A/N: I wasn't happy initially with this chapter, I am still not, despite reassurances it is ok…I figured it was time for a Remus POV, I seemed to have neglected him lately :D Anyway review and let me know your thoughts :)

Chapter 13:

Remus leant back against the wall, nursing his arm and surveying the scene in front of him dazedly; this was definitely not how he envisioned his night turning out.

Across from Remus, Snape lay sprawled on the ground, unconscious and immobile, apart from a wild dance his left leg became a part of, every few minutes. He had no idea what hex Paige had hit Snape with, but he was grateful for it nonetheless. He looked down at Paige who was sitting down on the ground beside him, from what he could see she seemed to be the least affected by the events that had unfolded than anyone else, she just sat, spinning her wand between her two fingers as she watched the two people at the center of this mess who were staring mutinously at each other.

And it was the predicament of the two people in front of him that confused him the most. He wasn't sure what exactly had caused it, but he had a definite hunch there was more to this than met the eye.

Remus groaned. This was meant to be a quiet Saturday night; nothing eventful was supposed to happen, except maybe gaining enough courage to perhaps ask Paige to Hogsmeade. But that, he thought, was definitely not going to come to pass now. Though he had to admit, seeing Paige knock Snape unconscious was kind of worth it.

"What the…"

Remus head turned to see James and Lily coming towards them, stopping when they reached Peter, who Remus thought begrudgingly, was lucky to not have been involved in whatever it was that Remus and Paige stumbled in to.

"Peter," James started, "mess would not be the word I would use to describe this," he finished, waving his hand out in front of him. "No, I think bind may be a better word."

"I really don't think this is a time for semantics, James," Sirius growled.

Remus heard Lily start chuckling slightly, something Remus had not expected.

"Sorry," she said in between chuckles, "just didn't ever think I would hear 'semantics' uttered from Sirius' mouth. It's been a long day," she added, addressing the look Sirius shot at her.

"What happened?" James turned to Remus, as usual hoping he would have the answers, and would provide the voice of reason.

"I don't know the whole story," he started, "I heard Sirius' voice arguing, while I was making my way to the Potion's Lab to meet Paige, and…"

"The Potion's Lab, huh?" Peter interrupted suggestively, causing a swipe over the head from James, while Remus shot him a sharp glare.

"And I came down to have a look and found Sirius and Snape in the middle of a duel, I suppose."

"If we are going to be stringent about word choice tonight, call it what it really was Lupin, a dogfight," Olivia snapped, turning her face towards him quickly.

"Well it was Snivellus who started it!" Sirius growled.

"You didn't have to provoke him Black, he was just seeing if I was okay!"

"He was doing what he always does, sticking his abnormally large slimy nose into other people's business! And if he learnt not to, we may not be stuck here right now!"

"That's rich, Black," Olivia sniped, "from now on we'll just call you pot."

Sirius just glared at Olivia, while Lily dissolved into another fit of giggles, causing everyone to shift their attention to her, "I'm sorry, truly, have no idea what's gotten into me." She looked slightly embarrassed, and bit her bottom lip tightly so as to keep herself from laughing again.

"Anyway, the 'dogfight'," Lupin stressed looking pointedly at Olivia, "ended up turning into a bit of an all in brawl, with Snape wanting to take out some well built up anger out on me apparently," he continued elusively.

Remus had tried to break up the fight between Snape and Sirius, but somehow he had managed to get dragged in, and became the focus of Snape's anger, rather than Sirius; which was a usual occurrence after Snape had found out about him being a Werewolf last year.

"So Snape and I were dueling each other, and then they got in on it with each other," Remus said waving at Sirius and Olivia, "arguing and throwing hexes at each other from what I could gather, but honestly I had my hands full so I wasn't paying much attention at the time."

Remus, joined the rest of the group looking at Sirius and Olivia for answers, but they just stood glaring at each other, ignoring the attempts of the others to get their attention.

"Anyway, we continued dueling, and then we noticed we sort of couldn't move," Remus finished.

"Couldn't move?" James asked

"Our feet anyway, they felt glued to the spot," Remus explained, "anyway, once I realised it wasn't a hex from Snape that had caused it, I turned to Olivia and Sirius and saw that the more they hexed each other, the closer they moved towards one another, so much so that they ended up like that."

The group returned their gaze towards Sirius and Olivia again. Both of who were pressed against each other tightly, unable, despite numerous attempts, to get themselves free from their bind.

Again, the unpredicted sound of Lily bursting into laughter broke through the silence and tension permeating through the corridor.

"Oh come on," she said, "none of you see the humor in this at all?"

"No!" Sirius and Olivia yelled at Lily in unison, causing her to laugh again.

"Right," she said, "must just be me then."

Though Remus did have to agree with Lily and concede seeing Olivia and Sirius so uncomfortable in their situation was amusing, more so, if he was able to move his feet.

