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Cheated –Chapter 17:
About a month later a day before the full moon Severus was going to meet with Remus in another abandoned class room. He had plans for the next night that he was going to tell Remus about. He was planning on making love with Remus. When he entered the class room Remus was already there waiting for him. He walked over to his boyfriend and sat next to him. "Hey, um could you meet me tomorrow at 8:30 in the Astronomy Tower? I have something planned.e?" Severus asked. He wanted to find out where Remus disappeared to every once in a while. He knew it had to do with something that Remus said that Severus would have to figure out by himself like his friends did. But how could his friends know and not his own boyfriend? It just wasn't right.
"It's nothing, just forget about it okay?" Remus asked.
"I will find out someday you know?"
"Yes, I know, but it's best that you don't know right now."
"How could you be so sure, you never know."
"It's nothing, just forget about it okay?" Remus asked.
"I will find out someday you know?"
"Yes, I know, but it's best that you don't know right now."
"How could you be so sure, you never know."
"Yes, I do know, and would you just drop it? I really don't feel like talking about this." Remus said impatiently.
"Is there no trust in this relationship? Because you are not being truthful at all."
"Yes, there is trust, I trust you, but I just want you to figure this out for yourself. Or I will tell you on the last day of school in our Seventh Year. How ever it turns out, but I am not going to tell you just yet." The werewolf was getting angry.
"Well your "friends" know, did you tell them? Or is it just me that doesn't know your secret?" the dark haired boy questioned.
"They only know because they figured it out by them selves. And there are a lot of people who don't know."
"Who does know then?"
Remus sighed and ran his hands through his sandy brown hair, "Dumbledore, the teachers, my family… and Sirius, James, and Peter. That's all."
Severus growled, "What ever. When will you be back from where ever the hell it is you go?"
"I will be back tomorrow around lunch time, depending on how things go."
"Well, I have to get going, so I'll see you later." Severus said standing up as did Remus.
"Alright, bye, I love you." He said giving his boyfriend a light kiss on his soft lips.
Severus walked over to the door and when he got there he turned around and said, "I love you too!" and then he was gone.
Sirius was walking down a corridor thinking. He wanted Remus back and the only way he thought that he could get him back was to get Snape to not love Remus anymore. So then Remus would be free and then he could have his Moony back.
But how was he supposed to get Snape to not love his Moony? He thought of many ways but none of them were even considered possible with out making Remus hate him. He hated Snape so much he just wanted to break everything or better yet Snape himself. He laughed at the idea.
He had no clue where he was going; he was just wondering the halls absent mindedly. James was in the Common Room, Peter was in the kitchens pigging out and his Remus was off somewhere, probably with Snape. Sirius tightened his fists at the thought of his ex-lover and worst enemy together doing who knows what. Sirius growled and punched the wall as hard as he could. The boy hissed in pain as he heard a crack coming from his clenched fist. He really needed to work on his anger problems. So he headed to the infirmary to get his hand healed.
Then all of a sudden he heard the sounds of foot steps headed his way. He hid in the shadows as he didn't want to be seen by anyone at the moment. Once he was fully in the shadows he saw a figure walking fast and right when the figure was about to pass Sirius, he realized who it was. It was Severus Snape.
He jumped out of the darkness and said icily, "Snape, how nice it is to see you here?"
Severus whirled around and caught sight of Sirius Black. "What do you want Black?"
"Hm," Sirius thought, what could he say to this greasy old git in front of him? "Well, you want to know what Remus' secret is right?"
"And so what if I do?" he snarled.
"Well, I was going to tell you but you don't seem to want to hear it. So…I guess I won't tell you." Black said coolly.
"What are you getting at?"
"Exactly what I told you."
"And why the hell would you tell me Remus' secret?" Severus growled.
"Well you want to know and you are going to find out anyway, so there is no point in hiding it from you. I won't tell you the secret but I will tell you where you could find out where Remus is going tomorrow night."
Snape was trying to determine if this was another one of Black and Potter's tricks but he decided to hear him out, "Where does he go then?"
"Okay listen well because I am only going to say this once. Tomorrow a little after sun down go out to the Whomping willow, where you will find a long branch. With this branch prod the knot at the trunk of the tree and it will freeze. There will be a whole that will open up, go down there and at the end you will find Remus and figure out his secret." With that said Sirius turned around and disappeared into the shadows once again leaving Snape just standing there to think.
The next night an hour before sun down Severus was outside hidden behind some bushes watching the Willow tree. He decided that he was going to watch it and see if his lover would enter the tree if it was even possible. Severus didn't trust Black; he thought that it was another one of his tricks so he was going to be prepared for what ever was going to happen.
A half an hour later he saw Madam Pomfrey and Remus enter the grounds heading strait towards the Whomping Willow. Was Black telling the truth after all? He watched as they were standing in front of the tree and grabbing a stick and hitting the tree with it. Remus went into the Willow and Madam Pomfrey went back to the castle.
