So here's all the things I have to say

1) I know I'm a jackass for not updating in over a month but school is offficially out as of yesterday so I'll have plenty of time to write.

2) There will be two more chapters to this story, they will bolth be short but the reason I'll be publishing them as two different chapters intstead on one is for suspence.

3) No, I haven't written these chapters yet but I know exactly what they're going to be like. Chapter 9 probably be up by next week.

4) The end of this chapter is one of the reasons it's rated T so...just warning you

5) When I saw witchcraft, I mean old-school Salem-Witch-Trial witchcraft, not Harry Potter witchcraft

Okay...enjoy!

Chapter 8 – Five Weeks Later

Remus laughed along with Sirius as the two smiling boys sat on opposite ends of Remus' old, worn couch, drinking hot coffee with a bowl of potato chips between them.

This was the scene that had played out almost every night since the two boys had ended up a Remus' apartment almost five weeks before, not able to go out for coffee seeing as they were both broke. Sure, they were both still angry and confused about their more-than-friends feelings towards each other but for now they were just enjoying each other's company. Sirius had consulted making another move on the younger boy a few times over the past few weeks but had thought better of it when he remembered the pain in Remus voice when they had the conversation in front of the school, which now seemed like little more than a distant memory to both boys.

"I'd better get going," Sirius finally said after talking another handful of chips out of the almost-empty bowl. Remus just nodded and waved, staying silent. He looked like he was thinking about something, something serious. Sirius didn't think much about it, over the past few days Remus had been getting this look a lot. It usually happened when Sirius had to leave, but sometimes he would space out while they were talking. After waving back to Remus, Sirius got up and grabbed his jacket from the kitchen table and headed towards the door. His hand was on the doorknob when Remus called back to him.

"Split personality disorder," was all Remus said.

"Excuse me?" Sirius asked and turned back to Remus after a moment of silence between the two boys.

"That's why I can't be with you," Remus said. "I have a split personality disorder."

"You seem fine to me," Sirius said as his hand slid off the door handle and he walked back over to the couch.

"It only happens sometimes," Remus looked down at his hands. "It's triggered by strong emotions of love and happiness."

"Only love and happiness?"

"Only love and happiness" Remus nodded.

"Why?"

"I had a twin brother, Romulus. He drown when we were vacationing at the shore when we were four years old. My mom couldn't deal with him being gone so she took me and his body to some woman who claimed to be able to do witchcraft. She said she could try to put part of my soul in his body but there was a pretty low chance it would work…"

"Your mum didn't'…?" Sirius asked as he sat down next to Remus.

"Yeah, she did," Remus nodded glancing up from his hands to watch Sirius' face go pale.

"And…?"

"It didn't work. Instead part of him was forced into me…"

"So…why is that dangerous? Why does that make us not be able to be together?" Sirius asked.

"Well he…watches…everything from my eyes and gets sort of…jealous…that he can't live his own life. And when I'm really happy he tends to…come out…sort of take over my body…then he hurts the people that are making me happy…" Remus struggled to find the right words as he fidgeted with his hands in his lap.

"Hurt?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"Kill. He nearly killed both Lily and Pete," Remus felt like he was about to break down into tears as he spoke slowly, being careful as to what words he chose. "And he managed to kill my parents when I was ten…"

"I'm so sorry, Remus," Sirius said as he took one of Remus' hands in his own.

"I'm just lucky Pete and Lily's parents were around when he tried to strangle them," Remus blinked a few times and let a salty tear fall down his cheek. "I can't let you get hurt, Sirius. I think I love you…"

"I know I love you," Sirius said, lifting Remus' chin to look into his eyes and whipped the tear away with his thumb.

"Well there's nothing either of us can do about it so no use trying to find a solution." Remus jerked his head away from Sirius' hand. "We're never going to be together and that's that. We'll just have to deal with it."

Sirius wanted to shout I can't deal with it! But stayed quiet as he tried to keep himself from crying. He watched Remus get up and grab the bowl of chips. He made his way over to the kitchen to clean up, keeping his back to Sirius to hide his flowing tears.

After a few minutes of silence Sirius spoke again, "So, do you just snap whenever?" He got off the couch and walked into the kitchen

"It only happens when I'm asleep," Remus' voice cracked as he spoke quietly.

"So…why don't we give it a try and I'll make sure I'm not around when you sleep?" Sirius breathed into Remus' ear as he placed his hands on the younger boy's hips from behind.

"I don't want to risk you getting hurt," Remus looked up at Sirius as he put down the bowl that was in his hands.

"Come on," Sirius grinned down at the smaller boy. "Live a little, I promise I won't get hurt." He lightly pressed his smiling lips against Remus' neck

"We both know you can't keep that promise," Remus forced the words out as he closed his eyes. Most of his energy was focusing on making sure his knees didn't give out as Sirius' arms proceeded to wrap entirely around his thin waste.

"Well I'm going to try my best," Sirius promised as he continued to kiss down Remus' neck making a small moan escape from the small boy's pink lips. "So what do you say, Lupin?" he said with a smirk, liking the way the sandy-haired boy's last name sounded rolling off his tongue.

Remus turned himself around to face Sirius. Lacing his arms around Sirius' neck, Remus stood on his toes to bring their faces closer together before pressing their lips together.

It was Sirius' turn to moan as Remus bit and nibbled at his lips and slipped his tongue into the older boy's mouth.

Sirius smiled down at Remus after they had broken apart, "I'm going to take that as a yes."

"Actually," said Remus as he breathed into Sirius' collarbone, "it's more of a definitely."

Sirius chuckled before crashing their lips together again. Remus tried to fill in any space there was between them as he tightened his grip around Sirius's neck. Sirius moaned as he felt Remus pushing his backwards, steering him to the one door in Remus' apartment that he hadn't been through and had always assumed was the bedroom.

Remus took his mouth away from Sirius as they hit the door and started biting at his ear. "Open the damn door," he said in a rough voice.

Sirius couldn't stop moaning as he fumbled with the door handle. It took his awhile to finally get it open. He and Remus continued to back into the door until Sirius felt something hit him in the back of his knees which he assumed was the bed.

He sat down and continued to grip Remus' waste and moan as Remus straddled him on the soft bed.

Sirius' eyes flickered open as the soft lips left his neck. He saw Remus leaning back on his feet and breathing heavily. Sirius raised an eyebrow to ask the boy why he had stopped.

"Too fast?" Remus said after his breath had calmed down a bit.

Sirius just snickered, "Not fast enough," he smirked as their lips collided once more and he started undoing the buttons on Remus' collared shirt.

So...what do ya think? Review, fave, add me to your alert list...just do something to let me know how you feel about it!

And I would also like to say I don't care if it's aweful that I called his Romulous...I had to!

Once again, sorry for the wicked long wait, I was going to post it yesterday but I had to go to a family barbaque 'cause my cousin from was up here and then my sister had a fluet concert and then the Celtics' game was on so...