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The Kiss of a Werewolf

Remus Lupin had never been kissed. Ever. And most likely never would be. Oh, he was not a virgin, far from it. He was well known for being quite adventurous. But he had never been kissed.

Sometimes it was a strange idea, kissing someone. An exchange of saliva, and a whole barrage of diseases which his boyhood friends had contracted through their own adventures. It just didn't appeal to him. But he had always wanted to try it, just to see what all the fuss was about. There were times when he had been sorely tempted. It was at those times he had asked his lover at the time to gag him.

He had hurt a lot of people by refusing to kiss them, and he had lost a lot of lovers that way. But it was always the first attempt of someone trying to kiss him that stuck in his mind, that one had hurt the most. He had wanted to kiss, but knowing he could not and how it hurt him as well, knowing that he could not even explain himself.

He became paranoid even to the point where he had his wand programmed to detect enchanted mistletoe.

He knew that he couldn't kiss anyone. He knew he couldn't do a lot of things, even share drinks. Because it wasn't the bite of a werewolf that turned people, it was the saliva entering the body. The bite was just the easiest way for the disease to travel from wolf to human.