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Chapter 7 – Wandering the corridors after curfew

Remus gaped at the closed door Lily had left the room through.

He'd always known that Lily was exceedingly bright, but he hadn't expected her to know that much about him.

She knew that he was a werewolf, which wasn't good at all, because that meant that someone else might have figured it out as well. On the other hand Lily was pretty close with the marauders, no one else was as near the exclusive group as Lily Evans.

Even though she always seemed to distance herself from the marauders she had a lot of contact with Remus due to their prefect-status and she interacted a lot with James. The main part of their contact was James trying to make her go out with him and Lily rejecting him, but it seemed more like a little game they had going.

In the beginning Lily had really loathed James, but as time went by Remus could see that she grew very fond of James.

Remus knew that Lily would never tell anyone about him being a werewolf and she didn't judge him for being what he was either, so it was all right after all, Remus figured.

Remus had always thought that anyone who knew what he really was, a monster, would shun him, but so far no one had. Not his parents, not the marauders and not Lily. Was it possible that he could be what he was without anyone hating him?

It was far worse that Lily knew that he… liked… Sirius very much. Remus wasn't gay, he kept telling himself, but he couldn't deny the fact that he kind of fancied Sirius. And Remus had never been in love with a girl.

That kind of makes you gay, don't you think? a voice in his head giggled.

Yes, it did, Remus had to confess, but he couldn't afford to be more abnormal than he already was. His parents would be disappointed, he just knew. Even though they always pretended, that the whole werewolf aspect didn't bother them, Remus knew it did. They was disappointed, because it meant that their son wouldn't become everything they'd dreamt he would be.

If he suddenly also told them he was gay, it would be more than they could bear.

Remus sighed and decided to leave for the dorm. He opened the heave wooden door and went out.

As the door closed behind him, Remus noticed that the halls were empty. It must be after curfew, Remus thought horrified. He was a prefect, he couldn't be caught wandering the corridors late at night.

Remus started moving slowly down the corridors, careful not to bump into any teachers.

It was dark and even though Remus knew the castle well, he didn't know every little corner as James and Sirius did. Remus knew far more about the castle than any of his classmates would suspect, after all he was just nice, tired-looking, nerdy Lupin, yes he ran after the Marauders, but he wasn't really a part of the group, he wasn't cool.

But they didn't really know Remus, he was almost as mischievous as James and Sirius. While Remus often tried to talk them out of their craziest ideas, it was also him that made sure they didn't get caught.

Remus wished that he'd had James cloak or the map as he almost ran directly into professor Mcgonagall.

The map would certainly have made this a lot easier. He hadn't memorised it like Sirius or James had and therefore there was parts of the castle that he didn't know that well. This was, unfortunately one of these parts.

Remus almost screamed of surprise as a hand swiftly pulled him into a notch in the wall. A smell of warmth, light sweat, nicotine and grass embraced him as his head got buried in someone's shoulder.

"Let go of me " Remus spluttered into the shoulder, that muffled it into: "Me mo o e"

A hand covered his mouth and Remus saw Sirius' handsome face carefully watching professor Sprout as she passed them. When she was well out of sight, he turned his attention to Remus and removed his hand.

Remus breath hitched as Sirius' grey gaze, almost concerned, eyed Remus' features. Remus was very aware of how close they stood. Sirius still had one arm wrapped protectively around Remus.

Remus wished he could just freeze that moment and stay there, but then a memory lightly tapped, asking for permission to enter, Remus was too preoccupied with Sirius' eyes to bother with stopping it and then the memory hit him. Dressrobes on the floor, blonde hair, long slender legs.

Remus pushed Sirius' arm aside and snapped: "What are you doing here?" Sirius got that brief look of hurt, hurt way out of proportions of Remus' action, then Sirius' cold look appeared.

"I couldn't sleep, so I went for a walk" Sirius said in an almost bored tone.

"You scared the shit out of me," Remus hissed

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know you were the only one permitted to go for a walk, prefect" Sirius almost spat the last word out "I just saved your sorry little teacher's-pet ass. Wouldn't look too good if perfect little Lupin got caught, would it now? And without his fancy "friends" to blame"

This hurt Remus more than he would ever admit. It dug into his soul, into the place where he kept his deepest fears. It crept past the fullmoon and Fenrir Greyback, past the fear of being expelled from the school and hit him right where it hurt the most. His weakest spot.

Remus didn't even answer he just ran. He wouldn't allow Sirius to see how much he'd hurt him, wouldn't give him that pleasure.

Remus reached the dorm and quickly climbed into his bed. Giving in to the tears and allowed himself to cry silently.

Later he heard the door creaking and the sound of Sirius' footsteps on the wooden floor. The footsteps stopped right at Remus' bed and he could almost hear Sirius taking a deep breath. Remus shut his eyes tightly and held his breath. Sirius slowly lowered his hand. Remus could feel the warmth on his skin as Sirius' hand hovered one inch above his bare shoulder. Sirius hesitated for a moment, then clenched his hand and walked to his own bed.

Oh, I'm such a sucker for clichés... Sorry, I can't help it after all I am just a teenagegirl ^^

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