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Chapter 2
Remus' Plan
A few days later the lycanthrope, who had wandered the halls for more than an hour, finally fell upon the one that he had searched for. 'Fell' was the right word, because he literally collided with his friend, who fell to the floor.
"Lily!" Remus cried, recovering and standing up.
He held his hand out to the russet-haired girl, who grabbed it, a half smile on her lips.
"What's going on, 'Mus?"
Without answering, the young man clasped the hand of his friend before drawing her away into a deserted hall. When Lily opened her mouth to ask the rest of her question, Remus decided to answer it:
"It's about Sarah…"
The prefect's face darkened. Gossip about the two of them had already gone around the school. Somebody had even written about it on a wall: Where Black walks, the Ravenclaw virgins open to receive him.
Before Sirius, Sarah had never "known" men; therefore this message contacted her directly, even if she had not been named. The young woman had collapsed upon reading it, even though she had just begun getting better, due to the efforts of Lily and Remus. Since then, she'd gone out of the dormitory only to go to her lessons. This act, performed by someone, they didn't know who, had strengthened Remus' anger. If Sirius Black had done this to his friend, she wouldn't have to be subjected to this public humiliation.
"…I'm going to avenge her!"
Surprise was visible on Lily's face, and he wondered if she had understood. Remus, nice, calm Remus, wanted to sink to the level of the idiots who had written on Hogwart's walls?
"'Mus, we even don't know who the authors of this… salaciousness are!"
"You don't understand," was Remus' lively answer, anger seeping through to his words, "I am going to take my revenge at the source!"
"You want to tell…?" Lily began, though she saw very well what her friend meant.
Remus slowly shook his head, only murmuring:
"Black…"
()()()
In candlelight, alone in the library, Remus wrote in a book a paragraph that would sign his destiny:
"I, Remus John Lupin, swear to do everything I can so that Sirius Black is publicly humiliated by paying him back with his own medicine. I will be close to him, lie to him, make him completely fall in love with me and, after having spent the night with him, I shall leave him, fallen in front of everybody in the Great Hall the following morning. I shall enjoy seeing him destroyed when I shall confess how I lied to him in his ear!
All that I write here will have to be and will be when the essentials are set up…
Remus John L…"
Before writing the ending of his name, Remus reread what he had written just to be sure. When he finished writing his name, the things he would have written in the Book of Promises would come true, without him being able to reverse them.
Only three copies of this useful book existed, one in the restricted section of the school library. All things written in this book arrived, if the events represented were realistic and if the things written made sense. For instance, if somebody wrote that he was going to get married to a person X, he would have to go out with that person, get to know her, etc. But, when events were set up, the results would be only what had been written in the book. In case X, the person would marry him even if she had feelings for another person, which did not mean that their marriage would always last or that they would be happy! In the same way, if a person wrote that they are going to die in three days if they are rejected by the love of their lives and that is case, even if the person did not want to die any more, it would arrive…
This book was very dangerous, especially in bad hands, because once something was written, it was almost impossible to change. It was for this reason that Remus had chosen it. In that case, he would not leave before having attained his purpose: Destroy Sirius Black!
Dipping his feather into the ink, he wrote the ending of his name. His destiny and Sirius' destiny were already in motion, nothing would stop it now…
()()()
Two days later, Remus moved the first piece of the cursed game in which he had gotten involved in: Revenge. On this day, the Marauders were sitting down at their normal place on armchairs near the fire. They seemed to be a bit lost except, perhaps, Peter. A book of potions in hand, a heap of ingredients on the low table, James and Sirius tried an assortment of different things.
"It's not being supposed to be orange?"
James's question drifted to Remus' ears, who read on little farther in his book, pretending to read to notice his prey better.
"I think so, yes," Sirius answered uncertainly, as he tried to fix their potion with a semblance of fear.
This decided Remus' course of action, an action that would set his plan in motion. Slowly, he went up to the Marauders, who had finished trying to fix their potion and put it on the fire. When he came near to the table, the young man caught one or two ingredients, which he threw in the cauldron. Immediately, the potion took the desired colour.
"Thanks Pete," James started, "without you we…"
He stopped, discovering behind him, not Peter, but Remus Lupin, the not-very-talkative guy who had shared their dormitory for a long time.
"…would have ended up finding the answer alone," he ended by furrowing his eyebrows. "Can we ask what you want?"
I'm trying to stop your tiny brains from hurting, morons!
"I'm simply helping you avoid hours of useless research," Remus answered, although James' look showed he was not impressed.
James didn't answer, judging the new comer with a look, whilst Sirius thanked Remus, which was a big surprise, but also said to James, "Jamesie, it's because of…hum…what is your name again?"
"Remus."
No, what an idiot, incapable of remembering my name… anyway, mr. Nice, you will never forget it again!
"Yes, hum, Remus…it's because of him if we have finished our potion, right? So we can go to training!"
James lost interest in the lycanthrope to smile to Sirius before saying:
"What are we waiting for? You coming, Pete?"
That being said, he moved away, ignoring Remus completely, which enraged him inside. He greeted Lily with a wave of the hand before leaving the Common Room, followed by Peter. Sirius smiled, raised his arms to greet everybody, Remus ant the rest, before leaving the Common Room under desired looks from several Gryffindors.
Once they were gone, Remus lost the smile which he had forced himself to keep throughout the 'dialogue'.
Potter, you are a problem that will be swept out of my way as soon as possible…and you, Black …I just can't wait to see you again!
The game had just started…
Yes it's the end of this chapter.
See you soon for the next one
Kiss
Romania
