A/N: I finish one chapter, and immediatley start another. How pathetically awesome am I? Still want chocolate. Hungry. Sore. But I just won at solitaire! For the first time in my life! Wooo00000!
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Canine Affinity
This time, Remus draged Sirius to his own bed, leaving Remus' alone and bare, the blankets slightly mussed from their earlier activities. They slipped through the curtains, and Sirius cast muffliatio, so that James and Peter wouldn't be... disturbed.
"Why did you bring us here?" Sirius asked Remus, sitting crosslegged on his pillow, that adorable puppydog face automatically affixing itself to his features.
Remus shrugged. "I like your bed." He said simply. "It smells like you."
"Oh what?" Sirius grinned. "Do I smell?"
"Only to me. Don't worry." Remus smiled back, and had to resist the urge to snog Sirius right then and there. "It's a nice smell."
"So what did you want to talk about?"
Remus shrugged. "About this. What're we going to do? Do we go public? Do we even become a couple?" Remus looked slightly anxious again, which Sirius found adorable.
"Well I thought I had made it clear that I want to be a couple. As for going public, that's up to you." Sirius smiled dopily.
"I don't know... We shouldn't make it obvious, no cuddling in the common room, but I suppose holding hands and stuff is fine. A little." Remus added as Sirius looked eagar.
"So you want to be a couple?"
Remus sighed, running a hand though his hair. "We'll see how it goes. But I'm still not sure I'm totally ready."
"We can go as slow as you want, love." Sirius smiled, hugging Remus gently. And of course, Sirius could never be happy with a hug for long...
000
The following morning, Remus didn't know where he was. It was a bed, similar to his own, but just different enough to be confusing. And the smell... he sniffed at it. Ah, that was it. He was in Sirius' bed.
Sirius! Remus sat up, wide awake now, to see Sirius curled up contentedly at the end of the bed, like a dog. Remus smiled at the adorable sight of his best friend 'Boyfriend?' Remus thought worriedly. 'Nah, better stick with best friend.' snuffling and twitching his hands and feet like a dog dreaming of chasing a rabbit. Remus shook him gently, and Sirius woke up, blinking and staring sleepily at Remus.
"'Allo, love." 'Well, at least he has no problem remembering last night...' Remus thought. "What time is it?"
Remus peeked out of the curtains to check Sirius' alarm clock, then shoved his head back in. "About seven. Come on, it's Saturday, we have all day to ourselves. Let's go eat."
"No. Sleep." Sirius curled back up, lying on Remus' legs so that the werewolf had to shove him off.
"Stop being stupid, Sirius. I know you hate mornings, but if we're gonna do this thing, you have to start putting up with my morning enthusiasm, instead of just shovng me off and going back to sleep." And Remus pushed Sirius again, so he fell off the bed with a yelp. This, of course, awoke James and Peter, who peeked out of their own beds to see what all the fuss was.
James grumbled. He appeared to have already adjusted to the idea of Sirius and Remus together. "Will you two please be quiet. Remus, you have to appreciate that normal people hate mornings."
Remus grinned sheepishly out of the curtains. "Sorry."
Peter, on the other hand, just squealed, and hid back in bed.
Sirius sighed. "Peter, it's alright. We're wearing pants."
"Implying that you weren't earlier?" James waggled his eyebrows.
"Ew!" Remus blushed. "No!"
Sirius clambered back to his feet, and tackled Remus playfully, pulling him out of bed too. "Come on, since I'm up, you have to be too."
Remus shrieked, but allowed Sirius to lift him up easily, and dump him on the floor beside his own bed. James just sighed, and tried to go back to bed. Remus got up and pulled some clean robes out of his trunk, slipping them on over his pyjama pants, then searching for proper pants, and a shirt. Sirius just grabbed some clothes and threw them on, then started bouncing impatiently, waiting for Remus so they could go to breakfast together as their first official 'date'. Remus, however, was determined to keep to his morning routine, hopping onto his bed and drawing the curtains to get dressed. Just like he usually did - Remus had always been a very private person, and liked order and routine in his mornings. Finally he slipped out of bed, dressed perfectly as always, with his hair mysteriously brushed and tidied, and his teeth smelling brushed. More than once, James and Sirius had wondered how he did it.
