You make my life (Sirius Black X oc)

Chapter 1 Beginning

August 31st, 1975

Veronica Hastings was checking her trunk and her Hogwarts letter for the seventh time that day. She was at the leaky cauldron for two nights now, spending her days looking at 24 diagon alley, where lies a sweet shop. It belonged to her father once, and it was a perfumery. Until Christmas 1971. Until her father was killed in a "accident", which happened to involve Abraxas Malfoy and Orion Black. Everything happened so quickly, spells flew here and there, wands were drawn, jets of lights travelled and suddenly, a huge explosion, which caused the vials of perfumes to burst, and resulted in the death of the mudblood Robert Hastings. Even Malfoy and Black were injured.

Worse than this was the fact that Veronica had to witness this, along with her year-mate Sirius Black, the elder son of Orion Black. Both of them were in the upper quarters of the shop, Veronica looking up for a musk which her father asked for, Sirius up there to greet her. Since then, he never was able to look in her eye  or talk to her without the company of anyone else. It was obvious, guilt panged him.

But it really made no difference to Veronica. She was used to staying alone to herself, and had no actual friends too. Well, she was on first name basis with some, most of them being her Quidditch teammates. She played Beater on the Gryffindor team; she joined the team only last year. She was an incredibly good player, once played as the Seeker too, as their usual Seeker Sarah Murphy was down with an injury and they didn't have a reserve Seeker. Quidditch was the only thing which made her come out onto the grounds; she preferred staying in her dorm, reading otherwise.

Veronica sighed as she packed her things up and pushed the trunk under her bed. After that, she placed her prefect badge on the table. She was appointed Gryffindor prefect that year. Her first thought was, "Dad would've been really proud." Again, she cursed herself for digging old memories. Then she took out her Cleensweep Three and placed it on her bed. That broom was the only thing which kept her happy during gloomy days. It was her first broomstick, a gift from her mother for the start-of-new-school-year, but it was actually to cheer her up from her father's death. After giving it a fine polish, she kept it back and stared into the mirror.

Drop-dead beautiful wasn't what exactly defined her, but was attractive. Her black, little longer than waist length hair was now braided loosely, as she was packing and didn't want it to come in her way. She never really gave attention to her appearance, but she loved her hair. She inherited her father's soot black color, but her mother's length. Her mother had long blonde hair. She looked at herself, into her chocolate brown almond shaped eyes with long eyelashes. She received compliments about her eyes quite a few times too. And then she smiled, and at once, she felt her mother looking back at her, except her hair dyed black. She inherited her mother's wonderful smile.

Her custard puffskein crawled up her braid and sat on her shoulder.

"Hey Button", she said, taking him into her palms. Suddenly, Blinky, her spotted wood owl hooted impatiently. It was time for her daily flight, which also meant time for bed.

"Alright, here I come", she said, and opened her cage. As Blinky flew out into the sky, Veronica plunked herself onto the bed for another night of restless sleep.

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Remus and Peter were busy playing chess while the Hogwarts Express whistled its start towards Hogsmeade Station. Meanwhile, James was over the moon. He was appointed Quidditch captain!

"Calm down Prongs... don't be a lunatic. It is just our house team. You've been jumping as if you're the captain of Ballycastle Bats", said Sirius, clearly irritated. Ever since he received the letter, he was unable to sit at a place.

"Oh shut up Padfoot. You never know how it feels. Quidditch mate... it's Quidditch. I can't wait for the first match!", said James, excitement squeaking in his voice.

"You act as if I'm not on the team. I'm the reserve Beater, if you forgot, who saved your blind ass from the Bludger when you were busy staring at Evans jumping in the stands. She was cheering for Jones, if I may say."

"Versus Hufflepuff, wasn't it? Hastings rocked that day. She saved us from losing our face. Murphy chose a very wrong time to break her hand."

"Yeah. Speaking of being lunatic, Moony, when is the next full moon?"

"Not very near, I'm afraid. But you guys", said Remus, "you guys shouldn't have done that. The risk involved in it..."

"Oh it was fun Remus", said Peter, "and check! You're on!"

Only last month, the lot gathered at Peter's place to see if their experiment succeeded. And after three years of hard work, they finally became Animagi. Sirius was the first one to transform, followed by James and Peter. Remus was demanding, requesting and even low-key begging them not to do so. He didn't want his friends to become targets of Azkaban for him.

"What's life without a little risk?", said Sirius smugly.

"A peaceful life. And now Peter, you've lost your Queen", said Remus.

Their argument was interrupted by Veronica Hastings, their year-mate and one of the Gryffindor Beaters.

Sirius gently nudged James, who was kind of friends with her, since they practice together.

"Uh...", said James, clearly not happy with the interruption, especially as they were discussing the possibilities of setting dung bombs in Azkaban to escape if they were caught for being illegal Animagi, but Sirius stamped his foot as to say, 'Let her join', so he said, "Of course Veronica. Get in."

She sat down in an awkward silence. Remus and Peter were going on with their game with James occasionally helping, but no one knew whose side he was on. Sirius looked at her; she was busy cleaning her glasses. Unable to bear the silence, he finally said, "Hey Hastings, James is Quidditch captain this year."