A/N: First, I wanna apologize for not updating earlier. I never got around to type... Lame excuse I now, but anyway, here is Chapter 6. After that there will be two more chapters, 'til the story is finished. I wrote Chapter 7 and about a quarter of the last one. Hope you enjoy, and I'm sorry for the cliffhanger, but it seemed to be a great place to stop the chapter.
Chapter 6
In Scotland, James and Dee had gone off to explore Hogwarts and the Grounds, James promising Dee to show him some of the secret passageways.
Ryo however went to the library. James had shown him the way, but had refused to accompany him, muttering something about germs and sicknesses, so Ryo went alone. He was interested to find out more about Hogwarts and magic. After finding a book called 'Hogwarts, a History', he sat down at one of the tables and started reading. After a while, the girl from before joined him.
"Hello Remus, what are you reading?" she asked him.
"Oh hi... Lily?" Ryo replied, hoping to god that he had the right name. After the girl didn't react strangely, he figured it was the right name and showed her which book he'd been reading.
"'Hogwarts, a History'? Haven't you got a copy of that yourself which you practically memorized?" she asked him confused.
"Erm, yes, I do, but..." Ryo quickly thought of something, "...but Sirius took the book and he won't give it back." he finished, hoping she would buy the excuse. It was something Dee would do...
"That sounds like Black alright. But why didn't you hex him and get the book back. I mean, I know you have a soft spot when he is concerned - and honestly, I don't get why - but you always fight back when it's about your books." Lily asked. Ryo looked at her surprised. "A soft spot?" he asked her baffled. "Well, yeah, after all you fancy him." "I do?" Ryo unfortunately replied, making Lily suspicious.
"You told me, Remus, remember? What's wrong?" she asked worried.
Ryo sighted, 'Busted! Damn, that's what you get for not thinking.' and decided to tell her the truth. What else was he supposed to do anyway?
"Alright, the thing is, I'm not Remus. My name is Ryo McLean, I'm from New York. Sirius isn't himself either, he's my partner Dee Laytner. Yesterday, the real Sirius used a spell, which switched our minds, because we are similar to each other." Ryo explained to Lily, who stared at him in wonder.
After a while of simply staring and thinking, Lily replied, "That makes sense, you know. When I talked to you yesterday, you were looking totally surprised and perplexed, whereas Remus would have simply smiled and said hello. So you said you partner is Black?" Lily asked next, smiling brightly, causing Ryo to blush again. He seemed to do that a lot when Dee was mentioned. "Yes, he's my partner at work." Ryo first only said, but after seeing Lily giving him a look - her smile never leaving her face - he added, "And we're dating." Lily grinned satisfied after hearing that.
"Interesting. Very interesting. And Black is similar to him..." Lily mumbled more to herself than to Ryo, who looked at her confused. Her grin got bigger after full realization hit her. "Remus was wrong after all." she said next, leaving Ryo to look as confused as before.
"Wait, do you mean that Sirius like Remus, just like Dee likes me?" he asked her, who nodded in return. "Yep, that's exactly what I'm saying. Remus likes Sirius enormously. He told me so himself, or better said, I weaseled it out of him."
"Wow, so James is actually right." Ryo remarked. His statement caused Lily to look up, surprised. "What? Potter knows!" she asked surprised and quietly added, "Maybe he isn't so stupid after all."
"Is there a certain reason why you don't like him?" Ryo asked her, causing her to blush lightly. You could hardly notice it, but Ryo - who was an expert about blushing - saw it nonetheless. "He really likes you, you know." Ryo added.
"Yeah, he claims he does, but anyway...back to Remus." Lily quickly interrupted, clearly not wanting to talk about James.
"Well, we established that he likes Sirius and that Sirius quite possibly might reciprocate his feelings. Maybe something will happen because of the switch." Ryo mention, Lily agreeing with him.
"So Ryo, is there something you would like to know about our world?" she asked, to which Ryo replied, that he was rather interested in magical creatures. "You see, on our way to Dumbledore's office, a ghost passed by. Dee claimed to have seen a ghost once, when we were staying in England, but I didn't believe him then, but if ghosts really do exist, what about other creatures like vampires or werewolves?" Ryo asked her.
