A/N: Hi everyone! I've been way into the whole masquerade thing lately, and I found a story by Glitchie, that was a Masquerade Valentine's Day story that I thought was really cool. And I also found another story by SiRiUsLyPaDfOoTeD that was a Masquerade Remus/Sirius story, but it seems she's abandoned it, so I decided to do one of my own! Oh, and this will be a 4-shot, meaning it'll have 4 chapters. Hope you enjoy!

Warnings: This is a SLASH story, meaning boy/boy love. And in this chapter there will be some mentions of sex, and maybe a swear word or two.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the charcters except my OC Gem. And I give loads of credit to Glitchie and SiRiUsLyPaDfOoTeD for inspiring me to write this fic.

Enjoy! And Review afterwards!


Love is Blind So We Wear Masks
Chapter One: Blind

The Marauders and Lily Evans were all sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall for their free period. It was very cold outside, so they retreated indoors to escape the harsh February weather.

Sirius sat by James and Lily sat across from Remus and Peter. He lazily lounged on the bench; one leg dangling off the side to rest on the floor, and one hand tucked under his chin to support his head.

It was extremely clear to see how bored he was, and right now the other four were talking about the upcoming Valentine's Day Masquerade, which happened to be in a few days.

It was their Seventh and final year at Hogwarts, and since the beginning of the school year they had gone to as many parties and activities as they could just to soak up a little more extra time with each other. Sirius didn't mind at all, but out of all the holidays in the entire year he thought Valentine's Day was the worst, though it hadn't always been that way.

When Sirius first came to Hogwarts all the girls had a crush on him and on Valentine's Day he always received the most gifts and cards out of anyone in the school. It was like that through the next couple of years, and he loved it.

He got all the attention, the presents and the hottest girls in the school. Valentine's Day was one of his favorite holidays of the year. Then all of a sudden in 5th year, the constant attention from all the girls started to really get on his nerves. Their attractive levels went down, and their annoying levels increased majorly. And to add on to that, he started to think of a certain young werewolf in much more than friendly ways.

He had no idea what was wrong with him at the time. He was extremely confused about why he thought of his friend in ways that made him shudder with excitement. He had always been very close with Remus in some special way, more than he was with Peter and even James. They trusted each other with their deepest darkest secrets, and even comforted each other whenever they had a nightmare. That was just something they never shared with their other friends.

But Sirius shrugged off the 'crush' that he had on Remus as just a passing fancy, or a slight glitch in curiosity. Remus was very attractive, and having known him for so long Sirius' mind just picked someone he knew very well and trusted. It was nothing more than that, he thought.

But he was wrong.

Sixth year approached, and Sirius begun to find Remus more attractive than ever. He was filled out and tall, - not skinny – but slender, and there was just something incredibly sensual and tantalizing about the handsome young lycanthrope.

What had turned into a little crush – which Sirius had just barely started to live with – grew into lusted attraction, and that's when the dreams started. The dreams that burned his body with desire and passion. The dreams that made him ache with need. The dreams where Remus took control, and knew where to touch, and stroke, and kiss Sirius just right. Where Remus knew where to bite, and tease, and release him after he begged to be let go from torturous pleasure.

After a few months of having the dreams, he came out to his friends about being bisexual and soon after came out publicly to the school. He never told Remus about how he felt, but James and Peter figured it out sometime later, and were sworn to secrecy.

Now after 2 years of secretly wanting his friend, it wasn't so much as lust and being physically attracted to him anymore. After Sirius played the horrible prank on Snape the year before, he almost lost Remus, and for awhile he did. Lost his trust, and his friendship.

He never felt so scared over anything in his entire life. He didn't care about running away from home, and getting disinherited, or risking almost everything by becoming an illegal Animagus, so he could go around with a werewolf every full moon. None of that mattered a bit to him as long as Remus hated him, or wasn't his friend. Remus kept him sane, saved him from himself and picked him up whenever he fell.

Sirius cared about Remus, trusted him, cried over him...loved him.

That's when he realized the feelings would never go away, and that Remus would never think of him in the same way. That's the reason he hates Valentine's Day. It's just another painful reminder that he can never have the person he loves the most.

"You alright, mate?" Sirius heard someone ask him, "You look totally zoned out."

He turned his head and found James smirking at him.

"What?" Sirius asked in a bored tone.

James smiled slyly and glanced over at Remus, who was talking and laughing about something Peter and Lily had said.

Sirius followed James' gaze, then blushed and looked away quickly as he realized James was indicating he had been staring at Remus, for Merlin knows how long.

"Are you okay?" James asked quietly, in a worried voice, "I know how you're not very fond of Valentine's Day much anymore."

Sirius swallowed the lump in his throat as he looked back over at Remus, who met his gaze and smiled warmly. He smiled back briefly, and then Remus returned to his conversation.

"Padfoot? Padfoot?...Sirius!" James whispered loudly.

"Wha'?" Sirius said, looking back over at his best friend in a tired manner.

James sighed, "Really, are you okay? You've been doing that a lot lately."

Sirius raised an eyebrow curiously, "Doing what?"

