Slight Warning: There will be smut. ( though, light and none graphic it will be)

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Dear Andy

I'm really sorry I didn't come to the wedding! I'd want to tell you that mum wouldn't let me go but in all honesty I forgot. Sorry, sorry and sorry again.

Regretfully, Sirius

Dear Sirius,

It's alright, I'm sure you were busy with schoolwork and your friends. No need to be sorry, but you are forgiven. You did miss Narcissa making a surprise appearance. She watched the ceremony from the back, then left. I wasn't sure whether I should be scared or touched.

Bearing no hard feelings, Mrs. Andromeda Tonks (yay!)

*

Remus's eyes flicked up from his potions essay. Potions being by far his least favourite subject (The one he was worst at. Not that he was bad though) he had opted to go the library to concentrate, James, Sirius and Peter had wanted to partake in some Snape torture that evening and Remus was simply not in the mood for standing by and feeling guilty or even to try and talk them out of it.

He looked around, he was sure he'd just heard a soft cough from behind the p-q shelves in the transfiguration section, which Remus had a clear view of from where he was working. He shook his head and returned to his essay.

Barely a month into OWL work and I'm already imagining things he thought as he dipped his quill into his ink well.

All that could be heard in the library was the turning of pages, sometimes gentle, sometimes frantic, and the scratching of quill on parchment. Remus chewed his lip for a moment, trying to remember what exactly, the other property of moonstone was... he was sure it was the important one he was forgetting. He furrowed his brow and got up to pull out a book on moon stone from the M shelf in the potions section.

As he walked back to his table he was positive he saw someone crouched behind the p-q shelves. He placed his Moonstone book down on the table and poked his head round the shelf.

"That's not who I think it is, is it?" Remus muttered, raising his eye brows at the tall blonde boy who appeared to be looking through a gap in the books which was adjacent to Remus's table. He had frozen with panic.

"No..." he said quietly

"Fisher..."

"Nope."

"Fisher I know it's you. I'm standing six foot away from you and it's broad daylight"

"Alright then... afternoon Remus" he smiled, his hands shaking

"What were you doing?"

"Nothing" he said far too quickly. Remus began to feel quite nervous.

"I thought you said you were over me"

"I am! I just... I was look for a book on plant to animal transfiguration and there was this little gap in the books and there you were and..." he shrugged

"How long have you been here?"

"Just twenty minutes, I swear"

"Right. Okay."

"I never told you what I got on my DADA OWL" said Fisher, a little grin creeping onto his face

"You do alright?"

"Outstanding" he beamed, Remus swelled with pride. He was about to ask Fisher if he'd like to sit down and have a chat, but then Fisher gave him a longing stare, his eyes running all over Remus's body before settling on his eyes, where they gazed, quite frankly, adoringly. Iris Fisher's words echoed loudly round his brain

"Stay out of his way. The last thing I want is my little brother having his heart broken"

"Well... wonderful. Please... don't do this Fisher"

"Do what?"

"This... pining...Get yourself a girlfriend, a boyfriend anything... stop this"

"But I don't want just any girl or boy... I lied... I want you. I want you"

"Fisher..." Remus focussed on making this sound as firm and fair as Fisher's sister had made it. "do us both a favour and stay out of my way. I'm with Sirius and I don't plan on breaking up with him any time soon... You'll just end up... upset" Before Fisher could respond Remus scooped up his things and left for the common room.

Once he reached the common room he decided that it was far too noisy to do his essay, and he could see Alice looking a bit bored with whatever homework she was doing. Remus saw her smile expectantly in his direction, as she was about to get up, he pretended he hadn't seen her and bolted up to the dorm, where he dumped his things his things on Sirius's bed and flopped on his on with a soft thud. And a squeal... Squeal? Remus jumped back up and tore back his covers. There was a small house elf, a light red/purple in colour, curled up in his bed and staring up at him with bulgy brown eyes.

Remus wasn't entirely sure what to do, he was always rather unsure around magical creatures, especially house elves. He knew they existed specifically to serve but, they unnerved Remus.

"Er... hi?"

"Is very sorry master sir... will go sir"

"No it's alright... are you-" but before he could finish the house elf burst into tears and disappeared with a soft crack.

It could have been worse, he thought, it could have been Fisher curled up in there.

*

"So Snivellus" said Black, a nasty grin splitting across that undeservedly handsome face.

