Two men are sitting on the couch discussing the ongoing war, they are attempting to decide what the best course of action for their small family is. In the back ground of the large manor you can hear a woman crying . The crying has been going on for almost three weeks but the last couple days have been disturbed by the sounds of retching periodically.

"Siri, can you go talk to her? Ever since the headmaster spoke to us a few weeks ago she has been so stressed and has been incredibly sick the last couple of days. It's been so bad that I can't even let Jamie near her she just starts crying and it makes him start crying and then everything just spirals out of control."The brunette male looked incredibly sad when he asked his best friend to help his wife.

" Why don't you talk to her? I'm a lot less likely to know what to say especially since you never told me what the headmaster said to you."

"I've tried but she just keeps telling me she's sorry and it's all her fault, and I have no clue what she is even talking about. I don't know what to do anymore. I even tried asking her to go see Poppy at the school about her sickness and she just cried harder..."

"James, If she is reacting like that to you , there is no way she will want to speak to me. I know you don't want to think about it but if she's this upset there is only two people she will talk to. one of them I know you will never let into your home but the other can solve all of this. I know your mad at him but he's our best bet for making Lilly feel better."

"NO! Sirius he has been sneaking around and no one knows what hes been doing. What if he's the spy in the order? What will we do?"

*SMACK*

James was not expecting Sirius' hand to fly against his face. He looked at the man he considered a brother and was mildly terrified by the look on his face.

" I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! James why the hell do you think Remy would ever betray us? He loves us and he is just as much a brother to me as you are. Why, I just don't understand."

"Dumbledore, he said there is a spy in the order and he doesn't know who it is. Lately he has mentioned that HE has been recruiting the werewolves more and more. Just a day or two ago he mentioned that most of the werewolves have been joining HIS side. Remus has been missing a lot and when we ask him where he is he doesn't really answer. He has even been refusing a couple of missions according to the head master." The bespectacled man began pacing back in forth in front of his friend as he ranted about their other friend supposed betrayal.

Sirius Black looked over at his best friend and couldn't believe what he was hearing. It just boggled his mind that James would believe Remus capable of being a traitor to his pack. They had known the man since they were eleven and as the four men grew up together he James Peter and eventually Lilly and Jamie had all become part of Remy's pack. Despite his hatred of his mothers teachings, when he was younger he was taught about all the realities of the magical creatures that inhabited their world and he was well aware that Remus would never be able to betray them. No werewolf could betray their pack once the bond finalized and as of six months ago when Jamie was born all of their odd little family's bonds had finalized.

" James, Remus is magically incapable of betraying us. His inner wolf would never let him put his bonded pack in danger... you must know that, right?"

"I thought so too, but why else is he never there,why is he refusing to do missions,why does Albus think its most likely him?"

*Sigh*

The sounds of Lilly Potter have quieted down but the tension in the air of Potter manor is thicker than ever. The two friends ,who are actually cousins of a sort just stare at each other for a few minutes before Sirius shakes his head ,ebony curls bouncing almost listlessly, as he responds to James' questions.

" Have you even asked him James? Remy would tell you the answers if you asked. And Albus may not know that Remy's wolf had claimed us all as pack. Please lets floo him and ask him to come over to discuss all of this. Please James!"

"Merlin!...fine!. Just...just do it I have to know whats going on with Lilly...and...well...you have a good point..."

Sirius jumps up from the couch he had been reclining on and runs over to the fire place. He grabs a small blue ceramic jar that was sitting on the mantle and gets some of the green floo powder from inside it before replacing the lid. The slender auror throws the powder in to the flames of the fireplace and shouts out "Remy's Den" when the flames flare green . Leaning into the fire place he waits for a response from his longtime friend.

"Remy are you there?"

He hears some shuffling in the back ground and what sounds like the old bed in his friends apartment creaking before he sees Remus come out of the bedroom. The werewolf is tying the belt on his bathrobe looking a bit rumpled and confused.

"Sirius?... Is something wrong, its almost midnight?"

Sirius could only imagine what had caused the noises in the room and his friends ruffled appearance and it caused a salacious grin to appear on the prankster's face. He couldn't help teasing his normally reserved friend about his apparent guest despite the serious reason he'd had originally floo called about.

"Remy Remy Remy..just why do you looked like you were in the middle of a round of vigorous lovemaking?"

Remus Lupin tried, he really really tried ,but nothing could stop him from turning incredibly ridiculously bright red at Sirius' words. The scarred man could only wonder why he thought Sirius would be polite and pretend he didn't notice anything, he should have known better. After his tremendous blush settled down he decided to act like he hadn't heard the comment and instead find out why his friend would floo him at such a late time of night.

"Sirius, what did you need? It's very late and you never usually floo me this late unless your drunk. Do you need some help ? "

"I'm not drunk Remus, I'm at Potter manor with James and Lilly and James and I would like you to come over. James has some very important questions for you and we all need to discuss what we are going to do for our family's safety. Peter already said he wont leave his mother and that she would never be able to leave St. Mungos for long due to her health. Are you coming?"

Remus pulled the bathrobe closer and glanced back at his bedroom. He took a deep breath and let it back out before talking again.

"Tonight?... Umm... Sirius I kinda already - "

*Knock Knock* the sound was coming from the bedroom.

Remus somehow managed to blush even deeper than he had earlier before stuttering that he would be back in just a second to Sirius.

_In The Bedroom_

A blushing Remus looks into his guests eyes wondering why the man had to decide to interrupt the conversation, after all he was trying to get his friend to leave so the two could continue their activities.

" What? I was about to tell him I couldn't make it tonight and that I would be over tomorrow afternoon. Whats wrong?"

