Cheated - Chapter 31:
Remus was with Severus out by the lake, the sun would take two hours to set. "It's full moon tonight, Sev."
"It is? I thought it was tomorrow!" Severus said confused looking to when the sun now was.
"Well you thought wrong. It's tonight and I'll have to be leaving to the Whomping Willow soon." Remus sighed and leaned back against Severus. He just wanted to sit there with his boyfriend for the night rather than transform tonight.
A few minutes later they heard running foot steps coming closer to them. Both turned behind them to see James running towards them he looked as though he was running for a while. When he reached them he said, "Moony…I'm sorry but Sirius, Peter, and I got into detention for pulling a prank on some fourth year Slytherin."
Remus raiser his eye brows, "So I'm guessing that you can't go tonight?"
"No, I'm sorry though I really didn't think that we were going to get caught. Professor McGonagall just appeared out of nowhere."
"Okay then but where's Sirius and Peter?" Remus asked.
"Oh they are waiting for me in the dorm because they needed to get something."
"Well then you best be going. Don't let Lily find out that you did something to one of the Slytherins or you might be in some real trouble!" Remus warned him, smirking.
James began to walk backwards asking, "Are you sure going to be okay with out us? I feel really bad."
"Yeah I'll be fine, don't worry."
"If you're sure." James said and took off running back to castle again.
When he was out of site Severus asked, "What does he mean by come with you tonight?"
"Oh, um he means walk to the Shack with me." Remus lied. He and his friends swore to never tell anyone else about being animagi with out permission from everyone of the marauders. He still hadn't asked them if he can tell Severus and he was sure that they would say no, especially Sirius. Remus hated to lie to his boyfriend but he had no choice.
"I'll go with you then." Severus said.
"What?"
"I said then I will go with you tonight."
"How?"
"Like your friends do?" Severus said looking at his boyfriend like he was dumb. "You know walk you there and pick you up in morning…that's what they do right?" He asked.
"Oh, yeah sure you can. It would be nice." Remus replied feeling slightly awkward. "Uh well I guess we should start heading over there then."
Severus stood up pulling the werewolf with him. They walked there in silence and when they got there Remus hit the knot in the tree with the branch. It froze and they entered the tunnel. When they reached the end Remus said, "We still have about thirty minutes. You can come up for a few if you would like."
Severus looked skeptical but nodded and entered the shack anyway. They walked to the room that they slept in last time they went to visit Hogsmeade. Severus sat on the bed while Remus prepared for the transformation by stripping and putting his clothes up high were the wolf wouldn't be able to get it and moving some furniture around the room. "Okay the moon is coming up in about ten minutes, you should be going now."
Severus leaned over and kissed Remus passionately on the lips and said, "Good night, I'll come get you tomorrow morning. All right?"
"Okay night."
The dark haired boy stood up and left the room. A few minutes after Remus transformed into the wolf.
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The next morning Remus was woken up to a few people fighting. "What the fuck is he doing here?"
"I, am here to pick Remus up like I told him I would. And now I'm here so just shut up and let me take him back to Hogwarts!" someone snapped angrily.
Remus sighed and rolled over.
"See look what you did, you woke him up!" the first person said.
Remus didn't want to listen to this anymore; he knew it had to be Sirius and Severus. He sat up and rubbed his eyes so that he could see better. He looked around and saw that James was getting his clothes; Peter was standing at the door far away from where Severus and Sirius were. They were standing right in front of Remus. "You guys shut up you're giving me a headache!"
Both Sirius and Severus shut their mouths and looked at Remus. James placed Remus' clothes net to him. He stretched and put them on saying, "I didn't know that you Sirius and Peter were going to come so that's why Sev asked to come. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. Now can we please get back to the castle with out fighting like the little first years?"
Sirius grumbled low in his throat and Severus walked over to Remus after he finished dressing and helped him stand up. Sirius looked like he was going to say something about it but thought better of it.
When they reached the infirmary they put Remus on a bed while Madam Pomfrey got her things ready for him. Sirius, James, and Peter went back up to their Common Room to go to sleep until breakfast. Severus stayed behind with Remus; he wasn't as tired as the rest of the boys had been. They sat there in silence while Pomfrey tended to Remus, when she left Severus said, "I'll miss you this summer. I wish that we could stay here longer. Break is coming too soon."
"I know, I'll miss you too." Remus smiled weakly.
The dark haired boy leaned over the bed to kiss his boyfriend and whispered, "I'm going to go get ready for breakfast, I'll see you then. Love you." He kissed him again and left.
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It was after classes that day when they were about to go eat dinner that Remus pulled James aside. You two go ahead I would like to talk to Prongs for a moment."
Sirius looked at him oddly; Peter just glanced at them and began walking to the great hall along with Sirius.
"So, what do you want?" James asked.
Remus looked around to make sure that there was no one about so they wouldn't be able to hear what he was going to say. "Um James?"
"Yeah?"
"I know you'll probably say no, but I just wanted to ask... I'm sure that Sirius will certainly disagree and I'm not sure about Peter. But I just wanted to ask you because I think you would be the first to agree out of the three of you. Because I'm tired of not being able to tell him the truth about things so that's why I just wanted to ask you. So um…" Remus said nervously. He was sure that James was going to say no, that's why he was afraid to ask him.
James sighed impatiently, "Spit it out already! We don't have all day, I'm starving."
"I just wanted to ask if I could tell Severus about you guys being animagus'?"
The messy haired boy just stared at Remus for a few moments a little shocked, "Why would you want to tell him?"
"Because I hate lying to him all the time."
"Sorry Remus but no, I really don't thing you should."
"Why not? He knows that I'm a werewolf."
"Yeah but you didn't tell him, he found out himself…well…not really but anyways, no I don't think you should tell him." James said firmly.
"Will I ever be able to?" Remus pleaded.
"Maybe sometime after Hogwarts, but not anytime soon. It would be against the Marauders promise to tell him without all of our permission anyways. And like you said there's no chance in hell that Sirius would ever agree to it." James explained.
"Okay I didn't think Sirius would agree either. But it would make things much easier."
"I know Moony, but its just better to keep some thing's a secret, you should know that much more that anyone else."
Remus chuckled, "Well we should be getting to lunch, Sirius and Peter are waiting and going to want to know what we were talking about."
"Yeah, I'm starving." James threw his arm over Remus' shoulders and they walked into the Great Hall.
(A/N: Sorry this chapter is so short and hopefully the next one will be longer. OH and I have finished the next chapter which is the last one. I also have finished the first chapter of their next year. I think I might call it Cheated II: The Final Year. If you can think of anything better please let me know. You have to wait for my beta to finish so I can update it which I hope is not too long she has a lot of work to do.
Thank you to:
SilentSleepingInTheCold – I know what you mean by this story going in circles and I'm trying to stop it. You'll soon find the answers to your questions.
Chaeli.meep. – I got part of the title from you if you don't mind, Thanks.
Sun-Chips – I'm sorry they won't be getting back together I just see no way possible and slowly Severus and Remus are becoming my new favorite couple.
Rave Xavier West – I'm glad you liked it better than the chapter 29. Thanks for the ideas.)