"Zoning out, not concentrating, staring at Remus," James said flatly, then turned sincere, "Me and Peter are getting really worried about you."

"I'm fine...," Sirius frowned, "I just...I don't know, it's getting nearer and nearer to the end of the year, and I keep thinking about what it's going to be like to not have you guys around as much anymore...and Remus...," he trailed off in a sad tone.

James looked over at Remus again for a moment, then ducked his head and whispered lowly, "You really should tell him. Like you said, the year's almost over and there's not much time left. You should at least try and give it a shot just to get it off your chest."

Sirius sighed, "I know...but I don't want it to screw things up between me and him, I really care about him and I don't want anything to get in the way of what we already have..."

James looked thoughtful for a moment, and then smiled inwardly to himself, "I'll talk to you about something later. I promise we'll get this sorted out."

As soon as they were done talking, a girl in their year came up to their table.

"Good day," a tall-ish pale girl, with black hair, and hazel eyes grinned. The five of them greeting her warmly as she sat down by Remus.

"Hey Gem." They all said.

Gem was a fellow Gryffindor, and in the same year as them. Her and Lily had been very good friends since 1st year, and had been best friends since 5th year. They shared a dorm with two other girls they could hardly stand.

She sat down next to Remus and Lily and gave each of them a sloppy kiss on the cheek, "Come here often?"

Remus rolled his eyes, and wiped the spit off his cheek as they started to talk about the Masquerade again, which Sirius tuned out.

"So when we go in, our masks will be magically attached to our faces, and at midnight they'll come off and we'll be able to reveal ourselves to our partners," Gem said, excitingly, "I think that sounds so cool!"

"Yeah, but only if you don't know who you'll meet there as your partner," Lily smiled at James, intertwining their fingers together.

Sirius made a gagging motion with his hand, and was slapped upside the head by Lily, causing them to laugh once more. He smiled, holding up his hands in defeat. Then smiled even wider as he saw Remus laughing, and took note at how beautiful he looked.

Gem laughed, "Yeah, anyways, I'm going to try and meet someone there, more exciting that way you know?"

"That's cool, but I'm going with Mary McDonald," Peter grinned happily, glad to finally tell everyone.

"Really? That's great, Peter!" Lily smiled.

"Yeah, how much did you pay her?" James asked sarcastically, earning a slap upside the head from Lily as well.

Peter blushed faintly, but laughed as James rubbed the back of his head and everyone chuckled.

"So do you ask someone, or just go then pair up with someone once you're there?" Remus asked.

This got Sirius' attention, and he turned to listen and find out if Remus wanted to take a certain person to the ball.

"You can do both. You can ask someone, but I think most of the school is going to try and meet someone new there. Why? Got someone on your mind, Rem?" Gem and Lily winked, with a knowing smile.

Remus blushed, looking over and meeting Sirius' tense grey orbs, then looking away quickly and turning even redder, "Well – uh – no, I was just asking...I don't even think I'm going to go, anyway."

Sirius breathed an inner sigh of relief, but was still curious to know if Remus was really telling them the truth, and why it seemed like the two girls knew something that no one else did.

"How come you don't want to come, Moony?" Peter asked.

"Yeah?" Lily and Gem exclaimed, "It'll be so much fun, you have to come!"

Frowning, Remus started to gather up his things and put them inside his messenger bag, "I don't know, Valentine's Day has never really been my sort of thing," he shrugged.

"I'm with you on that one," Sirius muttered to himself sadly.

"Oh come on, Remus!" James said, "Just go to have some fun, and let loose a bit."

Remus sighed and stood up, "I'll think about it."

Sirius looked up and noticed Remus about to leave, "Where are you going?" He frowned.

"I'm going up to the dorm to get some actual work done. I can't concentrate when I'm around you guys," He smiled faintly, waving to him, "Bye, Padfoot."

"Bye, Moons," Sirius waved back, the frown still on his face.

"See, this is why you need to go to the ball!" Gem called to him, "You work too hard, Rem!"

Sirius sighed.

"You alright, Pads?" James asked him again, concern in his tone.

Sirius watched Remus walk out of the Great Hall, and he nodded, "Yeah..."


Remus quickly walked down the hall, heading for Gryiffindor Tower and feeling extremely glad to be out of the Great Hall away from his friends. Sirius had been staring straight at him, and he was afraid that if he had said anything else they might have all found out about his feelings towards the handsome boy.

No one knew the truth about how much he wanted Sirius, and how he dreamed about him almost every night; kissing and touching, and fucking...The thoughts made him shiver with delight.

But the truth was so much more complicated than what he experienced in his dreams.

The truth was Remus liked Sirius, a lot. Well, he didn't just like him...he loved him. He had no idea when the feelings he felt towards his best mate started, he wanted to think around the same time Sirius told them he was bisexual. But deep down he knew that those feelings had always been there, ever since they had met.

Things were different between them, and they shared things with each other that they'd never told James or Peter before. Remus knew Sirius liked guys as well as girls, but also knew – no matter how much he hoped – that he wasn't one of those guys Sirius wanted. Even if they were very close, and shared a special friendship with one another. They being more than friends or brothers, was just never going to happen.

