This is a longer one! Hope you like it – sorry it took so long but I'm writing these on my phone, and stupidly I accidentally deleted this chapter. Doh!

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When I next woke up, I was facing white sheets and a pillow. I was strangely comfortable, but a small piece of my brain noted that my knees were up by my face, one hand was under my head by my ear and the other was just in front of my face.

I stretched out, and turned so that I was lying on my front, propped up on my elbows.

"Hello," I mumbled sleepily to whoever was behind me. I expected the matron, but it was an altogether unexpected voice.

"Hello," he said. I turned, and smiled, as I saw Remus. I sat up completely now, lying against my pillows.

"So ... Many questions," I rubbed my tired eyes. "Why are *you* sitting next to *me* in bed in the *Hospital Wing* at god knows what time?"

"10:00pm."

"What?"

Its 10:00pm."

"Why is it 10:00pm, we had the argument, what, 11 hours ago? Why am I not in my bed?" I cried, furiously trying to work out the reason I was here. It had only been some cuts - okay, not some. A lot. A lot of cuts.

"Well, you are not in your bed because you got yourself cursed this morning and Madam Woodley couldn't stop the blood which was *everywhere*. Her spells and potions wouldn't work so she had to bandage them up and wait for them to stop bleeding. And I am sitting next to *your* hospital bed because I care about you and I thought, hey, maybe Sirius is awake by now, I'll go and see." He took a long breath.

Wow. "Okay, don't know how to respond to that." That would explain the bandages. "Another question -" I could literally hear Remus rolling his eyes by now. "Why aren't James and Peter grovelling over my near death experience?" I grinned cheekily, and he grinned cheekily back.

He meant forward and grabbed one of my hands in both of his. "Because they secretly hate you and wish you dead," he looked so sincere when he said it, I would believe him if I knew it was an absolute completely wrong no way it could be true lie.

"Nah, I know enough people who feel like that, why are they actually not here?"

"They were here for ages, but Peter left cos he had homework to finish for 8 o'clock. An extended deadline." He added at my confused face. Oh yeah. "Yours is due tomorrow by the way, because of your 'accident'. Don't worry, you can copy mine." He grinned at me.

"And James?" I enquired.

"Oh yeah! Detention for punching Snape twice: once in the balls, once in the face. It was right after you collapsed and Slughorn was coming around the corner cos Peter had fetched him. He's probably been sent to our room, which is why he's not back yet."

"Can't he use the invisibility cloak?" I wondered out loud, as Remus pulled out a shimmering cloak from his bag.

"Nope!"

We chatted some more before I moved across on the bed. "Just get in already! It will stop that pout, because I know you wanna come in."

"Oh fine!" He exaggerated every syllable, acting very dramatic and pretending that he didn't want to get in. I leaning over, grabbed his shirt and pulled, so he collapsed across me and the bed.

He made no attempt to move and I made no attempt to move him. I idly stoked his hair as he closed his eyes. He was clearly tired, I had no idea how long he'd been sitting there, but probably all day, waiting for me to wake up.

I heard a snore. "You've got to be kidding me." I smiled a tiny bit as I leant over the bed as much I could with a heavy teenager on me and grabbed the cloak. I turned Remus around and pulled him a bit so that he was lying the right way in a bed - next to me. I kissed him gently on the mouth as I started to place the cloak on him, in case someone came in and saw us in bed together, but Remus suddenly opened his eyes wide, grinned wickedly, and locked lips with me. I kissed him back before we stopped, and just laid there, faces centimetres apart.

"Sirius," he whispered.

"Yes," I whispered back

"You're ill. So I get to look after you tonight. Turn around." He looked up at me with those big green eyes and blinked slowly.

I turned over as he placed his arms around me and we slept like that till morning.