Lily, after hearing the word werewolf, suddenly looked at Ryo rather strangely, before beginning to chuckle lightly.
"Huh? Why are you laughing? Is it a silly question?" Ryo asked her surprised.
"No, it isn't, it's just... how do I say that without shocking you...errrr...I'm not even sure if I should tell you, but I think you have a right to know...well, you see, Remus Lupin was bitten by a werewolf when he was six years old, so that makes him..." but before Lily could finish her sentence, Ryo became deathly white.
"...a werewolf." Ryo finished her sentence and looked at her in question. "Remus is a...a werewolf?" he asked her again, to make sure he wasn't misunderstanding anything. When Lily nodded her head, he looked even more shocked than before.
"But don't worry, the full moon is two weeks away." Lily quickly assured the shocked-looking detective.
"God, this whole thing is starting to get ridiculous. Not only does magic exist and I switched bodies with a wizard, no, now I'm a werewolf too."
Lily was struggling to find the right words to say, but what could one say really, to calm someone down who just found out he's in the body of a werewolf. Instead, Lily decided to try make Ryo take his mind off it. "Look Ryo, I know you must be worried, but you need to know, that Remus is one of the sweetest guys I know. He would never hurt anyone on purpose. Come, let's take a walk about the Grounds and I can tell you some stuff about magic, okay?" Lily suggested, which Ryo gladly accepted, his face still looking rather pale, but on its way to get its colour back.
James and Dee, meanwhile, we're on their way to Hogsmeade, because James has made Dee curious about Butterbeer.
"So, how did you guys find all these secret passageways?" Dee asked James. "Most of them through pure luck and others by going through old books, dating back to when Hogwarts was founded. Like this one leading to Honeydukes. Moony is great with books, so he managed to find the spell needed to open the statue."
After a few minutes, the two reached the end of the passageway and entered the cellar of the sweetshop. They quickly headed up and left the store.
"Welcome to Hogsmeade!" James announced to an impressed Dee, who took some time to look at every store they passed on their way to the 'Three Broomsticks'. Zonko especially seemed to interest the detective.
They entered the pup and seated themselves at a table. James went to get their drinks and returned minutes later with two glasses filled with cool Butterbeer. Dee took a sip before announcing, "That's really good. Very refreshing. Is there any alcohol in it?" he asked James.
"Very little, hardly noticeable. A great alcoholic beverage is Firewhiskey, but you have to be of age to be able to buy it. Unfortunately Rosmerta here knows me, so she won't sell any, but there's a second pup, the 'Hog's Head', where we can buy it with no problem." James replied, grinning proudly.
Dee nodded before he suddenly looked startled. "Wait a minute, how old are you?" he asked James, who replied, "I'm sixteen, but turning seventeen in five weeks. Sirius is a month older than I am."
"Oh god, I'm in the body of a teenager!" Dee exclaimed. "How old are you then?" James asked back.
"I'm twenty-eight." Dee replied, looking grim. "Well then, isn't it cool to be young again?" James wondered, a bit confused. In his opinion, there was nothing better than turning young again.
"First of all, I am NOT old and second, I wasn't such a great teenager. I grew up in an orphanage and spend most of my time on the streets and rebelling against anything my mother said. Of course back then I thought I was the coolest kid there was, but I grew out of it. With eighteen, I went to the police academy and then worked hard to become a detective. And now I'm sixteen again..."
"But hanging around sounds good to me. Working is boring anyway. Life is short, you have to enjoy it."
"You know, you will never get Lily to like you with that attitude, James. I would have never gotten Ryo, if I had never grown up. I'm afraid, you must do the same thing."
"And you think that will work?" James asked unsure, with a hopeful undertone.
"It's worth a try, isn't it?" Dee replied. "Anyway, I think we should head back, I wanna go shopping a bit." Dee said. James had loaned him some money, which he could repay some time in the future. James agreed and they headed outside.
