He can be your hero, baby.

[alwaysimpure]

Sirius didn't think much of this family, but there blood and standing was good enough that it'd have been a faux pas to refuse the invitation. The oldest son kept talking to him as if they were in any way equal and Sirius was fairly sure that it couldn't even be measured just how superior he was in everything, from standing to intellect. Luckily he had left him alone now that the girls were starting to be more drunk and less particular.

He wasn't really in the mood for any of that, either. Maybe he could leave the boring affair soon. For now he stepped out on the balcony for a cigarette, only sparing a glance at the couple standing against the wall.

"Come on, you were so friendly just before." Only out of the corners of his eyes did he see the girl swaying just a little bit and the boy all too readily steadying her with his hand touching her less than decently.

Such lack of class. With a role of his eyes he took a drag from his cigarette, figuring he would just tell them to get lost and go to a muggle party if they wanted to behave like animals.

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[unpolluted]

The smell of smoke was what caught her first, her eyes shifting to the figure that had stepped out onto the balcony, fingers curling into her palm. Her lips moved for a moment but there was no actual sound, her gaze shifting back to the boy in front of her.

Technically, the man, really. He'd left Hogwarts two years previously, but that hadn't apparently done anything to aid him in growing up.

[alwaysimpure]

As her lips moved, the man forced a kiss on her, having an easy time subduing her at this point. He gather up her wrists and pinned them to the wall above her head, his other hand cupping one of her breasts.

"That's more like it." Quite the lustful whisper, that, and it made Sirius whip around, obviously annoyed.

"Do you mi-... Cassandra?!" Obvious disbelief on his face he took a step closer and that was quite enough to see the signs of what she'd been given in her eyes. His cigarette fell to the ground and he got his wand out a moment later, blasting the man to the side with his first blow and then continuing to slash and beat him, magically, until he was bruised and pleading and begging for mercy.

"I can kill him," he offered to Cassandra then, almost chillingly calm after that show of temper and as if the man's life meant nothing to him. Perhaps it was just a show.

[unpolluted]

When he was gone, she just sagged against the wall, her eyes moving to Sirius before she shook her head, the movement slight. Her fingers flexed before her gaze darted back to the man off to the other side.

[alwaysimpure]

"As you wish. Say thank you, will you?"

Another hex and the man whimpered a thank you, only to be immobilized and silenced with the next two hexes. Sirius put his wand away and walked to Cassandra, gently pressing his palm against the side of her face as he tried to catch her eyes.

"For a moment I thought you had terrible taste."

[unpolluted]

She huffed at him, the sound about the only thing that she could get out, although she wasn't pulling away from the hand on her cheek. Her eyes held his for a moment before they closed again.

[alwaysimpure]

"Hey. It's over, Cassandra. Let's go, I can bring you home." Sirius ran his fingers through her hair, since she didn't seem to want to avoid him and he wanted to offer some comfort. "I won't let anything happen to you."

[unpolluted]

There was the briefest movement of her head, her eyes opening to lock on his face again before sliding past him, over the edge of the balcony.

[alwaysimpure]

"I'm really bad at charades, sorry." He stepped back enough to offer her his arm. "Can you walk?"

[unpolluted]

She flexed her hand, her fingers moving slightly, curling in before she spread them again She shook her head again slowly after a moment.

[alwaysimpure]

"Damn... Can I carry you?" He knew he could, she wasn't exactly heavy by the looks of it, but he didn't want to end up getting a kick in the nuts for it or something once she could move again.

[unpolluted]

She answered with a slight bob of her head, her eyes shifting past him again.