Forever and Always | By : cls2256 Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 6832 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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Sirius and Mia spent most of the night working on her transformation with no luck. Mia was trying to transform into an Owl, she thought it would be fun to go flying without a broom. Just before dawn, Mia was getting frustrated.
“I don’t understand why this isn’t working. I was able to produce a Wolf patronus in a couple hours, why is this so different.” She said running her hands through her hair furiously.
“Ah, yes I remember Moony saying you had a wolf patronus. Maybe that’s your problem. You didn’t choose an animal that truly spoke to you. It is very rare that your patronus is different than your animagus.” Sirius explained.
“You and him talked about my patronus?” she asked.
“Yes, curious, isn’t it?” he asked, his eyes twinkling like stars.
“I guess” Mia said, not quite understanding why both of them found her patronus so curious. There are only so many animals in the world; half of Hogwarts’s students probably had wolf patronuses in her mind.
“It’s almost sunrise, love, let’s stop here for tonight. I’ll be in the forest tomorrow night too. Meet in the same place?”
Mia nodded; Sirius could see she was frustrated with herself. “Mia, don’t be frustrated. This is extremely complex magic. If you learned this in one night, well, that would’ve been too impressive.”
“I just hope I can learn it.” She said, looking down at the forest floor.
“I don’t have a single doubt that you can’t do this, but it will take time” He smiled, “I’ll see you tomorrow night.”
“Thanks Padfoot” she said, and turned to walk back to the castle.
“Oh hey, Kitten, if you could, bring me a couple pumpkin pasties tomorrow? I’ve got a real hankering for sweets out here” he called out, grinning.
She gave him two thumbs up and giggled to herself, watching him turn back into a shaggy black dog and run off into the forest. Sirius had started to become someone that Mia would consider a best friend, but she felt a pang of guilt when she thought of Penelope. Penelope had been her best friend since they were sorted into Ravenclaw together. They were thick as thieves most of their schooling, and when she started dating Percy, Mia was a little jealous that she wasn’t spending as much time with her as she was. Mia knew that this year she was doing the same thing to her, and that she knew Mia was not being honest with her most of the time. She hadn’t meant to shut her out, she might’ve have confided in her more if she wasn’t dating the head boy, thinking that most things Mia told her was being repeated to Percy, which would cause a numerous sort of problems. She was pretty sure that Penelope had kept her secret about her recurring nightmare, so maybe could tell her a little more than she had been and it would stay between them.
Mia had never gotten back inside the castle to her dormitory easier after hours. It was just daylight when she entered, all the 7th year girls fast asleep, including Penelope. Everyone would begin to wake up within the hour, and Mia was hoping to get just a couple minutes of sleep before then. She was extremely exhausted from her night in the forest. She laid her head down on the pillow, and closed her eyes. Next thing she knew, she was being shook awake.
“Mia, MIA, get up, you overslept.” Penelope was hovering over her, holding two pieces of toast. “We have Herbology in 15 minutes. Get up NOW.” Mia shot up out of bed, feeling like she was hit by a freight train. She maybe slept 3 hours, and completely missed breakfast.
“I have toast for you; you can eat it while we walk.”
Mia was shoving her uniform on quickly, not caring if it wrinkled or if it were clean. “Why didn’t you wake me??” she growled, irritated by her lack of sleep and rude awakening.
“I tried, you were out cold. I figured you were up most the night and you just needed a few more minutes. I didn’t think you’d oversleep by 2 hours.” Penelope said, standing in the doorway.
Mia hastily threw her hair into a bun on top of her head without brushing it, and grabbed the toast out of Penelope’s hand and began shuffling down the stairs.
“You’re welcome!” Penelope barked irritatedly, trotting behind her, holding both hers and Mia’s textbook.
Mia stopped and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry Penny. Thank you. I didn’t sleep much but I shouldn’t be snapping at you.” She gave her friend a hug, textbooks squished between them.