"Okay, come on." Remus sighed, heading towards the common room. "Let's get this thing over with."
000
As Remus knew, and had planned, the school was always virtually empty this early in the morning, and Remus and Sirius had no problem walking to breakfast, hand in hand. (At Sirius' request.) They even managed to eat most of their breakfast before noticing that someone was staring at them across the hall.
"What're you looking at, Snivellus?" Sirius sneereed, glaring at his nemisis across the hall.
Snape glared right on back. "Why are you holding hands with Lupin?"
Sirius blinked, quickly dropping Remus' hand under the table. "We weren't."
Snape snorted. "Right. Did you two finally have slimy, gryffindor sex?"
"What?" Remus blushed hotly. "No!
"Oh Lupin! Lupin! Slay my dragon! Oh yes! Yes!" Snape mimed, sneering at the two across the entire hall. Sirius got up, and actually looked prepared to run across the tables and throttle him, but Remus yanked at his robes, pulling Sirius back down. This was most definitley a battle to be won with wits, not violence.
"How do we know you're not just jealous?" Remus replied, quirking an eyebrow. "Maybe you fancy some slimy, gryffindor sex?" He smirked, enjoying the shocked look on Snape's face. Remus decided to add sarcastically; "Stir that potion! Yeah, baby!"
Snape didn't say anything audible, grumbling about stupid Gryffindors. Sirius seemed satisfied, and patted Remus on the back. In a manly way. "Nice one!"
Remus sighed. "Look, Snape. If you tell anyone about this..."
"So you are going out?" And Snape seemed interested again, looking at them sincerely.
Remus sighed. "I will neither confirm not deny anything more than a platonic relationship between myself and Mr. Black."
"That means yes."
Remus shrugged. "But now I didn't tell you about it, you guessed, and therefore, we may just be screwing with your mind."
"Damn..." Snape sighed. "You really are tricky." Something resembling a smile appeared on his face. Surprisingly, after six years of "rivalry", this was the first time Snape and Remus had ever really matched wits.
"But seriously... stop it, Sirius." Remus shouldered Sirius after an outburst of sniggers from the man. "You can't tell anyone about this. We'll tell people when we're ready."
"Don't worry, I don't stoop to slandering people through gossip."
"Thank you." Remus smiled, and continued eating. Sirius just stared at him, speechless.
"How could you have something so close to a civil conversation with that git?" He exclaimed, finding his voice.
"Sirius." Remus sighed. "First of all; I respect him, and treat him with respect. Second of all, I understand him, in a way."
"Understand Snape? The man's unfathomable! How could you understand him?"
"Easy." Remus smiled benignly. "We're both intellectuals, severely bullied for being who we are. Or I would be, in any case, had I not been lucky enough to have you guys. Under his circumstances, it's easy to build up a defensive and/or sarcastic shell to protect yourself."
Sirius shook his head. "Whatever. I still say he's a git."
Remus sighed. Snape just tried to pretend he wasn't there, embarassed that Lupin had managed to describe him perfectly after one conversation.
Luckily for Snape, the Great Hall began to fill up with sleepy-eyed students, and Remus and Sirius went back to holding hands sneakily under the table.
A/N: Grarl... I had cramps, but thought I was hungry and now I'm sick and argh and I still have no chocolate and not enough money to buy it with and my pyjama pants are falling down and my stupid brother thinks I'm funny and I ate all the biscuts and now I'm going to write the next chapter straight away and I finally know what I'm going to do with the plot and it'll be an absolute max of 10 chapters long and the only songs coming on my iPod are crappy and I HATE EVERYTHING!
Remus: Uh oh! O.O Better review her... She's got the axe:runs away:
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Next time: Remus starts making a new friend, and Sirius is too protective.