~Honey-colored Eyes~
Remus studied the man's face carefully, "J-Jason? Merlin, what in the bloody hell did you do to yourself?!"
Jason laughed, "I finally grew out of being a squirt right before I hit my twenties, and being successful helped a lot with my looks, too."
"Bloody hell!" Remus half gasped.
Sirius glared, almost looking as if he was sulking.
"What? Don't like the new me?" Jason smirked.
Remus shook his head, "No, you've just changed so much!"
Jason finally let Remus go and bent down to grab his bags, "Is this all you have?"
"Yes, but I can get them, Jason," Remus made a move for his luggage.
Jason pulled them back, out of the werewolf's way, "No, no, no, I got it. You're my guest! Now follow me to the car, we have a little ways to travel before we get back to my house."
Jason went ahead of the two and Remus and Sirius followed him.
"Merlin," Remus whispered to Sirius so Jason couldn't hear, "How he's changed!"
"It's nothing special," Sirius growled.
"Nothing special? Sirius, he's changed completely inside and out! He's so outgoing now and really confident! And his looks..." Remus's eyes started to shine, "He's gorgeous!"
A sort of nauseating feeling hit the bottom of Sirius's stomach and he had the sudden urge to regurgitate, "Come on, Moony, you're drooling."
"I am not drooling!" Remus defended.
"You could trip over your own tongue. *I* could trip over your tongue!"
Remus blushed slightly, "Well... maybe a little..."
Remus and Sirius followed Jason out to his car; a metallic silver Lexus SC 430. Sirius didn't think Muggle Studies was a *complete* waste of time.
"I figured you two would like to see a bit of the scenery so I brought my car instead of just apparating here," Jason smiled.
Remus looked thrilled while Sirius held back the urge to roll his eyes.
They got in the back with their luggage and Jason went to the driver's seat.
When they pulled out of the airport and onto the road, Jason kept eyeing the two in his rearview mirror, "So, I heard that you two make quite the cute couple."
"What?!" Remus gaped in surprise. Sirius just stared at him confusedly.
"Yeah, I overheard a few muggles who got off before you talking about a cute pair of males. Something about a blonde having a fear of heights and a raven-haired comforting him. They couldn't stop talking about them so I figured it was you two."
"Yeah, that was us," Sirius silently chuckled.
"So when did you two get together?" Jason flicked on his blinker and turned off onto another road.
Remus's face flushed, "We're not together, Jason. Those muggles were mistaken."
An unnoticeable gleam seemed to take over the brunette's eyes, "Call me Jay, everyone else does."
"Alright... Jay."
The car was silent for the rest of the trip. Sirius just stared blankly out the window watching as green scenery, herds of cattle, and a few horses passed by. That same unsettling feeling was rumbling in his stomach. What frustrated him was he didn't know what was causing it. Finally, he settled on himself just being hungry.
Jay pulled into a driveway and parked the car. Sirius stepped out with his bags and finally took to noticing his surroundings. The two-story house was a hazy blue, with large white windows, a patio in the back, and had a nice balcony that wrapped itself completely around the second story. It overlooked the lake, and on the water rested what looked like some sort of dock. There were neighbors, but they were far enough away for privacy, and the trees on either side helped hide things on the ground.
"It's lovely, Jay," Sirius heard Remus say.
"Come on," Jason ushered the two near the door, "It's almost dinnertime here. I'll have one of the house elves prepare something and you two can get unpacked."
Sirius followed the other two inside, listening as Remus gasped. He looked around and was a little bit impressed by what he saw; a little bit. They had walked straight into a hallway leading off to different parts of the house. Paintings filled the walls and a small chandelier hung from the ceiling above the door.
"This way," Jason smiled, "Your rooms are upstairs."
Sirius and Remus followed him up the stairs that were on the right. They spiraled upward to the second floor.
Jason opened the first door to the left they came upon, "This is your room, Remus."
Remus sidestepped from Sirius's side and entered. Jason shut the door after him and led Sirius two more doors down to the left. "And this is yours, Sirius. I'll leave you two to unpack and come back up to tell you when dinner is ready."
