Title: A lover's question
Author: Mandy Lupin-Black Archive: Anywhere you want. Just say so, so I can do my happy dance. Warning: Slash Pairing: Remus and Sirius, a little of James and Lily in later chapters Summary: a father, a ring, a question and an answer (in other words, the pups get married) Rating: PG
Disclaimer: What, you thought I actually owned the pups? Of course I don't the fabulous JK Rowling owns them.
Feedback: YES PLEASE!!!
Notes: I started this fic ages ago. I have the first 3 chapters ready, but it's supposed to be a 6 chapter fic. It seems I can't get past page 2 of chapter 4. Maybe I'm able to finish this, when I get some feedback.
"...." = conversation '....' = thoughts
A lover's question
By Mandy Lupin-Black
Chapter 1: permission
The last three minutes were one of the longest moments in the young life of Sirius Black. He looked around the room he was sitting, he just did not want to look up to the face of the man, who wouldn't reply to his request. He was sitting in old but comfy chair in front of a just as old desk. There were bookcases everywhere filled with all kind of papers and documents, it looked liked it contained centuries of information. It probably did, Sirius thought to himself.
The elder man was sitting behind the desk. The sunlight, which was coming from the windows behind the man, was playing with the man's features. It made him look milder, younger and more problems free. 'Just like my Remy'. It still amazed Sirius how much his love looked like his father, the same golden hair, the same shy but oh so sweet smile, his nose, his hair everything was the same. The only real difference Sirius noted was the eyes. The eyes of the man sitting in front of him were a dark kind of brown, while the colour eyes of his beloved were amber, which turned almost yellow when the full moon was approaching. But even the eyes held something in common, they both showed the ever enduring worries, pain and quilt.
For Relius Lupin, it was the knowledge his son was in pain and he couldn't do anything about it. After al these years he still felt that he had failed his son. It was his duty as a father to protect his son and he failed that job miserably, or so he thought. Remus Lupin's biggest fear was that he might conflict his curse on someone else, or perhaps even killing him or her. It was a fear that night after night gave him nightmares. It was something that Sirius had learned to deal with. After a nightmare Sirius would hold him close, whispering soothing words, they would remain that way until they both fell asleep, long after Remus stopped trembling.
Sirius focused his attention on the man again, hoping he would speak soon. He knew he shouldn't be as nervous as he was. What really mattered was what his mate would say, not his father. But Sirius was raised tradionally, his entire life he was told to go to the father first. That his parents were talking about a girl not a boy, was just technicality.
Finally he spoke. "You want to marry my son?"
"Yes Sir"
"Can I ask why?"
Sirius was losing his patience. He just wanted an answer, but it looked like he was going to be given the third degree first. 'I have to do this right, I can't fuck this up'
"Sir, I love Remus. I love him more than the world, he is my world. I want to spend the rest of my life with him."
"I understand you love him, mister Black, but why so soon. You do realise my son is only 15 years old, he's not even old enough to get married."
"I know that we are young, Sir. But as you know Remus and I are already mated. We have a life bond, that can't be broken. Our relationship is so much stronger than that of most humans. And that is something that won't change. It doesn't matter we're young; if we were older things would still be the same. I would still love the way I do now and Remus would still love me as he does now."
"Than why not wait, if your bond is so strong, than why not wait until you both are older. If you really love each other you can wait."
Sirius lost his patience. He leapt off the chair and starting pacing around the room. He raised his voice, just to the point that he was nearly shouted, but not quite yet.
"I don't want to wait. Why you ask? Because Remus is scared. He doesn't admit it, but he is scared. Did he tell you about the boggart? No? Two months ago we were planning a prank and we came across a boggart. As you know a boggart shows you your biggest fear. Do you know what it became with Remus? Me, it became me, telling him that I didn't love him, that I never did and that I was leaving him. Remus's biggest fear is that I'm going to leave him! That is why I want to marry him. I want to show Remus that I love him and that I will never leave him. I want for Remus to stop being afraid. That is why I want to marry Remus now, as I see it the sooner we get married the sooner Remus stops being afraid."
