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Chapter 21

Remus

The Christmas holidays were over fairly quickly. Not that I minded really. Somehow, Sirius and I had found a way to sneak Paddy onto the Hogwarts Express. Don't ask me how, to be honest, I'm surprise my parents didn't realise...unless they did, but said nothing. I didn't really know which to go for – I mean they did still believe the collar I got him was from one of the guys...I think.

"You know what else we could do?!" Sirius asked, jumping up and down.

"What?" I sighed, both amused and exasperated.

"We could train Paddy here to terrorise those bloody slimy snakes. I know for a fact that my dear 'brother' isn't all that fond of dogs."

"And how did you find this out?"

"I may or may not have transformed, at 'home' two years ago, before bounding into Reggie's room. He screamed like girl."

"No."

"But..."

"No."

Sirius looked at me with his puppy-dog-eyes. Looking away, I quickly turned my gaze towards Paddy, who was curled up on my lap, asleep.

"But...I suppose if you wanted to turn into a dog and terrorise them...then I don't see anything wrong with that." I smiled, turning back to him after a moment.

"Really?!" Sirius beamed, slightly confused.

"Why not? And I could just happen to not see anything."

"This is a very 'non-Remus' idea. I really have been a bad influence on you."

"Oh, but you love it."

"You've got me there."

Sirius grinned, slipping his right hand into my left. I leaned my head on his shoulder, looking down at the black and white ball of fluff. He whined softly in his sleep, and I couldn't help but go 'aw'...I couldn't help it!

"What the hell was that noise?" James' voice asked.

Glancing up, I saw James and Lily walking into the compartment.

"What noise?" I asked, my head still on Sirius' shoulder.

Paddy whined softly again, and I smiled slightly.

"That noise." James replied.

"Well, it might have to do with the puppy that is sleeping." Sirius smirked, pointing to said puppy in my lap.

"Oh...didn't see it."

"Hey! Don't call him an it!" I protested.

James held his hands up in mock surrender, while Sirius stifled a laugh and Lily shook her head smiling.

"Oh, Lils? Think you'll find, I was right." Sirius said.

"Like I kept telling you, I never said he wouldn't like it. I just wondered whether you had thought it through...I mean, puppies are hard work." Lily defended.

"And Sirius isn't?" I asked, cocking an eyebrow and grinning.

Lily giggled, James bounced up and down smirking like an idiot, and Sirius stared at me dramatically in complete shock. Needless to say, the only way to stop his rant about how I 'wounded him so' and how he 'would never be able to trust again', was by sticking my tongue in his mouth. It was a very effective method, and definitely one of my favourites.

"Sirius?" James asked, slowly.

"What?" Sirius muttered, not pulling away from me.

"Why are you wearing a black leather collar?"

Sirius did pull back then, grinning sheepishly at me, then James, and then back to me. I flushed crimson, glaring at him.

"You only said not to wear it around your parents." Sirius pointed out.

"Friends, other students, and teachers were implied." I muttered.

"Well Moony, who knew you'd have the kink." James snickered.

Lily couldn't hold in her giggles any longer. She collapsed onto James as they both laughed hysterically. I was never going to live this down.

It was surprisingly easy keeping Paddy hidden during the feast too...not that any teacher would really care about a puppy being there, considering all I had to do was explain he was mine, and that if I had left him at home it would be animal cruelty since he was my responsibility and mum and dad worked a lot – it wasn't lying, just stretching the truth a bit. I mean sure, Paddy was Sirius' responsibility too, but I was pretty sure Mr and Mrs Potter would rather not look after a young puppy as well as two teenage boys, plus if any teacher at the school knew Sirius owned the puppy too...well, the battle to keep Paddy at the school would be a harder one. So, it was a good thing I was one of the favourite students...or so other students – like James and Sirius – liked to tell me...repeatedly.

Luckily, I had finally gotten Sirius to take the collar off and put it away, much to his disappointment and James' amusement. Thankfully, this happened before we stepped into the castle and were surrounded by our peers. But of course the no-sex-threat worked tremendously.

However, it was harder in the common room, since Paddy was running around in front of me, yapping playfully. Though, I wasn't helping much, since I was lying on my stomach on the ground, in front of him, batting him lightly with my index fingers and just generally playing with him. But who cared, he was too adorable! The common room wasn't too full...many students were too tired, so went straight to bed. Others stayed downstairs. I was too busy paying attention to notice what was going on around me. So I didn't know Lily had gone off to bed; I didn't know James was laughing at me; I didn't know that Sirius – who was sprawled out on the sofa behind me – was watching Paddy and I with a fond, loving and amused smile; and I definitely didn't know that over half of the common room – sixth and seventh year girls, to be exact – were staring at me, giggling and edging closer. The weird thing is that, even though we'd been at school for about three months already, and Sirius and I weren't hiding anything, most people didn't actually know we were together. It was funny really.

"Oi! You cheeky bugger, trying to eat my hair." I laughed as Paddy tugged on the clump in his mouth.

I managed to get free from the little dog by starting to bat him again with my index fingers, of which he started pawing. It was entertaining watching the little puppy follow my fingers trying to pounce on them. I continued moving my left index finger around, while I reached into my pocket with my right hand, pulling out my wand. I grabbed a rubber/eraser from inside my pocket too, transfiguring it into a small tennis ball. I placed my wand on the table before rolling the ball away from me. As Paddy bounded after it, I sat up, leaning against the sofa, laughing as the puppy pawed the ball. Paddy nudged the ball, and it came rolling back to me. Paddy on the other hand...

"Shit!" I breathed. "Paddy! No!"

I scrambled frantically up to my feet, running after the small ball of fur as he galloped around the common room. The small puppy weaved in and out of students, chairs, tables, and other objects. I ended up cornering the little ball of fluff though...after five minutes of chasing him.

"Sit." I told the small dog. "Stay."

As Paddy did as I said, I walked towards him, scooping him up. I sighed as I walked back to where I was previously, not letting the puppy get away.

"Cheeky little sod." I smiled.

I sighed again as I sat leaning against the sofa again.

"Have fun there?" Sirius asked, chuckling.

"I wouldn't say 'fun'. Though it was quite entertaining." I replied, smiling, leaning my head back. "You're gunna have fun chasing him around.

"And I'm looking forward to it."

"So you should be."

This was going to be a great year.

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