Peter walked along side of James, who was still holding Lily's hand, as they all three talked about various things.
"Hey, Lily, what's your favorite animal?" Peter asked just to make conversation.
"Uhmm…dogs I guess. I don't know." She replied biting her bottom lip in thought.
James frowned when she said dogs but decided that he couldn't stay mad at her for too long when she was biting her lip in that oh so cute manner.
He leaned in and kissed her lightly on the lips before pulling away again.
"What was that for?" Lily asked, blushing.
"For being you and being cute, of course." James replied nonchalantly.
Peter rolled his eyes and made gagging noises at the couple, then laughing at his antics. James punched the boy playfully on the arm before joining in Peter's laughter.
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Walking down the dirt path from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade was one of Remus' favorite parts of the Hogsmeade trips. This was when he got to take in the scenery surrounding Hogsmeade and Hogwarts with about being furry. He smiled as they walked past large trees and Sirius accidentally bumped into him.
"'Lo Remus."
"Hullo Sirius…lovely day isn't it?" He asked smiling as Peter, James, and Lily sped up so they were a long ways a head of the two canines.
"Yeah. You know…"
"What?"
"I didn't really want Cheryl. At all." Sirius told him, keeping his blue eyes on the ground.
"Why'd you date her then?" Remus asked, confusion bubbling up inside of him.
"Beca---Because, I thought you were dating Lily and I really just wanted you to be happy. And I thought that you were happy with her so I was going to try to be happy with someone else as well."
Sparkling blue eyes were still glued to the ground. Remus was speechless. Finally, his voice returned.
"I'm not going to pretend that it didn't hurt me Sirius. Because it did, badly. I hated seeing you with her."
"I really only wanted you to be happy, Moony. Really. And I fucked it up really bad, didn't I?"
"I suppose you had Paddy, I suppose you had." Remus said as he stopped walking and grabbed Sirius' arm with one hand, while putting a finger to his own lips, showing Sirius to be quiet.
The two young men watched their companions continue to walk ever onwards, never once looking back. Remus grabbed a hold of Sirius' chin, pulling his face down a little, making their eyes level.
"Please fix it Padfoot…" Remus said, licking his lips after he was done speaking.
"I'm not sure---" Sirius started, but was interrupted.
Remus leaned in, his breath ghosting over Sirius' lips before he pressed down lightly. His lips were hardly even there for a second before he pulled away again. Sirius whimpered deep in his throat. Sirius' hands went directly to Remus' hips as the werewolf kissed him. Remus repeated the action of giving Sirius hardly-not-even-there-kisses, pressing his lips from the very corner of Sirius' mouth to the middle, but never staying too long.
"Please Sirius? Please?" Remus whimpered against the left corner of Sirius' mouth.
"Remy…" He breathed.
Remus moved his lips down from the full lips to Sirius' Adam's Apple.
Sirius removed his hands from Remus' hips and latched them onto Remus' face. He pulled the werewolf's face up so he could look him in the eyes.
"How?" He asked, trying to be stern but he could tell that Remus could sense that the temptation of the werewolf's lips was getting the best of the Animagus.
"Say you love me (1)." Remus replied in a breathy voice.
Sirius crashed their lips together and Remus moaned, allowing Sirius entry to his mouth. Sirius ran his tongue on the roof of Remus' mouth and then continued kissing him. He pulled back slightly to suck and nibble on Remus' bottom lip before pulling away from the kiss all together.
"You know I do (2)." Sirius replied, breathless, both boys having swollen lips.
Remus gave him one last kiss, before grabbing his hand and lacing their fingers together.
"Good, now let's get going."
Sirius walked along with Remus, the happiest he had been in a while.
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James and Lily walked in The Three Broomsticks hand in hand with Peter in front of them. James held the door open and waited for Remus or Sirius one to grab it. He waited. And waited. And waited.
"CLOSE THE DOOR, BOY!" Some various customer yelled out.
James turned around and noticed that the two canines weren't behind him.
"Hey! Where's Moony and Padfoot?"
0o0o0o0o0o
As soon as they neared the beginning of Hogsmeade, the two boys broke apart, not wanting to cause a stir on their extra Hogsmeade trip.