Jason turned around and left back down the stairs. Sirius turned the handle and went inside his room, automatically locking the door with his wand behind him. It was nice. The walls were speckled light blue with dark blue carpet. There were three large windows overlooking a small garden in the back and a white glass door leading out to the balcony. The four-poster king-sized bed was white with carvings of hippogriffs in the wood. The dresser mimicked the bed along with the nightstands and the closet door. A small fireplace stood off to the side, as well as a bathroom. But that wasn't the first thing he noticed. Everything was plain to insinuate toward the ceiling, which was by far the most eye- catching thing in the room.
It was charmed to show a whole herd of wild winged horses galloping across open meadows. And if he knew his breeds, they were Abraxans. Not only that, but a phoenix was circling in the skies above the herd and a mating pair of Antipodean Opaleye dragons were walking around in the background.
One horse in particular caught his eye, and for a good reason. The other horses were palominos as expected with the breed, but the leading stallion was different. Instead of being blotched with patches of paint, it was a pure golden color, right down to its eyes. And strange as that was, although it might have just been a mutation from birth, the gold color was *really* familiar. It wasn't like the gold from Gryffindor, but rather a soft honey color.
Sirius gazed at the ceiling while he set his bags on the bed. He unpacked his clothes and threw the suitcases on the shelf in the closet. He opted to relax on his bed, tired from the plane ride. He closed his eyes and tried to think of just where he'd seen that color gold.
He had only been resting for three minutes when two hands grasped his shoulder and someone yelled, "Padfoot!"
Sirius jumped from the bed, startled out of his wits, and landed square on his butt on the other side. He scrambled up to his feet and locked eyes with a roaring Remus.
"How in the hell did you get in here?!" Sirius squeaked, his heart was still pounding, "I could have sworn I locked the door behind me!"
"You forgot about the balcony. It links our rooms," Remus giggled.
"That was completely unfair!" Sirius sulked.
"Awe," Remus cooed, "Everyone feel bad for Siri."
Sirius grabbed one of the pillows from the bed and chucked it right at Remus. Remus, who had been waiting for something similar, ducked and grabbed his own, knocking Sirius upside the head.
Sirius grinned, "I have too much influence on you."
Remus just smacked him with the pillow again. Sirius sideswiped the blonde and tackled him to the bed immediately going for his stomach.
"S-Sirius!" Remus giggled and squirmed underneath his fingers, "St-top!"
"Hit me on the head will ya?" Sirius grinned, "You aren't going anywhere werewolf." To emphasize his meaning, Sirius pinned Remus to the bed with his bodyweight and continued his assault.
"S-STOP!" Remus yelled, all in vein, "T-This is ho-ow we go-t in-to t-the m- ess the l-ast t-time!"
"Hey, that was your fault," Sirius grinned, "You're the one that knocked us down the stairs."
"Y-You star-ted th-the who-, q-quit it Si-rius!"
Sirius stopped his attack to let Remus breathe for a moment, "What?"
Remus gasped for air, "As I was saying, you started the whole thing by swinging me around!"
"You started it by finding my hair tie like the know-it-all that you are!"
Remus raised an eyebrow and smirked, "You started it by loosing it."
"You started it by not telling me to pack earlier."
Remus looked at him with wide eyes, "I told you to pack a *week* ago!"
"Yeah, but you didn't remind me," Sirius was grinning from ear to ear.
"I shouldn't have to!" Remus exclaimed.
"You said it yourself that I can't remember what happened twenty minutes ago! So you should have reminded me!"
Remus smirked, "You can remember me telling you *that*, but you can't remember me telling you to pack?"
Sirius nodded, "I have a selective memory."
"More like a selective brain," Remus mumbled.
"I heard that!" Sirius shouted.
"So?" Remus raised an eyebrow, "What'ch ya gonna do about it?"
Sirius raised his fingers and went back to his assault on Remus.
Remus got a gleam in his eyes, and in one fluid motion, managed to flip them so that he was on top, bending over the raven-haired on all fours, "You are such a prat, Padfoot!"
"Hey!" Sirius looked up and was about to ask how in the hell Remus had managed to flip them when he gazed into his eyes. They were gold, honey gold.
"Uh... Padfoot? Are you alright?" Remus was kind of puzzled at Sirius's sudden silence and intense focus.
