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A/N: Once again I apologize for my absence. I hope this chapter makes up for it.

Chapter 13 – 'You just don't kiss the way that Iola does.'

I awoke as the sun seeped through a small crack in the heavy curtains that were in front of a large window. I was slightly alarmed that Remus wasn't holding me. I hated awaking without his arms wrapped around me. It made me feel some what naked. I rubbed some sleep out of my eyes as I walked out of my room and began to search for a bathroom. After a few tries I was met with success and had a very refreshing shower. I then made my way down the stairs in search of my beloved.

I made my way into what I assumed was the kitchen and found Remus sitting with Sirius who was still in the dusty robes he had been wearing when he had fallen asleep on the couch. "You boys are having breakfast without me?" I quipped as I made my way behind Remus who was seated across from Sirius.

"I didn't want to wake you, and there isn't much breakfast unless you want porridge," Remus answered as I kissed him on the cheek.

I made a disgusted face at the mention of porridge and Sirius shrugged. "I'm sorry I can't be more hospitable. It's hard to provide much when I can't leave." He got up and made his way to the stove. "Would you like some tea, Miss Blodwyn?" he asked holding up a kettle.

"Yes, please," I answered before moving on to my own question. "How do you get anything if you aren't able to leave? I mean wouldn't you have starved by now?"

Remus smiled and placed his hand on top of one of mine. "Molly Weasley makes a trip out here every chance she can to bring Sirius provisions and what not. Albus Dumbledore set it all up."

"Oh, well, that's good. Well, that he is being taken care of," I said not noticing that I was talking about Sirius like he wasn't in the room. "Who is Molly Weasley?"

"She's the wife of Arthur Weasley. He works for the Ministry. And her coming here would really do some good if she came a little more often," Sirius said pouring tea into a cup for me. "Sugar?"

"No thanks. You know, maybe you should get someone who doesn't take so long to bring things here," I suggested taking the tea cup that was handed to me.

Remus looked at Sirius before looking back at me with a concerned look on his face. "Well, every time some one comes here it is more than likely noticed, even if muggles are a little daft to our ways. The more Molly comes here the more chance she has to be noticed. She can't be coming here every day and neither can any one else."

"Oh," I muttered softly as I continued to blow on my tea.

We all sat in silence that was only broken as I slurped the hot tea I held in front of me. "I'm off to the bath," Sirius said standing. "Do, uh, make yourselves at home, and if that includes tidying up then, please, be my guest." He made his way out of the small kitchen and I downed the rest of my tea.

"That's so sad," I whispered to Remus.

Remus laughed slightly. "You don't have to whisper. He's up stairs, and he can't hear you."

"Oh, well, it's still sad," I said at a normal tone. "I mean how miserable it must be to have to stay in this dusty old mansion all day long. He can't even take a stroll in the yard can he?"

"And for Sirius it's excruciating. I can tell that much. He is a very free person. He's better when he can do what he wants, which he usually does when he isn't terrified for his life," Remus said solemnly.

"What threat to his life is there?" I asked knowing I had missed out on part of his story.

Remus sighed knowing he had to tell me now that he had brought it up. "Well, if he is ever captured again he will be brought to the Dementors immediately, and they have been given permission to perform the Kiss on him no questions asked," he said hushing his own voice.

"That is terrible," I said not knowing what else to say. "I don't even want to think about that."

Remus shrugged. "Then don't."

"What else am I supposed to think about?"

Remus leaned in and kissed me softly on the lips hushing any other words I would have said. I laughed softly and moved myself to sit in his lap. He had done a perfect job of taking my mind of the distressing news I had just received about his very good friend.

"So what are the plans for today?" I asked brushing my lips across his. I could feel the heat radiating off those soft lips of his. "I do hope it has something to do with me staying in this position."

"You have nothing to worry about there. You can stay where you are all day if you like. I certainly am not going to object," Remus laughed. "Other than that it's going to be a lazy day spent keeping Sirius company."

I captured his lips in mine for a deep kiss. I pulled myself into him deepening the kiss as much as I dared at that moment. "What was that for?" Remus asked pulling away from me.

"It's for being so caring for your friend's wellbeing. If you are that way with him how will you be with the woman you love? Will you keep me company when I can't go out for fear of my life?" I asked pushing my nose against his.

"Of course. I don't see why I wouldn't be. Although I think the things we will do to occupy the time will be somewhat different than what Sirius and I do," he said with a smirk.

"You mean, mean you've never nestled up close to Sirius as you both read a book on a rainy day, or even held him in your lap?" I joked.

"Uh, no I don't recall doing any of that with Sirius. I think I like who I did do it with a lot more though."

"I take offense to that, Moony," Sirius said walking into the kitchen and brushing his damp hair out of his face as he sat down. I looked at him more carefully in the day light. He was really a good looking man even though he did look aged even more than Remus.

"Sorry, Padfoot but you just don't kiss the way that Iola does." I looked at Remus wide-eyed for a moment. "It was a joke," he said with a laugh.

