"Oi! Evans!" called James across the corridor as he, Remus, Sirius and Peter waited outside of the potions class room

"Yes Potter"

"I've decided that I'm not pissed off at you for getting off with Remus" he claimed merrily

"okay" Lily curled her lip

"Have you missed me?"

"No! Whatever gave you that idea?" she said, uconvinced of the truth in her own statement

"Oh nothing" he strutted over to her "So, Evans" He thrust his hands round her waist "How would you like to accompany me to Hogsmeade on Sunday?"

"UGH! NO! LET GO OF ME!" she swatted at James until he let go and ran over to Severus who had joined the que outside the classroom. Snape scowled at James and placed a potective arm around Lily's shoulder. James casually strolled back over to his friends and popped the collar of his shirt

"She got it bad" He said doubtlessly

"Are you seri-" began Remus laughing, Sirius elbowed him gently in the stomach and whispered

"Let him dream Moony, let him dream" at that the two of them burst out into a fit of giggles

"You two have been awfully giggly lately" said James cheerfully "What gives?"

"Oh nothing, we both just seem to be in a particularly good mood today" smiled Remus

"You've been like this all week" corrected Peter

"Are we not allowed to be cheery without it coming under such scrutiny?" asked Sirius. Before they could reply the class was ushered into the dungeon classroom by Proffessor Slughorn.

Peter, James, Sirius and Remus sat down at their bench, in that order from left to right, Slughorn had told them not to bother getting any of their books or their cauldrons out because this lesson would be mostly involve Slughorn lecturing them and asking them questions. All they needed were their ears and their quills for note taking. Sirius took this as an oppourtunity to have a little fun with Remus. While Slughorn was half way through a speech on the proporties of Scintillation solution, Sirius placed his hand on Remus's knee. Remus looked at him with his big beautiful eyes, with that smile that Sirius adored so much and slid his hand further up Remus's thigh

"... if I was to make Scintillation solution then I would use the flowers of which shrub... Mr. Lupin?"

"Uh... I think you would use the-" Sirius wickedly ran his hand up to Remus's crotch "BLACKTHORN" he yelped, turning his head to Sirius, who was fighting back a cackle, with his lips pursed angrily. The class laughed

"Correct. What, may I ask, was that in aid of Mr. Lupin?"

"Oh erm..." Sirius groped at him again "nothing" he cleared his throat "Uh... Stomach cramps sir"

"Do you need to go to the hospital wing?" he asked

"No, they'll pass sir" Slughorn nodded and continued to speak about the properties of Scintillating solution. Remus scowled and scraped his quill against a piece of parchment

Next full moon, I'll eat you alive – Sirius grinned and replied, winking as he passed his note

You love it

*

"I don't see how making me do this is going to help me in any way shape or form" Narcissa's cold blue eyes drilled into Remus's. Her harsh stares always made him nervous, he swallowed and loosened his tie

"Please, Narcissa-"

"- remember, it's Miss Black to you" she huffed, Remus groaned

"Whatever, just try it, I swear it'll help" She scowled at him, it was one of her few features that reminded him of Sirius. His scowl had never lost that childish pouting quality, neither had hers. She looked significantly different to most of the members of the Black family Remus had seen, facially, she bore a slight resemblance Sirius and Regulus and mostly to Andromeda but what set her apart the most was her sheet of white blonde hair than fanned down her shoulders. It was hard believe this was natural, considering how dark the hair of every other member of the Black family was, but it must have been, her eyebrows were a very light yellow colour and because she had taken off her make up before their lesson, Remus could see that her eyelashed were the same shade of pale yellow.

