A/N: Began: 3/15/13 End: 3/21/13
I only type quality wor- *begins to laugh* I JUST CAN'T. CAN'T. SAY. THAT. STRAIGHT.
So instead of typing a GOOD science lab report, I typed out this for you. My teacher saw my rubbish report and asked me why my work was worse than usual. Do I tell him that Remus and Sirius are more important? Bahh, they never understand.
I'll tell you what is quality work, my 11/River one shot fiction I just posted. Doctor Who fans should really read that stuff, I took a different writing style for it, and I hope you can appreciate that.
Better A/N later.
"Mum!" Remus ran over and hugged his mother, he had just gotten home and spotted her in the kitchen, they had just begun Christmas break. "Happy Christmas!"
"Oh sweetie, how has Hogwarts been? Where are your friends?" she hugged him back, smiling him "Oh, I've missed you!"
"I missed you too, mummy. They're all bringing in the bags. Sirius insisted he carry my things. Idiot, he'll throw his back out!"
Mrs. Lupin kissed her son's forehead, age set in on the woman's face, but she still had beautiful lively eyes that seemed to almost sing. Her lips were tinted red with lipstick, which stained Remus' head. She chuckled, rubbing it off. "Silly Sirius indeed. I hope the boys like spotted dick!"
The boy in Remus chuckled at the name, and Mrs. Lupin threw him a dirty look. "Sorry mum…" heh, spotted dick, he thought.
"Now O'Neil is promising. A wise trade on the Cannon's end, now that's rare!" James cracked, walking with Mr. Lupin into the kitchen.
"O'Neil is fast, but Tennant is faster. I think because of Tennant, the Scots will finally be in it. That and the raw power of their beaters will make them power houses."
"I love a good beater like the rest of them, but it comes down to the chasers, really." James looked up. "Hey, Mrs. L."
"Hello, um, James right? You look like a Potter."
"Potter I am, miss! Quite a proud heritage, Remus takes his beauty from his mum, I see."
"James, stop it." Remus said flatly. Mrs. Lupin giggled.
"I knew Remus was beautiful, but I never knew he took after me. Thank you, James."
"Mom, stop it!" Remus said. "I'm not beautiful. Don't call me beautiful."
"So, should we call you pretty?" Sirius asked, walking into the kitchen looking quite tired. The kitchen occupants all laughed. Remus turned red.
"I should've never suggested this, bad idea. Everyone go back home." He said, pouting. Sirius smirked
"Remus loves us! Just can't accept the fact that he's so pretty." James said. "Too bad Peter couldn't be here, his mum wanted him home for Christmas."
"Why, she should have just come here with him!" Mrs. Remus replied, wiping her hands on her apron and pulling out her wand, charming a knife to cut vegetables. "We always have enough room!"
"The Pettigrew's have their own thing going on, they like tradition." Sirius sat at the counter, Remus sat next to him on top the counter, much to the annoyance of his mother, and James sat at the table with Mr. Lupin, discussing quidditch in great detail. Sirius looked over and chuckled every time James said 'Mr. Lupin', it was funny hearing the werewolf's father being addressed as so when that was Sirius' personal pet name for Remus. Remus still looked red as he snickered with his boyfriend.
"What are you two learning about; it's like watching telepathy over there." Mrs. Lupin asked. Sirius shrugged and smiled innocently.
"Nothing, let's go up to your room, Remus. Come on, James." Sirius got up walked into the house.
"See ya later, mom." Remus said. James waved to Mr. Lupin and all three boys made their way up to Remus Lupin's room. It wasn't too fancy, the paint was a forest green and it had dark blue carpeting. The bed was relatively plain, and the posters all seemed to be of wolves, there were also various pictures of the Marauders, Sirius dominating most of them. His bookshelf was full of nothing but books on various monsters, there were an alarming number of werewolf books. On his dresser, Remus had weird little trinkets, as well as the bracelet Sirius gave him.
Sirius flopped down on the bed, Remus flopped down next to him and the third-wheel James sat on the floor.
"I'm going to give my present to you all now." Remus said, sitting up. "Because it's pretty freaking awesome."
"What is it? A gift for all of us? That's lame." James said glumly. He wanted a present all to himself.
