Not a Chance
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Harry Potter, or any of the characters mentioned in this story, unless stated otherwise. Rated for some sexual content, violence and language. Any similarities to real life are purely coincidence and I will not be held responsible! Thanks!
WARNING: WILL CONTAIN SLASH (male on male)!! Ye be warned
Author's Note: hee, hee. Lots of lovely feedback the last couple chapters, and I'm so glad you all liked it. XD It means the world. Now sadly, there will only be like…4 or 5 chapters after this one, and then it shall be the end. Sadly. I'm going to cry at the end of this, I know it. Any hoot, enough of this, onward with the chapter now!! Cheers.
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CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Remus could feel sunlight on his face. And he realized he was lying on something soft and he was exceedingly warm. Then it clicked in his brain. He could feel things. Which meant he was alive!
His eyes flew open and he sat blot upright in bed. James and Lily were sitting at this bedside, both looking noticeably worse for wear. "James? Lily? What happened-? How…? Where's Padfoot?" He made to actually get out of bed and look for him.
"He's fine," said Wormtail from the other side of his bed. Remus opened his mouth to speak, but a familiar voice beat him to it.
"Remus?" the werewolf's eyes slid across the ward to a curtained bed and he heard Madam Pomfrey chiding his lover sternly.
"Mr. Black, stay put! You've just suffered a head injury!"
"So put a fucking band-aid on me! I'm fine!" The matron gasped at his language as Remus snickered with Peter and Lily. James remained slightly stone-faced, but a hint of a smirk quirked the corners of his mouth upward just the same. Two nanoseconds later, the Animagus bounded over from behind the curtain, almost tripping himself up, and climbed onto Remus' bed with him. Poppy merely sighed, muttering, and moved off to her office.
"What happened?" Remus asked softly.
Before any of them could answer, the doors to the ward were pushed creakily open, and Professor Dumbledore strolled through almost leisurely. He smiled kindly at the students assembled, and Conjured up a chair for himself, sitting down primly. "So, Mr. Lupin, I take it you've made a full recovery?" The werewolf nodded. "And have your friends filled you in on what happened after you lost consciousness?" Remus shook his head.
"He just woke up," James explained.
"Ah," said Dumbledore. "Well then I will take it upon myself to tell you that there is both good and bad news." Remus swallowed. "Good news first then?" he didn't wait for any sort of reply. "Rodolphus Lestrange was apprehended by Ministry officials thanks to Miss Evans' spell-work, and awaits his hearing before the Wizengamot in Azkaban. I feel confident that he will be duly punished for his use of the Cruciatus Curse."
Remus smiled thankfully. "What about Greyback?"
Dumbledore's face fell slightly. "That is the bad news. The Aurors who arrived on the scene were unable to apprehend Fenrir Greyback. He Disapparated apparently moments after Mr. Black brought you up to the school."
Remus sat back, stunned. That sick fucking monster was running around, scot-free somewhere, able to maim how many other children? He felt lightheaded all of a sudden, and it was only Sirius' warm hand over his own that kept him breathing.
"I'm so very sorry Remus. I understand what this must be like for you," said Dumbledore softly. He patted the youth's knee, standing and Vanishing his chair. Remus merely nodded mutely.
The Headmaster swept from the room and there was a tense silence among the five young people. "Who's…?" James ventured bravely after several long minutes of silenced stretched out.
"Greyback. He's the one…why I am what I am," Remus said, glancing slightly at Lily.
The redhead wasn't stupid - far from it in fact. She knew something was up. "What do you mean?" she asked slowly.
Remus sighed and passed a weary hand over his face.
"You don't have to tell her if you don't want to Mooney," Sirius said softly. James glared at him. Apparently that offence still rankled.
"I might as well," Remus sighed, feeling depression settling over him like a proverbial rain cloud. He looked directly at the redhead. "I'm a werewolf. Fenrir Greyback is the one who bit me." His tone was blank, expressionless, and very unlike the normally rather chipper Remus she had come to know and love.
Lily's mouth fell open for a good three seconds, before she closed it with a snap. "Really?" she breathed incredulously.
Remus smiled bitterly and without humour. "Yes. So go ahead and…and storm out, or, or…"
The next thing he knew, Lily was off of James' lap, sitting on his other side, and wrapping her arms around him. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" she whispered. "Oh Remus!"
