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"No I'm not going." Sirius could hear the punctuation in Marlene's voice but rolled his eyes anyway. His hands were currently holding hers, trying to get her up while she insisted on laying back on the bed of their tiny one-bedroom apartment.

"Yes, you are. You wanted to in the first place remember. I said I thought it was a bad idea and you said-"

"I know what I said, I don't need some man to remind me of my own words."

Defeated, he let go of her and sat next to her. "Marls-"

"No."

"Okay." He laid back, propping his elbows under him, blowing away some stray hairs that fell into his face.

"What the fuck, you're not even going to try and make me go when you know I want to?"

There was no winning for Sirius, he could see that now. "I want to do whatever you want to do."

"Well, I don't know what I want."

Preferably he would have replied with 'I can see that' and then left without her, but he wasn't quote that stupid. So instead, he paused to think for a minute then proposed his own idea to her. "Option one, we go meet Lily and James for the double date you planned at that overly cheesy muggle restaurant. Or option two is that we stay here and have sex."

She turned on him, eyebrows pulled together in doubt. "Those are the only two options?" His own eyebrow cocked, and the left side of his lips twitched into a smirk that he knew Marlene had a soft spot for. Marlene let out the loudest sigh she could before announcing, "Well get out of bed already, we're going to be late!"

"Great, let's go." Sirius jumped back up, and extended his hand to Marlene, hoping she would forget that she hated the dress she was wearing from the back, because she thought it made her 'back look too square' whatever the hell that meant. Marlene took his hand, and he pulled her up, kissing softly her on the lips once she was at his height. "I love you."

I just think this would be cute and I love your wright !

Obsessed with this! Thank you! My apologies on however long it took me to get to this.!!

Thank you thank you! And I like this idea a lot~ I hope I can do it justice! Also I apologize for my really bad habit of never re-reading or editing my work lately!

It was nearing their two year anniversary, as Marlene’s friends kept reminding her. They were not usually the couple for fancy dates and anniversaries and stuff like that. They were quite content with just throwing some insults at each other and finishing their day with sex, or starting it with sex. The point was, they had their relationship exactly how they liked it. It may not be traditional but they were happy. And neither were the most comfortable with bearing their feelings. But, after Lily had reminded Marlene for the 7th time in 3 days, she finally decided at the very least she could surprise him at his work. They didn’t do anything for their first anniversary but maybe she could at least show up with some food for him and see what he liked so much about teaching at a muggle school. She hadn’t even seen the place yet so it wasn’t an entirely bad idea.

She waited until it was nearly lunch hour at the school, grabbed some of their favourite cinnamon buns from a nearby bakery and contemplated bringing some wine but realized that was probably frowned upon. So instead she just grabbed a sparkling soda and made her way to her boyfriends work. She misjudged the time a little, it appeared the lunch break had already started and she had to wander around the school hallways to find him. Eventually someone pointed her in the direction of a staff room and she went there, poking her head in. An older lady smiled and greeted her, but informed her that he had just went to a colleagues classroom to help her with something. Getting more frustrated, she stormed off to where she said that they would be. This is what she got for being thoughtful, had to walk around school hallways for 20 minutes, at this rate by the time she found him, class would resume.

At last she recognized Sirius’ voice, and waked up to the room, she was about to announce herself and push open the door when she heard a very flirtatious giggle from what sounded like a much younger woman than the nice lady who told her where to find her boyfriend. Marlene’s eyes immediately narrowed as she peaked through the tiny opening and watched a young brunette, laugh at some stupid joke and run her hand down Sirius’ arm. She was waiting for her boyfriend to walk away but he didn’t, he smiled at her and leaned back on her desk as they continued talking. When the woman tossed her hair back and told Sirius how nice his arms where, Marlene felt her face flush bright red and she kicked the door open, glaring at the pair of them.