“Come on, were going to be late” Penelope smiled and wrapped one arm around Mia’s waist as they hustled off to the greenhouses.
Later that day, Mia was able to take a couple hours nap after lunch between classes, which was much needed. She spent most of Herbology class trying to stay awake, and lunch was a blur from her level of exhaustion. She woke up from her nap feeling better, now thinking another all-nighter with Sirius was possible. She and Penelope were on their way now to potions class, the class most of them dreaded. Mia passed Crabbe and Goyle, Draco Malfoy’s thick cronies, walking down the corridor, with arms full of pumpkin pasties. Mia remembered that Sirius had asked her for some, so she ran up to them and plucked about 5 out of Crabbe’s arms.
“Hey, those are mine!!” he called after her, as she jogged to catch up with Penelope.
“Sod off, Crabbe” she called at him, laughing.
“Mia! That’s terrible” Penelope said scowling at her.
“Those fat asses have plenty” she giggled, “here” she handed Penelope one of the small packaged desserts.
“I’ll save this for later. I’ve got night patrol tonight” Penelope said “I was supposed to have it last night, but Audrey asked me to switch with her so she could patrol with David.”
Audrey Nichols and David Marcum were 5th year Hufflepuff prefects, whom were dating and had been rumored to sneak off into classrooms together rather than truly patrolling the halls. Mia figured that this is why she was able to get in and out of the castle so easily, however with Penelope patrolling tonight, getting out wouldn’t be so easy.
“Aren’t Audrey and David known for snogging while on the job?” Mia asked.
“It’s rumored, they most likely won’t be prefects again next year due to the accusations. Percy is investigating this” Penelope said. “He’s patrolling with me tonight, however we are completely professional whilst on the job.”
Mia raised her eyebrows at Penelope “no temptation to just spend the night in an old classroom?” she said with a giggle.
“No! That would be against everything it means to be a Prefect.” Penelope exclaimed. The two of them laughed, but Mia was beginning to worry. It would be one thing to sneak past Penelope, but Percy too? Her night was going to get a bit more difficult, but she knew of something that might help.
After dinner, Mia swiftly broke away from her friends, saying she needed to stop by Muggle Studies and ask Professor Burbage a question. She however, had no intention of going to the muggle studies classroom, and instead snuck into the Defense against the Dark Arts classroom, that was dark and had been closed up for the day, seeing as Remus was out ill again and wasn’t in his office. His door to the office to her surprise was open, and she went over to his desk drawers and tried to open them. Locked she thought, and pulled out her wand.
“alohomora” she said, but nothing happened.
Really Remus???? She thought, frustration coming over her. She went upstairs to his kitchenette off the bedroom, and grabbed a butter knife, and began prying at the lock. After about 5 minutes, she rendered the lock useless, breaking it and the drawer popped open. She mangled the thing good, but desperate times called for desperate measures. She found the very thing she was looking for in the drawer that would help her sneak around Percy and Penelope tonight; The Marauders’ Map.
Mia waited until the common room was empty before taking out the Marauders’ map. Dressed in all black, she was hoping to be able to remain hidden in the shadows in case she came across a prefect or teacher.
“I solemnly swear I am up to no good” she said in a hushed tone, pointing her wand in the center of the parchment.
The map lit up, and she opened it quickly and scanned the map of the castle. Looks like Professor Trelawney had patrol duty tonight; she was walking through the dungeons at the current moment. Percy and Penelope were on opposite sides of the castle, thankfully both away from Ravenclaw tower. She grabbed her backpack that she had packed with Sirius’s pumpkin pasties and some other muggle candies she swiped from Penelope’s Christmas stash, and took off out the common room, and down the hallway. So far so good, she made it all the way to the lower floor without being spotted, but her map showed Penelope headed right for her. She hid behind a suit of armor, pressing herself as flat as possible against the wall, pulling her hood over her face. She remained motionless in the dark corner, Penelope striding by, not seeing her. When she was around the corner, Mia felt like she could breathe again. She pulled open the map, She was safe from Penelope, but if she didn’t get out onto the castle grounds quickly she would be risking running into Professor Trelawney, who was slowly making her way in that general direction. Mia took off quickly, trying to be as quiet as possible. She reached the door that led her out to the grounds, and slid out quickly. She checked the map one more time before sprinting off to the forest, trying to remain out of the moonlight as much as possible. She stopped when she was a few feet into the forest, bending over as she tried to catch her breath from the run she just did. The familiar shaggy black dog came trotting up to her, licked her hand and began walking deeper into the forest. When they arrived in the same clearing as they were in the night before, Sirius transformed back in to his human form. He saw Mia open her backpack and start pulling out the desserts and candy she had brought him.