The thought of being with Sirius at the Masquerade lingered inside his head, as he walked down the hall. Thoughts and fantasies of them dancing, and sharing a Valentine's kiss as they pulled off their masks at midnight clouded his vision, so he almost didn't notice he was going to crash into the wall.

"Earth to Remuuusss!"

Remus felt himself being shaken out of his thoughts as someone yelled into his ear. That someone happened to be Gem.

"Ouch," he said, rubbing his abused ear, "What was that all about?"

"Well, you were just kinda like...," She made a blank face and waved her hand in front of her glazed over eyes, "and you almost ran into the wall, you should really pay more attention Rems." She said in a mock stern voice.

Remus snorted, "Oh whatever. So what do you want?"

"Ohhh, ouch," Gem said with a fake pained face, as she linked arms with him, "Am I being denied?"

Remus smiled faintly in an apologetic gesture, "No, sorry I'm just...thinking."

"About Sirius, right?" She asked plainly.

He stopped walking, and looked at Gem wide-eyed, "What?"

"Haha!" Gem laughed in a triumphant sort of way, "What? Did you think no one knew about how you're completely and utterly in love with the famous Sirius Bla - .."

Remus placed a firm hand over her mouth, "Shhh!"

He glanced around, making sure no one was there to over hear them, "Could you please keep quiet about that? It's not something I want the whole bloody school to know about!"

She grinned, "Don't worry, Moony! You're secret's safe with us!"

Remus stared at her with a comical, horrified look on his face, "Wh – who...us, wha? - Someone else knows?"

"Me!"

Remus spun around to find Lily smiling devilishly at him as she leaned coolly against the wall, "But don't worry Remus, no one else knows but us!" She assured, as she linked onto his other arm, so he had one girl on each side of him.

He groaned in embarrassment and hung his head as they began to walk once more, "How long have you two known?"

"Hmmm, since about the start of the year," Gem shrugged, a crooked and idiotic smile plastered on her face.

"Yeah, it's kind of hard to miss the looks you give him when, 'You think no one's looking'," Lily said, doing the quotations sign with her fingers.

Remus blushed crimson red, "Am I really that obvious?"

Gem snorted this time, "Obviously not, since we're the only two that know. Everyone else is far too thick headed to notice." She rolled her eyes.

Lily nodded, then she and Gem shared a wink and a grin, "And, we've come to help you with your 'Sirius' problem!" Lily giggled.

Gem laughed at the pun, but Remus stopped walking again to eye them suspiciously, "And how have you come to help me exactly?"

"Well, we're sure we can get Sirius to fall for you!" Gem exclaimed, "We have a fool proof plan!"

"Yes," Lily confirmed, "You guys are already close enough anyways, so it'll work. We're one-hundred percent sure!"

By this time Remus, Lily and Gem had reached the portrait of the Fat Lady. They told her the password and crawled through the portrait hole into the common room. There was no one else there, so they could continue their conversation without open ears around them.

"So what is this plan?" Remus asked, sitting down on the big red cushy couch, "You haven't told me that yet, which I'm sure has to be the most important part."

"Well…" Gem smiled, flopping onto one of the big comfy red armchairs near Remus, which was in front of the fire place, "You have to trust us on this."

"I do trust you," Remus said, then hesitated for a moment, looking at the two girls again, "I think I do anyway..."

Lily sat down by Remus and put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't you want to have a happily ever after with your prince?" She smiled.

Remus sighed, ignoring her teasing tone, "Well of course I do, but...how the hell could I ever get him to fall in love with me?"

"Oh come on!" Gem said, "Remus, you just have to show him the other side of you!"

His brow furrowed, "My other side?"

"Yeah!" Lily jumped in, "He knows the shy, patient, kind, extremely smart prefect Remus. So show him the side he's never seen before. The wild, sexy, romantic, mysterious Remus!"

The burning crept up Remus' face once more, "I don't know if I have that kind of side..."

Lily and Gem glanced at each other, and then gave him the 'oh really?' sort of look.

"Okay seriously, Rem," Gem said, putting her face in one of her hands, "do not tell me you don't have that sort of side. C'mon! You dream about the bloke, don't you?"

"You know, really dream about him?" Lily nudged his arm, and winked at him.

Suddenly realization dawned on Remus, and he wanted to curl up and die as his face burned with heat when he figured out what they were talking about.

"I – I...well – uh..," He stuttered helplessly.

"Spit it out, Lupin!" Gem said.

"Yes!" He burst out, "Yes, okay? I have...but those were just dreams, and fantasies. They aren't real..." he said sadly, wishing more than anything that they were.

Both girls looked at each other.

"If you can be it in your dreams, you can be it in reality," Gem finally said, the knowing smile on her face once more, "But...you just have to trust us on this, and go along with the plan."

"And before you know it, Sirius will be all yours," Lily added, "And you'll be able to do those things with him that you do in your dreams," she winked at him again.

A sigh of defeat escaped his lips, "Alright, what's the plan?"

Gem and Lily grinned at one another, knowing that as they planned with Remus...James and Peter were planning with Sirius.


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