A/N: Don't hate me!
Disclaimer: Not mine, unfortunately. They be J.K.'s -sigh- I've invited them to tea, we're having a gay ol' time
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"What are you doing down in the dungeons?" asked Snape.
"I can't face Sirius right now," Remus told him. "I don't think they'll look for me here."
"I see. Well, come in." Snape turned to the portrait and gave the password. It swung open and they entered the Slytherin common room.
"Why aren't you at dinner, Severus?" asked Remus when he placed the books on the table.
Snape sat down on one of the green couches, "I wasn't very hungry. I was going to do some homework and then I saw you." He looked at the books, "What are those for?"
Remus looked at the books as he sat next to Snape, "I'm going to solve Sirius' problem. I'm sick of translating everything for people."
Snape placed his hand on Remus' shoulder. "That must be hard on you. He came to me earlier and he had to actually spell his question out."
"What did he do to you?" asked a worried Remus, "Are you alright?"
"He raised his hands in surrender. He told me you guys got into a fight. Can I ask what it was about? As your friend."
Remus turned to Snape on the couch, who did the same. "You were right."
"I'm always right," he said. Then he raised an eyebrow, "About what?"
"About Sirius 'liking' me. He told me this afternoon after you and Angela left. Actually he precise words were, 'I think I like you'." Remus got up and started to pace the room.
Snape remained on the couch watching him. When Snape got bored of watching he asked, "Do you want help with the research?"
Remus stopped suddenly and looked at the books. "Yeah, I guess. If you don't mind." He walked over to the books and picked up the top one.
Snape got up and grabbed the next one, "Anything for a friend."
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Sirius ran to the Gryffindor common room, hoping Remus was there. When he entered the room, however, it was empty.
'Crap. Where is he?' Sirius sat down on the red couch and waited for his friend to show up.
Other Gryffindors had come and gone in the last hour, but not Remus. While Sirius was staring at the fire the remaining Marauders showed up.
"Any luck?" asked James as he plopped down next to him.
"On," he answered, shaking his head.
Peter sat in a chair near them, "I guess he still needs to think it over."
Sirius felt a warm liquid on his cheek. When he went to wipe it away he realized that he was crying. 'Where is he?'
"Are you crying?" asked Peter.
Sirius quickly wiped away the other tears, "On. Ym seye erew gnitaews."
James leaned in closer to Sirius, "You are!"
"TUHS PU!" Sirius launched at James, planting his hand over his mouth.
Lily entered the common room and saw Sirius trying to shut up James; she walked over to Peter.
"What are they doing?" she asked.
Peter looked up at her, "I'm not sure. Sirius started crying and James called him on it. Then this happened." He gestured to the two fighting boys.
"I see," she sat down on the arm of the chair and waited for them to notice her. James was the first to see her and stopped immediately.
When Sirius noticed this he looked up, "Snave."
"Black."
James looked at Sirius and then Lily. "You can understand him too?"
"No, but I can tell when I'm being addressed." She sat down on couch in between the two boys, she turned to Sirius. "What's wrong?"
He shook his head, "Gnihton."
"Don't lie to me. Ever since you got back from Hogsmeade you've been like this." She looked at James briefly. "And a little birdie told me you two got into a fight."
Sirius leaned past Lily and glared at James.
"What happened? What was the fight about?"
"You know you can't understand him, Lily," stated James.
She turned and gave him a mild glare. She looked back at Sirius, "Can Peter at least tell me what happened."
"Hey," cried James. "Why not me?"
Lily continued to look at Sirius, "Because."
"Because why?"
"Because I said so. So can Peter tell me?"
Sirius looked at Peter and nodded. She smiled and turned to the plump boy. James gave a huff and pouted against the couch back.
"Do you want the entire story or just the last bit?" asked Peter.
"It might help if I knew what happened," she said matter-of-factly.