Sirius pulled Remus close and pressed a innocent kiss to his forehead.
"I love you." Sirius said as Remus smiled and pressed a kiss to Sirius' lips.
"I know you do. I love you as well." Remus said and started walking towards The Three Broomsticks.
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James, Peter, and Lily kept a close eye on the door every time it was opened. Finally, after what seemed like forever to James, Remus walked in with Padfoot trailing behind by some steps.
"What happened? Where'd you two go?" He asked worriedly.
"Someone stopped to talk to us." Sirius said as he sat down in the chair next to Remus.
"Oh…okay then. Well do you guys want something to drink?" James asked.
Remus nodded fervently and soon he had received a butterbeer in turn for a few Sickles. Sirius watched as Remus took a large gulp of the golden liquid, his eyes following the beverage down Remus' throat. Remus set the mug down on the table.
"Ahhh." The werewolf said in satisfaction.
"So who was it?" Peter asked, looking at Sirius and then Remus.
"Who was what?" Sirius asked in a huffy manner.
"Who stopped you guys to talk?"
Sirius panicked.
"Hi Sirius!" A girl from Ravenclaw called out, smiling and waving.
"Her." Sirius replied, his calm tone betraying the feelings of panic rising up in his chest.
Remus wanted to growl at her, to bare his teeth and bite at her waving hand, but pushed the feeling down.
"Hullo Stacy (3)." Sirius replied, not even bothering to make out a wave to the girl.
"So, uhmm do you guys want to go to Zonko's?" Peter asked, afraid to start anything between the two canines.
Sirius looked at Remus who was just finishing the Butterbeer and smiled at the Animagus.
"Sure!" he replied and they all stood, putting on their jackets and falling into conversations, separate and together, as they walked out.
0o0o0o0o
Peter, Lily, and James all went to one side of the joke shop, leaving Moony and Padfoot on the other.
"Hey James! What do you think about this?" Peter yelled, waving something that looked like a very large spaghetti noodle but was making a pass at everyone that walked past him.
"Ooooh!" James replied. "We might be able to use that."
0o0o0o0o0o
Sirius and Remus were walking around looking at the joke candy. Occasionally, Remus would bump into Sirius and wrap their fingers together for a few moments, or vice versa. Sometimes Sirius would stand behind Remus as the werewolf was looking at an item, and press a kiss to the honey colored hair. Remus would shudder and then smile at Padfoot before walking away to look at something else.
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"Alright, we'll use this!" James semi-whispered triumphantly as he held up a bottle of barely pink liquid. The label was covered with red and pink hearts that were surrounded by question marks.
"Ohhh, they're going to love us for this." Lily exclaimed, grabbing the bottle out of James' hand.
"No they're not! Moony and Padfoot are going to hate us for this." Peter replied before cradling his head in his hands.
0o0o0o0o0o0o
Remus walked down the aisle next to James and his posse, Sirius' hand grabbing a hold of his belt loop every so often.
"Moon--" Sirius started giving Remus a clandestine kiss on the corner of his mouth.
Remus put a hand up to silence the dark haired boy and then peeked around the edge of the shelf.
"Shh. It's James, Lily, and Peter." he whispered quietly and then continued listening. "They're planning something." He noted, his amber flecked eyes narrowing.
"Ooooh!" Sirius whispered and put his head on Remus' shoulder, trying to get closer to the voices.
"…We'll use this!" Came James' voice, floating through the air.
"Ohhh! …love us for this!" Lily replied to her boyfriend.
"No…" Peter exclaimed to the other two. "Moony and Padfoot are going to hate us for this."
Remus gasped and jumped back from the shelf as he caught sight of the bottle in Lily's hands.
"They're---" Sirius started.
"Yes."
"On us?"
"Yes."
"Why?" Sirius asked as they walked out of Zonko's.
"To get us together." Remus replied as they made their way to Honeydukes
"What a lot of good that'll do." Sirius said, smiling as he grabbed Remus' scarred hand for a moment and then letting it go.
"I know." Remus said, as they continued shopping, buying Sugar Quills, Ice Mice, and Peppermint Humbugs.
