A/N: Severus x Remus vignette. (Set during the parents' generation.)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
~And Tell No One~
Remus closes his eyes and stands motionless in the middle of the room. Lowering his lashes down to his cheeks, Severus leans closer and ghosts a hot breath across the corner of Remus' mouth.
"Severus…" Remus whispers with his hands at his sides. His lips are dry but he is too afraid to lick them.
Severus kisses him lightly on the area just to the right of his mouth, lips barely brushing the baby-soft skin of his jaw. One hand is at his side, the other is on Remus' shoulder.
"Severus…" Remus whispers again, so quietly that air is the only voice that comes out.
"I know…" Severus blinks his eyes closed and kisses Remus again, edging closer to the ragged breath escaping from between slightly parted lips. His hand moves across Remus' shoulder and neck and into his hair. Unbrushed honey strands slip through his fingers and die against his skin.
"I can't cheat on Sirius," Remus breathes and lifts his head back into Severus' caress.
Severus kisses him on the mouth and sighs against it. "I know you can't."
Remus lets himself be kissed, his hands reaching up to rest against night-black hair. Severus traces his cheek and nose and chin with his lips and Remus exhales slowly through his teeth, dull eyes shining behind lowered lids.
Severus returns to Remus' mouth, leaving kiss after lingering kiss on warm, near-traitorous lips, parting them, just barely, with his own. Remus peers cloudily at him from behind long, brown lashes. "I can't cheat on Sirius…" he whispers and presses his erection into Severus' thigh.
Playing a thousand dreams over in his head as silken strands of hair fall through his fingers, Severus looks back at Remus with unreadable eyes. "I know." He kisses the side of his mouth once more, softly, his breath still and silent in the back of his throat.
Remus utters a wordless sigh as Severus turns away and leaves the Gryffindor boy's dormitory, shutting the door soundlessly behind him. And you sit and you watch from behind the curtain of your bed. Watch your Remus stand in the middle of the room with his eyes closed and his hands at his sides. And because nobody will ever know, you cry.