The full moon had come and gone, and the potion had worked. Remus came back from the Shrieking Shack with no cuts or bruises. From what he remembered, he had merely lain on the ground silently and slept. It was also the first night that his friends hadn't come to see him.
Remus sat at the breakfast table alone sipping his tea. He flipped through the pages of the Daily Prophet. He didn't look up when James, Peter, and Sirius appeared at the table. They were all involved in chatter about that day. It was the first Hogsmede visit of the year.
"I can't wait to go to Zonko's... I heard that they have new stock in." Sirius smiled happily as he took a bite of the toast sitting infront of him.
"Really? I thought they just re-stocked everything from last year." James sipped at his pumpkin juice.
"Hey... hey! Are you guys still planning that prank?" Peter leant forward and nearly tipped over his glass of juice.
Sirius and James nodded in unison. "Why?" They looked at eachother and laughed. Remus turned the page of the article he was reading.
"Well... I'd like to help..."
"What about your girlfriend?" James raised his eyebrow and crossed his arms. "I thought she was more important than the prank."
"We kind of broke up."
"Kind of? How can you kind of break up?" Sirius wrinkled his nose.
Peter looked blankly at the table and raised an eyebrow. "I don't know..." He shook his head as he looked up. "Anyway, can I help?"
"Well Remus was going t-" James gestured over at Remus.
"Go ahead Peter." Remus spoke without looking up. He took another sip of his tea. "I don't mind." He flipped another page.
"Awesome!" Peter smiled widely. "Thanks so much Remus!"
Remus looked up at Peter only and smiled before he glanced back down at his paper.
"Hey are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Sirius. And you?" Remus looked up and took a sip of his tea. He stared at Sirius through the rising steam.
Sirius raised his eyebrows slightly. "I'm fine. Are you coming today?"
"I don't think so. I think I'm just going to stick around here with Lily."
"Lily's not going either?"
"She's your girlfriend James, you should have known that." Remus looked over at James with one eyebrow lifted.
"Yeah... I guess I should have known that..."
Remus took another sip of his tea as Sirius stood up. "Okay, I'm going to get to the front gate. You boys coming?"
They nodded and stood up. "See you later, Remus." Peter smiled.
"Yeah, see you when we get back." James pat his shoulder quite hard, causing the tea to slosh around rather violently in the cup.
"See you tonight Remy." Sirius spoke quietly and smiled. Remus looked up at him and cracked a smile winking his eye.
"See you, Siri. Have a good day, guys."
The three boys made their way to the exit of the Great Hall, and Lily stole a seat beside Remus. "So! A whole day together! What are we going to do?"
"Hmmm... I don't really know."
"Oh... Hey!!"
He looked over at her and narrowed his eyes. "What?"
"Can I do your make-up? I've always wanted to do your make-up!"
Remus groaned. "Lily..."
"Pleaseee?"
"Lily I'm gay, that doesn't make me a woman."
She let her bottom lip pucker as she wrinkled her eyebrows. "Please, please, please?" She latched onto his robes and whimpered.
Remus groaned again, rolled his eyes and scratched the back of his neck. "We'll see."
"Oh yay!!" Her posture immediately straightened up as she clapped happily. "Thank you!" her smile was very wide and her eyes twinkled.
Remus laughed and shook his head. "That doesn't mean I'm going to let you do it."
"Oh I know you will! You're to sweet to say no to me!" She smiled widely and winked.
Remus sipped at his tea and laughed slightly. "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
The pair of friends spent most of the day in the library working on various tidbits of homework, and talking about schoolwork, teachers, and friends. They later made their way to the Gryffindor common room and sat on the couches. Lily sat on one end of the loveseat with her legs crossed facing Remus who was sitting the same way.
"Remus?"
"Yes?"
"Have you ever had sex?"
"...No." He looked down and began to pick at the string on his pants.
"Neither..."
"But what about all the things James has told us? And about the wa-"
"Wax? Yes... about that... I was leaning over him, and he said something crude... so I dumped hot wax down his shirt. Mostly everything else he's told you is more than likely a lie."
