Disclaimer: Warning, this chapter will contain the spanking of teenager by another teenager. If this bothers you, please don't read this fic. Once again, this fic contains a polyamorous discipline relationship between teenage boys.

Chapter 3: Punishment

When Severus stepped towards him, Remus noted that the boils on his face, while less inflamed, had not vanished completely. Taking out his wand, he muttered a quick healing spell he had learned to heal his own cuts and bruises during transformation. When he had finished, Severus touched his skin appreciatively and gave Remus a tentative smile.

Back in the dungeon, Sirius stood by the side of the cauldron, twirling his fingers in the remainder of the spilled mixture. He realized that he may have been a little hasty, but, it had been Snivellus after all, and he still couldn't believe that Remus wanted him to stop fighting with their old archenemy.

"Sirius!" Remus exclaimed, "What did I tell you to do?"

Sirius blanched and stammered, "I didn't go anywhere!"

Severus glanced quickly between the other boys. He was confused, but Sirius was obviously extremely nervous. It was intriguing; he'd never seen this type of interaction between the two Marauders and it fascinated him.

Remus shook his head slowly, "You were already in enough trouble … alright you two, let's go up to Gryffindor tower."

Sirius' eyes widened, "Wha-Why is he coming with us?"

"Severus almost went to Dumbledore. Do you know what that would have meant for you - you're already on about your last strike, Sirius!" Remus said, ignoring the question for the time being.

"I know …" Sirius muttered. He could tell by the look on Remus' face that he was in trouble and he wanted to placate his friend if at all possible.

"Therefore, in order to possibly keep Severus from going to Dumbledore, I have promised him that he could watch James and I punish you."

"NO! You absolutely can't be serious! I WON'T LET YOU. No, absolutely not."

"Sirius," Remus began sternly, "You can either come now and take the punishment I promised you, or I can go find James, and he can do it right here in this dungeon. We both know if I have to find James it will be much worse."

Sirius swallowed hard. He could tell that Remus would definitely do what he threatened, but the idea of getting spanked in front of Snivellus was more than he could bear. Snape, for his part was looking completely engrossed in the situation - bastard. Sirius was sure the git would relish the whole situation; he'd probably be made fun of for months.

"I'll go … but please Remus, don't bring him!"

Remus shook his head, "Not up for discussion, I'm afraid. Let's go."

He gripped Sirius by the wrist and began pulling his friend up the stairs. Sirius followed obediently, but stared at the floor and blinked rapidly as if he was about to burst into tears.

Severus shot one last longing glace towards his spilled potion. It had taken weeks to gather ingredients and book the dungeon space privately. He hoped whatever Remus was planning for Sirius was suitably horrible, though from the scared look on Black's face, he suspected it would be and smirked.

James was seated in the Gryffindor common room alone reading The Daily Prophet and munching on a chocolate frog. The weather was nice and most of his housemates were outdoors for the first time in weeks. He was waiting for Sirius to get back with Remus so they could go flying. He looked up when Remus entered, dragging a very miserable Sirius with him and his mouth dropped a little with Snape clamoured through the portrait hole behind them.

He put the newspaper to the side and bounded over to Remus, "What happened?" He asked, though he suspected looking at Sirius and noting Snape's presence that he already knew.

Remus gave Sirius' arm a little shake, "Why don't you tell James?"

Sirius studied the floor, "I kinda hexed Snivelly."

James exploded and temporarily forgetting Snape's presense, wheeled Sirius around and smacked him hard on his bottom, "After we specifically told you not too? Even though you know you're on the edge with Dumbledore? What were you thinking, you idiot! Well, I guarantee when we are done with you will NEVER even think of doing that again."

Severus could not believe what he was watching. Had James Potter really just smacked Sirius Black? Had he really ordered Black not to hex him again? This news was mind-boggling and even more mind blowing was the fact that Black was now whimpering out apologies to the other two Marauders, who stood glaring at him, hands on hips, looking furious. He watched and followed mutely as James and Remus hauled a very scared looking Sirius up the stairs into their dormitory.

When they arrived, Remus gestured to a four-poster bed positioned along the wall, "You can sit there, Severus. Peter went home for the week."

