Under the Full Moony

Scroll 9: Confusing Concoctions of Love

"That wasn't funny Sirius," Remus said, as he came back from the library to the common room and found it empty except for his three Marauder friends.

"Tell me there was someone in the library!" said Sirius, grinning.

James looked at Remus and burst out laughing, "Remus is still a GIRL ..."

Remus rolled his eyes, "I'm going to change ..."

"Don't take the boy's stairs! You're now a GIRL remember?" teased James.

Sirius grinned and grabbed Remus' hand. He tapped Remus' clothes and they became the gray pants and white shirt that they were supposed to be.

"There, happy?"

"Thank you."

"Well, hand it over!" said Sirius, flopping back onto the couch.

"Hand what over?" asked Remus frowning as he sat down near Sirius.

"The book! That you were going to borrow ..."

"Oh um ... I didn't find it-"

"Hey, what's THAT!"

Sirius suddenly lunged at Remus, grabbing his hand and extracting the parchment with Golpalott's Third Law explained.

"Well, what's this then!"

"Give that back," said Remus mildly.

Sirius threw the note to James. Remus frowned and walked over to James, who threw it to Peter and used Levicorpus on him.

Peter sniggered and read the parchment while hanging upside-down, "When you use Scarpin's Revelaspell ... hey, I know this handwriting! Take a look, Prongs!"

Peter threw the note to James who caught it and studied the handwriting. Suddenly he threw the parchment down and sent Peter crashing onto a couch.

"SNIVELLUS!" said James, backing away from the parchment as if it were poisonous.

Sirius looked down at the parchment, "Remus ... you stole this from Snivellus!"

"No."

Sirius frowned, "Then how-?"

"It's getting late. Good-night," Remus walked to the staircases, but Sirius quickly blocked his way.

"Remus ... was he in the library?" asked Sirius slowly.

Remus sighed, "Maybe he was."

"Did you TALK to him ...!"

"Maybe I did, Sirius. I'm tired okay? Please move," Remus tried to push past Sirius, who grabbed his arm.

"How are you TIRED! You were in a library! Reading books! Or were you doing something ELSE with Snivellus!

James walked over, "You mean like snogging or ..."

Peter looked up, "Or what?"

James shot him a look, and Peter, eyes wide, understood,"Oh! Oh ... oh ... ew ..."

Remus wrenched his arm out of Sirius' grasp, "Last time I checked, I don't have to tell you what I do or what I don't do. Now move or I'll hex you!"

Sirius laughed, "Oh! I see what SNIVELLUS is doing! He's turning you against us!"

Remus reached into the pocket of his robes and pulled out his wand, just as Sirius did.

James looked at Peter. The tension between them was so high, it radiated off the two like heat.

They stood there a long time, wands pointed at each other.

"Well, Loopy? Aren't you going to hex me!" taunted Sirius.

"I'll give you one last chance, Black!" Remus shot back.

"Well, I'm not moving any time soon! So go on! Hex me!"

Remus glared at him, "Move aside, Sirius."

"Not until you tell me what you were doing with Snivelly in the library!"

"He helped me, okay! I'm terrible at potions, all he did was help me!"

Sirius shook his head, "He's trying to turn you against us!"

"If you keep being such a jerk, he won't need to!"

With that Remus shoved Sirius away, and ran up the stairs to the boys' dormitory.

Sirius just stared after him, clinging to the wall to keep from falling.

He growled angrily, "Who does he think he is! Talking to me like that! I should stick him to the ceiling!"

James smiled, "Ah, young love ..."

"Shut the hell up ... I'm borrowing your cloak."

"Why!" called James as Sirius started climbing the staircase, "Because I'm hungry and I want food. Mostly candy ... and Butterbeer ..."

"Alright ... me and Peter will wait in the dormitory ..."

James began collecting their books and rolls of parchment.