"I think you're just doing it to embarrass me" she sulked

"oh for godness sake just do it" he snapped. Remus had been trying to get Narcissa to transform a book into a hawk for the last 10 minutes, something which she had failed, quite miserably at in their last lesson

"You're only making me keep trying this because you know I can't do it"

"Honestly. There is no malice here, I just want you to keep trying at this! I let you give up on the the music box into a canary and the pinecone into the sparrow. You are going to do this"

"Oh Fine!" she flicked her wand stroppily at the book. It sprouted wings and a beak and became covered in feathers, but otherwise remained distinctly booky "See! Can't do it! I told you so"

"What? This is the best I've ever seen you do" he grinned and flicked his wand and returned the book to normal "try it again, not as huffy and maybe it'll work"

"I was not being huffy" Remus raised his eye brows at her "Alright, maybe I was... sorry" she grumbled

"Apology accepted" he said, surprised at her willingness to admit wrong doing. Perhaps the she was more agreeable than he had been lead to believe. She exhaled and relaxed her muscles, she flicked her wand more gently this time and before their eyes the book turned into a hawk, though the plumage on it's stomach did appear to be a contents page, it would do. Narcissa shreiked as the bird took off above their heads and circled the Transfiguration classroom

"You did it!" he smiled and swished his wand, the book fell on their desk with a thump

"I did, didn't I... hmm, perhaps you're a better teacher than I had thought" she said casually pushing her hair back, clearly surpressing a proud grin

"perhaps, or maybe you're just better at transfiguration than you give yourself credit" she could control the smile no longer "well, I haven't got anything planned... I hadn't really expected you to get past the book to hawk. You could try to turn this-" she sighed an interupted him

"Lupin, can I ask you something?"

"Of course"

"There's this rumour flying around at the moment that you kissed my cousin"

"which one?"

"Sirius. Sverus Snape said he saw the two of you"

"Well..." Remus blushed "You know what Snape's like and he hates Sirius, he probably hates me by association as well. It's not true"

"I didn't think so" she shook her head "Lucius was convinced it was"

"He hates me too"

"I know" she said offhandedly, examining her long fingernails

"Do you want to do anything else?" asked Remus tentatively, she dropped her voice down

"Lupin, do you think I acctually have a chance of passing this NEWT?"

"If you keep improving, studying and practicing, most deffinately"

"Alright then, what will you have me do?"

"Er... I didn't expect you to get that done so quickly so... er... turn this chair into a Bald Eagle, then we can be done with birds and move onto conjuring" she nodded curtly and raised her wand

*

"Prongs mate?" Asked Sirius as he lay on his bed, half reading his charms textbook, distracted by thoughts of Remus. His boyfriend. Remus Lupin. Remus Lupin his Boyfriend... Remus Black... Sirius Lupin?

"What" answered James breaking Sirius's chain of thought, James was lying on the bed opposite reading a potions book

"What time is it?" asked Sirius, James check his watch

"about ten to eight" he said, and went back to his book

"Brilliant, time to go and rescue Moony from the clutches of dear cousin Cissy"

"He's a big boy Padfoot, I'm sure he can make his way back on his own" sneered James, Sirius tought he had become increasingly suspicious of him and Remus over the last few days

"I know he can!" he said indignantly "But I want to talk to Narcissa about..." he thought fast "Andy's wedding"

"Oh... fair enough then" he replied

*

Just as Narcissa had finnally gotten rid of the chair legs on her bald eagle, Sirius burst through the door of the transfiguration classroom

"Good evening Cissy! Remus" he grinned suggestively at him

"Don't call me Cissy you burke" she scowled

"Why not, that's what Bella and Andy call you" he said mock innocently

"Don't talk about her" her scowl turned to a glare, her fist was balled around her wand, which shot purple sparks. Seeing where this may be going, Remus quickly changed the Eagle back into a chair having no desire to spend the night cleaning up eagle blood

"Who do you mean?" said Sirius, Remus saw a nasty glint in his eye that he knew meant Sirius was in a particularly malevolent mood "Do you mean your sister Andy?"

