Thank you, CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur and anubis04 for encouraging reviews! It is really nice to hear that someone has actually read this :)
Anyway, here's the new chapter, bit longer than the previous ones, hope you like it. More reviews wouldn't do any harm but if you really don't have time…? Nah, just read it, and I will be pleased, even though I will never know you read it.
All the characters you might recognize (Lupin, Tonks etc.) are property of J.K.Rowling and not mine. There are also my own characters (Lena Silverspoon, Oliver Prewett) and they naturally belong to me.
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IV Lapdance
Lupin came home late in the night just to find that Tonks had left him little snacks in the kitchen table. He heard her snoring in her bedroom and decided to take a glass of wine, a great drink invented by the wood nymphs and not by the muggles, even though the muggles liked to think it was all their invention.
Lupin wondered to the living room and found his favourite armchair. He sat in the darkness for some time, sipping his wine and thinking about everything. The person that filled all his thoughts was of course Lena Selene Silverspoon, little Star.
Lupin remembered he had had a crush on her from his very first year at Hogwarts. Lena had always been the wilder and more imaginative of the Twins – that was something that had made her even more attractive in Lupin's eyes. His friends Sirius Black and James Potter had been of course the worst troublemakers of the school, but Lena hadn't been bad either. She had always done all sorts of cleaver tricks but had never got caught.
Lupin usually hadn't had the chance to talk to her. She had always been with Lily and Lupin had always been with Sirius and James, so as Lily hadn't wanted to spend time near James it had been almost impossible for Lupin to make contact to Lena. Lupin wasn't sure if she had noticed his secret admiration.
They were both made prefects at their fifth year which gave Lupin the chance he had been wishing. It was the possibility to talk to her about something, even if it was only something about prefect duties. Suddenly he saw her everywhere and she also came to talk to him. Sirius and James always teased him about Lena and asked how the "project Silverspoon" was progressing. James had probably been a bit jealous, because he had been used to the fact that he was the one who got everything he wanted and suddenly his quiet friend came and made more progress with a girl than he had never managed to make. Lupin smiled alone in the dark. How silly little boys they had all been that time.
He didn't know when Lena had actually found out about his crush but he remembered one little incident at the end of their sixth year at Hogwarts. He still wasn't sure if Lena had anything to do with it but he had strong hunch that it had been just that kind of thing Lena would be capable and willing to do. Lupin sank deep in his memories and lived it all again.
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It was a rainy afternoon and the Defence Against the Dark Arts –lesson had just ended. Remus was packing his stuff when Sirius came to him and whispered: "I have a damn good idea about tomorrow. Meet me in the Great Hall at dinner and I'm going to share it with you." Sirius grinned madly and ran away.
Remus stared after him, feeling a bit worried. He sure wanted to know what Sirius was up to but still he didn't want to get himself into too much trouble. Tomorrow was going to be their last Hogsmeade visit before summer holidays and Sirius was obviously planning to do something in there.
The Great Hall was already packed with hungry people when Remus came in but it was still easy for him to locate his friends: Sirius, James and Peter. They waved at him and he joined them in the table. "So" started Sirius. "I expect you all want to hear my excellent plan about our Hogsmeade trip." James and Peter nodded with enthusiasm but Remus only waited for him to continue. "I heard that there are some dance girls at the upstairs of the Hog's Head. We are going to go there and see them!" he finished with a triumphant grin.
James shot a short glance at the girls near by and Remus knew he was thinking about Lily. Then he made his decision and nodded to Sirius. "That sounds cool! But how're we going to get there? I mean, we should probably be of age before we can see them, shouldn't we?" he asked. "My source said that they don't ask ages. They don't care who their clients are as long as they have clients…" James accepted that and they both turned to look at Remus. "Well, our prefect boy, are you ready to do it?" James asked with a little smile. Remus wasn't sure what he wanted. "Look, I really don't know about this…" Sirius raised his eyebrows. "What do I hear? You're not willing to see beautiful girls? Oh, I see, you already have your own honey… by the way, how are you progressing with that Silverspoon girl?" Remus blushed. The fact was, actually, that he hadn't made any progress at all lately. They were friends but that was all. He looked at his friends and nodded. "I'm coming with you."
Weather was better the next day: it didn't rain but it was still grey and somehow depressing. Remus, Sirius, James and Peter walked out of the castle, waiting excitedly their trip to the upstairs of the Hog's Head. They didn't talk much and Remus preferred it that way. He still wasn't sure if the thing they were planning to do was a good idea. But now it was already too late to back out.
