Author's Notes at the end of the chapter! And now….

Chapter 3 The Second Date

"So?" Cassius sat down next to Sirius at dinner the next evening at Grimmauld Place.

"So, what?" Sirius asked, even though he knew what Cassius was asking about.

"You had a date last night with Bartleby."

"Yes."

"And?"

"And what?" Sirius wondered how long he could string his cousin along before Cassius burst from not knowing. "Remus, could you please pass the garlic bread?"

Remus passed the bread basket silently, Sirius could tell he was trying not to laugh.

"How'd it go?" Cassius asked impatiently.

Sirius shrugged indifferently. "Remus, I got an owl from Harry today."

"Really? And how is Harry?" Remus asked curiously.

"Can we talk about Harry later? I want to hear about the date." Cassius growled.

"Not much to tell. So Harry wrote - " Sirius was cut off by Cassius's hand hitting the table in frustration.

"If there's not much to tell that means there is something." Cassius whined, "Remus, make him tell us!"

Sirius took a sip of his juice, trying to keep a straight face. Remus was staring down at his plate, his shoulders shaking with silent laughter.

"It's his business." Remus said finally, swallowing another laugh.

"Come on, Cousin, please?" Cassius pleaded.

"We ate, we talked, it was nice." Sirius drawled casually.

"Well, that's nice." Remus nodded.

"That's it?" Cassius looked so crestfallen that Sirius gave in.

"We kissed, when he left. It was really…really…brilliant." Sirius knew he was grinning like a fool because James told him so.

Cassius's face lit up. "I knew you'd like each other. Didn't I tell you they'd like each other?"

"Yes, you did." Remus smiled. "I'm sorry for ever doubting you."

"You better be." Cassius said happily.

Sirius was debating whether he should clean his bedroom again or if he should read the mystery book Remus had lent him. He'd just finished masturbating…for the third time that day…so he thought probably that option was out.

'When did you become so boring, Paddy?' James asked.

If only there was someone to pull a prank on but Remus was on a mission for the Order so Sirius was the only person in the house. Suddenly he heard a knock at the front door. He raced down the stairs and yanked the door open.

"Hello." Jack was smiling as he came in the door.

"You said two days, it's been four." Sirius blurted, slightly out of breath from his mad dash down the stairs.

'Merlin, don't let him see the calendar where you kept track!' James covered his face with his hands.

"Sorry, there was more bureaucratic red tape than I thought there would be. You missed me?"

"Oh, no, not really." Sirius recovered some of the famous Sirius Black cool and managed to make the sentence believable.

"So you ran to the door because?"

"Muggles might notice something strange if people lingered on the doorstep too long." Sirius shrugged.

"Of course." Jack nodded solemnly.

"So." Sirius wondered how he could casually ask Jack to have sex with him and not sound desperate. He quickly tried out several possibilities but James vetoed all of them.

"How about a tour of the house? I've only ever seen the kitchen and this hallway."

"All right. It'll be short, though, not all the rooms have been cleaned out yet."

Sirius took Jack's hand and led them up the stairs, past the row of house elf heads (which Jack was morbidly fascinated with) and showed Jack the upstairs sitting room, his mother's room, where Buckbeak was, the rooms that the Weasleys and Harry had stayed in, and then his room.

"So…this is my room." Sirius said, although he knew the statement wasn't needed.

"It's very…Spartan." Jack said, looking around the bare room.

"Well…Moony still had all my stuff from before I went to Azkaban, but…it seemed weird to get it out again." Sirius watched as Jack walked over and sat down on his bed, bouncing on it twice experimentally. Sirius felt his mouth go dry.

"Come over here." Jack's voice was laced with desire.

'He wants us to kiss him again.' Sirius's inner girl, who sounded exactly like Lily, started jumping up and down clapping her hands excitedly.

Sirius tried not to walk too quickly over to the bed.

'Dignity, Padfoot, always dignity.' James counseled.

Sirius stood in front of Jack and then, he didn't know which of his inner voices prompted him to do it or if he had just decided to do it himself, he was straddling Jack's thighs and his hands were buried in Jack's hair and his mouth was touching Jack's. Jack's hands were on his hips, pulling him closer. Sirius pushed Jack's coat off his shoulders, desperate to get to his skin.

'Oh, this is brilliant!' His inner voices chorused happily as Sirius's tongue invaded Jack's mouth before moving down his neck.

"I missed you, baby." Jack's husky voice tickled Sirius's ear and everything inside Sirius, including his inner James, turned into a puddle of goo.

