Author's Note: Matchmaker challenge! Not very heavy but certainly heavily implied Penelope/Remus! Hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, certainly not this odd pairing aha

Guilty

Penelope Clearwater pouted at herself in the mirror of the sixth year Ravenclaw girls' bathroom trying to look both cute and sexy. She sighed in frustration and returned to fussing with her hair and touching up her make up but it just didn't seem right. She loosened her tie a little and undid the top button of her blouse before checking the length of her skirt; just short enough to turn a few heads.

"I can't believe you Penny, honestly."

Penelope flicked her blue eyes up to see the reflection of her dorm mate, and supposed best friend, staring disapprovingly back at her. Lucy Fortescue was average height with long dark hair, a small mouth and big expressive blue eyes.

"What?" she protested, voice screeching slightly.

"You know exactly what," Lucy pushed herself off the doorframe and came to stand in front of her friend as Penelope turned around. "Just last year you were all over that stuck up little Weasley boy you had prefect duty with and now all of a sudden you look like a slut."

"Lucy!"

"I'm hardly lying, and even worse than that you are getting all dressed up for a teacher. Don't you know how wrong that is? You could get Professor Lupin locked up in jail and you could get expelled what part of you thinks this is a good idea?"

"You're supposed to be my friend Lucy, you aren't supposed to stand there and judge me."

"I don't know who you are anymore Penny, but you don't seem like my friend."

Penelope stared open mouthed at her friend who simply glared straight back. The fact that she thought so little of her really hurt but it looked like there was nothing she could do right now to change her opinion and so she decided not to care.

Penelope tilted her head back, both so she could look down her nose at Lucy and so the hot tears now stinging her eyes would sink back into her head. She huffed and pouted slightly before storming gracefully out of the bathroom. "I don't have time for this Lucy, I have a tutoring session to get to."

She left the dorm room and slammed the door shut behind her, but not before Lucy had the time to shout after her. "You aren't even failing Defence Penny, you're doing this deliberately."

Penelope tried her hardest to ignore the burning sensation in her gut as she walked the corridors of Hogwarts. She tried to enjoy the appreciative looks that she received but she couldn't. Lucy knew exactly what to say to push her buttons and it annoyed Penelope that she was so easy to get to.

She didn't understand though, Lucy had never seen them together, she hadn't seen or felt the connection that joined them. It was something deeper than mere aesthetic attraction. Penelope felt in her heart, in her soul, that whatever it was between her and Remus Lupin was real.

She knocked gently on the door to his classroom before entering and her heart fluttered as he looked up from his desk and smiled crookedly at her.

"Good afternoon Miss Clearwater," he greeted her and Penelope felt all her worries and all her guilt leave her.

"Hey Professor."

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