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Challenge info: Lil/Big sis competition
Prompt use: Dusk (time), spellbound (word), a promise (plot device), and 'I don't understand' (dialogue)
It all began on what Sirius dubbed as a 'fire whiskey run.' They had successfully gotten fire whiskey for the third time. This time the alcohol was for their year. NEWTS were behind them. They were waiting for judgment day. Sirius knew James, Lily, and Remus would get top marks. He trailed behind them and Peter wasn't even on their map. He was confident about getting good enough marks to become an auror.
The party was just beginning when Lily dragged James up the stairs to the head students rooms. James just looked at her then his friends before following. Peter looked sullen at the abandonment. He went upstairs to sleep off the alcohol he had drank. Left alone Remus and Sirius shared a long glance. Remus went to refill his canister and Sirius drank what he had left in his glass.
The strong alcohol burned all the way to his stomach and he burped a small flame. Remus filled the glass and they stared awkwardly at each other. Neither of them knew what to say. Finally Sirius got tired of the silence.
"Astronomy tower?" He asked Remus .
Remus nodded and filled the canister up. They left the dorms more relaxed. Sharing heated glances before they held hands briefly before letting go. Their eyes met and Sirius looked away first. Finally reaching the tower they entered before sitting down and staring at the night sky. It was still bright out. Finally it darkened and for the first time Remus spoke to Sirius.
"What did you want to talk about Sirius?" Remus asked.
"Everything. Nothing. I don't understand!" Sirius nearly shouted.
It echoed in the silence. Sirius was wide eyed at the loss of control. Remus stared at the night sky as Sirius pieced himself together. It was a beautiful dusk night, stars covered the dark sky, and above them Canis Major shone brightly. Sirius finally spoke as he leaned on the window and his hand sought Remus'. Remus clutched it as they held it aloft between them. Their eyes met again and neither were able to look away spellbound by each other.
The sky suddenly lit up. Bolts of light shot across it and some fell in the distance. They watched it unable to look away. Remus and Sirius passed the canister between them as they each took a swig as time passed. Cold wind filled the room but they were warmed by each other and the fire whiskey until it was finished.
"Do you want to make a wish, Sirius?" Remus asked gently as he watched the meteor shower and Sirius squeezed his hand.
"Yes. Let's wish on one together," Sirius said.
It didn't take long until the brightest one yet fell. In unison they closed their eyes and made a wish. Letting go of each others hands they waited a minute before looking at each other.
"What did you wish for, Remus?" Sirius asked.
"That this war will be over soon and we'll all be safe and alive once it's over," Remus said but his glowing amber eyes went brighter. Sirius knew that was a lie, "What about you?"
Sirius stumbled over words, "I wished that we'll always have our memories at Hogwarts, no matter where we go, and time won't make them bitter."
Remus raised his eyebrow at how Sirius was blushing and stuttering. He knew a Sirius lie when he saw one. He nodded, swearing to keep this a secret, as he spoke, "I'm sure we will always have Hogwarts…"
"And each other if we can make it through." Remus thought before a painful silence descended,"Can I have tonight?" Remus asked bashful. He was always shy before anything they did. It changed once they were doing something.
The moon shone down on them. Looking away as he lifted his hand towards it. The half globe disappeared and he tried to hold onto it but his fist glowed. He closed his eyes wishing.
"I… Is that really what you…" Sirius paused asking before thinking, "need because I'd give you the rest of my life if you asked," "want Remus?"
Remus looked at him and Sirius shuddered at the intense glare of those enchanting amber eyes. The wolf was close to the surface. He looked down and away from Remus.
Sirius spoke again, "I'll give you tonight if that's really what you need Remus."
Remus didn't answer just leaned in to give Sirius a chaste kiss that Sirius deepened. They needed each other right now. Their hands entwined and Remus broke the kiss as he cast a locking spell on the door. Sirius pulled them to the hard floor as he pulled Remus on top of shared a heated kiss before Sirius pinned Remus down grinning.
With the meteor shower above them, the solid ground beneath them, and a searing heat between them they expressed all the words and feelings they couldn't express in words.
They met in the middle as they shared a desperate kiss. Hands roamed trying to find something solid to hold onto as they sank further into each other. They fell deeper into madness. Lost in a needy, searing embrace, they spiraled lower, deeper, and harder. They tried to express everything they couldn't when sober. I love you became marks in skin; I've missed you translated to tongue and teeth worshiping patches of skin, and I need you were their hands that touched and held the other exhausted after six hours they fell asleep together.
"Sirius, You'll keep that promise right?" Remus asked as they were getting dressed from opposite ends of the had taken off their robes and shirt sometime in the night. Sirius looked at Remus in confusion.
"What promise are you talking about?" Sirius asked as Remus unlocked the door and they were walking to their dorm.
"Either- or both. It depends on if you plan plan to keep do as you say." Remus said.
"If you mean about being more responsible and think things through or… about us- then I want to keep the first and the second? I'm proud of being your mate." Sirius said quietly.
"This isn't just about us though. We don't have to keep it secret forever- just for now." Remus looked at Sirius pleadingly.
"I'll keep both if that's what you need me to." Sirius crumbled over the wide eyed innocent look that Remus was giving him.
"I love you, Sirius." Remus said as they reached the tower and the fat lady.
"Always, Remus." Sirius hand touched Remus before they entered the portrait together after saying the password.
They heard a bang over their head and looked up and looked at each other. There were fireworks over their head with flashing lights that formed the letters, "Fresh after a heavy make out session". Remus was the first to react as his eyes turned amber and he ran to the male room stairs. Sirius looked around at the crowd, some still dozing, but all of them in the middle of a hurricane. Sirius looked at all the eyes on him before he barked out, "Unless you want McGonagall on our tails when she comes in- I suggest that we begin cleaning!"
The others paled and the others were woken up before they rushed to make it look less like a hurricane zone and more of a messy common room. James and Lily came down from their head student rooms and looking around at the mess, Lily sighed as James dragged her to help the seventh years clean up the mess. The incident was forgotten when in the middle of it, the transfiguration professor came in, then berated them for the noise and locking the younger years in their rooms.