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Cassiopeia Aurora Black was an undeclared Mistress at many things, one of which was avoiding those who wanted to find her. If it hadn't been for her own private map she would've been ambushed by both James and Sirius as they came closer and closer to the girl's bathroom.

The one that had been out of commission due to the little ghost that haunts it. She had been brewing some potions in prep for their senses to be overwhelmed and everything to be sought in her arsenal.

"Rory?" She looked up only to see that both boys had come out from under the invisibility cloak and she smirked. "Don't tell me you two are embarrassed to come into the girl's lavatory brother, they'll always be prettier than the boys." She giggled, followed my moaning Mrytle's own gasping cackling floating about.

"Alright, so...I want you two to play close attention. These are the leaves I was attempting to discuss." Aurora had slapped Sirius' hand away from the offered bottle.

"They were soaking in the proper potions for a month and they are extremely difficult to rebrew. They need to be under your tongue for the entire time." They both nodded eagerly, only for the door to burst open once again.

"I'm sorry I'm late! Moony was so difficult to lose!" Aurora huffed at the idea and shook her head. 

"Moony? Really? Could you lot be any more insensitive?... Why am I even helping you three?" She said, yanking back the bottle and Sirius huffed.

"Because you said you would, and I'm your brother and you love Remus?" She perked her lips and she nodded.

"This leaf has to be under your tongue for the entire month." That suddenly shocked the boys in the instant.

"A MONTH?!" They all yelled, as if all her planning and work had gone for nothing. Thus causing her to bring her hand to her forehead in defeat.

"Did you even read through the material?!... If not you are going to delay the process, eat it, which I don't recommend doing, you have to start over...And here is the most important part, wherever you are on the full moon you will have to say the spell and point your wand to your heart." Sirius stepped forward and she smiled up to him as she grabbed his tongue up and placed it under.

"Lucky for you I shrunk it a bit, but I doubt that makes much of a difference." She closed his mouth and he made a face.

"Did you expect it to taste like cherries?" She rolled her eyes before going to James as well. 

"Er, Rory how do we eat?" Peter questioned, and then turned to both the boys worried on being up in the air and anything.

"Before the game we can stick it securely to your tongue. I suppose we can do that now if you don't trust yourselves." They all nodded and she went to grab her wand and pointed it off towards Sirius.

Whatever he had said was a bit mumbled but Aurora was playing with delicate magic and there was no room for error.

"Alright, keep them in, don't talk too much and for the love of Merlin...watch for the moon next month." They all nodded and then she was about to put her own into her mouth but Sirius stopped her.

It was just to see his reaction, but it was rather adorable to see him try and stop her.

"Not a chance." She smirked and nipped it back. "Word to the wise Sirius, you don't control me." She kissed out into the air and hid all her work within the wall before continuing out.

"When you do accomplish this...Do not force a transformation, you'll have to allow it to happen on its own." Since it was the beginning of January she hoped that the moon would be clear next month and they can control it by March at the latest.

Moony was getting rather annoyed—Perhaps not annoyed but more agitated with the lies and her being able to come and go. So she would come other times or for a lesser time during the night.

It was perfect that she had put small spells on the map the boys have to know. But his world had gone to the best of times, his mates weren't allowed to talk all that much due to their need in keeping the leaves remained. That meant that Aurora was open for the talking and with Rabastan on the rebound after the entire night was left highlighted in her mind.

She was embarrassed for being so emotional near her menstrual cycle, but her mother and cousin had taken that as a good sign for fertility...Not that they voiced this to her directly but they aided her pain with potions.

Rabastan decided that the best thing to do would be to give her space, she did look sort of stressed. And from her brother he knew her secret of wanting to take Alchemy, so with that in mind he ignored the flirtatious flock of other females and kept his eye on the one and only Aurora Black.

"So you don't want to try it with them?" She questioned, motioning to the rest of the male Gryffindor house in hopes of getting a straight answer but he clearly disregarded the question and diving in. Which had her smirk...Remus John Lupin was indeed a shit liar.

"If you do want to you'd only be two weeks behind." She offered but he waved it off. 

