Hoy!

Yelp.

Scream.

Thump.

Crash.

"S-Dan?" Remus called after the source of the noise frantically.

Grunt.

"Dan?" the werewolf repeated. "You alright?"

"Why do you care you stinky, sneaky, stubborn Slyth-" another crash caught the polyjuiced teenager of guard and the rest of his sentence was left unsaid.

"Your head still on?" Remus asked again being honestly scared for his friend.

"Depends on what it should be on." Regulus answered dryly and walked to the older student. He had been in a library, thus walked right through the bizarre scene.

His answer didn't help Remus to calm down, however. "What?" he yelped. Regulus laid his hand on Remus's shoulder to keep him from running over and leaned closer to whisper:

"My brother decided it's a good idea to curse Severus in the middle of the corridor." Remus flinched. "And he missed." the younger Black added silently.

"Who did he hit?" the werewolf asked dreading the answer.

"Some Ravenclaw girl. Seventh or sixth year. Scary thing." Remus flinched again.

"Idiotic Griffindor-ic Slytherin." he complained and Regulus sharply breathed out in an attempt not to laugh.

"Wait, where are you going?" the Black called after him, when Remus turned around the corner.

"To save his sorry bottom." Remus rapidly blinked his eyes to make some sense of the scene – Sirius was stuck on the ceiling looking rather scared with his books all over the ceiling. What made Remus panic, however, was the streak of black now adoring "Dan's" hair.

Their hour was out. Fortunately the group of Ravenclaws was just disappearing into some unused classroom and the only one still standing there was Severus.

Remus smiled at him and sneakily sent him a wink – silent message that whatever he would do would do no harm to the Slytherin, therefore Severus should do nothing against his actions. The werewolf reached into his pocket and picked up the next dose of polyjuice.

"Hey, Dan!" Remus called up at his friend. "Drink this." he threw the vial up and thankfully Sirius caught it. Gulping it down, the Black didn't quite notice the Finite Incantatem Remus sent his way and he fell down with all his books.

"Thanks." Sirius mumbled and even let himself be helped up, which Remus took as a good sign.

"So.. what about going to the field? Regs wanted to study for a bit and I would use some flying." Remus shrugged and watched as Sirius's – or Dan's – eyes started to lit up.

"Yesss!" Sirius threw his fist up. "Let's go! Wait-." he suddenly stopped. "Regulus is coming as well?"

"Yeah, he said he wanted to get out of the castle.. Some fresh air." Remus explained and sent a quick winning grin to the panic struck first year standing behind Sirius.

Don't you dare to disagree. Remus thought. Not when I want to make you two play friends.

"..Alright." Sirius mumbled. He wasn't glad he would have to spend some time with his brother, but it was Quidditch!

"Let's go then!" Remus urged them both to follow.

"Maybe I could give studying up for a moment.. We could play dodge-ball on brooms." Regulus appeared somewhere by Remus's elbow and piped out with a smile.

Sirius's own smile turned a bit fixed, but he decided not to comment.

"Oooh! Sounds good!" Remus exclaimed. "It would be fun – even more on the school brooms. It's a challenge not to fall down while only flying."

Sirius chuckled and Regulus let out one of his cackles letting his joy out freely. The older sibling sent him a surprised look.

It's been long since I heard you laugh. Sirius smiled. Maybe it won't be so bad to play against you.

It wasn't bad, in the end. It was even worse. Twenty minutes into their match Regulus's broom gave a violent jerk and it was pure luck that Sirius was close by when the younger lost control and fell down.

With the help from Remus, they managed to lower the panicking boy onto the ground where they finally managed to calm him down.

Hot chocolate was their next step, where Remus sneakily made Sirius drink the next doze of the potion without him suspecting anything.

After that, their sense for adventure lost and forgotten, they retreated back to Regulus's dorm and Sirius holed himself in his 'bed', either sleeping or thinking hard about things.

Remus shrugged and joined Regulus on his bed to help him with writing his essay.