Remus raised his eyebrows. "Wow. I always knew there was something fishy about those stories."
She nodded. "So you know what?"
"What?"
"We should have sex to get back at him."
"You've got to be kidding me," Remus's eyes went wide as she spoke. "I've never even... I wouldn't... I'm with Sirius..."
"Oh Remus, I was kidding. Come on, follow me."
"Why?"
"Just do it!" She held out her hand and he took it after a few moments. He followed her to the stairs and she turned to the left instead of the right.
"Where are you taking me?"
"To my dorm, we're going to do your makeup."
"No... no Lily I can't go in there..."
She dragged him through the open door. "Nonsense, everyone has gone to Hogsmede. No one is going to see." She smiled as she closed the door.
The room was set up exactly the same as the boys; only it was much cleaner and smelled of lilacs. The window was open and the wind was blowing freely through the room.
"Sit there... that's my bed."
He sat down on the bed 2 away from the window. She bent over and fished through her trunk, taking out a small bag. She smiled as she sat down on the bed. She unzipped it and dumped everything out on the bed. Remus looked at all the things with his eyes wide. He picked up an eyelash curler.
"This looks like a terrible torture device." He rolled it around in his fingers, opening and shutting it a few times.
"That's an eyelash curler, not a torture device." She laughed, taking it from his hand. "And we need to use that."
"What? No!"
"Oh come on!"
"I can't believe I'm letting you do this to me." He rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
She smiled as she looked up; and took out a small case of eye shadow. "I'm going to do what's called the 'smoky effect'. Come here."
"Smoky effect?"
"Yeah, you know, what it looks like when girls have dark eye shadow on and it looks... Err... Smoky." She smiled as she took his chin in her hand and wiped the hair out of his face. "Sit still and close your eyes." He tensed up and then closed his eyes.
"I can't believe this." He groaned as he felt the little pad of color touch his eyelid.
"Oh hush." Once she had finished she told him to open his eyes and look at her. As he did so, she looked from eye to eye and smoothed the parts that were uneven and reapplied the eye shadow where it was needed. "Okay, now I need to line your lashes with this."
"With a black pencil crayon?" He eyed the eyeliner with an apprehensive look in his eyes.
"No... eyeliner. Close your eyes." He did as he was told and flinched when he felt the pencil run along his eyelashes. "God you have long eyelashes, Remus."
He smiled slightly as she finished. "You're fast."
She smiled and picked up the eyelash curler. "Now open your eyes and look towards me."
His eyes went wide as he looked at the eyelash curler. "What are you going to do with that?"
"Curl your eyelashes so I can put on mascara... here..." She did it to herself and smiled when she finished. "That's what I'm going to do to you."
"Can we skip that part? I already feel foolish."
She tilted her head to the side and pouted. "Well I suppose..." She put the curler back into her bag and took out a new bottle of mascara. She opened the package and smiled.
"Why aren't you using the one that's already open?"
"Because it's too dry. Look up." He did as he was told, and she applied many layers of mascara to his lashes. "Okay. Look down at me."
He looked at her and then looked up. "Is it okay that I'm seeing little black dots above my eyes?"
She laughed and leant forward. "Those are clumps... here." She picked off a few of the clumps as easily as she could. "Better?"
"Yeah... Are we done?"
"Nope... you need lipstick."
"Lipstick?"
"Mhm." She took out a small tube of liquid. "Open your mouth slightly, and relax your lips." She applied the lipstick carefully and smiled when she finished. "Now do this." She closed and opened her lips. Remus mimicked her. "Good. Now lightly press your lips on this." She placed a piece of Kleenex between his lips. She smiled when he was done. "You look so gorgeous."
"I feel stupid."
"Look in the mirror!"
He rolled his eyes and took the small red mirror from her hands. He looked at his reflection. He had never noticed how long his eyelashes were before. "I look different." He didn't even really recognize himself.
"You look fabulous, Remus."
"Can I wash it off now?" He handed her the mirror.
"Nooo... just leave it on for a little while... please?"
Remus sighed deeply as he lay back on the bed. "Fine. But no pictures."
