Chapter seven
They froze as they heard a knock on the door they were leaning on. Remus looked up to see Hermione's hair had fallen out it's usual hair tie and her frizzy curls were hanging wildy around her face and she looked flushed. Remus kissed her once more and let go of her legs, letting them fall to the floor as he stood up straight.
He moved her behing him and then opened the door. Hermione looked around him to see the same handsome black haired man from the vision that Remus had shown her just minutes before.
"Sirius." Remus said, in a tone that suggested that he was an uninvited guest.
"Remus. It's been a while." He said and Remus moved me as he moved, so that I stayed behind him as the man moved farther into the room and looked around.
"Yes well the last time I saw you, you were being put in prison for the murder of our friends. Tell me, how did you escape?" Remus asked, his voice cool and calm. Hermione's eyes widened as she heard what the man was accused of.
"Peter is still alive. He framed me Remus. I didn't do it." He said and Remus froze obviously in shock.
"No, Peter died. You killed him along with the others. They found his finger, they-"
"He cut his own finger off, Mooney. It was all him. Greyback put him up to it, to get back at us for trying to take over his pack. Peter was on his side all along." Sirius said. He stopped looking around the room and sniffed the air in a canine way that resembled a dog and then his eyes light up with mischeif.
"Who's the bird behind you?" He asked and Remus growled threateningly. Sirius rasied his hands in a guesture that clearly said that he meant no harm.
"She's mine and you'll have nothing to do with her until I have proof that what you say is the truth." Remus said, his voice gruff and strained.
"You found your mate then? Finally. Have you marked her yet?" Sirius asked and Hermione gasped at the implications of it. She was a werewolf's mate. She was Remus's mate. Ti finally made sense now.
"Sirius, shut up." Remus growled out, glancing back at her to see she was smiling slightly. He calmed somewhat, knowing that the information didn't anger her and then faced Sirius once more.
"Right. Well, I need your help to find the bastard and turn him in. There was also a witness, who saw him run from the scene that we need to find too, so that it doesn't look like I'm lying when I go back to the police and demand a trial." He said and sat down on the couch with a thump. Remus sighed, turned to me and kissed me again before taking my hand and guiding me to the couch.
"Sirius Black, this is Hermione Granger." Remus said and Sirius stood in front of her, bowed slightly and then took her outstretched hand, kissing it lingeringly as he winked at Remus. Hermione pulled her hand away, a queezy feeling bubbling in her stomach at the intimate gesture from the other man. She sat in the seat next to Remus on the couch and curled up against his side, placing her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes.
"You marked me." She said quietly and Remus hummed a reply that she felt rumble through his chest.
"With out asking me first." She said again. The response was the same and Hermione had a feeling he wasn't at all sorry that he did it.
"And without explaining everything like you said you would." She finished and Remus just wrapped an arm around her shoulders, pulling her more tightly against his chest.
"Well it looks like I came at an interesting time then, eh Mooney?" Sirius said and her eyes snapped open to see him looking rather amused at the both of them.
"You did indeed." Hermione replied as she closed her eyes once more, rather tired all of a sudden.
"Can I borrow your phone for a minute Remus?" She asked before she forgot and fell asleep.
"Sure love." He said and pulled a cell phone out of her pocket, handing it to her. She dialed Ginny's number and put the phone to her ear, not really wanting to move from her spot against Remus's chest.
"Hello?" Said the voice of her best friend.
"Hey Gin, It's Hermione. I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to spend the night at a friends house. Can you tell your mum for me?" She said and got ready for the onslaught of questions she was bound to be asked.
"I wasn't aware you had any other friends than Harry, Ron and I." She said smugly.
"Well I do."
"Who is it then?" She asked challengingly.
"Can i tell you when I see you tomorrow?" She asked.
"Sure. I'll even bring your school things with me. But only if you buy me breakfast. I'll meet you at seven thirty at the bakery." She said and then hung up before Hermione could say anything else. She closed the phone and handed it back to Remus who, along with Sirius, were looking at her with amusement.
"What?" She asked as she snugled back into Remus's chest and closed her eyes once again, feeling the tiredness become even harder to fight off.
"You just invited yourself to stay the night without asking." Sirius stated and Hermione huffed in annoyance.
"I'm tired and don't really feel like stumbling through the woods in the dark in order to get home tonight, so yes I did. I'm sure Remus doesn't mind at all. I'm his mate after all." She said and Remus growled appreciatly when her heard her say it.
"Right, well now's probably a bad time to ask if I can sleep on your couch tonight then isn't it?" He said and she could feel Remus nod.
"S'okay. Too tired to have sex anyway." She said and the last thing she heard before she fell asleep was Sirius's bark like laughter and Remus's chuckle.