Sirius was close to tears. He never planned to loose control like that. He was sure that he had blown it completely. Soon Mr Lupin would open his mouth saying that he wasn't right for his son and that he should stay away. Not that that was going to stop him. But he knew that his fathers' opinion means a lot to Remus. So you can say that Sirius was more than a little surprised when Relius stood from his chair, with huge smile and embraced Sirius like a lost son.
"Wh-what?" Sirius could barely manage to say.
"I'm sorry I put you through this Sirius, I just had to see if you were genuine. I see that you love my son as much as he loves you."
Relief washed over Sirius and he was slowly returning to the cocky, fun loving prankster he was. "Yes I do. Does this mean I have you're permission?"
"You have more that my permission, you have my blessing."
"You have no idea how worried I was, Sir. I was sure you were going to say that I had to leave your home and Remus."
"Please call me Relius. If you are going to become my son-in-law, I don't want you calling me Sir al the time"
With a huge grin he said, "Thank you Relius"
"You are quite welcome. In fact there is something I want to show you. If you will follow me Sirius."
Relius was leading Sirius out of the office, through a long hallway, to the staircase. There they walked down the stairs, passing various wizard and muggles paintings. Most of them were of Remus' ancestors.
"How did you get away from Remus, without him noticing?"
Sirius was sunken deep in his own thought and it took him a few moments to realise that Relius asked him a question. "Oh, he was reading a new book and I told him that I was going to do a little scooping around. To be honest I think he was glad to be rid of me."
"Ah yes, Remus and his books."
They stopped in front a painting of a young knight. He was currently brewing his horse.
"Where are we Relius?" Sirius asked the elder man.
"This is sir Henry" Relius pointed to the knight "he is the gate keeper to the fault where we keep the family jewels. We keep most of the money and jewels at Gringotts. But some of the jewels have been in the Lupin family for more that a 1000 years and some just have a special meaning to us, so we try to keep them as close a possibly."
The knight spotted the two men and turned to them. "Hello Mr Lupin" He looked at Sirius for a while, trying to figure out how to approach him. Finally he settled with, 'young man'.
"Hello, sir Henry, how are you doing?"
"I'm just fine, thank you for asking. What can I do for you?"
"Young Mr Black and I seek entrance to the fault. The password is 'chocolate frogs'."
"As you seek." Sir Henry opened the door to reveal a large dark room. Relius entered and Sirius followed.
"Ignito" with the spell, the four torches in the room lit. The room wasn't that big. With both Relius and Sirius in the room, there was hardly any room to move. Standing against the two sideway walls were two cupboards with what most be over a hundred small drawers.
"Sirius this is where we keep our most precious jewels. Now for what I'm looking for..."
"Relius, what exactly are we looking? Why are we here?"
"Patient my boy, patient."
Relius started looking through several of the drawers, until he finally found what he was looking for. Relius turned to Sirius holding a beautiful golden box. The box was about 2 inch long in all ways. The Lupin family weapon was on it, which contained of a wolf, a crown, a sceptre and a sword. And the box was decorated with pearls and rubies. Relius gave the box to Sirius.
Sirius was awed at the beauty of the box. It was the prettiest box he had ever seen, but he didn't understand why Relius had given it to him. "Relius it is beautiful, but wha-"
Before Sirius could finish the sentence, Relius opened the box to reveal a ring. The entire ring was covered with countless of small diamonds, all of them sparkling in the light of the torches.
For the first time in his life Sirius was speechless over an object. It was only with Remus that he was sometimes lost in words. Yet this small ring was so beautiful, so perfect that he didn't know what to say.
"This is the Lupin family engagement ring. When, 350 years ago, marriages between the same sex was legalized in the wizard world, the family created this ring as an engagement ring for the homosexual members of the family. Every Lupin who has been engaged to another male has worn this ring. The ring is charmed in a way that it cannot be harmed and automatically fits whoever is wearing the ring. I'm given this to you, Sirius, so you can give it to Remus."
"Thank you, Si- Relius. Thank you so much. This will mean so much to Remus. And the ring is...I mean wow. It's almost worthy to be carried by Remus. Again, thank you."
"Now that you have a ring. When are you going to ask him?"
"Christmas, I'm going to ask him on Christmas."
