The RAA: Remus Admirers Anonymous

Chapter Seven: Imagio

Remus sighed as he walked back across the room, his Gryffindor tie still undone. He glanced at the clock on the wall; an hour till breakfast started and Sirius still wasn't up. He sighed again as he walked over to Sirius's bed. Remus seized the curtains hanging around the bed and pulled them away. Sirius groaned. Remus grabbed the sheet that covered Sirius body and yanked it off.

"UUUUHG! Five more minutes Mom!!" Sirius yelled as he buried his had back in the pillow, away from Remus.

Remus sighed for a third time; he hated it when Sirius called him 'Mom'. "Get up, breakfast is in an hour and if you don't hurry you'll miss it!"

"Huuuuuck!" Sirius rolled away from Remus.

Remus almost smiled when he decided to us his wildcard, "Your hair's all messed up, and it's gross."

A loud gasp came from the thing on the bed, and then it moved expertly fast. Sirius rolled off the bed, jumped up in one fluid motion, and ran to the bathroom.

Remus smirked, 'well it's a good day so far.'

"I can't even do that," James yawned.

"What? The part where he rolls out of bed, or where he actually gets up?" Remus smiled

"Both," he slipped his glasses on, "You can also actually make him move in the morning."

Remus laughed.


Sirius yawned again as he made his way down the stairs to the Great Hall. He walked inside and quickly found his friends, who had all left him while he was styling his hair. He was about two meters from the group when he saw a girl, third year maybe, slip something into Remus's drink. She was gone soon after that, but Sirius was sure he had seen her, and seen her somewhere before. He quickly walked to Remus, opened his mouth to tell Remus not to drink from the goblet, but he was too late, Remus drank.

"Uck, that tasted weird," Remus placed the cup back on the table and Sirius 'frump'-ed down next to him.

"Mooooooony!" He whined, "Why'd you drink it? There was something in it!"

Remus's head snapped over to the other boy, eyes wide, "What?"

Sirius shrugged, "I don't know but someone put something in there. I tried to warn you but you drank it!! What if it was that poison that killed that dude in that one play!?"

Remus stared.

"Descriptive," James rolled his eyes.

Suddenly Remus's eyes rolled backwards and his head hit the table in a loud crash.

"SHIT!! REMUS!" Sirius grabbed Remus to see if he was okay. "Remus? You okay? Hey, Remus," Remus slumped into Sirius's shoulder and the young Black looked to his friend James for help.

James was speechless though. He had no idea what to do. He shook his head slightly and looked lost.

But just as suddenly as it happened, Remus was lifting his head from Sirius's shoulder and looked around. Sirius stared, his friend looked bewildered, the werewolf's eyes hazed over with confusion.

"I," Remus placed a hand to his head where it had hit the table and winced, "uhhh, ow."

"You okay?" Sirius asked his hand still on Remus's shoulder.

Remus nodded, "Yeah, uhh… got a headache."

"Ya hit yer head on the table, ya sure you okay?" James asked.

Remus nodded, "Yeah, just a little fuzzy round the edges."

"Maybe you should see Madam Pomfrey…" Sirius suggested.

Remus shook his head, "No, I'll be fine. I' been though worse."

Sirius nodded slowly, "Okay," and they started eating quietly, talking every once in a while, still worried.


Lily was walking down the corridor to breakfast from the library when she saw a little boy standing at a corner twisting his head from left to right. She walked up to him slowly; he had strawberry blond hair and only looked about 5 or 6. 'Does…' she thought, 'does he have a halo?'

"Are you ok? Are you lost?" Lily asked gently.

The boy jumped and turned swiftly to look at her. He had golden eyes with specks of blue in them. "I… uh, I'm not sure what I'm doing here," he sniffed lightly.

"What's your name? Where are you going? Where are your parents?" She asked kneeling down to look at him.

The boy looked ready to cry, "My mommy told me not to talk to strangers."

Lily gave a small sigh, and then smiled, "I'll take you to Dumbledore then, he'll know what to do."

"Hey," The kid asked as Lily stood up, "your in Gryffindor, where's Richard?"

Lily stared, she didn't know a Richard. "I don't know. Let's get you to Dumbledore, he'll know, he's the headmaster."

The kid nodded. Lily offered him her hand and he hesitantly took it. They walked to the Great Hall in silence. Lily walked in side slowly, and tugged on her hand lightly for the boy to follow. He did, but she could tell he didn't really want too.

