Title: Cursed / Remus 1/2
Author: Siren M.
Archive: fanfiction.net, SBRL list and whoever who wants it just please tell me ^^
Summary: Total AU, MWPP era, Remus is cursed but in a different way. Character torture ^^
Spoilers: none
Rating: general
Disclaimer: If Harry Potter was mine, I wouldn't be writing fanfics would I? So no, none of the characters are mine ^^
Warnings: none whatsoever ....urm...unless you count the ridiculousness and the idiocy of the writer ^_^`9 Oh and it's self-edited, so be warned of bad grammar, stupid spelling mistakes, dumb mistakes that could have been avoidable if I wasn't so bloody thick and the list goes on... ^^ I think that's about it.
Feedback: sairenm@hotmail.com or siren_m@yyhmail.com

Notes: "..." is speech, while [...] are thoughts.

I would like to thank

Remus chewed his food slowly, wondering what mischief that his friend was planning now, snickering like the jackass that he acted like sometimes...alright, most of the time. He turned to the direction his friend was laughing at to see Lucius Malfoy scowling darkly at the dark haired boy, nursing his black eye with a bag of ice.

With mixed feelings, he turned back to see Sirius happily picking at his food, his mind a thousand miles away, not even minding in the least when James stole his steak where he would usually be protesting bloody murder. (Hey! I'm a growing boy, I need my meat!)

Remus, as well as James and Peter, wondered what the heck was wrong with him. He had been like that since early that afternoon, appearing back an hour later after the little quarrelling session with James, in a happy little daze. Remus, who had only moments later appeared (after obtaining hot water and managing to dry himself without any other happenings, fortunately) had been assured by the other two marauders that they did not know what was going on.

"By the way, did you hear what happened to Peeves?" Penny, another Gryffindor asked them excitedly. All five of the marauders (including Lily) turned to her, prompting her to preen like a peacock from all the attention.

"No, why?" Sirius asked, shoving a fork full of mashed potato into his mouth. Penny flipped her long blonde hair, batting her eyelashes at Sirius, who looked disinterestedly at her.

Remus rolled his eyes at the display.

[Honestly, you'd think that they were in their mating season or something] he thought, stabbing his steak with his knife with more force than necessary, feeling as if something (green) was slowly creeping up his spine.

Sitting opposite of him, emerald eyes too was rolling in their sockets at the attempted flirting.

"Well?" Lily asked impatiently.

Sometimes, she wondered how Penny managed to get into Gryffindor, the gossip and flirt that she was. Lily was sure if it wasn't because of Sirius' looks, Penny wouldn't even look their way much less talk to the little group. Not that she'd care. She didn't need to befriend someone who judged people by their looks. Especially when they themselves act like the dumb blondes that they were usually discriminated as. Honestly, it's because of people like her that people look down upon them.

[Well, at least not all blondes act like their head if only filled with air] Lily thought to herself, picking up an apple from a silver platter, shooting a look at the blonde (though his hair was more of brown than gold) that was sitting opposite her.

Remus was gracefully slicing his steak, not even looking up at Penny as the strawberry blonde went into a tirade of details of how Peeves was found (though she wasn't the one who found him). Remus looked up from his steak, fork poised half way to his mouth, to meet Lily's gaze. Lily smiled as the other blonde did the same.

"I didn't know you can do that to a ghost," Peter commented, scratching his head.

"I'd be surprised if you did know," Penny replied haughtily, giving him a contemptuous look. Lily scowled at the blonde as Peter blushed heavily in embarrassment.

"I'd say the same to you, Penny."

Surprised, the five of them turned to Sirius, who pierced a pea with his fork and flicked it towards the strawberry blonde, who squealed indignantly. Lily snickered as the dark haired boy repeated his actions, until the offended blond Gryffindor got up and left them in anger.

"Way to go, Padfoot!" James said, smirking.

"Hmph," Sirius snorted, "thinks she can pick on us."

"Thanks, Padfoot," Peter said gratefully.

"Nah, don't fret about it," Sirius said, flicking a pea at the plump blonde, who grinned and duck.

Lily smiled at the brotherly display. She knew there was a reason why she liked the dark haired Gryffindor despite his bravado and arrogance, and despite the fact that he seemed to hate her for being with James. A warm hand grasped her own, and she looked up to see James smiling at her. She smiled back.

"Are you two done?"

