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Sirius isn't letting anything get between him and fixing things between him and Marlene. He's just grateful she isn't willing to rip her new jeans to get away from him. A Blackinnon Muggle AU for your reading pleasure. For my dear friend HazzaP, may today be a reminder of how much you are loved.

Resurge

Sirius strode into the coffee shop, trying to maintain an air of calm he didn't feel.

"No."

Lily stood behind the counter, staring daggers at him. It was especially unsettling as he was the only patron in the shop this close to closing.

"Evening, Red." Sirius nearly flinched under her stare, but as scary as Lily looked, she had nothing on Walburga.

"No."

Merry Christmas to @sisforsammi​, please enjoy this gift for the Potterverse Gift Exchange. I’m sorry it’s a tad late, but I tried to give you both Blackinnon and Jily to make up for it. 

“What did you do this time?”

Lily looked up in surprise as she came through the portrait hole. “It’s late,” she said dumbly, by way of reply.

“Very late,” James agreed as he got up from the couch closest to the fire. “Marauder-level late.”

She glanced at the clock and realised it was well past the witching hour. "Oh. Oops."

"Alright, Evans?"

“We lost track of time.” Lily waved the arm that wasn’t foisted around Marlene’s shoulders, holding the other girl a bit more upright, in front of both their faces. “And found a bit more firewhiskey than we’d realised.”

Marlene McKinnon

Christmas, 1978

Sorry for the mistakes, english is not my first language and yeah MARLENE ISNT DEAD IN THIS OKKKK?????

Sirius is head over heels for Marlene and you'll never convince me otherwise

The first time they went on holiday together, they went to Vietnam and they slept for 2 days in a tent because Sirius wanted to be adventurous

"WE COULD BE SORROUNDED BY WILD ANIMALS NO SEX SIRIUS" "calm down mckinnon, we're surrounded by what?" "mmm IDK SNAKES???" "cool but if you appreciate that I have a special snake right in my-" "dear god you did not say that" "I did" "........ok that joke got me, pants down Indiana Jones!"

They are terrible at being discreet and James and Lily always jump in them making out passionately against the wall ( if they are lucky enough to not find them doing other things )

They discuss over something every two seconds but most of the time it is over who is washing the dishes

Marlene loves foreign films with subtitles and always brings her boyfriend with her, who ends up sleeping on her shoulder the whole time

Sirius can play the guitar very well and Marlene will never say anyone that she gets horny whenever he starts doing it because he is just so hot

When they started dating people said they wouldn't have lasted a week but HEY BITCH

Sirius tries to be romantic but fails

"I burnt everything, I'm sorry" "That's ok, I'll make cookies" "No, I wanted to cook for you and I ruined everything" "Sirius, it's fine, don't worry" "I'm a failure"

He has panic attacks and some mental shit happening because of his childhood. Marlene is the only person he talks about these things to (beside james) and she's always there for him, no matter how difficult or painful it might be.

They can talk about everything. From dirty dreams or gossip, to feelings and insecurities.

Marlene tried once to learn how to play the guitar from him, but gave up after 30 minutes

"Ok, you have to put the finger.. no, the other one.." "Which one?" "The middle finger" "I can't move it" "Yeah you can" "It's motionless" "Jesus, just put it on the chord, ok?" "Which chord?" "The second one" "From which prospective????" "Oh my god"

Marlene kissed him first

Sirius said I love you for the first time. She tried to reply but her voice cracked from the emotion, but he understood anyway and pulled her closer

James and Remus are their n1 fans

Remus was the first one to notice that there was something going on between them and when he told James, he said something like wtf dude I was thinking the same thing OH MY GOD OUR PADFOOT

Marlene's family adores Sirius

"Mum what are you doing?" "I'm just showing Sirius some photos from your childhood" "Which is basically you being naked or totally embarassing" "Hey!" "You're right Sirius, dear, oh, look, here we have Marlene bathing with his brother Eth-" "Mum, no! Sirius, STOP LAUGHING!"

