I plan on doing a revised/original plan version of black bird and it will be rated M because I do plan on doing a love-making scene. Or several. Either way. Now, without further adu... what my angst ridden mind came up with in less than thirty minutes.
P.S. I don't own Harry Potter, Sirius, or Lupin. =3 ~~~~
No one knew that the infamous Remus Lupin could sing.
Not until October 31st of 2000, that is.
This was, as many people know, Halloween. A day of frolic and merriment.
Though for Remus, this will forever mark the day that he buried his best friend.
Black bird fly, into the light of the dark black night.
The charming voice rang out that day, filled with emotion and heavy burden.
Remembering the good times would be hard.
Remembering how Sirius would never laugh again would be hard.
But remembering that last smile etched onto his lover s face... that would be the most painful.
Not that the smile itself would cause him grief, but the fact that Remus would dearly miss his best friend. His life companion.
Many people cried and many expressed their condolences but Remus was left in a maze of memories with the person lying in the casket that was now in the ground.
Good memories of pranks and laughter and bitter sweet memories of fights and long sleepless nights.
That night was one of the latter.
Remus tried to sleep; really, he did.
But sleep just seemed to evade him, in replace for those damn memories.
Remus knew it was wrong, but eventually he brewed a simple sleeping draught and drifted off into a restless sleep as that smile ghosted behind his closed eye lids over and over.
Although Remus would usually find comfort in the smile, it haunted him. It haunted his dreams for weeks. And soon, Remus kept a stock of sleeping draught. It was the only way he could get even a sleep-adjacent state of mind some days.
One night, tired of simply remembering things, Remus cast a spell.
He lain down in his overly large bed that night, wand in hand, covers pulled over his cold body; and as he cast the spell, the only thing he recalled from then on was that damn smile and then joined his lover in the netherworld.