The two love birds turned to the owner of the voice, who was smiling at them impishly.

"What-?" James was blushing, Lily wondered why. It's not like they were caught snogging or anything.

"I said, are you done?" Remus asked, then pointed to their plates.

"Oh!" her oh-so-articulate James replied, "Ye...ah. Yes, we are."

"Then, let's go," Sirius said.

Remus nodded, then got up.

Peter got up too, but not before grabbing some sweets.

"Be careful with those, wormtail," Sirius warned, getting up from his chair "they might give you a heart attack."

Peter blinked as Remus snickered, then hit Sirius in the shoulder for teasing the younger boy. The dark haired boy grinned impishly, before sticking his tongue out at Peter and grabbing a few sweets himself and depositing them into his pocket.

The five of them headed towards their common room, laughing at jokes that Sirius spouted ever so readily. Entering through the portrait, Lily watched as Sirius dumped the sweets on Peter's lap and jumped onto the sofa, right on top of Remus who squawked in protest at the extra weight.

"Sirius!"

"Remy!"

"Get off me!"

Lily chuckled as Sirius tickled the tawny haired boy causing him to go into a laughing fit, struggling futilely.

"S-stop! Si-s-sirius!" but the dark haired boy didn't stop. "Help! P-rongs! Wo-wormtail!"

"Hold on, Moony! We're coming!" James shouted a mock war cry before jumping onto the sofa himself, tackling Sirius. Lily wondered briefly if the sofa could really hold the weight of three growing boys before Peter, too jumped on the sofa in an attempt to help his friend who was pinned beneath the two warring boys.

*Crack*

At that sound, the four infamous Marauders paused, then looked at each other. But before any of them could react, the support holding the sofa broke.

"EEP!" was heard (Lily didn't know who had uttered it), before the crash came. Lily winced as the sofa fell, bringing with it, the four boys, who sat on the ruins for a good while, shock written on their faces. The other fellow Gryffindors with them, in the common room gaped at them. It was a moment before anyone made any noise.

"Wh-"

Lily couldn't help it. The look on their faces was priceless. She burst into laughter, clutching her stomach. The other Gryffindors chuckled then started laughing too. The four Marauders sat on the broken sofa, blinking clueless for a while, before bursting into a tirade.

"Hey!"

"Oi! Watch your elbow!"

"Ouch, my ass hurts."

"GET OFF!"

Wiping tears of mirth from the corner of her eyes, Lily couldn't help but love them all.

*****

Sirius hummed as he prodded his wand on his parchment, erasing the accidental blotch of ink. Settling his wand back, he lifted his assignment, reading the contents, then compared it with James's. Satisfied that the two assignments, though containing the same contents was different enough not to be caught for cheating, he set them down, then rolled onto his back.

Looking up at the ceiling for a while, he wondered briefly what his companion was doing before turning to his side to regarded his tawny haired friend who was the only other occupant in the dormitory. Remus too, was doing his homework, chewing his lips as his mind went into deep thought.

[Always the deep thinker] Sirius thought, his attention diverted to the soft brown hair that was tied at the base of Remus' neck, rippling at every movement. Touching his own black locks that reached to his shoulders, Sirius' mind begin to wander to earlier in the afternoon when he found a similarly autumn haired person cornered by the snake Malfoy.

At first, he had thought the tawny haired one was Remus, but at second glance, Sirius realized that the brown haired one was a girl, and too short to be his friend. When he saw Malfoy, he wondered what was going on before he decided to manhandle Malfoy when he tried to touch the girl. He really hadn't thought much when he jumped out to help the girl who so obviously wanted to get away from the blonde Slytherin.

A smile blooming at his lips, Sirius remembered the way the girl with flowing brown locks subdue the two large gargoyles with one spell. Beautiful, intelligent and powerful. Not to mention the fact that she snubbed Malfoy. Definitely intelligent.

"Padfoot!"

Sirius jerked out of his thoughts about the tawny haired girl to turn to his tawny haired *male* friend, who was watching him with a raised eyebrow.

"You 'kay?"

"Yeah!" Sirius chirped, eyes wide and smiling sheepishly.

"Okay-" Remus replied slowly, wondering about the blush that decorated his dark-haired friend's cheeks. Holding out his transfiguration assignment, the brown haired boy asked, "Can you help me with this?"