He pretended to hate Flashdance but loved every second of it

He constantly compliments her just to be sure she knows how much he likes everything about her

Their song is Love of my life by Queen. He knew how much she loved that band so he learnt it and sang to her and she cried from joy

She loves when he hugs her in his sleep without realising and smiles when she wakes up with his hand between her hair or near her face

OHEAFNJDBHFUH yessss~

Sirius held a special spot in his heart for Marlene McKinnon. Five years of throwing insults at each other, quickly turned much more flirtatious in his sixth year. It was following a run-in they had during the summer, where Sirius was running away from a particularly rough night at home and went to a muggle club to clear her head. The blonde saw him, asked no questions and took him home to help heal his welts, sooth the pain lashed on him from his parents and told him that, no matter how much they hated one another, if he ever needed to escape, he could come to her. They spent the rest of the night smiling and watching muggle movies. She promised that she would never mention the night again and that it wouldn’t make her go any easier on him when they got back to school.

That September Sirius showed up, newly tattooed, adorning his typical leather, a new air of confidence around him. He had taken Marlene’s advice and finally left home. The Potter’s happily took him in and it was a new Sirius that walked onto the Hogwarts grounds that year. Marlene’s jaw dropped and suddenly found herself nearly stuttering as he winked her way. Lily had noted many times that year how Marlene and Sirius’ relationship had shifted slightly. Of course Marlene denied it.

When Lily and James started dating however, things changed very quickly. Sirius may have had a reputation for sleeping around, but when it came to one particular blonde, he went out of his way to ask her out on a proper date, a date that he did not even attempt to sleep with her. He waited… For the second date. Which, the Mauraders and Marlene, recognized that for him it was an impressive move. His loyalty to her did not waver, he didn’t so much as look at another girl, even very early on.

One date that he took her on, they sat on one of the flatter rooftops, which was easy with a flying motorcycle, and looked out at the stars as she leaned on top of him and kissed him. She kissed each scar that she saw on the way down his body, knowing how self-conscience he was of them, but she always told him how sexy they were. Still, she had never mentioned that night, but Sirius pulled her back up and looked into her eyes and smiled kindly to her. “You don’t have to pretend you don’t remember what they’re from,” he told her.

Marlene bit her lip and kissed his cheek gently, “You’re ruining the moment, Black.”

Chuckling, Sirius pulled her off of him again, “You were right that night,” he continued. “Regulus is fine without me there, and I needed to leave, before things got any worse.”

With a sigh, Marlene moved off of him and lay on her side, propping herself up on her left elbow, “Of course I was right.”

“Thank you,” he said sweetly.

“Can we go back to snogging now? I can’t leave Hogwarts having never had sex on the castle roof,” she joked.

Sirius shook his head and rolled himself on top of her, littering her face with light kisses. “I’m trying to be romantic, Kinney, I’m not very good at it, but you’re not making it any easier.”

The halfblood rolled her eyes, but a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, “I’m glad I could help, Sirius. I told you that if you ever really needed anything, I would be there for you. And you should know that now more than ever.” Her fingers trailed down his chest, in a more loving than sensual way now. Marlene continued honestly, “I don’t want that past to haunt you. Do you still think about it a lot?”

“Every night,” He admitted, “I can’t always sleep through the night, but overall, it’s gotten a lot better, I just want to make sure that you know that you’re a big part of why things are so much better for me now.”

“I bring joy with me where ever I go, you should know that by now,” she laughed, unable to stay too sincere and serious for very long.

He gave up on their conversation, figuring he got enough of his point across and their lips met again, he moved down her body and they stayed on the rooftop until she was screaming his name in pleasure.

Later in the evening, he brought her back down and into the common room, he parted ways with her and upon entering his dorm, the rest of the Maraders were still up, all starring at him as he entered the room. “Out with McKinnon again?” James questioned.

“You’re starting to spent more time with her than us, Prongs!” Peter’s squeaky voice cut in with jealousy.

“He’s falling in love, boys, let him be,” Remus added with a wink.

