MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by The Goblet


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Chapter 2

Remus quietly followed Sirius into the staffroom and watched as he greeted both Minerva and Lily. After greeting the two ladies, he looked around the room. He could smell Him.

Slowly, he began to walk towards the group of armchairs near the fireplace. The scent was getting stronger. He had definitely been here earlier; He hadn't left more than a few minutes before they had entered the room. Remus sat down in the chair He had been sitting in not five minutes ago. Was He still at Hogwarts? Remus looked towards Lily; if she was still here, then there was a fair chance that He was too.

Remus looked over at Minerva, feeling somewhat uneasy under her scrutiny. He stood. "If it's ok with you, I think I'll go freshen up. I'm not particularly hungry. I'll catch up a bit later." The werewolf bid his friends goodbye and hurriedly left the room, anxious to find Him.


Remus walked alone through the deserted hallways of the school. Using his extraordinary sense of smell, he tracked Him through the castle, eventually coming to a simple wooden door in the dungeons.

There, in the midst of brewing a very potent potion stood his lover of three years.

Remus stood watching as the man in front of him carefully prepared ingredients, gently adding them to the cauldron bubbling away in the middle of the room: each movement precise and calculated, each swing of the knife exact and accurate, each stir of the cauldron efficient and effective. He felt himself grow hard as he stood there watching. He had been half-hard since he had first detected the man's presence almost fifteen minutes ago. But this was not something new to Remus: lately, it seemed that Remus' body was responding to even the most subtle evidence of his lover.

The man in question added yet another ingredient to the potion, stirred it once counter clockwise, and turned down the flame. "Are you just going to stand there all night?" he inquired snarkily as he began clearing up.

Remus chose not to answer, instead opting to ask about the potion. "Polyjuice?"

Severus nodded and stirred the cauldron once again. "The Order goes through it faster than I can replenish it. This will be ready tomorrow." Severus wiped his stirring rod and set it on the bench before picking up two jars and returning them to the storeroom.

Remus hypnotically followed his lover into the small cupboard. Locking and warding the door, he walked up behind Severus, his arms slithering around the slim waist, as he murmured a lubrication charm.


Sated, and somewhat exhausted, Remus pulled out of his lover's body, letting his robes fall, regaining his modesty.

He glanced at Severus, who was still leaning against the shelving, breathing heavily. His robes pushed up, pooling on his back, his legs and arse on display, semen trickling down his thighs.

Remus looked away, trying to look at anything but Severus' abused body, and saw the tattered remains of a pair of underpants on the floor. He stooped to pick them up as Severus straightened from his hunched position, his robes falling to the ground.

Wordlessly, he handed the Slytherin back his underwear, unable to look him in the eyes.

"I'm so sorry," he whispered, eyes downcast.

"What the hell for?"

"Raping you."

"Raping me?"

Remus looked up at the other man. "I came down here and jumped you. I didn't even bother to ask how you were; I just thrust right in, taking what I wanted… I never gave you a choice… I never gave you a chance to say no… I locked the door so you couldn't get away."

Severus took one step forward, bringing him nose to nose with his lover. "I know how to defend myself. If I didn't want you to touch me, you would be unconscious in the Hospital Wing right now. I enjoyed that immensely: being taken by you; surrendering to you. I'm so hard for you." He took Remus hand in his, and guided it to his groin.

"But I-"

"Shhh. No more talk of you 'jumping' me. I want to make love to you. I want to come in you."

Removing Remus' hand from his erection, he unlocked the storeroom door, and led his lover into his private bedchambers.


The two men lay naked together: kissing and touching as Remus recovered from their earlier encounter. "Let me worship you," Severus whispered pushing his lover onto his back.

Severus laid tiny kisses around Remus' mouth before slowly kissing along his jaw and down his throat. He stopped to suckle at a collarbone before continuing his journey and paying homage to Remus' nipples.

I love you.


Severus lay cuddled into Remus side as they both relaxed in the bed. He was tracing random patterns on his lover's chest when Remus rolled over and out of the bed. Sitting up, Severus watched as Remus began to pull on his underwear and robes.

"Stay."

"I can't. James and Sirius will be looking for me."

"I'm sure they can do without you for one night."

"I'd rather not risk it."

"Why not?"

"I'd just rather not."

"Why the bloody well not?! Are you too bloody scared to admit to your pathetic little friends that you are gay?! Are you ashamed of being a bloody poofter are you? Am I not good enough for you? Are you ashamed of me? Ashamed of buggering Snivellus?!" Snape exploded.

He paused for a moment before continuing, his voice deathly quiet, "Ashamed of being buggered by Snivellus?"

"It's not like that," Remus whispered.

"What's it like then, Lupin? Explain it to me, because I as sure as hell don't understand."

Remus looked at the floor, unable to speak, unable to put into words how he felt, why he felt.

"Get out," Severus' voice was low and menacing. "Get out and never come back."


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