When they arrived to Hogsmeade they headed straight to the Hog's Head. The bar was almost empty and as repressive as always. For a moment they stood at the doorway, uncertain of where to go. Then Sirius spotted a small sign at the back of the bar that told: "Madame Crimson's girls – here to entertain you". They walked through the bar and found narrow stairs leading to darkness. Sirius looked at other boys and asked: "Well, are we going then?" They nodded and started to climb the stairs.
In upstairs they found a small reception desk with a quite old lady sitting behind it. She wore a black satin dress with small feathers and little pearls as decorations and she had lifted her hair up to a loose bun. She had a long cigarette in her hand and she sucked it intensely. Despite her age she was a really impressive and marvellous-looking woman.
All the boys only stared at her for a second. The woman laughed and started to speak with a low and husky voice. "Hello, my young, pleasure-seeking friends. I expect you are come to meet my girls?" Sirius stepped forward and nodded nervously. "Good. You may go to the room six, I'm sending four girls after you. Make yourselves comfortable, they come in a minute."
Sirius, James, Remus and Peter walked the corridor quietly and came to the room six. They stepped in and examined the room with interest. It was quite small but surprisingly tidy. There were about six comfortable-looking armchairs in the corners of the room and plain area in the middle of the room – it was obviously for the girls. There were no windows in the room and the lighting was dim and reddish. Remus chose an armchair furthest away from the door and sank in it. Sirius, James and Peter had also found seats to them and sat down. No one said a thing, they were all waiting.
Suddenly music started. It was slow jazz, sexy and lazy. The doors opened and four girls stepped in. The expression "girls" was a bit wrong – none of them was younger than 35 years. They were still all very beautiful and their moves were soft and planned. The boys stared at them, awestruck. One of the ladies was blond, two were brunettes and the fourth had raven hair. The "girls" danced in the middle of the room for some time and started then moving towards the boys. The blond came to Remus and smiled to him cunningly. There was something very familiar in that smile. Remus frowned a bit, wondering if he had seen the woman before.
Then, without any warning, the lady came and sat on his lap. Remus became totally confused and didn't know what to do with his hands. He ended up placing his hands on the both sides of him, carefully not touching the woman. She bent down and whispered to his ear: "You can call me Carla". Remus nodded weakly, totally puzzled. Sirius hadn't told anything about communicating with the girls. He had only talked about watching them. Remus looked what the other boys were doing and saw Sirius kissing the tall brunette sitting on his lap. James looked a bit insecure with the black-haired woman and Peter was looking totally frightened with the lady dancing in front of him.
"Relax." He heard the soft whisper in his ear and turned to face the woman. She was rubbing his shoulders, trying to make him relax. Remus took a deep breath and smiled at Carla. After all he had come this far so why not dive even deeper. Carla gave that cunning and seductive smile again and Remus felt a warm jolt in his stomach. There was something really familiar about that smile.
He didn't know how long he just sat there, watching Carla's blue eyes and thinking of someone with sparkling green eyes. Then Carla started soft movements – she started to dance there, sitting on his lap. She made slow, round movements with her laps and caressed his chest with her hands at the same time. Remus started to breathe faster. This must've been the thing they called the lapdance…
After about a half an hour of intense dancing Remus felt Carla's body starting to feel somehow softer and slimmer. He raised his eyes and noticed Carla's hair looking now rather pink instead of shocking blond it had been in the beginning. Carla seemed to wake up from some kind of trance she had been during the dance. Other girls had also stood up and were now waving nervously to Carla. The black-haired girl was looking really nervous and her hair looked also bit redder. "Come on now, Le—uhm Carla! We really have to go now!"
Carla rose up and gave a soft kiss to Remus. Her hair was turning redder every second. She whispered: "See you, Remus" and hurried out of the room, leaving him really puzzled and confused. The door closed behind the girls and silence fell to the room.
Sirius was the first one to speak. "What the hell was that? Why did they leave so quickly?" Remus took a glance at him, trying to understand what had just happened. Had the others noticed how different the girls had looked like when they left? James was obviously pondering on something really hard. He was licking his lips, probably remembering the raven-haired girl's kisses. Peter looked rather pale and shocked and he had sunk really deep in his chair. Sirius frowned in a slightly annoyed way and took a deep breath. Then he turned to face the others and grinned in his usual way. "Well, that was surely something, wasn't it?"
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Lupin had never found out if Carla had actually been Lena, because nothing had changed after the incident. Lena had still been as friendly as ever towards him and soon Lupin had begun to think he had only imagined the whole hair colour changing thing. But still… There could have been a new spark in her eyes, like a new secret she only knew. Lupin sighed. It didn't matter anymore. He still didn't know what to do.
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