Remus sat there, blinking stupidly. Sirius smiled slightly and James was wearing his little crooked smile he saved for Lily alone when she was being adorable. Peter beamed. The werewolf patted Lily hesitantly on the back, and she pulled away finally. "So…so you don't…mind?"
"Well it's not as though you decided to be a werewolf. Look at me. There are scores of people who hate me because I'm Muggle-born; it would be hypocritical to start hating you because of something you can't control." She smiled encouragingly, and Remus allowed the corners of his own mouth to quirk up briefly.
"Thank you," he said simply. Lily waved it off.
"Thank you. For telling me."
There was a slightly awkward pause that was neither comfortable nor uncomfortable until Peter spoke. "That's why we call him Mooney."
Lily giggled. "That's clever. And which of you came up with that?"
"Sirius did," Peter replied.
James looked a little sour again, but didn't comment. Sirius sighed and put his head on his lover's shoulder.
"So what's with the other weird nicknames?" Lily asked brightly. She was greeted with silence, and four - okay, three and a half guilty-looking (Remus didn't look very guilty) Marauders. She rounded on James. "James? What's with the weird nicknames?"
Remus smirked. "Oh now you lot have to tell her. It's all or nothing lads. Besides, it's Lily."
"We're Animaguses," James sighed, and added something mumbled under his breath. Lily cocked an eyebrow.
"What was that last bit?"
"Illegally…"
"We did it so we could, y'know, stay with Mooney on the full," Sirius put in.
Lily looked more shocked to hear this than of Remus' lycanthropy. "Animaguses…illegally… How…?"
"Simple spell, a bit of wand waving…" said James modestly.
"So Mooney indicates a werewolf…" Lily looked at Peter. "Wormtail is…?"
"A rat." Lily nodded and turned to Sirius.
"Padfoot?"
"He's the Grim," Remus said, smiling and Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Large-ish dog. Black. Hairy."
Lily turned on James' lap (to his delight) "And Prongs…?"
"Stag, love. Big, manly-"
Lily snorted. "Deer. Aww, that's adorable! You can be my Bambi!" Remus snickered, the only one to get the reference. "Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs." She shook her head, muttering something suspiciously like 'bloody Marauders…'
"You can't tell anyone though!" exclaimed Peter suddenly. Lily looked righteously offended.
"I assumed so with the whole illegality of it."
Remus tried to bite it back, but couldn't control the yawn that slipped out. He was exceedingly tired all of a sudden. Sirius smiled softly at him as he snuggled into his shirt, and looked pointedly at the others. James stared back hard, and Sirius didn't hold his gaze for long. They seemed to take the hint though, and rose, Lily hugged Remus one last time, and pulled James away by the hand, Peter scurrying along behind them.
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Remus was admitted out of the hospital wing the next morning, and, in true Hogwarts fashion, was bombarded with people asking to know what had happened, and was he all right? Who was the Death Eater they had carted off to Azkaban? Remus merely shrugged them all off, and set himself to going back to study for his NEWTs.
Peter found himself suddenly in the spotlight, and capitalized on it as best he could, sneaking off to the Room of Requirement over the next week or so for various trysts from younger girls wanting a share of the Marauders. It was heaven to him.
Sirius brooded, and tried to study as best he could, but when Remus was sitting beside him, he would undoubtedly become aroused, and would call for frequent 'study breaks' to either ravage his lover or go take a cold shower. Depending on Remus' current mood.
Yet the dark-haired youth had still not patched things up with his best mate, and while the two were civil enough, the tension was getting to be most annoying, as Remus found himself trying to escape the room whenever he shared it with the two of them.
"Go apologize Padfoot."
"Huh?" Sirius looked up from the book he had been absently doodling in. Not that he would ever admit it, especially to Remus. He was 'studying'.
"To James. I can't stand another second of it. Really. I've gotten past whatever happened with you and Lily, she has, and he's forgiven her. Get off your high horse and just do it." Sirius rolled his eyes behind his eyelids. "That still counts as you rolling you eyes at me, Sirius," Remus added.
They had been through this a dozen times already, if not more. Sirius produced the same argument he always did. "If James wants to talk about it, he'll come to me. I've paid my dues to you Remus, because we were, are, dating. He and Lily weren't."
