Thanks for the reviews, weasleytwinslover87, LizziePixie-Aiko, kankananime123, marycaity and javalon14! :D

Chapter 55 will be out right after this one!

Review's are nice…Please? :D

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

CHAPTER 54

The month of January was a rather busy one, once we returned to the school our teachers began to pile on more work in preparation for the O.W.L's. Along with that, I was in the dance studio almost every night, the nights that I wasn't I was practicing cello with Hisoka. She had given me a list of new music to learn, I had only one important engagement that month, but as always she would not tell me…

The New Year was also filled with a lot of Sirius Black…

"Audreeeeeeeey." Sirius whined, poking her.

"What is it Sirius?" Audrey asked, looking up from her potions book. Slightly annoyed.

"Can't you put this dumb text book down and come back to play?" said Sirius, brushing his lips up against her knuckles.

Sirius and I…we were undefined. I was a little more comfortable kissing him in public despite some teasing from our friends, but we weren't in a relationship. I felt very confused, after all I was kissing the enemy.

"When we're done studying, maybe." said Audrey, giving him a look. She had to laugh at his puppy dog face.

Sirius groaned, hitting his head on the table a few times.

"You humans are so greedy." Audrey mused, shaking her head with a smirk.

"What can I say, love? You enchant me." Sirius said smoothly.

Audrey snorted.

"Sirius, don't even use one of those lines on me…you can be so cheesy."

He grinned sheepishly.

"Love is never cheesy." He was triumphant.

"Such lies." Audrey said in an innocent voice.

Sirius groaned again, impatient. Audrey smiled to herself.

He wasn't the only one allowed to play games, and making him wait was rather amusing to me.

"Audweeeeeee." Sirius whined.

"Oh Audrey, shut him up and kiss him already!" said Remus, slightly annoyed.

"Or you can kill him, that works too." said Marlene, looking up from the book that she was reading for Remus.

"Love you too, McKinnon!" Sirius called sarcastically.

"Sirius, you've made out with half the school, if you're that impatient, go find a girl to snog."

Sirius got up and was about to make for the portrait hole when Audrey's hand shot out and grabbed his arm. He turned and smirked.

"Moony, she won't snog me, tells me to leave, then she wants me back." Sirius cocked his head.

"I don't know, Padfoot." said Remus. "Girls are just weird."

"More like we're too complex for you." said Lily, looking up from her Potions homework.

"I never said I wasn't going to kiss you, Sirius." Audrey said calmly, looking up from her textbook. "I just said you'd have to wait."

"Sirius Black doesn't wait, Russia." He said arrogantly, crossing his arms and staring down at her.

"This is why I hate you." Marlene said looking up.

"Why?"

"You're so damn arrogant." Marlene replied, glaring at him. He glared back for a few moments, then they broke off laughing.

"Either way, Sirius. You'll just have to wait." Audrey smirked.

"So not fair!" Sirius whined, sitting down next to her once more. "I mean, honestly, the O.W.L's are so far away. You can take a break."

Audrey shook her head. "No, I can't. My Maimeó always used to say 'Audrey, if you're ever given the opportunity to go to a magic school, you must never be lazy. It is very rare that creatures have such an opportunity, and if you do poorly you will disgrace this tribe.'"

"Your…Maimeó?" Sirius cocked his head.

"My mother's mother." Audrey clarified.

I hadn't really spoke much of Maimeó, I barely knew her. She passed away when I was very young.

"I was confused, seeing as we've only heard you speak of your Nanna." Sirius said quietly, he knew he was hitting a sensitive spot.

Audrey nodded. "Maimeó passed when I was three."

"I'm sorry." Sirius murmured, taking her hand for a moment.

"It's fine, really. I didn't know her all too well…and she was eight hundred and ninety."

"Eight hundred and ninety?" Sirius' eyes widened.

"So how old is your mother then?" James asked, curious.

"Oh, she's about eighty technically."

Peter spit out his drink, everyone looked appalled except for Remus.

"Your mother…is eighty?" James said carefully.

"Yes." Audrey replied, casual.

I recall the day when I was a child that my mother told me about human beings, they were fragile, and they didn't live for hundreds of years…unless they were gifted or very healthy wizards. I was in such awe that they were so different from us, sometimes I truly forgot that living for over a century wasn't a normal thing in society.

"But…she looks like…"

"She's in her late twenties, early thirties?" Audrey asked.