“Oh I am so happy I could kiss you!” he exclaimed, digging into his pumpkin pastie. “I haven’t had one of these in 12 years” he signed.
“I brought you some muggle candy too. Penelope swears by it” She giggled. Sirius spent a good 10 minutes chowing down on the candy before they began their lesson.
“All the food tastes like sawdust in Azkaban” he had explained to her.
They spent most of the night trying to get Mia to transform, but again, no luck. As the sun began to peek through the horizon, they called it quits again and made plans to try again for the next full moon, Mia saying she was going to try to practice on her own if she ever got some alone time. Sneaking back up to the castle she looked at the map to see where the patrollers were, and swore under her breath when she saw Penelope’s name in the Ravenclaw dormitory. Percy and Trelawney were still out in the halls, but thankfully were not going to come across her if she got back to Ravenclaw tower quickly. She must’ve noticed I was gone. She thought, praying that this wasn’t the case and she had gotten too tired and needed to turn in. When Penelope had night patrols, if Mia had nightmares she would usually go and find her and they would walk and talk together until Mia felt comfortable going back to sleep. She would be very suspicious finding Mia wandering the halls alone on the night she had patrol duty.
Sneaking up to the common room, she tapped the map and said “mischief managed” and stuffed the parchment into her backpack. She tiptoed into the common room and up the stairs to the 7th year girl’s dorm, to find Penelope sitting on Mia’s bed, arms crossed.
“You know Mia, I find it very strange that you would be up wandering the halls and not come find me on my night patrol.” She said sternness in her voice.
“Penny, I can explain...” Mia started.
“I really do not know what’s been going on with you all year. You’ve been so distant, like you’re here but your mind is not. You’ve been icing me out for months. Ever since you’ve been seeing this so called mystery guy everything has been so cryptic with you.” Penelope said, frustration rising in her voice.
“You mean like how you were last year with Percy? It took you 6 months to tell me you guys were dating and you were always sneaking off to go see him with no explanation to me” Mia shot back.
“The only reason I waited so long to tell you is because he asked me to. His brothers would’ve tortured him about having a girlfriend and I didn’t want it to get back to them” She said “but I’m not talking about me here, I apologized to you for keeping it from you. But now it’s your turn to come clean. What is your deal? Why are you dressed like your robbing a bank and where did you sneak off to tonight?” the look in Penelope’s eyes was firm. Mia knew she had to give her something.
“Let’s talk downstairs” Mia motioned for the door, and Penelope got up in a huff and stomped down the stairs. Once in the common room, the girls situated themselves on a plush blue couch, Mia hugging one of the throw pillows.
“I can’t tell you everything…” Mia began “but I can tell you as much as possible at this point”
Penelope’s facial expression seemed dissatisfied by this, but she’d take anything at this point. She nodded and Mia continued speaking.
“As you know I am seeing someone, but I can’t tell you who it is still. Just like Percy, he asked me to keep it between us, kind of, but I know you will respect that because you did it for Percy.” She looked down at the floor.
“I didn’t run off to meet with him tonight though. I met up with another friend. Someone I recently became close with, but I can’t tell you who that is either. Just for now. At the end of the school year I should be able to tell you everything. I am learning some extra magic, and this friend was tutoring me. I’ve been distant with you because I haven’t been able to be honest.”
