Title: The Joke, part 1 in the Discovery Series
Author: Egwene
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sirius and James, yes this is slash.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of his relatives, friends, loves, professors, enemies…
This was supposed to be a long fic but it ended in a series of drabbles. Muses are as strange as they come. This is the first slash story I have actually posted, dedicated to Pomme who got me addicted ;-)
Word count: 224
Sirius groaned, he was lying on the couch in the common room, awake in the middle of the night and it was all Peter's fault.
Well, not really, but it had to be someone's fault and if Peter hadn't said anything he would have been able to go to sleep.
Sirius wondered if he'd better go back upstairs but he quickly dismissed the idea. As difficult to think as it was, it would be nearly impossible up there, with James in the next bed.
Because in the end, being close to James was the core of the problem.
It had only been a joke, and a bad one at that.
James had been at Quidditch practice and Peter, Sirius and Remus had stayed in the dorm to study.
After half an hour, Sirius had been bored and he had told his friend he was going to watch James on the field.
That's when it had happened, Peter had made a casual remark about him not willing to stay apart form his boyfriend too long.
Sirius had laughed and replied but he had not been able to dismiss the notion so easily.
And at two in the morning the truth had finally sunk in, he was in love with his best friend and there was nothing he could or would do about it.