In the hallway after class, James was just about to tell Remus they would show him to the Gryffindor Tower when Remus held his book up to Sirius.

Sirius gave the new student a confused look. "Honestly I really don't like books."

Remus shook his head, pointing to the book he was holding.

"I bet he's wondering where the library is." James guessed out loud.

When Remus nodded his head in response, Sirius wrinkled his nose. "Ew. I haven't stepped foot in there in ages...like, never if I can help it."

"Well we do have to show him around-"

"Potter!" The boys turned to see Professor Wiggins approaching them. "I have a few questions I'd like to ask you about your summer homework. If you'd step this way..." He turned and walked off without even checking to see if James was following.

"Oh god..." James groaned. "I totally bullshitted the entire thing. He's gonna lecture me for ages."

"Good luck with that, mate." Sirius grinned.

"Yeah, well, have fun showing Remus to the library then." James smirked before heading off after their professor.

Sirius sighed, not entirely enthusiastic about going to the library. "I really don't like the library either, but since you're new and you saved James back there with that spell...I suppose I can at least show you where it is." Remus gave no response, nor did he look remotely interested in what Sirius had to say, but he followed along nonetheless.

When they reached the library and went inside Sirius was almost sure he caught a glimpse of some sort of reaction in Remus' eyes. Almost as if a little bit of the missing light in them sparked for a second at the sight of the hundreds of books just waiting to be read.

Despite the fact that he hated the library, Sirius found himself following along as Remus looked about the shelves. They were just moving around one bookshelf when Sirius heard a voice.

"Is the world ending or what? You're never in here, Black."

"Evans." Sirius smirked at the tall red head. "I wouldn't have come, but the new student wanted to check the place out so..." he shrugged.

"Oh!" Lily smiled, walking around him to join Remus who was ignoring them to look at a few books on one of the shelves. "Professor McGonagall told me we were getting a new student. You must be Remus. I'm Lily Evans, Head Girl."

"He doesn't talk." Sirius commented.

"I know." Lily shrugged. "May as well introduce myself though; it is the polite thing to do. Oh, is that one of the books on historical magical landmarks? May I see it?"

Remus looked up at her and then slowly handed the book over. He continued to watch as Lily smiled up at him and carefully took the book from his grasp. "I know all about these places." Lily told him. "If you'd like we could sit for a while and I could tell you about some of the other places I've learned about that the book doesn't mention."

Sirius felt something gnawing at him as he saw how intently Remus was watching Lily. It was the real first emotion he had seen from Remus besides fear and possible boredom and disinterest, like Remus was actually interested in what Lily had to say. When Remus nodded in silent response Sirius almost felt a sense of annoyance, just like he normally did when James would talk non stop about her or just ignore him completely while in her presence. He did not understand why though. After all, Remus was just a new kid and they were in the library; Sirius should want to run in the complete opposite direction just at the mention of books. Instead it was almost as if he wanted to stick around for a bit and not leave Remus' side.

"Well, seeing as we might be a while," Lily spoke, turning to Sirius, "you may as well head back to Gryffindor. Remus and I will hang out for a while and then I'll show him to the Tower...unless you really want to hang out with us amongst all these books."

"Yeah, because spending time around books is something I really enjoy." Sirius replied, surprised at how snappy it sounded.

Lily gave him an odd look. "It wasn't like I was suggesting you actually do."

"Whatever." Sirius rolled his eyes. "Later, Remus."

Not expecting a response at all, Sirius turned and left the library, unaware of icy gray eyes watching his back as he went.