"So any thoughts on how to get us out of this?" Olivia asked.

Remus shrugged, if he had known he would have done something by now.

It was a while before anybody spoke. "There isn't anything you can do," Lily said, "well as far as I know anyway. You just have to wait and um, cool down, and the attraction," she said slyly, "will release itself."

At this revelation Sirius and Olivia struggled more, and started arguing again.

"Seriously, guys," Lily interrupted, "that isn't going to help, just calm down."

"Calm down?" Olivia shrieked, something Remus had never seen her do before, and from Lily's reaction neither had she. "You aren't attached to this asshole."

"But being attached to you is just peachy," Sirius replied sarcastically. "You know, many girls would kill to be in this position, Semasky. For that matter, there are many girls I would prefer to have in this position."

"Don't flatter yourself, Black," Olivia said scathingly, "girls would only want to get this close to you so they could damage certain 'manly' possessions, I actually wonder if you even have."

"Children!" James bellowed. "As much as we would love to stay here and be entertained by your sniping, give it a rest, there is nothing that can be done but to wait."

Remus, somewhat shocked at his outburst, silently agreed. He slid down the wall and settled, as comfortably as he could considering he couldn't move, on the floor.

"How's your arm?" Paige asked looking up at him, concern in her eyes.

"Felt better, but it will be ok," he answered, "you hurt?"

She shook her head, "Nah, I am fine. Slightly amused by those two, though still wishing I could move my feet."

Remus nodded and looked at the ground; being this close to Paige was quite unnerving.

The group sat in silence for a while, Sirius and Olivia finally giving up the struggle between them. After about a half an hour of Remus sitting thinking of what to say to Paige, he felt the tension in his feet relax and was soon able to move his feet from under him.

"Finally," he and Paige breathed, both of them getting up from their positions on the ground, causing the others to look up at them.

"About time," James exclaimed, while pulling Lily up from her seated position on the ground.

"What happened to Severus, Remus?" Lily asked, as she walked over to where he was lying on the floor, still unconscious.

"I hit him with a disarming hex, I guess the force of it caused him to hit his head on the wall causing him to knock himself out," Paige spoke up, walking towards where Lily was standing.

"Oh," Lily said, "why did you get involved in the duel?"

Remus was just as interested in hearing Paige's response as Lily was.

"He just hit below the belt that's all," Paige answered vaguely.

Lily looked at Paige shrewdly, "Ok. James can you help me take him up to the hospital wing? We'll just say we found him like this on our rounds."

James nodded, though he looked like he would rather let Snape lay there and rot.

"What about us?" Sirius asked.

"You two will be fine soon, as long as you don't start at each other again." Lily answered, as she started to levitate Snape down the corridor to the direction of the infirmary.

Sirius growled low, looking imploringly at James.

"You guys will be free in a bit," James said as he went to help Lily. "I'll see you in the common room Padfoot!" He called over his shoulder.

"Yeah, for a pummeling," Sirius muttered.

Remus and Paige decided to wait until the bond had lifted off Sirius and Olivia before they left, mainly because Sirius looked like he was going to kill Remus if he left any earlier. Luckily, Lily had been right, and they only had to wait another ten minutes before Sirius and Olivia stumbled apart from each other.

"Right," Sirius said gruffly, smoothing his robes down, "I'm, right…" he stuttered, walking away from Olivia and storming down the corridor, Olivia already out of sight.

Remus shook his head bemusedly, "So," Remus started, turning towards Paige.

"Walk me back up to my common room?" She asked timidly.

"Of course," Remus answered.

They made their way to the Ravenclaw portrait hole silently, the quiet breathing the only sound emanating from both of their lips.

"You know," Paige spoke as she approached the portrait hole, turning around to face Remus, "It would be hard pressed for a first date to compete with tonight, but I am definitely up for the challenge."

Remus jerked his head up, and saw her face was red from embarrassment, causing him to smile shyly.

"So am I," he muttered, his throat slightly dry.

"Ah, Hogsmeade trip sound ok?" he asked, hope hanging from his words.

"Sounds wonderful," she said smiling.

Remus watched as she turned towards the portrait hole and muttered the password so that the portrait swung open.

"Oh and Remus, you know you are lucky that you had no open cuts on your arm, otherwise that sliver chain would have caused a lot more harm than it did." She stated, before disappearing into the common room.

It wasn't until Remus was halfway to the Gryffindor common room that he finally registered what Paige had said.

"How the? Oh shit!" he muttered.

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Ok, I don't know if I will be continuing to post this fic here, with all that has happened with the mess, I am thinking I may just keep posting it in the CoS fanfic forum ( I spend more time there anyway)….Unless you guys desperately want me to stay on here, and then I am happy to oblige my readers :)