A favour
Chapter 6
"My dear brother," Estella smirked as she sat down at the Gryffindor table between James and Peter and across from Sirius, Teresa and Remus, "Resa can I ask what you're doing here?"
"Remus is helping me with Potions," Teresa spoke, making sure James wasn't looking before winking at a giggling Estella, who knew fine well that Teresa didn't need any help in the slightest with Potions, she was actually very good at the subject, but Remus had no way of knowing that.
"Oh, that's nice of him," Estella grinned, leaning her arm on her brother's shoulder, "I need a favour from one of you actually."
"Oh, you do?" James teased, his eyebrow raised, "it comes at a fee, Stella."
"Well it's a good thing it's not you," she wagged a finger in his face, scoffing when he slapped her hand away, "the boy I need does have black hair though, longer than yours, and no glasses."
"Oh god what the hell do you need Sirius for?" Peter groaned, feeling entirely wary about what his sister could possibly need Sirius for.
"Yeah, Ella," Sirius smirked, sending her a wink, "what do you need me for?"
"If you take this the wrong way, Sirius Black, I won't hesitate to kill you," she warned, "and if you over exaggerate, I'll just ask James."
"Get on with it then," Sirius scoffed, earning a glare from the girl across from him.
"I need you to be my date-"
"What?!" Peter screeched, sitting down the book he was reading and turning to Estella, "no, no way, no, Stella, what the fu-"
"Oh, shush Peter, it's not a big deal," she waved him off, "It's not a real date, for us anyway. I kind of accidently asked out Coraline Barren for my friend Theo when he was just flirting with her to be nice, and now he has to go to Hogsmeade with her on Saturday and he's particularly pissed about it, so I said as a joke that I'd go with them but he won't let me out of it."
"So, you're saying we need to sit with them being all romantic and we are just there?" Sirius scoffed, "no thank you."
"Oh, come on, Sirius, please?" she groaned, her head falling onto a very amused James, "what about you, Jamsie Poo?"
"Oh no, no way, do you know how horrific that would be?" he laughed loudly, "you're on your own, Stella."
"Well what if Lily Evans saw us together and got jealous?" she smirked, batting her eyelashes at him whilst he rolled his eyes.
"No, no way, you're not black mailing me into this," he shook his head, watching her suddenly turn back to Sirius.
"Please?" she pouted, "I'll do anything."
"Anything?" he smirked.
"Appropriate, you vile creature," she huffed.
"I think you're the vile one cause I wasn't thinking anything along those lines, Estella Pettigrew," Sirius smirked widely, "I do have one thing you can maybe help me out with, though."
"Oh really?" asked Estella, her eyebrow raised, and soon did she reach over to grab his hand, wrapping her pinky around his, "I promise I'll help you if you just help me out."
"Can we at least act remotely coupley?" Sirius asked, hearing her groan.
"Why?" she huffed, her head falling onto the table, but Teresa quickly stuck her hand out, allowing her head to fall onto her hand.
"I am a teenage boy with needs, Stella," Sirius teased, seeing the annoyance on her features, "come on you can make the boy you fancy jealous."
"What boy?!" Peter screeched.
"No boy," Estella assured, "there is no boy."
"Mhmm, I'm sure that's what the new boy would say," Sirius sang, "y'know the one you've been spending basically all of your time with."
"Are you stalking me?" she glared, rolling her eyes as she done so, "I'm not spending all of my time with him, and besides, he is going on a date on Saturday and I'm completely fine with it!"
"A date that you're going on too," Sirius laughed loudly, "and not to mention, he wouldn't be going on this date if it weren't for you, so maybe you set it up just so he wouldn't know that you do actually like him!"
"You don't know what you're talking about," she huffed, "and not to mention I barely know him, it's been like three weeks since I even met him at all!"
"Mhmm," Sirius smirked, nodding his head, "what time are we going to Hogsmeade at?"
"I'm not sure yet, I'll ask Theo the next time I see him," she huffed.
"Which will most likely be very soon," Teresa giggled, earning a glare from Estella who even went as far as to kick her under the table, "hey, violence!"
"My name's Estella."
"Oh, you're so funny," Teresa grumbled.
"Our little Ella is very fond of violence, aren't you?" Sirius grinned.
"Are you stalking me?" Estella huffed, "seriously, Sirius, how do you know all of this?!"
"Because I know everything, it's that simple," he shrugged, the grin still evidently on his features whilst Estella couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.
"Yeah you definitely know how to piss me off," she huffed, "and the person I hurt deserved it."
"What did they do?" asked James, "I mean they really must've since you're always the one to shout at us when you catch us pranking."
"That's different!" she exclaimed, feeling someone's stare on her and trailing her eyes around the great hall until she caught sight of Theo staring at her from the Slytherin table, "your pranks are humiliating in the worst ways and you know that," she pointed her finger in the boy's face accusingly, pulling it back when he moved to smack it.
"Alright then, what did this boy who deserved it do?" asked Teresa.
"He had a first year against the wall and he was hurting him, not to mention that he called the boy a vile word just because his parents aren't wizards!" the boys seemed to shift when they realised what she was talking about, shaking their heads in disgust.
"But is that really enough to hurt him as badly as you did?" asked Teresa, her eyebrow raised as Remus lifted his head from the potions book to their conversation.
"Are you seriously justifying what that boy did?" asked Sirius.
"No, of course not," Teresa shook her head, "but didn't you smack his face right into the wall?"
