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Remus, are you here?” Logan inquires to the large abandoned house. Of course he is, Logan knows this; Remus can’t leave.
He’s standing in the main foyer of the dilapidated structure, waiting for Remus to show himself.
He knows Remus knows he’s there, Remus can sense anyone who walks on to his property, the question was just for Logan himself; he likes to announce that he’s there, it’s just polite.
And sometimes Remus get’s a little too caught up in things he’s doing to care about people intruding in his manor.
The door slams harshly behind Logan and a cackle surrounds him, he rolls his eyes but smirks at the ghosts antics.
“Remus, I have something for you, if you’d just become corporeal we can start.”
“Start what?” Remus says excitedly behind Logan, manic grin in place.
Logan smiles at his boyfriend “ah, there you are I had a feeling.”
Remus floats over to Logan; a salacious smile replaces the manic one, Remus drags his finger over Logan’s cheek making him shiver from the cold touch.
“Mmm, I have a feeling too, wanna look further into that with me?”
Logan leans in and pecks the ghost on the lips, too short for Remus’ liking but what Logan says when he backs away has Remus stock still.
“Happy birthday.”
“What?”
“Happy birthday, it’s your birthday today, and therefore I have something for you.”
“It’s my birthday? How do you know that, I don’t even remember when that was.”
Logan adjusts his tie and clears his throat “well, I did some digging to figure out this information.”
Remus smirks with a quirked eyebrow “legal digging?”
“Irrelevant” Logan waves off, “what is relevant is my gift.”
“Oh yea, and what am I receiving?” he wiggles his eyebrows suggestively.
“A day out.”
And Logan stumps him once again.
“That’s impossible” he shakes his head, floating higher up and flipping onto his back to lounge in the air.
“It is not in fact impossible for me dear” he adjusts his glasses with a smug expression.
Remus flips over and letting his arms dangle, “oh yea hot shot witch? What’chu got?”
Logan pulls a scroll out of his shoulder bag, it’s old looking and it looks like someone tried to burn it.
“This scroll is an ancient spell that allows the dead to walk the earth for a day once a year, now it does say that it lets all the dead come back, and that would be catastrophic. So I revised it to allow for one ghost to become able to do it.”
Remus blinks multiple times in awe, “of fuckin course you did, and how did you test this bitch out?”
“Already dead animals of course, I just need one thing from you.”
“Oh?”
“Some sort of DNA, in your case I would assume bones.”
“Where’d you get the animals DNA?”
“Once again irrelevant.”
Remus smiles widely; god dang he’s so love struck with this man.
“You want my bone? Follow me~” he once again turns onto his back and floats off into the direction of the cellar, beckoning Logan forwards with wiggling fingers.
The cellar is dark but as they go down candles start to flare to life in big bursts of green before they settle into the warm orange glow a candle is supposed to emit.
He’s never been down in the cellar before, the door has always been locked, it doesn’t even have a handle, he’s curious to know what’s down here.
As he steps off the last stair the room flares with light and he can see the room at large.
It... it’s a dungeon of some sort.
“Remus, what exactly am I looking at here?”
“My secrets” his eyes flash, twisted grin on his face.
“Right, as much as I really, really want to get into that, there’s too much to unpack there for right now; bones?”
“Right over there” he points to a large throne like chair, it’s upholstered in green silk, it’s ripped and dirty from the years; but what sits upon the throne is a skeleton; old blood marring the almost white shirt from its collar down.
Remus floats over to his skeleton and rips his skull off, he then hands it to Logan.
“You needn't do that, I could have done the ritual right in front of the throne.”
Remus waves him off “eh then just keep it.”
Logan looks down at the skull in thought “very well.”
He takes a cloth out of his bag and wraps the skull up to place it in his bag.
“I know that look, you already have ideas for that don’tcha?”
Logan smirks “I do indeed, now let’s get this party started shall we?”
He steps over equipment and other bones to get to the skeleton, he takes a deep breath with closed eyes and starts to chant.
Remus doesn’t understand what Logan is saying, or the gestures he’s doing with his hands, but it’s mesmerising; he can’t take his eyes off of the ritual.
He’s so focused on Logan that he takes an unneeded breath, and when he feels the air in his lungs it startles him, he’s still floating and he can still feel his ghostly powers course through him, but he also feels… more alive.
Logan stops chanting, he sways with fluttering eyes and Remus doesn’t think twice before lurching forwards to catch Logan before he stumbles to the side.
“That take a lot outta you?”
Logan looks up at Remus from the ghosts arms, a soft look on his face as he caresses Remus’ cheek.
“Without my familiar here yes, but it’s worth it” he says kissing the other being.
“So, I can… leave the manor for the rest of the day?”
“For exactly twenty four hours, once the spell wears off you’ll be sent right back here; what would you like to do first?”
“First? This” Remus says going back down to kiss Logan but with more force to it.
Logan chuckles as he pulls away, but he grabs Remus’ hand.
“Come, let’s go.”
Remus vibrates with excitement, he hasn’t been out of the manor boundaries for so so long, he’s raring to see how much the town has changed with his own eye.
As they’re walking outside and to the gate Logan stops them “one rule: no magic around mortals, so get your feet on the ground mister.”
He groans, but that’s fair, people don’t usually float.
“It’s gonna be weird walking everywhere” he scowls but plants his feet down.
There’s a lot of questions Logan wants to ask, too many really; but today is about having fun in a whole new world for Remus so he’ll keep his questions to himself.
For now.
Logan opens the gate and steps through, Remus seems oddly hesitant but he too walks through with Logan.
He’s on the other side of the gate.
He’s on the other side of the gate!
He whoops and hollers, excitement sparks out of him; literally.
He jumps up and tightly hugs Logan.
“Happy birthday” Logan says kissing Remus’ cheek.
And off they go, to have some birthday fun.