Out of My life, Chapter 1 – Back Home

Summary: Kate Brink has hated Sirius Black almost all her life, and wishes that he never came into it. But Kate, one of the two smartest people in her house, has to take a while to realize that however hard she tries she just can't get Sirius Black out of her life.
Full Summary: Kate Brink is the arch nemesis of Sirius Black, and is almost as bad as the Slytherins, which is saying a lot in his eyes. Sirius Black is the arch nemesis of Kate Brink, and is almost as bad as her mother, which is saying a lot in her eyes. She has hated him almost all her life, perhaps even more than her best friend Lily Evans has hated James Potter. And perhaps even more than her other best friend Emmy Parsons has hated cotton balls. But Kate, one of the two smartest people in her house, has to take a while to realize that however hard she tries she just can't get Sirius Black out of her life.

Disclaimer: I own Kate Brink, Emmy Parsons, Selena and Serena Nevine ONLY. The rest of the characters belong to JK Rowling, and so do everything else in the Potterverse.

"DAMN YOU, BLACK!" Caitlyn (Kate) Brink screamed at the tall, handsome, gray-eyed boy, who's usually jet-black hair was now a frighteningly vibrant shade of pink.

"DAMN ME? YOU'RE THE ONE THAT MADE MY HAIR PINK!" Sirius Black bellowed in return, his fists clenched and his body language simply emanating fury.

"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GAVE ME BUNNY EARS!" Kate snarled, two furry white and pink rabbit ears sticking up on her head.
"AND YOU GAVE ME A BLOODY NOSE, TOO!" Sirius roared, jabbing his finger towards the indeed bloody and smashed nose.

"I'LL MAKE THE REST OF YOUR FACE BLOODY TOO IF YOU DON'T—"

"Stop arguing! You're both giving me a migraine!" Lily Evans snapped to the two from her Charms essay, interrupting Kate's retort.

"You mean Black's giving you a migraine, like he gives everybody, since he's a right git—"
"If I give people migraines, then you must make their heads implode!" Sirius cut in, smirking.

"Yeah? Then how come your head hasn't already?" Kate quipped, crossing her arms and glaring viciously at the inferior being.

"You make it sound like you care," Sirius shot back, his smirk growing larger by every word he said, mockingly giving his arch nemesis googly eyes.

"I only wished it had imploded," Kate hissed, her amber eyes blazing.

"As much as I agree with Kate's sentiments," Lily began, stopping Sirius' sharp remark, "I'm going to warn both of you to shut up before I give you both detention." She had stood up from her place at one of the tables in the large Common Room.

"You traitor!" Kate gasped, mockingly clutching at her neck and heart. The two best friends grinned at each other for a moment.
"You're going to abuse your prefect privileges now, are you?" Sirius accused of the redhead, still not finished with his verbal attack.

"Hey, are you badmouthing my Lilykins, Padfoot?" James Potter grinned mischievously at Sirius, getting down from the boys' dormitory and into the Gryffindor Common Room. His hair was as disheveled as always, which was the effect he always wanted to create. He curved his arm around Lily's waist as Sirius rolled his eyes at James' comment, his eyes twinkling. Lily's eyes narrowed and her face flushed a deep shade of crimson, though Kate wasn't sure whether it was from anger or embarrassment. "Get away from me, Potter!" The prefect half yelped half growled, stepping far away from the boy and to Kate's side.

"No, don't leave me, my Lilyflower!" James howled dramatically, falling to the carpeted floor and groveling at Lily's feet. Kate snorted with laughter as Lily looked down at him, positively disgusted.

"Don't call me that, you dunce," she snapped. James opened his mouth to say something clever back, but she beat him to it. "Or Lilykins. Or any other… endearing names you have for me." Lily choked on the word "endearing".

Kate burst out laughing, and Sirius patted his disappointed friend on the back, when Emmalyn, or rather Emmy Parsons trudged sleepily down the stairs, her beautiful honey blonde hair messy and her dark blue eyes tired but annoyed.

"You woke me up with all that yelling," she complained. She was definitely not a morning person.

"Sorry, Emmy," Kate apologized, going forwards to greet her Hogwarts uniform-clad best friend.

Emmy looked at her in exasperation. "Honestly will there ever be a time when you two aren't in the same room without trying to blow each other's head off?"

Kate exchanged a look with Lily, both of them remembering the fight and Sirius' comments on Kate making heads implode, and giggled, quite idiotically.
"No," Kate said finally, in response to Emmy's question, looking serious.

The blonde rolled her eyes. "Thought so." Emmy glanced at Sirius and James, who were sitting with the rest of the Marauders (both of whom had come down to the Common Room) on a couch, discussing their next prank on the Slytherins.

"Well, should we be getting to breakfast, then? The first of our days as fifth years?" Lily smiled brightly at both of them.

"Or your days as a prefect?" Emmy suggested to the redhead, who laughed a little.

"We should, dear Lilykins," Kate said with a straight face. Lily rolled her eyes at her friend, before the three of them linked arms and headed out the door. "Oh, and your hair's a mess, Em," she told Emmy.

"Don't care, never will," came the reply from next to her. Kate shot her a grin. That was one of the many things she loved about Emmy- though she was blonde, blue-eyed, and absolutely beautiful in every way, Emmy didn't give a shit to what others thought of her, and did whatever she wanted to her appearance. If her hair was messy that day, so be it. If her hair was glossy and wavy that day, nobody would argue with her.