"Huh?" Sirius shook his head, "Oh, sorry, but your eyes are the same color as the Abraxan on the ceiling."
Remus tilted his head upward, "Yeah, I noticed the ceiling. I thought they were Abraxans, but the golden one confused me. So, you're saying it's the same color as my eyes? I didn't notice that."
"Well, its not as if you look into your own eyes all..." before Sirius could finish that sentence, or know what he was saying, he was cut short.
"Whoa, sorry."
The two men craned their heads and turned to the direction of the voice, the balcony door. There stood Jason looking a little embarrassed and a bit miffed.
"Didn't mean to interrupt," the tip of his ears went a bit red.
"Wha...?" was all Remus could say before he actually noticed what Jason meant.
Remus quickly got up off of Sirius, his cheeks stained red, "W-We were j- just playing around!"
Jason raised an eyebrow and gave a half chuckle, "I can see that."
Remus went even redder, "That's not what I meant!"
Sirius was just staying quiet, still laying on the bed.
Jason finally let out a laugh, "I know. Sorry, Remus, but I saw the pillow fight. I know you guys were only joking around. Jeez, the only thing stopping you from being brothers is the blood."
Remus went halfway back to normal color, but Sirius went from normal to a bit pale. Exactly why was a mystery, but the way Jason had told them that he and Remus were practically brothers kind of bothered him. It shouldn't, they *were* practically brothers. That thought just made him go even paler.
"You alright there, Sirius?" Jay asked, looking down on him.
"Yeah," Sirius's voice sounded an octave higher than normal, though he didn't know entirely why.
Remus looked back down on him strangely. Sirius could still see a tinge of pink on the blonde's cheeks.
Jay looked as though he was trying to be passive of the whole ordeal, which, for some reason, bothered the hell out of Sirius, "Dinner is ready. You two hungry?"
"Starved," Remus replied.
Sirius didn't say a word.
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Author's Note: In case you are wondering, here is a website to a picture of a Lexus SC 430 (just take out the spaces). Click on the color 'metallic silver' to get an exact picture.
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Remus studied the man's face carefully, "J-Jason? Merlin, what in the bloody hell did you do to yourself?!"
Jason laughed, "I finally grew out of being a squirt right before I hit my twenties, and being successful helped a lot with my looks, too."
"Bloody hell!" Remus half gasped.
Sirius glared, almost looking as if he was sulking.
"What? Don't like the new me?" Jason smirked.
Remus shook his head, "No, you've just changed so much!"
Jason finally let Remus go and bent down to grab his bags, "Is this all you have?"
"Yes, but I can get them, Jason," Remus made a move for his luggage.
Jason pulled them back, out of the werewolf's way, "No, no, no, I got it. You're my guest! Now follow me to the car, we have a little ways to travel before we get back to my house."
Jason went ahead of the two and Remus and Sirius followed him.
"Merlin," Remus whispered to Sirius so Jason couldn't hear, "How he's changed!"
"It's nothing special," Sirius growled.
"Nothing special? Sirius, he's changed completely inside and out! He's so outgoing now and really confident! And his looks..." Remus's eyes started to shine, "He's gorgeous!"
A sort of nauseating feeling hit the bottom of Sirius's stomach and he had the sudden urge to regurgitate, "Come on, Moony, you're drooling."
"I am not drooling!" Remus defended.
"You could trip over your own tongue. *I* could trip over your tongue!"
Remus blushed slightly, "Well... maybe a little..."
Remus and Sirius followed Jason out to his car; a metallic silver Lexus SC 430. Sirius didn't think Muggle Studies was a *complete* waste of time.
"I figured you two would like to see a bit of the scenery so I brought my car instead of just apparating here," Jason smiled.
Remus looked thrilled while Sirius held back the urge to roll his eyes.
They got in the back with their luggage and Jason went to the driver's seat.
When they pulled out of the airport and onto the road, Jason kept eyeing the two in his rearview mirror, "So, I heard that you two make quite the cute couple."
"What?!" Remus gaped in surprise. Sirius just stared at him confusedly.
"Yeah, I overheard a few muggles who got off before you talking about a cute pair of males. Something about a blonde having a fear of heights and a raven-haired comforting him. They couldn't stop talking about them so I figured it was you two."
