Severus glared at the stupid Gryffindor, the one with the smug smile and irritating attitude, and while that describes practically every Gryffindor, the Gryffindor he glared at was the worst of them all.

Willow had stormed into his room that afternoon and hid behind the curtains of his bed, refusing to come out. Severus asked a few questions, which were answered with grunts and hisses until he asked about Black. Willow went silent and refused to answer any other questions.

So Severus stormed over to the arrogant boy and pulled him away from his friends by the back of the robes. He half-expected at least Potter to follow them, but none of them did, leaving Severus alone with Black in the hall.

"What did you do?" Severus hissed, reining himself in so as not to punch this boy, he has better control than that, he's a Slytherin after all.

Black looked angry as well, glaring at him with crossed arms, staying stubbornly silent.

"What did you do? He's closed himself off completely," Severus growled. This time, Black looked a bit guilty. Severus was about to ask again when Black growled.

"I kissed him okay," Black hissed, glaring harder at him.

Severus froze. "What?" he ground out, his fists clenching by his sides.

"We were talking," Black started, turning a bit away, his eyes averting, "I said some stupid things, about not being his girlfriend," he paused here, hunching a bit, "and then I kissed him," Black confessed, looking back up at him with a glare, "and then he ran away. I kissed him and he ran away."

Severus gaped silently, his eyes going impossibly wide.

"You idiot," he growled, turning to go back to his best friend, when Black gripped his arm.

He half-expected Black to yell, he did not expect Black to punch him in the face.

Lily rushed to the hospital wing behind Potter and two-thirds of his gang. News of a Gryffindor and Slytherin getting into a big bloody brawl filled the school and prompted both Lily and Lupin to leave class early with bad feelings in their guts. They found Potter and Pettigrew running to find them. Lily was only slightly surprised that it was Black and Severus that got into a fight and not Black and Willow, but she didn't question it as they ran.

Getting to the room, Lily noted three things: both Severus and Black had broken noses, the boys were looking pointedly away from each other, and the Headmaster was watching everything with a cuppa.

"Severus!" Lily cried, half in concern, half chiding. At least Severus had the decency to look ashamed; Black looked entirely too serious, pun unintended and unappreciated.

"What happened?" She asked, moving closer to her boyfriend while Potter and his crew moved over to Black.

"He kissed Willow," Severus told her calmly, his voice nasally from his broken nose.

Lily clenched her teeth and turned to Black with a glare.

"You did what?!" She demanded, just barely holding herself back from attacking him—no, it was only Severus' hand on her shoulder that kept her back.

"What's the big deal? I thought Willow liked Sirius?" Pettigrew piped up before hunching down and hiding behind Lupin.

Lily turned to look at him with confusion. Severus looked just as confused, which made her feel a bit better.

"Excuse me?" Lily inquired, looking down at him with a slightly softened look, knowing full well that the boy became even timider after his disappearance for over a year.

"Um," he started, peaking around his friend with a nervous look. "I may have, uh, heard him talking to, er, someone about how he couldn't like Snape like that and gave him his blessing to date Lily and how he couldn't believe he could start having feelings for Black, oh, Sirius. He, I, uh, yeah..." Pettigrew's babble trailed off. His face turned red before he ducked back behind Lupin and hid his blush with his hands.

Everything was silent then. Dumbledore looked shocked somewhat, which made Lily uneasy. The fact that her brother was gay wasn't new, but the fact that he had a crush on Severus, and now Black, was... weird, and it hurt a bit that he didn't share that with her.

"Is that why you've been dragging me off to find the kitchens?" James started, looking frustrated at his friend. "To give Sirius and Evans alone time?" Pettigrew didn't look up, but his head moved in a somewhat up and down manner that indicated a nod of agreement.

"Well, I'll be fucked, that was pretty sneaky there, Peter, I'm proud," Potter crowed, ruffling his short friend's hair. Peter looked up with a proud grin of his own, matching Potter and Lupin's.

Black, on the other hand, look just as angry as before.

"Then why'd he run?" he grumbled, looking anywhere but at his friends.

Lily shared a concerned look with Severus. She was about to say something when a throat cleared.

Looking over, everyone was shocked when they saw Willow standing by the door.

"Can we talk? Alone?" Willow intoned, waving at Black almost dismissively.

