AN: I guess this is a week of apologies; I've been super sick this past week (when I reread it I realized I had written Theo instead of Remus for almost half the chapter… Apparently Remus shapeshifts not only into a werewolf, but also my dog) and unfortunately this haze prevented me from updating sooooooo, I will be posting two chapters today (YAAAAAYYYYYY) amazing what you can accomplish when you're still infectious but don't feel absolutely terrible!
Remus woke up to find himself alone. He was in the shrieking shack, and had insisted his friends stay in their dorm the previous night. He couldn't deal with Sirius. He knew that if he was going to get over his feelings he was going to have to face them eventually, but in the meantime he just wanted to forget about it. Unfortunately the peace of the morning was shattered by a familiar presence entering the shack.
"What are you doing here Sirius?" Remus asked trying not to look his friend in the eye.
"I want to know what the hell was up last night." Sirius said surprisingly harshly.
This was not what Remus was expecting, he looked up rather shocked.
"I was preparing to turn into a werewolf; the same thing I've done once a month every year at Hogwarts." He replied humorlessly.
"That's not what I meat and you fucking know it."
"No actually I didn't."
Remus was unsure of what was happening but it didn't stop him from being supremely annoyed with Sirius.
"If you're talking about wanting to be on my own, I do have a right to my privacy you know." He snapped, growing more ticked off as he looked at the angry face standing in front of him.
"We just want to help you out, and you were rather rude about it yesterday." Sirius stated growing steadily louder.
"What I'm not allowed to get upset? No, of course not! That's James and Sirius' dominion. I'm Moony, and everyone knows Moony is the responsible one, the one who has it under control, Guess what," he felt himself yelling, "I am not an android and I'm allowed to get pissed off for no fucking apparent reason, OK!"
"Is that what you think? That all I do is get upset?"
"YES! Everything is Sirius is upset this, look at the drama Sirius has made that, and there's no rhyme nor reason to it and we all roll along like good little soldiers!"
"So you think I create drama for shits and giggles, you could have just told me." Sirius said growing scarily quiet.
"Yeah right," Remus scoffed, "we both know you don't take criticism well."
"Well clearly you think I just need to get over myself!" Sirius started yelling again.
"This is exactly why I can't say anything to you! You just blow up and make everything worse, has it ever even entered your brain that I care about you? That maybe I don't like seeing you upset, and would rather hold in my feelings, damn the consequences?" Remus replied, his voice growing softer. "What the hell are we arguing about anyways? Just go, ok Sirius? Please let me alone."
Sirius grew still, and he looked as though he wanted to say something else, but for once in his life he did as he was told.
Sirius fumed for the rest of the day. He wanted to talk to Remus but he knew he'd just make things worse. Through the classes Moony wouldn't look at him. At the Great Hall he made a point of sitting away from Sirius, and talked to Gen and Alice the whole time.
"Looks like some good came out of the ball after all." Pete whispered.
"What are you talking about?" Sirius asked looking Pete in the eye.
"Oh come on," Pete chuckled, "just look at how comfy those two are." Pete nodded toward Remus and Genevieve.
"What?" Said Sirius distractedly, "No, they're just friends, like always." Sirius just hoped it was true.
But over the next couple of weeks Pete's prediction seemed to come true. Remus spent more and more time with Gen, and grew colder towards Sirius. Luckily he and James were talking again. Sirius wanted nothing more than to confide in his best friend, but he knew how James would react.
"ARE YOU BLOODY KIDDING ME? Fuck you too Sirius, you know I've been in love with this bird for literally ever, and she HATES MY GUTS! Get over it."
And honestly, Sirius wasn't in the mood for it. So he just went on and pretended everything was fine.