He waited until a little after sun down as not to be caught and as Black had said to go to the Willow. He walked over to the tree and saw the full moon that had just came up. It was beautiful he thought, it reminded him strangely of Remus. When he got to the tree he saw the branch that Black had told him about and that he saw Remus use. He picked it up and dodged the flailing branches has they attacked him. After about five minutes of struggling to get to the trunk of the tree he got it and the tree froze. Severus found the whole and climbed through.
James and Peter were exiting Gryffindor Tower looking for Sirius because they were late for meeting Remus. They couldn't find him anywhere so they decided to go with out him. "Sirius has been missing all day." James told Peter.
"I know, I wonder why. Maybe he is already with Moony and didn't tell us."
"Maybe, but he hasn't done that since they were going out." James said running his fingers through his hair.
When they got down to the Entrance Hall they found Sirius looking worried. "Hey! Sirius, what are you doing?" James called from the other side of the hall.
Sirius now looked nervous as he walked over to his fellow Marauders. He was fiddling with his fingers. "Um, well…" he drawled out.
"Spit it out already! What's going on?" James said impatiently.
"Uh…Remus…"
"What? What about Remus? Did something happen to him?" James said getting really impatient with his best friend.
"Well……ItoldSnivellushowtogetintotheWhompingWillow!" Sirius said as fast as he could. He was really pale and very confused.
James gasped as did Peter. "Sirius what did you do? Oh Merlin!" James started to breath really hard.
"Well?"
"Well Sirius, did Snape already go into the Willow?" James questioned.
"Yeah, he went in right when you came."
"WHAT? Sirius! Peter, go get Dumbledore, I'll go get Snape!" yelled James and rushed out to the grounds to save Snape as the other two ran to Dumbledore.
James ran as fast as he could across the grounds in the cool grass. How could Sirius have done this? Why? Doesn't he know that Remus could be slaughtered or sent to Azkaban if he accidentally killed Severus? With that thought he ran faster than he ever had before, he had to save Snape. When he got to the tree he dived for the branch in a roll and hit the knot before the willow even got a chance to touch him.
He went into the tunnel and ran down the long path. James could hear a growling and hoped that he would be in time. "SNAPE!" he called. But he got no answer. He turned the last curve and saw Snape at the end frozen stiff against the wall. He was looking strait at the werewolf that was in there. Quickly James ran over and pulled out his wand before the werewolf that was his friend jumped at Severus. The werewolf leap at Snape and James he yelled "STUPIFY!" and the werewolf clasped in mid jump. He then grabbed Snape's arm and tried to drag him away but he didn't budge. "Snape! Come on we have to leave because Remus is going to wake up any second! Now come on!"
"R-Remus…is…a-a…"
"Yes, I know now we have to leave or he is going to rip us to pieces!"
That seemed to snap Snape out of his shock and he realized that he better run as the werewolf was now waking up. He let himself be half dragged when James started to run with his arm still in a firm grip. The werewolf had fully woken up and was beginning to chase them down the tunnel but they were really close to the exit. They sped up a little more and jumped through the hole onto the Hogwarts grounds.
But they forgot that the Whomping Willow was still in motion and it tried to hit the two. It was successful in hitting Severus' arm and just barely scraped James' face across the cheek.
The boy with the glasses grabbed the other boy's uninjured arm and dragged him once again out of danger. The hole had closed so Remus couldn't get out. James and Severus were panting and lying on the grass from exhaustion. James looked out over at Hogwarts and saw Sirius, Peter, and Dumbledore coming over.
"JAMES! Are you alright?" Sirius called over, running faster than the others with him.
"I'm…fine…but Snape got…hit by the tree…on the way out!" he gasped out, trying to catch his breath.
Sirius made it to them and checked out James cut on his cheek. "Thank Merlin your alright!" Sirius said hugging his best friend.
Dumbledore and Peter finally made it to the three. "Mr. Potter, Snape, are you alright?" the Headmaster said.
"I'm fine but I am not sure about Snape's arm and I think he is in quite a shock." James explained to him.
"Alright, Mr. Potter." With that said Albus levitated Snape in the air and began to walk to the infirmary. "Come along."
Sirius helped the exhausted boy to his feet and they set off to Professor Dumbledore's office.
(A/N: I am sorry about my last chapter and I hope you like this one much better, I do. Thanks to Luna87- Thanks for your e-mail, and I am trying to change this up a bit. I am also very glad that you would love my story no matter what because I don't love my story all that much. But thanks for the review! Please keep them up. Also thanks to The Demonic Duo- I have to agree with you about the chapter being odd but I hope this one is better. Thanks for the review! And to everyone else, please review, I will try to update ASAP. Thank you)