Sirius watched the tired figure carefully, sticking to the shadows that were currently hiding him. He was thankful for the trees that surrounded that particular road.

It had been two weeks. Two, long, weeks that he had been watching the amber-eyed man's every move. The man would now stop at the shop around fifty meters away to buy a chocolate or two, before cutting across the park headed straight home. It would be exactly three hours later that the man would go to sleep and his house would be shrouded in darkness.

Sirius really didn't know why he had been the one that had been forced into this situation. Nothing interesting happened. The man, Remus as his information package had said, did exactly the same thing every day. It was like a routine that the man had never grown out of.

"I didn't say you were supposed to be okay with it, I just said I'm not sorry," was all James had said before dumping him on the sidewalk opposite their target's house at midnight.

Although, Sirius had to admit, Remus was rather pleasing to the eye. The way the man walked with the little-

No.

Sirius.

Stop right there. This is a mission. You aren't supposed to be admiring his ass… even if it is a nice ass.

Sirius groaned.

Sirius desperately cast his thoughts back to the mission. Remus was the head of the opposing group of experimenters. He needed to find as much information as possible on him to make sure that Remus's group didn't win.

They couldn't be allowed to be beaten to the development of a more powerful Fidelius Charm! There was only a month left.

Today was the day they had planned to get into Remus's house while he was sleeping and copy all the plans that were probably somewhere in the house. Sirius was using the time that was normally saved for reporting back, but hopefully there would no longer be a need to report back after today.

Sirius knew he only had a two and a half hour time frame as Remus often woke for a piece of his seemingly never-ending supply of chocolate. Remus somehow managed to take a piece every day, never replacing the chocolate, and yet he never ran out of it. It made Sirius extremely curious to know how.

The street darkened as the lights in Remus's house were turned off. Sirius rubbed his hands in anticipation.

It was kind of exciting. He had never snuck into anyone's home before, but he had prepared everything necessary to get past the wards that surrounded Remus's home. That was what their group was the best at, they were the ones who found and manipulated loopholes not the ones who created the rules.

It only took minutes to get in. For a moment Sirius wondered how good they would be if both groups decided to work together: one testing and the other improving, and him and Remus.

Sirius shook away the thought. They were rival groups.

That was why he was here…

In the same room as a sleeping Remus…

Sirius certainly had not been expecting to wind up in his bedroom of all places. It was going to be a big distraction in his search for…

For…

Sirius's eyes were constantly drifting towards the form of the sleeping man. He didn't know how long he had been standing there, but soon Remus was stirring causing Sirius to panic and drop several pages off a nearby counter.

Sirius jumped out a nearby window in panic, barely catching himself on the roof. He couldn't use magic inside Remus's house, or the man would know he had been there. Magic was fairly easy to trace, after all.

He watched silently as the man looked around blearily, before picking up the pages and rearranging them before placing them back on the counter.

Sirius knew that his mission had been a failure, but from that had sprung another mission. A mission of his own making.

Mission: Remus.

Written for Game of Life Challenge Lawsuit: stalker!Sirius

Written for Care of Magical Creatures Assignment 5: Write about someone stalking someone to either gain information to or attack.

Written for Television Boot Camp: I didn't say you were supposed to be okay with it, I just said I'm not sorry – Vampire Diaries [33]