"You're lame, Prongs." Remus took something out of his coat pocket, a piece of parchment. He taped his wand against it. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He breathed. Slowly, ink formed on the page. James, interested, got up and looked over at the parchment.
"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are proud to present…" James stopped short. "This isn't a—"
"Oh yes it is." Remus looked up at James; Sirius looked down at it, shaking his head.
"You're bloody brilliant."
"IT ISN'T, THOUGH, IS IT?" James yelled.
"It very much is, James." Remus said evenly, opening the map. It revealed the inside of Hogwarts, all the secret entrances, and little moving dots. "See? We can see who stayed behind for Christmas, all the rooms, we can see everything. The map never lies."
"It's so beautiful." James whispered, tearing up.
"And when you marry Lily and move on in life, you can have it James. Give it to your kid, Harold or something." Remus held the map out for the messy haired boy to take.
"YOU'RE THE BEST FRIEND I COULD EVER HAVE!" James wailed. This map was the key to their entire mischief making. "How did you know where to put what!?"
"I'm not a complete idiot; I just walked around school a lot. Plus the entrances we all know, and the whole name thing was just a simple charm. And look, to erase any evidence, tap your wand on it like so and say 'mischief managed'"
The map slowly dissipated into nothing but blank parchment. Sirius still muttered on how brilliant it was. James was crying buckets at his newfound opportunities for trouble making. If only Peter had been there. Remus grinned, quite proud of himself.
Dinner came and gone, and the boys all piled into Remus' room to sleep. Mr. Lupin conjured up two sleeping bags, but after he left, Sirius climbed into the bed with Remus. James looked at them both and made a face.
"No funny business tonight, idiots. I would like to go to sleep with some innocence to spare." He said, taking off his glasses.
"We won't be too loud." Sirius winked and snuggled against the werewolf, who laughed shortly.
"We won't do anything at all!" he corrected. "Just sleeping."
Sirius kissed Remus' cheek. "You're all red, Mr. Lupin, do try to keep from heating up."
Remus bit the inside of his cheek to keep from grinning too widely. "You're in my bed, Mr. Black. I simply can't help it."
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" James said, wrapping his pillow around his ears. The other two boys laughed. Soon after James went to sleep, they started talking in low whispers.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"I dunno if you've noticed or not, but I'm sleeping in Remus Lupin's bed."
"Oh shut up! I think James liked the map."
"It was amazing, you're amazing."
"…thanks?"
"You're also cute when you're flustered."
Thwack!
"Quiet, you hairy old mutt!"
"Ow! You hurt me too much!"
"Hey, Sirius…"
"Yeah?"
"How are we going to tell my mum and dad?"
"…"
"…"
"…The best we can."
"…"
"Did you fall asleep?"
"No…. thinking."
"Well don't… whatever happens will happen."
"Okay, goodnight Mr. Black."
"Goodnight Mr. Lupin."
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In the morning, Remus woke up to find Sirius on the floor again. He must have moved when the werewolf fell asleep. Remus rolled over to the edge of his bed and ran his fingers through his tangled mat for hair. Sirius woke up, flinching.
"Merlin!" he raised a hand to his head. "What the hell, Remus?"
"Just… being romantic."
"Pulling out my hair by its scalp is romantic?" Sirius sat up and rubbed his head.
Remus giggled in spite of him. "Not my fault your hair is rubbish, you ever comb it?"
"Why would I need to do that? Usually, people don't touch my head." Sirius grumbled.
Remus slid of the bed and wrapped his arms around Sirius' neck. "Some puppy is grumpy today. Have a bad dream or something."
"Actually it was excellent, but I got awoken by romantic hair pulling," Sirius yawned. "What's for grub?"
"I dunno, just woke up." Remus looked at James, still asleep. "We should throw cold water over him."
"We should throw cold water over him." Sirius quickly agreed.
Five minutes late, Mrs. Lupin heard a terrible scream from the living room and ran up to see what it was, there she saw two boys laughing their pants off while a third gave them the look of death soaking wet. Mrs. Lupin crossed her arms.
"Remus! Control yourself!"
"I-I'm so sorry m-mum. It's just s-so funny!" Remus crumpled to the floor, still laughing. Mrs. Lupin shook her head and ran out to get James a towel.
"I will kill you both in your sleep…" James whispered. The other two boys only laughed even more. After James got his towel, the three boys went outside to play some qudditch.
