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Chapter 31

Remus

Luckily, I wasn't kept in the hospital wing for long. I was let out after a week – could have been longer – on Friday. It was nice to be out of that bed and be able to stretch my legs without have someone pushing me back all the time – though it was only when Madam Pomfrey did it that it annoyed me. I still had Paddy with me as I walked back up to the Gryffindor common room. Since the little rascal had a thing for running off and getting into trouble – remind you of anyone? – I carried him all the way.

Making my way up so many stairs, I know realised why it was Sirius and Madam Pomfrey kept telling me not to get up. Maybe if I listened to them, the scars on my torso wouldn't be throbbing so much. I ran into a few people on my way up – not literally. It was mainly Gryffindor's, luckily. There was only one Gryffindor on the stairs that I was happy to run into, and it turned out they were going my way.

"Remus." Lily smiled. "How you feeling?"

"Like I've been ripped apart then put back together again." I replied, trying to joke about it, but failing when Paddy moved and I winced.

"Give him here, you silly cub."

"Cub?"

"Yes, cub. Now hand him over, before you hurt yourself."

"Fine, fine."

Wincing again, I handed Paddy over to Lily. The red-head shook her head, sighing, as she took the little ball of wriggling fluff. Paddy yipped, waggling his tail, as Lily held him. He loved Lily. But then dogs did have a great judge of character. Lily loved paddy too, but then who wouldn't? Well...obviously Sirius' brother, since he apparently wasn't too fond of dogs...plus there was everyone else that didn't like dogs or were one of the ones Paddy wasn't too fond of. Lily and I continued up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.

"Wasn't Sirius supposed to come by and today? You know, bring you back?" Lily asked.

"Yeah...but I thought it would be easier if I walked back myself. You know what he's like in some lessons." I smiled.

"Remus, is everything alright between you two?"

"Whoa, where did that come from?"

Lily bit her lip, shifting Paddy in her arms.

"Well, it's just...the other day, when Sirius came back from visiting you...he just seemed a little..." Lily started.

"Depressed?" I asked, biting the inside of my cheek.

"Yeah. He didn't talk, just went straight up to the dorm. James told me he had to do this whole speech just to get Sirius to at least stop looking so glum."

"Well, nothing bad happened. I mean, he was just kind of beating himself up over what happened and I..."

I sighed, looking down at the stairs.

"Well, at least you two didn't fall out." Lily said, smiling slightly. "And maybe you two should talk about it."

I nodded. She was right.

When we were just three minutes from the Gryffindor, I suddenly just fell to the left. Literally, just fell. Like my ankle gave way. But no, it couldn't be that, it had to be because the left side of my torso had decided to go all...weird. I clung to the banister, keeping myself up.

"Remus? Are you alright?" Lily asked, slightly panicked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied, through gritted teeth.

I know Madam Pomfrey said it would be sore for a while, but this? Bloody hell! I attempted to take another step, still clinging to the banister. That did nothing. It just made me collapse again.

"I'll go get someone." Lily rushed.

"No, Lils, I'm fine." I insisted. "Just need to take a little break."

"No, you're obviously not..."

"Remus!" a new voice joined in.

I looked up to see Sirius rushing towards Lily and me. As soon as he had joined us, he wrapped an arm around my waist, supporting the majority of my weight. I wrapped my arm around Sirius' neck, holding onto his shoulder.

"You ok?" Sirius asked, worried.

"Perfectly fine." I replied, my voice high from the pain. "Just great. No need to worry. Madam Pomfrey said this was normal."

Sirius kissed me gently, and for a moment all the pain I was feeling was forgotten.

"You, my love, are a terrible liar." he told me. "Let's get you back to the common room."

Slowly, the three of us, plus Paddy, made our way back to the common room. Well, it was going to be fun trying to explain why, for someone who was supposed to be ill from stress, was in so much pain and all bandaged up.

It took, about, five minutes before we were stepping through the portrait hole. Not many people were actually in the common room, luckily. James was sitting there, in our usual spot by the fireplace, with a few other people – like Frank and Alice. Though Frank and Alice were to 'wrapped up' in each other to notice what was going on around them or who would walk in, thank God.

"You alright, Moony?" James asked, acting like a worried older brother – even though I was older than him...by seventeen days. "How you feeling?"

"Getting there. Better than I was a week ago, though." I smiled.

"Bet you are, you're looking a damn slight better than you were a few days ago, thank Merlin. Say, does Pomfrey have any idea why...what happened, happened? Did she say anything to you about it?"

"Yeah, she thinks because of what happened earlier that day with Snape, and I quote, 'angered the'...you know, so lashed out. Not that I'm surprised, I mean he had to do it on the first day of the...you know. And the first day is always the worst. Saying that, he just shouldn't have done it."