Sirius turned when he heard the noise, his face light up, “Marls! What’re you doing here?” He sounded genuinely happy to see her, as if he wasn’t just about to cheat on her with a school teacher who honestly looked more like a pornstar in Marlene’s eyes right now.

Of course, the female teacher frowned, “Marls? Who is she?” She asked Sirius.

Marlene’s eyebrows raised and Sirius immediately stood up and held his hands up in surrender, “Marlene, I promise I talk about you all the time, Right Clara?” He turned to his coworker hopefully.

Trouble brewed behind Clara’s eyes and she supressed a smirk, “Sorry no, Sirius. I’ve never heard her name in my life. Is she your aunt or something?”

This set Marlene off, “OKAY MISS SLUTTY PORN BITCH, YOU BACK AWAY FROM MY BOYFRIEND THIS INSTANT!”

Sirius shut his eyes and covered a chuckle with a laugh, “Hey, darling? This is a school you really can’t-”

“I wasn’t the one about to fuck a horny school teacher so don’t you dare tell me what I can or can’t do!”

Clara’s mouth dropped, “I cannot see what you see in this woman.”

“YOU, SHUT UP!” Shouted Marlene, “With your waving your stupid hair around and touching his arms and your general being a whore attitude.”

Sirius finally walked over to Marlene, put his hand on his shoulder and kissed her cheek, “Darling, there was no fucking to be had, she needed help moving her classroom around and I agreed.”

Marlene was still glaring at the woman though. Clara smiled, “Sorry I thought you were his aunt, I just can’t picture you two as a couple and he never said anything about a girlfriend.”

Sirius had to hold Marlene back, “Clara, please don’t do this. She isn’t well known for her patience and calmness.” He kissed Marlene’s head lovingly, “She knows I have a girlfriend, and if we don’t look like a couple it’s only because you’re way too hot for me,” he tried, it worked, she stopped fighting him to get at the girl but still was not happy.

Luckily the same older lady walked by, her brows were furrowed, “Is everything okay in here? A student said he heard some shouting!”

Sirius nodded, running a hand through his girlfriends hair, “Sorry Mrs Gaglardi, just a misunderstanding.”

Mrs Gagladrdi sighed, “Again Clara?” Marlene chucked. “I do apologize, she seems to not hear when people talk about their relationships, but it is nice to meet you Marlene, I have heard so much about you from Sirius. He really is smitten with you. Even has some pictures of you two up in his classroom, he never even comes to faculty events because he says he wants to spend the time with you. Apparently he hasn’t invited you because you have a temper that he says he finds adorable but most people do not.” She looked around. “Clearly he was right.”

Marlene chewed her lip, “Erm.. yeah,” was all she could manage, Sirius’ hand found the small of her back and began to push her out of the classroom.

“Sorry about the miscommunication I’m just gonna go and take her away now,” he apologized to Mrs Gaglardi and walked away with Marlene. Neither of them spoke until he guided her into his classroom and shut the door, Marlene looked around and noticed that he really did have pictures of them together at his desk.

“So.... That Clara girl seems like a bitch.”

“I really did not know she was trying to come onto me!”

Marlene looked at him.

“Okay I knew, but she always does any extra work I have to do after hours which means I get to come home and see you and I did not think you would ever meet her.”

“Well don’t talk to her again, I don’t like her.”

He laughed, “Whatever you want McKitten. So.. why are you here anyway?”

“Oh,” she held up the paper bag with his lunch in it, “I uh... came to surprise you. You know, anniversary tomorrow and all so, hi?”

He took the bag and placed it on his desk, wrapping his arms around Marlene, “Hi,” he whispered before kissing her, “Never thought you’d be the type.... Lily’s behind this isn’t she?”

Marlene rolled her eyes, “Whatever, I was being thoughtful so, you’re welcome, see you later,” she went to talk away but Sirius grabbed her wrist and pulled her back, pushing her against his desk and kissing her again. Marlene broke off the kiss, “Don’t you have to teach?” As if on queue the bell went off but Sirius kept her exactly where she was, she looked at him questioningly, “I’m not really into snogging in front of a bunch of kids, Sirius.”

