Yes, what you have been waiting for! Chapter seven at last!!!

"Remus, about what you almost said yesterday... No. Moony, what were you...?" Sirius closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. He still hadn't figured out what to say to Remus, and he was going to visit him in the hospital wing in half an hour. He sighed.

James knocked on the door of the bathroom. "Padfoot? Are you in here?"

"Ah, yeah. Do you want to brush your teeth or something?"

"No, I was just wondering where you were. Moony's looking forward to seeing you."

"Okay, cool. I'll be out in a little bit."

"Sweet. "

Sirius tried to think of what he would say to Remus again, but as he came up with nothing, he resigned himself to the fact that he would just have to play it by ear.

He appeared in the common room a few minutes later. He said good-bye to James and walked down to the hospital wing.

"Hi Mrs. Pomfrey. Is Remus awake?" He greeted the school nurse.

"Yes dear, he's been waiting for you." She replied warmly.

Sirius followed her to Remus' bed and sat down on the chair beside it as she went into her office to give them some privacy.

Remus' face lit up as he saw Sirius walk into his eyeline.

"Hey Padfoot. It's good to see you." Sirius smiled back at him

"You too. You've recovered quickly today." He turned the statement into a slight question, raising his eyebrows.

"I think it's because we ran around so much more than usual. I can remember running a lot, but that's all."

Sirius' heart fell. Didn't he remember going to sleep with the animagus acting as a furry hot waterbottle?

"Yeah… it was great."

Remus frowned.

"Are you okay, Sirius? You seem down." Sirius cursed his friend silently. He was sometimes too in tune with the emotions of people around him.

"Er, I was wondering… You know that conversation we had in the dormitory yesterday?"

"Yeah… What about it?"

"Well, you said…" He sighed "You said 'I think I might be-' and then James burst in. I was just wondering what… What it was that you were going to say?"

Remus screwed up his face, as if bracing himself to do something.

"I was going to say that… I think I-"

"Alright then, Mister Black. Time for you to go now."

"But-!"

"Go on. Out you go. It's nine o'clock and Mister Lupin needs to get some sleep."

Sirius shot an anguished look at Remus as he walked out the door. He now had to wait until tomorrow to find out what Remus thought he might be.

New scene

When he got back to the common room, Sirius sat in his favourite armchair by the fire and decided to neglect his homework.

"So? How'd it go?" James asked

"What do you mean how'd it go? I was just visiting Moony like I always do after a full moon." Sirius shook his head at his best friend's stupidity. James used his increasingly frequent smirk which annoyed the other boy so much.

"Don't worry." He said waving his hand vaguely in the air.

Sirius rolled his eyes and continued to stare blankly at the fire; his mind wandered back to what Remus had again been prevented from saying to him. It really was frustrating, knowing how close he had been to putting his mind at rest. He found himself thinking bitter thoughts about the relatively young nurse.

Why could she not have waited just a few more minutes?

All of a sudden, there was a loud bang. Sirius looked around in alarm, startled out of his musings. When he spotted what had caused the noise, his eyes widened and his mouth dropped open.

James had surely gone too far in this latest attempt to impress Lily Evans. He had tried to turn a red puffskein pale green, her favourite colour. Instead the puffskein had exploded, leaving a layer of what looked like snot on everything in the vicinity. This, as luck would have it, included Lily.

"What the fuck did you do that for?" She screamed at James. The rest of the room had gone totally silent "That poor little creature had as much as, if not more than, a right to live as you!"

"I- I'm sorry, Evans. It was an accident. I was just trying to turn it green, not make it explode!" Replied an obviously distressed James "I was going to give it to you." Lily gritted her teeth in fury.

"Whatever lame little excuse you come up with, it doesn't change the fact that you killed that innocent puffskein," She said, her voice dangerously low, almost more frightening than when she had been shouting "I'm leaving now, to try and get this shit out of my hair. Don't you dare try to follow me." She stormed up the stairs, leaving everyone to turn their attention back to James.

He scratched his head, trying to feign nonchalance.

"Okay, show's over, people. Move away from the retard."

"Padfoot!"

"Fine, intellectually-challenged individual, whatever floats your boat." Sirius grinned, momentarily forgetting his broodiness in the excitement.

"Geez, you're such a dick at times."

"Pfft, me, a dick? Remind me, just who is responsible for all the puffskein entrails splattered throughout the common room?"

"Shut up!"

"Snappy." Sirius said, giving James a sarcastic thumbs-up.

"But seriously, do you think she's very angry at me?" James said, looking genuinely worried.

"Look, James, you're basically fucked." Sirius said, putting his arm around his friend in an attempt to comfort him. James sighed.

"Shit."

"Yeah. Pretty much."

New scene

"I kid you not; it was seriously all over the room. You should have seen it. Lily was absolutely livid." Sirius was recounting the regaling story to Peter, who had been in the library at the time trying to finish an overdue potions essay.

"I wish I was there. Stupid Slughorn and his bezoars." Peter grumbled.

"Oh, it was classic. He is never going to forget this if I have a say in the matter." Sirius said with an evil cackle.

They were in the dormitory later that night. James had drawn the curtains of his four-poster shut, in a vain attempt to block out the noise of the other two boys.

"Shut up! You're worse than an old woman, Sirius." He yelled at the ceiling.

Sirius just laughed. He was already in his pyjamas, so he pulled the covers of his own bed back and climbed in. Peter did the same, and Sirius extinguished the light with his wand. As he pulled his hangings shut, his mind wandered back to Remus lying in the hospital wing all alone, and how lonely he must feel in that huge, sterile room full of empty beds.

One of these days, he would have to buy the werewolf a soft toy or something, just to keep him company in the hospital wing after full moons. He smiled at the idea. He knew that Remus would love it.

A tiny part of him, however, said 'me, Remus will love me.' Sirius frowned. He needed to control those kinds of thoughts. Acting upon them could be seriously detrimental to his reputation. Although, if he did turn out to be bisexual, that could be to his advantage... But, as he lay there thinking, he knew that he was not bisexual, for it was only towards Remus that he had these feelings.

Chapter eight should be the last one. No! Don't throw your keyboard at me! Review instead :)