Enrapture
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Day 1 - "If one day I decided to leave, would you run away with me?”
Bide
Sirius kicked at the rocks beneath his feet, not caring if anyone heard or saw him walking the Black Lake's shore at half past midnight.
It was all so stupid. People were dying out there, and somehow he and his mates were supposed to care about classes? He shook his head, and kicked at the rocks again.
Someone swore in the darkness.
"Watch it!"
Sirius grinned. He knew that voice.
"Wotcher, McKinnon."
"Black? Why are you kicking rocks at me?" Marlene came out of the shadows, her golden hair and blue eyes looking silver in the moonlight.
"Have to get your attention somehow."
Her blood red lips curved up in a small smile and Sirius smirked as some of the weight lifted from his chest.
"There are better ways to get a girl's attention."
Sirius shrugged. "Usually are but I'm a direct sort of bloke."
"Well your direct approach got my attention, what are you going to do with it?"
"Fancy a walk?"
She bit her bottom lip while he waited for her answer and Sirius wondered if she was deliberately toying with him.
"A walk under the stars? If I didn't know better I'd say you were trying to be romantic." Marlene tilted her head in the direction she'd come from and turned.
Two long strides and Sirius caught up to her.
"Then I wouldn't know you very well, would I?"
"If you know me so well, what would you do?"
The weight that had driven him from the dorms lifted a bit more and Sirius lazily dropped his arm around her shoulders. He wasn't sure when it happened, but Marlene was quickly becoming a safe place to hide from the harder parts of his life. And Sirius wanted to know if maybe he was hers too.
"Give you a place to hide where no one and nothing can find you except me until you're ready to face the world again."
She stopped walking and looked up at him, her eyes wide. He thought he'd screwed up, misjudged what he thought was between them. Then her hands tangled in his leather jacket.
"Would you stay with me in that place?" Her voice was barely louder than the gentle wind around them.
Sirius tightened his hold on her shoulders, pulling her closer. Marlene's eyes were locked on his, and all the humor he'd felt a moment ago had evaporated in the night air. He brought his free hand to brush a curl from her face.
"If one day I decided to leave, would you run away with me? Leave this insanity behind and not look back?"
She stepped closer, bringing her breath to mingle with his.
"You didn't answer my question."
Sirius pulled her against him, caught up in the heady feeling that always accompanied having Marlene this close. He rested his forehead against hers, his lips tilting up at the left when her eyes fluttered close.
"Do you want to hide with me?"
Her tongue darted out, wetting her lips and ensnaring him all the more.
"Would you think I'm weak?"
"I'm not the easiest bloke to get along with, if anything I'd think you crazy."
Marlene tilted her head up, her nose sliding against him as her lips came ever closer to his. Sirius refused to admit how difficult she made it to breathe.
"I'd run away with you." Her lips brushed his as she spoke.
He grinned against her, feeling her smile grow with his. "I'd stay with you."
The sigh that escaped her was cut off as Sirius gave in and brought his lips to Marlene's.
He'd stay with her, wherever she wanted to be, he knew he would stay.
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