Melissa and Remus

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First Date of Melissa and Remus

"I can't believe those idiots." Remus said to himself after he left to do his rounds.

It had been a week since his discovery of his friends' illegal project. He was starting to feel responsible. If they got caught…what WAS the punishment for becoming an animagi illegally?

While he was pondering this, he ran into something.

"Ommph." He said as he crashed.

Remus looked to see absolutely nothing. For a second, he seemed confused. Then he heard someone breathing rather quickly. Sometimes it helped to be a werewolf.

"Really cute Prongs." Remus said "Take off the cloak before I do. And if I do it, then I'm confiscating it until we get to the dorm."

The cloak came off. Remus was shocked to see that it was not James Potter under the cloak.

"Mel…I mean…Oxford?" Remus asked. "What are…"

"The girls sent me to the kitchens to get a late night snack." Melissa explained as she held the picnic basket. "We take turns doing it, and it was my turn tonight."

"You have an invisibility cloak?" Remus asked.

"No." she said. "It's Spica's."

Poor Melissa didn't know WHAT to do. Here she was sitting in the middle of the hallway, after curfew, with a picnic basket for her friends in one hand and her friend's invisibility cloak in the other hand, face to face with her crush since first year. So, she did the only logical thing she could think of.

"Have you finished Slughorn's assignment yet?" she asked as Remus helped her up.

"Yes." Remus answered just as nervous. "So, uh, did you get that wolf you were talking about last June."

"Wolf?" she asked before she remembered. "Oh! That. Well, she's not actually MINE, she's more…well, I needed a name so I could refer to her. But, I did use that name you suggest before we…you know."

"I thought that never happened." Remus said.

"Well," she admitted. "I've tried to forget it, but…it's impossible."

"To tell you the truth, I haven't forgotten it either." Remus admitted. "Umm. Let's go in here."

He pointed to Professor McGonagall's classroom.

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In the room,

"If James, Sirius, and/or Peter saw me talking to you, well, let's just say the result will be…"

"Disastrous?" Melissa offered.

"Yes."

"I know. The same goes for me and my friends. If Lily, Sara, and Spica found out I'm making civil conversation with a Marauder, I'm dead." She said as she sat down on McGonagall's desk.

"It's almost a shame that things didn't work out between Sara and Peter a few years ago." Remus said joining her. "That week was the most fun I have ever had. Hanging out with you girls that is."

"Except when Lily and James came out of the Room of Requirement." Melissa remembered.

"Yeah." Remus agreed. "James told us "I can get my own girl thank you." He was so embarrassed. We made it seem like he needed a push to get Lily to kiss him."

"They liked it. They can deny it all they want, but they liked it." Melissa laughed.

Remus smiled. There was something about the girl he was sitting next to. He couldn't describe it.

"Well," Melissa sighed. "I have to get going. The others will be worried about me."

"Yeah." Remus agreed. "I'd hate for you to get in trouble with your friends."

The two looked at each other and before either of them knew it, they kissed each other.

"Did that just happen?" Remus asked.

"N…" Melissa started, but then thought otherwise. Screw the Maraudette Code. That was the best millisecond of her life and she wanted more of it.

"Yes." She said before doing it again full force as she dropped the basket.

After a minute of kissing, they pulled out.

"You have NO idea how long I've wanted to do that." Melissa told him gasping for breath.

"So," Remus asked. "Do you want to go out sometime?"

"I'd love to." She said. "But our friends…"

"Let's do this secretly." Remus said.

"We can go down to the…no, the girls will be there." Melissa thought

"How about…" Remus started to suggested. "No. The map will reveal."

"What map?"

"A map the guys and I are working on."

"The Room of Requirement?" Melissa suggested.

"Great idea." Remus said.

"Tomorrow night? 11 o'clock?" she asked.

"It's a date. I have to finish my rounds."

"And I have to get this food upstairs."

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The next night on the 7th floor in front of the Barnabas the Barmy tapestry,

"I was expecting a broom closet." Melissa said as she observed the room Remus "needed".

It was a verily small room with a table for two with two plates of pasta and two candles on it.

"I like this better." She added.

"Thanks." Remus said blushing. "Now, this room needs to be hidden from the outside."

The door disappeared.

"It will reappear when it's time to leave." Remus explained.

"Remus. This is perfect." She said.

"Shall we milady?" Remus asked offering his arm.

"We shall." She said.

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"That was YOU?" Remus asked an hour later.

"Yes." Melissa laughed. "We make sure we're victims of our pranks to keep the suspicion off."

"There is no way James and Sirius would do that." Remus laughed.

"I hope you're talking about the making themselves victims." Melissa said.

"Of course. I was suspicious of them during that because it would be just like them to start a food fight."

"I'm stuffed." Melissa said putting down her fork.

"Me too." Remus said following her example.

The table disappeared.

"We should get going." Melissa said.

"Yes." Remus agreed.

"Most dates end with a kiss." Melissa hinted.

"We probably should do that now for safety reasons." Remus said taking the hint.

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Three hours later,

"We probably SHOULD leave now." Remus said after coming up for air for the 100th time. "It's been three hours."

"Yeah." Melissa agreed.

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In the common room 15 minutes later,

"Good night Remus." Melissa said as she headed up the stair.

"Good night Melissa." Remus said as he touched the handle to his dorm.

He walked in to find the usual scene: Sirius making out with his pillow, James was talking to "Lily", John murmuring Sara's name, Peter snoring, and Frank was sleeping soundly with the earplugs in his ears.

As Remus climbed into his bed, James turned in his sleep and murmured to his dream Lily, "Can we name him Harry?"

Remus chuckled quietly to himself as he laid down on the pillow and fell asleep.

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In the girls dorm,

Melissa entered her dorm to find everyone asleep. She climbed into her own bed as Lily turned in her sleep and started to talk to her dream.

"I don't care what your family traditions are James." Lily argued with the person in her dream (apparently James). "I'm naming my son Harry and that's final."

Melissa was confused by this, but thought nothing of it as she fell asleep.

The End.