Loralei waited at the gates. Dumbledore had them charmed for an hour so only she could open them to let anyone in. He was allowed to use Dumbledore's floo to leave. Loralei didn't know why he couldn't use it to get here too, but she wasn't going to push for a reason.

Loralei saw Fabian's red hair before she saw him. She smiled in greeting, before leaning forward on the gate.

"What's the last thing you said to me?" She asked.

"I told you if you ever needed anything to owl me." He and grinned. "And look, you took up my offer!"

Loralei laughed as she opened the gate. "I usually do when someone offers me something." She nodded towards the castle. "Come on, the meeting starts in ten minutes."

"Does anyone else know I'm here?" He asked.

"Sirius, James, Remus, Lily, and Peter." She listed. "Besides the teachers, and everyone else who needs to know. I think you're going to be a nice surprise for everyone."

"A real auror coming to visit, how special." Fabian teased. "I am still human you know."

"I know, it just means you're trained." She smiled. "It's going to be great."

"I'm rather impressed you came up with this." He told her.

"Well, it wasn't just me, Sirius came up with the idea at first, I'm just the spokes person for it."

"Because of your likable personality?" He asked.

"And I'm the best with people." She told him. "I'm also pretty good at selling myself." She paused, pressing a hand to her forehead as Fabian laughed. "It sounded better in my head."

"I know." He said gleefully. "I love it when you do that."

"Shut it," Loralei replied goodheartedly. "I'm just impressed you didn't say something about me being a hooker after that. That's what everyone else does."

"Well, I wouldn't dare call you a hooker." He replied. "It's like calling a butterfly a beetle."

"That's nice of you." Loralei smiled. "Now, come on," she said, forcing him to walk with her. "We're going to be late."

The teaching went great. Everyone was civil, and if Loralei didn't know Sirius and Fabian so well, she would have thought they were friends. Either way, they behaved for her, and she was grateful. They didn't even snap at each other.

Loralei walked Fabian to Dumbledore's office after the lesson, so they were able to talk without someone overhearing them.

"I'm sorry I asked you to marry me last summer." Fabian told her. "I just always wanted to get married before I die."

Loralei looked up at him sadly. "You don't think you're going to die, do you?"

"I'm on the firing line." He shrugged. "My odds are just higher than everyone else."

"You're going to make it through." She told him. "You're going to get old and bald and fat and have a dozen grandkids."

He laughed. "I'd rather go out fighting though." He paused. "I know I don't have a right to ask this of you, but if I do die, can you do something for me?"

She nodded. "Anything."

"Can you make sure that Gideon and Molly and their families are all okay?" He asked.

Loralei took a deep breath. "I would have anyway."

Fabian smiled. "I should've known. You're truly a good person."

"I hope I am, at least." Loralei smiled back. "You're a good person too, I hope you know that."

"I hope I am, at least." Fabian echoed, nudging her with his elbow.

"Don't ever doubt that you are, you've always been a good guy." Loralei told him. "And not one of those guys that say they are but are actually jerks, you're a true nice guy."

"Well, that's good to hear." Fabian nodded. "Now, if I ask you something, are you going to get mad at me?"

"I don't know, are you asking me how much I charge an hour?" She teased.

"Of course not." He chuckled. "No, I was wondering why you got back together with Black."

Loralei paused a second before answering. "You're not going to like my answer, do you really want to know?"

"It can't be worse than what I've thought in my head." He told her.

"Okay, I don't have a reason not to answer." She sighed. "When my mother was dying I told her everything, and as far as I knew she took it to the grave. I told her that Sirius cheated, and she wanted Sirius' side of the story as well. She wrote me a letter before she died, and it said to give him another chance, and Sirius would never cheat on me again. She told me that the war is starting and that there's not going to be a lot of fun for a while, so have the fun I can now. Then everything just kind of fell into place. I love him." Loralei was smiling by the end of her speech, though she didn't realize it.

"Is that why you decided to marry him?" Fabian asked.

Loralei looked up, confused. "What?"

"The ring, on your finger." He pointed to her left hand.

Loralei looked down and saw her mother's wedding ring on her finger. The golden chain had broken and she didn't have time to fix it yet, but she still wanted that piece of her mother with her. She laughed. "No, this is my mother's wedding ring. She gave it to me before she died. I'm not married. It used to be on a chain, but it broke."

Fabian nodded, looking a bit relieved. "Oh."

Loralei nodded. "I'm not going to get married for a very long time." She said quietly.

Fabian nodded. "Yeah, I know."

Loralei just nodded again in response, not knowing what to say next.