"So how should we come out, James?" Sirius asked. "How does one tell Remus' parents that I would like to stick my—"
"STOP TALKING!" James insisted, throwing him the quaffle. "You can't make jokes like that. Just don't, man. I say just come out with it. Why should the fact that you're gay invade your entire life?"
"James is right." Remus said, blocking Sirius from hitting the tree they used as a goal post. "It should probably be something simply casually said. I don't want to be the kind of couple who treats the fact that they're gay like it's a huge freaking conflict to like men, and that because of it, their life is a struggle. They always talk about being gay, the problems they have being gay, the people who don't like them being gay… just be freaking gay."
"That's the most you've said ever, I barely even listened." Sirius replied.
"I have no idea why I keep you around, sometimes, Black." Remus chucked the ball at him. "The puppy never listens."
Sirius stuck his tongue out and caught the ball, while Remus feigned sadness. Sirius rolled his eyes and pouted.
"Forgive the puppy?" Sirius floated up to the other boy. Remus looked away. Sirius moved closer to his face. "Pleaseee?"
"Oh god, they're flirting, someone make it stop." James said flatly. Remus smiled and hugged Sirius head.
"Okay, puppy!" Remus ruffled Sirius' hair a little. "Only because of your ugly face, and I'm the only one who would want you."
"I like my face!" Sirius said. "It's not ugly… James, is this the face of ugliness?"
"Oh look, you're aware of my existence. Let's get back to the game." James held out his arms for the quaffle.
"Fine, fine…"
After another hour, the boys made their way back to the Lupin residence. Mrs. Lupin greeted them with some hot chocolate and cookies. James went off to shower before dinner. Remus decided it was as good a time as ever.
"Hey mom, dad," he began. "Can we talk?" They were in the living room, Mrs. And Mr. Lupin were reading and the rebel and the werewolf were fiddling with the radio. Sirius turned down the radio, looking at Remus.
"I guess so," Mrs. Lupin put down her book. "Anything wrong, Remmy?" Mr. Lupin followed suit and the two parents looked down at Remus expectantly. Sirius felt suddenly uncomfortable.
"I can go upstairs if you want…"
"No, no. I guess it involves you too." Remus smiled at the rebel. "You see… the thing is… I kind of…"
"Out with it, boy." Mr. Lupin said. He was a gruff man and had little time for shenanigans. Sirius patted the werewolves hand two times.
"Mom, dad, I'm gay." Remus said simply. Sirius looked at Mr. and Mrs. Lupin. They're faces were unreadable. Time froze again for a second; much like the time Remus first told Sirius he loved him. Only this time, it seemed tense.
"Well Sirius, we've known for a while now." Mrs. Lupin said. "You always loved playing cooking, had your own frilly apron and tea cozies and everything!"
"I don't care all that much, son… just don't bring any boys home to… do whatever two guys do…" Mr. Lupin said. "I mean, I would feel the same way about girls, of course."
"You also played maid and call yourself mommy. It was so cute!" Mrs. Lupin squealed. Remus turned red and the rebel looked at him, grinning.
"Mommy?"
"Mom! You can stop now," Remus looked down to hide his face. "There's more…"
"Merlin, more!? What more can there be?" Mr. Lupin looked at him. "Don't tell me you're also a troll."
Remus laughed. "No, dad… I just happen to have a boyfriend, is all." Remus beamed at the confused faces of his parents.
"Is it James?" Mrs. Lupin leaned forward. "He's such a nice boy."
"Better not be a Slytherin or a Hufflepuff. Son, I'll disown you if it's a Hufflepuff!" Mr. Lupin said seriously.
"Oh stop it! Just because one Hufflepuff way back snitched on you for playing a joke, you hold the worst of grudges." Mrs. Lupin swatted her husband. "My mom is a Hufflepuff."
"I don't like your mother much either." Mr. Lupin said under his breath.
"Mom, dad! It's not James." Remus was laughing pretty hard now. His parents seemed more interested in what house he was dating over what gender he was dating. Of course these were the same people who readily allowed a werewolf in their home. He wondered why he was worried in the first place. They already accepted probably the hardest thing in the world, that once a month he turned all hairy and blood thirsty. This could be the most normal thing about Remus. "It isn't James. It's uh…" he looked over at the rebel
Sirius waved and smiled. "Hi." Mrs. Lupin squealed.