“It’s Professor Black while we are in this room, McKinnon,” he smirked, “And my kids are on a field trip for the afternoon, I volunteered to stay behind and finish marking some tests but... it seems something more pressing has come into my office.”

“It’s not an office it’s a classroom,” Marlene retorted.

“Professor.”

“What?”

His hand tangled into her hair, “You forgot to call me Professor, or Sir. Whichever suits you best.” He pulled on her hair and Marlene let out a simple, betraying her cool exterior. “That’s what I thought.” She didn’t have anything else to say, she licked her lips and looked up to him, “And I believe, you should be punished for talking back to me.”

“Okay,” she breathed, he tugged her hair harder and raised his eyebrows. She realized what she had said, “I mean.. Yes, Sir.” Marlene felt his erection stiffen on her thigh, it didn’t take much to turn him on, her lips twitched into a smile and her hand went to play with the outside of his pants, he growled into her ear and began kissing her neck, sloppily, but she knew he couldn’t help himself, he picked her up and plopped her onto the desk, she spread her legs and moved herself back, looking at him, watching him examine her and go between her face and looking at her now very exposed thighs. “Are you going to punish me, Professor? Maybe I could make it up to you?”

His hands went up her skirt and his lips found hers again, hungry and wanting to taste her. She moaned into the kiss, letting his hands ghost over her core, she felt herself getting wet at just the lightest touch, and felt his smirk in their kiss as he could feel her warmth and her need. “I think we can work something out, Miss McKinnon,” he said once he pulled away from her again. This time he took a few steps back, “Take your clothes off.”

She looked at him innocently, “All of them?”

“Now,” Sirius demanded.

She did as she was told, getting off the desk and removing article after article until she was completely naked. Marlene decided to tease him a little, she looked down at herself and ran her fingers over her body, circling her nipples and playing with them between her fingers, “Now what, Professor Black?”

It was clear that Sirius was trying hard to keep up the facade when all he wanted was to fuck her. Marlene squeezed her breasts then let go, letting them jiggle as they fell into place. “Fuck,” Sirius muttered under his breath.

“What was that professor?” She feigned innocence again.

“Good girl,” he cooed, something that instantly made her stomach tighten, and warmth grow through her, God she wanted him just as much as he wanted her. “Now come and take these ridiculous pants off for me.” He gestured to him, she considered denying his request but saw how tight they had become as his member grew harder, desperate for release. She went over to him, slowly got onto her knees and then took her time unbuckling his belt. A low growl emitted from her boyfriends throat, “Do it faster.” She did. In no time at all, his pants and boxers were around his ankles and his cock sprang to life. “You know what to do,” he told her. She licked her lips and pushed him all the way down her throat, nearly choking herself. He moaned, his hands grabbed her hair and pushed himself further into her. This time she did choke, he let up a little but she didn’t let him leave her mouth completely. He tasted divine. Her tongue flicked over his balls and she began bobbing her head, she looked up to him and he was looking down at her, clearly enjoying the sight. But it only lasted a minute, before he pulled her hair until his rock hard cock popped out of her mouth.

“I wasn’t done,” she complained, but he kicked the pants off his ankles and marched her to the desk, throwing her towards it.

“Bend over,” he instructed. Her breasts touched the cold wood of the desk, she wiggled her butt in the air and her hands grasped either side of the desk, while her head turned just enough to see the lust on his face. “Beautiful,” he breathed, his finger teased her clit before slipping inside of her, feeling how wet and ready for him she was. “Perfect.”

Without another thought, he slammed himself deep inside of her. They both moaned loudly at the feeling. Marlene was filled up perfectly by him and her grip on the desk tightened. “Fuck,” she said as he pulled out and slammed into her again.