"So?" Severus replied

"What do you think you're doing here?" snarled Potter, giving Severus a shove

"Nothing... I was just on my way to the library"

"Really. So you haven't been hanging round here for the last half an hour, rehearsing a sad little speech to give to Evans?" said Potter, the same nasty grin on his face as was on Sirius's.

"I... I" Words failed Severus. All he could do now was try and keep his composure and not look too embarrassed.

"You what? Snivelly?"

"Nothing"

"That's what I thought you greasy git" said Black, giving him a mean smack on the cheek. Pettigrew laughed behind them. Severus was sure that out of the three of them Pettigrew sickened him the most. Fat thing that wasn't clever enough to think of insults or hex Severus with anything he couldn't block. Black and Potter on the other hand were in possession of some very undeserved talent as well.

"You better stay away from Evans you slime ball" growled Potter

"Why should I Potter?"

"Because Evans is mine"

"Oh Potter... I don't know why you keep fooling yourself. She hates you! She hates you more than I do and I wish death upon you on a daily basis"

"Shut the fuck up" Potter said, his face contorting with anger. Severus laughed coldly

"The truth hurts, doesn't it Potter?"

"I'll show you hurt" He growled, drawing his wand and launching himself at Severus.

*

Remus sat cross legged on his bed his thoughts full of crying house elves. Why did it cry? Did he upset it? Should he apologise? Do you apologise to house elves? What was it doing there in the first place? It was really bothering him and it had absolutely nothing to do with moonstone or its properties and uses. There was no way that essay was getting done tonight. Remus chucked his stuff into his trunk and set out on finding Sirius, James and Peter. He assumed they'd be outside, it was just summery enough at this time of year that they could be outside in the dying daylight and not be too cold.

On his way out Snape had bumped shoulders with him, he had a black eye and was walking shakily, wincing.

"Oof! Ouch... Sorry!" said Remus, rubbing his shoulder

"Fuck off Fruit Lupe" Snape snarled

"Right back at ya Snivelly" he sighed. He made his way outdoors and, sure enough, there they were in the shade of the big tree by the lake. Sirius lounged elegantly by the tree, brushing his hair from his eyes, looking rather bored by James's was excited talk about his plans for the Quidditch tryouts whereas Peter sat with his mouth open, gazing indulgently at him. Remus waved at them, a smile broke across Sirius's face. Remus threw himself down beside him.

"Hullo gorgeous" said Sirius, he leaned forward and nuzzled Remus's earlobe, he wriggled appreciatively, Peter made a face a Sirius stuck his fingers up at him. "Get fucked, fat boy" he scowled. Peter's face fell, he mumbled sorry and returned to speaking with James. Remus flicked Sirius disapprovingly and gave a warning frown. Sirius shrugged and lounged back, stretching out on the grass, amber pink light of the sunset lighting his face beautifully, flecking his stormy eyes with gold. Remus was positive that, aside from the wispy looking hair on his chin, Sirius was getting better looking every day, while he was sure it was quite the opposite with himself.

Remus knew he had never been exactly conventionally attractive, he was pretty, he had always been pretty, but he was never handsome. Sirius was handsome.

And it seemed of late, that he was even losing his prettiness. His jaw had gotten wider so his face was more of a heart than an oval, his face had become gaunter and his eyes more sunken. Things that should have been cured by a good night's sleep and a few good meals but he wasn't hungry. He wasn't hungry and he couldn't sleep.

"What's up Remus?" asked Sirius, propping himself up on his shoulders

"Hmm?"

"You were staring"

"I was?"

"Yes"

"Oh... sorry"

"Something on your mind?" Sirius sat up further

"Nah... nothing important... vanity" he muttered

"Come on Moony, I'm not stupid"

"You want to know the truth?"

"Yeah"

"I was staring at that crap all over you chin"

"What crap?"

"I believe, dear Padfoot, Remus was referring to your face pubes" said James with a giggle.

"I just haven't had the chance to shave yet this week... that's all" he said petting the soft hair.

"Right, whatever you say" Remus smirked

"Cheeky bastard" Sirius smiled and tugged Remus down onto the grass with him. They lay for a while, staring up at the sky, while James and Peter discussed, Lily, Quidditch, Yumiko Cheng, Lily, Lily and Lily.

*

"Students!" Said Slughorn, silencing the class "The next part of your OWL coursework requires you to do an investigation on a potion of your choice, this will include a lot of research and work, so you'll be needing Partners" There was a mutter in the class. Sirius and James both leapt at Remus

"BAGSY MOONY!" They shouted in unison.

