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Chapter 4
Remus and Sirius loved the next few days. Neither one of them had been so happy in years. They were together again, and nothing and no one could change that. They spent every night possible making love to each other. It was a glorious feeling to be loved that like that after so long. It was like when they were young, before all of "it" happened.
But, in their hearts, they knew their joy was short-lived. Voldemort was back, and they knew they could not stay there in seclusion forever. Before long, Voldemort would contact them, and then they would have something to worry about. Their love would be second. Just like it had been all those years ago… But Sirius remembered well what happened, and would not let a mistake like that – abandoning Remus for his safety – happen again. He would stay with Remus until he no longer could. (Like the Ministry was going to catch up with him, or something like that.)
They spent each night making love to each other, but even that joy was sometimes short-lived. Sirius had permanent scars from his time in Azkaban. They were slowly fading, but they would always be there. It pained Remus to see it, but there was nothing he could do. He knew that for Sirius simply being around those that he loved and those that loved him and appreciated him would help erase the scars from his 12 years in Azkaban. Even now, the shadow and darkness that was over his eyes when the first met up again after all those years no longer clouded his blue eyes all the time, but one little reminder was enough that darkness back. Remus was determined to make that darkness go away forever. He never wanted to see it again.
Another thing that had changed because of Azkaban was who he was. Sirius was not the same man he was 13 years ago. He had changed, and probably for the worst. Azkaban had done lasting damage. Hopefully it would go away, but some things would never be the same. If it had never happened… Remus almost cried thinking about it… If Peter had never betrayed them and everything… James and Lily would still be alive, Harry would have parents, and wouldn't have been neglected and had to live with his awful relatives, and… He and Sirius would be together… Hopefully… He hoped that Sirius would've come back for him. He hoped… Remus sighed again. Maybe it would be better not to think about it. Some things are better not analyzing. And as for Sirius, he knew that he never thought about it if he could help it… Sirius couldn't even think about James and Lily without crying, let alone actually talking about it. It was getting better with time, but still… Poor Sirius… He blamed himself for it, and Remus knew it. If he hadn't told James and Lily to switch secret keepers… That's what always went through his mind, and he knew it.
Remus hoped that, with time (as he hoped that he and Sirius would be together for many, many years as they had planned all those years ago), that he would be able to – with Harry's help, of course – heal Sirius' long-standing emotional scars.
One day, Sirius had woken up a bit, and, for once, had had a rather nice night's sleep. He stretched, and then reached to put his arm around his lover, but his arm hit the bed. He looked next to him on the bed, and found out that Remus was not there. He stretched for the last time, and then got out of bed. He put some pants on, and then made his way downstairs. When he got there, he saw Remus, and walked up behind him, put his arms around him, and gave him a kiss. It was just then that he realized that Dumbledore's head was in the fireplace.
"Since when has this been going on?" Dumbledore asked with a slight smile on his face, and a knowing look in his eyes.
Both Remus and Sirius smiled shyly, and Remus blushed and said, "For a little while know, about a week after he got here."
"I see." He said, "I was wondering if that would happen. I'm glad things are working out."
"Me, too." Remus said, still blushing.
"So, as we were talking about before we were interrupted," Dumbledore gave a small smile. "We need to find a headquarters for the order."
"Yes, and I can't think of where." Remus stated. "There has to be some place that we can use."
"Well, I think I may know of a place." Sirius said, speaking up.
Remus turned his head around and looked at Sirius and both him and Dumbledore gave him a very interested look. "Really?" Dumbledore said. "You think you know of a place that would suit us?"
"I think so, if I think I know what you're looking for, and I'm pretty sure that I do." Sirius said. "It's been abandoned for years, I'm pretty sure."
"What is it?" Remus asked.
"It's my family's old home." Sirius stated. "My mother died years ago, and my dad's been dead, so I'm pretty sure it's abandoned."
"Where is it?" Dumbledore asked. He seemed generally interested in what Sirius had to say.
"In London." Sirius said. "I remember where it is, how could I forget." Then, "Of course, it's been a few years since anyone has lived there, so I'm pretty sure it may have become inhabitable for human life."
"We can fix that." Dumbledore said. "Slowly but surely… and with a secret keeper, so that we can hide the location of it, this just might work."
"I'm glad that I could be of some service." Sirius said, with a smirk.
Dumbledore smiled at him. "Don't be like that, Sirius." Sirius said nothing in reply. "Anyway, where exactly is this location?" Dumbledore asked.
"Who is going to be secret keeper?" Remus asked as well.
"Well, I volunteer for that."
"Do you?" Remus said. "Well, that's settled then. You're the wisest choice I think."
Dumbledore said nothing in reply to that, and simply smiled softly at Remus.