“What was that?” He asked, pulling out but not reentering this time. “Did you want something Miss McKinnon?”

He was bluffing, she knew he was. He wanted this just as much as she did, but she didn’t care. “Pl- please sir, fuck me. I deserve it for talking back. Fuck me hard and fast.”

He did. His cock rammed into her so hard, the entire desk banged against the wall loudly, it didn’t stop either of them. She whimpered and he did it again. He felt so good inside of her, she needed more, she pushed herself against him and they began moving in perfect rhythm with one another. They were both letting out profanities as she felt warmth through every single one of her limbs. Her fingers gripped the desk so tightly that they were going white, and her hips were surely getting bruised by repeatedly hitting the desk. But none of that mattered as much as the feeling of him inside of her. His fingers found her clit again and began stimulating it and she couldn’t remember how to even breath. A loud shrill voice filled the room that she did not even recognize as her own. She heard his grunt behind her and eventually heard him telling her to cum. Marlene knew it was because he was just as close as she was and he applied more pressure on her clit. An orgasm ripped through her entire body, she screamed out in pleasure and then felt him explode inside of her, filling her with his juice. He pumped into her more slowly a few times, while they both came down from their high. She panted and now could feel his sweaty body collapsing on hers, arms wrapping tightly around her and kissing her back in a million tiny kisses. “I love you,” he told her, still inside of her, not wanting leave the warmth of her body just yet.

She turned, he finally removed himself from her insides and she felt how full she was with his semen, it dripped down her legs, but she didn’t care, “I love you too,” she said, kissing his lips gently. Eventually Sirius leaned down to pass her clothes to her before pulling his own pants back up. Her legs were still shaking from her orgasm as she dressed. “How did- Are you going to get into trouble?” She asked, now having it dawn on her just how loud they were.

What she didn’t expect was his child-like grin and a wink, “Nah I think we are okay.”

“How?”

“James gave me a heads up,” he admitted, “I asked Clara to pretend to hit on me, she’s married, has some kids, not my type at all. Knew it would get you jealous. I already sound-proofed this room before you came and asked Clara to combine our classes for next period because I had an errand to run.”

Her jaw dropped open, “You- you?!”

Stepping closer to her, he ran his thought her hair and down her back, eventually resting it on her ass. He leaned down and kissed her again, “I don’t think you minded that much, Miss McKinnon?”

That, she could not argue with, but she still felt played, “I’ll see you at home, Professor. But you owe me.”

Marlene and Mary’s relationship stayed very fun, flirty, occasional bedmates, but still most importantly- friends. No one else, not even Lily, fully understood it, since Marlene would still go from relationship to relationship, yet share a bed with Mary every now and then despite what else was going on. Only the four of them knew, and although Dorcas and Lily thought it was wrong that technically Marlene was cheating on each of her partners, they never said anything. One of Marlene’s girlfriends, did point out that she didn’t like the way Mary and her looked at one another. So Marlene told her that she could look at anyone however she liked for the rest of her days, as long as she didn’t try to ruin any of Marlene’s friendships again. None of them spoke to her again.

There was a small break where Marlene dated no one at all. It was after Marlene stopped talking to Severus as much, disapproving of his new ‘friends’. She had expressed her concerns to Lily, but Lily disregarded them. Saying that she knew Sev was going down a dangerous path but he was very sweet and loving an no one really seemed to see that side of him. But then there was a nasty exchange in the courtyard, of course prodded by James Potter, but ended in some choice words from Severus Snape and an easy snap from his best friend. That evening, Lily ran upstairs in tears, unable to keep it all in anymore and cried for the rest of he night. Wondering that if even her best friend would call her that, who wouldn’t? And how Sev ended up on that path and through her bitterness, she was still worried that he wasn’t going to be okay. Marlene held onto Lily, “You can only help him so far, Lil. He’s reached a point where he knows that if he desperately needed help, you would always be there for him. But, you can’t let him drag you down with him. His friend, Mulciber, is creepy. There is no better word for it, and I know you trust Snape, but you cannot trust his friends.