But Sirius ignored them all, “I’m not falling in love,” he rubbed his eyes, tired from a long day and went to get changed before collapsing onto his bed. The other three were still talking in the corner, but Sirius ignored the jabs they kept sending towards him. Sirius Black, falling in love? It was as if they didn’t know him at all. Marlene was great, she was sassy and sexy and Merlin, his name never sounded better than when it left her lips, but in love? Not a chance. He repeated himself, “Not in love!” Causing an eruption of laughter from the Mauraders. However they all froze when the door opened again, and stayed perfectly still when they saw Marlene, dressed casually in her pyjamas, waltzed in as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

The girl only looked around for a second before seeing Sirius and welcoming herself under his blankets, closing the curtains around his four poster bed and snuggling up to him.

“What are you doing?” Sirius asked, instinctively wrapping his arms around her and adjusting the blankets to make sure she was comfortable.

“You said you can’t sleep at night, I’m here to keep the nightmares away,” she shrugged simply, letting her eyes close.

The pureblood by her side had no idea how to reply, she was serious, she wanted to stay here just because of his comment. “I can sleep on my own.”

“So can I,” she yawned in response.

Sirius wasn’t sure how to feel about this, admittedly he would love if Marlene spent every night by his side. What he hated about going to bed was being alone, and his nightmares waking him up and thrashing around in the silence, while everyone slept comfortable and didn’t notice anything was wrong. With a sigh he pressed on, “Mar, this isn’t necessary.”

“Shut up, Black, I’m trying to sleep.”

And so he did, and slept through that night without any issues.

The next night was the same, he woke up once, but when he felt Marlene in his arms, his heart slowed down and he was able to pull her close and fall back asleep until the morning.

Marlene pretended to be sleeping when Sirius got up for his morning walk. Truthfully, she hadn’t slept all night, especially odd for the 21 year-old blonde who loved nothing more than her sleep. If she had to chose between sleep or sex, she would chose sleep… probably. She flung herself out of her bed the second the door clicked closed and rushed into the bathroom where she had hid an at-home pregnancy test. Well, to be completely honest it was the second one. They were selling a deal if you bought a two-pack a year ago, and so Marlene got them both and hid them at the bottom of her tampon pile, knowing Sirius would never go near it. Thankfully that time had been a false alarm and Marlene was inpatient to take another test and see another negative response on the test.

It was the longest five minutes of Marlene’s life. She had taken up pacing back and forth in their bathroom, chewing on her lips and curling her hair in her fingertips. After looking at the time, and it having been thirty seconds, she threw her arms up in the air and went outside for a cigarette. It was going to be negative so it wouldn’t matter anyway, right? She checked her watch when she was done. It had now been three minutes. The blonde groaned so loudly that some people walking by jumped and crossed the street to get away from her, but she didn’t care. After going back inside she took up pacing again until the full five minutes had passed. Holding her breath she looked over to it, her eyes closed, too afraid to actually look at the results.

After a few deep, calming breaths, she let her eyes open and she saw those two pink lines, clear as day, and her heart dropped. She threw it in the trash, grabbed her coat and ran out to the nearest store, buying a few variations of pregnancy tests, ignoring the somewhat dirty looks she got from a woman beside her. She didn’t care, one of them had to come up negative and that was the one she would trust.

However, when she got home, she spent her afternoon trying each one. Those two pink lines kept appearing, and on the digital ones there was a very clear ‘pregnant’ written across on them. She threw them all in the garbage and sat on her bed, chewing her nails, wanting another cigarette, but now convincing herself that she should figure out what to do before she smoked another one.

On one hand, Sirius adored Harry. He loved having a kid around, so much so that he had made a few passive jokes towards Marlene, although he already knew that she never wanted kids of her own. Her heart swelled whenever Harry snuggled up to Sirius though. She shook her head and screamed out loud, just in time for her boyfriend to walk through the door. “Everything al right, darling?” He asked, poking his head around the corner to their bedroom. “What’s the screaming for?”

