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Cauldron To Conflagration	By : LordYouko Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Remus/Sirius Views: 9338 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and make no money from the writing of this fic

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A/N: Once again, apologies for a VERY late update. I won’t promise an early update now because the next update will also take a while. Seriously, its all you guys who’ve demanded an update that’s kept this story going ^_^ I hope it lives up to your expectations.

Review Response to Syllyra – I’m sorry it’s going too fast but that probably can’t be helped right now. But I’ll try and add more details. Keeping in mind what you said, I have tried to make this chappie more detailed. Tell me if it’s better or seems just the same. Tc!

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Chapter 3 – Not Fair

“Black, stop following me around!” Remus snarled, whirling around to finally give the irritating boy a piece of his mind.

Sirius turned to look at him in surprise.

“Hey, dude, get over yourself,” Sirius told him, running the hand that wasn’t in his pockets through his hair. “I’m not following you around.”

Remus snorted. “That is the biggest lie I’ve ever heard! You’ve been following me since we got here. You drove away Peter and the others, for god’s sake! Can’t you just leave me alone???”

They were in Hogsmead. This was Remus’s first visit to the wizard village and he’d been very excited to be here. This was one of the very few times that first and second years were allowed to visit Hogsmead. Everyone in the castle had been immensely excited about coming here. Remus had not known what the fuss was all about until Peter and Lisa had gone on and on about how wonderful it was, finally making Remus count the days to this trip.

And then Black showed up. Remus had seen him everywhere he went. On the High Street, near Gladsrag Wizardwear (Remus would not be caught dead wearing any of the items on display there), Scrivenshaft’s Quill Shop… He’d tried to ignore it since he’d stayed away from him so far but when he saw him coming towards him, he’d lost it.

Sirius was giving him an odd look. “Lupin, I just came over to say hi. But if you’re so pissed about that, you don’t have to talk to me.”

Remus turned slightly pink. God, it would be embarrassing if it was just his paranoia talking. He suddenly felt guilty and then angry at Sirius for making him feel guilty.

“Don’t give me that!” he hissed. “You’ve been following me around since we got here. Just-just stop, alright?”

Sirius shrugged. “Whatever.”

His face was expressionless and he turned and walked away, without a backward glance. He was hailed by James and others from his gang and they quickly disappeared down the lane.

Remus stared after him miserably. Oh shit…what if he’d been wrong? What if he’d been just so worried about staying away from Black, he’d just imagined him following him around? Besides, the boy hadn’t even approached him before and he’s fired him for nothing.

He got a smack from Lisa as soon as Sirius was out of earshot.

“What the hell are you doing?” she hissed. “Why are you being such a bitch?”

Remus’s temper flared. “I’m not being bitch! He just- he’s…you guys saw him, right? He was everywhere we were.”

He quailed under Lisa’s glare. “Remus, James, Sirius and about a million other students were wherever we were. What the fuck is the matter with you?? The entire school is out here!!”

Remus turned away. “He’s just trying to annoy me. I know it.”

Lisa stared at him like he’d grown a new head.

“Remus, in all the time that I’ve known you, you have never been such a bastard to anyone. I don’t care if you’ve swallowed a bug or you’re PMSing. You better apologize to him.”

Remus whipped around to glare at her. “I am NOT apologizing to him!!”

Lisa stuck her nose in the air and flounced away. “Well then I’m not talking to you until you do.”

Remus’s mouth fell open. “What?? Don’t tell me you like him all that much. Wow, Lisa…I knew you thought he was hot but from the sounds of it you’d-“

He fell back a couple of steps as Lisa pushed him, eyes blazing. “Don’t you say it, you jackass. Don’t you fucking DARE say it! This has got NOTHING to do with him. This has to do with the fact that our friend, who we though was a decent guy so far, is acting like a bitch! God, you could give Janine competition! If you you’re not gonna be a decent human being, we have no interest in hanging out with a bastard!”

Peter glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and followed her. “Sorry mate,” he said, eying him carefully as if he was going to pounce in him any second. “I’m with her on this one.”

Remus stuck his head in his pockets and watched his friends walk away. Well, good for him then! He didn’t need them!

