"You should have seen her face prongs, you would have laughed so hard," Sirius black was recounting a prank he had played the lesson before to his best friends James potter, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin. James was banging his fist on the table, and shaking with laughter peter was clapping and giggling appreciatively. Remus was chuckling quietly ,he was trying to laugh along with his friends but it was proving difficult.

It was the first week back from the holidays, The full moon was next week and he was starting to feel the effects he felt tired, frustrated and he hated to admit it really quite horny.

Sirius made it look so easy to just walk over to a girl ,run his hand through his hair ,wink and wiggle his eyebrows and they would instant start blushing and giggling. Remus however was not as blessed. He supposed he could be as successful as Sirius if he maybe got a good nights sleep and managed to pull of the same unabashed cockiness or maybe if he stopped brushing his hair like James, also less scarring wouldn't hurt. or maybe it was that next to sirius and james, he just wasn't that exceptional he didn't have sirius' stellar looks and awesome hair or james' quidditch skills and awesome hair. maybe if he improved his hair. he blew his sandy brown fringe out of his eyes .What was the point? even if he was better looking he'd still be a danger to the poor girl he thought sadly.

The smell of dinner interrupted his thoughts as it wafted over from the centre of the table where the baskets had just filled themselves with bread and the hall began filling up with students.

It was then that he smelt something, it was warm inviting unmistakeably female yet wild, earthy and seductive he found himself raising his nose to the air and inhaling deeply. he started looking wildly around for the source of the heavenly smell but he seemed to be lost in a fog of it. It was indescribable yet somehow so familiar, he could have sworn he had smelt it before somewhere in the forest, no in his house. Could it be? The smell that clung to his own robes before and after the full moon. No this was definitely a girl's scent and female werewolves were unbelievably rare. Rare but possible a small voice in his head said. No. He mentally squished the little voice he couldn't get his hopes up. but a female werewolf here the little voice carried on regardless would mean you were just as dangerous as each other ,she could be your girlfriend you could put your arm round her in front of the common room fire, lend her your jacket when you got cold, brush the hair away from her face if it fell in her eyes, hold her, kiss her, maybe even...

"that's quite enough," he accidentally hissed out loud. he had allowed his thoughts to get carried away into this ridiculous paradise where he had a girlfriend ,where he wasn't a monster.

"You ok moony?" James asked snapping him out of his reverie .his friends were giving him strange looks.

"Yeah great," he lied quickly "Just wondering, can you smell that?" Remus asked trying desperately to sound casual.

"Yeah it smells like dinner," Sirius said stabbing a potato with his fork.

" No not the food padfoot, the other thing, can you seriously not smell it?" Sirius shook his head but began sniffing the air.

"Nope nothing here,"

"Oh come on it's everywhere it smells like...," he stopped, trying to find words "warm chocolatey flowers?" he offered lamely. His friends looked at each other and then snorted and dissolved into giggles.

"Your probably just imagining it, or some fifth years put on too much perfume," said padfoot his eyes found a pretty blond fifth year girl halfway down the table and he winked at her. She went pink and giggled giving him a little wave.

"You are so in the door with her," James grinned and pushed his glasses up his nose. For some reason this annoyed Remus even more.

"Can we just go up to bed now," he snapped. The other sighed and hauled themselves up from the table they new better than to argue with Remus a week away from the full moon.

The corridors were reasonably full for after supper. On his way out of the great hall and leaving the heady fog behind he found himself breathing normally again. He hung behind his friends as they were chatting about the fifth year girl from supper, he was deep in his thoughts desperately trying to place the smell somewhere. when it hit him again like a club to the face the smell he whipped around to find the source again but it was gone just as soon as it had arrived.

"Remus are you ok?" peter asked. Remus became aware that all of his friends were staring at him.

"It's that smell again, I'm not imagining it!" he told them with conviction

"Sure moony maybe just ease up on the crazy sauce at mealtimes," said James patting him on the back and grinning as Sirius skipped ahead singing

"LOONY LOOPY LUPIN LOONY LOOPY LUPIN"

Despite himself Remus laughed.


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