Ch. 21- Confrontation

Remus sighed as he watched Hermione during breakfast later that morning, sitting next to Sirius and making sure not to gain eye contact. He knew she must feel guilty about what had happened but wondered if she really regretted it. He needed to talk to her. They had to talk this out or they would forever be avoiding one another.

His eyes trailed from her to Sirius. She hadn't told him what had happened or he would be a dead man by now. The question was, did she ever plan on telling him?

Lily watched Remus's cautious looks from Hermione to Sirius and wondered what was going on. She watched as he finally turned his attention back to his steak and eggs and then watched as Hermione shot a furtive look at Remus when Sirius's attention was on James and blushed. Lily narrowed her eyes and bit her lip. She had an unnerving feeling that she knew exactly what had happened, but she hopped to Merlin she was wrong.

"Uh… Herms," she said, calling over the table to her friend. Hermione looked up, wide-eyed.

"Yeah?"

"Could we go to the library? To work on our project," she asked, sending her an alternate message with her steady gaze.

Hermione hesitated, looking from Remus to Sirius and then finally nodded. Picking up her bag, she kissed Sirius on the cheek, but looked at Remus as she did so, her eyes locking with his. Lily cleared her throat and Hermione straightened up, heading down the aisle. Sirius narrowed his eyes at Remus when the girls had left the Great Hall and spoke.

"Where were you this morning, Remus? Did you happen to see where Hermione went after she left the room early this morning?"

James's attention on his food faded and his interest was now in Sirius and Remus.

"Herms slept in our room? W-What's going on?"

He looked from Remus who was stark white to Sirius, whose cheeks were getting redder by the minute.

"Oh, I'm sure Remus would love to explain."

"Explain what…?"

"You know exactly what to explain. Explain how you are attracted to my girlfriend? Explain how you did something with my girlfriend that has her so ashamed she can't talk to me. Remus, you bloody fucking tell me what happened between you and Hermione, or you'll force me to do something I have the urge to do right now."

James opened his mouth.

"S-Sirius," he began. "Don't you think we should take this to the dormitory?"

"No, James," Sirius shouted, standing up and pointing at Remus. "This so called friend slept with my girlfriend this morning!"

With that Sirius stormed out of the room. James looked at Remus, a look of disgust edged with hope.

"Please, Remus, …tell me that you didn't."

"I can't, James… that's exactly what I did."

James's eyes closed and he took a deep breath before standing.

"I'm afraid that you will have a hard time fixing this mess, Remus. I just hope that you and Sirius can make up soon. I was hoping that you two would both come to my wedding."

Remus blinked and looked up at James. He was smiling despite the situation.

"I'm going to ask Lily to marry me tonight."

"That's great, James. Don't worry. I'll talk to Sirius, though I'm not sure it will help any."

"Just try, Remus."

With that, her walked out of the room, leaving Remus at the table amid whispers and looks from the other students who had heard the outburst.

Remus waited a minute before picking up his things and making his way out of the Great Hall and out of the castle to the lake where he knew he'd find Sirius

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I am so sorry that I haven't replied in so long. I promise I will post at least one chapter from here on out until this story is finite, as long as you, my loyal reviewers, keep reviewing.

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Anyway, here is chapter 21 that you have waited oh so patiently for. Please forgive me for my delay. And no...

:Snape comes out and grabs her by the wrist: .! Ah... er... Remus... :Remus comes and spells Snape away, and then drags her into a closet :

:comes out of the closet ten minutes later and has a goofy smile on her face, tucking her shirt back into her skirt: Ahem... well... until next time.

:is dragged back into the closet: