SOFT SUNLIGHT
Summary: Set in 1973, the Hogwarts' Marauders' third year, this multi-chaptered fiction develops and expands upon the framework of what we are told happens at this part of history… and what we aren't.
Warnings: Adult language, Homosexual relationship, Heterosexual relationship,
Main Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Other Characters: James, Peter, Lily/Severus, Andromeda, Bellatrix/Rudolphus, Lucius/Narcissa.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the twisted imagination and the ridiculously slow laptop I am typing this onto.
A/N: This was my first attempt at writing slash. It isn't amazing, but I am proud of it, and I would appreciate constructive criticism if it is truly helpful and not abusive.
Chapter 2: First Night
That night, the four boys were talking in their dormitories. The first night back feast was over, the first night back pillow fight had finished, and all the other boys were fast asleep. After a while, the talk drifted round to the problem of the werewolf.
"The only way to do it is Animagi." Thus Remus, after careful consideration of all the ideas (not including Peter's 'why don't we dress up as wolves'). After a long explanation, and a near debate with Sirius over the pros and cons of being a flea, they all agreed to his plan as being the only workable suggestion.
"We'll ask Anni to do it, she's seventh year. Night everyone." And Sirius left James' bed, where they had all been congregated, and stretched out in his own.
"Yeah, night."
"See y'all tomorrow."
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Depths below this happy conversation, four very different friends had met in the new, huge, triple-bed bedroom that was a 'new privilege' for the Head Boy. Lucius was stretched out in the king-sized bed, Narcissa and Bellatrix on either side, (above the duvet) and Rudolphus sitting at their feet. They were discussing new rules and regimes to crush the first years, take points off Gryffindor and generally be evil in their positions of power.
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Along the map this time, and Severus Snape was taking advantage of the fact that he could use magic and that the rest of the dorm was asleep to do his homework, fine tune some spells he was working on in the margins of his textbook and to heal his numerous bruises from when Tobias Snape had got his mother drunk enough that her magic couldn't stop him beating the shit out of them both.
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Far above that sad scene, in Ravenclaw Tower this time, Andromeda was redoing her homework now that she could think again – the stress levels and compressing atmosphere at Number Twelve were not great helps to getting the right answers – and thinking over what she thought so far about her cousin's friends.
'Poor Peter's incredibly shy, and not much more can be said; Remus is quite cute and does his homework right; and James has the same laid back attitude as Si. They make great friends, better than this lot of paired, stuck-up, lickass shits we call people.'
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