They walked in silence for a minute, before it got to Loralei.

"I think the meeting went well, thank you for that." Loralei mentioned.

"Yeah, you're welcome. It was kinda fun. I like teaching." He told her. "It's good to make an impact on someone."

"Well there's your job when you want a break from being your badass self." She teased.

"Everyone needs a back up career. It'll be good for when I'm old and frail."

"Oh yes, and I'll be there to make fun of you when you are." She promised as they reached the headmaster's office. "Well, we're here." She said before saying the password.

"Owl me?" He asked. "If you ever want me to do this again, I want to. It was fun."

Loralei nodded as she smiled. "Yeah, it definitely was."

He leaned down and kissed her cheek. "I'll see you around."

"See you." She replied as he walked through the door.

Loralei stood there a second before walking back through the corridors to the Gryffindor common room. The others were going to go to the kitchens and bring food up to the boy's room so they wouldn't have to be in the loud Great Hall. Something Loralei asked for since she was getting a headache.

Her visions used to be clearer, but now they were giving her headaches just getting them, like they didn't want to be understood, they just wanted to confuse her. She didn't even know what she was seeing. Flashes of pictures, and small clips of sound, nothing she could share with anyone or use to figure out what needed to change or happen.

Loralei rubbed her forehead as she walked up the stairs slowly. She was tired. She spent half of the day stressing and the other half happy. Now, at six in the evening, she was just tired. Completely tired. Her body and mind was tired. The only difference between the two was her body could find rest in sleep, though her mind would only become louder than it was while she was asleep.

When Loralei arrived in the common room Sirius kissed her forehead, like he knew she had a headache.

"I love you." He told her.

She smiled. "What brought this on?"

"You just remind me how much I do every so often." He said, pressing his forehead on hers.

"Good, 'cause I love you too." She told him. "Come on, let's get dinner."

"Wait!" He told her, pulling a vial full of a blue potion from his pocket. "I have something for you."

"What is it?" She asked, reaching for it.

"I noticed that you were getting a headache during the meeting." He told her. "But you have to eat something right after you drink it. Not the best taste."

Loralei smiled. "What would I do without you?" She asked, as they walked toward the stairs.

"Miss me terribly until you found me again." He told her. "Maybe cry a little bit, or fall into a deep depression."

"Oh yes, that sounds exactly like me." She replied sarcastically, as she laughed.

"Well, I'm in that pretty little head of yours, it takes a lot to get me out." He teased.

"Tell me about it." She rolled her eyes as she opened the door to the boy's dormitory. There was a large spread of food in the middle of the room, and the four teenagers were all sitting on the floor and eating. "Hey guys, ooh, a lot of food."

"We have four teenage boys." Lily told her. "I think they took half the kitchen."

Loralei laughed, taking a seat beside her friend and grabbing a roll of bread and buttering it before shooting the vial Sirius gave her and shuddering it as it went down. "Ew." She took a bite of the bread to smother the taste.

"Another headache?" Lily asked sadly.

Loralei nodded. "And lovely Sirius gave me a potion for it."

"What a good boyfriend!" Lily cried.

"Isn't he?" Loralei agreed.

"Shut up." Remus told them. "It's getting ridiculous how much you two do this in a day."

"What? Her being jealous of my wonderful boyfriend?" Loralei asked him.

"No, the bringing it up whenever he does something for you." James told her. "We had a meeting."

"Who did?" Sirius asked.

"Peter, James and I." Remus told him.

"Fine, if you'd rather we could snog instead." Sirius replied.

Remus turned back to Loralei and Lily. "Carry on."

Loralei looked at Lily before they both started laughing.

Over the next few hours, Loralei moved onto Sirius' bed, and was falling asleep, as she usually did; early on a Friday night.

"Why don't you go to bed? You're falling asleep." James told her.

Loralei shook her head slightly. "No, it's nice to fall asleep to people talking." She muttered.

"As you wish." Lily said, as the others kept talking.

Loralei got what she wished for; falling asleep without complete silence. Complete silence is what made her mind go wild, but with sound, suddenly she couldn't think. To her it was an amazing feeling.

She slept through the night, waking up late in the morning, with Sirius' arm around her waist, and his body behind hers. She hadn't felt better rested in a while. A long while.

Loralei looked at Sirius' watch on the nightstand. She had six hours before she was to meet Alina Webber, the editor for Witch Weekly about her spread. Since it was the only weekend she had nothing to do, she was supposed to go to their offices that afternoon to do the interview while she got the photographs taken. It was six hours away though, so she rested back against Sirius, closed her eyes and listed to his breathing, slowly falling back to sleep.

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