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Aurora had been far too excited for the morning that Sirius groaned as his sister had already been showered and groomed to be sitting at the breakfast table. 

"Merlin did you go to sleep?" She perked her lips and didn't know how to make a witty comment, not that Sirius would care as he sat beside her and scoffed at the idea she actually reading something productive, again...

"You know they usually give us a syllabus week when we come back." Aurora shook her head. 

"Nope, we have a quiz within our first week in each classes—Oi I tried to tell you but you always shut me out when I wanted you to know." He rolled his eyes, thinking that his sister was the bloody prodigy of their generation.

"Did she go to bed at all?"

"Dunno, gave up after twelve, she still had the light on." Sirius responded, Regulus felt a little left out not being able to sneak into her room anymore after their parents had caught him.

But to be fair Sirius was older than him, why ever he felt the need to still sleep with Rory was beyond him. But usually it steemed at the idea of that he had nightmares or because of that promise after what their father had done all that time ago.

However, in Sirius' mind he liked to know that Aurora didn't have someone else in her bed. Even if it was her lover or husband, he didn't want anyone else to be able to claim it but him.

He also never slept the entire night in a girl's bed other than his sister's, course he'd fall asleep in one for a few hours but to actually stay until the next morning?

Not a chance.

Course Regulus was protective of his sister as well, it was too easy to do so. But he's never vocally done anything like his brother had, even when it was Victoria.

Pouting at the thought he wanted to apologize but it was pointless, especially since it wouldn't make a difference to bring it up again. So he stayed silent through breakfast as his father boasted yet again to Aurora.

Her worries about being prefect were passed her, but it didn't stop Walburga from telling Aurora that there were no books allowed to be on the table.

Only for their father to contradict that statement as he wanted to know what she was reading. "Potions." She spoke, her eyes down to her plate before her. Sirius didn't know why his father was smiling off to his sister and it sort of edged him further as he wanted to leave to the platform now.

"Something specific you were trying to figure out?" She shook her head, knowing that her mother's devil like stare was judging her. Part of Walburga's problems with her daughter was that she was still regretful for having a daughter instead of a son, but then on the other hand she was too smart for her own good.

"I wanted to know why it was so difficult to make draught of living death." She spoke, not really catching anyones eye. But Sirius stopped chewing on his steak as he did not like where this conversation, especially with dark people.

But Aurora's issue with telling the truth was what their parents favored as well, but when she did lie her parents didn't question it. Thus making it perfect for her, again.

"And why is that?" Her eyes looked to her father now, full of confusion why she was being asked and so she took a sip of her tea and mumbled: "Because Slughorn is teaching it wrong." She claimed, and Sirius chuckled.

"Don't anger your professor, Cassiopeia, he put you in his slug club not to ridicule him." Aurora knew it was coming and so she kept her head down, and her father had seen her talking so highly of being a potions mistress only to cower away...

"I doubt she means to ridicule dear, if he misplaced a certain step it could be crucial, especially when the students are tested on such things..." Aurora looked to Sirius, the same lack of understanding that had risen for the last damn minute or so of the conversation.

"Besides, she wishes to be a potions mistress and if she were to start somewhere she should start understanding such things." He took a stance, her father might as well have put a fork through her hand as it just angered the entire matriarch of the family.

"She doesn't want to be a potions mistress, where did you hear this rubbish?" Aurora bit her lip and closed her eyes, Sirius thought it was purely their mother's ignorance and inconsideration for what her daughter wanted to do, so attempting to remove everyone from this boarder lining hostlility.

"You're right mother, it was foolish of me to think I could be a potion's mistress. We should get going to the platform..." She issued, excusing herself from the table as she closed her eyes and allowed her own tears to cultivator her further.

Hugging the small little eagle that her brother had gifted to her first year ever so tightly, she placed it into her case as well as grabbing her satchel only to see that Sirius was leaning into the door.

"You alright?" 

