W.O.M.A.N [A Sirius Black Tale] P.A.R.T 1.2 (Part 2)

He stretched out the other leg and motioned for her to join him.

“Why?”

Her voice was slow; suspicious.

He just motioned again.

“Come here.”

Thinking that it wasn’t a good idea, Annixia moved to decline again, only to be hit by shower of invisible ice. Against her better judgement, she stood and walked to the space in front of him.

He patted the floor between his legs.

She looked at him cautiously, thinking it through.

He noticed her look.

“I won’t bite love, not if you don’t ask me to, anyway.”

Despite rolling her eyes, she perched between his long legs, her back against his front; close enough to feel the body heat radiating off his chest, but not close enough that they were touching.

That was until his arms softly circled her slim waist and he gently tugged her into him.

The warmth enveloped her and the stiffness of her shoulders relaxed as Nixi allowed him to hold her. Unsure what to do with her hands, she placed them on her lap before noting the complete contrast of their bodies.

To break the sweet silence, she voiced her opinions.

“Why are you so bloody tall?”

He laughed, the vibrations in his chest moving through her body too. She bit the bottom corner of her lip.

“For the same reason you’re so bloody small.”

She let out an offended noise, elbowing the broadness of his torso lightly.

“That’s vertically challenged to you, mister.”

He let out a mock laugh.

“Since when?”

“Since tiny people became protected in the eyes of the law.”

She explained, smiling through her words as they flowed out easily. She noticed the way he tightened his arms around her tightly as she let out a laugh.

“Oh yeah, the Defence of the Dwarf Act – i remember now.”

The sarcasm was appreciated as she chuckled lightly.

“Cheeky.”

He grinned into her neck.

“Always.”

Smiling, she looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

“Well someone’s in a better mood.”

He sighed, the breath tickling her skin.

Merlin, what was she getting herself into?

“That might have something to do with the fact that you’re letting me hold you right now.” He pointed out in victory and Annixia rolled her eyes.

“Well, you didn’t give me much of a choice really, did you?”

He frowned and rubbed his nose against her shoulder blade.

“That’s not true - you could have stayed over there if you wanted to.”

She scoffed.

“Yeah, if i wanted to freeze to death.”

He tightened his arms again.

“Better now?”

Annixia couldn’t stop the word from spilling past her lips.

“Much.”

They stayed that way for a moment, before Sirius opened up a new line of conversation.

“Can i ask you something?”

His tone of voice made her raise an eyebrow.

“Are you actually giving me the option, or just being polite?”

She felt his smile.

“When have you known me to ever be polite?”

She tilted her head back to look him in the face.

“Is that your question?”

Sirius shook his head, smiling only slightly.

Almost concerned, she continued.

“Then you’d better ask, before you forget.”

She hadn’t noticed her hands moving to rest along his arms, but he did, and it was all he could do to channel his concentration.

“You said before that you don’t like anyone, is that true?”

She exhaled, licked her lips and looked down to their arms, finally noting the fact that hers had seemingly moved of their own accord.

Why was her body so willing to attach itself to his?

“I guess so.”

He looked at her questioningly and echoed.

“You guess so?”

She nodded, drawing circles on his arm with her left hand. Sirius couldn’t repress the pleasured shudder that ran his spine. She didn’t seem to notice.

“I’ve never really thought about it, to be honest. You were pretty close earlier – i’m not really willing to like anyone, so when i do, i guess i just sort of...pull back. Does that make sense?”

He sighed.

“It does; can i ask why you aren’t willing?”

She shrugged, surprised at how comfortable she felt discussing this with him.

“I grew up watching my mum’s heart break every time my dad would fight with her. She would cry herself to sleep all the time and he just...i don’t know. She gave him her everything and he was so careless with her. I guess i just don’t think it’s worth the hassle in the end.”

He pulled them lower down the wall, slouching comfortably.

“I can understand that, i suppose. But don’t you think it’s worth a chance at least – i mean, there are guys that would kill for someone like you.”

Trying to bring back the light heartedness to the conversation, she let out a snort.

“Maybe they did before you scared them all of!”

This time, he shrugged.

“Can’t have them stealing my girl.”

She laughed.

“I’m not your girl.”

He tilted his head and looked at her quizzically.

“And why is that, again?”

Ouch. She had walked right into that one, hadn’t she?

Checking the facial expression again, Annixia found him to be serious.

Where to begin? Hadn’t she found herself lying awake at night, wondering the exact same thing?

How was she supposed to tell him when she could hardly figure it out for herself?

She would have to be honest – hopefully not brutally so.

“Because, and i mean no offense when i say this but Sirius, you have a reputation, not a gleaming one either, and i don’t know what to do with myself when you try and make me the next Lolita in your line up.”

