"No" Protested.

"Yes," Sirius retaliated.

"No."

"Remus, yes" Sirius urged. After finally managing to pull themselves away from each others eyes they yelled a couple of rushed goodbyes to Lily and James who were still talking in the kitchen, before Sirius had grabbed Remus's hand and almost dragged him down the stairs and out the front doors to his waiting motorbike.

The bike, Remus thought, looked a bit intimidating but he could tell that Sirius was proud of it just by his stance next to it, not to mention how clean and polished it was.

"I much rather my brains on the inside of my skull thankyou very much," Remus argued.

"That's why I bought a helmet for you," Sirius reasoned. "Not scared, are you?"

"No, I am not scared!" Remus defended. He wouldn't say he was scared but most definitely nervous about getting on the beast of a bike. "I just-"

"Are a bit of a worry wart," Sirius pointed out. Remus grumbled in response, yes, he was that too.

"Remus it'll be fine and the sooner you get on, the sooner you can get off"

Remus snickered.

"No, that's not what I meant," Sirius blushed and shook his head. He moved to swing his leg over the bike. "Elvendork has always been good to me so I have told them that they have to be good to you too."

"Ah that's Elvendork" remus realised, that had been playing on his mind during the week. Of course the bike had a name. "Wait," Remus paused, "you talk to your bike?"

"Of course" he replied then put his helmet on. Remus rolled his eyes.

"Remus, please, it's too far to walk" Sirius pleaded while putting extra effort into his puppy eyes so that Remus would notice them through the helmet's visor.

Remus gave in, "Fucking puppy eyes," he mumbled to himself as he took the extra helmet from Sirius and put it on.

"Sexy" Sirius commented

"Shut up" Remus grumbled; as he swung his leg over the bike to take his seat behind Sirius. He didn't know what to do with his hands, was he supposed to hug himself, stick his hands in the air and scream like on a rollercoaster. At that point Sirius reached back to grab Remus's hands, which he moved to wrap around himself tightly. This is much nicer Remus thought. He was still trying to keep his distance a little bit from Sirius for more than one reason.

"Don't be shy Remus," Sirius said when he noticed Remus' s reluctance to move closer. "Just close your eyes and hold on tight" Sirius said with a cheeky smile as he grabbed Remus's legs and pulled Remus flush with his back. All Remus could do was blush and hope that certain body parts would behave.

Sirius turned the motor on and pulled out from the curb causing Remus to scrunch his eyes shut and grab onto Sirius even tighter.

Remus could feel Sirius's laugher rather than hear it over the roar of the engine. It miraculously helped to calm him down enough to open his eyes to see the cars, buildings and trees blur past them.

"Admit it Remus, it wasn't tat bad." Sirius said to Remus then pulled off, his hair slightly messed up from wearing the helmet. They were standing at the curb having just gotten off the bike after arriving wherever they were. Sirius brushed his hands through his hair to fix the messiness; Sirius black with less than perfect hair was never heard of.

"Where are we?" Remus asked pointedly ignoring what Sirius had just said. Remus was twisting his hands together and looking at his feet, not sure what to do as he hadn't gotten an answer from Sirius when all of a sudden two hands were near his jaw pulling the helmet from his head.

Sirius was standing very close to him, eyes locked with Remus's. Remus could feel the warmth of Sirius's breath on his face.

"Admit it" Sirius challenged Remus, and then stood there, staring and daring Remus to do something.

"Okay" Remus said, almost whispered. "It wasn't that bad.

Sirius smiled in response but didn't move away. After what felt like hours Sirius whispered to Remus "I really want to kiss you."

Remus held his breath; he really wanted Sirius to kiss him. Please he said in his head.

"But I'm not going to," Sirius continued then turned away and walked over towards the door of the building they were standing in front of.

"Tease," Remus muttered under his breath but obviously not quietly enough because Sirius laughed as he put in a code to open the door. "Where are we?" Remus asked again as Sirius held the door open for him to go inside.

"You'll see" Sirius replied "it's a bit of a hike though, the lift is broken I'm afraid"

"That's okay."

They began climbing the stairs, only the sounds of their breathing filling the silence. They reached the landing of the seventh floor when Remus stopped and leant against the wall, catching his breath.

"How much further? My legs are all wobbly already," Remus complained.

"Mine are too," Sirius sympathised. "Only three more floors."

"But this building only has 9 floors"

"Exactly" Sirius exclaimed with a smile trying to encourage Remus to keep going. But Remus didn't move. "Looks like I'm going to have to use positive reinforcement."

Remus looked at him quizzically.

"I'm not going to tell you what the reward will be, you'll just have to get to the next floor's landing to find out" Sirius said as he took Remus's hand and began to pull him up the stairs. "Come on, it'll be worth it, trust me."

At those words Remus realised he did trust Sirius, he really did. It surprised him, it usually took a lot longer for Remus to let someone new in.

They reached the landing of the eighth floor and Sirius pulled Remus close to him. Remus was frozen.

"Your reward" Sirius said and leaned forward to kiss Remus on the cheek.

"You are such a fucking tease," Remus said to Sirius.

"I know" he replied with a cheeky smile, "but so are you."

"How am I am tease?" Remus asked, slightly outraged, as far as he knew he hadn't done anything to tease Sirius, so far. Sirius was already pulling him up the next lot of stairs.

Sirius was quiet until they reached the next landing of the ninth floor when he pulled Remus and said matter of factly "You exist," before planting a kiss on Remus's other cheek. "Nearly there Remus" Sirius said as he grabbed Remus's hand again for the final flight of stairs.

They reached the next landing but this time Sirius didn't reach for Remus; he instead reached for the door in front of them. "Ready? Sirius asked and squeezed Remus's hand.

"As I'll ever be" Remus replied and Sirius opened the door.