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Remus had once again given Sirius his space to make a move and the move was made when he was walking around the corner to the common room. He tripped and landed directly on Sirius's back as he too was walking up to the common room.
"Remus." Sirius laughed as he gently helped Remus off him.
"He smiles." Remus said gently as he righted himself. The smile disappeared instantly. "You should smile more often. It's a good look on you." Remus said smiling.
"Gotta run." Sirius said not smiling. "Detention." Sirius said darkly as he walked off.
Remus got to the common room and walked up to James who was sitting by the fire. Peter was sitting on the floor next to James.
"Black has detention?" Remus asked.
"A better question would be: when does Sirius not have detention?" James laughed. Peter nodded.
"Why does he have detention?" Remus asked.
"Who's asking?" James asked looking up from the fire at Remus.
"I am." Remus said not looking miffed at all which irked James.
"He got in a fight." James said.
"Did he hex someone?" Remus asked looking bemused.
"No. He punched someone in the face." James said.
"Unconventional but I suppose it works." Remus said laughing softly.
"Aren't you going to ask why?" James asked looking quizzically at Remus.
"Does it matter?" Remus laughed before walking off leaving James looking mildly annoyed.
Remus worked on his homework well into the night and was unaware as the common room crowd thinned. Suddenly someone flopped down on the floor in front of him.
"James said you were asking about me." Sirius said casually as his eyes flit about the room scaring away the last few in the common room.
"Did he?" Remus laughed.
"Well he said some bloke was asking what got me put in detention. I figured it was you. You seem to be the only one who gives a shit about me." Sirius said smiling.
"James said you socked a kid." Remus said smiling.
"He had it coming." Sirius shrugged.
"I believe you." Remus said sitting back in his chair.
"He called another kid a fag." Sirius said looking at Remus's face as if waiting to gauge Remus's reaction. "And I was the one that got detention."
"Usually how it goes." Remus said looking casually amused. He'd seen the Gryffindor with the black eye.
"It was a Gryffindor who called a Slytherin a fag." James said appearing from behind Sirius.
"So?" Sirius snapped.
"Well, isn't it usually the other way around?" Peter asked materializing next to James.
"The fag calling another kid straight as a slur?" Remus asked looking challengingly at James.
"Wait but-" Peter was cut off when James elbowed him in the stomach.
"Let's just go to bed and leave these two love birds to themselves." James said walking off to the dorms with Peter trailing after him.
"Goodnight." Remus called patronizingly.
"He's waiting." Sirius whispered. Remus raised his eyebrows questioningly. "The kid I socked. Waiting to catch me alone."
"Do you want me to leave?" Remus asked casually.
"You can stay if you wanna watch." Sirius snarled as the room seemed to darken under Sirius's cloudy eyes. "Come on out then." Sirius called. Remus didn't turn to look but by Sirius's rock hard expression he could tell the kid had emerged.
"Caught me off guard." The kid laughed as he made his way over. Remus looked up when he came into view. He was tall and had a pinched face. Remus wouldn't call his expression a smile it was too patronizing; Remus would compare it to a dog bearing its teeth.
"I could just as easily hex you." Sirius said not standing up.
"And I could just as easily have hexed you and your little faggot boyfriend." The kid said nodding at Remus who looked mildly amused.
"Or I could just punch you in the face." Sirius said.
"That one's a little tired don't you think?" The guy asked grinning.
"Just be done with him so we can go to bed." Remus said casually.
"Oh just try something. Nothing I do will be as bad as what your mommy dearest will do when she finds out." The boy laughed. With a flash of light the massive boy was on the ground, his wand in Remus's hand.
"Your wand seems to have yielded to me. I'm its owner now." Remus said looking at the boy's wand in his hand.
"W-what?" The boy muttered rubbing his head.
"Looks like you'll need to stop by Olivander's to get yourself a new wand." Remus said.
"Gimme my wand back." The boy said rising to his feet and looming over Remus who was looking mildly amused from his cushy chair.
"I can but it won't work for you anymore." Remus said.
"Give me my fucking wand back you shit eating faggot." The boy snapped lunging at Remus. His fist swung, catching Remus's face before Sirius grabbed him and threw him across the room stepping between Remus and the boy who was on his feet quickly. Remus stood, looked the boy in the eye, and snapped the wand in half. The boy froze. Remus dropped the useless wand on the flood before gathering up his things and walking off to the dorms. Sirius followed with one last look over his shoulder at the boy who seemed to be struggling to remain upright.
Sirius grabbed Remus in the hall and pushed him against the wall lightly. He looked angrily at Remus's busted eyebrow.
"Did you have to antagonize him?" Sirius snarled.
"I can take care of myself." Remus said looking down on the shorter boy. Sirius snarled audibly before dragging Remus to the Black, Potter, and Pettigrew dorm.
"How'd it go?" James asked not looking up.
"This idiot got himself punched in the face." Sirius snarled hotly.
"I just feel bad for snapping his wand." Remus said.
"You snapped his wand?" James asked sitting up and looking at Remus.
"Well, its allegiance switched to me. I knew if I kept it he'd never leave me alone, but if I gave it back he would never be able to use it properly because I won it from him. So I snapped it. I only felt bad because they're not exactly without awareness." Remus said twirling his own wand.
"Put a silencing charm on the curtains if you two are going to be noisy." James said flopping back against his pillows.
"Come on then." Remus said pulling Sirius into the bathroom. "Bandage me up." Remus said sitting on the edge of the tub.
"I should probably wash it off, right?" Sirius said looking behind Remus at the tub.
"Just give me a band-aid Romeo." Remus laughed. Sirius got out the box of light blue band aids and applied one to Remus's eyebrow. Remus leaned in and kissed Sirius softly. Sirius grabbed Remus and kissed him back. "You know you matter?" Remus asked.
"Yeah." Sirius murmured sarcastically.
"Sirius, you matter. To me and James, and Peter, and I'm sure there are more but I barely know you." Remus laughed.
"That's right. You barely know me." Sirius said turning away.
"I barely know you, and you already matter to me." Remus said. "I mean Merlin; I broke another student's wand for you." Remus laughed.
"Let's just go to bed." Sirius said smiling slightly.