“Nothing,” she replied automatically, not having thought of what to say to him yet.

But she didn’t have to. He disappeared for a moment, before running back into the room. “Why is there a pile of weird white sticks in our rubbish? I’ve seen those things in the lame muggle romantic comedies you pretend to hate but always make me watch!”

“You like them too-” She cut in, but he ignored her.

“Marlene…. Darling, baby, beautiful, what are all those doing in our bathroom?”

“I really hope you didn’t pick them up, because I had to pee on them to make them work…” She replied dumbly.

But Sirius couldn’t hide the grin on his face, he made his way over to Marlene and wrapped his arms tightly around her, kissing her passionately on the lips. “I love you.”

She starred into his dark eyes, she knew that she couldn’t take this away from him. He would understand, but as much as he was attempting right now, there was clear excitement coursing through him. He wanted a baby so badly, ever since Harry was born. Marlene sucked at taking care of the child, but he absolutely adored his uncle Sirius. “Kids hate me,” she retorted.

“It’s your choice, Marlene,” he said calmly, keeping his voice level and his arms around her. He lightly pushed her back onto their bed and climbed on top of her, kissing her cheeks repeatedly. He was never this affectionate, he rarely told her how much he loved her, it was obvious what he wanted, but of course he would leave the choice with her.

“Harry cries when I go near him.”

“No he doesn’t,” Sirius comforted, while continuing his gentle kisses.

“I’ve never even picked up him because I’m sure I’ll drop him.”

“You would never drop him, darling.”

“We’re not married.”

“We can if you want to.”

“I’m not getting married because we went and got me knocked up.”

Sirius thought about the ring he had hidden in his pocket, almost all the time lately. The moment was never right though. And this wasn’t the right time either. So he pulled back and looked into her bright blue, though very frightened eyes. “I don’t want to do anything you don’t want, McKitten.”

Marlene sighed loudly. The bright side was, the timing would be great because him and Harry would be so close to the same age. But the timing was also awful, because there was a war raging on. She knew that she would never be ready to have a baby, but she also knew she couldn’t keep a child from Sirius forever. At first he thought he never wanted one, but his heart melted around Harry, and Neville, and now every baby on the street. “You’ll help me? Make sure it doesn’t hate me?”

“I’ll do whatever you want.”

She glared at him and grabbed a pillow, hitting him over the side of the face with it. “Why did you have to go an be brilliant with children, no one saw that coming!”

He grinned sheepishly at her, “I expected it as little as you did, Marls,” and playfully threw the pillow down at her.

“Hey!” She laughed with him, “You can’t hit a pregnant lady, that’s just rude.”

He shook his head and nuzzled into her neck, going back to his gentle kisses in the spot that he knew would have her moaning in response. Whispering in her ear, he asked, “So… Are we having this baby then?”

Just as she always did, Marlene extended her neck for him and let a slight groan come from her lips at the contact of his stubble against her neck and breath against her ear. “I guess we are.”

Sirius forgot that he was kissing her and leaped up, “Wait, you’re serious right now? About having this baby? We’re going to have a baby?” He laced his fingers through hers, “We really don’t have to- I wouldn’t be angry if you chose something else.”

“You’re not forcing me into this decision, babe, whether you want or not, I’m having this baby.”

And at this Sirius began jumping up and down like a school girl, cheering loudly into the air, “We’re having a baby, we’re having a baby, oh shit, we only have a few months, I’m going to go buy a cradle, you rest here, do you want anything, need anything? Do you feel okay? Can we have sex while you’re pregnant? I should buy a changing table and lots of diapers,” he grabbed his girlfriend on the shoulders, “CALM DOWN, MARLENE MCKINNON, WE STILL HAVE TIME TO PREPARE!”

Marlene starred, eyes wide at the pureblood as he paced and shouted about what they needed to prepare, she considered calming him down, but thought he would need to get this out of his system at some point, so instead she got up and made herself some breakfast while Sirius ran around, eventually collapsing on the couch. “Don’t worry, Mar, we still have nine months to get things together, I’m just going to take a nap first.”

