The Betrayal
It was an unusually hot day sometime in mid October but Remus Lupin had forced a certain roguishly handsome boy by the name of Sirius Black to stay inside the dorm during their free period to study for a Defence Against The Dark Arts class exam due to take place in a couple of weeks.
"Moooooonny!!" Sirius whined. "Why do we have to stay here? The test isn't for ages yet!! Plus, Prongs and Wormtail don't have tooo! Why only mee?"
Because I get to spend more time alone with you, Remus thought.
"Because they left the dorm before I could stop them, and anyway the exams are only two weeks away. I would hardly call that ages."
Remus sighed exasperatedly.
"Cunts…" Sirius said. "Ditching their best friend just to go and perve on some random girls."
"What?" Remus cried.
"Didn't you know?" Sirius raised his eyebrow.
"No Padfoot, I knew exactly what they were doing, that's why I cried out in surprise," Remus replied rolling his eyes.
"Fair enough, no need to take a bitch fit. Yes, our lovely, caring, considerate, conspiring, evil, cuntlike friends, darling James and dearest Peter ditched us to go spy on a certain red head and her small black haired side-kick."
"But…Alice has a boyfriend," Remus said confused. "And I didn't know Pete liked her."
"Yeah he does, lucky Frank doesn't know though," Sirius laughed. "I'd bet you all my chocolate frogs that he'd hex Peter into oblivion if he did."
Remus laughed. He loved spending time with Sirius, if only for his random comments. He suddenly realised that they were supposed to be studying and quickly pointed this out.
"But I don't wanna," Sirius pouted, crawling towards Remus' bed and putting on his best puppy dog eyes.
"No, nope, no, that wont work, not this time Sirius Black! As adorable as it may be, I am above it."
Sirius grinned mischievously, he would do almost anything to avoid studying and winding up Remus was always fun.
"Come on Moony," he whimpered, pouting his lips in the sexiest way possible. "It's a bright sunny day and I can think of a million and one better things to waste the afternoon on."
He winked seductively climbing off the floor and onto Remus' bed. Remus shivered slightly as he thought of all the possibilities. No! Remus silently screamed. I can't think of such things, Sirius is my best friend, my best straight friend.
"Nice try," he said, pushing Sirius away from him. "You have to start studying, how else do you plan to pass the test?"
"On pure skill and luck, as usual?"
"Not this time."
Sirius pouted and crawled close to Remus again and started tracing random shapes on his chest.
"Why do we have to study?"
He nuzzled Remus' neck, biting gently.
Remus involuntarily let out a soft moan and closed his eyes. Sirius grinned. This is much better than studying. Suddenly Remus realised what he was doing and mentally hit himself. He attempted to push Sirius off him but Sirius was quicker and seized his arms, pinning them above his head.
"Get off me!" Remus moaned, forcing himself not to think about the sexual position they were now in, or all the possible actions that could follow. Sirius would never do any of them; he was merely a tease, an unintentional tease. It wasn't Sirius' fault, he didn't know what all these situations did to Remus because he was blissfully unaware of the fact that Remus Lupin – to put it bluntly – wanted Sirius' ass.
"Aww, but why?" Sirius asked, grinning in his adorable Sirius-ish way.
"Because this is quite a suggestive position you have me in and I'm not exactly enjoying it."
"Well something is telling me otherwise," he giggled, indicating the bulge suddenly growing in Remus' trousers.
Remus felt his face burn and knew he must be as red as McGonagall when she got her singing Valentine from a certain 'secret admirer' in the middle of the great hall during dinner last year. Sirius grinned, laughing at how easily he could wind up Remus and how the studying seemed to be completely forgotten.
"Sirius, seriously, get off me! What if Peter and James come back?"
"So?" Sirius smiled. "I am quite enjoying myself at this moment in time."
"Well I am not!"
"As I have already said, I have good reason to believe otherwise."
"You know perfectly well that has nothing to do with it!"
Suddenly they heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Remus took advantage of Sirius' lack of attention to quickly pull away his arms and shove him off the bed.
He landed on the floor with a thump just as James burst into the room, practically crying with laughter.
"What's so funny?" Sirius asked James while massaging his ass from the fall.
"Peter's been sent to the hospital wing," James said between fits of giggles. "Frank spotted him watching Alice changing into her swimsuit down at the lake. He used so many jinxes I couldn't even describe what Wormtail looked like by the end of it. Lily and Alice had to practically drag him away."
Remus sighed and rolled his eyes, Sirius started rolling on the floor laughing, literally. Remus turns to James and asks,
"What did Lily do to you then?"
"Nothing!" James shouted. "Okay well she gave me the evils but I could swear she was trying not to smile!"
"Yeah sure Prongs," Sirius giggled, regaining his composure.
"No honestly!" James insisted. "Something's changed. She looks at me differently now!"
"Oh wow!" Sirius stated sarcastically. "Do you mean she looks at you without the blatant disgust now? Is it just a mild? We should so throw a party."