"It's at 12 Grimmauld Place, in London as I've already mentioned." Sirius spoke up.
"Splendid." Dumbledore said. "Everything will get underway now, only a matter of time."
"You sound so sure of yourself," Sirius said.
"Oh, I am. All we really needed was a place to conduct meeting and such. With a headquarters, and a place where meetings can be held, everything else will fall into place soon enough." Dumbledore said, and then looked down, seeming to look at his watch, or something or other. "Oh, well, I hate to cut this lovely conversation short, but I have something things I need to attend to."
"Very well. I expect we'll be seeing each other soon." Remus said.
"Of course, Remus." Dumbledore said. "Goodbye to the both of you."
"Goodbye, Albus." Sirius said. "Glad I could be of assistance."
"Oh, you are Sirius, you just don't realize it." Dumbledore said. "Now, you two have fun."
"Oh, we will, I promise you." Sirius said, giving a devil's smile to Remus, who blushed.
"Stop it, Sirius." Remus protested.
"Why?" Sirius insisted. "Dumbledore'll be good soon enough."
"Yes, but he's not gone now." Remus protested again.
"Yes, I am," the old man said. "I know when it's my queue to leave, don't you worry. I'm not that out of touch." Both of the younger men laughed. "You two have fun, and be safe, and Sirius: Keep out of sight."
"Yes, I know." Sirius said downtrodden.
"Good, and when we get everything ready to make Grimmauld Place, I want you to move in there, Sirius." Dumbledore said.
"Of course." Sirius said. It was common sense, of course.
"You're not expected to stay at Remus' house forever, although I know with the state of things as they are, he wouldn't mind a bit."
Remus shook his head. Between the two of them, I'm not going to stop blushing…
"Bye now," and with that, the old man was gone.
"So," Sirius said, turning Remus around to face him. "Where were we?"
"We were nowhere, Mr. Black," said Remus. "I was talking to Dumbledore when you woke up, remember?"
Sirius smiled, and released Remus. "Why didn't you wake me up?"
"Because you were sleeping, and you haven't slept good… well, since you've stayed with me, and for once you were, and I wanted you to sleep as long as possible." Sirius nodded. "What woke you?"
"I don't know." Sirius smiled. "Maybe the fact that you weren't there with me."
"If you want to sleep until noon, I'm not staying in bed with you if I don't."
Sirius laughed. He was right. It felt good to laugh. Sirius walked over and sat down on the couch, followed closely by Remus, who sat down close next to him. Remus laid his head on Sirius' shoulder, and Sirius kissed the crown of his head and put his arms around him. It felt so good to just be like this, just holding him, with no one around to tell them otherwise.
Sirius took Remus' face and gave him a passionate kiss. Remus gasped, and slowly opened his eyes to look into Sirius'. "What was that for?"
Sirius just gave him a loving smile. "Do I need a reason?"
Remus smiled in return, and gave Sirius a kiss in return, which Sirius did not let go Remus end. Sirius leaned into the kiss, and put his hand on the back of Remus' neck and guided him down on his back. Remus finally broke the kiss, and looked up at him, gazing into his eyes, and touching a hand to his cheek. "This feels so good…" Remus said, almost absentmindedly. "It's been so long since I've really touched a person like this… It feels so good… and not the same when it's not you."
Sirius' eyes widened. "Who did you last touch, I mean, and not just a touch on the shoulder or something, you know-"
"Quit babbling, Sirius, it was just Stacey." Remus said.
"Stacey!" Sirius cried. "You-"
"No, we were both grief-stricken." Remus explained. "It was a day or two after the full moon, when Lily and James died, right after I found out about you… and nothing happned, we just held each other is all..."
Sirius calmed down. "Oh. So, how is Stacey?"
"Who knows, I haven't talked to her in years."
"Really?" Sirius said. "How long?"
"Probably around 10 years." Remus said. "I haven't had much contact with the outside world. The most was when I got that teaching job at Hogwarts. Other, than that…"
"What have you done these past years?" Sirius asked, lying down on top of Remus.
Remus put his arms around him, and told him. Basically, all he had done was nothing… He hadn't kept a job for more than 2 months. No one had really found out that he had been a werewolf until after Hogwarts, and Sirius was loathe to find out that Snape had let the secret out "on accident".
"Accident, my foot." Sirius said, glaring at the thought of him. Greasy git. He thought.
"I know it wasn't on accident, Sirius, I'm not an idiot." Remus said. "He did it on purpose, I know that. He hates me, and I also know that. Of course, that's partly because of you."
"Can we not talk about that?" Sirius said harshly.
"Sorry," Remus said, innocently.
