A/n: Hey! Here is another chapter. I hope you enjoy. Is going to be very fluffy. This was going to be three chapters, but for two of them I didn't have enough information to make 2 chapters, so I decided to put them all into one chapter. I hope you enjoy.
Lady Aurian: Tysm! I'm glad you like it! I'm glad you think it's interesting and sweet. I know, I agree with you about Stacey. (Of course, I created her.) I'm glad someone thinks that way. Tysm!
Chapter 12Aside from the Quidditch Final near, another type of "Final" was coming up. The Final Exams were coming up soon. They were still in a few months, but they were still coming up. School was getting harder and harder. With Quidditch, school, and homework, the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team were suffering. Especially, Jack, Andrew, and the fellow chasers of the team (who were all seventh years). Jack had O.W.L.'s, and the seventh years had the N.E.W.T's. Even the sixth years (Sirius, James, and Stacey, and of course the rest of the sixth years who were not on the Quidditch team) found school becoming harder for them with N.E.W.T's the next year.
"This is ridiculous." Sirius said as he slammed his books down on his bed.
"Yeah," James agreed. "N.E.W.T.'s aren't until next year and they're already working us hard."
"It's too much!" Peter cried.
"Er, guys… I hate to tell you this, but," Remus said, "This has been happening since our fourth year when they started to give us more work because of O.W.L.'s the next year. And, naturally, when you get to a higher grade, you're going to get more work."
"Always the level-headed reasonable one, aren't you?" Sirius asked, giving Remus a kiss.
"Someone has to be." Remus said plainly.
"What do you mean?" Peter asked. "We're not level-headed and reasonable?"
We're not?" asked Peter.
Everyone in the room except Peter laughed. "Oh, please," said Sirius. "Us? Reasonable? Yeah. Right."
" "No." answered Sirius.
"Why not?" Peter asked.
"Peter," Remus said, "you give into easily and you get scared too easily. Sirius, he has too bad a temper and he's too compulsive. James, well, he's James, and I sincerely hope you don't think James is level-headed and reasonable."
Peter shook his head. "No. I don't." He said. "No offense, James."
"None taken," said James. "I know I'm not level-headed, and I like life that way. It would be boring any other way. No offense, Remus."
Sirius suppressed a laugh. He silently agreed, but he wasn't about to say so in front of Remus. And, plus, Remus knew he agreed with James, anyway, without him saying anything, so what would be the point of saying anything.
"And I do take offense to that, James Potter." Remus said. "This group would be in more trouble than it needs to be if it wasn't for me."
"And that's why we need you." Peter said.
"Yeah," agreed Sirius. "Where would be without you, darling?"
James shuddered. "We've already been in more detentions than it is necessary, and that was with Remus. What would our record be like if we didn't have him with us?"
There was a moment of silence, then the group cracked up laughing. That was an image they never wanted to experience. Especially for Sirius, for different reasons unsaid.
"Now, what time is it?" Peter asked.
"Time to go to dinner." Remus said, looking at his watch.
"Wow, that's a nice watch, Remus." Peter said, finally spotting Remus's new watch for the first time. "Where'd you get it?"
"Sirius gave it to me for Christmas." Remus said, blushing. "You just noticed it? I've been wearing it since the day I got it!"
He gasped. "Sirius gave that to you? For Christmas? Wow." He exclaimed. "Oh, and yes, I just noticed it."
Sirius blushed as well. "Yes, I got it for him for Christmas."
"How'd you afford it?" Peter asked.
"I'm rich, remember?"
"Oh, yeah." Peter said. "I forgot."
Sirius just shook his head.
The next day, in Sirius and Remus's last class, Divination (Peter and James didn't have this class), Sirius started to lead Remus into another corridor, not near Gryffindor Tower.
"In here," Sirius said, ushering Remus into a deserted room. "We need to talk. I need to tell you something."
"What? What is it?" Remus asked, concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong," said Sirius. "I just to tell you something. Now."
"What is it?" Remus asked.
Sirius just stared at Remus's hand, rubbing it with his thumb.
"Remus, can I ask you a question?" Sirius asked.
"Sure." Remus replied. "Anything."
"Where do you see yourself in twenty years?"
That shocked Remus. Where is this leading? He thought. "Um…" Remus stammered. "I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. I try not to think about the future."
