A/N: I'm a tease I'm so sorry! But they're not getting back so easily! Her mother just died, and I know I wouldn't be okay! I am going to try to make it a bit happier though, I promise!

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Kat

Sirius pushed her away as she started to undo the buttons on his shirt.

"What?"

"I know you've done this before." Loralei said, looking up at him with half annoyed half confused eyes. "Just go along with it." She kissed him again, and he kissed her back for a second, before shaking his head as he pushed her back again.

"I can't do this, Loralei, we can't do this." Sirius told her. "Your mother just died."

She pushed her body right up against his. "Then comfort me." She tried to kiss him again, but he moved his head so she hit his jaw.

He pushed her away again, this time keeping his hands on her shoulders an arm's length away. "This isn't right, Loralei." He bent down so they were eye to eye. "You're worth more than this."

She looked at him with tired exasperation. "When are you going to see I'm not? Come on, I know you still love me, you still want me. Why else would you still be hanging around me?"

"Yeah, you bet I do love you, and I know you're going to regret it in the morning." Sirius told her, not letting her know how much he actually wanted to sleep with her. "You're grieving, and I'm here for you, but not like that."

"So, you're rejecting me now?" Loralei asked, looking at him like he was from another planet. "Do you want to know how many guys who would love to be in your place?"

"Yeah, but I wouldn't let any one of them near you. Neither would James or Remus. When you can think again you can make your own choices, but right now, you can't think."

Her eyes looked glassy as he said this, like she was about to cry. He pulled her into a hug and let her cry, resting his chin on the top of her head.

"Yeah, I love you." He whispered. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to fuck you."

"Are you sure you don't want us to stay a bit longer?" Loralei asked her father, as they stood in front of the fireplace. Sirius along with all the others returned to school the morning before, but the Potter's decided to stay a day longer with Dumbledore's permission.

"We can stay as long as you want." James said. "Screw school."

"'Screw school'?" Their father said. "No, you need to go back and study hard, it's what Cordelia would have wanted."

Loralei and James nodded.

"If you need us, we can come home any time." Loralei told her father.

"I'll be fine." Charles told them, hugging them both. "Now go, I have to go work, and you already missed your first classes."

"Write me." Loralei told him. "We can make Christmas plans for this year."

Charles Potter nodded. "Yes, of course."

James was the first to go through the fireplace, Loralei followed after kissing her father's cheek.

"I'm not saying I saw it, like last time." Loralei told James as she stepped into Professor McGonagall's office, brushing off the soot. "But Dad's dying of a broken heart."

"I believe you." James told her. "I'm sorry for being such an ass to you since last summer."

Loralei shrugged. "It doesn't matter."

"Yeah it does." James told her. "I don't want to die with you thinking I hate you."

"You're not going to die." Loralei told him. "I'm not going to let you. You're going to live until you're a hundred, and breed a whole bunch of Potters with Lily."

James laughed. "I plan on it."

"Good," Loralei smiled. "Is there a class going on out there?"

James pressed his ear to the door. "I don't hear anything."

Loralei nodded. "Let's go then."

James opened the door, and they walked out into the classroom, of first years taking a test. James and Loralei's faces both were both like they were caught with their hand in a cookie jar.

"Mr. and Miss Potter, welcome back to the castle, do you mind following me a moment?" Professor McGonagall asked, standing up from her desk and leading them out. "I will know if you cheat." She warned her class, before leaving with the two Potters, and stopping outside the door, and sighing. "I'd like to tell you how sincerely sorry I am about your mother. We were in school together, and I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the funeral."

"Thank you." Loralei told her, sincerely.

"Yes, thank you." James agreed.

"But since you missed your first classes, you both have Muggle Studies in a half hour, you can do what you like until then." She told them.

"Thank you." The Potter's said together.

Professor McGonagall nodded, before going back inside her classroom.

"Looks like everything's back to normal, huh?" Loralei asked, turning to her brother.

"Well, let's act like it at least."

Sirius and Loralei didn't talk much after she tried to sleep with him after the funeral, so naturally, when they were seated next to each other in Muggle Studies, it was uncomfortable, and the only note Loralei could bring herself to write to him was four words.

We need to talk.

He agreed, though. He admitted that he still loved her, and he wasn't going to push for more, who would do that right after a beloved parent died? It was just bad manners, let alone anything else.

They decided to take a trip to the Come and Go Room for a good long chat, with their free period they had next, deciding that the awkwardness needed to go away before anyone else could figure out the awkwardness was there.

So they stood in an empty room-somehow that's what Loralei's mind came up with-and looked at each other for a while, before Loralei sighed.

"I don't know how to do this, do you?" She asked.

He shook his head.

Loralei started laughing, like it was relieving the tension in her body. "I'm sorry I tried to stick my tongue down your throat and get you naked, but I'm sure it's not your first time."

Sirius started laughing too. "If it was different, I'd love for you to do that again."

Loralei smiled. "You said you still loved me."

"Yeah, well, I do." He looked away from her to the floor.

"I think I'm always going to love you." Loralei confessed. "I also know that how we ended last year was the worst way possible, and neither of us really knew where we stood at the time, and we both learned."

"Yeah," he agreed, nodding. "I didn't mean to cheat on you."

"I know." Loralei told him. "But I also know that if we are going to get back together it shouldn't be now, and I think we should start over. Like, dating a bit, then become official, and-is that okay?" She noticed he was looking at her with the biggest eyes she had ever seen on him.

"It's great." He told her. "Just tell me when you're ready."

"I think that the moment I open my letter from my mother I'll be ready to try us again." She told him, the corners of her lips turning into a smile.

"What changed your mind?" He asked.

"You've been a big help through this whole ordeal." Loralei told him. "You've grown up."

"Just like you have. I don't think any of us really wanted to though." Sirius replied.

"No one does." Loralei said, simply. "But it's the wonderful part of being a teenager." Sarcasm leaked into her voice.

"Oh, yes, the wonderful part." Sirius rolled his eyes.

Loralei paused "I missed kissing you."

"Well you can kiss me any time you want." Sirius told her. "No strings attached."

"Seal this with a kiss then?" She asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Yeah," he started walking towards her, and she started walking towards him.

In the center of the empty room, their lips met.