Chapter Six;

Sirius walked through the castle waving at every student and beaming a smile. He decided to go visit Remus to see how he was doing as it was the night before the Full Moon. When he came to Remus' chambers, he knocked a couple of times and tapped his foot waiting. When no answer came he decided maybe his classroom, with that thought Sirius began going through the castle one place to another with fail, he went to Remus' classroom, the Library, the Great Hall, the Courtyard, asked people if they had seen Remus and all had answered not today.

Sirius was beginning to run out of places when he ran into Harry and Ron. He gave them a smile and walked over towards where they were sitting in the halls, he plopped down onto the floor next to them giving them a smile, "'Lo, Harry, 'Lo, Ron."

Harry smiled at Sirius, "What'cha doing?"

"Looking for Moony, seen him?" Sirius asked.

Harry shook his head no, "Nope, sorry, Snuffles."

"I saw him, when I was coming to meet Harry, seemed like he was going to the dungeons," Ron said.

"Oh, right! The Wolfsbane!" Sirius said now pushing himself to stand and brushing off his robes, "I should've thought of that," he said slapping his forehead, "I'll see you two later, say hello to Hermione whenever you two run into her," he called back as he began his way to the dungeons.

When Sirius came to the dungeons he decided to head towards the Potions lab where he had met him the day before thanks to the little house-elf. When he walked up to the door, he heard talking and decided it was best not to interrupt, but when he heard his name he couldn't help but eavesdrop by pushing his ear to the door.

"So you've been with Sirius every night since term began?" Remus asked.

"Yes, I have, I don't see how that is any of /your/ business, Lupin!" Severus said in a loud tone but not yet yelling.

"I'm just warning you. You know how Sirius can be, Severus…" Remus said.

Sirius paused for a moment pulling his head away and thinking 'Since when can Remus call him Severus to his face?' he asked himself silently glaring through the door at Remus. He pushed his ear back to the door to continue listening.

"-You're right, I /do/ know how Sirius is…" Severus said, and Sirius could hear… something in his voice, sadness?

'No, certainly not sadness…' Sirius thought to himself.

"Severus, /this/ wouldn't have worked in school, and it won't work now. Don't be stupid, putting yourself in such a situation where you could only come out hurt," Remus said in a harsh tone, and the sentence let alone his tone confused all hell out of Sirius.

"Just… I know… I…" Severus stuttered before Sirius heard a loud crash of what seemed like vials breaking and a table being flipped to the ground. "Shut up, Lupin! Get the hell out!" Severus' voice boomed causing Sirius to jump back from the door.

When he heard footsteps coming towards the door, Sirius turned into Padfoot and hid in a dark corridor, lying on the ground. He was lucky with it being the Full Moon and Remus' Wolf senses heightened that he didn't see or smell him as Remus walked straight past him, fists clenched. Sirius debated on going after him but quickly decided against it, 'Who the hell does he think he is?' Sirius thought angrily. If he was speaking aloud he would more than likely be yelling; Telling Severus not to be friends with him! Stating it was a situation where Severus could only come out hurt. How dare him, he didn't know that Sirius had changed, this wasn't a prank, and he wanted to get to know Severus and become friends, get past everything that had happened in school!

He poked his head out of the corner and looked around from the Potions lab door to the other end of the hall to make sure Remus was gone. When he saw no sight of the Wolf, he stood up into human form and walked towards the door, slowly pushing it open with a knock, "Severus?" he called out as he poked his head inside to look around. He saw the shards of glass that scattered on the floor and the chair Severus normally occupied flipped over as well as a desk that held all the vials that were broken, and a black cauldron which had contents of a potion he didn't recognize by the smell spilled out onto the ground.

He took a step inside and looked around for any signs of Severus, failing to see any he frowned and began picking up the shards of glass by hand. By the time he heard Severus come back into the room he had already picked up a few of the vials, "What're you doing, Black?" he asked, putting the broom he had retrieved against the wall and crossing his arms over his chest.

Sirius turned his head to look at Severus, giving him a smile, "I…" he paused trying to think of something, "I heard commotion on my way down here, and then saw Remus leaving. What happened? Did he upset you? I know he can be a little… edgy around this time of the month."

Severus grabbed the broom sweeping up the shards of glass and pushing the liquid from the spilled potion down a drain in the floor, "Oh, yes, just a small disagreement. Nothing to worry about…"

Sirius nodded, he wanted desperately to push on the issue, but decided if he was going to get Severus to see him as a friend he'd need Severus to confess these kinds of things to him without pushing. "Right, topic change," he suggested, "Would you like to play some chess or anything after we clean this place up?" he asked as he pushed the desk up.

Severus paused in his sweeping 'Isn't he going to bug me to know what I was fighting with his favorite Werewolf?' he thought to himself, turning to Sirius, "Aren't you going to be the nosey Gryffindor and poke and prod me to give you details?" he asked in a sarcastic tone.

Sirius frowned at him shaking his head from side to side, "Nope. I've grown up, rather you'd like to believe it or not, I find if you want to talk about something, you'll talk about it," he said, shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly while pushing the desk and chair back to place.

Severus stared in silence unsure if it was an act. He nodded his head, putting the broom up and turning back to him, "So, Wizards Chess?" he asked, giving the best faint smile he could. When Sirius nodded, they headed into Severus chambers to play.