Sirius opened the door with a bang, to find Remus lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling. When Sirius came in, he turned over, his back to Sirius' four-poster, sniffling ever so slightly ... but Sirius heard ... and felt awful.

"Remus? I'm going out to the kitchens ... sneaking out after hours ..." Sirius paused and sat on his bed. "You should take points off ..."

"There was a notice on the bulletin board, Dumbledore decided prefects can't take points off Houses anymore. Only teachers can now ..." Remus said slowly in a choked up voice.

"Remus ... one, that sucks ... two, I'm sorry-"

Remus turned over, "Sirius, I don't know what's wrong with you. You're so aggressive and mean to me ... you know ... if I decide to befriend Severus-"

"Oh! So you're on first name terms with him! You know what, Moony! You're so god-dammed THICK! He-hates-all-Gryffindors! Specially the Marauders! He's planning something rotten and you can't see it! So fuck you!"

Remus sighed and heard Sirius leave, slamming the door behind him.

'Sirius ... why are you acting like this? Why do you hate me ...?'

"What if Remus is right?" asked James, carefully.

Peter nodded and stuffed chocolate frogs into his mouth.

Sirius ate his chocolate thoughtfully, as he, James, and Peter sat on James' bed, Muffliato around the four-poster.

"Like I said," started James, but Sirius cut him off.

"I know what you said ... but what if Remus isn't right? What if he's not a good judge of character ... in fact he isn't! He can never tell whose a Slytherin-"

"Come off it Padfoot! How about letting him run his own life!"

Sirius frowned, "What's that supposed to mean!"

"You always tell him what to do, you're always there ... suggesting, poking at him, hell, you control what he eats!"

"He's so thin I can't stand it!"

James shrugged, "Maybe he likes it-"

"He'll die! He'll waste away!"

"And every time he wants to do something or go somewhere you criticize."

"WHEN have I done that!" yelled Sirius, sitting up.

"When he wanted to take Muggle Studies! You sneered and said his mum's parents were Muggles, what's he need that for! AND-" said James loudly, drowning out Sirius' protests.

"-when he wanted to take Arithmancy, you called him a nerd!"

"But he took them anyway! I didn't stop him!" yelled Sirius.

"And quit three months later because you kept teasing him!"

"I was NOT teasing him-"

"Oh Remus, your schedule's always so full! You never have time for Marauding anymore! You're letting me and James down!"

Peter nodded and reached for Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.

Sirius flushed, his cheeks red, "Well ... he's still got Ancient Runes and care of Magical Creatures!"

"That's because, idiot, YOU'VE got them! You've made sure, in every year, that he had the same schedule as you!"

"That's ... not true!" said Sirius balling his hands into fists.

"AND in first year, when he fell off his broom ... you were a jerk ..."

Sirius rolled his eyes, "He rose three feet and down he went! Even Pettigrew did better! AND he was the last one to actually learn how to mount it! It was pathetic!"

James frowned, "You slid off too, you know ..."

"Only once! Anyway, that's not the point ..."

"Yes it is, Padfoot ..." James sighed, "Remus wants to pass Potions ... Snivellus is the best at Potions ... it doesn't take a genius."

"I ... hate ... Remus!" yelled Sirius suddenly. "How can he socialize with the enemy!"

James threw him a Pumpkin Pasty, "Listen, I have a plan. Whenever Moony goes to the library again, we'll follow and spy on them."

Sirius took a big bite and nodded slowly, "Yeah ... we'll do that ..."

"And incidentally ... the way you're acting ... either you're totally in love with Moony, or you hate his guts."

"I DO NOT LOVE REMUS!" shouted Sirius.

"THEN YOU BLOODY HATE HIM!" yelled James.

"FINE THEN! I DO!"

"WHY ARE WE SHOUTING!" yelled Peter.

The other two laughed, and that was the end of that argument.

Little did they know, their inexperience with the Muffling Charm had made a few things quite audible to a certain Gryffindor prefect. Things like, for example: 'I ... hate .. Remus!' and 'I do not love Remus.'

