Alyssa's jaw hit the floor.
Sly immediately burst into peals of laughter, not even bothering to hush them until Professor Snape shot them an exasperated look.
Her eyes quickly narrowing, Alyssa gave her new friend a look. "But you don't act it or look it." she stated.
Sly smirked. "I'm not sure whether or not to be offended by that, but I assure you that I am definitely gay."
A quick flick of her eyebrows, and then Alyssa pounced. She could feel the shock radiating from Sly as her lips crashed onto his. Pulling back, she eyed him critically to see his reaction.
Sly's eyes flew wider than ever before and he pulled back quickly, wiping a rolled up sleeve over his mouth. He quickly got over his shock to give Alyssa an exasperated look as the top of his body spun around and with one hand on Mycroft's face, he quickly kissed the boy passionately.
Mycroft-or Archer, as everyone called him-being the nut he was, simply cocked an eyebrow, shrugged and continued to work on his potion.
Turning back to Alyssa, Sly gave her a pointed look, and Alyssa laughed. "Sly, Archer's straight!"
Sly shot the then smiling Archer a considering backwards glance before giving Alyssa a grin and shrug. "Well, he's bi now."
Alyssa fought not to laugh out loud, instead giving Sly a weighing look. "I'm still not convinced."
Sly grinned. "So why did I just make poor Archer doubt his sexuality?"
Turning back to her potion, Alyssa inspected the green colour it was becoming. "You were helping out a friend."
Both of them spun to give Archer a grin. He shook his head and ignored them.
Alyssa gave Sly a look. "You know what, Sly, you're alright."
Reggie couldn't help but to grin as Professor Lupin began to speak. For 'no reason in particular', Gryffindor and Ravenclaw had always had Defence Against the Dark Arts together.
No reason. Pfft. It was because that put all three werewolves together in the same group: Lupin, Alyssa and Reggie.
Professor Lupin had given them a rare cheeky grin as they arrived in the class that morning, and that had immediately raised suspicions among the younger members of the pack.
Looking over at Alyssa, he saw the delicately arched eyebrow of the birth-wolf as she considered their favourite Professor.
He recognised that look and it threw him back to three years ago, to the first time Alyssa and Reggie had transformed together.
Reggie looked up at the holes in the ceiling of the Shrieking Shack. His human mind was only just beginning to filter back in through the wolf, and Reggie knew that soon, very soon, pain of the harshest kind would wrack his body and he would howl as his bones broke and reset and his muscles stretched and tore, but before that he knew that he had a moment.
That moment was something that made being a werewolf that tiny bit easier to live with.
Just before the pain began, just before everything was suffocated by agony, there it was.
In a way, it was bittersweet, that the very thing that would set his world on fire was the thing that he wouldn't survive his transformation without.
Reggie could sense it approaching, and his face lifted skyward to watch in wonder as the first broken shafts of sunlight fought their way through the darkness. He could feel it and he could see it as his eyes transformed in response to the light.
There was a moment of peace, the still of falling before you hit the ground, as Reggie admired the sunlight with oh so human eyes.
Pure agony tore through his body, and Reggie screamed to the sun and the moon and the world in the hopes that someone would listen.
And this time, someone would.
The transformation left Reggie curled up on the floor of the shack, shuddering as the remnants and memories of pain coursed through him. The position was so familiar, so loathed…
There was a warm hand on his chilled shoulder. "Reggie?"
Cracking his eyes open, Reggie gasped to find Alyssa crouching before him, her copper curls swinging, drenched with sweat, and her concerned blue eyes were fixed on him. Blood dripped from a cut on her forehead and he saw more of it on her side, where she was holding a shirt over her body with her free hand.
Reggie groaned and sat up, throwing another glance up at the shafts of sunlight filtering through the roof, which were now strong sunbeams that warmed his chilled bones. "Morning." he murmured, his voice cracking as his throat recovered.
Alyssa shot him a radiant smile before the Professor came into view, wearing his trousers and shirt open over a sweaty chest. His hair was plastered to his face and his limbs looked stiff and sore, but he bore no wounds or signs of the previous night's activities. He was the alpha after all.
Holding up a pair of phials, containing a clear liquid with only the slightest tinge of purple, Remus grinned and shook them a bit, eliciting loud groans from both of the younger werewolves.
The pair helped each other to their feet, doing a brief inspection of their body to check everything was still working.
Reggie's leg collapsed under him before he caught his balance and stood, twisting his body to look back at his thigh. A portion of his skin was practically hanging off his leg and blood was rolling down to his ankle. His mouth falling open as the pain began to radiate from his leg, Reggie turned to gape at Alyssa. "You tried to eat my leg!"
Red flushed Alyssa's cheeks and ears, but she screwed up her nose at him. "Why would I wanna do that?"
Cocking an eyebrow, Reggie scoffed, "Are you implying that I would taste bad?"
Alyssa laughed. "No, I'm telling you. Believe me, I know."
Remus and Alyssa both laughed while Reggie pouted. After a few moments though, the pain in his leg made itself known.
Remus frowned and moved forward as Reggie fell forward, leaning on his unharmed leg. Putting a hand on Reggie's shoulder to hold him up, Remus handed him a phial, unstopping it.
Giving the Professor a dirty look that left no-one in doubt as to what he thought about the contents of said phial, Reggie quickly poured it down his throat and swallowed, trying to get it over and done with. Turning his head to the side and poking his tongue out as far as it would go, he gave out a high pitched whine as Remus splashed some kind of liquid on his mutilated leg. "Owwwwww…This is all your fault Pedrin."
Alyssa came to look at what she had done from over Remus' shoulder. "Yeah, I guess it is…"
Remus held up the second phial for the birth-wolf and she twisted her mouth before swallowing the foul liquid.
"I did warn you she goes for the hind legs, cub." Remus murmured as he continued to inspect his thigh.
Reggie craned his neck in time to see Alyssa stand back, hands on hips and one eyebrow raised. Laughing, he shared a look with Remus, who chuckled. It took only a moment for Alyssa to drop the eyebrow and join in, the three laughing in a kind of camaraderie that no other could ever intrude on.
Reggie was brought back to the present by a sharp jab in the ribs from Alyssa, who tilted her head towards Professor Lupin, who was giving them a small, secretive smile. He turned his gaze onto some other class member as he began to speak. "Our focus this term will be dark creatures, more specifically for the moment-werewolves."
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