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As the couple walked out of the shop, Sirius stopped walking and looked at Remus with an in-awe like expression on his face.
"What is it? D'you forget something?" Remus asked as he turned around to look at his…boyfriend.
Sirius shook his head the awed expression turned into a smirk.
"I think we should put a hamper on there plans."
"Oh?" Remus smirked as well. "How so?"
"Well, we'll alter their little love concoction. Make it seem like they fancy someone other than who they really do fancy."
"That, my dear Sirius, is one of the many reasons why I love you." Remus replied as they stumbled onto the edge of Hogwarts grounds. The werewolf kissed Sirius soundly and then broke the kiss, continuing to walk up to the castle. Sirius stood there for a moment, breathing heavily and blushing slightly before running after Remus to keep up.
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"Hey, are you guys ready?" Lily called out to the store. Looking around, she found that neither boy was in the store with them. "James, they're not here. They must've gone back."
James looked at the girl, his eyes wide. 'What if they've tried to kill each other? What if Remus tore Sirius apart? What if they're lying somewhere in Hogsmeade bleeding to death?'
"C'mon let's go back then." James replied, his calm answer betraying his thoughts. The three friends made their way back to Hogwarts with their concoction, not knowing that Remus and Sirius had figured them out.
When Lily, Peter, and James arrived in the Gryffindor Common Room, Sirius was sitting on the large maroon couch, well he was actually laying in it more than he was sitting in it, with his legs hanging over one arm of the couch and his head laying on the cushion. Remus was sitting a cushion apart from Sirius reading. His legs were just barely tucked underneath him, his back propped up against the other arm of the couch, and he was turned so that he was facing Sirius. The werewolf moved the hand that wasn't holding his book, down on the cushion near Sirius' head.
Sirius turned toward the sound the noise and seen the three figures standing beside of his legs.
"Hullo guys. Nice to see that you've made it back." He said lazily and lifted his head up and moved his hair from underneath him, causing it to fan out on the cushion, right next to Remus' hand.
"We had been waiting on you guys. We didn't know you had left." Peter replied.
Remus' hand moved quietly and slowly onto some of Sirius' silky, inky hair and he ran his fingers in it before picking it up and fiddling with it. The green eyes were still on the book, Remus continuing his reading. Sirius smiled inwardly as he felt Remus' long, slender fingers in his hair. The Animagus unconsciously moved towards the source of the pleasure and he smiled again, this time externally.
Lily choked silently on nothing as she seen Remus' pale hand in Sirius' dark hair and the smile and look of pure bliss on Sirius' face. Remus' hand moved away as he turned the page and then stuck his book mark in the book.
"So did you guys have fun?" The golden brown haired boy asked.
"Y-y-yeah. We did. Did you guys?" Lily asked when she got her voice back.
Remus smiled a brilliantly beautiful, yet mischievous grin.
"Yes, I did. Very much so." The scarred hand went back down onto the hair covered cushion. "Did you Sirius?" Remus asked as his crept towards the inky hair.
Sirius smiled larger than he was before.
"Why yes, yes I did. Thanks." Although, the 'thanks' was more towards Remus for forgiving him, for loving him, for kissing him, instead of anyone asking if he had fun.
"Why are you so happy?" Peter asked, finally sitting down in a chair. "Have you got a date with that Ravenclaw girl? What was her name…"
Everyone sat still, except for Remus, who pulled his hand from Sirius' hair.
"Stacy." The werewolf growled out.
"Right, right Stacy. Have you got a date with her?" Peter asked.
James cuffed him on the side of the head and glared at him.
"No. I don't. I don't like Stacy. Never have, never, EVER will."
'Good.' Remus thought to himself and moved his hand back to Sirius hair. 'I'd hate to have to snap at her.' Remus growled at his own thoughts, startling Peter.
"O-o-okay…do you lot want to go on a Kitchen raid?" He asked, stuttering terribly on the first word.
"Su--" Remus began but James interrupted him.
"NO! No, uhm, that's alright. You guys don't have to get up. We'll go and get it since we're up. C'mon Pete."
