Disclaimer: I only own Nicole. That's it.
Nikki's POV Still:
It has been three months since I was stuck in the Marauder time era. Along with Fred and George, I had found the Marauder's Map in my third year. George and Fred were ickle firsties then. I love calling them that!!
I have started to like being around Sirius a lot more. For some reason, whenever some girl starts dramatically flirting with Sirius, I get this painful feeling in my stomach. I don't know why this is happening!! Am I going crazy? I have never felt like this ever.
I've started to become closer with Remus. We love reading books together. He'd suggest a good book to me and I'd suggest a good book to him. But, something's up with Remus. He's always ill or a family member died every month. I need to figure out what's wrong with him.
We walked into Defense Against the Dark Arts as a line of jokesters. We were laughing at each other and then I saw the cabinet shaking due to something inside it.
"Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces," said Professor Brennan. "Wardrobes, the gap beneath beds, the cupboards under sinks — I've even met one that had lodged itself in a grandfather clock. This one moved in yesterday afternoon, and I asked the headmaster if the staff would leave it to give my sixth years some practice."
I'm pretty nervous for this. I don't really want to find out what my greatest fear is. Professor Brennan asked, "What is a boggart?"
I raised my hand. "Ms. Granger?"
"A boggart is a creature that changes form into whoever faces it's greatest fear. Nobody knows what a boggart looks like in its normal form."
"10 points to Gryffindor. The charm to repel a boggart is riddikulus. Say it with me, everybody. Riddikulus." Everyone repeats the incantation. "Now, class. Line up in order facing the cabinet. It doesn't matter whose in front of you; you all will get a turn."
Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, and I are in the front of the line. Sirius walks up to the cabinet, and Professor Brennan opens it with the Alohomora charm. Another Sirius walks out of the cabinet, but he looks different. He looks more distinguished, more proper. His hair is neatly groomed and short. His lips aren't in a carefree smile, but in a frightening smirk. I see him pull his left sleeve up. On his forearm is the Dark Mark, black and slithering around.
Sirius gasps. "Riddikulus!!" He shouts the incantation as the Death Eater Sirius turns into this harpy like creature spouting gibberish from her mouth. Sirius faintly smiles and walks back to me.
"Who was that?"
"My mother."
"Well, she looks like a beauty," I comment, sarcasm dripping from my every word. Sirius snorts.
James walks up to replace Sirius, and his boggart turns into the dead bodies of Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, and two older people. His parents? Sirius is staring at the older people in shock. "His parents?" I ask Sirius quietly.
"Yes. They are the parents that I never had, what with my mother-"
"Looking like Satan's daughter?" I finish his sentence.
"Yes, exactly."
James's boggart turns into Lily giving him a hug and laughing with the others. Awww.
Remus walks up casually, but I can tell he's nervous. His boggart changes to... a moon? That's odd. Wait... could Remus be a werewolf? It all adds up: his mysterious absences, his boggart, and the scars.
"Oh my god. Oh my god." That's the only thing I can say. Sirius glances over at me, perplexed, and looks back at Remus. His eyes widen in realization. He leans over and whispers in my ear.
"Don't. Tell. Anyone."
"Who do you think I am? I would never tell anyone this!! I don't care if he's a- if he has a furry little problem every month." I look at Remus, who turns the boggart into a punctured balloon. He walks back, and I grab his arm.
"I know. I won't say anything. I'm still your friend. By the way, I think you should read the book called Shiver. It's really good." Shiver is a book about a werewolf and this girl falls in love with him (A/N: I actually read this book. It's great!).
Peter walks up to the front, biting his nails down to the quick. The balloon turns into Sirius, James, and Remus deserting and mocking him. Then, it turns into a cat. That cat looks a lot like Professor McGonagall's Animagus form if you ask me. Peter, stuttering, successfully banishes the boggart into a piece of Honeyduke's chocolate. Huh. That's a little weird to me.
Then it's my turn. Shaking, I walk up to the front. The boggart, noticing me, changes into all of my family dead, with blank eyes and horror-filled faces. The boggart then changes to Fred dead. Just Fred. I see George crying next to his body and looking at me through tear-filled eyes. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!" He shouts this at me, and I almost start to cry. I use the Riddikulus charm and Fred and George are smiling and laughing at me. I sigh in relief. Everyone else does their boggart. Lily's was Professor McGonagall telling her that she has failed all of her classes and will be kicked out of Hogwarts. This makes sense because she is a muggleborn, and most people think that muggleborns (although they use a stronger word) are inferior to purebloods. I don't give a shit about this view. I sigh. I'm so tired right now. I think I could use a bath. I wonder if the prefect's bathroom still has the same password.
I walk to the fifth floor after classes are done, not noticing Peter scurrying behind me under an invisibility cloak. I whisper Pine Fresh to the door, and it miraculously works. I pull the door open and sigh with relief.
