Pairing: Sirius and Remus.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Remus and Sirius have been going out for a while now. But should Remus tell Sirius about his 'condition'? And
Notes: A sequel to 'Look What Happened!' Remus was sorted into Ravenclaw and Sirius spent ages trying to get his attention (starts pimping all explained in 'Look What Happened!' ends pimping). You don't have to have read 'Look What Happened!' to understand this one. Well not much really.
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"Remus!" Sirius whined, catching his boyfriend around the waist and pulling him towards him.
"Why tonight? You have no homework to do tonight!"
"How do you know that I have no homework to do?"
"Well..." Sirius blushed. "I checked your subjects, then with other people and found out that you've already done all the homework that you need to do!"
The boy looked mighty pleased with himself.
Remus groaned. "Why would you go to all of that trouble Sirius?"
"Because...I never get to see you anymore. You're always working!" Sirius was whining again, kissing the other boy on the forehead and stroking his back.
Remus was getting more and more distracted.
"So, stay with me tonight? Come on, just the two of us, a fire and some butterbeer, does that not sound tempting?"
"Entirely too tempting. I'm sorry Sirius, but I just can't, not tonight."
Oh god, Remus thought to himself, the pout has entered the building.
Sirius turned on the charm, his bottom lip was stuck out, just begging for Remus to kiss it, the black hair was hanging over his darkened eyes, just waiting to be pushed back and...was he sniffling?! Remus groaned; he had no idea how he did this every month.
Remus' shoulder's sagged and he was wavering, he knew he was, but he had to go.
"I'm sorry Sirius, but this weekend, all weekend, you have my undivided attention. I'll do whatever you want, we can go to Hogsmeade, stay in, whatever, I promise!" Remus kissed the end of his nose.
"Remus! I hate it when you do that! Stop winning me over!" He sighed tragically. "Okay, fine, but all weekend and no going off to do homework, this weekend you are mine!"
"Deal."
Remus smiled a happy smile and kissed Sirius once.
"Thank you, love you. Got to go now, I'll see you tomorrow."
With a last kiss and a wave Remus disappeared don the corridor.
Sirius pouted, realised that no one could see him, gave up and wandered back to the Gryffindor common room. James and Lily were snuggled up on the sofa, each reading a book and Peter, if Sirius remembered correctly, was busy pestering someone to help him with his Astronomy homework. Thank god he hadn't taken Astronomy.
"Hey Sirius. Come and have a seat. Why aren't you with Remus tonight? Don't tell me," Here James gasped, "don't tell me you can spend a night apart?"
Lily snickered behind her book.
Sirius glowered.
"He's busy tonight."
"Busy? Doing what?" James put his book down.
"I don't know. He didn't say. He wouldn't tell me. Do you think there is someone else?" Sirius bit his bottom lip and looked at James worriedly.
"Of course not Sirius, I mean, you two are hardly ever apart! You're practically joined at the lip!" He laughed.
Sirius was not pleased.
"James! This is serious! I mean it! He always goes off somewhere every month and he never tells me. I think he's seeing someone else."
At this point Lily joined the conversation, which was probably for the best as Sirius might have killed James if he kept on in this manner.
"Sirius. Calm down, I know for a fact that Remus is not seeing someone else and that he is very much in love with you. I mean, come on, you've been together for what...3 months? That's the longest you've been with someone, ever!"
James snickered again, ducked as a cushion came flying towards his head and carried on laughing.
"Lily! Tell me what you know of Remus! Please! I need to know!" Sirius whined.
"Sirius, when Remus feels he is ready to tell you, he will. I will not go around telling you everyone's secrets." She settled back into her book and the conversation would normally be closed.
But then Sirius was no normal boy.
"Lily!" Sirius whined again and as soon as Lily's head popped out over the top of her book, he turned on the puppy dog eyes, the pouty look and the hanging hair.
"Oh my god!" Lily hid behind her book. "If you look at Remus like that, then I have no idea how he can ever refuse you! That is the most pathetic look I have ever seen! It's melting even me! If I did not know your motives behind said look I would have told you by now!"
Lily shrieked and hid behind James, abandoning her book in favour of safety.
James was still laughing, holding his girlfriend around the waist and tickling her, making her laugh and scream even more. Sirius sat, scowling at the pair of them, and wishing Remus was there.