"I hope it was," I said turning back to Sirius. "That's all I need. Brother, dear, I can beat your relationship mishap. My boyfriend ran away with his best friend." I seemed to be the only one in the room who found my quip funny, and after a moment of silence I decided to break the tension I had built. "Remus, did you bring our book with you?"

"I did," he said with a nod. "Would you like to relocate and try to read a little bit?"

"I would like to as long as it is okay with you two."

"It's fine with me," Sirius said with a shrug standing up and making his way to the parlour room that we had spent the night talking in. As I made my move to get up Remus scooped me up in his arm and carried me into the parlour the way he had carried me to bed just hours before. He sat in the chair keeping me in his lap.

"Remus, aren't you forgetting something?" I asked looking at him with a sideways smile.

Remus looked around for a moment and sighed. He drew his wand out of his robes and summoned the book to him. "What page were we on?" he asked cracking it open.

"I do believe we were on page 394," I said with a nod as he flipped the pages.

We sat there reading while Sirius murmured little spells to our side. It was quite an uneventful afternoon that went by a little quicker than I had expected it to. Before long both Remus and I were yawning and Sirius had become silent except for the soft sleeping breaths that came from the dusty couch he laid upon. "Should we wake him?" I asked in a hushed voice. Remus shook his head and as I yawned he closed our book. "Hey, I wasn't finished with that page," I said still trying to hush my voice the best I could.

"It's time for bed," he said just as softly as he placed the book on the table next to us.

He made to lift me up again and I stopped him. "You know Remus I can walk myself," I whispered as I stood.

"I just wanted to keep you in that position," he smiled up at me from his seat.

"You don't even have to ask if you want me in that position," I said causing Remus to turn a little red as he stood next to me. "Now let's go to bed," I whispered with a sly smile as I grabbed his hand and led him to the bed room.

I entered the room and looked at my dressing gown for a moment when for the first time in a few days I had the urge to kiss Remus passionately. Either he sensed this urge or he felt it as well because at that moment he turned away from the door and before I could really say he had taken me in his arms and captured my lips in a breath taking kiss. I only broke the kiss when the need to breath became so unbearable I thought I was going to burst. "Why does it feel like we haven't kissed like that in forever?" I asked as Remus made a trail of kisses down the side of my neck.

"Because it has been forever," he said gazing into my eyes. Suddenly I was hit with that familiar Amber flame that shone in his eyes when I had first met him. It was the same fire that burned the first time we had kissed and on the outing with Brenna and Corbett. There was something about how his eyes looked that ignited a flame with in me at the same time and I uncharacteristically leapt into him, wrapping my legs around his waist and pulling his lips into mine. We fell back against the door and made I noise I was sure had awoken Sirius, but at that moment I could care less about waking Sirius up.

"What in the world has gotten into you?" Remus asked as he broke our kiss.

"You have," I said with a breathless smile. I captured his lips with mine again and fought my damnedest to keep our lips locked together as long as I could. As he leaned against the door with my body latched on to his I heard a faint mumble from the room below. I knew it had to be a waken Sirius but I wasn't about to let Remus out of my clutches for Sirius no matter how good of friends they were. I gently caressed Remus' lips with my tongue and he parted them to allow me access in a first role reversal.

"I don't know what to think about this side of you," he said pulling away from me.

"Am I being too forward?" I asked trying to calm myself.

"You're being insane," he said with a laugh. "I think I might like it though."

"Well, good," I said with a wide smile. "I want you to like it." I said before he took advantage of my pause in action to sit upon the bed with my legs still wrapped around his torso. I took advantage of our new position to kiss him more deeply than before, my tongue finding refuge in the deep recesses of his warm mouth. "I don't think I will ever feel this way about any one else," I said as he made a trail of warm kisses down my neck.

"I don't think I will even love any one this way either," he said gazing into my eyes.

I smiled weakly as a thought occurred to me. "Remus, I want to share everything with you. I want to try every experience and be with you every step of your life."

"I want the same with you," he said before kissing me on the nape of my neck.

I let out a slightly frustrated groan and pulled his head up to look at me. "I don't think you understand what I'm saying to you," I said in a serious tone. "I want to share myself with you."

Remus took a moment to have the words I had just said register in his mind the way I had meant them. "Oh, Iola, I don't see why we would need to do that. Not now at least."

"I don't mean now. I just mean that at some point I want to," I said with an awkward smile.

Remus returned my smile. "Well, at some point we will, but now I think it really is time for bed," he said and we made our selves comfortable on the bed. In his arms it took me no time to fall asleep. I knew I would love Remus till the end of my life and somehow I knew deep down that he would love me the same way.

As I drifted off my mind shifted slightly and I thought about what I would have to do the next day when we returned to Diagon Alley. I still had a love triangle to deal with, and for some reason beyond my control I was stuck in the middle. I had to figure out how to get Brenna to leave Crispin alone and at the same time I would have to figure out how in the Wizarding world I was going to get Crispin back on Corbett's good side. I really didn't want to think about those three while I was with Remus but they invaded my thoughts and made that night one of the most unpleasant ones while sleeping next to Remus that I had ever had.