I

"Thank you." Remus said sincerely. He was currently talking to a very dumbfounded Severus Snape.

"What for, Lupin?" The guy answered with suspicion clear in his eyes. He looked around looking for the other marauders, who were obviously going to jump out with their wands from around the corner any minute now.

"For not spreading it around too much." Remus shrugged and smiled calmly.

"Huh?" Snivellus' confusion heightened.

"Sirius." The lycanthrope cooperated shortly.

"Oh." Realization dawned on the Slytherin's face and he raised an eyebrow, "I practically outed him to his friends and half of the classroom, yesterday, you do understand that, yes?"

"Yeah, well, it helped him, that James knows now… at least I think it helped him and as for the other part, I think we both know, that if you wanted someone else to know, you would've made it happen by now. You knew it would go unnoticed yesterday." Remus explained easily, a bit annoyed that the other refused to just take his gratitude for what it was and move on.

"No one would believe me." Severus shrugged it off, "And I really don't get why you are thanking me."

"You can't expect Sirius to be sensible enough for this task. I figured somebody had to do it." The werewolf boy rolled his eyes slightly, meaning well to them all. He didn't come here to start an argument, he honestly didn't.

The wind blew making the boys shiver as the sky clouded even more. Remus didn't understand why Severus chose to sit on the snowy ground under the tree, rather than just going to read inside.

"Yeah, but I mean, you should be off planning some new way to make my life miserable with what I've said." Black eyes fired up with some kind of weird determination.

"I thought that trying to be civil would be a nice change for all of us." Remus looked at the guy and smiled. It was an open kind of smile, not that little calm one the lycanthrope usually wore.

"Civil? One of your lot? Remus. Please." Severus huffed indignantly.

"Well. Can't blame me for trying," Remus' smile widened, as the other boy's usage of his name instead of his surname or some kind of insult didn't go unnoticed. "Besides, I'm getting tired of the werewolf slash shirt lifter slash filthy half blood jokes, I thought that maybe if we could just try not to insult each other anymore, that would be nice."

II

"Wait, so you actually talked to him." Sirius exclaimed, putting away his muggle music magazine.

"Yup."

"And he didn't insult you once!" The grey eyes widened.

"Sirius, please, we're in the middle of a lesson." Remus shushed his friend, though he was sure that professor Bins wouldn't notice them even if they brought a drum set and started making as much noise as humanly possible.

"Moony," Sirius smirked, obviously thinking the same thing, "Why didn't you tell me before?"

"Would you have let me do it?" The lycanthrope asked with an unbelieving expression on his face.

"Well no, but… well, no." Sirius had to agree.

"My point is clear, I believe." Remus said and turned his head to the book, trying his best to focus.

"Yes but why! I mean yesterday that bastard practically-" Sirius began to argue in that overly indulged way of his, but something hit the back of his head.

It was a crumpled piece of paper and the boys looked around to see a grinning James, sitting in the front row next to one and only… drum roll please…. You guessed it- Lily Evans. He got that seat expecting to interact with her more, but needless to say the plan failed as soon as she got annoyed by his chattering the very first lesson and shut him out completely.

What'ya talking 'bout?

Remus read over Sirius' shoulder and sighed.

Snivellus. Apparently, Moony lost his mind, trying to befriend the bastard and stuff.

The head boy snarled and hit Sirius, trying to take the note away, but Sirius managed to throw it back to Potter.

"Seriously?!" James exclaimed upon reading and everybody's heads snapped to him. Sirius gave him a simple nod.

III

"Okay, honestly, what's the big bloody deal?" Remus' patience was wearing off slowly.

"It's Snivellus!" James exclaimed, failing to see his friend's point.

"What are you talking about?" Peter asked coming up to them.

"Remus decided to make friends with a certain greasy headed Slytherin, we all know and hate." Sirius answered.

"What? Snivellus?" Peter wondered confused.

"Yes and it would be nice to start off slowly… let's say it's Severus from now on?" Remus tried.

"But you don't get it, he's been at it since the first day of Hogwarts, don't you feel even the least bit angry about what he's said?" James shook his head disapprovingly.

"Well, we haven't been too nice ourselves either. I just don't see the point in trying to hex each other every time we meet anymore. It has caused enough problems." Remus shrugged, trying to fit the books into his overstuffed bag. "Besides, I figured that it would be more convenient not to be on his bad side, seeing as Sirius…" He trailed off quietly.

"As I what? You don't want school finding out I'm gay? Is that it?" Sirius' temper got ahead of him once again, forcing James and Peter to groan and Remus' eyes flash angrily.

The truth was Sirius simply felt very unsettled about the way Snivellus had been terrorizing Remus lately and how his insults had only been directed at the werewolf too. And how his sneaky little eyes had been following Remus all too often. And just…

"I couldn't care less and you know it. I just thought, you wanted to keep it to yourself and not feel blackmailed into something you were not ready to do!" The lycanthrope felt frustrated to the point where he began to yell. And everybody knew that a yelling Remus was a highly dangerous Remus.

"Oh yeah? Is that the reason you suddenly decided to get all close with the bloody enemy?!"

James almost chuckled at how overly dramatic Sirius was being. Lucky for him he held it in, because Black was angry enough to rip someone apart.

"All close?! Enemy?! Do you even hear yourself?! Why don't you try being nice to the bloke and realize that he might not actually be that bad, before you go and judge him on the actions, which by the way, you provoked yourself?!" The golden eyes were glowing with fury and even Sirius felt the urge to step away.

"You know what?! Run and be nice to the greasy jerk all you want, just don't forget everything he had said to you, okay?! Cause maybe when he decides that his royal ass is too nice for you, you will realize who your actual friends are!" Sirius screamed on top of his lungs.

"And who are they?! People, who refuse to even give others a bloody chance!?"

IV

"He'll come around." Sirius muttered stubbornly. "You'll see."

James and Peter felt inclined to point out that Remus' bed that Sirius had been talking to could not, in fact, see. They kept quiet though, not wanting for yet another hissy fit to ensue.

"Say, Peter, do you think it's about Snivellus at all?" James whispered lowly.

"Jaammmeeesss?" Sirius whined childishly and raised his sad grey eyes.

"Sirius?" James smirked.

"Do you think he's maaad?"

V

"I just get so angry at him sometimes, Lily, I mean… I have yet to meet another person to act quite as unreasonable!" Remus rambled checking out books on the shelf.

"Remus, you know it pains me physically to be…uh… nice to Black, but It might just do you some good to cut him some slack." Her green eyes shone gently and Remus felt his nerves soothe at her kind and peaceful manner.

"Why should I, Lily? Lately he's been just…" Remus started and let it go in the middle of the sentence feeling the anger come back.

"That's exactly why, you should try going easy on him." Lily shook her head softly.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, he does have a lot to deal with, don't you think?" She asked and took a book out of Remus' hands, eyeing the cover.

"James told you?" Remus tried to be surprised. He did. Really.

"Actually, I got it all by myself!" She exclaimed proudly.

Remus wondered if he was the only one not to notice absolutely anything and felt a bit guilty.