Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm just playing around with them for a bit.

A/N: Sorry this one's a little short ^^; Enjoy! Am I the only one that isn't getting ff notifications? -shrugs-

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'This is the worst Christmas ever,' Remus thought to himself and tried to hold in another moan. The night before had been a full moon and now he was laying in the Hospital Wing with an extremely sore body. The wolf had chewed on his paw which left Remus with a bloody and almost unusable right hand. 'How am I supposed to finish my essay now?'

"What are doing?" Madam Pomfrey asked as she walked through the curtains that surrounded the small bed. She had caught him reaching for his wand (which she had been gracious enough to leave just beyond his reach) so he could practice some of his Charms. She'd refused to even have the piece of wood in the same room as him when he had arrived his first year but he'd slowly weakened her resolve. Now it was allowed near him just to make him feel better. "I said no magic until your hand is healed."

"But it feels much better now," he said as he moved a few fingers but it must have opened one of the gashes because now there was a deep red color spreading on the gauze.

"It may feel better but that doesn't mean you can move it," Madam Pomfrey said walking to the table and putting the wand in her pocket. "Drink up." She held out a goblet to him which he gingerly took, knowing it was a sleeping potion. She uncovered the wound with a small sigh and carefully wrapped it back up with new gauze.

"Thank you, Madam Pomfrey," he said which made her smile. She told him to drink the entire potion before she slipped through the curtains again then closed them tight, giving him some privacy. Remus looked at the purple potion and sighed lightly. This was not how he wanted to spend his Christmas. He'd rather be waking up in his warm bed and opening presents with James and Sirius (Peter had gone home this year).

After they'd confronted him about his lycanthropy last year, they'd actually become closer than ever. He didn't have to worry about them hating him but he still kept some things to himself. Like the fact that he thought he might be gay. At the end of their second year, James had finally confessed to liking Lily Evans, a fellow Gryffindor in their year; but that wasn't hard to tell because of the way he acted around her, he became cockier and always tried to impress her. Remus had never felt that intense about a girl and had assumed it was just because he hadn't hit puberty yet.

And in the very beginning of this year he'd started to notice boys instead of girls. Not to mention that one dream he'd had about a Ravenclaw boy a few years older than him.

Remus drank most of the potion and set it off to the side on his table; he figured that he was tired enough that he didn't need all of the potion to make him fall asleep. As he laid down on the bed, he pulled the blanket up to his chin and turned on his side. This position was always the most comfortable when he was lying on the hospital bed and he didn't know why and didn't really care right now.

Madam Pomfrey was moving around just beyond the curtain, most likely just doing something to keep herself busy. Like the previous years, the Marauders, just a few other students, and some professors were the only ones there during the holiday. Remus knew that the matron would have gone home if it hadn't been a full moon the night before and he felt bad for making her stay here.

The potion started to finally work as Remus felt his breathing deepen and he slowly drifted off to sleep.
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Remus woke up a few hours later just enough to realize that there was a warm pillow resting on the bed behind him. It had gotten a little colder and he wondered why that was in the back of his mind as he turned onto his other side so he could sleep comfortably. "Hmm…warm," he mumbled with a smile and hugged the pillow closer to him.

"I'm glad you think so," it said sounding an awful lot like Sirius.

Remus swallowed something in his throat and slowly opened his eyes. He was, indeed, hugging Sirius closer to him. "W-what are you doing here?" he asked startled as he jumped back then fell off the bed onto the cold, hard floor.

"Ouch…" he heard James say and looked up to see him sitting on the ground with a goofy smile on his face. "That can't be very comfortable."

"It's not," Remus said righting himself on the ground and rubbed his now sore head. He felt something warm and wet on the hand he chewed on and sighed. The wound had reopened. "Ouch…"

"You okay?" Sirius asked worried as he peered over the edge of the bed. "Why didn't she heal that?"

Remus slowly uncovered the gash and looked at the teeth marks. "Because they don't always work on werewolf bites," he answered absentmindedly and tried to stop the bleeding. "The wolf was bored last night…"

"Oh…" James and Sirius said at the same time and when he looked up at them he saw they were looking at each other oddly. Before he could say anything, James stood up quickly and pulled something's out of his pajama pockets. "Present time for Remus!"

The brunette blinked at the sudden change in demeanor but smiled when James enlarged the gifts and was now holding presents from him and Sirius, Peter had sent his to everyone a few days early.

"Open mine first," James said shoving a poorly wrapped gift at Remus who was still sitting on the ground. He took the gift from him as Sirius jumped off the bed and gently pulled him up. "You're gonna like it."

The three boys were now sitting on the bed with Remus leaning on his pillow. He slowly unwrapped the gift with James taking the paper away and tossing it to the floor. He then opened the box and laughed at the small stuffed animal. The wolf was a light gray color with a white belly and paws. "Thanks, James," he said smiling at his friend and setting it on the bed next to him.

Sirius then handed his gift to Remus with a big smile, "You're gonna like mine the most."

This box was slightly better wrapped than James' had been, but not by much. It was a plain, brown, rectangular box and Remus wondered what could be inside. So, he lifted the lid and smiled at the chocolate bars inside. "Thanks, Sirius!" he said tossing the lid to the side and taking one out.

"And I'm gonna get you that every year for Christmas," Sirius said moving to sit next to Remus and took the bar from his hands then opened it. "Plus other stuff but always chocolate."

"The Honeydukes' owner said that if he buys enough he'll get a bar free," James said and laughed as Sirius hit his head with the wolf.

Remus laughed as he watched the two of them fight with each other and took his presents from them as they fell to the floor wrestling and laughing. He watched the two of them with a smile on his face and decided that maybe this Christmas wasn't as bad as he thought.

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