Mia knew of Sirius and Remus’ plan to reveal their old friend Peter, and get proof to clear Sirius’ name. Once Sirius was clear, she would be able to talk about him freely, but currently the world still thought he was the one who murdered all those people. Their plan was set for 2 months from now, and she didn’t want to jeopardize it. The rat had already gone missing, and turned back up again, so it was a delicate ordeal.
“Alright Mia, ill humor you. ONLY because you are my best friend, and I am putting my trust in you that whoever’s secret your keeping is for yours and their own good.” Mia breathed a sigh of relief as Penelope continued to speak. “But you need to understand that we Prefects are trying to keep the school and students safe. Sirius black has broken into the castle, TWICE. What do you think would happen if you were wandering the halls and he had broken in again, and killed you because you were in his way?”
Mia wanted to laugh at this, because she was literally meeting up with the alleged killer. Knowing Sirius now for months, the accusations that he was a murderer were just plain silly to her.
“What about you prefects? They have you wandering the halls alone.” Mia asked, avoiding Penelope’s last question, treating it as rhetorical. Penelope began to look uncomfortable, fidgeting with the hem of her uniform skirt that she was still dressed in from the day before.
“I’ve been pushing for team patrols” she said quietly, looking nervous at the idea of coming up to the alleged killer alone.
Mia took Penelope’s hand. “It’s going to be ok” she said smiling.
“I hope so” Penelope whispered. “I just worry about you Mia, I care about you”. The two girls shared a firm hug.
“I’m sorry for being so weird this year” Mia whispered, and she hugged Penelope. “Please tell me you’re not going to give me more detention” she laughed as their embrace broke.
“I’ll let you off with a warning” Penelope winked at her. The girls retreated back up the stairs, hoping to maybe get a couple hours rest before the next day.
When Remus returned from his full moon cycle, he found the drawer broken in his office. Angry, thinking it was Harry who had broken in and stolen it back from him, was quick to pull him aside after class and confront him about it. Harry denied it profusely, Remus interrogating him about it for nearly a half hour, making him late to another class. After sneaking Sirius back into his office, Sirius informed him it was Mia who indeed broke the drawer and took it.
“She needed it, Moony, you shouldn’t’ve put such a strong locking charm on it”.
“what on earth could she have possibly needed it for??” he said frustrated, as he tried to mend the drawer.
“for sneaking around the castle, what else?” Sirius laughed. He and Mia agreed to not say anything to Remus about their lessons until Mia was able to transform, her wanting it to be a surprise. He was glad it was at least her that had it, but as her teacher he really shouldn’t allow her to walk around with such a thing, even if it was him and his friends that created it in the first place. He always found drawing the lines with her complicated since they began their relationship, which he lectured himself about in his head profusely. This is why you shouldn’t’ve gotten involved with a student. He would tell himself, but his heart pulled him to her. He loved her, and he wanted to be with her, even if it made his job complicated.
After his first lesson back, Remus asked Mia to stay after class to talk about an assignment. Once the classroom was clear, he was able to speak freely.
“Where’s the map, Mia?” he asked, leaning against the table she sat at.
“Yeah, sorry about the drawer…” she started.
“Where is it? I can’t let you walk around with that.”
“Why not? You and your friends created it for the very reason I’m using it.” She said, giving him a smirk.
“As your teacher, I can’t let you in good conscience walk around the school with an item that allows you to break the rules.” He said.
“Oh, but we can fuck in your office?” she snickered.
His eyes quickly shot down to her, and her smile faded.
“We need it for the plan.” He said sternly.
“Fine, Remus, you can have it back. But I need it for the next month.” She said, rolling her eyes and getting up from her desk. “I promise you’ll have it back in plenty of time” she said, placing a kiss on his cheek after scanning the room to ensure they were not being watched.
“I’ll make it up to you for borrowing it” she said with a sly grin and walked out of the classroom.
He sighed in frustration. She can be so difficult.
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