Title: Puppy Love – Lunar Love Part I
Author: juxtaposed
Summary: Remus and Sirius' lives and relationship - as seen from Sirius' point of view.
Companion to Puppy Love – Stargazing Part I.
Timeline: From when they meet, up til when Harry is born. Aka, 1971-1980.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Slash!! That means guy-on-guy lovin'. Dont like it? Dont read it! Simple enough.
Pairings: Sirius/Remus, James/Lily
Disclaimer: I do not own Remus, Hogwarts, Platform 9 3/4, etc...I do own Sirius, James, and Lily, cause JK Rowling killed them off, and we all know you cant lay claim to dead persons, right? Mwahaha. Nah, I dont own them, so dont sue me for dreaming. Bah.
Puppy Love – Lunar Love Part I
by juxtaposed
Chapter Three: Hogwarts
It was getting pretty late; even the end-of-summer sky was starting to fade into darkness, but the train kept going, and going, and going… Although I couldn't honestly have said I really cared, because I spent most of that time talking to Remus, which in my books, was pretty much time very well spent.
Still, it was getting to be a rather long ride. I sensed Remus was going to say something about it, but just as he opened his mouth, the train's movement became even shakier, jerking a little, and I could see that it was starting to slow down. A while later, the Hogwarts Express was pulling into the station with a number of loud noises, whistles and such; plus a tremor that nearly sent Lily toppling into the floor when she tried to stand up before she should have.
And we had arrived.
We got off the train and were immediately surrounded by an insane amount of people – I didn't recall seeing this many back at Platform 9 ¾. The other students around us were all excited about arriving, talking and laughing and rushing to wherever they were meant to go. Unfortunately, none of us seemed to know where that was yet. So we all simply stood where we were, gripping onto our trunks to make sure we wouldn't lose them. Remus was looking very anxiously at James and Lily and I.
"Where do we go?" he asked.
James looked blank as he shrugged. "Beats me. It's my first year too."
We probably would have waited there for a very long time, unsure of everything, but thankfully there was a loud booming voice that could be made out over the noise.
"Firs' years! Firs' years! This way!"
We all turned to look, and we saw a very, very, very tall man – he looked like a giant, I reckoned, and I muttered this to James, who nodded heartily. He towered over all the students, and could probably have hidden a few behind him easily. His face was obscured by wild hair and an equally wild beard.
Lily broke our staring fest, reaching for her luggage. "Well, I guess that answers our questions. Let's go."
I saw James' eyes flicker to her suitcase, and I knew he was thinking of being a gentleman and carrying it for her, but his eyes flickered back to his own enormous trunk, and he decided not to offer after all. I saw Remus notice the same thing and I smiled at him; he grinned back.
We made our way over to the giant – as I had taken to calling him in my mind – who was smiling happily at us as we arrived. He was standing at the edge of the lake, by a massive fleet of small boats, as he asked knowingly, "Firs' years?"
From up close, I could see his dark eyes were warm and friendly, and I decided I liked him – he seemed to be a nice guy, if a little large. I nodded in response to his question and quickly introduced ourselves to him. "I'm Sirius, this is James," I pointed to him, then Lily, "Lily, and Remus." I pointed at Remus, and couldn't help but let my eyes linger on him for a while longer, before I realized I was staring, and quickly turned back to the giant-man. He beamed at us.
"How are yeh? I'm Hagrid. Groundskeeper." He gestured at an empty boat, and ushered us towards it. "Yeh all get on in. Its four to a boat, so yeh just right."
Lily smiled sweetly. "Thank you."
"No problem." The giant – Hagrid grinned, then in a slight undertone, added, "Now, if ever yeh four be wantin' t' visit, feel free t' come down t' my hut!"
James and I exchanged grins. "Will do," James and I nodded.
We waved at Hagrid as we clambered onto our boat, and he waved back as Remus called out a quick "See you around!"
He began to help the other students that started to crowd around him into their boats, and then our boat, along with all the others, began to move. Remus and Lily looked extremely curious, I supposed they'd never seen anything like this before.
James kept stealing glances at Lily, his smile widening each time he looked at her, and his face was slowly reddening. A quick glimpse at Lily and I saw she was acting similarly – they were rather besotted, I imagined. I grinned, and snuck a peek at Remus, who was looking at me curiously. I felt my face heat up in a flush. Right – so apparently James and Lily weren't the only people around who were smitten…
It wasn't long before we were going to arrive, and the castle came into view. I heard Remus catch his breath, and then all of us were straining out over the edge to see the castle, which looked, well…like a castle. Old and sprawling and majestic. I thought it was pretty cool, and a look at James confirmed he felt the same way as me, it was impressive, but nothing jaw-dropping. Of course, Remus and Lily seemed to think differently. They were both staring agape at the castle, and I heard Remus mutter.
