I think I'm Going To Be Sick #10

"Remus, we want to apologize." The werewolf turned around, his toothbrush hanging from his mouth.

He pulled the toothbrush out of his mouth. "Why?" he asked suspiciously, his gaze flicking between James and Sirius, who were sharing matching looks of guilt and some other emotion he couldn't place.

"It's. We, ah... Maybe you should tell him Padfoot," James said nervously, turning to the wizard beside him.

"Right. Remus. Moony. Moonster. Moo-"

"-Shut up and just tell me," Remus growled, agitation bubbling in his chest preemptively. He turned and spit into the sink, before putting his toothbrush back into his mouth, eliciting groans from the two wizards.

"Maybe we shouldn't say anything," Sirius countered, grimacing when Remus began to brush his teeth once more. James made a gagging noise like he was about to be sick.

"No. Merlin, Remus! Stop brushing your teeth!" James called out, earning an elbow to his already upset stomach from his best friend.

Remus pulled the toothbrush out slowly. "All right."

James shoved his best friend angrily. "It was your idea, now tell him!"

Remus furrowed his eyebrows and moved to finish cleaning his teeth.

"No!" the two boys cried out in unison. Remus's hand froze, his eyes widened with realization and he looked down at his hand. He had found his toothbrush on the opposite counter the other day and hadn't thought anything of it.

"Did something happen to my toothbrush?" he asked slowly, his stomach churning apprehensively.

James started to explain, his words rushed. "It was an accident. You see, Padfoot and I were sparring with our toothbrushes and I dropped mine on the floor because he cheated-"

"-I did no such thing-"

"-And so I grabbed the closest one to continue our battle-"

"-Which I once again knocked out of his talentless hands-"

"-by cheating again!-"

"-What!" Remus's cry cut through the two boys' rant. They froze, turning to him quietly.

"Are you telling me this has been on the floor!"

"Not exactly," James hedged, rubbing a nervous hand along the side of his neck and avoiding eye contact.

"The toilet," Sirius mumbled, he too was looking anywhere but at Remus.

Remus let out a strangled noise as he fought to keep down his stomach contents.

"I'm sorry. We forgot to tell you, because you were in the hospital wing. It's okay though," Sirius reassured his friend quickly as the werewolf leaned over, covering his mouth with his hand.

James nodded quickly. "Right, Sirius and I checked last night and canines have much more germ killing thingies in their mouths than humans. So you'll be fine!" The two boys smiled at each other and then turned back to the werewolf to gauge his response. Remus had begun groaning and was stumbling over to the toilet.

"What does that mean?" Frank Longbottom asked, stepping out of the shower, having heard the entire conversation.

Sirius and James exchanged alarmed looks before Sirius spoke up quickly. "It means that we then...ah...we then cleaned Remus's toothbrush by soaking it in dog spit, of course," he lied. James nodded.

Frank's eyes widened as Remus began to retch as he leaned over the toilet. The Gryffindor walked quickly over to his own toothbrush and dropped it in the trash.

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