"Yeah, that was us," Sirius silently chuckled.
"So when did you two get together?" Jason flicked on his blinker and turned off onto another road.
Remus's face flushed, "We're not together, Jason. Those muggles were mistaken."
An unnoticeable gleam seemed to take over the brunette's eyes, "Call me Jay, everyone else does."
"Alright... Jay."
The car was silent for the rest of the trip. Sirius just stared blankly out the window watching as green scenery, herds of cattle, and a few horses passed by. That same unsettling feeling was rumbling in his stomach. What frustrated him was he didn't know what was causing it. Finally, he settled on himself just being hungry.
Jay pulled into a driveway and parked the car. Sirius stepped out with his bags and finally took to noticing his surroundings. The two-story house was a hazy blue, with large white windows, a patio in the back, and had a nice balcony that wrapped itself completely around the second story. It overlooked the lake, and on the water rested what looked like some sort of dock. There were neighbors, but they were far enough away for privacy, and the trees on either side helped hide things on the ground.
"It's lovely, Jay," Sirius heard Remus say.
"Come on," Jason ushered the two near the door, "It's almost dinnertime here. I'll have one of the house elves prepare something and you two can get unpacked."
Sirius followed the other two inside, listening as Remus gasped. He looked around and was a little bit impressed by what he saw; a little bit. They had walked straight into a hallway leading off to different parts of the house. Paintings filled the walls and a small chandelier hung from the ceiling above the door.
"This way," Jason smiled, "Your rooms are upstairs."
Sirius and Remus followed him up the stairs that were on the right. They spiraled upward to the second floor.
Jason opened the first door to the left they came upon, "This is your room, Remus."
Remus sidestepped from Sirius's side and entered. Jason shut the door after him and led Sirius two more doors down to the left. "And this is yours, Sirius. I'll leave you two to unpack and come back up to tell you when dinner is ready."
Jason turned around and left back down the stairs. Sirius turned the handle and went inside his room, automatically locking the door with his wand behind him. It was nice. The walls were speckled light blue with dark blue carpet. There were three large windows overlooking a small garden in the back and a white glass door leading out to the balcony. The four-poster king-sized bed was white with carvings of hippogriffs in the wood. The dresser mimicked the bed along with the nightstands and the closet door. A small fireplace stood off to the side, as well as a bathroom. But that wasn't the first thing he noticed. Everything was plain to insinuate toward the ceiling, which was by far the most eye- catching thing in the room.
It was charmed to show a whole herd of wild winged horses galloping across open meadows. And if he knew his breeds, they were Abraxans. Not only that, but a phoenix was circling in the skies above the herd and a mating pair of Antipodean Opaleye dragons were walking around in the background.
One horse in particular caught his eye, and for a good reason. The other horses were palominos as expected with the breed, but the leading stallion was different. Instead of being blotched with patches of paint, it was a pure golden color, right down to its eyes. And strange as that was, although it might have just been a mutation from birth, the gold color was *really* familiar. It wasn't like the gold from Gryffindor, but rather a soft honey color.
Sirius gazed at the ceiling while he set his bags on the bed. He unpacked his clothes and threw the suitcases on the shelf in the closet. He opted to relax on his bed, tired from the plane ride. He closed his eyes and tried to think of just where he'd seen that color gold.
He had only been resting for three minutes when two hands grasped his shoulder and someone yelled, "Padfoot!"
Sirius jumped from the bed, startled out of his wits, and landed square on his butt on the other side. He scrambled up to his feet and locked eyes with a roaring Remus.
"How in the hell did you get in here?!" Sirius squeaked, his heart was still pounding, "I could have sworn I locked the door behind me!"
"You forgot about the balcony. It links our rooms," Remus giggled.
"That was completely unfair!" Sirius sulked.
"Awe," Remus cooed, "Everyone feel bad for Siri."
Sirius grabbed one of the pillows from the bed and chucked it right at Remus. Remus, who had been waiting for something similar, ducked and grabbed his own, knocking Sirius upside the head.
Sirius grinned, "I have too much influence on you."
Remus just smacked him with the pillow again. Sirius sideswiped the blonde and tackled him to the bed immediately going for his stomach.
