What's another scar?
Remus Lupin has many scars. He acquired them in many ways, full moons, his own clumsiness, his self hatred. Because what's another scar among the hundreds of others.
Sitting in the shower at the middle of the night was where Remus Lupin found himself, slicing into the soft flesh of his upper-thigh. His entire body was littered with scars, some that overlapped others that didn't. Remus didn't want to die, he just needed a distraction. He was careful, he made them look random so they could easily be mistaken as full moon marks. Remus knows it's wrong to do this, but when a Ravenclaw girl was discovered she was sent home and has yet to return. Sirius came so close to finding out once, but was thankfully to daft to notice. Remus found it kind of ironic, his friends found out a secret he was told would ruin everything, but has yet to know of something that he truly feels the need to hide.
Remus Lupin made a lot of mistakes in his life, but this one takes the cake. He didn't mean to cut so deep. The blood wouldn't stop coming, and his hand was shaking too much for him to spell it to stop. He was so preoccupied with his wound that he failed to notice the door opening as the lock failed sometimes. He didn't even realize someone was looking at him in horror until he heard the shaky voice of James say "what the fuck." It wasn't even in the form of a question more of a statement, and Remus jumped at the voice suddenly in tears
"James please, I'm sorry, fuck mate I'm sorry give me a minute I'll be right out." He pleaded trying even harder to stop the bleeding. Seeing the desperate attempts James pulled his own want from his pocket and healed the wound.
"Remus what the fuck happened?" He asked grabbing the werewolf arm to keep him steady, "let's get you to Madam Pomfrey,"
"no James please no," the half naked boy begged and started standing "I'll be fine in the morning just let me sleep." He said with a tone of finality and stumbled like a drunk into his bed.
The next day Remus acted so normal, James wasn't even sure if he saw what he thought he had seen the night before. When he finally had the opportunity to talk to Remus, he was upfront about it "you need to stop doing this to yourself Remus," James said
"why? It's not like I'm hurting anyone. Just forget you ever saw it."
"Not hurting anyone, Remus you are someone."
"Not hurting anyone important anyways James,"
"what will happen when you cut too deep? Will you bleed to death on the ground for someone to find later? Do you realize how important you are to the group Remus, without you we'd be lost. You need to stop this Remus." James said with a sad face
"what's another scar James, it's not like they don't start blending. It's not like anyone will ever tell they're different, nobody cares about scars on a werewolf James, you shouldn't either."