Disclaimer: I do not own these characters as JK Rowling has all rights to her characters as they are hers. I'm just using these things for my own morbid pleasures.
A/N:
HappyDappyDrunk: I hate cliffhangers too... but what goods a story without a cliffhanger or two? LoL
half blood princess and Summer: Will Remus forgive him? We'll see...
Hotaru21: I'm a sucker for angst as well... so I like to drag it out as much as possible. Unfortunately for some.
the-mpreg-spirit: I try not to kill off my main characters... tho sometimes a not so important character will die now and then.
perfect-feline: You'll have to read on and see if lil ole Remus will forgive him.
Natsuko-Dai: If you liked the last chapter then you'll love this one too LoL
Starlollie: Could this be yer hopeful fluffy scene? You'll have to read and find out.
Minightmoonlight: Is this update soon enough for you? Probably not eh? LoL
xbreakawayx: I'm glad you like my fic!! ::big grin:: The mpreg will turn up soon as promised but maybe not as soon as we all hope. But its definitely not too far off.
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If You're Not The One
Chapter Thirteen: Resisting Temptation
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Sirius walked through the halls slowly. He couldn't get Remus off his mind. He had been trying for a week to get Remus to talk to him, but the werewolf wouldn't give him a single chance to explain himself. Not even to say he was sorry. Sirius was beginning to think Remus would never speak to him again.
"Hey Black!" A voice shouted as Sirius was heading to the Great Hall.
Sirius turned to see Rodolphus Lestrange heading towards him with his cousin Bellatrix on his arm, her heavily hooded eyes hiding the malicious intent they held.
"What do you want Lestrange?" Sirius asked, clearly irritated by their presence.
"Well Bella here has informed me that you've refused her last few attempts to give you some of her 'pick-me-ups'. So I just had to find out for myself why one of our best customers would cop out on us."
"Yes dear cousin. I only wished to help," Bellatrix said, feigning sweetness with one of her smiles that held anything but sweetness.
"Help me? You did the opposite of help Bellatrix!" Sirius growled.
"Oh come on Sirius... don't you remember how they made you feel?" Bellatrix asked holding out a packet of those purple pills he knew so well. "Remember the wonderful times we spent together."
"Yeah Black... remember when we'd skiv off class for a little taste," Rodolphus said in his deep voice.
Memories flooded Sirius' head. Memories of himself, Bellatrix, Rodolphus and even Lucius and Narcissa with some other Slytherins sneaking out of the school to one of the no longer used greenhouses. The intoxicating sensations that filled his body. The release the drugs gave him. It was all there in his memories.
Unconsciously Sirius reached out to the pack Bellatrix held out, but as his fingers touched it Remus' face flashed in front of his face and he pulled back his hand as if he had been burnt.
"NO! I don't need you're help Bellatrix!" Sirius shouted, turning his back on them.
"Refusing us won't get Remus back!" Bellatrix stated to her cousins retreating back in a last attempt to lure her cousin back to his addiction. "You'll never get him back. Not after what you did to him."
Sirius stopped in his tracks, her words stinging him to the core. His head dropped as the pain reached his eyes, clouding his vision. Maybe he really would never get Remus back. Maybe it was a lost cause.
"Maybe not, but drugs won't make me feel any better about it," Sirius said quietly before heading into the Great Hall.
"Hmph! He wasn't worthy of our presence anyway," Bellatrix said pompously as she and Rodolphus headed back to the dungeons.
As the Entrance Hall emptied a lone figure stood at the top of the stairs, golden eyes filled with tears from having witnessed the scene below.
"Sirius..." Remus whispered before composing himself and heading to the Great Hall.
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James and Peter were doing their best to try and cheer up Sirius after he had looked all gloomy, and were currently cursing the Slytherins food as Remus sat across from his friends. It wasn't until Bellatrix started having her nose hairs grow wildly thick and long making her run from the Great Hall shrieking that Sirius' mood lightened. He even gave Lucius a run for his money when he made the blonde Slytherin grow a surprisingly large pair of breasts, causing many students of both sexes to shout out catcalls.
"You'll pay for this!" Lucius spat at the Marauders, shaking his wand at them which inevitably made his new attributes bounce slightly, creating a new wave of catcalls.
"Black! Potter! Lupin! Pettigrew! My office now!" Professor McGonagall shouted as Narcissa took Lucius up to the Hospital Wing.
The Marauders followed the infuriated Transfiguration teacher into her office where she proceeded to yell at them for such 'insolent behaviour'. As some of her anger subsided James, Sirius, and Peter spoke out on Remus' behalf as he hadn't done anything so McGonagall dismissed Remus before handing out detentions to the other Marauders.
Remus was going to go back to the dormitory but what had happened with Sirius and the Slytherins weighed on his mind. Remus paced along the corridor battling with his thoughts. He can't forgive Sirius for what he did. He won't, and yet Sirius was living with his misery instead of going for the out he could easily get. Maybe he should listen to what he had to say. He could give him that much. A few minutes later the trio emerged from McGonagall's office grumbling about their punishment.
"Hey Moony, you didn't have to wait for us," James said as they caught sight of the pacing werewolf.
"You know me," Remus said shrugging, his thoughts a thousand miles away from the present.
"Yeah, such the loyal werewolf," James said in a tone meant for children as he ruffled Remus' sandy blonde hair.
"Careful Prongs, we don't need anyone else finding out about Moony," Sirius said remembering his prank on Snape which allowed him to find out Remus' secret. Luckily for Snape, James saved him and Dumbledore swore him to secrecy. That was the first time Remus had ever been truly mad at him, though he had been going out with Eric at the time so his anger never lasted that long. However, the guilt from that was nothing compared to what he felt now.
"Siri..." Remus said bringing the Animagus back to reality.
Blinking, Sirius began to register that Remus really was addressing him and it wasn't just his imagination. He also noticed that James and Peter had disappeared, their voices distant.
"We need to talk," Remus stated.
"N-now?" Sirius asked, still completely taken off guard by Remus' sudden acknowledgment of himself.
"Tomorrow after dinner in our room."
With that said Remus turned and left leaving Sirius to contemplate what was yet to come.
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TBC...
