It took a Charms lesson and double Transfiguration before Remus finally managed to corner Lily. She had been making her way down to dinner when he dragged her off my the elbow to the library.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing!?" Lily protested again Remus' grip, but the more she struggled the tighter he held her. Finally letting go once in the deserted corner of the library, forcing her to sit, "Remus? What's happened?"

His expression was stony and his eyes were glaring into hers. He had gotten himself worked up through out the afternoon. First he thought it was some kind of joke, which made him slightly annoyed because that's not the kind of thing you joke about. Then he realised she said it to James and he laughed, implying that she had told him of Remus' feelings, and that pushed him from 'slightly annoyed' to 'blood-boiling, I'm-gonna-punch-you-in-the-face angry'.

"So," Remus started to speak, his eyes unmoving, voice barely a whisper, "had a nice little joke with James this afternoon? Had a nice little laugh about- what was it again... oh yeah- me and Sirius 'going back to secretly loving each other forever without letting anyone know'.Find that funny did we? Find it funny telling your boyfriend secrets you were told in the strictest confidence?"

Lily was stunned. Had she really been that loud? Oh god, how was she going to get Remus to forgive her for this?

"Remus, look I'm sorry about telling James it's just he knows you and Sirius better, I knew he wouldn't tell anyone or think badly of you Remus, you really are just being a little over paranoid."

"Over paranoid? Lily you told my second biggest secret! Secrets are meant to be secret for a reason! Do you not recall when you started to get feelings for James? Do you not remember when you came to me all upset because you liked him and didn't know what to do? Did I run off and tell Sirius? No! I kept your goddamn secret!"

"Okay, maybe that was a little out of line, and telling James even more so, but really, I did it to help you."

"What do you mean hel- oh god Lily, please, please tell me you did not ask James to help you get me together with Sirius?" Remus' face was reddening and his face fell into his hands.

"Welllllll..."

"Oh god.."

"But Remus! You haven't even tried to ask him how he feels about you!"

"Because I don't want to embarrass myself Lily! And I don't want to make things horribly awkward between us. He's my best friend, Lily.. I need him to be my friend.."

Lily walked around the table and hugged Remus. There, she whispered into his ear, "You never know, until you try. You may be pleasantly surprised," and with that, she took her bag and left. Remus attempted to do his Transfiguration essay before stuffing it in his bag and giving up, slumping back into the chair.

Lily made her way back to the common room after a brief dinner. There she found James sitting by the fire with what looked like tomorrow's homework. She told him of her conversation with Remus and he sighed.

"Guess it's up to me to get Sirius to talk to him then. Great(!) I'm gonna need paying for this," he added with a wink. Lily laughed girlishly and then offered to help him with his homework in return.

When Lily had finished "helping James with his homework" (aka making out in the common room), Sirius walked in, straight past them and up the stairs to the dorm. Worry crossed James' face at the impending conversation, but he stood and followed his best friend into the dormitory.

There he found that Sirius had gone into their little bathroom, so James sat on the bed facing the door and waited. And waited. Until finally Sirius emerged with a towel around his waist. When he saw James sitting staring at the door he jumped and muttered 'pervert' before walking to his bed.

"What do you want? Couldn't resist seeing me with my shirt off ay Prongs?" Sirius joked whilst awkwardly trying to get underwear on without flashing James.

"Of course(!) But really, I just need to talk to you."

Sirius froze at his words, still with his underwear half way up, "Not again, please not again!" Sirius whispered, more to himself than James.

"Yeah, about that conversation, maybe I said something wrong? Or something.. I'm not really sure what happened there.. But anyway, it's just, you need to talk to Remus about all of this."

Again he froze, but this time he looked up at James, his face straight with a slight hint of worry in his eyes that you would only notice if you ha been his best friend for the past seven years- luckily James had.

"James, he would hate me! He wouldn't be able to look at me without being disgusted! Why on earth should I talk to him about this? I don't want to loose him!"

"Sirius! He would never hate you for gods sake! He's your best friend! The least he would do is apologise repeatedly, you know what he is like Sirius. You've known him for seven years! You know more about him than anybody! Do you honestly think he would be repulsed by this?" James was trying desperately to convince Sirius, if he wouldn't talk, Lily would scold him and then have to think up a whole new plan and who knows how long that would take.

"Even so, I wouldn't gain anything from it, so what's the point?"

"You never know what will happen until you try!" James had been hoping the conversation would end there, but unfortunately, Sirius wasn't the type to let such things go unexplained.

"What do you mean by that? Do you mean you think Remus would say he liked me back? Cause if so you're delusional!" James' face was reddening, he didn't want to give away Remus' secret, especially since he wasn't supposed to know, but he was finding it increasingly hard to reply to him, "Do you know something I don't?"

"Ermm..."

"James!"

"Remus loves you!" Lily announced bursting through the door. She had been listening through the door the whole time but had just realised what she had done and clapped her hands over her mouth. James wasn't sure whether he should be relieved or anxious. On the other hand, Sirius had gone white (-er than usual) and promptly stormed back into the bathroom and locked the door.

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