"YES" the sparks turned from purple to pink

"Oh, so you're still acknowledging her existance then? I'm surprised at you Cissy, I thought you might have had yourself obliviated" her sparks went light red "Are you going to her wedding? I'm sure she'd love to have you there" crimson

"Sirius, don't" pleaded Remus, knowing that when he was in this sort of mood there was no stopping him

"I will not be going to her wedding"

"It must be terrible for her though. Having her nearest and dearest relatives suddenly deciding they hate her"

"She made us hate her. She shouldn't be marrying a mudblood. She shouldn't be choosing a mudblood over her family"

"Let's just, for a moment, imagine Malfoy was a mudblood, who are you picking between the twat you love and the twats that spawned you?" Sneered Sirius, at that, Narcissa , her fist white around her wand, screamed

"INCEDNIO!" before flames could leave Narcissa's wand and ignite Sirius's robes, he pulled his wand and cooly said

"Impedamentia" rolling his eyes and slowing her spell, he stepped aside "Aguamenti" water sprung from his wand and extinguished the attempt at fire. Narcissa growled kicked at a chair and stormed from the room, muttering dark curses she wished she had used under her breath.

"Ha, classic Black behavior, prove them wrong and they'll try and set you on fire" said Sirius, still sneering

"There was no need for that Sirius" mumbled Remus quietly, kicking moodily at the floor

"What? She hates her own sister just because she's marrying a muggleborn!"

"I know, she's wrong. But she doesn't hate Andromeda, you can see she doesn't. All you did there was pour salt in the wound"

"So... I... she needs to know she's wrong..."

"It was still completely unprovoked" said Remus, his voice becoming louder and sterner "In fact, that was just plain spiteful"

"Stop talking to me like you're a fucking teacher or something" snapped Sirius

"I don't mean to... sometimes you show this weird nasty streak and it's... well, it's a bit scary"

"It is... I'm sorry Remus... sometimes I just can't help it. I'm angry and it just comes out" he said sticking out his bottom lip

"I know... did you come here specifically to pick a fight with Narcissa, or are you here to pick me up" he smirked

"Here to rescue you from her, acctually"

"Rescue me! We were getting along okay! She even smiled at me"

"You're joking"

"No, she managed to change a book into a hawk, she was really pleased"

"I haven't seen that girl smile since one afternoon she spent at my house years ago, all she did was levitate rocks and launch them at muggle children"

"That's just lovely" said Remus sarcastically "Are we going then?"

"No"

"Why not?"

"Merlin, you're thick sometimes! We're alone together for the first time in weeks..." he grinned and enfold himself around Remus, like a horny cocoon

"Oh!" laughed Remus, feeling a satisfying dig in his stomach as Sirius held him closer "what were you thinking?"

"I don't know, all we've done is kiss..." Sirius tailed off, breaking eye contact with Remus

"well, if you want to take things slowly, that's okay with me" said Remus, knowing this was the smart thing to do, but feeling a little disappointed none the less

"But... hmm... You know, we should just let things happen when they happen" said Sirius wisely

"I know, sorry. Trust me to drain all the romance out of a situation with my stupid thinking" he said, irritated

"Your thinking isn't stupid" Sirius nuzzled at his neck, begging to kiss it "It's very sexy"

"Bull shit" he said, as Sirius began to bend, moving his kisses lower and lower, down Remus's chest and stomach, till he was kneeling. Remus laughed, the kisses would've been quite a turn on were he not fully clothed, Sirius was basically just sucking his shirt.

"What are you laughing at?" asked Sirius

"This doesn't really work when I'm wearing clothes"

"That's easily corrected" he winked, reaching for the buckle of Remus's belt

"What the hell is going on in here!?" called McGonagall from the door, Remus jumped and turned beetroot red

"uh...uh..."

"I'm just... fixing Remus's belt" said Sirius quickly, hopping to his feet "That should hold" he said, tapping at the buckle "Useless at repair charms, aren't you mate?"

"Yep" he said nervously, hoping McGonagall would never see him perform one of his very effective repair charm

"I am not going to question why Mr. Black doesn't appear to have a wand in his hand" said McGonagall, Sirius was now blushing too "I am simply going to remind you that you are allowed the use of this classroom for teaching and teaching only. I am going to walk back down that corridor, and forget I saw this. You will be gone by the time I get back" said McGonagall as she left sounding entirely mystified, Remus had never even heard her sound slightly confused before now. Exchaning a very discomfited glance, the boys ran from the classroom and didn't stop till they reached the common room

*

"That, was completely and utterly humiliating" said Remus shaking his head at Sirius as they climbed through the portrait hole

"I know, I won't be able to look her in the eye again" groaned Sirius, feeling a bit sick

"I'm sure the feeling's mutual" said Remus, rubbing his eyes. James jumped up from the squashy chairs by the fire and bounded towards them

"You took a while" he said, eying them both cagily.