When they got to the Great Hall, they say people from all the four different houses laughing and hugging (or shouting at) their friends (or enemies) that they hadn't seen over the summer or on the train.

Emmy smiled serenely as she took in the scene before her. "We're home, aren't we?"
Kate and Lily readily agreed; Hogwarts had really become their second home. Or, in Kate's case, her real home. Said dark-haired girl grinned and took a deep sniff of the Great Hall. "Smells like home, too," she smirked. Lily and Emmy chuckled, thinking of Kate's incredible talent for stuffing down food for longer than anyone thought possible. Lily said that it was because of a fast metabolism.

The trio sat down with Selena and Serena, who were both dirty blonde twins that were so in sync with one another that they even finished each other's sentences. Kate and Emmy struck up a conversation with the twins on Professor Slughorn's new club, the Slug Club, while Lily went off to visit some of her friends in Ravenclaw. A bit later, Emmy left as well to see some of her Hufflepuff friends, which was when James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew decided to sit next to Kate, Serena and Selena.

Kate only greeted Remus – we was the only one she found decent in the group. Well, she supposed Peter was okay, but the short, chubby, pimpled boy slightly creeped her out. "Hey, Remus. What're you doing here?" She saw the werewolf (yes, she knew about it, and had heard him talking about it with the Marauders in their third year) begin to reply when Sirius said, "We decided to sit here today. Got a problem, Brink?"

She saw a flash of annoyance cross Remus' face and couldn't help but feel a twinge of satisfaction. "Actually, yes. You're only going to irritate and infuriate me, and if you are, I'd rather you go sit at the other end of the table," Kate returned coldly.

"All the more reason to sit here, then," Sirius smirked, plopping himself down next to her. "What, are you afraid of me?"

Kate snorted derisively. "I wouldn't bother to bat an eyelash at the likes of you, Black," she told him, and started to butter her scone.

"I think you've batted quite a few eyelashes during the times we've known each other, don't you?" Sirius replied effortlessly.

Kate faked a huge gasp, and stood up at the Gryffindor table, and everyone looked at her, including Serena and Selena, who had been watching her and Sirius' exchange, amused. "Did any of you hear that?" She asked her fellow students, rather loudly. "Sirius Black managed to think! Even if what he was thinking was rather imbecilic and stupid, it doesn't matter; he actually thought!" Kate sat back down, satisfied by the laughter of most of the students- mainly boys- and the absolutely furious look on Sirius's face. "Why you—" he began angrily, but Emmy came up from behind them.

"Honestly, Kate! I leave for what, five minutes? And you've already gotten yourself in another argument!"
Kate raised an eyebrow at her friend. "What are you, the peace keeper?"
"Well, when it comes down to you two, it sure seems like I have to be," Emmy said sternly, but without a trace of a smile on her lips.

"I think you should be a Gryffindor prefect, like Lily, since you tell everybody off if they so much as insult someone."
"My Muggle Studies, Potions, and Ancient Runes grades aren't the best, you know, and you have to get at least two O's and five E's for you to be a prefect," the blonde pointed out.

"That's not fair, though!" Kate exclaimed, her argument with Sirius forgotten. "I mean, your Arithmancy grades are excellent, and so are your Charms and Divination grades!"

"That doesn't mean I deserve to be prefect though," Emmy replied, only a bit put out that she didn't get chosen as a prefect this year.

"The inequity of it all! The villainy! I'll start a rebellion!" Kate cried, perhaps a bit too dramatically.

"Shut up," Lily rolled her eyes, having come back from the Ravenclaw table. "Trust me, Emmy, you don't want to be patrolling the corridors of this huge castle they call Hogwarts when you could be getting your homework done and sleeping early."
"Exactly. Kate, don't campaign against Dumbledore and the rest of the Board just because I didn't get made a prefect," Emmy told her friend firmly.

Kate snorted. "Imagine the looks they would have on their faces if I did, though, rampaging around the school with my supporters, holding up banners that said "STOP TREASON AGAINST EMMY PARSONS! SHE DESERVES TO BE A PREFECT!" while you two hand out pamphlets, badges, and stickers to whoever that'd listen."

The three girls paused for a bit, trying to imagine that, and then erupted into laughter.

A little ways away, Peter looked at Kate and her friends, shaking his head. "Women. They'll never be understood by the males."

James nudged Sirius, and muttered under his breath, "True words, but Wormtail barely understands anything."
Sirius would have laughed if he weren't furious about Kate. "I can't believe she did that," he growled angrily. "She yelled that in front of the whole school."

"It's not like it's never happened to you before, Sirius," Remus said to his friend. "She's embarrassed you before."
"I know that, and that's what's so sickening!" Sirius muttered. "I need to get back at her. You know what we should do?" He finally looked up, smirking evilly. "This is what we're going to do."

When he finished speaking, even James looked surprised. "That's a bit thick, don't you think?"
"Of course not. This is Kate Brink we're talking about," Sirius reminded them, and the four boys steeled themselves, ridding themselves of any sympathy. It was a known fact among the Marauders that in order for a prank to go properly, you couldn't have any compassion for the victim. They proceeded to perfect their plan.

This is the first Harry Potter fanfic I've ever started on, so I really hope that you'll give me a lot of good criticism and praise. Don't go on and on about how fucking retarded I am and how I should seriously get a life instead of writing horrible stories, however. Actually tell me how I can fix it: The beginning? The characters? Dialogue? Details? Plot?

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