The Devil's Gift

Six: The Potion Begins

Hey guys sorry, this chapter is like 4000 words, I got a bit carried away! I hope you enjoy. I love you all loads, thank you for sticking with me <3

Mariela Pangbourne

"I say we take the book and go, before anyone catches us in here." James whispered slowly following a short silence to make sure Madame Pince hadn't heard our previous outburst of excitement.

"I strongly agree with James, for once he is speaking out of reason." Remus joked.

I just nodded my head, wanting to keep our noise levels at 0 so that Madame Pince had no suspicions whatsoever. Sirius followed my lead by nodding and squeezing my hand gently. Peter sat there and half nodded, whilst looking slightly lost, bless him. James, Peter, Sirius and I all hid under James' cloak as Remus stood up and grabbed a book he had found earlier on natural remedies for injuries. We piled under the cloak and waited for Remus' thumbs up before we headed out of the restricted section and waited for Remus outside of the library's doors.

Remus exited the library with a huge smirk across his face, matching James and Sirius' smirks.

"I would call that a mission success." He said confidently and we all nodded excitedly in agreement, as we began to speed walk back to their dorm.

"Wait, surely its breakfast time now?" Peter complained as we walked.

"What is the actual time?" Sirius asked as the rest of us shrugged.

"We may as well head to the great hall anyway, even if its just to check the time?" James suggested.

"What about this huge book?" I said as I gestured to the large and heavy book that I was cradling in my arms. "Surely people will ask questions or teachers will get suspicious." I say shyly, not wanting this book to be confiscated before we could figure out how to become animagi.

"My dear Map does indeed be correct here." Sirius says as we look at the other boys. "How about, Map and I walk back to the common room and shove the book back in our dorm and if breakfast is over then you guys will end up meeting us half-way and we can go and sneak into the kitchens instead?" Sirius suggested as my stomach filled with butterflies at the thought of having time alone with Sirius.

"Sounds like a plan." James and Moony said together as Peter just whined about needing food.

I giggled and waved goodbye to the boys as Sirius took my hand and we headed back in the direction of Gryffindor tower.

"So, have you told anyone about us yet?" Sirius asked as he squeezed my hand gently and smiled at me.

"I haven't seen anyone to tell apart from the other boys, and I wasn't sure if we were telling people, or if you had already told them." I replied as my face went red, this was all so new to me. I hadn't ever been in a relationship before, I mean it's not like guys hadn't asked, I just wasn't interested in them.

"It's kind of scary isn't it? I haven't told the boys yet, I felt like it was something that we should do together." He smiled sweetly at me as he said this, and I felt my stomach do a backflip. I felt so loved and respected in that moment, that Sirius had thought about me when telling people, I was overjoyed and without thinking our hands gripped each other a little tighter.

"I guess it is all scary and new, well new for me at least, I bet you've had loads of secret girlfriends." I giggle and look down, feeling silly at my innocence and how new I felt to this all.

Sirius stopped and turned me to face him, "I have never liked anyone the way I like you. I think in a way, I've always felt this way, I just couldn't understand my feelings when we were so young. But now, we're going to be fifteen soon and I guess I just understand the world a bit more than I did before." He says as he stares deep into my eyes and softens my soul.