Remus squeezed his tearful eyes shut and tried to drown out the sound of the other three laughing, as if mocking him ...

'Sirius hates me ... he hates me!'

"So ... what's the next line?" asked Remus as he tipped the skinned shrivelfig into the small cauldron they'd set up in the very back of the Restricted Section of the library.

"Chop the sneezewort up and add to the potion which should be a thin substance, of a gray color," read Severus.

But after Remus had done so, the potion stayed a dark blue.

Snape sighed and grabbed a fistful of sneezewort roots, throwing them into the cauldron.

The potion turned a clear color, Snape frowned, "Oops, guess I put too much in. Need to thicken it."

He grabbed a fistful of Octopus Powder and threw it in. The potion turned gray.

Remus' eyes widened, "How DO you do that ... just grab a fistful and throw it in, and it works!"

"I have a lot of experience in the subtle art of Potion Making ... that and I read the chapters ahead of time, giving me plenty of time to practice so when the time comes, Slughorn will give me top grades," Snape smirked.

Remus' mouth dropped open and he laughed, "You cheat!"

"Not at all, really. I just like studies."

Remus smiled as Snape continued smirking.

Severus looked down at Advanced Potion Making and said softly, "That's what I like about you ... you're not an idiot ... you're striving to do better in Potions."

Remus blinked, "Severus ... what are you saying?"

"I'm saying ... if you didn't hang out with those three morons ... if only ..."

Snape put his hand on Remus' and smiled a bit, "If only ..."

Severus leaned in swiftly and kissed Remus, his mouth clumsy and unaccustomed.

When he pulled back, which was after a small length of time, he backed away from Remus.

Remus touched his lips, eyes wide, "Severus ... "

Snape's eyes were wide and when he spoke it was barely above a whisper, "I ... "

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" came a loud voice from behind the bookcases.

Remus spun around to see Sirius striding towards them, James and Peter at his heels, half-covered with the invisibility cloak.

As Sirius was walking towards them, Snape drew his wand. Sirius growled, walked right past Remus, to Snape.

"I don't need no bloody WAND!" With that, Sirius knocked Snape's arm away as he raised the wand, and punched him hard, sending him flying onto a bookcase.

Remus frowned, "Sirius stop!"

He walked over to Snape, "Severus? Are you okay ...?"

Snape looked up, and pointed his wand at Sirius, red sparks shooting out of it, slamming Sirius onto the desks.

Remus frowned, "Enough. Or else I'll send for your House Heads."

Snape's upper lip curled, "What are you doing here, Black! I thought people like you and Potter didn't know what a library was!"

"We're here to make sure you don't rape Remus!" shot Sirius back angrily. "Although considering the circumstances, it'd hardly be called a rape if Remus was willing!"

With that Sirius pushed past James and Peter, and past the small group of girls that had come running when they heard the voices, among them was Bertha Jorkins and Emmaline Vance.

They giggled and started talking in hushed voices. Remus put his face in his hands, "Severus ... I'm sorry ..."

"Don't apologize," Snape said in a quiet voice. "It's not your fault."

Remus helped him up and siphoned the blood off his face. He turned to James and Peter who shook their heads at him and left.

Remus then sat down, looking at Advanced Potion Making. After a few moments, he spoke, "Severus ... this changes nothing."

And Remus didn't look up until Snape finally walked over and sat on the chair next to him, "I know ... we'd better finish your Confusing Concoction."

Remus looked up and grinned, "It's properly named too, this is the most confusing potion I've ever tried my hand at."

Snape smirked and rolled his eyes, "Well, add the porcupine quills ..."

"Can. You. Believe. HIM!" said Sirius, trying and failing to keep his voice calm.

"Padfoot ... are you jealous?"

"I-AM-NOT-JELOUS-OF-SNIVELLUS!"