"I rather not be involved in another prank or anything that it might entail, especially that illegal. I know you never met my mother but she's scary." 

"I think I have you beat Remmy." She whispers back, and although he was going to counter it with a playful argument he shut his mouth as he knew well enough that all the siblings wanted nothing to do with their parents.

"I'm sorry Rory I didn't mean—" She shrugged and continued to look from her paper to the board and kicked her brother's chair for him to pay attention.

"Zip it." The eldest sibling was about to stick his tongue out and but stopped before he went through with it. The one thing about Sirius Black, was that he gave up his flings for the month in an attempt to get this animal status.

"You aren't doing it...A-are you?" She looked to Remus and tilted her head. Rolling her eyes at the thought of him telling her brother at the mere notion of her secret so she lifted her tongue up. 

"Of course not, not a bloody idiot." She lied straight through her teeth, she would never do it at a time like this. But little did he know that she saw him at his weakest moments human and non.

Establishing a rather strong bond, because deep down him initiating three other members into the group would take a solid few attempts before diving straight into a calm setting.

As the month was coming to a close Aurora was thankful that they had only one attempt and not having to wait any longer than normal.

With that being said they all raced the next morning to drag Aurora down the hall when she barely had finished buttering her toast. 

"Look you annoying bastards I had two hours of bloody sleep so if you could please just—" They all lifted up their tongues in pride and she dug deep for a smile and took a big bite of her toast.

"Lovely, so can I go back to my coffee and eggs?" 

"Since when do you eat breakfast sis?" He hooked his arm around her and kissed her temple. 

"Since I didn't get a wink of sleep, talk to me later I beg you." She spoke, returning back to the grand hall in hopes of a cup of coffee.

"Rory you have to stop falling asleep in classrooms." She nodded to Harper and Clementine but closed her eyes once more at its steamy goodness.

Regulus still had a bit of resentment to Rabastan but both of them were confused at Aurora's behavior.

"Rory?... You alright?" She smiled off to her brother and nodded but that wasn't enough for the other boy. 

"You sure?" With that given she reached into her bag and wrote him a small note to charm the little flyer and blew a kiss.

Seeing that warmed his heart and smirked in her direction. Perhaps it was interacting with a werewolf on little to no sleep, her damnable brother and his mates. Or the fact that he would nag the entire time and this would keep him a bay.

With the end of breakfast and the babbling of the boys she promised after a nap that she'd meet them in the room of requirements to see how they are with the switch. But as of right now she attempted to stay awake throughout the most boring of classes.

But she had finally given up as she promised to come to the abandoned corridor with a box of her own notes that she had typed up some time ago and placed it into a book. Thus making it appear to look as though it was just something she had bought in Hogsmeade.

The pen name she gave herself was simple, if her brothers had looked closely it'd be identifiable. Not to mention that it sounded like her in general but they were too bloody excited at this magic to give any notice.

Besides, she could be dumbing it down in context for them to understand. But she came into the room where they were attempting to change for the first time, already not listening to her advice.

"Merlin what did I bloody tell you these past few weeks? I'm not talking for the goodness of my health you know." Sirius laughed and just waved it off before attempting to get into his animal form.

"I'll tell Moony on you." That stilled her sibling in the instant as she set her satchel

"Okay then ms know it all, what are suppose to do?" And with that she brought them through some exercises that she wished she had her time around as she didn't want to see her friends in any sort of pain.

But that came at a price, out of the entire lots, Sirius had the worse accumulation to become his chosen animal. But that came with the added bonus of not passing out like she had. In this very room in fact.

Aurora's potions worked grand for James and Peter, while for Sirius hadn't worked quiet right... he had thought she was doing it out of purpose for not being allowed to become an animal as well, or out of spite for shagging a few gals her in her house.

So for countless days at a time would they sneak into the room of requirement to get the sense of their new partners. But almost always did it end in failure.

"AURORA IT ISN'T WORKING! THE ONLY THING THAT'S WORKING IS MY BLOODY NOSE!" She flinched at his voice and looked to James for help, but he too had been getting the short end of the stick. Especially since the entire lot lived with him. His anger just simply snapped to his sister now for the first time in weeks...