"Sure!" ^_^

*****

Severus smiled humorlessly as the platinum haired aristocrat ranted angrily, throwing things across the room.

"Bastard Black!" A vase containing blood red roses crashed against the wall. "Damn him!"

After a few more tomes being hurtled against the dungeon wall, Severus got up from the couch. Moving to the entrance of the dorm room, he was stopped by Lucius voice.

"Where are you going!?"

"Last I know, I didn't have a stamp on me branding me as yours, so I don't think I have to justify as to where I'm going to you," Severus retorted, smirking at the rage glittering in Malfoy's blue eyes. He didn't stay long to see the blond's temper go rampant, exiting the room with the irate shout echoing behind him.

Who would have thought that a simple girl like that would cause such a reaction from the ever calm Malfoy, but then, Malfoy didn't respond well to rejections. Severus would know, having suffered through his raging temper when Lily Evans had too, spurned Malfoy's proposal (not a marriage one), no longer than a year ago.

But even then, he had not been so out of sorts, at least not the whole afternoon. He had merely been really hostile and snappy to anyone who so even looked his way. Another crash followed as he exited the Slytherin's common room.

Severus stopped for a while, complating, then, decided to head to the library where he knew a certain Gryffindor would be. Though the girl's presence was a mystery to him, he wasn't as much interested with her as Lucius. Hearing a familiar voice, he turned to the owner of the soft alto, eyes narrowing at the lose tawny hair that rested messily against the boy's back.

"Could you please hold this for me, Peter," Remus Lupin asked the other blonde, who nodded eagerly, clutching the tomes his friend handed to him.

[Pathetic] Severus thought to himself, watching the two blondes for a while before deciding to approach them. Lupin retied his hair, straightening them out before neatly tying them at the base of his neck. Severus watched, hand wanting to reach out to yank out the golden ribbon that held the brown locks together.

"Thanks, Peter," Remus said gratefully, sincerely, reaching into his bag to take out another two more huge books. Fleetingly, Severus wondered how such a small boy could carry so many books as Lupin retrieved the books that the other Gryffindor was carrying.

"Let's go," Remus said, half dwarfed by the books he was carrying.

[And the pathetic friend of his don't know how to offer help] Severus thought, scowling at the overweight blonde who suddenly looked anxious when he caught sight of the skulking Slytherin.

"Remus-" the simpering idiot alerted the other Gryffindor, honestly, Severus wondered how did the plump blonde ever got into Gryffindor with that blubbering cowardly way of his.

Remus didn't seem surprised to see him or fearful. He merely regarded him with a lifted eyebrow and a nod before turning towards the entrance of the library with Pettigrew trailing behind him warily.

Severus followed them, watching Lupin walk and ignoring the looks from Pettigrew. After all, this was the library, it belonged to all of Hogwarts and it shouldn't have been such a surprise to find him there because just like Lupin, he liked to study in the peace and the library, among others, was the best place he could study.

He watched from a corner as Lupin returned the books he was carrying to the librarian, a sullen witch who seldom even look at people unless it was to glare at students who dared to disturb the silence of the library.

But, to Severus' surprise, Madam Pince looked up and smiled at the tawny haired Gryffindor and talked softly with the boy a few moments before the brown-haired Gryffindor left the counter to sit next to his fellow Gryffindor who had been waiting for him.

Severus selected a few books and sat down near enough to hear them speak (translation: just a table away) and settled down reading, listening to the lull of the soft alto voice whispering explanations and calculations.

*****

Remus pushed his hair away from his face, scribbling on his parchment without a pause. He had to finish his arithmancy homework before going to dinner but tutoring Peter had taken more of his time than he had expected. He had ended up skipping dinner. Finishing the last calculations, he sighed and stretched, feeling his muscles groan in protest.

Getting up, he gathered his things and returned the books he used to the racks and collected those he wanted to borrow but a sight stopped him in his steps.

Severus Snape was sleeping, with his head on his arm, in the next table.

Remus contemplated for a while, then slowly approached the slumbering Slytherin. It was nearing curfew after all. And autumn nights were exceptionally cold in the library.

"Severus," he said softly, shaking the dark haired boy's shoulder. The Slytherin grunted softly. Remus called a little louder, "Severus, wake up."

This time, the dark haired Slytherin woke up, blinking his dark eyes at the sight of Remus touching his shoulder above him, looking confused. It took him a while for his brain to start working.