"Course, truly adore it when mother makes me feel useless...Maybe I'm just meant to be a stay at home wife like her." She hissed, feeling an oncoming migraine coming if she were to stay in this house for another minute.

The eldest Black aided his sister with her trunk, and although her father offered a smile. There was nothing left in Aurora after the conversation at breakfast, and there wouldn't ever be in this household for awhile. Because they wouldn't be invited back for Christmas Holiday.

As they removed themselves from the floo network Sirius had leaned into her ear: 

"As within...So without?" He finished the sentence for her because she desperately needed the reminder, and so she smiled and leaned into her brother for a slight moment.

Walburga had failed multiple times in attempting to break apart the two eldest siblings, but to her misfortune, it just clicked further.

They were due to enter the train now and Aurora leaned into her father for a goodbye hug and he whispered: "I think you being a mistress is a wonderful idea, go and tell Slughorn his teachings are wrong." She smiled up to her father and kissed his cheek, before doing the same to her mother just lacking the enthusiastic attitude.

But then her brothers took either of her hands to drag her to the train and find a compartment to drop them both off at, first it was Regulus with his mates, but seeing the proud smirk on Remus' face as he couldn't wait to get the secret out into the air.

"Congratulations on the title Rory, we're—" 

"I am not covering for you nor am I going to be letting you off the hook, do not do anything against the rules in front of me and we won't have a problem...Lovely, now I have a meeting, Remmy are you coming?" The boys were confused of course, until Sirius barked laugher into the cart as he realized how idiotic they had been in not addressing that sooner.

That the choice of prefect needed to be between them four, course who else would it have been? Peter?

"Mate why didn't you tell us that—" Aurora held up her hand as it was going to be difficult for Remus to make the choice between ratting out his family or even the idea of deducting points.

"If Remmy ever tells me that you are making life difficult for him I'm deducting ten points...each." She narrowed her gaze strictly to her brother when her imitation had ended.

But Sirius was all too proud to see his little step up to this level of passion and confidence. 

"Alright princess, we'll play it your way." He cooed, which caused his sister to thank him with a kiss on the cheek. And to make matters all the more inviting did Aurora turn to James and state: 

"Should I tell Lily you said hi when I see her in the prefect compartment?" She questioned, grabbing onto Remus' hand and yanking him out and into the hallway to find the given compartment to sit into.

It was fortunate to Aurora that most of the prefects in their year had known her on some basis level, so finding a seat hadn't been challenging. But since they were the new prefect's of the school she sat with the rest of the Ravenclaws and smiled to her counterpart Jacob.

The head boy and girl, Kaitlyn being from Hufflepuff and Michael from Ravenclaw. It gave ample teamwork as it wasn't from either of the two others with feuds. As if Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff never existed when there was a Slytherin or Gryffindor involved. 

Godforbid it was one from either house.

Aurora was listening intently, but she caught Rabastan giving her smirks and glances quite a few times that at one point she perked her lips and rolled her eyes in his direction before committing herself entirely to the rest of the given speech.

Basically they were meant to direct and control the first years, but this year they wouldn't be running the tour to the newbies in each house. That was for the two final years, and since there was a Ravenclaw at the head of their tower, Aurora felt that this was going to be a rather swell year.

When everything had ended, Remus had been stopped by Lily as she had asked if he wanted to patrol with her. And since Aurora had been taken by more than a few people as well as her little boyfriend as he too was made Prefect.

"Come on Lupin." Lily offered a smile with her dragging tone. Little did she know he was looking off into the distance for Aurora to be his partner, but the girl had been fairly popular amongst the student body as his own group had been.

But this was a chance to talk to Lily, so as he followed her down the hall he asked how her summer had been and all this and that, giving ample information for James to ingest later on.

And that's exactly what he had done.

