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Starry Eyes Chapter One

A little fic about my marauder OC as an attempt to delve deeper into her character. I hope you like it.

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It’s always a hard time being the only single one in a group. Not that Amethyst wasn’t happy for her friends but being a fifth wheel was turning out to be more difficult than she thought. Everybody around her seemed to have met the love of their life at 16. Hell, even her brother had managed to find somebody. As if on cue, her phone buzzed. She looked at the name flashing on her screen: Moony.

Do you wanna come watch the Gryffindor Quidditch practice with me?

Are you going to make it weird by making unnecessarily sexual comments about my brother again?

Maybe

Probably

Yeah I will

Remus, it’s 6 in the fucking morning, take a cold shower

Are you coming or not? Her phone buzzed again. A snapchat from Remus.

What the fuck is that, Remus?

Incentive

To get your ass out of bed and meet me on the pitch

If you’re sending me Quidditch porn, again, take a cold shower.

For you? It’s as good as

Meth could just see Remus smirking behind his phone with that comment. Curiously, she swiped over to open the snapchat notification which turned out to be a photo of Fabian Prewett, a chaser on the team. Judging by his uniform and the way his flaming red hair was sticking to his face, they must have already been on the pitch for a while. Fabian was easily one of the most handsome men Amethyst had ever seen in her life. She didn’t know exactly what it was but she often caught herself staring at him.

Remus was the only person who knew of her little infatuation with the redhead. He had figured it out sometime last month and had no qualms about exploiting her with that knowledge. Despite Moony’s constant urging, Amethyst could not bring herself to ask Fabian out. She couldn’t bear to risk their friendship for a silly crush. Well, maybe even friendship was a strong word to use for what they shared. They had barely gotten past smiling at each other in the hallways or having a conversation past “Hello.” Besides, she was pretty sure anything she felt was purely physical. She didn’t even know him well enough to feel anything beyond that. At least that’s what she was trying to tell Remus. And herself.

That photo Remus sent her had indeed provided her with the motivation she needed to get dressed and head downstairs, where Remus greeted her with a Cheshire Cat grin. Ignoring it, she slumped into the seat next to him. Practice lasted roughly another hour and Meth enjoyed every last second of it. Especially the part where Fab took off his jersey with one hand. Yes, that was particularly enjoyable. However, Meth quickly lost interest as the team began dispersing. James and Sirius slowly made their way to the stands to join their friends.

“How did you get Zer to wake up and be ready at 6?” Sirius said, after pressing a kiss to Remus’ mouth.

“I promised her something delicious.”

“Breakfast?”

Meth smirked, seizing the opportunity her twin had just provided her. “Yes. Remus is going to make me breakfast.”

“Oh, Fab!” James called out. Meth whipped her head around, perhaps less calmly as she would have liked. He must have just gotten out of the shower. His hair was still wet. And messy. Merlin, he looked so fucking good. It took everything in her to stop staring at his freckled face. “Why don’t you join us for breakfast?”

It was brief, maybe less than a second, but Meth could have sworn Fab’s blue-green eyes shifted from James to her. Or maybe she imagined it all. His face broke into one of the most beautiful smiles Amethyst had ever seen. “I’d love to.”

There was no fucking way Fabian was going to pass on the opportunity to have breakfast with Amethyst Black. She was, undoubtedly, beautiful. And funny. A little mean sometimes, but it suited her. Merlin, maybe he was a little smitten but who wouldn’t be? Even though they hadn’t spent a lot of time together, Fab knew he had feelings for her. A small smile danced on his lips just thinking about her. Up until very recently, she had only ever been Sirius’ twin sister, or James’ friend. It was only this year, their fifth time returning to Howarts, had they started acknowledging each other in passing. Just a simple flash of her smile made his day. He wanted to get to know her more. Most of what he knew of her had come from the three boys he shared a dorm with. How lucky they were to know her firsthand.

“Still with us, Fabian?” James asked, bringing Fabian out of his daydreams about the raven haired girl in front of him.

Breakfast was quiet, rushed almost. Everybody had morning classes, it seemed. It wasn’t until they were nearly done with their food that Meth threw a roll of parchment onto the table along with a copy of Advanced Potions Making and began writing. Her handwriting was nearly as beautiful as she was. From across the table, he watched her get increasingly frustrated as her glasses kept slipping down her face. It took him a couple seconds to realize what she was working on. Fab arched an eyebrow in her direction.

“Amethyst?” He barely got a grunt in response. “What is- Is that homework? For Slughorn’s class?”

“Meth, that class is in fifteen minutes.”

She rolled her eyes at Sirius for that. “Then let me copy yours, Pads. Which you inevitably got from Remus, I’m sure.”