"Of course not." She smiled and lay down beside him. They looked up at the canopy before she rolled onto her side and propped her head up on her hand. "Do you ever wonder what it's like to have sex with a girl?"
"Yeah. But then I haven't ever had sex, so I wouldn't have anything to compare it to."
She bit her lip, leant over, and kissed his lips. His eyes went wide at first, but he then greeted her lips with his, kissing back. The kiss was short enough to mean nothing, but at the same time, long enough to mean something. She smiled into his lips and leant back.
"Why did you kiss me...?"
"Why did you kiss back?"
He turned his head and looked at her, mimicking her position. "I don't know."
"Neither do I." They stared into each other's eyes again before she spoke. "I've just always wanted to kiss you."
"Why? You have James. It can't be much different..."
"I don't know. He's the only boy I've ever kissed. You kiss differently. Your kiss was soft and gentle." She smiled and lay down, her arm behind her head.
"...Oh."
"Have you done anything with Sirius?"
Remus smiled at the mention of his name. "...Yeah."
"Do you love him?"
He laid in silence for a while before answering quietly. "More than I thought I was ever capable of."
"Do... do you know about his sexual experiences before you?" She started to fiddle with one of the buttons on Remus's shirt.
"Not in detail... but he's told me he's not a virgin."
"Does that make you jealous?"
"Yeah. I wanted to be the first person he was with." He sighed and laid his head down on the pillow, changing his position so he was lying on his back. "Why are you asking so many questions?"
"Just trying to get to know you better."
Remus smiled to himself. "Then may I ask you a few questions?" He felt her nod against his shoulder. "Do you love James?"
"I do."
"Are you proud of who you are and where you come from?"
"Sometimes I am."
"Only sometimes?"
She curled her legs up and took a deep breath. "Sometimes I just get tired of being me, of having my family. My sister is dreadful towards me. My parents aren't awful towards me, but there are times where I can't stand it."
"Oh. Do you plan to have kids?"
She smiled. "I want to have a boy and a girl. And I hope that neither of them get James's hair." Lily began to laugh and was shortly joined by Remus.
"That would be terrible wouldn't it?"
She laughed and nodded. "It would." The laughter died down before she spoke again. "Though... even if the children did get his hair, I would still love them... I would sacrifice my life for them if it came to that choice."
Remus nodded. "Yeah..."
"Do you ever want kids?"
"It would be nice to have them... but I wouldn't be capable of having any children. Seeing as how... you know."
"Then you can love my children, and help me look after them."
Remus smiled. "Promise?"
"Promise."
He looked over at the window and watched a small blue bird fly towards the Womping Willow. He didn't have to imagine what happened next as he heard a small squawk and the tree readjusting itself, as if it was laughing.
"What's the one thing that you wish for?"
"That I wasn't ever bitten by the werewolf."
"When did that happen...?"
"The werewolf bit me when I was a child."
She nodded her head. "Have you got many scars...?"
He smirked slightly as he sat up. "I've got tons." He wrapped his arms around his knees.
She slowly sat up and placed a gentle hand to his back as she moved. She wrapped her arm around his back and placed her head on his shoulder. She took his hands in hers. "You'll always be the same old Remus to me. The same wonderful Remus."
He smiled into her hair. "Thanks." He took in a deep breath and sat in silence with Lily's warm body pressing against his. "Can I take this makeup off yet?"
She laughed and slapped his knee. "Way to ruin the moment. Yeah, go ahead."
He smiled and walked towards the bathroom. She followed him, and stood in the doorway as he washed his face. "What time is it?"
Remus dried his face and looked at his watch. "Nearly 2:00."
"When are the boys due back?"
"I have no clue." He hung up the towel and walked towards her. "Now how do I look?"
"Just as gorgeous as you did when you wore the makeup."
He smiled and rolled his eyes. "Lets go get something to eat, sound good?"
She nodded her head and followed him down the stairs towards the door.
Awwww! Well wasn't that the sweetest chapter? It almost makes you cringe with sappiness doesn't it? No matter, though. It's a good thing. We all love a good dose of fluff....
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