He looked at her, hurt evident on his features and pulled back from her slightly. She took the movement as a hint and moved forward, putting a slight distant between them and turning to face him.

“You really think that all i want from you is sex?”

Sighing, she put her face in her hands before once again looking to him.

“What else am i supposed to think? You’re very blunt, Sirius and you said yourself that what you want, you get. And then you throw it away. I won’t be discarded, i can’t handle that.” She sucked in a breath before gathering herself to add, “Because i can see myself falling for you. And i won’t let myself be hurt by that.”

She closed her eyes, too cowardly to see his reaction as she tried to ignore her pounding heart.

Shouldn’t she feel relief for telling someone-anyone-even if it was the one person who was supposed to never find out?

“You know, for someone so intelligent, you really can be stupid at times.” Her eyes shot open in indignance and she glared at him. How sensitive of him.

“Excuse me?”

He snorted, rolled his eyes and matched her leer with his own amused gaze.

“Do you have any idea how much you actually mean to me?”

The silver blazed in his stare and Nixi found herself without air or speech. His voice was rough and coated in raw feeling. She’d never noticed just how sincere he was before.

“There are hundreds of available, pretty, nice, willing girls in this bloody school that would give anything to be with me.”

“And don’t you just know it.”

She replied cynically, rolling her eyes at his arrogance.

He nodded, his expression ablaze. Passionate.

“Yeah, i do. So what’s stopping me, Annixia? What’s stopping me from choosing any one of them to be with?”

She threw her hands up to the air, not bothering to bite her tongue and think before she said anything.

“Nothing, Sirius! Nothing is stopping you from taking any one of them as yours. Who knows, it may even last a week, if they’re lucky!”

He shook his head, an incredulous look upon his handsome face.

“God Nixi! How can you not see it! I haven’t been with another woman, haven’t even looked at another girl since you came along! And it’s killing me not to be with you, every bloody time you say ‘no’ it actually, physically hurts.”

She stood up abruptly, looking down on him insulted.

Hand to her chest, she rose her eyebrows.

“You’re saying it’s my fault?”

He stood too, bones clicking from the sudden move but he didn’t even wince as he bit back.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying! Only you never bothered to look and see, all you could think of was my ‘reputation’ which, by the way, is mostly talk! Only you never bothered to find that out either, did you? You just assumed. Thought i didn’t care enough about you to give you more than a week. Thought i could just make you a notch on my belt...

Well guess what.”

He moved closer, his hands on her hips as he pulled her in to his chest. He was so much taller than her, so broad.

“Here’s the proof that you’re stupid. Because all i ever wanted from you, was all of you. Nothing more, nothing less.”

He moved one hand up to tuck a loose curl behind her ear and softly stroked her cheek.

The butterflies exploded in her stomach and she closed her eyes briefly, slightly leaning into his touch.

“You said you could fall for me, if this became more. I’m already there and i haven’t so much as kissed you yet. So tell me this isn’t worth the hassle, Anni.”

His face descended upon hers and in a split second his lips caressed hers so gently at first, before adding more pressure. Annixia found herself responding, letting go of everything as stars flashed before her eyes. She tiptoed, making it easier for the both of them as her hands found their way to his hair and became lost as their bodies moulded. His hands and her hips. Their chests and mouths.

Everything became...connected.

In need of air, they pulled back and breathed deeply, foreheads resting against one another. He re-tucked the same curl behind her ear.

He could still taste her.

Breathless and now seeing the diamonds in his eyes, she asked curiously.

“And what does this make us, exactly?”

He rubbed his nose against hers gently, his hands trailing her sides lightly.

“Whatever you want us to be – as long as there is an us.”

She let out a slight laugh.

“When did you become such a girl?”

He chuckled, the grin etching its way onto his perfect face.

“Your fault, remember?”

Still smiling, she gently reached up to peck his lips again.

Looking into her golden gaze, he tightened his hold on her. There was no such thing as too close for him.

“Can we take it slow? See how we go? I don’t want to rush-“

His lips cut her off and she could feel his grin as he lifted her off the ground, spinning her once and squeezing her. They laughed as he put her back on the good earth.

“Whatever you want, sweetheart.”

She tilted her head. That name had a ring to it now, one she could certainly get used to.

“Then why don’t we start with Hogsmeade, next weekend?”

Sirius let out a bark like laugh.

“Where have i heard that one before?” He nudged her nose again. “Sounds perfect. I’ll have to stay close to you though, love. We don’t want another episode like last time.”

She smiled and looked straight into those stormy greys.

“Sounds perfect.”

In a cold tub, alone with only candle light to see with, Annixia Dexter awoke 15 years later, swimming in the salt of her own tears. In the distance, a dog howled.




This one was so long it had to be split up! Very bitter sweet too...i had some trouble with this chapter :( You guys who message are a godsend :D
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