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Warnings: strong language.

8. Thorn

Sirius felt absolutely miserable, what he had done to Remus was awful and the poor boy didn't do anything to deserve the humiliation. He heard his heartbreaking sobs coming from the cupboard and afterwards saw him cleaning the kitchen with red rimmed sad eyes.

There were no more kind smiles or happy chatter, Remus was being uncharacteristically silent. Just like a house elf, he obeyed every command without any more thoughts, he was making himself invisible. It was Sirius's fault Remus was now broken.

Black hated his radical mood swings and the troubles he had got into because of these. He wanted to apologise but did not know how, had never done it before. He deeply regretted the pain he had caused Remus, the fact that he didn't mean those words didn't make them any less hurtful.

There was only one thing he knew that worked one hundred percent to earn forgiveness: gifts. He often bought things to avoid verbalizing his remorse, and it had always worked well because the people he had offended forgave him without further drama.

That was it, a gift! But what? Not very expensive to make him feel essential or too personal that can be misunderstood for a romantic gesture. Suddenly he remembered a conversation they had during their nights watching movies.

Sirius was on the couch eating very fine chocolates and Remus was sitting on the floor looking cold but was content anyway watching the movie.

'You can join me on the couch if you want.' Sirius said suddenly.

'Me?' Remus looked surprised.

'Yes, you and all my imaginary friends,' Sirius told him sarcastically, 'come on now, it quite cold in here.'

'Thank you, Sirius, you are the best master!' Remus grinned and Sirius was actually sharing with him the blanket. Black noticed that his servant had a beautiful smile with white teeth, also cute features. Sweet…just like everything about him.

'What's wrong, Sirius?' Black immediately stopped staring.

'Nothing. Would you like to have some of my chocolates too?'

'Can I?' Remus asked very excited.

Black laughed hard. 'Of course not! You already took too much liberties.'

'I'm so sorry, I thought…' Remus went red.

'Yeah yeah, I forgive you. Keep watching the movie.'

'…'

'You like chocolate?'

'Yes, I ate it once.'

'ONCE?' Sirius looked shocked.

'I had to clean up after a party and a piece was on the floor. I ate it and was delicious, I got punished because they said that I was supposed to throw away all the leftovers. It was definitely worth it though.' Remus said with a blissful smile.

Black bark laughed again. 'My brother Reg did the same thing when he was a toddler. He crawled on the floor during a party eating everything he found. Mother thought it was gross and I found her tantrums very funny. Regulus could have been your age…'

'Sirius…'

'I'm fine. You can watch the rest of the movie if you want, I'm going to bed.'

'Good night, Sirius.'

'Have sweet dreams, and that's an order.' Black winked goodbye.

A huge bag of finest chocolates would be the perfect gift for Remus, he decided. He got up early the next day feeling very excited. He clearly pictured Remus, he was going to light up at the sight of his gift that was going to be awesome.

He carefully opened the cupboard door to find a very peaceful Remus asleep on his mat. Again he noticed how cold it was in here, the boy really needed more blankets; you could tell they were not enough.

Silently he placed the bag of chocolates on the pillow next to his head to make sure it was the first thing he saw when he woke up. He longed to see his reaction. When Sirius was out of the cupboard, he carefully closed the door and then banged it loudly.

'Remus! Time to wake up!'

Sirius contained the laughter as he heard a gasp of confusion. Then he opened the door with a fake surprised expression.

'Well, well Remus what are those?'

Lupin's reaction was not nearly what he had been waiting for. The boy was cowered to the wall hugging his pillows looking terrified. He was looking at the chocolates like they were about to explode.

'Master…I…didn't… I didn't steal them! I swear I've never taken anything without permission! I don't k-know how this g-got here.' Remus stammered out, obviously nervous.

The poor guy was having a meltdown and Sirius didn't know what to do so he just closed the door and spoke from outside.

'It's a gift, ok! Shut your fucking mouth and listen. I said it WAS a gift but it seems that you are an ungrateful little prick that can't appreciate it. Fuck you then.'

Black cursed at himself while leaving, 'You are a fucking genius Sirius, you screwed up again.

Wanker.

Prick.

Piece of shit.

Useless…'

Apologies had never been easy for him but he didn't know why he had verbally abused Remus again. It was his temper that got him in trouble all the time and very often made him behave in the most outrageous ways, hurting everyone near him. Why was he such a cock? Hurtful, arrogant, moody and angry.

His horrible personality led him to isolate himself so he couldn't harm others. It was pretty clear that he didn't deserve good company; just bad company, people that were the same trash as him. He needed to stay away from Remus before he hurt him even more, and later he would return the servant to the agency and he could belong to another master, hopefully another less damaged. It was for the best, right?

'Coward…'

He was going to party hard with Gary, who was a mess just like him; he didn't deserved better.

'Screw-up…'

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