Lily finally agreed, but her quiet sobs did not silence until one o’clock in the morning when she finally fell asleep. By then Dorcas and Mary were there was well, with their sympathetic smiles. Marlene stayed curled up with her best friend all night. And the next morning, Lily rose, refreshed and ready to take on the day. There were challenges, like who Lily would pair up with in Potions, or spend her studying time with, and that was where the blonde stepped in, sacrificing her dates, for time with Lily instead, to help her ease into the fact that her and Severus were no longer friends.

And honestly, Marlene hated it as well. She knew it was for the best, but Lily always smiled around him, his sarcastic comments would make even Marlene giggle. And without Lily, Severus easily started down an even darker hole, until he would only sneer at Marlene a girl who had give him the benefit of the doubt for so long. And this was yet another thing that Lily could not forgive.

* * * * * * *

One night on the Quidditch Pitch, James tried to make a pass at Lily, but Marlene yelled at the top of her lungs while in mid air. “Come on Potter, you know I don’t hate you, but your arrogant expectations that just because a girl got in a fight with her best friend she is going to want you is ridiculous. Lily could do better than you and if you keep this up shagging Black would even be better for her than you would!”

“Who am I fucking now?” Sirius asked, strolling onto the pitch. “Practise was suppose to be over ages ago, can we leave yet?” The pureblood asked James, looking worriedly at the moon. But Marlene hardly noticed, she was too busy lecturing James, following him into the mens change room to go on.

“Seriously, give the poor girl a break. First of all, if you want her to ever even stand being around you, give her some space, don’t approach her and leave her alone. Respect her, smile when she looks your way and stop being such an idiot in class-“

Eventually she was cut off when the rest of the boys shoved her out of the room, saying how she had no business seeing their pricks.

“I’ve already seen most of them anyway!” Marlene yelled back, realizing that it came out as more of an insult to her than to any of them. But, as she always did, she shrugged it off. The words were already said, and there was truth to them, so what was the point of caring about it.

Something she did care about though, was that James seemed to listen to her advice. Even if he didn’t admit it. He kept distance from the beautiful red-head, and was polite and cordial. Even in classes he stopped being so showy when the year had ended and she was shocked that at exam time, James put Quidditch on the back-burner so he could instead focus on his studies. By the end of the year he came out with top grades in every subject, they won the Quidditch House Cup which even got James to be named returning Quidditch Captain. Marlene grinned when she saw that even Lily was slightly impressed, at least until he set out a bunch of firecrackers at a Gryffindor end of year party, which resulted in them loosing 100 house points, (fifty from Sirius, fifty from James,) and it was just enough for them to loose their spot as House Champions on the day before their end of year feast.

“He’s not atrocious,” Marlene giggled as they lay in their beds. Dorcas had yelled at them to go to sleep, while Mary and Marlene were sharing a bottle of champagne that they had stolen from the boys.

“He’s still got an ego that could do with some major deflating,” Mary laughed in response.

Lily nodded to her comment, “Mary’s right. I don’t care if he’s gotten less obnoxious, his stupid laugh still makes my skin crawl.”

Mary snuggled into Marlene’s chest, as Marlene drank from their bottle, “Marls, maybe you could go on a date with him, sleep with him, then tell everyone how bad he is in bed? That might make him shut up a little.”

Lily burst into laughter at that and they even heard a snort from Dorcas’ bed since she was clearly still not sleeping either. “Have you guys seen his body? I don’t care of he just lays there, I would ride him into the sunrise,” Marlene replied wistfully as Lily threw a pillow across the room that collided with Marlene’s head, “Hey! You could have hit Mary, or worse my champagne! Besides, I never would. I’m much too loyal to you.”

