Chapter Seven: Happy Christmas
Sirius and Remus remained happy the rest of the week. The two had at least two snowball fights per day and then they came inside to drink hot cocoa with small marshmallows. Mrs. Lupin usually joined them, listening to their stories about Hogwarts and their rants about the stuck up Slytherins and how over half disapproved. Mrs. Lupin happily announced that she was all for the relationship, and not to worry what others thought of them. Sirius had talked to Remus about how happy he was that his mother was okay with it.
"Yeah, my mum's generally okay with whatever makes me happy," Remus, said as they came in one day from a snowball fight; Remus won.
"Good. At least your mum likes it. I reckon...damn." Just as Sirius had sat down at the table, an owl flew in and dropped off a scarlet letter in his lap.
"Take it, that's from your mum?" Sirius nodded as he began opening it.
"SIRIUS BLACK! BELLA JUST INFORMED ME OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP! WITH A MAN! WHAT THE DEVIL IS YOUR BLOODY PROBLEM? WHY CAN'T YOU BE LIKE YOUR BROTHER? IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK! WHY DISGRACE YOUR FAMILY! WHY?! YOU HAD BETTER STAY AWAY FROM THIS HOUSE! IT IS NO LONGER GOING TO PUT UP WITH YOU! ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU RAN AWAY LAST YEAR! GOOD RIDDANCE!" The letter started smoking towards the end and flames soon licked the letter, turning it to ashes as it ate away at the scarlet letter.
"Well, she took that better than I thought she would," Sirius said grimly as he blew away the ashes on the table.
Remus sighed sadly, "Well, not everyone was going to accept our relationship right?" Sirius nodded and got up.
"Who was that yelling? Sounded like a banshee!" Sirius laughed at Remus' mum who had just entered. Remus chuckled.
"No, that was a howler from Sirius' mum." Mrs. Lupin smiled sadly and hugged Sirius, which took him by surprise.
"Oh dear, I'm sorry. I bet you felt awful." Sirius snorted.
"Didn't Remus tell you that I left that supposed home last summer?" She looked surprised for a moment and then looked at Sirius with pity in her eyes.
"I didn't realize it was that bad." Sirius waved it off.
"It's okay. I moved in with James." She nodded her head and turned to the stove.
"Want some cocoa, boys?" They nodded happily and got up to find the items needed to make it. Remus' mom left the room for a moment and Remus began searching happily for the marshmallows. Sirius laughed at him.
"Are you laughing at me?" Remus asked, narrowing his eyes at him.
"Me? No! What ever gave you that idea my love?" Sirius asked, trying with all his might to not laugh at the werewolf. Remus sighed and reached into a cabinet to pull back with the bag of marshmallows.
"Yes! Found 'em!" Sirius howled with laughter.
"See? So excited over the marshmallows...."
Later on, the two sat in front of a fireplace. They were playing on a typewriter they had come across while they were bored.
"No wonder muggles like this so much! This contraption is bloody amusing!" Sirius said happily as he typed a rather rude letter to his mum. Remus laughed at Sirius' easily amused mind.
"You are way to easily amused."
"Well, then that means that a present for me could be a string tied to a stick," Sirius retorted and he finished off the letter and attached it to Remus' barn owl.
"Here Shannara, take this to my god forsaken mother." Remus walked over to him and wrapped his arms around Sirius from behind.
"So, now that we've taken the liberty to get even with your batty mother, what shall we do to pass time?" Sirius smirked and turned to face Remus.
"Oh there are a few things I could suggest, the question is, could we do a little bit of magic?" Remus looked confused but nodded.
"Yeah, according to Hogwarts: A History, we can't use magic during the summer and that's it. Why?"
"Because we might need a few silencing spells so that we don't wake up your mother." Remus' eyes instantly widened to the size of saucers.
"You're bonkers."
"But that's what you love about me. Shall we?" Sirius asked, extending an arm out of the room. Remus nodded and quietly made his way upstairs.
"Ouch!" Remus said.
"Sorry love, did that hurt?" Sirius asked. Remus nodded his head and allowed Sirius to kiss his fingertips, sending a shiver up his spin. The two had started a rather loud game of exploding snap. Remus had just burned himself.
"There, that should make it better," Sirius said pulling away slowly. Remus smiled and yawned.
"Sirius, I think we should go to bed now." Sirius nodded and got up. Remus held out his hands and Sirius gladly helped him up.
"Bugger, it's Christmas Eve! James and Peter will be coming over tomorrow!" Remus looked at him in surprise.
