Wands and Wishes

Worries and Plots

"You ladies are up early." James commented as he and his friends walked into Hogwarts only to find Lily and Eridanus.

"Iris is missing." Lily stated.

"What?" Sirius said, an unspoken question in his words.

"I had detention last night, Iris normally waits up but she wasn't in the common room so I figured she was just tired and went up to bed but when I got up to the dorms she wasn't there either." Eri explained, "I hurried to find all of you, not realizing what night it was, though I was able to scare a second year into getting Lily out of bed."

"We've been searching all night but haven't been able to find her." Lily remarked.

Sirius and James shared a quick look before James nodded and held out his invisibility cloak.

"Tell her to stop running off like this." James sighed as Sirius took the cloak.

"You don't even know where she is!" Lily exclaimed, "You can't just search the entire castle trying to guess where she might be."

"Yeah." Eridanus agreed dryly, "We've already done that."

Lily shot Eri a sour look before looking to Sirius and watched as he disappeared under the cloak.

"I don't have to search the entire castle," Sirius declared, his voice disembodied, "she'll be in the old Astronomy tower."

They could no longer see him but they knew he had run off.

~*~

There was no noise when Sirius walked into the old Astronomy tower, only the squawking of crows could be heard. He didn't need to hear Iris to know she was there. Sirius pulled off the cloak as he made his way to the ladder and began his climb to the landing above.

When he reached the top the first thing he saw was Iris surrounded by crows. They all seemed like old friends but there was sadness clearly etched onto his girlfriend's face and the crows must have sensed it too.

"Mind if I join you?" He asked as he slowly approached Iris and her feathered companions.

Her only response was to shrug leaving him to assume it was alright to sit with her though as he did so the crows flew away.

"They really seemed to like you." Sirius commented, watching the black birds fly away.

Iris remained silent still and Sirius sighed. He didn't know what happened to her but as he saw the tears welling up in her eyes it wouldn't be too hard to figure out.

"Oh, please don't cry. It makes me uncomfortable." He pleaded as he pulled her into his arms.

"He's such an arse!" She said after another moment.

"Who?" He asked curiously.

"Severus Snape!" Iris exclaimed then pulled away from him with a sour look, "Do you know what he had the audacity to do to me last night?" She didn't wait for him to respond before continuing, "He told me I was always supposed to be there for him! I was never anything to him but a little girl who looked like Lily but now that I'm happy he actually wants to pay attention? I can't believe the nerve of that toerag!"

He finally understood but as much as he wanted to laugh he was forced to suppress his amusement out of fear of setting Iris off further. Sirius merely sat there listening to every word of Iris's rant until she fell silent once again.

"Well it's his loss really, you're a great person with a great body." Sirius said with a smile, putting an arm around her.

"And just what do you mean by that?" Iris inquired, her eyebrow raising as she looked at him with a warning in her sapphire eyes.