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“16 butterbears, please, Rose!”

Remus gritted his teeth at the dreaded voice. Damn it!! Why did he have to-

His eyes opened in surprise as Madame Rosmerta appeared in front of him, smiling amicably, with a jug of butterbear in her hand.

The Three Broomsticks was extremely crowded with people clammering for drinks. Remus had chosen to sit a little way away from the crowd even though it meant waiting eternity for his drink. The people pushing and shoving each other would obviously get first preference. Sirius had taken a table right next to his, yet, all he had to do was call out and he get served immediately??

“Here you go, dear. Where’re your friends?”

“They’re coming,” he replied. “Had something to do on the way.”

“Well, you’ll need 15 more chairs then, right?”

“Don’t trouble yourself, Rose. We’ll take care of it.”

Madame Rosmerta beamed at him. “Oh it’s not trouble, dear. No trouble at all.”

She waved her wand and the table he was sitting at was suddenly much larger. 15 chairs flew towards them from various corners of the room and arranged themselves around the table.

Sirius flashed her a brilliant smile in thanks, apparently not noticing the way she blushed. Remus noticed how more than one senior boys sitting around gave Sirius envious, dirty looks. Madame Rosmerta was very popular and notoriously hard to please.

He scowled and stared at his own drink, feeling awkward sitting alone. He was an idiot, fighting with his friends on such a great day and ruining the fun. It was all Sirius Black’s fault!

He glanced cautiously at him out of the corner of his eyes. Sirius was busy with his drink, seemingly not looking at him at all but Remus was not fooled. He’d been doing this all day.

Well, fine then. He wasn’t going to acknowledge him either. If his treacherous friends decided to abandon him at a prime moment, he didn’t need them! He’d…he’d just watch…other people…having drinks. Yes, other people who were far more interesting than Sirius Black.

He let his gaze travel the length of the bar. There in the corner was the fat guy with his pants tied low around his waist, beer belly bulging out of his shirt. And now he was taking his free hand back and scratching his butt…ok moving on.

There were the professors chatting and laughing about something, with Hagrid’s voice drowning out the rest.

There was a gaggle of beautiful older girls in surprisingly revealing robes, giggling and throwing looks at…he followed their line of sight…Sirius Black. Ugh. Well, anyway, he was sure they were supposed to wear more than that under their robes.

He glanced surreptitiously at Sirius. He seemed to be enjoying the attention. He raised his glass of beer slightly and winked at them The next moment, Madame Rosmerta’s assistant appeared with a tray full of drinks for the ladies, gesturing slightly towards Sirius. The girls squealed and wriggled trying to use their…assets…to their best advantage. Remus saw Sirius giving them an appreciative look and turned his own eyes away in disgust.

What the hell was he trying to pull? One moment, he was courting him, the next moment, he was leering at a bunch of sluts??

He got up suddenly, slammed his drink down and left the bar, unaware of dark gray eyes watching him intently.

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An hour later, Remus entered Honeydukes, heart hammering in his chest with excitement. He’d been saving for this visit for a while now and had managed to put aside 6 galleons just for this place. 6 Galleons! He was going to be able to buy so much candy, it would last him long after the other kids’ treats were finished.

He’d heard of all the wonderful flavors they sold here. Well! If Peter and the others decided to play matchmaker with him, he was damned if he shared any of his treats with them.

He looked around, eyes shining with delight. He’s always had a sweet tooth, ever since he was a kid but this! There was literally ever kind of flavor available here.

He quickly picked out a large bar of chocolate. This was like the bear necessities. Then his hand hesitated. There were 12 different types of plain chocolate alone! And then there was Dark chocolate and milk chocolate…

His mouth watered. He reluctantly put his bar of chocolate back and grabbed smaller bars of different type. When he was done buying chocolate, he had only 2 galleons left.

He chewed his bottom lip, debating between Bertie’s every flavor beans and some other equally shady sounding candies. He grabbed a pack of the beans, some liquorice wands, sugar quills and – was that cockroach cluster?

He saw the coins in his hands. He barely had a few knuts left. He’d have to let the cockroach clusters wait till next time…

“Master Back,” the smiling owner called out and Remus’s sweet mood was instantly soured.

