(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I should be doing work right now... oops.

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Leo

Elaine and I had sat waiting for Remus in the Room of Requirement for about ten minutes before realising that he wasn't simply running late. Once we had come to that conclusion, Elaine gave me permission- pfft, like I needed permission- to eavesdrop, and see whatever devious schemes he was planning. Honing my hearing, I quickly located Remus, and was only slightly surprised to find him with James, Sirius, and Peter- but also, a bit more shockingly, Lily. "They kidnapped her again," I told Elaine with some amusement, and she looked confused.

"Her?" I backpedaled, remembering that she couldn't hear what I could.

"Remus is with the Marauder boys, they kidnapped Lily."

She made a sound of understanding before raising an eyebrow. "Those boys are going to grow up to be criminals, you can just taste it." I shrugged, focusing on the other conversation once more.

"They're talking about how Severus knew..." I breathed a sigh of relief, a small smile blooming on my lips. "Lily didn't tell him." Not that I'd thought she had, but it was a relief to make sure that she hadn't.

"I didn't think she would," Elaine agreed, clearly watching my reactions carefully.

"Oh," I muttered absent-mindedly, and Elaine raised an eyebrow.

"What? What happened?"

I waved her off for a second so I could listen, before a grin spread across my lips. "They know that James knows... and Remus made a funny." She rolled her eyes, whacking me on the shoulder so lightly that it could have been confused for a feather landing.

"Boys! You had me worried, you clod."

I smirked at her, grabbing her hand and spinning her in a circle before focusing again. "They're leaving now... Remus will be coming back soon." I looked up at her, only to realise she was only a foot away.

"Uh..." She said, and I cleared my throat, moving away from her quickly.

"Sorry." I shot her an apologetic look before sitting down and starting to flick through a book that so happened to be in front of me, not even bothering to scan the pages, though I could still feel her staring at me. Feel her eyes on me weighing much heavier than a mere feather.

"Leo..." She cut herself off as I stood and quickly moved toward the door.

"I'll be back."

She caught my hand, the other one planting against the door so she was full up in my face, blocking my way out. "What. Is. Wrong?" She asked- practically demanded- and I rolled my eyes a second before I pulled the door open despite her having her full weight against it, catching her around the waist as she was flung forward and then releasing her quickly, just so she wouldn't hit the floor.

"I'll be back," I told her again, shutting the door behind me quickly, taking a deep breath, and racing through the castle and out into the grounds.

Remus

As I entered the Room of Requirement after having 'kidnapped' Lily with the other boys, I found Elaine sitting on the floor by the door, her back against the wall, chin resting on her knees. "Elaine...?" Her head snapped up, and I saw the wet streaks of tears on her cheeks before she had the chance to try to wipe them away- which she did, almost immediately. "Oh, Elaine..." I whispered, and she stood up quickly, moving over to the table where a book still lay open.

"Afternoon, Moony," She said brightly even though I could hear the hurt in her voice, and I crossed to her side, automatically wrapping my arms around her.

"What did he do now?"

She stiffened, then sniffled pitifully- which wasn't a word I ever thought I'd be using to describe Elaine, but in this moment, no other fit. "He didn't do anything... that's exactly what he did." I was confused, but took her word for it anyway.

"Well... he's a git." She snorted quietly, though the sound was rather wet, given all the extra snot. The tears were also still flowing, albeit slower.

"How was your kidnapping session?"

Now it was my turn to freeze, my eyelids fluttering closed for a second. "Leo eavesdropped...?" She nodded, smiling slightly as she pulled away, handing me a book as she did so.

"It's what he does best," She reminded me, raising an eyebrow quietly- and gesturing with her head out of the window, where the Forbidden forest could be seen.

"Ah." He could hear us, then. Probably. I didn't really know how strong vampire senses are, but if he had been able to hear our conversation when we had kidnapped Lily, I had very little doubt that he could hear us anything less than perfectly now. "We need to get him a collar with a little bell on it," I suggested with a small smile, and Elaine coughed lightly, trying to hide a laugh.

"Might make him look a little girly..." She said, glancing to the ceiling as if picturing it in her minds eye. "Yep, yep, definitely girly- I don't mind it, though."

(A/N): So, what did you think?

I know it's short, and that it ended abruptly, but...

I find it hard to focus when my boyfriend and his friends are nearby, they tend to be... distracting, to say the least. :P

This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 30/12/22

This chapter has had edits made to it on 29/2/24 - formatting, and reconfiguring sentences so they make more sense. I also changed Elaine saying the collar might make Leo look 'butch' to him looking 'girly', because butch wasn't really what I was going for anyway, and I don't think that's the word Elaine would use in this situation, either. I also added the 'I don't mind it, though', because Elaine doesn't care if Leo is effeminate or not, which is kind of a big thing for Leo, later in the story.