B/A/N- Here’s the next chapter.
There are two songs I used in it…Rinse, the first one, is kinda the
topic song I suppose. And I just happened to weave in
Okay, well on with
the story-
“She'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
for answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight
she must rinse this all away
she can't hold him this way
she must rinse this all away
she can't love him this way
how she'd be soothed, how she'd be saved if he could see
she needs to be held in his arms to be free
but everything happens for reasons that she will never understand
'til she knows the heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man
she must rinse this all away
she can't hold him this way
she must rinse this all away
she can't love him this way
and if she runs away she fears she won't be followed
what could be the worse than leaving something behind
and as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
it's loneliness she finds...
if only he was mine
she'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
for answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight
she must rinse him
she must rinse him
she can't rinse him
she can't rinse him
she can't, she won't, she must rinse him
she can't, she won't, she must rinse him
she must rinse this all away
she can't hold him this way
she must rinse this all away
she can't love him this way…”
(“Rinse”-Vanessa Carlton)
Chappie 43: Spanish
Threats
Once upon a year gone by
she saw herself give in
every time she closed her eyes
she saw what could have been…
“Have you heard of her? She’s
all the school’s talking about,” Lily whispered to Avia and Emia at lunch. It was a day after Emia and Sirius’ little
intrigue at the
Emia should have known it was too good to last.
“Who?” Emia whispered back sharply at the table.
“Why are we whispering?” Avia chimed in in a normal speaking voice from
her spot. Emia then noticed that none of the Marauders were present in their
usual spots (next to Lily, Avia and Emia), so there was really no purpose for
their whispering.
“Oh, uh, no reason. But
who are we talking about? Who is everybody talking about? What’s so special
about her?” Emia asked.
Lily smirked, “Well, word is that this Spanish exchange student got
Sirius’ eye already, and she’s only been here for two hours.” (B/A/N-Remember,
Emia stubbornly would not admit her feelings for Sirius, so Lily thinks that
she’s acting correctly by telling Emia the truth.)
“WHAT?!” Emia screeched, pushing back her seat from the
table, grabbing her bag, and sprinting out of the hall.
“She’s got it bad,” Avia observed while crunching on an apple.
Lily nodded and added, “I really hope this Spanish threat isn’t as much
of a seductress as she’s made out to be.”
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The curly raven hair swished behind the perfectly sculpted
sixteen-year-old, seeming to dance with her graceful movements. Excited whispers exited the mouths of all the
males she passed as she continued down the Charms corridor. She hadn’t actually gotten her schedule yet,
her guide kept “forgetting” to show her to Professor Dumbledore’s office.
Ah, yes, she remembered her arrival vividly.
She had just stepped out of the carriage, and looked frantically around
for a kind person to guide her around this huge castle. The first boy she saw she smiled at and he
had smiled a rather roguish smile in return.
The girl decided this boy would have to do, and allowed her to be guided
around by him. She had a sneaking
suspicion he knew exactly where the Headmaster’s office was, but he was just
stalling for time with her. It was
flattering, but she had things to do, so she smiled a gorgeous smile of
ruby-red lips and sparkling white teeth, and asked, “Amor, I…need…
to….t-talk…with…your…h-headmaster.”
The boy decided he had stalled for long enough, and answered, “Okay,
sure…I guess. This way.”
He took her by the hand and led her to the Headmaster’s office.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
“Ah… Senorita Tigre, we have been expecting you…for quite some time,”
Professor Dumbledore said with a gleam in his eye, inviting Miss Tigre and her
guide to take seats.
“I trust you had no difficulty finding the school, my dear,” the
professor continued.
“N-no, no difficulty f-finding the s-school…” she said in an unsure
voice, with a rather heavy Spanish accent.
The professor gave her a sympathetic smile. Even he had difficulty finding a way about
the school, and he’d been here for ages! Miss Tigre definitely needed some sort
of guide around here so she wouldn’t get lost.