"I missed you too." Sirius sighed as they toppled back onto bed and he flipped them over so Jack was on top.

"Just so we're clear…" Jack paused as Sirius yanked his shirt over his head. "Is this is our second date?"

"Yeah. Oh, yeah." Sirius nodded, eyes traveling down Jack's newly bared muscular chest as his hands skimmed over it down to the washboard abs. Inside his head, Lily and James were dancing around excitedly at the prospect of getting laid.

Jack's hands slid down Sirius's sides and then pulled his shirt over his head. They separated for a moment while they each got rid of the rest of their clothing. Jack's eyes roamed over Sirius's thin body as Sirius crawled back over to him. Sirius watched Jack's pupils dilate with desire. He leaned over him and kissed him thoroughly. Jack rolled them over and sat up, straddling Sirius's legs.

"Do you have any lube" He asked huskily, drawing a hand down Sirius's chest and then placing it over Sirius's hardness, circling it with his fingers and sliding up and down.

"Uh…" Sirius couldn't think. James and Lily were wide-eyed and slack-jawed and drooling and absolutely no help whatsoever.

"I'll take that as a no." Jack smiled, reaching over the side of the bed and retrieving his wand. He did a muttered spell and it was just another moment and then…Sirius was inside Jack. Sirius arched up, seeking to get even closer, and felt a momentary panic as he really realized James and Lily weren't with him. It was just the two of them, Jack and him.

"Oh." Sirius gasped. He hadn't felt this whole, this undamaged in over ten years. There was only one voice in his head. "Please." Sirius felt like he was drifting at sea, open to all the sensations. Jack moved. The happiness was so sharp that Sirius felt tears sliding down his face.

"Sirius! What's wrong?" Jack froze, a concerned hand stroked Sirius's cheek.

"Nothing!" Sirius placed his hands on Jack's hips, taking over control. Jack groaned and braced his hands on Sirius's shoulders.

"I thought about this every night." Jack gasped as Sirius moved his hips up and down.

"Me too." Sirius rolled them over, pinning Jack's hands to the bed, roughly bringing them both to their climax.

"You have the same tattoo as Cassius." Sirius said breathlessly, happily, as he laid his head on the magical writing on Jack's right collarbone. Jack's legs slipped off of Sirius's hips. They'd just had sex for the third time, the second with Sirius as top. Having Jack inside him had been a revelation. Sirius definitely could get used to having Jack in his bed. Maybe tomorrow he'd ask Cassius to borrow that book of his.

"Mm…" Jack twirled a smooth strand of Sirius's hair around his finger. "It's tradition to get them after your third year as an Auror."

"I like it."

"Do you?"

"Yeah." Sirius moved so his tongue traced over one of the letters, tasting the salt of Jack's sweat. "You taste good."

"Don't do that." Jack whispered.

"Do what?" Sirius traced over another letter.

"That…you…Merlin." Jack sighed softly. He lifted his head to look at Jack. Jack's eyes were shut.

"You asleep?"

"You wore me out." Jack said quietly.

Sirius rolled over and pulled Jack against his side. Jack moved to rest his head at the junction of Sirius's neck and shoulder, his nose nudging Sirius's jawbone.

"You're welcome." Sirius said softly.

"Good morning." Jack walked into the kitchen at Grimmauld Place.

"Morning." Remus tried to sound as casual as Jack did. He couldn't wait to tell Cassius that Jack had stayed the night. He poured Jack a cup of tea. Jack took it with a smile as he sat down. He grabbed a piece of toast and took a bite.

"Anything interesting in the Prophet?"

"No." The Prophet still wasn't reporting anything about Voldemort, but there had been a new educational degree published. Remus hated Dolores Umbridge with a passion.

"Cassie lets you read it?" Jack asked curiously.

"He doesn't 'let' me, I read it." Remus snapped as he glared at Jack.

"Sorry. It's just…a few years ago, he gave Mari such hell for reading it at work that she burst into tears and canceled her subscription." Mari was the receptionist at Auror HQ.

"Well…I do have to pay for it myself." Remus admitted reluctantly. To his credit, Jack just nodded. They sat in silence for a moment.

"Morning." Sirius walked in looking…well…well-fucked, Remus thought. He walked over to the table. "When'd you get in?"

"Around three am." Remus answered.

"I have to get home to change before I go to work." Jack set his tea cup down, standing. Sirius pulled him into his arms and gave him a quick kiss. "I'll see you later." He said goodbye to Remus and then flooed to his flat.