"This one! He's so handsome, with his shaggy hair and the smirk and—"
"Then why don't you date him, mom?" Remus groaned, falling back. Mr. Lupin eyed Sirius seriously.
"What's your last name again, son?" the man asked.
Sirius swallowed, eyes going wide. "Bl-Black, its Black sir."
The man grunted. "The so-called 'honorable' house?"
"Well if you must know, I think I live with a bunch of stupid prats who never gave two damns about me, and I would much rather sleep among wolves than among my family. They're all right cowards and power greedy gits."
Remus looked over at Sirius in shock. Did he really just curse in front of the lycanthrope's mum and dad? Was he balmy? Remus' father gave him a long, hard look.
"Well said, boy. Well said." He finally answered. Sirius exhaled in relief. Remus gave him a look and grabbed the rebel's hand, before it got more uncomfortable.
"Right, well this has been fun, but I need to discuss topics with the clan. Been wonderful, bye!" Remus said, dragging Sirius up to his room.
Sirius waved. "See ya around, Mrs. L."
Remus flung open the door to his room, pushed Sirius in, and shut the door. James was in there wearing a towel and not much else.
"EY! GET OUT!" James screamed. Remus ignored the boy and wrapped his arms around the rebel's head. Sirius blinked, feeling even more awkward than when Remus' father questioned his family.
"Oh, hello there. What are we doing?"
"That was damn attractive. And naughty, you were very bold and a very bad puppy." Remus whispered. The werewolf gave Sirius a quick kiss and pulled away again. "You degraded your family and cursed in front of my mum."
"Remus… James is naked." Sirius hissed, turning his head slightly and receiving another kiss. "I knew you had a thing for rebellion but," another kiss. "He's standing there naked, watching us."
"How nice," Remus said idly, playing with Sirius' hair. James glowered and swung open his trunk, grabbing what he needed and making his way back to the bathroom.
"We're ruining his innocence." Sirius smiled, kissing Remus' neck, a teasing kiss that lasted a second too short.
"He can find the door."
And so, James found the door. And so, Sirius and Remus continued teasing each other with little kisses and whispering sweet nothings. Remus looked down and bit his lip, he loved this. With all his heart, he loved this. But there was still a nagging feeling that this little schoolboy love would never last. They might never last. Sirius rested his head on Remus' shoulder, and the werewolf could feel his small amount of stubble growing in rubbing against his neck.
Maybe he just needed to learn to enjoy it while it lasted. It seemed easy enough. But how long would that be? Did he even want to know the answer to that question? No, well, maybe yes. Because nothing this amazing could last forever. Suddenly, Remus wanted to hurry. He needed to get everything out of the way before Sirius was gone, because there was no way Sirius would last with him, oh no. Remus still loathed himself, and felt as though everyone around him should as well. Pretty soon, Sirius would find a way to hate him, he was sure of it. So Remus knew better than to let go before making sure he did absolutely everything he could with the rebel.
People who tried to keep another around are stupid, if they don't want to be with you, nothing will stop that. What you need to do is make sure you do everything you can with them before they realize exactly how much a terrible, loathsome person you are. Maybe, if you're lucky, they're just as terrible and loathsome as you. Unfortunately, Remus decided then and there that Sirius was so much better than him. Now dear readers, I will be the first to state right here, right now, how stupid Remus was.
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Christmas came and went, the Lupin's were kind and generous hosts, and the boys all returned to Hogwarts. Remus seemed a bit more distant than usual, and Sirius took big notice. The werewolf insisted that he just needed to concentrate on studying from the N.E.W.T's and Sirius readily accepted that. That didn't stop the rebel from missing a little contact. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore, and directly asked Remus what was wrong with him. The werewolf looked down, biting his lip.
"I feel like we should go a bit further, is all." he said softly
"Further how?" Sirius asked. He didn't understand, at least he didn't think he understood. Remus was being strangely cryptic.
"Just... you know, Sirius. I love you, you love me, maybe we should..."
"...Oh."
Oh.
A/N: THIS IS LATE OH WELL HERE YOU GO IT'S OVER 3,000 WORDS OH GAWD I DUNNO I'M SORRY.