Everyone nodded.

"They don't age as quickly, it takes forever for them to age. My father's similar, but he ages quicker."

"So what about you?" asked Peter.

Audrey shrugged. "My gene pool is rather eclectic, but I am half banshee, perhaps I'll live long."

"That is so weird and cool." James said in awe. "You and your parents will be around like…forever."

Audrey laughed, closing her book.

"Finally!" Sirius exclaimed, grabbing her head and kissing her roughly. She pushed him off, laughing.

"He's got no patience, Russia." James tutted.
"What a sod." Peter said sarcastically.
"More like a man whore." said Remus.

"Oh no one asked you lot!" Sirius scolded, joking as he pulled Audrey onto his lap. He rested his head on her shoulder, she shook her head shaking with silent laughter.

"You…" She poked his nose.
"Me…" Sirius grinned.

"I think what she means to say, Sirius, is that you're ridiculous." said Lily. Audrey nodded.

"You're ridiculous, Evans." Sirius retorted.

"Lils, I thought you were supposed to be in the library with Sev?" Audrey asked, she felt Sirius cringe which she ignored.

A lot of the time, many believe that when something is just starting out. Something innocent…well, in my case it was innocent, I cannot speak for Sirius. When these little explosions start out, everyone assumes that you're over the moon in love and that you're perfect. A perfect love, is not love, it is an illusion. My heart was stretching in all different directions and going through the motions of falling. Since the new year had begun, I was analyzing the previous five years. Emotions are such complicated things to sort out. Had I loved him all along?

If it wasn't obvious in any of my previous statements, Sirius Black and I were complete opposites beyond the spectrum of human and creature. One of the biggest rifts we had always had was the people we chose to be around. In that case, it was Severus, one of my most trusted friends. I have told you of the harassment Severus had endured from James and Sirius, it angers me to no end to even think about it at the present moment.

I became particularly angry with Sirius during the middle of the month when I was walking from the library with Lily.

"D'you think he forgot?" Lily bit her lip.

"No." Audrey shook her head. "He never forgets! We've been doing this for four years now. How could he?"

"Maybe he got held back by a teacher?" Lily suggested.

"Was he supposed to be tutoring anyone today?" Audrey asked.

"No, it's Wednesday. He tutors on Tuesdays." replied Lily as they turned the corner to find Severus on the ground. And surely enough, James and Sirius were standing over him.

Audrey took a quick glance around the hallway to make sure there weren't others around, then she sent a tremor through the floor, knocking Sirius and James off to the side. Then the two girls strode over to Severus as he picked himself up from the floor, without even looking back at James or Sirius the three left.

"You don't have to save me every time." Severus grumbled looking at Audrey.

"I know you can handle yourself." Audrey shot back. "But you were on the ground! What did you expect me to do?"

"I appreciate it…I'm just surprised." Severus replied, brushing himself off. "I thought Black was tame now seeing as he's your boyfriend."

Audrey snorted. "Hardly."

"So you're just snogging for fun?" Severus shot back, his lip curling into a smirk. He knew he had her there.

"Doesn't mean we're a thing." Audrey huffed.
"Yet…" Lily mumbled, giving Severus a look.

Severus, had been strangely alright with what had been going on between Sirius and myself. He was one of my best friends, and probably the strongest friend I had at Hogwarts along with Marlene. For the first few weeks in January, there had been a sort of cease fire from Sirius and James in regards to Severus. Just when I had thought things may be different, they had ambushed him…

After speaking with Severus for a few minutes, the three set off for their separate common rooms. All the way up to the seventh floor, Lily was fuming.

"…I just can't believe those two…especially Sirius…" Lily was so enraged she couldn't speak in complete sentences. "I mean, he's finally setting things well with you and he goes around and does this…aren't you angry?" Lily was exasperated by Audrey's silence.

"Yes, I'm enraged." Audrey replied calmly. "But I plan on giving Sirius the cold shoulder, I can't lose focus right now, I apparently have an important engagement Friday."

"Oh I completely forgot about that." Lily replied, calming down. "Sirius will go crazy…he can't last more than five minutes."

"I know." Audrey smirked. "Vengeance is sweet."

"Yes, yes it is." Lily laughed.

"So are you going to ignore James?"

"When don't I ignore him?" Lily replied, smirking.

"I wonder how long it'll be this time." Audrey said out loud, remembering Lily had ignored James for a solid month the previous year.