"I'm serious!"
"No, I'm Sirius."
Remus giggled while James sighed and drops onto his bed. After a moments silence James stood again.
"Wanna go get some lunch?" He questioned, rubbing his stomach.
"Sure," Sirius said, his mischievous smile back in place. "We worked up a bit of an appetite with all of our 'studying', didn't we Remus?"
He winked as he walked out of the door, leaving James looking at Remus slightly puzzled.
That boy will be the death of me. Remus thought before following the other two out of the dorm.
When they sat down at the Gryffindor table James immediately loaded his plate with everything within reach and started talking animatedly about how he would be going out with Lily Evans by the end of the year. Try as hard as he could, Remus just couldn't focus on what he was saying as Sirius was causing quite a bit of a distraction under the table.
"Sirius!" Remus whispered frantically as Sirius' foot started making its way up his leg…again, and his hand started rubbing against his thigh.
"What?" Sirius asked innocently.
"You know bloody well what! I get the point you know, you can stop now! We stopped studying ages ago!" Remus practically screamed, earning him a few quizzical looks from a few fellow Gryffindors and James was one of them.
Sirius had to admit he had a point and wondered why he was still doing this, and quite enjoyed it. NO! He thought. No, I am not enjoying it, its just fun to annoy Remus. There are no ulterior motives whatsoever, obviously…
Just then Emmeline Vance strolled over to the trio, bending in between Sirius and Remus.
"Sirius," She asked, fluttering her eyelashes seductively. "Could I talk to you once you're finished eating?"
"I'm done now," he said, "Let's go, I'll see you two in potions kay?"
Winking and giving Remus' thigh one last stroke he got up and walked out the door. Remus turned back to his food scowling, not remotely hungry anymore. After a few minutes of glowering Remus stood, muttered an incoherent goodbye to James and walked off, thinking that he might as well go down to potions early.
As he headed towards the dungeons Remus heard a laugh coming from his left. Turning he saw a sight that almost made him cry out. It was Sirius and Emmeline, practically sucking the faces of each other, hands flying everywhere.
Remus ran down the steps leading to the dungeons and collapsed against the wall. He couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. It couldn't be Sirius, not Sirius who had spent the better part of their free period and lunch groping and flirting with him. Remus' eyes stung as he fought back tears. How could he have misread all the signs? Of course Sirius wasn't being serious about any of it; he was just doing all those things to wind up him. Remus hated himself for letting him subconsciously believe that there was anything behind all of Sirius' actions, but that still didn't stop him from feeling hurt and used by him.
The bell rang and Remus heard footsteps coming down the stairs. He quickly wiped away the stray tears and stood up in time so see Sirius and a few other classmates appear.
"Hey Moony," he said closing in for a hug.
Remus stood back a bit and merely nodded in response. A look of hurt spreads across Sirius' face but quickly faded so Remus just thought he had imagined it. James came pelting down the stairs, skidding to a halt just beside Sirius and saved any awkward silences.
As they entered the class Remus headed for their usual table but made sure that James ended up in the middle. All through the class Sirius tried to engage Remus in conversation but his answers were with minimum syllables and his tone was icy cold. Sirius was confused as to why and it hurt him to think that he had done something to hurt Remus.
"Oh Remus I think you have an admirer," James smiled, breaking both Remus' and Sirius' train of thought. "A very greasy haired one at that."
All boys looked up to see Severus Snape looking over in their direction but he quickly turned away as he saw them look up.
"He's been doing that all period," James said, obviously finding the whole thing highly amusing.
Sirius felt a twinge of jealousy and anger. No one was supposed to look at his Remus, especially not Snivellus. Sirius paused, did he just say 'his Remus'? No, he obviously did not mean it like that, he is just protective of his friend and it was said in a strictly platonic way.
"Severus isn't really that bad," Remus said as if reading his friend's mind. "You just won't believe it because you don't bother looking past his house and get to know him."
Sirius and James looked ready to retort but just then the bell rang and Severus made his way over to their table.
"Umm, Remus…Do you think we could talk?" He asked, twiddling his fingers.
"Privately." He added, looking at Sirius and James with a look of pure loathing that Remus missed.
"Yeah sure, just give me a minute to get my stuff," Remus said, flashing Severus a smile that made Sirius glower.
Remus wasn't supposed to smile at anyone else like that. Sirius kept giving Snape looks of deep hatred as Snape helped Remus collect his things and as they walked out of the dungeons.
Snape took Remus outside and started walking around the lake. Remus was slightly puzzled at what Snape wanted, but still pissed about Sirius' betrayal earlier.
"Umm, Remus…I was – I was wondering if you…well if you wanted to go with me to Hogsmeade this weekend?" Severus stuttered clearly hoping to get it over with quickly.
Remus was taken aback, this was the last thing he had expected to hear but the first thought that entered his mind and the one that stuck with him throughout the rest of the day was: Revenge.