"How did you manage to forget that?"
"Well, when you're with someone you care deeply for, and are too concerned on how they are, one tends to forget everything else." Sirius explained as he slipped his shirt over his head. Remus nodded slowly but was too busy staring as Sirius' bare chest. He felt a small blush creep up onto his face.
Remus turned around for a moment to get out his pyjama pants and a t-shirt. When he turned around, Sirius was wearing a pair of flannel pj pants that were a green and black plaid. As ugly as they were, they oddly looked stunning on him.
"Like what you see?" Sirius asked, finally noticing his boyfriend's stare.
"You've got no idea," Remus replied, heading towards the door.
"Where are you running off to?" Sirius asked, watching as Remus reached for the doorknob.
"The loo, I need to brush my teeth ya know."
"I'll join you!" Sirius said happily as he grabbed his brush and raced over to Remus. "Ready!" Remus shook his head and opened the door to let Sirius out of the room.
After the two brushed, they silently returned back to Remus' room.
"James and Peter will probably end up waking us tomorrow," Remus said, crawling under the blankets of his bed. He pulled the blankets up to his chin and rolled over to see two blue eyes staring at him. "SIRIUS!" Sirius smiled at him as Remus moved back a bit.
"What? Might as well give them something to stare at when they arrive right?" Remus smiled slyly at Sirius and crawled up next to him.
"Is that your excuse to get closer to me?" Remus asked Sirius as he turned off the light and closed his eyes.
"No, but it could become one," Sirius replied, wrapping his arms around Remus protectively.
"Did you bring that camera Wormtail?" The blackness behind Sirius' eyelids said.
"Yep, it's right here." Sirius now was confused, since when did the back of eyelids talk? Since when did they sound like James and Peter? Wait, it stopped, must be an imagination thing... yes, that's it. Suddenly, a bright flash of white light was seen and snickers followed it.
"Wicked! They'll just love this picture!" The voice that sounded like James said. Another voice snickered, then turned into full-blown laughter. Remus stirred under Sirius' arms.
"You two need to learn to be a bit more quiet when trying to acquire black-mail on friends," Remus said, eyes still closed.
"Oh shut up Mooney, this'll be a wonderful picture when developed!" Sirius opened his eyes to see James and Peter standing at the edge of the bed, smiling. The camera was in Peter's hands, ready for another picture. Sirius sat up and crawled over to the edge of the bed. He peered over the edge to see a load of presents.
"Good, presents are here. REMUS!"
"I'm right here Sirius, there's no need to shout for me," Remus said, crawling over and glancing down at the unopened presents. He smiled. "Hopefully I got what I wanted." Remus jumped off the bed and searched through the pile for his presents. Sirius happily joined. Peter and James soon joined in, helping them unwrap things.
After wrapping paper was all over the floor and presents placed on beds, the four friends looked at one another, thinking of what to do next.
"Well, Mooney's mum did tell us to wake her up..." James said, smiling wickedly. Peter and Sirius grinned and Remus shook his head.
"Will you ever let her sleep in once for Chris-"
"NEVER!" The other three shouted, dashing out of the room at full speed. Remus slowly followed them. Ever Christmas was the same, open presents then wake up Remus' mom as early in the morning as possible.
After a rather interesting wake up call, Remus' mum was downstairs, baking cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa for them.
"May I marry you?" James asked suddenly as a cinnamon roll and a mug of hot cocoa was set in front of him, the steam rising from the food and drink. She laughed merrily.
"Why of course James, after you are done with Lily I'll be here waiting for you!" She said as she set down food in front of Remus, Sirius, and Peter.
Sirius and Remus dodged behind the large snow fort. Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus had started a large snowball fight after breakfast. It's now been going on for a few hours.
"LOOK OUT!" Remus yelled to Sirius, who ducked just in time to see the snowball zoom over his head. Sirius grabbed a handful of snow and threw it across the yard and the patch of black hair he saw.
"OY!" Sirius smiled at James' annoyed tone. Sirius smiled, he had hit his target.
"Oops? Did I just hit you with snow?" Sirius turned his back, but a horrible yell made him look back to see James rampaging forward with a handful of snow in his hands.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sirius' eyes widened and he took off. Remus and Peter doubled over in laughter at the sight of Sirius running from James.
The chase could've gone on forever but alas, Sirius tripped over a tree root and did a lovely face plant into the cold, hard ground. If that didn't make it worse, James jumped on to him, and threw the snow into the back of his head.