“You’re loyal to Lily, yet Mary is the one nuzzled all close to you?” Dorcas pointed out as she pulled her curtains shut and the other three girls attempted to keep their laughs down.

Lily finally lay down as well and Marlene shifted her attention to just Mary, running her hands through her hair and letting her eyes shut. “I’ll miss you all over the break,” Mary said sweetly.

“We can talk tomorrow!” Dorcas replied in her still very annoyed voice.

Lily sighed, “I will too, but before Dorcas murders us, let’s get some sleep”

Marlene knew she would miss her friends, she always did, but expressing emotions verbally was not something she did very often, so instead she yawned and repositioned herself to be more comfortable, falling asleep on the last night of their fifth year at Hogwarts.

Like I promised, here’s the second drabble. Happy birthday again @marlmckitten 

Summary: Sirius and Marlene are having a little bet going on about whether or not their best friends are going to end up together.

Pairing: Blackinnon, Jily

Word Count: 945

Warnings: None

It’s Kathleen’s birthday  🎉❤️ @marlmckitten I hope you’re having a great time and I’m wishing you only the best. You asked for some Blackinnon for your birthday so here is one little drabble. I hope you like it even though it’s not birthday themed.

And because it’s so short there will be a second one at 10pm in Vancouver (I hope queue is working) (And that I did the math with the time zones right)

Anyway, here we go and happy birthday again <3

Summary: Sirius and Marlene are babysitting Harry and start talking about having children. 

Pairing: Blackinnon, a bit Jily

Word Count: 1047

Warnings: slight smut

A/N: I cannot believe the amount of kind comments and excitement I got over my first chapter. So here it is, chapter two. Is it going to be a slow burn? Maybe. Do I have the patience for it? Probably not but we will see. I am excited to introduce James in the next chapter. And eventually have some Jily on the sidelines. And for any of you who like long chapters, I’m sorry but I like them short.

And even more importantly, again all based off my experience as a barista. You two working a 1-9 only to work a 5-12 the next morning and not be grumpy. Thank your baristas. Give them tips, be kind to them.

Tag list: @thelaziestgeek @marlenemarauders @prongsmischief @padsmcfoot @jily-swan-hinny1 (If you wish to be added just let me know. Also technically only the first one here asked the rest I just read your comments and appreciated them. I won’t tag you next time unless you want me to, because I don’t want to annoy you.)

Marlene was honestly shocked that she did not receive a phone call the following day requesting for her not to go into work. Her and Lily were sitting at home watching movies together until it was time for her shift to start. Assuming she no longer had a job, Marlene did not bother getting ready for work at all. Lily had a week off before she started her new paid internship with a marketing company and so the friends decided to take a day to themselves before Marlene started looking for new jobs again. She had a quick temper but she was charming enough when she needed to be that it was never too hard for her to find work. (Once again Lily suggested Marlene try to find something more fulfilling to do with her life, but Marlene brushed her off, claiming to be too young to think so seriously.)

1:00 hit and Marlene’s cell phone went off. She recognized the number of her store and she rolled her eyes, made a face to Lily and answered it.

“Where are you?” Her supervisors voice rang out. “Your shift started right now and we have breaks to run!”

Marlene’s eyebrows furrowed. “What do you mean?”

“What do I mean?! Marlene McKinnon get your ass to work, no excuses.”

“But- you actually want me there?” The blonde tilted her head and shrugged when Lily mouthed something to her.

There was no humour in her supervisors voice. “What’s that suppose to mean? I swear to God Marlene, you shift stared at 1:00. And this phone call has wasted two minutes. If you’re not here in the next ten, then you have no job to come back to!”

Both girls starred dumbfounded at the phone once the line cut off for thirty seconds. Then Lily suddenly yanked the blanket off of Marlene, “Get up, go! It takes fifteen to get there so you better make a miracle happen, Mar!”

