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OT3 Challenge - Date
Transfiguration - Task: For this assignment I would like you to write about a character's inner workings, the characteristics, (hair and eyes) emotions (unhappy because his friends are fighting, panic attack, scared), quirks and flaws (flaws: needing to make all his friends happy) that make them who they are and how important these small sections are to the character as a whole.
Extra Prompts:(emotion) Hurt
Lucky Duck Challenge - 60. Emotion: hopeful
Olympics - Coxed Eight - (word) change. Character used: Remus
Bad Movie Tuesday- Ghost on Mars
[dialogue] "You lured me back here to seduce me?" Ballard
[dialogue] "How the hell'd that happen?" Williams
[dialogue] "This is not making me happy" Jericho
Making a Change
Remus' gaze moved between the two men who were standing frozen, glaring at each other. Maybe this was a stupid idea? Maybe he shouldn't have tried to mend things: mainly the friendship between the pair.
But Remus couldn't help it. He had this insane need to make things right between the group; he needed them all to be happy. He couldn't stand his friends not talking, especially if it was his fault they had fallen out.
But the words wouldn't come to him to explain just how things could be fixed, and Remus was left opening and closing his mouth over and over again, feeling like a poor imitation of a fish, as he tugged at the loose thread on his oversized antler-print jumper.
"Remus?" Sirius finally asked, breaking the silence.
Remus moved forward, unable to ignore Sirius calling to him. It was some insane power the dark-haired wizard had over him. Whenever Sirius needed him, Remus would be there for him. He moved beside Sirius, and he noticed Sirius' arm twitch, eager to reach for him.
But the look on James' face meant that Sirius wouldn't dare.
Remus took a deep breath. "I'm not happy!"
He hated the words leaving his mouth. He had never admitted to being unhappy before, well, except for the time that Sirius told Snape about the passage. With that exception, Remus always reminded himself at the worst times, that he still had his friends.
The two men looked at him in shock, their feud quickly forgotten.
"You… you're what?" James asked, Sirius quickly echoing.
Remus could see that James took it as a personal insult. As the self-appointed leader of the Marauders (well, Remus let him think he was), James was overly protective of his friends and if he failed to keep one happy, he saw himself as a failure. Sirius glared at James once more, as though silently agreeing that James had screwed up.
Also, James saw it as a personal goal to have Remus feel happy, wanted and cared for at all times, since they were 'dating'.
Well, he thought they were dating. After all, they did walk around Hogsmeade holding hands the previous week and James had snogged him after the last Quidditch game, with so much vigour, Remus' legs had given out.
Then James dropped down to the floor and they had snogged some more.
James had never stated what their relationship was, but Remus saw him turn down everyone else, even the Prewitt twins! That meant it was something exclusive at least, though Remus was scared to ask in case he didn't like the answer.
...oOo...
The pair were breathless on the bed. James moved beside Remus and wrapped an arm around the Werewolf. "You okay, Moony?"
"Never better," Remus whispered. "So… that was nice!"
"Yeah, it was." James tugged playfully at Remus' shirt. "You know what's even nicer? Naked snogging."
Remus laughed. "You ever done any naked snogging?"
James shook his head. "I've never wanted to before, but with you..." Remus zoned out, imagining what would happen with no clothes on. He shivered in delight at the thoughts that sprung to mind.
"You lured me back here to seduce me?" Remus asked. Instead of waiting for a response, he leaned towards James, their lips meeting once more. With a quick movement, James was on top of him, before the door creaked open.
"What is going on here?" The pair looked over at the shocked expression on Sirius' face. It was quickly replaced by hurt. "Prongs? What are you doing? How the hell'd that happen?"
James moved away, smiling widely. "Well, it seems Remus returns my affections," he said. The smile dropped as Sirius glared at him. "How could you? You must have known how I felt. That I was going to…" he trailed off. "Some friend you are!"
Sirius turned and left, slamming the door behind him.
"What was that about?" Remus asked.
"I… I honestly have no idea."
...oOo...
"This is not making me happy," Remus announced, feeling hot and dizzy as the words left his throat. He held back the looming panic attack, shutting his eyes and taking a deep breath. "I can't have you both fighting. I'm not happy because you both are unhappy. Things need to change!"
"Moons," Sirius murmured, reaching and taking his hand. "Lean on me and catch your breath."
"Back off, any reason to touch—"
"Is it the time, Potter?" Sirius snapped. "Look, Remus is… uh… not looking too good."
"I'm fine," Remus said softly, taking a deep breath against Sirius' shoulder that was purely Sirius. He could almost taste the cigarettes that Sirius smoked, and the apple from the shampoo Sirius favoured. The smell of wet dog lingered faintly on Sirius' clothes. He reached up, bringing his hand to his hair and running his fingers through, tugging lightly on the loose curls on top of his head.
After a moment he pulled back. "We need to fix your friendship. I have two ideas of how we can change things, because you two working it out whilst I date James clearly didn't work."
"Yeah? What are they?" James' head spun around at the hopeful tone in Sirius' voice. Sirius was staring intently into Remus' amber eyes, transfixed.
"Either we all date, or none of us date."
He wanted to hide against Sirius' shoulder again in the silence that followed. "You want… what?" James asked, frowning slightly.
"Like… you mean me find someone to date and then you—" Sirius began.
"No," Remus replied. "The problem was that I started dating James before realising Sirius was in love with me. I love you both, you know that. I said it before. You both would do anything for the other, and I'm in the way here. So either I don't date either of you, which will stop you being at odds… or the three of us…"
"Date each other," James finished.
Another silence fell and Remus tried to stay still, though a large part of him wanted to run, scared that the pair would hate him after his suggestion.
"When you say all of us, does that mean me and James would have to snog?" Sirius checked.
James looked at Remus with wide eyes, and Remus could read the hopeful expression behind them. James wanted to snog Sirius?
Remus couldn't help but smile as he pictured it. "If you both want to?"
"But… when you say all of us, do you mean all three of us, or all the Marauders?" Sirius asked, grimacing at the thought.
"No! Just us three," Remus quickly confirmed. "So… do we date or do we go back to being single?"
"I… I'm in," James admitted, his eyes moving to Sirius and his cheeks flushing slightly.
Sirius grabbed Remus, and before Remus could even think about what was happening, rough lips pressed against his, and Sirius' right hand moved up, his fingers tangling themselves into Remus' hair. Remus barely had time to wrap his arms around Sirius' neck before Sirius pulled away.
"Fuck," Sirius murmured. "Yeah… yes, I'm definitely in. Though we better find Pete a girl first. We don't want him to be tagging along on our dates. Can anyone suggest a girl we can bribe? Or even which girl we can Imperio?"
Thanks to Shannon for the help.
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