Title: "Always Together"
Rating: T to be safe…but it could be a K+
Summary[Slash Sirius will do anything to get Remus to go out with him, so they can have the perfect date. Number 46 and 33 of my 100 writing prompts challenge.
Disclaimer: Wonderful, wonderful Jo Rowling created these characters and Hogwarts; none of this could have been thought of without her.
What else am I missing?
Warning: Slash…(?) do I still have to warn for that.
"Come on mate, even Evans came around in the end." Sirius pleaded lying down beside Remus in the late afternoon sun. They were outside on the grounds because the weather was now finally turning in favor of spring.
"Not until we graduate." Remus said from where he lay. He had his eyes closed and his head tilted so slightly that the setting sun illuminated his face and brightened his mousy brown hair.
"Why not?" Sirius sat up and asked.
"We've been over this before Sirius." Remus sat up as well. "We can't be together until we're out of school." Sirius sighed audibly.
"But I want you now." He whined childishly. Remus lay back down in the grass and closed his eyes a sign that he wanted the conversation closed. Sirius followed his example shortly after.
"Do you still love me?" Sirius asked insecurely.
"Yes Padfoot, I still love you." Remus smiled to himself and covered Sirius' hand with his own.
That was as far as they ever went. They'd hold hands and whisper words of love to each other but Remus would not allow them to be together. He knew that Sirius had never been one to stick with someone. He knew that Sirius had been with many of the girls of Hogwarts before landing on Remus in sixth year. He knew that generally people did not want to stay with a werewolf. And because he knew this, he did not want to become committed to Sirius only to realize that the moment they left Hogwarts, Sirius would tire of Remus and move on to someone else.
That was over a year ago. Now the two nineteen year olds were moving into a flat together in southern London. They were not, as Remus stressed, living together in the sense of being a couple. They for the time being had two separate rooms. And, as much as Sirius tried to beg otherwise, they were going to keep to those rooms for some time. They just owned a flat together.
"Come and help me with these boxes, I think it's the last of our stuff." Sirius said to Remus who had sat down on the floor too exhausted to move, they had been moving in all day and there were stairs, lots of stairs. He groaned and took the hand Sirius was offering to help him up off the floor. "You're the one who insisted we move in the muggle way." Sirius said as they picked up a box each. He smiled at Remus struggling with a box that was perhaps some of his own books. "Take this box, it is lighter." He said and Remus gave him a look of gratitude.
"Is that the last box?" Remus asked after a half hour.
"I think so." Sirius replied and they promptly fell onto the floor of their bare living room. "I think we need some furniture." Remus groaned at the thought of carrying big, heavy furniture into the flat. "But maybe not now."
"Maybe not for another month or so," Remus' voice hinted at pleaded.
"I don't know about that…Oh! But I do know what we need right now…where is that box?" He asked. He walked down the hall to the kitchen where boxes labeled "kitchen" were, imagine that. Sirius came back down the hall carrying a bottle with some sort of alcohol in it, knowing Sirius, and two wine glasses.
"What's that?" Remus asked as Sirius poured.
"Rule number one Moony, my friend, don't ask, just drink." He handed one glass to Remus then held up his own. "To…to finally getting our own place, and to finally getting the chance to shag you," Sirius toasted.
"I'm not toasting to that!" Remus scolded Sirius despite a slight blush rising over his cheeks.
"Okay, okay. Just to getting our own place, then." He said and they drank to that.
"Can I take you out on a date now?" Sirius asked one night as they ate Chinese take home dinner for the second night in a row. The two had no time to cook lately; since they were busy with Order business during the day and it was nearing the full moon, so they had to prep the room Remus was going to use for that.
"After the moon," Remus muttered under his breath. It was not the fact that he did not want to go out with Sirius, because he did. He was wary to say 'yes' because he was still afraid Sirius would leave him. That is, even though in the month that they had been living together Sirius had not brought anybody home with him nor had he stayed the night away.
"You mean it?" Sirius asked, stunned with food partially to his mouth.
"We'll see." Remus added and Sirius frowned looking down at his food before changing the subject to something he had read in the muggle paper about The Beatles, a group he knew Remus liked to listen to.
"Padfoot, I am perfectly capable of making my own tea. I can move." Remus said when Sirius brought in a steaming mug of Yorkshire tea (Remus' favorite) with two sugars, no milk (just as he liked it). Sirius liked to do things for Remus just as he liked them. He hoped that Remus would realize that he pays attention to him and only him.
"You're sick. Stay in bed." He added as Remus tried to push a leg out from under the covers.
"I'm not sick, I'm a werewolf." Remus muttered but accepted the tea nonetheless.
"Remus, I'd like to take you out on Friday." That was in three days as it was Wednesday morning. "And don't say anything." Sirius added seeing Remus open your mouth. "I know you're free that night and I've seen you recover from more than this in less time." Remus nodded somberly, he figured that he would not be getting out of this.
"Where are we going?" Remus asked. Sirius merely smiled a lazy, lopsided smile as he leaned back in his chair. The famous grin seemed to say, it's a secret.
Author's Note: Oh my it's a miracle! This is going to be a chaptered story; a short chaptered story (possibly 2 or 3) but one nonetheless. I need help from the readers though. I want to put some Beatles song into the next chapter but I don't know which. If you could leave, in your review a list of a few you would like to see…or like, whichever you think fits Remus and Sirius as a couple or one that would be Remus' favorite.
Thank you!