"I think I'm going to get lost very often." He looked vaguely terrified, and I couldn't help but grin at him.
"Don't worry, I've got an excellent sense of direction." I assured him.
Remus didn't seem to care, as he said, a little snippily, "Well, hurrah for you. Fat lot of use that'll do if I'm alone."
I raised an eyebrow at him, he looked rather horrified at his own tone, and I realized he was really very nervous. I smiled again. "Well then, we're just going to have to make sure that wont happen, wont we?"
Remus still looked a little weak in the knees, but his lips curved up and I grinned, rather stupidly, at Remus as he gave me that adorable shy smile of his. Out of the corner of my eye I saw James raise an eyebrow at me, a smirk playing on his lips. I narrowed my eyes at him, and his smirk widened as a knowing gleam entered his eyes. I cast a meaningful glance at him, then Lily, and back to him again, and the smirk faded a little as his face reddened again. I kept on grinning. It was James' turn to narrow his eyes. Then he leaned over and muttered quietly in my ear. "We're going to talk later, yeah?" I nodded at him. Remus was looking vaguely amused at James and me, although there was a slight hint of something else when James had leaned over.
It had looked a little like envy, but…why would Remus be jealous of James? Surely he didn't think – after all, James was obviously besotted with Lily. As if on cue, Remus' beautiful features relaxed when James looked back to Lily. We stared to gaze at each other again, something that seemed to be happening quite a bit, not that I minded at all, of course.
But we were interrupted by a sudden outburst from James, who was pointing out across the lake excitedly. We all leaned out again, to see a huge – bigger than Hagrid – willow tree, with branches that seemed to be alive, and was reaching out and sweeping the air in all directions – up above it, down on the ground, and all around it – it was almost like it was waiting to attack something.
It was awesome.
"Whoa, I wonder what that is?" I said aloud.
Lily piped up. "Is it just me, or does it look like a monstrous tree?"
I saw Remus nod out of the corner of my eye, as he agreed, "Its gigantic."
Lily shook her head anxiously. "No, I mean…it seems like its…possessed, or something…It's moving so wildly, and there isn't even wind."
"Well," James said, with a note to his voice that I recognized very well. "It'll be our mission, then, to discover what it is."
I grinned at the idea, but rolled my eyes at his words. "Mission? Wasn't your mission to, and I quote, 'induct Remus and Lily into the wonderful world of Quidditch'?"
"That's my personal mission," James said patronizingly, and I narrowed my eyes at him but he simply grinned at me. "This is going to be our mission. All of us." He gestured to the four of us.
Lily raised a delicate eyebrow at him. "We all have a mission now?"
James beamed and nodded.
"We could always just ask someone, you know, James." Lily pointed out, and Remus nodded agreeably.
James and I stared at them in horror.
"But that would just take the fun out of it!" I cried out.
Remus gave me a curious glance. "Fun? There's fun to be had in trying to learn about a tree?"
"Of course!"
James and I nodded.
Remus and Lily exchanged looks.
Again.
"I mean, we could sneak around -" I started.
"Have secret conferences -" James continued.
"Spy on people -" I added.
James was opening his mouth when we noticed that Remus and Lily were laughing hysterically beside us. James seemed affronted. "What? Why are you two laughing?"
"Oh, James," Lily shook her head at him, smiling fondly, before laughing again. James stared at her, looking utterly confused.
I could relate, as I blinked at Remus. "What is it?"
Remus toned down his laughter and gave me a big smile. "Nothing, nothing, it's just…it's nothing."
Just then, our boat reached the edge of the cliff, and went through a dark tunnel. We pulled up at a harbour and the boat stopped, along with our conversation. We immediately clambered out and made our way up a path, which led us to the front steps. We stood in front of the enormous oak doors and gazed up at the enormous castle that we would be eating, sleeping, studying – and pranking – I shared a knowing glance with James, for most of the next seven years of our lives.
Hogwarts.
AN: (blushes sheepishly) Yes, this is a repost, with corrections (I was too lazy to refer to PS, so I winged it, but I felt so stupid about the whole thing that I dug the book up...), so the usual... Visit my LJ!...please?, and if you want to reprimand me for being lazy, or commend me for going back to change it, review. :)
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