Marlene stumbled off the couch, ran into her room and found the first black t-shirt and pants she could find on the floor. She pulled them over her pyjama shorts and ran out. “Bring my my stuff later!” The girl demanded of Lily as the door swung shut behind her.

Without a bra on, she held onto her chest as she ran record speed down the street. She got to Blackstar Coffee with one minute to spare, took a pen, spun her hair around it so it was up and out of the way, before throwing an apron around her neck and stepping behind the bar. Her chest heaving she smiled broadly at her supervisor. “Made it.”

“Twelve minutes late. That’s still a write-up Marlene. Don’t be late again.”

Still trying to catch her breath, the girl nodded and washed her hands before starting on a coffee order ahead of her.

The rest of the day slowly improved. Lily dropped off a bag for her that had her keys, something to eat, her purse cell phone and even a bra. They chatted for a few minutes and Marlene thanked her about a hundred times while the supervisor asked why Lily couldn’t stay with them and Marlene quit instead. Marlene laughed dryly at her joke and the supervisor let her for on a fifteen minute break so she change properly. Catching her reflection in the mirror, Marlene saw that she really was a complete mess. She took her clothes off so she could finally take off her pyjama shorts and put on the proper bra and underwear Lily brought her. Being able to take a few minutes to get redressed, run her fingers through her hair and pull it back into a much tidier ponytail, the blonde felt better and managed to return to the floor presentable and in a significantly improved mood.

You forgot my eyeliner! Marlene texted Lily once the supervisor made her exit for the day.

You’re welcome for saving your ass at all, ungrateful twat. Don’t get fired!

Marlene laughed and tucked her phone into her back pocket, deciding to focus on her job and the customers so she wouldn’t let Lily down. The entire shift passed with Marlene wondering why she didn’t get in trouble though. She almost felt like she was waiting for something to happen but nothing did and it was as if the night prior was just a dream.

The following day she got to work on time. She worked her shift for a full 8 hours without being rude to a single customer and had never been more proud of herself. It was the day after that when she was scheduled for an opening shift that Marlene got back to her grumpy self. It was 5:00am when her shift began. At 5:30 the doors opened and she shuffled to the till. It was too early for her to bother with makeup, brushing her hair or even keeping her eyes open. “What the hell sort of torture is this hour of the day anyway?” She blandly asked her coworker.

“Welcome to mornings, Marlene. They’re not that bad. Mind if I pop in the back to organize the milk fridges?”

“You want to do more work? You should get your brain checked.” Marlene retorted but the girl was already around the corner on her way to do whatever tasks she decided on. The grouchy blonde leaned her head against the till, dishevelled hair in her face and she could have fallen asleep right there.

“Ahem.” A voice interrupted her attempted nap.

Her head snapped up. “Hi, coffee. You want?” She rubbed her eyes and when her hand came down standing in front of her was the easily recognizable attractive but overconfident Sirius Black. Her posture straightened and she attempted a smile. “Welcome to Blackstar Coffee Mr Black, what can I get you today?”

“Drop the act, you were cuter falling asleep at the till.”

She groaned, “Can you just fire me already, Black? I fucked up and I want to go home.”

“Fire you? Why would I do that? I’m not your manager.”

Marlene’s face fell, “Don’t act all modest, you could and you were going to. Or do you like torturing innocent girls?”

He had the audacity to laugh at her. “No offence but you don’t strike me as the innocent type. I just wanted a coffee today, can you do that without yelling this time?”

“No.” She replied argumentatively.

“I’ll tip you?”

“Then maybe.” Spinning around, she went to grab the coffee. Her eyes looked between the medium and dark roast and her head hung, “Can I chose for you, so you don’t piss me off again?”

“Only if you smile.”

She wanted to gag. But instead she poured his coffee and turned, the fakest smile she could muster on her lips. “Goodbye Mr Black.”

“Actually I prefer Sirius.”

“And I prefer sleep, but your family likes to pay us minimum wage to be up first thing in the morning. Where’s my tip?”