“Flume,” Sirius greeted with a smile. “I hope Gertrude is doing well?”

Flume nodded. “Yes, quite, thank you. And what will you have today?”

Sirius made a sweeping gesture with his hands. “Some of everything, as usual of course.”

Remus’s eyes bulged out of his head and it took every ounce of his will to not turn around and stare at him. Everything?? There were hundreds of items in this shop…there was no way a student would have that much money.

“Of course,” Flume beamed. “I have your parcel ready right here.”

He brought out a beautifully packed basket full of candies and showed it to Sirius. “With a few extra dark chocolate bars, as usual. I will have it sent to your dorm.”

Remus was ashamed of the bitter jealously rising in his chest. Delivered?? Fucking prince Sirius wouldn’t even have to carry a basket of candy?? He would get it delivered to his room?

Sirius nodded. “Thanks. How much is it?”

“57 Galleons, 39 sickles, Master Black, but it’s just 57 Galleons for you.”

Sirius laughed. “That’s very generous of you, Flume.”

A sugar quill in Remus’s hands snapped. 57 galleons….Sirius spent 57 galleons in a sweet shop??

Sirius brought out a heavy looking pouch. “Here’s 60 Galleons.”

Flume shook his head. “I can’t, Master Black. You always-“

“Shut up,” Sirius told him. “You should not argue with your customers.”

Flume bowed his head. “Thank you. I-“

Sirius waved him off. “Give my regards to Gertrude.” He turned and left without a word to Remus.

Remus looked at the bag of sweets in his hands that suddenly looked pitifully small and quietly removed the liquorice wands and a few bars of chocolate. He suddenly was not in the mood to eat any of it. There was a bitter taste in his mouth.

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He walked around by himself for a while, ruminating. Evening had fallen and the first stars were appearing in the sky. Hogsmead was lit up beautifully with lights. He saw everyone laughing with their friends, having fun and felt miserable.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sirius Black and his friends entering Zonko’s joke shop, talking and laughing. He stared at them, suddenly feeling as if he was the one stalking Black. His friends were right. He really had been very mean to him when Sirius had only tried to be friendly. It was time he apologized.

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Remus waited for half an hour before Sirius and his friends walked out of Zonko’s joke shop. He swallowed nervously, dreading approaching the boy in the midst of his friends. They were the cool kids- the popular gang that nerds had no business talking to. He hoped they wouldn’t make fun on him or anything. Dammit, he hated doing this!

But it was his fault so he had to go fix this. He walked up to them and stopped a little distance away, nervously shuffling his feet.

“Er…Sirius?”

Sirius didn’t turn around. Maybe he didn’t hear him. The people in the gang were talking and laughing loudly and no one took notice of the small, nerdy kid, standing there nervously.

Remus flushed red. Damn, this was awkward. Was Sirius ignoring him, or did he really not hear? He cleared his throat.

“Hey Sirius!”

Once again, Sirius, who was in the middle of his gang of friends, didn’t hear but another boy in the gang did. He tapped Sirius’s shoulder and jerked his thumb at Remus. Sirius immediately stopped laughing and looked at him inquiringly. Remus looked at his shoes, unwilling to meet his eyes.

“Ummm…sorry…can I talk to you for a minute?”

Sirius stared at him, and for a moment, Remus thought he was going to snub him Then-

“Sure,” he turned to his friends. “You all go ahead. I’ll meet you at the castle.”

James grinned at him and herded the others away.

Remus led Sirius away down a rather deserted path.

“Hey Professor McGonagall said we all need to return together. She’ll be mad if we-“

“Don’t worry about it,” Sirius told him. “James will tell her you’re with me. You won’t get into too much trouble.”

Remus bit his tongue to prevent himself from giving a scathing reply. So even Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor House, would bend the rules for Sirius Black? Then he took a deep breath. He hadn’t come to pick a fight again.

“Look, I…I wanted to apologize for earlier. I was out of line. Y-you were….you were just being nice and I snapped at you but its just…well, I’m sorry.”

“It’s alright,” Sirius replied easily and Remus looked up in surprise.