"Well, I have, and I do," said Sirius. "In some house, somewhere, with you. It doesn't matter where it is, or what the house is like, as long as it's with you."
Remus could've sworn that his heart stopped. This can't be, he thought. It can't! He just started shaking his head, refusing to believe.
Sirius could see that he didn't believe him, so he went on. "You mean everything to me, Remus, everything! You're the air that I breathe; you're what I need to survive. Without you, I'm nothing. You're reason to live. Without you, I have no reason to continue living." Remus just kept shaking his head. "Nothing else matters as long as I'm with you, nothing! As far as I'm concerned, the rest of the world can go to hell. When I'm with you, time's in a standstill. And when we kiss, and when I touch you… it's overwhelming. I'm serious, Remus, as long as you're with me, nothing else matters. The rest of the world can go to hell. I love you. More anything in this entire world." Sirius had stopped rubbing Remus's hands. He now took it, and put it directly over his heart. "You feel that?" He asked, indicating his heartbeat. Remus nodded. "That doesn't belong to me anymore." Remus looked confused. "It belongs to you." He whispered. Remus gasped.
Remus just kept shaking his head. This can't be happening, he thought. This just can't be happening! Oh, god, I don't believe this. Remus had prided himself on the fact that he could show no emotion. Be completely calm. But it seemed that – whenever Sirius was like this, all romantic and sincere – he couldn't do that. He just couldn't. Remus had this wall that he built up around him to keep him feeling emotion, to keep him from being hurt. But whenever Sirius was like all romantic and sincere like this, he just couldn't keep control over his emotions. Sirius was rarely like this, and whenever he was, it just touched Remus so much. (It was times like this that he wishes he didn't care for him so much.) He really didn't want to cry, but he couldn't help it. Sirius grabbed Remus face, and kissed him passionately.
Remus just burst out into tears. "Oh, Sirius, I feel the same way." Remus said, still crying. "I just can't express myself the way you can."
"It's alright, love." Sirius said. "You don't have to."
"All I know how to say is 'I love you'."
"Then that's all I need to hear." Sirius said. "I know you're not that expressive, Remus. Let me be the expressive one."
Remus smiled. "You are everything to me, Sirius. I've tried to deny it for so long. I'm not used to being close to someone. I never thought… I never thought anyone would want to be close to a werewolf, so I never even thought about falling in love. Actually, I sort of condemned it." Remus said. "But I do love you. More than anything." Sirius just smiled at him, knowing he had more to say, but just didn't know how to say it, so he would give him all the time he needed. "Oh, Sirius… Everything you just said, I agree with, everything. The feelings… Everything. My heart… my heart…" Remus seemed to think more a moment. "It doesn't belong to me. It never has. Ever since… that day when we first laid eyes on each other at Platform 9 and ¾… You captured my heart, Sirius, in so many ways."
Sirius gave Remus a very passionate kiss, which Remus gladly returned. Sirius put his arms around and drew him close to him. Remus turned around, and lay down on Sirius' chest, very content. "We should go to the common room, Sirius." Remus said.
"Yes, I know," said Sirius, giving him another passionate kiss. "Let's go." He gave him another kiss and then he and Remus got up and made their way to Gryffindor Tower.
When they got there, James and Lily were there waiting for them.
"Where have you two been?" James asked.
"Yeah, you two are never this late." Lily said. "You didn't get in trouble, did you?"
"Never without James," was Sirius' reply.
James and Lily laughed at that.
"So, really," said James. "Where have you two been?"
A furious blush crossed Remus' face as he lowered his head, and Sirius smiled shyly. James and Lily looked from one to the other, wondering what was going on, and what had passed between them. Remus was blushing, and Sirius was smiling shyly, which is one smile you never see on Sirius' face.
"Really, you two, what is going on here?" Lily asked.
Sirius and Remus looked at each other, deciding what to do, and how to tell them. Then a mutual understanding formed between them.
"Lily, let me take you into another room and tell you." Remus said, taking her hand. "And Sirius can stay here and tell James."
"Ok," said James and Lily strangely, as Remus led Lily off into another room.
"What's going on, Sirius?" asked James, and Lily ask Remus the same question. And both Sirius and Remus had the same reply… or, well, I suppose it's not a reply. They both blushed.