"But I was sitting down!" Peter exclaimed.
"Come. On. Peter." James ground out, pulling Lily closer to the door by her hand.
Peter scampered up out of the chair and over to the door.
"We'll be back in a bit." James said and again, Remus and Sirius were left alone.
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"I still don't see why you volunteered all of us to go!" Lily huffed as she was walking on the opposite side of the hallway, next to Peter and the wall.
"Me either!" Peter cried out, supporting Lily. "I was sitting down. AND comfortable!"
James sped up until he was in front of the other two, turned to face them, and then stopped walking. The bespectacled boy reached into the pocket of his robes and pulled out a bottle of barely pick liquid.
"TH-is." he started to screamed but calmed down. "This is way we all went. Because we're putting this in their drinks and food."
"Ohhh, yeah." came the two replies from the blonde boy and the red headed girl.
0o0o0o0o0o
"Let's hope you don't have a date." Remus said as he straddled Sirius' waist as he still laid half-on, half-off the couch.
"Oh?" Sirius smirked as he asked the question. "Why's that?" He asked, trying to lean up and capture Remus' mouth. The werewolf wasn't standing for it.
"Because I don't like to share my boyfriends." He said, nipping at Sirius' bottom lip. He could feel both himself and Sirius getting hard.
"S'that so?" Sirius moaned out, trying to arch his back to get his hips to Remus'.
"Very much so." The golden haired boy said, licking up the front of Sirius' throat.
Sirius reached up to thread his hands into Remus' hair. The werewolf caught a hold of the just barely taller boys' hand and then pulled him up into a sitting position. Remus brought the forearm up to his mouth as he sat on Sirius' lap. Sirius watched, transfixed and breathing heavily as Remus' pink tongue peeked out of that beloved mouth. Remus touched the tongued the Sirius' forearm, running it slowly to the place where the forearm and the wrist connect.
"Si, mon cher, avez-vous une date ce soir ?" Remus asked before going any farther.
Sirius arched his back again, moaning. He had no idea what that meant. He only knew a few words in French.
"Do you have a date tonight?" Remus asked again, this time in English, finally understanding that Sirius didn't know what he was saying. He made a silent vow to use more French so Sirius would understand more.
"Non. Non je pas have date other than vous." He replied, slipping into some of the small French that he knew.
Remus licked Sirius' sensitive wrist a while before he began talking again.
"Bon. Aucun Stacy (4)?" He asked, grinding his hips onto Sirius.
"Non. Aucun Stacy (5)." Sirius replied as Remus moved them from the arm of the couch to the carpet.
"Bon. Personne d'autre (6)?" Remus asked kissing and nipping his way back down the underside of Sirius' forearm.
"Non il n'y personne a d'autre (7)." Sirius moaned as Remus gently the bit the heel of his palm and then ran his tongue over it.
"Bon. How long do you think that they'll be gone?" Remus asked grinding his hips against Sirius, their erections rubbing against each other.
Sirius hissed in pleasure, jerking up his hips upwards.
"A while."
"Bon, très bon (8)." he said sliding off of Sirius.
The dark haired boy whimpered, wanting release. Remus pulled him up by his hands and then easily tossed the taller boy over his shoulder, carrying him up the dorm stairs to make use of what little time they had.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Part 1 of 2 of a quote between Christine and Raoul from Phantom of the Opera. Christine's part
2. Part 2 of 2 of a quote between Christine and Raoul from Phantom of the Opera. Raoul's Part.
3. Quote from Wayne's World while Cassandra and Wayne are talking on the roof of Cassandra's loft (I think) and Stacy and her whatever are making out and dancing up there. It's good.
TRANSLATIONS:
4."Good. No Stacy?" Forgive me if the translations aren't correct. I used www . Free translation . com
5. "No. No Stacy."
6. "Good. No one else?"
7."No there's no one else."
8. "Good. Very good."
END CHAPTER 23
A/N: I believe that the next chapter is the last...cries hysterically Drop me a review in all this was 9 - 11 pages I believe, so you all should be proud of me!
Much love to you all, and Happy Christmas or Happy Holidays,
Lykaios Nyx.