"So, Paddy." Remus poured Sirius a cup of tea and handed it to him.

"What?" Sirius asked sharply.

"You have a huge love bite on your neck."

"I don't! I did a concealing charm on th.." Sirius stopped suddenly. "Damn you, Moony."

"I didn't think you were going to fall for that." Remus smiled. "So…you had a good time last night?"

"Yeah." Sirius sat down gingerly. "I think I pulled a muscle in my back." Remus quickly covered his mouth to hide his grin. "Shut up."

"I didn't say anything!"

"You were thinking it."

"And what was I thinking, oh wise one?"

"I don't know." Sirius took the cup of tea Remus handed him. "Remus."

"Sirius."

"Promise not to laugh."

Remus tilted his head and looked at Sirius for a moment. "Of course, I promise."

"Last night…Jack had sex with me."

"I gathered that." Remus said dryly.

"No, I mean, he fucked me." Sirius augmented the comment with a crude hand gesture.

"Oh. Right. So?"

"So…How long will I be sore?"

"You don't know?"

"I always was the top. If I'd know they'd feel like this the next day I would have been gentler." Sirius shifted slightly. "Not that he wasn't gentle…I mean…he…he was brilliant. The whole night was bloody brilliant." Sirius's eyes glazed over at the memory.

Remus bit his lip hard to keep from laughing. "It'll fade as the day goes…depending on how many times you did it last night." He held his breath, not completely sure he wanted the answer.

"We just did it that way the once. I fucked him twice. So he'll be twice as sore as me?"

"Depends on how rough you were, how prepared he was. So, three times in one night, that's impressive. Jack has stamina, huh?" Remus wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.

"Yeah, he…" Sirius stopped suddenly. "Why am I talking to you about this?"

"Because I'm your best friend?"

"Do we get to compare boyfriends now?"

"If you like."

"Only if I really do turn into a girl." Sirius muttered.

Remus smiled, "You are still a man, Sirius. Just let yourself enjoy this."

Sirius huffed and grabbed a piece of toast. Remus shook his head affectionately. Sirius's maturity level hadn't progressed much past 21. In the past year, their relationship had changed into a brotherly one, with Remus being the big brother.

Author's Notes: Being a girl, I don't condone Sirius's semi-insulting comments about being a girl, but it's just the way I thought Sirius was – embarrassed about having stereotypical girly thoughts, like being giddy about kissing a boy. Because I think he is emotionally still 21, the age he was when he went to Azkaban. I remember reading somewhere that when someone goes to prison they stay the same emotion age because in prison they don't have the experiences to mature that they would normally get on the outside. And he's just been on the run since then, still not living a "normal" life. He's still trying to be the tough guy rebel. :-)

Thanks to my reviewers! Comments might be of interest to all. :-)

MoonyPadfoot Jr. – Please don't be mad but I'm not going to change what JKR did…but this story will end with a happily ever after so we could all just pretend. :-)

anymos-chan – yes, I like everyone to be happily paired with someone. :-)

peegchica – I'm glad you like this, it's funny this story just popped in my head this way, definitely a different style than the others.

Destiny Bunny – Sorry I freaked you out with the threesome. :-) And yes, Sirius is not quite sane in my story, I don't see how he could be after so many years in Azkaban. All those fan fic stories that I read where Sirius is just peachy keen in spite of twelve years in solitary confinement surrounded by Dementors…just doesn't make sense to me.

lilkuma-chan – Welcome to my stories! So glad you reviewed!

brunette89 – Welcome too! I'm glad you like Jack and Sirius so far.

Padfoot – Yes, Sirius is desperate for some loving at the moment not necessarily Jack but that will change. And I see Sirius as a man's man too. He might not have ever dated but he did get action. :-) I LOVE Ewan McGregor – he'd be fine as a visualization of Remus. :-) I love Gary Oldman, but to be honest I picture Sirius as more of a long-haired Daniel Day Lewis circa 1990 (Yummy!) And…I did try to find an actor I thought would be perfect as my Remus…maybe Colin Firth? Hmm...this could open a whole discussion on casting. Who would be Cassius? I have no idea…since I'm watching LOTR as I type this – I will suggest Orlando Bloom, as a short-haired blond with green contacts, it's not perfectly Cassius to me but Orlando is LOVELY…discussion?

The next chapter still needs a little work so it will be posted in a few days, probably Monday. :-)