It was as though James' entire world had came crashing down to know any detail about Lily's summer, but it was the jealousy of not being a prefect right beside her that was fueling each and every question. So even when Remus was trying to bloody relax after traveling and staying awake throughout the entire ordeal that he snapped.

"James for merlin sakes it was just polite chatter, next time I'll keep it to my bloody self!" He growled, and Peter shrunk further into his desk chair as he pouted, never liking the idea that any of his friends were fighting.

"Give it a rest prongs, Moony's been falling asleep since the start of the feast...Besides, it's the same thing over and over again." He shared, and that shut James up entirely. 

Sirius on the other hand was giving his own version of a welcome back to a unnamed fling while Aurora was with Dumbledore, asking if there was anything she should learn prior to the lessons.

Which he found rather amusing.

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"Hey! There's no reason to point your wand at your classmate when you don't know any spells to do anything with it. Five points from Gryffindor! Each!" Aurora's voice carried, and so it drew Rabastan to depart from his mates to come and investigate. The three first years were attempting to beg her for the points to return, but that had him chuckle. 

"We don't have the power to restore points, I suggest you go and study up to earn them back." He spoke so easily, and the anger steaming out of the Ravenclaw beside him was rather odd, so when the kiddos had left he offered a hand onto her shoulder.

Only when her eyes met his did she start to calm down, melting into him as he smirked so widely at how easily she conformed into him.

"Don't let them bother you, love." She leaned into his chest, which had gotten surprisingly taller as the summer had passed them both. Yet her hum radiated through his entire body as he wrapped his own arms around her.

Securing her properly.

"I'm just tired...Think it's Alchemy." He chuckled, the given blessing that the subject doesn't give an OWL exam at the end of a year was probably the fact that even a simple exam was difficult to manage through.

The entire class had barely a dozen people, and they scattered throughout the four houses. Mostly pertaining to the Ravenclaws as it was Harper, Jacob and Ethan from her end. Avery managed to get in, as well as the Dorcas from Slytherin. 

Who also happened to be the girl prefect for them.

"I will gladly keep you company in the library love." She smiled and took him on the offer for that, but at the moment he ordered her to get to bed as he walked her to her common room. But not before leaving her with something to think about as he leaned in for a drastically long goodnight kiss.

"Goodnight Aurora." Her flushed cheeks were filtered even brighter as the torches around the walls were giving a louder impression. 

"Goodnight Raba." She ushered, biting her lip as her smile finally pierced through as she turned back for a moment to see him clutching the small little dogtag sort of thing that she had purchased for him while she was in salem.

However, she was careless at the moment as she started to undress into nothing but her brassiere and panties. And just as she was about to throw on her Hogwarts t-shirt Isabella had let out a scream.

Making the entire room shake in an effort to rally the situation. But it was the threatening point off to Aurora that had her feel singled out. 

"YOU HAVE A TATTOO?!" Harper and Clementine did not believe it for a second and tried to tell Izzy off for making lies, but the second Aurora lifted up her shirt for a moment to reveal the given inked patterns had the rest of them scream and test to see if it was real indeed.

Of course it had been.

"I swear if any of you tell my fucking brother I will give you detention!" She screamed, groaning at the ink-related jokes that followed in pursuit whenever she was with both her flock and Sirius' coalition. Course he didn't understand the joke, but once Harper commented that it was a group of male lions the boys laughed.

"How's Alchemy Rory?" Sirius asked, tackling her with an arm over her shoulder and she groaned. 

"Why is everyone so tall, even Reg is beating me in height now." She pouted, but of course her own friends voiced their opinion on her height as she still stood higher than all of them.

If anything Rabastan adored her height as it made her arse perfect, the added bonus of her long and creamy legs being paired with those tall socks...The skirt—Merlin a school outfit wasn't meant to be appetizing but it was. Salzar was it something he prided himself in catching a glimpse of every now and again.

But lads be damned if he caught anyone staring either. 

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Date Posted: 03-08-19

Time: 11:19

Words: 2679