"I'm going to try and break my record." Lily said, as they got to the portrait hole. "Wattlebird."

The next two days passed quickly in silence, and Sirius and James became ever so persistent. Especially Sirius. Around six, Audrey was up in the fifth year girls dormitory getting ready for her gig when there was a banging at her window.

You can only imagine my surprise when I was half undressed to find Sirius Black outside of my window.

Audrey walked over to the window, and opened it. Sirius checked her out, smirking arrogantly.

It was a very rare thing for Audrey to be that exposed. I know it makes me come off as pervy, but honestly, I didn't know her curtains would be open. I didn't know she'd just happen to be in her knickers and a v-neck.

(I just assumed that she was getting ready.)

"Nice knickers, house pride." Sirius fox whistled, pumping his fist in the air. Audrey leaned out the window a bit, smirking.

When a woman is insanely angry with you, sometimes, you have to do something a little crazy. And I thought I had done pretty well…

Sirius leaned in for a kiss.

Whack.

Audrey closed the window and the curtains, grinning to herself.

I'm not easily defeated by these things, by that time in my life I had been smacked across the face by more than half of the Hogwarts female student body. I had pretty tough skin after having so many five stars across my face, but she did leave quite the mark.

"No luck I see, Padfoot." said James as Sirius returned to the common room with his broom over his shoulder. Sirius turned his head to the side.

"Look at this bloody mark!" He exclaimed, laughing.

"Well she isn't human, Sirius." said Remus, not looking up from the newspaper.

"It was totally worth it though." Sirius grinned.

"How is that worth it?" James asked, pointing to Sirius' cheek where the five star was.

"I saw Russia in her knickers." Sirius said triumphantly. "Gryffindor red and gold."

"Hmm, Marly has the same ones…anyway, I'd have expected her to knock you off your broom." Remus said, looking up from the Daily Profit

"Moony!" Sirius exclaimed, appalled. Remus winked and wore a wolfish grin.

"Just her knickers…or…" James wiggled his eyebrows.

"Knickers and a tee-shirt, Prongs. Sorry."

"You've got to clarify these things, Padfoot. You're not the only one with a dirty mind." said Peter.

"Apologies, Wormtail, Prongs….Moony." Sirius winked. Remus smiled, shaking his head.

"I'm surprised she didn't kill you, she must have been feeling generous." said Remus.

"More like she's madly in love with me and she won't admit it." Sirius said, sitting down next to James. "Now let's talk some Marauder business, shall we?"

Up on the third landing, Marlene was silently making her way back up to the fifth floor.

"Sirius just got back." Marlene said, coming into the room where Lily and Audrey were. "He was talking about our undies."

"Bloody hell, we're all going to have to burn those now." Lily shook her head, disgusted.

"I'll start the fire." said Alice, grinning. She loved pyrotechnics.

"Well, at least we still have the matching polka dot ones with Sarah, that's all that really matters." said Audrey, pulling on the dress Hisoka had picked for her. It was a floor length deep purple strapless dress, it hugged her curves slightly. On the torso there was a detailing of silver and plum flowers that ended at her hips.

"He was also saying…" Marlene put on her best Sirius face and mimicked his cool voice. "She's madly in love with me and she won't admit it."

Audrey, Alice, and Lily burst out laughing.

Audrey began applying her make up, a light smoky eye and some lip gloss.

I wore very little make up when I was around my friends and family, Hisoka had shown me some tricks to highlight my face that also concealed my identity...but one can only do so much without overdoing.

"What are you going to do when you have to go down there and pass those gits?" Marlene asked. Audrey shrugged, tapping her fingers on her cello case. It disappeared, going to Hisoka's quarters in the West wing.

"Would you be my escort?" Audrey asked, Marlene grinned, grabbing some black eyeliner and a hat.

"Let me get myself oriented first."

Five minutes later, Audrey walked down the stairs latched onto Marlene's arm.

Sirius fox whistled again but Audrey didn't respond, she was still giving him the cold shoulder.

"Oh sure, Marlene dresses in drag and pencils on a beard and a mustache and she's totally fine!" Sirius called sarcastically as Audrey and Marlene passed. He couldn't see the huge grins on their faces.

Audrey gave Marlene a kiss on the cheek and said. "Bye baby!" and left.

As Marlene sat down next to Remus, Sirius groaned in frustration.

"I think your mustache is a little crooked." Remus said, grinning at her.