Marlene laughed and joined him on the couch, biting her lip ever so slightly, “You did’t give us a chance to celebrate yet.”

“Are… are we allowed to have sex? Am I going to poke its head?”

The halfblood laughed even louder still, “I think you need a few lessons on anatomy, Sirius.”

He tilted his head a little, “Are you sure though?”

“I can assure you James and Lily were still having sex up to the day before Harry popped out, I think we’ll be okay.”

Hi there! Sorry I’ve been on an annoyingly long hiatus…..but I’m back now! Some ‘Blackinnon-just-started-dating-fluff’ for you guys-hope you like it! Xxx

Blackinnon fluff for you guys…..this prompt was really cool :) feel free to send in any requests xxx

It wasn’t that people hated Marlene McKinnon-because they didn’t, truly. It was quite the opposite, actually; people loved her, seemed to never get enough of the leggy blonde. Sure, there were a few Slytherins who couldn’t stand the sight of her-but when you were in Gryffindor, and friends with James Potter, that was bound to be the case. There really wasn’t a reason to dislike her at all-she was sweet, quiet, bookish…..likeable.

And it wasn’t that people hated Sirius Black, either. Admittedly, he had made a few more enemies that his girlfriend, having a tendency to shag the skirt off of every girl with legs, then drop their hearts in the dust without a second glance; not to mention the fact that the very last name “Black” was enough to warrant some hatred, but nothing to turn the entirety, or even the majority, of the school against him; no, he still maintained that charming persona that seemed to keep so many people under his thumb.

The problem wasn’t the beautiful blonde, or the handsome bachelor, rather…..it was the fact that they were together that had caused some unrest. Not from most people, admittedly, most were happy (a little amazed that Marlene had managed to tame someone like him), but there were always a few, a group of vengeful guys still hoping that Sirius would change his mind and decide to sweep them off of their feet, some guys who still lusted after Marlene.

And that is going to cause some problems, Marlene thought, despite her desperate efforts to banish all anxious thoughts from her mind, twirled a piece of hair around her finger nervously, trying to anticipate how much backlash would come to slap her in the face.

“Stop worrying, would you, Mar?” Mary Macdonald, hair freshly cut short and bangs straight and even (for once), bumped her shoulder into Marlene’s, swiping a searching eye over Marlene’s face and readjusting the bag on her shoulder.

“I’m not worrying.”

“That’s impossible for you.” Rolling her eyes, Mary threw a friendly arm around Marlene’s shoulder, giving her a one armed squeeze, wishing it relieve the tension she could see visibly building up on her friend’s shoulders. Heaving a sigh, Marlene tossed a handful of waves over her shoulder, pinching herself around the wrist to keep from biting her lip so hard it would draw blood, like she had so many other times.

“I know I shouldn’t be worrying-I know that, of course I do-but…..I just…..I don’t know! I don’t understand why so many people seem to hate the fact that I’m dating him.”

“Well, first of all,” Mary began, straightening her posture and flipping her bangs out of her eyes, like she did whenever she slipped into her ‘motherly role’, “Only, like, eight people hate the fact that you’re dating him-and they’re all stupid and irrelevant, so you shouldn’t be paying attention to them anywhere. And secondly, they only hate it because you’ve done the impossible.”

“Gone out with a boy?” Marlene asked, a little laughter icing over the tension in her voice and she shot Mary a lopsided smile.

“Managed to get Sirius Black to commit to a relationship. Do you understand how hard that is?!”

“Well, um, not really. But, even so, that isn’t anything negative against them-”

“-look, Marlene, I’d love to talk about this, I really would, but why don’t you just go work it out with the devil himself?” Mary smirked, jutting her chin out towards the back of a familiar head of black hair, only slightly visible from behind a rather large column.

“Do you think he will-wait a minute, Mare, do you hear that?” Stopping short, like a fox sensing its prey nearby, Marlene froze in her place, cocking an ear towards the pillar with hunter-like concentration. “That sounds like…..”