“Well, my dear,” the professor continued, “I’m afraid we’ll have to do
your sorting here in the office, because we don’t have enough time nowadays to
stop the feasts and such. It’ll be very
quick, let me get the hat.”
Professor Dumbledore arose from his desk and grabbed a ratty old hat
off of a shelf. “There we are. Now you
just put this on, my dear, yes, there you go…”
Senorita
Senorita Tigre took off the hat, looking considerably shaken up by the
fact that a random hat was speaking to her.
“Well, it looks like the Gryffindor 6th Year Dorm just got a
new roommate,” smiled Professor Dumbledore. “Senorita
Lasombra Tigre. Oh, and Mr.
Black, you wouldn’t mind showing Lasombra around, now would you?”
Sirius’ grin was enough to affirmatively answer that question.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
But Emia will hate me… but we’re
not married or anything, I’m just being hospitable to the new girl! You’re not
being hospitable, you twit, and you’re hanging all over her! Am not! Are too!
Am not! Are too! Well, you get the
idea. This was what was going through
Sirius Black’s mind as he escorted Miss Tigre down the halls of Hogwarts,
scared to death he might run into Emia in the process.
If he even saw any
girl about her height with her haircolor, he ducked behind a suit of
armor. Honestly, I can’t run from her forever, we’re in the same House! She’s
going to find out I’m
Lasombra’s guide at one point or another! I’d just rather she found out
from me so she won’t blow all this out of proportion!
Sirius didn’t have
much more time to think on that thought because suddenly someone slapped his
head from behind. “Ow…wha-who?” Sirius asked, rather ineloquently.
“Oh, so now you can’t even drag yourself down from your little
love-fest with the Spanish twit over there to talk to me! That’s just
wonderful…you can forget everything that happened last night!”
Well nothing hurts and nothing
bleeds
when covers tucked in tight
funny when the bottom drops
how she forgets to fight... to fight…
Sirius was a little out of it, but upon hearing you can forget everything that happened last night, he knew this
must be Emia. Well, it had to be her
anyway, but only she would mention last night…or slap him over the head in the
middle of the hall.
“Emia, no! Wait! I didn’t mean to ignore you!! Really!”
Sirius protested as he watched the petite blonde stalk off down the hall
angrily.
A delicate finger traced his chin, and pulled his attention back to the
Spanish seductress on his left.
“W-who w-was t-that?” she asked, as always having a bit of difficulty
with the language.
Sirius angrily looked down the hall after Emia, who was already
gone. “Nobody
important. Shall we?”
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
“Emia, honey, he wasn’t worth it in the first place,” Avia said
soothingly while running a hand in calming circles on her sister’s back. Emia had come back to the
Gryffindor 5th Year girl’s dorm after afternoon classes, and just
collapsed on her bed, bawling. It
was now after dinner (which Emia skipped), and all three girls were in there
together. Avia and Lily knew that Emia
had it bad for Sirius, but they didn’t know he would (or could) be this big of
an ass to someone, especially someone he said he liked.
“He really wasn’t,” Lily added in a comforting tone.
“But yes he was!” she yelled through tears into her pillow.
And it's
one more day in paradise
one more day in paradise
as darkness quickly steals the light
that shined within her eyes
she slowly swallows all her fear
and soothes her mind with lies
“Why, Emie! What made Sirius so damn special?!” Avia asked, losing all
her patience.
“You don’t know what he’s done for me! He got me a flying motorcycle
for chrissakes, he’s really very sweet! He’s just so desperate to keep up a
good image that he refuses to show it!” Emia retorted, angry as well.
Lily, always the peacemaker, stepped in and said, “I’m sure Sirius has
been sweet, Emie, and maybe this Spanish girl is just all a misunderstanding.”
Avia snorted.
Lily looked at Avia with frustration, and admitted, “And then, maybe
it’s not all a misunderstanding. Maybe
he wanted to be with her.”
Emia snorted.
“We’re really not getting any nearer to solving this mystery,” Lily
said simply. “Maybe we should just go
find Sirius, lose the little Spanish girl, and ask him a few things.”