Everyone, other than Willow and Black, cleared out, even the Headmaster, while Madam Pomfrey went to her office. Lily wishes she knew what they were saying. She'd have to talk to her brother later.

"That's why I ran."

Willow ended his speech, feeling just as mortified and ashamed as when it first happened. Black looked blank, but Willow could see the horror in his eyes. And, that was it, Black was disgusted by him. They'd never get to try anything because Willow screwed up and ruined everything forever. He was about to leave when Black leaned forward slowly, lifting his hands slowly and placing them on Willow's cheeks.

Willow's heart was beating so fast, he was sure it was going to beat right out of his chest.

It was nothing like kissing those men, mistakes one through six, at the club; it wasn't even like that quick kiss by the lake.

This was slower, more sensual, more than attraction. It was… strange. Another feeling of wrong flashed through him, the thought of 'best friend's godfather'—but he ignored it in favour of pulling Black in for a deeper kiss.

On the train back home, a good few months after the incident, found Willow's cabin comfortably overflowing. Lily sat with Severus in her lap, thanks to a prank by Potter, with Lupin and Pettigrew sitting beside them, Pettigrew's legs over Lupin's lap with his back to the wall.

Willow and Black bickering quietly across from Pettigrew with Potter's legs over theirs, the messy haired young man lying on his side, teasing Lily and Severus about their relationship.

Willow felt a sense of calmness, like all was right in the world.

And then Regulus Black opened the door.

"Where will you go now, brother?" Regulus inquired, silencing the cabin. Lily and Willow shared confused looks, but the rest looked knowing, even Severus.

"The Potters said I can stay for the summer," Black said nonchalantly. Willow narrowed his eyes at him.

"He was disowned," Regulus intoned before leaving, slamming the door closed behind him. Willow raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I figured it was something familialy related. Disowned—does this mean I won't be getting the usual courting gifts?" Willow joked, smirking. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Right, because he'd be the one getting you gifts. If anything you're the one who should get him gifts—he is the one who's more worried about his appearance. He spent two hours getting ready, and an hour on just his hair," Potter teased. Black retaliated by taking his shoe and throwing it up into the luggage. Lupin joked about how Potter's feet stank, and Willow was content.

Every few days Willow got a letter from Black. Way too many stamps on each letter, but he was getting better. Small trinkets would sometimes fall out of them, and Willow did end up eventually sending trinkets of his own.

By the time he got onto the train before their last year, Willow was the proud owner of several silver necklaces, two large gaudy broaches, three pins with inane stereotypical British sayings on them (pip, pip, cheerio!), and a tiara. Willow rolled his eyes at that one but placed it gently with the rest of his jewelry in his room.

Lily rolled her eyes as well, but ended up borrowing the tiara for a formal dinner party their sister invited them to, Severus and Sirius went along as well, though Willow had to pretend Sirius was just a good friend as to Petunia's request.

"Hello, handsome," Willow heard behind him when he got into his cabin. Turning, Willow found himself being dipped almost to the floor, chapped lips land on his. Sirius didn't let him up until he was thoroughly debauched.

"Get a room," Potter's voice ribbed from behind Sirius.

"We have a room, find your own," Sirius quipped, only for Lily to push past him and sit by the window, Severus moving in to sit beside her. Potter, Lupin, and Pettigrew push past them as well, making Sirius pout exaggeratedly.

"Willow, they're being mean," Sirius accused, dramatically falling onto his boyfriend.

"They do tend to 'be mean' to you a lot, according to your letters. Maybe you'll just have to stop living with Potter after this school year, we'll have to get a flat," Willow said unthinkingly. Sirius gaped at him.

"Did you just ask me to move in with you?" Sirius asked with wide eyes.

Willow froze before looking up, his face blank.

"Yes," he said as seriously as he could, watching to see Sirius' reaction. The grin that crossed his face made Willow's heart beat faster.

"Of course I will. Just think of it—me and you, a single bed." He finished the sentence short, wiggling his eyebrows. Willow huffed but cracked a smile.

The rest of the ride was filled with similar banter.

Sorry for such a late update, this week is cause I was sick. I'm kinda better, but yeah.

Last Chapter is next Week! Here is this for you, I am working on a sequel, it will be a while before I post it, but I am working on it.

You can find a poll on my bio for what pairings you want to see in it!

Mars