I turn on the water and start to undress. I get in the bath and relax, letting the warm water soak into my muscles. I hear a squeak of a shoe on the wet floor. I gasp and sink lower into the bath, turning on the bubbles so that nobody can see anything. I look around the room wildly, and scream as I see Peter near the door, watching me. "GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!"
Peter runs away with the invisibility cloak. My heart is racing right now. I'm scared out of my wits! I guess nothing else is going to happen today, right? Wrong. After I finish my bath that I made shorter than I wanted, I got out of the bath, dried myself off, and dressed into the clothes I was wearing today. As I walk outside, I see a big, black dog running down the hallway. It stops and looks at me. It seems to smirk, but that can't be right. Dogs can't smirk. Wait. Padfoot-dog's feet are pads. All the jokes about "dog-gone" it and "I'm such a Gryffindog." Sirius Black is an Animagus.
I walk up the staircase to the seventh floor, the dog following behind me the whole time. I pace back and forth, asking for a room where I could talk to someone alone. I open the door that appears and see two plush armchairs facing each other. "Sirius, just change back." The dog seamlessly reverts to Sirius Black. "What the fuck just happened?"
"Ummm, I'm an illegal Animagus that is a dog because we-I mean I, yeah totally I-wanted to make sure Remus is okay."
"You said we," I commented, deadpan,
Sirius tries to deny it. "What, no I didn't!! I didn't-" I glare at him. "Okay yes I did."
"What animals are James and Peter?" I shudder when I say Peter's name because he is a HUGE PERVERT!!!!
"James is a stag, hence the nickname Prongs. Peter's a rat, so he got the nickname Wormtail."
"I like the nickname Snuffles for you."
"No. You are James. The power of Christ compels you!!!!!!" He does some cross like shape in front of me.
"Oh, so James called you that? Why can't I?"
"Uhhh. I really don't know. ONLY IN PRIVATE!!!"
"Okay. Snuffles." I wink at him. Sirius rubs the back of his neck with his hand.
"Coley. I really like you. You're funny, smart, kind, Head Girl material, loyal, a good listener, and just you. Would you like to go on a date with me next Hogsmeade weekend and be my girlfriend?"
"Yes, Sirius!!" I smile giddily, overjoyed that-wait what? I like Sirius? Oh, so that's what made me so weird these past few days.
"It's okay if you don't want-wait, what did you say?"
"I said yes." I laugh and Sirius laughs with me. He picks me up and swings me around. When he sets me down, our lips are inches apart. I swallow nervously. Even though we technically already kissed, that was on accident. If we kiss now, this will be my first real kiss.
He leans down and places his lips on mine. It tastes like chocolate, dog fur, and sugar. I wrap my arms around his waist while he wraps his around my hips. I stand on his feet so that he doesn't need to lean down anymore. Our lips are moving in perfect tandem, never parting for more than a second. We break the kiss because of the air necessity. I smile up at him, and he smiles down at me (A/N: Yes, Nirius ship has sailed!! Finally!!!!).
We walk out of the Room of Requirement, Sirius's arm around my waist. We are close together, laughing about little, unimportant things. Even though I know I'm from the future and he's probably dead or sixteen years older than I am, I know I love him. Wait, love? I'm only sixteen, how do I know what love is? I'm not in love with Sirius. I just like him a lot.
We walk into the Gryffindor common room. James, Remus, and Lily are sitting next to each other doing homework. Wow, I can't believe Lily and James are peacefully interacting. Sirius and I walk over to the three and sit down next to each other. Remus and Lily's eyes quickly shoot up to meet ours. "YOU ARE DATING NIC?!?!?!?!?" Lily and Remus scream in tandem.
"WAIT, WHAT?????? PADFOOT'S DATING NICOLETTA??? HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?" James is always the most oblivious person ever.
Peter comes up from behind us. "Wait, Padfoot's dating Nikki?"
"Yes, we are!" Sirius responds, unaware of the troubles between Peter and I.
"Congratulations..." Peter says half-heartedly. I don't really care, but this could be bad.
Lily looks at me and tilts her head up to the girl's dorm. I sigh and kiss Sirius on the cheek as I get up to be tortured with *dramatic gasp* girl talk.
Marlene, Alice, and Emmeline are all seated on their respective beds, gossipping about who's dating who.
"Girls, there's new tea to be spilt. Nic is dating Sirius," Lily says dramatically.
"What??" That was Emmeline.
"Really??" That was Alice. "When??"
"Did you guys shag?" And that was Marlene.
"Okay, in order. You heard right, yes, around ten minutes ago, and no! Marlene, I'm not a slut!! No more talking about my love life. I'm going to go to bed."
Author's Note: They finally kissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy! I hope you enjoyed that scene. I also hope you hate Peter a little bit more now. Scabbers will do the same thing, but she doesn't know it is Peter. There will be a flashback when the whole truth gets revealed about Peter as a rat perving on poor Nicole.
QOTD: What is your favorite Hermione Granger quote?
AOTD: "At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in, They got in on pure talent" or "You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!!"
-GryffindorPadmeEaton