"Get up Delilah!" She could feel someone shaking her shoulder but the vision didn't let her go so easily
"Delilah,please get up!" The voice shouted again and she jolted awake.
She saw Sirius in from of her, worry clear in his eyes. "What time is it?" she asked looking around but she was at the couch not her room and there wasn't a clock there.
"Half past six" answered Sirius.
"What are you doing up this early?" Delilah asked and rubbed her eyes.
"I was going to make coffee and I found you in the couch when I went to sit down"
She shook her head to clear her mind from the vision.
"I'm sorry for shaking you and scaring you but you wouldn't wake up, James is sleeping upstairs and your parents are doing a job for the ministry and aren't here, you weren't screaming-" she looked relieved that she heard that "but you..." he stopped looking hesitant.
She nodded her head signalling him to go on, "You were mumbling my brothers name" he said and looked into her eyes.
"I- look Sirius-" she went to say but he cut her off,
"I know you have been at least friends or acquaintances with my brother, whatever you want to call it" he said looking down, "but whatever your vision was about, it wasn't good. He paused and looked back at her with pleading eyes.
"Please tell me that my brother is safe at least" he said, almost begging her.
She didn't expect that.
She knew Sirius still cared about Regulus and Regulus even though he tried to hide it, he cared too. The conversation they had about Sirius at the Astronomy Tower weren't a lot but the way Regulus spoke about his older brother, Delilah was sure that he still cared about him.
She was still shaken up by the vision but decided to answer the question of the Gryffindor honestly.
"He is fine, just a bit shaken up" she said to him and accepted the glass if water he gave her. "You wanna know more, right?" she asked him and he nodded to her.
"If you don't wanna tell me, I understand and respect your decision but if there is a possibility that you can at least tell me a bit of your vision, then I would like that" he said truthfully, he wanted to know what his brother is going through, he couldn't lie to himself, he still cared about him.
"He was at your house, your parents, the Notts and the Rosiers were there too, they were having dinner. The conversation shifted to the dark lord and about them being Death Eaters, I was seeing this from Evan's eyes so I don't know what your brother and Leo were thinking" she said explaining half of the vision, he looked at her as if he knew what was coming next was bad, and he was right.
"Michael brought up the whole thing about them serving the Dark Lord and how big of a "gift" and "honour" it would be for their families and to seem powerful towards the other purebloods" she said hesitantly, knowing that Sirius wouldn't like this at all, especially the last part.
Sirius eyes were set on the floor, if looks could make something caught fire, the whole house would be in flames.
"The atmosphere during the dinner was uncomfortable even I could sense that, Evan felt scared, Leo looked frightened and Regulus was standing there wide eyed, glaring at Michael" she half lied, she couldn't tell him that Regulus was just standing there emotionless, he was gonna get the wrong idea.
Delilah could see the pain behind Regulus eyes, they had talked about this, he was scared for his two best friends to get his mark. Especially for Leo who he was very protective over and knew that this kind of dark in him wouldn't be good.
She also couldn't tell him the truth because she didn't want to betray Regulus like that, he trusted her and told her everything from the mark to his fucked up childhood.
She didn't wanna lose this trust, not now at least.
"Evan only said that it could be an honour but I could sense the fear in his voice, after that Kreacher walked in and said something about the adults having to go somewhere and their parents dismissed them and they went to your brother's bedroom"
she paused thinking her next words.
"They put away their jackets and were left only in T-Shirts" he looked at her with wide eyes but she rolled her eyes "Not like this way you perv, I meant that non of them had a dark mark"
'here goes the lie' she thought.
Sirius nodded his face visibly relaxing "Thanks for telling me this, it's a relief to think that he is doing at least okey" he said and gave her a hug.
"He still cares about you, you know" she said and started messing with his long hair "Do you want me to just put in a bun or I can actually braid it?" she asked and smiled immediately as he nodded at her to continue to braiding his hair.
"I don't think so, he sneers at me most of the times and when he doesn't actually sneer, he just looks at me sadly and shakes his head. He is the one that believed in his beliefs, he couldn't actually expect me to just stay there with them"
"Don't you believe that you running away actually hurt him or bugged him a bit?" she asked.
Try to get a full answer from him and don't give away any information.
That was her plan.
"I don't know Delilah, I did what I thought was better for me"
"That's the problem Sirius, that's why while he is watching you he is either looking sad or he has a sneer on his face. You didn't think about him at all!" she said getting mad.
"You were his only happiness there, even though you weren't really close, he knew you were there and he had someone to go to if something went really bad! But now, after you left, he doesn't have anyone!" She almost yelled at him but she kept her voice down to not wake up James.
"He thinks you just left him there, alone! I know you didn't mean to okey? But at least acknowledge the fact that if he is not fully right he at least is half right, if that is even grammatically correct, to look at you this way." She finished and let his hair fall down, she didn't even get to finish the damn braid.
"You are right, I'm sorry" he said and she looked at the tears that we're running down his face.
"Come here" she said and he walked into her arms, he was at eight inches taller than her.
But she could wrap her arms around his waist and he put his head on her shoulder.
"Remus would be jealous" she said randomly and he laughed.
"Nah, he knows I'm his" he said and smiled like a lovesick puppy.
"How is this thing between you two going?" She asked, she mostly spend time with the trio and Monica now, so her hang out time with the Marauders had decreased.
"Everything is perfect" he said with a big genuine smile.
"That's it? That's all I get?" she asked and gave him a look of fake disappointment.
"I mean, everything is perfect. Especially him, he is especially perfect!" She laughed at the lovesick fool and they heard James footsteps come from the stairs.
"What are you two doing up this early?" He asked in his sleepy voice.
Delilah gave a look at Sirius telling him to not tell anything to James about their conversation.
"Just talking about how in love is Sirius with Remus" she said and winked at Sirius as his cheeks reddened.
"I thought this was already obvious" said James and slang his arm over Delilah's shoulder.
Sirius blushed one more time and walked towards the kitchen, slapping their heads while walking by.
"I hate you both so much" he said and he could here the siblings laugh together as they joined him in the kitchen to have breakfast.
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