Well all she wants and all she
needs
are reasons to survive
a day in which the sun will take
her artificial light... her light…
and it's one more day in paradise
one more day in paradise
it's one more day in paradise
one last chance to feel alright... alright
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
“Whoa! What the- what’s going on?!”
Sirius was being dragged down the hallway by- air. Lasombra looked curiously at him as he was
being pulled down the hall by nothing.
She shrugged, and looked for someone else to guide her around for
awhile. Her gaze landed on a rather
pudgy blonde. Eew…well, I suppose…this boy looks like he needs a little pity. Lasombra walked over to Peter, asking him to
be her guide for awhile.
Sirius, meanwhile, was being thrown into the empty History of Magic
classroom by, once again, air. It had
finally occurred to him that James owned an invisibility cloak, and would
gladly lend it to Lily, so this could be a rather uncomfortable run-in with his
ex and her two best friends.
“Okay, show yourselves, honestly,” Sirius groaned as he sat down in one
of the desks.
“Fine,” Emia said icily, and she took the cloak off of, sure enough,
Lily, Avia, and herself.
Don’t pretend to hold it in just
let it out
don't pretend to hold it in just push it out
don't you try to hold it in just let it out and
don't you try to hold it in you hold it in…
“Okay. What do you girls think
you’re doing, throwing me into a classroom like that? You’re giving Lasombra a bad impression of
our school!” Sirius said, trying to maintain his haughty attitude.
“Oh, so that’s the Spanish whore’s name? Lasombra? Strangely enough, it fits. But “Spanish whore” has such a better ring to
it,” Emia said menacingly.
“What? Why are you starting on her now?” Sirius asked, honestly
clueless.
“So you think you can just kiss me last night, and go to some Spanish
whore today? What’s the deal with that?
I really don’t want to be screwed around with by an egotistical prat such as yourself!” Emia screamed at the top of her lungs.
Avia and Lily backed away from their hysterical friend a bit.
“Okay, if any decent questioning is going to get done,” Lily said
sensibly, “it has to be done impartially.
Not by Emia emotionally screaming in Sirius’ face.”
Lily had Avia take a very disgruntled Emia outside the door and she sat
down across from Sirius.
“Siri, what are you going to do?
Look at the mess you’ve gotten yourself into! She really likes you, you know.” Lily said
quietly.
“Yeah, of course I know. I’m
crazy about her. But then with this
whole thing with Lasombra…I knew that no matter what I said to her, she
wouldn’t believe me. Or even listen to
me, for that matter,” Sirius mumbled.
And it's one more day in paradise
one more day in paradise
it's one more day in paradise
one last chance to feel alright... alright…
“Well, Siri, I know sometimes it’s difficult to tell people the truth,
but you have to keep trying.”
“But what’s the point? She won’t listen.”
“The point is that you need to know yourself that you’re free of
blame. If you don’t defend yourself, and
let lies spring up around you, like this blown-out-of-proportion Spanish
seductress, those lies become reality.”
Sirius looked to the ground while she spoke, like some little
five-year-old guilty of trekking mud in a clean house.
“I think I’ve heard all I need to,” Lily said simply, and went out to
get Emia.
“So what did he have to say?”
Emia asked sharply, jutting her head in Sirius’ direction. (he wasn’t outside,
he was in the room with them)
“That this Spanish girl was nothing, he was merely asked to show her
around by Dumbledore.” Lily answered evenly.
“I don’t know if I can believe him, though.”
“Please, Emie…you know I wanted to be with you…” Sirius whined, looking
into Emia’s caramel eyes.
“I don’t know what to believe, Sirius.
I just need some time to think.”
Once upon a year gone by
she saw herself give in
every time she closed her eyes
she saw what could have been…”
(“Paradise”-Vanessa Carlton)
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B/A/N- Thanks for all your awesome support, and I hope you guys liked
this chapter, it took me forever to think of the proper songs (which I hope fit
in properly). Review!!!