"Normally I would have no problem with that decision, however today is different. You have been moping about for a few weeks due to your friends lack of understanding. Black has admittedly been busy considering his job but Potter has barely worked since the birth of his son. You mentioned just this night that you were feeling upset that he has been avoiding you lately. I think we should put our rendezvous on hold for tonight and you should go find out what is going on with your compatriots."

Remus looked up at the man he had been seeing for the last month or so. He had hoped to take their non-relationship to the next step tonight as his physical desires were not sated by the admittedly intense make-out sessions the two partook in when they could and he was hoping for some heavy petting. He had no clue how they had even began these little sessions but be had started craving the time he spent with the other man. his disappointment was showing heavily on his face as he walked over to his dresser and began getting dressed.

"Fine, but next time we meet up I demand that we have all night together...o.k.?"

The Raven haired man smirked and gave his sandy haired partner a hot once over before replying.

"Agreed."

Remus finished dressing and grabbed a small bag to take with him in case he stayed the rest of the night. He stood on his toes and gave his kinda boyfriend a gentle kiss and asked him to lock up when he he walked out into the living room to floo over to the Potter's home.

_Back With Sirius_

"O.k., move out of the way I am coming over."

Remus checked the little tin he kept his floo powder in as he waited for Sirius to get out of the flames to he could go through to James and Lilly's. After looking in he added floo powder to his list of things he needed to purchase as he only had half a tin left and knew he didn't have anymore in the cupboard. Once Sirius moved out of the way he threw a handful of powder into the flames before stepping into the fireplace himself. Just as he began spinning away to the Potter's fireplace he caught a glimpse of the dark robes of his guest leaving his bedroom for the night.

As soon as Remus stepped out of the fire place at Potter manor he was pestered with questions from Sirius. The man wanted to know everything; who was in his room, how long had they been together, was it a man or woman, were they good looking; on and on it went ending with him asking what had been said when Remus had gone back into the bedroom. Remus just laughed and said it was none of Sirius' business.

As soon as those words left his mouth James jumped up and started pacing again not liking that Remus was keeping secrets. He fidgeted for a minute or two before he just couldn't take it anymore.

" Remus! Enough with the secrets! Why wont you tell us anything ? Where are you all the time? Why are you refusing to help the order by going on missions? WHY does Albus Dumbledore think you are most likely the traitor in the order? Remy... I have to know , you are one of my best friends, what is going on ?"

Remus could smell the tears that James refused to let escape, he could feel the fear from his friend and all of his instincts were screaming at him to fix this now before his pack fell apart. An almost inaudible whimper was torn from his throat at the mere thought of his pack no longer accepting him.

"James, I would never betray my pack, I couldn't even if I wanted to. I would have to sever the pack bond that I have built with you all and you would all feel the bond ripping away if I did that. I will tell you everything I can, but you have to understand that some things, like my current relationship are no ones business. Please don't ask about it, o.k.?"

Both James and Sirius answer in the positive,however you could see the irritation in both males gazes. Remus takes a deep breath to prepare himself to answer his friends questions.

"Let me start with why I don't want to discuss my relationship...it's simple we have only been seeing each other for about a month. Honestly thanks to this war we hardly ever really spend time together and technically we are just... well we haven't really said that were dating or anything so its very awkward for me to talk about at the moment."

Remus was looking down at his feet by the time he finished saying all that and completely missed the mildly ashamed look on James' face from jumping down Remus' throat about not discussing his also missed the rather pissed off look on Sirius' when he started wondering if this guy was using his shy and innocent friend . Remus began talking again thinking it would be best to treat the conversation like a plaster and get it over with quickly.

"I have missing from so many order meetings because I've been busy ,but its not just trying to find time with my partner, I have also been helping to smuggle werewolves out of the country. You see ... well if the alpha of a pack joins HIM the whole pack is supposed to join but apparently a lot of wolves don't want to join him. It's mostly the submissive who have cubs or were never trained to fight. They are scared and don't want to join either side because they have children or would have no way of helping except to be cannon fodder. I was contacted by a pack in France who asked me to help get the wolves who want out to France without getting caught by the ministry or either side of the war. That's why I'm never around anymore."

"Merlin Remy, your saving people in a way I never even thought of! I didn't even think of the fact that the whole pack is expected to follow the alpha's decision on this crap...your an amazing person you know that right?"

Sirius continued on about how wonderful he thought Remus was for doing what he was doing for a few minutes before he let the werewolf continue.

"As for why I've been refusing missions...well its twofold. First is like I already said I have been very busy getting the wolves out of the war, the second reason is that the order has been giving me more and more ...umm... well...they are basically assigning me the missions with the highest likely hood of me dying. When I refuse the mission they don't even try to assign it to anyone else either. I feel like they do it because if I don't complete the mission and end up dead it just means one less werewolf as far as they are concerned."

Both of the other two men in the room were floored...then they both began thinking of every mission that Remus has been assigned in the last six months. After around thirty seconds both men realized just how right their friend was. James looked like he was going to puke. Here he was sitting at home with his wife and child thinking one of his best friends was a traitor and instead the group they had joined to help stop the war was basically trying to kill said friend and he was just trying not to die. Sirius however was beyond livid he was to a point of anger he had never reached before and his magic was very close to lashing out. Remus struggled to go ahead and try to finish answering the last of James' concerns. He needn't have bothered, James who had been standing this entire time pulled the shorter man into his arms and held his friend close.

"By the gods Remy, can you forgive me? I don't know what Albus or any of the order members are thinking but me...I should have known better. I am so sorry ...so so sorry."

Sirius not to be out done joined in the not so manly display of brotherhood and held onto both his best friends with a grip that was almost bruising.

"Yes James, I forgive you. Your my pack mate."

And it was that simple.