Ugh...exam day. So tiring and long...but it's one down! So that's something!

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"Okay, so just stand over there and do whatever you have to to protect yourself, got it?"

"Yes sir."

"I mean it, this is just practice. I don't want you to get hurt or anything, whatever you have to do, you do."

"Yes sir!"

Remus set his quill down and licked his lips, that was one essay done. Now it was time for bed, or maybe a shower first.

He slipped quietly to the bathroom, grabbing his bathrobe and a pair of clean boxers. One of the few, if only pros to being a prefect was the bathroom.

God, it was like heaven to be able to use that room, the near swimming pool sized bathtub, and the water pressure in the showers.

Heaven. It really was.

Pushing the door open Remus stepped into the sparkling clean bathroom and set his stuff down near the showers when he heard a splash and spun around.

"Remus?"

"Sirius?"

His dormmate was lounging in the bathtub, skin raw and dripping and eyes tired.

"What are you doing here?" They asked at the same time, both looking slightly confused.

"I was going to take a shower…I thought you were asleep, the curtains on your bed were closed."

"I thought you were asleep, it's two in the morning Remus."

"Yeah, I was finishing up that potions essay…how did you get in here?"

Sirius laughed, the sound echoing around the room in that way bathrooms tend to have.

"You don't want to know."

"Right, well…" He trailed off as he caught sight of Marpey the house elf across the room looking quite cheerful. "Sirius…what are you doing?"

"Oh," the black haired boy looked a bit sheepish and his cheeks flared pink, "I was…uh…practicing."

"Practicing….?"

"For Defense…"

Remus swallowed thickly and nodded, and then unable to stop himself, "you study?"

Because the thought of Sirius Black studying was so foreign, so strange that he really couldn't comprehend it.

Sirius bit his lip and shrugged, "I'm not bloody perfect Lupin, I still have to practice shit you know."

"Right."

"Right. We good then?"

"Yeah."

Remus flashed Sirius a thin smile and turned to the showers, watching out of the corner of his eye as Sirius lazily launched a perfect hex at Marpey the house elf who deflected it with a snap of her fingers. And really, Sirius halfhearted attempt was better than anything Remus had ever managed to produce in his own studying efforts.

The next day Remus got up, still exhausted from lack of sleep and found Sirius sound asleep in his bed. Textbooks untouched and his essay not done and wondered if he had dreamed the whole thing.

But a couple days later when the DADA exam happened and Sirius passed without a hitch Remus was pretty sure he hadn't.

Sirius ran a hand through his hair after the practical part was over and caught Remus' eye.

"I'm not perfect Remus, remember that." He clapped him on the back, "come on, just a few more days till holiday break. We're almost free."

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