A/N: It took a little while but I'm finally back with another chapter. Even though while writing this I really should have been writing a paper that's due tomorrow, I couldn't leave this baby alone for a while…that and I've been longing for my Remie and Siri while sitting day in and day out in lectures. Have fun kiddos.
Randomness of the Moraco: "Love. Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love."
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Hard to Explain
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Chapter 4
The Severus Reaction
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The next day began just like every normal day. Wait a minute, we're talking about the Marauders here, there are no normal days, but anyway a new day began. The Marauders had their usual morning breakfast in the great hall and were about to go to their dreaded potions class. As they came upon the classroom Remus stopped a few feet away from the door, with a look of apprehension spread across his face.
Sirius was the first to notice and stopped as well. "Remi, what's wrong?"
"We have potions with the Slytherins," he said.
"We've always had potions with the Slytherins. C'mon," Sirius said grabbing Remus' arm hoping that he would not end up having to drag him into the classroom.
"Severus. What if he-?"
"Snape won't say anything to anyone about you. Dumbledore threatened him with too much, his whole future in fact," Sirius said pulling on Remus' sleeve until the other boys' legs began to move.
Remus went into the classroom and sat down in his normal chair which was next to the normal chair of his potions partner Severus Snape. Remus didn't care if he had told the whole Slytherin house what he was. All he cared about was what his reaction would be when he was around him. They'd been becoming friends. They'd shared a few stories and some anecdotes while they worked on potions and Remus had found that Severus wasn't as slimy as his friends had said he was.
The Slytherins came in shortly after. Snape took his usual chair but scooted it as far away from Remus as he could without me suspicious. "Morning, Sev," Remus said to the other boy.
Severus scowled at him and said, "You have no rights to call me that. You'll refer to me as Snape, you creature"
Remus was taken aback by Severus' attitude but then decided not to say anything else to him. He was also quite relieved that no one seemed to pay attention to the fact that he had just been called a 'creature'.
The potions professor entered the room and instructed the students to pick up where they had left off. Severus set up the cauldron and told Remus not to touch anything and just take notes. Remus didn't like this. Potions had started to become one of his more liked subjects because he would work with Severus, who he thought knew more about potions than even the professor, who showed him how things were to be done if he wanted a potion to turn out perfect. He wasn't used to just writing down what he was told, but he did it anyway in fear that no matter how much Dumbledore had threatened him, Severus still might blurt out to the entire school what he really was.
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Remus moped around for the rest of the day, until finally in the Gryffindor 6th year boys dormitory Sirius had something to say about it. "Remus why do you care what that slimy git thinks about you?"
"He's not a slimy git! Not once you get to know him anyway," Remus replied.
"It's not a very smart idea to be fraternizing with the enemy either way," James said.
"Enemy? How is he an enemy? For crying out loud you and Sirius are his worst enemies. He's always your victim! The butt of every one of your jokes! He's a real person. Do you know how those pranks of yours make him feel? I feel guilty when I hear about it, because you're my best friends, and for some reason I can never imagine either one of you making someone feel that way," Remus said.
"Well, he should at least be happy that he has the wonderful Remus, whom he hates, I might add, is standing up for him and his so called feelings." Sirius chuckled.
Remus turned to his boyfriend enraged by his lack of caring. He walked up to him and without warning slapped Sirius hard upon his right cheek. "I'm going to the library," Remus said. He fled the dormitory going to the library.
Sirius simply stood staring off into space after Remus had slapped him. It was taking his mind a bit of time to process all that had just happened in the last minute or so.
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When Remus arrived at the library, he headed for a small little nook were few people ever went to read or study. He didn't expect, what, or rather who he found, to be there.
Severus was sitting in the overstuffed chair staring at the bookcase in front of him. He didn't seem to be aware of anything but the bookcase. Remus had actually come here intending to do the same. To just simply sit and figure out his thoughts. "Sev," he whispered.
Severus came out of his daze and looked at Remus. "What do you want werewolf?" He was sure that no one would hear him say the word, since he had whispered and library was nearly dead anyway.
"I didn't expect to find you here," Remus replied, not answering Severus' question.
"I'll be leaving then." Severus rose from his seat.
"Wait. Please? I want to know why?"
"Why what?"
"Why are you treating me like this? Why did you listen to Sirius anyway? You must have known he was setting you up for something," Remus inquired.
"I don't have to answer your questions, so get out of my way," Severus said as he walked toward Remus, who was insistent upon not letting the other boy leave.
Remus, out of desperation, grabbed Severus by the front of his robes then shoved and held him up against the wall. "Tell me. I want to know, I need to know."
"Fine. I only listened to Black because I wanted to find out more about you. Why, I've been treating you the way I have? Frankly, I'm scared of you. Who comes into a library and shoves another person up against a wall anyway?"
Remus let the other boy go and backed off. "I'm sorry. It's just, I needed some answers from someone. We were becoming friends, Sev. What happened?"
"I could never love something like you," Severus said. He then looked up at Remus to see a look of shock.
"I never said anything about love."
Severus then realized that he had said only what he meant to think. "I have to go," he said quickly and pushed past Remus, at a running pace.
Remus stared as the other boy fled the library. "Love," he whispered to himself. He then sat down in the chair that had previously been occupied by the other boy and began to stare at the bookcase himself.
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A/N: Jinkies…Ain't Remus just a stud muffin…got everyone all over him and all. Oh well I love Remus, and though it's hard to explain, I for some reason love Severus, despite he can occasionally be a git, I still like him. Oh well, that's all for this chapter so if you could be a sweety and drop your thoughts off by clicking that button down below I'd be grateful.