Sorry this is such a short chapter. Running out of inspiration (blame school, i always do) please let me know what you think!
R&R
You can always tell it's the start of February at Hogwarts because four important things happen each year without fail.
Number one: The last of the snow disappears from the grounds to be replaced with biting winds and pouring rain.
Number 2: Peeves reverts back to throwing water bombs at small huddling first years instead of his more festive firecrackers.
Number 3: The Fat Lady finally gets over her two month long hangover from over indulging at Christmas and stops trying to give everyone ear damage by 'The power of my voice!'
Number 4: Sirius Orion Black gets a new girlfriend.
Except this year, he didn't.
Though how long that would last I wasn't quite sure.
We'd been going strong all through January but now as February dawned to bleak skies we were getting a little, well, rocky. We'd always argued a lot and it seemed that six years of almost constant bickering was too ingrained in our systems to stop now. I was surprised we'd made it this long without a massive bust up.
So now I was swimming along at the bottom of the lake trying unsuccessful to let my mind relax over today's petty argument (over my bloody nickname of all things) little knowing that things were going to get a lot more complicated.
I glanced at my magically waterproofed watch ( The Wizarding Sport Shop- The Time, No Matter What Dimension- available from Diagon Alley and Paris) groaned and kicked up, breaking the surface and pulling myself out of the cool water straight into the firing line of my irate boyfriend.
"Oh Shit!"
"Oh shit." He agreed.
"How long have you been there?" I demanded. This was the last thing I needed.
"Long enough."
"Oh."
Awkward!
We just looked at each other.
"Were you ever going to tell me?" He didn't sound angry now. More hurt and resentful. "Didn't you trust me enough to even think about letting me know you're not even fully human?"
"What's wrong with not being fully human?" I shot back, folding my arms over my chest. It was freezing. "So what I my dad's experiments gave me gillyweed for DNA? Remus Lupin is a werewolf. You're a bloody animagus! Where you ever going to tell me that in person?"
"How do you know about that?" He demanded, lowering his face so it was on the same level as mine.
"B-by accident, " I stuttered, I know he knows that his eyes always make me go squishy in the stomach department. "I was here and s-s-saw y-you head for t-the whomping willow. S-so I followed you because, well, you know..."
I trailed off and risked a glance up into those shining orbs. I seriously need to build an immunity system to them.
He just looked at me and I felt my face turning red. Red hot chilli pepper red. With extra salsa.#
There was an eruption of bubbles behind us, the dark water began to boil and the Giant Squid broke the surface. He took one look at us, said something that may or may not have been 'will you too just quit the noise and snog each other already' and drenched us both with water.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something seriously wrong with my fish translator.
I watched Sirius wipe water out of his eyes, cling despairingly to his hair for a second and pull a small fish out of one ear.
Then he looked at me and we both burst out laughing.