"Why, thank you prongs," Sirius said with a face full of hard, cold ice and snow, "I really appreciate the cold snow you just delivered to my head. Not like I've already got snow on me or anything..."
"My thought exactly!" James exclaimed, jumping up happily. "I figured you need just a tad bit more than you already had." Sirius slowly got up.
"Really? Well thanks a lot for the present, I guess you won't mind if I return the favour." James started backing up, trying to escape his already decided fate. Sirius picked up a handful of snow and began packing it into a nice sized ball.
"Now really Sirius, you don't need to do that. I know we're good, no, great friends but you don't really..." But James' words were lost in Sirius' smile. Well, I guess you could call it a smile. The cold, packed snow was ready to be thrown at the cowering James.
"Sorry mate." James nodded as he embraced. In a few short moments, the snow connected with the back of his head.
"BLOODY HELL!" Sirius laughed loudly as he started walking back up to Remus' house.
"What Potter? Can't take a small snowball? What a pity." James slowly got up, rubbing the back of his head gingerly and wincing.
Peter and Remus were both curled up in front of the fireplace, focusing on a rather intense game of Wizards Chess. The board itself was extremely old with a few cracks in the knights and bishops, and a few chips taken out of rookies and the queen.
"Queen to D6," Peter said after studying the board a few moments. Remus looked at the pieces, surprise written across his face.
"Peter, I do believe that you have a hidden talent with this game; you've put me in check." Peter's face radiated with happiness as he smirked at Remus. Remus was about to move his piece, when the door swung open to reveal a snow covered and very cold James and Sirius.
"Knight to D6, sorry Peter. Have fun you two?" Sirius nodded and James continued to rub the back of his head. Sirius was about to tackle hug Remus when he started talking, "There's hot chocolate in the kitchen if you want some." Sirius stopped in mid run and quickly raced James to the kitchen. In a few short moments, the two returned with marshmallow filled cups of hot chocolate. Sirius sat behind Remus, wrapping his arms around him as soon as he was comfortable.
"So did you and Peter have fun?" Sirius asked as he watched Peter command another piece. James smiled as he sat on a chair behind Peter. Remus nodded.
"Peter is amazingly talented at Wizard's Chess."
"HA!" Sirius barked after taken a sip of his drink. "I'd love to try and see Peter beat me!" Remus frowned slightly as he watched Peter's bishop massacre his pawn.
"I don't know love, he's about to beat me." Sirius shrugged it off and looked around the place, bored.
"I'm bored," Sirius said, stating the obvious. Remus smiled as he once again save his king from the clutches of Peter.
"Go do your homework. I know for a fact you have Divinations and Potions to do. Bishop to F5, CHECK!" Sirius grumbled unhappily about abusive and controlling boyfriends. But, he did go and start on his homework.
In only a short few hours, the marauders sat down with Remus' mum, Mr. and Mrs. Potter, and Ms. Pettigrew for dinner. They are sat around drinking spiked eggnog throughout the rest of the night.
Before long, it was time for Christmas break to come to a close. It was now the last day before they were to return to Hogwarts. Remus and Sirius were in their room, packing.
"Ugh... Do we really need to go back to school?" Sirius complained. He had finished all of his packing his things and was playing with his string tied to a stick, one of the presents from Remus.
"Sorry Padfoot, but we must complete our education at Hogwarts or else we won't-"
"-Be able to find a good job, make any money, yadda, yadda, yadda..." Sirius finished for Remus. Remus nodded at watched Sirius play with his toy.
"Having fun?" Sirius looked at Remus and gave him a big smile.
"It's the best bloody present in the world!" Remus laughed out loud and Sirius soon joined in with the contagious laugh that Remus possessed.
"Simple minds, simple pleasures..." Remus said in a barely audible whisper.
"Oy! I heard that! Have you ever played with it?! It's more amusing than you would think!" Remus shook his head and started dragging his trunk out of his room.
"Come on, time to take this down stairs, that way we're ready for tomorrow." Sirius nodded and dragged his as well.
The next morning, Remus and Sirius woke up early, ate left over chocolate chip cookies with milk, got dressed and once again rode their car the Platform 9 ¾. Once they got there, the met up with James and Peter. The four quickly got on the train, found a booth, and were on their way back to Hogwarts.
Lol, sorry about the ending. I really wanted to update it so I just gave you all a brief overview of what they did. I'll try to update sooner for you all! REVIEW!