often, they all knew he was mad about her.

"Oh, really?" Audrey replied haughtily, arching an eyebrow. She then became incredibly sarcastic. "How so?"

"Because Audrey, it just is." Sirius replied, his voice wavering slightly. "My-"

Audrey cut him off. "Your relationships are hardly serious, the longest I remember has been three months. Every girl I've seen you break up with has been reduced to tears by your arrogance and you can't control yourself around the opposite sex."

"Well, it isn't really your place to talk about the length of relationships, now is it, Audrey? How long have you been dating this guy?" Sirius was clever, he wasn't going to lose this argument.

I was incredibly stubborn, it was easy making women swoon. Strangers, classmates, hell, even teachers! I had never actually argued with a girl before, because…well, I don't really need to explain that. I was a ladies man, yes, ut Audrey was one of the very few that didn't fall for it, at all. It wasn't only that, I couldn't deny that there wasn't something about her. She wasn't just a pretty face, she had something else.

"Officially? Two weeks, we've been writing to each other for a year, and I've known him since I was ten, Sirius. How long have you known all of your ex girlfriends? Two days, then you're in the relationship?" Audrey cocked her head, a mocking expression on her face.

Sirius stood up from his chair, and strode over to her. He was inches away from her face, not breaking eye contact with her.

I found some tiny satisfaction that I had made her angry, her eyes were a deep red, but in my arrogance I did not cower. I knew she wouldn't hurt me, she'd regret it terribly.

He was about to speak, when the front door opened and a friendly voice called. "Boys? Hello? Did Audrey arrive yet? You haven't broken anything or set anything on fire yet have you?"

Footsteps came close to the kitchen, Sirius broke away from Audrey just in time as Mrs. Potter entered the kitchen. He strutted back to where he sat at the table, a Cheshire grin on his face.

I could read his face, he was mocking me. I felt myself surpress an angry tremor threatening to escape me.

"Oh! You must be Audrey!" Mrs. Potter exclaimed, putting down some bags on the kitchen counter. "James had told us all about you dear."

"All about you." Mr. Potter walked in next, winking at Audrey.

"Ah." Audrey replied, giving James a questioning look.

"Don't worry, we're not elitist pure bloods." Mr. Potter said, giving a friendly laugh. "Right, Sirius?"

"Right, sir!" Sirius saluted, his eyes still on Audrey, daring her.

The urge I had to slap him across the face…

"That's good to know." Audrey giggled, Sirius was impressed by how calm and elegant she could act.

"I've read so much about the earth movers." Mr. Potter said excitedly. "Can you show us some stuff? If it's not to forward? If you're uncomfortable I understand."

"Oh no, I can…I'd just rather do it at night, perhaps after dinner?" Audrey asked.

"That's fine." Mr. Potter clapped his hands, delighted.

"We've never fully seen Audrey in action, Henry." Sirius grinned, Audrey now wasn't sure if he was serious or mocking.

It was true, the only thing the boys knew about or had seen were her eyes and witnessed the occasional tiny tremor here and there. She had admitted it to them their second year when they figured out something was up.

"Perhaps I can carve a stone effigy of James." Audrey joked.

"Could you?" James said, serious. His eyes were shining.

Audrey laughed.