"I'm having Moony!" Whined Sirius

"How's that fair?"

"I might not want to work with either of you" began Remus defiantly "you'll just make me-"

"I will be partnering you up class" said Slughorn importantly. The stout man read from a scroll of parchment that lay just beside him. He cleared his throat.

"Lily dear, I've put you with Mr. Potter" Lily banged her head on the desk and walked begrudgingly over to James.

"If you try anything funny Potter, I will castrate you with my bare hands!" She whispered dangerously

"Was that flirting Lily? I think it was flirting. You love me. Admit it" James replied, leaning close to her, she moved back and snapped

"Fuck Off!"

"Now now children, play nicely" drawled Sirius, who was huffing already.

"Mr. Black, you are working with Alice" said Slughorn, waving Sirius in her direction, he half smiled

"See ya Moony" he mumbled as he dropped his cauldron down next to Alice, who smiled politely, then rolled her eyes at Lily, who reciprocated the gesture.

"Mr Pettigrew, I'll have you with Miss Greengrass" Peter beamed, Trinity was very pretty and most boys would have given a limb to work with her. She flipped her yellow hair and sighed, not even looking at Peter as he sat down beside her. Slughorn paired a few more people together before he reached Remus.

"Mr Lupin, I want you with..." Slughorn smiled warmly "Severus" Snape glowered the man who was commonly known to be his favourite teacher. Snape made a meal of picking up his cauldron, slamming it down by Remus's, then doing the same with his books and bag, slamming each thing down separately with the same amount of force.

"Hello" said Remus, trying to remain cheerful. Snape didn't respond, he simply sneered out from behind his greasy black hair. "How are you?" Remus asked brightly. Snape scoffed and turned away. "Never mind then..."

"I will only answer you if what you say is relevant to work. I refuse to take part in of your any inane chit chat" Snape said coldly

"Oh... alright then..." Remus shuffled awkwardly. Why couldn't have Slughorn put him with someone remotely pleasant? "Which potion will we be covering then?" asked Remus. Snape gave no reply. "'cause I'm pretty easy to be honest... I'll do anything" shrugged Remus. Snape smirked at him

"Evidently..."

"Excuse me?" Remus cocked an eyebrow at him

"Enjoying being Black's little fuck toy?" Snape gave his most awful sneer and Remus had a flash of fury

"Get fucked Snape, you slimy cu-"

"Mr Lupin!" Remus looked up to find Slughorn a matter of inches from his face "Imagine a prefect using such language! Twenty points from Gryffindor!"

"Oh bollocks..."

"That's another ten, Lupin"

*

"Class? Class... please? Class for the love of Merlin shut up!" Frank begged the loud class

"Sod off Longbottom. You were sharing a common room with half of us two years ago" laughed James setting an enchanted paper aeroplane free, which zoomed around the class room, till it reached Evans where it circled her until she set it alight with her wand

"Sod off right back, Potter you juvenile prick" Frank snapped

"Ooo Professors aren't supposed to swear at the students Frankie!" teased Sirius

"I don't want to have to take points from my own house you know-" began Frank

"Idle threat" Sirius said lazily throwing a ball of parchment at Frank

"Behave Sirius" warned Remus, flicking his prefect badge. Sirius snorted

"Oh yeah, 'cause you're going to give me a detention, aren't you Moony?" he said dryly "I'm terrified. I'm quaking in my boots. Prefect Moony's going to give nasty Padfoot a detention." He laughed "Yeah right"

"Sirius... you have to respect my authority..." said Remus uncomfortably, his gaze on the desk in front of him, not Sirius

"Oh shut your face Moony" said Sirius lightly, cuffing his boyfriend playfully across the ear.

"Don't tell me to shut my face, arse hole!" snapped Remus

"I'll say what I like"

"No you won't!"
"I will!" Sirius hadn't noticed their gradually increasing volume, Frank was giggling at them

"Why don't both of you ladies shut your faces?" he said mockingly

"Yes sir..." they muttered in harmony.

"Right! May I please get on with the lesson?" there was a murmur of disagreement

"Oh come on!" Yelled Alice, standing on her chair "He's only trying to help! Would you rather sit around talking every DADA lesson or listen, have a bit of respect and learn how to defend yourselves?"

