Sirius sighed as the hot water dripped from the faucet, sweeping through his locks, and making its way down his body. He stared at the wall of the shower, noting absently that the tile nearest him had a little chip at the side. He wondered how it got there. Wasn't the whole castle spelled so no damage could come to it? Then he snorted as he recalled the clanking armour that was never oiled … the flickering lights in the fourth-floor corridor. All in Dumbledore's attempt to make the castle look 'lived-in'. The old Headmaster constantly had harebrained schemes like this, and Sirius knew better than to do more than complain rather loudly to James and Peter (while making sure Dumbledore was in hearing range). After all, Dumbledore had been doing this for almost more than two lifetimes! Besides, if it kept Dumbledore from making more rules, that made Sirius all the happier. Having exhausted this course of thought, Sirius turned back to what his mind was thinking all through the night, until he slept, to this very morning.

Remus.

Sirius couldn't help groaning at the name. What was wrong with him? He had never pondered upon a person's existence, bar his, for this long! In fact, Sirius, who had the attention span of a gnat, had never spent the night tossing and turning, eyes the colour of stormy skies with tiny flecks of gold constantly dancing behind his tightly shut lids. It was unheard of! Girls and guys were the ones who spent sleepless nights thinking of him! Never him! The idea was preposterous!

As his mind wandered further on that thought, his traitorous mind relieved for about the hundredth time how Remus had looked, smelt, and sounded like. The second he made eye contact with Remus, he had wanted to jump over the table, and pull him to a corner so he could snog Remus senseless. Sirius' overactive mind yet again recalled the way Remus had sounded. His voice: smooth, low, and holding a quiet confidence, was incredibly sexy. And the way his knee kept brushing his…it drove him insane!

Sirius banged his head on the wall. Urgh! He had to Stop. Thinking. Aout. Remus! He couldn't possibly go through the whole year like this! It was his last year at Hogwarts for Merlin's sake! He had to get good grades so he could become an Auror!

Sirius' whole train of thought was interrupted by a certain James Potter banging on the door.

'SIRIUS! What in the name of Merlin are you doing in there! Are you trying to drown yourself? Or are you obsessing about the new pimple on your nose? Get your bloody arse out of the shower before I come in there are drag your scrawny ass out by myself! Certain people like me have to get ready for a new day of impressing my future wife, and I can't do it if you bloody well don't LET ME IN! SIRIUS! I am seriously SERIOUS and that's not funny! You better get out before I-'

James' rant was cut off half-way as the bathroom door swung open, letting out Sirius with a towel slung around his neck, and clouds of billowing steam trailing behind him.

'First of all Jamsie, I was not trying to drown myself. The world values my presence too much for me to deprive them of my glorious self without reason. I could never be that…evil. Second of all, I do not have such … facial disfigurements.' Sirius sniffed haughtily. 'Pimples do not belong on the face of Blacks. It would be a complete disgrace. And since when was Lily going to be your future wife? Last I heard, she was trying to figure out a way to dump you into the lake without cracking her back.' Sirius snickered wickedly. 'No hard feelings matey.' Clapping a hand on James' back, Sirius sauntered away.

James stared open-mouthed at the retreating figure of Sirius before hollering 'Of course Lily loves me! She just doesn't realize it yet! You better not have used up all the hot water Black, or I'll bring you into the lake with me when Lily manages to push me in!'

James huffed, and turned into the bathroom. Unfortunately, the water was indeed cold.

Remus scowled good-naturedly when Celia recounted the day's events to yet another group of friends.

'And then, he ran up the girl's staircase, and when it turned into a slide, he slid down all the way to the bottom, with this stunned look on his face! It was hilarious! I almost fell down the slide laughing too when I saw him!'

As the crowd of Hufflepuffs dispersed, some patting Remus on the head sympathetically, Remus groaned and buried his head in his arms.

'Celia, do you have to embarrass me like that? It's my first day and already half the school knows what a klutz I am!'

Celia smirked. 'Remus, it's not your fault that you didn't know the founders didn't really trust the boys not to sneak into the girl's rooms at night. Besides, you did look so adorable sprawled on the floor of the Common Room with that stunned look! Everyone thinks you're cute, trust me.'

'Well, you're giving me unwanted attention! Just now, I girl I had never seen, and never want to see again in my whole life after hearing the story, went like this.'

Remus leaned over to Celia, who was sitting beside him. Celia instinctively shrunk back at the predatory glint in his grey eyes. 'So…Remus…' Remus drawled. 'Did you get any bruises from falling down the stairs? I can help you…massage… it if you want.'