"What do you want, Lupin."

Remus huffed, that's gratitude for you. He retrieved his hand and rolled his eyes.

"Just wanted to wake you up for the heck of it," he replied, sarcasm dripping from his tone. He turned away from the dark haired Slytherin.

"The library is going to close in a few minutes time," he continued after a while, picking up his books, "you might want to head back to your common room before anyone accuses you of being out past curfew." Then he left Snape sitting where he was, watching the brown haired Gryffindor leave.

Remus tried to stuff some of his books into his bag as he exited the library but his bag couldn't fit so he was left with no options but to carry them.

"Remy!"

An unconscious smile stretched across his lips at the call of the familiar voice. He turned a little to the side and waited for raven haired Gryffindor to reach him. And when he did, he grabbed hold of Remus' right arm.

"You didn't go for dinner," Sirius the hurricane said, "Wondered where you were. Are you hungry? Let's go for a kitchen raid."

Before Remus couldn't even say a thing, he was pulled towards the stairs. The books in his arms disappeared as Sirius grabbed them and easily carried the huge tomes under his right arm and hauled Remus with the other.

"Sirius!"

"Come on!"

Severus watched from a corner, his black robes and equally black hair blending perfectly with the shadows, scowling darkly at the two disappearing Gryffindor.

*****

*The next morning*

Lily could almost smack herself. How could she have forgotten her text?

The redhead ran across the hallway, weaving in and out of the crowds of students gracefully. Unbidden, she turned a corner and whammed straight into someone.

For a few moments, the two girls sat on the floor, dazed. Then Lily looked up and thought it was Remus but something in her mind registered that this was a girl and that she was wet.

"Are you alright? I'm sorry!" Lily apologized, standing up to help the other girl.

"Oh no. I'm sorry, Lily. I wasn't looking," the blonde countered, accepting her help.

"It's alright. I wasn't either. We're even, I guess," Lily said, chuckling a little.

The girl chuckled too, sheepishly. She looked at Lily in uncertainty but after a while, she looked away. Lily felt a bit shock at the almost identical appearance that this girl had with the brown haired boy that was one of the Marauders.

The long brown hair braided neatly though dripping wet, the smooth alabaster complexion and the turquoise green eyes that glinted with humor. The only difference Lily could tell between the two brown haired Gyffindors (Lily noticed the badge on the other girl's oversized robes) was their difference in height and obvious gender difference.

"Your things," the girl said before bending to picked up the fallen articles, snapping Lily out of her reverie. The redhead bend down too, picking things strewn on the marble floor.

"These are yours right?" Lily asked the brown haired girl, who was looking at the books, trying to sort them out. She nodded and they interchanged the books.

"Thanks. Sorry about that again," Lily said, apologetically.

"Me too. Sorry," She said briefly, before disappearing quickly into the throngs of pupils rushing to get to their morning classes.

Remembering the Arithmancy text that she had forgotten, Lily quickly ran to the Gryffindor common room and into her dorm room. Easily finding the book, Lily raced to her class only to arrive five minutes late. But she wasn't the only one late though.

"Five points from Gryffindor for being late, Mister Lupin," Professor Miltz said disapprovingly, despite her fondness for the quiet boy.

The brown haired boy arrived several minutes later than Lily, disheveled and panting. He nodded towards the Professor in an acknowledgement for his mistake and trudged to his chair, slumping onto it gratefully. Lily smiled as Remus lifted his gaze and met hers. She frowned when the boy only gave her a weak smile and looked away quickly.

Directing her attention back on her open book as Proffessor Miltz started the lesson, Lily's emerald green eyes fell on the books sitting by the corner of her table. There were two identical text in between her books.

Frowning, Lily picked up the two books and looked at it. One of it didn't belong to her, of course. She had her tranfiguration text with her so it must belonged to the girl she had knocked into then. Opening the cover page, Lily blinked when she saw the name written on it in the familiar elegant handwriting.

The book belonged to Remus Lupin.

Tsuzuku

Gomen Nasai! I realise that I have lots of mistakes in this part, please forgive me. I didn't really have time to correct the grammar because of all the assignments dumped on my head recently. I apologize but please, feel free to tell me where my mistakes are so I can correct them an repost the part together with the next part.

Oh, early warning. There might be cross dressing in here ^^ (no question as to whom it'll be wearing the drag) *snicker*

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