"I refuse to listen and give respect to someone who I once found nude and lying in their own sick in the common room" piped James

"We are at war people! I don't know about you, but I'd rather listen to Longbottom than die." Alice proclaimed. A murmur of apology followed as she sat down.

"Thank you Alice" beamed Frank, she blushed

"It was no trouble Fr- Professor Longbottom... sir"

The lesson would've been perfectly fine had Alice made her speech fifty five minutes earlier.

*

"Hey... steady Rem" said Sirius, catching Remus as he stumbled in the dorm on his way out the bathroom. Remus smiled appreciatively

"Sorry... a bit wobbly this morning"

"How long till the full moon?"

"Tomorrow" said Remus as he sat on his bed, pinching the bridge of his nose"

"Cool, that'll be something to do"

"Your sensitivity never ceases to amaze me" Remus muttered sarcastically.

"Hey! I'm sensitive"

"Sensitive like a rock. I need you to help me with something"

"What is it?"

"I need some help with the house elves"

"Why?"

"I came back from the library a couple of days ago and there was one curled up in my bed. I didn't know it was there and I sat on it"

"And..."

"well... I want to apologise... I made it cry" Remus's face dropped at the memory, his eyes became huge and his bottom lip jutted out, like the worst thing he'd ever done was make some house elf cry

"Aww" cooed Sirius

"Don't Aww me"

"But you're so cute Moony! Just look at your little sad face" He stood and pinched Remus's cheeks

"I'm not cute. I'm six foot tall and I could beat you to a pulp with my little finger"

"And you even look cute when you're threatening me"

"Stop it! I need to go down to the kitchens and I want you to come with me"

"Alright. Why?"

"I may be six foot tall and could beat you to a pulp with my little finger, the house elves still give me the shivers"

"You're kidding"

"No... it's just the idea that all they want to do is serve... they've got those freaky ears and those big bulgy staring eyes" Remus shuddered

"You're scared of house elves, aren't you Moony?"

"No..."

"You are, aren't you? That's why you never come to the kitchens with us, isn't it?"

"okay so I might be... only a bit though"

"AWW!!!"

*

"Master Black!" chorused the elves happily, immediately rushing around, fetching cakes and sandwiches

"And he has a new sir with him!" sang one elf, running toward them with a bowl of popcorn

"Er... I'm looking for a house elf" said Remus nervously. Hundreds of huge bulgy eyes stared up at him

"I think you need to be a tad more specific" suggested Sirius

"Aah, right... A house elf... that's young and is sort of a reddy purpley colour with brown eyes" He jumped when he felt an elf tug at his trouser leg

"Sir, Wiggles might knows which elf you is looking for" it said, looking up at him expectantly

"Oh good. Could you take me to him... or her"

"Is a her sir. But first would sirs like something to eat? Wiggles can bring you so many lovely things..."

"No no... we're alright"

"Actually, I'm quite-"

"Alright not to eat as well" said Remus firmly

"Please Moony! The cakes are like little slices of magic that melt in your mouth and-"

"I want to be in and out of here as quickly as possible" Remus growled in a whisper. "There will be other cake"

"Alright! Calm down... bloody Moody Moony" Wiggles tugged at Remus's trousers again and lead them to the back of the kitchen

"Is this her sir? The elf you wanted to see sir?"

"Er yeah... thanks" Remus looked down at the terrified little elf. She was considerably smaller than the rest of the elves and she seemed to be trembling

"It was an honour sir" Wiggles bowed

"Save some cake for me mate?"

"Yes master Black sir" Wiggles hurried away. Remus bent down to the little elf's level, suppressing the urge to shudder and leave when it's eyes bulged at him.

"Hullo, I'm Remus, what's your name"

"Shawnee sir..." she said quietly, her lip wobbling "Is terribly sorry for sleeping in your bed sir. Shawnee was very tired sir. Very very tired from cleaning the tower. Not that she minds doing it sir-"

"It's alright I-"

"Shawnee begs of sir not to report her to Dumbledore, she was a very bad elf and she is very sorry"

"I'm not going to report you! I wanted to apologise for sitting on you" Remus smiled, the elf looked even more terrified

"House elves is only supposed to give apologies sir..."

