A/N: I'm going to give up apologising for my awful updating. Here is chapter 13. I made myself write it before I went away so if it comes out a bit jerky I blame the writers block. At least it's up. I honestly don't know how people manage to write whole books…

Chapter 13

Snape couldn't remember a time in his whole life when he had been more confused.

The week before everything had been fairly normal, excluding the fact his boyfriend had been abducted and someone was sending him letters giving him strange tasks to do.

Now, suddenly, Harry was in love with him and had started following him around 24/7 and taking every opportunity to wrap his arms round him and Sirius seemed to hate him even more then usual. Even weirder than that was that Sirius didn't seem to be talking to Harry either. It made the whole atmosphere of the house seem wrong when they didn't spend every waking minute together.

Snape turned his thoughts back to Remus. If he ever did manage to get him back, how exactly was he going to explain why Harry was in love with him? Even worse, why Harry seemed to think his feelings were returned.

He sighed. At least life wasn't boring. Although he was beginning to think it would be better if it was.

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Remus was sitting on his bed thinking. He hadn't been doing much else recently. His cell wasn't exactly packed with fun things to do.

He had been watching Sirius when he came in to give him food or check he hadn't somehow managed to escape.

He may have changed his appearance but he still wore the same miserable pout he always had when something had gone wrong. After a couple of days of watching him walk around looking like his parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle and dog had died Remus decided to talk to him.

He was bored of sitting in his cell pretending to be confused anyway.

It had been about an hour since Sirius had last been in to check on him so he had worked out that he would be back pretty soon. He was right.

When Sirius came into the room he was so moody he hardly noticed that Remus wasn't sitting in his normal position on the bed. First, he just noticed that something was different.

When he had registered what it was he pulled out his wand and spun round, searching the shadows for his friend.

When he saw Remus standing in the corner, behind the door, he didn't know whether to be pleased that he hadn't escaped, or worried because Remus didn't seem at all concerned about the fact his 'kidnapper' was pointing a wand at him.

Remus spoke first.

"You can put that down Sirius I'm not going to attack you."

The look of shock that passed over Sirius' face nearly made Remus crack up laughing.

"H… how did u…"

"How did I know it was you?"

Sirius just nodded, still too surprised to form full sentences.

"You left your plans out on the bed."

"Oh…"

Sirius thought back to when he had finished writing out the plan and realised that he had, in fact, left the parchment lying on the bed.

"Damn. I meant to put it away."

"You really are an idiot sometimes you know."

"It's not my fault. I was thinking about…"

Sirius trailed off. He had been about to say he was thinking about Harry but he couldn't tell Remus that. He would think he had lost it.

"You were thinking about…?"

"Nothing."

"You always think about nothing. But that wasn't what you were going to say."

Sirius ignored the insult and tried to concentrate on a good excuse. Suddenly, all his years of experience with excuses left him and all he could come up with was…

"I can't remember."

Remus looked at him in a way which screamed 'Yeah right'.

"Do you want me to remind you what you were thinking about?"

Sirius had a bad feeling about where this was going but he tried desperately hard not to show it and just shrugged.

"You were thinking about Harry. Don't even bother denying it. I've had a lot of time to think about it and I know you well enough to know I'm right."

For one of the first times in his life, Sirius was lost for words. Until now no one had known about his feelings for Harry and now Remus had worked it out it felt more real.

"How did you work it out?"

"Harry told me your reaction to him kissing Snape and I just put the pieces together. It was very simple really."

Sirius felt like growling at Remus for his smugness but somehow he held it in.

"I hate it when you… wait a minute. Harry already knows you knew it was us who kidnapped you? Why didn't he tell me?"

"I told him not to."

"But still…"

"Look can we keep on subject. I'm sick of watching you mope around. Do you honestly think Harry likes Snape?"

"Yes! He said so!"

"Because I told him to!!"

Sirius thought about it for a moment before shaking his head.

"No. You're lying. You're planning something."

Remus groaned. He loved his friend dearly but sometimes he could be so obstinate.

"If you don't believe me then we can do a test.

Sirius looked at Remus. He didn't know what his plan was but it sounded interesting.

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Harry was sitting on the window seat in the living room when Snape came looking for him.

He looked up and inwardly groaned. This would mean he would have to pretend to like him again. He was getting sick and tired of acting like he was hopelessly in love with Snape.

Harry had begun to stand up and walk over to Snape when he realised that something was different about him.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I was just looking for you."

That was weird. Snape never came looking for him. Most of the time he seemed to dodge him as much as possible.

"O…k…"

Snape walked up to Harry and put his arms around his waist.

"We should go out tonight."

Harry was confused. He knew Snape didn't like him. So what was this?

"We should?"

"Yeah. We really need to spend some time alone."

Harry started to get worried. What if Snape really did love him? That would be bad.

"Err I guess…"

Snape pulled Harry closer to him and kissed his hair. Harry tried to fight the urge to pull away and scream.

"Umm I think I left something in the oven I should go get it out."

"No you didn't. Stay here."

"I err… I have to…"

Snape pulled away a bit and looked at Harry.

"What's wrong? Have you changed your mind about us?"

"No I… Yes."

Snape tried to look sad but Harry could have sworn he saw a flash of joy go through his eyes.

"But, I thought you loved me."

"Well… I don't."

Harry wanted to turn round and run out of the room but Snape was right in front of him.

"But the last few days… You seemed to mean it."

Harry exploded he couldn't stand being so close to Snape anymore.

"I know. But I didn't. I was just trying to make Sirius jealous. But it didn't work and now he's mad at me. I like him not you."

Harry clapped his hand over his mouth. He hadn't meant to say all of that. He pushed past Snape and ran out of the house.

Snape walked up the stairs in a daze into the room where Remus was locked up.

"You were right Moony he doesn't like Snape."

Remus handed the potion to Sirius which would help him change back.

"What did he say?"

"He said he likes me."

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A/N: Do you have any idea how long it took me to write that? Next chapter should be up soonish… I think.