"Ok. Yesterday Sirius was invited to go to Hogsmeade by Angela Combs. We all thought it was a date, but she just needed help buying a gift. Anyways, the day of the 'date' Remus was talking with Snape. James said he wanted Remus' help so Angela could understand him, but he really wanted her to get lost so they could have fun by themselves. But Remus invited Snape along so he could have someone to talk to. We hexed Snape to get him away and then Angela left them to have lunch. When they got there their waiter started chatting up Remus. Sirius got mad. The guy, Josh, asked Remus out but before he could answer Sirius told them was hungry. Josh left and then Sirius told Remus that he thought he liked him. Remus took it the wrong way; he said Sirius just didn't want him dating Josh. Remus left and now we can't find him." He looked at Sirius, "Did I miss anything?"
Sirius shook his head again.
"I see," Lily said. "Potter told me that you guys went looking for him, where did you go?"
James answered for them, "I went to look for you." When he saw the look she gave him he continued. "I thought you might know where he was. Pete went to the library and found his bag. Sirius went outside by the lake. We all met up here after words."
"On," interrupted Sirius. "I tnew ot eht Moor fo Tnemeriuqer." They all looked at him; he held up 7 fingers and stomped on the floor.
"7 stomp?" guessed Peter. Sirius shook his head and pointed to the floor.
"7 ground?" was James' guess. He shook his head again and pointed to the floor again.
"He's saying the seventh floor," said Lily. She looked at Sirius, "You went to the Room of Requirement?"
He nodded. "What did you see?" she asked. He gave his impression of Remus.
"You saw Moony and you didn't bring him back!?" cried James.
"Potter. Relax." Lily said, "I'm pretty sure if he saw Remus he would have told you." She turned back to Sirius. "The room gave you a fake Remus, right?"
He nodded his head. He then made a happy face and then laughed.
"He was happy and smiling. Why?"
He pointed to himself.
"You you or the room's you?"
He held up two fingers.
"Ok. So far you've told us that the fake Remus was laughing at something the fake you said. Correct?"
Sirius nodded then pointed to himself, shook his head, did his impression of Remus, held up two fingers, laughed, and then he made the gesture for Josh (writing on a pad of paper with flirty eyes).
James translated everything as it came up, "You. No. Remus. Two. Laugh. Josh."
Lily understood him, "You don't want Remus to laugh at what Josh says."
Sirius nodded and then pointed to himself a couple of times. "You want him to laugh at what you say only." Sirius nodded. "But don't you want him to be happy?"
"Sey."
"Couldn't he be happy with Josh?" asked Lily.
This time Sirius did nothing. He didn't make any hand gestures, he didn't try to talk. He just stared at the fire in front of him.
"That's what I thought," Lily stated. "You want Remus to be happy. But you don't want other people to make him happy." Sirius continued to stare at the flame but nodded his head.
"Let me ask you a question. When you think of Remus with someone else does your stomach hurt?" He nodded his head, thinking of earlier.
"When Remus was talking to…what was his name?" she looked at James.
"Uh…Josh," he was slightly stunned she addressed him.
"When Remus was talking to Josh did you want to kill him?"
Sirius lowered his gaze and blushed, and then nodded.
Lily got up and kneeled in front of Sirius. "When you think of him do you feel happy? Happier than anyone has ever made you feel? Are you happy when he's near you?"
Sirius looked her in the eye and nodded. They both heard Peter whisper, "What is she talking about?" to James.
"Shh! I'm listening to this."
She ignored them both and took Sirius hands in hers. "It seems to me that you're in love Sirius." She let go of his hands, stood up, and walked to the girl's dorm.
"Potter?" James turned around to face her.
"Yes, Lily-flower?" he said sweetly.
"20 points from Gryffindor for hexing Severus." He looked at her dumbfounded.
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"I think I've got it," said Remus.
Snape placed the book he was looking at down on the table. He got up and moved so he could see what Remus had figured out. "So how do we reverse it?"