"Well.... your getting one" Remus thought for a moment "Is that why you cried? Because you thought I was going to report you?" Shawnee nodded slowly "Why ever would you think that? You only fell asleep"

"Shawnee has a history of sleeping on the job. When she used to clean Slytherin a boy reported her when she went to sleep in his trunk" she said sadly

"I don't suppose this boy was pale, with mingy greasy hair and a huge nose?" asked Sirius

"House elves is not supposed to speak ill of wizards sir"

"That's a yes then?" She nodded "That git Snape! How could you report a sweet little house elf for falling asleep?"

"Is a very bad elf sir... he said I needed more punishment than just reporting" she held up a small purple arm, which was littered with criss-crosses of lilac scars

"That looks like his bloody Sectum Sempra curse." Sirius snarled furiously "You're a good elf Shawnee... that Snape git is going to get it" Sirius stormed out

"Don't you think you're just looking for trouble with him now?"Called Remus

"THE ELF MUST BE BROUGHT JUSTICE!!!" he called dramatically as he exited the kitchen. Shawnee's eyes bulged with something between adoration and terror. Remus smiled at the elf and ran like the wind after Sirius.

*

"Oi, Snivellus!" Called Sirius. Snape had been easy to find, he was always skulking around somewhere in the dungeons. He wrenched Snape round by the shoulder to face him and slammed him against the nearest wall.

"What do you want now Black?"

"Just been down to the kitchens, I hear you've been picking on house elves, bloody little female ones as well"

"Is this about the thing that fell as sleep on the job?"

"You're damn right it is" Sirius fingered his wand in his pocket. Snape laughed coldly

"She needed a punishment, I needed a test subject"

"You oily, hook-nosed cunt" Sirius snarled, he put his wand to Snape's throat, looming over the scrawny boy who was tiny compared to Sirius. Remus skid round the corner of the corridor they were in, almost slipping as he stopped. He sprinted toward Sirius and pulled his arms back, putting Snape out of harm's way.

"That's a detention Black" Snape muttered as he crept away. Remus coughed, his chest tight from running, his legs sore and wobbly. Usually a run wouldn't have affected him so badly, though his strength always increased before the moon, his stamina was virtually nonexistent. He let go of Sirius's arms as soon as Snape was out of view.

"You don't... bloody... detention! Not how... you deal... just ignore him... tell a professor..." Remus wheezed.

"It's alright Moony, I won't do it again. Please sit down. Do you want to go the hospital wing?" asked Sirius, guiding Remus down onto the cold stone floor against the wall.

"Mm fine. Need a minute to" he drew a deep breath "get my breath back, I'll be alright in a minute" Remus sat for a moment and di just that, his breathing even, he tugged Sirius down onto the floor with him. "I hate this"

"What"

"What do you think. Being a werewolf. It's not fair. The mood swings, the crap stamina, the wobbly sickly feeling" he laughed "the lack of humour brought on by the mood swings" he sighed

"It's not fair Moony. I know... if I could do anything to help... anything, I would"

"You already do. You could get sent to Azkaban if the ministry found out about you being an animagus"

"Oh yeah... I don't think I could handle prison. I'm too pretty, I'd end up someone's bitch"

"I doubt it. Not all prisons are like the ones in those preposterous muggle films you and James watch. Especially Azkaban, as pretty as you are Sirius, I think the Dementors drain any ounce of... erm... sexiness out of people"

"Good point" they laughed for a moment and before they knew it, they were locked in a feverish kiss. They moved into a nearby alcove behind a suit of armour, soon the robes were torn off and belts were unbuckled, Remus sunk his teeth into Sirius's bottom lip, he let out a soft whine as he fiddled with the zip on his trousers. Remus busied himself with Sirius's neck, creating what was sure to be a vicious looking hickey. He bit and sucked and Sirius could barely keep his hands steady to get his bloody zip undone. He gave up on the zip, throwing his head back to give Remus easier access his neck. His pulse was racing, he grabbed a handful of Remus's shirt as he brought his knee up into Sirius's crotch. Sirius rubbed against the knee, he whined and moaned, moving faster and faster. And when Remus let out a low rumble of delighted laughter and tongues his ear lobe, he was done. He bit down hard on his lip and swallowed a loud yelp. Electricity shooting through him, sending a tremor through every muscle. Sirius's head flew back so quickly he hit his head on the wall behind him.

"Ah fuck!" He slid down the wall panting and rubbing his head. Remus offered a hand which he took, soon they were both laughing again.

A/N Please do review my dear reader. Any thoughts on the light smut? (Oh I do hope it wasn't too dispointing)