"Siri I-" 

"FOR SOMEONE SO PERFECT YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO HOLD IT AGAINST ME." He continued, and her entire demeanor shifted as her mouth became to fumble. James knowing in the instant that she was close to tears.

"Mate it's alright, she's doing her best with—" 

"THIS ISN'T HER BEST JAMES, YOU TWO ARE DOING PERFECTLY FINE BUT ME, I CAN'T GET AN OUNCE OF ANYTHING RIGHT!" His fiery rage sprang at Aurora as he lifted up his wand.

"Up Aurora. Now." They never amounted to the fact that Aurora had read each and every book with the mere mention or reference of these growing steps, staying up all hours of the night and suffering through each and everything. 

On top of sports, or on top of keeping her sanity.

So she let her wand from her sleeve and held it up.

"Whoa, whoa...this isn't—" Sirius threw his own swear towards his best mate before throwing spells after hexs to his sister. She blocked each and every-one, only enraging him further before firing expelliamis to get rid of her wand.

So she held her head up high to let the tears streaming down her face visible to him. 

"You think...You think I like being like this? To need to find the answers, I wish I was as careless and relaxed as you Sirius. But unlike you've I've adapted...And you know damn well mother and father never batted a bloody eye until I went to Salem." He followed it with something about being their parents favorite 'twin' and she scoffed.

"You're vile, you think mother or father wanted a daughter?! They didn't want me!" She cried, but Sirius scoffed.

"Here you are all high and mighty then, you have no idea what this is like. To hear things in the walls, to smell across the room!" She inhaled tightly as she turned to the side for a moment and let her cloak fall. It had been quite cold in the room, even with the roaring fire but that could just be the aura of the room.

With her cloak fallen and her glasses tucked into the pockets of it did she look directly to her brother and let her smirk rally as she morphed into Salem.

Each and every heartbeat had stood in awe at the sight before them. Sirius had dropped either wand in his grasp as she had circled him and growled into his direction.

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But of course there was always a little bit of a Bellatrix gene in her siblings that he threw his head back and cackled at the entire situation at it's finest. 

So Aurora ran forward and tackled her brother to get the upper hand.

However the second Sirius had made the small submission sound that technically a k9 would enact instead. So she licked his face and purred in retaliation. "Er, Rory you...You have a lot to explain to—" 

"OF COURSE SHE GOT IT FIGURED OUT FIRST, PROBABLY HOW SHE KNOWS ALL THIS." He shouted, still laughing his heart out from under her.

Yet when she shifted back to human she held out her hand but wiped her eyes clear from the other.

"When I said you were a year late, I was searching for an answer second year...I've been her since the beginning of the year. That's why I told you to wait for a natural transformation because it's going to be painful." Sirius groaned in protest but managed to get up to his feet.

Yet when he was finally at eye level Aurora threw a punch into his stomach in cold fitful rage. "There, now you're body will focus on that." She cheered, turning to the other boys in silence to aid them in their quest.

Suddenly with the secret in the open was it easier for Sirius to listen to his sister, weary of it all. Shockingly enough Peter was the first, as it was enacted by his own sense of gluttony.

As he had been eating some hidden snacks in bed and suddenly took the form of a rat, it had been a bit painful from what Aurora had warned. But as he jumped onto Remus' bed and continued off to Sirius'. 

Scaring him would count as payback for what he had done for his sister.

Anyone else would've walked off, but Aurora outed herself to let them know the truth and how she knew so much. As well as threw a rather rough punch into his gut. 

Although she was a chaser and not a beater it still hurt a lot.

They kept yet another secret from Remus. Not only was Aurora able to shift, and had been for a while. It added to the lie of her not knowing he's a werewolf.

What the rest of them did not know just yet was that Aurora had been going with Moony for an accounted five times at the very least. It had given her countless information of his behavior and when the time was right they would all go and visit Remus.

Whether they agreed to it or not.

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Date Posted: 02-22-19

Time: 8:53

Words: 2834

Lil sibling spat ;)