Severus watched fascinated as Remus sat down on the bed opposite him and dragged a sniffling Black across his lap bottom up.

"Remus …" Sirius whimpered, "Please don't. I won't do it again, I swear."

James handed a large wooden hairbrush to Remus, who took it and placed it beside him on the bed before undoing Sirius trousers and pushing them and his underpants down below his bottom.

"Please …" Sirius wailed, "This is so embarrassing …"

"Should have thought about that before." James said unkindly, sitting down on the bed next to Severus.

Remus sighed and picked up the brush. He could see and feel Sirius tense up as soon as he lifted the implement. Sirius clenching his bottom so tightly Remus could see the muscle outlines in his thighs. He rubbed his friend and lover's back gently to get Sirius to relax, "It'll be okay Padfoot, really. I know it's going to hurt … but James and I really love you and don't want you to get yourself expelled, so we have to do this, okay?"

He didn't want for Sirius to respond, but brought the brush down hard on in the middle of his left butt cheek, eliciting a yelp from the boy his across his lap. He brought the brush down again on the opposite side and heard Sirius gasp.

Remus quickly found a rhythm of spanking each cheek three times, before shifting to the other, moving from the top of Sirius bottom to his sensitive under curves. Sirius wiggled madly and bit his lip to keep himself from crying or begging in front of Snape, who he was sure must be salivating with glee on the bed next to James.

Remus knew that Sirius had probably convinced himself that he would not cry in front of Snape, but he knew for the punishment to be affective and also humiliating enough to placate Severus, Sirius was going to have to make some noise. So he shifted Sirius forward to get better access to his under curves and thighs and brought the brush down as hard as he could on the crease between his left thigh and bright pink butt cheek.

Sirius let out a howl of pain and his hand shot back in a vain attempt to protect his bottom. James got up from the bed and took the offending hand, and pulled it forward out of the way for Remus, who raised the brush and smacked again, just as hard, in exactly the same place. Sirius yelped and squirmed.

As Remus smacked the sit spots hard, alternating after three whacks and then moving the brush down to spank Sirius' thighs.

After Remus landed particularly hard spank to his now bright red bottom, Sirius cried, "Remus … stop, please stop. That hurts so bad … OWW."

Remus ignored his friend and continued to spank in earnest, though he returned to spanking the fullest part of Sirius' bottom. His pant leg was now damp from Sirius' tears and he could hear Sirius begin sob.

"Why are you being spanked, Sirius?" He demanded, resting the brush across the crimson bottom.

"Because … because I hexed Snivelly … enough though you said to leave him alone." Sirius hiccupped.

"That is correct." Remus said, spanking him again on the crease between bottom and thigh. Sirius wailed and tried to wrestle his hands out James' firm grasp. "And you will apologize to Severus, right now."

"No I won't!" Sirius wailed indignantly, thrashing as hard as he could to get off Remus' lap.

"Yes - You - Will - RIGHT NOW!" Remus said forcefully, punctuating every word with a hard smack to Sirius' thighs.

"No!" Sirius practically screamed before sinking his teeth into Remus' leg.

"Sirius!" James exclaimed, "I can't believe you just bit Remus. Say you're sorry, right now."

"He doesn't have too …" said a small voice from the other bed as James, who had lost patience entirely had began whacking Sirius' bottom with his hand while the other boy was still over Remus' knee.

All three Marauders stared at Severus. James and Remus looked surprised and Sirius looked absolutely shocked, his face bright red and streaked with tears.

"I mean it …" Severus trailed off, "If he's not sorry, he doesn't have to say so … and I can see it won't happen anymore, so I won't go to Dumbledore …" He scuffed his toe against the floor. He really couldn't believe how hard Remus had spanked Sirius, the other boy's bottom was a deep red and he could see by the way Sirius was kicking that it had to really sting. It made him feel safer than he had in months to know that the Marauders would hold each other accountable, and that Sirius would not be able to get away with bullying him anymore.

Sirius hid his face in Remus lap. Somehow the knowledge that Snape didn't want to make him apologize was more humbling than being forced to do it, "I'm sorry Snape …" He muttered quietly, sniffing back his tears.

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