"Lily dear, who's this, your little brother?"

Lily rolled her eyes and resisted the urge growl at James Potter. "He's—."

"Richard!" the boy yelled and ran to Remus wrapping his arms around the werewolf.

Lily blinked and stared, as did the marauders.

Remus stared, 'What the heck? I'm not Richard.' He turned and looked at the kid. "I'm not…" he trailed off. He was staring at… "I hit my head harder than I thought," Remus muttered.

"Remus, who is this?" Sirius asked.

"It's… me," Remus said slowly.

The kid looked up at him, "Richard, I'm at Hogwarts aren't I? Are these your friends? Who are they? Are they nice?" He sat down at the table.

Sirius stared, as did James, Peter, and Lily. It was Remus?

'How's that even possible?' Lily asked herself.

"I see the potion worked," a cold voice mocked.

They turned to see Elexandra Scotts standing there, her arms crossed. Remus sighed, "So… what potion did you use?"

"Remember Remus, it's all your stupid little imagination," she smirked.

Lily's eyes narrowed, "What'd you do?"

Sirius glared, "Scotts, what'd you give Remus?"

Elexandra smiled sweetly when Sirius addressed her, "It's this little potion, nothing too harmful. It may wear off by dinner, it may not."

Sirius glared.

The little Remus looked at Elexandra and didn't say anything yet. He was trying to figure it all out, as was the real Remus.

"What seems to be the problem here? Everything is fine I assume," Dumbledore smiled.

Elexandra smiled, hands held behind her back, "Every thing's dandy headmaster!"

"No it isn't! She slipped something in Remus's drink!" Lily almost yelled.

Dumbledore smiled, "Yes, it seems so, since his 6 year old self is here."

Remus looked at himself, 'No way am I six yet. I was bit at six, and I look way to energetic to be a resent werewolf bite victim.' "I don't think I'm six yet, sir."

Dumbledore smiled and bent down to the little Remus, "Remus, how old are you?"

Little Remus stared and pouted, "I'll be six tomorrow."

"Isn't that lovely? Are you going to have some friends over for a party?" Dumbledore asked.

Little Remus nodded and smiled, "Yep! I'm gonna have six! Benny, and Collins, and Mark, and Roger, and Tim, and Connor!" Little Remus smiled, "I want to have Richard and Rachel there, too, but Mommy said that they had school to go to! Can I have Richard over for my birthday party Headmaster-sir?"

Dumbledore laughed, "I'll have to think about letting Richard off, but I'm not so sure about Rachel? Is she your sister?"

Little Remus nodded, "Yeah, but she has to go to muggle school 'cause Mommy said she had trouble doing magic, she's already twelve now," he looked sad. "I get to see her every day though," he smiled at that, "I don't get to see Richard every day, he's always at Hogwarts. I don't get to see him a lot! Can I stay here and spend a day with him? You won't tell my Mommy will you?"

Sirius stared; Remus wasn't this talkative when they'd first met. In fact, it took almost a week of coaxing to get Remus to say a full sentence to them, but this Remus seemed like he would tell you everything about his day even if you just asked his name.

"He thinks I'm Richard?" Sirius heard Remus mutter.

"I'll have to think about that, too, but I will see what I can do." Dumbledore stood back up, "Scotts, I'll like to talk with you later."

Elexandra gulped slightly, "Umm… I didn't do anything headmaster."

"Hmm," He said. Dumbledore leaned over the table and grabbed Remus's goblet, "If you don't mind, I'll go have Professor Slughorn run some tests on it to see if he can determine the potion used."

"Mm-hmm, go a head," Remus shook his head.

"If you also don't mind Mr. Lupin, could you keep Little Remus with you throughout your classes? You see, his parents did not know he was going to visit you."

Remus sighed, "Yes sir, it's doable."

Dumbledore smiled and strode off to the head table.

Elexandra glared, "Well, nothing too fun is happening in your head, Lupin."

"Nothings ever happening in your head Scotts," Sirius bit.

Elexandra looked taken aback, "You don't mean that do you Sirius?"

"Mean every word of it and to Slytherins like you, it's 'Black'," he glared.

Elexandra almost looked confused.

Lily sat down next to the real Remus, "Is Richard your brother, or a cousin, or something?" she whispered.