"I know, Mr. Sensitivity here" Remus guestured angrily at Sirius "decided he would confront Narcissa about the Andy sitiuation. They got into a duel. Luckily no one was hurt" he tutted, giving Sirius a sly wink, which Sirius returned

"It's not my fault my family make me so angry is it?"

"I can't be bothered to argue with you Sirius!" he stomped upstairs, hiding a smirk

"You really annoyed him Padfoot" said James concernedly

"Ugh, I know, we weren't ages because of the duel, we were ages because of the lecture he gave me about my "Nasty streak" he just went on and on and on" Sirius had an idea "Pete's not in the dorm is he?"

"What? No he's off chasing some Hufflepuff girl... have you two fallen out?"

"No, no, at least I hope not. I'm going to speak to him now... don't disturb us"

"Er.. alright"

"I'll need about half an hour alone with him"

"O..k" James began to frown as Sirius leapt up the stairs and flew into the dorm.

"That was brilliant" he laughed as he trotted over to Lupin who was sitting on Sirius's bed, in wait for him

"Am I a genius or what" he smiled and pulled Sirius down into a slow, deep kiss, he rolled his tongue into every corner of Sirius's mouth before releasing him so he could speak. Breathlessly he replied

"You're a genius and be prepared to be very impressed when I tell you that I've secured us half an hour alone up here"

"You're amazing Padfoot" said Remus, pulling Sirius on top of him by his tie and lying back on the bed "Hang on" Remus pulled his wand from his robes "Collopotus" the dorm door locked, he put his wand back in his his robes before pulling them off

"Good, idea, I don't trust James not to come in" said Sirius "I think he's suspicious... maybe we should just tell him"

"I don't know... how do you think he'll take it?" asked Remus letting go of Sirius's tie and suddenly looking despondant at the thought of being rejected by James

"We'll talk about it later, it doesn't matter right now" Sirius pulled off his own robes, but Remus was looking nervously at the door, Sirius put a comforting hand on his cheek and guided Remus's face round to face his again. He kissed Remus again, though Remus didn't really respond to him "Please mate. Don't think yourself turned off again"

"I'm sorry Sirius" he said sadly "I've made myself upset" he said

"I'll cheer you up" Sirius smiled wickedly and began to kiss Remus, working his way down from Remus's forehead, to his nose, to his lips where he lingered for a moment, before nibbling at his ear lobe. Remus squirmed and smiled, Sirius made note to return to the ear lobe frequently, he loved watching Remus squirm like that. He slid down to Remus's neck and then to his chest, rembering, this time, to undo buttons as he went down. He traced Remus's scars with his fingers, then with his lips, making a futile attempt at kissing them better, Remus muttered softly

"Don't"

"Don't what"

"Pay attention to the scars, ignore them, please"

"but, why?" asked Sirius

"I hate them" he said bitterly. Sirius was shocked, he knew Remus was shyer about his body than he or James or even Peter. In summers when James, Sirius and, to everyone's displeaseure, Peter had taken their shirts off to cool down, Remus had remained fully clothed. For some reason, he hadn't connected Remus being a bit self concious with his scars.

"I kind of like them" he said touching a particularly nasty looking one "They're interesting"

"Shut up"

"They are! It's like you've been mapped out... like the wolf wants me to explore you"

"That was so cheesy" laughed Remus, his taut stomach contracting. Sirius ignored him and continued to work his way downward till Remus's shirt was unbuttoned and he reached his belt, which Sirius struggling with a little. He reached down to the floor and pulled his wand from his robes.

"Accio belt" he said, and the belt flew into Sirius's hand, Remus laughed again. Sirius unhurriedly undid the button on Remus's trousers and pulled the zipper down as slowly as he could

"Don't be such a tease Black" moaned Remus, still laughing a little from before

A/N – Sorry smut fans, I really suck at writing anything like that! Maybe I'll try in future chapters!

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