"Moony?" Remus jerked from his half-asleep state to blink up at the face hovering over him.

"Whaaat.." he mumbled and squinted his eyes to make some sense of the blurred face. "Who're you..?" the werewolf asked when he didn't recognize it.

The face smirked. "I thought so. Moony, Moony, Moony.."

"Oh shoot." Remus suddenly woke up. "I fucked up, didn't I.."

"A bit." The face – now recognized as Sirius, polyjuiced as Daniel the Slytherin – nodded. "Can't blame you, I was unfair to ask you while you were sleeping."

"Yes. You were." Remus smiled. "Reg's still asleep?" he asked gently.

"Yup. A question, Moony if you don't mind." Sirius crawled next to him and made himself comfortable, almost cuddled with the werewolf.

"Shoot."

"Why?"

Remus sighed and closed his eyes. "Reg wanted to prank you and I agreed to help. We are friends." the werewolf told him in whispers and didn't open his eyes, knowing that Sirius was watching him.

"I knew you two were. And I guess I can understand why you'd want to prank me." the smile was audible in his voice.

"So you're not angry?" Remus piped out in a small voice and opened his eyes to see the amused expression on his friend's face.

"Of course not." Sirius grinned. "But please, please, please, please. Let's stop this. I will even act civil towards my brother, but don't make me stay in this Slytherin body."

Remus silently laughed. "Deal."

It took Regulus twenty more minutes to wake up from his nap and by the time the polyjuice was worn out and both Gryffindors back to sleeping in Remus's bed.

Regulus took in a sharp breath and moved to wake the werewolf. He just hoped his brother hadn't woken up while in his unpolyjuiced form.

"Remus." he whispered and the other opened his eyes immediately.

"What's up?" he asked a bit tiredly and Regulus gestured towards his brother instead of answering.

"Oh – he figured it out. I am sorry." Remus informed him. "I promised not to force him to continue."

"I see." the younger Black acknowledged and Remus could hear he was disappointed.

"Don't be sad." Remus smiled. "Siri promised to be nice. And isn't angry about this."

"You don't get it." Regulus whispered fiercely. "He hates me."

Remus raised his palm to stop him. "He doesn't. You are his brother, he loves you."

"Has a funny way of showing it."

The werewolf sighed sadly. "He just.. feels the need to distance himself." he whispered. "It's not about you, but about the thing you represent."

"Our family?"

"Partly. I heard your family sympathize with the dark wizard – Voldemort. Dark Arts. The whole muggle-hating thing. Pure blood."

Regulus didn't say anything, thinking hard. The silence was interrupted only by Sirius's silent snores.

"I understand." the younger Black finally said. Remus looked up at him from the older sibling's relaxed face and nodded.

"I should leave until you two take off to your own common room."

Remus frowned, but didn't argue. "I will meet you at eleven. Will you take the chess if I leave it here?"

"Of course." Regulus stood up and offered him a smile. "Don't forget to use the cloak when leaving, Snakes won't like having two Lions wandering their territory."

"Thank you, Snake. You are too kind." Remus grinned.

"I know." Regulus jokingly turned his nose up. "See you, Lion."

"Bye, Snake."

"So you are saying those two turned you into some slimy Slytherin, forced you to interact with your slimy Snake of a brother and you are alright with it?" James gave him puzzled look and Sirius turned a bit red, but nodded.

"It wasn't so bad." the Black disagreed. "And it was funny."

"You are saying that only 'cause it was Moony's idea." James stuck his tongue at Sirius and said Black kicked his shin.

"It wasn't." Remus pointed up. "It was Reg's idea."

"Yeah – I forgot to add: Moony made friends with your slimy snake of a brother of yours."

Remus rolled his eyes. "Don't be a bitch."

James stared. "You..you just-" he whispered in fascination, "you just cursed. You called me.. a .. a- a, nevermind." the Potter stuttered with his eyes wide.

"I guess I did." Remus said smugly. "You shouldn't have been mean to Regs."

