Juliet Diggory (HPFF/ HPLS) SLOW UPDATES

Chapter 57

*Juliet's p.o.v*

I pushed him away as he tried to move his lips along with mine.

"You can't just keep doing that and think everything is better!" I shouted and stormed out of the room to catch the others up. I pushed past Hermione, then Sirius, Snape and up to Ron and Tom. I was behind Ron and next to Tom as Ron, Remus and the bastard were all chained together so I look like some sort of six-legged race.

"You okay Juls?" Ron asked obviously hearing my heavy breathing.

"Potter" Was all I said for him to know.

"He kissed you again?!" He yelled slightly, Remus spoke up now.

"I thought you two broke up?" He asked confused.

"They/We did" All three of us answered,

"What's this I'm hearing?!" Yelled another voice, Sirius.

"Hermione!" Was all I yelled for her to explain to him.

Getting back into the tunnel was difficult. Remus, Pettigrew, and Ron had to turn sideways to manage it; Remus still had Pettigrew covered with his wand. I could see them edging awkwardly along the tunnel in single file. Crookshanks was still in the lead. I turned around to see Harry was right after Sirius, who was still making Snape drift along ahead of them; he kept bumping his lolling head on the low ceiling. I knew Sirius was making no effort to prevent this.

"You know what this means?" I heard Sirius say abruptly to Harry as we made our slow progress along the tunnel. "Turning Pettigrew in?"

"You're free," Harry said.

"Yes..." Sirius said. "But I'm also -- I don't know if anyone ever told you -- I'm your godfather."

"Yeah, I knew that," Harry said. Wait what is going on?

"Well... your parents appointed me your guardian," Sirius said stiffly. "If anything happened to them..."

I listened carefully. Did Sirius mean what I thought he meant? Why isn't he asking me this? I'm his fucking daughter.

"I'll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your aunt and uncle," Sirius said. "But... well... think about it. Once my name's cleared... if you wanted a... a different home..."

Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of my stomach. Jealously. I felt Tom take my hand in his. I sent him a small smile.

"What -- live with you?" Harry said, accidentally cracking his head on a bit of rock protruding from the ceiling causing me to let out a small laugh. I stopped walking and let go of Tom's then dodged Snape walked with them, but I don't even think they noticed me. "Leave the Dursleys?"

"Of course, I thought you wouldn't want to," Sirius said quickly. "I understand, I just thought I'd --"

"Are you insane?" said Harry, his voice easily as croaky as Sirius'. "Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"

Sirius turned right around to look at him; Snape's head was scraping the ceiling but Sirius didn't seem to care.

"You want to?" he said. "You mean it?"

"Yeah, I mean it!" said Harry. I couldn't believe this.

Sirius gaunt face broke into the first true smile I had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at all the jokes I made when we were younger. But once again what about me?