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“I’m bored”. Sirius proclaimed flopping onto Remus’s bed with his arms spread dramatically.
“Hmm” Remus grunted without looking up from his book.
“Entertain me Moony”
“Go find James I’m studying”
“James may never be allowed to leave detention again so you’re stuck with me” Sirius retorted his voice full of pride at escaping McGonnagsl’s clutches. Remus groaned. “If you entertain me I’ll lend you my charms notes so you won’t have to study”.
Remus finally looked up only to raise a mocking eyebrow. “Pads you haven’t been able to do an extension charm without my help for the last 3 months”. This wasn’t exactly true. Sirius was actually quite adept at extension charms; he just liked having Moony stand behind him and cover his wand hand with his own to correct his motion. He would never admit this to Moony though.
“Ok fine if you entertain me now I’ll transform into Padfoot and we can cuddle while you study.” He knew this would crack his friends resolve. Remus had always been a dog person. Growing up he’d never been without a dog so when he went off to hogwarts he missed the familiar sound of barks and the feel of fur between his fingers. When the marauders became animagi he was especially pleased to see Sirius turn into a large slobbering Newfoundland. Oftentimes when Remus felt homesick and was missing his own dog, a 4 year old St.Bernard named Bowie, Sirius would transform into Padfoot smothering him with kisses and rolling over to have his belly scratched.
It never failed to make Remus feel calm and safe burying his face in the dog's thick dark fur that still managed to smell like Sirius’s peach shampoo. “Ok fine 30 minutes”, Remus relented.
“Huzzah” Sirius exclaimed.
“So what do you want to do?”
“I want you to braid my hair!” He responded beaming. “And put flowers in it. Make me look pretty”.
“And where do you expect me to get flowers?”
“You’re a wizard Moony, make some”. And with that Remus sighed and set to work.
He would never admit it to Sirius but he really enjoyed braiding his hair. Letting the dark silky strands glide over his fingers, breathing in that sweet peachy smell. It made his stomach do little somersaults. And god did he love admiring his finished work. Sirius always looked gorgeous, unfairly so, but with his hair in a loose Dutch braid, a few strands falling out around his face he looked like an Ancient Greek hero preparing for battle.
Remus secured the braid with the hair tie charm Sirius had taught him and began to place the small flowers he’d conjured in between the strands. He pulled out the mirror and cast a quick spell so Sirius could see the back of his head. “All done” he proclaimed and went back to his book.
Sirius unceremoniously whacked the book out of his hands looking incredibly pouty. “No not all done you promised me thirty minutes that couldn’t have been more than 10”.
“I braided your hair Pads. What else would you want me to do?”
Sirius’s face transformed from a petulant pout to that all too familiar wicked grin. “I want you to let me do your hair”.
Remus scoffed. “That is absolutely not happening.”
“Awwe come on Moons” Sirius protested. “You have such pretty eyes. They’d be so much easier to see if your hair wasn’t falling in them all the time.”
Remus felt his cheeks flush at the compliment but he wasn’t going to give in that easily. “I like having my hair fall into my eyes, it really brings together the mysterious stranger look”
“It’s pretty hard not to be mysterious when you’re covered in badass scars from head to toe”. Sirius knew Remus was insecure about his scars but he wasn’t kidding when he called them badass. They made Remus look like a sexy pirate or something.
“I promise you I’ll look significantly less badass with pigtails”, Remus retorted. At that Sirius gave him his patented puppy dog eyes until Remus finally said “Merlin Pads fine. You can do my hair”
This made Sirius let out an entirely undignified squeal and quickly run out of the room. “Where are you going, Pads?”
“To ask Lily to borrow her butterfly clips”
“Oh Godric, why did I agree to this!”
After an agonizingly long 5 minutes Sirius reentered the dorm carrying a large box full of sparkly hair accessories and an entirely wicked grin on his face. “Not only did Lily give me her clips but Marls and Mary let me raid their whole hair drawer”.
Sirius plopped himself on the bed and began to run his fingers through Remus’s long curls. Remus loved Sirius’s hands. He had perfect piano fingers, soft skin, and nails that were painted a different color nearly every day. He let out a soft happy sigh as those nails, that today were a dark magenta, combed over his scalp.
Sirius had to force himself to stop just sitting there stroking Moony's hair and get to the task at hand. He parted the honey colored curls down the middle and put them into pigtails then he accessorized.
After a few minutes he passed Remus the small hand mirror and dissolved into raucous laughter at the look of utter horror on his friend's face.
Remus stared at himself in the mirror. With his two curly pigtails each secured with pink Pom-Pom hair ties and two purple glittery flower barrettes securing his fringe he looked like a kindergartener with very poor taste.
“Padfoot this is entirely unfair. I make you look like the heroine of a Shakespeare play reciting some tragic monologue on a balcony to your lost love and you make me look like a kid who brought their stuffed pony in for show and tell”.
“Awww but you’re so adorable Moony”. He wasn’t lying. Although his friend did look utterly ridiculous, the look of indignation on his face was just so damn cute it made Sirius want to piss him off even more. Remus scowled at him as he dug for his enchanted Polaroid. “I need to document how cute you are”.
After far too many pictures had been taken of the two of them Sirius put his camera back on the bookshelf and sat back on Moony’s bed. “Ok moons now that your beauty has been properly captured I can take them out”.
He settled himself in front of his friend and began removing the barrettes. He placed them back in the small box he’d taken from the girls dorm and gently undid the pigtails. He let his fingers linger in Remus’s hair as he brushed it back into its usual shape.
Remus felt his heartbeat speed up as Sirius sat there staring at him running his fingers through his hair. Before he could talk himself out of it he placed his own hand on Sirius’s cheek and pulled him closer. When their noses bumped together he softly whispered “Is this ok?” Sirius nodded his cheeks a pretty shade of pink as Remus pressed their lips together.
It felt perfect. Granted Remus didn’t have much to compare it too but it was still utterly amazing. It was sweet and tender and years in the making and he wanted to live forever in that moment.
Sirius reluctantly pulled away smiling. “I seem to remember I promised to let you study so I’ll go ahead and transform into Padfoot”.
Remus shrugged sheepishly “Or you could stay you and we could cuddle like this?”
Sirius smiled that soft smile that he only ever showed to Remus “yeah ok I’d like that”