"Well yeah-"
"And he deserves worse," James cut Estella off, his eyes on his older sister, "calling someone that basically insinuates that you think muggleborn's aren't worthy of being wizards, when that's not the case, bloody hell, Resa!"
"I was just saying," Teresa mumbled, getting a curious look from Estella.
"Alright well I need to go see Slughorn quickly before class so I'll see you guys later," she chuckled.
"You're going to class dressed like that?!" Peter exclaimed, seeing the muggle skirt she had on that was definitely not her robes, "if McGonagall catches you then you'll be done for!"
"I know, I've had detention already," she waved Peter off, "but it's pissing off annoying pureblood arses so it's fun."
"What do you mean?"
"My friend Theo is a muggleborn," Estella shrugged, "and there's been some purebloods who are looking down at him for wearing muggle clothes, so to piss them off even more, he's wearing muggle clothes to class. When he told me why he was actually wearing muggle clothes I decided to join in on the fun."
"You are something else, Ella," Sirius scoffed, shaking his head and soon did he roll his eyes, "make sure you figure out what time on Saturday.
"I will, I will," she nodded, "see you all later!"
"Bye!"
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"I feel quite bad," Estella spoke up, her eyebrows furrowed and a frown evidently placed on her lips as she leaned against Theo's arm, a book resting against her knees as he sat beside her, turning from his own book to face her and soon seeing the look on her face, he quickly closed his book.
"How come, Ella?"
"Well it's not really me that should feel bad or guilty, but I feel bad for being annoyed about it, because I could have just taken it the wrong way," she mumbled, her head falling back onto Theo's shoulder whilst he fully turned to her, allowing her to soon fall right back onto his chest, and only then did she sit up, "what'd you do that for? I was comfy!"
He pulled her towards him, allowing her to comfortably lean back on his chest whilst she grumbled that it wasn't comfortable enough, "why are you annoyed?"
"I don't think Coraline would be too happy to find us like this," Estella teased, earning a scoff from Theo behind her. She was trying to ignore his finger tracing circles on the bare skin of her knee, knowing that he was doing it completely absentmindedly, it still couldn't help but cross her mind.
"Well you're my friend, and she's some girl," he shrugged, "who barely even knows me so her being unhappy would just be weird."
Estella chuckled, nodding her head, she moved herself to get comfier against him, "I was talking to my brother and his friends, well they're my friends too really, so I was talking to my brother and our friends - that sounds weird cause they're his best friends and I'm just not fully best friends with the-"
"I get it, Stella," Theo chuckled softly, "I saw you talking to them today."
"Oh yeah, you should've came over, I was just asking Sirius if he'd come to Hogsmeade with me," she could've sworn that Theo tensed under her but she made sure to let it slide, knowing that if she let him get into her head she'd go crazy, "so now I owe him a favour cause obviously it's not like I like him or anything like that," she didn't really understand why she added that, she felt as though it was right to.
"So anyway, I was telling them about the boy that hurt that first year, and my best friend Teresa fancies Remus and he was helping her with potions - she doesn't really need help though - but she wanted to spend more time with him, anyway!
So, I was telling them about it and she kind of seemed mad, not really mad but she wondered why I hurt him so hard, and James, her brother who is also my brother's best friend - with Sirius and Remus - turned around and was like, 'no he deserved worse!'
And so, we were like, him basically calling him that word is like saying he doesn't deserve to be a wizard and that's so far from the truth but she just seemed odd about it," Stella sighed, frowning as she turned her head ever so slightly to stare at Theo who was thinking.
"Maybe she wasn't keen on the violence side of it," Theo shrugged, "like just let Dumbledore deal with it."
"Yeah but she's always quick to tell me about gossip, y'know, seeming excited when two people fight or just stuff like that, and maybe I'm over reacting but I'm just rather annoyed, because that boy deserved more than just getting his head bashed against the wall-" she cut herself off, unable to stop her laughter at how mean that sounded.
"I think you're a bad influence, Theo," she mumbled, "cause there's no way I would have did that before."
"You shouldn't do that for me, Stella," Theo sighed, he was very aware of how close she was to him, and it seemed as though his rule to not date anyone was slowly crumbling whenever he spent more time with her.
She entered his mind randomly, making sure to creep into his thoughts at the oddest of times and that would be it, he would be thinking about her for more than a while.
"You don't need to fight people for me, because one of these days someone might fight back, and you've definitely proved that you're strong, but still, Stella, you don't need to," he said.
"I know but I want to, I know you said that in your old school they just bullied someone else, but I want to fight as much as I can, and maybe this bloody school will finally pay attention to the rising followers of lord twatty if we actually fight against them!" she huffed, "it's as though the purebloods and the halfbloods who don't truly have to go through any of the horrors know it's going on and choose to ignore it and that's just not fair.
It shouldn't be like that, especially when it's happening to friends and students that don't deserve it!"
"Lord Twatty?" Theo couldn't help but laugh, seeing the grin widen on her lips.
"It suits him, I think."
"Oh yeah, definitely."
"I'm sorry about Coraline," she mumbled after a few minutes of the two just lying close to each other on the window seat, "if you really don't want to go then I can talk to her for you."
"No, it's alright," he chuckled, "at least you're still going and it won't be terribly awkward."
"I'm sure you'll like Sirius," Estella nodded, "I mean he's a bit of an arse but so are you so it'll be fine."