"It's just that… I hate him…"
"I know, love, I know." Remus was always understanding, even if the hatred went a bit far sometimes, he thought.
Sirius sighed and sat up, and Remus sat up as well. Sirius just sat there, staring. Remus sat close to him, and kissed him lightly on the cheek. Sirius turned his head toward him, and kissed him on the lips, putting one hand behind his head. When he broke the kiss, he kept lightly stroking the back of his neck. Sirius leaned in for another kiss, and Remus obliged; their kisses getting more passionate and longer with each one. Soon their hands started roaming, and Remus was on his back again. Sirius slid one of his hands underneath Remus' shirt as Remus was feeling Sirius' bear chest. As they kissed, Sirius lowered himself down to one side of the couch, partly on Remus and partly on the couch, so that he had both hands to use.
They proceeded to kiss and run their hands along each others bodies, Remus enjoying the fact that Sirius had no shirt on (which he knew that now he wouldn't have done that if he had known that he was talking to Dumbledore at the time. Sirius was a bit more self-conscious around other people than he used to be,) and Sirius just enjoying having Remus there.
Sirius ran his hands along every inch of Remus that he could touch; bringing shudders, gasps, and moans out of his lover. So much like a virgin…Sirius thought. But the same reactions were being brought out of him, not something that happened very often the last time they were together. Looks like after all those years of being away from this kind of touch has done something to me… He's bringing almost the same verbal reaction of me that I'm bringing out of him. It's almost like I'm starting over again in the love department… And who better to start it over with…
Sirius let one of his hands drift up to the collar of Remus shirt, while he let the other one rest high on Remus' thigh, eliciting a delightful shudder out of his lover. Sirius proceeded to slowly unbutton the buttons on Remus' shirt, as Remus' hands continued to stroke Sirius' upper body (and occasionally his lower body as well). When the shirt was unbuttoned, Sirius pushed the shirt open, so that Remus' chest was exposed, even more heavily scarred than it was last time he had seen it, of course that's to be expected. Sirius ran the hand that had been resting on Remus' thigh up to meet the other hand which had been resting low on Remus' waist. He ran his hands along his lover's heavily scarred chest, eliciting moans and shudders out of him and for Remus' back to arch a little as his scars tingled. Sirius then leaned in and gave Remus a passionate kiss that caused Remus to arch heavily (which pleased Sirius) and for him to tighten his hold around Sirius. Sirius then ran his lips along Remus' chest, bringing out moans, gasps, shudders, and causing Remus' back to arch at Sirius' kisses. Sirius sat up a bit, and let one of his hands rest on the edge of Remus' pants and the other above their heads on the arm rest. Sirius' hand started to move and Remus tensed involuntarily and put one of his hands on the side of Sirius' face. "Not now, Sirius. Tonight, I promise. You can have all of me that you want, but not now. We're in the living room."
"So, let's go up to the bedroom."
"Sirius… it's broad daylight. Wait for the night to fall and then I'm all yours."
"You're all mine now, and who cares if it's broad daylight." Sirius insisted.
"Yes, but then you can have me." Remus insisted. "And I care."
Sirius sighed. He was probably right. "Alright, love you win," he said as he sat up.
Remus smiled and moved onto the other side of Sirius. He then leaned into Sirius and Sirius wrapped his arms around him, and they stayed like that for a while. That night, they did as Remus promised and made love until they couldn't any longer.
A/n: Well, I hope you enjoyed that. I always try to be descriptive in my romance scenes without giving you a play-by-play account of it, which I hate, so… Anyway, the next chapter gets into serious matters as we actually get into OOTP. I'll recap a little of what happened these past few weeks outside of Remus and Sirius' relationship as it has been mainly focused on them. (Of course, that's not bad; it's supposed to revolve around them. It's just that I want to get the storyline going a bit, so…) Anyway, please R/R! Oh, and somehow, writing this just doesn't seem the same after seeing POA, and Gary as Sirius and David as Remus. They're both so different that what I thought of them, and it's distorting my vision of them. Luckily, they acted the characters perfectly, so no harm. I just go to keep my vision of them in my head, and not Gary Oldman and David Thewlis (their looks of course). Btw, POA was great!
A/n2: Oh, and btw, I'm getting into the storyline of OOTP after this chapter, and I don't have my book with me so they may come a bit slower than I want them to, but probably just fine with you, hopefully. A friend of mine as agreed to let me IM him and ask him questions about the book so he can answer then for me using his book, so I can this done quicker. Hopefully, I'll get the chapter out sooner; I just have to make myself sit down a write, and not be so lazy. I hope to get the rest of my chapters (of all my stories) out sooner than they've been coming. I promise nothing though, and you should know that. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and R/R!