“It’s alright? That’s it? It’s alright? You’re not mad?”

Sirius shrugged. “It’s no big deal but why were you so pissed anyway?”

Remus clenched his fists and began walking again. He glanced up at the moon and his chest tightened in familiar anxiety. The moon was almost a full circle. The night of the full moon was only a few days away. How to tell him now that it was…that time of the month and his emotions were out of sync?

As the night of his transformation got closer, he always got a bit edgy. His…his more primitive side overshadowed his rational side, with the result that all those ugly emotions and bad thoughts that he would normally not let himself think got the better of him

So even though he knew that Sirius really hadn’t really done anything, he couldn’t help resent him. Really, it wasn’t Sirius’s fault that the bartender left all her other clients and served him first, that the shopkeepers in the sweet chops gave him something extra after his purchases, it wasn’t Sirius’s fault he was so rich he could probably buy out the entire Honeydukes shop.

But somehow, it rubbed him the wrong way. It wasn’t fair that he had to scrimp and save every knut while this boy got to live a life of effortless luxury. It wasn’t fair that he had to go through unbearable agony every month, only to be a nameless nobody for the rest of the month, while Sirius Black- perfect, handsome, rich, Black- had the easy life of popularity, respect and flawless health.

He tried to push those thoughts aside but in vain. His heart was racing as he looked at the gorgeous boy standing next to him in the moonlight. Except, in the dark evening with his flowing thick black robes and intense gray eyes, he didn’t look like a boy. He looked like a man, and Remus found himself wondering just how much of a man he was under those robes…

He clenched his fists and turned away, unwilling to let those raging hormones rule him right now.

“I-I guess I’m just in a bad mood today.”

Sirius frowned at that, but didn’t say anything. It really wasn’t like Remus to have lashed out like that. And the look on his face just then…

“Hey look…let’s go up there.”

Remus reluctantly looked around to see where he was pointing. They had walked quite a way away from the main village, without realizing it and now, they were close to-

Sirius looked around in surprise as Remus’s face suddenly turned blank.

“No.”

“What’s the matter? You’ve gone pale.” He turned to look at the old, tumbled down building. “It’s probably just a rumor, you know. There aren’t really any ghosts in the Shrieking Shack.”

Remus turned away and began walking in the other direction.

“I’m getting outta here.”

Sirius stared after him, slightly amused. “Hey bet you 5 galleons I could go in there right now.”

Remus whirled around. “No!!”

Sirius took a step back in surprise at the strength of his reaction.

“You’re not fucking going in there, got it?” he demanded.

Sirius frowned. The little good boy first year, swearing?

“Calm down, Remus. What’s gotten into you? You really think there are ghosts in there or something?”

Remus looked at him with wild eyes. Ghosts…no he wasn’t afraid of ghosts. He was afraid of something much worse. What would Sirius do if he found huge claw marks all over the inside of the shack, everything almost completely destroyed? What would Dumbledore…

“No! Look, please. You can’t go in there!”

Sirius narrowed his eyes and stared at him speculatively. The kid seemed genuinely terrified. He shrugged and turned away.

“Fine. I just never took you for such a coward.”

Remus’s relief was almost palpable. Coward….yes, he could live with that as long as his secret was safe.

Sirius purposely fell behind, watching Remus’s retreating back. Remus was acting decidedly weird. Besides being extremely testy, he was even looking a bit pale and peaky. There were dark circles under his eyes.

He found Remus glancing occasionally up at the sky and shivering. Sirius wasn’t entirely sure it was because of the cool weather. He frowned and looked up. There was nothing special up there. Why was Remus so frightened? It was just a regular moon, almost full.

He stared.

Almost full…almost a full moon…close to a full moon…

Everyone didn’t call him brilliant for nothing. His brain quickly made the connections. The haywire emotions, extreme reactions, the irritability, haggard appearance and a full moon. Was it really possible? There was a young werewolf at Hogwarts…

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A/N: Please review, guys and tell me what you think. Constructive criticism welcome. If you have any questions or if you spotted any inconsistencies, do tell. I’ll clarify.

Thanks! Tc!
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