Lily and Remus had walked around the Grounds, talking amiably. Lily patiently answered each and every one of Ryo's questions, quite understanding his interest. She had been the same when she had found out she was a witch. Ryo also wanted to know a lot about werewolves. Lily was a bit more hesitant with telling Ryo about that, but then again, she understood why he wanted to know these things. Thankfully Lily's answers calmed Ryo down a bit. With Lily being Muggleborn, they could also talk about Muggle things, quite enjoying themselves.
When it started to get dark, they headed back, meeting James and Dee on their way to the Great Hall for dinner.
In New York, Remus and Sirius had continued their sightseeing trip, even though neither Remus nor Sirius were able to look each other in the eyes. After their kiss, Drake had left them alone and had gone back to JJ. Remus had wordlessly grabbed his stuff, paid for their lunch and left the café, Sirius following him feeling like an utter idiot for doing what he had done.
They had arrived back at Ryo and Dee's apartment, when it had started to get dark. Remus began preparing dinner, while Sirius helped him, trying to engage him in a conversation. But after eating dinner and only having talked about the food, the weather and what they had seen today, tension was thick between the two Gryffindor. In fact, it could have been easily severed by a knife and Sirius decided to be that knife by directly addressing the kiss.
"Look, Remus, I'm very sorry for kissing you earlier. I was panicking and didn't thinks and... it just happened. Please forgive me." Sirius explained, praying for Remus to forgive him.
"It's alright, Sirius, I understand." Remus responded, hoping for Sirius to be satisfied with the answer, so he would drop the topic. However, Remus quietly added, "After all, it wasn't that bad...". He had mumbled, more talking to himself than anything else, but unfortunately - or fortunately, determining from which point of view you were thinking - Sirius heard him.
"Really? Me kissing you wasn't bad?" he asked surprised and quite pleased too. However, the pleasure was quite one-sided. Remus groaned quietly. 'Great, why did I say that? What's wrong with me? Do I want for Sirius to find out and leave me?' Remus asked himself, stressed out.
Unfortunately though, Remus knew that Sirius was waiting for an answer and he wouldn't rest until he got one. And he would probably notice if he lied too. Damn his illegally good-looking best friend. "Well you know, it's not as if you're ugly or something..."Remus replied, mumbling and averting his gaze, so that Sirius wouldn't notice his blush, but Sirius noticed it anyway. You would have to be blind not to...
"Moony, are you blushing?" the Animagus asked his friend. "No, I'm not!" Remus tried to deny, but that simply resulted in intensifying his blush.
"Oh yes you are, quite a lot actually. Why are you blushing?" Sirius asked amused. Remus was adorable when blushing. 'Well, he is adorable all the time.' Sirius added in thought.
"I told you, I'm not blushing!" Anyway, let's cook dinner." Remus argued, heading to the kitchen with Sirius following him. He was curious now. Remus normally wasn't behaving that dorky, so something must be up. Remembering that their kiss started all that, Sirius smiled happily. He was getting his hopes up.
"Remus, we already ate, remember? What's the matter with you?" You can tell me." Sirius tried again, but Remus was ignoring him, loudly pulling out pans and pots, effectively drowning out Sirius.
But Sirius was far from giving up. Once he wanted to know something, he tried 'til he got what he wanted.
"MOONY!" Sirius yelled, successfully making Remus stop in his tracks.
"What Padfoot, what exactly do you wanna know?" Remus asked exasperated.
"I wanna know why you're blushing. Is it because of the kiss? And stop pulling out pans, you know we just ate. You're not stupid, so quit acting like you are."
Remus sighted. Sirius wouldn't stop pestering him until Remus spilt his secret. Double damn his illegally good-looking best friend.
"Of course it's because of the kiss, you buffoon! What else should cause me to blush, huh? I'm blushing because I bloody enjoyed the kiss, okay. There, are you happy now?" Remus admitted loudly. He wanted to head back to the living room or better, to disappear entirely, but Sirius wouldn't have any of that. "Yes, actually I'm quite happy now." he responded, grabbed Remus' arm once again, spun him around and crushed his lips against the werewolves.