"S-Sirius!" Remus giggled and squirmed underneath his fingers, "St-top!"
"Hit me on the head will ya?" Sirius grinned, "You aren't going anywhere werewolf." To emphasize his meaning, Sirius pinned Remus to the bed with his bodyweight and continued his assault.
"S-STOP!" Remus yelled, all in vein, "T-This is ho-ow we go-t in-to t-the m- ess the l-ast t-time!"
"Hey, that was your fault," Sirius grinned, "You're the one that knocked us down the stairs."
"Y-You star-ted th-the who-, q-quit it Si-rius!"
Sirius stopped his attack to let Remus breathe for a moment, "What?"
Remus gasped for air, "As I was saying, you started the whole thing by swinging me around!"
"You started it by finding my hair tie like the know-it-all that you are!"
Remus raised an eyebrow and smirked, "You started it by loosing it."
"You started it by not telling me to pack earlier."
Remus looked at him with wide eyes, "I told you to pack a *week* ago!"
"Yeah, but you didn't remind me," Sirius was grinning from ear to ear.
"I shouldn't have to!" Remus exclaimed.
"You said it yourself that I can't remember what happened twenty minutes ago! So you should have reminded me!"
Remus smirked, "You can remember me telling you *that*, but you can't remember me telling you to pack?"
Sirius nodded, "I have a selective memory."
"More like a selective brain," Remus mumbled.
"I heard that!" Sirius shouted.
"So?" Remus raised an eyebrow, "What'ch ya gonna do about it?"
Sirius raised his fingers and went back to his assault on Remus.
Remus got a gleam in his eyes, and in one fluid motion, managed to flip them so that he was on top, bending over the raven-haired on all fours, "You are such a prat, Padfoot!"
"Hey!" Sirius looked up and was about to ask how in the hell Remus had managed to flip them when he gazed into his eyes. They were gold, honey gold.
"Uh... Padfoot? Are you alright?" Remus was kind of puzzled at Sirius's sudden silence and intense focus.
"Huh?" Sirius shook his head, "Oh, sorry, but your eyes are the same color as the Abraxan on the ceiling."
Remus tilted his head upward, "Yeah, I noticed the ceiling. I thought they were Abraxans, but the golden one confused me. So, you're saying it's the same color as my eyes? I didn't notice that."
"Well, its not as if you look into your own eyes all..." before Sirius could finish that sentence, or know what he was saying, he was cut short.
"Whoa, sorry."
The two men craned their heads and turned to the direction of the voice, the balcony door. There stood Jason looking a little embarrassed and a bit miffed.
"Didn't mean to interrupt," the tip of his ears went a bit red.
"Wha...?" was all Remus could say before he actually noticed what Jason meant.
Remus quickly got up off of Sirius, his cheeks stained red, "W-We were j- just playing around!"
Jason raised an eyebrow and gave a half chuckle, "I can see that."
Remus went even redder, "That's not what I meant!"
Sirius was just staying quiet, still laying on the bed.
Jason finally let out a laugh, "I know. Sorry, Remus, but I saw the pillow fight. I know you guys were only joking around. Jeez, the only thing stopping you from being brothers is the blood."
Remus went halfway back to normal color, but Sirius went from normal to a bit pale. Exactly why was a mystery, but the way Jason had told them that he and Remus were practically brothers kind of bothered him. It shouldn't, they *were* practically brothers. That thought just made him go even paler.
"You alright there, Sirius?" Jay asked, looking down on him.
"Yeah," Sirius's voice sounded an octave higher than normal, though he didn't know entirely why.
Remus looked back down on him strangely. Sirius could still see a tinge of pink on the blonde's cheeks.
Jay looked as though he was trying to be passive of the whole ordeal, which, for some reason, bothered the hell out of Sirius, "Dinner is ready. You two hungry?"
"Starved," Remus replied.
Sirius didn't say a word.
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Author's Note: In case you are wondering, here is a website to a picture of a Lexus SC 430 (just take out the spaces). Click on the color 'metallic silver' to get an exact picture.
H t t p : / / w w w . l e x u s . c o m / m o d e l s / s c / g a l l e r y _ e x t e r i o r _ c o l o r s . h t m l #