And suddenly she was walking forward, Mary following behind her, treading lightly on the pads of her feet so to not reveal herself.

“Oh. My. God.” The words, though most would think they would be spoken by the girlfriend herself, came from the mouth of Mary Macdonald, brown eyes wider than saucers, angrier than a thunderstorm.

Marlene, on the other hand, stood stock still, much like she had a few moments before, hand halfway to brush itself through her hair, staring at the spectacle in front of her. There, not even five feet away, stood Sirius Black, eyes open and horrified, seemingly having his mouth attacked by a petite, redheaded Hufflepuff, looking as if he had no idea how he got into this predicament in the first place.

“You know what, Mary? I think I’m uh…...can you tell Lily and everyone that I’ll be down later? I forgot something in my dorm.” Turning swiftly, resolving to not spare the scene in front of her a second glance, Marlene planted her feet firmly on the ground to keep from running away, attempting to walk at a slow pace down the corridor, but quick enough to take her away from Sirius Orion Black.

“Marlene, just….hold on!” Pretending not to hear, Marlene just walked faster, mumbling the password to the Fat Lady before slipping in through the portrait hole, beginning to shut it back firmly before a hand flew between its hinges, pushing back on the portrait harder than Marlene could; successfully pushing it open. “Okay, Marlene, just stop. Hang on, would you-”

“-I just need to get something from my-” Marlene was cut short by a hand grasping onto her elbow, pulling her backwards a good three feet, until she was face to face with the one person she couldn’t bear to see. “Sirius, it’s fine, I really do need to just look for a book-”

“Bullshit you need to look for a book.” Sirius rolled his eyes as his frown deepened, something that only spiked the slightest bit of irritation in usually calm, collected Marlene.

“Well what did you expect me to do? Stand there and watch you suck the face of some girl-”

“-that’s not what was going on-”

“-oh really? Then what was it, exactly? Were you teaching her how to do mouth-to-mouth?”

“Just listen!” Sirius hated to yell at Marlene, he really, really did, but he needed to explain what had really happened, before she got any more ideas.

“To what?!”

“I didn’t kiss her! Well, I did-”

“-I’m aware of that-”

“-but it wasn’t my choice. Look, I swear to damn Merlin, Mar, she just walked up to me. Started asking me why I would ever go out with you, shit like that, and then she just…..kissed me!”

“Sirius, no offense, but that sounds like the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard. You’re telling me that somebody just hates us so much that they felt the need to ruin……” Trailing off, Marlene couldn’t help but let the pieces of the puzzle fall together in her mind, confirming that that was indeed what had happened. It made sense, didn’t it? Mary might have been right about the number of people who hated their relationship, but she sure as hell had underestimated their ruthlessness.

“Might ruin us. I know.” Sighing, Sirius screwed his eyes shut, running a hand through his artfully tousled hair before opening them again, placing his hands softly on Marlene’s shoulders. “Look, I know this may be hard to believe, and everything, but I like you. Not just your face of your hair or whatever, but you. And I don’t want to screw that up-or anyone else to screw that up, for the matter.”

“I just…...I don’t know. I don’t understand what makes them think that it’s okay to try and ruin someone’s relationship like that.”

“Because not everyone’s a good person like you.” Sirius shrugged, staying solemn for a minute before letting a small smirk slide onto his face.

“What? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Oh…..no reason. Just…..you know…..there are ways that we could show them that it’s not okay….”

“Violence is not the answer, what have I told you before?”

“I’m not talking about violence, per sae, just…...revenge.” Sirius smirked, wrapping an arm around Marlene’s shoulder, mind racing with a thousand mischievous ideas.

“Well, in that case, I might just…..possibly be the tiniest bit interested.”

“Ah ha!” Pumping his fist triumphantly in the air, Sirius let his smirk turn into a full-on smile. “Welcome to the world of “fun”, Miss McKinnon, it only took you six years.”