“I would, dear sister, but watching you struggle is funny.”

Sirius shrugged and Meth went back to her parchment. Fab was surprised. Not because she hadn’t done her homework yet but because he was in that class and he had never seen her. Granted the year had just started but he was certain he would not have forgotten having her in his class.

“Wait, you’re in Slughorn’s class?”

“Having a hard time following the conversation, Freckles?”

“No, it’s just- Well, I’m in that class. If you want homework, you can copy mine.” The words had instinctively fallen from his mouth. Meth looked at him and her gray eyes shined with so much hope. She had never looked at him like that before. Like he was her hero. He immediately handed her the roll of parchment from his bag. “So, how come I’ve never seen you in class before?”

“Oh that’s because she’s never actually gone to class. She sleeps through them. Although I think she might have just found the motivation she so desperately needed.”

“Like you’ve gone to every class, Remus?” Fab noticed Remus look at her as though they were having a silent conversation. Something in her expression changed. She looked almost regretful. “Oh, cmon, you know that’s not what I meant. Now, fuck off. I have homework to do.”

“In seven minutes?” That earned James a pointed glare. “Wow, you’re really not a morning person. I still don’t understand how Remus got you out of bed at 6 today.”

Remus immediately choked on his tea, as if he was trying to suppress a laugh. “I just gave her something she really wanted.”

“And what was that?”

“Tea. With ginger.” Fab was almost certain Remus had looked right at him when he said that. And smirked.

Meth didn’t even look up from her work to respond. “You might be bigger than me, Moons, but I will kill you.”

How could somebody nearly a foot shorter than him be so absolutely terrifying? And look so beautiful doing it? Fab glanced down at his watch. Two minutes till class. He was going to be late and for the first time he was actually okay with it.

Over the next few weeks, Meth’s potions attendance improved tremendously. Even Slughorn seemed impressed with her performance. There was one small issue, however. Much as she had hoped to shake off whatever she felt for Fabian Prewett, it seemed like that was not going to happen. She still very much found him to be insanely attractive. It obviously did not help that they had gotten so much closer as friends. She shook her head as if trying to knock those thoughts out. Perhaps, sitting in his dorm was not the right way to do that. Unfortunately for her, that dorm also belonged to her three best friends in the whole entire world.

“Where’s James?” She asked, walking through the door and finding only her brother and Remus. Even if she’d never admit it out loud, they were adorable together. She was truly glad Sirius had found somebody who made him so inexplicably happy.

“With Evans.” Meth was never somebody who craved a romantic relationship - or even thought she deserved one, but Pandora’s Box best not be opened. However, these constant reminders of her being the only single friend were starting to pile up. The most natural way to deal with that was, obviously, to ignore it completely.

“Do you guys have weekend plans or do I have to sit through more of this?”

“I think James wants to plan a Hogsmeade trip. Zonko’s maybe? It’s been a while since we paid Snivellus a visit.”

“Oh, Merlin, yes. I need to get out-” She was cut off by the sound of the bathroom lock clicking. In the next ten seconds, she forgot why she was talking in the first place. Fabian Prewett, the reason she so desperately needed to get away from the castle, walked out with nothing but a flimsy white towel around his waist. Her eyes were fixed on him, unable to look away.

“Oh, fuck, sorry, Ames. I didn’t know you’d be here.” Words were hard for Amethyst at that moment. Fabian made his way across the room and she could do nothing but follow him with her eyes. She knew Sirius had noticed. She could feel it. That didn’t matter to her anymore. She drew in a sharp breath as Fab put on a loose fitting T-shirt. He looked at her one last time before leaving the room. “Sorry, again.”

Amethyst turned back to her friends, and tried to say something before they could. Unfortunately, Sirius beat her to it.

“What the fuck was that?”

“Hmm? Nothing.” Denial was going to be her strategy of choice, it seemed.

“Amethyst, don’t fucking lie to me. You looked at Freckles over there like I look at- Oh my god. You like him.” Remus was laughing next to her brother. That, momentarily, drew Sirius’ attention toward him instead. “And you knew?!”

“Siri, come on. Besides, we’re not even sure if she likes him or if she just wants to jump his bones.”

“First of all, never ever put that image in my head again. Secondly, does James know?!” Sirius whipped out his phone and began texting. Oh, she was never going to be able to live this down. It took James less than three minutes to burst through the door in their dorm with the stupidest grin on his face.

“PREWETT?! REALLY?! I mean, don’t get me wrong. He’s an excellent choice. I just didn’t know you were capable of feeling things.”

“Excuse me if I don’t take relationship advice from somebody who spent 5 years pining after the same girl.” God damn it. This was not going to be something the boys would ever let her forget.

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