Remus, out in the Shrieking Shack, all alone, was wishing the same thing, that Sirius was there, hugging him and keeping him warm. The blanket Madam Pomfrey had given him really didn't do the trick when he was waiting for the moon to rise.
Sirius had had enough, Lily was telling him nothing, James was being annoying and now he had no chance of getting anything out of Lily as her mouth was currently engaged in a game of tonsil tennis with James. He scowled again, muttered a curse under his breath and stomped out of the common room. He needed to let off some energy. James, Peter and Sirius had all learnt to be Animagus that year, as they had thought of the endless possibilities that would now be open to them as animals. Think of all the trips of Hogsmeade without going through the Honeydukes tunnel!
Sirius trotted out the front door, checked no one was watching and then morphed into his animal form, a huge, black, shaggy dog. He bounded around the grounds for a bit, sniffed at the flowers and plants and then galloped across the main lawn. He was careful of course, last time he had done this in broad daylight he had had several Quidditch players chasing after him on their brooms, shouting obscene comments about dogs until he had escaped into the Forbidden Forest. For weeks afterwards there were rumours of a strange dog-like beast that lurked in the Forbidden Forest and ate little first years that were out of bed. This, of course, did nothing to scare anyone with a brain but the first years were always in bed before curfew now.
Sirius had been given a bollocking by James about mucking round and Sirius was now only allowed out at night. Now however, he bounded along, not a care in the world when his running was interrupted by a rather loud, rather scary howl.
Padfoot, as he was so kindly nicknamed for his abnormally large sized paws (Sirius just saw this as 'imitating true life' if you get what I mean) by James and Peter, stepped on the brakes.
Even in his doggy brain Sirius knew that was no mouse squeaking. What the blazes was it?!
He raised his muzzle to the air and sniffed gingerly. Overwhelmed by the amount of smells he was getting, Padfoot put his nose back down again and sat down. He needed a plan; there was definitely something out there. But where? The Forbidden Forest was the most likely place but the sound seemed to be coming from somewhere else. Somewhere in the direction of Hogsmeade. And by that howl it was something big, bad and nasty. Not that Sirius was afraid, no way, all he wanted was to make sure he wasn't going crazy and hearing things, so like a normal person he strolled, or if you are looking at it from a different point of view, bolted, back up to the castle and went to find James.
After changing back, he burst into the Gryffindor Common Room and searched round for James. There he was, exactly where he had left him, kissing Lily.
Sirius threw himself across the room and prised Lily off of his friend before sitting in James' lap.
"Why hello there. Come here often?" He winked and burst out laughing.
James was not amused.
"Padfoot, either you get the hell off me and explain why you interrupted an amazingly good snogging session I was having with my girlfriend or I will make sure that Remus and you are never going to be happy in the broom closet again. Do you understand my meaning?"
Sirius paled and backed off, picking Lily up off the floor as he did. She also was not happy.
"I'd appreciate it if you never do that again." She tossed her hair. "Or I will tell the school some of your more...interesting experiences."
"Oh fine then, I promise you, Lily Evans, that I will never molest your boyfriend, my best friend, James Potter, ever again. Happy now?!" Sirius sulked as the rest of the Common Room sniggered and Lily and James reacquainted themselves with each other.
"James!" Sirius yelled in his friend's ear.
James jumped around 5 foot in the air and screamed in anguish.
"Sirius! What the bloody hell do you want? Can't you see I'm busy here?!"
"Yes, yes, I know, you never get to kiss Lily every single hour of every single day! James! This is important! I heard something outside!"
James sighed, detangled himself from Lily and looked his best friend in the eye.
"Sirius, you are my best friend, at the moment, but you may soon be my ex best friend. Why don't you go hunting for Remus? I will go outside with you tomorrow, but tonight is my night in with Lily; I had hoped that I would be able to enjoy it peacefully. And if you think Lily and I are bad, I think you should see how much time you spend attached to a certain Ravenclaw at the lips during the day before you start patronizing me. Good night Padfoot."
James turned his back on Sirius, sat back down with Lily and left Sirius to go and sulk on his own.
Sirius stormed up to his room, slammed the door loudly and flung himself onto his bed. His night passed rather quickly when he started day dreaming about Remus, and what they would be doing at the weekend...
Tbc...
