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Sweet Sixteen || Part Five - Padfoot

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  Thank you guys so much for reading this book. It really means a lot to me. My writing has been something I've kept to myself for so long, I'm glad to finally be sharing it with you all.
  Okay, so this is one where you get to see the relationship between Sirius and Y/n developing. Sorry for the time jump between the last chapter and this chapter, it was necessary to set up of the events coming in the next few parts.
Warnings: mentions of domestic abuse; depressing topics
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all the characters and places, you own Y/n and I own my OC, Sienna.

Despite the run-in with Abigail, Y/n had a relatively drama-free first term at Hogwarts that year. The sessions with Sirius were starting to pay off. His end-of-term project on Muggle Sports got a grading of sixty-five percent, ten percent more than his average last year. Y/n even started having fun teaching him. He was a good student; always listened well and finished his homework with few mistakes. Y/n found her self feeling proud when he came to their third-last session of the term with the news of his mark. He had improved so much in a few weeks.

Not only was that going well, but as usual, Y/n aced all of her end-of-term projects. It had gotten a bit stressful towards the end when the deadlines started looming their ugly heads, but now that they were done she could start relaxing and looking forward to the Christmas Holidays.

That was, until her parents sent her a letter.

Friends of ours from university invited us to their beach house for Christmas. They don't know about your kind so we thought it'd be best if you stayed at your school these coming holidays.

It really shouldn't have hit her so hard to read those words. She'd known something like this might start to happen along the line. Especially after...

There's no use crying about it, she told herself after she'd thrown the letter away, Christmas will be a lot nicer without them dodging around the truth of what I am all the time.

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"Last lesson of the term, Pads. How are you going to survive without seeing your girl for three weeks?" James teased as Sirius was getting ready to go to his last tutoring session for the term.

He rolled his eyes, "She's not my girl, Prongs. Not yet, at least. And I can function perfectly well without her, thank you."

"I beg to differ," Remus retorted, smirking gleefully, "Last week you were so distracted because you were thinking about her that you walked straight through Nearly Headless Nick and smack bang into a wall. That was after two days of not seeing her. I bet you'll be wishing she was staying here at Hogwarts with you and James after twenty-four hours."

Sirius glared at the two of them. Some friends they were.

The library was emptier than usual, most other students in their dorms packing for the train tomorrow. Sirius couldn't help but grin at the familiar sight of her sitting at their usual desk, her hair down like always and her nose stuck in a book. She was wearing a red jumper today and Sirius allowed himself to feel a spark of warmth at seeing her in his house colour.

"I see you've come in Gryffindor attire today, L/n," he teased fondly as he sat down in front of her.

Y/n looked up at him slowly and his good moody quickly sharpened at the redness of her eyes.

"Hello Black," she greeted weakly and began putting away her book, the usually fluid movement mechanical and without energy.

Sirius's heart ached at the sadness in her tone so as she reached for her bag to pull out her textbook he quickly put his own over it to stop her.