"What is going on?" Lily asked Remus. "What happened between you and Sirius?"
Remus said 6 words that made Lily's eyes widen. "He told me he loved me."
Her eyes widened. "He did?" Lily said, clearly excited. She loved romance. It was a shame that she was going out with someone who was un-romantic. Oh, well. He was getting better with time. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm guessing by the blushing that you two have been doing that it's a good thing."
Remus blushed again, and said, "Yes, it's a good thing, Lily. It's a very good thing." He lowered his voice to a whisper. "I can't believe he loves me!"
"I can," said Lily, and Remus blushed again. "I thought he did. I could just tell."
"I couldn't," said Remus.
"So…" began Lily.
"So… what?" Remus asked.
"What happened!" she asked enthusiastically….
"Ok, Padfoot, what's going on?" James asked Sirius. "You two are acting very strange… different… what happened?"
"I told him I loved him," said Sirius shortly.
"You did?" James said, shocked. "Do you?"
"Yes, I did, and yes, I do," said Sirius. "I do love him. With all my heart."
"Does he love you?" James asked.
"Yes," Sirius said. "He does."
"So, what happened?" James asked eagerly.
Well, as Sirius told James, and Remus told Lily, both James and Lily were going, "You said that!" or "He said that!" or "I can't believe it." Basically, the same things, just adapted to their personalities.
When Sirius finished telling James, James was in shock. "I can't believe it." He said. "I had no idea you felt that way about Remus. But, I also can't believe that I never saw it."
"We're that obvious?" Sirius asked.
"Well… yeah… you are." James said.
Sirius shook his head in disbelief.
Just then Remus and Lily walked out into the room were James and Sirius were, both in tears, wiping their eyes. Lily, an old-fashioned romantic, loved everything that Remus and Sirius had said to each other, and would've loved to hear some of those things from James.
Remus walked over to Sirius and Lily walked over to James, and kicked him in the leg.
"Ow, what was that for?!" James asked, very shocked.
"WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME STUFF LIKE THAT!" Lily exclaimed. "DON'T YOU FELT THAT WAY ABOUT ME?"
"Well, yes, but… I… Just… Can't… Express… Myself… That way." James said, stammering, trying to find the words. Then he looked at Sirius and said, "Don't do that!"
Sirius put his hands in the air. "What? What? What did I do?"
"You said all those things to Remus!"
"Yeah… and…"
"Well, stop! You're making it harder for the rest of us boyfriends!"
Sirius and Remus just laughed.
They went and ate dinner where they met Peter and Stacey, then walked back up to the common room, talked for a while, and then went to bed.
Sirius and Remus got into Remus' bed together, and Sirius put his around Remus and held him close to him, and Remus sighed in happiness, as Sirius smiled. "This has been the best day of my life." Remus said.
"Mine, too." Sirius said, kissing him on the check.
Remus turned his head around, and started into Sirius' beautiful, deep blue eyes. Sirius put his had on the back of Remus' neck, leaned in, and gave him a very passionate kiss. Remus returned the kiss, and put his arms around Sirius' neck.
This time, unlike all the other times, Sirius allowed his hands to wander. In times past, he had not because did not want to make Remus uncomfortable. But this time, after what had happened that day, Sirius decided to try and see if Remus approved.
As it turned out, he did approve. Remus had no problems with Sirius caressing him the way he was, rubbing his down his back and then changing and rubbing his hands down his chest.
They both immediately noticed the passion and fire that was rising within them. I mean, they noticed it before, whenever they kissed, but now that Sirius was letting his hands roam, they noticed more than ever. A very strong passion and fire was in them now. It was unlike anything either one of them had felt before. They kissed and Sirius' hands stroked Remus' back and chest, and that strong passion and fire surged strongly within them. Sirius broke the kiss, and let his hands rest on Remus' waist.
Remus turned around, so that he was facing Sirius. "I love you." He said.
"I love you, too, darling." Sirius said, giving him a kiss.
Remus turned around, and snuggled into Sirius. Sirius pulled him closer, and gave him a kiss on the cheek, and then they both feel asleep, after the happiest night of their lives.
A/n: Whoa! I hope that wasn't too long! I hope you liked it! Enjoy! R/R!