James nodded. Lily sat down next to him on the sofa, placing Paddy on the floor, while Sirius sat in one of the arm chairs, gently pulling me into his lap. It was nice not lying/sitting in anything soft and squishy, and being on something hard and solid for a change – and if you're thinking something dirty, I don't mean that...get your minds out of the gutter people! I leaned back into him, sighing slightly, as his arms wrapped loosely around me and rested his chin on my shoulder. As soon as we were all comfortable, Paddy padded over to Sirius and me, jumped onto the arm chair, and lay half on me and half on Sirius. I smiled down at the little puppy.

"I love you." Sirius whispered in my ear.

"Love you too." I whispered back, grinning.

"You really should have waited."

"I know, but I thought it would be easier."

"That's just Remus speak for 'I didn't want to be a bother'."

"Remus speak?"

"Yes, I'm a master at the language. I know what everything means in Remus speak."

I laughed a little. Oh, how I loved being out of the hospital wing.

Later on, everybody went to dinner. Well, everybody accept Sirius and I. We were the only two that didn't go down. We had moved from the common room, up to the dorm. I was still sitting on Sirius, while he was leaning against the headboard of his bed. Paddy was asleep in his bed, which was in the far corner of the room where he was kept out of trouble. I traced little circles on the back of Sirius' hand – the one that was resting on knee.

"Lily told me that James had to give you a speech the other day." I said.

"She did?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah. Because you seemed a little depressed, after coming back from talking to me."

"I wasn't depressed, I..."

"Felt bad?"

Sirius said nothing. I moved around on his lap, until I could face him. I rested one of my right arm on his shoulder, hand tangled in his hair. I tugged on his hair gently, until he lifted his head up to look at me.

"I don't want you to feel bad about what happened. You couldn't have done anything. I know that. James knows that. So does Lily, Madam Pomfrey, McGonagall and Dumbledore...and those four weren't there." I told him. "Please believe me when I say that you did the best thing in that situation, which was doing nothing. Otherwise, I could have ended up much worse, or even worse, I could have hurt you. And I don't ever want to hurt you, Sirius. I love you too much."

I don't know why, but tears started to fall freely down my face. I felt really stupid. Until I saw that Sirius was the same way. It shocked me, actually, because Sirius never let anybody see him cry. I almost did, back in fifth year, after a particularly bad encounter with his 'parents', not that you could call them that. But he hid. No one could find him, until I looked at the map and found him hiding on top of the Astronomy tower. When I arrived there he was crying, I could hear it, but he hid under James' cloak and righted himself before he revealed himself again.

"I love you far too much to hurt you." I said, quietly.

Sirius raised his right arm – the left still around me – and placed his hand on me cheek. He moved the pad of his thumb side to side across my cheek a few times, before leaning in and softly pressing his lips to mine.

"I love you more than you could ever imagine." Sirius told me, as he pulled back.

I didn't bother to remove my hand from Sirius' hair. Sirius didn't move his hand from my face and didn't bother to hide his as he let tears fall. This was a whole new side of Sirius that I had never seen before. I kind of liked it. I liked that it was me, and only me, that got to see the really vulnerable side of him. If I mentioned this to anyone, not that I would, they'd think I had gone crazy. If they saw it, they'd be cruel, just like I know most people could be. Sirius knew that too. And I was happy he trusted me enough to be like this with me.

"I know I will do anything I can to protect you. I would throw myself in front of any spell for you, and wouldn't care what would happen to me." Sirius continued, smiling slightly. "You're too important Rem, especially to me. And I just want to show you that, every chance I get. You're precious to me Remus, always will be. I love you, and I'm not scared to admit it. I love you!"

Sirius leaned in again, and this time the kiss was slightly more urgent, needier – on both our parts. Sirius' tongue brushed against my lower lip. On its own accord, my lips parted slightly, but that's all Sirius needed to push his tongue into my mouth. I had to admit, this wasn't exactly how I pictured this conversation ending, but it was definitely better than any of the ones I had came up with. When Sirius and I pulled away we just looked at each other, smiling slightly. We didn't have to say it again to know that what the other was thinking. Sirius dropped his hand from my cheek, only to wrap it around me again, and drag me closer to him. I let go of his hair, removed my arm from around him, and rested my head on his shoulder.

"You're the best thing that has ever happened to me, Rem. Without you...I probably would have done something quite drastic by now." Sirius whispered so quietly, I almost didn't hear him. "I don't know what I would do if I lost you."

I didn't know how to reply. So instead, I leaned into him further and hugged him. I mean, actions do say more than words, as some people say. We actually fell asleep like that, and that was exactly how James found us when he came up to the dorm.

This was why it was better to talk things out than to leave them alone, let things get awkward and then end things. The things I learn from Lily and many other girls in and out of Hogwarts. Thank God I have them too.

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