Severus' POV
"… I'm going to kill you, Prongs… Now I have to go through the whole week with yellow hair because I am NOT GOING TO MISS CLASSES." Lupin was glaring at Potter.
"I'm sorry, Moony!" Potter was on his knees. Class had been disrupted and Slughorn was allowing us free time.
"Sorry doesn't cut it, dummy!" Lupin hissed. "You might as well turn your hair green!"
He turned to me. "Er, you didn't get hit, right?"
"Uh… no?" Why is he asking me? He can't possibly be worried.
"Good. I wouldn't want you to have to go through the rest of your week like this." He gestured to his hair and grinned. It looked sort of wolfish. Wow. So he had moved so I wouldn't get hit by the hair-change spell. . .
"Thank you." I told him. I could over hear Potter, Black and the Evans girl talking. Talking about me to be exact.
"-meant to hit Snivellus-"
"You hit Remus, James!"
"I thought you knew how to aim by now…"
"I do! Remus moved at the last second!"
"James, you're an idiot." Evans told him and walked back to Mayapple.
"Sorry about that." Lupin said. I stopped listening to Potter and Black.
"It's alright, Lupin." I tell him.
"Please, call me Remus." He grinned at me.
"Um, OK."
Lup-Remus blinked. "… SHITE!"
"Wh-what?" I thought he was talking to me directly.
"I couldn't take the notes for the potion…"
"I'll give you mine later, Lu-er-Remus."
"Oh, really?"
"Sure."
"Thanks."
"Mm."
XXXIt was almost time to go to our next class-mine was free period. Lupi-… Remus' was free period, too.
"Lupin!" Slughorn called him to his desk. "Come here, please!"
"What now?" Remus muttered as he walked over to the professor. He smiled at me.
Th-thump. Th-thump.
Why is my heart beating so fast?
I nod at him. Good thing he can't hear it.
While Remus talks to Slughorn, I notice Potter, Black and that Pettigrew-shrimp walk up to me. Of course it's when Remus isn't around. . . What're they going to do now?
"What do you want?" I spat at them.
"What did you do to Moony, Snivellus?" Black asked me.
"What do you mean 'what did I do'? I didn't do anything!"
"Yeah, right." Potter glared at me. I glared back. "Moony would never be nice to you."
"This is the first time he's talked to you, right?" Black asked me.
Merlin! Is Black. . . Jealous? Ha! That's funny. "Why? Jealous Black?" I smirk at him.
"Prongs, lets pants 'im." Black stated. I sighed.
"What's this about pantsing, Sirius?" Narcissa was sitting in her chair, listening to our bickering. Bellatrix was sitting next to her.
"You want to pants Snape?" Bellatrix asked. "I knew it! You're gay! You always did have strange vibes whenever you looked at Lupin…"
". . ." I really didn't want to be a part of this conversation. That is, until Lucius came over.
"Hello there, Potter!" Lucius said. Potter grimaced.
"Oh, gods…" Black groaned. "Not you, too."
"Narcissa, darling, did you hear something?" Lucius asked. "It sounded like a fly."
"I didn't hear anything, Lucius, dear." Narcissa smiled at her betrothed.
"Lucius, did you know that Black was gay?" Bellatrix told him. I smirked.
"… Sh-shut it, you nasty Slytherin!" the Pettigrew-shrimp said, shocking everyone. He usually stays quiet when we get into fights. I guess he understands the meaning of confidence now.
"Or what, Pettigrew…?" Bellatrix stared him down. Which was easy, given how short he was.
"Or I'll, I'll… I'll-!" Pettigrew stuttered.
"We'll challenge you!" Black yelled suddenly. "One-on-one duel battles."
Sirius' POV
"Heh." Malfoy chuckled. "I—WE—accept. Now, where exactly?""In the Great Hall, of course." Prongs growled. "The teachers will have to be there to watch. They would be the witnesses of the match. And Dumbledore would love it!"
"And who will we be versing?" Snape asked. I gave him the shut-the-fuck-up-I was-getting-to-that-look. I'm gonna kill him.
"Lets make it fair." I said. "You can pick."
"What are we picking?" I froze. Remus had returned.
"Uh… I'll tell you later, Moony…" I tell him, not turning to face him.
I really shouldn't have said that. He glared at me. "If you're getting into another fight, I will stomp you into the ground so hard that it'll take Madam Pomfrey a week to fix…"
Shit. "N-now, now, Remus, darling." I said, trying to be cute. "We're just talking things over."
"Oh, my god. Remus Lupin, you can actually scare a Black?" I heard Malfoy ask him. He muttered, "Nice hair, by the way."
"Yes. And it's very fun." It seemed as though he hadn't heard the hair comment. "Now, could someone explain to me what is going on?" Remus glanced at Snape, who was now merrily watching the fight proceed.
"Oh, duel challenges. Nothing out of the ordinary, Lupin." Snape told him. He gave Remus a look that I did NOT like one bit. But I was too scared of Remus to fight with Snape.
James and Peter stood in front of me, protecting me from the pissed-off Remus.
"Don't worry, Sirius." Remus told me, smiling. I looked up hopefully. "The duel will be fine-" He gave a death-glare. "-because I will make sure you won't be going."
Peter's POV
I have had enough of Bellatrix Lestrange! Her snide comments, her evil aura, her attitude! GODS!
And Sirius was crouching down, away from Remus. Merlin, what have we done?
"We got it!" Narcissa Black said, making everyone go silent.
"Got what, dear?" Malfoy asked her.
"The duel pairs~!" She held up a paper with our names on it.
Duel:
Potter vs. Malfoy
Lestrange vs. Pettigrew
S. Black vs. Snape
N. Black vs. Lupin
James' POV
"Who said I was going to duel?" Remus yelled out.
"If you don't want to, then I win by forfeight, yellow boy." Narcissa smiled, a very ugly sight.
Lily Evans, the love of my life (even if she tries to ignore the fact that she knows its true), walked over to Remus. "What's going on?"
"A duel, Evans!" Lestrange told her.
"What? A duel?" she asked. I think she wanted in on it. Any chance to beat a Slytherin, she would take it.
"Yes, Lily!" Sirius ran to hide behind her.
"Remus, do you not want to duel?" Lily asked him, hopefully. I knew far too well how this conversation was going to end.
"No." Remus answered.
"Then I'll do it! I'll verse you, Narcissa. Anyway, we need someone to cast healing spells if anyone gets hurt. That's your job, Remus."
"I'm not helping Sirius."
"Eh? OK."
"WHAT?" Sirius yelped.
"Then it's settled." Malfoy smirked as he went arm-in-arm with Narcissa. "A duel in the Great Hall. Aiming only for your partner."