Author: Mandy Lupin-Black Archive: Anywhere you want. Just say so, so I can do my happy dance. Warning: Slash Pairing: Remus and Sirius, a little of James and Lily in later chapters Summary: a father, a ring, a question and an answer (in other words, the pups get married) Rating: PG
Disclaimer: What, you thought I actually owned the pups? Of course I don't the fabulous JK Rowling owns them.
Feedback: YES PLEASE!!!
Notes: I started this fic ages ago. I have the first 3 chapters ready, but it's supposed to be a 6 chapter fic. It seems I can't get past page 2 of chapter 4. Maybe I'm able to finish this, when I get some feedback.
"...." = conversation '....' = thoughts
A lover's question
By Mandy Lupin-Black
Chapter 1: permission
The last three minutes were one of the longest moments in the young life of Sirius Black. He looked around the room he was sitting, he just did not want to look up to the face of the man, who wouldn't reply to his request. He was sitting in old but comfy chair in front of a just as old desk. There were bookcases everywhere filled with all kind of papers and documents, it looked liked it contained centuries of information. It probably did, Sirius thought to himself.
The elder man was sitting behind the desk. The sunlight, which was coming from the windows behind the man, was playing with the man's features. It made him look milder, younger and more problems free. 'Just like my Remy'. It still amazed Sirius how much his love looked like his father, the same golden hair, the same shy but oh so sweet smile, his nose, his hair everything was the same. The only real difference Sirius noted was the eyes. The eyes of the man sitting in front of him were a dark kind of brown, while the colour eyes of his beloved were amber, which turned almost yellow when the full moon was approaching. But even the eyes held something in common, they both showed the ever enduring worries, pain and quilt.
For Relius Lupin, it was the knowledge his son was in pain and he couldn't do anything about it. After al these years he still felt that he had failed his son. It was his duty as a father to protect his son and he failed that job miserably, or so he thought. Remus Lupin's biggest fear was that he might conflict his curse on someone else, or perhaps even killing him or her. It was a fear that night after night gave him nightmares. It was something that Sirius had learned to deal with. After a nightmare Sirius would hold him close, whispering soothing words, they would remain that way until they both fell asleep, long after Remus stopped trembling.
Sirius focused his attention on the man again, hoping he would speak soon. He knew he shouldn't be as nervous as he was. What really mattered was what his mate would say, not his father. But Sirius was raised tradionally, his entire life he was told to go to the father first. That his parents were talking about a girl not a boy, was just technicality.
Finally he spoke. "You want to marry my son?"
"Yes Sir"
"Can I ask why?"
Sirius was losing his patience. He just wanted an answer, but it looked like he was going to be given the third degree first. 'I have to do this right, I can't fuck this up'
"Sir, I love Remus. I love him more than the world, he is my world. I want to spend the rest of my life with him."
"I understand you love him, mister Black, but why so soon. You do realise my son is only 15 years old, he's not even old enough to get married."
"I know that we are young, Sir. But as you know Remus and I are already mated. We have a life bond, that can't be broken. Our relationship is so much stronger than that of most humans. And that is something that won't change. It doesn't matter we're young; if we were older things would still be the same. I would still love the way I do now and Remus would still love me as he does now."
"Than why not wait, if your bond is so strong, than why not wait until you both are older. If you really love each other you can wait."
Sirius lost his patience. He leapt off the chair and starting pacing around the room. He raised his voice, just to the point that he was nearly shouted, but not quite yet.
"I don't want to wait. Why you ask? Because Remus is scared. He doesn't admit it, but he is scared. Did he tell you about the boggart? No? Two months ago we were planning a prank and we came across a boggart. As you know a boggart shows you your biggest fear. Do you know what it became with Remus? Me, it became me, telling him that I didn't love him, that I never did and that I was leaving him. Remus's biggest fear is that I'm going to leave him! That is why I want to marry him. I want to show Remus that I love him and that I will never leave him. I want for Remus to stop being afraid. That is why I want to marry Remus now, as I see it the sooner we get married the sooner Remus stops being afraid."