Sirius cackled evilly and Peter giggled upon seeing the stunned expression on James's face.

"He is a bad influence on you, Remmy." James mumbled pretending to be sad.

"No. You are." Remus grinned. "I just never needed to stand up for any of you against other." the werewolf pointed out. "So it's kinda new to me."

"So my brother doesn't badmouth us?" Sirius leaned onto his elbows with a smile.

"Nope. He is rather nice. Your exact opposite, actually."

"You wound me, Moony."

"I doubt it, Siri."

"Oooh yes." James moaned suddenly. "C'mooon, Pete, let's get away, they are back to arguing like a married couple." he finished it with rolling his eyes.

"We are not!" Sirius yelled at him.

"That reminds me, Jamie-boy, weren't you supposed to do something?" the werewolf retaliated with an evil smile.

"What?" Sirius asked once again grinning insanely.

James groaned. "Oh no.. I was lucky enough to forget.."

Remus threw his head back and laughed wildly. "Go on, Jamie."

The black-haired boy groaned into his arms, but obediently stood up. Remus stood as well to straighten his tie and James confidently marched towards the Slytherin table.

"Severus?" the Potter called loudly, forcing the black-haired Slytherin to look up with a scared look. Remus looked past them both and gave a wink to Regulus who smiled back.

"What do you want, Potter?" Snape sneered, looking a bit fidgety still. Regulus leaned across two of their housemates and whispered something into his ear. Snape's eyes darted to the werewolf and Remus smiled at him. Severus's lips twitched into something resembling a smirk and he turned to James.

Potter – having not noticed the silent conversation – smiled smugly and dropped himself onto his knee. "Severus. For a long time have I longed to tell you something." Snape's smirk widened, knowing what was coming.

"Go on Potter, I am very curious."

James fidgeted nervously, but went on. "Every time I walk past you, I can see only you." he reached as if get a hold of the other's hand, but thought better of it. "How light is reflected in your hair, how smooth and dark your eyes are, how everyone and everything just seems to step out of the way to let you pass. Will you grant me my wish and go out with me?" James finished dramatically and smirked as he heard the whole Hall gasp and giggle.

"Very sorry, Potter. But I like girls." Severus informed him curtly and turned back to his dinner, leaving James to stare at his back, being completely thrown out of his cool.

"Very nice show, Jamie." Sirius smirked when the flushed boy finally made his way trough the laughing Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.

"Shut it, you."

"You know you asked for it, James." Peter grinned and mimicked shooting him.

"You too." James barked and sat down, wishing to disappear. "Where's Rems?"

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Asking my brother out, or something." he answered bitingly, frowning at the Slytherin table.

"Lay off, Siri." James nudged him. "Regulus is nice."

"How do you know?" Sirius's eyebrows disappeared into his fringe.

"We met."

"When?"

"After we let the Skeletons inside. Regulus went to inform us about the events and we talked." James shrugged.

"I guess." Sirius waved it off. "Oh – Moony's here. Moony, what's up?"

Remus gave him a weird look and sat down next to Peter. "Something wrong, Siri?"

"Having date with my brother, are you?" he sent him a half-sneer and Remus rolled his eyes.

"Of course." he agreed just for the fun of seeing Sirius's eyes bulge. "Study-date to be exact."

"Oh." the older Black blushed being embarrassed and turned his attention back to his plate.

"Hey, Moons." James whispered and leaned closer to the softly-smiling werewolf, trying to talk without being heard by anyone. Of course both Peter and Sirius listened in.

"What's up, James?" Remus turned his eyes at him.

"You sure it's a good idea to be friends with Sirius and his brother?"

Remus looked down for a moment, but smiled brightly just a second later. "Who knows. But it will work."

And it did.

At least until the end of their fifth year, when it all went to hell.

That's the End.

Why fifth year? We all know about the Willow incident, no? That's why :)

Hope you liked reading it as much as I liked writing it.

Smile,

Me.