Disclaimer: I own no one in the story except Leon Lupin, Edward and some others later on. The rest belong to JK Rowling.

Pairings: Leon (OC)x Sirius, pre-slash James x Sirius, hints of Severus x Remus

Summary: MWPP. Set in their third year. Remus' cousin hated him and constantly annoying him. Sirius took that matter in his own hand and Leon wasn't to please about it.

Sparks and Electricity

By Misaki Sakura

Chapter Two

Remus eyed the potion he's making with Peter and frowned. "Peter, this potion is supposed to be green, not red."

"But-but-"

"It's okay, Pete. We'll have to put more of these and stir it the right way this time." Remus said, putting the Flabberworms into the cauldron.

Professor Rott walked around the classroom, complimenting the Slytherins while at the same time insulting the Gryffindors. Now he was standing near Snape's and praising him. When he looked into Remus' and Peter's cauldron, he flinched.

"Mr. Lupin, Mr. Pettigrew, what potion exactly you're making?"

Remus lifted his eyes to meet Rott's while Peter tried very hard to hide behind his taller friend. "The Calming Draught, Professor."

"If it's a Calming Draught, why would it glow red instead of green?" his eyes pierced right into Remus' but it's not Remus to be intimidated so easily.

"I'm sorry, Professor. We'll try to fix it."

With one last glare, he walked away to check on Sirius' and James' potion. Slowly Peter tugged Remus' robe and muttered his sorry. Shaking his head, Remus looked down at their potion and found it starting to change colour. That would be a very good thing if at that time Malfoy didn't purposely slip more Teak Bark into their cauldron. Snape who saw that, took out his wand and muttered a spell to turn over the cauldron, causing the contents to spill on the floor.

The Potion teacher snapped his head back at them when he heard the clattering sound of the cauldron behind him and saw Snape with his wand in his hand. "What's the meaning of this! Mr. Snape!"

Before Snape could utter an answer, the potion on the floor made a very strange sound. Bubbles surfaced, the stone floor looked like it melted and soon there was a hole on the floor. The students gasped. If the potion was strong enough to make a hole in the hard dungeon floor, then it's safe to say it'll make even more when it hit the students when it exploded, like Malfoy intended to do. Though probably he didn't think of the prospect that he too would become a probable victim.

The students panicked as they rushed out of the room. Professor Rott started yelling at them which made Peter shrunk even more behind Remus.

Remus' stared at the hole in shock. He didn't even catch all Rott's words. It's when Sirius had told him, he realized he had a detention with Snape that night.

"Thank you."

Snape looked at him, confused. "What are you thanking me for, Lupin?"

"At the Potion Class today, well, thanks to you the potion didn't explode. I can't imagine what would happen if-"

"I wasn't helping you, Lupin. I can't believe Pettigrew's able to turn such a simple potion into a disaster and I don't want to become one of his experiments."

The rest of the walk was silent. The fact that they were going to spend the night in the dungeon wasn't too appealing, at least for Remus. Not that he didn't want to be with Snape. He didn't' hate him, never had. The one he hated was the darkness, especially there. It always reminded him of the misery he had to face every month, alone. But being with Snape was a nice thing. At least he could try to start a decent conversation without ending up insulting each other.

On the contrary, Snape was happy, in his own way. He got to spend the whole night in Remus' company without Potter or Black to interfere. It'd be better if Professor Rott left them alone to do their detention. He always fancied Remus. The boy never fully joined his friends in their pranks or when they're laughing at him. Thankfully, Pettigrew didn't have to join them for the detention.

"We're here."

Snape held up his hand to knock on the wooden door. The Potion teacher opened it and at the moment Remus saw his smirk, he decided he didn't like it, at all. Especially when he took them to the Potion Room. The room was quite wide actually. Three tall, not to mention large, cabinets which used to hold the vials of potion, were empty. The vials mentioned were inside the boxes that were on the floor.

"Now, boys, I want you to sort the vials here alphabetically. The list there contains all the vials that are here. Make sure all of them are put in correct order and nothing is left out, understood?"

As both of them nodded, Professor Rott made his way back into his room, leaving the boys in the Ingredients Room.

The Slytherin immediately took the blank parchment and that left Remus to do the sorting. Sighing, he dragged the small ladder and placed it under the large cabinet. This was going to be a very long night.

"Is that all?"

"I think so. Wait,-" Snape pointed the vial to Remus' left. "That vial's supposed to be there, next to the Veritaserum."

"And which one is the Veritaserum?"

"Are you blind, Lupin?" the black-haired boy sneered.

"I'm going to if we keep doing this. I've never thought that there's someone whose handwriting's worse than Peter's but now …"

He took the vial and looked for the Veritaserum when the ladder gave way below his feet. Holding the vial close to him for fear it would break, Remus was prepared for the hard contact with the floor, but it never happened. Instead, he found himself staring at … Snape's robe. He was in the Slytherin's arms. It seemed like he had caught the werewolf when he fell though Remus thought that was impossible. If he fell and accidentally took Snape with him, that's more likely.

"Wha-"

Remus stood up so quickly that Snape thought he was disgusted by him and he didn't even try to hide his disappointment and anger. "Are you disgusted to be t … helped by a Slytherin?"

"That's not what I-"

"I don't need your explanation, Lupin. Now, finish your job and be done with."

The Gryffindor put the vial into the correct place and looked at Snape. "I'm done."

"Good."

They were about to open the door when they heard voices. Remus quickly recognized it as his cousin's and obviously the other voice was his best friend's, Edward. Snape grabbed Remus' hand and pulled him away from the door and to the back of one of the cabinet.

"Is there anyone in there?"

"Don't think so. Now, will you please tell me what we're looking for?" Edward said in an obvious way that he didn't want any part in the Prefect's plan but Leon ignored him.

"Just follow me."

Remus watched as Leon took a vial out of the cabinet and examined it. Leon smirked, the kind that Remus didn't like to see, at all. Before he could do or say anything, the two fifth years had made their way out of the room.

"What did they- what did they take?"

Snape looked at him and shook his head. "I don't care. We've finished our task. Now, report it to Professor Rott."

"Are you going to tell him about-"

"Your cousin's night excursion? It's none of my business."

"But the vial- he's taken the vial!"

"Let it be. Professor Rott won't notice it anyway."

That stopped Remus' words. He was still wondering about Leon. What was he going to do with whatever potion he took?

TBC

A/N: I'm sorry that it took my long time to update. It's a very short chapter too. There's no JP/SB in this fic, but I promise I'll make more of them in the next chapter. Please tell me what you think about this one!