Sirius was close to tears. He never planned to loose control like that. He was sure that he had blown it completely. Soon Mr Lupin would open his mouth saying that he wasn't right for his son and that he should stay away. Not that that was going to stop him. But he knew that his fathers' opinion means a lot to Remus. So you can say that Sirius was more than a little surprised when Relius stood from his chair, with huge smile and embraced Sirius like a lost son.
"Wh-what?" Sirius could barely manage to say.
"I'm sorry I put you through this Sirius, I just had to see if you were genuine. I see that you love my son as much as he loves you."
Relief washed over Sirius and he was slowly returning to the cocky, fun loving prankster he was. "Yes I do. Does this mean I have you're permission?"
"You have more that my permission, you have my blessing."
"You have no idea how worried I was, Sir. I was sure you were going to say that I had to leave your home and Remus."
"Please call me Relius. If you are going to become my son-in-law, I don't want you calling me Sir al the time"
With a huge grin he said, "Thank you Relius"
"You are quite welcome. In fact there is something I want to show you. If you will follow me Sirius."
Relius was leading Sirius out of the office, through a long hallway, to the staircase. There they walked down the stairs, passing various wizard and muggles paintings. Most of them were of Remus' ancestors.
"How did you get away from Remus, without him noticing?"
Sirius was sunken deep in his own thought and it took him a few moments to realise that Relius asked him a question. "Oh, he was reading a new book and I told him that I was going to do a little scooping around. To be honest I think he was glad to be rid of me."
"Ah yes, Remus and his books."
They stopped in front a painting of a young knight. He was currently brewing his horse.
"Where are we Relius?" Sirius asked the elder man.
"This is sir Henry" Relius pointed to the knight "he is the gate keeper to the fault where we keep the family jewels. We keep most of the money and jewels at Gringotts. But some of the jewels have been in the Lupin family for more that a 1000 years and some just have a special meaning to us, so we try to keep them as close a possibly."
The knight spotted the two men and turned to them. "Hello Mr Lupin" He looked at Sirius for a while, trying to figure out how to approach him. Finally he settled with, 'young man'.
"Hello, sir Henry, how are you doing?"
"I'm just fine, thank you for asking. What can I do for you?"
"Young Mr Black and I seek entrance to the fault. The password is 'chocolate frogs'."
"As you seek." Sir Henry opened the door to reveal a large dark room. Relius entered and Sirius followed.
"Ignito" with the spell, the four torches in the room lit. The room wasn't that big. With both Relius and Sirius in the room, there was hardly any room to move. Standing against the two sideway walls were two cupboards with what most be over a hundred small drawers.
"Sirius this is where we keep our most precious jewels. Now for what I'm looking for..."
"Relius, what exactly are we looking? Why are we here?"
"Patient my boy, patient."
Relius started looking through several of the drawers, until he finally found what he was looking for. Relius turned to Sirius holding a beautiful golden box. The box was about 2 inch long in all ways. The Lupin family weapon was on it, which contained of a wolf, a crown, a sceptre and a sword. And the box was decorated with pearls and rubies. Relius gave the box to Sirius.
Sirius was awed at the beauty of the box. It was the prettiest box he had ever seen, but he didn't understand why Relius had given it to him. "Relius it is beautiful, but wha-"
Before Sirius could finish the sentence, Relius opened the box to reveal a ring. The entire ring was covered with countless of small diamonds, all of them sparkling in the light of the torches.
For the first time in his life Sirius was speechless over an object. It was only with Remus that he was sometimes lost in words. Yet this small ring was so beautiful, so perfect that he didn't know what to say.
"This is the Lupin family engagement ring. When, 350 years ago, marriages between the same sex was legalized in the wizard world, the family created this ring as an engagement ring for the homosexual members of the family. Every Lupin who has been engaged to another male has worn this ring. The ring is charmed in a way that it cannot be harmed and automatically fits whoever is wearing the ring. I'm given this to you, Sirius, so you can give it to Remus."
"Thank you, Si- Relius. Thank you so much. This will mean so much to Remus. And the ring is...I mean wow. It's almost worthy to be carried by Remus. Again, thank you."
"Now that you have a ring. When are you going to ask him?"
"Christmas, I'm going to ask him on Christmas."