A Touch of Black

chapter 8 - Stormy Weather

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"What do you want Regulus." Sirius spat, glaring daggers at his younger brother. Regulus smiled and held up his hands as a sign of peace. "Relax Sirius, me and my friends were just enjoying a nice walk." I couldn't help but hear an underlying edge to his words. "Brother, how can you spend your time with these people. They aren't our kind, you don't belong with them." I knew what Regulus was doing, he wanted a reaction. I could feel Sirius tense up beside me.

I grabbed Sirius' hand tightly, trying to keep him calm, I knew what he wanted to do. Frankly I wanted to do it too. "Sirius calm down, you can't hurt him, no matter how much of a git he is." Sirius ignored me, and pulled his hand free, before taking off down the road. "Sirius! Sirius wait! " I called, but he didn't turn. I looked back at Regulus and glared, "You slimy little git! He's your brother, he's your family!  How could you be so cruel?"

"Sirius wait!" I yelled, running in the direction he took off in. I ran down all of the streets and alleys looking for him, but I didn't see him anywhere. I ducked into one of the alleys and shrugged out of my costume, thankful that I was smart enough to wear my usual clothes underneath. Giving up on  my search I headed off towards the owlery. As I got closer I heard the familiar hoots of the owls as they flew in and out.

I walked into the familiar building and sat on one of the boxes. I closed my eyes and listened to sounds of the hooting and the flapping of wings. My eyes flew open at a new, unfamiliar sound. Looking around the dark room, I hadn't noticed the large black shadow, until it started coming towards me. Suddenly a large furry head was resting on my knee. "Hey boy! It's you again, what are you doing here huh?" He just looked up at me with his big grey eyes, before jumping up and running his sloppy wet tongue across my cheek.

We stayed like that for maybe an hour, me sitting petting his head. Until it started to get noticeably colder. I gave his head one last scratch before I stood up to leave. He looked at me with his sad eyes, "I'll see you later, but don't worry I'll come back soon."

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I found Sirius and the others, just as they were going through the main door to the castle. James had his arm around Lily, Remus was clutching his book, and Peter was trailing behind looking like a lost puppy. My eyes landed on Sirius, he looked like he had calmed down, and when he saw me he smiled. I quickly walked over and joined them, Sirius put his arm around my shoulders, leading me upstairs.

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Me and Sirius were camped out on the big couch in the common room, a pile of sweets sitting between the two of us. Sirius had two licorice wands hanging from the corners of his mouth while he shoved a handful of Bertie Botts beans into his face. I had a packet of drubles in my left hand, and a pumpkin pastie in the other. The rest of our group ware scattered on chairs and around the floor. All of their eyes were on us, their mouths hanging open, and varying looks of disgust plastered onto their faces.

"Come on you two! Your going to fill yourself so your sick, and we haven't even had dinner yet! Or did you forget about the Halloween feast?" James asked, eyeing our loot. I stuck my tongue out at James showing him that I didn't care. Suddenly people started laughing, looking down I saw that my tongue was rainbow colored from all of the sweets. I smiled, proud of my tongue. "Let's go down for dinner now, it's just about time now." Lily said pulling James up by the hand.

All the way down to the Great Hall, whenever we passed someone, I would smile and wave at them, before sticking out my multicolored tongue. The looks on their faces, was just too good!

Once in the Great Hall we all made our way to Gryffindor table, sitting down in our usual spots. Looking down the table at all the first years, it was easy to tell that this was their first major feast. They were all bouncing in their seats, and talking to each other excitedly. I'm sure that if someone that didn't know me and Sirius saw, they would assume we were just overgrown first years. Sirius was sitting there, a huge grin spread across his face. He almost screamed when he saw Professor Dumbledore finally stand up at the front of the room.

Dumbledore gave his usual speech, third floor corridor, forbidden forest, most painful death, blah blah, it was the same all the time. Sirius looked like he was about to burst by the time the food appeared. The food looked and smelled delicious, there was everything that anyone could ever want. I reached to grab a chicken leg, the same time as Sirius, and instantly pulled my hand away as I heard a menacing growl escape through his lips.

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After the feast we slowly made our way back to the common room. We were halfway there when Sirius "collapsed". He fell forward before smashing hard into the floor.

Peter let out a little squeal of surprise, while the rest of us just stared. "Oh! I can't go on, leave without me! Save yourselves!" Sirius groaned dramatically. "No Sirius! You must try! You can't just give up!" James said, playing along. James ran over and hoisted Sirius up onto his back, before taking off down the corridor.

When we had finally caught up to the two of them, we found them sprawled out on the couches in the common room. James was lying on the chair with his legs hanging off the side, and Sirius was lying stomach first on the couch, his face pressed into one of the pillows. I walked over and sat down on Sirius' back, he groaned "Ella your so heavy." "Hey!" I slapped his back playfully.

We sat around in the common room for a few hours talking, mostly about nothing. Everyone made sure not to mention the incident with Regulus. Soon everyone was making their way upstairs to go to bed.

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The covers were pulled up snug under my chin, it was a cold night tonight. Everyone was asleep, and I could hear the rain outside getting worse. It was becoming a huge storm. Suddenly there was a bright flash of light followed a loud booming noise. I pulled the covers over my head, trying to drown out the noise, but it didn't help, the storm was too loud. I felt the sharp pricks as tears filled my eyes, my heart started pounding loudly in my ears. I threw the covers back and ran out of the room.

I ran across the hall into the boy's dorm, and sprang onto Sirius' bed. "Siri, wake up, I need you." Sirius groaned and rolled over so he was looking at me. A look of confusion crossed his face, "El, what's wrong, you only ever call me Siri if your scared." I nodded my head, and he noticed the tears in my eyes. Another large flash of light, and loud thunder lit up the room. I jumped and buried my face in his chest. "Oh Ella, it's okay, it's just a storm it'll be over soon." I whimpered in fear, he knew all about my fear of thunderstorms, and was the first person I would go to for comfort.

Sirius sighed, "Do you wanna stay here tonight?" I just nodded, my face still in his chest. He pulled me down so I was lying beside him, and pulled the covers up over the both of us. He wrapped his arm securely around my waist, pulling me against him, "Night Ella." I snuggled closer to him, "Night Siri, and thanks."

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