Remus nodded, "Older brother, by eleven years, and Rachel is my sister, she's a squib and six years older than me."

Lily nodded and decided to ignore Elexandra Scotts. She leaned over the table slightly to look at the almost-six-years-old Remus, "Hey, Remus, I'm Richard's friend Lily Evans, let's be friends, too, okay?"

Little Remus nodded offhandedly as he watched Elexandra and Sirius argue.

"I mean it all. Where do you get off spiking Remus's drink anyway? Wait, don't answer that, I don't want to know any more." Sirius turned back to the table slightly.

"Hey!" Elexandra yelled, "If you and Lupin weren't friends at all I wouldn't have had to spike his drink in the first place! It's all because you two are friends!"

Sirius glared coldly as he turned back around, "Because," he said slowly and darkly, "he and I are friends? Because I happen to enjoy his company, you poisoned him?"

"You make it sound so bad! It's nothing worse than what you do to Snape!" Elexandra defended. Sirius's glare got darker and colder. Elexandra shifted back, "Just… just stop being friends with him and we'll stop picking on him."

Sirius opened his mouth again to say something but was beaten to the point by the young boy sitting in-between the real Remus and himself. "You're a bitch."

Remus gasped silently, turned his head to look at his almost six-year-old self slowly, and stared, completely shocked. He didn't remember knowing any curse words at that age, but his brother was so much older than himself, so he could have, but to us them so… freely, was… shocking. But, then again, what the almost-six-year-old said was true. Elexandra Scotts is a bitch.

Remus wasn't the only one shocked, so was every one else that had been following the conversation; Sirius stared, Lily gaped, James had an eyebrow raised, and Peter looked about ready to fait.

Elexandra was most shocked and very offended. She glared at the little boy. "Do you know who I am?" she asked him, glaring down at him.

"No and I don't care, I don't like idiots like you," Little Remus said lightly.

Elexandra glared, a small blush forming on her face. The almost six-year-old could insult just as well as the real Remus.

Sirius snickered; he liked this Remus that could put someone down so effortlessly, 'If Remus could do this all along, why didn't he do this to Snape, or some else, before?' James and Peter had around the same reactions.

"I'm—," Elexandra was interrupted by a loud 'baah' from behind her. She turned slowly and saw…

"JEFFREY!" The little Remus yelled.

The real Remus stared, "What the hell did you give me?"

Sirius stared wide eyed at the moose, which was actually about twice the size of a moose and had fish hanging from its antlers, and it 'baah'-ed like a sheep, with a halo.

"Oh my god," Remus said slowly. "Scotts, what did you give me?"

"What the hell is it?!" She screamed.

Jeffrey went, "BAAAH!" and snorted.

"He's Jeffrey the Jellyfish! Leave him alone!" Little Remus yelled.

"Ah, 'jellyfish'?" James asked.

"He was my imaginary friend when I was about three to eight," Remus clarified.

"You had an imaginary friend that was a moose that had fish hanging from it's antlers that 'baah'-ed, and had a halo when you were younger?" James found it all incredibly funny.

"No," Remus said slowly, still staring at Jeffrey, "the halo's new."

"Baah!" said Jeffrey.

Elexandra stepped back cautiously then turned and ran back to her table quickly.

"I want to go hang out with Jeffrey! Can I Richard?" Little Remus pleaded.

The real Remus sighed, "Sure, don't get in trouble though, and then have him take you to transfiguration when first bell rings okay?"

Little Remus smiled, "Yes!" and left, riding on Jeffrey's head.

Sirius snickered again.

"Okay! If you're going to laugh, then laugh!" Remus said aggravated at Sirius slightly.

Sirius, James, and Peter all started laughing, even Lily joined in. Remus rolled his eyes and let out a small chuckle.

"I love your imaginary friend Remus!" Lily laughed.

Remus smiled, "He was fun, but then Richard said he got run over by a truck and died."

Sirius laughed harder, "More like he ran over the truck and ran away!"

"I wish I never told you about motor vehicles!" Remus shouted.

"You were so… I don't know, what's the right word? But you were, back then I mean," James tried to say.

Remus laughed and nodded, "Yeah, well…. That was before the… you know, sixth birthday and all." He looked down and sighed, the happy atmosphere gone.

Suddenly arms wrapped around Remus's shoulders gently and a field of black hair fell down to his elbows. A face buried in his neck, "It's great to see you smile, Remus, so smile for me."

