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Why did it have to smell like dog fur?! Why couldn’t it smell like something normal, like flowers or cinnamon?! No!! It just had to smell like dog fur! What am I supposed to tell the professor, Sirius will know if I tell the professor what my amortentia really smells like, but at the same time I have never lied to a professor and I do not really want to start.
“Mr. Lupin. Mr. Lupin! Remus!!”
Professor Slughorn snaps him out of his thoughts.
“Sorry, Professor. I got lost in thought, could you please repeat that?” Remus says sheepishly. He could hear Sirius snickering in the background.
“Of course, I was just asking you to tell the class what the amortentia smells like to you.”
“Oh, umm…dog fur…” he says while blushing heavily
Sirius’s snickering cuts off immediately and instead his face splits into a knowing smile. When the Professor moves on from his desk he takes his chances and looks back at where Sirius is sitting. Sirius gives him a subtle wink and Remus starts blushing harder and looks at the floor. He is so caught up in his own head that he doesn’t notice that Sirius tells the class that his smells like chocolate.
For the rest of the day Sirius cannot stop smiling, though he wasn’t really trying that hard either. He gets a weird look from James during transfiguration but he doesn’t even notice he is too wrapped up in Remus and what happened in potions. Remus on the other hand is on the verge of dying from embarrassment and would love if the ground would just swallow him whole right then and there.
Why does he keep staring at me like that?! It is already embarrassing enough without him staring at me with a huge grin all day! Remus had never disliked the fact that he had all the same classes with Sirius until today. Sirius would not stop smirking at him. When his last class finally let out he ran from the classroom to the Great Hall for dinner hoping to beat Sirius. He forgot how fast Sirius was though, so Sirius was right behind him the entire way to the Great Hall. Remus sits at the Gryffindor table and Sirius sits right next to him, maybe a little too close to him, but hey he wasn’t complaining...at least not honestly. Remus has known for a few years about his love for Sirius, but he had always hidden it out of fear of losing his best friend. Yet here he is hoping to find some excuse for why his amortentia smelled like dog fur.
“What are you thinking about?” Sirius whispered in his ear snapping Remus out of his thoughts.
“N-n-nothing!” Remus all but yells and mentally curses himself for stuttering.
Sirius’s face cracks into a huge grin and he whispers in a deep voice, “Are you sure you are not thinking about what happened in Potions today?”
Remus visibly shudders and starts to blush. Sirius’s grin gets wider, if that is even possible, and all he can think is how cute Remus is when he blushes. He looks at the rest of the people at the table and is glad to see that no one is paying them any attention. Sirius decides to figure out how red Remus’s face can get. Sirius starts to growl in Remus’s ear causing the poor werewolf to squirm. Sirius then grabs one of Remus’s hands and starts to play with it. Remus’s cheeks are now a dark red and he is squirming non-stop.
This CANNOT be happening!!! Sirius is NOT growling in my ear!! He is NOT playing with my hand!! AND I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT GETTING TURNED ON BY ALL OF THIS!!!
All of the sudden Remus stands up and runs out of the Great Hall and up the staircase to the Gryffindor common room. He leaves behind a very confused Sirius, who gets up and starts to follow Remus.
Sirius’s first instinct is to go check the library because that is where Remus always goes when he is nervous or just needs to get away from people. Today however the librarian says that Remus is not there and that she has not seen him at all. The only other place that Sirius can think to look is the common room. Once Sirius reaches the common room he all of Remus’s normal hiding spots for him, but he is not in any of them. Sirius starts to get worried. Sirius decides to check the bedrooms before starting a panic. He climbs up the stair case to their bedrooms and softly sighs in relief, because there is Remus curled into a ball on his bed, with the covers pulled over his head. Sirius walks to the side of Remus’s bed and just stands there looking at where Remus is hidden under the covers. He goes to pull the covers off of Remus, but immediately stops when he hears something. Remus is muttering to himself and he has yet to notice that Sirius is standing right beside his bed. Sirius has to strain his ears to hear what Remus is saying.
Remus is muttering, “He doesn’t love me. He is just playing with me. I can’t tell him.” over and over again.
Sirius instantly feels guilty because apparently he hasn’t made the fact that he loves the young werewolf obvious to said werewolf. Sirius transforms into dog form as quietly as he can and then gets onto Remus’s bed. Remus jumps and pulls the covers down when he feels something getting in his bed with him, he but instantly relaxes when he sees Padfoot. Padfoot stops dead in his tracks when Remus jumps and his head pops out from under the covers, but then Remus softly smiles at him and slowly scoots to the side to make room for Padfoot. Padfoot slowly walks towards the top of the bed and curls into a ball. Remus reaches out a hand and starts to pet Padfoot in his sweet spot. Padfoot's tail starts to wag and he licks Remus’s hand causing the boy to giggle at the sensation.
Remus curls into the back of Padfoot and pulls the covers over them. His arm is tucked around Padfoot. He always smells like dog and his fur is always so, so soft. I could easily fall asleep like this every night. Though I do love him in his human form as well, and I would be just as happy to sleep with him in his normal form as I am to sleep with him as a dog. Remus can feel Padfoot's breathing start to even out and his own eyes become heavy with sleep. Not even ten minutes later they are both asleep, Padfoot curled into a ball with Remus curled around him and Remus’s arm draped over Padfoot.
Even though they both suffer with severe nightmares both are able to sleep in peace tonight. Even when the rest of the boys come into the room they stay asleep wrapped in each other. James sees them and all he can think is FINALLY. He has waited for this moment to happen for years. He makes sure that no one disturbs the two because he knows how rare it is for either of them to be able to sleep peacefully. Plus he doesn’t want anyone to ruin the moment the two are having.