James stretched and sat on a couch, "Yeah, right. That was some scene! You should have made sure no one was there ..."

Bertha and Emmaline kept shooting glances at Sirius, who growled at them, "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT!"

They merely giggled.

James took his glasses off to clean them, "Listen, Padfoot, if you're not jealous of him, how come you got angry that Snivellus kissed him?"

"BECAUSE IT'S NASTY!"

Peter frowned, "Me and James found it nasty too, right James? But we didn't go after him to punch Snape, right James?"

"Right," agreed James. "So why did you-?"

"BECAUSE HE JUST STOOD THERE AND LET THAT OVERGROWN BAT KISS HIM!"

"And what's it to you?" asked James, watching him closely.

"THAT I HATE SNIVELLUS!"

"What if Remus doesn't hate Snivellus?" asked Peter, catching on to James' plan.

"HE BLOODY HELL BETTER!"

"But why?" asked James, excitedly.

"BECAUSE HE'S A MAURAUDER! AND MARAUDERS HATE SNIVELLUS!"

"What if he goes out with Snivellus?" prodded Peter, his small black eyes twinkling in delight.

"I'LL BLOODY WRING HIS SKINNY NECK AND STUFF THAT LUMP OF GREASE HE CALLS HAIR UP HIS ARSE!

"Why! Remus is free to choose who he goes out with."

Sirius suddenly became very tense, and then, unaware that everyone in the Common Room was staring at him as if he was a lunatic, he bellowed, "BECAUSE HE'S MINE! REMUS IS MINE AND THAT DUNG BEETLE CAN'T HAVE HIM!"

It was only when he noticed James and Peter rolling around in their chairs, laughing maniacally, that Sirius looked around at the crowd that was shoving and clambering over one another, trying to catch a view of Sirius Black, whom they were all convinced had gone mad.

Sirius looked at a group of second-year girls, who shrieked in terror and hid behind two seventh-years who gave him the thumbs-up. There was Emmaline Vance ogling at him, and of course, Bertha Jorkins, standing on tiptoe and giggling. Then there was Shackelbolt who was staring at him eyes wide and mouth open, but smiled at him, when he caught Sirius' eye.

Sirius returned the smile reluctantly, but had an idea. He smiled hugely at them all and said, "And that's why, my friends, you should never eat anything James hands you! Ha, ha!"

A few people laughed, but most were still staring at him as if he was insane. Sirius grabbed his wand and pointed it at the people who were blocking the stairs, "Alright, you! Out of the way!"

The crowd gasped in unison and parted. Sirius strode to the doorway and disappeared up the staircase. James and Peter followed, laughing at him and sniggering.

"Well, now it's out in the open, Padfoot. Only one problem ... the person you were supposed to tell isn't here!" James said with a laugh as Sirius dived headfirst into the thick blankets on his bed, pulling them over his head. When he spoke, his words were a bit muffled.

"This is all Snivellus' fault! But mark my words James," said Sirius fiercely. "I'm going to get REVENGE!"

A/N: "cough" Yes this a very fast paced story, sorry if it doesn't make sense sometimes. I will try to fix that. I actually do not have a beta reader, I feel squeamish when other ppl read my fics with all those errors and stuff "shudders"

I SO wish I could be like that awesome authoress J. K. Rowling and write a novel about the Marauders years one for each year and maybe an eighth for life after Hogwarts BUT OMG I think I'd go insane ... more that 400 pages ... is like ... for meh impossible. I WISH I could and maybe someday I will TRY ... and possibly hang myself in the attempt.

So ...

And about Snape ... and Remus ... laughs insanely

I WON'T TELL!

Oh and by the way, if you think Severus is U.G.L.Y go here:

www(dot)deviantart(dot)com/view/4784845/ (Replace the (dot) with actual dots: . please) "lol wink"

That, friends, is the Snapey I can see kissing Remmy. "squee!"

"wink and a nudge

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