"You have to say the same spell," he looked up at Snape. "Don't you see? To Sirius' mind he's speaking correctly. You said 'Sermo Porro', which translated means: 'Talk Forward' but Sirius couldn't because he already was. At least, according to his brain. I guess to reverse it we have to say 'Sermo Tergiversatio' again."
"I guess that makes sense," said Snape. Remus turned to look at him and saw how close they had gotten.
Remus tried to scoot back but Snape kept getting closer. "Severus. What are you do-?"
But Remus was cut off by a pair of lips covering his own.
He quickly pushed Snape away and jumped out of his chair. He looked at him in horror. "What do you think you're doing?!" he yelled.
"I kissed you," Snape said calmly.
"I know that! But why?"
Snape moved forward and Remus moved back, "Because I like you."
Remus quickly grabbed the cloak and the map and rushed out of the Slytherin common room. When he thought he was a safe distance away he stopped and checked the map.
'Everyone's in the common room.' And then his stomach growled. He checked the area around the kitchen and then made his way there.
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When Remus was full he left the kitchen and made his way to the seventh floor. He wasn't sure if he was ready to see the others yet, so he made his way to the Room of Requirement.
'Sirius was here earlier. I wonder what he needed.' Remus walked across three times thinking of a nice warm bed. When the door appeared he picked up the cloak and map and headed in.
The room looked just like the dorm room, except it was missing three other beds. Off to the side was another door.
He made his way there and found out it's the bathroom. 'The Room really knows what I need.'
Remus made his way over to the tub in the corner and turned on the water. When the tub was filled he got undressed and slipped in.
While he was submerged he thought about the day he had.
First: He gets wrangled into being Sirius' personal translator. 'At least it wasn't a real date. I'm not sure how I would of handled it if it was.'
Second: He meets this really nice guy who was going to ask him out. 'I'm not sure if I really would have said yes. It was just nice getting some attention.'
Third: Sirius had to go and prove Severus right. 'I'm his best friend (besides James), how did I not notice?'
Fourth: Severus kissed him. 'I can't believe he did that to me. Friends don't do that.'
Remus sat up and thought about that. 'Just like me and Sirius. I'll go see Josh tomorrow and see if he still wants to go out with me.'
He got out of the bath and put on the pair of pj bottoms the room supplied him. He made his way over to the bed and crawled in. 'Hopefully I'll get a good night's sleep.'
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James woke up the next morning to someone gently and repeatedly poking him.
"Whaaat?" he whined. He opened an eye and saw Sirius sitting pretzel style on his bed. Sirius then pointed to Remus' empty bed.
'Wait. Empty?' James put his glasses on and sat up. He looked at Sirius, who looked like he hadn't gotten any sleep.
After Lily left them with her little revelation Sirius spent most of the night thinking about what she said. Around 1 o'clock in the morning he came rushing in yelling, "S'EHS THGIR! I EVOL YNOOM!"
They finally got him settled down around 2 and James thought they all went to bed. "You didn't sleep, did you?"
Sirius yawned and shook his head. "Waiting up for him?"
Sirius nodded again, "Em ypeels." James ignored him and looked at the clock. It was 10, 'I guess I could get up.' James got out of bed and went to his trunk and grabbed some clothes. When he looked up he saw Sirius staring at him.
"Well either get Wormy up or get dressed." James went to the bathroom and a smile grew on Sirius' face. He jumped onto the other boy's bed and continued to do jump. Up and down, up and down.
"I'm up! I'm up!" cried Peter. He rolled out of bed and made his way to his own trunk and promptly fell back asleep. James walked out and saw the sleeping boy. He pointed to him and moved his fingers as if to tickle him.
Sirius sat down and watched the fun begin. James quietly made his way to Peter and started to tickle him. Peter yelped and jumped. He quickly turned into a rat and scurried under his bed.