Remus stiffened as the conversation between the five was frozen. Remus looked over to see Sirius's face resting near his. 'But… Sirius is over there.' His eyes trailed to the other Sirius, who looked slightly shocked and lost at hearing himself and seeing himself draped over Remus. They all looked shocked actually.

The new Sirius pulled back and they could see he had a halo, too. 'Seems to be a recurring theme these days,' Remus thought. The haloed Sirius was wearing a pair of faded blue jeans—

'Correction, pair of tight blue jeans,' Sirius thought to himself. (N.A./ Yes, I meant to write Sirius there.)

—and a white button up shit with the top three buttons undone and the bottom of the shirt un-tucked. His hair was done as it usually was, nothing but perfect. His usual black boots were just as dirty as always. Remus stared, over all; this haloed Sirius looked very sexy.

"Damn, I look sexy," the real Sirius said.

Remus groaned, "I'm never going to escape this am I?"

"Why would you want to escape my sexiness? I'm bringing sexy to this sexy-less place, no offence Evans," the new Sirius said smiling.

"Oh yes Sirius, I'm sure you're bringing sexy back," Remus said sarcastically.

Both Siriuses smiled and said, "Of course," at the same time.

"That'll get annoying," Lily and James said together. They looked at each other for a moment.

"This is why I think we should go out, we're so alike," James smiled.

Lily groaned, "Give up already!" She sighed, "And here I was planning on eating today. I'm heading off to class. Have fun with two Siriuses Remus." She waved, got up and left.

Remus made a helpless sound, "Wait, Lily, please don't go!" The new Sirius took Lily's vacant set, sitting closer to Remus than most and wrapped and arm around Remus's shoulders.

The real Sirius's eye subtly twitched.

"Don't you want me here?" the haloed Sirius asked, placing a finger under Remus's chin and tilting his head up. He leaned a little closer.

Remus leaned back looking caught between scared and shocked. "Umm," he said intelligently.

The real Sirius's eye subtly twitched, again.

"Remus, I think," the haloed Sirius leaned closer, his eyes lidded and staring at Remus's lips, "that we should start being a bit more than," he leaned closer, their noses close to touching, "friends."

Remus's face was getting redder by the second. 'Yes, two Siriuses is going to kill me.' He quickly pushed himself from the haloed Sirius grasp and ran to class, calling over his shoulder that, "I have a paper I need to finish up for transfiguration!"

The real Sirius's eye was twitching not so subtly now.

The haloed Sirius sat at the table, his hand on the bench from where it had fallen from Remus's shoulder, his other in his lap, his head bowed. He looked up slowly, a small determined look on his face. His hair fell in his face and it looked slightly creepy, "Remus," he whispered quietly but the real Sirius could still hear him, "We didn't have homework in transfiguration this weekend." The haloed Sirius's face screwed up into a thoughtful look, "…Or did we? …Shit. …Whatever."

James stared at his two best friends, which, before today, had only been one. "That was weird," he stated meter-a-fact-ly.

The haloed Sirius huffed and crossed his arms, "My brain feels like chicken."


TBC!!! I meant to write all of the 'Imagio Monday' chapter in one chapter, but it turned out too long, I think, so I decided to make it into two, or perhaps three, I don't know yet, we'll have to see. I also meant to have this chapter up by this morning, but when I was writing it (late last night) I fell asleep and then I had a party to go to, so… forgive me? The next one should be up soon. I'm going to start it after I post this chapter, so it may be up by tomorrow morning, or after noon… or night. ……Forgive me.

About the 'poison that killed that one dude in that one play' that was 'Romeo and Juliet'.

About the younger version of Remus, that was cause I decided Remus wanted to spend his sixth birthday with his awesome big brother, but couldn't, so he imagined spending it with Richard at Hogwarts… when he was six… after he got bit by a werewolf. If he had spent it with Richard, then he'd be fine now. Cruel world, huh?

Oh! And about Jeffrey the Jellyfish… don't ask me about Jeffrey the Jellyfish, he was just there to be weird and get laughs, you got laughs right? ….Right? :cries:

About the 'My brain feels like chicken' thing, Sirius (to me, and therefore, to Remus) always seems to say the weirdest things sometimes, to I had him say that!

Anyway! Hope you enjoyed it! Next one should be up sometime soon!