Remus' hand slipped down to caress Celia's hip.

Just as suddenly as he had slipped into the role of a predator, Remus slid back down to the table, hands over his eyes.

'See?' Remus whined. 'She did that to me! What was I supposed to do… tell her that I wasn't interested in-'

Remus was cut off by a warm hand on his back. Twisting around, he found himself staring up at the very blue eyes that had kept him from sleeping last night.

'Morning, Remus. Not interested in what? Word's round the grapevine that this morning you were … flat on your back.' Sitting down next to Remus, Sirius didn't let his hand go from Remus' back, instead slipping it round to encircle his shoulders.

Remus blushed as the innuendo behind the seemingly-innocent words came to him. 'Not like that, you prat! I fell down the stairs! And I just wasn't interested in…in…' Remus faltered.

Sirius pulled Remus closer to him so only Remus could hear the words whispered in his ear. He shivered as the warm breath ghosted across his ear. 'Not interested in her type? Or her kind?'

Sirius let go of Remus, ruffled his hair, and turned to face Celia's inquisitive look.

'So, Celia, what's this I hear about you turning into an incurable gossip?'

As Sirius and Celia continued their conversation, Remus sat in shock between them.

'He knows!' was all that was spinning through his mind. 'Oh shit … wait. Does that mean he's interested in me?'

Remus glanced to his left. As if feeling the heat of his gaze, Sirius lifted his eyes to meet his. Grinning wickedly, Sirius slipped a hand around Remus' waist.

'I don't mind…'

The words floated into Remus' ears.

The moment was broken when James stormed into the Hall, eyes blazing, before howling. 'SIRIUS BLACK! You used up all the hot water! I am freezing, dammit!'

Before Sirius was hauled off by a furious James, Remus made up his mind and leaned over Sirius.

'Her kind.' He murmured.

Remus noticed Sirius' eyes brightening. Then he was shocked into silence when Sirius pressed a kiss to his cheeks.

'Good.' Sirius whispered, and allowed himself to be dragged off to the Gryffindor table by his best mate.

Sirius grinned as he locked eyes with Remus for about the tenth time, amidst James' disgruntled noises. Mutters of, 'The nerve, trying to hide at the Ravenclaw table. Even if you were at the Slytherin table I still would have busted your ass…' drifted along from James' general direction.

Sirius smiled inwardly. This day was turning out very well indeed. The first official day of school, and he had managed to piss off his best mate, and secure the attentions of Remus.

Sirius leaned over and grabbed the timetable from McGonagall, who was passing them out, ('Thanks Minnie!'), to which she responded with a dirty look.

Sirius scanned over the schedule quickly. Yes! The world was on his side! In the whole week, he counted ten periods with the Ravenclaws. Sirius stifled a chuckle. Constant brawls with the Slytherins, with whom they shared the most periods last year, had definitely served to make the teachers declare 'Never again!'

Draining the cup of coffee before him, Sirius pulled James up to his feet. 'Come on Jamie, we better not be late for our Charms with the Ravenclaws!'

Pulling a reluctant James still trying to stuff the chocolate-sprinkled doughnut into his mouth, Sirius headed out of the Hall.

A/N: okay, let's see. I think about all my reviewers have already headed for the hills, after the almost year-long wait. I would love to say that the reason for this horrible delay was due to something serious, but really, I have no plausible excuse. I am completely unharmed from the tsunami, and I wish you all the very best for all the disasters that seem to be coming our way, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.

All I can say is yes, I did write a chapter last December, however, my dad closed down my whole account for unfathomable reasons, taking my story with it to the byte grave. After the loss, I had no real motivation to continue 'A Werewolf's Charms' though the reviews were a tad tempting. In fact, I swore off fanfiction for about three months. And, real life caught up to me during those three months, and I spent the rest of the months kind of living it up. Sorry, but I do have a life outside of this computer, and I just can't sit here and waste my life away, tempting as it may be. But this I will try my very best to do: I will try my utmost to the best of my abilities to get this story finished. And yes. I do admire those who can write more than 3000 words or more in one chapter. That level seems to be far beyond me right now. Even as I started writing this chapter yesterday, I have to admit I forgot all I had written in the previous ones, and had to read through what I wrote for about two times before I remembered.

I really, really hope this miserable chapter will be enough to prevent those planning on hunting me down with sticks and stones! 77 reviews in total, and you might just get a chapter next week!

Okay, so I won't be replying any reviews in this chapter, but thanks a lot for the great encouragement! And, thank you for whoever put me on the c2s…I'm very much flattered!