"No fair!" yelled James. "You cheated!" He tried to crawl under there but couldn't fit. Sirius watched the entire scene from the safety of the bed.
While James was still searching for the rat, Wormtail changed back into Peter and tackled the taller boy. Sirius rolled his eyes and went to his own trunk and pulled out the small air horn James got him for Christmas last year, (he thought it would it would be fun to scare the first years with).
He pushed the button and the two boys stopped what they were doing and put their hands over their ears. They looked up at him from the ground and he pointed to his stomach. They rolled their eyes at him and Peter and Sirius got dressed.
James and Peter made jokes all the way to the Great Hall, Sirius was too busy thinking about…stuff.
They got their and made their way to their seats.
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Remus woke up and looked at the clock. '10 o'clock!' He jumped out of bed and quickly got dressed. As he was running out the door he remembered the cloak and the map. He turned around and grabbed them.
He put them in his back pocket and ran to the Great Hall.
As he was entering the Hall he remembered why he didn't sleep in the dorms. There was Sirius sitting at the table. Remus just stood there for a moment staring at him.
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Sirius had this weird feeling someone was staring at him. He looked up from his plate to see Remus standing in the doorway. He jumped up from his seat and rushed over to him. Sirius jumped at him and they both fell to the ground.
"I dessim uoy ooos hcum! M'i yrros. Os os yrros."
"Sirius?"
Sirius looked at the boy he was crushing. "Sey?"
"Can you get off me?"
Sirius shook his head, "On."
"Why not?"
Sirius snaked his arms around Remus' waist, "I dessim uoy os hcum!"
Remus blushed, "Can I at least get something to eat?"
"I sseeug." Sirius got up and held out his hand. Remus gladly took it.
'At least he's back to normal. To an extent.'
Remus and Sirius sat across from Peter and James.
"So, Moony. Where were you last night?" asked James as he took a bite of his eggs.
He just stared at him, "Nowhere. Sirius! What are you doing?" Sirius had scooted closer and closer to Remus and was now practically sitting on him.
"Tahw?" Sirius wrapped his arm around Remus' neck to bring him closer.
Remus sighed, "Nevermind," he smiled.
Remus wiggled out of the Sirius' arms and they chatted for a few more minutes as the Great Hall started got more crowded. Soon Remus saw someone coming up behind James and Peter.
"Uh…Hello, Severus," greeted Remus.
Snape stopped and placed the books Remus left in the common room on the table. He walked away without looking behind him.
"What crawled up his butt and died?" asked Peter.
Remus just shrugged his shoulders.
Sirius looked at the book, "S'tahw htiw eht skoob?"
"Oh! I figured out how to get you back to normal." He gave Sirius a smile.
But Sirius was still looking at the books, "Yhw did eh evah eht skoob?" This time Sirius looked Remus in the eye.
"I…uh," Remus stammered. "You see. Severus was helping me with the research"
"Why didn't you ask for our help?" asked Peter.
"Because…I…um. I wasn't…uh…sure if you'd want to help."
James threw a piece of toast at him. "Quit stuttering. And you know we would have helped."
"S'taht ton yhw uoy t'ndid tnaw ruo pleh," said Sirius. "Uoy erew gnidiova em." Sirius grabbed Remus' arm and turned him towards him. "Yhw did uoy diova em?"
"I'd rather not talk about it, Siri." Remus tried to grab for the books but Sirius slammed his hand on them. Everyone around them turned to look.
"Llet em." He grabbed the still outstretched hand and pulled it close to him. "Esaelp?"
Remus looked at their hands and then at Sirius. "I don't want you to hate me."
Sirius pulled him into a tight embrace, "I dluoc reven etah uoy."
Remus hugged him back and said, "Severus told me you were bi and because you knew I was gay you'd try something on me. As an experiment. And then you said you liked me. It freaked me out because I thought what he said was true. I couldn't bear it if that happened."