Remus rubbed his brow. Time to try a new tact. Reason and logic had failed. Anger and frustration had failed. Time to pull out the big guns. Figuratively speaking. "You're absolutely right," Remus sighed. He closed his own book, carefully setting it aside, and looked across the deserted dorm room. To say Sirius looked suspicious would be tantamount to saying elephants were big-ish. He rose and stretched. "I think I might just go take a shower." Sirius nodded, still looking bewildered. "Want to come with?"
Sirius was off his bed in record time, and Remus couldn't help but chuckle. "What's gotten into you Mooney?" he purred, nuzzling his neck. Remus shrugged as Sirius worked his shirt off. Their mouths met, and tongues tasted lazily, contentedly.
"Where's Peter?" Remus murmured.
"Room of…Requirement. Won't be back…for ages," Sirius replied between heated kisses. Remus grinned.
"And James?"
"Who cares?" Remus' brow inched upward. "Probably somewhere with Evans." Sirius tugged on his trousers. "So what about this shower you've promised me?"
Remus chuckled, and pulled him into the bathroom. They stripped languidly, and Remus pulled away long enough to set the water temperature to just under scalding. As he was bent, moderating the temperature at the faucet, Sirius pressed his throbbing, engorged manhood to his entrance.
Remus groaned in anticipation, but suddenly Sirius pulled away. "Remus, why is your side all…why isn't it healing?"
Remus looked at the relatively new gash from Greyback. It was pink and puckered, and looked particularly un-healed. Remus sighed. "Pads, it's from another werewolf. It's dark magic in there. It will probably never heal fully." His gentle Remus-smile turned wicked and very Padfoot-like. He stepped back, into the now steaming shower.
Sirius was always one to be easily distracted, and as he watched the gentle first droplets of water sliding over the delightful plane of Remus' neck and chess to his stomach, dipping into his belly button, and finally to hide in the little patch of hair around his magnificent erection. Sirius felt his own cock stir.
He stepped into the shower after his lover, and closed the frosty glass of the doors. Remus back up until his beck pressed to the damp, cool, harvest-gold tiles. Sirius let his tongue follow the increasingly indistinguishable trails the droplets of water left down his lover's body, before kneeling fully, and kissing Remus' cock lovingly.
His tongue caressed the head, tasting his pre-come and making Remus groan and shiver. The hot water on his chest, the cooler tiles on his back and Padfoot's mouth wrapping around his cock was almost too much for his senses to handle. And the way his lover was only teasingly pleasuring him was driving him wild.
He gripped the damp dark hair and swallowed thickly. "Padfoot…"
"All in good time love. I've, unbelievably, never made love to you in the shower before. I want you to remember this."
"And I want you to fuck me until I can't stand anymore and you have to hold me against the wall…" Remus panted. Sirius chuckled lightly around a generous mouthful of phallus, and the werewolf felt his eyes roll back in his head.
"But I suppose," Sirius murmured, lips brushing the velvety pouch of Remus' balls, tongue flicking out between his words, "your way has merit as well, love."
"Then get on with it," Remus said in a breathy voice.
"Are you telling me what to do Messr Mooney?" Sirius asked, standing, their erections grinding together and eliciting the ecstatic friction. "Because I think I like it, baby."
He turned Remus, and as the hot spray from the showerhead assaulted their naked bodies, slid his cock into him completely. His lover was slippery from the moisture, and it served its purpose of turning Sirius on even more. "Fuck Mooney, how did we not think of this earlier?" he panted as he drilled the now very willing boy into submission.
"No…idea…ohh fuck!" Remus felt his orgasm crest as his seed exploded form his cock under Sirius' firm grip, and the Animagus felt pleasure rip through his own body and rode out his orgasm for every last delectable drop into Remus' ass.
They panted, and tried to breathe in the steamy air, and gasped, and clung to one another, kissing hazily. Sirius smirked as he made to pull away, and Remus' knees buckled.
"Come on love, I don't want a prune-y boyfriend. Let's get out and dry off shall we?"
Remus smirked. "On one condition. You have to promise me, on my life, to go talk to Prongs." Sirius frowned, but when Remus turned in his arms and kissed him on the mouth, he sighed.
"Fine. Bloody werewolf using sex against me…" Remus beamed.
"I know you love it, really."
"That's the problem."
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Author's Note: so I realize Bambi wasn't out in the seventies, but…well I just couldn't resist. XD So tells me what you all thought and tune in next time. That's it…for now. Muwahahahaha. (cough, cough, cough). Cheers!!
