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Story Title: Property of Sirius Black

"Now that you have the wand movements, please practice the jinx on your frog, not on each other," Professor Flitwick stated, his eyes darting to the Marauders.

"I don't see why I need to, I already know Levicorpus," James muttered, his eyes darting in Snape's direction, and Sirius let out a snort of laughter. Remus ignored the pair, keeping his head down. He knew if any of them caught Lily's eye, she might have one of them flying through the air, and he wasn't certain he wanted anyone seeing his boxers. He was wearing a pair that belonged to Sirius, and it would be quite clear when anyone saw what was written across the back. 'Property of Sirius Black'.

Not that Sirius Black owned him, they were just friends, but if Sirius ever wanted to own him, he would certainly not say no to the dark-haired wizard.

There were no spells flying at James, and Remus chanced to look up, and he followed James' gaze to where Lily and Alice were cooing over a toad.

James looked confused. "What's so fascinating about toads?" he asked his friends.

"I don't know, but you might want to work it out soon, she's treating that toad better than she's ever treated you," Peter replied.

James' confused expression dropped, and his lip jutted out into a pout, causing Remus to snort loudly.

"I'm cuter than a toad," he pointed out.

"Apparently not," Sirius replied, looking over at the girls again. "I bet they wouldn't be too pleased if the toad started jumping all over them?"

James grinned widely, pointing his wand. He shot some blue sparks at the toad, which caused the toad to panic, jumping away from Lily and Alice, whose eyes narrowed in the direction of the Marauders.

"Now I have your attention, my dearest Lily," James began. "I'd love to take you out on a date. How about Saturday in Hogsmeade?"

Lily stared at him is shock. "Are you kidding me, Potter?" she shouted. "You just scared a little toad to get my attention to ask me out?"

James smiled back at her.

"The answer is still no, you toerag. You have as much chance of getting a date with me as... as... Sirius has with..." she looked around the room, her eyes falling back on the group.

"With Remus," she finished.

Remus bowed his head, blushing deeply and Lily's eyes widened, her hand clamped over her mouth.

The other three boys looked at Remus in confusion, until one by one they came to the same realisation as Lily just had. She shot the boys sympathetic looks.

"Well, that's -" James began.

"Potter, can we talk about this after class, without everyone listening in," she said back, her eyes darting to Remus, worried that James' usually thoughtless comments would get people talking. She didn't think anyone realised what had just been figured out.

For once James realised what Lily was saying, by the way she looked towards Remus. Lily wanted to talk to him after class, so he'd not push it.

"Fucking move Pete, need to talk to Remus," Sirius muttered. "Swap with me."

There was a shuffle as everyone quickly moved seats, Sirius walking around Remus to sit on his other side, leaving Remus sitting between him and James.

"So..." he began, his voice not much more than a whisper, and he watched Remus stiffen.

"What are the chances of James getting a date with Lily?"

Remus didn't answer, didn't acknowledge the question, in fact, he didn't even acknowledge that Sirius was speaking to him. He looked over the notes in his book, before the toad was floating a couple of feet in the air above them.

"Well done, Mr Lupin," Professor Flitwick said. "Five points to Gryffindor."

Remus lowered the frog, trying to think of something else as a distraction, hoping Sirius wouldn't ask questions, and he be forced to admit his feelings. He put his head down on the desk, and tried to sleep.

"Remus?"

"I'm tired," he replied. "Wake me when class is over."

"You know, I know you're faking," he said. "Stop pretending to sleep and talk to me."

There was no response.

"Please? I won't be annoyed at you or hate you, I'd just like the truth."

"Why? Why do you need to know anything... not that there is anything to know," Remus quickly said.

"Because if James and Lily are as likely to date as we are... personally I think that would mean that they are very likely to go on at least one perfectly amazing date on Saturday," Sirius mumbled, blushing.

Remus' head shot up, turning to Sirius. "What?" he said, loudly.

"Mr Lupin, Mr Black, is there something wrong?" Professor Flitwick asked, and they both shook their heads.

Remus couldn't help but look back at Lily, who returned his gaze, guilt written all over her face. "Sorry," she mouthed, before he turned back to Sirius, where Sirius' grey eyes bored into his, trying to get Remus to talk.

"I think I misheard you," Remus said, softly.

"No, you didn't," Sirius replied. "I want you to go to Hogsmeade with me. I mean, if James has as much chance of getting a date with Lily, as I have of getting a date with you, I'd like to think that's a pretty high chance."

Remus frowned. "Is this a game, because it's not a very nice one. I'm not going on a date with you, just to prove a point to Lily, or -"

"Or maybe I actually want to take you out, but every time I've brought it up, you've not realised I've actually asked you out, and you've done things like invite Peter along, or snog that Ravenclaw. He was a prat, but it seems that you don't realise I'm actually asking you on a date, and want it to be just you and me. This time I can't be clearer than that."

"When did you ask me out?" Remus asked, racking his brain. He wanted to answer the invitation for a date, but he needed a moment to get his thoughts straight.

"Last Hogsmeade. I said 'Remus, do you want to walk down to Hogsmeade, I need some chocolate.' So we went, picking up random people on the way. I'm a needy guy, I want your whole undivided attention, whenever I want it."

"Well, I couldn't be expected to know that was meant as a date." There was a long silence before he spoke again. "Saturday works for me," Remus whispered, shyly looking away from Sirius. Sirius smiled at him.

"So, I've been meaning to ask you something, my boxers have gone missing on a few occasions, you know, the ones with my name."

Remus bit his lip.

"Have you seen them?"

Remus quickly shook his head.

"It's fine, you can keep them, I kind of like knowing you have my name written across your arse," Sirius replied.

"Wait, you knew?" Remus asked.

"You're not as sneaky as you think. I've watched you take them too many times to count," Sirius replied. "But in return, I want to see you modelling them for me."

"Only if you model a pair with my name on," Remus replied, and Sirius grinned. "Let me get my hands on a pair, and I'll model anything you'd like, love.

Remus knew he was in trouble when he started thinking about Sirius Black in nothing but boxers that said 'Property of Remus Lupin,' across the back.

"Deal," he whispered.

Wordcount - 1250 exactly!

Competitions/Challenges

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Charms Class - Write about a Marauder in a Charms lesson. Extra Points for: 1,250 word count, Word: Sparks, Speech: "What's so fascinating about toads?" Emotion: Guilt.

Fanfiction Scavenger Hunt - A could be Canon Pairing.

The Birthday Challenge/Competition - Write about something green. (Toads are green, can I get away with this?)