Sirius pulled away and looked at Remus; he wiped away a tear that had fallen onto Remus' cheek. "I evah gnihtemos I deen ot llet uoy. Dna I 'tnod tnaw ot llet uoy ekil siht. Yas eht lleps."
Remus pulled away and nodded. He pulled out his wand and said, "Sermo Tergiversatio".
James, Peter, and Remus all looked at him.
"Well?" asked James. "Say something."
Sirius placed his hands on the sides of Remus' face, and looked him in the eye. "I love you." He pulled Remus' face to his own and pressed their lips together.
They pulled apart after a few seconds; Sirius wasn't sure how Remus was going to handle this. But when he looked at the boy he saw a huge smile.
"Really?" asked Remus.
"Really," answered Sirius.
"I love you, too," Remus said quietly. He was about to kiss Sirius again when Peter interrupted them.
"Ew, gross." Three heads turned to him.
Sirius looped his arms around Remus' neck, "What's wrong, Pete?"
Peter had a disgusted look on his face. "Are you two going to be doing that a lot?"
"Maybe…" was his only answer.
He rolled his eyes, "Great. You two are going to be as bad as James."
James punched him in the arm. "What are you talking about?"
Peter ignored him while rubbing his arm, "At least you guys will be all lovey-dovey and actually get some. Unlike James."
Remus and Sirius laughed at his joke while James hit him again.
"So, are the two love birds finally together?" They heard down the table.
"Looks like it. Pay up." All four heads looked down to see Angela giving Lily money.
Sirius shot up, "Hey!"
Both girls look at him, along with the rest of the hall. "What?" they both called out.
Sirius got on top of the table. "May I have the attention of everyone?"
"You've already got it, Pads," called James.
Ignoring his best friend, "I have an announcement: I, Sirius O. Black, am in love with Remus J. Lupin." He looked at the crowd, "That means no touchy my man." He bowed and sat down.
Remus looked at him."Your man?"
"Yes. I have official claimed you," stated Sirius matter-of-factly.
Remus rolled his eyes and hugged Sirius close to him, "I guess that's fine," he then proceeded to kiss Sirius on the cheek.
"Hmm," sighed Sirius, "That felt nice. Do it again." Remus leaned in and kissed the same spot.
"Again." Remus was about to kiss him when Sirius turned his head. Their lips met and Remus' smiled.
"Cheater," he said against the other lips.
"Yes, but now I'm your cheater."
Sirius leaned in and pressed the lips together, he ran his tongue over Remus' lower lip asking for entrance, which he got. Their tongues met in Remus' mouth and fought for dominance, which Sirius soon won.
"Get a room," said James. Sirius and Remus pulled apart and looked at him.
"Fine," Sirius got up and pulled Remus with him. They left the Great Hall to finish what they had started.
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Severus was walking to the Slytherin common room when he heard, "Sermo Tergiversatio!" He turned around to see Sirius and James looking at him with smug looks.
"KCALB! RETTOP!!"
James ran off but Sirius stayed. He walked up to Snape calmly and looked him in the eye, "If you ever kiss Remus again, you'll never have kids." He gave him an evil smile and turned and walked away.
'I wonder what Remus is up too…'
The End
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A/N 2: That can't be the end -goes to notebook and flips through the pages- Omg, it is. My story is done. Wow. -shakes head- Anyways, I'd like to thank everyone who read/reviewed/alerted/favorited this story. Me and the puppy's thank all of you. I'm going to go do some homework right no- -gets tapped on the shoulder- Yes? Oh no! It's the plot alligator! And it wants me to write another story. Noooooo!
A/N 3: I wonder if anyone really reads these. Hmm… If anyone reads this I will write a one-shot of your choice. You pick the characters, plot, setting, and anything. Just drop me a line. I'll try my best. But that's only if you read this. And don't put it in review form, actually send me a message. Go to my profile and send me a personal message. Ok bye bye. For now.