Well, here's the next chapter! Huge thanks to Littleoldmeeeee who kindly corrected all my mistakes :3 xox

And thank you Roses Wrath! Glad you "loved it" :D

Thanks for the review ifixedthebifrost! I'm not compleatly sure how Sirius' mind's working either :P Gonna have to figure it out soon though

Remus lay very still on the damp grass after the Slytherins had left. He could hear their laughing voices fade away when they returned to their spot behind the castle. After what seemed like an hour for Remus, but was probably less than five minutes, he moved and stood up slowly. His breath had gone back to normal and the pain in his back had disappeared just as quickly as it had come. As he started walking up to the castle he could feel how wet his jumper and trousers had become after lying on the ground.

Remus couldn't really understand what just had happened. He had been very lucky that the Slytherins hadn't been in a foul mood. You didn't want to walk into them after they'd lost a Quidditch game. Remus had learned that two years ago...

The only explanation to Black's strange behaviour was that he had been drunk. Which was quite logical since Remus had smelled alcohol on his breath. Black had been so close. And his touch was so gentle...Remus thought a bit dreamily. He stopped abruptly as he found the portrait of the Fat Lady right in front of him, having not realized where he was going.

"Quid Agist" said Remus and the Fat Lady welcomed him inside. As he'd expected, the common room was empty now. The time had passed eleven and Remus only now noticed how tired he was as he'd been up since seven. He walked up to the dorm, and prepared himself for bed as quietly as possible, not to make his dorm mates.

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"Hey, is everything alright?"

Lily sat down opposite him on Gryffindor's table without hesitation. Remus looked up from The Daily Prophet he'd just received from an owl, surprised to find her right in front of him. He hadn't expected many students to be at breakfast at eight on a Saturday morning. That was the reason why he had breakfast at eight every Saturday and Sunday morning. It was one of his favourite moments of the week. It was only him and few other early raisers in the Great Hall. No one to bother him.

"Erm...yes. Why wouldn't it be?" He answered, folding his paper, a bit disappointed to be interrupted.

"I didn't see you come back last night?" said Lily and studied Remus for any signs as she helped herself to eggs and toast.

"Oh..." Remus didn't know how to respond. He didn't want to tell her about what happened, he never told anyone. But he had a feeling that Lily already knew about the Slytherins bullying him. "No I...it was-"

"It was Black and the gang wasn't it?" Lily interrupted while still watching him carefully. She obviously saw it on Remus' face because she continued without waiting for an answer. "They're awful! All of them." she said angrily and accidently missed her cup when pouring the tea. "What did they do? Are you alright?"

"Yes. Yes, I'm fine." Remus gave her a small smile to make his statement more believable. "Nothing happened really. Just ran into them on my way back from the Owlery,"

He didn't know how much he could tell her. They had talked a little through the years but they weren't really close. Remus thought back to last night, and nothing really had happened. Except that Black had acted a bit weird. But to be honest that was quite normal for him.

"Okay. Well, if you need to talk I'm right here," said Lily and smiled kindly at him.

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A few days passed without anything special happening. Remus studied in the library as usual every day and sometimes Lily would join him. It felt nice to have someone to talk to even if it was about the simplest things like homework or articles from the Daily Prophet.

The Slytherins hadn't actually bothered him for over a week, which Remus considered special. They even left him alone in Potions. No mean comments on his skills, looks or clumsiness. However, Remus couldn't stop thinking about what had happened that evening on his way back from the Owlery. And he might be imagining things but he was quite sure that he'd caught Black glancing at him from the Slytherin table over dinner. It made Remus feel uncomfortable. Maybe they're planning some huge prank on him since they've been so quiet recently...

"Alright, dear. The library is closing for today," said Madam Pince as she collected some books from a table and put them back on the shelves.

Remus looked up from his book and around the library and found that he was the only one left, so he closed his book and put it back in his bag. He had stopped studying long ago and had just continued reading a novel he'd already read several times before.

Remus wished Madam Pince a good night and heaved his bag over his shoulder. It was always heavy on his way back from the library. So leaning to one side due to the weight of his bag, he began making his way back to Gryffindor's common room. He passed a few Ravenclaws who were going the opposite way to their Common room. Remus knew very well where Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff common room's where. How could people not know? He'd seen many Ravenclaws walk up the spiral staircase and through the door on the fifth floor, and just as many Hufflepuffs going down to the kitchen and behind a stack of barrels. But he didn't know where the Slytherin common room was. Obviously it was in the dungeons since all the Slytherin students hung around there. But Remus didn't ever go down there if it wasn't for Potions classes. He didn't need to seek trouble. It always managed to find him anyway.

After he'd climbed the stairs up to the seventh floor, he turned right into the corridor he'd gone through so many times before. He stopped for a second when he saw two people occupying the corridor, the boy was pressing the girl up against the wall, his hand travelling up under her blouse but she didn't seem to mind as she clung around the boy's neck. Great, another awkward couple.

Remus had to pass them to get to his common room. There was another way but it would take so long and he was really tired. So he sighed and started walking faster towards them as quietly as he could. However, he stopped when he saw who the boy was. Black turned away from the girl and looked right at him with the familiar grin on his face.

"Jealous, Lupin?" Black smirked, his hand still inside the girl's shirt. Remus didn't recognize the girl, who looked arrogant and gave him an uninterested look. She was probably a Slytherin too, judging by her haughty appearance. Remus decided that he didn't like her at all, even though she hadn't said anything.

"Erm..." Remus started nervously. "I'm just...passing by." He mumbled and continued walking very fast.

"Yeah, I can see that." Even if Remus had his back to Black and the girl now, he could still hear the grin in his voice. "See you later."

No, I don't want to see you later...

It will get more intense soon...